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1 dead, 5 injured in 'bizarre' shooting spree in Philadelphia, crazed gunman killed


RT
Sat, 17 Sep 2016 18:09 UTC
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters
At least one person has been killed and five more, including two police officers, injured in a shooting rampage in West Philadelphia. The suspect was later shot dead by the police during the chase.

A man ambushed a police officer, Sgt. Sylvia Young, who was sitting in a police car parked in West Philadelphia on Friday evening, US media report. The policewoman was shot eight times and hit in the arm and her protective vest several times, and is now in the hospital in stable condition, according to Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross Jr.

Nearby police officers began chasing the man immediately after the incident. Meanwhile, the gunman approached a bar, which had its door open, and injured a security guard there. He then grabbed a woman from the bar and used her as a human shield, the commissioner said, adding that the suspect then shot her in the leg and fled again.
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Penis Pump

No need to procreate? Erotic robots 'real as humans' to have 'a pulse'

Lily Waddell
Daily Star
Fri, 16 Sep 2016 18:04 UTC
robot sex doll
© MATTMCMULLEN
BEAUTY: It's all at the control of the users' fingertips on their smartphones or tablet.
Luxury sex doll company RealDolls' CEO Matt McMullen has lifted the lid on the future of our kinky sex partners. And it's better than you could have imagined. The erotic cyborgs which have interchangeable body parts will chat, have an accent, move and smile.

But what's really going to get blokes' pulses racing is the bedroom toys will breathe, talk dirty, have a temperature and a personality all thanks to artificial intelligence.

The top CEO's focus with the robots is to create a "believable" experience for the user similar to that a human relationship.

Comment: This is the sad state of society progressively getting more and more out of touch with normal people and communities. They are being encouraged to live isolated lives without the need for human contact.

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Hardhat

Authorities bulldoze 2 tent camps, relocate over 2,000 migrants in Paris


RT
Fri, 16 Sep 2016 17:21 UTC
paris migrant camp
© Benoit Tessier / Reuters
City workers remove tents and mattresses from an evacuated makeshift migrant camp near the metro stations of Jaures and Stalingrad in Paris, France, September 16, 2016.
Police in Paris have removed more than 2,000 migrants from two tent camps in the capital where refugees were living in unsanitary conditions.

Authorities moved in at dawn to remove the migrants, who had settled between the Jaurès and Stalingrad metro stations in Paris. Mainly from Sudan, Eritrea and Afghanistan, deprived of welfare and away from home, migrants were forced to sleep in tents with no running water or immediate washing facilities.

Comment: For more information:

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Los Angeles sheriff's deputies use robot to snatch rifle from barricaded suspect - and other robots in the news

Richard Winton and Matt Hamilton
Los Angeles Times
Thu, 15 Sep 2016 09:40 UTC
L.A. Sheriff's Deputies Deploy Robot

L.A. Sheriff's Deputies Deploy Robot to Stealthily Grab Rifle from Attempted Murder Suspect
An hours-long standoff in the darkness of the high desert came to a novel end when Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies used a robot to stealthily snatch a rifle from an attempted murder suspect, authorities said Thursday.

Officials said the use of the robot to disarm a violent suspect was unprecedented for the Sheriff's Department, and comes as law enforcement agencies increasingly rely on military-grade technology to reduce the risk of injury during confrontations with civilians.

"The robot was a game changer here," said Capt. Jack Ewell, a tactical expert with the Sheriff's Department — the largest sheriff's department in the nation. "We didn't have to risk a deputy's life to disarm a very violent man."

It began late in the evening of Sept. 8, when deputies in Lancaster were pursuing a man suspected of trying to kill one person and robbing two others.
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Survey shows over 40% of young people in Japan are still virgins


RT
Sat, 17 Sep 2016 17:21 UTC
Group in Japan
© Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
Nearly half of Japanese adults do not start having sex until after they reach 34 years of age, as the majority of young adults remain single in the country, where the population has fallen by nearly 1 million in the past five years.

The study, conducted by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, revealed that 42 percent of the men and 44.2 percent of the women aged 18 to 34 are still virgins in Japan.

The trend in society seems to have deteriorated since the last study came out in 2010. At the start of the decade, only 36.2 percent of men and 38.7 percent of women said they had never had sex.

Furthermore, as the new research revealed, the trend is unlikely to change in the near future as 70 percent of unmarried men and 60 percent of unmarried women have still yet to find a partner for a steady relationship.

Comment: See the following article for more insight into the dating-life, or lack thereof, of Japanese youth.
Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?

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Stormtrooper

Killary snubs cops: Nation's largest police union endorses Trump

Ben Kamisar
The Hill
Sat, 17 Sep 2016 17:07 UTC
trump police union
The nation's largest police union on Friday endorsed Donald Trump for president, lauding his commitment to police officers.

The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) gave the GOP presidential nominee its endorsement after he received support from more than two-thirds of the group's national board.

"[Trump] has seriously looked at the issues facing law enforcement today. He understands and supports our priorities and our members believe he will make America safe again," said Chuck Canterbury, the FOP's national president.
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Heart - Black

Mentally ill man begging for water dies of severe dehydration in Milwaukee jail


RT
Fri, 16 Sep 2016 17:04 UTC
milwaukee police
© Aaron Bernstein / Reuters
A mentally ill black man who died in a Milwaukee prison in April suffered from severe dehydration, a medical examiner concluded. Inmates said he was begging for drinking water days before perishing in custody.

Terrill Thomas, 38, was sent to jail after two shooting episodes in which he allegedly was involved on April 14. In one he shot his best friend in the chest after suspecting him of trying to steal Thomas's car. In another one hours later, Thomas opened fire at Potawatomi Bingo Casino and told everyone to leave. After being arrested, he told investigators there were a lot of snakes in the casino and it looked suspicious.

Thomas suffered from bipolar disorder and, according to his family, had experienced a mental breakdown at the time of his arrest. His mother asked the police to take him into custody, saying her son had become violent and erratic.

On April 27, he was supposed to undergo medical evaluation to determine if he was competent to stand trial for five counts of charges against him. But this didn't happen because on April 24 he was found dead in his solitary cell.
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Chart Pie

Tim Anderson: No, Syrian Campaign poll does not suggest "70% Syrian refugees are fleeing Assad"

Tim Anderson
Global Research
Sat, 17 Sep 2016 16:50 UTC
syria refugees poll
As one might expect, during a war, misunderstandings are often driven by interested parties. In the case of Syrian refugees in Europe a US-based organisation called 'The Syria Campaign' has helped drive some of these, including a claim that most of the refugees are 'Fleeing Assad'. 'The Syria Campaign' is a Wall Street Public Relations creation and one of several interlocked, US-based groups (Avaaz, Purpose, the White Helmets) which have campaigned for a Libyan-style 'no fly zone' in Syria. That is, they work for NATO intervention on the side of the jihadist groups (see Sterling 2015). In any case, a careful look at the evidence allows us to see through this 'refugees fleeing Assad' scam.

The Syria Campaign (2015) commissioned a poll in Germany which was apparently carried out by German academic Heiko Giebler. In it, 889 Syrian refugees were said to have been interviewed in Berlin, Hanover, Bremen, Leipzig and Eisenhüttenstadt. Candidates 'were approached on entering or leaving registration centers'. However the survey does not specify how sampling choices were made (TSC 2015). This is important because sampling error can easily undermine the representative nature of a poll. Indeed if there is no sampling error, as in this case, there is no way to assert to what extent the survey represents a broader population. The results are then almost useless, except as anecdotes.
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Stormtrooper

Ukrainian neo-Nazis attack Russian embassy in Kiev with firecrackers day before Russian elections


RT
Sat, 17 Sep 2016 16:40 UTC
russian embassy
Overnight a group of some 20 radical Ukrainian nationalists, attacked the Russian Embassy in Kiev with fireworks. The embassy is bracing itself for potential trouble on election day.

The attack happened at about 1:00am on Saturday morning, a diplomatic source told TASS news agency.

"Unidentified individuals threw a smoke stick at the embassy's territory and shot fireworks at the building," the source said, adding that the attackers failed to ignite anything.

Footage of the incident taken from a passing car shows multiple fireworks being fired at the windows of the embassy. The projectiles do not appear to do much damage since the windows were covered by metal shades.


Another video published by Reuters showed a group of people in hoodies shooting fireworks at the embassy and holding cameras. Two of them carried a large banner with a rhyme that read: "Russian swine, you are not welcome here. Today it's fireworks; tomorrow there will be Grads [multiple rocket launchers]."

Comment: In Ukraine and the West in general, Kiev's violation of international law is a "minor incident unworthy of commenting". Western democracy is built upon the stifling of other countries' democracy.

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Treasure Chest

Slush fund: Less than 6% of Clinton Foundation donations actually went to charity

Peter Hasson
The Daily Caller
Fri, 16 Sep 2016 22:36 UTC
clinton foundation
© Glen McCoy
Just 5.7 percent of the Clinton Foundation's massive 2014 budget actually went to charitable grants, according to the tax-exempt organization's IRS filings. The rest went to salaries and employee benefits, fundraising and "other expenses."

The Clinton Foundation spent a hair under $91.3 million in 2014, the organization's IRS filings show. But less than $5.2 million of that went to charitable grants.

That number pales in comparison to the $34.8 million the foundation spent on salaries, compensation and employee benefits.

Another $50.4 million was marked as "other expenses," while the remaining almost $851K was marked as "professional fundraising expenses."

Comment: New book 'Partners in Crime': Clinton Foundation is 'a vast, criminal conspiracy' and 'a slush fund for grifters'

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