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New York man accused of holding 81-year-old Marine Corps veteran hostage in motel for 4 years


CBS New York
Thu, 21 Jul 2016 15:02 UTC
Perry Coniglio
© Highlands Police Dept.
Perry Coniglio
A New York man is accused of holding an 81-year-old Marine Corps veteran hostage in an upstate motel next door to a police station for at least four years in order to steal his benefits checks.

Perry Coniglio was arrested July 19 in his room adjoining the victim's at the U.S. Academy Motel in Highlands, just feet away from a building housing police and ambulance services in the Hudson Valley town. The charges against Coniglio include grand larceny and unlawful imprisonment.

Police say he used brute force and intimidation to get veteran David McClellan to cooperate with him. Investigators say the victim received three checks every month. The amounts weren't released.

The victim has been taken to a hospital for evaluation.

Conligio faces multiple charges, including criminal possession of a weapon, endangering the welfare of an incompetent person, grand larceny, menacing, unlawful imprisonment and unlawful possession of marijuana.

Coniglio is being held in jail Thursday on $15,000 bail. It's unclear if Coniglio has an attorney.
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Attention

UK military in security panic after RAF base 'abduction attempt'


RT
Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:55 UTC
RAF soldier
© Luke MacGregor / Reuters
UK military bases are in a state of panic with a number on alert after what appeared to be the attempted abduction of an airman at RAF Marham in Norfolk.

Hours after two men were reported to have tried to bundle an airman who had gone jogging outside camp into a vehicle at knife point on Thursday, an army base in Wiltshire went on high alert after there were reports of three people with a long-barrelled weapon on a local bridge.

Police in the Bulford Camp area sent up a helicopter and deployed armed officers but no people or weapons were spotted.

Marham is home to fighter jet squadrons currently bombing the Middle East, while Bulford is home to the British Army's military police HQ and a number of infantry units.

The suspected Marham kidnappers are still on the run, according to statements from Norfolk police.

Comment: Convenient incident for UK to increase rather than decrease military spending.

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Nuke

Greenpeace: Radiation levels in seabed off Fukushima '100s of times' higher than prior to disaster


RT
Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:23 UTC
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan February 10, 2016
© Toru Hanai / Reuters
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan February 10, 2016
The amount of radioactive substances in seabed off Fukushima is hundreds of times higher than before the disaster, a report issued by Greenpeace reveals. The figures mean that there is absolutely "no return to normal after nuclear catastrophe" in the area.

On Thursday, the environmental group released a report addressing the results of the study during which scientists analyzed radioactivity levels along Fukushima's rivers and in the Pacific seabed off the coast.

"These river samples were taken in areas where the [Prime Minister Shinzo] Abe government is stating it is safe for people to live. But the results show there is no return to normal after this nuclear catastrophe,"said Ai Kashiwagi, Energy Campaigner at Greenpeace Japan.
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Oh the irony: RNC brings massive boost in business to gay sex workers


RT
Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:15 UTC
bush gannon

Bush with gay prostitute Jeff Gannon. A Republican tradition?
Gay sex workers reported an upsurge in demand during this week's Republican National Convention in Cleveland, while the ladies of the night appeared to miss out on the booming business.

Some male prostitutes claimed to have earned six times more than normal, with female sex workers noting that business has been slower.

Ironic, considering the Republican Party has just passed what has been called the most anti-LGBT platform in its history.

Craigslist was bombarded with a flurry of ads offering gay sex, specifically aimed at RNC attendees, according to The Daily Dot.

It appears that several Republicans have been quick to take male escorts up on their offers, according to the New York Post, which spoke with a number of male prostitutes working in Cleveland during the RNC.

They described the typical client as married and aged between 40 and 50.
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In the Land of the Free: Cops can say they smelled marijuana to invade private property and hold innocent people hostage

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 21 Jul 2016 14:10 UTC
Police forced entry
As animosity toward police reaches a boiling point in America, cops and even police accountability activists continue to ignore the reason for the divide. People are tired of being harassed, extorted, kidnapped, caged, and killed for possessing or ingesting an arbitrary substance that makes them happy that happens to be deemed illegal by the state.

In the United States, 1 out of every 111 citizens is currently in a government cage. Of those 2,224,400 people behind bars, nearly 400,000 of them are locked up for drug violations only.

According to the most recent data in 2014, police arrested 1,561,231 people for drug violations in a single year — 83 percent were possession only. Of that 1.5 million, 700,993 arrests were for marijuana — 88 percent of those arrests were for people possessing the plant only.
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Video released of Houston cops shooting of Alva Braziel


RT
Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:03 UTC
Houston Police shooting Alva Braziel
© TrendingNow / YouTube
Graphic body cam footage showing Houston police fatally shooting Alva Braziel has been released under the orders of the mayor, who took issue with claims on social media that Braziel, a black man, had been unarmed. Multiple videos of the deadly police shooting of Alva Braziel, a 38-year-old African-American man, were posted Thursday on the Houston Police Department's YouTube page. They included police body cam footage from two responding officers and surveillance video from a convenience store from the July 9 incident in southeast Houston, Texas.

The clip, which lasted more than 18 minutes, opens with surveillance footage from the convenience store. The grainy dark image shows Braziel in the distance falling to the ground 10 seconds after a police car pulls up. The body cam footage from the responding officers shows the aftermath of the shooting, where the officer goes up to Braziel, covered in a blood stained vest and a gun in his right hand, which is then removed by one of the officers. Viewers can hear Braziel's labored breathing as police say they called for an ambulance.

In the video, a witnesses can be heard saying just after the shooting, "I know he pulled a gun, man, but come on." The video is extremely graphic.

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Mr. Potato

'Alt media' shills Alex Jones and Cenk Uygur make fools of themselves at RNC; Clinton 'Rape' t-shirts a hit


RT
Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:52 UTC
tyt jones
© The Young Turks / YouTube
After scuffling with anti-Trump protesters, right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones nearly came to blows with the anchor of left-wing show 'The Young Turks' after he charged into their live coverage of the GOP convention.

Jones interrupted The Young Turks mid-sentence, challenging its host, Cenk Uygur, about his support for Hillary Clinton. The conversation quickly descended into chaos as hardcore GOP consultant Roger Stone joined the fray.

Having reached his limit, Uygur confronted Stone over his comments from the background, calling him a "sick man" and "the biggest liar in media." The two then nearly entered into a scuffle.


Comment: Jones the paranoid blowhard; Uygur the liberal interventionist with his head in the sand. It's the faux left/right controlled 'alt' media in a nutshell. It's hilarious that they argue over which of their heroes is a rapist: Trump or Clinton. They're both accused rapists.


Comment: Calling the RNC a circus is an understatement. This is the level to which politics has descended in the great USA.

But seriously, the only thing worse than the level of discourse is the candidates themselves. What are the chances the U.S.'s two main choices for president - Clinton and Trump - also happen to be two of the most reprehensible, morally vacuous, soulless shells in a human-shaped form? As above so below!

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India official says air force plane with 29 on board is missing


FOX News
Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:57 UTC
Indian Air Force's (IAF) AN-32 transport aircraft
© AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi, file
A spokesman for India's defense ministry says the Indian air force has lost contact with a transport plane with 29 people on board.

Nitin Wakanker says the AN-32 aircraft took off from the southern city of Chennai at 8.30 am Friday. It was slated to reach the coastal city of Port Blair three hours later but had not been in contact for nearly three hours beyond its arrival time.

A massive search by the air force, navy and coast guard has been launched.
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Cult

Atlanta mayor imports Palestinian repression to blacks: Rejects demand to end Israeli police training

Rania Khalek
Electronic Intifida
Thu, 21 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC
Atlanta mayor
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed rejected a demand from groups affiliated with the movement for Black lives to halt Israel's training relationship with local police departments.

Following a resurgence of street protests over the gruesome police slayings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, two Black men killed on film in Louisiana and Minnesota, Reed held a meeting with a collective of protesters calling themselves #ATLisREADY to discuss their list of demands.

The first demand calls for "a complete overhaul of Atlanta Police Department's (APD) training institutions," including "a termination to APD's involvement in the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE) program, that trains our officers in Apartheid Israel."

"The best counterterrorism techniques in the world"

"There was a demand that I stop allowing the Atlanta Police Department to train with the Israeli police department," Mayor Reed acknowledged at a press conference (video above). "I'm not going to do that," he told reporters.

"I happen to believe that the Israeli police department has some of the best counterterrorism techniques in the world," Reed insisted. "And it benefits our police department from that longstanding relationship."

Comment: For further reading about Israel's ponerizing influence on US police, see:

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War Whore

Homeland Security tries to take WSJ reporter's phones

Joseph Cox
Motherboard
Thu, 21 Jul 2016 02:08 UTC
Los Angeles Airport
On Thursday, a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter claimed that the Department of Homeland Security demanded access to her mobile phones when she was crossing the border at the Los Angeles airport.

The case highlights the powers that border agents purport to have, and how vulnerable sensitive information can be when taken through airports in particular.

"I wanted to share a troubling experience I had with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in the hopes it may help you protect your private information," Maria Abi-Habib, a WSJ journalist focused on ISIS and Al Qaeda wrote in a post on Facebook. (Abi-Habib confirmed to Motherboard that the Facebook account was hers, but declined to comment further.)

Abi-Habib says she had arrived in town for a wedding, when an immigration officer approached her, and took her aside from the main queue. This by itself was not unusual, Abi-Habib writes: because of her job, she has reportedly been put on a list that allows her to bypass the usual questioning someone with her travel profile may encounter.

But things changed quickly, and Abi-Habib was escorted to another part of the airport.
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