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A knife attacker has been shot after a car mowed down pedestrians on Westminster Bridge and charged the gates of parliament, in what police are treating as a terrorist incident. Police are treating the incident as terrorism      A woman is dead and others have "catastrophic" injuries      Several people have been injured after a car reportedly mounted the pavement on Westminster Bridge and "tried to mow people down" A police officer was stabbed inside Parliament grounds. The officer's condition is not known Alleged assailant shot by armed police A woman has died and a number of others have been hurt, including some with "catastrophic" injuries in the incident on Westminster Bridge, the Press Association reports junior doctor Colleen Anderson as saying. She also said she treated a police officer in his 30s who had been taken to King's College Hospital with a head injury. “I confirmed one fatality. A woman. She was under the whe

globinfo freexchange Donald Trump is about to break the record of withdrawing his promises faster than any other US president in history. It's not only the fact that his administration has been literally taken over by Goldman Sachs, the top vampire-bank of the Wall Street mafia. Recently, Trump announced another big alliance with the vulture billionaire, Paul Singer, who, initially, was supposedly against him. It looks like the Trump big show continues. The 'anti-establishment Trump' joke has already collapsed and the US middle class is about to be eliminated by the syndicate of the united billionaires under Trump administration. As Greg Palast told to Thom Hartmann: Paul Singer whose nickname is "the vulture", he didn't get that nickname because he is a sweet and honest businessman. This is the guy who closed the Delphi auto plants in Ohio and sent them to China and also to Monterrey-Mexico. Donald Trump as a candidate, excoriated the

by Ivan Eland The recent North Korean missile tests raise questions about contradictions in President Donald Trump’s national security policies. During his campaign Trump implied that the United States should fight fewer wars overseas and demanded that US dependents, Japan and South Korea, do more for their own defense, perhaps even getting nuclear weapons. Yet a recent article written by David Sanger, a national security reporter for the New York Times, noted that Trump had tweeted that North Korean acquisition of a long-range missile "won’t happen" and that his administration was considering preemptive military strikes on North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs or reintroducing US tactical (short-range) nuclear missiles into South Korea, which were removed twenty-five years ago. So which is it – demanding US allies do more or ramping up America’s efforts to make them even more reliant on American power? And this is not the only Trump policy contradic

President Donald Trump has weaponized the revolving door by appointing defense contractors and their lobbyists to key government positions as he seeks to rapidly expand the military budget and homeland security programs. Two Department of Homeland Security appointments Trump announced Tuesday morning are perfect examples. Benjamin Cassidy, installed by Trump as assistant secretary for legislative affairs, previously worked as a senior executive at Boeing’s international business sector, marketing Boeing military products abroad. Jonathan Rath Hoffman, named assistant secretary for public affairs, previously worked as a consultant to the Chertoff Group, the sprawling homeland security consulting firm founded by former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff. The firm has come under fire for advising a variety of firms seeking government contracts, including for full-body scanners deemed invasive by privacy activists. Hoffman also led a state chapt

Η αθώωση των 14 κατηγορούμενων για την υπόθεση της Μονής Βατοπεδίου και των ανταλλαγών εκτάσεων με το Δημόσιο προκάλεσε ιδιαίτερη ευφορία στους άμεσα ή έμμεσα εμπλεκόμενους, οι οποίοι προσπαθούν εναγωνίως να πείσουν ότι δεν υπήρχε σκάνδαλο. Τα πράγματα ωστόσο δεν είναι ακριβώς έτσι. Αντιθέτως, εκείνο που κρίθηκε και αποφασίστηκε είναι πως οι κατηγορούμενοι δεν είχαν δόλο. Σύμφωνα δηλαδή με το δικαστήριο, δεν αποδείχθηκε απλώς η ηθική αυτουργία, ενώ προέκυψε -κατά το δικαστήριο- πως ό,τι έκαναν οι μοναχοί το έκαναν από την πεποίθησή τους πως η λίμνη ανήκει στη Μονή. Το σκάνδαλο του Βατοπεδίου που αποκαλύφθηκε το 2008 προκαλώντας πολιτικό σεισμό κρίθηκε ωστόσο με την απόφαση 197/2015 του τριμελούς Εφετείου Κομοτηνής, το οποίο έκρινε πως η λίμνη Βιστωνίδα και οι παραλίμνιες περιοχές ανήκουν στο Δημόσιο και επομένως κακώς ανταλλάχθηκαν. Το εν λόγω δικαστήριο αποτελούμενο από τους Χρήστο Τζανέρικο, Μυρσίνη Παπαχίου και Μιχάλη Κακαμανούδη, απέρριψε συγκεκριμένα