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Trump admin considering proposal to monitor the mentally ill to prevent future shootings

Justine Coleman
The Hill
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 23:38 UTC
trump mass shootings mental illness

Trump believes America's mass shootings are a result of mental illness.
President Trump's administration is considering a proposal to study whether monitoring people with mental illnesses could prevent future violence, The Washington Post reported Monday.

Advisers to former NBC Chairman Bob Wright, a friend of the president, proposed the study to discover if technology like phones and smart watches could be utilized to determine if someone is at risk to commit a violent crime, according to the Post.

The reported proposal, coined SAFEHOME (Stopping Aberrant Fatal Events by Helping overcome Mental Extremes), is part of Wright's project to develop an agency to look for creative ways to solve health problems.

Wright has presented the proposed agency known as Health Advanced Research Projects Agency (HARPA) to the Trump administration, the Post reported. Ivanka Trump, the president's senior adviser and daughter, reportedly asked if the team advocating for the agency could also look into methods to stop mass shootings.

This potential study sparks public concerns regarding the invasion of privacy of those with mental illness.

Comment: Obviously those who commit such crimes are mentally ill in one respect or another, whether due to a pathological character disturbance, pharmaceuticals or being under the influence of something far more sinister. The problem is that in many cases, law enforcement often doesn't follow up on the knowledge it already has, and then there's the other kind of mass shooting:

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French airline declares bankruptcy leaving 13,000 passengers stranded around the world

Ibtissem Guenfoud
ABC News
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 00:00 UTC
Aigle Azur declares bankruptcy

Aigle Azur plane sits on the runway at Orly airport in Paris, Sept. 7, 2019.
Thousands of passengers of the French airline Aigle Azur have been stranded around the world for days after their planes were grounded due to bankruptcy.

The French airline stopped activity Friday and cancelled all flights. The company is in such a financial impasse that it can neither compensate its customers financially nor ensure the repatriation of travelers whose return flight has been canceled.

For passengers in airports, the situation may remain difficult for several days. Of the 13,000 still stranded, 11,000 passengers were booked on flights to and from Algeria, 600 to and from Mali, and the rest to and from Portugal, Russia, Lebanon, and a few dozen people with Brazil, Ukraine and Senegal.

I do not know when I will be able to go back because I have no money on my account. I cannot buy another ticket. Sao Paulo-Paris is between 750 and 1,700 euros", Marie, a young French woman stranded in Sao Paulo, Brazil, told French radio station RTL.

Comment: According to this article in January, there has been a rash of low-cost airlines that have gone bankrupt in Europe, primarily due to overcapacity and from 'excessively ambitious expansion plans' on the part of the airlines.

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Pilot strike cancels nearly 100% of British Airways flights

Michael Bartiromo
Fox News
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 20:22 UTC
Heathrow strike
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A screen at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 displays a message from British Airways, which writes that it is "deeply sorry" about the cancelations.
British Airways to cancel 'nearly 100 percent' of flights amid pilot strike. The union says its going to 'cost the company considerably more than the investment needed to settle this dispute.'

"If your flight is canceled, please do not go to the airport."

This is obviously sage advice for any traveler, but it's a bit more urgent for anyone flying British Airways.

The airline, which issued the statement to The Telegraph, has canceled nearly "100 percent" of flights for Sept. 9 and Sept. 10 amid a dispute with the British Airline Pilots' Association (BALPA), which scheduled a strike for Monday and Tuesday.

"We understand the frustration and disruption BALPA's strike action has caused our customers. After many months of trying to resolve the pay dispute, we are extremely sorry that it has come to this," the airline wrote in a statement to Fox News. "We remain ready and willing to return to talks with BALPA."

Comment: See also: Largest strike in Ryanair's history leaves 400 flights cancelled and thousands of passengers affected

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Instagram reported down worldwide


RT
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 17:13 UTC
Instagram
© Reuters / Lucas Jackson
Instagram users around the world have reported that the photo-sharing platform is down on both coasts of the US, in Europe, and beyond. Frustrated users took to Twitter to vent.

The outage was spotted on Monday at around 5pm GMT (12pm Eastern Time), according to Downdetector.com, a website where users can report such problems.

Issues ranged from certain features of the app, such as the text editing function, not working, to the app failing to open.
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Dutch cop kills his family in apparent murder-suicide


RT
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 18:43 UTC
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© MediaTV
Several people have been shot dead in the Dutch city of Dordrecht, near Rotterdam, according to police. Unconfirmed reports state that three had been killed.

The incident occurred at around 6pm local time on Monday, in the Heimerstein neighborhood of the city. Police soon descended on the scene of the shooting, which is believed to have happened inside a private home.

Comment: Public broadcast organization RTV Rijnmond reports that, according to the police, three people were found dead in a house, with one person seriously injured. Local residents told RTV Rijnmond that it's a policeman's home. Other Dutch media report that of the three people who were killed, two were children, and that the shooter was a policeman who took his own life.

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Russian TV news reports 'foreign agents' actively involved in recent Moscow demonstrations


Russia Insider
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 18:18 UTC
protest elections moscow
© Maxim Shemetov/Reuters
People take part at a rally calling for opposition candidates to be registered for elections to Moscow City Duma, the capital's regional parliament, in Moscow, Russia. The placard reads: "I have a right to my candidate".
The US Embassy in Moscow and the German news station Deutsche Welle have taken an unusual interest in Russian elections.

How would Americans react if a Russian news agency encouraged US citizens to "go out on the streets?"

Transcript:
US Ambassador John Huntsman and the leadership of the German television and radio broadcasting company Deutsche Welle have been invited to Okhotny Ryad. Deputies want to know how come the social media account of the US Embassy posted the detailed route of the procession on August 3rd. The German channel tweeted "It is our civic duty to go out on the streets." It's hard to see as this anything other than a call to violate the law. That's what the Foreign Ministry said, actually. Now it's the senators who are wondering who can benefit from this abroad.

Comment: Russia has taken steps to rid itself of most of the troublemaking NGOs the US has tried to install, but it is like playing whack-a-mole. The CIA, Soros and other meddlers will always be able to find malcontents to fund. Still it seems the Russian government has a handle on the problem.

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Second death by shooting in London in last 12 hours


Independent, UK
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 18:27 UTC
london police
© Reuters / Simon Dawson
A man in his 20s has been shot dead in Kentish Town, north London, in the capital's second fatal shooting in less than 12 hours.

Police say the victim was found with a gunshot wound at around 12.10am on Monday.

Firearms officers and an air ambulance were dispatched but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

Metropolitan Police said the next of kin of the latest victim had not yet been informed and that no arrests had been made.

It came just hours after another man, also in his 20s, was shot dead in Sydenham Road, Lewisham, in the southeast of the city.

The victim, who was in his twenties, died at the scene at 3.50pm, police said.

Witnesses in the area said that they had heard reports the man had accidentally shot himself.

Comment: London's doing great...

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'The world's gone totally mad': Google censors 'offensive' ad for traditional 'faggots & peas' dish


RT
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 18:01 UTC
Fanny's Rest Stop Cafe
A British restaurant owner is furious after Google's offensive content filter took issue with an advertisement for a traditional regional dish, mistaking it for a homophobic slur and deleting the ad for its 'hateful' content.

Jo Evans-Pring, owner of Fanny's Rest Stop Cafe in Wales, saw a welcomed boost in sales after buying a number of ads through Google, but she was soon informed that there was a problem with one of her adverts. The tech giant took umbrage with a traditional lunch offering: Fanny's faggots and peas.

"I posted an advert on the website for Fanny's faggots with peas and onion gravy, a pretty traditional meal and one of my favourites... but the next day I got an email from Google saying they'd removed a post of ours," Evans-Pring said.

She and her staff "realised they'd moved the faggots one - and we couldn't think it was for any reason other than it having the word 'faggots' in it."
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Planned Parenthood staff admits to supplying aborted baby parts to 'for-profit brokers'

Venus Upadhayaya
Epoch Times
Fri, 06 Sep 2019 18:07 UTC
planned parenthood
© Lucas Jackson/Reuters
A Planned Parenthood building in New York on Aug. 31, 2015.
The first day of court proceedings on Sept. 3 from Planned Parenthood's lawsuit against the Center for Medical Progress started with Planned Parenthood staffers taking the stand in San Francisco and admitting to providing fetal tissues in exchange for money, reported the CMP website.

The defense team presented undercover investigation videos showing top executives and clinicians from Planned Parenthood brokering in aborted baby parts.

Court proceedings are underway to decide if the defendants should face a criminal trial.

"Planned Parenthood abortion providers appeared under oath in court today and admitted supplying the body parts of children in the womb to for-profit brokers like StemExpress," David Daleiden, a defendant in the case and one of the key investigators who exposed the alleged dealings of Planned Parenthood, stated in a press release.

Daleiden, who is also the founder of the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), a group of citizen journalists "dedicated to monitoring and reporting on medical ethics and advances," is facing 14 counts of felony invasion of privacy along with fellow investigator, Sandra Merritt, according to The Federalist.

Comment: See also:

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GNA spokesman: Haftar forces suffer losses as GNA troops advance south of Tripoli


Sputnik
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:12 UTC
libyan national army tripoli
© Associated Press/Esam Omran Al-Fetori
Members of Libyan National Army (LNA) commanded by Khalifa Haftar, get ready before heading out of Benghazi to reinforce the troops advancing to Tripoli, in Benghazi, Libya April 13, 2019
The troops of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) have made advances south of the city of Tripoli, making the Libyan National Army (LNA) loyal to Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar suffer losses, GNA military spokesman, Muhammad Kanunu said on Monday.

"The forces of the Government of National Accord are making advances in all directions to the south of Tripoli supported by the Libyan Air Forces," the spokesman said adding that the troops loyal to Haftar suffered serious defeat.

Comment: Given that it's the West-backed GNA making the statement, it might be prudent to wait until there is further reporting before taking it on.

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