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New Mandalay Bay Shooting Officer Statements Contradict LVMPD "Single Shooter" Narrative

Stephen Paddock Mandalay bay shooting

Stephen Paddock
Documents released on Thursday from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department LVMPD point to multiple shooters and a contaminated crime scene in an already controversial investigation into the Las Vegas shooting over a year ago.

The LVMPD released 18 voluntary statements made by officers who responded to the shooting in Las Vegas October 1, 2017. One of the documents that stood out from the rest was the sworn statement of Sergeant William Matchko (P#8525), document #11, in which he states the LVMPD knew of multiple shooters who they planned to wiretap after they discovered Stephen Paddock's dead body in a suspected suicide.

In what is a routine procedure, officers are often asked to give a statement very soon after an event, commonly referred to as a witness officer interview. Matchko's interview was conducted by the LVMPD - Force Investigation Team on October 3, 2017 at 6:40PM, just two days after the Las Vegas shooting.

Comment: The Mandalay Bay shooting is bristling with loose ends that are not being seriously investigated. Investigative journalists are especially not welcome.


Blackbox

Remains of missing Wisconsin teacher found near a popular hiking spot in Slovenia, officials say

Jonathan Luskin

Police in the country’s capital of Ljubljana said that identification tests established the death of Jonathan Luskin, 25, of Wisconsin. Pictured is a missing persons poster
The human remains that were discovered near a popular hiking spot have been confirmed as those of a Wisconsin teacher who has been missing since June, Slovenian police announced on Saturday.

Police in the country's capital of Ljubljana said that identification tests established the death of Jonathan Luskin, 25, of Wisconsin. Police said the remains were discovered on Dec. 23 at Iski Vintgar gorge displayed no signs of foul play.

Family

What next for the populist revolt? A coherent vision must be developed if the movement is to survive

yellow vest protest paris operal palais garnier
© Sameer Al-Doumy/Agence France-Presse
The yellow vests gather in front of the Opéra Garnier.
People have rattled the elites - now they need to go further.

In the West in 2018, we witnessed the intensification of a new conflict - that between anti-populist political elites and a growing grassroots movement that is hostile to these elites.

Many commentators have interpreted this conflict in classical economic language. This is fundamentally a struggle over the distribution of resources, they claim. Even an astute commentator like Fareed Zakaria, who recognises that the 'yellow vest' protests in France are underpinned by profound cultural tensions, especially between rural and urban France, is nevertheless drawn towards a narrowly economic explanation. 'It's part class, part culture, but there is a large element of economics to it as well', he says.

Handcuffs

Suspect arrested in Newman, CA, cop shooting; five others held

ronil singh police immigrant shot
© Stanislaus County Sheriff's Dept.
Officer Ronil Singh of Newman Police Department is survived by his wife, Anamika, and a five-month-old son, who are pictured next to him on Christmas
A valleywide manhunt lasting about 55 hours came to a sudden end Friday morning with the arrest of the man authorities say shot and killed a 33-year-old Newman Police Department corporal.

Gustavo Perez Arriaga, 32, was arrested in the small town of Lamont, just east of Bakersfield and about 200 miles from where he's suspected of killing Cpl. Ronil Singh after a traffic stop early Wednesday morning in east Newman.

Arriaga was on his way to Mexico, said Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson at a noon news conference Friday in Modesto as several of Singh's grieving family members, along with other county employees and media from throughout California listened to details of the arrest.

Attention

5 monks injured in attack on Vienna church - robbery suspected

vienna police
© Sputnik / Stringer
A group of unidentified assailants attacked a church in the Austrian capital of Vienna on Thursday, the Kronen Zeitung newspaper reported.

According to the outlet, two gunmen attacked a Catholic church in the afternoon as gunshots were heard.

The EKO Cobra federal police anti-terrorism unit and the SWAT team of the Vienna Riot Squad had arrived at the scene of the incident, the report said.

According to preliminary data, from eight to 15 people have been injured in the attack.


Comment: According to later reports, five monks were tied up and left with head injuries. They had demanded money and valuables. So far, the assailants have not been caught.

See also: Suspect detained after shootout in Vienna historic center; witnesses say several gunmen involved


Bullseye

Hunting season on Russian governor who allegedly killed hibernating bear and told teen to shoot caged boar

Hunters

Governor Levchenko (r) shakes hands with a guide after killing a bear.
A Russian governor is in hot water after leaked footage of his hunting habits sparked public outrage. He is now facing prosecution for illegal hunting and his reputation has been marred by the media.

Sergey Levchenko, the governor of Siberia's Irkutsk Region, came under fire from both the law enforcement and national Russian television this week. The cause is the footage of a hunt, in which he and his family members participated and which is seen as highly inappropriate by many people.

In one episode of the hunt, the governor is seen shooting an apparently hibernating bear inside its den as other members of the session cheer on him. In another, a teenage boy, presumably the governor's grandson, is given a rifle and instructions to kill a boar lying inside a cage, which the boy does. The footage was reported by major Russian TV stations while the Prosecutor General ordered to check whether the hunt violated the laws of Russia.

The hunting scandal in Irkutsk started slowly in September when the bear-killing episode was leaked online in a three-minute video. The footage shows the governor first testing out a rifle and later approaching a bear den and shooting inside several times as a guide instructs him what to do. The men present congratulate the official with his first and discuss how the trophy is a good photo opportunity before dragging the slain bear out.

Comment: See also: New Russian law bans killing & mistreating animals, restricts petting zoos & illegal circuses


Newspaper

Veteran Austrian journalist reporting on corruption in Ukraine fears for his life

Ukrainian nationalists light flares during a procession in Kiev
© REUTERS / Gleb Garanich
Ukrainian nationalists light flares during a procession in Kiev
A veteran Austrian journalist has urged for action against media crackdown in Ukraine, saying he fears for his life after being labeled "a Kremlin agent" by a vigilante website, according to Kronen Zeitung.

Christian Wehrschuetz, a correspondent with Austria's leading ORF broadcaster, said it is increasingly hard for him and his employees to feel safe in modern-day Ukraine, Kronen Zeitung reported, citing excerpts from Wehrschuetz's letter to the channel's management and the Austrian government.

Wehrschuetz, who started his journalistic career in the mid-1980s, reportedly said there are "militant ultranationalist groups threatening journalists who critically report on the policies of Ukraine's leadership and try to stay objective."

Comment: Obviously the Western powers using Ukraine as a proxy to attack Russia are happy that their puppets are free to foster neo-Nazi's and nutjobs in their midst in the knowledge none of it will ever be publicized: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Donbass Leader Assassinated as Russia Exposes Chemical Plot in Syria


Briefcase

Georgia family sues after cops storm mentally ill man's home shooting him 76 times

Jamarion Robinson shooting
The family of a 26-year-old Atlanta man who was killed after police shot him 76 times has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the officers involved.

In August of 2016, police broke down the door of Jamarion Robinson's girlfriend's home in Parkside Camp Creek Luxury Apartments and began spraying the interior of the apartment with bullets. Robinson was killed by multiple police task force officers from several different departments, including the U.S. Marshal Service.

On that fateful day in August, police were serving a warrant for Robinson's arrest. Police claimed that during a previous confrontation, Robinson had fired a gun at officers. However, members of a local civil rights organization explained at a press conference on Wednesday that they didn't know why police were looking for Robinson.

"At the time of the shooting, Jamarion Robinson presented no threat to the defendant officers or anyone else," according to the lawsuit, filed in federal court.

The lawsuit claims that Robinson had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and that the responding officers were never trained in dealing with the mentally ill.

Comment: Georgia's police have made quite an unsavory reputation for themselves:


Snakes in Suits

The ongoing decline of the American male

discouraged man depression men


"We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful."
~ C.S. Lewis, The Abolition Of Man

In the movie Falling Down, Bill Foster (Michael Douglas) is a defense engineer who has lost his family, his home, and his job. We follow him on the day he finally snaps, his despair morphing into rage against his misfortunes. Among other incidents, he shoots up a Mexican-American gang, berates the employees of a fast-food restaurant for the hamburger they serve him, kills a vicious neo-Nazi, and blows up part of a construction site. At the end of the film, held at gunpoint by a detective, Foster says in surprise, "I'm the bad guy?"

A lot of men are saying the same thing these days.

Comment: 'No man left behind' is taking on an ironic meaning in today's world - it seems that all men are being left behind. With growing perspective of masculinity as being 'toxic', what do we expect is going to happen? If the future is female, to the exclusion of the male, what kind of dystopian world can we expect to live in?

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Family

Study finds older women more conservative than men while younger women are more left-wing

believe women
© Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
Women with “Believe” and other words written on their hands outside the U.S. Supreme Court after the vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, October 6, 2018
Young women across Western Europe and Canada are more left wing than their male counterparts, according to new research I carried out that also shows among older voters women more likely to be right wing than men.

We already know that younger people are often more likely to vote for left-wing parties than their older peers, but it seems this trend is particularly pronounced among women. Younger women are the most left wing in their voting habits and older women the most right wing when we compared voters by age and gender. This is shown in a study using data on over 40,000 people from the World Values Survey/European Values Study in Western Europe and Canada, 1989-2014.

This trend is summarised in the graph below. Negative numbers indicate more men voting for a left-wing party in a given country. Positive numbers indicate more women voting for a left-wing party. In almost all countries, women born after 1955 are more likely to vote for left-wing parties than men of the same age group. Conversely, in many countries, women born before 1955 are less likely to vote for left-wing parties than their male peers.