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Met police chief: Segregation and isolated communities create breeding ground for extremism


RT
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 14:54 UTC
Salman Abedi
© Ahmed Bin Salman / Global Look PressManchester bomber Salman Abedi
Isolated communities and unregulated home schooling are creating ideal conditions for fostering Islamic extremism and fuelling an unprecedented threat of terrorism, a police chief has warned, as he revealed security services are investigating 600 plots.

Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said there was a "definite problem" of second-generation Britons who become radicalized through the "very toxic combination" of isolation and extremist online content.

He highlighted the risk posed by illegal Islamic schools, saying: "segregated, isolated communities, unregulated education and home schooling are a breeding ground for extremists and future terrorists."

According to The Times, Basu told the superintendents' conference in Stratford-upon-Avon: "The threat was the traveller or the returning fighter, who was battle-hardened and even angrier, but now it's the threat in our midst.
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Docs reveal almost 6,000 metric tons of hazardous waste illegally dumped in Missouri for years


RT
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 14:49 UTC
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Almost 6,000 metric tons of hazardous waste was illegally stored in Missouri for years, according to federal and state documents. The waste came from removing paint from tanks, planes and other military equipment.

The documents were revealed as art of an indictment that was filed by US government against US Technology Corporation (UST), and its president, Raymond Williams, and another company in US Distrcit Court in Missouri in April of this year, according to St. Louis Dispatch.

UST, which provides technical service for aersoplanes and Hydromex, a recycling company, are being charged with criminal conspiracy, and transportation of hazardous waste.

UST leases the blasting materials to customers but is still responsible for recycling the waste. The company hired Hydromex, based in Mississippi, in 2000, as a subcontractor to recycle waste but the company failed to do so. Instead the company dumped it on its grounds.
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Discovery of Excalibur or movie prop? 7 year-old girl pulls huge sword from same lake as King Arthur's legend


RT
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 14:35 UTC
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A seven-year-old girl literally felt a legend coming to life as she unearthed a huge sword from the same lake King Arthur's Excalibur was said to have been thrown. A sceptical father, however, said he does not believe in the sword's fabled origins.

Matilda Jones from Doncaster in the UK found the 4-feet (1.2-meter) sword when she went swimming in Dozmary Pool in Cornwall. Matilda's father, Paul, had just told her and her sister about the legend of King Arthur as they drove to the lake.

The two were paddling in the lake when Matilda is said to have made the discovery.
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German police blasted after suggesting women "jog in pairs" after rape incident


RT
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 14:12 UTC
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Police in Germany have been criticized after a spokesman urged women to "jog in pairs" following a brutal rape incident in Leipzig in which a woman jogging alone in a park was attacked by a man of "southern" appearance.

The incident took place in the Rosental Park in Leipzig on Friday morning, local media report. A woman in her 50s was jogging in the park when she saw a suspicious man running in her direction.

The man grabbed the woman, dragged her into a field and brutally raped her while hitting her hard in the face. The victim had to undergo emergency surgery.

When she was found, the woman described the attacker as being of "southern" appearance. He was between 25 and 35 years old, had dark hair and a short, untidy beard, according to witness accounts.
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UK soldiers among group arrested for neo-Nazi terrorism links


RT
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 14:03 UTC
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Serving British soldiers are among those arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences as alleged members of the neo-Nazi group National Action.

The accused - a 22-year-old from Birmingham, a 32-year-old man from Powys, a 24-year-old from Ipswich and a 24-year-old from Northampton - were held on Tuesday by the West Midlands police, who say they have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences.

"We can confirm that a number of serving members of the Army have been arrested under the Terrorism Act for being associated with a proscribed far right group," an Army spokesperson said.

"These arrests are the consequence of a Home Office Police Force led operation supported by the Army. This is now the subject of a civilian police investigation and it would be inappropriate to comment further."
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Tunnels, guns and abandoned tanks: Secrets of ISIS stronghold revealed in Deir ez-Zor


RT
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:14 UTC
Syrian soldiers
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Syrian forces have captured the fortified area near Deir ez-Zor that was struck by Russian cruise missiles, which Moscow says killed over 200 jihadists. Troves of weapons, explosives and damaged armored vehicles were found on the site where the terrorists had holed up.

As the Syrian troops were clearing out the area, they discovered a massive network of underground tunnels used by terrorists to stock weapons, ammunition and as living quarters. Large caches of weapons, as well as considerable food and medicine supplies left by the fleeing terrorists, indicate that they were preparing for a long-term defense of their positions, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement Wednesday.

During the raid, the Syrian forces found evidence that the militants holing up in the area hail from Russia and former Soviet republics, the ministry said, adding that the data confirms its own previous intelligence that drew on various sources.
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Russia sends humanitarian aid to Deir ez-Zor after breaching 3yr ISIS siege


RT
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 10:33 UTC
Deir-ez-Zor
© Khalil Ashawi / ReutersA view shows damaged buildings in Deir-ez-Zor, eastern Syria.
The Russian Center for Reconciliation of Opposing sides in Syria is urgently sending humanitarian aid to Syria after Deir ez-Zor was finally liberated from a three-year siege by Islamic State, bringing relief to thousands of civilians. Among the supplies the Russian Defense Ministry is to deliver are food aid and living essentials, including water purification stations, portable diesel generators, medicine and bottled water, according to the agency's statement. Medical aid teams will shortly visit citizens of the recaptured city, where Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) militants destroyed nearly all the infrastructure over the years of blockade.

Deir ez-Zor has been left with basically no functioning commodities. Electrical substations and water supply facilities were blown up, and schools and hospitals were torn down. All the businesses, residential, administrative and industrial buildings are shut down, and squares and children's facilities were mined by jihadists as they retreated. To return the retaken areas of the city to normal existence as soon as possible the center's specialists are assessing the extent of humanitarian aid needed, as well as evaluating essential objects, such as electric stations, medical units, water facilities and bakeries.

Comment: Moscow has provided 1,500 tons of humanitarian aid to Syria since 2016.
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Preparing for a hurricane: An essential guide

Daisy Luther
The Organic Prepper
Tue, 05 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
Prepping for hurricane
When a disaster draws near, suddenly, preppers don't seem quite so crazy anymore. Right now, with Irma heading our way so closely on the heels of Harvey, a lot of people on the Southeast Coast are feverishly preparing for a hurricane.

UPDATE: The Florida Keys are under mandatory evacuation.

Some are projecting that if Irma doesn't change course, it will be so powerful that meteorologists will need a new Category to describe the storm: Category 6. Keep in mind that Harvey was a Category 4 and that tells you how bad the potential of this storm is. There are many articles out there focusing on that - this one focuses on how to get ready for it.

During times like this, it becomes mainstream to engage in a flurry of activity that looks like an episode of Doomsday Preppers being fast-forwarded across the screen. People rush to the stores in a frenzy, and often get all the wrong things. Most of these folks aren't preppers in the traditional sense - they're just hurrying to get ready because they know something is headed their way.
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Synthetic painkiller fentanyl now overtakes heroin as deadliest drug in U.S.

Steve Birr
The Daily Caller
Mon, 04 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
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The drug epidemic in America is increasingly fueled by synthetic opioids like fentanyl, which overtook heroin as the deadliest substance in the U.S. in 2016.

The National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, released the first preliminary federal report, giving an accounting of drug overdose deaths in 2016. The CDC estimates that drug deaths rose by more than 22 percent in 2016, killing 64,070 Americans. Opioid deaths rose from 33,000 in 2015 to nearly 50,000 in 2016, driven primarily by fentanyl, a painkiller roughly 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine, reports The New York Times.

Synthetic opioids, including fentanyl and its analogs, claimed roughly 20,100 lives in 2016, up from 9,945. Heroin continues to be a major problem, killing an estimated 15,400 Americans. Fentanyl is also fueling an increase in cocaine deaths, as dealers are increasingly cutting the fatal painkiller into their cocaine supplies.
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Atlanta police run over suspect in case of mistaken identity


RT
Tue, 05 Sep 2017 19:31 UTC
Atlanta police run over wrong suspect
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An Atlanta police officer was placed on leave after he was accused of running over a man he wrongly thought was a suspect.

Warren Hill said he was run over in the parking lot of a mall last week. "It hurt bad," he told WSBTV. "My head, my neck, my back, my whole body. You get hit by a car, what do you think is going to happen?"

Hill said he ran away from the approaching police because he was "scared of the cops."

"They thought I was the suspect and ran me down like a dog or an animal," he said.
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