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posted by n1 on Sunday June 04 2017, @03:25AM   Printer-friendly

Armed police respond to serious incidents at London Bridge and Borough Market – with members of the public urged to reach areas of safety.

Since late yesterday evening [Saturday, 3 June], the Metropolitan Police Service has been responding to incidents in the London Bridge and Borough Market areas of south London. We are treating this as a terrorist incident and a full investigation is already underway, led by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command.

[...] Six people have been killed in terror attacks on London Bridge and at Borough Market.
Three male suspects have been shot dead by police.
Canisters seen around the body of at least one of the suspects have been “established to be hoaxes”, police said.
Police believe all of those directly responsible for the attack have been killed.

[...] Since March there has been the Westminster attack by Khalid Masood, who mowed down pedestrians near parliament and stabbed a policeman, resulting in six deaths, including his own: and the Manchester bombing two weeks ago that killed 22. And now London again.

[...] An editor in the Sun’s London Bridge Street office says police confirmed that a number of blasts heard [...] were controlled explosions.

Source: The Guardian

An investigation into the foreign funding of extremist Islamist groups may never be published, the Home Office has admitted.

The inquiry commissioned by David Cameron, was launched as part of a deal with the Liberal Democrats in December 2015, in exchange for the party supporting the extension of British airstrikes against Isis into Syria.

But although it was due to be published in the spring of 2016, it has not been completed and may never be made public due to its "sensitive" contents.

It is thought to focus on Saudi Arabia, which the UK recently approved £3.5bn worth of arms export licences to.

Source: The Independent

 
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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @06:08AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @06:08AM (#520118)

    Democrats or Republican.... the system "owns" both, and trot them out before us each election to give us the illusion we have a choice.

    Another reason is to get us into blaming ourselves for placing the wrong one into power.

    They are very artful in inciting fractures in the populace concerning things like abortion or gay rights, while they deal with much bigger things behind our back. How many of US got to vote on the DMCA, for instance? Nah, we get to bicker over who gets to use which toilet.

    This game is rigged. No matter what we do, its our fault.

    This whole mess is a result of one thing. Organization. Most of us rank-and-file working sheep-to-be-sheared are too busy with the day-to-day matters of life to concern ourselves much with politics. Whereas for the elite, politics *is* their job, and they are highly organized. About the most organization I have seen amongst the common people are churches. Churches are hardly organized for politics... they seem mostly concerned with collecting sheep who will line up for a shearing. While the government reciprocates by allowing them tax-free status to keep the populace praying for God to do it instead of taking matters into their own hands.

    The elite also have the power ( that we let them have by not standing up to them when they started doing it ) to spend money they don't have by allowing the government to borrow money ( aka "extend the debt ceiling ) to pay for armed people to enforce their wishlist. Have this deemed "lawful" if the government does this to the populace, yet deemed "treason" if the populace does it.

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  • (Score: 2) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Sunday June 04 2017, @04:51PM

    by Jeremiah Cornelius (2785) on Sunday June 04 2017, @04:51PM (#520265) Journal

    Good Cop

    Bad Cop

    The trillionaires still have you, coming and going.

    --
    You're betting on the pantomime horse...