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'Merkel has to go!' Hundreds protest in Dresden on German Unity Day

RT
Mon, 03 Oct 2016 16:27 UTC

© Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters
Police watches protestors holding a placard "Merkel must go" during celebrations marking the German Unification Day in Dresden, Germany, October 3, 2016.

Several hundred protesters have gathered in the German city of Dresden to protest against Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Joachim Gauck as they celebrate Unity Day in the city.

Footage posted on social media showed the protesters braving rainy weather outside the Church of Our Lady, blowing whistles and shouting "Traitors!"and "Get out!" as well as "Merkel has to go!"

One sign referred to Merkel's "dictatorship."

Many of the protesters are from the far-right Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West, better known as the PEGIDA Alliance, Germany's N-TV reported. Dresden is PEGIDA's birthplace.

Comment: Since "Merkel must go", surely the U.S. will promptly get together a ragtag bunch of moderate German militants to fight her evil regime - where she clearly doesn't have the support of the people. Maybe ship them some Grad missiles, too.

Kansas City library director beaten while trying to defend free speech during public lecture

Justin Gardner
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 03 Oct 2016 16:07 UTC

Steve Woolfolk

Since 9/11, the American police state has been constantly trying to outdo itself in the oppression of civil rights. From the Patriot Act to National Security Letters to warrantless wiretapping to militarized protest crackdowns, the State has been unable to hide its authoritarian desires.

The oppression of rights and free speech was put on full display recently at the Kansas City Public Library, where a senior library staff member was brutally taken down and arrested by police and private security officers — for peacefully intervening in the harassment of a library patron.

The armed guards were present as security detail for Dennis Ross, champion of the Israeli lobby and former Bush official who pushed for the Iraq invasion. Ross was giving a talk called "Truman and Israel."

Steve Woolfolk, director of public relations at the library, became the victim of abuse when he tried to remind the security detail of library policy after an audience member was forcibly removed from the microphone during the Q&A session.

Not so much freedom after all: US is not ranked in the top ten most free countries

McClatchyDC
Mon, 03 Oct 2016 09:03 UTC

With costly healthcare, a stereotype of obesity and a culture of creatively fatty foods, "healthy" probably isn't the first word that comes to mind when you think of the United States.

But according to the Legatum Prosperity Index's findings for 2015, the U.S. is the healthiest country in the world.

Comment: That's actually rather surprising considering the low rankings given by other studies which rank American healthcare and health:

The USA is number one...but only when it comes to violence

In a 2014 study of healthcare (including infant mortality, healthy life expectancy, and mortality from preventable conditions) in 11 advanced industrial countries, the Commonwealth Fund concluded that the United States ranked last among them. According to the World Health Organization, the U.S. healthcare system ranks 30^th in the world. Other studies reach somewhat different conclusions, but all are very unflattering to the United States, as are studies of American health. The United States, for example, has one of the world's worst cancer rates (the seventh highest), and life expectancy is declining compared to other nations. An article in the Washington Post in late 2013 reported that the United States ranked 26^th among nations in life expectancy, and that the average American lifespan had fallen a year behind the international average.

However, when it comes to freedom, an ideal most Americans pride themselves on, the U.S. falls to 15.

So what's the country with the most personal freedom? Canada, followed by New Zealand, Norway, Luxembourg and Iceland.

Personal freedom, as defined by the London-based Legatum Institute, measures a nation's performance at both guaranteeing individual freedom and encouraging social tolerance. Canda was ranked No. 1 due to 94 percent of its citizens saying they believed they had the freedom to choose the course of their own lives and 92 percent saying there was tolerance for ethnic minorities and immigrants.

Comment: The U.S. is however #1 in a host of categories that are certainly nothing to celebrate; such as the number of people incarcerated, child abuse deaths, prescription drug use and citizens killed by police! But freedom has all but vanished since 9/11:

'Give me liberty or give me death': The loss of freedom and institution of a corporate police state in the 14 years since 9/11

Set against a backdrop of government surveillance, militarized police, SWAT team raids, asset forfeiture, eminent domain, overcriminalization, armed surveillance drones, whole body scanners, stop and frisk searches, roving VIPR raids and the like—all sanctioned by a corrupt government run by Congress, the White House and the courts—a recitation of the Bill of Rights now sounds more like a eulogy to freedoms lost than an affirmation of rights we should possess.

We can pretend that the Constitution, which was written to hold the government accountable, is still our governing document. However, the reality we must come to terms with is that in the America we live in today, the government does whatever it wants, freedom be damned, and "we the people" are seen as little more than cattle to be branded and eventually led to the slaughterhouse.

Suicide bombers detonate in Syria's Hama and Iraq's Baghdad, killing over 30 people

Sputnik
Mon, 03 Oct 2016 15:53 UTC

A suicide bomber detonated himself in the al-Asi square in the Syrian city of Hama, killing and wounding civilians, the city police said Monday.

"A terrorist with a suicide bomber belt detonated the explosive on the al-Asi square in Hama. There are victims and the wounded, the numbers are being clarified," the police told RIA Novosti.

Meanwhile, a Hama police source told Syrian state news agency SANA that a second suicide bomber blew himself up just 15 minutes after the suicide bomber attack in the al-Asi square.

Poll results show 2 in 3 Israelis believe no hope of peace with Palestinians

RT
Mon, 03 Oct 2016 14:50 UTC

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (L) talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

The vast majority of people living in Israel, both Jewish and Arab, think that peace with Palestinians will never be achieved, a new poll has revealed. Only four percent expect something to change for the better in the next five years.

Sixty-four percent of the 646 Israeli and Arab-Israeli respondents said they had no hopes that a two-state solution to the Palestinian conflict could be found, Project HaMidgam institute for the Walla news website survey said.

Twenty-four percent of those polled answered that an accord was possible but it would take longer than five years to achieve. Only four percent thought a peace deal could be achieved within five years. The remaining eight percent were undecided in the poll.

Comment: With full-page Zionist ads for 'ethnic cleansing' (Liberal Zionist group calls for ethnic segregation to retain Jewish majority within Israel in full page NYT ad during UN assembly) and many 'left wing' Israelis thinking about leaving ('Forward' breaks an important story: Many leftwing Israelis are leaving the country), it's no wonder the poll results reflect hopelessness in a peace process.

Nationwide prisoner strikes ignored by mainstream media

Kit O'Connell
Mint Press News
Mon, 03 Oct 2016 14:01 UTC

© AP
An inmate stands at his cell door at the maximum security facility at the Arizona State Prison in Florence, Ariz, where visitors are charged a $25 to visit inmates.

As hunger strikes and sporadic work stoppages continue at prisons across the country, the historic prison movement and the brutal retaliation inmates have faced because of it remain largely unreported in the mainstream media.

The media blackout continues even though tens of thousands of inmates are believed to have taken part in the ongoing strike, and a shift of guards at Holman Correctional Facility in Alabama also refused to work on Sept. 24.

"It's interesting that the foreign press has been better to us," said Azzurra Crispino, media co-chair of the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, part of the Industrial Workers of the World union, which is supporting the strike. Inmates can join the IWW for free, regardless of their prison work status.

In an interview with MintPress News on Friday, Crispino noted that the strike has been covered extensively by the United Kingdom's The Guardian and Russian state-owned media outlet RT, while the biggest voices in the U.S. media have been notably silent.

Comment: 'End prison slavery!' 24,000+ inmates join nationwide jail strike causing lockdowns (VIDEO)

Cop threatens to arrest breastfeeding mother because it was "offensive"

Jay Syrmopoulos
Free Thought Project
Sun, 02 Oct 2016 21:55 UTC

A woman's Facebook post went viral after a deputy sheriff allegedly threatened to arrest the woman if she refused to stop breastfeeding her baby in public - claiming that it some individuals may find it "offensive."

Upon being accosted by the officer, Savvy Shukla uploaded a photo and post addressing the incident that took place while in a Piggly Wiggly grocery store with her two children and sister.

Man shouts, 'Bill Clinton is a rapist!' during live Fox News broadcast before being dragged away by security

Melissa Dykes
The Daily Sheeple
Mon, 03 Oct 2016 13:19 UTC

A guy walked up behind the crew on Fox and Friends wearing what appears to be a Bill Clinton shirt in the fashion of the Obama "hope" artwork, except where it says "hope" has been changed for Bill to "rape".

He started shouting "Bill Clinton is a rapist!" at the camera. Tucker Carlson's crazy laugh in response is pretty hilarious. The guy started climbing the barrier and security came and dragged him away, literally grabbing the barrier and dragging it as he continued to shout "Bill Clinton is a rapist! Bill Clinton is a rapist!"

Comment: Well....

14-yo black teen hospitalized after shootout with Missouri police

RT
Sun, 02 Oct 2016 21:06 UTC

A 14-year-old black teenager has been hospitalized after being shot by police in St. Louis, Missouri, local media and law enforcers said. The teenager reportedly opened fire on officers first.

The incident occurred at around 9:25 a.m on Sunday in the Walnut Park East area of the city's northwest with police stopping the teenager to talk to him about a carjacking which occurred in the area in September, according to The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Israeli Navy issues orders to intercept all-women flotilla bound for Gaza

The Palestinian Information Center
Sun, 02 Oct 2016 10:24 UTC

The Israeli occupation navy has received instructions to intercept women's boat to Gaza and arrest onboard activists, Israeli daily Maariv reported Sunday. The Israeli naval forces have received orders to intercept al-Zaytouna ship and arrest activists as soon as they reach Gaza shores. The boat is reportedly to be towed to the Ashdod Harbor while female activists will be deported to their mother countries after they sign pledges to never return.

Zaytouna ship is expected to reach Gaza shores in the next three days following a stopover in the Greek Island of Crete to fix a sudden breakdown.

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Society's Child

'Merkel has to go!' Hundreds protest in Dresden on German Unity Day

Kansas City library director beaten while trying to defend free speech during public lecture

Not so much freedom after all: US is not ranked in the top ten most free countries

Suicide bombers detonate in Syria's Hama and Iraq's Baghdad, killing over 30 people

Poll results show 2 in 3 Israelis believe no hope of peace with Palestinians

Nationwide prisoner strikes ignored by mainstream media

Cop threatens to arrest breastfeeding mother because it was "offensive"

Man shouts, 'Bill Clinton is a rapist!' during live Fox News broadcast before being dragged away by security

14-yo black teen hospitalized after shootout with Missouri police

Israeli Navy issues orders to intercept all-women flotilla bound for Gaza

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