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Cleveland police tighten security plan for Republican Convention in light of the Dallas shootings

Kim Palmer
Yahoo News
Fri, 08 Jul 2016 16:33 UTC
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© REUTERS/Aaron JosefczykCleveland mounted police look on prior to Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump speaking at a campaign rally in Cleveland, Ohio, March 12, 2016.
Cleveland police on Friday tightened their security plan for the Republican National Convention after the deadly shootings of police officers in Dallas, increasing surveillance and intelligence operations just 10 days before the convention.

Other police departments across the country required officers to patrol in pairs rather than alone following the ambush in Dallas, the deadliest day for police in the United States since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.

In Cleveland, the attack raised another potential threat during the July 18-21 convention, when Donald Trump is expected to receive the Republican nomination for president.

The police officers' labor union, rank-and-file cops and some outside experts had already questioned Cleveland's preparedness for the convention with the city's police under federal supervision over use of force.
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Inmates break out of cell to save fallen jailer

Jim Douglas
WFAA
Sat, 09 Jul 2016 16:13 UTC
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© Parker County Jail
A Parker County jailer who had an apparent heart attack may very well be alive thanks to inmates who put themselves at risk to help him.

It happened on June 23 in a holding cell in the basement of the District Courts Building in Weatherford.

At least eight prisoners were behind a locked door in a small room off to one side. Their lone guard sat outside and had been joking with them when he slumped over unconscious.

"He just fell over," said inmate Nick Kelton. "Looked like an act. Could have died right there."

Kelton and other inmates began shouting for help. Then they managed to bust out of their holding room, even though they knew it was dangerous.
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Dallas armed robot kill highlights the militarization of American police

Nadia Prupis
Common Dreams
Fri, 08 Jul 2016 15:58 UTC
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As news emerges that police officers in Dallas, Texas used an armed robot to kill the suspected shooter in Thursday night's ambush, experts are warning that it represents a sea change in police militarization that only heightens risks to human and constitutional rights.

Dallas Police Chief David Brown said Friday morning during a press conference that police "saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension for it to detonate" where the suspect had taken refuge in a parking garage as police tried to negotiate with him, adding that he was "deceased as a result of detonating the bomb."

The suspect, identified as Micah Xavier Johnson, was killed around 2:30am Friday morning after an hours-long standoff with police. The shootings killed five officers and left more than a dozen people injured. Johnson reportedly confirmed that he had acted alone and was not affiliated with any group.

Comment: Dallas shooting: Law enforcement's use of vehicle based IED to kill suspect raises a few questions

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How senseless violence will firmly entrench the police state

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Fri, 08 Jul 2016 15:23 UTC
Police State
© humansarefree.com
As soon as I saw the video of the Alton Sterling shooting on Wednesday, I had a very, very bad feeling about where this was all headed. In fact, I became so concerned I wrote a post titled, A Period of Major Civil Unrest is Coming - How to Win an Inevitable Confrontation with the Status Quo. Here are a few of the key warnings and suggestions I provided:
Increasingly, the general public is coming to the very unpleasant realization that they live in a corporate oligarchy in which they are subjects rather than citizens. The more they are pushed into a corner, the sooner they will lash out in all sorts of ways.

The generational level revolts I anticipate have been a long time coming and will emanate from both rural, largely white America, as well from inner city communities populated mostly by minorities. The key thing we must all bear in mind going into the turbulent times ahead is that we are all in this together.

Comment: See also: Freedom loses again: How the Dallas attacks validate the police state

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RT traces the trail of 2 Russian sisters believed to have joined ISIS in Syria


RT
Sat, 09 Jul 2016 14:48 UTC
Two sisters, Zalina and Khava, disappeared from their home in the Russian Republic of Ossetia over a year ago. Their family believe they ran away to Syria and joined Islamic State. RT visited the girls' home to attempt to uncover the reasons that prompted the young women to flee.

In the girls' village of Mayskoe many believe Zalina and Khava may be now living in Syria, side-by-side with Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) jihadists.

"They left and never came back - that's it," the locals said.

Hiding their faces, two young men told RT the girls went to Syria.

When asked if "everybody knows that?" they answered, "yes."

Comment: See also:
Escaped ISIS fighter shares his horrors from Syria

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Dallas shooting: Law enforcement's use of vehicle based IED to kill suspect raises a few questions


Moon of Alabama
Fri, 08 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC
RC-VBIED
The future of "law enforcement" in the US?
Last nights shooting and killing of several policemen in Dallas, Texas is still somewhat mysterious. At one point the Dallas police chief asserted that four attackers were working together with rifles and triangulating themselves in positions for the attack. Two of them were reported as snipers on roof. This led me to estimate that this was probably some team-trained (supremacist) militia trying to instigate a civil war.

Current status is that one man alone was responsible. An army veteran who was, according to this video, trained in infantry combat. Three other persons are in custody but possibly not related to the incident.

What explain the far diverging situation reports by the Dallas Chief?

The single identified shooter was eventually trapped and the police negotiated with him. Negotiations broke off, according to the police, and the police used a remote controlled "robot" to deliver a bomb next to the trapped shooter where it was then exploded. The suspect was killed by the explosion.


Comment: How convenient.


Comment: Has the US just entered a whole new phase in its war of terror?

See also: Freedom loses again: How the Dallas attacks validate the police state

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Seattle to bring free mobile medical services to homeless individuals

Sarah Grossman
The Huffington Post
Sat, 09 Jul 2016 00:59 UTC
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Kadee Ingram holds her son at a Tent City outside Seattle.
An RV will give homeless residents access to a physician, a nurse, a mental health case manager and a chemical dependency professional.

A medical clinic on wheels is driving free health services right up to those who need them most.

Seattle just unveiled a new RV bringing primary care and mental health services to homeless individuals, at no cost to them, according to KGW. Mayor Ed Murray called it one of many solutions to tackle the problem of homelessness.

"As we continue to address the city's homelessness crisis, we know there is not one answer, but many as we try to help those who are most vulnerable," the mayor said in a statement, according to Seattle Times. "This mobile medical van will enable us to deliver critical health care to those in need and serve as an entry point to long-term support services and permanent housing."

About one in five homeless people has a chronic substance use disorder, and a similar percentage experiences mental health issues, according to the U.S. Department of Health.

Comment: The homeless population has changed in recent years. The elderly and those with disabilities and chronic illnesses are now finding themselves on the streets and they face an uphill battle getting medical care. They may qualify for public insurance, but they often aren't able to get to a clinic or to contact a health provider. Others prioritize obtaining food and shelter or don't seek health care because of shame around being homeless or fear of how health care providers will treat them. Kudos to Seattle for doing something positive to assist these vulnerable individuals, in contrast to heartless cities where the homeless are treated despicably.

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Attention

Five years of independence amid economic collapse and suffering in South Sudan


Sputnik
Fri, 08 Jul 2016 22:58 UTC
South Sudan Government soldiers
© AP Photo/ Jason Patinkin
A crashing economy and continued fighting threaten the future of South Sudan and its people, Oxfam had warned ahead of the fifth anniversary of the country's independence on July 9.

As South Sudan draws near five years of independence, its people face a crashing economy that is impacting the already fragile peace agreement and is having devastating effects causing ongoing fighting and displacement.
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Snakes in Suits

Ex-Fox News host Gretchen Carlson accuses CEO of 'severe' sexual harassment


RT
Wed, 06 Jul 2016 21:05 UTC
Fox news sex harrassment
© Fred Prouser, Noam Galai (AFP) / ReutersFox News CEO Roger Ailes is being sued by Gretchen Carlson
Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson has accused the company's chief executive Roger Ailes of sexual harassment and retaliation, saying she was penalized after refusing to sleep with Ailes and reporting "disparaging treatment in the newsroom."

The complaint was filed at the Superior Court of New Jersey in Bergen County on Wednesday, USA Today confirmed. Neither Fox News nor Carlson have made any further comments about it, however.

"Ailes has unlawfully retaliated against Carlson and sabotaged her career because she refused his sexual advances and complained about severe and pervasive sexual harassment," the complaint says. "When Carlson met with Ailes to discuss the discriminatory treatment to which she was being subjected, Ailes stated: 'I think you and I should have had a sexual relationship a long time ago and then you'd be good and better and I'd be good and better,' adding that 'sometimes problems are easier to solve' that way."


Comment: 'sometimes problems are easier to solve' that way.' = Psychopathic logic


Before becoming CEO of Fox News in 1996, Ailes worked as media consultant to three Republican presidents: Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

Comment: This man is clearly a dangerous snake in a suit that appears to lack empathy and displays an obvious disregard for the consequences of his behavior, for example when he reportedly urged an employee to lie to the police, news reporters were left stunned 'not because they couldn't believe Ailes would do such a thing. Instead, they were shocked Ailes left himself so open, so vulnerable'

To get an idea of Ailes' character and how Fox news started out you may want to read this article. Roger Ailes' Secret Nixon-Era Blueprint for Fox News

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Southern West Bank citizens in limbo due to Israeli siege

Allison Deger
Mondoweiss
Wed, 06 Jul 2016 19:42 UTC
Entrance to Bani Na'im, Israel west bank
© Allison DegerEntrance to Bani Na'im, cordoned of by Israeli forces. Bani Na'im is the hometown of a Palestinian teen who killed a 13-year old Israeli on Thursday.
Days away from the Eid holiday Shafooq Baloot, 25, does not know how or when she will do her annual clothes shopping. "We can't go everywhere whenever we would like," the English teacher told me. She lives in town of Bani Na'im which is one of many towns across the West Bank that has been under Israeli closure for nearly a week.

The Israeli army shut the main entrance to her town with cement blocks and an earth mound after a teen from her town killed a 13-year old Israeli in a nearby settlement last Thursday.

"Sure the stores have stuff here, but in Hebron it's cheaper," said Baloot. She hoped to buy a new wardrobe during the seasonal sales that accompany the Muslim religious month of Ramadan.

Over the weekend Israeli forces barricaded at least 20 more villages in the Hebron area, along with the southern entrance to the city of Hebron itself — a rare move generally reserved for manhunts.
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