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Another murder: Unarmed black man shot in the head by Ohio university traffic cop


RT
Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:11 UTC
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Police photo of Samuel Dubose.
Officials in Cincinnati, Ohio have launched a probe into the fatal shooting of a black motorist by a white officer during a traffic stop. Prosecutors say the victim was shot once in the head, while still inside the car, after struggling with the officer.

"We are rapidly investigating what occurred between University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing and Samuel Dubose and we expect to have our assessment complete before the end of next week," Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph T. Deters said in a statement on Tuesday.

Dubose, 43, was pulled over on Sunday night by Tensing, because he was missing the front license plate on his car, University Police Chief Jason Goodrich explained at a news conference on Monday. University and city police work together on and around the campus.

When Dubose was asked for his driver's license and registration, he "produced a bottle of alcohol from inside the car, handing it to Officer Tensing," Goodrich said, adding that after a brief struggle the car rolled forward, and Tensing was knocked to the ground. He then shot Dubose.

Comment: Police in U.S. killed more blacks in 2014 than died in 9-11 attacks

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7.5 million taxpayers paid $1.5 billion in penalties to IRS - Obamacare


RT
Tue, 21 Jul 2015 22:03 UTC
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2014 was the first year Americans have had to deal with tax credits and penalties pertaining to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Approximately 7.5 million taxpayers reported paying a total of $1.5 billion in penalties.

More Americans paid the penalty for not having healthcare coverage in 2014 than the tax authorities originally estimated, the IRS commissioner confirmed in a letter to members of Congress. The vast majority of US taxpayers had qualifying health coverage.

Following "numerous requests" from members of Congress, Internal Revenue Service commissioner John Koskinen sent out a four-page letter with the data the agency has collected so far, after processing about 135 million out of the estimated 150 million tax returns for 2014.

Out of those returns, Koskinen wrote, approximately 7.5 million taxpayers reported a total of $1.5 billion in "individual shared responsibility payments," as the penalty for not having qualifying health insurance is called under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Government estimates from earlier this year predicted that number of returns affected by the penalty would range from $3-6 million, according to NPR.

Comment: Another way for the IRS to make money off the American tax payers.

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Memphis, Tennessee man dies in police custody after being hogtied

Sarah Fowler
clarionledger.com
Mon, 20 Jul 2015 18:28 UTC
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Troy Goode (right) was killed by police in July 2015
A Memphis man died in police custody in Southaven Saturday night after reportedly being hogtied and telling officers he was having trouble breathing due to asthma.

Troy Goode, 30, of Memphis, died at Baptist Memorial Hospital in DeSoto Saturday night, two hours after being detained by the Southaven Police Department, according to Tim Edwards, an attorney for Goode's family.

Goode and his wife, Kelli, attended a Widespread Panic concert in Southaven Saturday night. Goode was intoxicated, Edwards said, and the couple left the event. According to Edwards, while Goode's wife was driving, Goode "unexpectedly" exited the vehicle and began acting "erratically." "There was not any violent conduct," Edwards said, "just erratic."

An unknown passerby called police. When police arrived on scene, they took Goode into custody, hogtying him and placing him face down on a stretcher, Edwards said. Goode, who had asthma, reportedly told police he was having trouble breathing throughout the incident.

Chief Tom Long of the Southaven Police Department said when his officers arrived on scene, they were told Goode was having an "alleged LSD overdose." "The officers on scene and ambulance personnel and hospital personnel felt like the information of the alleged overdose fit the protocol that they were seeing of his actions," Long said.

At least one video of the arrest exists, Edwards said. David McLaughlin, a Memphis attorney, posted a video of the arrest on YouTube Monday.

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France's "senseless policies" on anti-Russian sanctions causes destruction of agriculture business - Farmers lead mass protest


Sputnik
Wed, 22 Jul 2015 18:32 UTC
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Russian embargo on EU food imports has had tragic consequences on the French agricultural business, Nadine Morano, former French Minister and current member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party, told French Sud Radio in an interview.

The French government is the main culprit and should be held accountable for the destruction of the country's agricultural sector, Morano said.

President Francois Hollande's senseless policies towards Russia caused the crisis, Morano said. Russia banned the import of meat, fish, diary, fruit and vegetables from the European Union (EU) last summer in response to European economic sanctions imposed on Russia earlier over its alleged involvement in the Ukrainian conflict.

"Due to the Russian food embargo, the EU has already lost €21 billion since the beginning of the embargo, and could lose up to €81 billion over time. For the French agricultural sector, the food embargo has been dramatic, and we can all see the direct effects of the government's international policy," Morano told Sud Radio.

In 2013, before the EU and Russia put sanctions against each other, French agricultural exports to Russian amounted to €619 million.

On Monday, French farmers started a mass protest and blocked a highway near the city of Caen in northern part of the country. Farmers demand the government to increase purchasing prices for their products and provide them with financial aid, so agricultural businesses could stay afloat.

While Hollande's absurd policies towards Russia are hurting French farmers, Russia is currently working towards an import-substitution program that would replace at least 90 percent of all Russia's food imports with domestic products within the next 2-3 year, the country's Agricultural Minister Alexander Tkachev said.
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Welcome to the global depression: Global demand for heavy industrial machinery has bottomed out

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:13 UTC
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One wouldn't know it by looking at CAT stock, which has gone very much nowhere in the past 5 years thanks to just one thing - an exponential increase in the company's share buybacks...

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... but the company's publicly disclosed monthly retail sales have just one message for anyone who follows them: forget recession, there is a global depression going on.

Comment: With the state of corruption in the world it's a safe bet that things will get much worse before they have even the slightest chance of improving.

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Liberty Movement: More innovations needed to counter technological tyranny

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market
Wed, 22 Jul 2015 04:39 UTC
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The great lesson from history that each consecutive generations seems to forget is that the tools of tyranny used outward will inevitably be turned inward. That is to say, the laws and weapons governments devise for supposed enemies abroad will ALWAYS and eventually be used against the people they are mandated to protect. There is no centralized system so trustworthy, no political establishment so free of corruption that the blind faith of the citizenry is warranted. If free people do not remain vigilant they will be made slaves by their own leadership. This is the rule, not the exception, and it applies to America as much as any other society.

The beauty of the con game that is the "war on terror" is that such a war is ultimately undefinable. An undefinable war has no set enemy; the establishment can change the definition of the "enemy" at will to any culture, country, or group it wishes. Thus, the war on terror can and will last forever. Or, at least, it will last as long as corrupt elitists remain in positions of power.

As I have outlined in past articles, most terror groups are creations of our nation's own covert intelligence apparatus, or the covert agencies of allied governments.

Comment: Perhaps the most important technological innovation that anyone can hope and work to acquire is 'techno-spirituality', through an awareness that comes of work on the self. All else follows. While it is important to have knowledge of the possible strategies and defenses outlined above, having an effective grasp of how we work, and of our own machines, as well as the context in which we exist - this time and place on our planet and how and why we've been turned into sheeple - is essential and crucial towards becoming the people of the future. For a fascinating, enlightening and often frightening discovery of our predicament, Laura Knight-Jadczyk's Wave series provides a profound and constructive step in that direction.

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Commonly used shallow fracking poses high risk of ground water contamination


Phys.org
Tue, 21 Jul 2015 00:00 UTC
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The United States now produces about as much crude oil as Saudi Arabia does, and enough natural gas to export in large quantities. That's thanks to hydraulic fracturing, a mining practice that involves a rock-cracking pressurized mix of water, sand and chemicals.

Ongoing research by Stanford environmental scientist Rob Jackson attempts to minimize the risks of "fracking" to underground drinking water sources.

The most recent such study, published in Environmental Science & Technology, finds that at least 6,900 oil and gas wells in the U.S. were fracked less than a mile (5,280 feet) from the surface, and at least 2,600 wells were fracked at depths shallower than 3,000 feet, some as shallow as 100 feet. This occurs despite many reports that describe fracking as safe for drinking water only if it occurs at least thousands of feet to a mile underground, according to Jackson.

The authors also estimated water use for hydraulic fracturing in each state. The states with the highest average water use per well were Arkansas, Louisiana, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
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Scale of child abuse images "shocking", many from predators in positions of power


RT
Wed, 22 Jul 2015 16:56 UTC
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Authorities convict on average two people each day for child abuse image offences, a child support charity has revealed. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) demanded urgent action to halt the rise.

Analysis found there had been 1,000 court cases involving indecent images of children since Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to crack down on the issue in 2013.

The charity further revealed that a total of 4.5 million child abuse images had been found. One in three offenders was in a position of power, which allowed them to gain access to children.

Nearly two years ago, Cameron said he would put stringent measures in place to catch individuals attempting to access indecent images of children, and promised to ensure internet companies would face legal repercussions if they didn't blacklist key search terms.

Among the offenders were doctors, teachers, police officers, scout leaders, and a magician. Only two of the convicted were women.
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Nazi hunter arrives in Denmark to report war crimes against Jews in WWII


RT
Mon, 20 Jul 2015 12:11 UTC
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Nazi concentration camp in Belarus.
A famous Nazi hunter says he is arriving in Denmark on Monday, hoping to press criminal charges against a 90-year-old Danish citizen, who reportedly committed mass murders of Jews in Belarus during World War II.

"Since the Danish Justice Ministry isn't going to do anything, I have decided to come to Copenhagen and personally file a police report that is based upon documentation and research. We hope it will result in a trial," Efraim Zuroff, a famous Nazi hunter and the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center office in Jerusalem told Danish Berlingske newspaper.

The Dane was allegedly a member of Free Corps Denmark (Frikorps Danmark), a volunteer corps created by the Danish Nazi Party (DNSAP) to fight the Soviet Union during World War II. At least 6,000 Danish Nazis joined the organization.

Danish historians' work has clearly demonstrated that Danes were involved in war crimes during World War II. When it was finally revealed, it should have immediately led to further investigation. But that unfortunately didn't happen," Zuroff said as quoted by the Local.

Though Zuroff revealed neither details of his suit, nor the name of the Danish Nazi, Berlingske suggested that the suspect is Helmuth Leif Rasmussen, who earlier spoke about his participation in the Free Corps Denmark. However, Rasmussen denied he was a guard in Belarussian prison for Jews to the newspaper.

Comment: Roger Waters: 'What Israelis do to Palestinians today is comparable to how the Nazis treated Jews last time around'

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Hacker remotely crashes Jeep from 10 miles away

Sophie Curtis
The Telegraph
Tue, 21 Jul 2015 01:55 UTC
Jeep Cherokee
Hackers took control of a car and crashed it into a ditch by remotely breaking into its dashboard computer from 10 miles away.

In the first such breach of its kind, security experts cut out the engine and applied the brakes on the Jeep Cherokee, sending it into a spin - all while sitting on their sofa.

The US hackers said they used just a laptop and mobile phone to access the Jeep's on-board systems via a wireless Internet connection.

They claim that more than 470,000 cars made by Fiat Chrysler could be at risk of being attacked by similar means - including those driven in the UK.

Comment: Ah, the wonders of computer technology. Imagine this happening with autonomous vehicles.

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