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French interior minister: 100 gun owners are on anti-terror watchlist

RT
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 16:35 UTC

Around 100 people who legally own firearms in France are on anti-terrorism watchlist, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb revealed. The Champs-Elysees attacker was on a terrorist watchlist, yet still had a gun license.

Collomb told the Senate on Wednesday - as part of the review on the new anti-terrorism bill - that "we have identified about a hundred" individuals monitored for extremism who are believed to own firearms.

The minister emphasized that this is a situation that should be fixed, referring to the latest attack, by 31-year-old Adam Djaziri, who rammed a car full of weapons and gas canisters into a police van in central Paris in mid-June. He was the only one to have died in the attack.

"The person who wanted to commit that attack was on file and, at the same time, was the legal owner of firearms. This is a sign of dysfunction."

Woman forced to carry 2yo son on lap during flight was too scared United Airlines would react violently if she spoke up

RT
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 16:20 UTC

A Hawaii teacher said she was afraid to speak up after United Airlines gave her two-year-old's seat to a standby passenger, forcing her to carry him for the three-and-a-half hour flight.

Shirley Yamauchi, 42, purchased two tickets for herself and her 27-month-old son, Taizo, to fly from Hawaii to Boston, where she was attending a teacher's conference last week.

They both enjoyed separate seats for the first leg of the journey from Hawaii to Houston where they stopped for a layover. After waiting at Houston Airport for five hours, they finally boarded their flight and sat in their seats. That's when a standby passenger approached them and told Yamauchi that her son was in his seat.

Yamauchi had purchased the tickets three months in advance for $1,000, but the airline sold her son's seat to the man for just $75.

"I told him that I bought both of these tickets and he tells me that he got the ticket on standby. Then he proceeds to sit in the center," Yamauchi told Hawaii News Now.

Two suspected terrorists arrested in Belgium with weapons, detonators, police uniforms

RT
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 16:16 UTC

Security forces in Belgium have detained two men on terrorism charges after discovering explosives, loaded AK-47s, police and other uniforms - all indicating a potential large-scale attack - during the raids in Brussels.

Federal Judicial Police in Brussels carried out six raids on Tuesday and Wednesday night in the Anderlecht district of Brussels, the Federal Prosecutor's Office revealed.

Two of the four detained individuals, identified as Akim S., 40, and Khalid S., 37, have been "charged with participating in activities of a terrorist group," the prosecutors said on Wednesday. The other two people have been released without charge.

While raiding a garage in Anderlecht, authorities discovered three loaded Kalashnikov automatic rifles, three handguns and ammunition, as well as two bulletproof vests. Among other things, police have also unearthed two police uniforms, a civil protection service uniform and a security agency uniform, as well as radios, suggesting that the alleged cell planned a large-scale coordinated attack, prosecutors said, as cited by Reuters.

Female employees describe working at Tesla factory as "predator zone" for sexual harassment

RT
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 16:06 UTC

A Tesla-organized meeting has revealed a culture of sexual harassment and mistreatment by male managers, as described by female employees who attended. One women who had previously spoken about sexual harassment at Tesla was subsequently fired.

During the exchange attended by 70-100 people at Tesla's Fremont factory, more than 20 women took the microphone and shared experiences of feeling unsafe, facing sexist remarks, subjected to unfair promotion decisions, being talked over in meetings, being catcalled, and the lack of women in leadership positions.

The disclosures from the March meeting have now been revealed in interviews with the Guardian published Wednesday.

One woman described parts of the factory as a "predator zone" for harassment.

Wikileaks releases documents revealing CIA projects aimed at stealing users' login details for remote access to web server

Sputnik
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 15:24 UTC

According to WikiLeaks, the BothanSpy is an implant targeting the SSH client program for Microsoft Windows platform, stealing user credentials form active SSH sessions.

The WikiLeaks whistleblowing platform released on Thursday a new package of CIA documents from the so-called Vault 7 project, in particular the documents on two separate CIA projects aimed at stealing users' login details for remote access to a server of a website.

"Today, July 6th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the BothanSpy and Gyrfalcon projects of the CIA. The implants described in both projects are designed to intercept and exfiltrate SSH credentials but work on different operating systems with different attack vectors," WikiLeaks said in a statement.

SSH is a cryptographic network protocol which gives the user a secure remote access to a website's server. The SSH credentials are the login details, namely the server address, port number, the username and the password.

Hobby Lobby fined $3mn, will return 5,500 ancient Iraqi artifacts smuggled through Israel and UAE

RT
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 14:49 UTC

Arts and crafts chain, Hobby Lobby, will return 5,500 ancient Iraqi religious artifacts which were smuggled into the US through Israel and the United Arab Emirates as a result of a civil complaint from the US Justice Department.

Hobby Lobby announced on Wednesday that it has agreed to return the artifacts and pay a $3 million dollar fine because of its illegal importation practices.

In 2010, the president of Hobby Lobby, Steve Green, personally purchased $1.6 million worth of cuneiform tablets, bricks, clay bullae and cylinder seals, according to a DOJ press release.

Reddit moderator on #CNNBlackmail scandal: CNN has all of the Internet against them right now

RT
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 14:44 UTC

CNN informally declared war on the Internet and the whole World Wide Web turned against it, the head moderator of /r/The_Donald subreddit, where the clip that triggered the #CNNBlackmail scandal was originally posted, told RT in an exclusive interview.

No one should be surprised by the fact that "CNN is suppressing a private citizen's right of free speech," he said. The man is a moderator of "The_Donald" Subreddit, where the viral clip, showing US President Donald Trump wrestling a man with the CNN logo for a head, was originally posted and then deleted by its creator. The scandal started after the news network tracked down the alleged meme maker and threatened to disclose his identity if they post such "offensive"content again.

The moderator believes that such actions against freedom of speech cannot end up without consequences.

Poland knows something many Americans do not: Trump is no Russian puppet

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 14:42 UTC

The Democrats, John McCain, Lindsey Graham and US mainstream media think Donald Trump is a Russian puppet, but a country that hates Russia thinks Donald Trump is terrific.

If somebody was a Russian puppet or Russian agent and took power in a foreign country because of Russian meddling in that country's political systems, he would probably not have thousands of Poles shouting his name while many waved the flag of his country. But this is what happened to Donald Trump moments ago as he addressed a crowd of politicians and civilians in central Warsaw.

The confrontational history between Russia and Poland is widely known, although it is often distorted. The fact however remains that Poland is the most anti-Russian country in Europe and likely will be for the foreseeable future.

UN confirms as many as 20,000 Iraqi civilians trapped in last remaining area of Mosul held by Islamic State

RT
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 14:28 UTC

As many as 20,000 civilians are still trapped in the last remaining area of Mosul held by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) militants, a senior UN official has confirmed, adding that they are in "extreme danger."

"Our estimate at this stage is that in the final pockets of the Old City, there could be as many as 15,000 civilians, possibly even as high as 20,000," the UN's humanitarian coordinator in Iraq, Lise Grande, told AFP.

"The people that are still trapped inside of these pockets are in terrible condition," Grande said, adding that they are facing food shortages.

"They're in extreme danger from bombardment, from artillery crossfire. The (IS) fighters that are still there are still directly targeting civilians if they try and leave."

German police bust massive child porn ring website on the 'dark web'

RT
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 14:24 UTC

Police in Frankfurt swooped on suspected pedophiles after busting a massive child pornography website on the 'dark web'. The site had almost 90,000 users who swapped graphic images of children and arranged meetings to abuse them.

The forum, known as 'Elysium,' had existed on the internet's darkside since the end of 2016.

Frankfurt public prosecutor's and Germany's BKA Federal Police said they arrested several people connected to the forum, including the sites suspected operator, a 39-year-old man living in Frankfurt.

The unidentified man was arrested on June 12 when police raided his apartment seizing the server used to host the site.

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Society's Child

French interior minister: 100 gun owners are on anti-terror watchlist

Woman forced to carry 2yo son on lap during flight was too scared United Airlines would react violently if she spoke up

Two suspected terrorists arrested in Belgium with weapons, detonators, police uniforms

Female employees describe working at Tesla factory as "predator zone" for sexual harassment

Wikileaks releases documents revealing CIA projects aimed at stealing users' login details for remote access to web server

Hobby Lobby fined $3mn, will return 5,500 ancient Iraqi artifacts smuggled through Israel and UAE

Reddit moderator on #CNNBlackmail scandal: CNN has all of the Internet against them right now

Poland knows something many Americans do not: Trump is no Russian puppet

UN confirms as many as 20,000 Iraqi civilians trapped in last remaining area of Mosul held by Islamic State

German police bust massive child porn ring website on the 'dark web'

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