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Attention

Grenfell protesters demand justice, storm Kensington Town Hall


RT
Fri, 16 Jun 2017 18:47 UTC
Grenfell fire protestors
© Stefan Wermuth / ReutersDemonstrators crowd onto a staircase as they enter Kensington Town Hall, during a protest following the fire that destroyed The Grenfell Tower block, June 16, 2017.
Protesters demanding justice after the deadly Grenfell Tower inferno have attempted to storm the upper office floors of Kensington Town Hall.

Protesters chanting "we want justice" stormed the entrance of a local town hall in London on Friday after a deadly fire at a block of flats killed at least 30 people, Reuters reporters at the scene said.


Comment: UK elites continue to be met with the simmering anger of the Grenfell protesters.

The Queen was confronted by hecklers:


London Mayor Sadiq Khan was also targeted during a visit to Grenfell:
One man was led away by police after throwing a bottle at the Labour politician, who was visiting Notting Hill Methodist Church, near the estate.

Khan faced the angry crowd while surrounded by a police guard and the media. Even a seven-year-old boy was heard to criticize the mayor following the blaze.

"How many children have died?" Kai Ramos shouted at Khan. "What are you going to do about it?"



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Dollars

Amazon's buying Whole Foods, $13.7B all-cash deal


RT
Fri, 16 Jun 2017 14:36 UTC
whole foods bag
© Shannon Stapleton / ReutersAmazon buys ''Whole Paycheck"
Amazon has announced plans to acquire leading US organic food grocer Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion. The e-commerce giant is making a huge bet on physical stores and the business of food. In a deal that is set to be sealed in the second half of the year, Amazon will pay $42 per share in cash for the upmarket grocery chain.

On Thursday, Whole Foods shares were halted at $32.77 in premarket trading, while Amazon's shares were up 0.5 percent at $969.

Whole Foods' co-founder and chief executive officer John Mackey will continue to run the chain with the headquarters of the company to remain in Austin, Texas, the companies said.

Whole Foods has been put under pressure by Jana Partners, one of the investors, and money manager Neuberger Berman. They criticized the company for poor performance and suggested the chain be sold.
"This partnership presents an opportunity to maximize value for Whole Foods Market's shareholders, while at the same time extending our mission and bringing the highest quality, experience, convenience and innovation to our customers," said Mackey in a statement.
This is Amazon's second attempt to take over the grocery chain, according to a source familiar with the situation, as quoted by Bloomberg.
"Amazon clearly wants to be in grocery, clearly believes a physical presence gives them an advantage. I assume the physical presence gives them the ability to distribute other products more locally. So theoretically you could get five-minute delivery," said Michael Pachter, an analyst at Wedbush Securities Inc.

Comment: So much for consumer options and market diversity...increasingly consolidating into the hands of a few.

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Biohazard

Columbia River: The free-flowing depository of radioactive waste because there's no money to stop it

Vic Bishop
Waking Times
Wed, 14 Jun 2017 00:00 UTC
radioactive river
© unknownThe Columbia River under radioactive attack.
A member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently informed the public that radioactive waste from the decommissioned Hanford nuclear power plant is 'flowing freely' into the Columbia river.

The mighty Columbia river is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of America, flowing down from Canada, winding through eastern Washington state and along the border between Oregon, ultimately moving through downtown Portland and into the Pacific. The Hanford site, located near Kennewick, WA is up river from a million or so people, not to mention the wildlife.

Constructed in the 1940's as part of the Manhattan Project, the plant was decommissioned after the Cold War, leaving behind some 53 million gallons of high level radioactive waste. Proposed as a Superfund site in 1988, Hanford is an uncontrollable ecological and public health disaster.

Hanford map
© scottshamblottdds.com

Comment: Other priorities for funding (such as war, regime changes, foreign aid, proxy armies and Israel's military) outrank the health and safety of citizens and wildlife exposed to decades-long nuclear waste and other bio-hazards. As of February 27, 2014, there were 1322 Superfund sites on the National Priorities List in the US with a proposed additional 53 new listings. More listings, less funding (or none) to go around.

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Attention

DNC lawsuit attorneys fear for their lives and call for court protection citing multiple suspicious deaths

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 15 Jun 2017 18:28 UTC
DNC members
While the rest of the United States seems fixated on this week's Senate hearing testimony of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions (to discuss his involvement in the pseudo-scandal which is the meddling of the Russians in the presidential election of 2016) lawyers suing the DNC for fraud have asked for special protection for their lives.

The sheer number of plaintiffs are too many to mention in this article. The original motion to sue the Democratic National Committee and Debbie Wasserman Schultz can be seen by clicking here. They allege, thanks to leaked DNC emails published by Wikileaks, that the DNC and former Chairwoman Wasserman-Schultz actively discriminated against Senator Bernie Sanders as a DNC candidate.

All the plaintiffs who contributed to Sanders' campaign, are members of the Democratic Party, and allege the DNC committed fraud by actively working against Sanders to help Hillary Rodham Clinton win the Democratic nomination as a presidential candidate. But that's just the beginning. Now they're saying they're in fear for their lives, and they've described the strange things happening to some of them.
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Passport

N. Korea 'open to tourists' with visas issued in 'less than month'


RT
Fri, 16 Jun 2017 18:01 UTC
People play in a water pool at Rungna Water Park in Pyongyang
© KCNA / ReutersPeople play in a water pool at Rungna Water Park in Pyongyang.
North Korea is open to visitors and tourists can receive visas within about four weeks, Pyongyang's ambassador to Spain said, blasting US media for
"demonizing the country through fake news."

"They say it is difficult to travel to our country, but that's not true. You can get a visa in less than a month," North Korean ambassador Kim Hyok-chol said Thursday in Madrid, as cited by El Pais newspaper.
The ambassador was presenting his home country's tourist attractions in something of a charm offensive, according to Xinhua news agency. Those included newly-built resorts and theme parks as well as North Korea's picturesque scenery and landscapes. The event at the DPRK embassy in Madrid was organized in collaboration with the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).
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Handcuffs

1 person arrested in Evergreen College counter-protests


RT
Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:50 UTC
riot police
© Sandy McKenna / YouTube
Police arrested at least one person at a free speech rally organized to oppose political correctness at Evergreen College in Olympia, Washington. Clashes marked the gathering, as black-clad counter-protesters arrived with silly string and pepper spray.

Riot police flanked protesters from both sides of the political spectrum gathered at The Evergreen State College, as the liberal arts institution was otherwise closed and all campus activities were suspended Thursday.

On one side, the "Patriot Prayer" conservative group gathered to protest the college's "Day of Absence," a long-time annual event that came with a twist this year. Instead of a voluntary boycott by a particular minority - such as women or immigrants - this time students demanded a day without white people be enforced. In May, protests erupted after a white professor at the college refused to participate. Dozens of students later demanded the professor's resignation after he wrote an email about the incident, which they deemed to be racist.


Comment: SJWs lose it, becoming an angry mob threatening violence at Evergreen University


The Patriot Prayer group is calling for the college's funding to be cut since they say it has been taken over by political correctness and hatred.

"You cannot ask students and professors to leave campus because of the color of their skin," the group's Facebook page said.

Comment: See also:

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Heart - Black

Heartless jail cops ignore inmates pleas for help and watch him die of dehydration over a period of 3 days

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:34 UTC
Dustin Irwin in cell
On average in the United States, roughly a dozen inmates die every day. Many of these human beings have never been convicted of a crime and were merely awaiting trial. Their causes of death range from being boiled to death to being severely dehydrated or choked and crushed to death. Dustin Irwin, 25, is one of those deaths.

After having been arrested by a Ward County Deputy on charges of driving under suspicion, Irwin was booked into the Ward County Jail where, days later, he would die a horrid death. His death the became the subject of a North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DOC) investigation.

Dashcam video of the arrest, obtained by the Minot Daily News, showed that Irwin was calm and courteous during the traffic stop.
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Pocket Knife

Man with knife arrested outside UK parliament


RT
Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:23 UTC
westminster suspect
© @johnaaront / ReutersPolice officers detain a man outside the Palace of Westminster, in central London, Britain June 16, 2017.
British police have arrested a man suspected of carrying a knife outside the Palace of Westminster after he ran, shouting, towards one of the gates on Friday afternoon.

A member of public reportedly shouted "knife, knife, knife," according to one Sun reporter.

Witnesses say the man, who is in his 30s, was shouting and running towards one of the main gates to parliament.

The suspect was tasered before being pinning to the ground while officers pointed a gun at him.

"The man reached for a knife," police told Reuters. "Nobody was injured."

The suspect was taken away in a police van.
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Heart - Black

Transit cop charged for hitting a man with his patrol car and dumping him across town

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:15 UTC
Lawrence Ffrench and Julio Canete
© Gregory P. Mango / Robert MeceaMTA cop Lawrence Ffrench and alleged hit-and-run victim Julio Canete.
A Metro Transit Authority cop from Brooklyn was arrested this week after he allegedly dumped his hit and run victim on Staten Island after running him down with his cruiser in a crosswalk.

On May 26, 2016, according to court records, this cowardly cop ran over an innocent man while on duty and then refused to help him. Instead of help, officer Lawrence Ffrench threw his victim in the back of the police car and dumped him on Staten Island.

After dumping the injured man, Julio Canete, Ffrench then told his victim that if he told anyone he'd been hit by a cop "he was in trouble."

Canete was walking toward a bus stop in Bay Ridge when he was struck by Ffrench's marked MTA vehicle and thrown into the air, Assistant District Attorney Prabhalya Pulim said Thursday in court.
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Question

Students traumatized after cops hold a secret, mock sex trafficking drill

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:06 UTC
girls and cop
The Florida Highway Patrol is reviewing its presence at the Girls State Program after troopers conducted a kidnapping/human trafficking drill which went "horribly wrong" according to WFTV News Channel 9.

The girl's program is attended by some of best and brightest high-schoolers Florida has to offer. "Everyone who's going is at the top of their class," Cameron Carlyle said describing the high-quality candidates who attend the elite leadership camp. But no amount of education could have prepared the girls for what happened on the last night of their training.

The Girls State director along with six Florida State Troopers, all female, pulled an attendee aside and told her she would be participating in a kidnapping drill, one which highlighted the real-world problem of sex trafficking. Under the cover of secrecy, the volunteer named "Katrina" was taken to a safe place. Thereafter, roll call was taken with the remaining girls.

Carlyle, who volunteered this year to be a camp counselor, said when the count-off got to number 8, "We realized Katrina was missing." Soon the State Troopers began screaming, she'd been kidnapped, and blamed several girls for her abduction.
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