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Philippine police truck runs over demonstrators protesting US military presence


RT
Wed, 19 Oct 2016 13:36 UTC
Philippine protesters outside US emabssy
© Romeo Ranoco / Reuters
Various activists and Indigenous People's (IP) groups clash with anti-riot policemen during a protest against the continuing presence of U.S. troops in the Phililppines in front of the U.S. Embassy in metro Manila, Phililppines October 19, 2016.
A rally protesting the presence of American troops in the Philippines has turned violent outside the US embassy in Manila, with police using tear gas against demonstrators. Several people were run over by a police van.

AP footage shows the van repeatedly ramming into protesters as it drove back and forth among the crowd. It occurred after demonstrators surrounded the vehicle and began hitting it with wooden batons seized from police.

At least three student activists were taken to hospital after being run over, protest leader Renato Reyes told AP.

Police arrested 23 protesters who broke into a line of riot police and hurled red paint at officers and a US government employee.
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Scots independence leader Alex Salmond: 'UK govt banning RT UK is what tin-pot dictatorships do'


RT
Wed, 19 Oct 2016 12:56 UTC
First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond
© Brendan McDermid / Reuters
The closure of RT's British accounts by a UK majority-state-owned bank would be something one might expect from a "tin pot dictatorship, not a liberal democracy," Scottish politician Alex Salmond told RT, pledging to protest the move.

NatWest, a major UK bank with the British government its majority shareholder, informed RT that it would no longer provide banking facilities to RT's UK branch and that the decision was final and not subject to discussion. Russia believes that despite denying this, the British government was behind the decision and that it amounts to an attack on freedom of speech in that country.


Comment: Lavrov doesn't believe decision to freeze RT accounts in UK was made by bank


Comment: Support for RT continues flooding in: Support floods in for RT following NatWest accounts closure notice

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Pirates

Sign of foul things to come? Killary's DNC campaign bus dumps its human excrement into storm drain

Mark Hensch
The Hill
Tue, 18 Oct 2016 12:44 UTC
forward together bus
Police in Lawrenceville, Ga., are investigating whether a Democratic National Committee campaign bus illegally dumped human waste there, according to multiple reports.

The incident occurred on Grayson Highway early Tuesday, while the vehicle promoting Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and the rest of the Democratic Party was between campaign stops, CBS 46 News said.

CBS 46 News reported that a Lawrenceville businessman took several photos of the "Forward Together" tour bus dumping waste into a storm drain. The man's pictures showed liquid seeping out from underneath the vehicle.

Police responding to the scene found scattered toilet paper and a foul smell.

WSB-TV 2 News added that an employee at O'Reilly Auto Parts along Grayson Highway also observed someone from the bus dumping raw sewage nearby.
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Propaganda

'Migrants rape our girls' post pulled down by Danish newspaper after public backlash


RT
Wed, 19 Oct 2016 10:50 UTC
immigrants
© Jens Nørgaard Larsen / AFP
A Danish newspaper has deleted a post claiming that migrants kidnap Danish girls for sex after the story became one of the most viral in local media. Critics of the submission said it lacked proper evidence and was based on loose facts.

The article with the intriguing title 'Trend comes to Denmark: Immigrants kidnap Danish girls for sex' appeared in Ekstra Bladet tabloid newspaper earlier in October. The text was published in the section dubbed 'People's Voice', where readers express their views. Many stories in this section are devoted to the topic of Islam, terrorists and asylum seekers.

According to Danish media that saw the scandalous article, the author claims that Muslims are 200 times more likely to abduct women than non-Muslim men. He allegedly collected the evidence from the British newspaper Mirror and YouTube channel named 'Never Submit To Islam'. It's not exactly clear which stories from Mirror the author quoted.

Comment: The spread of Islamophobia is a success and what better way to ramp up the fear and hatred than by conjuring up images of sex and violence?

Spreading Islamophobia: Polish magazine cover depicts woman being attacked by faceless dark-skinned men with headline: "The Islamic rape of Europe"

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UFO researcher on verge of exposure of politicians and celebrities practicing black magic dies suspiciously

Sophia Rosenbaum
New York Post
Tue, 18 Oct 2016 10:21 UTC
Max Spiers
© Facebook
Max Spiers
He believed the truth was out there.

The UFO expert whose death has sparked out-of-this world conspiracy theories was about to "expose" a cabal of politicians and celebrities practicing black magic, his fiancee claimed.

Max Spiers, a 39-year-old father of two found dead on a couch in Poland over the summer with "black liquid" oozing from his mouth — reminiscent of the "black oil" that alien beings used to inhabit human hosts in the TV series "The X-Files" — spent his final months researching the dark arts.

"He was going to expose black magic. He was going to expose some of the stuff he was working on involving political leaders and celebrities," his gal pal, 31-year-old Sarah Adams, told Yahoo.

Adams said she spoke to Spiers about his fear of dying numerous times.
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San Francisco: Four men open fire on high school students

Chris Perez
New York Post
Tue, 18 Oct 2016 10:12 UTC
san francisco pd
© AP
San Francisco Police stand at the site of the shooting.
San Francisco cops are on the hunt for four men who opened fire outside a San Francisco high school on Tuesday afternoon — injuring four students, including one critically — as they were being let out of class, police said.

Authorities told NBC Bay Area that the suspects were wearing dark hoodies and jeans when they approached the June Jordan School for Equity on foot just after 3 p.m. and began blasting rounds at a 15-year-old girl and three young men, striking them all as they stood in the parking lot.

"It was terrifying," said Fernando Rodriguez, a 16-year-old junior at the school.

He told the San Francisco Chronicle that he heard at least six "pops" before students and faculty began running in every direction.

Authorities said it appeared that the girl who was shot may have been targeted. She was taken to San Francisco General Hospital, where she was listed in critical condition.
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Pistol

Answers sought after NYPD cop kills naked, mentally ill woman wielding a bat

Larry Celona, Caroll Alvarado and Tina Moore
New York Post
Tue, 18 Oct 2016 09:59 UTC
NYPD
© William C. Lopez
Police at the scene of the shooting.
An NYPD sergeant fatally shot a troubled 66-year-old woman who charged at him with a baseball bat in her Bronx apartment Tuesday evening, leading the officer to be placed on modified duty — and ­local officials calling for a full investigation.

Cops responded to the Deborah Danner's building on Pugsley Avenue in Castle Hill at 6 p.m. after neighbors reported a resident screaming, according to police.

When they entered the apartment, the disturbed woman threatened them with scissors.

They convinced her to drop it, but then she grabbed a wooden bat and charged at a Sgt. Hugh Barry.

He fired two shots and struck Danner in the torso. She was rushed to ­Jacobi Medical Center, where she died.

Comment: This woman needed professional help, not a belly full of lead. This is what happens when you send cops to do a social worker's job.

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1 dead in shooting incident in Dueren, Germany


RT
Wed, 19 Oct 2016 05:59 UTC
German Police
© Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters
A shooting and hostage situation in the town of Dueren in northwest Germany has ended with one hostage injured and the gunman, who was also the hostage taker, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to police.

The incident began with a shooting at a hairdressing salon, DPA reported, citing police. There was "at least one shot," a police spokeswoman told journalists. Police later confirmed that there had been no casualties at the salon.

According to local media, a man entered the hairdressing salon and insulted a woman before firing several shots and taking one woman hostage.

The man later fled the scene and barricaded himself in a nearby apartment with the hostage. German media reported that Old Town had been closed off due to a "heavy police presence" at the scene.
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Beaker

Half of Americans in 'virtual lineup' face-recognition police programs - study


RT
Wed, 19 Oct 2016 05:28 UTC
AFP facial recognition
© AFP
To help identify a culprit, police may ask people to volunteer to be in a line-up. But that scenario is fast becoming obsolete, as more than 117 million Americans are now part of face-recognition software programs used by law enforcement, a study finds.

Whether they like it or not, about half of all Americans are pictured in a digital "perpetual line-up," composed of databases handled either by the FBI or local police departments, the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law Center finds in a new study published Tuesday.

According to "The Perpetual Line-Up: Unregulated Police Face Recognition in America," about one in four police departments have access to face recognition technology, but only one of the 52 which acknowledged use of the software had legislative approval, the Miami Herald reported.

Furthermore, just one police agency shared evidence its use had been audited. And meanwhile, many departments reportedly used the tool to identify people not suspected of any crime.
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DOJ files criminal charges against corrupt Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio


RT
Wed, 19 Oct 2016 02:42 UTC
Sheriff Joe Arpaio
© Darryl Webb / Reuters
Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Maricopa County's notorious Sheriff Joe Arpaio is about to see the criminal justice system from the other side. Arpaio is being charged with contempt of court after violating a 2011 injunction to stop enforcing federal civil immigration law.

The Arizona sheriff's legal troubles continue to plague Maricopa County. Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys filed criminal charges against Arpaio on Monday after US District Court Judge Susan Bolton requested to continue criminal proceedings against him.

The charges stem from violating a December 2011 injunction that barred both him and the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office "from enforcing federal immigration law or from detaining persons they believed to be in the country without authorization but against whom they had no state charges," according to the court filing.

The court filing explained that Arpaio violated that order by continuing to detain people that were believed to be in the country illegally without any state charges. In layman's terms, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office had taken it upon themselves to enforce federal laws when that was not their job.
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