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FSA cages Alawite citizens as human shields, West blames Putin

Ollie Richardson
Fort Russ
Sun, 01 Nov 2015 10:38 UTC
The phantom Free Syrian Army is taking the word 'disgusting' to a whole new level here. Obama's 'moderates' thought it would be a great idea to imprison Alawite citizens on rooftops, using them as human shields against the Russian Airforce. We know that this is true because the FSA are declaring the opposite.


Comment: That's right. We don't condone it, BUT... In other words, they do condone it. In the minds of these moderate lunatics, it makes perfect sense to cage innocent civilians in order to stop fictional 'mutilations' on the part of Syria and Russia. Russia and Syria aren't mutilating people: the FSA, ISIS and Nusra have that covered.



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Over 2,600 Palestinians shot by Israeli forces during October


PressTV
Sun, 01 Nov 2015 03:53 UTC
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© AFP photoPalestinians wave their national flags as they carry the bodies of five Palestinians who were killed by Israeli security forces in the West Bank on October 31, 2015.
At least 2,617 Palestinians have been shot and injured by Israeli forces using live and rubber bullets in the month of October, a Red Crescent officials says. On Sunday, the Palestinian news agency Ma'an released a report quoting a Red Crescent spokesperson as saying that at least 760 Palestinians were shot with live rounds across the occupied Palestinian territory, while another 1,857 were hit with rubber-coated steel bullets.

At least 5,645 Palestinians sustained injuries, including burns from tear gas canisters and excessive tear gas inhalation. At least 72 Palestinians were also killed in Palestinian territories by Israeli soldiers in October. Tensions have been running high over the past several weeks between the Israeli regime and Palestinians in the occupied territories. The latest wave of tensions was triggered by Israel's imposition in August of restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
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More cracks in the Union: Scottish Labour votes against Trident system renewal - 'utterly useless'


RT
Sun, 01 Nov 2015 03:24 UTC
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© David Moir / ReutersBritish Royal Navy Vanguard class Trident Ballistic Missile Submarine
Scottish Labour party delegates have voted in favor of abandoning the renewal of the UK's Trident nuclear weapons system at the annual party conference in Perth making it an official policy of the party's section in Scotland.

At the conference, about 70 percent of the delegates voted to scrap the Trident system with both rank and file party members and most trade unions affiliated with the party supporting this move.

The delegates adopted a motion opposing Trident renewal and describing nuclear weapons as "a mortal threat to humanity's survival" and "massively expensive" as well as stressing that if the Trident program was renewed it could potentially provoke nuclear proliferation, British media reported. The motion also emphasizes that the Trident program should only be scrapped on the condition that new engineering and hi-tech jobs for the defense workers could be created as they could be made unemployed because of this decision.

This result puts the Scottish section of the party at loggerheads with the party leaders in Westminster that consistently back the renewal of the UK's nuclear weapons program.

At the same time, this result could possibly boost Labour leader Jeremy Corbin's efforts to force his party to abandon its support for the British nuclear deterrent system. The motion closely resembles Corbyn's stance on the nuclear weapons issue and is regarded as an endorsement of his idea for the UK's unilateral disarmament.

"Scottish Labour Party members have spoken. That will now feed into the wider UK Labor debate and review of defense policy," a Corbyn's spokesman said at the conference after the vote, as quoted by the BBC.
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'No infrastructure for so many people': German village of 102 is ordered to house... 750 refugees


RT
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 02:51 UTC
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© Michael Dalder / ReutersMigrants are escorted by German police to a registration centre, after crossing the Austrian-German border in Wegscheid near Passau, Germany, November 1, 2015.
A small German village containing just 102 residents and with almost no infrastructure will have to accommodate as many as 750 asylum seekers after a decision by the regional authorities. Villagers fear the area will be unable to cope with the burden.

The first group of refugees amounting to 500 people will arrive in Sumte - a small village in the German state of Lower Saxony - as early as Monday. The one-street settlement with no shops, no school and even no police station fears that its accommodation capabilities will be pushed to the limit.

Initially, the regional authorities wanted the village to house 1,000 refugees, which they informed the settlement mayor of via e-mail in early October. At that time, this news was perceived by the villagers as a hoax.

Christian Fabel, the village's mayor, and his wife thought "it was a joke," which "certainly could not be true," as they could not believe that the settlement would be ordered to house a number of asylum seekers that exceeded 10 times the number of its villagers, the New York Times reported. However, they soon realized that it was not a joke and that it was impossible to block this decision when Alexander Gotz, a spokesman of the Lower Saxony Interior Ministry, responsible for the distribution of refugees, told Fabel that the village had "two options - yes, or yes."

Later, after the villagers protested this decision at several meetings with regional authorities citing security concerns and a lack of necessary infrastructure, the number of refugees the settlement should house was decreased from 1,000 to a maximum of 750 people.

"The burden of 1,000 refugees for one village with only 102 residents is absolutely disproportionate - it cannot be compared with any other place in Germany," the village's mayor Christian Fabel said at the first meeting with the regional authorities devoted to this issue.

Comment: The mass migration of refugees can be made to serve several purposes at the same time. Initially it deprives a country of the support its citizens can give it. Syria has lost nearly half its population as they flee the ISIS terrorists. The general chaos of large numbers of people on the move, it's easy for nefarious elements to slip into new countries. Germany is the stated goal of the majority of the refugees, even though there are other countries where a new life could be made. Is a message being sent to a vassal that they can be overwhelmed with problems at home if they don't stay in line?

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Pedophiles and rapists: Investigation reveals about 1,000 cops lost badges for being sexual predators


RT
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 01:42 UTC
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© Mark Makela / AFP
Around 1,000 policemen across the US had their licenses revoked and lost their jobs over the last six years on account of numerous sexual offenses that included rape and possession of child pornography, an AP investigation based on official data revealed.


Comment: That's about one officer having his license revoked every other day.


The probe involved examining records from 41 states to see how many police officers' licenses were revoked in 2009-2014 and for which offenses. Police desertification data was not provided by nine states and the District of Columbia. The investigation included examining the records of state and local police, sheriff's deputies, prison guards and school resource officers. However no federal officers were included in the investigation.

Comment: These officers have demonstrated themselves to be dangerous predators that should be locked away to keep other people safe--getting transferred to another department or losing their jobs isn't enough. And these are only the cases that we know about: how many times has this happened in the other states that weren't included in the survey, or that weren't documented or reported at all? The numbers are likely to be much, much higher.

With law enforcement officers like this, who needs criminals?

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Innocent 77-year-old blind man beaten and arrested wins $400,000 in police brutality case against Denver police

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 20:33 UTC
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© KMGHPhilip White
Philip White was travelling back home from a conference on technical advancements to assist the blind on May 22, 2012, when he missed his bus in Denver. White, who was 77-years-old at the time, and blind, called the police after the bus station security guard told him he had to leave the station. This call would prove to be detrimental.

White was told that the bus was full and he couldn't get on board. He only wanted to discuss options with staffers at the terminal, but he eventually was told by a security guard that he was "trespassing" and he'd have to leave the terminal, according to court documents.

"Philip White missed his bus to the mountains, when he asked Greyhound staff for help in catching the next bus home, he was told by a security guard he was trespassing and had to leave the Greyhound Bus Depot," said White's attorney Mari Newman. "This is a Master's Degree holder and long-time educator who was set upon with excessive force as police violated his civil rights, all over a bus ticket."

After being told to leave, White declined and then called the police. Officer Kyllion Chafin of the notoriously brutal Denver police department showed up. Chafin did not care that White was the person who had placed the call to police and instead of helping the man in need, he escalated the situation to violence. Chafin quickly attacked White. White, having no idea if his aggressors were actually who they said they were, asked to feel Chafin's badge to confirm he was an officer. "He told me 'You aren't touching me,'" said White.

Comment: That poor man! This is what Denver is doing with its tax dollars. Paying for the brutal assault by police of an elderly blind man who needed help. How insane is that? Don't call the police for any reason, ever!

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Texas: 17-year-old in a coma for 52 days after thug cop tased him for breaking up a fight, left with permanent brain damage

Reagan Ali
Counter Current News & Democracy Now
Sun, 01 Nov 2015 21:45 UTC
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17-year-old Noe Nino Rivera sustained a traumatic brain injury after being assaulted by an officer at his school in Texas
In the wake of the South Carolina "Assault on Spring Valley High" a number of other high profile cases of school cops abusing students are coming to light. One of those has recently resulted in charges being filed against a school police officer who punched a student in the face for not having a hall pass.

But in what Democracy Now calls "one of the most shocking cases of police brutality inside a school," 17-year-old Noe Niño de Rivera was tasered by police, resulting in him spending 52 days in a medically induced coma.

It all happened back in November 2013, but the details of this case are only now coming to light.

Now, de Rivera has been left permanently brain damaged. As a result, last year Bastrop County in Texas settled a federal lawsuit with the de Rivera family for $775,000.

Watch the interview below with Democracy Now and the de Rivera family attorney, Adam Loewy...

Comment: Consistently we see officers' heinous and reprehensible actions automatically defended and victims of violent crime being blamed. The flavor of the vitriol is similar to that of a battered woman who is told it's her fault her husband abuses her, or that of a rape victim when their choice of clothing is laid at fault, before the perpetrator.

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Chinese police arrest criminal gang for selling disabled Chinese women as brides; held in pigsty


Sputnik
Wed, 14 Oct 2015 17:52 UTC
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Chinese police have reportedly arrested members of a gang who kept mentally disabled women in a pigsty before selling them as brides.

Police in northern China have detained members of a gang who held mentally impaired women in a pigsty in order to subsequently sell them as brides to men from impoverished areas, media reports said. The pigsty was located at the Shandong province, where buyers typically paid up to 100,000 yuan ($15,000 USD) for each "bride", aged between 20 and 30, police said.

The women were bought from their families in southern China for 3,000 yuan to 5,000 yuan ($500 — $800 USD) on promises that they would be married to well-to-do suitors, the South China Morning Herald newspaper reported.

"Once you mention a girl would be married into a good family, their parents don't ask too many questions," the newspaper quoted one of the detainees as saying. He added that mentally disabled girls were considered a burden by their families, who did not even try to get in touch with their dear ones after they were sold.

The buyers were mainly older poor men who could not afford a conventional marriage, a police spokesman said.

He added that the gang was tracked after the two men travelling with one of the women on a train from the Guangxi autonomous region to northern China attracted the attention of railway police who then arrested them. The gang is believed to have collected more than 600,000 yuan ($100,000 USD) in two years from trafficking the women.

Comment: Like government leaders around the world, criminal gangs are using the capitalistic and brutal rule of 'free market' where human beings are nothing more than a commodity.

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Popular US restaurants, Olive Garden, Chili's, etc., have cameras and mics on your table. Are they spying on you?

Kurtis Ming
CBS Sacramento
Tue, 18 Nov 2014 10:45 UTC
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You can place your order, spill your secrets, refill your drink, use the wifi, be photo-filed, swipe your credit card, print your receipt, donate to a charity, redeem rewards, sell your info to third parties, trigger the NSA?...all by this one little handy dandy machine!
The Ziosk tablets on the tables have cameras and microphones built in to the top left corner of the device . Next time you visit check it out. Its extremely creepy. Everyone is being spyed on. I discovered this tonight and it is very disturbing...

You can order, pay your bill and even play games on tablets some restaurants now have at the table. But one of our viewers, Howard Fergarsky noticed a camera on a tablet and wanted to know if the restaurant is watching him.

"Is this a camera or something" our undercover producer asked a Chili's server. "Oh no, it's not," she answered. Despite what the Chili's server is telling our producer, there is a camera on the restaurant's tablet on the table. "I found the camera. Why is it there?" Fergarsky asked. "It doesn't need to be there."

He and friend, Cheryl Keith are afraid restaurants like Chili's, Red Robin and Applebee's which now have tablets for ordering, paying for food, even entertaining your kids with games could also be spying on us, watching and eavesdropping on our conversations or listening to what we're saying about their servers or food. "It concerns me that we're not seeing the hidden risks," said Keith.


Comment: The next creepy thing is already here. They track your preferences and financial information. They know who you are. They listen to your private conversations. They have you on camera... Anyone else feel a bit exposed? Assume all networks, at some point, enter the same information stream...and we know where that goes. It ain't about the appetizers and the kiddie table games!

Some of the US restaurant chains that use Ziosk and Olo (back-end platform) technology: Darden's Olive Garden, Chili's, Applebee's, Red Robin, Five Guys, Noodles, Dicky's BBQ, Abuelo's, Chipotle, Lime Fresh (pending), Johnny Rockets, UNO Pizzeria & Grill. These chains also have franchises in many countries, such as Boston-based UNO: 23 states, D.C., Puerto Rico, South Korea, UAE, Honduras, Mexico, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Non-restaurant chains are also considering Ziosk equipment, such as Ruby Tuesday (44 states and 13 foreign countries).

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Turkish police fire tear gas at protestors dissatisfied with snap election results


RT
Sun, 01 Nov 2015 17:46 UTC
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© Stoyan Nenov/ReutersPeople burn flares as they celebrate outside the headquarters of Turkey's pro-Kurdish HDP opposition party in Diyarbakir, Turkey November 1, 2015.
Scores of people rallied in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, Turkey's southeast, to protest the results of Sunday's parliamentary snap poll. The rally turned into clashes with police, prompting security forces to deploy tear gas.The rally blocked a road near Diyarbakir's center and some of the demonstrators threw stones before police responded with tear gas, Reuters reports. Security in the largest city in the south east had been beefed up all day in anticipation.


Sunday saw President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development party winning in the snap poll with the pro-Kurdish opposition falling close to the 10 percent threshold required to enter parliament.


The snap parliamentary election was called in Turkey after the previous vote in June failed to produce a government.

Comment: Turkish journalists condemn 'unprecedented' crackdown on media ahead of elections

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