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Prosecutors drop all remaining charges against cops indicted in death of Freddie Gray

RT
Wed, 27 Jul 2016 16:22 UTC

Prosecutors dropped all charges against the three remaining Baltimore Police Officers that were indicted over the death of Freddie Gray.

The decision was announced by the Baltmore City State's Attorney's Office on Wednesday morning during a motions hearing for Officer Garrett Miller. Officer William Porter was to set be retried in September, and Sgt. Alicia White was scheduled for trial in October.

The dismissal of the charges wrap up one of the highest-profile criminal cases in Baltimore history, with prosecutors winning no convictions against any of the six officers indicted for their alleged role in the death of Freddie Gray.

The remaining trials would have been presided over Circuit Judge Barry G. Williams, who had previously acquitted Officers Edward Nero, Caesar Goodson and Brian Rice in bench trials in May, June and July, respectively.

Gray, a black man, was arrested on the morning of April 12, 2015, after he ran from police officers who were on bicycles. His wrists and legs were shackled, and he was loaded into a police van without seat-belted in. During the ride to the police station, Gray fell and suffered from a spiral injury that led to his death in the hospital a week later.

Would-be Reagan assassin John Hinckley Jr. to be freed from psychiatric hospital after 35 years

Spencer S. Hsu and Ann E. Marimow
The Washington Post
Wed, 27 Jul 2016 16:01 UTC

© Barry Thumma/Associated Press
U.S. Marshals escorted John Hinckley Jr. to a helicopter in Quantico, Va., on Aug. 8, 1981.

John W. Hinckley, Jr., will be released from a government psychiatric hospital more than 35 years after he attempted to assassinate president Ronald Reagan and shot three others outside the Washington Hilton on March 30, 1981, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

Hinckley, 61, no longer poses a danger to himself or others and will be freed to live full-time with his mother in Williamsburg, Va., effective as soon as Aug. 5 subject to dozens of temporary treatment and monitoring conditions, U.S. District Judge Paul L Friedman of Washington wrote.

If Hinckley adheres to all restrictions, they could begin to be phased out after 12 to 18 months, removing him from court control for the first time since he was confined to St. Elizabeth's hospital after the shooting, according to the order.

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79-year-old woman raped by refugee at German cemetery

RT
Wed, 27 Jul 2016 02:59 UTC

A new rape scandal is brewing in Germany after 40-year-old man from Eritrea with official refugee status was arrested as he was sexually assaulting an elderly woman at a cemetery in North Rhine-Westphalia. The disturbing attack took place in the western German town of Iddenbueren [Ibbenbüren] on Sunday. A local resident alerted the police after he heard a cry for help coming from the cemetery.

The victim, a 79-year-old boarder of a nursing home, was provided first aid before being transferred to a medical facility for treatment. She was released from the hospital on Tuesday. The pensioner is known to visit the cemetery fairly regularly to mourn her long-dead sister, Bild reported.

The alleged perpetrator, who has been living in Germany since 2013, was charged with rape by the prosecution and placed into custody for the course of the investigation, the prosecutor's office of Munster and police for the district of Steinfurt, where the town is located, said in a joint statement. Before being arrested, the suspect was staying at a refugee shelter in the nearby town of Horstel. The assailant did not resist the police as they arrived at the scene early on Sunday morning. He faces up to 15 years behind bars if found guilty.

A wave of sexually-related offences in Germany has triggered immense public outrage and forced authorities to review existing anti-rape laws. The most notorious incident took place during this year's New Year's Eve celebrations in Cologne, where wide-scale sexual assaults took place.

Comment: The new law, while it may encourage victims to come forth that may have been intimidated by having to provide proof of resistance, opens the door for unsubstantiated convictions of migrants and refugees. Slippery slope.

SITE Intel Group says 'ISIS' warns London 'next to be attacked'

Scott Campbell
Mirror
Tue, 26 Jul 2016 22:44 UTC

Images threatening attacks in London and other major world capitals have been posted on jihadi messaging app Telegram as counter-terror police issue advice to religious institutions in the UK

London is on the next list of target cities for twisted jihadis, it has been claimed.

Images threatening attacks in London and other major world capitals have been posted on messaging app Telegram, according to analysts at SITE Intelligence Group.

Comment: SITE Intel Group quite often has an all-too-direct "link-up" with ISIS scare-mongering terror threats and their related media. That's because SITE is most certainly the propaganda arm of those intelligence agencies, military groups and government apparatchiks who are actually behind the West's 'war of terror'. No doubt that even if we can expect to see more terror events in the places predicted to receive them, it's because SITE was either informed of it by the psychos, or the psychos committing them are following the narrative presented and "creating the reality" that's already been broadcasted by groups like SITE.

See: Not surprised if true! Sotloff video found by group connected to Homeland Security and responsible for releasing fake bin Laden video

One picture chillingly shows New York's Statue of Liberty engulfed in flames but with the caption "Washington soon" - referring to the US capital 225 miles away.

The threat comes as security at British churches is being ramped up amid a new terror alert after ISIS knifemen forced a French priest to kneel before slitting his throat on camera.

Bangladesh police raid kill nine militants with suspected ties to Islamic State

BBC
Tue, 26 Jul 2016 15:32 UTC

Police in Bangladesh have killed nine suspected Islamist militants after a gun battle in Dhaka, officials said.

Police were searching the residential area of Kallyanpur when they were attacked by handmade bombs.

Bangladesh has seen a string of deadly attacks on secular writers, bloggers, and member of religious minorities.

Earlier this month 20 people, mostly foreigners, were killed in a bloody attack on an upmarket cafe in Dhaka.

It was not immediately clear which group the suspected militants killed on Tuesday were part of. One suspect was taken into custody by police.

Fukushima to Pokémon Go: 'Stop sending monsters into radioactive areas!'

Alyssa Pereira
SF Gate
Tue, 26 Jul 2016 15:17 UTC

© Eugene Hoshiko, AP
People gaze at their smartphones as they play "Pokemon Go" at Akihabara district in Tokyo, Friday, July 22, 2016. The wait is over for "Pokemon Go" fans in Japan. Users began tweeting it was available Friday morning, and the Pokemon Co. and the developer of the augmented reality game, U.S.-based Niantic Inc., confirmed its launch shortly after.

Energy officials in Japan are finding that the augmented reality smartphone game Pokémon Go and nuclear power plants do not mix.

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) has reached out to San Francisco software development company Niantic and the Tokyo-based Pokémon Company in an attempt to get them to prevent monsters from appearing in areas radioactively affected by the Fukushima nuclear meltdown of 2011.

Although so far, no game-playing trespassers have yet been reported onsite in Tepco's three major power plants (one being the dangerous Fukushima No. 1, damaged by a catastrophic earthquake), Japanese officials nonetheless became worried that they would see straying gamers attempt to catch virtual reality monsters in dangerous radiation zones after three teenagers found their way inside an Ohio plant.

Although a spokesperson for Tepco would not comment as to whether any Pokémon had been found in any nuclear facilities, The Japan Times reports that "Pokemon characters did pop up inside the compounds of some Tepco nuclear plants."

Comment: You would think that people would have enough sense to not play in radioactive areas, but it is apparent that minds are shutting off left and right, paying no attention to reality whatsoever.

IDF demolitions ramp up, cause dozens of Palestinians to be left homeless, protester clashes

RT
Wed, 27 Jul 2016 05:14 UTC

Israel has stepped up its demolition of Palestinian homes this year, with the IDF destroying 11 more houses on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Tuesday. The total number of bulldozed buildings in 2016 could become the highest in a decade. At least 44 people were left homeless, including 11 children, according to leading Israeli human rights group Bt'Selem. One of the homes destroyed on Tuesday was a two-story building. The demolished homes were located in Qalandiya, near Jerusalem.

The reason behind the demolitions is said to be the lack of proper building permits for the houses. However, it is almost impossible for Palestinians to receive permits in the part of the West Bank that is under full Israeli control - which happens to be about 60 percent of the territory, according to the UN. Authorities did not comment directly as to why the homes were demolished. Two of the destroyed homes were considered part of the occupied West Bank and nine were part of annexed East Jerusalem, Bt'Selem said.

Tuesday's move brings the total of bulldozed homes to 89 this year in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. This is more than the whole of last year, which saw 74 homes destroyed, and higher than any other year over the last decade except for 2013, when 175 homes were brought down.

Comment: They do it because they can. No one is stopping them.

Decadence of empire: 'A-list' Hollywood sex party club coming to New York

Emily Smith
Page Six
Tue, 26 Jul 2016 14:47 UTC

Truth is more disturbing than fiction.

Erotic members-only club Snctm — LA's exclusive "theater of sexuality" — is bringing its "Eyes Wide Shut" parties to New York City and the Hamptons.

The private club, which holds monthly erotic parties in the Holmby Hills neighborhood, will start a quarterly party in Manhattan during Fashion Week on Sept. 10.

Snctm club owner Damon Lawner is now scouting for locations in New York, and tells us he is looking for a private townhouse or a loft for his members, who he says include A-list actors, models, top lawyers and CEOs of public companies. Lawner also plans to throw a party in a discreet mansion in the Hamptons on Sept. 16.

Lawner told Page Six of his parties — which have been profiled on Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop and are the subject of an upcoming HBO doc — "Guests have to be masked when they enter the party; men wear tuxes and women wear elegant gowns or lingerie; but after midnight, masks and other items of clothing fall off. The first few hours are about mystique and intrigue. This is not a sex party — it is erotic theater. We have performances. Some just watch while others want to indulge."

He continued, "I have never been to a swingers party or a sex party. What interests me is the conversation about sexuality and the artistry of erotica. It's all consensual."

Comment: You can put lipstick on a pig however much you like, Lawner, but it's still a pig.

46 arrested at #PhilandoCastile protest against police brutality outside residence of Minnesota governor

RT
Wed, 27 Jul 2016 09:23 UTC

© Adam Bettcher / Reuters
Black Lives Matter Minnesota protests the police shooting death of Philando Castile with members of the American Teachers Federation, Minneapolis teachers union and St Paul teachers union leading to 21 arrests in Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 19, 2016.

At least 46 activists protesting against police brutality outside the residence of the Minnesota governor have been arrested over charges varying from unlawful assembly to public nuisance and disorderly conduct.

Demonstrators have been camping in front of the governor's mansion on St. Paul's Summit Avenue since July 7 to protest the death of African-American man Philando Castile, 32, who was shot dead by a police officer during a traffic stop.

Officer Michael Kelley involved in the Sandra Bland arrest claims he was forced into silence

RT
Wed, 27 Jul 2016 13:41 UTC

Sandra Bland's death in a jail cell has shined a light on the police departments involved in her arrest, but one officer claims he knew more than he was allowed to say and blames the district attorney for keeping him silent.

In a recorded conversation with activist DeWayne Charleston, Prairie View police officer Michael Kelley claims that he had wanted to share certain information about Bland's arrest, but was scared into silence.

Comment: The murder of Sandra Bland and America's 'color revolution'

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Society's Child

Prosecutors drop all remaining charges against cops indicted in death of Freddie Gray

Would-be Reagan assassin John Hinckley Jr. to be freed from psychiatric hospital after 35 years

79-year-old woman raped by refugee at German cemetery

SITE Intel Group says 'ISIS' warns London 'next to be attacked'

Bangladesh police raid kill nine militants with suspected ties to Islamic State

Fukushima to Pokémon Go: 'Stop sending monsters into radioactive areas!'

IDF demolitions ramp up, cause dozens of Palestinians to be left homeless, protester clashes

Decadence of empire: 'A-list' Hollywood sex party club coming to New York

46 arrested at #PhilandoCastile protest against police brutality outside residence of Minnesota governor

Officer Michael Kelley involved in the Sandra Bland arrest claims he was forced into silence

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