A video showing the murder of Fadi Alloun, a 19-year-old Palestinian man, who was shot dead by Israeli police in Musrara neighborhood, beside Jerusalem’s Old City, is sending shock waves around the world as clashes between Israeli settlers and Palestinians escalated over the past three weeks. According to witnesses, Alloun was being followed by around 70 Israeli Jewish settlers surrounded by the Israeli police on October 4. Moments later, we hear the mob yelling at the police ‘it’s a terrorist, shoot him!’ and ‘don’t wait! Shoot him!’ followed by his execution. Alloun is not seen as posing any threat in the video, being surrounded by numerous armed men, and the settlers are seen rejoicing in his death, repeating ‘yes! yes!’ and ‘son of a bitch’.
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Apple disables its own news app in China to comply with censorship
Apple has prevented users from accessing its Apple News app while on the mainland in a move designed to appease Chinese censors.
Source: Apple disables its own news app in China to comply with censorship
Rupert Murdoch says sorry for ‘real black President’ tweet – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
“Ben and Candy Carson terrific. What about a real black President who can properly address the racial divide? And much else,” Mr Murdoch tweeted.The message was retweeted 1,400 times and mentioned 1,200 times amid an outpouring of anger on the internet.Mr Murdoch later took to Twitter again saying: “Apologies! No offence meant. Personally find both men charming.”
Associated Press “The real hack threat is this hack article.”
Any hackers who got access to her server in 2013 or 2014 could have stolen a trove of sensitive email traffic involving the foreign relations of the United States. Thousands of Clinton emails made public under the Freedom of Information Act have been heavily redacted for national security and other reasons.Clinton “essentially circumvented millions of dollars’ worth of cybersecurity investment that the federal government puts within the State Department,” said Justin Harvey, chief security officer of Fidelis Cybersecurity.”She wouldn’t have had the infrastructure to detect or respond to cyber attacks from a nation-state,” he said. “Those attacks are incredibly sophisticated, and very hard to detect and contain. And if you have a private server, it’s very likely that you would be compromised.”
Source: News from The Associated Press
Anti-austerity march draws 80,000 protesters to Belgium′s streets | News | DW.COM | 07.10.2015
More than 80,000 people on Wednesday took to the streets of Brussels to protest austerity measures implemented during the first year of the center-right coalition government’s tenure.The protest marks the second of its size within a year, with the last one occurring in November 2014.Three of Belgium’s main unions joined the protests on a common platform that renounced policies implemented by the center-right government under the leadership of Prime Minister Charles Michel.
Source: Anti-austerity march draws 80,000 protesters to Belgium′s streets | News | DW.COM | 07.10.2015
Roseburg, Reeling From Massacre, Finds Security in Gun Ownership – The New York Times
{Self-delusion is most addicting, as is doing “something” whether is will do any good or not or whether there is any necessity to “do” anything to be safer.}
A week has passed since J.J. Vicari huddled underneath a desk while gunshots exploded in the classroom next door. Now, he is thinking about guns. Not about tightening gun laws, as President Obama urged after nine people were killed at the community college here. But about buying one for himself.“It’s opened my eyes,” said Mr. Vicari, 19. “I want to have a gun in the house to protect myself, to protect the people I’m with. I’m sure I’ll have a normal life and never have to go through anything like this, but I want to be sure.”
Source: Roseburg, Reeling From Massacre, Finds Security in Gun Ownership – The New York Times
U.S. Supreme Court Denied a Hearing on Appeal to Move Jim Thorpe’s Remains
In June William and Richard Thorpe, with the Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma, submitted a motion to the high court to hear their appeal have Thorpe’s body moved to Oklahoma from Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.The brothers, along with their brother, Jack Thorpe, now deceased, brought a suit in 2010 to gain control of where their father should be buried. They maintained their father’s body was taken to Pennsylvania against their wishes when Jim Thorpe died in 1953 by Thorpe’s third wife, Patricia, a non-Native woman, who auctioned Thorpe’s body to the highest bidder. A small borough in Pennsylvania now named for Thorpe won the bid.The small borough in Pennsylvania was a struggling coal town in 1953 and bid on the body as a means to draw tourists to their town.
Source: U.S. Supreme Court Denied a Hearing on Appeal to Move Jim Thorpe’s Remains
Our Commander-in-Grief Has Given This Damn Speech 11 Times | Dame Magazine
How could he not be sick of it? This country’s obsession with guns is cancerous and even the simplest of cures is considered worse than the disease. Last year, our country lost its collective mind when a man in Texas died from the Ebola virus. There were calls to ban all people in Ebola-stricken nations from coming into the United States in fear that they’d spread the disease. When three people died from a listeria outbreak tied to Blue Bell Ice Cream, the company destroyed 8 million gallons of product and shut down its production across the world. Sunland Peanut Butter Company was shut down completely by the FDA after a salmonella outbreak that didn’t cause any fatalities. We accept and approve of corrective action when it comes to products that are deemed dangerous. But if that product fires a bullet, all bets are off, regardless of the body count.
Source: Our Commander-in-Grief Has Given This Damn Speech 11 Times | Dame Magazine
IRIN Asia | Aid agencies withdraw from Afghanistan’s north | Afghanistan | Conflict
A woman registers to pick up her aid package in Kunduz city in April 2015 after escaping fighting in her district between the Taliban and government forces
Food shipments halted
Last month, WFP suspended food delivery operations in Badakhshan after five of its trucks and staff disappeared overnight on their way back from making a delivery. While the staff members were released, the trucks were never recovered.Spokesman Wahidullah Amani told IRIN that the WFP resumed limited food deliveries last week but said that poor security was continuing to undermine operations.“Some districts there have more than 80 percent food insecurity, but they are in very remote areas and access to them is low,” said Amani.
Source: IRIN Asia | Aid agencies withdraw from Afghanistan’s north | Afghanistan | Conflict
Middle East would be more stable if Saddam, Gaddafi still in power: Trump | Reuters Yes, he really said that – ROTFLMAO
“If you look at Saddam Hussein with Iraq, look what we did there, it’s a mess. It’s going to be the same thing” in Syria, he said.Asked by NBC’s Chuck Todd if the Middle East would be more stable with Gaddafi and Saddam in power, Trump replied, “Of course it would be.”Trump, who leads the field of Republicans seeking the presidency in the November 2016 election in public opinion polls, has said he supports Russian efforts to fight Islamic State militants, even though Russia has backed Assad.Trump said last week Assad might be replaced by someone worse if he were ousted.
Source: Middle East would be more stable if Saddam, Gaddafi still in power: Trump | Reuters




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