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Barcelona Truck Driver And Main Attack Suspect Has Been Shot Dead
#LTIMAHORA Detenido Younes Abouyaaqoub en Sant Sadurn d'Anoia #StopTerrorism #NoTincPor
— La Vanguardia (@LaVanguardia) August 21, 2017
Update 2 from Reuters: SPANISH POLICE CONFIRMS MAIN BARCELONA ATTACK SUSPECT HAS BEEN SHOT DEAD
Spanish Police have confirmed they have shot dead Younes Abouyaaqoub, the suspected driver in the terrorist attack on Las Ramblas in Barcelona Thursday in an operation at Subirats, just outside the city. A bomb disposal unit has deploying a robot at the scene to inspect the suspicious device and the suspect’s remains, police indicated. Local reports claim that police helicopters are searching the area for a suspected accomplice.
Meanwhile, according to local press, authorities have asked people in the area not to broadcast the location of checkpoints as the security operation is ongoing.
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Update: Reuters reporst that according to Spanish police, they had “shot down” a person on Monday who appeared to be wearing an explosive belt and Spanish public television said the man was the suspected perpetrator of last week’s Barcelona van attack. Catalan police declined to say if the man, shot in the area of Subirats, west of Barcelona, was dead or wounded.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Aug 21, 2017.
ELON MUSK AND OTHERS CALL FOR A BAN ON KILLER ROBOTS
If you're not concerned about AI safety, you should be. Vastly more risk than North Korea. pic.twitter.com/2z0tiid0lc
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 12, 2017
Elon Musk is leading 116 ‘experts’ around the globe to petition the United Nations for an all out ban on killer robots. Musk, along with others like Alphabet’s Mustafa Suleyman, demand the ban to prevent a third ‘age of war.’
Musk has been outspoken about the dangers of artificial intelligence and robotics for years, and now his fear is leading to him to demand that killer robots be banned. Specialists from 26 countries around the globe have joined Musk and Suleyman in calling for the ban on autonomous weapons.
The United Nations is scheduled to vote on the ban on these weapons as well.
This post was published at The Daily Sheeple on AUGUST 21, 2017.
Big Oil Nervous As Venezuela’s Maduro Seizes More Power
The pro-government constitutional assembly loyal to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro seized the powers of the opposition-led congress today, in a move that necessarily has Big Oil nervous that Trump will make good on his economic sanctions threat.
Maduro’s bold political move on Friday means further intensifies the dramatic decline of democracythat led Trump last week to threaten economic sanctions that could remove Venezuelan oil from the U. S. refining market.
It also comes right after Trump indicated that a ‘military option’ was not off the table.
The government has accused opposition leaders of conspiring with Washington to overthrow Maduro.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Aug 21, 2017.
REAL WAR ON TERROR: ISIS Driven Out of Strategic Area in Western Qalamoun
strategic area of Qarnet Shaabet Ekko in Western Qalamoun area in Damascus Countryside.
SANA reporter said that army units, in cooperation with the Lebanese Resistance, continued their operations against ISIS gatherings in the Western Qalamoun area, establishing control over the strategic area of Qarnet Shaabet Ekko, 2364 meters above sea level, in Jurd al-Jarajir.
As a result of this achievement, army units and the Resistance are currently observing the whole southern area of Western Qalamoun and have restored fire control over Jabal Halima, one of ISIS main hotbeds in the area, and on the entrances of the crossings of Shmeis Tim al-Mal, al-Qasira and Wadi al-Shahout to the west.
This post was published at 21st Century Wire on AUGUST 21, 2017.
US Navy Halts Pacific Fleet Operations As Historical Path Of Collided Warship Emerges
Following the second collision of US warships in two months, the US Navy’s Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) has calling for a comprehensive review of recent incidents in the Pacific in the wake of the USS John McCain collision with an oil tanker early Monday morning. In a video, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson called for an “operational pause” with commands and leaders across the fleet, and a deeper look into the training and certification of forces operating in the Navy’s 7th Fleet – those in and around Japan.
“I have directed fleet commanders to immediately conduct an operational pause with commands and leaders across the fleet, to ensure we are taking all appropriate immediate measures to enhance the Navy’s safe and effective operation around the world…. This is the second major collision in the last three months, and is the latest in a series of major incidents, particularly in the Pacific theater,” said Richardson. “This trend demands more forceful action.”
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Aug 21, 2017.
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