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Bomb squad responds to suspicious package at Fort Lauderdale airport, Florida - UPDATE

fort lauderdale airport
© Global Look Press / Orit Ben-Ezzer
Broward County Sheriff's deputies and a bomb squad responded to reports of a suspicious package at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida. The airport was put on lockdown for about an hour.

Passengers tweeting from inside and outside the airport say the place has been placed on lockdown.

Fort Lauderdale airport is located in Broward County, recently at the center of a pitched battle between Republican and Democrat candidates vying for the Florida Senate seat. GOP candidate Rick Scott has sued the county's electoral officials, alleging voter fraud and improper handling of ballots. Local investigative journalist and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer claimed on Twitter that a source had told her a box with "provisional" written on it was discovered in the trunk of a rental car at the airport just before it was put on lockdown.

The unconfirmed report is likely to fuel ongoing speculation that electoral officials in the Democrat-leaning county are tampering with the vote in favor of Democratic candidate Bill Nelson. On Saturday, the Florida secretary of state ordered a recount of the ballots, since the margin was less than 0.25 percent.

Comment:

Update: Independent journalist Laura Loomer reports her suspicions that the "bomb threat" was to distract from the discovery of two more provisional ballot boxes left at a Florida airport by a Gillum supporter:
EXCLUSIVE: Provisional Ballot Boxes Left Inside AVIS Rental Car At Fort Lauderdale Airport
florida ballot boxes airport
© Laura Loomer
In an explosive new development in the Florida election process, a provisional ballot box from the Broward County Supervisor of Elections Office was discovered in the back of a rental car by an Avis employee at the Fort Lauderdale Airport on Sunday night.

I received a tip around 6 pm from a political insider that an Avis employee contacted the police at the Fort Lauderdale airport, on Sunday evening, alerting them to the provisional ballot box. However, the airport police reportedly didn't want to touch the SOE ballot boxes, prompting the AVIS employee to contact Richard Denapoli, the Broward County GOP state committeeman, who quickly made his way over to the airport to meet the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FLDE) where he began filming and taking pictures as officers were claiming there was a "bomb threat" at the airport.


Pictures taken at the scene show two boxes. One box is red, and the other is grey. The grey box is labeled "PROVISIONAL BALLOT BOX" with a sign that says "Broward County Supervisor of Elections", a purple tag that says "ERT region 13", and a backwards yellow tag with a seven digit numerical and five letter code.
ballot boxes found florida airport
© Laura Loomer
According to the Avis employee, the rental car was last driven by Noah Holliman, whose has an @broward.org email address connected to his Florida voter registration profile.

Nearly 20 minutes after receiving the tip, a heavy police presence blocked off traffic and surrounded entrances of the Ft. Lauderdale Airport, located at the epicenter of elections fraud: Broward County. Broward County Sheriff's Office later tweeted:
"Our deputies and bomb squad are responding to a suspicious package outside Ft. Lauderdale Airport Terminal 4."
However, this reporter knew ahead of this tweet that a provisional ballot box was discovered in an AVIS rental car that was dropped off at the airport and subsequently I made my way over to the airport, only to be blocked by a police officer who is on video telling me the airport might be shut down for n hour or two.

However, officers failed to mention that the Broward County police response was initially for the AVIS employee who discovered the boxes and immediately reported the issue. It is unknown as to whether the Avis employee was fearful that the boxes had been tampered with considering the widespread elections fraud allegations and concern among the public here in Florida and America-at large.

Upon confirming with DeNapoli that the boxes were indeed labeled provisional ballots, I immediately informed the public that Broward County Sheriff's Officers were on the scene filling out a police report and documenting the ballots, whereas local and national media were totally silent on the discovery of the ballot box in an apparent media blackout.

Why was there a media blackout on a suspicious package being delivered to the airport, when in reality officers appear to have been aware from the beginning that this was a provisional ballot box according to the AVIS employee speaking with Denapoli, who contacted FDLE?

Do you see, the more this story unfolds there are more questions, less answers, and more reasons to be alarmed, outraged and reason to demand Republicans like Governor Rick Scott, Attorney General Pam Bondi and Sen. Marco Rubio take action? Along with Denapoli, Florida politico Lauren Cooley upon hearing this provisional ballot box was discovered in the trunk of an AVIS rental car, rushed to the scene. She said,
"The AVIS employee didn't know what to do. No one wanted to touch the boxes or take responsibility for them. Finally, sheriffs deputies agreed to take the provisional ballot boxes into their custody. It's an odd situation when supervisor of elections (SOE) employees are so careless with important election materials, but its becoming a trend in Broward County."
I met up with Denapoli after video and photographic evidence was taken of these provisional ballot boxes that were left at the airport. We met at the Broward County Supervisor of Elections office, the epicenter of this national outrage, to see if Broward sheriffs deputies were going to transfer the custody of the provisional ballot boxes to the Supervisor of Elections, or hold them for processing overnight.

Denapoli sent me the following statement:
"The way it went down: rental agency guy contacted me because he saw my name on Florida GOP website as contact for Broward County. He said he spoke with some Sheriffs Deputy Personnel at the airport but they seemed disinterested in getting involved. I contacted some friends in law enforcement who got the FDLE involved. After I arrived at the airport, FDLE contacted Broward Sheriff Jeremey Hansen who came to the Avis at the Fort Lauderdale airport. They interviewed me and the AVIS employee and took the boxes into evidence."
Denapoli sounded the alarm from the site of the AVIS rental when upon hearing I was on the case. He began filming the provisional ballot boxes along with the Broward County police response, while the "media" was in Terminal 4 reporting on a non-existent bomb threat that was literally tweeted from the official Twitter account of the Broward Sheriffs Office. Meanwhile, there was never a bomb.

It's dramatic, misleading and worst of all, highly irresponsible for the Broward County Sheriff's Office under disgraced Sheriff Scott Israel--whose failed leadership and abject incompetence led to the avoidable massacre of 17 innocent people, mostly children--to set off mass panic over the possibility of bombs exploding at the Fort Lauderdale airport, where an ISIS terrorist attack once took place in June of 2016, which Israel also was responsible for overseeing as Sheriff.


After all of this was unfolding, they then tweeted:


Which package was the Broward Sherrifs Office referring to? The provisional ballot box? Is the sheriffs office confirming they found a suspicious package? Did they find the ballot box? If so, why are they withholding these details?

Will they explain that they found a provisional ballot box and not a bomb?

Well, it gets worse--Noah Holliman, the Broward County employee who dropped off the rental car with boxes of provisional ballots is friends with Sheriff Scott Israel on Facebook.
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© Noah Holliman/Facebook
But wait, there's more! Holliman also appears to be tied to Democrat gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum, who lost his election to Congressman Ron DeSantis, but revoked his concession speech on Saturday "unapologetically."
Noah holliman Andrew gillum florida election
© Noah Holliman
Andrew Gillum and Noah Holliman
Coincidentally, Gillum was hosting a campaign event at the Mount Olive Baptist Church in Fort Lauderdale on Sunday night, which is located less than 20 minutes away from the Fort Lauderdale airport.

Upon receiving a tip that Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes was allegedly inside the church with Gillum, myself and Conservative journalist Jacob Engles rushed over to the church, but we were denied entry by Fort Lauderdale Police at the request of the Gillum campaign. Engles commented on the story in a statement:
"The secrecy, uncertainty, and blatant denigration of our voting process is simply unreal. Brenda Snipes is a criminal. A fraudster. I thought she might be senile or stupid. Her continued actions to thwart the election outcome reveal her insidious intentions of fixing the election for her Democrat allies."
Holliman's voter registration seems to indicate he is a Democrat voter in Broward County, Florida, and a member of the "anti-Trump army" and many other Left wing groups on social media.
noah holliman voter registration florida
© Noah Holliman Jr/Facebook
Voter information also indicates a family member named Tiffany Holliman was a donor to Gillum's campaign on Sep. 1, 2018.

We are currently witnessing Democrats try to use their offices, their jobs, shady connections and influence to undermine our elections, and Republicans need to step up and do everything they can to stop this egregious assault on our democracy. This is an outrage and it should cause every American in every county to wonder if this is happening in their state.

In response to the breaking scandal, Ali Alexander with the #StopTheSteal, a campaign that is collecting intelligence, training residents, and conducting peaceful election integrity demonstration, slammed Broward County and called on elected leaders to step in. You can visit the #StopTheSteal campaign site here.
"The FBI needs to kick in the door, interview all board of election employees, shutter the Broward County elections offices, seize all the ballots and put a stop to the Democrats disrupting the elections. This is a bigger story than we could have ever imagined and Floridians and the entire country demand answers," Alexander said.
Hopefully this video and photographic evidence of provisional ballot boxes being carelessly left inside a rental car at the Fort Lauderdale airport by a Democrat staffer who is directly tied to the county, Andrew Gillum, and Sheriff Israel in a supposedly "nonpartisan" elections office--who hates the president and hates Republicans and is a huge supporter of the Democrat candidate who is benefiting from this debacle--will wake up America.
Laura Loomer is a conservative investigative journalist and activist. Originally from Arizona, Laura began her career working as an undercover journalist for Project Veritas from 2015-2017. She covers politics, anti-Semitism, immigration, terrorism, the Islamification of the West, and voter fraud. Loomer's investigations have been broadcasted on every major national mainstream media outlet in the United States, as well as many international publications. Support Laura Loomer's Independent Journalism here: PayPal.me/lauraloomer



Attention

Child exploitation: Ukrainian far-right Svoboda camp is training kids to kill

Svoboda child training camp

A camp founded by a Ukrainian nationalist group teaches children to use assault rifles to kill Russians and their sympathizers. They are also being inculcated with nationalist ideology.
The campers, some clad in combat fatigues, carefully aim their assault rifles. Their instructor offers advice: Don't think of your target as a human being.

So when these boys and girls shoot, they will shoot to kill.

Most are in their teens, but some are as young as 8 years old. They are at a summer camp created by one of Ukraine's radical nationalist groups, hidden in a forest in the west of the country, that was visited by The Associated Press. The camp has two purposes: to train children to defend their country from Russians and their sympathizers - and to spread nationalist ideology.

"We never aim guns at people," instructor Yuri "Chornota" Cherkashin tells them. "But we don't count separatists, little green men, occupiers from Moscow, as people. So we can and should aim at them."


The nationalists have been accused of violence and racism, but they have played a central, volunteer role in Ukraine's conflict with Russia - and they have maintained links with the government. Earlier this year, the Ministry of Youth and Sports earmarked 4 million hryvnias (about $150,000) to fund some of the youth camps among the dozens built by the nationalists. The purpose, according to the ministry, is "national patriotic education."

Comment: By continuously referring to the Svoboda camp as 'nationalists' the author seems to be deliberately obscuring their real nature (a neo-Nazi organization), while simultaneously equating 'nationalism' with extremism (a back-stab at Trump?):


Sherlock

50-year-old woman arrested over Australia's strawberry needle scare [Update]

Strawberry
© AFP /Saeed Khan
File Photo: Strawberry on a fork in an Australian restaurant, September 19, 2018
Police in Australia have arrested a woman in the state of Queensland as part of their investigation into a food contamination crisis that has left the nation's fruit-lovers in a panic since September.

Queensland Police Service said the 50-year-old woman was arrested on Sunday afternoon "following a complex... and extensive investigation," which was spearheaded by the force and involved "multiple government, law enforcement and intelligence agencies" across Australia.

Australians have been in a panic over tainted fruit since authorities warned on September 12 of the potential risk of finding needles and pins in punnets of tampered fruit, in particular strawberries.

Comment: Update: The perpetrator, My Ut Trinh, is said to have acted out of "revenge" as she was angry with her boss.
According to 7 News, Trinh told others at her workplace that she "wanted to bring them down" and "put them out of business."

She apparently planned the crime very carefully over the course of several months, Brisbane Magistrates Court heard. But what exactly prompted her to plunge the half-a-billion-dollar industry into crisis is still unknown.
It just goes to show how easily our society can be disrupted when susceptible individuals succumb to social contagion: For more examples of the phenomena: And for an in-depth discussion, check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: The Strange Contagion: How Viral Thoughts and Emotions Secretly Control Us


Pocket Knife

'I didn't want to break up, so I killed him': Japanese woman admits she fatally stabbed US soldier

Man and woman
© US Navy / ANN news
A Japanese woman has claimed she fatally stabbed an American soldier stationed at a US airbase near Tokyo. The victim was the woman's boyfriend whose last decision to break up with her turned lethal.

Master Sgt. Nicholas Vollweiler, 35, was found unconscious with stab wounds in his apartment in the Japanese capital on Friday. The serviceman, who was assigned to Yokota Air Base, succumbed to his wounds later in hospital, the US Air Force confirmed.

The story later took an unexpected turn after police arrested a 27-year-old Japanese woman who is said to have been Vollweiler's girlfriend for several months.

Info

Sympathizing with minorities: Another Canadian professor speaks out against collectivist identity politics

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When one of my friends and colleagues accused me of being unsympathetic to minorities, I was indignant. How dare he? After all, I am myself a member of a much maligned and prejudicially treated minority ethnic group, with which I identify strongly. Not only that, both of my children are "visible minorities," as we like to say here in Canada: my son was adopted from Thailand; my daughter was adopted from China.

In our current cultural moment, to be unsympathetic to minorities implies the worst sins we can imagine: oppression of the vulnerable, racism, male supremacism, heteronormality, and Islamophobia. Who but the most egocentric, ethnocentric cynic, or the most self-serving, callous exploiter, or the most fearful, insecure weakling, could be unsympathetic to minorities?

Dollars

'Trolleyman' terror attack hero gets over $100K in GoFundMe campaign

Trolleyman
© Wechat
'Trolleyman' became an internet sensation for his heroics during the Bourke Street attack.
The viral internet sensation from the Bourke Street terrorist attack in Melbourne, dubbed 'Trolleyman', is due to receive a major financial windfall after a GoFundMe campaign set up in his honor surpassed its original target.

Homeless man Michael Rogers, 46, used a shopping trolley to intervene as Somali-born attacker Hassan Khalif Shire Ali was fighting with police.

"I seen the trolley to the side and I picked it up and I ran and threw the trolley straight at him and got him but didn't get him down," Rogers told Seven News.

Handcuffs

Illegal immigrant released by 'sanctuary city' in New Jersey charged with triple murder

ICE officials try to deport Luis Rodrigo Perez
© Associated Press/File
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it had tried to deport Luis Rodrigo Perez after he was arrested on domestic violence charges in Middlesex County, New Jersey, last year.
An illegal immigrant released by a "sanctuary city" county in New Jersey was charged last week with a triple homicide halfway across the country in Missouri, authorities said Friday.

Luis Rodrigo Perez stands accused of being the gunman in a shooting rampage last week that claimed the lives of two men and one woman at two homes.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it had tried to deport Perez after he was arrested on domestic violence charges in Middlesex County, New Jersey, last year.

But the county, which has a noncooperation policy with ICE, refused to alert federal agents when it released Perez in February, ICE said.

"Had ICE's detainer request in December 2017 been honored by Middlesex County Jail, Luis Rodrigo Perez would have been placed in deportation proceedings and likely sent home to his country - and three innocent people might be alive today," said Corey Price, acting ICE executive associate director.

Jet3

US fighter jet crashes in Philippine Sea due to 'mechanical issue'

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© Reuters / Hamad I Mohammed
An F/A-18 naval fighter jet from the aircraft carrier USS 'Ronald Reagan' crashed into the Philippine Sea near Japan's Okinawa Prefecture, with both pilots rescued.

The aircraft crashed after suffering a "mechanical issue" while traveling on a routine mission in the Philippine Sea, the US Navy said in a statement, adding that both pilots successfully ejected and were quickly recovered by the USS 'Ronald Reagan.'

According to the Japanese Coast Guard, the incident happened 300km southwest of Kitadaitojima Island, which is part of the nation's Okinawa Prefecture.

The aircraft carrier resumed normal operations, and the US Navy launched an official probe into the crash.

The lost plane belonged to the US 7th Fleet, which is based in Yokosuka, Japan. Over the past two years, the fleet gained a notorious reputation of the most 'disaster-prone' detachment of the US Navy. It was blighted by high-profile incidents, including ship collisions, which claimed the lives of numerous servicemen.

Last month, an MH-60 Seahawk helicopter crash-landed on the deck of the USS 'Ronald Reagan.' In June, an F-15 fighter jet crashed into the sea near Okinawa. There were no fatalities in these incidents.

Alarm Clock

Two innocent Mexican men burnt alive by mob after false WhatsApp messages

Mexican men burnt alive by angry mob
© YouTube
The crowd cheered and applauded as the men were killed.
Two innocent men were dragged out of a jail cell and burned alive by a cheering mob as rumours of child abductors spread rapidly on WhatsApp.

The message talked of a "plague of child kidnappers" and three children, aged four, eight and 14, had been found murdered.

It claimed the criminals were involved in organ trafficking, as the children were found with their abdomens sliced open and their organs removed.

But the two men - an uncle and his nephew - who were set upon by a mob of villagers were falsely accused after they were spotted near an elementary school.

Distressing footage shows the pair being beaten and then set on fire outside a police station, as the mother of one of the men watched on a Facebook live steam.

Marijuana

Monsanto and Bayer are moving to create a marijuana monopoly

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You've heard of Monopoly, right? The fun little board game with fake money, little plastic houses, and get out of jail free cards? It's a great way to pass the time. That is, depending on who you're playing with.

But when it comes to real-life properties, business, and products, however, a monopoly becomes a whole lot more dangerous.

Two major companies, Monsanto and Bayer, have recently joined together and seem to be plotting to take over the cannabis industry. In other words, create a monopoly on marijuana.

Comment: For an excellent rundown of Monsanto's interests in marijuana, see the two part: