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German police arrest man suspected of planning attack on festival, seize explosives and Daesh-linked material

RT
Wed, 17 Aug 2016 17:06 UTC

A man has been reportedly detained by German police over plans to carry out a terrorist attack at a festival in the town of Eisenhuttenstadt. Explosives have been found in the suspect's apartment, local media say, citing police.

Police have also found materials linked to Islamic State (IS, former ISIS/ISIL) as the search of the suspect's apartment continues, German media report. According to news agency DPA, the suspect had a Salafist background and was under police supervision.

The suspect reportedly planned to set off an improvised explosive device filled with nails at a festival in Eisenhuttenstadt that was due to take place on August 26-28.

Comment: Further reading:

Prominent 'copwatcher' accuses NYPD of targeted and unconstitutional arrests

Alexander Rubinstein
RT
Wed, 17 Aug 2016 16:45 UTC

The NYPD is no stranger to prominent "copwatcher" Jose LaSalle. And between word on the street, profile pieces, lawsuits, and many media appearances, neither is LaSalle a stranger to them. Now he's accusing the department of targeting him with unconstitutional arrests.

LaSalle was copwatching outside the Patterson Houses, a public housing complex in The Bronx managed by the New York City Housing Authority on the night of August 5. Copwatching is a practice by which activists follow police around with cameras in order to document their interactions with communities.

The events of the night of the fifth and the sixth were highlighted by LaSalle at a press conference outside the NYPD's main headquarters Tuesday morning, and were discussed in further detail with RT.

Blame Brexit? UK unemployment falls to 11-yr low

RT
Wed, 17 Aug 2016 16:49 UTC

The number of unemployed Britons fell by 52,000 to 1.64 million in July as the country's labor market showed no signs of adverse effects from the vote to leave the European Union.

The unemployment rate remained at 4.9 percent in the three months to June, according to official data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Wednesday.

Average earnings grew 2.4 percent compared with a year earlier, with total pay excluding bonuses rising 2.3 percent, the ONS reports.

The latest data also shows that the claimant count - which measures the number of people claiming for unemployment-related benefits - fell by 8,600 against a previously projected 9,500 increase. Overall, 172,000 people joined the workforce during the period covered.

The unemployment data followed Tuesday's inflation rate update which revealed consumer prices index (CPI) growth was a higher-than-expected 0.6 percent in July.

Comment: Another catastrophic Brexit prediction that has so far failed to materialize...

Missouri clergy forget their civil rights history, reject BLM support for Israeli boycott

RT
Wed, 17 Aug 2016 16:40 UTC

African-American clergy in the US state of Missouri have rejected #BlackLivesMatter support for the BDS movement against Israeli 'apartheid,' forgetting about the pivotal role played by economic boycotts in the global civil rights struggle.

The letter was written by Bishop Lawrence M Wooten, president of the Ecumenical Leadership Council of St Louis, a group of black clergy members serving communities near the suburb of Ferguson where the BLM movement emerged following racial rebellion against police violence.

Citing Philando Castile as the "123rd unarmed black male fatally shot this year," Bishop Wooten started by acknowledging the vital role BLM plays in addressing police brutality, but then attacked the movement's solidarity for Palestinians in its call to end US aid to Israel.

"Their argument is that Israel is an apartheid state perpetrating genocide against the Palestinians," the letter reads, going on to reject, "without hesitation any notion or assertion that Israel operates as an apartheid country."

Comment: Unbelievable! Apparently Jewish colonies and Jewish-only roads aren't apartheid... Apartheid South Africa could have used more idiots like this back in the day.

The Donald tries to win black voters by pushing 'law and order' agenda, blames Killary for urban despair

S.A. Miller
Washington Times
Wed, 17 Aug 2016 16:25 UTC

Trump with a teleprompter

Republican Donald Trump made his most direct appeal yet Tuesday for black voters in the presidential race, pushing forward an agenda to restore law and order and revitalize inner-city neighborhoods that he said suffer from years of misguided Democratic policies.

In a speech delivered not far from Milwaukee neighborhoods rocked by anti-police riots, Mr. Trump laid the blame for urban despair and conflict between police and minorities at the feet of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

"I am running to offer you a much better future," Mr. Trump said in a speech in West Bend, Wisconsin. "Crime and violence is an attack on the poor and it will never be accepted in a Trump administration."

He said the policies holding back minority neighborhoods were part of the "rigged system" led by Mrs. Clinton, who he said pandered to black voters but didn't really care about their suffering.

California Highway Patrol officer arrested for secretly videotaping sister-in-law in bathroom of her home

CBS Sacramento
Wed, 17 Aug 2016 16:13 UTC

Jose Roid

A California Highway Patrol officer is accused of secretly recording his sister-in-law in the bathroom of her home.

Jose Ignacio Roid, 30 of Roseville, was arrested on five counts of surreptitious recording. Investigators say nearly 20 videos were found on Roid's phone of the sister-in-law from a hidden camera in her bathroom.

Roid's wife found a receipt for a pen camera dated around the time her sister moved into a suite attached to their main house two months ago. When she confronted him about the camera, investigators say he said it was for his work as a CHP officer.

His wife later found an app on his phone that was linked to the camera with multiple videos of a naked woman. Thinking it was pornography like they had watched together in the past, she watched and instead found it was her sister.

Investigators do not believe the sister-in-law knew about the recordings or was part of an illicit relationship with Roid.

In all, 19 videos from five separate days between July 17 and Aug. 8 were found on the phone. All featured a nude woman in the bathroom believed to be the sister-in-law.

CBS13 is not identifying the victim of this case by name.

The CHP issued a statement saying it is cooperating with the investigation and that Roid has been placed on administrative leave.

Last days of raves in California? Drug deaths cause backlash against wild music festivals

Rory Carroll
The Guardian
Wed, 17 Aug 2016 16:06 UTC

© John Valenzuela/AP
People attend the Hard Summer music festival at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California, on 31 July.

Los Angeles may be the entertainment capital of the United States, but rave concerts are migrating from the metropolis to valley communities near the Mojave desert - and it's not for the fresh air.

Concert promoters have relocated festivals to poorer, inland cities in the wake of restrictions in LA over drug-related deaths.

They have found an official welcome in cash-strapped San Bernardino County despite lawsuits and recrimination in LA, where concertgoers used to flood hospital emergency wards.

But the death of three young people and the arrest of hundreds of others on drug offenses at a concert last month in Fontana, a city in San Bernardino, has triggered a fresh outcry which could eventually force festival organizers to move again.

No Cinderella story: Father and son jailed for forcing pregnant Polish woman into domestic slavery

RT
Wed, 17 Aug 2016 16:00 UTC

In a story reminiscent of the most unpleasant parts of 'Cinderella', a father and son were jailed for keeping a pregnant woman as a slave in their London home. The men threatened her with "grave consequences" if she didn't keep the house spotless.

Reni Parczewski, 25, and Ioan Berlan, 47, were jailed for three years and 20 months respectively at Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday.

The sentencing came after the men made the 19-year-old Polish woman clean in exchange for accommodation in their home in Tottenham, north London. If she didn't keep the house immaculate she was threatened.

"She was forced to work in the house as a servant. She was told if she didn't clean the house there would be consequences, grave consequences," said prosecutor Andrew Frymann, the Mirror reports.

'Prison would not do this kid any good': Iowa teen who raped disabled girl to be given probation

Tom Boggioni
Raw Story
Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:46 UTC

A former high school tennis star will escape jail after prosecutors offered him a plea deal following charges he sexually assaulted a mentally ill woman he met through an online dating service.

According to the Des Moines Register, Nicholas Fifield, 18, was scheduled for a court date on Aug. 18 to face a felony charge of third-degree abuse of a person "suffering from a mental defect or incapacity, which precludes giving consent."

On the criminal complaint, authorities state that the unidentified woman has clinical diagnoses of mild mental defectiveness, autism, and alcohol and drug-related birth defect syndrome. She also suffers from PTSD, a language disorder that makes communication difficult and a major depressive disorder with that produces brief reactive psychotic episodes.

Human rights lawyer who represented Julian Assange dies after being struck by train

Neil Syson
The Sun
Thu, 21 Apr 2016 15:31 UTC

ONE of Britain's top human rights lawyers who represented Julian Assange and war criminals has died in an apparent suicide.

Married dad of two John Jones QC, 48, who worked alongside Hollywood actor George Clooney's wife Amal, passed away on Monday.

He acted for Wikileaks founder Assange, 44, holed-up for four years in the Ecuador Embassy in London, when the Swedish government initially tried to extradite him for questioning on rape charges.

Comment: Suicide or pushed?

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Society's Child

German police arrest man suspected of planning attack on festival, seize explosives and Daesh-linked material

Prominent 'copwatcher' accuses NYPD of targeted and unconstitutional arrests

Blame Brexit? UK unemployment falls to 11-yr low

Missouri clergy forget their civil rights history, reject BLM support for Israeli boycott

The Donald tries to win black voters by pushing 'law and order' agenda, blames Killary for urban despair

California Highway Patrol officer arrested for secretly videotaping sister-in-law in bathroom of her home

Last days of raves in California? Drug deaths cause backlash against wild music festivals

No Cinderella story: Father and son jailed for forcing pregnant Polish woman into domestic slavery

'Prison would not do this kid any good': Iowa teen who raped disabled girl to be given probation

Human rights lawyer who represented Julian Assange dies after being struck by train

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