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About time! HBOS bankers charged with £35 million fraud, finally on trial after two year delay

RT
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 15:13 UTC

The first trial for bankers suspected of being partly responsible for the 2008 banking crisis has begun in London, after the £35 million ($46.5 million) alleged scam case was postponed for nearly two years.

Eight people are in the dock at Southwark Crown Court in London this Monday, including former HBOS bank managers Lynden Scourfield and Mark Dobson, who stand accused of engaging in fraudulent behavior at the expense of the company's small business customers.

Those charged also include bankers David Mills and Michael Bancroft, as well as their wives, who are accused of giving money and "numerous high-value gifts" to HBOS managers in exchange for favors.

Comment: Britain should take a page from Iceland. But don't hold your breath on it.

Priority landing granted to BA flight with mid-air medical emergency

RT
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 15:04 UTC

British Airways flight BA 274 from Las Vegas to London Heathrow has landed safely after declaring a mid-air medical emergency over Scotland.

The aircraft, a Boeing 747, left Las Vegas at 9.20pm local time on Sunday, September 11, and was scheduled to arrive at London Heathrow at 3.30pm UK time (14:30 GMT). It was about one hour away from landing when the emergency was declared.

Medics met the aircraft at Heathrow.

Colin Powell heckled by protester on live TV: 'You dropped bombs on Iraq'

RT
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 14:56 UTC

Former US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, was heckled during a live interview on CBS by a angry off-screen protester venting his ire over the Iraq war.

Powell was speaking on CBS This Morning about the Smithsonian's new National Museum for African American History and Culture when a protester loudly interrupted the interview. Calling from off-set, the man shouted, "You know better, Colin Powell, as a black man in America...you dropped bombs on Iraq."

Powell seemed unfazed by the incident and quipped to the reporters, "Is he one of yours?"

Small plane crashes after takeoff at Reno, Nevada airport killing all 3 on board

RT
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 08:37 UTC

A plane carrying three people has crashed at Reno-Tahoe International Airport, killing everyone on board, according to an airport spokesperson.

The crash occurred after a single-engine Piper Cherokee aircraft plummeted into the airport parking lot just after take-off, according to spokesman Brian Kulpin, as cited by the Reno Gazette-Journal.

Swedish cops quitting in droves due to job stress and low wages

Sputnik
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 14:45 UTC

The Swedish police force, which has experienced a deep crisis exacerbated by underfunding and the raging migrant crisis, is plagued by severe staffing problems. If personnel loss persists at the current rate, Sweden could lose up to a fifth of its police force, which may render the Nordic country helpless against organized crime and terrorism.

Today, it is estimated that three Swedish policemen quit each day, mostly citing low wages, excessive workload and job-related stress. According to Police Federation chairperson Lena Nitz, decisive action is needed to guarantee people's security, rebuild confidence in the top management and make the police profession attractive again.

"So far this year, almost three police officers per day have left the profession. At this rate, a fifth of the force will be gone by 2020. To stop the serious crisis, there must be a real investment in police and higher wages for the hard-pressed police corps," Nitz told Swedish trade newspaper Proffs.

Case of Florida woman charged with police battery dropped after video proves cop was the aggressor

RT
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 13:09 UTC

The case of a Florida woman charged with battery of a law enforcement officer has been dropped after video footage shown in court revealed "over aggression" from the officer during the alleged incident.

Paige Taylor, 26, from St Petersburg, Florida was charged for allegedly shoving a cop in March. However, her case has been dropped by the Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney's Office, Bay News 9 reports.

Around 9.30p.m. on March 25, Deputy Wayne Wagner pulled over a truck that Taylor was traveling in for having the wrong license plate attached. The driver, Gage Moore, 25, switched seats with passenger Taylor because he was driving on a suspended license. Moore was arrested at the scene and the vehicle impounded.

Major fire breaks out on Belfast's Victoria Street

RT
Sun, 11 Sep 2016 18:06 UTC

A large fire has broken out on Victoria Street in the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Firefighters are at the scene to tackle the blaze.

Disgusting: Alabama Pastor says players who won't stand for national anthem 'should be shot!'

RT
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 11:50 UTC

An Alabama pastor caused controversy at a local high school football game, saying players who don't stand for the US national anthem should be shot. His remarks come in the wake of US sports stars' protests against police brutality.

Pastor Allen Joyner made the remarks as he addressed the crowd at a Friday night football game at McKenzie High School in Butler County.

"If you don't want to stand for the national anthem, you can line up over there by the fence and let our military personnel take a few shots at you since they're taking shots for you," the announcer said at the game, according to Denise Crowley-Whitfield who posted what happened on Facebook, the Alabama-based publication AL.com reported.

His remarks led to "crazy cheering" from the stands, as the local fans seemed to endorse his statement. However, not everyone was as enthusiastic regarding Joyner's advice to those unwilling to stand during the national anthem.

Comment: Good old-fashioned 'American values' include racism, genocide, and calling for the murder of those trying to exercise the slightest amount of their 'freedoms'.

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9/11 and the breakdown of Western society

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 12:10 UTC

Western government manipulation and deception around the events of 9/11 have created a cynicism and degree of mistrust in the West which is the terrorist attacks' most profound legacy.

This month witnesses the 15^th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Whilst many will rightly be mourning the loss of civilian life (though the West ought not to forget about Iraqi, Syrian, Donbass or Libyan civilians), many more will come to the realisation that the biggest long term casualty of 9/11 is the death of trust.

Governments have been lying to the public since the beginning of the notion "modern government", and far from being an exception, late-modern America is a prime example of this. Yet 9/11 was something of a watershed in the breakdown of trust between government and citizen not just in America but in much of Europe as well.

Can the 'Ferguson Effect' explain the "real and nearly unprecedented" spike in homicides around U.S.?

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Sun, 11 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC

We have frequently written about rising violent crime around the U.S. with an emphasis on the soaring homicides in Chicago which are up nearly 50% YoY (see recent posts here and here). Now it seems as though others in the mainstream media are starting to take notice.

Comment: YOY or Year over year is a method of evaluating two or more measured events to compare the results at one time period with those of a comparable time period on an annualized basis.

The New York Times recently compiled data from around the country and found there were nearly 6,700 homicides reported in the 100 largest cities in 2015, a YoY increase of 950 or roughly 17%, with nearly half of the rise — 480 of the 950 — coming from seven cities. Their study is tied to a June 2016 report published by the National Institute of Justice in which Richard Rosenfeld, a criminology professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, declared that "the [2015] homicide increase in the nation's large cities was real and nearly unprecedented."

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Society's Child

About time! HBOS bankers charged with £35 million fraud, finally on trial after two year delay

Priority landing granted to BA flight with mid-air medical emergency

Colin Powell heckled by protester on live TV: 'You dropped bombs on Iraq'

Small plane crashes after takeoff at Reno, Nevada airport killing all 3 on board

Swedish cops quitting in droves due to job stress and low wages

Case of Florida woman charged with police battery dropped after video proves cop was the aggressor

Major fire breaks out on Belfast's Victoria Street

Disgusting: Alabama Pastor says players who won't stand for national anthem 'should be shot!'

9/11 and the breakdown of Western society

Can the 'Ferguson Effect' explain the "real and nearly unprecedented" spike in homicides around U.S.?

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