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Authorities step up armed police presence at Amsterdam airport after threat


RT
Sat, 30 Jul 2016 12:00 UTC
Aerial view of Schiphol airport near Amsterdam
© Yves Herman / Reuters
Armed police are conducting extra-security checks at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam after the authorities received reports of a possible threat. Officers searched every car entering the hub while adding it is likely that flights will be delayed.

There is a strong police presence in and around Schiphol, the fifth busiest airport in Europe in terms of passenger volume, the Dutch media reported, citing the local authorities.

The city's mayor, the National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security and as Royal Military Constabulary, reportedly introduced the security measures.
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Alarm Clock

CNN: Breaking: Feds going door to door collecting urine samples "checking for ZIKA"

Erin Elizabeth
Health Nut News
Fri, 29 Jul 2016 04:08 UTC
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You cannot make this stuff up kids. From CNN:
For the Zika Virus "Local, state and federal health officials are going door-to-door to ask residents for urine samples and other information in an effort to determine how many people may be infected Additional cases are anticipated.

It is possible that someone could have Zika without knowing, since 80% of those infected have no symptoms. When symptoms occur, they can include fever, rash, joint pain and red eyes, and they can last from a few days to about a week.There is no treatment or vaccine for Zika. None of these four unidentified patients, which include a woman and three men, has needed hospitalization.
Folks, you read this correctly. The feds and other local authorities are going DOOR TO DOOR to private residences asking (demanding?) urine samples.

What if a resident does not comply? What else are they testing for? Would you comply? I can tell you right now I am not giving any local or federal agent my urine. If arrest were the alternative then let them arrest me. I have nothing to hide, but no way would I submit to such a test if the feds showed up at my door. Some experts I'm speaking with are saying their asking for urine under the guise of "Zika virus" when it is, in fact, for something much more sinister. This is very disturbing to me.
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Black Cat

Afghan mullah arrested after 'marriage' to 6-year-old girl

Abdul Qadir Ghafoori and Frud Bezhan
Radio Free Europe
Fri, 29 Jul 2016 03:41 UTC
child brides
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He calls it matrimony. Her parents call it kidnapping. Whatever the case -- and it's a complicated case -- an Afghan mullah finds himself behind bars following his purported marriage to a 6-year-old girl.

Sayed Mohammad Karim, a 50-something religious figure in a village in the central province of Ghor, was arrested this week and charged with kidnapping and marriage to a minor.

The convoluted affair has once again brought the issue and legality of child marriages in Afghanistan to the fore.

Karim claims he received the girl as a "gift" from her parents, who were his religious followers. The parents claim Karim kidnapped their daughter, whose name is being withheld by RFE/RL due to her status as a minor, from their village in June.

Under Afghan civil law, the legal age for marriage is 16 for girls. But the Afghan Constitution also allows for Shari'a law, which can provide an avenue for child marriages.
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Pistol

An inside job - Weapons stolen from armory on US military base in Stuttgart

John Vandiver
Stars and Stripes
Fri, 29 Jul 2016 00:20 UTC
Panzer Kaserne
© Martin Greeson/U.S. ArmyThe military is investigating the theft of arms from a weapons room at U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart. Panzer Kaserne, home to the garrison's headquarters, is shown here.
Germany — Special agents from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command are investigating the theft of guns and other military equipment from a base arms room in Stuttgart, military officials said.

"Several semi-automatic pistols, one small-caliber automatic rifle and a shotgun were among the items taken," said Chris Grey, a CID spokesman.

The Army did not identify all the items stolen or the unit targeted, citing the active investigation. A possible breach of the base fence is also part of the ongoing probe.

"We are looking at all possibilities as the investigation continues, but at this point in the investigation it does not appear that an outside entity stole the firearms and equipment or breached the fence line, but we have not completely ruled it out," Grey said.

A military official who was not authorized to speak to the media said that the site was Panzer, which also is home to elite units such as Army Green Berets and Navy SEALs, as well as the garrison's headquarters.
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Bulb

Federal appeals court unanimously rules North Carolina voter ID law is discriminatory


RT
Fri, 29 Jul 2016 21:37 UTC
voting booth
© Charles Mostoller / Reuters
A federal appeals court struck down a North Carolina law requiring voters to present a photo ID before casting ballots in elections, finding that certain provisions in it were "enacted with racially discriminatory intent."

Friday's unanimous ruling was handed down by the US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, invalidating changes to state law passed in 2013 that the court deemed to have "disproportionately affected African-Americans."

"In holding that the legislature did not enact the challenged provisions with discriminatory intent, the court seems to have missed the forest in carefully surveying the many trees," wrote Circuit Court Judge Diana Gribbon Motz in the opinion. "This failure of perspective led the court to ignore critical facts bearing on legislative intent, including the inextricable link between race and politics in North Carolina."

The opinion from the three-judge panel in Richmond, Virginia reverses a lower-court ruling from April that had upheld the law.
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Still in the US: RT visits Erdogan's self-exiled arch-nemesis Fethullah Gulen at his estate


RT
Fri, 29 Jul 2016 21:30 UTC
Fethullah Gulen with RT news reporter
© RT
An RT reporter has met with "Turkey's most wanted man," Fethullah Gulen, a powerful preacher who has been living in self-exile in the US state of Pennsylvania. Ankara blames the scholar for the recent coup attempt in Turkey and wants him extradited.

Reporter Caleb Maupin and an RT America crew were invited to visit Gulen at his estate in rural Pennsylvania. Although the renowned Turkish cleric did not wish to speak to the press, he made it clear that he hasn't left his highly secured American home, despite Ankara's suggestions he might be on the run.

Immediately following the failed coup attempt on the night of July 15, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed Gulen and his supporters for attempting to seize power in Turkey.

Erdogan has demanded the cleric's arrest and extradition from the US, but Washington has repeatedly responded by saying it needs clear evidence of a link between Gulen and the attempted coup before it will consider extraditing him.
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Heart - Black

Mother arrested after abandoning her nine-year old twin sons while out drinking

Gerard Couzens
The Mirror
Fri, 29 Jul 2016 20:35 UTC
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Spanish cops made the arrest in Benidorm which is popular with Brits
Police in Benidorm have arrested a British holidaymaker accused of abandoning her two nine-year-old twins while out drinking.

One of the boys was taken into a police station by a couple who found him walking alone on the streets of the Costa Blanca resort looking for his AWOL mum.

His twin brother was discovered lying in the door-well of his holiday apartment after crossing town to return to where they were staying.

Police at first struggled to locate the unnamed 40-year-old mum after failing to find any search of her in the area where her children had last seen her.

They eventually tracked her down the following morning asleep in bed at her holiday accommodation and promptly arrested her. The youngsters were taken into care while she was taken to court to appear in front of a judge.
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Bad Guys

German hysteria: Special forces deployed to employment center after false alarm


RT
Fri, 29 Jul 2016 20:08 UTC
Germany special forces
© Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters
Police in the German city of Cologne launched a special operation at an employment center in the city's southwest following reports of an armed person threatening staff there. Police investigated reports that a woman was threatening people with a gun at the job agency. Employees were ordered to stay inside their offices, police told Rundschau-online. According to the latest statement by law enforcement on Twitter, "nothing suspicious" was found at the site.

The search has now concluded. Citing police, Rundschau-online said that authorities received the tip-off from a local employee. "We barricaded the door immediately and sat in the room quietly with our customers. From there we heard sirens of police, who surrounded the building," an eyewitnesses told the Express newspaper. "We did not dare to look out of the door," the eyewitness went on to say.

At the time of what appeared to be a false alarm, law enforcement officers were already inside the building, as they had an arrest warrant for a separate male. The man was on the wanted list for threatening fellow residents at an asylum center on Wednesday. According to Kolner Stadt-Anzeiger, police were aware that the man in question, reportedly a Syrian national, had an appointment at the employment center and were waiting for him there. The outlet says the male "acted aggressively towards police."

Meanwhile, Express also reports that the alleged Syrian national was part of a group of five foreign job seekers, who apparently also acted in a threatening manner towards job center staff. The four others were briefly detained but then set free. Germany has witnessed five attacks in the past 12 days, mainly in the south of the country. Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) claimed responsibility for two of the assaults. Police are currently investigating potential links the other perpetrators might have had to the terrorist group.

Comment: This is what happens to a society driven to hysteria. Both incidents above amounted to nothing, and it is clear people are being programmed to have trigger reactions to minimal or non-existent threats.

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Vader

Russian weightlifting team banned from participating in Rio Olympics


RT
Fri, 29 Jul 2016 19:50 UTC
weightlifter
© Grigoriy Sisoev / Sputnik
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) became the second sports body to ban the entire Russian team from participating in the upcoming Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Russia's track & field team had been excluded earlier.

"The integrity of the weightlifting sport has been seriously damaged on multiple times and levels by the Russians, therefore an appropriate sanction was applied in order to preserve the status of the sport," said a statement published on the IWF website.

Weightlifting is a sport historically associated with doping offenses, and Russia's athletes have been some of the most heavily implicated in the recently-published McLaren Report sponsored by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), which allegedly exposed state-sponsored cheating.

"8 athletes were nominated by the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) to compete in the Rio Olympic Games weightlifting events. Ms. Tatiana Kashirina's and Ms. Anastasiia Romanova's nominations were withdrawn by the ROC due to prior anti-doping rule violations," wrote the IWF.

"Four additional athletes were listed in the McLaren Report as beneficiaries of the Disappearing Positive Methodology System,"added the statement, referring to an alleged system in which tainted samples from athletes were replaced with clean ones by officials in exchange for money, or in order to earn Russia international prestige from better performances.


Comment: So 4 other athletes were banned even though they've not tested positive for banned substances, rather they were named in the ridiculous McLaren report. It should be rather simple, either an athlete tests positive and is not allowed to compete, or there is actual evidence that they cheated the doping system. Without any evidence, there is no basis for banning them from participating. It's merely another example of America's cultural war against Russia.

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USA

Best of the Web: Margot Kidder: My fellow Americans: We are fools

Margot Kidder
Counter Punch
Fri, 29 Jul 2016 18:58 UTC
Clinton and Kaine
© Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call
There is something I am going to try and explain here after watching the Democratic National Convention this evening that will invite the scorn of many of my friends. But the words are gagging my throat and my stomach is twisted and sick and I have to vomit this out. The anti-Americanism in me is about to explode and land god knows where as my rage is well beyond reason. And I, by heritage, half American in a way that makes me "more" American than almost anyone else in this country except for the true Americans, the American Indians, am in utter denial tonight that I am, as you are, American as well.

I am half Canadian, I was brought up there, with very different values than you Americans hold, and tonight — after the endless spit ups and boasts and rants about the greatness of American militarism, and praise for American military strength, and boasts about wiping out ISIS, and America being the strongest country on earth, and an utterly inane story from a woman whose son died in Obama's war, about how she got to cry in gratitude on Obama's shoulder — tonight I feel deeply Canadian. Every subtle lesson I was ever subliminally given about the bullies across the border and their rudeness and their lack of education and their self-given right to bomb whoever they wanted in the world for no reason other than that they wanted something the people in the other country had, and their greed, came oozing to the surface of my psyche.

I just got back from a rather fierce walk beside the Yellowstone River here in Montana, trying to let the mountains in the distance reconnect me to some place of goodness in my soul, but I couldn't find it. The scenery was as exquisite as ever, but it just couldn't touch the rage in my heart. The visions of all the dead children in Syria that Hillary Clinton helped to kill; the children bombed to bits in Afghanistan and Pakistan from Obama's drones, the grisly chaos of of Libya, the utter wasteland of Iraq, the death and destruction everywhere caused by American military intervention. The Ukraine, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Chile, you name it — your country has bombed it or destroyed its civilian life in some basic way.
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