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Delware police murder disabled man in wheelchair because 'he wouldn't raise his hands'

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 24 Sep 2015 12:37 UTC
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On Wednesday police responded to a 9-1-1 call about a man in a wheelchair who was allegedly suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Upon arriving on the scene, police officers immediately escalated the situation and within seconds the man was killed, according to witnesses.

The victim, 28-year-old Jeremy McDole was repeatedly told by police to "show your hands," but he did not immediately respond. The first officer fired a single shot at him with a shotgun and appeared to strike McDole in the chest.

From what we can see in the video, it does not appear that McDole was pointing a weapon at officers. He was merely moving his hands back and forth when police let loose on him a second time, unleashing a frenzy of gunfire.

According to eye-witnesses and family members on the scene, McDole did not have a weapon. However, in a statement from police, they claimed to have found a .38 caliber pistol by his side after he was killed.
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'Bang, flames, lights went out': Cathay Pacific jet diverted to Bali with one engine out


RT
Fri, 25 Sep 2015 06:10 UTC
Cathay Pacific Flight CX170
© DlimexCathay Pacific Flight CX170 was flying from Perth to Hong Kong and was diverted to Bali (pictured at Denpasar airport) after an 'engine defect'
A Cathay Pacific flight en route from Australia to Hong Kong was diverted to Bali after one of the plane's engines reportedly caught fire and cut out. Witnesses described a loud bang, flames outside and power shutdown on board.

The Cathay Pacific flight CX170 was cruising at 36,000 feet when a "No.2 engine defect" was reported.

"There were flames and sparks flying out of the motor," passenger Joel Sirna told 6PR presenter Gary Adshead, as cited by the West Australian.

The CX170 departed from Perth, Australia, just before midnight local time and was scheduled to land in Hong Kong at 7:40am on Friday.

"Mid-flight, we heard a loud bang and the plane started to shake, all the lights went out and I looked to the window and have just seen some flames and some sparks - the wing and the motor was on fire," Sirna said.

The pilot announced that one of the engines had stopped working and then all the power in the cabin went off, Sirna told reporters.

"There were a few people that were pretty shaken. The girl next to me started freaking out and crying, so I just tried to calm everyone down. That's what we had to do," he said.

The captain made a decision to divert the plane to the nearest airport "for safety reasons." The plane, an Airbus A330, landed safely in Denpasar, Bali.

Comment: This latest 'engine defect' follows the fiery explosion and dramatic evacuation of a British Airways jet at Las Vegas Airport recently after a 'catastrophic' engine failure, and the Singapore Airlines plane that plunged 13,000 ft after both engines failed earlier this year, among many others.

Some other aircraft related incidents include: Planes suddenly 'disappearing' from radar, sometimes in "unprecedented" blackouts; more planes diverting due to "electrical burning and smoke smells", "engine fires" and plane wings "bursting into flames".

Statistics showing a disturbing trend in "air rage"; the tragic Germanwings crash not being the full story and the still unresolved mystery of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370? It looks like a continuation from last year, see also:

SOTT EXCLUSIVE: Year of the planes Cluster of plane problems as 2014 comes to a close

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Attention

The US Federal Reserve: "All that's left is a reset, shutdown of the system"

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan
Wed, 23 Sep 2015 00:00 UTC
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Did Janet Yellen make the right decision in delaying a Federal Reserve rate hike? Did the United States dodge a bullet? Of course not.

And the system is on course for a dangerous, hard landing.

As far as many experts can tell, there is no right way or good way out of this crisis under Fed control, and the exit isn't likely to be smooth or pretty.
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Post-It Note

Swedish kids asked by school to write suicide notes to their own mothers


RT
Thu, 24 Sep 2015 07:34 UTC
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Parents at a school in Sweden are furious after learning that their kids were asked to write fictional suicide notes, while also imagining they were writing these to their own mothers. The task was part of a class dealing with mental health issues.

The 13 year-old school children from the town of Skelleftea in the north east of Sweden, were reportedly listening to an audio book about a girl who was planning to commit suicide.

After listening to the harrowing story, which was part of lesson looking at mental health issues, their teacher asked them to write a letter to the girl's mother, to explain to her that the child's thoughts about suicide were not the parent's fault.

However, to make the task 'easier,' their teacher suggested that when writing the fictional letter, they should instead think about their own mother's, the angry parents claimed.

"We are several parents who became very upset when we heard about this," one parent told Swedish broadcaster SVT.

"I am completely aghast," and "it feels very unpleasant," others added.

Comment: This is so demented! Most 13-year-olds don't have the emotional or mental maturity to even consider such mental health issues. Living in this world AND being a teenager is traumatic enough. Why add suicide to the burden?

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Attention

London homeless population soars, overwhelmed charities buying night bus tickets for youth


RT
Thu, 24 Sep 2015 19:50 UTC
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Homeless young people are being given tickets by a London charity so they can sleep on night buses, as the number of rough sleepers in the capital continues to rise under the Conservative government.

The New Horizon Day Centre, which seeks to provide accommodation for homeless young people, has revealed its staff regularly give out bus tickets when their emergency accommodation is full.

The young people are given a ticket and advice on which bus routes to ride so they have a safe place to sleep, the charity said.

The revelation comes as levels of homelessness soar, prompting charity chiefs to criticize Conservative cuts to benefits.

Comment: 'Let them eat cake': Poorest UK families to bear the brunt of the government's newest austerity measures

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Red Flag

Hysteria: Student reading book about terrorism accused of being terrorist by school officials

Randeep Ramesh and Josh Halliday
The Guardian
Thu, 24 Sep 2015 20:34 UTC
Mohammed Umar Farooq
© David Sillitoe for the GuardianMohammed Umar Farooq was enrolled in a master’s course on terrorism, crime and global security.
A postgraduate student of counter-terrorism was falsely accused of being a terrorist after an official at Staffordshire University had spotted him reading a textbook entitled Terrorism Studies in the college library.

Mohammed Umar Farooq, who was enrolled in the terrorism, crime and global security master's programme, told the Guardian that he was questioned about attitudes to homosexuality, Islamic State (Isis) and al-Qaida.

His replies, Farooq said, were largely academic but he stressed his personal opposition to extremist views. However, the conversation in the library was reported by the official to security guards, because it had raised "too many red flags" .

"I could not believe it. I was reading an academic textbook and minding my own business. At first I thought I'd just laugh it off as a joke," said Farooq, who then instructed a lawyer to help him challenge and rebut the claims.
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Days of Rage are coming: Time to trade in your Jag, Benz, BMW for a dented econobox

Charles Hugh Smith
Of Two Minds
Wed, 23 Sep 2015 19:03 UTC
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The resistance will take the form of subverting the signifiers of wealth that exemplify the few who have benefited so greatly while everyone else lost ground.

It's time to trade in your Jag, Mercedes, BMW (and maybe your Prius, Volvo, Lexus, etc.) before the Days of Rage start. As I've explained before ( As the "Prosperity" Tide Recedes, the Ugly Reality of Wealth Inequality Is Exposed), the rage of the masses who have been losing ground while the Financier Oligarchs, the New Nobility and the technocrat class reap immense gains for decades has been suppressed by the dream that they too could join the Upper Caste.

But once the realistic odds of that happening (low) sink in, the Days of Rage will begin. For those still who don't know the facts of rising inequality, here's what you need to know.
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Attention

World Bank adjusts poverty line - more people than ever considered poor


RT
Thu, 24 Sep 2015 20:30 UTC
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The World Bank has dramatically revised its definition of poverty for the first time in 25 years, the Financial Times reports. Anyone earning less than $1.90 a day will be classified as poor, which will greatly increase the number living in poverty.

The last time the World Bank raised the poverty line by 25 cents to the current $1.25 per day was in 1990. The leading countries are meeting on Friday to adopt 17 new so-called "sustainable development goals" that will define global development policy up to 2030.

It's difficult to predict how many people will be affected by the change, according to the FT, but when the World Bank tested a $1.92 bar, the outcome was as many as 148 million people.
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Eye 2

Rape culture study: Aussie youth think women partially to blame for rape, violence against partner 'excusable'


RT
Thu, 24 Sep 2015 20:24 UTC
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Nearly half of all young Australians say spying on one's partner is acceptable, while one in five believe that rape victims can be blamed for the crime as women often "say 'No' when they mean 'Yes'," a new report shows.

The study carried out by Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth). The group surveyed 1923 people aged between 16 and 24 on their attitude to violence against women and gender equality.

"One in five young people believe there are circumstances in which women bear part of the responsibility for sexual assault. For example, 20 percent of 16 to 24-year-olds believe that women often say 'no' when they mean 'yes' compared to 13 percent of the 35 to 64-year age group," says the report.

Forty percent of young Australians said that "rape results from men not being able to control their sexual urges," the survey added.

Comment: This is Amerika's vassal states 'aping Big Brother':

Rape Culture in America - How the system protects the rapists and fails the victims

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Light Saber

Sweden experiments with six-hour workday, productivity increases while turnover reduced

David Crouch
The Guardian
Thu, 24 Sep 2015 18:50 UTC
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© Daniel Breece for the Guardian The Svartedalens elderly care home in Gothenburg is experimenting with a six-hour working day and says staff are less stressed.
A Swedish retirement home may seem an unlikely setting for an experiment about the future of work, but a small group of elderly-care nurses in Sweden have made radical changes to their daily lives in an effort to improve quality and efficiency.

In February the nurses switched from an eight-hour to a six-hour working day for the same wage - the first controlled trial of shorter hours since a rightward political shift in Sweden a decade ago snuffed out earlier efforts to explore alternatives to the traditional working week.

"I used to be exhausted all the time, I would come home from work and pass out on the sofa," says Lise-Lotte Pettersson, 41, an assistant nurse at Svartedalens care home in Gothenburg. "But not now. I am much more alert: I have much more energy for my work, and also for family life."

Comment: This experiment is a great example of what is possible when people are given time to improve their quality of life. Health improves as stress is reduced and people respond by working more efficiently. It would seem to be a win-win situation, however it's not surprising that political interests are attempting to end this experiment. The elites are more interested in retaining as much money in their coffers than thinking about the long-term benefits to the overall population, because they are incapable of such concerns.

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