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Militarized police shoot journalist with rubber bullet at Dakota Pipeline protest

Erin Schrode
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A humanitarian crisis is unfolding inside the United States as thousands of Native Americans, indigenous people from around the world, and advocates from every walk of life camp in North Dakota in support of Standing Rock Sioux Tribe water protectors opposing construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. We've seen people locked in dog cages, pepper sprayed, beaten, and now, a journalist has been shot by police while conducting an interview. The entire event was captured on her own camera.

As Fusion reports, Erin Schrode, an activist and journalist, was doing an interview at the edge of the Cantapeta Creek when police shot her with a rubber bullet. In her video of the incident, Schrode can be heard screaming, "Ow!" before crumbling to the ground.

Lemon

Samsung's newest hazard: Exploding washing machines!

samsung exploding washing machines
© Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters
Samsung washing machines are seen as an employee inspects refrigerators at a Samsung display store in Johannesburg.
After the Samsung top-loader washing machine was found to explode when operating at high speed, the company has recalled 2.8 million washers - just a month after having to recall its Galaxy 7 Note smartphone prone to catching on fire.

Complaints started emerging of exploding Samsung washers a year ago, but the Consumer Product Safety Commission only announced on Friday that Samsung was issuing a recall for 2.8 million machines. CPSC received 733 complaints and said that nine people were reported injured from the top-loaders - including a broken jaw, injured shoulder, and a fall.

"We're talking about ... a very serious hazard of the top of these washing machines completely blowing off," CPSC chairman Elliot Kaye told ABC News. "It is a lot of reports."

Sheriff

Two cops refuse to wage war on Standing Rock protesters and turn in their badges

standing rock police
It should be evident if you're following news concerning the Standing Rock protests in North Dakota that tension continues to escalate between protesters supporting the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and riot police. The big deal? A four-state Dakota Access Pipeline which threatens to uproot sacred burial ground, poison the Missouri river, and make null an 1881 treaty ensuring the property belongs to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.

In addition to being maced and beaten with batons, activists have been tased and even shot with rubber bullets. Despite the violence taking place, tribal leaders continue to ask all "water protectors" to maintain peaceful relations and rely on prayer as the only weapon used to halt construction of the DAPL.

After watching videos of the mass arrests and beatings that have taken place, many have asked how those employed by the State can continue to terrorize weaponless protesters. Surely, some form of cognitive dissonance must be taking place? For some, most likely; and that's undoubtedly what inspired at least two officers to turn in their badges today. According to an activist named Redhawk, there have been reports of at least two officers turning in their badges after acknowledging that the battle against the American people is not what they signed up for.

Attention

Former fertility doctor used his own sperm to impregnate patients

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© Alamy
The couple sought treatment from Dr Norman Barwin in 1989.
A former fertility doctor in Canada has been accused of using his own sperm to impregnate at least two patients.

Dr Norman Barwin is alleged to have carried out the inseminations without the women's knowledge or consent, according to a statement of claim filed in an Ontario court on Tuesday.

The civil lawsuit is being brought by Daniel and Davina Dixon after discovering their 26-year-old daughter Rebecca was not Mr Dixon's biological daughter.

The Dixons, who are seeking punitive and other damages against the doctor, contacted Dr Barwin in 1989 to help them get pregnant.

Horse

Good luck with that: Anthony Weiner undergoes equine therapy to treat his sex addiction

Anthony Weiner horse therapy
As this exclusive Post photo shows, Anthony Weiner spent Friday morning getting a dose of "equine therapy'' for his sex addiction at The Recovery Ranch at Nunnelly, Tenn., a tony woodsy respite for deep-pocketed patrons.

The perverted former politician wore a bright blue riding helmet, green T-shirt, blue jeans and sneakers as he saddled up his poor animal and hopped aboard, accompanied by a blonde.

Weiner - who was caught obsessively texting other women, including an underage girl, while married to top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin - looked pensive as he meandered through the trees at the expansive ranch.

Comment: The Weiner seems to have an over-abundance of self-esteem. How can riding a horse help an unrepentant, pedophilic sex freak?


USA

Will Americans need psychological help to deal with the election results?

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Guests attend a watch party for the last presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton at a bar in Washington D.C.
More than half of Americans are experiencing election-related stress comparable to that often attributed to work, money, or the economy, the American Psychological Association has said. And while the good news is the presidential contest will end next week, the bad news is that because of the ferocity of the campaign, the mental damage may linger. And for some groups, it may get even worse—depending on who wins.

There's always disillusionment and anger when a presidential candidate loses. George W. Bush's narrow victory over John Kerry in 2004 inflamed Democrats still angry over Bush's first election, via the U.S. Supreme Court, four years earlier. That 5-4 ruling doomed the candidacy of Democratic Vice President Al Gore, capping what was arguably the most tempestuous U.S. presidential election in modern times. Until now.

The hope is that once this election is over, and the constant barrage of negativity via television, radio, and mobile phone ends, things may return to some semblance of normal. But not everyone is so optimistic.

Comment: Don't place all the blame for election stress on Trump. Sure, he has his faults but Killary is no saint and has caused considerable stress with her support of an obviously guilty child rapist, her attempts to silence Bubba's rape victims, the neverending email scandal, the pay-to play scandal and, let's not forget, the notorious Clinton body count. If that's not enough to send people to their nearest shrink, her warmongering ways might do the trick.


Megaphone

Programming the people with outrage and hatred

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With the world spinning into hatred and violence as the two most hated (s)election candidates of all time tell us to hate one another, one might almost think there is a coordinated effort to drum up outrage. And one would be right!

Heart - Black

Gays in Uganda forced to undergo anal examinations to 'prove' homosexuality

gay in uganda
It was early in the morning when Jackson Mukasa was awakened by the chants outside his Kampala home.

"The homos are in there!" the crowd yelled, banging spoons on metal cooking pots.

Mukasa, a 21-year-old gay man living in the Ugandan capital, was terrified.

"We opened the door, and there were police and people everywhere. The local councilman was there, yelling 'Out with the homos! You are scaring people in the area.' I still have scars from the beatings that followed," Mukasa said.

It was January 2014. After being beaten by the mob, the police took Mukasa and a male friend staying with him in for questioning, he said.

They were both subjected to forced anal examinations, said Mukasa.

"We were questioned, beaten again, forced to admit to homosexuality. They took us to ... (a) clinic in Kampala where we were examined," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Bullseye

US intel promotes unconfirmed al Qaeda terror attack the day before the US election

al Qaeda terror threat
CBS News has learned about a potential terror threat for the day before the election.

Sources told CBS News senior investigative producer Pat Milton that U.S. intelligence has alerted joint terrorism task forces that al Qaeda could be planning attacks in three states for Monday.

It is believed New York, Texas and Virginia are all possible targets, though no specific locations are mentioned.


Comment: Then why speculate on the above locations?


U.S. authorities are taking the threat seriously, though the sources stress the intelligence is still being assessed and its credibility hasn't been confirmed. Counterterrorism officials were alerted to the threat out of abundance of caution.

Comment: Could these new threats have anything to do with Killary's 'Salvage Program'?
Reuters is reporting that the FBI's investigation of Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election extends to fake documents that suggest Hillary Clinton's campaign might take extreme measures like "staging civil unrest" to ensure she wins.

U.S. intelligence officials have warned privately that the Russian campaign to undermine the credibility of the election could move beyond hacking and leaking Democratic Party e-mails to posting fictional evidence of voter fraud or other disinformation, Reuters said.

The FBI reportedly is reviewing a seven-page electronic memorandum that was posted on Twitter on October 20 by Roger Stone, a Republican operative and former aide to Democrat Clinton's opponent Donald Trump, which carries the logos of the Clinton Foundation and Democratic pollster Joel Benenson's firm, the Benenson Strategy Group.

The memo, titled Salvage Program and identified as "fake" by the Clinton campaign and Clinton Foundation, claims her poll ratings had plunged and called for "severe strategy changes for November" that could include "staged civil unrest" and "radiological attack" with dirty bombs to disrupt the November 8 vote.

It is not clear where the fraudulent document originated or how it started circulating on the Internet.

When he linked to the document on Twitter, Stone wrote: "If this is real: OMG!!"

Stone on November 4 tweeted that he received the document in an e-mail and linked to an article that said the fake document came from the hacking group Anonymous.

Stone called the Reuters story about the document a "witchhunt."

Reuters reported that another fake document -- a letter supposedly written by Democratic Senator Tom Carper -- also suggests that the Democratic Party would go to extreme lengths to ensure it wins the election.

In the letter, which Carper's office identified as fake, the senator writes to Clinton that "we will not let you lose this election," Reuters said.



Attention

New humanitarian pause begins in Aleppo, rebels shell corridor, injure 2 Russian soldiers, refuse to let civilians leave

aleppo
© Russian military
Two Russian soldiers were injured by enemy fire in Aleppo when a humanitarian corridor they were guarding was shelled by militants, the Russian military reported.

"The soldiers were promptly evacuated to a safe part of the city and treated for their injuries. Their lives are not in danger," the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

It added that the attack on the corridor through which militants wishing to leave with their arms are granted safe passage prompted the evacuation of some 50 journalists from various media outlets who were covering the ongoing unilateral ceasefire declared by Russia and Syria this morning.

A journalist working for Syrian TV channel Al Ekhbariya was injured in the leg during the shelling, Syrian news agency Sana reported.

The attack targeted the western part of the corridor near Castello road.

Comment: Unsurprisingly, al-Qaeda is not allowing civilians out of east Aleppo, according to Al-Mayadin TV.