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Submission to police will be mandatory teaching in Illinois driver's education classes

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The police state apparatus will now condition children to prostrate themselves before their masters as they are extorted during traffic stops. Illinois drivers education now includes instructions on how to properly allow police to generate revenue.

The bill signed into law on Friday by Governor Bruce Rauner authorizes a new curriculum for driver's education classes which includes interacting with police. It will be instituted for the 2017-18 school year and become mandatory training at both private and public schools.

The guidelines, created by the secretary of state's office, will instruct pupils on how to respond if they are pulled over by the police. It will condition them to not be afraid of being robbed on the roadside.

Comment: The sad fact is that with so many cops behaving like murderous beasts it is in a citizen's best interest not to mouth off to them and comply with reasonable requests. That a class on this subject has to be mandatory teaching in schools is an acknowledgment that we are living in a police state and in order not to be killed we'd better shut up and and behave like good, little children.


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College baseball player killed in SF while playing 'Pokémon Go'

Calvin Riley
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A San Mateo high school graduate who was set to pitch baseball in his second year in college was shot to death Saturday night near San Francisco's Ghirardelli Square while playing "Pokémon Go," according to his family.

Calvin Riley, 20, was shot in the chest by an unknown assailant shortly before 10 p.m. near Aquatic Park, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene after paramedics tried to revive him with CPR.

The area where Riley was killed is a landmark destination and popular tourist attraction in the Fisherman's Wharf area that draws tens of thousands of visitors a day. Killings in the neighborhood are rare.

Bad Guys

ISIS plunders unique Tal Ajaja site in Syria, destroys 'profane' artifacts

Tal Ajaja archeological site
© Ayham al-Mohammad / AFP A picture taken on August 3, 2016 shows two fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces, the Kurdish-Arab alliance backed by the US fighting the Islamic State (IS) group, standing at the Tal Ajaja archeological site in Syria's northeastern Hassakeh province.
One of Syria's most important archeological sites, the Assyrian-era Tal Ajaja ancient settlement, has been cleaned out by Islamic State militants and other illegal diggers who have savagely extracted priceless artifacts, intentionally destroying some.

Situated in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province, the Tal Ajaja site was once a cultural center of the Assyrian Empire, which flourished in the first millennium BC.

Tal Ajaja was first excavated back in the 19th century, with most discovered artifacts making their way to museum collections in Syria and abroad.

"Tal Ajaja, or ancient Shadikanni, was one of the main cities of Assyria," Cheikhmous Ali of the Association for the Protection of Syrian Archeology said, as quoted by AFP.

Stock Down

Oops ... bail-in for Bitcoin users after $71M hack

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Hong Kong-based Bitfinex said all users will lose 36 percent of their deposits after the bitcoin exchange concluded its review of a $71 million hacking attack. To compensate its customers, Bitfinex said users will receive tokens that may later be redeemed or exchanged for shares in its parent company. Following the announcement, bitcoin climbed to $594 as of 10:55 a.m. on Sunday in Tokyo, based on prices from Coinbase. The virtual currency dropped 12 percent to $577.23 in the week through Friday, its largest weekly decline since June, according to Bloomberg prices.

Attention

Way too political: Russia's Paralympians banned from competing in Rio

Paralympians
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The International Paralympic Committee [IPC] has confirmed a blanket ban on Russians competing at next month's Games following a recommendation from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to ban Russia's Paralympics team from the event.

The decision was announced at the press conference in Rio de Janeiro, where Olympic games are currently taking place.

The ruling comes despite the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) refusal to implement a total ban on Russian athletes for the 2016 Rio Games.

People

London Metropolitan Police officers attacked by gang of youths

Metropolitan Police officers scuffle
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Footage has emerged showing two Metropolitan Police officers being attacked in broad daylight after stopping a car in Tower Hamlets, London.

The video uploaded to YouTube shows the officers arguing with several men before they appear to become aggressive towards the cops and a fight breaks out.

Surrounding the officers, the men try to rescue two of their friends who are being restrained by police.

One of the officers is pulled to the ground.

Padlock

UK police chief: No space left in British jails for all the pedophiles

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Pedophiles guilty of lower level offenses should be diverted to mental health treatment programs rather than prisons, a senior police chief has suggested.

Chief Superintendent Gavin Thomas, president of the Police Superintendents' Association of England and Wales, has called for a different approach to rehabilitating those who have viewed indecent images of children online but have not committed contact offenses.

Citing the rapidly growing sex offenders' register, Thomas warned that police do not have the resources to properly monitor all of those on the list.

"One of the major concerns from our members is managing the register already, and it's growing. For offenders at the highest level there are visits to be made [and] monitoring access to the internet," he told the Times.

"Should we be going down the criminal justice route or, based on a proper assessment, should we be going down the health route? At the moment I am not seeing alternative thinking on how we deal with this issue as it grows and grows and grows," he said.

There are nearly 45,000 offenders on the register today, up from 32,000 a decade ago.

Dollars

More economic I&W from John Williams

John Williams
Economist John Williams says don't believe the hype about the U.S. economy being good—it's not. Williams explains, "I love America, but we are in a deepening recession. The economy collapsed into 2009 . . . we never really recovered from that. We had a few bounces higher, but generally, we went into low level stagnation, and now it's turning down again. We just had a revision to the benchmark GDP (1.2%) and the numbers are nonsense. The numbers are a lot weaker than they appear. There's no question we are in a recession."

Comment: Personal financial preparation for our economic future is an activity for everyone. See also:


Airplane

Delta Air Lines flights grounded as power outage downs computer systems

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A worldwide system failure has been reported by Delta Air Lines. Social media users have posted photos showing long lines of passengers waiting to check-in at airports.

"Delta has experienced a computer outage that has affected flights scheduled for this morning. Flights awaiting departure are currently delayed. Flights en route are operating normally. Delta is advising travelers to check the status of their flights this morning while the issue is being addressed," the airline said in a statement.

According to Twitter accounts, passengers are stuck at Heathrow Airport in London, Málaga Airport in Spain, Keflavík International Airport in Reykjavík, Iceland, Amsterdam Schiphol Airport and Rome Ciampino Airport.

Heart - Black

Israeli-Lebanese conflict flares over refusal to share Olympic bus ride

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© FILE PHOTO Jim Young / Reuters
The Lebanese Olympic team has been accused of "disgraceful" behavior over their alleged refusal to share a bus ride with the Israeli team to the 2016 Rio Games opening ceremony. The Lebanese side insists Israelis staged the embarrassing incident on purpose.

The situation allegedly occurred on Friday evening as the Israeli Olympic delegation tried to board a bus heading to the Maracana Stadium. According to an Israeli sailor, Udi Gal, the team had been surprised to find Lebanese delegates inside the bus they were planning to board.

Given the thorny history of military confrontations between the two states, team Lebanon reportedly slammed the bus door right in front of team Israel's noses, refusing to share a ride with its Mediterranean neighbor.