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Gunman who killed Baton Rouge police officers was former marine who served in Iraq


CBS New York
Mon, 18 Jul 2016 02:10 UTC
Gavin Eugene Long, baton rouge police killings
A gunman killed three Baton Rouge police officers on his birthday, CBS News reports.

Sources told CBS News the suspect was identified as Gavin Eugene Long, a 29-year-old black man from Kansas City, Missouri. He was born July 17, 1987.

According to CBS News, Long was honorably discharged from the Marines in 2010 after serving since 2005, reaching the rank of sergeant. He served in Iraq from June 2008 to January 2009, and records show he received several medals during his military career, including one for good conduct.

This is the second time in just over a week that a former member of the military killed police officers. Micah Johnson, the gunman who killed five Dallas police officers, was an Army veteran.


Comment: PTSD Epidemic: One in Eight Soldiers Has Attacked Someone After Returning from War

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No one to blame! Highest-ranking Baltimore police in Freddie Gray case not guilty on all charges


RT
Mon, 18 Jul 2016 15:40 UTC
Baltimore Police Lieutenant Brian Rice
© Baltimore Police Department / Reuters
A Maryland judge has ruled that Lieutenant Brian Rice is not guilty of all three charges he faced in the case of Freddie Gray. Rice was the highest-ranking Baltimore police officer charged over Gray's in-custody death.

Rice, 42, was charged with involuntary manslaughter, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment that led to the death of Gray from a broken neck in a police van in April 2015. The charges carry a sentence of at least 15 years in prison.

He was acquitted on all charges.
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Mr. Potato

The new type of living dead - Pokémon Go players

Sam Gerrans
RT
Mon, 18 Jul 2016 15:30 UTC
Pokeman Go
© Mark Kauzlarich/Reuters
I don't need simulated drama in my life. When you stand up and speak out, more of the real thing will find you than you could possibly want.

Since I stopped working in the corporate world, I don't even carry a mobile phone. I have one, but it is permanently in airplane mode, has no sim card, and I don't take it anywhere. I use it as an alarm clock.

When I go for a walk, I actually look where I am going.

I'm used to being walked at by apparently brainwashed automata oblivious to their surroundings tapping furiously into their phones. I make no attempt to walk round these zombies. If one walks into me I stop and I stand there till it enters consciousness sufficiently to move around me.

But I noticed - beginning in the park a little while back - a new type of living dead. This new model moved with a purpose I had not seen before, and often in a pack. I even saw them running. They seemed to be on an invisible paper chase.

And now I know: they are playing Pokémon Go.
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People

French PM Manuel Valls booed before and after minute of silence in Nice


RT
Mon, 18 Jul 2016 15:03 UTC
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls
© Pascal Rossignol / Reuters
France's premier Manuel Valls was booed by crowds that had gathered for a minute of silence in the city of Nice to honor the memory of the 84 killed in the deadly attack on Bastille Day.

"Resignation!" "Murderers" was shouted by the crowds before and after the ceremony.

These words were in contrast with those the crowds had for the firefighters responsible for French rescue services, who were applauded with shouts of "Thank you firefighters!"

After the cannons fired at the end of the ceremony, the crowds sang a grim, slow version of the national anthem "La Marseillaise."

Thousands across the country paid their respects during the nationwide minute of silence.
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Brother confesses to honor killing of social media star, has 'no regrets'


RT
Sun, 17 Jul 2016 10:15 UTC
Qandeel Baloch
© STR/AFPQandeel Baloch
Pakistani social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch has been strangled to death by her brother, who eventually admitted to having committed the crime. The young woman's posts defied tradition in Pakistan and defended liberal views.

Baloch's brother, Muhammad Waseem, admitted to strangling the young woman after giving her a pill to subdue her. "I have no regrets," he told reporters at a press conference organized by police, as quoted by Reuters.

Waseem said he murdered his sister because of her social media activities, including posting a video in which Baloch sits on the lap of a prominent Muslim cleric.

"Qandeel Baloch has been killed; she was strangled to death by her brother. Apparently it was an incident of honor killing,"Sultan Azam, a senior police officer in Multan, told AFP.

Comment:
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Washington Supreme Court ruling blocks mortgage lenders from locking people out of homes prior to foreclosure

Gene Johnson
Yahoo News
Sun, 17 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC
bank forclosed home
© AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli,In this July 2, 2008, file photo, a bank-owned home is seen for sale in Sacramento, Calif. Consumer groups say a recent ruling from the Washington state Supreme Court could have a broad effect on how some mortgage companies respond when homeowners miss payments
Laura Jordan came home from work one day to find herself locked out. She had missed two mortgage payments, and the company servicing her loan had changed the locks without warning.

In a ruling this month, the Washington Supreme Court found that action illegal — a decision that clears the way for a federal class-action case that Jordan brought on behalf of at least 3,600 borrowers in the state, and one that could have broad ramifications on how some lenders respond when homeowners miss payments.

"This is criminal trespass and theft, and it should be treated as such," said Sheila O'Sullivan, executive director of the Northwest Consumer Law Center. "There's no basis for them to walk in and change the locks on a person's home until they have foreclosed. It's an important ruling."

The mortgage industry is wrestling with the significance of the 6-3 ruling, which found that provisions standard in mortgage documents around the country conflict with state law. The provisions allow for lenders to change locks, winterize homes or take other steps to preserve the value of properties that are in default or abandoned.
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Almaty goes to 'Code Red' terror alert - 3 Police officers dead, 7 in critical condition


Sputnik News
Mon, 18 Jul 2016 08:20 UTC
Kazak Police
© Reuters/Pavel MikheyevPolice officers detain a man after an attack in the centre of Almaty, Kazakhstan, July 18, 2016.
The highest of terror alerts has been declared in the Kazakh city of Almaty following an armed attack on police officers Monday, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Kazakh law enforcement announced a counter-terrorism operation in Almaty and urged residents of the city to stay indoors and keep safe.

"In this regard we ask everyone not to leave their homes, to avoid crowded areas. All suspicious persons must be immediately reported to law enforcement agencies," the Ministry of Internal Affairs said.

Local authorities confirmed that one attacker was detained by police.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the arrested gunman is also suspected of murdering a woman over the weekend.

Earlier, multiple witness accounts described a man wearing black running onto a street with a machine gun and opening fire in the direction of the local police station.
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Saudi Arabia's male guardianship still limits women's rights - reforms on paper only


RT
Sun, 17 Jul 2016 03:33 UTC
human rights women saudi arabia
© Stringer / Reuters
The latest report from Human Rights Watch has revealed that obligatory male guardianship in Saudi Arabia remains a key obstacle to women's rights. Adult women have to get permission from men to travel abroad, marry, or be freed from prison.

These rules apply from cradle to grave, as women are always regarded as legal minors in Saudi Arabia.

The 79-page report entitled "Boxed In: Women in Saudi Arabia's Male Guardianship System" studies the formal and informal obstacles that Saudi women face daily.

The title derives from one account given by a 25-year-old Saudi woman, who said "We all have to live in the borders of the boxes our dads or husbands draw for us."

Every Saudi woman is bound to have a male guardian, usually a father or husband, but sometimes a brother or a son. Other male relatives also have authority over women's fates, although to a lesser extent. The guardian makes crucial life decisions for his charge: he has the power to prohibit her from traveling abroad, working, or marrying. The woman should ask her guardian for advice on getting proper health care as well.

Women's rights activists have repeatedly urged the Saudi authorities to change the situation, and in 2009 and 2013, Saudi Arabia did adopt steps to ease the control of the guardians. In particular, no permission is now needed for Saudi women to work, and a law was passed criminalizing domestic abuse.
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Mr. Potato

Pokémon chaos: Child hit by a motorbike, others rescued from a cave as download frenzy crashes game servers

Alexander Robertston
Daily Mail
Fri, 15 Jul 2016 17:50 UTC
pokeman mine rescue
A specialist mine rescue team (pictured) were forced to save a group of teenagers who got lost in a cave - while looking for Pokemon
A teenager thought to have been playing new rave game Pokemon Go was hit by a motorcycle while crossing the road.

The boy, in his mid-teens, was struck by the bike in a busy road after walking out between two buses.

Officers from the Met Police and paramedics from the London Ambulance service were called to Bexleyheath at 3.35pm.

The young boy suffered minor injuries and was taken to a south London hospital.

The incident comes after a specialist mine rescue team were forced to save a group of teenagers who got lost in a cave - while looking for Pokemon.

The four teens headed into the underground network of tunnels to play the mobile phone game that has recently taken the world by storm.

But the kids lost their way in the caves below Hawthorn in Wiltshire and were forced to wander around until they found enough mobile phone signal to call 999.

Comment: The 'Pokémon Go' app is doing the CIA's dirty work

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Yoda

10 key ways to short circuit the Matrix

John W. Whitehead
Waking Times
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC
system failure

"Until they become conscious, they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled, they cannot become conscious." - George Orwell
The more things change, the more they stay the same.

It's a shell game intended to keep us focused on and distracted by all of the politically expedient things that are being said—about militarized police, surveillance, and government corruption—while the government continues to frogmarch us down the road toward outright tyranny.

Unarmed citizens are still getting shot by militarized police trained to view them as the enemy and treated as if we have no rights. Despite President Obama's warning that the nation needs to do some "soul searching" about issues such as race, poverty and the strained relationship between law enforcement and the minority communities they serve, police killings and racial tensions are at an all-time high.

Americans' private communications and data are still being sucked up by government spy agencies. The USA Freedom Act was just a placebo pill intended to make us feel better without bringing about any real change. As Bill Blunden, a cybersecurity researcher and surveillance critic, points out, "The theater we've just witnessed allows decision makers to boast to their constituents about reforming mass surveillance while spies understand that what's actually transpired is hardly major change."

Comment: The Matrix metaphor is very apt but runs far deeper than this article suggests. Read Laura Knight-Jadczyk's elucidating Wave Series to learn of the cosmic context that all of these developments are coming out of - and fit within.

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