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Scuffles erupt outside reopened Temple Mount, Palestinians decry new Israeli security measures


RT
Sun, 16 Jul 2017 21:41 UTC
Palestinian woman argues with an Israeli border policeman
© Ammar Awad / Reuters
A Palestinian woman argues with an Israeli border policeman at the entrance to the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City July 16, 2017.
The reopening of Jerusalem's Temple Mount, which has been closed since a shooting attack Friday, has led to more tensions as Palestinians protested additional Israeli security measures on site, refusing to enter the compound.

On Sunday, Israeli authorities lifted the ban on worshippers entering the site - sacred to both Jews and Muslims after boosting security.

The Temple Mount or the al-Ḥaram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary) as referred to by Muslims was closed for the first time in decades after two Israeli police officers were shot dead by three Arab-Israeli attackers Friday. The assailants were then pursued, shot and killed by police.

Metal detectors and additional CCTV cameras were hurriedly installed to prevent weapons from being smuggled inside in the future.

Several knives were reportedly discovered at the compound when it was searched by the security forces over the weekend.
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Child sex trafficking increase in the USA: Florida state admits it isn't stopping it

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 16 Jul 2017 20:56 UTC
girl with US flag over mouth
A recent report on the number of sexually exploited children in Florida gives insight into a horrific world that is often ignored by the media, and that rarely holds millionaires, politicians and even local officials accountable for their involvement.

A report from the Florida legislature's Office of Program Policy Analysis & Government Accountability concluded that the state's Department of Children and Family (DCF) and its lead agencies "have not resolved issues related to serving commercially sexually exploited children."

The report found that in 2016, 356 verified commercially sexually exploited child victims were identified, as opposed to 264 identified in 2015. It noted that many of the victims who were identified earlier were, "both children in child welfare dependency and those living in the community with family - have since been re-victimized, involved with the criminal justice system, or only attended school intermittently."
"During 2016, DCF's Florida Abuse Hotline received 2,013 reports alleging the CSE of children, which is a 57% increase over the 2015 reports. Child protective investigators investigated 1,386 (or 69%) of those reports. Counties with the highest number of CSE reports include Miami-Dade (248), Broward (232), Orange (150), and Hillsborough (144). DCF hotline staff did not refer cases for investigation if the allegation did not rise to the level of reasonable (74%), there were no means to locate the victim (11%), or the alleged perpetrator was not the child's caregiver (8%). Of the reports that were referred for investigation, most came from DJJ, the Department of Corrections, or criminal justice personnel (20%) and law enforcement (15%)."
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A whistleblower uncovers massive fraud at CIA, and 'nothing gets done' about it

Tim Johnson
McLatchey DC
Thu, 13 Jul 2017 15:03 UTC
CIA sweeping up
When wayward contract employees at the CIA began pilfering snacks from vending machines back in 2013, the Office of the Inspector General sprang into action. Surveillance cameras went up, the culprits were nabbed, and all lost their jobs.

From start to finish, the case of the $3,314.40 in stolen snacks lasted two months.

When more serious allegations of wrongdoing arise at the CIA, though, inspectors may be far less speedy, especially when their findings could embarrass the Langley, Va., spy agency.

In one notable case, that of John Reidy, a contractor whose resume shows that he worked with spies deep inside Iran's mullah-run regime, charges of wrongdoing have sat idle in the hands of CIA inspectors. Details of Reidy's charges remain highly classified. The case is now seven years old, and seems only to gather dust.
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Photos of Aleppo Rising: Swimsuits, concerts and rebuilding in first jihadi-free summer

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 15 Jul 2017 19:45 UTC
Aleppo orchestra concert, Summer 2017
© via Sarah Abdallah
Aleppo orchestra concert, Summer 2017
When taxi and bus drivers take journalists into Syria via the Beirut-Damascus Highway these days, there's a common greeting that has become a kind of local tradition as the drivers pull into their Damascus area destinations. They confidently tell their passengers: "welcome to the real Syria." Local Syrians living in government areas are all too aware of how the outside world perceives the government and the cities under its control. After years of often deceptive imagery and footage produced by opposition fighters coordinating with an eager Western press bent on vilifying Assad as "worse than Hitler", many average Syrian citizens increasingly take to social media to post images and scenes of Syria that present a different vision: they see their war-torn land as fundamentally secular, religiously plural, socially tolerant, and slowly returning to normalcy under stabilizing government institutions.

As the most intense phase of fighting in Aleppo was unfolding in 2016, veteran journalist Stephen Kinzer took to the editorial pages of the Boston Globe to remind Americans that the media has created a fantasy land concerning Syria. Kinzer painted a picture quite opposite the common perception:
Coverage of the Syrian war will be remembered as one of the most shameful episodes in the history of the American press... For three years, violent militants have run Aleppo. Their rule began with a wave of repression. They posted notices warning residents: "Don't send your children to school. If you do, we will get the backpack and you will get the coffin." Then they destroyed factories, hoping that unemployed workers would have no recourse other than to become fighters. They trucked looted machinery to Turkey and sold it...

The United States has the power to decree the death of nations. It can do so with popular support because many Americans — and many journalists — are content with the official story.
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Rewarding pathology: Oakland, California cops involved in coverup of child sex trafficking promoted and honored in secret ceremony

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 16 Jul 2017 00:00 UTC
Oakland police promote sex trafficking cops

Police held a secret ceremony this weekend, in which no press was allowed, to honor several cops involved in a massive child sex trafficking scandal.
An abused little girl was only 12-years-old when she was forced into the sex trade, forever altering the course of her life. For years, this little girl was "exploited by pimps" until she finally broke away and made it to an Oakland police officer. For a brief moment, she thought she was safe — but, according to a recent lawsuit, she was wrong.

When the young girl thought she was getting help, she was actually being brought into a depraved circle of cops from multiple departments who would continue to abuse her for years to come.

Instead of helping her, more than 30 other law enforcement officers "continued to traffic, rape, victimize and exploit a teenage girl who needed to be rescued," according to a legal claim filed with the Oakland city attorney's office. "Instead of helping [the teen] find a way out of exploitation, they furthered and deepened her spiral down into the sex trade," the claim continued.

Now, as a recent report from the East Bay Express notes, some of the officers involved in covering up this explicit case of child sex trafficking are not only being promoted — but honored.

Knowing that if they conducted their honors ceremony in public, they would likely see a huge backlash, the Oakland police department held a secret ceremony in a church Friday.

Comment: Apparently nothing significant has changed In Oakland despite the departmental purges. See the following articles for more background on the scandal:

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Eye 1

Carrot Rewards: Canadian government rolls out creepy behavior modification app

James Corbett
Corbett Report
Sun, 16 Jul 2017 18:20 UTC
dangling carrot
I warned you in 2010, when I published Episode 145 of my podcast, "You Are Being Gamed."

I warned you in 2015, when I released my video on "Sesame Credit: China's Creepy New Social Engineering Experiment."

I warned you last year in these very pages, when I penned my article detailing how "The CIA's 'Pokémon Go' App is Doing What the Patriot Act Can't."

Throughout these warnings, the threat has been clear: Behavioral science is merging with game design, creating virtual Skinner boxes that have been carefully crafted to keep millions of people doing meaningless, repetitive tasks for thousands of hours. Those techniques are being studied by (and in some cases, like in China, implemented by) governments to better shape and manipulate the behaviors of their citizens. And this merger of behavioral science, gaming and government will be one of the biggest threats to free humanity in the history of the human species.

But you didn't listen, did you? You thought, like so many others have thought before, in so many different contexts, that it could never happen here. It could never happen to us.

Comment: More from James Corbett:



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Tens of thousands in Turkey commemorate 'epic victory' over coup attempt


RT
Sun, 16 Jul 2017 08:08 UTC
rally in istanbul turkey for coup victory
© Osman Orsal / Reuters
People wave Turkey's national flags as they attend a ceremony marking the first anniversary of the attempted coup at the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey July 15, 2017
Tens of thousands of people have descended on the streets of Turkey's largest city Istanbul, celebrating victory and commemorating the victims of last year's botched coup attempt which triggered a massive opposition crackdown across the country.

People marched towards Bosporus Bridge where a tense standoff between rogue military personnel and supporters of president Recep Tayyip Erdogan occurred a year ago. The bridge has been officially renamed the July 15 Martyr's Bridge following the dramatic events on that date.
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Military police detain axe-wielding man in Belgium - says he was to pose in photoshoot


RT
Sun, 16 Jul 2017 16:37 UTC
Belgium military
© Yves Herman / Reuters
Military police arrested an axe-wielding man in the central shopping street of Antwerp, Belgium. The detainee explained that he purchased the fearsome tool to pose as a lumberjack in a photoshoot.

The incident happened on Saturday night when vigilant Antwerp citizens warned the soldiers of a man with an axe they saw on the street, Belga news agency reported.

The man did not resist arrest and dropped his axe when asked to do so by the troops, who then handed him over to the civil police.

During the interrogation, the detainee told the officers that he purchased the axe to pose as a lumberjack in a photoshoot. The man was reportedly heading to the mall in order to buy even more woodcutting gear for his photoshoot.
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Eye 1

DHS outlines their biometric ID plans for foreign travel

Nicholas West
Activist Post
Sat, 15 Jul 2017 16:26 UTC
biometrics
What at first seemed like creeping tip-toe incrementalism toward the use of biometric ID for travel is quickly becoming a warp-speed reality.

Over the past couple of months I've been covering some disturbing developments at national airports that seem to show an acceleration of the plan to use biometric identification in a variety of ways.

On May 19th I reported on a new program initiated by Delta Airlines at Minneapolis-St. Paul airport to have automated baggage kiosks for "priority customers" that will first scan a traveler's passport, then their face in order to match identity to checked luggage. It was promoted as a "pilot program" that Delta launched to seek customer feedback in the hope that it could be rolled out more widely in the future.

This announcement was followed by JetBlue who stated they will "test facial- and fingerprint-recognition technology at two U.S. airports to replace boarding passes, building on industry efforts to increase security and ease passage through airports."

Comment: See also:

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38 passengers, mostly children, injured as tour bus overturns in northern Turkey


RT
Sun, 16 Jul 2017 11:31 UTC
Ambulance
© Murad Sezer / Reuters
Dozens of passengers, most of them children from Georgia, were injured after a Bulgaria-bound tour bus veered off the road in northern Turkey, the state-run news agency and local media report.

The bus, which was carrying around 38 passengers - including members of a Georgian children's dance band - to Bulgaria, crashed into a light pole before veering off the road in the northern Turkish region of Giresun, according to Hurriyet.

Authorities scrambled ambulances and fire brigades from Giresun and the neighboring province of Trabzon to provide first aid to the injured.

One person stranded inside the vehicle was rescued by the emergency services. Those injured in the incident were taken to nearest hospitals in Giresun and Trabzon.
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