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Best of the Web: Despite media blackout, eyewitness testimony of multiple shooters at Orlando nightclub spreads on social media

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In the wake of the Orlando massacre, social media has been alight with people airing their thoughts on the incident, but a post claiming shooter Omar Mateen wasn't the only gunman in Pulse has sparked particularly vociferous debate and outrage online.

The post in question was written by a man calling himself Cody Agnew, who posted it on Facebook on Sunday. It stated that he knew a woman who had survived the killing spree despite being shot 12 times and having 11 bullets removed since.

Agnew claimed that the woman, who he described as "coherent" and "fairly stable," said there had been three gunmen in the gay nightclub on the night of the attack, and not just one.

The controversial post, which has since been deleted, claimed there were "bits of information that the media aren't telling us."

Comment: Check out for yourself what some of them had to say

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ISIS has claimed link to Paris suburb stabber who killed a police officer & his partner

A police raid in the Paris suburb commune of Magnanville has ended with the death of a hostage taker, who fatally stabbed a police officer near his house and then killed his partner. Reports claim the man was shouting Islamist slogans during the attack.

RAID special forces raided the premises and shot the stabber dead, Francetv info has reported, citing a French Interior Ministry spokesman. The officers discovered the body of a woman in the house and rescued a 3-year old boy.

The attacker shouted "Allah Akbar," Le Parisien cited witnesses as saying.

Unconfirmed reports have emerged suggesting that the attacker might have links to Islamic State (IS, ISIS/ISIL).

The terror group's "news agency," Amaq News, cited a source claiming that the perpetrator was an IS "fighter," SITE, a terror monitoring group, reported.

Reports on Twitter claimed that the attacker had sworn allegiance to the group.

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Girl stabbed in France by man hearing voices that told him to 'make sacrifice for Ramadan'

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A teenage girl was seriously injured in a stabbing attack in western France when a man assaulted her on the street. The attacker, who has a history of psychiatric problems, claimed that he needed to make "a sacrifice for Ramadan."

The girl, 19, was stabbed two times in the wrist and once in abdomen, Rennes prosecutor Nicolas Jacquet told journalists, adding that her wounds are not life-threating.

The girl's assailant told a witness that he was a Muslim. He was immediately detained by police at the scene of the crime and later told officers that he was obeying voices in his head that had ordered him to make a sacrifice for Ramadan, the holy Muslim month of fasting that began on June 6.

"Voices told him that he had to make a sacrifice on the occasion of Ramadan," Jacquet told AFP.

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Thousands without power after warehouse fire caused multiple explosions near downtown Los Angeles

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About 35 residents were evacuated overnight due to a warehouse fire that produced "ferocious" explosions in a community southeast of downtown Los Angeles and left thousands of customers without power.

The fire was reported around 2:30 a.m. at a plastics business in the 3700 block of Fruitland Avenue, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. More than 3,100 customers were without power early Tuesday, according to Southern California Edison.

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UK's largest newspaper says run for your life: Vote Brexit, Americans should listen

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The UK's largest newspaper, The Sun, with a daily print run of 1.7 million, has delivered a harsh indictment on its front cover today on continuing to allow European central planners and global bankers to run the UK by edict. UK citizens will vote on June 23 on whether to leave the European Union, a vote called Brexit, short for British Exit. The UK's Guardian newspaper is reporting that two ICM polls, one conducted online and one by telephone, showed 53 percent support for leaving versus 47 percent for remaining in the EU.

The message should serve as a sharp warning to Americans, who have allowed their central bank, the Federal Reserve, to march to the beat of the Wall Street bankers' edicts while achieving catastrophic results for the country and its citizens. Since the Wall Street crash of 2008, enabled by the formation of trillions of dollars in dicey derivatives and a mountain of subprime debt while the Federal Reserve kept its blinders securely in place, the U.S. national debt has doubled to $19 trillion while the Fed's balance sheet has ballooned from $800 billion to $4.5 trillion through endless rounds of sopping up the toxic waste (called "Quantitative Easing" or QE to pretty it up).

Perhaps America needs a national referendum on a FedExit. That dialogue was supposed to have begun in the U.S. Senate back in 2014, starting with stripping the central bank of its power to supervise Wall Street bank holding companies because it had clearly demonstrated itself to be not just a captured regulator but pure putty in the hands of the Wall Street banks. (See here, here, here and here.) The dialogue ended abruptly, as most things do in the U.S., with no explanation as to why to the American people.

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Texas police respond to shooter at Amarillo Walmart

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After responding to an active shooting situation and hostage situation at a Walmart in Amarillo, Texas, police report that the shooter has been killed by a SWAT team and that all hostages are safe.

According to Officer Jeb Hilton, speaking to NBC News, an armed individual took one hostage inside the store. The incident is being investigated as a case of workplace violence.

Police evacuated people from the building and asked people to stay away from the scene.

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Construction materials caught fire in Orlando near Disney World

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A massive fire has erupted in Orlando, Florida - a city still rattled by Sunday's mass shooting at a gay nightclub.

Construction materials caught fire on International Drive, just north of Walt Disney World, reported Orlando's My News 13, citing the Orlando fire department.


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New London mayor seeks to ban advertisements with 'sexy women'

Sadiq Khan
Sadiq Khan, London's first Muslim mayor, announced Monday that "body shaming" advertisements will no longer be allowed in London's public transport.

"As the father of two teenage girls, I am extremely concerned about this kind of advertising which can demean people, particularly women, and make them ashamed of their bodies. It is high time it came to an end," Khan said.

Comment: This is also the first Muslim mayor of London, and the inevitable anti-Muslim reaction has ensued. Ever get the feeling like everything that happens is just setting up for one big battle? Buttons are certainly being pressed, every sore spot of Western society is being poked, every fault line is being shaken. Interesting times.


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Obama-backed net neutrality rules upheld in court of appeal

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A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld a White House-supported effort to make internet service providers treat all web traffic equally, delivering a major defeat to cable and telephone companies.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 vote, affirmed the FCC's latest net neutrality rules, which consumer groups and President Barack Obama have backed as essential to preventing broadband providers from blocking or degrading internet traffic.The telecom industry and Republicans have heavily criticized the rules as burdensome and unnecessary regulation, with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz once labeling it "Obamacare for the Internet."

AT&T immediately announced it would appeal the ruling, saying it's always expected the issue to be decided by the Supreme Court. Several industry trade groups are expected to join the effort.

The court decision marks a victory for FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, who led the agency's Democratic majority in approving the rules in February 2015 over the objections of the agency's two GOP commissioners. The rules apply utility-style regulation originally written for telephone companies to both land-based and wireless Internet services.

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New reality after Orlando attacks: Dogs, metal detectors and searches at public gatherings may be commonplace

Police officers and paramedics at Irving Plaza
© Louis Lanzano for The New York TimesPolice officers and paramedics at Irving Plaza, a Manhattan music hall, after a shooting during a rap concert on May 25.
For Dolly Parton's latest tour, the security procedures include not just the usual pat-downs and bag checks at the door, but also two dogs trained to sniff out bombs and firearms wherever the singer performs.

"There are certain artists," said Steve Martin, Ms. Parton's longtime agent, "who take security very seriously."

Precautions like these, once rare, are becoming more common as the concert business adjusts to a new reality in which the threat of violence must be met through heightened security screening.

After the weekend attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., additional security procedures like dogs and metal detectors are likely to become more common at events around the country, executives and artists' representatives say, making the experience of going to a concert more like waiting in line at the airport.