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Thousands of workers strike in Northern Ireland, joining Europe-wide anti-austerity movement


RT
Sat, 14 Mar 2015 16:05 UTC
Northern Ireland's trade unions claim Friday's public sector strike is among the biggest in years, as workers in transport, education, road services, fire and rescue and health services defy their bosses over cuts.

Organized by Unite the Union, UNISON and GMB, leaders say austerity measures will likely result in up to 20,000 job losses over the next few years.

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Picket lines and demonstrations are taking place across the region as workers confronted public sector cuts. Northern Ireland is more dependent on central government than any other part of the UK.

Ahead of the strike Michael Mulholland, GMB regional organizer, said: "On Friday 13th March in Northern Ireland we will see one of the largest trade union organized protests in many years."

Unite regional secretary Jimmy Kelly said in a statement: "Without standing up to this, we can expect another four years of even more punishing austerity budgets."

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The Truth Perspective: The Ides of March

Sott Editors
Sott.net
Sat, 14 Mar 2015 18:00 UTC
caesar
For the anniversary of the assassination of Julius Caesar on March 15, our hosts discussed the question, "What does it take to lead a country?" If Caesar were alive today, what would he do, and how would he do it? How should we interpret the facts of Caesar's life?

The discussion continues from the previous week's interview with Tom Stevenson about his book on Julius Caesar.

Following this, we discussed some current events: the latest ISIS revelations, Venezuela as a 'national security' threat and then the pedophile scandals in both the US and UK.

Running Time: 01:48:00

Download: MP3

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Video shows cop choking out child until he goes limp, child left with brain injury

Cassandra Rules
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 13 Mar 2015 03:59 UTC
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Louisville, Kentucky - Louisville Metro Police Officer Jonathan Hardin, 31, has been arrested for assaulting a child at the school where he was working as a resource officer.

Surveillance video released after it was played during a probable cause hearing on Thursday shows Hardin choking out a 13-year-old student back in January. This was only five days after the officer allegedly assaulted another 13-year-old student in an unrelated incident.

Hardin was also named in a civil suit with two other officers who have been accused of verbally and physically abusing children during a summer program.

Surveillance cameras at the middle school also caught the first incident that took place in the cafeteria on January 22. The footage reportedly shows the officer punch a student in the face so hard that he is knocked to the ground, after accusing him of cutting in line.

The boy was subsequently charged with menacing and resisting arrest following the officer's assault. However, WLKY reports that court records show that the officer made the arrest based on facts that he knew were false.

Instead of being fired, suspended, or moved to a position away from children, the officer remained on duty and January 27th he was caught on camera assaulting a child once again.

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New York City: Film an idling vehicle, get paid

Yoav Gonen
New York Post
Tue, 10 Mar 2015 06:09 UTC
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If you see something, they'll pay something.

Two city lawmakers want to recruit everyday New Yorkers to help battle the scourge of idling vehicles by paying them for video footage that results in fines.

City Council members Helen Rosenthal (D-Manhattan) and Donovan Richards (D-Queens) will introduce a bill Wednesday that would give citizens up to 50 percent of the summons revenue if they catch someone breaking the idling law, take a video and submit it to the Department of Environmental Protection.

The exact cut for videographers would be determined by the DEP, they said. But citizen enforcers could makes hundreds — even thousands — of dollars.

The bill would keep first-time idling violations punishable by just a warning, but would boost fines for second offenses to between $350 and $1,500.

Comment: Turning Americans into snitches for the police state: 'See something, say something' and community policing

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Judge orders buses and trains in Philadelphia to run anti-Islamic ads featuring Hitler


Sputnik
Fri, 13 Mar 2015 20:41 UTC
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A Federal Judge has ordered Pennsylvania buses and trains to display "Stop the Islamic Jew-Hatred" ads that call for ending US foreign aid to all Islamic countries.

US District Judge Goldberg ruled the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) must allow the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) to post anti-Muslim advertisements, showing a photo of Hitler and an Islamic leader.
— Raven*H♔U*Wolf (@RavenHUWolf) March 12, 2015
AFDI, an American offshoot of a European anti-Muslim organization, claimed it has a first amendment right to run bus ads linking Muslims to Hitler.

The judge sided with them on the premise that since SEPTA has run other political speech ads in favor of teacher seniority or opposed to fracking, it opened up its advertising spaces as venues of expression.

Comment: The demonization of Muslims in the U.S. continues unabated. When did hate speech become a protected right of free speech?

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Cannibal cop guilty of violating employer's computer use restriction; will this set a dangerous precedent?


RT
Fri, 13 Mar 2015 01:48 UTC
Gilberto Valle
© Reuters / Carlo Allegri
Gilberto Valle
The case of a New York cop convicted of planning to kidnap and kill women before eating them could mean employees could be held criminally liable under federal law for violating an employer's computer use policy, the Electronic Frontier Foundation says.

While courts have conceded that the details of former New York Police Department officer Gilberto Valle's plots are grisly, a conspiracy charge was overturned last year by a federal judge, who said "the nearly yearlong kidnapping conspiracy alleged by the government is one in which no one was ever kidnapped, no attempted kidnapping ever took place, and no real-world, non-Internet-based steps were ever taken to kidnap anyone." The court said a conspiracy charge was tantamount to thoughtcrime.

Valle used the NYPD's federal database to collect information on various women he intended to target. For this offense, he was charged with violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) for abusing his position to illegally access the database. Unlike the conspiracy charge, the CFAA violation stuck, as the court interpreted Valle had violated an "access" restriction his employer put on his database use, rather than a "use" restriction.

Comment: For more on the history of this case see:

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Van transporting radioactive material crashes in Bosnia


B92
Fri, 13 Mar 2015 12:46 UTC
radioactive crash
A van transporting radioactive material - iridium-192 - and a passenger car collided on Friday morning, near the town of Modrica in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The driver of the car, a VW Polo, died in the accident.
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Plunging into the abyss: 83% of Syrian electricity wiped out


RT
Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:30 UTC
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© Reuters / Bassam Khabieh
The toll from the four-year civil war in Syria is clearly visible even from space, with satellite images revealing that 83 percent of the lights have gone out in the country since 2011.

The satellite data - which compares Syria's night landscape in 2011 to that of 2014, from 800 kilometers above earth - reflects a grim picture of the situation on the ground in Syria, according to researchers from China's Wuhan University.

"These satellite images help us understand the suffering and fear experienced by ordinary Syrians as their country is destroyed around them," the lead researcher on the project, Dr. Xi Li, said in a statement.

Comment: Such a terrible and tragic display of what humans can do to other humans.

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2 cops shot in apparent ambush at protest outside Ferguson, Missouri police station

Ashley Fantz and Ray Sanchez
CNN
Thu, 12 Mar 2015 00:56 UTC
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Police officers armed and relishing the idea of combat during a protest outside the Ferguson Police Department on March 11th, 2015.
Two police officers shot and wounded while standing guard outside the Ferguson, Missouri, police department early Thursday were deliberately targeted in what a police official called an "ambush." Such ambush-style attacks were the leading method in the surging number of shooting deaths of law enforcement officers, according to the nonprofit, Washington-based National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.


Comment: When the police are killed it's an 'ambush', but what would you call killing a 7 year-old while she slept?


The shootings were a chilling low point in the nonstop protests in the city since a Ferguson police officer shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in August. The demonstrators were out again late Wednesday -- in response to the announcement hours earlier of Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson's resignation -- when shots rang out from a hill about 125 yards from where the protesters had gathered, according to witnesses.


Comment: Seems as if the author's are trying to blame the protesters, does it not?


St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said the shootings were an ambush intended "for whatever nefarious reason" to inflict harm on the officers. The officers -- one shot in the face, the other in the shoulder -- have been released from the hospital.

Comment: That's how you paint a whole group of people as 'bad guys'. Suddenly, peaceful protesters are associated with violent whackjobs and anyone who isn't paying close attention, or only gets their news from mainstream sources, thinks the protesters are to blame.
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A police officer keeps watch over protesters, armed with a sniper rifle. It'd be interesting to know what kind of rifle was responsible for shooting those officers.
It will be interesting to follow this story; the intent is clear, smearing the protesters by association. One thing is certain though, it's a jungle out there.

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Russia Insider's Charles Bausman: Germans are fed up with media lies


RT
Thu, 12 Mar 2015 23:49 UTC
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Russia Insider has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds
A poll by German public broadcaster NDR has found out that 63 percent of Germans have little or no confidence in the Ukraine reporting by German media. Of these 63 percent almost every third thinks their reporting might be one-sided or not objective. No wonder given the principles which Germany's largest publishing house follows. Alex Springer SE - among its brands are Die Welt and BILD newspapers. So its media outlets have to uphold their policies which are further unification of the peoples of Europe, supporting the vital rights of the people of Israel and maintain solidarity with the United States of America. In other words Mainstream. Russia Insider editor Charles Bausman is In the NOW telling us how German outlets are reacting to people's criticism and how his new project is launching to change things.


"In the Now" with RT's Senior Political correspondent Anissa Naouai is the first dedicated nightly Primetime show to air live out of our Moscow headquarters. Host Anissa Naouai has worked in the field for almost a decade and has reported from over 80 cities across the globe. Now from Monday to Thursday viewers can enjoy fresh, honest, and hard-hitting news coverage on some of the world's most pressing issues with one of RT's most experienced journalists . We'll put the spotlight on stories you'll never hear on mainstream networks or even in RT's daily news bulletins. "In the Now" - 8pm Moscow, 5pm London, 12pm New York.
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