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Orchestrated chaos? Police ordered to stand down as provocateurs incite Berkeley riots

incendio uc berkeley protestas
© Brittany Hosea-Small/UC Berkeley
We know a lot of the chaos we're seeing on the US stage is being orchestrated from the bottom up and the top down.

Now video has emerged showing what appears to be an agent provocateur troop infiltrating the Berkeley protest to deliberately turn it into a full on riot.

Check these guys dressed in black with black hoodies and face masks out as they move through the crowd together in a row:


Snakes in Suits

Top German agency orders all refugees fingerprinted to fight 'benefit fraud'

German immigration migrant fingerprint
© Kai Pfaffenbach
In a bid to combat "benefit fraud" and the use of "cheat-identities," Germany's federal migration agency wants all regional outlets to fingerprint all asylum seekers, though it admits that they often lack the resources to achieve this, local media report.

According to a statement from the Federal Migration and Refugee Office (BAMF), it is already impossible to get away with using multiple identities on a federal level.

"Asylum seekers are registered on the basis of their biometrical data, including fingerprints, and are given forgery-proof identity documents, the 'arrival certificate,'" BAMF said in a statement.

Bomb

Explosion hits chemical plant in Tongling, East China

An explosion has rocked a chemical plant in Tongling
© HAO FANG / YouTube
An explosion has rocked a chemical plant in Tongling, in the province of Anhui in eastern China, local media outlets report. No casualties have been reported so far.


Pictures tweeted by Xinhua and People's Daily China show massive fireballs erupting from the factory building.


The explosion caused a fire, which has now been brought under control without causing any casualties, according to the official Tongling Daily, cited by Reuters.


Handcuffs

First 'killer-clown' prankster jailed in UK

Michael March killer clown
© Owen Humphreys/PA
Michael March terrified a couple walking past him after banging a foot-long axe on the floor in South Shields
An axe-wielding "killer clown" prankster has been jailed after he chased a pregnant woman the night before Halloween.

Michael March, 18, is thought to be the first person imprisoned following the craze that swept across the UK.

Newcastle Crown Court heard he terrified a couple walking past him after banging the foot long axe on the floor in South Shields just after 9pm.

The woman, who was 22 weeks pregnant, threw a brick at him in an attempt to defend herself before he ran off.

Jailing him for six months, Judge Jamie Hill QC said: "Brandishing an axe and threatening people in the street is serious whatever the context."

Nicholas Rooke, prosecuting, told the court that after the police were called they traced March via CCTV and found him with the axe and a clown mask in his backpack.

Георгиевская ленточка

Donetsk commander Givi killed in terrorist attack

givi
The commander of the Donetsk People's Republic's Somali battalion, Mikhail Tolstykh, famous as Givi, has been killed in a terrorist attack in Donetsk, the Ministry of Defense of the DPR has reported.

"Regrettably, we can confirm this fact," the DPR's military spokesman, Eduard Basurin, has told journalists.

The terrorist attack took place at around 6:00 A.M. Givi was reportedly killed in his office by a Shmel flamethrower. "The death of this man was beneficial to Ukrainian special forces," the DPR command commented.

Employees of the Ministry for Emergency Situations are working at the scene.


Comment: Inessa Sinchougova's tribute to a hero of the Donbass:
Since the start of the Ukrainian conflict in 2014, commanders Givi and Motorola, both of whom have now perished at the hands of the Kiev junta, have been defending the Donbass region from the Ukrainian army, the far-Right Ukro-fascists, paid mercenaries, and their Washington-based founders.

Throughout the conflict, Western media portrayed them as rebels and separatists, despite the fact they were defending their own land.


After the murder of Motorola, Givi recorded the following message - clearly spoken in mourning for his friend. It is with great sadness to have to report that Givi did not live to see a peaceful Donbass.
That's 3 top rebels fighters assassinated 2 months. Assuming Kiev was behind this, and the CIA through them, is this provocation intended to rile the Donbass militias and provoke them into re-engaging with the fascist Ukie horde?


Attention

Fourth night of violence in Paris suburbs amid allegations of police rape and brutality

Paris violence
© Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/AFP/Getty Images
Rioters burned cars in the Paris suburb amid simmering anger over the alleged rape of a local man during his arrest last week
Violence spread in Paris's northern suburbs for a fourth night and French police arrested a dozen people, police said on Wednesday, amid accusations that police officers raped and beat a man they were detaining.

Dozens of vehicles and a nursery school were set on fire by youths during standoffs with police in an area of Paris where riots in 2005 drew global attention to the stark contrast between wealthy Paris and the suburbs that surround it.

As well as damaging the nursery school and a car sales outlet, youths had also used a shopping trolley full of petrol bombs, police said.

The trouble began in Aulnay-sous-Bois on Feb. 2 where four police officers were accused of using excessive force while arresting a 22-year-old man, including raping him with a baton.

"For the moment we're talking of very violent but isolated standoffs," said Luc Poignant from the SGP police union.

Handcuffs

Was Buffalo, NY mom Kiarre Harris jailed over homeschooling decision?

Kiarre Harris homeschool
Single mother Kiarre Harris started researching homeschooling last November. She says her two elementary school aged children weren't excelling at their failing Buffalo Public Schools.

"I felt that the district was failing my children and that's when I made the decision to homeschool," she said.

Harris says she filed documents at Buffalo City Hall, following all the steps, informing the district of her intent to homeschool her children. According to documents she provided to 7 Eyewitness News, they're dated December 7th and the district says it received her paperwork.

Eye 1

Hackers "linked to ISIS" attack UK health services websites

isis hackers
© FALLAGA TV / YouTube
Hackers linked to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) have carried out an attack on a series of National Health Service (NHS) websites, exposing serious flaws in security systems holding personal information, it has emerged.

Graphic images of violence from the war in Syria were put up on the sites by a group based in North Africa, which declared it was carrying out the cyberattack in retaliation for the West's aggression in the Middle East.

The Tunisian Fallaga Team attacked the six websites three weeks ago. The sites, all based in the southwest of England, dealt with subjects like child care and funding, according to the Independent.

Patient data was vulnerable in the attacks, but initial checks do not indicate that any information was compromised. It is the first time an IS-linked group has carried out a concerted attack on the NHS.

Heart - Black

Northwestern University investigating alleged sexual assaults and drugging at frat houses

Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity
© Chris Walker / Chicago Tribune
The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston
Northwestern University is investigating anonymous reports that allege at least three students were sexually assaulted and may also have been drugged at fraternity houses in recent weeks, school officials said.

Administrators at the Evanston campus issued a security alert to students Monday after being told that as many as four female students may have been given a date-rape drug during an event Jan. 21 at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house. Two of those women believe they were then sexually assaulted, according to the report, though it's not clear how the person who reported the alleged incidents knew of them.

The anonymous allegation was made last Thursday, a day before the university received a second anonymous report about a sexual assault at another fraternity house. According to the second report, the attack may have involved a date-rape drug as well.

School officials have not publicly identified the second fraternity. It's unclear if they know the identity of the female student involved in the incident.

Comment: Despite the controversial Rolling Stone rape story at the University of Virginia that turned out be false, campus rape is a very real and ongoing problem in the West. Many students arrive surrounded by a culture of rape, along with a society that too often looks to blame the victim of rape rather than the rapist. More needs to be done to get rid of these cultural norms. See also:


Newspaper

Investigation launched after headless swan found in Exeter Quayside, UK

Swans under a bridge in Exeter
© Express & Echo
The swan was spotted under the blue bridge on Exeter Quay.
Commuters heading to work in Exeter this morning were shocked by the sight of a 'headless' swan found under a bridge at the Quay.

The Echo has had several reports of the dead animal spotted under the bridge next to Samuel Jones pub.

Lisa Prescott reported the gruesome sight this morning adding it had been 'decapitated' and was 'in full view'.

Thomas Prideaux, who works at On The Waterfront, spotted the swan on the way to work this morning, and said he has never seen anything like this. Thomas, 22, is a kitchen supervisor at the restaurant, and said he was walking along the blue bridge at 6.30am when he noticed the dead animal.