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Active shooter false alarm causes chaos at LAX

J.J. Gallagher and Michael Edison Hayden
ABC News
Mon, 29 Aug 2016 15:29 UTC
LAX airport
© APPolice officers stand guard as passengers wait in line at Terminal 7 in Los Angeles International Airport, Sunday.
Reports of an active shooter caused a sense of chaos at Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday night, bringing travel to a halt and causing delays to pile up into Monday morning.

Passengers breached security doors and spilled out onto the airport tarmac at around 9 p.m. after word of a shooting threat spread.

Fortunately, the report turned out to be a false alarm, but it caused 281 delays, two cancellations, and 27 flight diversions, according to LAX, which also said that one person was injured from getting trampled.

"Due to initial reports of an active shooter in Terminal eight at LAX, passengers in several LAX terminals self-evacuated onto the tarmac and rushed through federal security screening without being properly screened," the airport explained in a statement.

In a somewhat surreal twist, an individual in a Zorro costume was detained by airport police.
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Flashback In Killary's pocket: Google excludes Donald Trump from 'presidential candidates' search

Andrew Couts
The Daily Dot
Wed, 27 Jul 2016 02:16 UTC
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That's right—Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, does not appear in the dedicated "active campaigns" results box at the top of Google searches for "presidential candidates." But that's not the only error here.

Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson is also excluded, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who conceded to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton on Tuesday evening, is no longer running an active campaign. Nor does it include any of the other independent candidates running for president this year.

Interestingly, this issue first popped up earlier this month when Stein petitioned Google to include her in the "presidential candidates" results—which, at the time, also included Trump and Johnson.

The exclusion of Trump caught the attention of Reddit's highly active and contentious r/The_Donald community early Wednesday morning, where users speculated a Google conspiracy against their candidate of choice.

Claims of censorship are a mainstay on the internet and have percolated to the surface over the past week after WikiLeaks published nearly 20,000 emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee. Twitter was accused of censoring a trending hashtag related to the leaks. And Facebook faced similar criticism after blocking links to the whistleblower website. In both cases, the issues were attributed to algorithmic functions and not intentional censorship by Silicon Valley firms.
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Colin Kaepernick stands against racism: The national anthem is a celebration of slavery

Jon Schwarz
The Intercept
Sun, 28 Aug 2016 14:40 UTC
Colin Kaepernick
Before a preseason game on Friday, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner." When he explained why, he only spoke about the present: "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. ... There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder."

Twitter then went predictably nuts, with at least one 49ers fan burning Kaepernick's jersey.

Almost no one seems to be aware that even if the U.S. were a perfect country today, it would be bizarre to expect African-American players to stand for "The Star-Spangled Banner." Why? Because it literally celebrates the murder of African-Americans.

Few people know this because we only ever sing the first verse. But read the end of the third verse and you'll see why "The Star-Spangled Banner" is not just a musical atrocity, it's an intellectual and moral one, too:

Comment: It's good to see Colin Kaepernick protest the racism in America. He's suffering a backlash for his action by ignorant americans that know nothing about history or the racist Francis Scott Key that penned the national anthem.

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Jailbreak jihad: Philippine prison raided to free members of gang linked to ISIS


RT
Mon, 29 Aug 2016 14:27 UTC
Philippine marine troops
© Erik De Castro / ReutersPhilippine marine troops.
Muslim extremists believed to be linked to Islamic State (IS, ISIS/ISIL) have planned and carried out a massive jailbreak in southern Philippines prison. An armed group of 50 raided the jail, freeing 23 detainees, media cited officials as saying. The escape plan began with two women coming to the prison gate in the city of Marawi on Mindanao Island under the pretense of delivering food for the detainees.

As soon as the gates were opened, 50 armed men stormed the place, overwhelming the guards, AFP quoted provincial jail warden Acmad Tabao as saying. The hooded men proceeded to free eight of their own members who were imprisoned just a week ago. Amid the chaos, another 15 detainees made their way out of the prison. All of the inmates were jailed for serious offenses, Tabao said.

As the men were leaving they shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is great). The group fled in a prison vehicle to a nearby lake and then got onto a boat. The rest of the inmates who escaped ran away in various directions. The damage to the prison itself was minimal, with AFP reporting two bullet holes and a broken TV set.

Comment: As soon as the Philippines gets a president who isn't going along with the Western imperative, ISIS starts showing up. Coincidence?

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Gypsies forced out of Ukrainian village after the killing of an 8yo girl


RT
Sun, 28 Aug 2016 21:32 UTC
village mob
© Ирина Золотарёва / YouTube
Some 12 Roma families will be moving out of a village in the Odessa region in southern Ukraine after hundreds of locals attacked their homes. The violence broke out after a girl was found dead in the village, with a Gypsy man suspected of the murder.

Six houses belonging to the Gypsies in the Loshchinovka village were attacked by some 300 locals, TASS reported. Authorities sent law enforcement detachments to the area, after hundreds gathered to trash the Roma families' property.


Following negotiations with the locals, officials said the Gypsies agreed to gather their belongings and leave the village, to be moved to other areas in the region. They would move out on Monday morning, guarded by police, and later sell their houses, RIA reported.


Comment: It wasn't indicated whether Saakashvili's comment was based on any facts or proof, and instead, exacerbated the social bias it suggests.

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50% of Germans are against Merkel serving a fourth term in office

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Mon, 29 Aug 2016 13:11 UTC
Demonstration Flüchtlingspolitik Merkel
© AFP 2016/Robert Michael
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's popularity continues to drop amidst a failed migrant policy and collapsing EU.

While some western media outlets may be a bit perplexed as to why German Chancellor Angela Merkel's favorability ratings in numerous polls continues to drop, we are surprised Merkel has not been outright kicked out of office for what has become a disastrous tenure as Germany's Chancellor.

Perhaps the only other person with a worse track record is former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The failures of Angela Merkel are numerous, and geo-politically transformative (and not transformative in a good way).

Her policy failures are not small little blips. Just to name a few...
  • Stubbornly supporting an illegal coup in Ukraine which destroyed a once stable nation,
  • backing the US regime change policy in Syria which destroyed a once stable, secular nation,
  • then giving the green light to all refugees from war tone countries to enter the EU and live under the union's social umbrella,
  • which has allowed countless radical jihadist terrorists and ISIS operatives to set up camp in Europe,
  • and finally ushering in the end of the European Union by overseeing the Brexit referendum vote

Comment: Whether or not Merkel serves a fourth term, things are not going to get any better in the foreseeable future. The root cause of these problems lies much deeper than any elected politician. Check out:

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Dollar

Speed traps: Nothing to do with safety, everything to do with revenue generation

Carrollton Speed Tax
Cop Block
Thu, 25 Aug 2016 18:50 UTC
cop speeding ticket quotas
At what point does traffic enforcement become more about revenue than about safety? It would appear once speed traps become the preferred method. In this video, Officer Wylie is able to churn out revenue like a well oiled machine, writing 355 tickets or more in a single month. How? Well, cities like Carrollton, TX are investing a great deal of money in equipment to make revenue generation by police officers a quick and effortless task. With single purpose and revenue generation equipment they are able to tax citizens with minimal effort and time. This video shows just how efficient policing for profit has become.

Comment: The purpose of the police has always been to serve the elites and extract money from the people: Reality check: The police were created to control people, not protect them

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Yemeni Houthi rebels ready to continue peace talks with government if all hostilities are halted


Sputnik
Sun, 28 Aug 2016 22:04 UTC
Supporters of Yemeni Houthi rebels
© AFP 2016/ ABDEL RAHMAN ABDALLAH
Supreme Political Council formed by the Houthis last month, expressed willingness to support any peace initiative if the Yemeni government and its allies stop all the military operations against the rebels, according to local media.

Yemeni Houthi rebels have declared their readiness to resume peace talks with the government if all the hostilities in the country are terminated, local media reported on Sunday.

According to the Saba news agency, the Supreme Political Council formed by the Houthis last month, expressed willingness to support any peace initiative if the Yemeni government and its allies stop all the military operations against the rebels.
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Buenos Aires: German school students dressed as Nazis attack pupils from Jewish school

James Badcock
The Telegraph
Fri, 26 Aug 2016 15:46 UTC
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Students from a German school in Buenos Aires wearing swastika armbands attacked pupils from a Jewish school
Children from a German school in Buenos Aires wearing swastika armbands and fake Hitler moustaches attacked pupils from a Jewish school in a resort where several Nazi war criminals lived for decades after the Second World War,including Dr Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death".

The incident drew swift condemnation for the pupils and the parents who were accompanying them during the school's end-of-course trip to San Carlos de Bariloche, in the Andes.

The town became a haven for fleeing Nazis who were welcomed by the sympathetic Peronist regime.

According to witnesses, pupils from the Lanús German School arrived at a party in a nightclub dressed as Nazis.

Comment: Maybe they should be sent to Auschwitz... for educational purposes, of course. Coincidentally, Argentina 'was' a hotspot for "ex"-Nazis after WWII, who got there by way of the ratlines created in part by Allen Dulles. It's where Adolf Eichmann was hanging out prior to being kidnaped and sent to Israel to face trial and execution. Eichmann himself worked for the Gehlen Nazi/CIA intelligence organization. The Jew who alerted the Mossad of Eichmann's presence there, Fritz Bauer, was later killed by the same Nazi expat group:
As discussed in Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile, the Argentine Jewish community was so upset about this that no such Israeli intrusion into Argentina in pursuit of Nazis was ever permitted again. " . . . So much emphasis is placed on select Jewish participation in Bormann companies that when Adolf Eichmann was seized and taken to Tel Aviv to stand trial, it produced a shock wave in the Jewish and German communities of Buenos Aires. Jewish leaders informed the Israeli authorities in no uncertain terms that this must never happen again because a repetition would permanently rupture relations with the Germans of Latin America, as well as with the Bormann organization, and cut off the flow of Jewish money to Israel. It never happened again, and the pursuit of Bormann quieted down at the request of these Jewish leaders. . . ."


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'Child sex capital of Britain': Police accused of failing to act on 150 pages of child sex abuse claims


RT
Sun, 28 Aug 2016 20:12 UTC
British police
© Dylan Martinez / Reuters
Police in the town of Telford, Shropshire have been strongly criticized for their lack of progress in dealing with widespread child sex abuse claims in what has been described by media as the "child sex capital of Britain."

Officers have been accused of taking too long dealing with 150 pages-worth of abuse allegations, with some claims not taken seriously by authorities or erroneously dealt with, according to the Mirror.

One victim who spoke to the newspaper said they were passed around among a group of pedophiles and forced to sleep with numerous men.

"The police have betrayed the children of this town for a second time," the unnamed victim said, adding they they wouldn't be surprised "if the offending was on the same scale as Rotherham," referencing the widespread child sexual abuse that took place in the South Yorkshire town between 1997 and 2013 involving around 1,400 children, some as young as 11.
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