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NYPD officer sues department for pressuring him into profiling blacks and Hispanics; audio recording released

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:56 UTC
NYPD Officer Michael Birch
© Bryan Pace/New York Daily NewsNYPD Officer Michael Birch
Recording of a conversation between an NYPD cop and his supervisor, which appears to evidence his being pressured into profiling black and Hispanic men — illegal, 'unofficial' quotas — has just been released by Gawker.

While the New York Daily News originally broke the story in January, audio hasn't been released by any source until Gawker published it on Wednesday.

New York City Transit Officer Michael Birch alleges in a federal class-action lawsuit — for which officers involved are known collectively as the "NYPD 12" — that his supervisors retaliated against him when he failed to meet illegal quotas for stopping black and hispanic men.

Though Gawker only released a two-minute clip from the 36-minute total audio recording, its content appears to damningly reinforce Birch's allegations of what transpired in a conversation with then-Captain Constantin Tsachas, during a performance evaluation in August 2012.
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Take 2

CNN mysteriously drops live feed of reporter critiquing Killary

Kyle Olson
The American Mirror
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:24 UTC
Hillary Clinton
© Lucas Cobb/Flickr CC
What happened on Tuesday isn't going to do anything to help CNN shed the "Clinton News Network" moniker.

As reporter Brianna Keilar was appearing live from Hillary's speech in Springfield, Illinois — and critiquing her record — the feed was mysteriously lost.

"Largely Hillary Clinton's comments here today, John, were based around the recent violence that we have seen," Keilar reported.

"The police-involved shootings of black men in Minnesota, in Louisiana, and the killing of white police officers by a black gunman in Dallas. That was really what she based her comments on around today.

Comment: 14 propaganda tactics used by lapdog media to manufacture consent for the oligarchy
News is a commodity just like everything else these days, and although many still believe the point of news is to inform, it is important to accept the hard truth that the purpose of the news is really just to sell something, be it a product, an idea, a candidate, a public image, a war, or whatever. For this, the mainstream media is focused on first deciding which issues are to be discussed in the public forum, then by using a bagful of tricks to shape people's perceptions of an issue, the media divides us and pits us against each other while leading us into consent for an underlying and hidden agenda.


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Handcuffs

Police charged disabled man with assault; video proves otherwise

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 13 Jul 2016 20:09 UTC
Providence PD assault
Surveillance video from an assault on a police officer case shows how cops will lie and deprive people of their freedom to cover up their violent ways.

Last year, Esmelin Fajardo was arrested and charged with resisting arrest and assault on a police officer. However, the only one assaulted in this incident was Fajardo.

The incident happened last September as police were shutting down a nightclub for being open too late. As police were 'protecting' society from the dangers of people being in a private establishment past 2:00 a.m., Fajardo tried to tell them that he worked at the club. However, officers weren't having it.

As cops were escorting everyone out of the building, all hell broke loose when one of them attacked Fajardo.
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Cell Phone

Deadly, global narcissism epidemic: Number of stupid selfie-related deaths higher than ever


RT
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 19:56 UTC
selfies sunset
© Pawel Kopczynski / Reuters
This week a Florida woman fell about 400 feet to her death while attempting to take a scenic selfie at the Grand Canyon - pushing the reported number of selfie-related deaths in 2016 to 29, the same number of selfie deaths recorded for all of 2015.

In 2015 it was determined that we had more chances of being killed by a selfie than a shark.

Yet vain Instagramers desperate to capture the moment have failed to take selfie safety precautions, as there have now been the same number of reported selfie-related deaths for the first half of 2016 as there was for the entire previous year.

Thirty-five-year-old Colleen Burns from Orlando slipped and fell to her death on Friday while taking a picture of herself at the edge of a cliff at Ooh Aah Point in the Grand Canyon National Park. Burns had already uploaded a picture of herself sitting on the edge of a cliff at the park on the same day.

In two separate incidents on June 29, two tourists plunged to their death while taking selfies in Peru. A South Korean tourist lost his footing while posing at the Gocta waterfall in northeastern Peru, falling 1,600ft into a 7-metre-deep lake.

Comment: See also:

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Attention

Power outage disrupts entire New York subway system on anniversary of 1997 two-day blackout


RT
Wed, 13 Jul 2016 20:19 UTC
ny subway blackout 2016
New Yorkers trying to ride the subway experienced long delays, as the system's central control faltered due to a power outage. The mishap comes on the anniversary of the notorious 1977 blackout.

The problem was first reported around 1:30 p.m. local time (17:30 GMT), with the Metro Transit Authority (MTA) warning passengers of "extensive" delays and long wait times.

The MTA's Rail Control Center in Manhattan lost power for unspecified reasons, and had to activate a backup system, the Gothamist reported. As a result, trains throughout the subway network had to be dispatched locally, instead of remotely, resulting in cascading delays.
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Bizarro Earth

Another Monsanto environmental disaster: Glyphosate has poisoned the Great Lakes

Christina Sarich
Natural Blaze
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 15:53 UTC
algae blooms lake erie
Glyphosate, the main ingredient found in Monsanto's best-selling herbicide, Roundup, has poisoned Lake Erie.

Scientists from Ohio Northern University (ONU) in the U.S. have discovered that glyphosate is largely responsible for an increase in harmful algae blooms that contaminate lake water and kill off life dependent upon this habitat.

Namely, dissolved reactive phosphorous (DRP) has been contaminating Lake Erie and the Maumee watershed. This DRP comes from surrounding farms that rely on Monsanto's weedkiller to grow their crops. The runoff ends up in the lakes, killing fish and contaminating the water.

Though Lake Erie's trouble with phosphorous is not new, there has been an alarming increase in DRP, which caused scientists to question its probable origins.

Christopher Spiese, a chemist at Ohio Northern University suggests that an increase in the use of glyphosate is causing the problem. DRP loads in Lake Erie have been increasing since the early 1990s — the same time that Roundup was being sold to farmers across the U.S.

Comment: Monsanto's most dangerous product? The case against Glyphosate

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Cloud Lightning

The time for warning people to prepare is over - we have reached a point of no return

Michael Snyder
theeconomiccollapseblog.com
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 15:12 UTC
no excuses
Is the time for warning people to prepare for what is ahead coming to an end? For years, bold men and women all over America have been sounding the alarm and warning people to get prepared physically, financially, mentally, emotionally and spiritually for the great storm that is rapidly approaching. Personally, I have written more than 2,500 articles on my primary two websites combined, and so nobody can accuse me of not blowing the trumpet. It has gotten to the point that sometimes I am even tired of listening to myself warn the people. But now we are shifting into a new phase.

The other day I was reflecting on some of the things that I have been hearing lately. Sales of emergency food and supplies are way down across the entire industry. Many organizations and websites that have been instrumental in sounding the alarm for a long time are really struggling right now. On my websites, traffic has hit a bit of a plateau after experiencing a tremendous surge late last year. Overall, "prepping" was very hot just a few years ago, and at one time it was estimated that there were approximately three million "preppers" in the United States. But these days there seems to be a tremendous amount of apathy out there.

Comment: Listen to the following interview on The Truth Perspective: Michael Snyder - Economic Collapse and Global Chaos

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Pistol

DNC staffer in charge of polling and "voter expansion data" murdered in Washington

Melissa Dykes
Activist Post
Tue, 12 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC
Seth Rich
Hillary has been in the hot seat, but she escaped unscathed.

But what is really going on behind the scenes? Is something big going down inside the DNC?

A high-level Democratic National Committee staff member, Seth Rich, was gunned down by unknown assailants near his home in Washington, D.C. while reportedly walking home at 4 a.m.

As the Washington Post noted:

Comment: Suspicious? Probably! Consider this:

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Snakes in Suits

The me, me POTUS: Obama refers to himself 45 times during speech at Dallas memorial service for slain police officers

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Tue, 12 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC
Obama Dallas Memorial speech
President Obama referred to himself 45 times in this speech at the memorial service for the five police officers killed in Dallas, including referring to himself in the third-person: "the president."

For Barack Obama it's not about Dallas Police Officers, gun violence, Black Lives Matter...none of these issues. For Barack Obama it's all about...Barack Obama, the me, me, me POTUS.

The Daily Caller comments on Obama's "I" Dallas memorial speech.
Obama referred to himself twice before finishing his opening salutations and before mentioning the slain officers or their families. After noting the presence of President Bush, members of Congress and Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings, Obama appeared to go off-script.

Comment: Obama's 'performance' is a perfect example of America's culture of narcissism.

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Handcuffs

German 'moderate rebel' who posed with decapitated bodies in Syria jailed for 2 years


RT
Wed, 13 Jul 2016 21:47 UTC
Aria Ladjevardi
A German of Iranian origin who traveled to Syria to join a jihadist group was sentenced to two years in prison for appearing in a set of images with severed heads of Syrian army servicemen. The case marks the first Syria-related war crime verdict in Germany.

A regional court in Frankfurt has found Aria Ladjevardi, a 21-year-old German citizen, guilty of war crimes for treating two Syrian army soldiers "in a degrading and humiliating manner" in violation of international humanitarian law.

The unidentified militant group, to which Ladjevardi is said to have belonged, raided a Syrian army checkpoint between March 8 and April 16, 2014, in the town of Binnish located in the Idlib province. The militants captured and later executed two servicemen. In course of the slaughter they beheaded the victims and spiked their heads on metal rods put on public display, the court has stated in a statement Tuesday.

Comment: We wonder why the group he was part of hasn't been named. Well, no actually, we don't. By process of elimination, it wasn't Daesh (they haven't held territory in Idlib). It was possibly Nusra, who have retained territory on the border with Turkey and south of Idlib city. But chances are it was a 'moderate rebel' group allied with Nusra. If they were to name the group, it would be bad PR. Can't have moderate rebels exposed as head-chopping crazies like their Nusra and Daesh brothers!

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