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21 June 2016

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Homeland Security seeks $100million to replace terms 'Muslim Americans' and 'the Muslim world' with 'American Muslims' and 'Muslim communities' --DHS also pushes to ban the words 'Sharia law' and 'jihad' [Right. The US doesn't want to ban Sharia law - just the words!] | 17 June 2016 | The Department of Homeland Security thinks censorship will help stop American millennials from becoming drawn to groups like ISIS. DHS's Advisory Council has released a report, suggesting that we stop making the fight against radical Islam an 'us versus them' fight...That means doing away with Islamic terms like 'jihad' - which means holy war- and 'Sharia law,' which are rules that govern ways of life in Muslim governments. The department also says we should stop using the term 'Muslim Americans' and 'the Muslim world', and replace them with 'American Muslims' and 'Muslim communities'. The department is asking that 100million be used to fund the effort, which will go towards paying experts and creating social media programs and technology to steer millennials away from terrorist recruiters.

 

German foreign minister accuses Nato of 'warmongering' against Russia --'We would be well advised not to provide a pretext to renew an old confrontation.' | 18 June 2016 | The German foreign minister has broken ranks with Nato allies, accusing the alliance of "warmongering" against Russia. Frank-Walter Steinmeier spoke out against recent Nato military exercises in Poland and the Baltics, describing them as "sabre-rattling". "The one thing we shouldn't do now is inflame the situation with loud sabre-rattling and warmongering," the minister told Bild am Sonntag newspaper. "Anyone who thinks a symbolic tank parade on the alliance’s eastern border will bring security is wrong," he said in excerpts released ahead of a longer interview to be published on Sunday.

 

Lugansk People's Republic: Ukraine Armed Forces Opened Fire on Civilians in Popasnaya | 18 June 2016 | Ukrainian Armed Forces opened fire on civilians in the centre of the district of Popasnaya near the contact line in territory under their control in Donbass, said the official representative of the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) Defense Ministry Andrey Marochko, citing intelligence reports. "According to this information, the soldiers of the 10th battalion of the 59th brigade of the Armed Forces blew up two grenades and opened fire with small arms on residents in the center of Popasnaya," said Marochko. According to the militia, there are killed and wounded among the civilians, although the exact number has not been established. [*Why* is the US funding and backing the war criminals, terrorists, and sociopaths running Ukraine?]

 

Four US military advisers wounded in Syria | 20 June 2016 | Four U.S. military advisers were lightly wounded earlier this month in northern Syria by attackers who were believed to be part of ISIS, CNN has learned. The Pentagon has not yet spoken publicly about the June 9 incident, but several defense officials told CNN it happened when an anti-tank round was fired close to the advisers' position and exploded a vehicle near them. The troops suffered light shrapnel wounds and are believed to have returned to duty.

 

Foreigners killed in Kabul minibus blast with 'dozens' injured or dead - reports | 20 June 2016 | A number of foreigners were killed and wounded when a minibus was hit by a bomb blast in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. Conflicting reports claim that up to 14 Nepalese guards inside the vehicle perished in the attack. AFP reported that at least 14 people died in the blast. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, AP reported, citing the terror group's spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid.

 

'It's not over': Minister warns of MORE Euro 2016 terror threats as three are charged over ISIS plot and a dozen suspects remain in custody | 18 June 2016 | A Belgian minister has warned of more Euro 2016 terror plots as it emerged a dozen suspects remain in custody following a series of raids. In a mass operation, police arrested 40 people in Brussels, Liege and Anderlecht in the early hours of Saturday morning. Amid fears of an 'imminent' attack on Euro 2016 football fanzone, Interior Minister Jan Jambon warned: 'It's not over'.

 

Belgium charges three men with terrorism offences after overnight raids | 18 June 2016 | Belgian prosecutors charged three men with terrorism offences on Saturday following overnight raids that took place amid heightened security in Belgium and France due to the Euro 2016 soccer tournament. Three months after Islamist bombers killed 32 people in Brussels, police searched dozens of houses across the country and arrested 12 people the night before Belgium's Euro 2016 game against Ireland. Nine of them were released after questioning but three Belgian nationals identified as 27-year-old Samir C., 40-year-old Moustapha B., and 29-year-old Jawad B., were charged with "having attempted to commit a terrorist murder and for participation in the activities of a terrorist group", the federal prosecutor's office said in a statement.

 

Please Vote Leave on Thursday, because we'll never get this chance again | 19 June 2016 |What is the Remain camp offering? Nothing. No change, no improvement, no reform; nothing but the steady and miserable erosion of parliamentary democracy in this country...If we vote Remain, we do nothing to rebuke the elites in Brussels who have imposed the euro on the continent, and thrown a generation of young people on the scrap-heap, and who are utterly indifferent to the misery they are causing for the sake of their bankrupt ideology. We will remain prisoners of a trade regime that will not allow this country - the fifth biggest economy on earth - to negotiate with America, or China or India or any of the other growth economies of the world; because that privilege is reserved exclusively for the hierarchs of the European Commission, of whose vast staff only 3.6 per cent come from this country.

 

Jo Cox False Flag Theories Swirl on Twitter as Brexit Vote Looms | 16 June 2016 | The timing of the cold-blooded murder of liberal British lawmaker Jo Cox, as she was going to a meeting with constituents Thursday, has led to a flurry of social-media chatter claiming Cox's killing was plotted by forces seeking to sway next week's referendum in favor of Britain remaining in the European Union. Cox was stabbed and shot, allegedly by a right-wing loner. But some supporters of a British exit from the EU are spreading a conspiracytheory that the suspect, identified as Thomas Mair, is a patsy of pro-EU forces, and that Cox's murder is a "false flag" aimed at portraying the British right as unhinged and dangerous.

 

How did Orlando victim Antonio Devon Brown die in Pulse Nightclub shooting, when he was killed in 2013 in West Virginia? | 19 June 2016 | According to media reports, Antonio Devon Brown was one of the 49 people killed in Orlando on June 12 - except WOWK-TV News reports that Antonio Devon Brown died in shootout in 2013 in West Virginia. Strange. Two guys with the same name, approximately the same age, both being killed in shooting crimes years apart? Here are links to the recent Orlando Gay Nightclub Shooting, reporting the "victim" as Antonio Devon Brown, age 30...

 

FBI redacts ISIS from transcript of Orlando shooter's 911 call | 20 June 2016 | The FBI redacted the name of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) [I-CIA-SIS] and other extremists from a partial transcript of conversations with the gunman in the June 12 deadly massacre in Orlando, in a move that quickly drew a rebuke from critics of the Obama administration. The [alleged] gunman, Omar Mateen, proclaimed allegiance with ISIS during 911 calls in the midst of the shooting and also expressed solidarity with the Boston Marathon bombers and an American suicide bomber in Syria. But those remarks were redacted from a partial transcript released on Monday morning. Instead, the transcript notes that Mateen identified himself "as an Islamic solider" and repeatedly spoke in Arabic and gave reference to God.

 

Skeptics accuse Orlando shooting victim of being a crisis actor paid to pretend she was injured - and claim the attack never happened --'Conspiracy' theorists accuse Patience Carter of being a crisis actor pretending to have been inside at the time of the shooting | 19 June 2016 | A 20-year-old woman who survived the Orlando shooting with a gunshot wound to the leg hit out at skeptics who accused her of making up her survival story in 'bizarre conspiracy' theories. Patience Carter, a Fox 29 intern from Philadelphia, was visiting Orlando for the first time when she got caught in the Pulse nightclub attack...But as Carter told how she survived the attack, some accused her online of being an actor paid to pretend she had been a victim of the ordeal. A now-defunct [aka pulled due to censorship] YouTube video claimed she was a 'crisis actor', which conspiracy theorists claim is a person hired by the media or by government bodies to pretend they survived crimes such as mass shootings. 'This is faked. This is staged. They are using actors. There is no doubt about it. This is 100 percent bull***t,' a narrator said in the video, which included a montage of news clips about Carter according to the New York Daily News. [For more on crisis actors, see:National Hoax Awards - Best Crisis Actor from 2015 - a classic, but the video needs to be updated, post-Orlando.]

 

Doctor listed on psych evaluation carried out on Omar Mateen by G4S says she had never seen him and was not living in Florida at the time it was conducted | 17 June 2016 | A doctor who is listed on the psychological evaluation for Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen, said she did not see him and she was not even living in Florida at the time when G4S security firm ordered the evaluation. Psychologist Dr Carol Nudelman, who now lives in Colorado, said in a statement released through her attorneys to the Miami Herald that she never evaluated Mateen nine years ago for G4S, a security firm that was known as Wackenhut at the time. However, Nudelman's name appears on the document in Florida's state records, which cleared Mateen to carry a firearm as a private security guard.

Orlando Shooter Omar Mateen Was Excellent Marksman | 17 June 2016 | [Alleged] Orlando shooter Omar Mateen got nearly perfect scores as a marksman during firearms tests and also passed a psychiatric evaluation to handle guns, NBC News has learned. Mateen passed a psychiatric evaluation required for him to obtain a Class G Florida gun license in 2007. The form is an "Agency Character Certification" and it shows that he was examined by a south Miami psychiatrist. [Nope. See: Doctor listed on psych evaluation carried out on Omar Mateen by G4S says she had never seen him 17 June 2016.] In order to obtain his license, the security guard also had to pass a firearms test on a gun range at regular intervals. The maximum passing score on the test is 240. Official records obtained by NBC News show that one year, Mateen scored a 238, and he regularly scored in the 230s.

Three arrested outside NYC after weapons cache, ballistic vests found in vehicle --Arrests took place at the New Jersey entrance to the Holland Tunnel, which exits in lower Manhattan. | 21 June 2016 | Three people were arrested when police discovered a weapons cache in a vehicle headed to New York City during a search at the Holland Tunnel on Tuesday, officials confirmed to Fox News. Authorities arrested two men, aged 50 and 53, and a 29-year-old woman after finding multiple weapons -- some loaded -- including rifles and handguns in their vehicle, described by a law enforcement source as a "jacked up SUV." Ballistic vests and a camouflage helmet were also found in the vehicle, NBC4 reported. The Joint Terrorism Task Force is assisting the investigation, though law enforcement sources told Fox News the arrests were not likely related to terror.

Deal will close California's last nuclear plant by 2025 | 21 June 2016 | California's last nuclear power plant will close by 2025 under an accord announced Tuesday, ending three decades of safety debates that helped fuel the national anti-nuclear power movement. The state's largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric Co., and environmental groups announced the agreement on the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, which sits along a Pacific Ocean bluff on California's central coast. Environmentalists had pressed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for years to close Diablo, given its proximity to seismic faults in the earthquake-prone state.

Supreme Court rules evidence stands after illegal search | 20 June 2016 | The Supreme Court on Monday empowered police to stop people on the streets and question them, even when it is not clear they have done anything wrong. In a 5-3 ruling, the Supreme Court relaxed the so-called exclusionary rule and upheld the use of drug evidence found on a Utah man who was stopped illegally by an officer in Salt Lake City..."The court today holds that the discovery of a warrant for an unpaid parking ticket will forgive a police officer's violation of your 4th Amendment rights," Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in dissent.

Would-be assassin: Man tried to grab cop's gun to kill Trump at Las Vegas rally, authorities say | 21 June 2016 | A man arrested at a Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas over the weekend told authorities he tried to grab an officer's gun so he could kill the candidate, according to court documents released Monday. The documents also showed that the suspect was in the United States illegally. He had overstayed his visa from the United Kingdom, KLAS reported. A complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Nevada charges Michael Steven Sandford, 19, with an act of violence on restricted grounds. A judge denied him bail at a court hearing Monday.

Immigrant in U.S. illegally is accused of wanting to kill Trump | 21 June 2016 | The man facing charges for attempting to grab a police officer's gun, so he could allegedly shoot presidential candidate Donald Trump is in the United States illegally. He had overstayed his visa from the United Kingdom. That information came during his arraignment in U.S. District Court Monday afternoon. Michael Sandford, 20, is charged with an act of violence on restricted grounds. He was arrested Saturday during Trump's campaign rally in Las Vegas.

Man arrested at Trump rally said he wanted to shoot candidate - court papers | 21 June 2016 | A man arrested over the weekend trying to wrestle a gun from a police officer at a Las Vegas rally held by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told an investigator he wanted to kill the candidate, court papers showed on Monday. Michael Steven Sandford, who prosecutors described as a 19-year-old British national, was arrested on Saturday at the Treas-re Island hotel in Las Vegas after trying to disarm the officer, according to Las Vegas police. According to court papers filed on Monday in federal court in Nevada, Sandford told a Secret Service agent he had driven to Las Vegas from California with the goal of shooting Trump.

Senate rejects series of gun measures | 20 June 2016 | Senators couldn't muster enough bipartisan support to pass a series of gun control measures Monday, the latest in a long string of failed attempts at enacting tighter curbs on firearms in the United States...The measures Monday each went down in succession on largely party line votes. The 60-vote threshold required for passage prevented even Republicans, who control the chamber, from pushing through their favored measures.

Obama administration on track to grant one million green cards to people from Muslim-majority countries --832,014 immigrants from Muslim majority countries have received green cards since 2009 | 17 June 2016 | More than 800,000 people from Muslim majority countries have gotten green cards since 2009, with the number set to hit 1 million before President Obama leaves office. The data, released by a Senate subcommittee on immigration and the national interest, reflect a steady uptick in migration from Muslim nations in recent years - even as Donald Trump seeks to put a pause on Muslims visiting the United States. The biggest increase in permanent residents came from Pakistan and Iraq, with more than 100,000 coming from each country.

Trump fires campaign manager Lewandowski, gives Manafort the job | 20 June 2016 | Donald Trump fired Corey Lewandowski, the campaign manager who helped him win the Republican Party's presidential nominating contests but has clashed with other advisers on how to appeal to the broader general electorate, several people with knowledge of the decision said on Monday. The firing on Monday morning was yet another shakeup for a campaign already at odds with many senior Republican figures over Trump's policies, with the party's nominating convention in Cleveland less than a month away.

Manager Corey Lewandowski leaving Trump campaign - Trump spokesman | 20 June 2016 | Donald Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, is leaving the campaign...Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks said Monday that "Lewandowski will no longer be working with the campaign." She paid tribute to his "hard work and dedication" and wished him the best. A hard-charging figure, and in some ways as unconventional as the candidate himself, Lewandowski had been by Trump's side since the beginning of his unlikely rise to presumptive GOP nominee.

#NeverTrump Lives: Dozens of GOP Delegates Are Planning a Coup | 17 June 2016 | ...[T]here's not really much those [GOP] elites can do to keep the Trump train from leaving Cleveland with the nomination in tow. The only thing that could still realize the ambitions of the #NeverTrump movement would be a mutiny among the majority of the convention's 2,400 delegates. On Friday, the Washington Post reported there are literally dozens who are planning to take up that fight. The campaign kicked off Thursday night, with a conference call between 30 delegates from 15 states. According to the Post, the group has already recruited regional coordinators in Arizona, Iowa, Louisiana, and Washington.

Trump supporters denied service at Cook Out | 13 June 2016 | Shannon Riggs and her cousins expected some push back from protesters when they attended presidential candidate Donald Trump's rally in Richmond Friday night. They did not expect what happened when they stopped for dinner on the way home. Dressed in Donald Trump shirts and hats, the family walked up to the window at the Cook Out on Boulevard in Colonial Heights to order burgers and milkshakes. "As soon as we got to the window, someone inside said 'Hell no! I'm not serving them,'" Riggs recalled.

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