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Attention

Terror scare in Brussels after 'mentally unstable' man claims to possess explosives


RT
Tue, 08 Aug 2017 20:05 UTC
Belgian police officers
© Eric Vidal / ReutersBelgian police officers
Police kept part of the Molenbeek district of Brussels sealed off for several hours after they shot at a vehicle and detained the driver who claimed there were explosives in the car. No explosives were found eventually.

Earlier police in the Molenbeek district of Brussels shot at a vehicle they were chasing and said the driver claimed there were explosives in the car, according to Belgium's federal prosecutor.

It's now been confirmed the suspect was unarmed and "mentally unstable."
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People

Miami eligible for $500k in grants after complying with Trump's immigration policies


RT
Tue, 08 Aug 2017 20:05 UTC
Miami Florida
© Rhona Wise, Jose ROMERO / AFP
Florida's most populated county is no longer considered to be a "sanctuary jurisdiction" by the Justice Department. As a result, Miami-Dade will be eligible for certain federal grant money denied to other immigration "sanctuary cities."

On Friday, the Department of Justice sent a letter to Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez (R), notifying him that the county was in compliance with federal immigration requirements and would therefore be eligible for Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program (JAG) grants.

However, the letter sent by Alan Hanson, acting assistant attorney general, also warned that the Justice Department will continue to monitor the county to ensure they remain in compliance with the rules.
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Quenelle

Sadistic 'psychologists' who created CIA's torture program will face trial by jury


RT
Tue, 08 Aug 2017 20:05 UTC
Torture waterboarding
© Jim Young / Reuters
The case against two psychologists who were paid over $80 million to devise the CIA's torture program under the Bush administration will go to trial, after a federal judge in Spokane, Washington, denied their request to throw the lawsuit out.

A jury will hear the lawsuit, Salim v. Mitchell, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of three former detainees against James Mitchell and John "Bruce" Jessen, US District Judge Justice Quackenbush said in a written order on Monday, according to AP.

The plaintiffs are suing under the Alien Tort Statute, accusing Mitchell and Jessen of committing of torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, non-consensual human experimentation and war crimes.
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Stock Up

Ironic development: International investors more interested in Russia after new sanctions

KtovKurse - translated by Inessa Sinchougova
Fort Russ News
Tue, 08 Aug 2017 19:59 UTC
magnifying glass over map of Russia
For the first time since the beginning of summer, international investors have invested more in the Russian stock market than taken from it, says the Emerging Portfolio Fund Research (EPFR).

It is reported that for the last week of July, the net inflow of client funds into funds focused on Russia amounted to about $2 million, whereas in the previous seven weeks investors have withdrawn almost $700 million from Russia.

Thus, last week was the first since June, when international investors invested more money in Russia than they took out.

Now the inflow of investments goes to most regional and country funds. According to the EPFR, over the past week, funds in developing markets attracted $2.2 billion, which is $800 million more than a week earlier.
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Alarm Clock

Law professor: Congress must act now on sexbot industry - consequences unknown, could encourage rapists

Kate Hardiman
The College Fix
Tue, 08 Aug 2017 18:57 UTC
Congress building
© Sputnik/ Igor Mikhalev
As the sale and use of lifelike sex robots that allow people to simulate rape continues to gain steam, one famed law professor is sounding the alarm.

John Banzhaf, a well-known activist professor of public interest law at George Washington University Law School, says experts disagree on the consequences of allowing people to engage in mock acts of rape with humanoid dolls, and lawmakers should vet this issue as soon as possible.

Saying there's evidence rape sexbots may significantly increase the chance of rape to real women, the law should "no longer stand by and blindly ignore a major potential problem by doing nothing," he said in an email to The College Fix.

Sexbots, especially those which can be programmed to act as if they are being raped, and those which act and appear to be young children, are already here and in use, Banzhaf said.

Comment: Banzhaf is right about one thing: the need for studies. Especially considering this: But does it work? Pedophile treatment agency proposes child sex dolls to prevent child abuse

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Handcuffs

Houston cops suspect dating app used to lure 2 men to their deaths: Robbery or serial murder possible motives

Andrew Kragie
Houston Chronicle
Tue, 08 Aug 2017 18:43 UTC
An Nguyen and Glenser Soliman
An Nguyen and Glenser Soliman
A dating app link-up may have lured two Houston-area men to their deaths in what could be the work of serial killers, Harris County sheriff's investigators said Monday in warning the public to be wary of meeting strangers online.

Investigators didn't publicly identify the app, but said the killers may have been targeting Asian men when they went after Glenser Soliman, a 44-year-old St. Luke's Medical Center nurse whose body was found Feb. 25, and An Vinh Nguyen, a 26-year-old University of Houston student last seen March 31.

Both of their vehicles were found abandoned in the Spring area. Nguyen's credit cards were also taken, though details were not available about whether items were stolen from Soliman.

Detectives warned there may be additional victims.

"It is possible that there were other victims, or victims that did get away who could give us more information," said lead investigator Mike Ritchie at a Monday news conference.

Two cousins who lived together in the Spring area in northwest Harris County are suspected in the deaths, Ritchie said.
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Boat

Just the beginning? Footage of confrontation between migrants and soldiers evokes sharp reaction from Naples residents


RT
Tue, 08 Aug 2017 18:33 UTC
naples migrants soldiers
© Lello Cretella / Facebook
A video showing a confrontation between Italian soldiers and immigrants on the streets of Naples has gone viral. In the clip, the troops appear to arrest a man before being confronted by others, who attempt to wrest the detained man free.

The grainy video was posted to the Comitato Quartiere Vasto (the Vasto District Committee) group on Facebook, representing residents living in the Vasto area of central Naples near the Piazza Garibaldi.

The video shows soldiers arresting a man, who looks to be of African descent and is lying on the ground. Others are seen approaching the group and attempting to pull the detained man away. Eventually, two other black men succeed, but the patrol catches up to them and encircle the original suspect, while more onlookers arrive. Somebody is heard shouting, "Do not beat him!"

It is not clear what the man was being arrested for, nor whether he was being abused by the soldiers in any way. Another video taken at the same scene shows no sign of violence towards the soldiers.

The incident has provoked a sharp reaction from local residents.
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Attention

Russians should urgently repatriate their assets from the West

Jon Hellevig
Russia Insider
Tue, 08 Aug 2017 17:05 UTC
Uncle Sam poster
Don't say you weren't warned.
The Reich did it to the Jews in 1930s, now the American regime has set up a mechanism for arbitrary mass expropriation of assets of all Russians in the West.

The new law of sanctions on Russia is not just economic war - it is a war on the Russian people and now the millions of Russians who have assets in the West are on the frontline. Anyone working in private business, state corporations or in contracts with state corporations, is now a target of asset seizures by the American regime.

"It Can't Happen to Us"

These sanctions are no diplomatic squabble. They will get very personal for Russian businesses and professionals working with Russian companies. Any sector of business can be targeted by the US for such crimes as "closeness to elites", "oligarch". They are reminiscent of Stalin's terror and kangaroo courts in which anyone could be charged, tried and convicted, property seized and banished without a right to appeal.
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Red Flag

Government data reveals number of opioid drug overdoses in US break new record


RT
Tue, 08 Aug 2017 17:43 UTC
opioid drug problems
© David Devins / Global Look Press
The first nine months of 2016 saw a sharp increase in opioid drug overdoses in the US compared to the prior year, according to new data by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The government is struggling to respond to the crisis.

Deaths due to drug overdose peaked in the third quarter of last year - 19.7 cases for every 100,000 people, compared to 16.7 in the same period the year before, according to newly released numbers from the NCHS, which is part of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The Centers attributed 33,000 deaths in 2015 to opioid drugs, including legal prescription painkillers as well as illicit drugs like heroin and street fentanyl.

"Opioid prescribing continues to fuel the epidemic. Today, nearly half of all US opioid overdose deaths involve a prescription opioid," according to the CDC.
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Dollars

Entrepreneur plans to launch 'kosher' cryptocurrency for Jewish communities


RT
Tue, 08 Aug 2017 17:18 UTC
Hasidic Jews
© Rob Stothard / Getty Images
Russian entrepreneur Viacheslav Semenchuk has announced plans for an initial coin offering (ICO) of the world's first kosher digital currency aimed specifically at Jewish communities across the globe.

The BitСoen, which comes from the Hebrew word 'priest,' has been created to simplify payments within Jewish communities, according to Semenchuk. At the same time, BitСoen can be bought by anyone.

Semenchuk said he has invested $500,000 in the project and the new cryptocurrendy is based on a separately developed blockchain.
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