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'Terrorist attack': Hijacked military helicopter strikes Venezuela court and ministry

RT
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 12:42 UTC

Stolen police helicopter, Caracas, Venezuela

A hijacked military helicopter has attacked Venezuela's Supreme Court and a government ministry with gunfire and grenades. President Nicolas Maduro described the incident as a "terrorist attack."

The helicopter was stolen from a military base in La Carlota by a group led by police pilot Oscar Perez. The vehicle flew over the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, and attacked government institutions on Tuesday. After firing 15 shots at the Interior Ministry from the helicopter, the hijackers flew to the Supreme Court building, where they dropped four grenades of Colombian and Israeli origin, according to Ernesto Villegas, the minister of state for the revolutionary transformation of greater Caracas.

"Sooner rather than later, we are going to capture the helicopter and those behind this armed terrorist attack against the institutions of the country," President Maduro said, as cited by Reuters.

Maduro added that "the entire armed forces" had been activated to secure peace in the country, AFP reported.

ISIS-linked fighters decapitate civilians as Marawi siege enters 6th week

RT
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 12:10 UTC

© Jorge Silva / Reuters
An explosion is seen after a Philippines army aircraft released a bomb during an airstrike in Marawi city.

The Philippines military has uncovered five decapitated bodies of civilians among a total of 17 dead bodies found in Marawi City. The macabre find comes amid reports of widespread looting and sex slavery by Islamic State-affiliated Maute fighters.

The civilian death toll in the fighting stood at 27 before this latest discovery, which is the first such instance of the Islamist militants employing such extreme tactics against civilians. Authorities fear the civilian death toll may further rise.

"[It] may increase significantly once we are able to validate all this information," military spokesman Restituto Padilla said, as cited by Reuters.

"There have been a significant number [of dead bodies] that have been seen but again, we cannot include many of these," he said.

"Our combat environment is sensitive. First, there are trapped civilians that we have to protect. They also have hostages and third, there are many traps so we have to clear buildings slowly," he said.

Major global companies hit by ransomware virus cyber attacks

RT
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 14:12 UTC

Danish shipping and oil firm A.P. Moller-Maersk has reported its computer systems crashed as a result of a cyber attack on Tuesday. The company called it a global issue.

"We can confirm the breakdown is caused by a cyber attack," a spokeswoman said.

The company posted on Twitter, "We can confirm that Maersk IT systems are down across multiple sites and business units. We are currently assessing the situation."

Maersk added the source of the outage is not known, but the problem could be global.

Also on Tuesday, Russia's largest oil producer Rosneft said a large-scale cyber attack had hit its servers, but oil production was unaffected.

International steel and mining company EVRAZ also said it had been a target of a hacker attack.

"The information system has undergone an attack, the main production continues to operate, there are no threats to the safety of enterprises and employees," the company said.

International shipping company TNT Express, based in the Netherlands, said its systems have been breached as a result of the cyberattacks.

Ukraine has also been affected by massive cyberattacks targeting the country's government, some banks and companies, as well as the Ukrainian capital's airports.

The ransomware is demanding a payment of $300 in bitcoin to decipher the hacked files.

Comment: The Petya ransomware that spread across the globe Tuesday was made possible thanks to EternalBlue - a hacking tool used by the NSA to exploit a Windows vulnerability it left open for five years, Edward Snowden and security experts have said.

In a statement, the White House National Security Council said there was currently no risk to public safety. The United States was investigating the attack and determined to hold those responsible accountable, it said.

The UK defence secretary Michael Fallon has threatened military strikes against hackers.

Daesh gives recruits 'passports to heaven' to boost morale

Sputnik
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 22:54 UTC

Passport to heaven, anyone? Daesh militants have been using yet another tactic to brainwash terrorists to carry out attacks across Syria and Iraq.

Recently Syrian Defense Forces discovered copies of "passports to heaven" in the liberated areas of Raqqa.

Daesh was issuing "passports" to encourage terrorists to carry out suicide attacks, become martyrs and go straight to paradise.

Cop caught on video kicking and stomping a man he just shot for robbing his house

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 22:06 UTC

Disturbing video has been released following the indictment of a Houston police officer for shooting a suspect and then kicking and stomping him while he was down. Former Houston Police Officer Bruce Johnson now faces multiple felony and misdemeanor charges.

A Harris County grand jury indicted Johnson last week for the incident which took place on February 16. On that day, Johnson, who was still a police officer, hurried home after learning that a potential burglary was in progress.

When Johnson arrived at his home, he found Derek Carr, who was in the midst of carrying some of Johnson's belongings out of his home. Like anyone should be able to do if their home is being robbed, Johnson confronted Carr and shot him. However, that is not the reason he's been indicted.

"Officer Johnson delivered a number of blows with his foot by kicking Carr while he was on the ground incapacitated after he'd been shot," Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said at a news conference.

Off duty cop attacks, chokes teen for walking through his front yard

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 16:27 UTC

Parents of a 15-year-old boy are outraged this week after a cell phone video showed an off-duty Lansing police officer pin down their son and hold him to the ground by his throat — for being in his front yard.

The video was taken Saturday and it shows 15-year-old Jordan Brunson scared for his life as an off-duty Lansing cop physically and verbally assaults him.

The officer accuses the teens, Brunson and the teen filming, of trespassing and says he is holding him down until other officers arrive on the scene.

"I was scared, but I was trying to keep calm at the same time," Brunson says.

The teen filming had just been beaten up pretty bad by another group of teens and he was attempting to catch his breath in the officer's front yard. When the cop saw him, all hell broke loose.

Two strikes and you're dead: Ohio town wants to limit Narcan administration for opioid overdoses

Dawn Luger
The Daily Sheeple
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 16:19 UTC

One Ohio city is in financial hardship thanks to the opioid epidemic's overdoses so they've come up with a solution. But what the proposed bill really does, is give the government an excuse to allow those who are victims of Big Pharma's war on us die in the streets of an overdose.

The controversial proposal is supposed to deal with heroin overdoses, according to WLWT. The NBC affiliate reports that Middletown, Ohio, is considering whether people should only be given two strikes before they're out of chances at Narcan. Meaning if life-saving measures need to be taken a third time, rescue workers (who are paid with taxpayer's stolen funds, and non-optional) won't even be dispatched to revive the overdose victim with Narcan.

City council member Dan Picard is proposing a three strikes system. After the first two overdose rescues, the person would perform community service for the equivalent amount of money used on the lifesaving response. The third strike is a bit more controversial.

"If the dispatcher determines that the person who's overdosed is someone who's been part of the program for two previous overdoses and has not completed the community service and has not cooperated in the program, then we wouldn't dispatch," said Dan Picard, Middletown city council member. - WSLS

Grenfell Tower is a Katrina moment for UK Government

Patrick Cockburn
The Independent, UK
Fri, 16 Jun 2017 18:40 UTC

Natural and man-made disasters have frequently been the last nail in the coffin of governments that were already tottering

It is a dangerous moment for any government when the public suspects that it is incapable of preventing a great disaster like the Grenfell Tower fire. Angry people see the state as failing in its basic duty to keep them safe. Politicians in power, in such circumstances, are embarrassingly keen to show that there is a firm hand on the tiller, calmly coping with a crisis for which they are not to blame. Above all else, they need to dissuade people from imagining that a calamity is a symptom that something is rotten in the state of Britain.

Whatever the real culpability, it is vital to play for time in the expectation that the news agenda will ultimately move on. The old PR adage holds that the accused should first say "no story" or, in other words, deny all guilt until the media has lost interest and they can safely say "old story".

This ploy is usually effective but is difficult in the present case. The mistakes that led to the inferno in Kensington are so blatant, undeniable and easy to establish that the Government looks evasive as it pretends that long enquiries are necessary to establish what went wrong.

'Book virgins' - College students who have never finished reading a book

Daniel Lattier
Intellectual Takeout
Sat, 24 Jun 2017 17:55 UTC

To gain admittance to college in the 17th century, students had to be able to read and translate various Latin authors on sight. 100 years ago, students were required to have read various classical works before being admitted.

Today, however, many American students are being admitted to colleges without ever having read a book from start to finish. They are part of a cohort of students known as "book virgins."

The National Association of Scholars (NAS) has pointed out this phenomenon in their recent report titled "Beach Books: 2014-2016. What Do Colleges and Universities Want Students to Read Outside Class?" The report offers a detailed assessment of the books that colleges across America recommend to their students before they begin classes in the fall.

Time magazine: Trump and 8yo Syrian girl, deemed most influential people on the Internet

RT
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 00:23 UTC

US President Donald Trump and an eight-year-old refugee from Syria, Bana Alabed, have been named by Time magazine among the most influential people online.

With his legendary tweets, from #corrupthillary to the cryptic-slash-nonsensical "covfefe," the 45th US president made it to the "unranked" list along with 24 other cyber celebrities with powerful presence on social media and ability to make headlines.

Trump has been famously using Twitter to push his policies and to rail against his enemies and critics.

Comment: According to Time:

The president once claimed that people consider him "the Hemingway of Twitter." But he may be more like the platform's O. Henry: undone with an ironic twist. The itchy Twitter finger that propelled him to the White House now appears to be hurting his presidency. An unsubstantiated accusation that he was wiretapped ended up irritating British intelligence. A reference to possible tapes of his conversations with fired FBI Director James Comey raised eyebrows. (Trump later said he didn't record conversations with Comey.) Old tweets have been scrutinized by skeptical judges and recirculated online when Trump has contradicted a past position. But in spite of — or perhaps because of — the seemingly endless drama, Trump is now the most-followed world leader on Twitter, giving him a tool that's highly effective at getting his message out on his own terms. —Ryan Teague Beckwith

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These days in America, there are non stop false flags, hoaxes, psyops, and staged deceptions--that's literally all we get.

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Society's Child

'Terrorist attack': Hijacked military helicopter strikes Venezuela court and ministry

ISIS-linked fighters decapitate civilians as Marawi siege enters 6th week

Major global companies hit by ransomware virus cyber attacks

Daesh gives recruits 'passports to heaven' to boost morale

Cop caught on video kicking and stomping a man he just shot for robbing his house

Off duty cop attacks, chokes teen for walking through his front yard

Two strikes and you're dead: Ohio town wants to limit Narcan administration for opioid overdoses

Grenfell Tower is a Katrina moment for UK Government

'Book virgins' - College students who have never finished reading a book

Time magazine: Trump and 8yo Syrian girl, deemed most influential people on the Internet

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