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U.S. Dept of Justice opens civil rights probe over Chicago police shooting; 409 shootings since 2007

Sky News
Mon, 07 Dec 2015 18:04 UTC

The investigation comes as Chicago officials announce an officer involved in a second fatal shooting will not be charged

The US Justice Department will launch a wide-ranging investigation into the Chicago Police Department following the release of a video showing the shooting of a black teenager.

The civil rights probe, which comes after similar investigations in Baltimore and Ferguson, follows intense scrutiny surrounding the police department and Mayor Rahm Emanuel over their handling of the death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.

Officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder on 24 November, more than a year after the teenager's death and hours before police dashboard camera footage showing the fatal shooting was released.

The video showed Mr McDonald moving away from officers when Van Dyke opened fire from close range. The officer continued shooting after the teenager fell to the ground and stopped moving.

Chicago City Council signed off on a $5m (£3.3m) settlement with Mr McDonald's family before they had filed a lawsuit and officials fought for months in court to prevent the video, which does not include sound, from being released publicly.

Comment: Police State America: Cops have killed over 1000 people in 2015

Dire warning from Peter Schiff: "The whole economy has imploded... collapse is coming"

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan
Sun, 06 Dec 2015 00:00 UTC

Back before 2008 Peter Schiff was harshly criticized and laughed at for his predictions about a coming economic collapse. Among other things Schiff warned that consumer spending had hit a wall, stocks were overpriced and lax credit lending practices would lead to a detonation of the banking system. Rather than heed the warnings, the biggest names in mainstream media tried to discredit him for not toeing the official narrative. Shortly thereafter, of course, Schiff was vindicated and much of the doom he had forecast came to pass.

Today, Schiff continues to argue that the economy is on a downhill trajectory and this time there'll be no stopping it. All of the emergency measures implemented by the government following the Crash of 2008 were merely temporary stop-gaps. The light at the end of the tunnel being touted by officials as recovery, Schiff has famously said, is actually an oncoming train. And if the forecast he laid out in his latest interview is as accurate as those he shared in 2007, then the the train is about to derail.

Comment: For an excellent deconstruction of the house of cards on which our economy is built - as well as some ways in which to ameliorate the coming pain see: 2015, the BRICS checkmate Western finance? (This article is not just about BRICS.)

Zombie nation: NYC woman witnesses fatal crash, carries on eating pizza

RT
Mon, 07 Dec 2015 23:44 UTC

A woman who witnessed a fatal SUV accident in Brooklyn was not put off from her food by the tragic event.

The woman was caught on surveillance camera turning around after a vehicle hit a trio of pedestrians. She looked at the victims before continuing to devour her pizza slice.

The footage from Sunday's crash at Fort Greene was obtained by DNAinfo.

Sri Lanka maid sentenced to death by stoning for adultery

Hindustan Times
Mon, 07 Dec 2015 19:33 UTC

© AFP
Sri Lankan activists stage a demonstration outside the UN offices in Colombo on December 3, 2015, protesting the death sentence passed by Saudi authorities on a Sri Lankan women employee.

Colombo has expressed concern to Saudi Arabia after a Sri Lankan housemaid working in the country was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, an official said Monday.

Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera met the Saudi envoy to Colombo last week and raised the case of the woman and a man convicted alongside her, and asked to speak to his Saudi counterpart Adel al-Jubeir.

"We are still awaiting a response to have that conversation," said a foreign ministry official.

US Congressman complains at least 72 Homeland Security employees on terror watch list

Sputnik
Mon, 07 Dec 2015 22:13 UTC

A United States Congressman has alleged that there are at least 72 employees of the Department of Homeland Security on the terror watch list.

Massachusetts Representative Stephen Lynch stated that a congressional investigation has determined that the findings are the reason why the former DHS director had to resign.

"Back in August, we did an investigation - the inspector general did - of the Department of Homeland Security, and they had 72 individuals that were on the terrorist watch list that were actually working at the Department of Homeland Security," Lynch told Boston Public Radio.

"The [former DHS] director had to resign because of that," he continued.

Comment: Whether this report is true or not, it points to a possible doubling down on airport security making travel even more unpleasant.

Woman stabbed at Miami art gallery confused with 'modern art' (graphic image)

RT
Mon, 07 Dec 2015 11:29 UTC

A woman was stabbed at a Miami art gallery after accusing her attacker of following her around and repeatedly bumping into her. But although the victim was left bloody and fearing for her life, visitors didn't bat an eyelid, assuming it was a performance.

The victim, 33-year-old Shin Seo Young, said the Friday night altercation at the Miami Beach Convention Center began after she accused her attacker, 24-year-old college student Siyuan Zhao, of following her around the Art Basel gallery and bumping into her numerous times.

Following the short confrontation, Zhao stabbed Young in the shoulder and neck with an X-Acto knife, according to The Miami Herald. "I had to kill her and two more," and "I had to watch her bleed!" Zhao said, according to her arrest report. She also confessed to the stabbing during questioning, according to police.

"[Zhao] without warning or provocation stabbed the victim in the right side of the neck and left shoulder, causing several lacerations," the police report said. Young told officers at the scene that she does not know Zhao and had never previously dealt with her. Despite Zhao's goal to kill Young and "two more," Young was the only person stabbed at the gallery, and was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Comment: The fact that these patrons thought a brutal stabbing and the subsequent chaos was 'art' speaks volumes about our society. Art is an imitation of nature through creative acts and has become something destructive and violent.

Three injured in blast at Moscow bus stop

RT
Mon, 07 Dec 2015 21:44 UTC

At least three people have been injured in a blast at bus stop in central Moscow, TASS reports citing police sources.

"An unknown home-made explosive device has gone off at a public transport stop injuring three people," police sources told TASS.

Reports of the blast were confirmed by Moscow police spokesman Andrey Galiakberov, who said that authorities are now looking into the incident.

Emergency crews are helping the injured on Pokrovka street, which reaches out towards the city's northeast.

Comment: Police aren't overreacting here, calling it a case of 'hooliganism'. Compare that to how this would go down in the States. It would immediately be called an act of terrorism, before any investigation.

Selling desperate Syrian refugees' body parts for profit: Israeli man arrested in Turkey for organ trafficking

Ben Norton
Salon
Sat, 05 Dec 2015 21:06 UTC

The situation in Syria today is nothing short of catastrophic. More than half of the entire population has been displaced in a civil war now approaching its fifth year, and almost 4.3 million Syrian refugees are registered with the U.N. Millions are crowded into densely population refugee camps in neighboring Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon. Many live on the street, and few have access to basic resources or job prospects.

Traffickers have taken advantage of Syrian refugees' desperation, in hopes of making money.

Comment: This is what our world has become, psychopaths like Boris Wolfman are preying on the desperate and vulnerable for their body parts. Where's a giant comet when you need it?!

An Israeli man was arrested in Turkey today for organ trafficking. He came to Istanbul to try to convince impoverished Syrian refugees to sell their organs, in a story first reported by Turkey's Doğan News Agency, and later by Israel's YNet and Germany's Deutsche Welle.

World's third largest aquifer threatened as fracking expands in Latin America

Santiago Navarro F. and Renata Bessi
truthout
Sun, 06 Dec 2015 00:00 UTC

© Anibal Adrian Greco / The New York Times
Schlumberger employees work during an oil fracking process in Vaca Muerta in the Patagonian province of Neuquen, Argentina, September 20, 2013.

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking - a method whereby hydrocarbons trapped within rocks are extracted - is expanding rapidly in Latin America. Fracking emits benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene, which are considered by the World Health Organization to be carcinogenic and responsible for blood disorders and other immunological effects. Despite these adverse health effects, however, reserves have already been mapped out in Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico.

In Mexico, recently passed energy reform legislation promotes fracking as a means of extracting shale gas - and with the reform, the government has opened the oil industry up to the private sector. More than 1,000 wells using the technique are currently in operation in at least 11 of Mexico's 32 states. These fracking efforts are largely being carried out by North American companies such as Halliburton, Schlumberger and Baker Hughes, among others.

"I didn't know anything about oil, but after our water started to get contaminated, we found out that more than 240 wells in our region were using that thing they call fracking," Mariana Rodríguez, from the community of Papantla, Veracruz, told Truthout. "Now all our water sources have become contaminated."

Comment: There is a vast quantity of evidence demonstrating that fracking destroys the environment and human health, but so far the power of the oil and gas industry with its ties to governments has been able to override any opposition. They have been assisted due to the fact that many people have been denied accurate knowledge of the impacts of fracking on their communities, but this appears to be changing as more people become aware of the real costs involved.

Deputy on paid leave for his involvement in a civilian shooting accidentally shoots his neighbor in the head while drunk

Andrew Emett
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 07 Dec 2015 16:50 UTC

After killing his neighbor, an inebriated Pike County sheriff's deputy was arrested and charged with felony manslaughter for accidentally shooting him in the head. Although the deputy initially reported the shooting, he neglected to inform the dispatcher that he had pulled the trigger.

Around 11:40 p.m. on Thursday, Pike County Deputy Joel Jenkins called the sheriff's office to report a shooting. Jenkins told dispatchers, "There's been an accidental discharge at my house. My neighbor, he's down. You guys are going to have to get here ASAP."

According to Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader, Jenkins was off-duty and handling a firearm that "was not his duty gun" when he shot his neighbor, 40-year-old Jason Brady, in the head. Police pronounced Brady dead at the scene. They also discovered Jenkins was drunk when he killed his neighbor.

Comment: Deputy Jenkins is a danger to society and should be locked up for a very, very long time.

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Society's Child

U.S. Dept of Justice opens civil rights probe over Chicago police shooting; 409 shootings since 2007

Dire warning from Peter Schiff: "The whole economy has imploded... collapse is coming"

Zombie nation: NYC woman witnesses fatal crash, carries on eating pizza

Sri Lanka maid sentenced to death by stoning for adultery

US Congressman complains at least 72 Homeland Security employees on terror watch list

Woman stabbed at Miami art gallery confused with 'modern art' (graphic image)

Three injured in blast at Moscow bus stop

Selling desperate Syrian refugees' body parts for profit: Israeli man arrested in Turkey for organ trafficking

World's third largest aquifer threatened as fracking expands in Latin America

Deputy on paid leave for his involvement in a civilian shooting accidentally shoots his neighbor in the head while drunk

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