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White House placed on lockdown due to 'suspicious activity' along the north fence


RT
Fri, 03 Nov 2017 15:04 UTC
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© Joshua Roberts / Reuters
A person has been detained following "suspicious activity" at the north fence of the White House, the Secret Service tweeted. The presidential manor was put on lockdown and the area along Pennsylvania Avenue was closed following the incident.

Reporters were told to leave the north lawn of the White House, CBS News said.

Although the Secret Service declined to immediately elaborate on the incident, Washington DC police spokeswoman Margarita Mikhaylova said authorities are investigating a suspicious package outside the White House, according to the Washington Post.

A suspect called in a threat stating that explosives had been planted along the north fence, WTTG-TV reported citing police.
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Footprints

UK: Poor coordination blamed as 56K immigrants slated for deportation go missing


RT
Thu, 02 Nov 2017 14:54 UTC
migrants
© Ognen Teofilovski / Reuters
Poor coordination and communication have been blamed for almost 56,000 foreign nationals slipping through the fingers of the Home Office, absconding before the government could deport them.

Two reports published by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, David Bolt, have detailed the shortfalls of the Home Office's Reporting and Offender Management (ROM) processes and its management of non-detained Foreign National Offenders (FNO), which monitor about 80,000 immigration and asylum cases across the UK.

Those monitored include individuals who have overstayed their visas, foreign offenders and people who entered the UK illegally. In September 2016, data shows almost 40,000 individuals were required to report at one of three London Reporting Centres.

Staff at the busiest of the three, Becket House, were found to be spending just two to three minutes on each interview - to meet daily quotas.
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Георгиевская ленточка

Hockey star Alex Ovechkin forming 'Team Putin' movement ahead of 2018 Russian presidential election


RT
Fri, 03 Nov 2017 14:48 UTC
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© Sergey Guneev / SputnikRussian President Vladimir Putin (R), hockey player Alexander Ovechkin (L), Sochi.
Russian NHL powerhouse Alex Ovechkin says he is forming a "Team Putin" movement, amid a presidential race swirling with young media celebrities. Putin himself, however, is yet to announce whether he is to run for another term.

The Washington Capitals captain broke the news on his Instagram page which boasts nearly 1 million subscribers. Ovechkin, who has been always open about his sympathy for the Russian leader, explained his decision to dive into politics by saying, "Personal awards and trophies are great, but in hockey, as well as in any other matter, the team is more important for the victory."

"Me, personally, I would like to be a part of this team," the star striker wrote, without elaborating on who he sees as prospective members of the movement and what precisely it plans to do besides backing the Russian president.
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Dollars

Utah nurse roughed up and arrested by police receives $500K settlement

Sarah Taylor
The Blaze
Thu, 02 Nov 2017 14:45 UTC
Alex Wubbels arrest
© YouTubeAlex Wubbels, the nurse who was wrongly arrested in July, has settled with Salt Lake City and the University of Utah.
Alex Wubbels, the Utah nurse who was forcibly arrested in July after refusing to draw a patient's blood without consent, a police warrant, or probable cause, received a large settlement from Salt Lake City and the University of Utah on Tuesday.

What's the history with this case?
  • Wubbels in July refused to draw the blood of an unconscious patient, who was brought in to the hospital as an accident victim, without a warrant.
  • Detective Jeff Payne of the Salt Lake City Police Department arrested Wubbels for not complying with his orders, restrained her, and placed her in a patrol vehicle. Wubbels was later released without being charged.
  • Video of the incident was captured on bodycam footage of another officer who was present.
  • The incident was widely publicized, and as a result, Payne - also a police phlebotomist - was suspended from the city police department's blood-draw unit with pay. He was later put on administrative leave pending investigation.
  • Additionally, Payne was fired from his second job as an ambulance driver.
  • Salt Lake County district attorney Sim Gill later confirmed that he opened a criminal investigation into the incident.
  • As a result of the incident, the University of Utah Hospital changed its policies regarding police presence in patient care areas.
  • The FBI began looking into the incident, investigating whether or not Wubbels was subjected to a violation of her civil rights.
  • Payne was fired from the police department in October after an internal investigation found he had violated departmental policies.
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Heart - Black

Cop shoots fleeing suspect in the back 9 times and stomps his head; receives Medal of Valor for the murder

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 02 Nov 2017 14:31 UTC
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Connor Zion, 21, was in the midst of a psychological breakdown when he became violent and was subsequently killed. However, the manner in which he was killed has led to a federal court ruling that the police officer who killed him can now be sued for using excessive deadly force.

"When police confront a suspect who poses an immediate threat, they may use deadly force against him," Judge Alex Kozinski wrote for a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals this week. "But they must stop using deadly force when the suspect no longer poses a threat."

When a suspect falls to the ground after he's been shot in the back as he fled, that suspect is, by most definitions, subdued and no longer a threat. However, despite collapsing to the ground after being shot in the back, Orange County sheriff's deputy Michael Higgins felt it necessary to stand over Zion as he bled out on the ground and fire nine more shots into him at point-blank range. For good measure, Higgins then backed up, took a running start, and began stomping Zion's face into the concrete.

In 2014, Higgins was cleared of the murder of Zion, only days after Zion's mother filed a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit.
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Info

Corey Feldman names one of his alleged abusers on the Dr. Oz show

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 02 Nov 2017 13:49 UTC
Corey Feldman and C. Jon Grissom
"Yes, that's him," Corey Feldman confirms as Dr. Oz holds up a photo of C. Jon Grissom on Thursday's bombshell episode The Dr. Oz show.

For years, Feldman has attempted to get these names out into the public and after going onto the Oz Show and contacting the authorities in Los Angeles, he's finally and publicly outed one of his alleged abusers.

In his book, Feldman described what Grissom did to him in graphic detail. He used a pseudonym at the behest of his attorneys to describe everything Grissom did.

"We had to change the names legally," Feldman said. "The lawyers made me change the names. ... They gave me a list of three or four, you know, names. I picked the one that sounded closest to his name."
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Fire

More than 40 million fire extinguishers recalled after death and complaints


RT
Thu, 02 Nov 2017 19:16 UTC
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© U. Brunbauer / Global Look Press
More than 40 million Kidde fire extinguishers are being recalled following one death and nearly 400 complaints of faulty operation, according to a US government notice. Some have been on the market for more than 4 decades.

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission issued the recall notice on Thursday, saying that the extinguishers can become clogged or require excessive force to operate, and thus fail to spray during an emergency.

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Heart - Black

Watch Young Turks co-founder Cenk Uygur dismiss Olivia Munn's allegations of sexual harassment against Brett Ratner in 2011

Lawrence Bonk
Mediaite
Wed, 01 Nov 2017 13:34 UTC
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Actress Olivia Munn is one of six women that have accused director Brett Ratner of sexual misconduct. She originally alluded to this abuse, however, way back in 2010, in her book Suck It, Wonder Woman! The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek.

Munn accused Ratner of masturbating in front of her as she delivered him food, though not by name. The director retaliated by saying they participated in consensual sex acts, claiming that he "banged her a few times." Ratner later apologized and admitted to lying about these claims.

Back before this information was known about Ratner and Munn - and years before other women came out and alleged that the director had abused them - progressive commentators The Young Turks took on the actress's allegation during a 2011 segment referencing the director's use of a gay slur.

Comment: At one time The Young Turks was a show that pointed out the absurdity of the American political system. Now though, it appears it's a show ran by clueless idiots who are essentially controlled opposition. See:

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Megaphone

Catalan Independence is not worth dying for

John Wight
Sputnik
Mon, 30 Oct 2017 12:00 UTC
Catalan Independence Is Not Worth Dying For
Catalan Independence Is Not Worth Dying For
The region is not suffering oppression nor is it colonized. The Catalan independence movement is being driven by nothing more than cultural nationalism and economic self-interest. It is the self-determination of fools.

Yet, regardless, with the Catalan regional parliament in Barcelona declaring UDI (unilateral independence from Spain), and with the Spanish government in Madrid imposing direct rule on the region, the stage is set for a violent clampdown by a Spanish state that has already demonstrated its willingness to mete out violence during the course of this crisis. The outcome, unless sanity prevails, may well be bloody and brutal.

A woman reacts while the Catalan regional parliament votes for independence of Catalonia from Spain in Barcelona
© Yves Herman/ReutersA woman reacts while the Catalan regional parliament votes for independence of Catalonia from Spain in Barcelona
The possibility of such a scenario when it comes to the cause of Catalan independence is especially mind-boggling, because arrive in Barcelona and you are confronted not by a downtrodden city where a heavy atmosphere of oppression lingers - such as Belfast in the 1960s and 1970s, for example, or the occupied territories of Palestine today - but by one of the most modern and affluent cities in Europe, located in one of the richest regions of Europe.
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Bomb

Canada to admit nearly 1 million immigrants by 2020


RT
Thu, 02 Nov 2017 09:39 UTC
Canada to admit nearly 1mn immigrants by 2020 to ‘prosper & grow’
© Mark Blinch / ReutersSyrian refugees hold Canadian flags as they take part in a welcome service at the St. Mary Armenian Apostolic Church at the Armenian Community Centre of Toronto in Toronto
Canada will take in 310,000 immigrants next year as part of the government's new plan to raise immigrant intake by about 13 percent over the next three years and admit nearly one million newcomers by 2020.

"Everyone has been of the opinion we need more workers, we need more skilled workers, we need more people to power our economy, address our real skills shortages, address our real labor market shortages and also address the regional nature of some of these requirements," Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said on Wednesday. "So we've listened."

"Our government believes that newcomers play a vital role in our society," Hussen said, adding that five million Canadians are set to retire by 2035 and "we have fewer people working to support seniors and retirees."

Comment: Canada deported hundreds of migrants to war-torn countries according to government data

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