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Horrific! Texas Walmart employee slits throat of off-duty firefighter in front of shoppers


CBS News - Dallas/Forth Worth
Wed, 13 Jul 2016 16:58 UTC
Nicolas Martinez
© Collin County Jail/NBC 5 News
Nicolas Francisco Martinez
An off-duty McKinney firefighter and one other person were attacked at the Walmart in Princeton, allegedly by an employee who soon became a former employee. Both victims were taken via CareFlite to the hospital.

The two victims are identified as McKinney Fire Department's Battalion Chief George Cook of Princeton and Frederick Oswald of Princeton. Oswald was reported to be doing contract work for Walmart at the time of the incident. Both victims are out of surgery and are expected to make a full recovery.

The Walmart employee, Nicolas Martinez, 20, allegedly slit the firefighter's throat from behind with about 200-300 shoppers inside the busy store. The horrific incident occurred in front of other customers and workers. The suspect then simply walked out of the store and into a nearby field, where he was arrested.

Martinez was also hurt. Police captured video of officers taking him down on dashcam video.
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Attention

Bastille day attack: Possibly 50 killed in Nice, France after truck drives into crowd, reports of gunfire


RT
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 21:56 UTC
Nice terror attack
© VALERY HACHE / AFP
People could be seen running in panic after a truck crashed into the crowd on Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France. Many people have been reportedly injured. There also have been unconfirmed reports of gunfire.

Witnesses reported that the truck that drove into the crowd was watching the fireworks celebration of Bastille Day. Photos emerged on social media showing injured people lying on the ground en masse.

President of the Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur region Christian Estrosi said on Twitter that "dozens" of people were been killed in the incident.

Local media has dubbed the incident an act of terror, reporting at least 50 fatalities. No official confirmation has been released so far.
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Green Light

Darwin Award: Man crashes his car into a tree while playing Pokemon Go


The Smoking Gun
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 21:12 UTC
Cary and Lapras
The New York man who wrapped his car around a tree while playing "Pokémon Go" is a former Marine who was trying to "catch" Lapras, a blue sea creature, right before the crash Tuesday night.

Steven Cary, 28, suffered a broken ankle and leg lacerations when he slammed into the tree while driving alone near a lake in Auburn, an upstate city about 25 miles west of Syracuse.

Cary (left) and Lapras are pictured above.

Cops report that Cary admitted to "actively playing the 'Pokémon Go' game while driving causing him to become distracted and run off the roadway into a tree." He is expected to be cited in connection with the one-car crash.

Comment: While the public chases imaginary monsters the real monsters in government are laughing their collective faces off: The 'Pokémon Go' app is doing the CIA's dirty work

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Bullseye

NYPD officer sues department for pressuring him into profiling blacks and Hispanics; audio recording released

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:56 UTC
NYPD Officer Michael Birch
© Bryan Pace/New York Daily News
NYPD Officer Michael Birch
Recording of a conversation between an NYPD cop and his supervisor, which appears to evidence his being pressured into profiling black and Hispanic men — illegal, 'unofficial' quotas — has just been released by Gawker.

While the New York Daily News originally broke the story in January, audio hasn't been released by any source until Gawker published it on Wednesday.

New York City Transit Officer Michael Birch alleges in a federal class-action lawsuit — for which officers involved are known collectively as the "NYPD 12" — that his supervisors retaliated against him when he failed to meet illegal quotas for stopping black and hispanic men.

Though Gawker only released a two-minute clip from the 36-minute total audio recording, its content appears to damningly reinforce Birch's allegations of what transpired in a conversation with then-Captain Constantin Tsachas, during a performance evaluation in August 2012.
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Take 2

CNN mysteriously drops live feed of reporter critiquing Killary

Kyle Olson
The American Mirror
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:24 UTC
Hillary Clinton
© Lucas Cobb/Flickr CC
What happened on Tuesday isn't going to do anything to help CNN shed the "Clinton News Network" moniker.

As reporter Brianna Keilar was appearing live from Hillary's speech in Springfield, Illinois — and critiquing her record — the feed was mysteriously lost.

"Largely Hillary Clinton's comments here today, John, were based around the recent violence that we have seen," Keilar reported.

"The police-involved shootings of black men in Minnesota, in Louisiana, and the killing of white police officers by a black gunman in Dallas. That was really what she based her comments on around today.

Comment: 14 propaganda tactics used by lapdog media to manufacture consent for the oligarchy
News is a commodity just like everything else these days, and although many still believe the point of news is to inform, it is important to accept the hard truth that the purpose of the news is really just to sell something, be it a product, an idea, a candidate, a public image, a war, or whatever. For this, the mainstream media is focused on first deciding which issues are to be discussed in the public forum, then by using a bagful of tricks to shape people's perceptions of an issue, the media divides us and pits us against each other while leading us into consent for an underlying and hidden agenda.


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Police charged disabled man with assault; video proves otherwise

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 13 Jul 2016 20:09 UTC
Providence PD assault
Surveillance video from an assault on a police officer case shows how cops will lie and deprive people of their freedom to cover up their violent ways.

Last year, Esmelin Fajardo was arrested and charged with resisting arrest and assault on a police officer. However, the only one assaulted in this incident was Fajardo.

The incident happened last September as police were shutting down a nightclub for being open too late. As police were 'protecting' society from the dangers of people being in a private establishment past 2:00 a.m., Fajardo tried to tell them that he worked at the club. However, officers weren't having it.

As cops were escorting everyone out of the building, all hell broke loose when one of them attacked Fajardo.
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Cell Phone

Deadly, global narcissism epidemic: Number of stupid selfie-related deaths higher than ever


RT
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 19:56 UTC
selfies sunset
© Pawel Kopczynski / Reuters
This week a Florida woman fell about 400 feet to her death while attempting to take a scenic selfie at the Grand Canyon - pushing the reported number of selfie-related deaths in 2016 to 29, the same number of selfie deaths recorded for all of 2015.

In 2015 it was determined that we had more chances of being killed by a selfie than a shark.

Yet vain Instagramers desperate to capture the moment have failed to take selfie safety precautions, as there have now been the same number of reported selfie-related deaths for the first half of 2016 as there was for the entire previous year.

Thirty-five-year-old Colleen Burns from Orlando slipped and fell to her death on Friday while taking a picture of herself at the edge of a cliff at Ooh Aah Point in the Grand Canyon National Park. Burns had already uploaded a picture of herself sitting on the edge of a cliff at the park on the same day.

In two separate incidents on June 29, two tourists plunged to their death while taking selfies in Peru. A South Korean tourist lost his footing while posing at the Gocta waterfall in northeastern Peru, falling 1,600ft into a 7-metre-deep lake.

Comment: See also:

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Attention

Power outage disrupts entire New York subway system on anniversary of 1997 two-day blackout


RT
Wed, 13 Jul 2016 20:19 UTC
ny subway blackout 2016
New Yorkers trying to ride the subway experienced long delays, as the system's central control faltered due to a power outage. The mishap comes on the anniversary of the notorious 1977 blackout.

The problem was first reported around 1:30 p.m. local time (17:30 GMT), with the Metro Transit Authority (MTA) warning passengers of "extensive" delays and long wait times.

The MTA's Rail Control Center in Manhattan lost power for unspecified reasons, and had to activate a backup system, the Gothamist reported. As a result, trains throughout the subway network had to be dispatched locally, instead of remotely, resulting in cascading delays.
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Bizarro Earth

Another Monsanto environmental disaster: Glyphosate has poisoned the Great Lakes

Christina Sarich
Natural Blaze
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 15:53 UTC
algae blooms lake erie
Glyphosate, the main ingredient found in Monsanto's best-selling herbicide, Roundup, has poisoned Lake Erie.

Scientists from Ohio Northern University (ONU) in the U.S. have discovered that glyphosate is largely responsible for an increase in harmful algae blooms that contaminate lake water and kill off life dependent upon this habitat.

Namely, dissolved reactive phosphorous (DRP) has been contaminating Lake Erie and the Maumee watershed. This DRP comes from surrounding farms that rely on Monsanto's weedkiller to grow their crops. The runoff ends up in the lakes, killing fish and contaminating the water.

Though Lake Erie's trouble with phosphorous is not new, there has been an alarming increase in DRP, which caused scientists to question its probable origins.

Christopher Spiese, a chemist at Ohio Northern University suggests that an increase in the use of glyphosate is causing the problem. DRP loads in Lake Erie have been increasing since the early 1990s — the same time that Roundup was being sold to farmers across the U.S.

Comment: Monsanto's most dangerous product? The case against Glyphosate

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Cloud Lightning

The time for warning people to prepare is over - we have reached a point of no return

Michael Snyder
theeconomiccollapseblog.com
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 15:12 UTC
no excuses
Is the time for warning people to prepare for what is ahead coming to an end? For years, bold men and women all over America have been sounding the alarm and warning people to get prepared physically, financially, mentally, emotionally and spiritually for the great storm that is rapidly approaching. Personally, I have written more than 2,500 articles on my primary two websites combined, and so nobody can accuse me of not blowing the trumpet. It has gotten to the point that sometimes I am even tired of listening to myself warn the people. But now we are shifting into a new phase.

The other day I was reflecting on some of the things that I have been hearing lately. Sales of emergency food and supplies are way down across the entire industry. Many organizations and websites that have been instrumental in sounding the alarm for a long time are really struggling right now. On my websites, traffic has hit a bit of a plateau after experiencing a tremendous surge late last year. Overall, "prepping" was very hot just a few years ago, and at one time it was estimated that there were approximately three million "preppers" in the United States. But these days there seems to be a tremendous amount of apathy out there.

Comment: Listen to the following interview on The Truth Perspective: Michael Snyder - Economic Collapse and Global Chaos

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