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Russian couple suspected of being 'radicalized' detained in Turkey with 2 kids while allegedly heading to Syria

Russian couple
A family of four from the Saratov Region of Russia has reportedly been detained by Turkish authorities after they allegedly tried to illegally cross into Syria. The alarm was raised by family members who claim the suspected runaways had been radicalized.

Svetlana Ukhanova and her partner, Evgeny Kochaari, who have two children with them, have been placed in an immigration detention facility in Antakya in southern Turkey, near the Syrian border, the woman's former in-laws claim. Her ex-husband, Sergey Ukhanov, is currently in Antakya, trying to free at least one of the children, his and Svetlana's daughter.

Relatives of the other child, who is said to be the one-year-old daughter of Svetlana and her partner, also arrived in Turkey to try and take the little girl, the head of child protection services in Saratov Region, Nadezhda Solovyova, told RIA Novosti.

Star of David

'Thieves' steal machine guns, documents, as IDF bases fail snap security inspection

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Israel Defense Force (IDF) bases in northern Israel are much too easily breached, according to the findings of a recent military inspection.

The IDF Operations Division conducted surprise inspections in Galilee and Golan Heights. Inspection staff easily entered classified areas that were supposed to be guarded and made off with confidential documents and weapons, including machine guns and rifles.

The Katzbia Camp, Pilon Camp, Yiftah Camp, Keren Camp and Shraga Camp, which serves as headquarters for the Golani Brigade, were all successfully infiltrated.

"The IDF regularly carries out stringent security inspections on all bases ... The conclusions of the inspection are under review within the units and as is customary, lessons will be learned accordingly and the procedures will be sharpened. Incidents in which failures are found will be handled in a disciplinary manner," an IDF representative told Jerusalem Online.

Comment: Bunch of idiots - no wonder Hezbollah kicked their butts


Bullseye

'Discrimination, harassment, bullying': 5 Canadian spy agents file C$35mn lawsuit against bosses

Canada's spy agents
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Five agents of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) have filed a lawsuit against management, accusing them of homophobia, racism, and Islamophobia, as well as humiliation and abuse.
The employees are asking for CAN$35 million ($US27.7 million) from the CSIS, saying that the agency is "a workplace rife with discrimination, harassment, bullying and abuse of authority, in which the tone set by management, namely to mock, abuse, humiliate and threaten employees, has permeated the workforce," the statement of the claim reads.
The document says that CSIS management
"has not only allowed this culture to thrive, it has actively inculcated this culture, openly rejecting and mocking respectful workplace norms. This tone and approach has been dictated from the top, and adopted throughout the organization, resulting in an environment in which employees recognize that upward mobility and career success can be achieved through rejecting respectful workplace conduct and visibly aligning with the misconduct of management,"
as cited by CTV News.

Sheriff

San Antonio cops ransack home, kill the family dog and torture a naked grandpa during drug raid

Devin Valdez
The San Antonio Police Department has come under fire once again for using excessive force. This time, amid allegations that they murdered a family dog, tortured a naked man, and threatened a 10-year-old at gunpoint, during a drug raid.

Felix Lopez was among the list of targets during the narcotics and gang investigation, because of his "criminal history," according to a report from KENS5. His 10-year-old grandson, Devin Valdez, described the raid to the CBS affiliate, noting that Lopez was in the shower when officers stormed in.
"They tried to get my grandpa out of the restroom, got him out, then started hitting him, so I tried telling them to stop and they took me to the room, and put me in handcuffs and had a gun pointed to my head," Valdez said.
Lopez's injuries from the raid included two broken arms, a broken cheekbone, and the possibility of permanent vision loss to one of his eyes. Drugs were found on the scene but, strangely, not inside the house. They were reportedly found in the backyard but published reports made no mention of which specific drugs were found.

Chart Pie

Amazon's growing empire raising antitrust concerns in Congress and on Wall Street

Whole Foods
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Amazon's desire to spread its empire far and wide is facing pushback from two power-centers in the US. Legislators in Washington, DC and moneymakers on Wall Street are weary of the company's new plans.

Amazon has announced that it will buy Whole Foods Market for a whopping $13.7 billion. The popular online company also has other plans to expand in the near future and has already announced another service called Amazon Wardrobe, a service that allows consumers to try clothing on before they buy it.
"There's a concern Amazon might be getting too big," antitrust expert, Michael Carrier, of Rutgers University School of Law said, according to Bloomberg. "The odds are the Whole Foods acquisition will go through, but these political winds will create a bit of a fight."

Comment: Amazon set to kill more American jobs than China did as its share of online purchases keeps climbing


Attention

'She bled to death, nobody paid attention': ISIS wives share chilling stories of so called life in 'caliphate'

ISIS wives
Women who managed to break free from the clutches of Islamic State terrorists told RT harrowing stories of what they lived through, shedding light on the rampant violence, sex slavery and a bloodcurdling neglect for life thriving in the so-called "caliphate."

Khadija, who came to Syria from Tunis to live in Islamic State's (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) Syrian stronghold of Raqqa for three years, told RT that she saw plenty of cruelty and injustice, but no genuine pursuit of religion or Islamic law.

"My husband and I made a huge mistake by coming there. And I advise you not to believe those who say that ISIS is an Islamic state, which preaches Islam and Sharia and lives pursuant to the teachings of Prophet Muhammed and the Koran," Khadija said.

The militants do not tolerate any dissent and opposition to their reign, she noted.

"Everybody, who takes a stand against them, they behead. And people don't know when this is going to happen."

"They are not on righteous path. This is the state of tyranny and Satan. My husband renounced them, and told me to do the same," Khadija went on to say, adding that she and her husband escaped Raqqa running south to the town of al-Mayadeen and then to Turkey.

Comment: See also:


Stormtrooper

Palestinian TV station office in West Bank raided by Israeli army

Israeli forces
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Israeli forces raided the offices of a Palestinian TV station in the West Bank, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Friday in a statement condemning the move.

"The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned Israeli soldiers' raid of the office of Al-Quds TV and that of its affiliate Ram Sat in the West Bank city of Hebron," the statement said.

Al-Quds TV's Hebron Bureau Chief Alaa al-Rimawi told journalists the Israeli soldiers burst into the station's office in the early hours of Thursday morning and confiscated memory cards, hard drives and six computers.

USA

Middle America's support for Trump skyrockets despite the media's Russia hysteria

Trump and supporters
The never ending "Russia-Trump" story that has been playing on 24 hour repeat cycle for the last 9 months and counting, is doing little to change middle America's perception of Trump and his family.

Actually it is having a reverse affect, making those who voted Trump into the White House toughen their support for the President.

The west and east coast hates Trump more than ever, but the liberal left did not need Russia fake news stories to accomplish this goal.

Fox News' Greg Gutfeld sums it up best saying that he too "is exhausted" with Trump-Russia hysteria.

Attention

Mexico's deadly gasoline thieves go full 'Mad Max' as competing cartels declare war on each other and the army

gasoline thieves wait in line to steal gas from an illegal tap
© AP Photo/Eduardo VerdugoIn this July 11, 2017 photo, gasoline thieves wait in line to steal gas from an illegal tap into a state-owned pipeline, in the middle of a cornfield in San Bartolome Hueyapan, Tepeaca, Mexico.
Fuel theft in Mexico used to consist of a few villagers drilling holes in Pemex pipelines and carrying away just enough gasoline to fill their vehicles and maybe a couple extra gallons to sell on the side of the freeway. But as The Columbian notes, illegally tapping into pipelines and stealing gas from Mexico's state-owned oil company has morphed into a very well organized criminal enterprise, run by well-armed regional cartels and supported by distribution on a commercial scale to factories and petrol stations.
Heavy arms and violence seen in Tuesday's confrontation in Puebla state reflect its growth into a billion-dollar business that supplies not just the people selling gas on the sides of highways — called "huachicoleros" — but factories and gasoline station chains.

It has become an industrial-scale operation, involving a string of villages and hamlets along pipeline routes, not just in Puebla, but in Guanajuato, Veracruz, Tamaulipas and other Mexican states. The government says more than 6,000 illegal pipeline taps were found in 2016 and officials have been detecting an average of about 20 taps a day this year.

"Of all the fuel that is stolen, only 10 percent is sold to the public" by roadside vendors, said Jesus Morales, the top police official in Puebla state. "The other 90 percent goes to big business groups, to gas stations, factories."

Network

Hacker leaks emails of a top US State Department intel official on Russian affairs

computer hacker
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Emails belonging to a senior US State Department intelligence official involved in Russian affairs have been leaked, Foreign Policy (FP) reports. The official is said to have been particularly interested in Russian media and government reshuffling.

A hacker known as 'Johnnie Walker' leaked a batch of private correspondence of a US State Department intelligence official, whose work is focused on Russian domestic affairs, according to FP, citing the emails.

The emails, from a hacked nongovernmental account over a two-year period, were sent to "an unknown number of recipients," the outlet - which reported on the story initially - notes. There is, however, no information on who exactly was among the recipients.

Although the leaks were received on Tuesday, according to the magazine, they did not gain widespread attention until Friday.

Comment: An unnamed source told FP, regarding the state department target: "He's probably the top intelligence guy in the entire U.S. government on Russia. He knows more than anybody about what's going on there." "Johnnie Walker's" preface to the pastebin states:
Perhaps you know that the U.S. State Department has a direct bearing on the agenda formation not only at home but throughout the world.

Now you can make sure it's true. Let me show you the correspondence between the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency Robert P. Otto and his colleagues, CIA officers and other intelligence agencies, as well as representatives of mainstream media, NGOs, international funds and think tanks.

With the respect for privacy I've deleted his correspondence with his wife and relatives. The rest of emails will give evidence of who is responsible for different information campaigns, the so-called mythmaking and essentially engaged in the promotion of "American values" throughout the world.
Zero Hedge writes:
As Redditor NathanOhio summarized overnight, the facts so far appear to be as follows:
  1. A hacker going by the name "Johnnie Walker" has hacked a senior state department official's personal Gmail account.
  2. The official has not been publicly named, but is claimed to be the foremost expert on Russia.
  3. Two years worth of emails were stolen and include exchanges between the victim and "CIA officers and other intelligence agencies, mainstream media, NGOs and international funds" that would "give you evidence of who is responsible for agenda formation in many countries worldwide, especially where the situation is insecure."
  4. A link to the email cache has been published by "an obscure website in Crimea" that the MSM claims is "financed by the Russian secret service, and its topics assigned by top political leadership in Moscow."
In retrospect, it appears that the email contents are relatively innocuous: as the Redditor notes:
Reading through some of the messages, it seems they are mostly discussions between various neocon academics and forwarding of articles. Most of these people rather than experts seem to be groupthinkers endlessly building up the walls of their own echo chamber.

Found a couple of things that are interesting. A Russian scholar "Valery Solovei" is sending Robert Otto a monthly report on Russia. Also, Otto and his buddies HATE John Kerry and continually refer to him as an idiot!
With the Trump administration neck-deep in Russia-hacking drama, we expect that this story, which somehow failed to make last week's news cycle will be among the main topics in the days ahead, with questions (and predetermined answers) over the identity (and nationality) of Johnnie Walker among the most discussed items.