RTTue, 03 Oct 2017 14:44 UTC
© The Japan TimesLisa Marino-Taylor, author
The congressmen's outrage comes in response to the book
Behind the Fog: How the US Cold War Radiological Weapons Program Exposed Innocent Americans, which is said to have revealed the practices when it was published in August.
Author Lisa Martino-Taylor, an associate professor of sociology at St. Louis Community College, said the radiological weapons program was a top priority for the government at the time.
According to the author, unsuspecting people across the United States - and even in England and Canada - were subjected to potentially deadly material through open-air spraying, ingestion, and injection.
"They targeted the most vulnerable in society in most cases," Martino-Taylor said, as quoted by AP.
"They targeted children. They targeted pregnant women in Nashville. People who were ill in hospitals. They targeted wards of the state. And they targeted minority populations."
The testing took place in various locations throughout the United States.
Comment: The US's secret history of using citizens as guinea pigs...the details are in the evidence and someone has finally connected the dots. (So...to whom and what are they doing now?)
RTMon, 02 Oct 2017 23:47 UTC
© AFPInside the US consulate compound in Benghazi, September 11, 2012.
The trial of the man accused of planning the attack on the US diplomatic compound in Benghazi in 2012, killing the US Ambassador to Libya and three other Americans is underway at a US federal court. The once anti-Gaddafi militia leader Ahmed Abu Khatallah hates America "with a vengeance" and played a leading role in organizing the September 11, 2012 attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi
, federal prosecutor John Crabb said in his opening statement.
Khatallah "didn't do the killing by himself," he said. "He didn't light the fires and he didn't fire the mortars but you will hear he is just as guilty as the men who lit those fires."Crabb told the jury they would hear from witnesses who heard Khatallah discuss his plans. One of them heard Khatallah say he "would have killed all of the Americans that night," Crabb said.
That witness was later paid $7 million to help the United States lure Khatallah to the spot where he was captured, Reuters reported.
Comment: The US government had Mr. Khattala in custody two months after the attack in 2012. A set-up?
From
RT:
"Mr. Abu Khattala insisted that he had not been part of the aggression at the American compound," The Times reported then. "He said he had arrived just as the gunfire was beginning to crackle and had sought to break up a traffic jam around the demonstration. After fleeing for a time, he said, he entered the compound at the end of the battle because he was asked to help try to rescue four Libyan guards working for the Americans who were trapped inside."
See also:
Benghazi, the CIA, and the War in Libya
© fox5vegas.com
Although the news reporting on this shooting is still in its early stages, there are five strange things that just don't add up about this massacre (so far). I run through them below.
#1) Dozens of concert-goers reported the presence of multiple shootersAlthough law enforcement says there was only one shooter,
multiple witnesses are openly reporting the presence of multiple shooters. This could reasonably be the result of confusion and chaos, but it's also highly suspicious that the shooter had "full auto" weapon which is usually limited to law enforcement or military personnel.
This question about multiple shooters was also raised after the Aurora, Colorado "Batman movie theater" shooting, in which numerous witnesses reported the presence of multiple shooters.
If this shooting was carried out by multiple shooters, it would obviously indicate planning and coordination among a group of people who sought to carry out the shooting for a political purpose of some kind.
RTTue, 03 Oct 2017 09:50 UTC
© SkynewsFrance is under a state of emergency following a number of terror attacks.
Five people have been arrested after what appeared to be a failed bombing attempt in an apartment building in Paris, after a neighbor tipped off police.
One of the suspects was under government surveillance for radicalism, according to the interior minister.The neighbor alerted law enforcement to suspicious activity early Saturday in the chic 16th arrondissement, according to police cited by AP.
An explosive device was found and deactivated, according to a judicial official.Counter-terrorism prosecutors have opened an investigation. One of the five suspects was under government surveillance for radicalism, Interior Minister Gerrard Collomb said.
When asked how someone under surveillance could carry out an attempted attack without being detected, Collomb said radicals usually have "friends, networks that can carry out the act." Those people don't show outward signs of radicalization, but are "ready to help"
Collomb said the incident proves the threat against France remains "extremely big." "Blowing up a building in a chic neighborhood of Paris - is this not a sign that no one is safe? This doesn't happen just in suburbs in working class neighborhoods," he said.
He went on to stress the importance of a new counter-terrorism law which is expected to gain parliamentary approval later on Tuesday.
Comment: Interesting how attacks and threats often occur just before counterterrorism mechanisms (and the suspension of rights) are up for government approval, making talking points more convincing, generating public demand.
© AP / Emilio Morenatti
Arriving in Barcelona in 1938 during the Spanish Civil War, Ernst Toller was moved to write, "'The most striking experience a foreigner has in Barcelona is that of the functioning of democracy." In 2017 something akin to history repeating is unfolding in the Catalonian capital, where democracy has again been raised aloft as a cause worth fighting for.
The scenes of Spanish riot police marching through the streets of Barcelona and other Catalonian towns and cities, attacking civilians with batons and rubber bullets outside polling stations for the crime of attempting to cast a democratic vote on their future, of ballot boxes being seized and elected politicians being arrested - all at the behest of the government of an EU member state - you might think are incongruous and incompatible with the EU's self-declared status as a pillar of democratic values in the 21
st century, a status
enshrined in Article 2 of its very own constitution, the Lisbon Treaty, which reads:
"The Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities. These values are common to the Member States in a society in which pluralism, non-discrimination, tolerance, justice, solidarity and equality between women and men prevail."
© Sputnik/Muhammad Maarouf.
Fifteen people died during an explosion not far from central Damascus, as Sputnik correspondent said.
An explosion occurred not far from central Damascus, local media reported Monday. According to the SANA news agency,
the incident took place in the Al Midan district and may be a terrorist attack. Sputnik correspondent revealed that 15 people died, including five policemen as a result of the blast.Moreover, a local security source told Sputnik that
the terrorist attack had been conducted by four suicide bombers wearing explosives on the belts, and carrying grenades and weapons.No extremist group has taken responsibility for the attack so far.
Comment: More information:
More from
Reuters:
At least 10 people were killed and 20 more injured when four armed men assaulted the station, the pro-Damascus television channel al-Mayadeen reported. Russian news agency RIA put the toll at 15.
Militants targeted the al-Midan police station and clashed with police officers there, Interior Minister Mohammad al-Shaar said on state television from the station.
One man blew himself up at the main entrance and another detonated his explosive device on the first floor, he said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Footage on state TV showed bodies in shrouds on the floor of the station and fire fighters putting out flames.
A bomb blast had also hit the same police station in al-Midan late last year. Monday's attack came as a response to "the major victories that our armed forces are achieving on Syrian land," the interior minister said.
Additionally from the
Independent:
The blasts damaged the lower floors of the building and shattered the windows on one side.
Ambulances had previously rushed to the blast site while security agents cordoned off the area.
Video from
PressTV News Videos:
"There were three explosions: the first was the grenade, the second was the first suicide bomber, and the third was the second suicide bomber inside the police department itself."
Update October 3,
Fort Russ News:
The terrorist group ISIS today issued a statement, claiming responsibility for yesterday's terror attack that targeted the police headquarters in Al Midan district in central Damascus.
The double suicide attack resulted in the deaths of 17 policemen and civilians. More than 20 people were wounded.
While there is certainly no shortage of bogus images and false claims surrounding the horrifically violent shooting in Las Vegas this weekend, there are some very serious inconsistencies that
need addressing. A major one of those inconsistencies has to do with the myriad of reports of multiple shooters. While some of the claims have been proven false, a video, confirmed to be taken by a Las Vegas cab driver appears to capture and confirm the presence of multiple shooters.
Cori Langdon, taxi driver, and resident of Las Vegas was in the taxi lane at Mandalay Bay when the shooting began. At first, Langdon didn't know what was going on, but when the shots began, she quickly realized and began filming. What she captured could be considered the most important evidence in regards to the reports of multiple shooters.
In the video, shots begin to ring out. At first, the shots are far away and then, all of the sudden, they are right on top of her. This happens several times during the first two minutes of the video.
At first glance, the two shooting distances sound like it could just be an echo. However, as the video progresses, we here the distant shots originate first and with different patterns. As Langdon continues filming, the shooting becomes clear that it is coming from two different spots and Langdon even confirms this by saying, "It is now coming from further away."
Comment: TFTP is right to be cautious, but they are also right about this: the video raises disturbing questions. At 0:04.2 there is a loud string of 8 shots, followed by 8 muffled shots after a 2.07-second delay. At 1:08.1 there is another loud string of 13 shots followed by a string of muffled shots (some not very audible). But the loudest spikes are 2.08 seconds apart, implying that we're hearing echoes. Unless a second shooter almost perfectly mimicked the original shots in number and duration, with a near-identical delay each time, that is the best explanation.
However, at 0:46.1 we hear a string of 13 muffled shots (and a few muffled bursts around 0:52), without any loud bursts. In other words, no echo. This would seem to suggest that these shots were indeed from another source. Without a more in-depth analysis, there are probably two possibilities: 1) a second shooter, 2) the same shooter, but from a slightly different shooting position, e.g. further back in the room, away from the window, or through a different window.
And in 1), the other shooter(s) could be firing from different buildings. Of the 4 hotels looking out onto the Village concert venue, the Luxor (pyramid) has the best vantage point. According to police scanner audio, that hotel was
evacuated due to a bomb alert called in at the time of the shooting. The Tropicana hotel was also on lock-down, in that case due to an 'active shooter', also reported on police scanner audio. In fact,
active shooters were reported at four hotels other than the Mandalay.
Then there is this video:
At one point in the analysis you can hear a steady stream of automatic fire. But during that fire, you can also hear 2 small bursts of suppressed gunfire
on top of the existing automatic gunfire. Short bursts from close-range rifles can be heard
while machine guns spray the target area from further afield.
For more updates, see:
More than 50 dead, 500 wounded in Las Vegas concert shooting - UPDATES
© Getty Images
Smartphones were meant to make life easier, but a new study suggests that one third of notifications which pop up cause a downturn in our mood.
A team at Nottingham Trent University investigated the effect on mood as 50 participants received thousands of digital alerts over a five-week period.
Out of more than half a million notifications, they found that 32 per cent resulted in negative emotions, triggering users to feel hostile, upset, nervous, afraid or ashamed.Notifications relating to non-human activity - such as general phone updates and wifi availability - had the worst impact on phone users' mood, the researchers found. Faceless updates from apps were the most frustrating work-related notifications also had a negative impact on mood, particularly when they arrived in bulk.
RTTue, 03 Oct 2017 14:05 UTC
© Toru Hanai / Reuters
Six years on, consequences of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant continue to uncover. Scientists say they've found new and "unexpected" source of radioactive material dozens of kilometers away from the site.
New radioactivity has been discovered in salty groundwater and sands beneath beaches up to 100km away from the disaster site, according to the findings
published in
'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences' journal on Monday.
Researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in the US and Japan's Kanazawa University revealed high levels of persistent cesium-137 in eight beaches, sampled for the study between 2013 and 2016.
These levels turned out to be up to 10 times higher than levels in seawater of the power plant harbor, according to the
press release on the WHOI website.
Smoking was banned in Estonian prisons starting from Sunday and the Ministry of Justice said that the ban has not caused any noteworthy incidents.
Spokespeople for the Ministry of Justice told BNS that implementing a full ban on smoking went calmly and no serious incident regarding the smoking ban has been reported.
Spokespeople said that the rules as of 2010 say that inmates cannot be in possession of tobacco products. Cigarettes and other tobacco products are in the possession of prison staff and the inmates were allowed to smoke up to three cigarettes per day and only in the walking area.
"Smoking has been strongly restricted in prisons for seven years already," spokespeople said. "Therefore, only newly arrived inmates can have strong tobacco addiction, but not the longer term inmates. They said that the restrictions set in place in 2010 were psychologically more difficult.
Comment: The US's secret history of using citizens as guinea pigs...the details are in the evidence and someone has finally connected the dots. (So...to whom and what are they doing now?)