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SOTT Focus: Pokémon Go and mass dissociation: Anchoring the frequency of chaos and destruction

Adam Daniels
Sott.net
Thu, 21 Jul 2016 16:21 UTC
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Hordes of students converge to catch an imaginary animal at Florida International University.
Pokémon Go, a mobile app that has surpassed Twitter and Facebook in terms of the number of active users, is the latest craze to sweep the globe, with tens of millions distracting themselves with this game on a daily basis. This in itself is disturbing, but even more horrifying is the complete lack of critical thinking, common sense, or humanity exhibited by users who have been finding themselves hospitalized in search of elusive, illusory creatures.

What's next? Will people break into houses if there's some rare Pokémon inside? It seems that people are losing all connection to reality, and what little ability they had to determine right from wrong and the sensible from the stupid. People have turned into zombies, with technology having almost full control over their daily lives. It's 'the rise of the machines', just not in the way that Hollywood imagined it.


Let's go into a few particularly unbelievable instances of what I'm talking about.
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Palestinian swimmer discusses overcoming Israeli restrictions to compete in 2016 Summer Olympics [VIDEO]

Jimmy Hutcheon and Chloé Rouveyrolles
Mondo Weiss
Tue, 19 Jul 2016 18:58 UTC
Mary al Atrash
Mary al Atrash, a 22-year-old swimmer from Beit Sahour that will represent Palestine in the 2016 Olympic Games.
Less than a month before the 2016 Summer Olympics begin in Rio De Janeiro, Mondoweiss met with Mary al Atrash, a 22-year-old swimmer from Beit Sahour in the West Bank who will be part of the largest delegation Palestine has ever sent to the Olympics Games.

Al Atrash will compete in the 50 meters freestyle, but her training has been complicated. She does not have an Olympic-size pool to train in, and she also has no training partners. Nearby Jerusalem has better facilities, including several Olympic-sized pools and many swimmers to train with, but due to the Israeli occupation al Atrash is unable to travel to Jerusalem to train.

A new generation of athletes is emerging in Palestine due to the work of sport federations as well as the Palestine Olympic Committee and the significant role played by the new head of the committee Jibril Rajoub. Mary's coach, Musa Nawawra, hopes that her achievements will inspire a younger generation of athletes in Palestine.

Mary al Atrash is extremely proud to wear the Palestinian colors in Rio and can't wait to compete in the the Olympic games. She recently left Beit Sahour to train in Algeria before the international competition. It will be her first time training in a real, Olympic-sized pool.

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Protesters and police clash in Armenian capital as hostage crisis continues


RT
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 18:52 UTC
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© Ruptly
Clashes have erupted between protesters and police in the Armenian capital of Yerevan. People erected barricades next to a police station that was hijacked by armed men on July 17 and which is still under their control.

People have been throwing stones at police, while law enforcement officials lobbed stun grenades in return. Several people were injured during the stand off with police, TASS reported.

Protesters are said to be the supporters of hijackers who are currently inside the police station, News Armenia reported, as cited by Russia's RBK news outlet.

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3 states file lawsuits against Volkswagen accusing them of fraud and a widespread conspiracy to cover up defects


RT
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 18:04 UTC
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© Mike Blake / Reuters
Volkswagen's "top brass" stand accused of "defrauding" thousands of people in new lawsuits from New York and two other states alleging a "widespread conspiracy." The German car manufacturer could end up culpable for billions of dollars in fines.

Attorneys general for New York, Massachusetts and Maryland have announced their legal actions against the Volkswagen Group, which also owns German carmakers Porsche and Audi.

The three companies have been accused of selling diesel cars with illegal "defeat devices" that were installed to conceal the actual amounts of harmful emissions, as well as allegedly to try and cover-up their "corrupt behavior."

"Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche defrauded thousands of Massachusetts consumers, polluted our air, and damaged our environment and then, to make matters worse, plotted a massive cover-up to mislead environmental regulators," Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said, vowing to "bring the full force of the law and seek the stiffest possible sanctions."
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Blowback: Are police being victimized by their training?

Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
Mon, 18 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC
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It is too early to know if the shooting of police in Dallas and Baton Rouge are the beginnings of acts of retribution against police for their wanton murders of citizens. The saying is that "what goes around, comes around." If police murders of citizens have provoked retribution, police and those who train them need to be honest and recognize that they have brought it upon themselves.

Killings by police have gone on too long. The killings are too gratuitous, and the police have largely escaped accountability for actions that, if committed by private citizens, would result in life imprisonment or the death penalty.

There has been no accountability, because the police unions and the white community rush to the defense of the police. In rare instances when prosecutors bring charges, as in the case of Freddie Gray, the police are not convicted.

Presstitutes treat killings by police as acts of racism, and that is the way the public sees them. This infuriates black communities even more as the indifference of whites to the murders is regarded as racist acceptance of the murder of black people.

Comment: U.S. police routinely travel to Israel to learn methods of brutality and repression

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Paris: Police, youths, clash after death of young man while in custody


RT
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:40 UTC
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Violence scenes gripped a north Paris suburb overnight as local residents in the Val d'Oise area fought running battles with the police after news broke out that a young man had died at a police station in Beaumont.

A 24-year-old man named Adama had been arrested by police in regards to an extortion case. He later died on Tuesday afternoon, while being held in police custody, according to Le Parisien. Prosecutor Yves Jannier said the man had suffered a heart attack while in custody. However, friends of Adama claim he was beaten by police. "About a hundred individuals ... came looking for the law enforcement forces after a person died at the premises of the gendarmerie in Beaumont," Jean-Simon Merandat, director of the Val d'Oise prefect's office, told France Info radio.

Witnesses said that they heard several explosions, but were unable to determine when they had occurred. Youths were heard shouting "murderers" at the police, while there were at least three outbreaks of fires across the area. There were around 150 police on the scene with the situation stabilizing at around 3:30am local time, a local representative said, while there were also around 60 firefighters present.

Six police officers were injured during the violence after being shot by pellet guns, while one arrest was made as the youths clashed with the police, according to Le Parisien. The violence came in the wake of an announcement by the French government that it had voted to extend the ongoing state of emergency for another six months, until the end of January 2017.

Comment: There are several things going on: The death of the young man - be it natural or inflicted, the extension of state of emergency powers following horrific terrorist attacks - be they grass root or false flags, the atmosphere of authoritarian command palpable by the public - be it necessary or contrived to fit an agenda. All of these calculatedly bring societal frustration and anger to the surface. All of these conveniently extend or escalate the government's response and ultimate control at the expense of the people.

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Massachusetts: Two officers arrested and charged in the beating of a 50-year-old man

Clair Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 17:39 UTC
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© WHDH via APafter multi-state police chase

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This aerial image made from a helicopter video provided by WHDH shows several officers pummeling Richard Simone, who had exited his vehicle and kneeled on the ground after a high-speed police pursuit.
Two state troopers from Massachusetts and New Hampshire have finally been arrested after they brutally and needlessly beat a surrendering 50-year-old man following a car chase in May.

As news crews filmed from helicopters hovering above, Richard Simone exited his truck, kneeled, and lay prone on his stomach on the asphalt — but several officers rushed the man and initiated a savage attack in what appeared to be retaliation for having led them on an hour-long pursuit through the two states.

Now, as New Hampshire Attorney General Joseph Foster announced Tuesday, Joseph Flynn of the Massachusetts State Police and Andrew Monaco of the New Hampshire State Police have been arrested and charged with several counts of simple assault for excessive use of force.
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Crime does pay in Finland: Homeowner sentenced 4 years in jail and ordered to pay damages to 3 burglars who he fought off with knife


RT
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 16:11 UTC
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© Carlos Jasso / Reuters
A homeowner in Finland has been sentenced to four years in jail and a hefty fine after fighting off three intruders who attempted to rob his house. The thieves, meanwhile, got lesser prison terms and are to be paid damages by their victim.

In April, a 35-year-old man from Hyvinkää, a town just 50km north of the Finnish capital, Helsinki, heard a knock on the front door of his suburban house and rushed to open it. As soon as he unlocked it, three strangers rushed in and launched at him, toting baseball bats and a gun. The man retreated to the kitchen, where he found a knife and with it was able to overpower the intruders, two men and one woman.

The court spent nearly four months examining the case to come up with the unexpected ruling.
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The new normal in America: Engineered chaos & fear

Bernie Suarez
zengardner.com
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 15:12 UTC
chaos fear
There is a new norm in America that is one of chaos, race wars and mass shootings that are supposedly all "real" ... unless of course you can provide a mountain of evidence to debunk the official mainstream media narrative, police announcements or whatever Intelligence "sources" are "saying." This new norm is even being contributed to by many alternative media sources in the interest of being "correct" and authentic about what they are saying. I discussed this major logical fallacy of "assumed truth" and how it contributes to core government deception long ago in an article about "How Small Lies Obscure Objective Truth and Simplicity" and I can't help but to notice how more than ever we are being asked to accept core narratives presented by mainstream media as truth until and only until you, the independent thinker, can mount up enough "proof" to debunk it. I believe this single fallacy is one of the greatest obstructions to truth and one of the greatest psyop tools being used to sell every single staged shooting event we are now seeing in the news every day. This fallacy is allowing the transition of America from what was a country of law and order to one of chaos, fear and daily psychological operations being played on the general public.
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The deification of criminals: Making rock stars out of mass murderers

Dylan Charles
Waking Times
Mon, 18 Jul 2016 15:35 UTC
micah johnson and Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel
Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel and Micah Johnson
At what point does the deification of criminals itself become a criminal act?

With each new shocking mass murder, a story is created by mainstream media and unleashed on public consciousness. The 'official' narrative of the event never ends up jibing with actual facts revealed by subsequent and independent investigation, and the force-fed version is never retracted or corrected to match any new or uncomfortable findings. Instead, the narrative invariably devolves into an exposé of the private life of the killer, aiming to create a believable character, to suggest his motive, and to develop enough plausibility in the story to make the truth seem uninteresting.

Within hours of each mass-murder, the supposed killer's name is revealed, sending mainstream journalists into a sensational frenzy of internet surfing for any and all morsels of gossip they can find. Social media accounts are ravaged for photos, quotes and conversations that support the official narrative and add clickable drama to front pages. Personal manifestos and haunting comments are put out on display for all to contemplate, then shared to exhaustion. Homes are besieged for clues, and friends, family, neighbors and former employers are coaxed into speaking out about their associations with the maniacs, all helping to construct a seductive cloud of infamy on which our collective imagination can freely project our darkest fantasies.
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