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Eyewitness at Orlando nightclub mass shooting: 'I saw two guys firing constantly'

Margaret Wheeler Johnson
Romper
Sun, 12 Jun 2016 21:13 UTC
orlando shooting
© AP/Phelan M. Ebenhack
After a fatal mass shooting at Pulse, a gay club, early Sunday morning, eyewitness accounts of the Orlando nightclub shooting have begun to emerge, and they are harrowing. The shooting began around 2 a.m., according to CNN, and resulted in at least 50 fatalities and 50 people wounded. Orlando Police Chief John Mina said police shot and killed the gunman, and the shooting is being treated as an act of terrorism, with the FBI involved.

According to Reuters, a police officer working a security shift at the nightclub opened fire on the shooter, which resulted in a hostage situation. Mina said Sunday that the gunman was carrying an assault rifle, a handgun, and a "device" that authorities haven't yet identified. Shortly after the first police officer exchanged fire with him, police began hearing from people inside the club. At around 5 a.m., officers entered the club and fatally shot the gunman. Reuters reported that it was unclear when he had shot those killed and wounded.
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USA

Radicalized by police state thuggishness? Orlando shooter suspect was NYPD fan


Moon of Alabama
Sun, 12 Jun 2016 20:12 UTC
Omar Mateen
(pictures flipped for better readability)
Last night some deadbeat loser killed more than 50 people in a gay club in Orlando, Florida. It is the largest shooting massacre in the U.S. since Wounded Knee. According to his ex-wife the man, one Omar Mateen, used to beat her and was not religious.

Earlier Mateen took pictures of himself and posted those on Myspace. The pics are selfies and mostly not remarkable but in TWO of them he wears shirts with New York Police Department emblems on them.

This tells us what?
  • The guy was a follower of the NYPD?
  • He had pledged allegiance to the NYPD?
  • The NYPD radicalized him and taught him to hate gays?
There is currently a lot of speculation but no evidence that the guy was also a fan of the Islamic State (ISIS) death cult. None of the pictures he posted points into that direction, but it still may be the case.

But what does that really tell us?

Was his emotional relation to ISIS as strong as his emotional relation to the NYPD?

Do such assumed allegiances tell us anything at all?

Comment: Mateen, 29, is apparently a US citizen born to Afghan parents. This is what an FBI official initially had to say: "We do have suggestions that that individual may have leanings towards that particular ideology [extremism]. But right now we can't say definitively so we're still running everything around." Now, the media are saying that Mateen made a call to 911 prior to the attacks where he pledged allegiance to ISIS. Right...

This guy had been on the FBI's radar for 5 years. 'Anonymous officials' are saying there is no immediate evidence proving any connection between the shooting and Islamic State or any other foreign extremist organization. Senator Bill Nelson said this: "I asked the FBI if there was any connection to Islamic radicalism. There appears to be. But they are naturally cautious and waiting throughout to see if if this is [in fact true]." They'd be the ones to know! The FBI is responsible for the vast majority of radicalization and terror plots in the U.S.

Mateen's father had this to say:
Mateen's father, Mir Seddique, believes that this was an act of homophobia and not religious. Mir Seddique told NBC that he had seen his son become angry when two men kissed in front of his son. Seddique told NBC News, "this has nothing to do with religion."
Similarly, as MoA points out in the article, even if he did "pledge allegiance" to ISIS (which is highly dubious), that is meaningless. Any moron can say they like ISIS - that doesn't mean they were not simply bigoted criminals.

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Attention

Santa Monica police report man with weapons and explosives arrested, was going to L.A. gay pride parade

Joel Rubin, Hailey Branson-Potts and Frank Shyong
The Los Angeles Times
Sun, 12 Jun 2016 19:05 UTC
Police confer Sunday around a white Acura man arrested in Santa Monica.
© Zahira Torres / Los Angeles TimesPolice confer Sunday around a white Acura, believed to be connected to the man who was arrested, on 11th Street in Santa Monica.
Authorities in Santa Monica found possible explosives as well as a cache of weapons and ammunition Sunday in the car of a man who told them he planned to look for a friend at the L.A. Pride festival in West Hollywood, a law enforcement source said.

Federal and local law enforcement decided against canceling the annual parade, which went forward Sunday morning under tightened security. Investigators are now trying to piece together what happened but said they don't believe their is any connection between the incident and the massacre at a gay bar in Orlando that killed 50 people overnight.

Early Sunday, Santa Monica police received a call of a suspected prowler near Olympic Boulevard and 11th Street. Patrol officers responded and encountered an individual who told officers he was waiting for a friend. That led officers to inspect the car and find several weapons and a lot of ammunition as well as tannerite, an ingredient that could be used to create a pipe bomb.

The car had Indiana plates, and law enforcement sources said the man arrested was white.
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MIB

Another FBI patsy? Alleged Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was known to FBI for 3 years


The Daily Beast
Sun, 12 Jun 2016 11:13 UTC
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Mateen was a 'known quantity' to federal law enforcement before he killed 53 people in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.


Comment: Eyewitness Javer Antonetti, 53, was at the club with his brother. He said he was near the back of the club when he heard shots ring out:
"There were so many, at least 40 [shots]. I saw two guys and it was constant, like 'pow, pow, pow'."
Another eyewitness said:
"There had to have been more than one shooter - the shooting was so constant, it sounded like a gun range."

Omar Mateen of Port Saint Lucie, Florida, came to the attention of federal authorities twice prior to being identified as the gunman in the Orlando nightclub mass shooting, a senior law enforcement source told The Daily Beast.

Mateen killed 53 people and shot more than 100 in total at the Pulse gay nightclub early Sunday morning, in the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.

The senior law enforcement source reports that Mateen became a person of interest in 2013 and again in 2014. The Federal Bureau of Investigation at one point opened an investigation into Mateen but subsequently closed the case when it produced nothing that appeared to warrant further investigation.

"He's a known quantity," the source said. "He's been on the radar before."

Mateen was a U.S. citizen; his parents are from Afghanistan, CBS News reports.

Comment: Mass shootings like this often follow a formula:
  • initial eyewitness reports indicate multiple assailants while the media and authorities then claim that the shooter was a "lone shooter"
  • the "lone shooter" was either known to or had directly worked with some faction of the US government, frequently the FBI
  • the "lone shooter" is immediately labeled as guilty despite no investigation taking place and conflicting initial reports
  • the "lone shooter" is immediately identified as an ISIS terrorist/sympathizer (in this case, because he allegedly called the police to tell them so prior to carrying out his deed)
  • and the "lone shooter" typically ends up dead and therefore unable to provide any testimony in his defense
This story is still developing so things could change, but thus far it does appear to be following this formula. For more information: Undoubtedly, Americans will be further divided after this tragedy.

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Snakes in Suits

Author and journalist Tariq Ali: Banks and elites have allowed the poor to rot for their own selfish gains


RT
Sun, 12 Jun 2016 14:50 UTC
Tariq Ali
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The banks behind politicians in the western world "have allowed the poor to rot," and now the elites in those countries, especially the US, are facing a revolt, journalist and author Tariq Ali told RT America's Chris Hedges in an exclusive interview.

"The elites who have run the United States and western Europe have proven incapable of offering even the smallest palliatives to their populations. They have allowed the poor to rot ‒ regardless of skin color ‒ and grow," Ali said. "And so what we have is a protest against this center elite, which I call the extreme center because whether it's social democratic or conservative, they unite to crush."

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has become a perfect example of this protest against the extreme center, he tells Hedges.

"They've found in Trump someone who airs their most crazed fantasies at the same time who attacks the banks, at the same time attacks these new treaties which are being carried through and promises some palliatives to the poorest section of the white working class," Ali said.
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Vader

Dutch woman on holiday in Qatar reports being drugged and raped, authorities detain her for adultery


RT
Sun, 12 Jun 2016 14:08 UTC
female silouhette
© Reuters
A Dutch woman who reported being raped during her holiday in Qatar has been held by the country's authorities on suspicion of adultery since March. Dozens of people on social media have condemned the arrest and called for the woman's release.

"She was arrested in March on suspicion of adultery, which means having sex outside marriage," lawyer Brian Lokollo told AFP on Saturday.

The 22-year-old woman, identified as just 'Laura' by Dutch media, said that she was drugged prior to being raped and reported having"realized to her great horror" that she had been taken advantage of after she woke up in an unfamiliar flat.

The woman went dancing at a hotel in Doha and when she returned to her table she realized she had been drugged as "after the first sip of her drink... she felt very unwell," Lokollo told Dutch broadcaster NOS-Radio1.

Comment: While the US is busy destroying progressive societies in Syria and Libya, they are supporting the barbaric ruling classes in Saudi Arabia and Qatar who have no respect for human rights.

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Eye 2

Delta IV US rocket loaded with classified snooper satellite cargo successfully blasted into space (VIDEO)


RT
Sun, 12 Jun 2016 02:07 UTC
Rocket
© United Launch Alliance / Facebook
The world's largest rocket has successfully blasted into space from Florida's Cape Canaveral for all to see, but the exact details of its intelligence agency cargo is something that the US government is keeping a closely guarded secret.
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Pills

Unsealed documents reveal Big Pharma worked with pain clinics and caused the opioid epidemic

Justin Gardner
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 11 Jun 2016 13:41 UTC
Big pharma
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Over the past year we have heard much about the opioid epidemic gripping the U.S., as Big Pharma rakes in billions from people getting hooked on prescription painkillers such as OxyContin and Vicodin.

Nowhere is the problem more pervasive than in West Virginia, which has the highest drug overdose rate in the nation and one of the highest prescription rates of opioids. A disproportionate number of manual labor jobs like coal mining, combined with a high rate of unemployment, has made the state ripe for the picking by Big Pharma.

Newly unsealed court documents reveal the extent to which prescription drug wholesalers have knowingly contributed to the opioid addiction problem, by colluding with sham "pain clinics" to push their products on the small towns of West Virginia.

Comment: As long as Big Pharma and the government are colluding together the opioid epidemic will continue to rage on.

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Sheriff

Oakland police chief fired after investigation finds over a dozen high-ranking officers across multiple agencies paid for sex with prostitute

Darwin BondGraham and Ali Winston
East Bay Express
Fri, 10 Jun 2016 11:44 UTC
Sean Whent
© Associated PressOakland Chief of Police Sean Whent has resigned
At this morning's press conference announcing the departure of Oakland Police Chief Sean Whent, Mayor Libby Schaaf and City Administrator Sabrina Landreth told a room full of reporters that Whent was resigning for "personal reasons." The mayor said it had nothing to do with a scandal involving rookie police officers who sexually exploited a minor, or the suspicious death of a police officer's wife and his subsequent suicide.

"I'm extremely angry about the alleged misconduct in this department," Schaaf said.

But the mayor and other city officials are either not being forthright about the extent of OPD officer misconduct and the reasons for Whent's resignation, or they are in the dark.

The Express has learned that the sexual-misconduct scandal involves more than just a few rank-and-file Oakland cops, but also high-ranking officials from departments throughout the Bay Area. A few committed statutory rape of the victim, who was an under-age sex worker at the time, and informed her of undercover police operations.
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Water

We 'slayed the dragon': Pennsylvania community wins as Nestle drops water extraction plans

Andrea Germanos
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 11 Jun 2016 13:07 UTC
Nestle
Victory for Monroe County, Pennsylvania community comes on heels of another loss of bottled water giant in Oregon.

After facing community resistance, bottled beverage giant Nestlé Waters North America this week ditched its plans to extract water from a Monroe County, Pennsylvania spring.

The plan would have seen Nestlé take 200,000 gallons of water per day from the source in Kunkletown, located in Eldred Township, and truck it away daily to a nearby plant where it would have been bottled under its Deer Park brand.

Comment: See also: Nestlé water bottling plant shut down by drought protestors in California

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