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New Anonymous video claims hacker collective has eliminated 20,000 ISIS-related Twitter accounts

RT
Fri, 20 Nov 2015 14:39 UTC

The international hacking group Anonymous claims to have taken down 20,000 Islamic State-linked Twitter accounts as it wages "total war" against the terrorist organization. Their #OpParis operation is in revenge for the deadly attacks on November 13.

While Russia, French and US bombers are targeting Islamic State (formerly ISIS/ISIL) positions from the sky, Anonymous are carrying out their very own devastating campaign against the terrorist organization. They are using computer code rather than high-powered weapons and say the hacktivist group has built tools that "might be better than any world government's tools to combat ISIS online."

In a YouTube post on Wednesday, the group said: "More than 20,000 Twitter accounts belonging to ISIS were taken down by Anonymous." It added that they had provided a list of all the accounts that have been taken down. On Tuesday, the group had removed 5,500 ISIS accounts from the internet.

Comment: It's thoroughly laughable that with the advanced capabilities of the NSA, the FBI and the CIA we need Anonymous to do their job for them.

New video of moment Europe's first female suicide bomber blew herself up

RT
Fri, 20 Nov 2015 13:48 UTC

Comment: Wouldn't ya know it, French authorities are now saying Hasna was NOT the suicide bomber. We are not surprised.

French police continued to negotiate with Hasna Aitboulahcen, the peroxide-blonde 26-year-old would-be jihadist, until she detonated herself with a force so powerful it blew her head off and into the street, an amateur recording and a police account revealed.

As scores of France's RAID special police unit surrounded the house in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis at dawn on Wednesday, Aitboulahcen was alongside her cousin Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected mastermind behind last Friday's Paris attacks, which killed more than 130 people.

Comment: This woman has an interesting background that does not appear to fit the stereotype of a devout radical, but closely resembles that of the other Paris attackers. A French citizen and drug dealer known to police, we are told that just one month ago she converted to Islam.

170 people taken hostage in Mali hotel

ABC News
Fri, 20 Nov 2015 13:26 UTC

Gunmen took 170 people hostage at a hotel in the capital city of Mali, according to a Radisson Hotels representative. After reports of an active shooter operation at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako, Mali, a company spokesman has confirmed that two people have taken 140 guests and 30 employees hostage.

Twenty guests, including three United Nations personnel workers, have been released, Olivier Salgado, a spokesman for the U.N. mission to Mali, told "Good Morning America" today.

Salgado said a military operation was ongoing. Five crew members from Turkish Airlines have also been released, a company spokesman said.

"What I know is three people stormed the hotel with AK47s around 7 a.m. this morning," Salgado said. "Of course, immediately, the security forces from Mali were deployed around the hotel."

13 year old teen arrested for making 'ISIS' bomb threat on social media

RT
Fri, 20 Nov 2015 13:19 UTC

A screen capture of the bomb threat

A 13-year-old teen was arrested in Tennessee for allegedly making a bomb threat on social media under the username "ISISAttacks" that targeted four schools, leading to a sweep by a bomb unit, a K-9 unit, a Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the FBI.

The unnamed male teen from Mason, who admitted to making the bogus threat on social media to detectives and agents, was arrested on Thursday. The teen's parents cooperated with officials to confirm that there were no weapons or explosives in the home, according to the Jackson Sun. The teen is an 8th grader at Bright Middle School and is currently attending classes at Tipton County Alternative Learning Center, according to the Tipton County Sheriff's Office.

Saskatchewan women pressured to have tubal ligations

Betty Ann Adam
Saskatoon StarPhoenix
Tue, 17 Nov 2015 21:51 UTC

The Saskatoon Health Region is apologizing and changing its policies after two aboriginal women felt pressured by medical staff and social workers to have tubal ligation surgeries.

"They made it pretty clear they didn't want me discharged until my tubes were tied," said Brenda Pelletier, who had the procedure at Royal University Hospital in 2010.

"They bug you and bug you and bug you."

Pelletier, now 39, had just given birth to her seventh child when the hospital social worker came to her room and asked her to sign a consent form to have the procedure. She refused.

Her mother was raising her six older children in another community. Pelletier, who was and is a recovering addict in the methadone program and committed to a healthy life, was determined to raise her daughter herself.

British study: Millennials will be poorer than their parents

RT
Thu, 19 Nov 2015 21:50 UTC

Based on the rate in which wealth grew between 2006-08 and 2010-12, today's young people will be poorer than their parents' generation, new research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) suggests.

According to the report, which was published Thursday, Britain also suffers from huge levels of wealth inequality, with 9 percent of households having no assets at all while 5 percent are worth more than £1.2 million.

Those on the lowest incomes, the poorest 1 percent, have negative net wealth of £16,000, meaning their debts are higher than any assets they own.

Meanwhile the richest Brits, constituting the top 1 percent, have assets worth over £2.4 million. The report found that seven out of 10 households own their home outright or had secured them with a mortgage, while three out of 10 live in rented property.

Comment: The social contract has been broken by greedy psychopaths, for whom there is never enough.

Boat carrying 20 refugees capsizes off Greek coast - at least 9 dead

IOM
Tue, 17 Nov 2015 21:14 UTC

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Refugees and migrants disembark from a dinghy after their arrival from the Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos.

Greece is reporting that a boat carrying some 20 migrants capsized this morning off the Greek island of Kos, leaving nine migrants dead. Two of the victims were children aged seven and 14. Seven people were rescued.

"The Hellenic Coast Guard has recovered nine bodies, but four others may be missing and search operations are continuing,'' said Kelly Namia, an IOM Athens spokesperson.

Tuesday's tragedy brings to at least 562 the number of migrant and refugee fatalities in the Eastern Mediterranean this year. It brings to 3,515 the total of all migrant and refugee fatalities across all sea-borne routes to Europe in 2015.

Why U.S. governors are wrong to oppose taking in Syrian refugees

Juan Cole
Informed Comment
Tue, 17 Nov 2015 00:00 UTC

Some half of US governors have announced their opposition to their states taking in Syrian refugees after the Paris attacks. Although they can bother refugees, they can't actually dictate to people who are here legally where they can live. But anyway, here are the reasons for which these announcements are a form of political hysteria and not grounded in any rational policy considerations:

1. The attackers in Paris were European nationals. The Syrian passport found near one of them was a fake. So are the governors opposed to Belgian immigration into the United States?

2. The attackers were not refugees. They were born in Europe. Refugees are poor and lacking in knowledge or resources about their new environment. The attackers knew exactly where everything was that they wanted to assault and were hooked in with arms smugglers and other hard-to-discover criminal networks.

Comment:

3. There is no rational reason to bar Syrian refugees but accept refugees from other conflict areas. The US already admits 70,000 refugees every year, but only took in about 400 Syrians last year. Most refugees are fleeing conflict situations or oppressive governments, and if you wanted to be paranoid about them you could fear them all on the same grounds that the GOP fears Syrians. The US has accepted a former child soldier from the Congo (might have skills). In 2014 the US accepted 758 refugees from Afghanistan; how are they different from Syrian refugees? And here's the kicker: the US accepted 19,651 refugees from Iraq last year! It is completely irrational to single out Syrians if you are going to take in Iraqis.

Manufacturing, trade and retail statistics show that the U.S. is already in recession

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Wed, 18 Nov 2015 00:00 UTC

If the U.S. economy really is in "great shape", then why do all of the numbers keep telling us that we are in a recession? The manufacturing numbers say that we are in a recession, the trade numbers say that we are in a recession, and as you will see below the retail numbers say that we are in a recession. But just like in 2008, the Federal Reserve and our top politicians will continue to deny that a major economic downturn is happening for as long as they possibly can. In this article, I want to look at more signs that a dramatic shift is happening in our economy right now.

First of all, let's consider what is happening to hedge funds. For many years, hedge funds had been doing extremely well, but now they are closing up shop at a pace that we haven't seen since the last financial crisis. The following is an excerpt from a Business Insider article entitled "Hedge funds keep on imploding" that was posted on Wednesday...

Comment: There are, however, two sectors of the economy that are doing quite well - the military industrial complex and the banks, which are benefiting quite handsomely from the recent attacks in Paris.

Who benefits? Defense industry stocks soar after the Paris terror attacks

Toronto: Being innocent and disabled is no protection from a police beating

Andrew Emett
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 19 Nov 2015 19:07 UTC

In a case of mistaken identity, Toronto Police were caught on video viciously beating a nonviolent, innocent man with a developmental disability. On Wednesday, the victim filed a $5 million lawsuit against the police after a video of the assault was released.

Around 8 a.m. on November 1, Santokh Bola, 21, arrived in the parking lot near his grandfather's store when two Toronto cops approached him at gunpoint. Responding to a call about a suspect with a knife, two officers tackled Bola to the ground as a bystander began recording the incident on his cellphone. Two other cops rushed onto the scene immediately delivering kicks and punches to Bola's unprotected head.

As an officer repeatedly kicked him, Bola shouted, "Hello! I didn't do anything, sir."

Instead of conversing with the innocent man, a cop kneed Bola in the head before punching him multiple times in the face. As Bola continued to defend his innocence, one of the officers ordered him to shut up. Although Bola was restrained on the ground, the cops rained down a torrent of fists and knees instead of simply handcuffing him.

Comment: Cops are equal opportunity sadists, as the following articles show:

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Society's Child

New Anonymous video claims hacker collective has eliminated 20,000 ISIS-related Twitter accounts

New video of moment Europe's first female suicide bomber blew herself up

170 people taken hostage in Mali hotel

13 year old teen arrested for making 'ISIS' bomb threat on social media

Saskatchewan women pressured to have tubal ligations

British study: Millennials will be poorer than their parents

Boat carrying 20 refugees capsizes off Greek coast - at least 9 dead

Why U.S. governors are wrong to oppose taking in Syrian refugees

Manufacturing, trade and retail statistics show that the U.S. is already in recession

Toronto: Being innocent and disabled is no protection from a police beating

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