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Friday, October 2, 2015
Meet Oregon School Shooter Chris Harper-Mercer: "You're Going To See God In Just About One Second"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/02/2015 09:20 -0400
Sadly, the post-mass-shooting killer profile has become something of a media tradition in the US of late as a string of violence that includes the execution of nine African American churchgoers in Charleston and the on-air murder of a TV reporter has delivered a shock to the collective psyche of Americans and served notice that tragedies like those that occurred at Columbine, Virginia Tech, and Sandy Hook may well become commonplace going forward.
The latest “incident” in the mass shooting tradition came on Thursday when someone described only as “a 20-year-old man” went on a rampage at Umpqua Community College in Oregon. According to some eyewitness accounts, the shooter demanded that victims “stand up and state their religion” before summarily executing them.
On Friday, the first details are beginning to emerge about the identity of the shooter. Here’s Reuters with more:
The man killed by police on Thursday after he fatally shot nine people at a community college in southern Oregon was a nervy 26-year-old who lived close to the campus and described himself as shy, according to neighbors, media and online reports.And here’s further color from The New York Times:
A law enforcement source said multiple agencies had identified the shooter as Chris Harper-Mercer. Online directories list a man of that name as having lived in Torrance, California, before moving to Winchester, Oregon.
The killer used four guns, including a type of assault rifle, in the classroom attack, CNN said. Seven people were also wounded at the Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, a timber town of about 20,000 people that adjoins Winchester.
A photo posted on a MySpace profile belonging to someone named Chris Harper-Mercer, from Torrance, showed a young man with a shaved head, dark-rimmed glasses and a serious expression. He was holding a long-barreled gun.
A neighbor next door to the Winchester building said Thursday night he recognized online photos of Harper-Mercer as being his neighbor.
In an Internet posting on the Spiritual Passions dating and social networking site, a user posted a picture that appears to be Harper-Mercer under the user name IRONCROSS45, a handle Harper-Mercer used as his email.
He described himself on the site as a 26-year-old, mixed-race "man looking for a woman." He said he was "not religious, but spiritual," and was a "teetotaler" living with his parents and a conservative Republican. Socially, he said, he was "shy at first" and "better in small groups." He described himself as "always dieting" and looking for "the yin to my yang."
Chris Harper Mercer, the man identified as the gunman in the deadly rampage at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., on Thursday, was a withdrawn young man who neighbors said wore the same outfit every day — combat boots, green Army pants and a white T-shirt — and was close to his mother, who fiercely protected him.Here are the images from Mercer’s MySpace page...
Neighbors in Winchester, Ore., and Torrance, Calif., where Mr. Mercer, 26, lived with his mother, Laurel Harper, remember a reclusive and seemingly fragile young man with a shaved head and dark glasses who seemed to recoil from social interaction.
“He always seemed anxious,” said Rosario Lucumi, 51, who rode the same bus in Torrance as Mr. Mercer when she went to work. She said she believed he took it to El Camino College. “He always had earphones in, listening to music.”
“He and his mother were really close,” said Ms. Lucumi, who estimated that Mr. Mercer and his mother, who shared a small one-bedroom apartment in Torrance, lived there for less than a year. “They were always together.”
Bryan Clay, 18, said he once asked Mr. Mercer why he wore “a military get-up” every day.
“He kind of just didn’t want of talk about it” and changed the subject, Mr. Clay said.
“He didn’t say anything about himself,” he added.
Mr. Mercer appeared to have sought community on the Internet. A picture of him holding a rifle appeared on a MySpace page with a post expressing a deep interest in the Irish Republican Army. It included footage from the conflict in Northern Ireland set to “The Men Behind the Wire,” an Irish republican song, and several pictures of gunmen in black balaclavas. Another picture showed the front page of An Phoblacht, the party newspaper of Sinn Fein, the former political wing of the I.R.A.
A picture of Mr. Mercer also appeared on a long-dormant dating website profile registered in Los Angeles. On it, he described himself as an “introvert” with a dislike for “organized religion.”
...here is the above mentioned "Spiritual Passions" profile...
...and here is a review penned by someone with the same username (IRONCROSS45) after purchasing Nazi attire:
According to reports, Mercer's professed "dislike for organized religion" led him to "target" Christians, although the chilling details presented below may simply indicate that Mercer was attempting to terrorize his victims before killing them. Via CNN:
The gunman who opened fire at Oregon's Umpqua Community College singled out Christians, according to the father of a wounded student.Mercer's blog posts, which were penned under the name "lithium_love" have apparently been removed (see here) but here are some excerpts via CNN and via another blogger who copied the entries before they were taken down. The first two paragraphs reference Virginia shooter Vester Flanagan:
Before going into spinal surgery, Anastasia Boylan told her father the gunman entered her classroom firing.
"I've been waiting to do this for years," the gunman told the professor teaching the class. He shot him point blank, Boylan recounted.
Others were hit too, she told her family.
Everyone in the classroom dropped to the ground.
The gunman, while reloading his handgun, ordered the students to stand up and asked if they were Christians, Boylan told her family.
"And they would stand up and he said, 'Good, because you're a Christian, you're going to see God in just about one second,'" Boylan's father, Stacy, told CNN, relaying her account.
"And then he shot and killed them."
I have noticed that so many people like him are all alone and unknown, yet when they spill a little blood, the whole world knows who they are. A man who was known by no one, is now known by everyone. His face splashed across every screen, his name across the lips of every person on the planet, all in the course of one day. Seems the more people you kill, the more you're in the limelight.We'll leave it to readers to draw their own conclusions as to what this says about race relations in America, religion, the copy cat effect, and the outright disintegration of society. We close by noting that sadly, we doubt this is the last time we'll find ourselves profiling someone who carries out a mass shooting and we leave you with the following rather unnerving bit from The New York Times piece excerpted above:
And I have to say, anyone who knew him could have seen this coming. People like him have nothing left to live for, and the only thing left to do is lash out at a society that has abandoned them.
I just read about the houston cop shooting. Figured I’d post this since the response to my previous blog post on vester flanagan was so interesting. On the houston shooting it was reported that the suspect was influenced by black lives matter protests/movement. Although I don’t know if thats true, with all the issues about police and blacks/protestors in the news the past couple of years, it certainly seems like someone would be inspired to take action. With the constant chants of anti police rhetoric this was bound to happen. I don’t disagree that police brutality and excessive use of force is a problem, but killing an officer that never did anything to you is not the answer.
This whole event seems similar to the one in new york earlier this year where that guy killed those two cops sitting in a parked car. The inflammatory rhetoric on both sides, whether warranted or not will only continue to agitate the situation and events such as these will happen more and more. These are just my thoughts on the matter. Will continue to post more blogs on related subjects, as well any interesting thoughts I may have.
In the offline world, Mr. Mercer’s mother sought to protect him from all manner of neighborhood annoyances, former neighbors in Torrance said, from loud children and barking dogs to household pests. Once, neighbors said, she went door-to-door with a petition to get the landlord to exterminate cockroaches in her apartment, saying they bothered her son.
“She said, ‘My son is dealing with some mental issues, and the roaches are really irritating him,’ ” Julia Winstead, 55, said.
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Toys 'R' Us ships in foreigners, ousts U.S. workers
Toys ‘R’ Us seems to be taking advantage of a visa program to hire foreigners and replace Americans. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Toys ‘R’ Us is taking advantage of the H-1B visa system to bring in foreign workers so they can be trained by the very American employees they will replace.
The company will then use those newly trained staffers to ship the jobs to overseas markets.
The end result is about 70 American workers are losing their jobs, mainly in the company’s accounting department in New Jersey.
The New York Times first reported the development, and wrote: “When Congress designed temporary work visa programs, the idea was to bring in foreigners with specialized, hard-to-find skills who would help American companies grow, creating jobs to expand the economy. Now, though, some companies are bringing in workers on those visas to help move jobs out of the country.”
As the Washington Free Beacon pointed out, the global outsourcing is creating a situation where American citizens employed by Toys ‘R’ Us are losing their jobs to the newly trained foreign replacements.
And as the New York Times found, the toy giant isn’t the only company taking advantage of the visa program in such manner.
“The Toys ‘R’ Us layoffs, and others underway now at the New York Life Insurance Co. and other businesses, go further,” the newspaper wrote. “They are examples of how global outsourcing companies are using temporary visas to bring in foreign workers who do not appear to have exceptional skills … to help ship out jobs, mainly to India.”
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.
Rubio wants to expand corporate outsourcing program
As WND has previously reported, scores of big corporations have taken exploited the H1B visa program over the years, using it to replace American workers in their IT departments with cheaper “guest workers” from India, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Yemen and other Asian and Middle Eastern nations. The list includes Disney, Southern California Edison, Harley Davidson, Deloitte, Cargill, Catalina Marketing and Northeast Utilities, among others.
And Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has a bill waiting in the Senate that would triple the number of H1B guest-worker visas handed out to foreign workers every year. Rubio’s so-called I-Squared bill would increase the cap on skilled guest-worker visas from 65,000 per year to around 195,000 and also allow for unlimited green cards to be handed out by universities. The bill would also allow family members of the H1B visa holders to live and work in the U.S.
The Center for Security Policy and others have warned that Rubio’s bill would not only take American tech jobs and give them to foreigners willing to work for less pay, but it would also present a national security risk since most H1B visa holders are not tightly screened for terrorist connections and many of them come from Middle Eastern countries where Islam dominates.
The I-Squared bill has the backing of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Business Software Alliance and heavyweight execs from Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo and Google among others.
Rubio made a fundraising stop on June 9 to the home of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, seeking fresh cash for his presidential campaign.
Rubio, along with Jeb Bush, are the most vocal supporters of the guest-worker program in American politics today, along with Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. Democrat Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, where Cargill replaced 900 U.S. workers last year, is also on board with the program.
WND News Editor Leo Hohmann contributed to this report.
Toys 'R' Us ships in foreigners, ousts U.S. workers
Cheryl Chumley
Thu, 01 Oct 2015 14:59:31 GMT
Russian Airstrikes in Syria Will Be ‘Accompanied by Ground Advances’ by Hundreds of Iranian Troops: Report
Oct. 1, 2015 11:19am Liz Klimas
As Russia continues to defend its airstrikes in Syria, denying that civilians have been killed, sources have said that hundreds of troops, allies of President Bashar al-Assad, have arrived in the country within the last week and a half.
Reuters reported a Lebanese source said that Russian “airstrikes will in the near future be accompanied by ground advances by the Syrian army and its allies,” with the goal being to recapture territory that had been taken by rebels.
“It is possible that the coming land operations will be focused in the Idlib and Hama countryside,” this source told Reuters.
This image taken in Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015 posted on the Twitter account of Syria Civil Defence, also known as the White Helmets, a volunteer search and rescue group, shows the aftermath of an airstrike in Talbiseh, Syria. Russia on Wednesday carried out its first airstrikes in Syria in what President Vladimir Putin called a pre-emptive strike against the militants. Khaled Khoja, head of the Syrian National Council opposition group, said at the U.N. that Russian airstrikes in four areas, including Talbiseh, killed dozens of civilians, with children among the dead. (Syria Civil Defence via AP)
One of the two sources speaking to Reuters also said that a “vanguard of Iranian ground forces began arriving in Syria: soldiers and officers specifically to participate in this battle. They are not advisors … we mean hundreds with equipment and weapons.” This source, also Lebanese, added that they believe Iraqis would join as well.
Russian jets carried out a second day of strikes in Syria Thursday, and some activists claimed that the targets included rebels backed by the United States as concerns grew about a conflict that has now drawn in warplanes from the world’s two most powerful militaries.
Russian President Vladimir Putin denied reports that civilians were killed in any Russian airstrikes.
“We are ready for such information attacks,” he said in a live broadcast from the Kremlin. “The first reports of civilian casualties came even before our jets took off.”
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) told CNN he could “absolutely confirm” Russian airstrikes were “against our Free Syrian Army or groups that have been armed and trained by the CIA, because we have communications with people there.”
In this photo made from the footage taken from Russian Defense Ministry official web site on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015 a bomb explosion is seen in Syria. Reacting to criticism that it is targeting opponents of the Syrian government, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted on Thursday that Russia’s airstrikes in Syria are targeting not only Islamic State militants but also other groups. (AP/ Russian Defense Ministry Press Service)
McCain went on to say the strikes were “an incredible flouting of any kind of cooperation or effort to conceal what their first — Putin’s priority — is. And that is of course to prop up Bashar al-Assad,” CNN reported.
Russian Defense Minister Igor Konashenkov said Russian aircraft damaged or destroyed 12 targets in Syria belonging to the Islamic State group including a command center and two ammunition depots. Officials acknowledged, however, that other unidentified groups were being targeted as well.
Konashenkov said Russian Su-25M and Su-25 jets flew 20 sorties between Wednesday and Thursday morning, and he insisted that civilian areas were not targeted.
In this image made from video provided by Homs Media Centre, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, smoke rises after airstrikes by military jets in Talbiseh of the Homs province, western Syria, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015. Russian military jets carried out airstrikes in Syria for the first time on Wednesday, targeting what Moscow said were Islamic State positions. U.S. officials and others cast doubt on that claim, saying the Russians appeared to be attacking opposition groups fighting Syrian government forces. (Homs Media Centre via AP)
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said airstrikes in the central province of Hama on Thursday hit locations of the U.S.-backed rebel group, Tajamu Alezzah, as well as the province of Idlib, which is controlled by a coalition of rebel groups that include al-Qaida’s affiliate in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra.
The British group said Tajamu Alezzah was also targeted on Wednesday.
Russia’s air campaign in support of Syrian government forces began Wednesday in what Putin called a pre-emptive strike against militants. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Russia was going after IS militants as well as a “list” of other groups.
“These organizations are well known and the targets are chosen in coordination with the armed forces of Syria,” he said Thursday, without specifying.
Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with senior government officials at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015. Russian military jets carried out airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria on Wednesday for the first time, after President Vladimir Putin received parliamentary approval to send Russian troops to Syria. (Alexei Nikolsky/RIA Novosti, Kremlin Pool via AP)
On Wednesday, however, Sergei Ivanov, Putin’s chief of staff, said “the operation’s target is solely air support for the Syrian government forces in their fight against the ISIS.”
Putin has said Russia would be fighting “gangs of international terrorists.” The Syrian government considers all rebel groups terrorists.
The Pentagon said it would begin talks Thursday with Russian military officials on ways to avoid U.S. and Russian forces firing on each other in Syria as tensions escalate over the airstrikes. The talks will be held by video teleconference.
On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the Russians appeared to have targeted areas that did not include IS militants. He complained that Moscow did not use formal channels to give advance notice of its airstrikes to Washington, which is has been conducting its own airstrikes in Syria against IS for more than a year.
Carter said the Russians should not be supporting the Assad government and their military moves are “doomed to fail.”
The U.S. defense chief also said the Obama administration was open to holding direct talks with the Russians on “deconflicting” their military operations in Syria, or arranging ways to avoid firing upon each other or creating unintended incidents in the air.
“Our goals for this meeting are the following: to facilitate the flow of information between coalition forces and Russian elements that will help us maintain the safety of our personnel in the region, which is critical; to ensure that any additional Russian actions do not interfere with our coalition’s efforts to degrade and defeat ISIL, and to clarify that broader U.S. security commitments in the region remain unchanged,” Carter said.
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The Associated Press contributed this report.
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With Glencore telling the market it's going to sell off it's gold and silver streams you can GUESS which side of the market they have placed their TRILLIONS in derivative bets!
http://www.silverdoctors.com/mining-giant-glencore-to-sell-gold-silver-output-to-pay-down-debt/
How come nobody talks about the REAL Glencore? The company created by the long time member of "America's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives", Marc Rich, who groomed "The Rich Boys" who split off to trade/corner the market on all commodity trading through Glencore and Trafigura.
Glencore and Trafigura = MARC RICH!!!
It's so obvious. Marc Rich was hired by Kissinger and the Mossad in the 1970's to rig the oil markets to set up petro-dollar. Hired by Clinton in the 1990's to rig the metal markets for the "strong dollar policy" in exchange for pardons for Rich, Pincus Green, Ivan Glasenberg (now CEO of Glencore) and Dauphin (Majority owner and Chairman of Trafigura who suspiciously DIED yesterday).
The collapse of Glencore and Trafigura is not only the collapse of the PHYSICAL side of the cabal but the MAJOR COUNTER-PARTY of the Banksters!
And by the way...
A trader ALWAYS lies to the public in favor of their derivative book so GUESS which way the Glencore Derivative Book is weighted when it comes to gold and silver!!!
It's gonna get ugly.
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Iran, Hezbollah, Syrian Army Prepare to Launch Offensive Against CIA Proxies
Senator McCain admits Russians targeting CIA mercenaries.
Iran, Hezbollah, Syrian Army Prepare to Launch Offensive Against CIA Proxies
kurtnimmo
Thu, 01 Oct 2015 15:08:13 GMT
Media Caught Distorting President Putin’s Speech
Pelosi Stumped When Asked Whether Babies are Humans
Australia detains pro-life leader on 'false accusations'
A key American pro-life leader who was one of those behind the Center for Medical Progress videos that have brought the abortion industry’s profit-making from the sale of the body parts of aborted infants to the attention of congressional investigators has been detained in Australia based on “false accusations” from a member of that nation’s parliament.
Cheryl Sullenger, senior public policy adviser for Operation Rescue, has confirmed that her co-worker, Troy Newman, was held by authorities in Melbourne, Australia, as he arrived in that nation on an invitation for a speaking tour.
The reason for the detention apparently, Sullenger reported, was a letter from Terri Butler, an abortion-promoting member of parliament, who accused Newman of being an “extremist” and of arguing that abortionists should be “executed.”
“Newman has never advocated violence against abortion providers or facilities and has instead adamantly encouraged pro-life activists to work through the legal, legislative, and justice systems to bring abortionists who are breaking the law and harming women to justice,” Sullenger wrote.
“The pro-abortion bullies in Australia who have been slandering Troy Newman to the government have had to stoop to the lowest of lows to silence his message about Planned Parenthood’s criminality and his use of peaceful, law-abiding activism to expose abortion abuses,” said Sullenger. “Now that they have told so may lies about him, they must make sure he is deported lest their shame be exposed to the people of Australia.”
Published reports said the Australian government was not immediately removing Newman from the country, nor was it allowing him freedom.
The reports said attorneys for Newman had filed a request for an injunction that would allow him to remain. They pointed out to the government that Newman never has been charged or advocated violence.
Butler’s letter charges that Newman’s visit would “incite discord” and “disrupt the ability of women to access lawful reproductive medicine.”
Operation Rescue reported that the detention followed “his visa being cancelled at the request of pro-abortion bullies who were bent on silencing Newman’s message of peaceful, legal activism on behalf of pre-born babies.”
While Newman was in custody, OR reported, “his wife, Mellissa, whose visa is still active, is left along in a foreign country with no luggage.”
“Troy’s unjust treatment by the Australian government is based on a pack of bold-faced lies about his character. This makes him a political prisoner,” said Sullenger. “It’s shocking that the Australian government would take these lies at face value and deny Troy his right to his freedom and free speech. To say we are disappointed is an understatement.”
Newman, the chief of OR, also is on the board of the Center for Medical Progress, which has been releasing videos in a series investigating the baby body parts trade of Planned Parenthood.
They have revealed open discussions by Planned Parenthood executives about the prices they want to charge for the remains of aborted infants. One executive notoriously said, while negotiating for higher prices, “I want a Lamborghini.”
That’s even though profiting from those sales is forbidden in federal law.
Newman had been invited by Australia Right to Life for a series of speaking engagements, prompting Butler to send her “spurious letter” to Minister of Immigration Peter Dutton.
OR reported the pro-abortion politicians “falsely” accused Newman of “advocating the execution of abortion providers, which Dutton never bothered to fact-check.”
In fact, Newman’s newly published book, “Abortion Free: Your Manual for Building a Pro-Life America One Community at a Time,” provides specific instructions and suggestions for how to work within a community’s legal and social framework to advocate for protection for the unborn.
Newman had been banned from a United Airlines flight from Denver to Los Angeles en route to Australia over the issue, but continued his travel, “thinking this misunderstanding would soon be corrected,” OR said.
“Troy has been treated like a criminal even though he has never been convicted of a crime and is being detained and deported based solely on his religious and pro-life beliefs that are opposed by certain abortion lackeys in the Australian government,” said Sullenger. “This is unjust and as a representative of Operation Rescue, I demand his immediate release and an apology from Minister Dutton for the trouble he has caused by acquiescing to false accusations of those who oppose Newman’s pro-life stance.”
Australia detains pro-life leader on 'false accusations'
Bob Unruh
Thu, 01 Oct 2015 15:01:03 GMT