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Police seek ban on anti-Islam Britain First party from entering mosques


RT
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 14:36 UTC
London mosque
© Toby Melville / ReutersMuslims prepare to pray at Central London Mosque for Friday prayers in central London
Police are seeking to have the leaders of anti-Islam political party Britain First banned from visiting any mosque in England or Wales or even entering parts of the town of Luton for the next three years. The party is known for its "Christian patrols," mosque invasions and anti-Islam protests in Luton. Bedfordshire Police have sought a High Court injunction against the group's leader, Paul Golding, and his deputy, Jayda Fransen, following"harassment" of communities in Luton.

In a statement, chief superintendent David Boyle told the Luton Herald & Post that the force is attempting to get the injunction "due to concerns that their presence in these areas could increase the possibility of disorder and antisocial behavior." The application, to be heard next month, will ask that Golding and Fransen be banned for three years from "entering any mosque or Islamic cultural center or its private groups within England and Wales without any prior written invitation."

It also seeks to ban the pair from entering Luton's Bury Park without police permission, and that they give at least two weeks' written warning should they wish to enter Luton town center. They would not be allowed to enter Luton more than once every two months should any consent be given.

Comment: The police are right to uphold the Freedom of Association of Muslims and their wish to not have to endure harassment from the Britain First hate group. Britain First's 'right to exist' is based on a pathological worldview that victims actually have no rights and no freedom to associate or not associate with whom they wish.

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Global elites must heed the warning of populist rage

Martin Wolf
Financial Times
Tue, 19 Jul 2016 14:47 UTC
statue liberty crashed
© James Ferguson
For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong." HL Mencken could have been thinking of today's politics. The western world undoubtedly confronts complex problems, notably, the dissatisfaction of so many citizens. Equally, aspirants to power, such as Donald Trump in the US and Marine Le Pen in France, offer clear, simple and wrong solutions — notably, nationalism, nativism and protectionism.

The remedies they offer are bogus. But the illnesses are real. If governing elites continue to fail to offer convincing cures, they might soon be swept away and, with them, the effort to marry democratic self-government with an open and co-operative world order.

What is the explanation for this backlash? A large part of the answer must be economic. Rising prosperity is a good in itself. But it also creates the possibility of positive-sum politics. This underpins democracy because it is then feasible for everybody to become better off at the same time. Rising prosperity reconciles people to economic and social disruption. Its absence foments rage.

The McKinsey Global Institute sheds powerful light on what has been happening in a report entitled, tellingly, Poorer than their Parents?, which demonstrates how many households have been suffering from stagnant or falling real incomes. On average between 65 and 70 per cent of households in 25 high-income economies experienced this between 2005 and 2014. In the period between 1993 and 2005, however, only 2 per cent of households suffered stagnant or declining real incomes. This applies to market income. Because of fiscal redistribution, the proportion suffering from stagnant real disposable incomes was between 20 and 25 per cent. (See charts.)
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Attention

Police surround suspected terrorist in 'bomb alert' in Brussels ahead of National Day


RT
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 14:41 UTC
Belgium police
© Francois Lenoir / Reuters
Police have surrounded a suspected terrorist wearing a "long coat and wires" in Brussels, local media report. It comes as Belgium prepares for National Day, which is celebrated on July 21.

"A person wearing a long coat, with wires coming out, is considered the suspect," Brussels police spokesperson Ilse de Keere said, as quoted by Le Soir media outlet.

A bomb squad is at the scene, and shops in the vicinity have been evacuated.

Several streets are currently blocked.
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Melania Trump caught plagiarizing Michelle Obama speech

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 19 Jul 2016 14:02 UTC
obama trump
An embarrassing, yet entirely telling 'mistake' was made at the Republican National Convention Monday night. If ever one needs fodder to fuel the flames of the notion of political theater — they needn't look any further than potential first lady Melania Trump delivering a nearly identical speech to Michelle Obama.

After he watched Melania Trump's speech last night, journalist Jarrett Hill noticed something peculiar — he'd heard it before.
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Attention

Fears increase for Rio Olympics terror attack as Brazilian extremists become first group in South America to pledge allegiance to ISIS leader

Sarah Dean
The Daily Mail (UK)
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 13:39 UTC
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A Brazilian extremist group has become the first organization in South America to pledge allegiance to ISIS, sparking further fears for a terror attack at the Rio Olympics.

The pledge was spotted by SITE Intelligence, a jihadi monitoring group, on ISIS's messaging app of choice - Telegram.

In the Telgram channel titled Ansar al-Khilafah #Brazil, the Brazilian jihadis announced their dedication to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

It comes less than three weeks before the 2016 Olympic Games are set to begin in Rio de Janeiro on August 5.

Comment: Fear levels in this chaotic world seems to be at unprecedented levels. It looks like the coup in Brazil wasn't enough. Now they're pulling out the ISIS card...

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Urine throwing, skirmishes, norovirus and arrests at RNC convention in Cleveland


New York Post
Tue, 19 Jul 2016 13:37 UTC
RNC protest cleveland
© APProtesters clash over the American flag in Public Square in Cleveland.
Police broke up skirmishes between groups of demonstrators a few blocks from the Republican National Convention as large crowds formed Tuesday afternoon. There was no immediate word on any arrests or injuries.

Members of the KKK, Black Lives Matter, and Westboro Baptist Church reportedly threw urine at each other and police had to step in in an attempt to keep the peace, a police spokesperson told KPLC.

A scuffle also broke out when conspiracy theorist and radio show host Alex Jones started speaking in downtown's Public Square. Police on bicycles pushed back a surging crowd, and Jones was whisked away.
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Sheeple

Pokemon Go insanity continues: Baltimore driver rams into cop car while playing mindless app


RT
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 13:31 UTC
pokemon go
© Chris Helgren / Reuters
Watch and learn: this man was playing Pokémon Go when he crashed his SUV into a police car in Baltimore. And at quite a speed, too. The video captured by an officer's bodycam shows the policemen chatting, with everything calm until... WHAM! A passing Toyota RAV4 SUV slams into the patrol car, then drives on. Though not for long. The officer wearing the bodycam approaches, and sees the driver (whose face is blurred).

"You guys are OK?" the serviceman asks.

"This is what I get for playing this dumbass game," the driver answers miserably.

There were other people in the car. Luckily, none of them was hurt in the crash.

After the incident, the Baltimore Police issued a message for local residents, warning them to be vigilant when playing Pokémon Go.

"It's a game, but it's not a game when you're behind the wheel," Baltimore Police spokesman T.J. Smith said at a news conference Tuesday. "This could have easily, easily been a tragedy."

Comment: Meanwhile in Bosnia, NGO Posavina Without Mines has had to issue a warning to Pokemon Go zombies to keep off minefields when searching for imaginary Pokemon. In Indonesia, authorities detained a French man for wandering into a restricted military base. Spanish police have had to remind people of such strange phenomena as "pedestrian crossings, traffic lights, street furniture". Manchester police might actually have more luck than they think:

Just when we thought humans couldn't devolve any further... It seems there is no limit.

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'All roads lead to US & Canada in move to ban Russia from 2016 Rio Olympics'


RT
Mon, 18 Jul 2016 15:42 UTC
Olympic
© Maxim Shemetov / Reuters
The US and Canada, the two predominant countries leading the doping inquest against Russian athletes, are not geopolitical allies of Russia, so that's got to be borne in mind, journalist and broadcaster Neil Clark told RT.

The World Anti-Doping Agency [WADA] report into Russia's alleged state-sponsored doping during the 2014 Sochi Olympics has been delivered by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren. The report concludes that Russian athletes' test samples were swapped and the process was controlled by the Ministry of Sport.

Comment: See also: Politicizing sport: All Russian track and field athletes barred from competing in Rio Olympics

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Pistol

12-yo Palestinian boy killed in Israeli troops clash near Jerusalem, another run down by Israeli settler


RT
Tue, 19 Jul 2016 22:20 UTC
boy sun street
© Eric Thayer / Reuters
A 12-year-old boy was shot dead by a rubber-coated bullet during clashes with Israeli troops not far from Jerusalem, the Palestinian health ministry reported. "Mohiyeh al-Tabakhi, 12, was killed by shots fired by occupation soldiers in the Al-Ram area near Jerusalem," the ministry said in a statement, cited by AFP.

Soldiers were dispatched to the area to disperse the demonstration with the help of tear gas grenades and sound bombs. Israeli forces denied using live fire against protesters during the confrontation. "After being pelted with Molotov cocktails, police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the protesters," Luba Samri, a police spokesperson, told AFP. "There was no live fire," she also said.

Israeli forces also suggested that the boy could have died as a result of a local dispute, Haaretz reported. The boy got a rubber-coated bullet to his chest and died from cardiac arrest, medical sources said, as cited by Palestinian WAFA news agency.

On Monday, an 11-year-old Palestinian boy was seriously injured in the West Bank after being run over by an Israeli settler car, local media reported. The incident happened in the town of Yatta, south of the city of Hebron in West Bank, the Coordinator of the National Committee against Settlements in Yatta Rateb El-Jabour said in an interview with Arabic-language daily Quds Press.

Comment: Rubber bullets are mainly used for riot control and dispersement of protests or animal control. They are "kinetic impact munitions" causing permanent disabilities, deformities or death. What a tragedy that Israel's undeclared war on the Palestinians manifests in killing innocent children. "No live fire?" A dead boy with a rubber coated bullet in his chest says otherwise.

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Pistol

4 suspects at large after shooting at NYPD cops in Brooklyn


RT
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 11:44 UTC
NYPD police car
© Brendan McDermid / Reuters
Several shots have been fired at police officers in Brooklyn from a car that fled the scene of the shooting during which no one was hurt. An active search for the four suspects is underway.

Police have instituted a Level 1 Mobilization after NYPD officers were attacked on Flatbush Avenue and Ditmas Avenue in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn at about 10:40pm.

While no injuries have been reported, at least two shots were fired from a passing black Nissan four-door sedan that immediately fled the scene, police sources told New York Daily News.
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