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Update: Several People Shot Outside Empire State Building

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Empire State Building shooting: gunman, bystander killed, 8 wounded (GRAPHIC PHOTOS) Source

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At least two people have reportedly died and eight more have been injured as a shooting broke out outside the Empire State Building in Manhattan, say police. The suspected attacker is said to be one of the dead.

Two people sustained shooting wounds and six more were injured in what the local affiliate of ABC channel describes as "a workplace dispute that spilled out onto the street."

The suspected gunman was fatally shot by the police and died on the scene. A weapon has been found near his body. Witnesses decribe the suspect to NBC as a tall Caucasian male in his twenties wearing a grey suit.

People at the scene say at least seven shots were heard.

"By the time I got there that man was lying dead, I was three feet in front of him. I heard a noise of like seven shots go off I thought it was a truck delivering materials, like they do in the morning. But when I turned my head I saw a man fall and he had a helmet in his hand so I just ran and I told everyone to run," an eyewitness told the Guardian.

The other person dead is a by-stander. Images from the street show a dead body of a white man in his middle ages wearing jeans and a cheked shirt; a red and black backpack is lying near him.

Some of the victims were found inside the lobby of the Empire State Building, say US media outlets, while some others were found in the street. The FDNY says their conditions range from minor injuries to not urgent.

The shooting happened near the intersection of 33rd Street and Fifth Avenue around 9:00 am local time, says CBS 2 broadcaster. It is not yet clear what led to the shooting and whether it was pre-mediated or not.

So far there is no apparent link to terrorism, the NYPD tells Reuters. Preliminary findings show the suspect had been fired the day before. Friday, as he returned to his workplace, he was stopped by the security who knew he had been sacked, so he decided to wait for his boss outside.

Mayor Bloomberg has arrived at the scene.

The FBI and police have drawn multiple forces to the scene. The area is cordoned off with the law enforcers not allowing people either to enter or leave the scene. 

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New York City officials say several people have been shot outside the Empire State Building and that the gunman is dead.

City police say three or four civilians have been wounded in the Friday morning shooting and that the shooter is dead.

A fire department spokesman says it received a call about the shooting just after at 9 a.m. Friday and that emergency units were on the scene within minutes.

The spokesman had no information about how many people were wounded or their conditions.

The shooting occurred at 34th Street and Fifth Avenue. Source

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I.M.F. Head Is Arrested and Accused of Sexual Attack

Dominique Strauss-Kahn
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Al Baker and Steven Erlanger
New York Times

The managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was taken off an Air France plane at Kennedy International Airport minutes before it was to take off for Paris on Saturday and arrested in the sexual attack of a maid at a Midtown Manhattan hotel, the authorities said.

Mr. Strauss-Kahn, 62, who was widely expected to become the Socialist candidate for the French presidency, was apprehended by detectives of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in the first class section of the jetliner, and immediately turned over to detectives from the Midtown South Precinct, which covers the part of Manhattan where the hotel is, officials said.

The New York Police Department took Mr. Strauss-Kahn into custody, where he was “being questioned in connection with the sexual assault of a hotel chambermaid earlier this afternoon,” Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne, the department’s chief spokesman, said Saturday evening.

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3.8 Quake Hit 80 Miles Off New York Tuesday

Jonah Green
Huffington Post

The biggest earthquake in 18 years hit the New York area at 10:46 AM Tuesday morning. The US Geological Survey says the epicenter of the 3.8 quake was in the Atlantic Ocean off the shore of New Jersey and New York, far away from anything else to do serious damage. However residents of Long Island reported feeling a low tremor. "It was a short rumble, a really low rumble," Smithtown resident Eric Weaver told the Long Island Press.

Richard Perez-Pena of the New York Times felt the effects of the quake:

For me, it was almost a bit of nostalgia. I spent most of my life in the Los Angeles area, and I have been in countless "hey, was that an earthquake or are you bobbing your leg?" tremors like this one, as well as several of the "run to the doorway and hang on for dear life" variety.

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Bad Attitude Toward Officialdom? No Second Amendment in New York

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
October 29, 2010

In New York, you may be denied your Second Amendment right to own a rifle if administrative officials decide you are not of good moral character.

	Handguns are illegal in the city. Now they’re going for the long rifles. Andy Warhol, Guns, 1981-1982.

Under Sections 434(b) and 1043 of the New York City Charter, the New York Police Department intends intends to adopt amendments to its rules pertaining to Handgun Licenses, Rifle/Shotgun Permits and Organizations Possessing Rifles and Shotguns.

Handguns are illegal in the city. Now they’re going for the long rifles.

If a person submitting to the police for the right to exercise the Second Amendment to the Constitution is found to have a “history of one or more incidents of domestic violence” — no conviction required, only presumably the evaluation of an administrative official — gun ownership shall be denied.

If the applicant has a poor driving record, has multiple driver license suspensions or has been declared a “scofflaw” by the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, he or she will be denied the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights.

A scofflaw is a person who habitually violates the law or fails to answer court summonses, according to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.

In New York, in order to have your natural right to own a firearm canceled, all that is required is an inappropriate attitude toward officialdom. “Other information demonstrates an unwillingness to abide by the law, a lack of candor towards lawful authorities, a lack of concern for the safety of oneself and/or other persons and/or for public safety, and/or other good cause for the denial of the permit.”

In other words, if the City of New York adopts the proposed amendments to its charter, police and other officials will be allowed to strip residents of their constitutional rights at any time for any arbitrary reason.

Fox News quotes Paul Helmke of the Brady Campaign, who says: “Child support, taxes, fines and governmental penalties I think are legitimate things. Basically, if someone’s not complying with what the government requires of somebody, that’s usually a sign that you can’t trust them to follow the rules with something like a gun.”

Stalin would have loved Mr. Helmke.

Such power defines totalitarianism. Totalitarianism is characterized by pervasive authoritarianism where ordinary citizens basically do not share in state decision-making and the state strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible.

In authoritarian states, they come for the weapons first.

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Kurt Nimmo edits Infowars.com. He is the author of Another Day in the Empire: Life In Neoconservative America.

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