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People lined up for 'cronuts' at New York bakery unfazed by dead body on nearby bench

Roger Stern
CBS News - New York
Mon, 25 Jul 2016 18:33 UTC
Cronut
© Ari Perilstein/Getty Images for Barneys New YorkDominique Ansel's cronut
People were waiting in line outside the SoHo bakery famous for creating the "Cronut," despite a dead body slouched on a nearby bench.

When EMS responded, most people reportedly stayed in line, 1010 WINS Roger Stern reported. Alex, a woman visiting from Indiana, said she would have stayed for a chance at scoring the tasty treat. "I just heard that they're so good so might as well just wait," she said.

John from the East Village had a different take and said he would've have left. "I doubt I would have stayed. That's just too much, just to get a Cronut, that's too much of an experience," he said.

As for the man on the bench, sources said he's from the area and that his death does not appear to be suspicious.
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Handcuffs

'Lock her up': Chorus of outrage over Clinton misdeeds grows as Bernie supporters call for indictment

Byron Tau
The Wall Street Journal
Sun, 24 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC
Bernie Sanders march
© GettyHundreds of environmentalists and Bernie Sanders supporters march through downtown before the start of the Democratic National Convention on July 24, 2016 in Philadelphia.
It's not just Republicans that want presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in prison.

At a lively Sunday march in support of former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, chants of "lock her up," "Hillary for Prison" signs and t-shirts and calls for indictment were common among the most ardent supporters of Mr. Sanders, who arrived in Philadelphia to make their voices heard to the delegates attending the Democratic National Convention.

Republicans used last week's Republican National Convention to make the case that Mrs. Clinton's perceived ethical lapses made her unfit for office. Delegates to the Republican convention could be heard chanting "Lock her up!" while "Hillary for Prison" shirts and bumper stickers have proliferated across the country.

Comment: The world is indeed looking on in horror as Killary heads to Philadelphia to be nominated as the Democratic candidate for president: Hillary Clinton, a threat to humanity - Her candidacy must be opposed

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Pistol

Idiocracy: Moronic rapper shoots himself in face for publicity [GRAPHIC VIDEO]


RT
Mon, 25 Jul 2016 15:13 UTC
Kasper Knight rapper
© Kasper Knight / FacebookThe rapper said the shot wasn't that painful.
50 Cent has been shot nine times, but his boasts are nothing compared to Kasper Knight who laughs off a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the face. The Indianapolis rapper's bizarre video has been viewed nearly 600,000 times on Facebook.

"I actually wanted to put this in a music video/ but no cameraman wanted to film it. So I did it myself since I felt like taking a bullet to the face," Knight said of the video, in which he can be seen firing a gun into his right cheek.

Blood can be seen pouring from his face and mouth but Knight doesn't seem too upset, instead laughing in the car in which he's a passenger, as he spits out blood.
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Handcuffs

Heartless! Bipolar rape victim ordered to jail because authorities didn't want to provide her services over the Christmas break

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 25 Jul 2016 16:52 UTC
jail cell
© Jenevieve Robbins/Reuters
After surviving a brutal rape, an anonymous Texas woman found herself remanded to jail — where she suffered beatings and psychological terror — because the possibly criminally-inept authorities weren't in the mood to care for her over Christmas break.

Now, the rape victim is suing over what amounts to re-victimization due to incompetence by officials whose desire for worry-free vacation trumped responsibility to protect a state witness.

In court documents cited by NPR's The Two-Way, "Jane Doe found herself hopelessly trapped in a bizarre plot pulled from a Kafka novel," and "was imprisoned in the hellhole of the Harris County Jail for no reason other than being a rape victim who struggles with a mental disability."

Jane, an obvious pseudonym employed to maintain privacy, suffers from bipolar disorder and, as NPR paraphrased court documents, in December 2015 experienced 'a mental breakdown while testifying against her rapist, and authorities checked her into the general population at Houston's Harris county jail because they feared she would flee before finishing her testimony.'
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USA

Protester arrested and charged for hanging upside-down flag on his house wins $55K civil suit

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 25 Jul 2016 15:50 UTC
AIM flag protest
A man from central Pennsylvania was kidnapped by police and deprived of his rights for doing nothing more than hanging an American flag upside down on his own property. Joshua Brubaker has since settled a civil rights lawsuit against the city for more than $55,000.

The Altoona Mirror reports Friday that supervisors in Allegheny Township, Blair County, have approved letting their insurance company pay the money to Joshua Brubaker.

In May of 2014, Brubaker said he was standing up for his American Indian heritage when he hung the upside down flag outside of his home with the letters AIM spray painted on it. AIM stands for American Indian Movement.

The flag was to protest the plans to route the proposed Keystone Pipeline through the site of the Wounded Knee confrontation in South Dakota.
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Attention

Germany in tension: Four attacks in one week


RT
Mon, 25 Jul 2016 16:27 UTC
ansbach
© Michaela Rehle / ReutersPolice secure the area after an explosion in Ansbach, Germany, July 25, 2016.
Four violent attacks against the public in Germany in a matter of just one week have left the country stunned and fearful that another incident could take place anywhere and at any time. German officials have said that attacks will only intensify.

Ansbach blast

The latest attack took place on Sunday in the Bavarian city of Ansbach, where a 27-year-old Syrian who had been rejected asylum set off a bomb reportedly containing metal fragments designed to maximize injuries. The blast from the improvised device, hidden in a backpack, killed the bomber and injured at least 12 people. The man reportedly tried to initiate the explosion twice, also trying to enter a music festival where about 2,500 people were gathered. After being denied entry to the event, the man blew himself up in front of a nearby restaurant.

"My personal view is that it is unfortunately very likely that a real Islamist suicide attack took place here," German newspaper Die Welt quoted Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann as saying.


Comment: Is he suggesting that fake Islamist suicide attacks have taken place in Germany or elsewhere? Very interesting!


Comment: RFE/RL reports:
German authorities are investigating 60 asylum seekers suspected of possible links to terrorist organizations, including Islamic State, the Federal Criminal Police Office BKA said on July 25.

"Considering the ongoing migration movement into Germany, we have to assume that there are active or former members, supporters and sympathizers of terrorist organizations and Islamist war criminals among the refugees," the BKA said in a statement.

The statement said police did not currently have any concrete indications of attack plans.

Police have received a total of 410 tip-offs from local authorities in Germany's 16 federal states on possible terrorists among refugees, the statement said.


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Pistol

Munich shooter planned attack for year, left manifesto at scene of crime


RT
Sun, 24 Jul 2016 16:02 UTC
munich
© Arnd Wiegmann / ReutersA woman lays flowers in front of the Olympia shopping mall, where yesterday's shooting rampage started, in Munich, Germany July 23, 2016.
The Bavarian crime office has carried out a search of Munich shooter's home, and found materials consistent with the theory that he had been planning the attack for a whole year prior to the act. Police also say a manifesto was left at the site of the shooting.

The prosecutor's office announced the news in a statement on Sunday. It added that the victims in the shooting were not classmates of the shooter. They were subsequently discovered to have been children of immigrants.

According to Sueddeutsche Zeitung, the shooter identified by police as David Sonboly, 18, bought the illegal weapon he used online. The Glock was bought through Darknet - the concealed area of the internet accessed normally by a minority of people looking for illegal services or items.

The first to identify Sonboly was his own father. He was the one who contacted the police after seeing a video filmed by one of the witnesses, as the attack was in progress.

Comment: The SOTT editors discussed this story (and others) in the second half of Sunday's episode of the Truth Perspective: Beyond Iran-Contra: The secret history of America's covert wars, with Hugo Turner

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Light Saber

Cleaning house: Turkish Airlines dismisses suspected Gulen supporters


Sputnik
Mon, 25 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC
turkish airlines
Turkish Airlines has dismissed 211 employees for reasons including allegedly supporting the movement of US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, the company said on Monday in a statement.

The Turkish authorities believe that the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETO)/Parallel State Structure (PDY), allegedly run by Gulen and designated as a terrorist organization by the country, played a key role in the recent coup attempt.

Comment: Erdogan purge continues: Closes over 1000 schools, 1200 charities, 15 universities, trade unions, med institutions

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TV

Iran destroys 100,000 satellite dishes for their negative impact on society - Rouhani and others disapprove of the ban


Yahoo! News / AFP
Sun, 24 Jul 2016 14:18 UTC
iran satellites
© AFP Photo/Hoseein ZohrevandSatellite dishes and receivers being piled up before being destroyed during a ceremony in the Iranian capital Tehran on July 24, 2016
Iran destroyed 100,000 satellite dishes and receivers on Sunday as part of a widespread crackdown against the illegal devices that authorities say are morally damaging, a news website reported.

The destruction ceremony took place in Tehran in the presence of General Mohammad Reza Naghdi, head of Iran's Basij militia, who warned of the impact that satellite television was having in the conservative country.

"The truth is that most satellite channels... deviate the society's morality and culture," he said at the event according to Basij News.

"What these televisions really achieve is increased divorce, addiction and insecurity in society."

Naghdi added that a total of one million Iranians had already voluntarily handed over their satellite apparatuses to authorities.

Under Iranian law, satellite equipment is banned and those who distribute, use, or repair them can be fined up to $2,800 (2,500 euros).

Comment: The Western approach: anything goes, entraining society with the lowest level of values 'humanly' possible. The current alternative: ban such influences. There's a third option: 'throw out your TV', think critically, don't swallow the garbage broadcast 24/7 on hundreds of mindless channels. Unfortunately, that third approach isn't taken by very many people.

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Road Cone

Residents who dare to complain about bad road work are retaliated against in Lompoc California

Justin Gardner
Free Thought Project
Sun, 24 Jul 2016 14:59 UTC
code violations
The city of Lompoc is demonstrating how government can and will retaliate against its own citizens when they dare to challenge even the smallest mistake made by government — road work.

Elaine Valla and Lompoc councilman James Mosby intend to put a stop to it in their city. According to the Lompoc Record:
"Lompoc resident Elaine Valla, who owns several properties in the city, said she had gone decades without receiving any notices related to code enforcement violations.

That all changed, she said, about five years ago when she complained to the city about what she felt was inadequate street construction work that was done by city crews near one of her properties."
Valla said the road work created a large bump at one of her properties, making it inaccessible without a large truck. Understandably, she and her late husband refused to sign the completed work form, and that's when the trouble started.
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