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Security guard claims the Las Vegas shooter shot him in the thigh with a pellet gun

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 20:00 UTC
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New body camera footage has been released from the first officers on the scene of the Las Vegas shooting in October 2017, and it reveals that the security guard who was reportedly suspect Stephen Paddock's first victim, believed he was shot by a pellet gun and did not have any visible wounds.

Jesus Campos, a security guard at Mandalay Bay, made headlines initially because he was reportedly the only witness who saw Paddock open the door of his hotel room on the 32nd floor and shoot at least 200 rounds out into the hall.

Days after the shooting, International Union President David Hickey claimed that Campos was "shot in the right thigh when he approached Paddock's room on the 32nd floor during the Las Vegas mass shooting," and a GoFundMe page claimed that Campos "was shot through the door while on random patrol as a Security Officer."

The story changed a number of times, and Campos went from being a random casualty, to the first victim of the shooting, who was reportedly shot once in the leg once when Paddock opened the door to his room and fired at least 200 rounds into the hall in his direction.

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Modern monetary policies gut working class incomes

Peter Schmidt
SchiffGOLD
Thu, 14 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
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When currency was backed by gold, a central bank's main function was to maintain the value of the issued currency in terms of gold. For example, if a central bank created too much money against the gold reserves in the banking system, an increasing number of people would begin to exchange their currency for gold. To combat this, a central bank would be forced to raise interest rates and decrease the money supply. The higher interest rates would incentivize people to exchange gold for larger savings on deposit that earn interest. Banking reserves - gold - would return to the banking system and the economy would return to balance. The prime reason for insisting on defining currency in terms of a precious metal was to provide a self-correcting braking mechanism to the creation of money. As expressed by the great Wilhelm Röpke:
If in the production of goods the most important pedal is the accelerator, in the production of money it is the brake. To insure that this brake works automatically and independently of the whims of government and the pressure of parties and groups seeking "easy money" has been one of the main functions of the gold standard. That the liberal should prefer the automatic brake of gold to the whims of government in its role of trustee of a managed currency is understandable."[1]
The US dollar was backed by gold as recently as 1971. Any central bank in the world could present the Federal Reserve $35 and receive 1-ounce of gold in exchange. However, on August 15, 1971 - blaming it on the "gnomes of Zurich" - President Nixon "temporarily" broke the dollar's last link with gold. Nixon closed the "gold window" and reneged on the promise to exchange an ounce of gold for $35. Since then, the system of credit in the US has been under the Fed's complete control.
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DHS House Chair McCaul: Daesh seeks to take down planes, using chemical weapons


Sputnik
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 18:40 UTC
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The Daesh terror group is targeting airplanes around the world with both conventional and chemical weapons, US Chairman of the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee Michael McCaul said on Thursday.

McCaul spoke about aviation threats during a conversation with Homeland Security Secretary Kristjen Nielsen at the 2018 Capitol Hill National Security Forum.
"They're still intent on taking down airplanes. It's the crown jewel, if you will, for them. They'd love nothing more than to blow up an airline inbound from say Istanbul to JFK [John Fitzgerald Kennedy] airport and we know that they have bomb makers," McCaul said.
McCaul went on saying that Daesh terrorists are also making chemical gases that could be used on airplanes to kill everyone on board within minutes.

Nielsen confirmed that the militants' publications and intelligence, looked through by the Department of Homeland Security, show Daesh desire to take down airplanes.

Comment: Terrorist scare or heads-up beware? Bonafide threat or leaked for control?

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UK Home Office employee confronted by 'pedophile-hunters' for allegedly grooming 12-year-old girl

Jack Wallis Simons
Daily Mail
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 15:02 UTC
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Gary Hodgkiss, 48, pictured, is a Home Office official who works as an IT consultant for Border Force who was confronted by paedophile hunters after allegedly trying to meet a 12-year-old
A Home Office IT consultant has been arrested after being confronted by a group of vigilante 'pedophile hunters' who accused him of attempting to meet up with a 12-year-old girl.

The confrontation with the married father was recorded on Wednesday evening at an undisclosed location in Manchester. It was streamed live on Facebook, garnering more than 42,000 views in just half an hour.

The man was told by the group - known as Dark Light - that they had evidence he had communicated with three underage girls.

Comment: This story comes on the heels of: Two former Tory mayors found guilty of multiple counts of child rape in just 48 hours

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Greyhound finds itself in the middle of illegal immigration uproar

Rachel Siegel
The Washington Post
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:59 UTC
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He was a 12-year Miami resident originally from Trinidad, taken off a Greyhound bus in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, by U.S. Border Patrol agents in January.

She was a 60-something Jamaican national who had just met her granddaughter for the first time, whose Greyhound was stopped by Border Patrol. She was arrested and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

And on the other side of the country, they were an undocumented father and son riding a Greyhound from Seattle to Montana when agents came aboard and asked, "Are you illegal?" "Do you have your documents?" The son, a DACA recipient traveling without his papers, was held for a few hours. The father was sent to a detention center.
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US midterm elections have unprecedented focus on sitting president

David Lauter
Tribune Washington Bureau
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:43 UTC
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A new survey highlights how much the national, partisan contest now outweighs local issues in voters' choice for Congress...

With about 4 1/2 months to go until a midterm election that will determine whether Democrats gain power to check President Donald Trump, voter interest in the contest has reached historic highs, with far more intense focus than usual on one subject: the president.

Midterm elections often act as a referendum on whoever occupies the White House, but in most election years, many voters don't view their ballot that way. This year, they do: Some 60 percent say they view their midterm vote as a ballot essentially against (34 percent) or for (26 percent) Trump, according to a newly released survey from the nonpartisan Pew Research Center. That makes Trump a bigger factor in the midterm than any president since Pew first asked the question during President Ronald Reagan's first term.
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The focus on being victimized by racism makes black Americans blind to real problems

Walter E. Williams
LewRockwell.com
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
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For several decades, a few black scholars have been suggesting that the vision held by many black Americans is entirely wrong. Dr. Shelby Steele, a scholar at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, said: "Instead of admitting that racism has declined, we (blacks) argue all the harder that it is still alive and more insidious than ever. We hold race up to shield us from what we do not want to see in ourselves."

Dr. John McWhorter, professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, lamented that "victimology, separatism, and anti-intellectualism underlie the general black community's response to all race-related issues," adding that "these three thought patterns impede black advancement much more than racism; and dysfunctional inner cities, corporate glass ceilings, and black educational underachievement will persist until such thinking disappears."

In the 1990s, Harvard professor Orlando Patterson wrote, "America, while still flawed in its race relations ... is now the least racist white-majority society in the world; has a better record of legal protection of minorities than any other society, white or black; (and) offers more opportunities to a greater number of black persons than any other society, including all those of Africa."

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Television series alleges that serial killer Kelly Cochran fed human remains to friends at barbecue

Caroline Blackmon
Detroit Free Press
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 16:51 UTC
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Kelly Cochran, 36, pleaded guilty to the murder of her former lover and husband. She is serving life in prison plus 65 years
If you've ever seen the end of the movie "Fried Green Tomatoes," then you have an idea of what may have happened to a Michigan man in 2014.

In a new television documentary, authorities allege that a serial killer and her husband chopped up and killed her former lover and then served his remains at a neighborhood barbecue in 2014, WJBK-TV (Channel 2) reports. Kelly Cochran later injected her husband with a lethal dose of heroin in February 2016.

The docuseries on Investigation Discovery called "Dead North" takes the viewer on a journey that might just leave a bad taste in their mouth.
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Jeff Bezos net worth hits $140B as his WaPo employees revolt over poor working conditions and low pay

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Tue, 19 Jun 2018 20:05 UTC
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Washington Post employees are revolting over "shocking pay practices" at the newspaper, as they petition Amazon CEO and WaPo owner Jeff Bezos to "share the wealth"...of which today stands at $140 Billion.

Over 400 Washington Post employees have signed a public petition addressed to Jeff Bezos begging him to improve working conditions and poor pay at the iconic newspaper.

The petition follows over a year of unsuccessful negotiations with upper management.


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Russian Supreme Court experts recommend liberalizing laws for political rallies


RT
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 16:24 UTC
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Authorities cannot deny requests for rallies on grounds that the events might bring inconvenience to local residents or when another event is held in the same place at the same time, according to Russian Supreme Court experts.

The draft verdict of the Supreme Court Plenum - the full assembly of judges that is being called for making important decisions that could potentially affect many cases - said that the possibility of inconvenience for citizens, who are not participating in the planned events, cannot be used by local authorities as a reason to deny a license for the event to organizers. Experts who prepared the document noted that the principle applies even when temporary changes to public transport routes are needed.

In addition, the Supreme Court experts opposed the practice of punishing organizers of street events in cases where the actual number of participants exceeds the one mentioned in the license issued by the authorities, saying that such punishment should take place only if the overcrowding creates a real threat to citizens' security.
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