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28 people shot in less than 18 hours in Chicago, Illinois

Elyssa Cherney
Chicago Tribune
Mon, 17 Apr 2017 21:14 UTC
Chicago shootings
© Elyssa Cherney/Chicago Tribune
Police respond to a shooting at 31st Street Beach. Two people were wounded at 10:30 p.m. Saturday as families milled about the popular site.
In the pouring rain, the 23-year-old man pulled a fur-lined hood over his head and stood on the porch of his younger brother's home in the Douglas Park neighborhood early Sunday, watching police investigate the city's first homicide of the weekend.

The man said he heard people arguing and throwing bottles at each other about 2:30 a.m. before the shots rang out. He said he went to check on what was happening three doors down but then stopped, retreated back.

"When I noticed the commotion, I headed the other direction," he said, as he was getting ready to go to work as a truck driver. "There's a reason for the rain. Only God knew this was going to happen."

The fatal shooting of Tywan Anderson, 23, in the 1300 block of South Fairfield Avenue, half a block north of Mount Sinai Hospital, marked the only fatality among 28 people who were shot from Saturday to Sunday morning, officials said. Of the people shot, three were teenagers — ages 14, 15 and 17.

Comment: Murder explosion in Chicago: Trump pleads with city officials to 'ask for Federal help' after most violent year since '96

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Facebook shuts down pro Marine Le Pen posts as French election nears

Jon Rappoport
Activist Post
Sun, 16 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC
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Well, sure. Wouldn't you? The woman is running for the presidency of France. She wants to reverse the tide of immigration in her country, so she must be a racist, and whatever she says or whatever anyone else says in support of her is, automatically, fake news, mindless, evil, and the population must be protected from that infection. This is how free speech works. It's free unless it could do harm, unless certain minds might be taken in by it, and apparently Facebook is stepping up to the plate. Mark Zuckerberg is long overdue for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Zero Hedge: "The first round of French elections will be held on April 23rd, prompting Facebook to shut down pro Le Pen accounts, which they deem to be 'fake'."

"In addition to outright bans, the company [Facebook], in conjunction with French media, are running 'fact checking' programs — designed to fight 'fake news', heightening their efforts around the elections — which spans from 4/23-5/7."

Comment: The author is being facetious of course, but in doing so drives home the point that 'social proof' of the public's feelings on things is being stifled to detriment of all.

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Acid-attack in London club burns 12 people


Telesur
Mon, 17 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC
London acid attack

A London Fire Brigade spokesman confirmed that acid was thrown in the club in east London.
London has seen a sharp rise in acid attacks in London in recent years. There have been more than 1,800 reports of attacks involving corrosive fluids in London since 2010.

About one dozen patrons at a bar in east London suffered burns caused by what is believed to be a noxious substance inside the venue.

A hazardous response team along with other emergency services were called to the scene in the early hours of Monday morning. A London Fire Brigade spokesman informed AFP that an "unknown corrosive substance" was thrown in Mangle, a club in east London. The substance has been identified as "an acidic substance" from testing, he said, adding that there were around 600 people in the venue at the time of the incident.
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Maserati crashes & catches fire in Moscow, driver suffers 'instant death'


RT
Mon, 17 Apr 2017 12:04 UTC
Moscow car crash
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A Maserati has crashed into a lamppost and caught fire in central Moscow, with the driver dying inside the luxurious sports car and his passenger fleeing the scene before the arrival of the police.

The incident happened on the Rostovskaya Embankment in central Moscow on Sunday, police said.

The vehicle traveled at high speed, hit the lamppost, and burst into flames. The fire brigade was immediately summoned to extinguish the blaze.
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London primary school takes children on day out to 'meet extremist Islamic preacher'


RT
Mon, 17 Apr 2017 10:53 UTC
Imam Shakeel Begg Islamic extremist preacher
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Imam Shakeel Begg
Children from a London primary school spent a two-day school trip with an imam described by a British High Court as supportive of "extremist Islamic positions."

Aged between six to eight, the children from Kilmorie Primary School met with Shakeel Begg to discuss Islam at the Lewisham Islamic Centre on March 21 and 22.

Begg gained notoriety as the imam of the mosque attended by the killers of British army soldier Lee Rigby in 2013.

Comment: In 2016 Begg sued the BBC for libel after being labeled an extremist. However, after reviewing the content of his speeches, a UK judge found that Begg displayed a pathological 'Jekyll and Hyde' character who presented one face - tolerant and pious - to the public, while privately preaching extremist views.

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Manhunt for Facebook Live killer continues: He claims he has murdered 15 and will keep killing


RT
Sun, 16 Apr 2017 21:48 UTC
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Cleveland police are continuing a manhunt for a suspect who shot and killed an elderly man during a Facebook Live broadcast. Although the suspect claimed to have killed 14 more people while promising more murders, police have so far failed to find any additional victims.

"Suspect did broadcast the killing on Facebook Live and has claimed to have committed multiple other homicides which are yet to be verified," Cleveland Police confirmed in a statement published online.

During a news conference held several hours after the incident, Cleveland Police Chief Calvin D. Williams confirmed that both county and federal law enforcement had joined the manhunt operation to find Stephens.

Chief Williams stated that there had been no official sightings of the suspect since the shooting, and police could therefore not confirm whether Stephens was still in the Cleveland vicinity.
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Russian Lawmaker: Saudi Arabia believes Yemeni crisis has no military solution


Sputnik
Mon, 17 Apr 2017 09:56 UTC
Members of the Yemeni army ride on the back of military trucks near the Red Sea coast city of al-Mokha, Yemen, January 23, 2017
© REUTERS/ Fawaz Salman
Members of the Yemeni army ride on the back of military trucks near the Red Sea coast city of al-Mokha, Yemen, January 23, 2017
Saudi Arabia shares Russia's stance on situation in Yemen, in particular, Riyadh agrees that there is no military solution to the crisis, speaker of the upper house of Russia's parliament Valentina Matvienko said Sunday.

"We discussed of course the situation in Yemen. I paid attention to the fact that Yemen experiences a humanitarian catastrophe, over 18 million people have no food, necessary assistance, and it is necessary to provide humanitarian aid to this country... And the minister said that they also understand that there is no military solution to the Yemeni problem," Matvienko said after a meeting with the Saudi foreign minister.

According to Russian lawmaker, Adel al-Jubeir stressed that all attempts to reach ceasefire in Yemen unfortunately failed, expressing hope at the same time that the issue would be discussed at the diplomatic level in the near future.

Comment: A Saudi Arabian patrol guard was killed on Sunday by a blast on the border with Yemen, local media reported, citing the country's Interior Ministry.
As a result of the explosion in the country's Jazan province, three other servicemen were injured and hospitalized, the SPA news agency reported.

The border guards authorities have launched investigation into the incident, the news agency specified.
Thousands of Yemenis have staged a mass rally in the capital Sanaa to protest against the Saudi bombing which recently entered its third year. They have also urged the Houthi rebel authorities to intensify the battle against the "5th column" and alleged Saudi spies.
Demonstrating against the ongoing military campaign of the Saudi-led coalition which began in March 2015, the protesters marched to mobilize more tribal fighters to oppose the coalition-backed Yemeni government forces which control parts of the country.


The crowd urged the Houthi government - the Supreme Political Council - to declare a state of emergency which will grant loyalists with more powers to implement internal security measures in areas under their control.

The emergency powers will also enable the Houthis to hunt down alleged Yemeni supporters of the so-called "fifth column" of the Saudi-led military coalition.
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The massive event proceeded along the Airport Road. A number of key speakers urged unity and called for the creation of an internal front to face the Saudi war machine and the alleged traitors whom they accuse of working for the Saudi monarchy.




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Group plans exorcism on purported NSA spy building in New York

Nathan Tempey
Gothamist
Wed, 12 Apr 2017 15:30 UTC
The AT&T building
© Phil/Flickr
The AT&T building at 33 Thomas Street was built to withstand a nuclear blast—but can it survive an exorcism?
A group of artists and activists is planning a Saturday exorcism of the AT&T Building in Tribeca where, according to reporting by The Intercept, the National Security Agency likely controls several floors and surveils communications around the globe.

"In an ultimate act of hubris, the government has attempted to make an omniscient force, a false god—we must cast out this idol," organizers wrote in a communique section titled "Why Are We Exorcising?"

In 2016, The Intercept revealed documents showing that the former AT&T Long Lines Building, a brutalist skyscraper built in 1974, is probably home to a top-secret NSA surveillance operation called TITANPOINTE. The documents don't explicitly out the building at 33 Thomas Street, but in aggregate, they strongly point to the 29-story tower as the place where the wires are tapp-ed.

A 2011 travel guide for NSA employees shows that those visiting TITANPOINTE should first go to the FBI's New York field office, a little over a block away. Another guide from 2013 says that a "partner" called LITHIUM, code for AT&T, supervises the site. Employees are also instructed to ring a buzzer, sign in, and wait for someone to meet them. The Intercept wrote that 33 Thomas Street has a buzzer outside, a sign-in sheet in the lobby, and a 24-hour guard.

Comment: We hope that this group's efforts had some positive effect but, really, its going to take something a lot bigger and stronger to accomplish this task!

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Even his home country doesn't want him: Hungary moves to shut down George Soros owned university

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Sun, 16 Apr 2017 19:11 UTC
meme george soros darth sidious
The proposals by PM Viktor Orban's governing Fidesz party were approved by Hungary's President on Monday.

The Hungarian government has passed a law which threatens the continued operations of the George Soros founded and funded Central European University. The university was set up in Budapest in 1991 and has garnered controversy ever since, due to accusations of ideological based teachings and publications.

The university is seen as agenda driven, using its facilities to agitate for Soros' liberal/globalist views.

Comment: Perhaps every country will ban George Soros, and then he can live on Mars, by himself, and fund color revolutions between rocks and space dust:

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Small Town newspaper in Iowa wins Pulitzer Prize for challenging Big Agriculture

Amelia Kinney
True Activist
Fri, 14 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC
Storm Lake Times staff
© Dolores Cullen
Art Cullen's work exposes Midwest policy pitfalls and funding schemes between Big Ag and the government.

Art Cullen, 59, of the Storm Lake Times, has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize in the category of Editorial Writing. Cullen co-owns the twice-weekly newspaper with his older brother John, where it reaches a circulation of 3,300 in the little rural town of Storm Lake, Iowa.

Cullen's writing is celebrated by the Pulitzer committee "For editorials fueled by tenacious reporting, impressive expertise and engaging writing that successfully challenged powerful corporate agricultural interests in Iowa."

The Storm Lake Times employs about 10 people, and it's largely a family business. As a small town publication, they cover the usual range of topics: "We strive to have a baby, a dog, a fire and a crash on every front page, so, yes, we do pander," Cullen told the Washington Post.
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