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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 9/29/2016 2:58:55 PM
	1st Case Of Locally-Acquired Dengue Reported In Miami-Dade County September 28, 2016 9:18 AM By Giovanna Maselli View of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with the Wolbachia bacterium --which reduces mosquito transmitted diseases such as dengue and chikungunya by shortening adult lifespan, affect mosquito reproduction and interfere with pathogen replication-- at the Oswaldo Cruz foundation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 2, 2014. (CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP/Getty Images) MIAMI (CBSMiami) — Florida health officials have confirmed the first case of locally acquired Dengue fever in Miami-Dade County. The infection is primarily spread through bites of infected mosquitoes. The person infected with the virus has already received medical treatment and is expected to make a full recovery. Health officials are investigating close contacts around the person to make sure more people are not infected. Miami-Dade Mosquito Control says they are conducting aggressive mosquito control efforts in the area of concern. Dengue fever can present itself as a flu-like illness with muscle aches, pain, fever and sometimes a rash. The symptoms appear within 14 days of being bitten by an infected mosquito and can last for up to a week. This is the second case of locally acquired Dengue in Florida this year but this is the first case for Miami-Dade County. Related: Dade Officials Release Locations Where Mosquitoes Tested Positive For Zika The confirmed Dengue fever case comes as Florida health officials are combatting the spread of the Zika virus – spread through mosquitoes and sexual contact. The virus – linked to severe birth defects in newborns – has spread through parts of Miami-Dade County including Miami Beach and the neighborhood of Wynwood. While Wynwood has been declared Zika-free meaning there are no local transmissions happened, parts of Miami Beach are still considered a Zika transmission zone. Zika 101: Prevent Spread By Protecting Yourself There is also speculation there may be another transmission zone. Four new cases reported Tuesday are still being investigated since officials have not been able to find a point of exposure. Mosquito control has conducted spraying by ground and air meant to fight the spread of the virus. As of Wednesday, there were 109 non-travel related cases in Florida and 693 travel-related cases. Of those cases, 91 pregnant women have been infected. Click here for more information on the Zika virus or here for more Zika-related stories. Giovanna Maselli (cbslocal.com)
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9/30/2016 12:12:10 AM

Black Man Fatally Shot by Police Pulled Vape Device From Pocket, Not Weapon: Officials

By MORGAN WINSOR, J.J. GALLAGHER and DAVID CAPLAN
12 hours ago

Good Morning America

Black Man Fatally Shot by Police Pulled Vape Device From Pocket, Not Weapon: Officials (ABC News)

The object that a black man pulled from his pant pocket before being fatally shot by police in Southern California Tuesday afternoon was not a deadly weapon -- but a vape smoking device, the El Cajon Police Department said Wednesday evening.

The Medical Examiner's Office also identified the man as Alfred Okwera Olango, 38, of El Cajon.

Protests erupted in El Cajon -- located about 16 miles northeast of San Diego -- following the shooting, and continued into Wednesday evening.

Police initially said Tuesday that it received a 911 call from the man's sister, saying her brother was "not acting like himself." According to the caller, he was walking in traffic, endangering himself and motorists, police said. Two officers located the man, who was described as an African-American in his 30s, behind a restaurant in the city, some 16 miles northeast of San Diego.

Olango refused multiple instructions to remove his hand from his pocket, which caused one officer to draw his firearm, police said. Olango continued to ignore further commands and paced back and forth while officers tried talking to him, according to police.

At one point, Olango "rapidly drew an object from his front pants pocket, placed both hands together and extended them rapidly toward the officer, taking up what appeared to be a shooting stance," police said Tuesday. That's when one officer deployed his Taser and another fired his gun several times, striking Olango, according to police.

In Wednesday's statement announcing that the item was a vape smoking device, police said, "The vape has an all silver cylinder (Smok TFV4 MINI) that is approximately 1" diameter and 3" long that was pointed toward the officer. The box of the vape that was held in his grip, is 4” x 2 1/4”s x 1” (Pioneer for You Vape). The vape was collected as evidence from the scene."

Olango was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to police.

El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells said in a press conference Tuesday afternoon that he had watched the video and "saw a man who was distraught" and in pain.

The mayor said Olango's sister indicated in the 911 call that he had a mental illness, adding that all officers in the El Cajon Police Department receive psychiatric training.

"There have been several questions about the Psychiatric Emergency Response Team (PERT)," police said in Wednesday's statement. "The El Cajon Police Department does have an agreement with Community Research Foundation/PERT which allows certified licensed clinicians to partner with police officers in the field in order to provide direct support for mental health calls. On 9/27/16, during the hours of this incident, there was a PERT clinician with a police officer. At the specific time of this incident, that team was on a different radio call that was also PERT related. They were not immediately available."

The district attorney's office has the video of the shooting and will release it if they see fit, Wells said.

The aftermath of the shooting was recorded via Facebook Live. In the video, which lasts for more than 25 minutes, an unidentified woman who claims to be a witness is seen speaking with police about what she says she saw.

"When he took his hand out, he did have something in his hand, but it was no gun. And that's when they shot him," she told the officers.

The Facebook Live video also shows a distraught woman who says she is the victim's sister and is crying to officers at the scene.

"Oh, my God, you killed my brother!" the woman yells through tears. "I called you guys to come help, and you killed my brother. I told you, he's sick. Why didn't you Tase him? Why, why, why, why?"

Police said a witness voluntarily provided a video of the incident on a cellphone, the only phone provided to officers in the investigation. The video has not yet been released. Investigators are reviewing the cellphone video and other recordings recovered from the scene — which police say support their version of events.

El Cajon Police Chief Jeff Davis has vowed that there will be a thorough investigation.

"This will be transparent," he said at a news conference late Tuesday night. "This will be looked at by multiple sets of eyes, and not just ours."

Since Tuesday, dozens of protesters have gathered at the scene of the shooting, chanting, "Black lives matter" and "Hands up, don't shoot!"

The incident is the latest in a string of officer-involved shootings of black men this month that have sparked protests. On Sept. 20, police in Charlotte, North Carolina, fatally shot 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott, who investigators said was holding a handgun. On Sept. 16, police in Tulsa, Oklahoma, shot and killed 40-year-old Terence Crutcher, who was unarmed. The officer who shot Crutcher has been charged in his death and will make her first court appearance on Friday.

(Yahoo News)

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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 9/30/2016 12:33:25 AM
	New Report Reveals Chicago ATF Overwhelmingly Targets Black And Hispanic Males For “Drug Stings” SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 By Derrick Broze A new report has found clear evidence that ATF agents singled out blacks and Hispanics for drug stings in the Chicago area. In early September, the University of Chicago and Columbia Law School filed a report on three drug sting cases hoping to dismiss federal charges based on evidence that agents targeted minorities. The report relates to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) use of controversial reverse drug stings. The U.S. Department of Justice asked the court to keep the report from the public, but the records were unsealed after an open records request by USA TODAY. The new report found “strong, consistent and statistically significant” evidence that ATF agents targeted minorities for reverse drug stings in Chicago. USA TODAY reports: ATF agents operating around Chicago have arrested 94 people in the undercover stings since 2006; 91% were either black or Hispanic. The new report, prepared by Columbia Law School professor Jeffrey Fagan, found only a 0.1% chance that agents could have selected so many minorities by chance, even if they were targeting only people with criminal records that suggested they were likely to be part of a robbery crew, as ATF policies require. Those results, Fagan wrote, show that “the ATF is discriminating on the basis of race” in choosing targets for the stings. USA TODAY reports that defense lawyers in at least seven other cases are expected to file similar requests to drop charges against victims of the ATF’s reverse drug stings. So what exactly is a reverse drug sting? In the never ending War on Terror, federal agencies have invented new tools for catching, or creating bad guys. The ATF has taken advantage of a tactic known as “reverse-stings.” The tactic involves undercover ATF agents working with CIs to find individuals willing to participate in committing robbery on stash houses loaded with drugs and weapons. But these drugs and weapons do not exist, and neither do the houses. In fabricating these details, the ATF hopes to catch what it believes to be dangerous criminals. Critics say the agents are walking a thin-line between catching legitimate criminals and creating the crimes themselves. Brad Heath, a journalist with USA TODAY, has done extensive reporting toward shining a light on the use of reverse-stings by the ATF. Heath reported in June 2013 that the ATF had locked up more than 1,000 people through reverse-stings, and it’s “more than quadrupled its use of such drug house operations since 2003.” The ATF exclusively looks to lock suspects up for both drug and weapons charges that will guarantee they receive mandatory minimum sentences, starting at 15 years. Weapons charges alone do not guarantee long sentences, but a weapons-gun charge combination can significantly extend sentences. USA TODAY examined court records and found that at least 484 people have been been convicted as a result of reverse-stings, with more than two-thirds receiving at least ten years in prison. Although the drugs are not real, the higher the amount the suspects agree to steal from the imaginary stash house, the higher their sentence. The problems with reverse-stings extend beyond the creation of crimes. Records reviewed by USA TODAY show that 91 percent of people locked up under these stings were racial or ethnic minorities. The large majority were black or Hispanic. Melvin King, ATF’s deputy assistant director for field operations, denies the agency is profiling individuals. He says they target “the worst of the worst,” specifically looking for violent criminals using firearms to conduct illegal activities. The unsealed report from the University of Chicago and Columbia Law School makes it quite clear that Chicago cops are focusing on minorities and locking them up for fictional crimes in order to justify the continue mass incarceration of Americans and militarization of the police. There will not be justice until every person who has been locked up behind bars due to “reverse drug stings” is finally set free. This article may be freely reposted in part or in full with author attribution and source link. Image Credit (activistpost.com)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 9/30/2016 9:48:23 AM
	Syria slams US coalition for destruction of bridges in east September 29, 2016 at 8:47 pm \| Published in: Asia & Americas, Middle East, News, Syria, US Smoke from explosions rises during fighting in the village of Jubata Al Khashab in Syria, as seen from the Israeli side of the border fence between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights September 11, 2016. REUTERS/Baz Ratner The Syrian government today criticised the US-led coalition for destroying two bridges on the Euphrates river this week in areas held by Daesh hold in the east of the country. Monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said warplanes most probably from the coalition hit the two bridges in Deir ez-Zor province on Tuesday and Wednesday, making them unusable. The attacks “confirm the so-called international coalition’s intent to bomb and destroy Syrian infrastructure and economic and social establishments through repeated aggressive acts,” state TV quoted the foreign ministry as saying. Syria’s ambassador to the UN Bashar Ja’afari said the bridges had been used by hundreds of thousands of civilians. The Observatory said putting the bridges out of action would impede aid deliveries to areas in need and hamper movement of civilians. The United States has been leading a campaign against Daesh in Syria’s east, supporting Arab and Kurdish fighters on the ground with airstrikes. (middleeastmonitor.com)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 9/30/2016 10:17:58 AM
	Iraqi grandmother 'beheaded and cooked' Isis soldiers heads to avenge her family's murder Wahida Mohamed said Isis killed her two husbands, three brothers and her father. By William Watkinson September 29, 2016 20:28 BST A gun-toting Iraqi housewife has boasted of beheading Islamic State (Isis) militants before boiling their heads in cooking pots. Grandmother Wahida Mohamed Al-Jumaily says her brutal treatment of the extremists is to avenge the deaths of her two husbands, three brothers and her father who were killed by Isis. The 39-year-old, who carries a Beretta 9-mm pistol in a holster under her arm, says that her actions have led to personal threats from IS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. So respected in battle after 12 years of skirmishes with IS, and their predecessors, she now commands 70 soldiers in Shirqat, northern Iraq, it is claimed. Shirqat, around 50 miles (80km) south of Mosul in Salahuddin province, has recently been liberated from the terrorists after took over the town in 2014. Her battles with the extremists have left her with shrapnel in her head and legs and broken ribs, she says. And the brash mother-of-two daughters, better known as Um Hanadi, posts her exploits to her Facebook page – where she shows off severed heads and stands amongst dead militants. She told CNN: "I fought them. I beheaded them. I cooked their heads, I burned their bodies. "This is all documented. You can see it on my Facebook page." Wahida Mohamed Al-Jumaily says she has beheaded Isis fighters before boiling them in a potWahida Mohamed / Facebook She says she is so hated by Isis that their fighters have planted car bombs outside her home at least eight times (in 2006, 2009, 2010, three in 2013 and one in 2014) and they have even killed her livestock. Al-Jumaily believes that Isis warlord al-Baghdad desperately wants to kill her: "I'm at the top of their most wanted list - even more than the Prime Minister". She added: "Six times they tried to assassinate me. I have shrapnel in my head and legs, and my ribs were broken. But all that didn't stop me from fighting." Al-Jumaily, who describes herself as a "rabat manzal" (a housewife), began working with the government to fight terror groups in 2004. She has fought terrorists in many guises as Isis began life as al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the Mujahideen Shura Council, al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) before their current incarnation. Wahida Mohamed Al-Jumaily amongst a band of fighters in Shirqat, Iraq.Wahida Mohamed / Facebook (ibtimes.co.uk)
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