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Still at it: Charlie Hebdo receives death threats for another offensive anti-Muslim cartoon

RT
Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:26 UTC

The controversial satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which has previously been the target of Islamist terrorists, has reportedly received threats warning of new attacks since publishing a cartoon of naked Muslims on its cover.

Charlie Hebdo's latest issue, which was released on Wednesday, features the image of a man and a woman on a beach with exposed genitals. The woman is depicted wearing a shoulder-length veil, while the man has a long beard. The caption reads "The reform of Islam. Muslims, loosen up" ("Musulmans de-coin-cez-vous").

After the issue was released, the magazine's staff received a written message saying "You will die," Le Parisien reported. Charlie Hebdo's co-shareholder, Eric Portheault, told the French newspaper that a complaint has been filed with Paris police, while stressing that his magazine has been receiving death threats since the beginning of summer, and "it does not stop."

Comment: Charlie Hebdo attacks bear all the markings of a false flag operation

Bad vibes: Russian flags torn down twice in Rio Olympic village

RT
Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:21 UTC

Russian flags were torn down in the Rio Olympic village, and disappeared again the next day after Russian athletes had put them back up, synchronized swimmer Alexandra Patskevich reported to Russian media.

Russian synchronized swimmer Patskevich opened up to Russian outlet kp.ru about the unpleasant atmosphere that has sometimes greeted Team Russia members in Rio.

"Of course the attitude towards Russian athletes here is just awful. I haven't seen such a nightmare in my entire sporting career," told Patskevich.

"They refuse to congratulate us on the podium; they don't go up to shake our hand. I've personally experienced such instances."

"We live on the 16th floor of the Olympic village, where we have our own hotel house where only the Russian delegation lives. We hung out Russian national flags there, but yesterday morning we found that they had been torn down and knotted at the corners. Can you image, they just threw them on the floor! We obviously put them back in place, but after we got back from evening training, the flags had disappeared without a trace."

Police state: How the disabled and mentally ill are criminalized by psychopathic US 'justice' system

RT
Sat, 13 Aug 2016 03:49 UTC

It took a popular documentary "Making a Murderer" to have Brendan Dassey cleared of the crime after he spent 10 years in prison. His case sheds light on how the rights of mentally ill people are frequently violated in the justice system.

The Netflix documentary series chronicles the lives and trials of Dassey who was accused of helping his uncle, Steven Avery, murder Teresa Halbach in October 2005.

Dassey was 16 years old and reading at a fourth grade level. In March 2006 he spent four hours being interrogated by police without a parent or lawyer present. During his interrogation, he confessed to participating in both raping and murdering Halbach. As a result, Dassey spent the past 10 years behind bars, despite no evidence linking him to the crime other than his confession.

But a confession is a confession and innocent people don't confess to crimes they don't commit. Except when they do - and it happens a lot. This is why Dassey may be one of the luckiest men in the US on Friday; the national spotlight on his case may have given it the attention necessary to get a man with a learning disability and low IQ out of prison.

Comment: Mentally ill and disabled people have consistently been targeted, taken advantage of, and abused by the US justice system. These are the people that are the most vulnurable in society and require special care and support. Instead, they are often either wrongfully incarcerated on false pretences, or are fatally shot down by police.

The following quote below is pertinent:

"The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped." ~ Hubert. H. Humphrey

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Huge fire, explosion levels Maryland apartment complex, two dead, over 30 injured

Liam Quinn and Sarah Dean
Daily Mail, UK
Thu, 11 Aug 2016 14:55 UTC

Residents of a Washington apartment complex where two people died after a massive explosion say they 'smelled gas' in the days leading up to the deadly blast.

Along with the two people who were killed, several remain missing and at least 34 were injured in the incident shortly before midnight on Wednesday.

In the wake of the explosion in Silver Spring,Maryland, shocked locals have hit out at authorities for ignoring their calls about alleged 'gas leaks' near the building.

'I've been smelling gas for weeks. I called 911, they came and told us it smelled like incense,' Adrian Boya told NBC Washington. 'That's pretty sad. It's like they didn't take us seriously.'

Comment: Gas leaks reportedly have a rotten egg or skunk smell and is generally an unpleasant odor not easily confused with incense.

Profiting from abuse and neglect: Private prisons are more violent and dangerous than government run counterparts

Nika Knight
Common Dreams
Fri, 12 Aug 2016 00:00 UTC

Damning Department of Justice report finds that privately owned federal prisons cause more bodily injuries and even death

Private federal prisons are more abusive, violent, and dangerous than their government-run counterparts, according to a frightening report published this week by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General.

The report [pdf], which examined prisons owned and operated by GEO Group, Management and Training Corporation, and the controversial and very notorious Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), discovered that inmates in those facilities "were nine times more likely to be placed on lockdown than inmates at other federal prisons and were frequently subjected to arbitrary solitary confinement," the Guardian reports.

Moreover, for-profit prisons "almost exclusively incarcerate low risk inmates convicted of immigration offenses," the Guardian notes.

"This is due to a new trend in the past decade of criminally prosecuting people for reentering the country rather than merely processing them through the civil deportation system," said Carl Takei, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union's (ACLU) National Prison Project, to the Washington Post. "The result is that people serve sometimes-lengthy prison sentences in [Federal Bureau of Prisons] custody before ... going through civil deportation proceedings."

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Ohio police rescue 7yo trying to sell his stuffed animal for food

RT
Fri, 12 Aug 2016 22:28 UTC

An Ohio boy was wandering around a busy area downtown Franklin, Ohio with his stuffed animal in hands Sunday afternoon. He was trying to sell the toy to get some food. He hadn't eaten for several days, according to police who helped him.

Officer Steve Dunham found the unnamed 7-year-old trying to sell his stuffed animal outside a drug store, after police received a phone call.
The boy wanted money to buy food.

"It broke my heart," Dunham told WLWT. "He told me he was trying to sell his stuffed animal to get money for food because he hadn't eaten in several days."

The Vatican has paid huge amounts of money to settle child molestation lawsuits

Alexa Erickson
Collective Evolution
Fri, 12 Aug 2016 21:08 UTC

The reality of child molestation by the Roman Catholic Church has surfaced time and time again, and yet, somehow, it continues to happen. If you watched the movie Spotlight, perhaps you have an idea of just how things are going down. But let's break it down to date.

While you can't put a price on the innocence of a child, you can put a price on just how much the Roman Catholic Church has paid out in lawsuits over the never-ending epidemic of child molestation wreaking havoc in its ranks.

According to Jack and Diane Ruhl of the National Catholic Reporter, who decided to research this particular topic, since 1950, the Vatican has spent a disgusting $3,994,797,060.10. That's nearly $4 billion to keep things hush hush. That number may even be a bit conservative, as we cannot know for sure the agreed upon "under the table" amount.

The figure is based on a three-month investigation of data, which includes a review of over 7,800 articles from LexisNexis Academic and NCR databases and information from BishopAccountability.org. Reports from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops were also used.

If the amount of money dished out was divided evenly amongst the U.S.'s 197 dioceses, each one would get almost $20 million. An incredible amount of cash from hard working people who support the good faith and intentions of the Church — people who are parents to little boys being sexually abused — is being used to cover up unfathomable crimes executed by priests.

Australian tobacco executive beaten, stabbed in attempted kidnapping

Nick McKenzie
The Sydney Morning Herald
Fri, 12 Aug 2016 20:30 UTC

The attempted kidnapping, bashing and stabbing of an international tobacco company manager outside his family home in Sydney suggests crime syndicates are hitting back at efforts to combat the booming illicit tobacco trade.

A criminal syndicate is suspected of ordering the botched kidnapping in June of a former decorated NSW policeman turned manager of British American Tobacco. Despite high-profile raids by police, illegal tobacco continues to pour into the Australian market and is easy to find in city shops.

The BAT manager was stabbed and bashed by at least three men, after he refused their order that he get into a car. The kidnappers arrived at the man's Sydney home at around 10pm on Saturday June 4. A source said the manager was forced to "fight for his life" to ward off the kidnappers, who have not been identified. He was rushed to hospital after the attack.

The attack appears to be an unprecedented escalation in the struggle between policing agencies and the syndicates driving the illicit tobacco trade. Evidence suggests the attack was linked to BAT's support of police inquiries.

Stay away! Travel warnings against the US continue to mount

Angela Waters
USA Today
Thu, 11 Aug 2016 16:53 UTC

© Mike Nelson, EPA
Passengers proceed through Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at Terminal 3 at Los Angeles Airport in Los Angeles, California, on July 1, 2016.

Government travel advisories are common for war-torn, disease-ravaged nations, but a growing number of countries are warning their citizens about taking trips to the United States.

The United Arab Emirates, Bahamas, France, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Germany are among those urging caution to U.S.-bound travelers. The concerns include mass shootings, police violence, anti-Muslim and anti-LGBT attitudes and the Zika virus.

While it is too soon to determine if the warnings are hurting U.S. tourism, the warnings tarnish the image the U.S. promotes abroad of a country that prides itself on being a welcoming society and bastion of democracy.

"People understand that there is a range of things to do and iconic things to see in the (United) States," said Tom Buncle, managing director of the Yellow Railroad, an international tourism consultancy in Scotland. "But all of the warnings that come from specific instances add up and can potentially erode the positive image of the U.S."

Comment: With the exception of the misguided Zika warnings, these travel advisors do have a point. The US is a scary place to be these days.

Muslim woman sues Chicago police after six officers ripped her hijab off at train station last year

Sputnik
Fri, 12 Aug 2016 19:04 UTC

The Council on American-Islamic Relations said that a Muslim female sued the Chicago Police Department for the use of excessive force, violation of human rights, and freedom of religious expression, after six officers ripped off her hijab at a train station last year.

A Muslim female sued the Chicago Police Department (CPD) for the use of excessive force, violation of human rights, and freedom of religious expression, after six officers ripped off her hijab at a train station last year, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Chicago chapter said in a press release.

"Itemid Al-Matar, trying to catch the train home, was physically assaulted, harassed, publicly strip-searched, humiliated, and falsely arrested by several police officers from the Chicago Police Department," the release stated on Thursday.

Al-Matar, who moved to Chicago from Saudi Arabia, was charged with reckless conduct and several counts of obstructing justice, but found not guilty on June 30, media reported, citing court documents.

CAIR claims that Al-Matar was prosecuted based on race, religion, and other identity-based factors.

The US Department of Justice is currently investigating the case.

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Society's Child

Still at it: Charlie Hebdo receives death threats for another offensive anti-Muslim cartoon

Bad vibes: Russian flags torn down twice in Rio Olympic village

Police state: How the disabled and mentally ill are criminalized by psychopathic US 'justice' system

Huge fire, explosion levels Maryland apartment complex, two dead, over 30 injured

Profiting from abuse and neglect: Private prisons are more violent and dangerous than government run counterparts

Ohio police rescue 7yo trying to sell his stuffed animal for food

The Vatican has paid huge amounts of money to settle child molestation lawsuits

Australian tobacco executive beaten, stabbed in attempted kidnapping

Stay away! Travel warnings against the US continue to mount

Muslim woman sues Chicago police after six officers ripped her hijab off at train station last year

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