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Two North Koreans found dead in the same Moscow hotel after both suffered 'acute heart failure'

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Two North Koreans have been found dead in separate rooms in the same Moscow hotel amid reports they both suffered 'acute heart failure'.

The men had complained of severe chest pains and shortness of breath before they died on Saturday at a hotel in the west of the Russian capital.

A police probe led by the country's equivalent of the FBI has been launched as it emerged that two more North Koreans staying in the same building are in hospital.

Five other non-Russian men are believed to be ill but their nationality has not been given.

The first to die was a 37-year-old with a name translated as Chkhe Men Sen. When paramedics arrived at Gorodskoy Hotel in Yermakova Roscha Street in central Moscow, he was already dead.

Soon afterwards a 22-year-old with a name translated as Khon Gim Chkol died as ambulance doctors sought to resuscitate him. The men were in separate rooms.

Comment: Unfortunate deaths - or part of the larger Western-led geopolitical effort to tar Russia and North Korea?


Candle

Manchester's 23rd victim: Survivor of 7/7 London bombings takes his own life in wake of attack

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A survivor of the 7/7 London bombings was found dead in his home after last week's Manchester attack left him feeling he no longer wanted to live "in a world where these terror attacks continue."

Tony Walter, who has been described as the Manchester attack's 23rd victim, worked at a law firm near Edgware Road Underground station, where Mohammad Sidique Khan detonated a suicide bomb on July 7, 2005.

Walter was yards away from Khan when he set off the homemade device. Six people, as well as the bomber, died at the scene of the attack, while Walter was left with shrapnel injuries. It was one of four bombs set off in quick succession across the British capital.

Walter had struggled with the events he witnessed in 2005 and had been particularly distressed by the recent attacks in Westminster and Manchester.

Attention

Joint Base Lackland in San Antonio, Texas placed on lockdown for several hours due to unspecified 'security incident'

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The US armed forces' Joint Base Lackland in San Antonio, Texas was placed on lockdown for several hours due to an unspecified 'security incident', according to the base authorities.

The lockdown was lifted shortly before 1 pm local time, with no details as to the nature of the incident.

The base announced the lockdown shortly after 11 am local time (noon Eastern) via Twitter and Facebook. Base personnel were told to stay away from Arnold Hall, the community center on Stewart Street on the Lackland Air Force Base side of the complex.

Comment: According to a report from the AirForce Times, a bomb threat led to the lockdown:
Oscar Balladares, public affairs chief for the 502nd Air Base Wing at Lackland, said in a statement that there had been a threat against a building. He later confirmed that it was a bomb threat, and the affected buildings were briefly evacuated and swept to make sure they were safe.

"We take all threats very seriously and responded accordingly," Balladares said. "People were instructed to avoid the area. All initial sweeps and secondary sweeps of the affected areas have proved negative and base lockdown has been lifted. Normal base operations have resumed."



Bad Guys

Corrupted by Monsanto? Toxicologist accuses EU of downplaying significant cancer risks of glyphosate

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The EU food safety and chemical agencies failed to identify "significant cancer findings" when deciding not to classify the weed killer glyphosate as a carcinogenic, a US toxicologist wrote in a letter to EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker.

In the letter, dated May 28, leading US toxicologist Christopher Portier accuses the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) of downplaying the cancer risks posed by glyphosate - the main chemical in Mosanto's Roundup - in chronic rodent carcinogenicity studies.

Portier, a former associate director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), said he analyzed data from those studies via public access records, along with other available data, and stated that the EFSA and the ECHA had failed to acknowledge significant increases in tumor incidence in their evaluations.

Comment: Corrupting influence: EU commission relying on chemical industry safety studies in decision to re-license glyphosate
In November, 2015 the EU's European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) opened the way for the re-licensing of glyphosate. It ruled that "Glyphosate is unlikely to pose a carcinogenic hazard to humans..." EFSA ruled against the WHO determination by relying on six agrochemical-industry-funded studies whose scientific details have never been published in full nor in scientifically independently peer-reviewed journals.

The November EFSA "determination" that glyphosate was not a probable carcinogen and hence safe, was based on a corrupt German government study which, in turn, was simply adopted from an agrochemical industry "study" by the Glyphosate Task Force. In short, a worthless Monsanto and agrochemical industry Glyphosate Task Force study of glyphosate was "sheep-dipped" to give it credibility via the German government, then passed on to an uncritical EFSA in Brussels who uncritically recommended the EU re-license glyphosate.
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Israeli man who decapitated ex-wife, set her on fire acquitted and sentenced to mental institution

Meir Goldshtein
© Gil EliyahuMeir Goldshtein in court on May 28, 2017.
Meir Goldshtein was found not guilty by reason of insanity and was sent to psychiatric hospital in a first such acquittal in Israel

In a first for the Israeli legal system, a man pleading insanity for killing and decapitating his ex-wife was acquitted of murder by the Nazareth District Court on Sunday and was committed by the courts to 25 years in a mental institution instead.

Until now, indictments have been canceled, but no one found to be mentally insane has ever been acquitted. The ruling effectively means that if Meir Goldshtein is judged to no longer be a threat to the public, he could be released from hospital and he could not be tried again.

Throughout the course of the hearing on Sunday, Goldshtein blocked his ears with his fingers and closed his eyes. Before the hearing, his parents, who came to the court, refused to approach him or speak to him.

Magic Hat

Flashback Gaddafi to EU one year before they destroyed his country: 'Libya needs help preventing African migrants from flooding Europe'

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Gaddafi, from the grave: "I warned you this would happen, but you mocked me, then killed me..."
Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is demanding £4.1billion a year from the EU to stop illegal immigration which 'threatens to turn Europe black'.


Comment: Not every year; a one-off payment.


Col Gaddafi made the demand as he ended his controversial two-day visit to Italy where he caused outrage in the Catholic church by hosting two 'convert to Islam parties'.

Today furious Italian MPs slammed his demands - made in his farewell speech - for cash to stop immigration and compared them to a 'Mafia extortion racket'.

Comment: Gaddafi doesn't sound so unreasonable and crazy now, does he?

They scoffed at his request for €5 billion, then had him brutally murdered a year later.

How much has the refugee/migrant crisis cost Europe since it recklessly assisted the Americans in 'tearing down the Libyan migrant wall'?

Germany alone - in just 2016 - spent at least €20bn on the refugees that reached its borders. It is forecast to spend twice that amount in 2017. That right there is €60 billion, over ten times what Gaddafi suggested the EU pay Libya to stem migrant flows from Africa.

Granted, the billions Germany has spent has largely gone towards accepting Syrian refugees reaching Europe via Turkey and Greece, not Africans pouring through the no-longer-existent-Libya. But the root cause of both flows is exactly the same: US-led Western wars with proxy armies, first in Libya, then in Syria/Iraq.

At this point, it would probably cost trillions of euros to stabilize the massive dislocations, trillions that Western leaders don't have. And thus...

"You're going to reap just what you sow..."




Pistol

Tamir Rice killer fired, not for murder, but for lying on his police application

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© Angelo Merendino / AFPProtestors took to the street the day after a grand jury declined to indict Cleveland Police officer Timothy Loehmann for the fatal shooting of Tamir Rice on November 22, 2014.
The Cleveland, Ohio, police officer who fatally shot Tamir Rice in 2014 while the 12-year old was playing with a replica gun has been dismissed, but not because of the child's death.

Timothy Loehmann, the former Cleveland Police Department officer who shot Rice, was found to have lied on his application to the department, according to Cleveland Director of Public Safety Michael McGrath, leading to his termination, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported.

Loehmann was found to have concealed from the Cleveland PD that he previously failed a written exam in efforts to join a Cuyahoga County law enforcement agency in 2009. He was later allowed to resign from another county agency after officials found him to be emotionally unstable and unfit to be an officer.

Pills

'Jihadist drug': 137kg of Captagon seized at French airport, partly bound for Saudi Arabia

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At least 137kg of Captagon, dubbed a "jihadist drug" and "the drug of the Syrian conflict," was seized at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport in a first for France, customs officials said, adding that half of the illicit cargo was destined for Saudi Arabia.

The drug was seized in January and February this year, the Directorate-General of Customs and Indirect Taxes, a French law enforcement agency, said on Tuesday.

"This is the first time this drug has been seized in France. The value of the goods is estimated at around €1.5 million on the illicit market," the statement said.

Life Preserver

Tens of thousands of migrants attempting to reach Europe daily - 54 drowned in Mediterranean last week alone

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More than 30 migrants were rescued at sea by coastguard units from Spain and Portugal after their boat erupted into flames in the Mediterranean.

Some 34 migrants were travelling off the Spanish coast on Sunday when the overloaded vessel's engine appeared to burst into flames.

Footage, shot by the Portuguese Air Force, shows the passengers - most of whom are wearing life jackets - jumping into the sea to escape the flames.

Air force personnel, currently surveilling maritime areas with the European border and coast agency Frontex, threw the group a life raft and alerted Spanish coastguards.


Comment: What was it Gaddafi said on a visit to Italy in 2010?...
"Italy needs to convince her European allies to accept this Libyan proposal - five billion euro to Libya to stop illegal immigration. Europe runs the risk of turning black from illegal immigration, it could turn into Africa. We need support from the European Union to stop this army trying to get across from Libya, which is their entry point. At the moment there is a dangerous level of immigration from Africa into Europe and we don't know what will happen.

What will be the reaction of the white Christian Europeans to this mass of hungry, uneducated Africans? We don't know if Europe will remain an advanced and cohesive continent or if it will be destroyed by this barbarian invasion. We have to imagine that this could happen but before it does we need to work together."
A year later, European leaders went along with the American Hope-and-Change regime in murdering Gaddafi, destroying his country and opening the floodgates.

Gaddafi's last words as NATO's bombs rained down were: "You're idiots."


You reap - as a famous old book goes - what you sow.


Heart - Black

Teen involved in consensual sex kills himself when cop threatens to register him as sex offender

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The weekend before Corey Walgren dove off of a five-story parking garage, he confessed to his parents he'd had sex for the first time. Unfortunately for Corey, a 16-year-old Junior at Naperville North High School, he was never allowed to explore the joys of sex again before school and police officials decided they had to intervene in his personal life.

A female classmate became aware of a consensual sexual encounter between another classmate, who was also 16, and Corey. Saying he'd played a recording of the sexual encounter for a group of his friends, the girl went to school officials to report the incident.

A school administrator called Corey into an office where the school resource officer, a cop named Brett Heun, proceeded to interrogate Corey. Heun told Corey that being in possession of videos of a sexual nature involving minors is considered, under the law, child pornography, and that he might have to register as a sex offender. According to the Chicago Tribune: