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Paddock autopsy states Las Vegas shooter died more than twelve hours later than 'suicide' in official narrative

Las Vegas shooting autopsy
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Newly released autopsy reports reveal that Las Vegas shooting suspect Stephen Paddock died more than 12 hours after police claim he committed suicide.


Las Vegas - As Americans search for answers to the questions surrounding reports of a mass shooting at a high school in Florida, the alarming autopsy results from a mass shooting in Las Vegas, which show that the suspected gunman died more than 12 hours after he reportedly committed suicide, are being ignored.

While the official timeline of the Las Vegas shooting has changed multiple times, one thing has remained the same-the claim that after opening fire out of the window of his room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel, Stephen Paddock shot and killed himself at some point between 10:15 p.m. and 11:20 p.m. on Oct. 1, 2017.

However, the autopsy report released by the Clark County Coroner claimed that Paddock actually died at 12 p.m. on Oct. 2, 2017.

Comment: The autopsy report is using a 24 hour format (see image above), so when it indicates that Paddock died at 1200 on October 2nd, it literally means at noon, more than 12 hours after the shooting. Let's suppose this is a mistake - which is entirely possible as the report is quoting the "toe tag", presumably written by a different person - and what they meant was that he died at 12 am on October 2nd (or at 0000 hours). That still means he would have died at least 40 minutes after the official timeline indicates. Did someone also make the mistake of rounding-up the time of death by 40 minutes?

Perhaps the problem for the person writing the autopsy was that since they did not know the Time of Death because no one would tell them, because the narrative had not yet been established, the doctors decided to put the time they were doing the autopsy. Perhaps, in this scenario, they then later forgot to update the Time and Date of Death.

So while this may not be particularly significant evidence, it does suggest further support the impression that the narrative was being 'massaged' as things progressed.

Don't miss our previous analyses of the Las Vegas shooting:


Family

US: Mother gets 7 days in jail for baptizing daughter after custody dispute

Baptism

File photo.
A Charlotte mother has been sentenced to seven days in jail for having her daughter baptized, according to WSOC.

The court case goes back a couple of years to when Kendra Stocks and Paul Schaaf were in a custody battle over their daughter. Court documents say the two could never agree on religion.

According to court records, Schaaf is a practicing Catholic who attends Mass every week, and that ultimately the court granted him final decision-making authority on all legal custody decisions, including decisions concerning religion.

Comment: As seems to be typical of many marriages nowadays, the children are the ones who suffer the disputes of the parents. Whether the mother should have been jailed is questionable:


Caesar

Jordan Peterson's intellectual complexity makes journalistic incompetence all the more obvious

Jordan Peterson
It was while I was watching Channel 4 news presenter Cathy Newman's spectacularly disastrous interview with University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson that what was wrong with much of journalism today crystallized in my brain.

I'd been oscillating between anger and frustration watching Canadian media fail again and again - and often in jaw-dropping fashion - in reporting on Peterson and I couldn't quite establish what was going wrong.

Peterson is the teacher and clinical psychologist who burst onto the scene after making a video decrying the government's Bill C-16 which compelled the use of invented gender pronouns (ze and zir, etc) for non-binary and transgender people. Peterson connected the "compelled speech" of the legislation (and the unscientific instantiation of gender as a non-biologically-correlated social construct) to radical leftist ideology and authoritarian governments.

In an admittedly complex and controversial argument, Peterson blamed the spread of postmodernism within the academy for the rise of both identity politics and the emergence of the illiberal left. Many of the stories about him were shallow or missed the point, but several in respected publications like the Globe and Mail and Maclean's by Tabatha Southey, Ira Wells and most recently by John Semley, were just hatchet jobs, replete with insults, inaccuracies and what appeared to be deliberate misrepresentations. In short, bad journalism you would not expect in good outlets.

Comment: See also: Jordan Peterson's Vice News Interview: Another Cathy Newman Moment


Pistol

Brennan: 'Congress must ban semiautomatic weapons'

Brennan
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Former CIA director John Brennan
In the aftermath of the Florida school shooting this week that left 17 people dead, John Brennan echoed the concerns of law enforcement officials who have spoken out against assault weapons on the streets of America.

On Thursday, ex-CIA Director Brennan weighed in on the gun debate by calling on Congress to revamp gun laws following the deadly mass shooting at a South Florida high school, located less than an hour's drive from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence.

"Having worked international counterterrorism for much of my career, it is imperative that we devote equal energy and effort to addressing the scourge of gun violence in our country," Brennan commented in a tweet Thursday. "Congress needs to act now to prevent access to semiautomatic weapons that kill innocents."

Since the expiration of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban in 2004, US citizens have been entitled to purchase semiautomatic weapons (defined as assault weapons that fire a single bullet with each squeeze of the trigger), and magazines that carry no more than 10 rounds of ammunition.

Comment: The Rights of the People outweigh the wrongs of the few.


Binoculars

Belgian court orders Facebook to stop collecting and delete all data on citizens, or face fines of up to $125mn

Facebook
© Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters
A Belgian court has ordered Facebook to stop collecting data about the country's citizens, and to delete information previously gathered. It threatened to fine the social network €250,000 a day if it fails to comply.

In its ruling, the court determined that Facebook does not adequately inform users that it is collecting information. "Facebook informs us insufficiently about gathering information about us, the kind of data it collects, what it does with that data and how long it stores it," the court said, determining the social network had broken privacy laws. "It also does not gain our consent to collect and store all this information."

Handcuffs

British man arrested on terrorism charges for fighting with YPG against ISIS in Syria

Aidan James
© Aidan James/ Facebook
A British man will be charged with terrorism offences for fighting against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorists in Syria.

Merseyside man Aidan James was arrested at Liverpool Airport after returning to the country on February 14. The 27-year-old from Formby is being charged with one count of the preparation of acts of terrorism and two counts of attendance at a place used for terrorist training.

James will be charged for fighting with Kurdish forces in Syria, which the Home Office deems it a possible breach of UK terrorism laws. The Merseyside man is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates Court later.

Star of David

Jewish settlers attempt to break into Palestinian kindergarten as part of routine harassment designed to incite punishment from IDF

israeli settler harassment
© Human Rights Defenders
Israeli soldier confronting Sharbati family on roof of house in Hebron, before seizing construction tools.
We received the following two videos and report from Human Rights Defenders and Badia Dwaik yesterday -Editor.
On Saturday morning [February 10], a group of settlers led by the notorious Anat Cohen gathered by the door to the kindergarten of a Palestinian school in Hebron and attempted to break into the building. The school is closed on Saturdays.

Badee Dwaik, leader of the group Human Rights Defenders and the photographer that documented the disturbance, said that at least one of the settlers chanted in Arabic to the locals that had gathered "you are godless atheists and we are the true believers (the chosen people)." In Arabic the words are "Enta Kuulum Kaffari" (you are godless atheists) and "Nanhno Al-Mmominin" (we are believers).

Comment: These are but a few examples of the despicable treatment continuously inflicted on Palestinians by the Israelis who continually thumb their noses at international law.


Brick Wall

Israel installs concrete checkpoints at Jerusalem's Old City gate in effort to push out Palestinians

Palestinians carry national flags
© AFP
Palestinians carry national flags during a Land Day protest at Damascus Gate in March 2015
The new checkpoints at Damascus Gate are an Israeli attempt to take full control of Jerusalem, say residents

Israel is installing permanent checkpoints at a key entrance to Jerusalem's Old City in order to keep Palestinians with already limited access out, residents tell Middle East Eye.

Construction at the Damascus Gate area - one of the most popular entrances used by Palestinians - started weeks after US President Donald Trump recognised Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

Palestinians living in Jerusalem say the new checkpoints aim to create "facts on the ground" to change Jerusalem's current status quo as an occupied city.

Mahdi Abdul Hadi, the head of the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA) based in Jerusalem, said: "The checkpoints at Damascus Gate are aimed at paralyzing any Palestinian social, religious and youthful movements in this site.

Einstein

Baltimore's police are so corrupt that lawmaker proposes to disband and reorganize entire department

cops fired
Baltimore cops have proven to be so corrupt and criminal that even lawmakers are kicking around the idea that firing every single cop is a plausible solution.

After a recent corruption trial exposed just how bad things were at the Baltimore City Police Department, Maryland state delegate Bilal Ali suggested that the whole department should be "disbanded and reorganized from the ground up."

In a proposal that he made this week to Mayor Catherine Pugh and Commissioner-Designate Darryl De Sousa, Ali pointed to the example of Camden, who disbanded their police department just a few years ago.

"In 2013 Camden [New Jersey] disbanded its police department in response to record-breaking levels of violence and an extremely inefficient police budget. Four years later, Camden hit its lowest homicide rate in 30-years," Ali said.

Meanwhile, this past year the city of Baltimore saw its worst ever homicide rate, with a total of 342 killings.

Comment: Ali seems to have the right idea here and there's been a successful precedent for starting fresh as the article describes.

The levels of police corruption in Baltimore are hellacious:


Bomb

New York high school teacher & twin brother charged with bomb-making and distribution of explosives to a minor

New York Police Department (NYPD) officers in Bronx
© Eduardo Munoz / Reuters
New York Police Department (NYPD) officers in Bronx
A teacher at an Upper Manhattan high school and his twin brother have been arrested on suspicion of running a bomb factory in their Bronx apartment. Police recovered some 30 pounds of precursors and a bomb-making manual.

Christian Toro, a teacher at a charter school in Manhattan, allegedly enlisted his students' help to manufacture explosives. Christian, along with his twin brother Tyler Toro, also devised a way to get rid of the incriminating evidence, the former's confiscated diary indicates.

At a press conference on Thursday, NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill revealed that the arrests were a result of a two-month long investigation into a bomb scare at the school on December 4. Police initially traced the threat to a 15-year-old student, who was then arrested. At that point, neither of the Toro brothers were implicated in the investigation. It was only when Christian abruptly resigned on January, 10, that he got on the law enforcement's radar. A school laptop his brother returned two days later became the key to uncovering a larger plot involving both twins. A technical staffer accidentally discovered what appeared to be a bomb-making manual on the laptop and alerted the police.

Comment: Perhaps in the next article on this story we'll read about how the FBI surreptitiously encouraged these two to pursue bomb-making...