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Former Yazidi slave girl flees Germany after encountering her ISIS captor-turned 'refugee' - UPDATE

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© Kurdayetî / Facebook
A Yazidi teenager enslaved by Islamic State who sought asylum in Germany has moved back to Iraq after being confronted by her former ISIS captor, who had registered as a refugee in Stuttgart.

Ashwaq Ta'lo said that she was stopped by Abu Humam - a Syrian ISIS guard who had purchased her for $100 - while walking home in Stuttgart.

"I froze when I looked at his face carefully," she told Bas News, a Kurdish agency. "It was Abu Humam, with the same scary beard and ugly face."

She said that during her unexpected encounter with her former captor, Humam told her: "I am Abu Humam and you were with me for a while in Mosul. And I know where you live, with whom you live, and what you are doing."

She recorded a video detailing the encounter.


Comment: Update August 19: German prosecutors say they are taking Ashwaq's claim seriously, but need more precise information to identify the man. When they attempted to follow up she had already left the country and is now at a refugee camp in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Frauke Koehler, spokeswoman for federal prosecutors, said, "if we get any further information to firm this up, we will pursue this, but to do so, Hami would need to return to Germany. Our powers end at the German border."


Road Cone

Entrance structure collapse injures 14 fans before Backstreet Boys Oklahoma concert

Thackerville concert
© ReutersCrew attend to fallen metal structure at Backstreet Boys concert in Thackerville, Oklahoma
At least 14 people who gathered for a Backstreet Boys concert in Oklahoma have been injured after a severe storm blew over an outdoor entrance structure.

The outdoor show of the legendary group was due to take place at the Colosseum at WinStar World Casino and Resort in Thackerville, 190km from Oklahoma City on Saturday evening.

Organizers said they spotted lightning within four miles (6.4km) of the casino, which prompted them to start an evacuation. "However, about 150 patrons who were standing in line for the Backstreet Boys concert did not heed staff's warnings," the statement said.

Bizarro Earth

France: 7 injured after young man refused entry to nightclub rams crowd with car

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© REUTERS / Benoit Tessier
An 18-19-year-old man took issue with a nightclub guard in Cambrai, (Nord prefecture) France, AFP reported. After a row with security, he got into a car and rammed it into a nearby crowd.

The young man suspected of ramming his car into the crowd near a nightclub in Cambrai, (Nord) France after a dispute with security personnel, was taken into custody Sunday, AFP reported, citing its sources.

At least seven people were injured as a result of the offense, including the guard. Two of the injured persons are reportedly in critical condition and have been taken by helicopter to hospitals in Lille and Valenciennes.

Comment: Just what is going on? In under a month there have been at least 5 instances of car ramming attacks: and there are many other strange random acts of violence that have hit the headlines recently:


Red Flag

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey goes on CNN & admits Twitter has 'left-leaning bias'

Jack Dorsey Twitter CEO
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admitted to CNN's Brian Stelter on Saturday what has been obvious for some time; Twitter employees have "more left-leaning" bias. And while that's not exactly a shocker, Dorsey waxed eloquent about the company's responsibilities, suggesting they operate in a neutral manner and not "according to political ideology or viewpoints."

"We need to constantly show that we are not adding our own bias, which I fully admit is...is more left-leaning," said Dorsey.

Dorsey's CNN appearance was the latest stop in Twitter's rehabilitation road-show after evidence emerged that they had been "shadow banning" conservative users through a variety of methods; including hiding tweets from followers and hiding conservative users from search results.

Comment: Dorsey's admission is especially relevant considering the fact that a California judge ruled Twitter can be sued for their 'left-leaning bias' . Breitbart reports:
A California judge has ruled that Twitter's policy of banning users "at any time, for any reason or for no reason" may constitute an "unconscionable contract", and that a lawsuit against the company brought by self-described "white advocate" Jared Taylor may proceed on that basis.

The judge rejected Twitter's motion to dismiss the lawsuit from Taylor, who was banned by the platform in December last year.

In particular, Twitter's argument that it has a first amendment right to ban whoever it likes from its platform, for whatever reason was rejected.

The judge ruled that Twitter's belief that it had a right to ban users "at any time, for any reason, or no reason" could be a legally unconscionable policy on the company's part.

The judge also ruled that Twitter could be sued on the basis of misleading its users, due to the platform's promise - frequently expressed, frequently violated - not to ban accounts on the basis of viewpoint or political affiliation.

"This ruling has massive implications for the platform going forward," said Noah Peters, Jared Taylor's lawyer. "this is the first time that a social media company's argument that it can censor user speech has been rejected by a court."
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Arrow Down

'Amazing photos': Lockheed Martin receives gruesome images instead of cool weapons photos in failed Twitter campaign

Children's backpacks at the site of an airstrike in Saada
© Kareem al-Mrrany / APChildren's backpacks at the site of an airstrike in Saada, Yemen
Lockheed Martin's social media appeal to send them the best photos of its products went horribly awry, as unimpressed Twitterati responded with gruesome images of the horrors of war.

The world's largest defense contractor and one of the top defense manufacturers posted a tweet last week, asking Twitter users to send them an "amazing photo" of a Lockheed Martin item. It is unclear what the company expected to receive, given that it produces deadly weapons of war, but the campaign backfired spectacularly.

The "amazing photos" Lockheed received show what appear to be parts of their own missile that struck a Yemeni school bus, killing dozens, as well as children's school backpacks covered with blood. The initial tweet was deleted, but screenshots taken by vigilant users are circulating on social media.

Sheeple

Wisconsin tech firm injecting its RFID microchips into hands of employees

microchips Three Square Market
What is little advertised is the fact that anyone with an RFID reader can cozy up to a chipped individual and ping their implant to glean personal information.
Wisconsin technology firm Three Square Market has injected 80 employees with their own brand of RFID microchips over the last year, and according to MIT Technology Review, "they love it."

The implant, which is about the size of a grain of rice, utilizes Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, also found in credit cards, debit cards, key fobs, and smartphones. This technology is considered "passive," meaning the microchip stores data that can be read by other devices but cannot read data themselves.

Comment: The Mark of the Beast: Scientist claims human microchip implants will become "not optional"


Health

Another car ramming: Three injured in Zaragoza, Spain, as driver hits pedestrians, flees scene

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© REUTERS / Stringer
A car has hit people close to a pedestrian crossing near Bar Avenida in Spain's northern city of Zaragoza, a Civil Guard police spokesman said.

Three people have been injured, while the driver has fled the scene, the spokesman added.

The injured included a 45-year-old man who was taken to a hospital. No information of the victims' medical conditions have been provided yet.

According to the local unit of COPE radio station, two people in the car were detained shortly after the incident.

The incident occurred just hours after Spanish police shot dead an Algerian man, who attempted to attack them with a knife at a police station.


Comment: What's up with this recent string of car-rammings?


Handcuffs

Westminister car-rammer charged with attempted murder

Salih Khater
© APAn undated image of Salih Khater taken from his Facebook page
Salih Khater, 29, from Birmingham, has been charged with the attempted murder of members of the public and police officers after allegedly driving a car through crowds outside the Houses of Parliament, Scotland Yard has said.

Khater of Highgate Street, Birmingham, a Sudan-born UK national, will appear in custody at Westminster magistrates court on Monday 20 August, charged with the attempted murder of members of the public and the attempted murder of police officers.

He allegedly drove his vehicle into pedestrians before deliberately swerving towards police officers, before crashing into barriers outside the Palace of Westminster.

Prosecutors will be treating his case as terrorism, the Metropolitan police said after charging him on Saturday.

Comment: At this point, it's not entirely clear that Khater deliberately swerved, or simply lost control of his vehicle. See the following on-site report by Graham Phillips:

As Phillips points out, regardless of the truth of the matter, police have a vested interest in pushing the terrorism angle, lest they have their incompetence exposed.


Brick Wall

Symbolic? Ukrainian BUK anti-aircraft system crashes into building in Kiev after rehearsal for military parade

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© mil.gov.ua
In footage shot by an eyewitnesses, a column of military vehicles can be seen turning on one of the streets of the city. However, at some point, the anti-aircraft unit leaves the route and crashes into the office building. Amazingly, the vehicle did not hurt any of the onlookers.

It is not yet known what caused the incident.

The incident occurred after a military parade rehearsal in Kiev; it will be held on Ukraine's Independence Day. As part of this event, military equipment drove along the central street of the Ukrainian capital.


Comment: This small event captures a whole lot about Ukrainian society. Troop morale is abysmal, and has been for years. Soldiers are poorly trained, get drunk on duty, and have the habit of defecting. It's no wonder Donetsk and Lugansk have been so successful in repelling Kiev's terrorist attacks on the republics. And they there's the fact that this was a BUK system, the same system the Western world alleges Russia used to down MH-17... It's only a matter of time before that lie crashes and self-destructs.




Handcuffs

You could soon spend 10 years in Australian jail if you don't hand over your phone passcode to authorities

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New Australian bill introduces some of the toughest legislation anywhere in the world for refusing to hand over personal data, while other Western countries are scrambling for their own solutions.

Existing legislation already allows for imprisonment for up to two years for failing to give investigators access when serious crime is involved, but the new Assistance and Access bill, which has gone out for public consultation, before being voted on later on this year, raises the punishment to 10 years.

The Department of Home Affairs says the document is seeking a "reasonable and proportionate response" to such violations.