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Suspect dead, 20 injured in Trenton, New Jersey arts festival shooting


RT
Sun, 17 Jun 2018 12:40 UTC
Crime scene
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Twenty people have been injured, some critically, in a shooting at an arts festival in Trenton, New Jersey on Sunday. One person, suspected to be behind the shooting, has been killed according to local officials.

A second suspect is in police custody, according to Mercer County Prosecutor's office. Fifteen of those injured suffered gunshot wounds and a 13 year-old boy is among the casualties.

Local authorities say that several people opened fire inside the venue and multiple weapons were recovered in the scene. The casualties were confirmed by the Mercer County Prosecutor's office.

Police received reports that a man had opened fire inside Roebling Market, where the all-night event took place, shortly before 3 am.
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Oxfam accuses French police of abuse and detention of migrant children at border


RT
Fri, 15 Jun 2018 19:21 UTC
FILE PHOTO Migrants at a border crossing between Ventimiglia, Italy and Menton, France, September 30, 2015.
© Reuters
FILE PHOTO Migrants at a border crossing between Ventimiglia, Italy and Menton, France, September 30, 2015.
French police are abusing and illegally detaining migrant children who attempt to cross the border from Italy, UK-based humanitarian group Oxfam said. Many intercepted minors have even been left unable to contact their families.

Some 16,500 refugees and migrants are stuck near the small Italian town of Ventimiglia, 7km from the French border, Oxfam's new report, 'Nowhere but out,' calculates. One quarter of these people are children, mostly from Sudan, Eritrea and Afghanistan. The majority of these minors are between 15 and 17, but some are much younger, the group claims.


Comment: This is tricky since it has been shown time and again that some migrants claim to be much younger than they really are.


Since French authorities tightened border controls with Italy back in 2015, it has been hard for asylum seekers to enter the country. Hundreds of them are forced to "sleep rough under a [motorway] flyover" with no access to drinkable water, shelter or heating on the French-Italian border.

Comment: While mistreatment by police should be condemned, local services are heavily strained due a crisis largely caused by the West's illegal wars and economic policies in the Middle East and Africa and made worse by the EU's dictatorial immigration policies - some of which may speed up the already rapid disintegrating Eurozone: Also check out SOTT radio's:


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Anti-Russian propaganda: Russian police ordered not to publish information about crimes during the World Cup

Alec Luhn
The Telegraph
Fri, 15 Jun 2018 17:11 UTC
Yekaterinburg stadium
© Sergei Savostyanov/TASS via Getty Images
Police stand watch outside Yekaterinburg stadium during the Egypt-Uruguay match on Friday
Police have been ordered not to publish any information about crimes during the World Cup as Vladimir Putin attempts to craft an image of Russia as a transgression-free zone.

With fears lingering of a terrorist attack like the bloody underground bombing last year in St Petersburg, near where the England team is based, Moscow has deployed missile launchers and anti-drone jammers at stadiums.

Regional cops have been dragooned to patrol host cities, leaving their home towns complaining of shortages.

The media blackout underlines the push to make the national prestige project a success after Vladimir Putin told police in February that the " image of the nation depends upon the thoroughness of your work".

In a copy of a document seen by The Telegraph, a colonel in Russia's central federal district ordered subordinates to "cease publishing in the mass media information about investigative operations and preventative measures" from June 5 to July 25.

Comment: See also: UK media scaremongers on Russian cities prior to FIFA World Cup

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Privacy problems: Deleting your online DNA data is brutally difficult

Kristen V Brown
Bloomberg
Fri, 15 Jun 2018 11:00 UTC
DNA test kits
© Cayce Clifford/Bloomberg
Orig3n and 23andMe DNA test kits.

A reporter's effort to erase her genetic footprint gets snared in a thicket of policies and rules.

In the name of journalism, I have spit into a lot of test tubes.

I've sent samples of my saliva to Ancestry and 23andMe Inc. to find out about my heritage; mailed my spit to Helix for insight into my athletic ability, diet and sleep patterns; and uploaded my DNA to the website of a startup that said it could craft a skin care routine genetically optimized to give me perfect skin.

Overall, I've shared my genetic information with nearly a dozen companies. You might call me an oversharer.

Comment: While the above article may make one think twice about these DNA services, in the age of eroding privacy one has to wonder whether "they" already have everything on us, anyway. One can only assume a file exists on a server somewhere that includes all of our data, everything we've posted to social media, our DNA and probably even what we had for breakfast this morning. Welcome to the future.

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Brazil: Rio de Janeiro police 'resistance to authority' killings doubled during last 5 months


teleSUR
Sat, 16 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
Rio de Janeiro police
© Reuters
Policemen take positions in a Rio de Janeiro favela. | Photo:
A total of 142 deaths were confirmed in the state of Rio de Janeiro in May compared to 97 during the same month last year.

The number of persons killed by police in the state of Rio de Janeiro increased by 46 percent in May 2018 when compared to May 2017. The increase, which was detailed in a study by Brazil's Institute of Public Safety, showed police killed 142 persons in May 2018 compared to 97 over the same period last year.

Authorities classified all the deaths as being due to "resistance to authority" or "resistance to arrest" (auto de resistencia) by the victims.

The term, which is commonly used by police officers, implies a series of actions: the police killed someone who they describe as being a "bandido" or a thug; next, the police claim legitimate defense because the suspect was resisting arrest, the sole witnesses to the events are often the officers, and if the case is officially registered as resisting arrest; an investigation into the death of the suspect is insignificant, and no police officer would be held responsible.

Comment: See also:

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Confrontation between asylum seekers and German police during attempt to relocate migrant

Chris Tomlinson
Breitbart
Sat, 16 Jun 2018 00:01 UTC
German Police
A group of between a dozen and twenty asylum seekers armed with various weapons launched an attack on police officers attempting to move a 20-year-old Liberian to another facility.

The incident took place at an asylum shelter in the city of Göttingen in Lower Saxony earlier this week when officers attempted to remove the 20-year-old and he refused to co-operate, Die Welt reports.

According to a spokesman for the city government, the asylum seeker had been causing trouble among other residents of the shelter including intimidating others and disturbing them by making a lot of noise.

Comment: While Breitbart characterizes this as an "attack", from the video it doesn't appear there was anything more than threatening posturing while the cops apprehended a crazy person and his friends shouted objections. There is no doubt tensions run high between asylum seekers and police, and that there are very real crimes and social issues surrounding asylum seekers in Germany, characterizing every confrontation as an attack reveals more about the bias of the reporting source than an objective picture of what's going on.

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'Mad Dog' Mattis: Evil Putin is aiming to 'undermine America's moral authority and belief in ideals'

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.com
Sun, 17 Jun 2018 12:12 UTC
guys laughing
At a graduation ceremony for the US Naval War College (barf), US Secretary of Defense James Mattis asserted that Russian President Vladimir Putin "aims to diminish the appeal of the western democratic model and attempts to undermine America's moral authority," and that "his actions are designed not to challenge our arms at this point but to undercut and compromise our belief in our ideals."

This would be the same James Mattis who's been overseeing the war crimes committed by America's armed forces during their illegal occupation of Syria. This would be the same United States of America that was born of the genocide of indigenous tribes and the labor of African slaves, which slaughtered millions in Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq, Libya and Syria for no legitimate reason, which is partnered with Ukrainian Nazis, jihadist factions in Syria and Iranian terror cultists, which supports 73 percent of the world's dictators, which interferes constantly in the electoral processes of other countries as a matter of policy, which stages coups around the world, which has encircled the globe with military bases, whose FBI still targets black civil rights activists for persecution to this very day, which routinely enters into undeclared wars of aggression against noncompliant governments to advance plutocratic interests, which remains the only country ever to use nuclear weapons on human beings after doing so completely needlessly in Japan, and which is functionally a corporatist oligarchy with no meaningful "democratic model" in place at all.


Comment: As with everything else that comes from any US official, the hypocrisy in their statements knows no limits.

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Pharma billionaire Soon-Shiong to take control of the LA Times 'to restore its independence'


Yahoo! News / AP
Sun, 17 Jun 2018 12:33 UTC
Patrick Soon-Shiong
© AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File
In this Jan. 10, 2017, file photo, pharmaceuticals billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong waves as he arrives in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York for a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump.
A biotech billionaire who purchased the Los Angeles Times with an eye toward restoring its independence and vigor will officially take control of the news organization Monday, the newspaper reports .

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong (soon-shong) is spending $500 million to buy The Times, San Diego Union-Tibune, Spanish-language newspaper Hoy and some community newspapers from Chicago-based Tronc.

The deal, announced Feb. 7, returns The Times to local ownership after nearly two decades under rocky Chicago control. The newsroom has been led by three editors in 10 months and five publishers in four years.

Comment: Lets see if Soon-Shiong can make the LA Times independent from the CIA:

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Light Saber

Russian company indicted for 'trolling' US election accuses Mueller of 'fake law' to prevent review of evidence

Kevin Breuninge
CNBC
Sun, 17 Jun 2018 12:18 UTC
YevgenyPrigozhin
© Mikhail Metzel/TASS
Yevgeny Prigozhin
  • Russian company Concord Management and Consulting tore into special counsel Robert Mueller Thursday.
  • In a searing court document, Concord responded to Mueller's request that a judge grant certain protections to the mountain of evidence in that case.
  • Concord is one of three Russian entities and 13 Russian people accused by the special counsel of breaking the law in order to interfere with U.S. elections.
A Russian company indicted for allegedly funding attempts to meddle in the 2016 presidential election tore into special counsel Robert Mueller Thursday, calling him "unlawfully appointed" and accusing him of chasing a "make-believe electioneering case."

The searing court document was filed in response to Mueller's request that a judge grant certain protections to the mountain of evidence in that case.

Comment: Only thing that's missing from Mueller's case against the 'Russian trolls' is real evidence, which of course explains why he doesn't want the accused party to be able to review it. See:

US Establishment Hysterical About Russian Trolls - Even Pro-Gun Tweets Are Their Fault

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Heart

An Extraordinary Thing Happened At Jordan Peterson's Indianapolis Performance

Miriam Weaver
Chicksontheright
Sun, 17 Jun 2018 10:12 UTC
Zašto komunisti ne mogu izdražati Jordan Petersona
Y'all know I've been intellectually crushing on Jordan Peterson for months now, basically ever since I discovered him via the Lindsay Shepherd story back in December. And then, when he mind-spanked Cathy Newman in that Mother Of All Interviews back in January? Well, that was it. I was hooked, and I've spent many hours binge-watching his videos since. He is currently on a speaking tour, promoting his book, "12 Rules for Life" - which is a must-read.

When I discovered he was coming to Indy, Mr. Mock and I were pretty stoked. We bought tickets, and spent a little extra on VIP passes so that we could meet him and attend a smaller Q&A session with him.
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