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Caught on video: Mass panic strikes Bellagio as robbers in pig masks open fire inside Rolex store

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 16:42 UTC
Robbery at the Bellagio
Mass panic struck the Bellagio early this morning as three pig-masked, armed robbers decided to try to knock off the Rolex store just as a bunch of drunk guests were stumbling home from their night of general debauchery. Luckily, the dulled senses of these plastered guests allowed them the courage to film the whole scene rather than duck for cover so we're able to present the whole dumbed-down version of an Ocean's Eleven remake in real time.

According to media reports, at least three people entered the Rolex store inside the Bellagio in the wee hours of Saturday morning. The robbers apparently used sledgehammers to break through the glass entrance of the store. While initial reports indicated that shots were fired, police subsequently confirmed those reports to be false.
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Dollars

Busted! North Carolina troops scammed $27 million from Afghanistan aid


Sputnik
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 16:33 UTC
US Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter
© AFP 2017/ DIBYANGSHU SARKAR
A special investigation into how more than $115 billion in funding from the US was allocated in Afghanistan found that at least $1 billion was spent "questionably." Prosecutors have recovered $27.7 million just from their investigations into troops stationed in North Carolina.

John Sopko, special investigator general for Afghanistan reconstruction (SIGAR) berated military use of funds in 2014 when he famously declared that the US had dumped more money into Afghanistan in 11 years than it spent on 16 countries after World War II as part of the Marshall Plan.

Speaking at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, on March 23, Sopko said US troops designed and executed sophisticated schemes to steal money intended to rebuild Afghanistan.
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Handcuffs

Virginia police charge sword-carrying man dressed as Joker with felony for 'wearing a mask in public'

David Caplan
ABC News
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 06:19 UTC
Jermy Putnam arrest wearing mask
Jeremy Putnam, 31, was charged on March 24, 2017, in Winchester, Virginia, with wearing a mask in public.
A 31-year-old man in Virginia was arrested and charged with wearing a mask in public Friday after he was spotted walking around dressed as the iconic comic book supervillain the Joker, police said.

Police in Winchester -- located about 75 miles northwest of Washington, D.C. -- said the Winchester Emergency Communications Center received "several calls" around 2 p.m. on Friday of a suspicious male wearing a black cape and carrying a sword walking around the city.

Jeremy Putman was charged with wearing a mask in public, a felony that could land him in jail for up to five years, the Winchester Police Department said in a statement.
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Newspaper

More gender pronoun craziness: Associated Press issues guidelines to 'avoid' referring to 'both' or 'either' sexes

Ken Shepherd
Washington Times
Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:53 UTC
AP gender pronouns
© APScreen capture from an AP email on Stylebook changes effective March 24, 2017. Portion in red added by Ken Shepherd, Washington Times.
In a Friday email to subscribers listing updated entries for its style manual, the Associated Press is urging journalists to avoid making references in news stories that suggest there are only two sexes in the human race.

The term "gender," the AP Stylebook says, is "[n]ot synonymous with sex."

"Gender refers to a person's social identity while sex refers to biological characteristics," the style guide explains.

"Not all people fall under one of two categories for sex or gender, according to leading medical organizations, so avoid references to both, either or opposite sexes or genders as a way to encompass all people. When needed for clarity or in certain stories about scientific studies, alternatives include men and women, boys and girls, males and females."

The Stylebook issued further guidance for use of pronouns under an entry named "they, them, their." Those third-person plural pronouns are preferred by some transgender or gender fluid individuals who say they are not comfortable with traditional male or female personal pronouns.
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Pistol

Dangerous precedent: Court rules cops can go to wrong house, kill homeowner and walk free

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:39 UTC
lake county sherrif
A disturbing precedent has just been set in a federal appeals court which ruled in favor of police who knocked on the wrong door at 1:30 am, failed to identify themselves, and then repeatedly shot the innocent homeowner until he died.

The homeowner, 26-year-old Andrew Scott had committed no crime when officers came to his home that night on July 15, 2012. Police were actually in search of a person they witnessed speeding on a motorcycle when they began banging on Scott's door.

Deputy Richard Sylvester was the officer who saw the speeding motorcycle while on patrol. Sylvester initiated a pursuit but lost sight of it after the motorcycle sped off. For some reason, Sylvester believed the motorcycle driver was armed, might be wanted by another police department, and had been spotted at a nearby apartment complex, according to the police reports.

Sylvester, along with three other deputies, arrived at the apartment complex and began knocking on doors close to where the motorcycle was parked. They started with apartment 114 which was occupied by Scott and his girlfriend Amy Young who were playing video games and had zero connection to the motorcycle, the driver, or any illegal activity at all.
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Attention

Congo: 40 police officers decapitated by militia fighters


RT
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 15:15 UTC
National police of the Democratic Republic of Congo
© Goran Tomasevic / ReutersNational police of the Democratic Republic of Congo
Militia fighters in the central Democratic Republic of Congo reportedly decapitated 40 police officers in the deadliest attack on authorities since an insurrection began in the region in August.

Speaker of the Kasai provincial assembly, Francois Kalamba, told Reuters the ambush took place on Friday as police officers drove from the city of Tshikapa in the Kasaï District to Kananga, capital of the Lulua province.

The officers were decapitated by Kamuina Nsapu militants according to Kalamba, who stole arms and vehicles from the scene. Only six officers were spared by the attackers, Kalamba added.

Violence in the area has increased as President Joseph Kabila refuses to step down from his post. Under the country's constitution Kabila should have stepped down last year, but no elections have been scheduled until at least 2018, Bloomberg reports.
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Airplane

Germanwings crash pilot blamed for the incident was 'not depressive,' father claims


RT
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 11:13 UTC
News conference Germany
© Fabrizio Bensch / ReutersFrank Palmer, Guenter Lubitz, Hans Joachim Ruedel, Andreas Behr and Tim van Beveren address a news conference in Berlin, Germany, March 24, 2017
Exactly two years after the tragic Germanwings crash which killed all on board, the father of the co-pilot blamed for the incident has held a press conference to dispute claims that his son was depressed and plead his son's innocence.

On March 24, 2015, the Germanwings flight between Barcelona and Düsseldorf crashed into a mountainside, killing all 150 passengers and crew on board.

In January 2017, German prosecutors concluded that the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, 27, was suicidal and intentionally flew the Germanwings plane into the ground.

Günter Lubitz, Andreas' father, disputes the claims that his son was depressed and suicidal while also claiming that all possible leads had not been explored by investigators.

Comment: See also:
  • Germanwings crash: Not the full story?
  • Pilot's association raises serious doubts over Germanwings 4U-9525 investigation


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Evil Rays

Humanity faces "An entire generation without the capacity for empathy" ~ Dr Devra Davis


Stop Smart Meters
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 15:09 UTC

The following clip features an urgent warning by Dr Devra Davis - author of Disconnect - during a video interview prior to an event in June 2013 entitled "Cell Phones and Wifi - Are Children, Fetuses and Fertility at Risk?".

Here is a transcription of Davis's comments in the video:

"Recently, South Korean scientists diagnosed a growing number of children in that country with digital dementia. This refers to the fact that the left hemisphere of their brain is over-developed and they are relying on digital devices so that they do not know how to remember phone numbers and they don't know how to do hand-writing.

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Heart - Black

Father charged with stabbing deaths of newborn and toddler after domestic dispute


WRAL.com
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 15:02 UTC
Genesis and Serenity Freeman
Genesis and Serenity Freeman
A toddler and days-old infant who were reported missing Friday following a domestic incident in Fayetteville were found stabbed to death early Saturday in Hoke County, and their father is charged with their deaths, Sheriff Hubert Peterkin said.

Authorities discovered the bodies of 2-year-old Serenity Freeman and 4-day-old Genesis Freeman at about 2 a.m. inside a car off the side of the road near the intersection of N.C. Highway 211 and Army Road.

Both children were stabbed multiple times, Peterkin said.

Their presumed father, 30-year-old Tillman Freeman III, was in custody in Hoke County early Saturday charged with two counts of murder.
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Attention

German state bank KfW mistakenly transferred $5.4bn to other financial institutions


RT
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 08:48 UTC
German bank
© Schöning / Getty Images
State-owned German development bank KfW mistakenly transferred billions of euros to four other banks due to a "configuration mistake" made by an "experienced programmer," according to media reports.

The incident took place in late February, when Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) erroneously transferred around €5 billion ($5.4 billion) to four other financial institutions, Bloomberg reported.

The bank mistakenly transferred the hefty sum due to a "human error owing to a configuration mistake," according to a statement from the bank, emailed to Bloomberg. The amount of mistakenly allocated funds might even be as high as €6 billion, according to an unnamed person familiar with the situation, cited by Bloomberg.

"KfW has detected the system's incorrect behavior very early in the process, immediately mitigated the unwanted action and started the necessary process of analyzing the causes," the statement reads.
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