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Russian football 'ultra' to AFP: 'We flew to Marseilles just to beat up the English'


The Telegraph, UK
Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:31 UTC
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English fans, as they always do, set up camp and bait locals, opposing supporters, and the police to 'come and have a go if you think you're hard enough'. A handful of Russians decided to take them up on their offer...
A Russian fan who took part in widespread pre-match violence has declared "the English are girls" and hundreds of hooligans attend Euro 2016 to fight.

This comes as French prosecutors announce some 150 Russians were behind the violence ahead of the 1-1 draw with England in Marseille.


Comment: That was all? There were up to 150 THOUSAND English fans!

Only a small percentage of those, of course, were hooligans, but they nevertheless vastly outnumbered their Russian counterparts.

There can be no doubt though that a majority of English fans were involved in provoking the Russian ultras once inside the stadium. Listen to them try to drown out the Russian national anthem:



Russia are just 29th in world football rankings but are fighting for top spot in the hooligan stakes thanks to the efforts of characters like Vladimir, a Moscow public relations manager who considers violence a sport.

Vladimir, who is married with two children, has returned from the battleground at the European Championship finals in France, and does not care that Uefa have threatened to disqualify Russia.

Comment: Although Western media attention has shifted to the aftermath of the massacre by mystery shooters in Orlando, the English press is having a field day 'exposing' the 'brutal Russian thugs who hurt our friendly football fans'.

And it's true; a small number of Russian 'ultras' beat a lot of English heads in southern France at the weekend. After 3 days - and 3 decades before that - of being their usual obnoxious, violent selves, the horde of drunken and abusive English hooligans finally met their Waterloo.

And now the English press is having a conniption...
Russian aggression! Russian invasion! Russian state-support! Putin's ninjas!
Like everything else about the Anglo-American Order, they can dish it out, but they can never take it.

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Bad Guys

SOTT Exclusive: The cruelty of capturing dolphins and orcas and using them for entertainment

Bahar Azizi
Sott.net
Mon, 13 Jun 2016 20:03 UTC
dolphin captive
© UnknownCan you imagine being in a small concrete enclosure for your life when you're used to swimming 40 miles a day?
On Monday June 6th American activist Richard "Ric" O'Barry appeared on the Dutch talk show RTL Late Night and spoke about how miserable dolphins (and other sea mammals) are in marine mammal parks. O'Barry first started out as a dolphin trainer for the Miami Seaquarium, and helped with the capture of dolphins. At a later point, he trained the five dolphins who starred in the TV show Flipper. Based on his years of experience training these intelligent sea mammals, he concluded that capturing dolphins and training them to perform tricks is wrong.

During the talk show, O'Barry said:
Host: When your dolphin, Flipper, as we call her, died in your arms, was that a turning point when you decided: "Okay, I don't want to be a trainer anymore, I want to be an activist"?

Ric O'Barry: It was a tipping point, but I had very strong feelings that led up to that. Because I was literally living with the dolphins for seven years. [...] You really get to know them, you get to know their body language. You can tell they're depressed. You're not fooled by that dolphin's smile anymore. That dolphin's smile is nature's greatest deception.

A good example is the Hagenbeck - zoo which is closed, by the way, because protesters were there every Sunday - where Sinbad one day jumped on the stage, like they do, and had a heart attack and died right on the stage. But the audience doesn't know that information. They see a dolphin laying on the stage just like that [points at a picture of a 'smiling' dolphin] with a big smile, and they're applauding a dead dolphin. It's just an example of how this industry is based on this optical illusion that dolphins smile.
In front of O'Barry sat Niels van Elk, marine biologist and vet of the Dolfinarium (marine mammal park in Harderwijk, the Netherlands). According to van Elk, when dolphins play in the Dolfinarium or in another zoo, it indicates that they are doing well, because if they didn't feel that way, they wouldn't play. O'Barry replied saying that these dolphins from captive breeding in the Dolfinarium have "never seen a live fish in their lives, they don't know what the current is, they don't know what the tide is, they think that the ceiling is the sky." He emphasized that "these are 'freaks' we've created for our amusement."
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Target

Flicking the paranoia switch: Orlando shooting targeted so many of America's faultlines

Gary Younge
The Guardian
Mon, 13 Jun 2016 11:16 UTC
orlando mass shooting
© Joshua Lim / APBrett Morian, from Daytona Beach, hugs an attendee during the candlelight vigil at Ember in Orlando, Fla., on Sunday, June 12, 2016.
As relatives grieve and a nation mourns, America's political class will pick through the wreckage of the heinous events in Orlando and try to frame the tragedy in a way that suits their agenda. Those who hoped a tragedy of this nature might be extracted from partisan politics will be sorely disappointed.

The facts are sparse and shifting. This has been classed as a domestic terrorist attack that appears to have involved a Muslim and several firearms, including an assault-style weapon, in a gay club - an attack that left at least 50 dead and more than 50 injured in a swing state in an election year. As such it sits on several faultlines at a particularly volatile moment in US politics. All will be judged by their responses; some will seek political advantage. All are in some way vulnerable; none will readily admit that.

President Barack Obama described the attack as "an act of terror" and "an act of hate" and said the FBI was investigating it as an act of terrorism. "We will go wherever the facts lead us," he said. This may not be enough for some."

Comment: The very fact that the Orlando mass shooting simultaneously targeted pretty much all of America's faultlines points to the psychology of those behind it. We're not looking at wayward chance here; we're looking at someone or something that knows Americans better than they know themselves.

This is the terrorists (the actual ones) once again 'hitting the paranoia switch', as psychologist Martha Stout describes in her seminal work, reviewed here:

Limbic Warfare and Martha Stout's "Paranoia Switch"

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Alleged Orlando shooter worked for G4S, world's largest security corporation - Father lobbyist for pro-US Afghanistan political group


Sputnik
Sun, 12 Jun 2016 23:38 UTC
Omar Mateen
© Youtube / DAHBOO777
As the police uncover more information on Orlando mass shooter Omar Mateen, it has come to light that his father is a rather curious media person. In a video uploaded to Facebook, he claims to be the President of Afghanistan.

According to Gawker.com citing the Washington Post, the shooter's father is Seddique Mateen, known under the alias "Mir Seddique." He is a man of strong political views and a former host of a political TV show that, on occasion, praised the Afghan Taliban.

Seddique hosted the "Durand Jirga Show," a political show on channel Payam-e-Afghan which broadcasts from California. According to videos found on YouTube and Facebook, Seddique, speaking the Dari language, occasionally praised the Afghan Taliban while denouncing the current Pakistani government.

Comment: They don't exactly fit the profile of 'ISIS', now do they? Father and son were two happily integrated Westerners...

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Pirates

Predictable, but is it true? ISIS reportedly claims responsibility for Orlando shooting


RT
Sun, 12 Jun 2016 21:28 UTC
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© Joe Raedle / Getty Images / AFPLaw enforcement officials gather on the street in front of the apartment building where shooting suspect Omar Mateen is believed to have lived on June 12, 2016 in Fort Pierce, Florida.
Amaq News, a Syrian news agency with close ties to the Islamic State, says the group is responsible for the attack on an Orlando gay club, which has killed 50 people, and left 53 injured.

"The armed attack that targeted a gay night club in the city of Orlando in the American state of Florida which left over 100 people dead or injured was carried out by an Islamic State fighter," Amaq said.

The shooting, which took place in the early hours of Sunday, was carried out by Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old Muslim US citizen, who was brought up by a family of first-generation Afghan immigrants.

Earlier, Mateen's father, Mir Seddique, claimed the incident had "nothing to do with religion," and speculated that it was caused by his son's dislike of public displays of homosexuality.

Comment: Amaq regularly releases Daesh propaganda. Question: who is behind Amaq? Daesh has rich foreign sponsors, some more overt than others. Remember this: ISIS Twitter Accounts Traced to British Government. Amaq also claimed, without evidence, that the San Bernardino attacks were ISIS-inspired. There's nothing to stop them from claiming responsibility for attacks that were not connected to them in any substantial way. Also, it's possible for them to claim attacks carried out with the help of their state sponsors, i.e., intel and security agencies like the CIA and FBI in the States. Consider the updates about Mateen's past involvement with the FBI:
FBI first became aware of Mateen in 2013, when he made derogatory and inflammatory comments to his co-workers, alleging possible terrorist ties, an FBI official told journalists during the briefing. The FBI interviewed him twice in 2013 but was unable to verify the substance of his comments.
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After the FBI dismissed their 2013 and 2014 interviews with Orlando shooter Omar Mateen as "inconclusive," the Bureau interviewed him again later about his contacts with Moner Mohammad Abusalha, the first US citizen to carry out a suicide bombing in Syria, AFP reported.

"We determined the contact was minimal and did not constitute a substantive relationship or a threat at that time," FBI Special Agent Ronald Hopper told reporters.
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Omar Mateen was acting alone, an FBI official said during the press briefing, adding that the investigators are not looking for any second suspect.
A more likely scenario: the FBI set him free, knowing he was an easy mark to be manipulated, like so many other FBI dupes and patsies, after which they kept close tabs on him, perhaps even pushing him towards carrying out an attack, which is standard operating procedure for the FBI. Only this time, they didn't jump in as heroes and "save the day". Further reading:

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MIB

Eyewitness at Orlando nightclub mass shooting: 'I saw two guys firing constantly'

Margaret Wheeler Johnson
Romper
Sun, 12 Jun 2016 21:13 UTC
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© AP/Phelan M. Ebenhack
After a fatal mass shooting at Pulse, a gay club, early Sunday morning, eyewitness accounts of the Orlando nightclub shooting have begun to emerge, and they are harrowing. The shooting began around 2 a.m., according to CNN, and resulted in at least 50 fatalities and 50 people wounded. Orlando Police Chief John Mina said police shot and killed the gunman, and the shooting is being treated as an act of terrorism, with the FBI involved.

According to Reuters, a police officer working a security shift at the nightclub opened fire on the shooter, which resulted in a hostage situation. Mina said Sunday that the gunman was carrying an assault rifle, a handgun, and a "device" that authorities haven't yet identified. Shortly after the first police officer exchanged fire with him, police began hearing from people inside the club. At around 5 a.m., officers entered the club and fatally shot the gunman. Reuters reported that it was unclear when he had shot those killed and wounded.
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USA

Radicalized by police state thuggishness? Orlando shooter suspect was NYPD fan


Moon of Alabama
Sun, 12 Jun 2016 20:12 UTC
Omar Mateen
(pictures flipped for better readability)
Last night some deadbeat loser killed more than 50 people in a gay club in Orlando, Florida. It is the largest shooting massacre in the U.S. since Wounded Knee. According to his ex-wife the man, one Omar Mateen, used to beat her and was not religious.

Earlier Mateen took pictures of himself and posted those on Myspace. The pics are selfies and mostly not remarkable but in TWO of them he wears shirts with New York Police Department emblems on them.

This tells us what?
  • The guy was a follower of the NYPD?
  • He had pledged allegiance to the NYPD?
  • The NYPD radicalized him and taught him to hate gays?
There is currently a lot of speculation but no evidence that the guy was also a fan of the Islamic State (ISIS) death cult. None of the pictures he posted points into that direction, but it still may be the case.

But what does that really tell us?

Was his emotional relation to ISIS as strong as his emotional relation to the NYPD?

Do such assumed allegiances tell us anything at all?

Comment: Mateen, 29, is apparently a US citizen born to Afghan parents. This is what an FBI official initially had to say: "We do have suggestions that that individual may have leanings towards that particular ideology [extremism]. But right now we can't say definitively so we're still running everything around." Now, the media are saying that Mateen made a call to 911 prior to the attacks where he pledged allegiance to ISIS. Right...

This guy had been on the FBI's radar for 5 years. 'Anonymous officials' are saying there is no immediate evidence proving any connection between the shooting and Islamic State or any other foreign extremist organization. Senator Bill Nelson said this: "I asked the FBI if there was any connection to Islamic radicalism. There appears to be. But they are naturally cautious and waiting throughout to see if if this is [in fact true]." They'd be the ones to know! The FBI is responsible for the vast majority of radicalization and terror plots in the U.S.

Mateen's father had this to say:
Mateen's father, Mir Seddique, believes that this was an act of homophobia and not religious. Mir Seddique told NBC that he had seen his son become angry when two men kissed in front of his son. Seddique told NBC News, "this has nothing to do with religion."
Similarly, as MoA points out in the article, even if he did "pledge allegiance" to ISIS (which is highly dubious), that is meaningless. Any moron can say they like ISIS - that doesn't mean they were not simply bigoted criminals.

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Attention

Santa Monica police report man with weapons and explosives arrested, was going to L.A. gay pride parade

Joel Rubin, Hailey Branson-Potts and Frank Shyong
The Los Angeles Times
Sun, 12 Jun 2016 19:05 UTC
Police confer Sunday around a white Acura man arrested in Santa Monica.
© Zahira Torres / Los Angeles TimesPolice confer Sunday around a white Acura, believed to be connected to the man who was arrested, on 11th Street in Santa Monica.
Authorities in Santa Monica found possible explosives as well as a cache of weapons and ammunition Sunday in the car of a man who told them he planned to look for a friend at the L.A. Pride festival in West Hollywood, a law enforcement source said.

Federal and local law enforcement decided against canceling the annual parade, which went forward Sunday morning under tightened security. Investigators are now trying to piece together what happened but said they don't believe their is any connection between the incident and the massacre at a gay bar in Orlando that killed 50 people overnight.

Early Sunday, Santa Monica police received a call of a suspected prowler near Olympic Boulevard and 11th Street. Patrol officers responded and encountered an individual who told officers he was waiting for a friend. That led officers to inspect the car and find several weapons and a lot of ammunition as well as tannerite, an ingredient that could be used to create a pipe bomb.

The car had Indiana plates, and law enforcement sources said the man arrested was white.
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MIB

Another FBI patsy? Alleged Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was known to FBI for 3 years


The Daily Beast
Sun, 12 Jun 2016 11:13 UTC
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Mateen was a 'known quantity' to federal law enforcement before he killed 53 people in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.


Comment: Eyewitness Javer Antonetti, 53, was at the club with his brother. He said he was near the back of the club when he heard shots ring out:
"There were so many, at least 40 [shots]. I saw two guys and it was constant, like 'pow, pow, pow'."
Another eyewitness said:
"There had to have been more than one shooter - the shooting was so constant, it sounded like a gun range."

Omar Mateen of Port Saint Lucie, Florida, came to the attention of federal authorities twice prior to being identified as the gunman in the Orlando nightclub mass shooting, a senior law enforcement source told The Daily Beast.

Mateen killed 53 people and shot more than 100 in total at the Pulse gay nightclub early Sunday morning, in the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.

The senior law enforcement source reports that Mateen became a person of interest in 2013 and again in 2014. The Federal Bureau of Investigation at one point opened an investigation into Mateen but subsequently closed the case when it produced nothing that appeared to warrant further investigation.

"He's a known quantity," the source said. "He's been on the radar before."

Mateen was a U.S. citizen; his parents are from Afghanistan, CBS News reports.

Comment: Mass shootings like this often follow a formula:
  • initial eyewitness reports indicate multiple assailants while the media and authorities then claim that the shooter was a "lone shooter"
  • the "lone shooter" was either known to or had directly worked with some faction of the US government, frequently the FBI
  • the "lone shooter" is immediately labeled as guilty despite no investigation taking place and conflicting initial reports
  • the "lone shooter" is immediately identified as an ISIS terrorist/sympathizer (in this case, because he allegedly called the police to tell them so prior to carrying out his deed)
  • and the "lone shooter" typically ends up dead and therefore unable to provide any testimony in his defense
This story is still developing so things could change, but thus far it does appear to be following this formula. For more information: Undoubtedly, Americans will be further divided after this tragedy.

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Snakes in Suits

Author and journalist Tariq Ali: Banks and elites have allowed the poor to rot for their own selfish gains


RT
Sun, 12 Jun 2016 14:50 UTC
Tariq Ali
© Tariq Ali / RT
The banks behind politicians in the western world "have allowed the poor to rot," and now the elites in those countries, especially the US, are facing a revolt, journalist and author Tariq Ali told RT America's Chris Hedges in an exclusive interview.

"The elites who have run the United States and western Europe have proven incapable of offering even the smallest palliatives to their populations. They have allowed the poor to rot ‒ regardless of skin color ‒ and grow," Ali said. "And so what we have is a protest against this center elite, which I call the extreme center because whether it's social democratic or conservative, they unite to crush."

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has become a perfect example of this protest against the extreme center, he tells Hedges.

"They've found in Trump someone who airs their most crazed fantasies at the same time who attacks the banks, at the same time attacks these new treaties which are being carried through and promises some palliatives to the poorest section of the white working class," Ali said.
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