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UK police claim to have foiled 'active terrorist plot' after woman shot in London raid


RT
Fri, 28 Apr 2017 11:04 UTC
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A police cordon at Harlesden Road remained in place on Friday morning
British law enforcement claims to have thwarted an active terrorist plot after a woman in her 20s was shot in an armed police raid on a house in the north of the UK's capital.

The police arrested five people in the Thursday evening operation, Senior National Coordinator for Counter Terrorism Policing, Neil Basu, said Friday, Reuters reports.

The woman shot during the raid was one of the subjects of an investigation into terrorism, according to the official.
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American Airlines flight from Manchester to JFK returns safely after declaring mid-flight emergency


RT
Fri, 28 Apr 2017 10:48 UTC
Amercian Airlines
© Leonid Faerberg / Global Look Press
A flight from Manchester, England, to JFK in New York has been forced to turn around after declaring an "emergency" in mid-flight.

It is believed the flight was turned around due to a "maintenance issue."
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Eye 1

Ex-cop charged with raping mentally challenged woman

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 28 Apr 2017 14:05 UTC
Thomas Jackson
© The Free Thought Project
An Ex-Michigan City police officer has been charged with the rape of a mentally challenged La Porte County woman. Thomas K. Jackson was arrested Tuesday at Trail Creek near his home. The former police officer didn't put up a fight and may have even known the arrest was coming. He resigned March 14th, for unknown reasons but which may have been connected to the ongoing investigation.

According to reports, The Michigan City police chief asked La Porte County Sheriff's Office to conduct the investigation to avoid any suspicion of a conflict of interest. Investigators charged Jackson with four counts of rape.

Although he was a veteran police officer with the department, the Michigan City PD told reporters Jackson's alleged rapes happened when he was not on duty. "He always seemed like a good guy, but he was always very flirtatious. We knew something wasn't quite right, but we never imagined he could do something like this," said Shelly Yanke, an acquaintance of Jackson.
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Pocket Knife

Man carrying backpack of knives near UK Parliament arrested under Terrorism Act - Update


RT
Thu, 27 Apr 2017 16:51 UTC
British police detain a man
© AFPFirearms officiers from the British police detain a man on Whitehall near the Houses of Parliament in central London on April 27, 2017.
A man has been arrested under the Terrorism Act after he was found carrying a bag of knives near the Houses of Parliament, the Metropolitan Police has confirmed.

Armed police cordoned off part of Whitehall on Thursday afternoon after the man was tackled and arrested by police "following a stop and search as part of an ongoing operation."

There are some suggestions he was known to police.

Comment: Whitehall terrorist suspect identified
A terrorist suspect who was arrested by armed police as he was carrying a "bag of knives" through Westminster on Thursday has been named as Mohammed Khalid Omar Ali.

The 27-year-old was detained as part of an intelligence-led operation and had been tracked by MI5 for possible ties to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), after a concerned family member is believed to have contacted the police.

The man, who is understood to have been born overseas and lived in South East London, was detained outside the Treasury, just yards from where five people were killed in a terrorist attack by Khalid Masood last month.


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Piggy Bank

This is what Americans spent the most money on so far this year

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Fri, 28 Apr 2017 13:40 UTC
recreational vehicle
As discussed earlier, it was an abysmal quarter for the US, pressured by what is traditionally the strongest segment of the economy, responsible for 70% of GDP growth: US consumer spending. At 0.23% annualized, this was the worst print going back to 2009.

But that doesn't mean that Americans stopped spending completely, quite the contrary. According to the BEA's "goalseeked" models, even as retail sales tumbled, as Obamacare continued to drain disposable income away from other discretionary purchases, Americans - who spent far less on cars, clothing and housing in the first quarter than in Q4 - were scrambling to buy... recreational vehicles!?
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Snowflake Cold

Even beyond the campus those 'snowflakes' have chilling effects

Heather Mac Donald
Wall Street Journal
Fri, 21 Apr 2017 13:18 UTC
Berzerkley
© NOAH BERGER/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCYA campus protest in Berkeley, California, Feb. 1.
Academic intolerance is the product of ideological aggression, not a psychological disorder.

Student thuggery against non-leftist viewpoints is in the news again. Agitators at Claremont McKenna College, Middlebury College, and the University of California's Berkeley and Los Angeles campuses have used threats, brute force and sometimes criminal violence over the past two months in efforts to prevent Milo Yiannopoulos, Charles Murray, Ann Coulter and me from speaking. As commencement season approaches, expect "traumatized" students to try to disinvite any remotely conservative speaker, an effort already under way at Notre Dame with regard to Vice President Mike Pence.

This soft totalitarianism is routinely misdiagnosed as primarily a psychological disorder. Young "snowflakes," the thinking goes, have been overprotected by helicopter parents, and now are unprepared for the trivial conflicts of ordinary life.

Comment: Speak no evil: UCLA engages in absurd, anti-intellectual and dangerous attack on campus free speech

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Star of David

'Brutal & unjust': Palestinian teen sentenced to 10 years for 'attempted stabbing' of Israeli soldiers


RT
Fri, 28 Apr 2017 12:33 UTC
Israel Palestine police
© Abed Omar Qusini / Reuters
A Jerusalem court has sentenced a 17-year-old Palestinian female to 10 years in prison for an attempted stabbing attack on Israeli troops.

The verdict against Malak Salman from occupied East Jerusalem was announced by the city's District Court on Wednesday. Salman's lawyer, Ramzi Kteilat, has called the ruling unfair and promised to appeal it at the Israeli Supreme Court.

"Ten years is a brutal, unjust sentence that is against international law for a girl who is not yet an adult," Kteilat said as cited by Palestinian Ma'an news agency.
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Laptop

#Vault7: WikiLeaks reveals CIA 'Scribbles' tool can track whistleblowers and foreign spies


RT
Fri, 28 Apr 2017 12:37 UTC
computer keyboard
© Valentin Wolf / Global Look Press
A user manual describing a CIA project known as 'Scribbles' has been published by WikiLeaks, exposing the potential for the spying agency to track when documents are leaked by whistleblowers or "Foreign Intelligence Officers."

Released as part of the whistleblowing organization's 'Vault 7' series, the project is purportedly designed to allow the embedding of 'web beacon' tags into documents "likely to be stolen," according to a press release from WikiLeaks.

Dr Martin McHugh, Information Technology Programme chair at Dublin Institute of Technology, said web beacons can be used for "bad as well as good."

"Methods of tracking have historically been developed for our protection but have evolved to become used to track us without our knowledge," he told RT.com.

"Web beacons typically go unnoticed. A tiny file is loaded as part of a webpage. Once this file is accessed, it records unique information about you, such as your IP address and sends this back to the creator of the beacon."
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Sherlock

College student spends his summer undercover in a Chinese iPhone factory (VIDEO)

Jack Morse
Mashable
Fri, 28 Apr 2017 11:42 UTC
person holding iphone
© Jason Reed / Reuters
Dejian Zeng may have built your phone. Or at least worked on it, anyway.

The second-year masters of public administration student at NYU Wagner spent six weeks last year working in a Chinese factory manufacturing iPhones for Cupertino-based Apple. Six days a week he screwed approximately 1,800 screws into 1,800 iPhones. Every day. Over and over again.

Why did he do this? It wasn't for the wages, which at approximately 3,100 yuan a month (roughly $450) are not even enough to buy one of the iPhone 6s phones he helped produce. Instead Zeng teamed up with New York University and the NGO China Labor Watch to investigate working conditions in a Chinese manufacturing plant.

Comment: Further reading: The United States of work - the tyranny corporations exercise over all of us
In reality, the employment landscape is even more dire than Anderson outlines. The rise of staffing or "temp" agencies, for example, undercuts the very idea of a direct relationship between worker and employer. In The Temp Economy: From Kelly Girls to Permatemps in Postwar America,sociologist Erin Hatton notes that millions of workers now labor under subcontracting arrangements, which give employers even greater latitude to abuse employees. For years, Walmart—America's largest retailer—used a subcontracting firm to hire hundreds of cleaners, many from Eastern Europe, who worked for months on end without overtime pay or a single day off. After federal agents raided dozens of Walmarts and arrested the cleaners as illegal immigrants, company executives used the subcontracting agreement to shirk responsibility for their exploitation of the cleaners, claiming they had no knowledge of their immigration status or conditions.


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Megaphone

Poll reveals Los Angeles residents fear 'violent civil unrest' in the near future

Daniel Lang
SHTF Plan
Fri, 28 Apr 2017 12:07 UTC
paris riots
© Ruptly
We've seen a lot of riots and protests in recent years over police violence and the election of Donald Trump. While these events certainly don't bode well for the future, relative to the rest of American history they've been pretty tame (at least for now). They only look really serious to us, because many of us have forgotten about just how nasty a riot can get.

For instance, these events hardly compare to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, which raged for days, caused over a billion dollars in damages, and weren't stopped until the military arrived. 55 people died and over 2,000 were injured. By comparison, the vast majority of the riots that have happened since then haven't resulted in any deaths at all.
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