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Fire

Huge fire breaks out near NATO base in western Turkey

Turkey NATO base fire
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A massive fire has erupted near a NATO base within the Buca district, Izmir, western Turkey. Authorities are investigating a possible act of sabotage, local media reports.

The inferno started on Sunday evening on the border of the Sahintepe and Mevkiinde districts. The fire engulfed the grassy wooded area and is spreading closer to NATO's military base because of strong winds.

According to CNN Turk, the fire is threatening a number of populated areas, and has already impacted a home for the elderly and its adjacent garden.

Comment: Authorities are suggesting this may have been an act of anti-American sabotage.


Snakes in Suits

Being human on a psychopathically controlled Earth: Three lessons from the movie 'Groundhog Day'

Groundhog Day
Bill Murray in the movie Groundhog Day
The 1993 movie Groundhog Day is the story of a person trapped to live the same day over and over. The main character responds to this situation in three phases:
  1. Manipulative control for selfish short-term desires.
  2. Depression and attempted rejection from no escape and no satisfaction.
  3. Self-expression for virtue and service with satisfaction.
After selfish desire is transcended, the character awakens on a new day with all the earned skills of practiced virtues.

Arrow Down

Girl's plight reflects misery of Libya after Gaddafi

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Unable to get specialist care for his six-year-old daughter in Libya or a visa for treatment abroad, Abdulhakim Shaybi bought a motor boat and set off with her last month across the Mediterranean.

Two-and-a-half hours into their journey from Sabratha in western Libya, they reached a European ship deployed to rescue migrants.

Info

The rise of black nationalist groups that may have influenced killers in Dallas, Baton Rouge - or not

Members of the New Black Panther Party
© Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesMembers of the New Black Panther Party protest near the site of the Republican National Convention on July 16 in Cleveland.
Micah Xavier Johnson, who killed five police officers in Dallas, was increasingly drawn to black nationalist ideology and attended several meetings of the People's New Black Panther Party.

Gavin Eugene Long, who killed three officers in Baton Rouge, said he belonged to the Washitaw Nation, an obscure black nationalist group that claims ownership to the huge swath of the United States obtained in the Louisiana Purchase on the belief that they are descended from a U.S. indigenous group.

The People's New Black Panther Party and the Washitaw Nation have vastly different ideologies and no direct ties to each other, but they are part of a broad landscape of black nationalist groups playing a role in the country's violent summer 2016.

"There are a few big groups and a lot of little ones, and they are growing in an echo chamber where all they hear is 'anger, anger, anger, anger, anger,' " said J.J. MacNab, an author and George Washington University researcher who specializes in ­extremism.

Some of these entities espouse extremist, anti-government views, and their numbers jumped from 113 groups in 2014 to 180 last year, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks extremism.

Ryan Lenz, an SPLC analyst, said that increase has partly been a response to a rise in white supremacist and white nationalist activity amid the racially charged environment of the past two years, including the 2016 presidential campaign. For example, SPLC figures show that the number of Ku Klux Klan chapters increased from 72 in 2014 to 190 last year.

Comment: Given the mysterious way in which the 4 suspects of the Dallas shootings somehow got whittled down to one in the mainstream press, and given all the other peculiarities we find in many of these types of narratives, we'd do very well to consider how many of these tragedies are greatly "helped along" by various NON-Black Nationalist agencies and groups - who are basically sent in to foment greater rage and anger among those wearing badges and blue uniforms.


Eye 2

Pensioner accused of boiling neighbors' heads and flushing body parts

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A man accused of killing his two neighbors and flushing their body parts down the toilet has been arrested by police in Russia.

A plumber called out to investigate a blocked sewage system at an apartment block in the Kalininsky District of St. Petersburg made the shocking discovery and alerted authorities.

Airplane

India steps up search for missing military plane

Indian Air Force missing plane route
© AFP Photo/John SaekiIndian Air Force plane missing en route to Port Blair
India on Saturday stepped up a major search operation for an air force plane that disappeared over the Bay of Bengal the day before with 29 people on board, as the defence minister headed to the region.

The AN-32 military transport plane was on a routine flight from the southern city of Chennai to Port Blair, capital of the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, on Friday morning when it vanished from radar screens.

Twenty-one of the passengers on board were defence personnel, including six crew members, while eight others worked for the military in non-uniform roles, an IAF source told AFP.

USA

Police 'exceptionalism' through Blue Lives Matter Law leading America towards more fractures

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United States — Lurched back and forth in the ever-quickening spiral of an American empire circling the drain, we — as a people — have chosen battle lines on nearly every issue from politics to foreign policy, domestic surveillance to policing.

Thrust back into national focus, the last issue — policing in the U.S. — might even surpass in contention the ongoing race to the White House. And it stands to reason, with the world lashing out against failed globalism in its various nefarious incarnations — largely driven by American exceptionalist military presence nearly everywhere on the planet — the empire sees expediency in heading off a possible insurrection.

To that end, the past fifteen years have seen the initially-surreptitious padding of law enforcement agencies with the tools, gear, vehicles, and — most alarmingly — weapons of war. Because terrorism, said the government, when its more apparent concern had to do with potential dissidents who have grown tired of corruption and the almost wholesale abandonment of constitutional and human rights.

Summoning the peculiar willful ignorance common in Americans' worship of authority in uniforms — found in the anachronistic hero cop avatar —militarization of police slipped beneath the radars of most, who were instead pleased with the added protection against nebulous terrorist threats in the interest of the safety of the Boys in Blue.

Comment: See also: Ominous threats of civil war now being issued from cops across the U.S.


Arrow Down

Dallas police whistleblower claims department routinely targets blacks to fill arrest quotas

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Dallas police officer Nick Novello says large numbers of the black community in Dallas distrusted the police and had been wrongly arrested to help fulfill an arrest 'quota' laid down on officers.
Following the murders of five officers in Dallas, the media and public alike lamented that the attack had ironically been perpetrated against 'one of the most progressive police departments in the nation,' thanks to Chief David Brown at the helm — but a current Dallas officer has now come forward with allegations much to the contrary.

Officer Nick Novello serves in the Dallas Police Department, and has for 34 years, but the leadership of Chief Brown, the officer says, has been anything but the rosy portrait of unity he paints in public.

In fact, even before the fatal shootings earlier this month, bitterness and animosity over Brown's leadership decisions have marred morale in the department. Novello accuses Brown of making sweeping choices concerning schedules and more without consulting anyone — and, as a consequence, officers are overworked and underpaid.

But a rather striking accusation tears apart Brown's supposed outreach to the black community: Novello says distrust of the department by African-Americans has been fueled by a number of wrongful arrests to fill drug and public intoxication quotas.

Bomb

Aleppo tunnel bomb 'kills 38 government troops'

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A rebel group posted a video online that showed an explosion from several different angles
Dozens of pro-government troops were killed when rebels blew up a tunnel underneath a building in the Syrian city of Aleppo, reports say.

A UK-based monitoring group said 38 troops died in the blast, which it said happened on Thursday.

The Thuwwar al-Sham rebel group posted a video online that appeared to show a building used by government troops being destroyed by a huge blast.

Aleppo is divided between the rebel-held east and government west.

Hundreds of thousands of people live in the east of the city, which was effectively cut off by government forces earlier this month.

Government forces backed by Russian air strikes have intensified their military campaign against the city's rebel-held areas in recent weeks.

The city has been divided between the two sides for the past four years.

Light Saber

People power! Amish man beats Big Brother 4 times running

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'If at first you don't succeed at harassing a farmer ...try again, and again, and again'

State and township officials in Pennsylvania who have been trying to disrupt an Amish farmer's practice of allowing members of a private food-buyers club into his barn to buy his products have gone to court and lost.

And gone to court, and lost. And a third time. And even a fourth.

"If at first you don't succeed at harassing a farmer out of business, try again ... and again ... and again," explains a report from the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund, which works on, monitors, and reports on such fights.

"That has been the tack the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Hopewell Township have taken since 2012 against Amish farmer and FTCLDF member Chris Zook. Four times either the commonwealth or the township have brought a court action for alleged violations of either the local zoning code or the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code against Zook; each time the farmer has emerged victorious," the report said.

FTCLDF General Counsel Gary Cox has represented Zook.

Comment: Read more stories about 'state regulators' going after the Amish:
For the USDA and its sister food regulator, the FDA, there's a problem: many of the farmers are distributing the food via private contracts like herd shares and leasing arrangements, which fall outside the regulatory system of state and local retail licenses and inspections that govern public food sales.

In response, federal and state regulators are seeking legal sanctions against farmers in Maine, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and California, among others. These sanctions include injunctions, fines, and even prison sentences.