Saturday 22 August 2015

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DOJ reports on policing Ferguson unrest could cost taxpayers more than $1mn

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 05:14 PM PDT

The Justice Department could pay two contractors over a million dollars total to produce reports on the St. Louis County Police Department response to violence that erupted in Ferguson, Missouri last August. Yet critics contend the reports will be biased.
The DOJ hired the Police Foundation to produce a report on “collaborative reform” for the St. Louis County PD and the Institute for Intergovernmental Research for an “after-action” report on the department’s policing during the 17 days of violence and looting in the St. Louis suburb after a white Ferguson Police Department officer shot and killed an unarmed black teen on August 9, 2014.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch obtained copies of the contracts with the two outside companies via a public records request. Those contracts show that the Institute for Intergovernmental Research estimated it will cost $225,000 to complete its report, while the Police Foundation report will cost about $780,000. That collaborative reform report was initiated at the request of St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar in September.
The after-action report budget includes $54,450 for contractors and $37,600 to travel to St. Louis. The collaborative reform report anticipates more than 140 days of consultant work, spread among at least a half dozen consultants, at a rate of $550 a day; travel costs; multiple trips to St. Louis by Police Foundation officials; phones; space rental; and other costs, the Post-Dispatch reported.
But former St. Louis County police chief Tim Fitch thinks the Justice Department reports will be biased against the county police department.

“They’re being paid to say whatever the DOJ wants them to say,” he told the Post-Dispatch. “It certainly is stunning that the DOJ would spend that amount of money to conduct a review of a police agency that already has the highest level of accreditation of any agency in the country.”
Fitch said that the federal government should allow police agencies to hire their own experts, so both sides of an issue could be presented to decision makers.
The DOJ’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), which hired the two companies, defended its use of contractors to complete the reports.
COPS spokeswoman Mary Brandenberger told the Post-Dispatch that the agency hires outside contractors to produce “nonbiased, fair and objective” reports, for which there is a price.
“I’m not aware of any police analysis charities out there,” she said.
“We peer-review everything,” Brandenberger added. “It is a third-party, independent analysis.” But the cost compared to a previous after-action report gives some credence to Fitch’s criticisms.
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Rare sniffer dog found key evidence against Subway’s Jared

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 04:48 PM PDT

A hidden flash drive that helped prosecutors crack the child pornography case against the former Subway pitchman was found during the search of Jared Fogle’s home by a special dog, one of just four in the US trained to sniff out electronics.
The two-year-old black Labrador, named Bear, accompanied investigators on the search of the Zionsville, Indiana mansion. He sniffed out a flash drive, which helped the authorities complete the criminal case against the former spokesman for the fast-food chain.
Investigators retrieved and examined a total of 16 smartphones, five cellphones, five mp3 players, five tablets, six laptops, one desktop, six hard drives, five cameras, 10 flash drives, 10 memory cards, 46 CDs and 22 DVDs during the search of Fogle’s home in July, WRTV reported.
Bear had four months of training at Tactical Detection K9, a Louisville, Kentucky-based outfit that specializes in training and selling sniffing dogs. His handler, Todd Jordan, says there are only three other dogs in the entire country that can sniff out flash memory devices, based on the scent of their components.
“Bear is unique because he can sniff out SD cards, thumb drives, external hard drives, iPads and micro SD cards,” Jordan told WTTV. “It’s something we probably can’t smell.”
The dog has assisted Indiana’s Crimes Against Children task force in five investigations so far. Jordan says Bear’s next destination is Washington state, where he will take on a job with the Seattle Police Department. Tactical Detection K9’s website lists Bear as ‘Sold’ for $4000.
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‘AK47-armed’ man opens fire on Amsterdam to Paris train, gets overpowered by passengers

Posted: 20 Aug 2015 05:54 PM PDT

At least three people have been injured after a man, reportedly armed with a Kalashninov rifle, opened fire on a Thalys high-speed train between Amsterdam and Paris on Friday. The attacker was apprehended by soldiers traveling on the same train, according to local media. The shooting occurred near the town of Arras in northern France around 6:00pm local time (4:00pm GMT). The railway station in Arras was locked down by security forces.
“The man was armed with automatic weapons and knives. He was stopped by passengers,” Christophe Piednoel, a spokesman for French railway SNCF said on iTele television. Police said the 26-year-old man was of Moroccan origin.
According to La Voix du Nord newspaper, a US and British soldiers apprehended the attacker after hearing the noise of a machine gun being loaded in the toilet. One of the soldiers was shot, while the other was stabbed in the struggle with the gunman.
Other reports suggest three US marines stopped the assailant.
The third injured person is reportedly French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade. The 60-year-old has starred in over 30 movies, including international hits Killing Zoe, Betty Blue and Nikita. His life is out of danger.
“The situation is under control, the travellers are safe. The train stopped and the emergency services are on site,” Thalys officials said on Twitter. The attacker was detained by the police. He has not been identified yet.
“Talking about a terrorist motive would be premature at the moment,” Pierre Henry Brandet, Interior Ministry spokesman, told BFM-TV. According to prosecutors, French counter-terrorist police have taken over the investigation of the attack.
France’s Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve visited the scene in person.
France’s anti-terrorism prosector is now investigating the incident, he said. The minister also praised two American citizens who helped to disarm the attacker by saying that they were “particularly courageous and showed extreme bravery in extremely difficult circumstances,” Reuters reports.
President Francois Hollande has expressed his solidarity with the wounded ensuring that “everything is being done to shed light on this tragedy.”
An unconfirmed video of the suspect’s arrest is circulating on social media.
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Claims that marijuana smell offensive go up in smoke

Posted: 20 Aug 2015 05:10 PM PDT

The smell of marijuana is not inherently offensive, the Oregon Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday. The court tossed out charges against a man who was convicted of crimes after an officer inspected his home when smelling the drug.
Comparing the smell of marijuana to perfume or pungent spices, the three-judge panel stated that pot could reasonably be considered offensive if its odor remains “very intense and persistent,” but that otherwise it doesn’t clear the threshold to become “physically offensive.”
“We are not prepared to declare that the odor of marijuana smoke is equivalent to the odor of garbage,” the ruling said. “Indeed, some people undoubtedly find the scent pleasing.”
Whether or not the smell of burning marijuana is “physically offensive” is particularly important in this case, since it revolved around the arrest of Jared William Lang, who was arrested in November 2012 after an officer acquired a search warrant for an individual potentially creating a “physically offensive” smell, a charge that is categorized as second-degree disorderly conduct.
Instead of arresting Lang on that charge, though, the officer found aerosol cans and other items that were being used to paint graffiti on nearby property. Lang was convicted on three counts of misdemeanor second-degree criminal mischief, Oregon Live reported. He faced several months behind bars as well as a nearly $450 fine.
Lang filed an appeal claiming that his home was searched illegally. As a result of his appeal, the panel decided that it could not definitely say that the smell of burning pot is inherently physically offensive. Instead, such a determining would hinge on how long the smell has lasted, how frequently it occurs and how strong it is.
“Who determines whether a particular odor is offensive?” the panel asked. “Although some odors are objectively unpleasant – rotten eggs or raw sewage come to mind – others are more subjective in nature.”
The court said it couldn’t decide if the smell was that bad in this case, since the officer in question and the neighbors who complained did not specify.
“Moser stated that he could smell marijuana outside defendant’s residence when he arrived the first time, but nothing he said suggested how strong the odor was, such as how far away he was when he initially detected it,” the court ruled. “Nor did [the]defendant’s neighbors indicate how intense the odor had been on any given occasion, either inside or outside their residences.”
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Dow Jones, Nasdaq face worst weekly losses in 2011 after yuan devaluation

Posted: 20 Aug 2015 05:09 PM PDT

The Dow Jones industrial average suffered its worst loss in five years after the market plunged into a correction on Friday. Stock markets around the world lost value amid concerns over the global economy.
The Dow plunged nearly 531 points ‒ 3.1 percent ‒ to close the day at 16,459.75. The blue chip index is down more than 10 percent from its record high in May. With that drop, the Dow entered a correction, or a reverse movement of 10 percent to adjust for an overvaluation. The index dropped 5.8 percent this week.
“Right now there is a feeling of fear in the marketplace and all news is interpreted negatively and it’s interpreted indiscriminately,” Tom Digenan, head of US equities as UBS Global Asset Management, told CNBC.
The Dow and the Nasdaq Composite saw their biggest weekly losses since September 2011. The Nasdaq fell 3.5 percent ‒ 171.45 points ‒ to end the week at 4,706.04. Its weekly loss was 6.8 percent.
RT’s Edward Harrison blamed drops on the Chinese decision to devalue the yuan earlier in August, rather than any problems with the US economy itself.
“The ultimate cause is really the mini-devaluation by China,” explained on ‘Boom Bust’ Friday. “It caused people to reassess markets. Before China did their mini-devaluation, people thought to themselves, ‘Okay, maybe China can continue to be the marginal buyer of last resort, we’ll put a floor on the commodity prices and everything will be fine, we won’t see any more additional selling’.”
But as soon as the devaluation occurred, Harrison continued, people realized there would be problems with emerging markets and commodities. “As a result of that, they began to sell those markets,” he said.
“You look at Apple, it gets a lot of money from Chinese consumers, and so these markets [like the S&P 500]are starting to sell off as well,” Harrison said.
The US markets aren’t the only places affected by concerns over the yuan. The Russian ruble is down 20 percent so far in August, and Brazil is also down 20 percent, putting it in a bear market.
Oil briefly fell below $40 a barrel for the first time since March 2009, but ended the day at $40.45 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. That meant that crude oil futures for October delivery ended the day down 87 cents, or 2.11 percent.
Worried investors are turning from stocks to safer assets like bonds and gold, Harrison said. Gold futures with December delivery dates shot up to $1,153.10 an ounce in New York on Thursday, a five-week high.
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Autopsy reveals St. Louis cops shot teen in the back

Posted: 20 Aug 2015 05:02 PM PDT

Preliminary autopsy results show that a St. Louis teenager killed by police on Wednesday was shot in the back. The medical examiner’s findings appear to contradict the police, who said that officers opened fire after the teen pointed a gun at them.
The autopsy showed that Mansour Ball-Bey, 18, died from a single bullet that struck his upper right back and hit his heart and an adjoining artery, St. Louis Chief Medical Examiner Michael Graham told Reuters on Friday. The bullet did not exit Ball-Bey’s body, and killed him “nearly instantly.”
Ball-Bey was African-American. Both officers involved in the shooting are white. Some 150 protesters gathered at the scene on Wednesday evening. When police tried to disperse them, the protesters threw rocks and bottles. Police responded with tear gas. A car and a house were set on fire, and nine protesters were arrested.
While the autopsy could not determine whether way Ball-Bey might have been twisting around when he was shot, “he certainly wasn’t facing, his chest wasn’t facing the officers,” Graham said.
According to the St. Louis Police department, two men fled from officers executing a search warrant at a house in the crime-ridden neighborhood of Fountain Park. One of the men, later identified as Ball-Bey, reportedly pointed a gun at the officers, who shot four times in his direction. A handgun recovered from Ball-Bey had one round in the chamber and 13 more in the magazine. Three more guns and an unspecified amount of crack cocaine were found at the house.
The autopsy’s findings seem to contradict the testimony of a witness who told the police that he had seen Ball-Bey throw away his gun, run a short distance, and collapse in the front yard of the house. Police sources related the testimony to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Jermaine Wooten, an attorney who represents Ball-Bey’s family, says family members and numerous witnesses told him the 18-yard-old had been shot from behind, and that he did not have a gun at all.
Police chief Sam Dotson said the wound’s location neither proves nor disproves the contention of officers at the scene that Ball-Bey refused to drop a gun and pointed it at them before being shot.
“Just because he was shot in the back doesn’t mean he was running away,” Dotson said. “It could be, and I’m not saying that it doesn’t mean that. I just don’t know yet.”
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‘Ghost particles’ from space found in South Pole ice

Posted: 20 Aug 2015 05:01 PM PDT

A neutrino observatory based in Antarctica has confirmed the detection of massless particles deep within the South Pole’s ice. They were created from astrophysical sources like black holes and exploding stars throughout the Milky Way and beyond.
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory employed 86 optical sensors buried 8,000 feet into the polar ice to detect light from high-energy neutrinos that, at the speed of light, pass through most mass with ease. Those neutrinos occasionally collide with an atomic nucleus, creating a muon, or a high-energy cosmic neutrino, that gives off what’s known as Cherenkov radiation.
The IceCube observatory found 21 muons passed through its detectors between 2010 and 2012, according to a new report released in the journal Physical Review Letters.
The project, led by researchers from the University of Wisconsin, had previously found neutrinos from outside our galaxy in 2013. To confirm the finding, researchers then had to prove the neutrinos were not coming from within our galaxy, such as from the sun.
Researchers say the presence of the muons proves neutrinos are traveling through space, unencumbered by stars, planets, or entire galaxies before meeting with atoms on Earth.
Each muon contains between 100 and 1700 tera-electron-volts, according to the researchers, who counted only muons that came from the Northern sky, passing through Earth, meaning the planet acted as a filter for the muons.
“Looking for muon neutrinos reaching the detector through the Earth is the way IceCube was supposed to do neutrino astronomy and it has delivered,” said Francis Halzen, a physics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and principal investigator of IceCube. “This is as close to independent confirmation as one can get with a unique instrument.”
The exact point of origin for these neutrinos is yet to be determined, researchers said.
“The plane of the galaxy is where the stars are. It is where cosmic rays are accelerated, so you would expect to see more sources there,” said the study’s senior author Albrecht Karle, also a UW-Madison physics professor. “But the highest-energy neutrinos we’ve observed come from random directions.”
“It is sound confirmation that the discovery of cosmic neutrinos from beyond our galaxy is real,” he added.
IceCube’s findings will allow astrophysicists to study the particles that have traveled millions of light years between their origin and Earth, giving new insight into how particles accelerate throughout the universe.
“IceCube collaborators address several big questions in physics, like the nature of dark matter and the properties of the neutrino itself,” according to the project’s website. “IceCube also observes cosmic rays that interact with the Earth’s atmosphere, which have revealed fascinating structures that are not presently understood.”
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‘Satanism-promoting Jews’ claim by Spanish Radio program provokes Israeli anger

Posted: 20 Aug 2015 05:00 PM PDT

A Spanish Radio program which said Jews were promoting Satanism recently raised the ire of Israelis. One of the program’s episodes says Jews “propagated the cult of Lucifer” and even used black magic to “call on the powers of darkness.”
The controversial episode dubbed ‘From the Inferno-The Jewish People: Propagator of the Satan Cult’ appeared in the ‘A la Carta’ radio program aired by Spain’s RTVE back July 25 this year. However, it came under spotlight of Israeli media only this week.
The 30-minute episode starts with ominous music. Then a presenter quotes Jacob Frank, a controversial 18th-century Polish-Jewish religious leader. Frank claimed to be the reincarnation of the self-proclaimed messiah Sabbatai Zevi and was excommunicated by Jewish authorities due to his heretical doctrines and controversial teachings.
“The Jews first propagated the cult of Lucifer in several secret satanical societies,” the presenter says, as cited by Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “Through black magic, the Israelites called on the powers of darkness with demonic rational.”
According to the episode synopsis, “the Jewish founders of the occult and masonry society introduced the cult of Lucifer.”
The episode, however, doesn’t’ state where exactly and in which period of human history Jews ‘propagated’ the Satan cult. Neither does it specify how many Jews joined Satanism or how they called their ‘dark powers’.
The episode about Jewish Satanism was condemned by Yigal Palmor the Director of Public Affairs and Communications of the Jewish Agency for Israel, whose primary aim is immigration of Jews in Israel. He also served as the spokesman for Israeli Foreign Ministry between 2008 and 2014.
“How can a public entity give a podium to this sort of crude, lowly and disgusting racism? A return of the Inquisition,” Palmor tweeted. Not all social media users welcomed the controversial episode. Some of them accused the program of instigating religious hatred.
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