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California man dies after police shoot him with Taser, brother arrested for assault


RT
Thu, 06 Oct 2016 01:02 UTC
Police use taser
© Karen Bleier / AFP
A California man in his 60s has died after police subdued him with a Taser. Authorities say he verbally and physically assaulted officers. Police also arrested the victim's brother, who they said threatened them with a handgun and barricaded himself in a house.

The fatal interaction between the Burbank PD officers and 66-year-old Thomas Binkley took place Tuesday evening, when a woman reported criminal threats. The caller said Binkley was her ex-father-in-law, who came to her house and was making threats on her life.

Two officers responded to the call, which came from a private house in the 500 block of N. Mariposa St.

"While speaking with the officers, Thomas Binkley became verbally confrontational and ultimately physically assaulted the officers," the Burbank police said in a press release.

Comment: See also: Only one month into the school year and cops have already tasered at least four children

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Italian mafia boss found in secret 'wardrobe' hideout in his own home


RT
Thu, 06 Oct 2016 06:28 UTC
italian mob boss antonio pelle
© Italian Police / AFP
Fugitive mafia boss Antonio Pelle, on the run since 2011, has finally been caught stowed away in a secret hideout in his own home.

The 54-year-old criminal, who was wanted for drugs and arms trafficking as well as mafia association, was found hiding in a small space built between his son's bedroom and the bathroom in his home in Bovalino in Calabria, southern Italy. Footage from the Italian police shows the mafioso talking to officers from the top of a wardrobe before climbing down and being taken into custody.

"It wasn't easy," Francesco Ratta of the Reggio Calabria Mobile Squad told la Repubblica. "Fifty of us sifted through the two-story house where Pelle had always lived, but it took a very attentive eye to discover his hiding place."

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Not a single NYPD officer wears a body camera


RT
Thu, 06 Oct 2016 06:25 UTC
police body cameras
© Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
One of the reforms stemming from a federal court case on racial discrimination in the New York Police Department's "stop, question and frisk" policy was a pilot program outfitting officers with body cameras. A report shows not one officer wears one.
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Police fatally shoot machete-wielding man at University of Colorado


RT
Thu, 06 Oct 2016 05:22 UTC
Champions Center
© University of Colorado Boulder
An unusual and deadly battle played out in the University of Colorado's athletics department when a man began threatening people with a machete. The suspect was shot and killed by police when he refused to obey commands to drop his weapon.
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Black Cat

Lawyer of Paris hotel cleaner sexually abused by Qatari guest speaks out


RT
Wed, 05 Oct 2016 02:09 UTC
paris hotel
© Jole Saget / Agence France-PresseThe five-star Park Hyatt Paris-Vendome
The lawyer for a female cleaner who was molested by a Qatari guest at a luxury Paris hotel has shared details of the case with RT, saying "all procedures" in France generally last a long time when they touch "prominent people."

The five-star Park Hyatt Paris-Vendome hotel in Paris was told to pay a former employee some €57,000 ($64,000) last week after an incident in July 2010, when she was sexually assaulted by an unidentified member of Qatari Prince Al-Thani's entourage.

"The woman I am defending [...] was sexually abused by one of the members of the Qatari prince['s] delegation in one of the Park-Hyatt hotel rooms. Later on, after the abuse, she came to the hotel's security department and on the video from surveillance cameras she recognized the aggressor among the delegation members," lawyer Maude Beckers told RT following the court ruling.

She claimed that following the incident, the hotel authorities tried to hush up the scandal, allowing the man to escape justice.
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Rhodes airport is evacuated with passengers 'suffering from burning eyes and fume inhalation' forced to gather outside

Joseph Curtis
The Daily Mail
Wed, 05 Oct 2016 22:41 UTC
Rhodes airport pepper spray passengers
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Rhodes Airport in Greece has been evacuated amid reports passengers are suffering from 'burning eyes' and fume inhalation.

Passengers are being told to wait outside the building with large crowds building up.

Some have taken to social media talking about a possible pepper spray attack.
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Eye 1

More security theater: New bill wants TSA at bus and train stations

Alek Hidell
AnonHq
Wed, 05 Oct 2016 17:51 UTC
TSA security
A new bill hopes to put the Transportation Security Administration to work, policing passengers who are hoping to escape the hectic scene at the airport and enjoy a bus or a train ride. Although the TSA has had a miserable track record at airports around the United States, the Department of Homeland Security won't be happy until everyone who walks, rides a bike or pogo-sticks down the street, is subject to heavy and intrusive security screenings. The new bill was prompted by the recent "terror attacks" in New York, according to law makers.

The bill was introduced by Senator John Thune of South Dakota. The bill entails the implementation of a "risk-based security model" for trains and buses. It also allots money for the expansion of the TSA to work in nearly every bus and train station in America. While this appears to be a government takeover of private transportation, officials claim otherwise. "This is very much not creating for bus or rail transportation the [security] model that exists for aviation," stated Frederick Hill, a spokesman for the Senate committee governing the proposal.

Comment: The growing surveillance state is the whole point. Monitoring the populations every move, restricting freedom of travel and otherwise keeping the herd fearful and in line is the purpose of the TSA. Protecting Americans from terrorists has nothing to do with it.

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Your money or your life: The war on cash

John W Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Wed, 05 Oct 2016 17:45 UTC
no cash symbol
What is this war on cash? In this episode of On Target, John W. Whitehead discusses the government's concerted campaign to do away with large bills such as $20s, $50s, $100s and shift consumers towards a digital mode of commerce—one that can easily be monitored, tracked, tabulated, mined for data, hacked, hijacked and confiscated when convenient.

Comment: More on the war on cash:

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Creepy clowns cross the pond: Now terrorizing kids in Newcastle


RT
Wed, 05 Oct 2016 18:48 UTC
clown
© Mike Blake / Reuters
British schoolchildren are being terrorized by pranksters dressed as 'creepy clowns' leaping out from behind bushes and chasing people down the street. The spate of spookings is thought to have been inspired by similar clown attacks across the US.

Newcastle police are trying to identify those responsible for the stunts. They have arrested one teenage 'creepy clown' allegedly carrying a "bladed article" in connection with one of the incidents.

"This arrest should act as a clear warning to others who are actively seeking to cause distress and potentially harm others," a spokesperson said.

Police say the pranks have left school children "incredibly distressed" and are investigating six different reports of creepy clowns menacing youngsters.

Comment: We have acquired an exclusive photo of one of the creepy clowns terrifying young children in the UK:
theresa may
© Darren Staples / ReutersClown: British PM May wearing an $800 dress while calling Tories "the party of the workers"
See also: Creepy clown sightings spike; sightings in more than 10 states since August

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Network

Moscow city computers ditching Microsoft for Russian-made software

Ivana Kottasova
CNN Money
Wed, 28 Sep 2016 18:25 UTC
putin
Moscow's city government is ditching Microsoft Outlook for Russian-made software, answering President Vladimir Putin's calls for more digital sovereignty.

The city will initially install locally developed MyOffice software on the computers of 6,000 workers, replacing the Microsoft e-mail service they currently use. MyOffice is made by Russian company New Cloud Technology.

The program will eventually be expanded to all of Moscow's 600,000 municipal employees, according to a statement published by the country's ministry of communications on Tuesday.

"Russia-developed software is not inferior to foreign software, but it's much cheaper and, most importantly, provides reliable data protection," said Sergey Kalugin, the head of Moscow's information technology department.
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