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Revolt: Sanders delegates stage walk out during DNC roll call

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© Jim Bourg / ReuterSupporters and delegates of former Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders walk out after Hillary Clinton was nominated during the second day at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 26, 2016.
After Senator Bernie Sanders moved to nominate Hillary Clinton by acclamation during roll call, he left the Democratic convention hall - as did more than 500 of his delegates.


Over 300 of those participating occupied the media center after walking out of the roll call vote for the presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention.



Police then blocked the media center entrance, even blocking reporters from re-entering.

Attention

Chickenpox outbreak: Convicted killer suing jail over sickness

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© Stephen Lam / Reuters
A chickenpox outbreak amounted to cruel and unusual punishment, a lawsuit brought against the director of Rhode Island's Department of Corrections claims. Kenneth Day alleges prison officials did not implement protocol to prevent the spread of diseases.

A lawsuit brought by Kenneth D. Day accuses Corrections Director A.T. Wall and two corrections officers of cruel and unusual punishment for allowing an inmate diagnosed with shingles to remain in the prison's general population. The inmate, known only as "Ernest," was moved into another maximum-security cellblock towards the end of May.

Eye 1

Controlling information: Facebook admits to censoring DNC email links

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© Dado Ruvic / Reuters
Facebook has confirmed without reason that it temporarily blocked links to the WikiLeaks files of leaked internal Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails. The social media giant came under fire from followers, with WikiLeaks accusing it of "censorship."

A number of people encountered problems when they tried to post links to the WikiLeaks files - which exposed the DNC's bias against Bernie Sanders - on Facebook on Saturday. Error messages said the links had been "detected to be unsafe" by Facebook's security system, and asked users "to remove links to continue."

After Twitter user @SwiftOnSecurity tweeted that "Facebook has an automated system for detecting spam/malicious links, that sometimes have false positives," Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos replied by saying "it's been fixed."

In a statement to Gizmodo, the company's representative said: "Like other services, our anti-spam systems briefly flagged links to these documents as unsafe," adding that Facebook "quickly corrected this error on Saturday evening."


Comment: Translation: Once it became apparent that the blowback for blocking the sharing of the data was going to be more of a PR nightmare than they anticipated, Facebook changed course and then pretended it was all due to "computer error." Face it, Facebook is just as much in bed with the government in spreading propaganda as any mainstream news media. The question is, how much other news gets censored by Facebook that isn't big enough to cause a disturbance and force them to change course?


Document

Japanese mass murder suspect revealed motives in warning letter to Japanese parliament

Police officers investigate at a facility where a deadly attack by a knife-wielding man
© Issei Kato / Reuters
Knife attacker Satoshi Uematsu, who is suspected of killing at least 19 disabled people at a special facility near Tokyo, threatened to wipe out a total of 470 in letters he sent to a Japanese member of parliament some months prior to the mass killing.

Satoshi Uematsu promised to "obliterate 470 disabled people" in the letters he wrote in February and then attempted to pass to the speaker of Japan's lower house of parliament.

"I am fully aware that my remark is eccentric. However, thinking about the tired faces of guardians, the dull eyes of caregivers working at the facility, I am not able to contain myself, and so I decided to take action today for the sake of Japan and the world," he wrote, as quoted by AP.

"My reasoning is that I may be able to revitalize the world economy and I thought it may be possible to prevent World War III."

"The act will be carried out speedily and definitely without harming the staff. After wiping out the 260 people in two facilities, I will turn myself in," the letter goes on.

"My goal is a world in which the severely disabled can be euthanized, with their guardians' consent, if they are unable to live at home and be active in society," Uematsu wrote, apparently trying to explain his goal.

Comment: Very strange and warped thinking for this knife attacker to resort to such measures to get attention. What's worse is he gave ample warning.


Footprints

Yerevan Armenia: Thousands march in support of gunmen, Sasna Tsrer - 'the Daredevils of Sassoun'

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Thousands of demonstrators were marching in Yerevan late on July 25 in support of a group of gunmen who have occupied an Armenian police station for more than a week. The demonstrators chanted "unity" and called for bystanders to join them -- swelling their numbers as the march progressed along the streets of the Armenian capital and the demonstrators arrived at Yerevan's central Republic Square. It was the largest gathering of support for the gunmen since the crisis began on July 17.

The march began on July 25 after military helicopters were seen flying over the occupied police building. The presence of the helicopters prompted speculation that a military raid against the gunmen was imminent. The gunmen at the police station set a police van on fire near the building on July 25. Meanwhile, Armenian law enforcement agencies called on the gunmen not to take any steps that would "risk the lives of citizens or that stir up tensions."

One police officer was killed on July 17 when the gunmen, linked to the radical Founding Parliament opposition movement, stormed into the Erebuni police station. The gunmen took seven police officers as hostages but released the last of them on July 23 after negotiations with a senior officer in Armenia's armed forces.

The gunmen are members of a little-known group called Sasna Tsrer, dubbed by some the Daredevils of Sassoun, which is loyal to Founding Parliament's leader Zhirayr Sefilian.

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Sheriff

Jawdropping! New study shows cops killed or injured citizens over 55K times in a single year

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If anyone needed a reminder that America has a police brutality problem, the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile provided it. Actual numbers on violent police encounters are difficult to come by, but this dearth of data is getting more attention.

New research published in the British Medical Journal demonstrates the danger posed to citizens by the most routine police practice of a "legal stop."

Researchers analyzed 12.3 million police interventions from 2012 and found that approximately 55,400 people were injured or killed by cops during legal stop and search incidents in one year. Of this number, about 1,000 were killed, with vast majority dying from gunshot wounds. The remaining 54,400 were hospitalized with serious injuries, mostly from blunt objects.

"On average, an estimated 1 in 291 stops/arrests resulted in hospital-treated injury or death of a suspect or bystander."

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Germany facing 'perfect storm' of fatal attacks

Reutlingen, Germany killing
© Vincent Kessler / Reuters
Although a complete U-turn of Chancellor Merkel's open door policy is needed, Germany has to change its stance on meddling in Syria and its anti-terrorist policy as well, experts say.

Germany has witnessed a fourth violent attack against the public in just one week. On Sunday evening, a failed Syrian asylum-seeker set off a bomb in the Bavarian city of Ansbach, killing himself and injuring several other people. That follows an incident in the German town of Reutlingen where man wielding a machete randomly attacked passersby in the street killing at least one person and wounding two.

RT discussed with experts the recent attacks in Germany and their possible links to terrorism and the refugee crisis in Europe.

Sheriff

Nevada police beat semi-conscious man mistaking insulin shock for drunkenness

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© ABC News
A man who was going into diabetic shock was physically assaulted by Nevada police officers who mistook him for a drunk driver.

The dash-cam from the Highway Patrol trooper shows they began a chase against a suspected drunk driver. Once he was able to pull the car over, police officers open his door and begin to kick him, shouting "stop resisting motherf****r, stop resisting!" as he lay on the ground.

An officer can be heard later stating "he was not a small guy, I couldn't take him by myself" while laughing. Meanwhile, another officer can be heard on the police radio stating "he's a diabetic, he's probably in shock, semiconscious".

Later in the video, the officers find insulin in his pocket and realize he was going through a shock and called for medical attention.



Stormtrooper

All cops will be dressed for battle: NYPD responds to police killings

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Earlier this month, during an entirely peaceful protest, a murderer opened fire on crowds of police officers. Five Dallas cops were tragically killed and seven others injured. Only days after the Dallas attack, three more cops were killed in Baton Rouge, when a former Marine with PTSD ambushed them.

Both of these attacks were carried out by sick individuals who thought that killing random police officers would somehow advance their cause. They could not have been more wrong.

As the Free Thought Project has previously warned, these attacks do nothing to stop police violence against citizens. In fact, it has the exact opposite effect. Now, when cops needlessly kill someone, their actions will be under less scrutiny from the public. All the police have to say now is "Dallas" or "Baton Rouge."

Comment: Ominous threats of civil war now being issued from cops across the U.S.


Red Flag

Never let a crisis go to waste: German authorities call for more police state measures in wake of recent attacks

German police
© Reuters
The bodies of the victims of Munich's recent mass shooting barely cold, German "authorities" and politicians have wasted no time in calling for more police state measures and the further clamp down on access to gun ownership in Germany.

Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Hermann is now pushing for going so far as to revise the German Constitution so that limits placed on using the military domestically can be removed, allowing the German military to be used inside Germany for "large-scale terrorist situations."

The limits on Germany's military were put in place after World War II and in response to Germany's experience with the Nazi regime with all its excesses, totalitarianism, violence, and genocide.

Hermann stated that Germany is "an absolutely stable democracy" and, as such, Germans should be perfectly fine with having their military deployed on German streets.

Baden-Wurttemberg's Interior Minister also hinted at the possibility of changing the German Constitution in a manner similar to Hermann.

Comment: Germany in tension: Four attacks in one week