Month: July 2016

Mail.com

SAGAMIHARA, Japan (AP) — A young Japanese man went on a stabbing rampage Tuesday at a facility for the mentally disabled where he had been fired, officials said, killing 19 people months after he gave a letter to Parliament outlining the bloody plan and saying all disabled people should be put to death.

When he was done, Kanagawa prefectural authorities said, 26-year-old Satoshi Uematsu had left dead or injured nearly a third of the almost 150 patients at the facility in a matter of 40 minutes in the early Tuesday attack. It is Japan’s deadliest mass killing in decades. The fire department said 25 were wounded, 20 of them seriously.   Continue reading “Letter foretold Japan rampage that killed 19 disabled people”

Fox News

PARIS –  Two attackers slit the throat of an 84-year-old priest and critically injured at least one other person early Tuesday in a church near the Normandy city of Rouen before being shot and killed by police, a French security official said.

The priest, identified by Sky News as Jacques Hamel, was dead at the scene, and another person, possibly a nun, was clinging to life, Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said.   Continue reading “Priest murdered, hostages taken during Mass at French church”

ProPublica – by Charles Ornstein

When the federal government takes the rare step of fining medical providers for violating the privacy and security of patients’ medical information, it issues a press release andposts details on the web.

But thousands of times a year, the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services resolves complaints about possible violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act quietly, outside public view. It sends letters reminding providers of their legal obligations, advising them on how to fix purported problems, and, sometimes, prodding them to make voluntary changes.   Continue reading “The Secret Documents That Detail How Patients’ Privacy is Breached”

Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish

United States — A spectacular implosion has beset the Democratic Party following the Wikileaks release of memos and emails proving, well, just about every accusation from independent media and Sanders supporters made throughout the past year — many of which had been mocked publicly as conspiracies by party insiders.

In the latest jaw-dropper over the nearly 20,000-document leak deserving of the title, DNC-Gate, already-loathed Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz — shamed into resignation from decisive evidence of party collusion with corporate presstitutes against Sanders, among multiple other once-conspiracies — has been dutifully scooped up in an act of mordant hubris by none other than her teflon idol, Hillary Clinton.   Continue reading “Proving She Can Do Anything She Wants, Clinton Hires Disgraced DNC Chair for Own Campaign”

Gearóid Ó Colmáin

A report in 21st of July edition of Le Figaro newspaper states that France’s anti-terrorist executive ( sous-direction anti-terroriste- SDAT) has ordered Nice’s urban surveillance authorities to destroy all CCTV footage of the Nice Attacks on Bastille Day that rocked the city on the 14th of July 2016.

Although SDAT have cited articles 53 and L706-24 of the prosecution procedure and article R642-1 of the penal code, authorities in Nice interviewed by Le Figaro say that it is the first time they have ever been asked to destroy evidence at a crime scene – something they point out is illegal.   Continue reading “French Government orders destruction of CCTV videos in Nice Attacks”

Breitbart – by John Hayward

The Democrats’ newfound paranoia about Russian influence on American affairs was certainly nowhere to be found when Hillary Clinton was cheerfully selling them a huge chunk of America’s uranium stockpile, right after a Russian bank paid Bill Clinton $500,000 for a speech.

The Uranium One story is among the incidents detailed in Peter Schweizer’s Clinton Cash. A quick recap: Uranium One was originally a Canadian company, bought out by Russia’s state atomic energy agency, Rosatom.   Continue reading “Flashback: When the Clintons Loved Russia Enough to Sell Them Our Uranium”

Oregon Live – by Maxine Bernstein

Ammon Bundy wants to inspect and copy court records regarding the selection of a grand jury that returned a federal indictment against him and the selection of jurors summoned for his September trial, his lawyer wrote in a new motion.

He has also requested all emails, text messages, handwritten notes, files, voicemail messages, logs and other communications used by the court in connection with the jury selection process, according to the motion filed by attorney Marcus Mumford.   Continue reading “Ammon Bundy’s lawyer wants to inspect grand jury selection records to challenge indictment”

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BBC News

At least 15 people have been killed in a knife attack at a residential care centre for the disabled in the Japanese city of Sagamihara.

The attack happened in the early hours of Tuesday. Another 45 people were reportedly injured, 18 seriously.   Continue reading “Japan Sagamihara knife attack: At least 15 dead, reports say”

The Anti-Media – by Darius Shahtahmasebi

Following the recent events in the United States, which have resulted in armed civilians taking on police officers—namely in Dallas, Baton Rouge, and most recently in Kansas City, Kansas —  police forces across the country are set to adjust their strategies and tactics.

An interesting detail to note is that on July 11, 2016 — following the first deadly attacks on police officers that occurred in Dallas — Reuters reported police were set to rethink their tactics in nearly half of America’s 30 largest cities. They evidently didn’t act swiftly enough (a number of deadly attacks followed shortly after). It’s either that or the suggested police tactics were never going to address the root causes of the problem we are facing.   Continue reading “Here Are the New Tactics Police Are Preparing to Roll out in Your Community”

Information Liberation – by Chris Menahan

Melania Trump’s wearing a white dress during her speech at the RNC is “scary” racist, at least according to The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Fashion Writer Elizabeth Wellington.

From Philly.com, “Melania Trump’s RNC fashion: A scary statement”:   Continue reading “Newspaper Fashion Writer: Melania’s White Dress is “Scary” Racist”

CNS News – by Patrick Goodenough

With ten weeks to go until the end of the fiscal year, the Obama administration continues to admit Syrian refugees at an accelerated pace, and has now exceeded two-thirds of President Obama’s target of 10,000 by September 30.

The proportion of Christians among those resettled continues to languish below half of one percent, while other non-Sunnis account for just over one percent.   Continue reading “6,726 Syrian Refugees Admitted to U.S. So Far in FY16”

Activist Post – by Joshua Krause

If you pay attention to the news at all, it probably seems like the world has been fraying at the edges lately. In South America, Brazil’s economy is crumbling and Venezuela is on the verge of collapse. In the United States, riots are expected at political conventions. In Europe, the Brexit vote is threatening to tear apart the EU and the UK.

And all over the world, people are becoming sick and tired of the status quo. In nearly every single country, people are losing their faith in major institutions and, in increasing numbers, they are losing their trust in the financial and political elitists who run those institutions.   Continue reading “Sign Of The Times: Riot Control Gear Sales Are Soaring Globally”

NBC Los Angeles

About 20,000 residents remained out of their homes Monday morning as the 51-square-mile Sand Fire continued to burn in Southern California’s Santa Clarita Valley.

The fire has burned about 10,000 acres per day since it began Friday in the hills north of Los Angeles.   Continue reading “10,000 Homes Evacuated Due to ‘Almost Unprecedented’ Wildfire”

Bloomberg

China’s top internet regulator ordered major online companies including Sina Corp. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. to stop original news reporting, the latest effort by the government to tighten its grip over the country’s web and information industries.

The Cyberspace Administration of China imposed the ban on several major news portals, including Sohu.com Inc. and NetEase Inc., Chinese media reported in identically worded articles citing an unidentified official from the agency’s Beijing office. The companies have “seriously violated” internet regulations by carrying plenty of news content obtained through original reporting, causing “huge negative effects,” according to a report that appeared in The Paper on Sunday.   Continue reading “China Bans Internet News Reporting as Media Crackdown Widens”

Breitbart – by Ildefonso Ortiz

One of the largest newspapers along Mexico’s border with Texas is calling for a border wall with Central America, similar to the one being promoted by Republican Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump.

The editorial board of El Mañana, one of the largest newspapers in the border state of Tamaulipas,  penned a piece called “Yes to the Border Wall … but in Mexico’s South.” The piece praises the idea of border wall, not on the border with Mexico, but on the border with Central America.   Continue reading “Mexican Newspaper: Build a Trump-Style Wall with Central America”