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Alligator attacks 2-year-old, drags him into water near Disney resort in Orlando, Florida; toddler still missing


RT
Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:39 UTC
Alligator
© Eric Gaillard/Reuters
An alligator, thought to be up to seven feet long, attacked a 2-year-old boy while he was playing in the water on the shore of the Seven Seas Lagoon near an upscale Disney resort in Orlando, Florida. The toddler's father tried to rescue him, but the reptile dragged the boy into water.

The boy is still missing, with over 50 law enforcement officers currently searching the Seven Seas Lagoon. The area around the lake has been cordoned off to help with the search. Disney has temporarily closed all beaches at the resort, a company spokesman said Wednesday morning.

The shocking incident happened near Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa, a luxury resort owned by Disney. Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings told a news conference that a family of five from Nebraska was on vacation, relaxing on the shoreline when the attack occurred Tuesday night. He told reporters that the alligator is between 4 feet and 7 feet (1.2 meters and 2 meters) long.

According to Demings, the father tried to save his son, but failed. "The father entered the water and tried to grab the child and was not successful," Demings said, Reuters reported, adding that the boy's mother also tried to rescue him. He reportedly had scratches on his hands after the ordeal.


Comment: What a heart-wrenching tragedy for the parents of that little boy.

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Wolf

Sacramento pastor defends bigoted sermon that praised Orlando killings

Joseph Serna
Los Angeles Times
Wed, 15 Jun 2016 01:21 UTC
Pastor Roger Jimenez
© YouTubePastor Roger Jimenez of Verity Baptist Church delivers a sermon.
A YouTube video in which a Sacramento Baptist church pastor praised the massacre of 49 people at a gay nightclub in Florida and called the victims pedophiles and predators was removed Tuesday for violating the website's policy on hate speech.

The pastor, however, defended his comments Tuesday in response to the expressions of outrage.

The videotaped sermon by Pastor Roger Jimenez of Verity Baptist Church touched off a firestorm of controversy shortly after it was posted on Sunday. In it, Jimenez said that when he learned the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history had occurred at a gay club, he wasn't sad. In fact, he felt quite the contrary.

"I think Orlando, Fla., is a little safer tonight," he told his congregation, equating members of the LGBT community to sexual predators. "The tragedy is more of them didn't die.... I'm kind of upset he didn't finish the job!"

Jimenez also said if it were up to him, gays and lesbians would be lined up against a wall so a firing squad could "blow their brains out."

The reaction to the sermon has been swift and fierce.
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Ambulance

Teen girl killed, 3 others injured in downtown Oakland shooting

Steph Solis
USA Today
Wed, 15 Jun 2016 12:51 UTC
Oakland shooting
© NBC Bay AreaPolice are investigating a shooting in downtown Oakland.
A teenage girl died and three others were injured Tuesday night in downtown Oakland, police said.

The 16-year-old, who was listed in critical condition, later died at the hospital. The other three victims in the shooting are in stable condition, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

The victims range in age from mid-teens to early 20s, the Associated Press reported. They were attending a vigil two blocks away for someone who drowned in Salinas, Calif. It's unclear if the shooting is connected to the memorial gathering.

One witness told the Chronicle he was walking down 14th Street about a block away when he heard multiple gunshots fired in rapid succession at 5:41 p.m.

"And then basically there were people running every which way," said Mason Stone, 39.

People ran off in different directions, ducking for cover.
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Cow

Flashback English Hooligans, Untold Story: Documentary about English football fans' behavior at the 2006 World Cup in Germany


BBC
Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:05 UTC
English hooligans documentary
© BBC Panorama
The shocking untold story of the 2006 football World Cup - the mindless violence, racism, and riots caused by English football hooligans in German cities. A Panorama documentary, where BBC reporters filmed undercover to reveal a bloodthirsty lust for violence...


Comment: That was just from Germany in 2006. There's more, lots more. Here's a list provided by the English Daily Mail:

May 1981 — England fans damage shops in Basel following World Cup loss to Switzerland.

June 1988 — About 400 fans arrested for brawling in bars and streets at European Championship games in Duesseldorf, Stuttgart and Frankfurt.

July 1990 — England fans involved in violent scenes in Cagliari and Rimini during World Cup in Italy.

June 1992 — England fans clash with locals and police in Malmo and Stockholm at the European Championship in Sweden.

February 1995 — Right-wing England thugs tear up seats and attack local fans at Dublin's Lansdowne Road, forcing the friendly game against Ireland to be abandoned after 27 minutes.

June 1996 — About 200 English fans arrested in central London after England loses to Germany in the European Championship semifinals.

October 1997 — Police baton-charge England fans during a World Cup qualifying game in Rome.

June 1998 — England fans clash with locals in Marseille and Saint-Etienne, France, at the World Cup.

November 1999 — About 160 fans are arrested in running battles between England and Scotland fans before European Championship playoff game in Glasgow.

June 2000 — About 850 fans — almost all English — are detained after rioting in Brussels and Charleroi, Belgium, before England's Euro 2000 game against Germany. 56 people injured. UEFA threatens to throw England out of competition.

June 2006 — About 170,000 England fans descend on Germany for the World Cup, starting riots and fights wherever they go, and shocking locals with incessant insults about their being 'dirty f*cking Nazis'.

June 2016 — Hundreds of fans, mostly English, clash with locals and Russia supporters in Marseille over three days. The worst riots take place the day of England's opening European Championship against Russia.

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Stock Up

Best of the Web: Despite media blackout, eyewitness testimony of multiple shooters at Orlando nightclub spreads on social media


RT
Wed, 15 Jun 2016 09:58 UTC
media censorship
© activistpost.com
In the wake of the Orlando massacre, social media has been alight with people airing their thoughts on the incident, but a post claiming shooter Omar Mateen wasn't the only gunman in Pulse has sparked particularly vociferous debate and outrage online.

The post in question was written by a man calling himself Cody Agnew, who posted it on Facebook on Sunday. It stated that he knew a woman who had survived the killing spree despite being shot 12 times and having 11 bullets removed since.

Agnew claimed that the woman, who he described as "coherent" and "fairly stable," said there had been three gunmen in the gay nightclub on the night of the attack, and not just one.

The controversial post, which has since been deleted, claimed there were "bits of information that the media aren't telling us."

Comment: Check out for yourself what some of them had to say

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Heart - Black

ISIS has claimed link to Paris suburb stabber who killed a police officer & his partner


RT
Mon, 13 Jun 2016 01:25 UTC
A police raid in the Paris suburb commune of Magnanville has ended with the death of a hostage taker, who fatally stabbed a police officer near his house and then killed his partner. Reports claim the man was shouting Islamist slogans during the attack.

RAID special forces raided the premises and shot the stabber dead, Francetv info has reported, citing a French Interior Ministry spokesman. The officers discovered the body of a woman in the house and rescued a 3-year old boy.

The attacker shouted "Allah Akbar," Le Parisien cited witnesses as saying.

Unconfirmed reports have emerged suggesting that the attacker might have links to Islamic State (IS, ISIS/ISIL).

The terror group's "news agency," Amaq News, cited a source claiming that the perpetrator was an IS "fighter," SITE, a terror monitoring group, reported.

Reports on Twitter claimed that the attacker had sworn allegiance to the group.
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Ambulance

Girl stabbed in France by man hearing voices that told him to 'make sacrifice for Ramadan'


RT
Tue, 14 Jun 2016 00:26 UTC
French police
© Christian Hartmann / Reuters
A teenage girl was seriously injured in a stabbing attack in western France when a man assaulted her on the street. The attacker, who has a history of psychiatric problems, claimed that he needed to make "a sacrifice for Ramadan."

The girl, 19, was stabbed two times in the wrist and once in abdomen, Rennes prosecutor Nicolas Jacquet told journalists, adding that her wounds are not life-threating.

The girl's assailant told a witness that he was a Muslim. He was immediately detained by police at the scene of the crime and later told officers that he was obeying voices in his head that had ordered him to make a sacrifice for Ramadan, the holy Muslim month of fasting that began on June 6.

"Voices told him that he had to make a sacrifice on the occasion of Ramadan," Jacquet told AFP.
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Fire

Thousands without power after warehouse fire caused multiple explosions near downtown Los Angeles

Oleevia Woo and Corey Arvin
NBC Los Angeles
Tue, 14 Jun 2016 21:56 UTC
Los Angeles fire
© Richard Vogel, AP
About 35 residents were evacuated overnight due to a warehouse fire that produced "ferocious" explosions in a community southeast of downtown Los Angeles and left thousands of customers without power.

The fire was reported around 2:30 a.m. at a plastics business in the 3700 block of Fruitland Avenue, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. More than 3,100 customers were without power early Tuesday, according to Southern California Edison.
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Newspaper

UK's largest newspaper says run for your life: Vote Brexit, Americans should listen

Pam Martens and Russ Martens
Wall Street On Parade
Tue, 14 Jun 2016 21:16 UTC
Caption of SUN newspaper
The UK's largest newspaper, The Sun, with a daily print run of 1.7 million, has delivered a harsh indictment on its front cover today on continuing to allow European central planners and global bankers to run the UK by edict. UK citizens will vote on June 23 on whether to leave the European Union, a vote called Brexit, short for British Exit. The UK's Guardian newspaper is reporting that two ICM polls, one conducted online and one by telephone, showed 53 percent support for leaving versus 47 percent for remaining in the EU.

The message should serve as a sharp warning to Americans, who have allowed their central bank, the Federal Reserve, to march to the beat of the Wall Street bankers' edicts while achieving catastrophic results for the country and its citizens. Since the Wall Street crash of 2008, enabled by the formation of trillions of dollars in dicey derivatives and a mountain of subprime debt while the Federal Reserve kept its blinders securely in place, the U.S. national debt has doubled to $19 trillion while the Fed's balance sheet has ballooned from $800 billion to $4.5 trillion through endless rounds of sopping up the toxic waste (called "Quantitative Easing" or QE to pretty it up).

Perhaps America needs a national referendum on a FedExit. That dialogue was supposed to have begun in the U.S. Senate back in 2014, starting with stripping the central bank of its power to supervise Wall Street bank holding companies because it had clearly demonstrated itself to be not just a captured regulator but pure putty in the hands of the Wall Street banks. (See here, here, here and here.) The dialogue ended abruptly, as most things do in the U.S., with no explanation as to why to the American people.
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Pistol

Texas police respond to shooter at Amarillo Walmart


Sputnik
Tue, 14 Jun 2016 20:41 UTC
Walmart
© FP 2016/ SAUL LOEB
After responding to an active shooting situation and hostage situation at a Walmart in Amarillo, Texas, police report that the shooter has been killed by a SWAT team and that all hostages are safe.

According to Officer Jeb Hilton, speaking to NBC News, an armed individual took one hostage inside the store. The incident is being investigated as a case of workplace violence.

Police evacuated people from the building and asked people to stay away from the scene.
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