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Policeman shoots Ohio journalist after confusing his camera tripod for gun


Sputnik
Tue, 05 Sep 2017 15:13 UTC
Ohio police
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A policeman in the US state of Ohio shot a photojournalist after mistaking his camera and tripod for a gun, New York Daily News newspaper reported on Tuesday.

The incident took place in the town of New Carlisle, as Andy Grimm, a photojournalist from a local newspaper, unloaded his tripod from his car to take photos of a traffic stop.

The Clark County Sheriff's Office deputy shot the journalist without warning, but rushed over to help as soon as he realized the mistake, the newspaper explained, adding that the policeman repeatedly stated that he thought the journalist was holding a gun rather than a camera.

The media outlet added that Grimm was injured in the chest and subsequently rushed to a hospital.
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Gold Seal

Pepe Escobar: How David Lynch's Twin Peaks unveils the dystopian world created by the West

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
Tue, 05 Sep 2017 14:29 UTC
atom bomb
When humanity, an evolving species, also became Destroyer of Worlds by splitting the atom, few were aware this was a point of no return.

MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) prevented the Cold War from going nuclear. MAD does not apply anymore. The US Congress is bent on annulling the 1987 Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, agreed between the US and the former USSR to ban the production of short and mid-range missiles.

If Washington starts building new nuclear mid-range missiles and stationing them in Europe, we will be under a new MAD specter.

Couple it with the DPRK's sixth nuclear test - which may have completed the process of miniaturization of a hydrogen bomb capable of being fitted to an ICBM. President Trump, in an official White House statement, has threatened to launch American "nuclear capabilities". President Putin has warned "the situation is balancing on the brink of a large-scale conflict."

Any attempt at denuclearizing (the Korean peninsula, or anywhere else) is a direct consequence of the original 1945 New Big Bang in White Sands, New Mexico, when Man, as Hinduism had anticipated it, played Creator and Destroyer.

And that brings us to Twin Peaks.
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Briefcase

The social isolation of Silicon Valley conservatives

Karen Weise
Bloomberg
Tue, 05 Sep 2017 13:47 UTC
lonely employees
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At liberal tech companies, those who disagree on politics say they're more isolated than ever before

Shashi Ramchandani, who manages a team of engineers at Google, has never been shy about being a conservative working in Silicon Valley. He showed coworkers emails he exchanged with Ivanka Trump after he mailed her photos he took at the Republican convention, and on election night, he texted colleagues snapshots from the floor of Trump's victory party in New York City. "They saw me first as a Googler, then as a conservative," Ramchandani said.

In his 14 years at the company, he said he hasn't felt like he had to keep his mouth shut - until last month when Google fired an engineer who penned a memo saying biological differences partly explain why more men work in tech than women.

Politics often don't mix easily at work, but it's particularly fraught in tech, where free thinking is prized yet the workforce is predominantly liberal. Now, as President Trump stirs up the culture wars at the same time as Silicon Valley faces a backlash for being so white and so male, conservatives in tech have their guards up like never before.

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People

Activists tell RT: UK complicit in Israeli drones killing Palestinians

Claire Gilbody-Dickerson
RT
Tue, 05 Sep 2017 13:39 UTC
London Palestine Action
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The UK is complicit in Israel's killing of Palestinians because it allows its drones to be produced and sold on British soil, a group of activists claim.

Protesters, mostly from the Palestine Action campaign group, have hit out at the UK for granting a space for the manufacturing of drones that Israel will use in what they say is the "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.

The Stop Arming Israel protest took place on Monday outside the Excel center, which is this week hosting the Defense and Security Equipment International (DSEI) conference, one of the world's largest arms fairs.

Protesters were trying to stop Israel's drone manufacturer Elbeit, which produces drones that are allegedly being used against Palestinian civilians in Gaza, from marketing its weaponry to people who are "profiting from the murder of innocent civilians".
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Mail

Message for progressive left: 'If you want to see real Nazis, come to Ukraine'


21st Century Wire
Tue, 05 Sep 2017 11:14 UTC
Nazism in Ukraine
Ever since last month, the US media and the left wing politicians have been up in arm about alleged "rise of Nazism in America." By now, the coverage has been incessant and beyond hysterical, as pundits and 'antifascist' activists claim that a viable white supremacist movement is threatening to take over the country - which is a media-driven alternative reality.

What the America's liberal mainstream media establishment will not mention is the US government's own role, particularly that of the Obama Administration and Hillary Clinton's State Department (and funded by her campaign financier George Soros) in helping to fuel the scourge of Nazism in eastern Europe, in the Ukraine. Likewise, Republicans and so-called 'conservatives' will not want to mention party luminary Senator John McCain's own personal role in promoting Ukraine's Far Right parties and helping shoe-horn them into power in 2014 after a successful US-backed coup d'etat and putsch, and the disastrous junta which has followed.

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Red Flag

Man charged with murder claims he killed his wife in his sleep

Gabrielle Fonrouge
NY Post
Mon, 04 Sep 2017 13:26 UTC
Matthew and Lauren Ashley-Nicole Phelps
© ABC 13Matthew and Lauren Ashley-Nicole Phelps
A North Carolina man is using the bad dream defense - telling a 911 operator he awoke from slumber to find his wife stabbed to death and drenched in blood, reports said.

Matthew Phelps, 28, told the operator in Raleigh early Friday that he fell asleep after taking too much cold medicine and may have accidentally killed his wife in his sleep, ABC 13 reported.

"I think I killed my...," Phelps said to the operator, according to the outlet.

"What do you mean by that? What happened?" the dispatcher asked.

"I had a dream and then I turned on the lights and she's dead on the floor ... I have blood all over me and there's a bloody knife on the bed. I think I did it. I can't believe this," Phelps told the dispatcher.
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Ambulance

Car plows into NYC laundromat injuring six, driver reportedly confused gas pedal with the brake


RT
Tue, 05 Sep 2017 12:47 UTC
vehicle
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A car accidentally plowed into a New York City laundromat, injuring six people on Sunday. Surveillance cameras captured the dramatic scene around 8am at the Page Laundromat in Tottenville, Staten Island.

Six people were transported to Staten Island University Hospital North. Three with serious, but non-life-threatening, injuries, and three were treated for minor injuries.

The car's 74-year-old driver is thought to have confused the gas pedal with the brake, according to police.

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Ambulance

Student attacks teacher with ax then opens fire with air gun at Moscow school, leaving several students injured


RT
Tue, 05 Sep 2017 12:41 UTC
moscow school shooting
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A teenager attacked a teacher with an ax, then opened fire with an air gun and threw smoke grenades in a school in Moscow Region, authorities said, adding that several schoolchildren were injured in the panic following the incident.

The incident took place in a local school in the town of Ivanteyevka, some 20km northeast of Moscow, police press office told TASS.

"A 15-year-old student attacked an IT teacher ...with a kitchen ax and hit her on the head. Then the teenager started detonating homemade firecrackers and shooting with an air gun," the Russian prosecutor general said in a statement.

"At least four people have been injured, including three children and one teacher," police press service told TASS.

The teenager has been detained and is currently being questioned, a local branch of the Russian Investigative committee said. Now the authorities have to determine the motives behind the attack, the statement added.
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Eva Bartlett: Photos from a week in the DPRK

Eva Bartlett
In Gaza
Tue, 05 Sep 2017 01:28 UTC
From August 24-31, I visited the DPRK (North Korea) as part of a very small delegation interested in hearing from North Koreans themselves about their lives, the US sanctions and incessant war manouevres, their history and more. A sample of photos and videos, with more to follow soon.

Children in Pyongyang Orphanage
Children in Pyongyang Orphanage before performing drumming. August 29, 2017.

Comment: The following sample collection of articles from SOTT has a focus on North Korea and the 'empire' that created the conditions of today:

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Fire

Man dies after diving into flaming effigy at Burning Man festival in Nevada


RT
Mon, 04 Sep 2017 07:14 UTC
Man burns in fire
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A Burning Man attendee died after he plunged into a famous flaming effigy during the annual gathering at the Nevada desert Saturday night.

Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen confirmed the death of the man, identified as 41 year-old Aaron Joel Mitchell, at the UC Davis hospital burn center in California, Sunday.

The Burning Man festival earlier confirmed the incident in a statement. Organizers said the man broke through a safety perimeter at approximately 10.30pm Saturday evening and ran into a fire.
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