Did you ever wonder why America is in trouble? Maybe it is because people like this vote and select political leaders. This video brings up a valid argument for voters to be tested before they are allowed at the polls.
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Did you ever wonder why America is in trouble? Maybe it is because people like this vote and select political leaders. This video brings up a valid argument for voters to be tested before they are allowed at the polls.
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An officer at Clover Park High School is now being investigated for using excessive force after arresting a student.
The student is facing a charge of resisting arrest, and a teacher is also facing possible charges of obstruction for trying to help the student. The case has been referred to the city attorney who will determine if charges will be filed.
According to KIRO 7,
Police are claiming that the negligent actions of the officer using his car door as a weapon did not injure the child at all. Lakewood Police Lieutenant Chris Lawler says the student wasn't hurt. "It didn't knock him down," Lt Lawler explained. "It didn't cause any injuries."The incident happened a week and a half ago near the pool on campus.
Reports of a fight prompted the on duty school resource officer, Lakewood Police Detective Rey Punzalan, to respond.
Witnesses say the officer hit one of the students, a 14-year-old, with his car door.
Because he failed to put it in park, the door kept hitting the student.
When the officer told the student to go to the office, the student, who had just been struck by the officer's car door, allegedly responded with profanity.
"So he goes to grab the student, who is 6-foot-1, 210 pounds, and the kids immediately tenses up and starts to fight with the officer," says Lawler, in an attempt to paint the student as some monstrous villain.
However, the eyewitnesses say that's not the case at all. They say the student was not fighting back, and the officer placed him in a chokehold.
Predictably, police are claiming that it wasn't a chokehold, the officer merely "grabbed the child by the neck."
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On September 22nd of last year, students at Bedford Middle School reported to school authorities that a boy had a lighter and a bag with a leaf in it. He was "bragging" that it was marijuana, which violated the school's zero-tolerance policy. The policy includes "imitation" or "look-alike" drugs.
When officials found the "drug," it led to the boy's suspension, but vice-principal Brian Wilson and school resource officer M.M. Calohan took it a step further: they contacted the police, who charged him with possession of marijuana.
Comment: Zero tolerance or zero common sense?
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The mainstream media rarely publishes facts like this. The super-rich keep building up their own numbers, as quietly as possible. And our leading members of Congress have little need for numbers, except for budget cuts and the strings of zeros at the end of their campaign contributions.
But numbers have the power to reveal the dramatic fall of the middle class over the past 35 years.
1. 138,000 Kids Were Homeless while 115,000 Households Were Each Making $10 Million Per Year
Recent data has shown that the richest .1% (115,000 households) have each increased their wealth by an astonishing $10 million per year. As they counted their money on a frigid night in January, 138,000 children, according to the U.S. Department of Housing, were without a place to call home.
2. The Average U.S. Household Pays $400 to Feed and Clothe Walmart, McDonalds, and Other Low-Wage Workers
The Economic Policy Institute reports that $45 billion per year in federal, state, and other safety net support is paid to workers earning less than $10.10 an hour. Thus the average U.S. household is paying about $400 to employees in low-wage industries such as food service, retail, and personal care.
Walmart's well-advertised $1 raise will cost the company about $1 billion a year. Its profits last year were about $25 billion.
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Danielle Hicks-Best, 18, holds her son, Levi. After D.C. police questioned her account about being sexually assaulted, Hicks-Best spent years in detention and secure treatment centers
Danielle Hicks-Best, 18, holds her son, Levi. After D.C. police questioned her account about being sexually assaulted, Hicks-Best spent years in detention and secure treatment centers
According to her parents, even though their daughter, Danielle Hicks-Best [who allowed her name to be used in the story], showed signs of sexual assault, she was charged with filing a false report and they agreed to a poorly worded and confusing plea bargain on her behalf making her a ward of the state.
Since that time, Hicks-Best has spent years in and out of detention and secure treatment centers, when she wasn't running away.
"After 11, she lost the rest of her childhood," said Danielle's foster mother, Veronica Best, who along with her husband Mayo have pushed the police to reopen her case and go after the men who assaulted her.
In 2008, Danielle was repeatedly raped by two men in a basement apartment which was reported to the police after she had gone missing overnight. A rape kit taken at Children's National Medical Center proved conclusively that she had been sexually assaulted, yet detectives failed to follow up, even after she took them to the scene of the crime.
Less than one month later, Danielle was abducted once again and raped by a different man and then later by the same men from before. After being released, she was driven home by a passerby, and then taken to the hospital again by her parents where a detective came to speak with her.
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Rachel Corrie was killed by an IDF bulldozer, aged just 23, as she stood in front of it to prevent from demolishing a Palestinian home.
Rachel Corrie was killed by an IDF bulldozer, aged just 23, as she stood in front of it to prevent from demolishing a Palestinian home.
According to one 24-year-old Frenchwoman taking part in the weekly anti-Israel protest in the village of Al-Nabi Saleh, it is "unnatural" to be there. "But being here is important as I am taking part in the Palestinians' lives and writing notes about a detained nation here."
She claimed that she once viewed Palestinians in a stereotypical way and believed that Palestine was a war zone. "When I came here, though, I found a nation and human beings living the same as all other humans. A Palestinian can be happy or sad and can resist. I found an occupation arresting and stealing lands. I will write to the French about our fellow Palestinian human beings."
The Arabic-speaking activist added that she has many friends in Palestine. "I will come here again. I think that it is the duty of the whole world to stand against the Israeli killing and arresting of Palestinians and foreign activists. The world must stand with the Palestinians."
She has concluded that the international community and the Western media are wrong to treat the Palestinians and the Israelis in the same way. "There are no similarities. Palestinians are a nation under occupation and the Israelis are the occupiers," she insisted.
Andrei Babitsky
"I recorded an exhumation of four bodies - two civilians and two fighters. The locals said that they were not independence supporters, but civilians residing in the Novosvitlivka village. They were killed by volunteers from Ukrainian Aidar battalion," Babitsky said as quoted by the newspaper, adding that the recording was made in September 2014.
The reporter claimed he did not make any comments on the video before sending it to the Moldova's Radio Liberty office.
"The video was published on the website. Right after that, the nationalists sitting in the Ukrainian Radio Liberty's office got hysterical. The huge scandal erupted," Babitsky said.
Comment: Radio Liberty is a U.S. State Dept. propaganda outfit. So it's fitting that clamp down on freedom of speech. Can't let the truth get in the way of a good campaign of lies, after all.
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Family say 28-year-old Jason Harrison, who suffered from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, was in need of 'mental help' when his mother called police after he began making 'violent threats.'
Body cam footage shows Dallas police employees knocking on the door of Harrison's residence before speaking with the man's mother who can be heard informing the officers of her sons medical conditions.
"He's just off the chain," the woman can be heard saying. "Bipolar schizo."
As Harrison exists the home after his mother, officers spy a screwdriver in his hand.
"Can you drop that for me?" one officer can be heard saying. "Drop it!"
Harrisons mother pleads, "James!" just before the officers open fire, killing the man.
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The man, aged in his 40s, was reportedly encouraged to leap from the top of the multi-storey car park outside Southwater Shopping Centre in Telford, Shropshire (above), by a crowd who shouted: 'Get on with and jump'
The man, aged in his 40s, was reportedly encouraged to leap from the top of the multi-storey car park outside Southwater Shopping Centre in Telford, Shropshire (above), by a crowd who shouted: 'Get on with and jump'
The man, aged in his 40s, was reportedly encouraged to leap from the top of the car park outside Southwater Shopping Centre in Telford, Shropshire, on Saturday afternoon.
He spent more than two hours at the top of the building, during which time a crowd gathered in the car park below.
Witnesses have now revealed how some members of the public shouted taunts such as 'Get on with it', 'Go on, jump,' and 'How far can you bounce?'. Others took selfies at the scene on their mobile phones and recorded video footage of the incident.
Comment: People without conscience - psychopaths - all have one thing in common: a complete lack of empathy. We often hear about psychopaths who are extremely dangerous because they are caught, but for all we know there are tens of millions more of them out there.
Rep. Robert Pittenger, R-N.C., says it's time to pack a new emergency bag and draft updated evacuation plans in preparation for another terrorist attack. He's put together a "how to" handbook to help constituents and other members of the public plan what to do.
"I was a Boy Scout, and the motto of the Boy Scouts was to be prepared," Pittenger said.
The chairman of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare said his handbook was inspired by growing concerns about terrorism and the Islamic State group. U.S. intelligence officials say that more than 100 people from the United States have traveled to Syria to fight there. Authorities fear those people might return radicalized and trained to carry out their own attacks.
Americans can alleviate anxieties by learning as much as they can about how to survive an attack, Pittenger said. But some who study terrorism threats see the manual, and its graphic pictures of mushroom clouds, as backhanded fear-mongering.
"The basic idea being to prepare for an emergency, that's a perfectly reasonable thing to do, and people are not very good at that," said John Mueller, an Ohio State University political science professor who studies terrorism threats. "But to heighten all this terrorism seems pretty irresponsible to me."
Pittenger's handbook has chapters on terrorist hazards, explosions and nuclear blasts. His home state of North Carolina experiences tornadoes, weather-related power outages and the annual threat of hurricanes. While he says the book is also intended to assist citizens with natural disasters, there are no chapters dedicated to them.
Comment: There is a "false sense of security". Instead of worrying about the US created 'Islamic State', the real threats are from increasing extreme weather and precarious economic position.
Comment: The dumbing down of America - By design