Society's ChildS


Che Guevara

Meet an American who joined the Novorussian army to fight fascism in Ukraine

Image
The People's Army of Donbass is fighting the West and Kiev at the front. Americans hear a lot about this conflict from various sources, but most know little about what is in effect a proxy war with Russia because they don't hear from people on the front line.

Well here is one American who's been there and done it, and is still doing it. Russell Bentley has seen enough of what is going on the world to know a good cause when he sees one. As he says, "The Russian-hating fascistic junta which seized power in Kiev, and is terrorising the people under the command of NATO and criminals it has imported from other countries where it did the same, will not be satisfied until Ukraine is destroyed and much of the region, including Europe, destabilised." He decided to do something about it, and here is his account of this conflict.

Can you provide some background about why you are in Ukraine?

First, I am not the only American fighting Fascism in Donbass. There are several I know of, and have met, but I am the only one I will be talking about today.

My name is Russell Bentley. I was born in Austin, Texas, in 1960. My call sign in the Novorussian Army is "Texas".

Comment: In contrast to the values of Russell Bentley, look who's joined the Kiev side of the conflict and why:

Agents of chaos: ISIL using Ukraine as a forward base into Caucasia and entry into Europe


Heart - Black

Video shows nine police officers arresting and throwing teen to concrete for jaywalking

Image
Video shows nine police California officers arrested a black teenager and slammed him on to concrete while arresting him for jaywalking.

Witnesses said a Stockton police officer ordered the teenager to sit down, but the teen instead continued walking toward a waiting bus, reported RT.

Bystander Edgar Avendaño, who recorded the video, said the officer grabbed the teen's arm in attempt to stop him and then pulled out his baton after the teen "took off the cop's hand off his arm."

Stockton police told VICE News that the 16-year-old teen did not respond to an officer's request to get out of the bus lane.

"For safety reasons, the officer told the young man to get on the sidewalk," officer Joseph Silva said. "After the teenager refused to comply and used obscene language, the officer went over and a there was a scuffle."


Megaphone

Blacklisted Spanish journalist: Kiev persecuting media who tell the truth

Image
© Andrey Stenin / RIA Novosti
The Ukrainian government is "persecuting people who are telling the truth," Cesar Vidal, Spanish historian and journalist, who has been blacklisted by Kiev along with other European journalists, told RT.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday introduced sanctions against hundreds of individuals and legal entities, including dozens of journalists. Among them were employees of the BBC, El Pais, Die Zeit and RT's Ruptly. On Thursday, apparently caving to pressure from European organizations and the media, he shortened the list striking off the names of journalists for British, German and Spanish media outlets.

Cesar Vidal, historian, writer and contributor for Spain's de La Razon, told RT that he was not surprised that Kiev did not remove him from the blacklist on Thursday.

He believes that he was included in the sanctions list in the first place because he wrote "about the falsehood of the thesis of Ukrainian nationalism" and about some media coverage of "the reality in Ukraine."

Alarm Clock

Teen clockmaker Ahmed Mohamed asks police to give clock back

Image
© Ben Torres14-year-old Ahmed Ahmed Mohamed speaks during a news conference on September 16, 2015 in Irving, Texas.
Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old Muslim boy from Texas who became famous after he was arrested for bringing a homemade digital clock to school, now says he wants his creation back. The timepiece has been in police custody ever since his Monday arrest.

The young engineer has been invited as a guest to myriad talk shows, to tour several high-profile Silicon Valley companies and even to the White House for a conversation with President Barack Obama. Despite all the hoopla surrounding him, Ahmed says he wants to get the thing back.

"The clock is still in the custody of the police. I want it back, with my humility," Ahmed said on 'Good Morning America'.

Ahmed is a ninth-grader keen on mechanics, and he said he just wanted to impress his new teachers at MacArthur High School in Irving with a clock he made by himself. Instead, the 14-year-old was suspended from school for three days after his English teacher confused it with a bomb.

Comment: See also: Hysterical police state USA: 14-year-old Muslim schoolboy arrested for taking homemade clock to school


Arrow Up

Russia will completely exclude any GMO ingredients in food production

Russian protest GMO
© Tatyana Kuznetsova / RIA Novosti Members of Russian nationalist party LDPR protest against GMO foods near a McDonalds restaurant
A senior Russian government member told reporters the cabinet decided that any food production in the country will completely exclude any genetically-modified organisms or parts thereof.

"As far as genetically-modified organisms are concerned, we have made decision not to use any GMO in food productions," Deputy PM Arkady Dvorkovich said at an international conference on biotechnology in the Russian city of Kirov.

At the same time the official emphasized that there was a very clear line between this decision and the development of science, medicine and some other branches.

"This is not a simple issue, we must do very thorough work on division on these spheres and form a legal base on this foundation," he said.

Comment: Fortunately, more countries are realizing that GMO's pose serious risks to health and the environment and many are finally taking a stand against Monsanto's tyranny.


Magnify

"Pervasive misconduct" costing taxpayers over $1million found at U.S. census bureau

Image
© AFP Photo
Employees at the US Census Bureau's hiring office cost the taxpayers over $1 million by falsified time cards, broke rules by hiring friends and family, and threatened whistleblowers who reported them, government inspectors have found.

At least nine employees of the Bureau's Census Hiring and Employment Check (CHEC) office engaged in "pervasive misconduct over several years," says a report by the Office of the Inspector-General (OIG) for the Department of Commerce, the Bureau's parent agency, citing "widespread time and attendance abuse, misuse of office, and repeated attempts to retaliate against a perceived whistleblower."

The OIG investigated 40 current and former employees, finding a "systemic pattern of time and attendance abuse" by the"significant portion of the CHEC Office since the start of the decade."

Between 2010 and 2014, CHEC employees claimed at least 19,162 hours they never actually worked, the inspectors found. One employee charged the government $85,000 in wages for 890 hours never worked. Another collected nearly $65,000 for 1277 falsely claimed hours. Altogether, nineteen employees of CHEC had "discrepancies of over 400 hours"over a four-year span, the inspectors wrote.

USA

Police State USA: 5 ways to be easily mistreated and abused by cops in the U.S.

Image
© Andrew Kelly / Reuters
From being innovative to having a disability, many in the US have been treated like criminals without actually committing a crime at all. Others have been brutalized for the most minor of infractions, such as crossing the street in the wrong place.

1. Jaywalk

Crossing the street in an area that isn't an official crosswalk can apparently lead to a beating with a baton. That's exactly what happened to a boy in Stockton, California, who was only trying to walk to his bus.


Heart - Black

Police chief admits officers knew clock Ahmed Mohamed brought to school wasn't bomb

Image
Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd appears on 'All In With Chris Hayes' on Sept. 17, 2015
Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd refused to say on Thursday that his officers erred in arresting 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed on Monday even though they allegedly knew he did not bring a bomb to his high school.

MSNBC host Chris Hayes gave Boyd the opportunity to admit to a mistake, while conceding that people understood that officers need to be on high alert regarding possible attacks against a school.

However, Hayes said, "I think it's hard for folks watching this from the outside, seeing this all link up, seeing this kid — who seems like a tremendously poised, bright, genuine kid — be put through this. To not hear from anyone in officialdom down there that 'Yeah, we didn't get this one right.'"

"The officers made the decision they did with the information they had with what they thought was right at the time," Boyd responded. "We are clearly going to review this. We want to always look at ways we can enhance and have a better outcome. There's a lot of decision points, there's a lot of alternatives that they have available to them."


Comment: See also: Hysterical police state USA: 14-year-old Muslim schoolboy arrested for taking homemade clock to school


Sheriff

San Jose cop busted for lewd acts after woman snaps pics with her cell phone

san jose police
While walking down the sidewalk this month, a vigilant citizen pulled out her cellphone and took photos of a perverted police sergeant exposing himself while harassing her. Instead of remaining silent and accepting his abuse, the 39-year-old woman notified the police and showed them the vulgar photographs. A few days after the sergeant was arrested, the San Jose Police Department finally decided to place him on paid administrative leave.

Around 5:15 p.m. on September 4, a 39-year-old woman was walking down the sidewalk when she noticed a man sitting in a parked car. After she realized that the man was exposing himself and masturbating in the car, the woman immediately turned around and began walking the other way. To prevent her from escaping, Sergeant James Rainey Mason allegedly pulled up in front of her and parked his car while continuing to expose himself.

Comment: It's good to know we are being protected by members of the police force who are such, fine upstanding citizens and not perverted in any way.


Passport

US government continues to push Real ID Act, some residents will need passports for domestic travel

Passport
© RIA Novosti/Mihail Mokrushin
To comply with the 2005 Real ID Act, which the U.S. government has been slowly implementing for the past decade, citizens in a number of different U.S. states will now be forced to obtain a passport if they want to board an airplane — even for domestic flights.

The Department of Homeland Security and representatives with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection have declined to comment on why certain states have been singled out, but starting in 2016, residents of New York, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and American Samoa will need a passport to fly domestically. All other states will still be able to use their state-issued driver's licenses and IDs — for now, at least.

Comment: The government has consistently shown that despite the wishes of the people, it will do whatever it wants. These moves are priming to population to get used to travel restrictions as there may come a day when no one is allowed to leave.