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CNBC crew arrested for trying to sneak a fake explosive through airport security

Paul Milo
NJ.com
Thu, 18 Jan 2018 23:09 UTC
Newark Airport security
© NJ Advance Media file photo
At least seven members of a cable television crew were arrested after they tried to sneak a fake explosive device through a security checkpoint at Newark Liberty International Airport, the Transportation Security Administration said Thursday.

A law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation said that the team was filming for cable network CNBC, which is based in Englewood Cliffs. The TSA did not release the names of the people they said were arrested, and the Port Authority only said that it was investigating the incident.

The Transportation Security Administration provided this photo early Thursday showing the device that led to the arrests.

A second source said the fake explosive device was a length of PVC pipe with wires sticking out from it. A bomb tech with the TSA determined that the device posed no threat, and that eight people were taken into custody.
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Migration to low-tax states will change Congressional seat apportionment, swing future elections

Jonathan Williams
The Hill
Thu, 18 Jan 2018 22:13 UTC
domestic migration US 2016
© U.S. Census Bureau/Business Insider
Just a month ago, as friends and families prepared to gather for the holiday season, the men and women at the U.S. Census Bureau were busy releasing their latest annual estimates of population changes across the United States.

With the hustle and bustle of the season, many Americans missed the important new data. The new census estimates detail how states have grown since the last full census in 2010. The estimates provide some fascinating insight on what we can expect from the quickly approaching 2020 Census.

For those of us wonky enough to follow the annual trends in state-by-state migration, the numbers were an early Christmas gift.

A report I have authored with Arthur Laffer for the past decade, "Rich States, Poor States," has tracked this movement, as Americans "vote with their feet" across state lines. Our research provides policymakers timely data linking migration to state-level policy decisions and economic competitiveness.

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Shopping Bag

Is Amazon killing Whole Foods? Customers complain of empty shelves and shoddy inventory

Paula Bolyard
PJ Media
Thu, 18 Jan 2018 22:14 UTC
Whole Foods shelf
© Twitter
Shoppers at Whole Foods Markets across the U.S. have been astonished to discover empty shelves at their local stores in recent months, with one customer describing the stores as "the Soviet Safeway." Barclay analysts found stores in disarray with "entirely empty" shelves and deteriorating produce, Business Insider reported.

"Analysts said they encountered 'high' out-of-stock issues last week in every department of one Midwest store across both private-label items and branded items," according to the report. One East Coast store had "extraordinary" inventory problems, according to the analyst.

"The store had no bananas and the supply of eggs and Tropicana products was very low," the analyst reported. "Entire displays, refrigerated cases, and end caps were completely empty. The prepared foods hot bar was entirely empty."

This follows a December story that found dozens of shoppers reporting "bruised, discolored, tasteless, and rotten produce in Whole Foods stores from California to New York over the past couple of months."
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Cop turns his body cam away to avoid filming fellow officers beat a handcuffed man's face

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 22:04 UTC
police beating
Newly released body camera footage is giving insight into the incident that led to a police officer being accused of using excessive force for beating a handcuffed man while his fellow officers turned away-with one of them even moving his Body Cam so that it would not capture the assault.

Police in Louisville, Indiana, located a car that they claimed was reported stolen around 3 a.m. on Sunday, and when they attempted to pull it over, driver Ray Maurice Bard, 36, led them on a chase that ended when he crashed into a concrete garage, according to a report from the Louisville Courier-Journal.

Bard then fled the scene. He jumped over a fence and ran through a backyard, and when police caught up to him, they tased him and put him in handcuffs. The report noted that when searching the suspect, officers found "a plastic bag filled with a variety of narcotics including seven grams of methamphetamine, four grams of heroin and four grams of cocaine, among others."

The footage from the body camera worn by one of the officers, which was recently released, is notable because it shows the officers' attitudes during the incident. The officer wearing the body camera is joking, chuckling and laughing maniacally throughout the video, showing that he knew Bard was not a dangerous suspect.
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Journalist Ben Swann is finally returning using DASH cryptocurrency

Derrick Broze
The Anti Media
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 21:45 UTC
After nearly a year of silence on social media, journalist Ben Swann is preparing to make his triumphant return using the popular DASH cryptocurrency.
Ben Swann
On February 1, 2017, award-winning journalist Ben Swann "went dark" as his social media accounts on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere were suddenly deactivated. Swann is a well-known local journalist at CBS46 in Atlanta, as well as a viral Internet sensation for his Reality Check investigative reports. Swann's Reality Check reports began to garner attention around the 2012 U.S. election and have continued to gain millions of views while questioning the mainstream narrative.
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Zimbabwe opposition leader among 5 killed in New Mexico helicopter crash

Staff and agencies in Albuquerque
The Guardian, UK
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 23:02 UTC
Roy Bennett
© Desmond Kwande/AFP/Getty Images
Roy Bennett on 9 November 2009 in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Roy Bennett, a prominent Zimbabwean opposition figure, has been killed with his wife in a helicopter crash in the US state of New Mexico.

Local police confirmed Bennett's death on Thursday, a day after a helicopter carrying him and five others went down in a mountainous rural area of northern New Mexico.

Investigators will comb through the charred wreckage in a search for clues as to why the helicopter carrying the group of friends - including an adventurous Texas investor and a pair of decorated pilots - went down after dark. The crash killed five people including Bennett's wife Heather, and injured a sixth who raised the alarm.

In Zimbabwe, Tendai Biti, a prominent opposition leader and a former finance minister, tweeted that the Bennett's "tragic passing" was "a blow to our struggle".
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Heart - Black

Police in UK city threatened homeless with jail time if seen sitting on ground during Prince Harry's visit


RT
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 20:51 UTC
Prince Harry
© Ben Birchall / Reuters
Britain's Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle visiting Cardiff Castle
Police in Wales have been accused of "whitewashing" Cardiff after some homeless people claimed they were threatened with jail time if they embarrassed the city during Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's royal visit on Thursday.

Cardiff charity Left Outside Alone reported that the homeless had been told they would face 14 days in prison if they were "seen sitting on [the] floor in town."

Lou Thomas, a designer and illustrator from Wales, also took to social media to share her disgust over the police's alleged threats.

"I just spoke to a group of homeless people in Cardiff town centre and was told they have been threatened with 14 days in prison if they are caught sitting on the ground in town today, apparently it won't look good for the royal visit today," she said.
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Stormtrooper

Dutch cops to profile youths wearing expensive clothes


RT
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 20:38 UTC
dutch cops
© Remko de Waal / Reuters
Police officers in Haarlem, September 25, 2013
Rotterdam police are targeting youths wearing outfits that appear too fancy for them to afford, local media report. Authorities say the controversial practice will help reduce crime in the Dutch port city.

Rotterdam police will soon deploy officers specifically trained to recognize people whose clothes don't seem to match their purported income, De Telegraaf newspaper reported. Local police say the measure will help reduce crime on Rotterdam's streets. It appears that minorities will be more affected by the move than the native Dutch.

"They are often young guests who consider themselves untouchable," Rotterdam police chief Frank Paauw told the newspaper. "We're going to undress them on the street." Police will be scanning for luxury watches which are "a symbol of status for young people," Paauw said. Officers will also be on lookout for expensive jackets and exclusive coats. People that police are going to target "do not have any income, so the question is how they get there."

Comment: Since when did cops have the right to question what anyone is wearing? Their job is to prevent crimes, not be literal fashion police.

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Documentary review: 'In the Land of Pomegranates', on Israeli-Palestinian dialogue

Phillip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
In the Land of Pomegranates

Movie poster for In the Land of Pomegranates.
A new documentary has come out about dialogue. In the Land of Pomegranates offers the hope that by sharing their stories of victimization, Israelis and Palestinians will be able to transcend those myths and learn to get along. The film opened at the Lincoln Plaza in New York last week, and I made a point to see it, because it was long in the making and director Hava Kohav Beller has such a sure hand in telling human stories. But I left the film more despairing than ever.

The central action of the movie is a dialogue project called "Vacation from War" that takes 20-something Israelis and Palestinians to a German retreat to talk about their national stories, so that they might develop more sympathy for the other side. These scenes are riveting/wrenching, even though their emotional focus is on the Palestinians: can they get over their sense of themselves as victims? Alas, they are portrayed by the filmmaker as being indifferent to the Holocaust, even after going to an exhibition on it, and shown to cling to a ghastly foundational story of their own: that someone occupied their house and killed the father and raped the mother, etc., and kicked out the children; now the children have grown up and Israelis expect them to accept the Jewish ownership of the house? No! The refugee's shoe has more right to that house than the Jews, says one of the young Palestinians.
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Pistol

Unarmed teenager tries to stop cop from hurting his mom - Gets shot and killed for it

Jack Burns
Free Thought Project
Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
Joseph Haynes
In juvenile court this week, a 16-year-old boy intervened after a police officer allegedly pushed his mother against the wall - so the police officer shot and killed him. The boy's name was Joseph Haynes and he was unarmed.

The single shot which killed Haynes was fired, police say, in self-defense but family members are disputing that claim. The boy's grandmother Geraldine Haynes said she witnessed the entire incident. In an interview with the Columbus Dispatch, the grandmother recounted the incident.
They had an altercation in the courtroom. The judge gave us another court date and we were leaving. The cop told Karen (boy's mother) to get out of the courthouse and wouldn't let her get her stuff or nothing. And then he (cop) started going over and pushing her against the wall.
That's when she says her grandson, Joseph, stepped in to defend his mother from the officer's manhandling.
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