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How do cops without guns handle violence?

Alexa Erickson
Collective Evolution
Fri, 15 Jul 2016 18:19 UTC
British police
Confrontation, sporadic violence, and arrests during protests continue to follow the surge of racially biased shooting in the United States. People are angry, confused, and above all, terrified of law enforcement. They have lost faith and trust in the justice system of a nation which prides itself on racial equality.

More than 50 years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act, approximately six-in-ten Americans believe the country needs to continue making changes to achieve racial equality.

This year alone, 569 people have been killed by US police. Many of the circumstances have proven these killings to be unjustified, and many others have made media headlines for their clear racial profiling.

Comment: Aside from many officers having inborn tendencies towards violence, one can only suspect that American police training is specifically designed for maximum carnage.

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Take 2

What if Obama told the truth about violence, poverty, gangs and drugs in the inner cities?

Jon Rappoport
Activist Post
Fri, 15 Jul 2016 18:01 UTC
obama
Suppose, instead of meeting for three hours with Black Lives Matter leaders...

The President of the United States, seized with some unexplainable attack of conscience, or a drug-induced revelation, stood up in front of television cameras and spoke to the nation and the world about...

The real web that entangles and holds inner cities hostage.

Suppose the President suddenly said:

"My fellow Americans, the first thing you have to know is that, since 1966, when the federal government declared a War on Poverty, it has spent some two trillion dollars, much of it earmarked for the inner cities of America. And now, today, those areas are worse off than ever.
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Handcuffs

Disney employees and elementary teacher caught in recent child porn sting


RT
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 23:25 UTC
Disney characters
© Soe Zeya Tun/ Reuters
An undercover child pornography bust has led to the arrests of eight men, three of whom stand out. One man was a housekeeper at Disney's Animal Kingdom, another was a cook on Disney's BoardWalk and a third was a school teacher.

Two of the men worked at locations around Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

Angel Rivera-Maldonado, 44, worked in housekeeping at Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge while Kevin Nazzaro, 52, was a cook at Big River Grille and Brewing Works on Disney's BoardWalk.

Comment: Unfortunately this is not the first and it definitely won't be the last time that we hear reports like this. In our sick society predators will go wherever they find their prey, see here for further information:

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Stormtrooper

The racist killing machine in the age of anti-politics

Henry Giroux
Progressive Radio Network
Tue, 12 Jul 2016 17:41 UTC
police killings
The killing machine has become spectacularized, endlessly looped through the mainstream cultural apparatuses both as a way to increase ratings and as an unconscious testimony to the ruthlessness of the violence waged by a racist state. Once again, Americans and the rest of the world are witness to a brutal killing machine, a form of domestic terrorism, responsible for the deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling who were shot point blank by white policemen who follow the script of a racist policy of disposability that suggests that black lives not only do not matter, but that black people can be killed with impunity since the police in the United States are rarely held accountable for such crimes.

In the Castile case, the police fired into the car with a child in the back seat - a point rarely mentioned in the mainstream press. At the same time, the power of violence as a tool for expending rage and addressing deeply felt injustices has resulted in a young black man mimicking the tools of state violence by deliberately killing five police officers and wounding seven others in Dallas, Texas. This is a horrendous and despicable act of violence but it must be understood in a system in which violence is disproportionately waged against poor blacks, immigrants, Muslims, and others who are now defined as excess and pathologized as disposable. The killings in Dallas speak to a brutal mindset and culture of mistrust and fear in which violence has become the only legitimate form of mediation.
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Magnify

Which professions do psychopaths most often gravitate towards?


Psy Blog
Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:19 UTC
office corporate Psychopath Arbeit
© Unbekannt
Are there 'successful psychopaths' amongst us?

According to a survey conducted by psychologist Kevin Dutton—called the Great British Psychopath Survey—here are the top 10 professions with the most psychopaths:
  1. CEO
  2. Lawyer
  3. Media (TV/Radio)
  4. Salesperson
  5. Surgeon
  6. Journalist
  7. Police Officer
  8. Clergyperson
  9. Chef
  10. Civil Servant
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Attention

Summary: What is known so far about Bastille Day truck rampage in Nice


RT
Fri, 15 Jul 2016 04:21 UTC
Nice attack bodies on floor
© Eric Gaillard / Reuters
Bodies are seen on the ground July 15, 2016 after at least 30 people were killed in Nice, France, when a truck ran into a crowd celebrating the Bastille Day national holiday July 14.
Hours after a truck killed 84 people and injured over 100 in Nice as the city celebrated the Bastille Day, little is still known about the motives of the attacker, who is said to be a French resident of Tunisian origin. Here is what we've learned so far.
  • The truck broke through a barricade on Nice's Promenade des Anglais at around 10:30 p.m. local time Thursday and plowed into the crowd of people gathering to watch the fireworks for the Bastille Day. The driver was able to drive 2 kilometers before being neutralized by police.
  • The death toll has risen to 84 killed and at least 100 injured so far, with 18 in critical condition.
  • The attacker's ID was found in the truck, revealing that he was a 31-year-old French resident of Tunisian origin. The truck was said to be loaded with weapons and grenades.

Comment: Bastille day attack: Possibly 50 killed in Nice, France after truck drives into crowd, reports of gunfire

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Cell Phone

Two men fall from cliff reportedly playing Pokemon Go, suffering moderate injuries

Kimiya Manoochehri
USA Today
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 15:59 UTC
Pokemon Go
© Patti Blake, AP
A player turns to check her phone as she plays "Pokemon Go"
Two men suffered moderate injuries when they tumbled off a seaside cliff north of San Diego while reportedly playing Pokemon Go, fire officials said Thursday.

The pair fell after climbing a fence and disregarding warning signs in order to get on the bluff in Encinitas, Calif., said Fire Marshal Anita Pupping.

One of the men told sheriffs' deputies that he and his friend were playing the smartphone augmented-reality game Pokemon Go when they fell over the cliff's edge, according to the San Diego Union Tribune. Pupping said she could not confirm the report. The names of the victims were not released.

Pupping says one of the men tumbled about 50 feet. His companion fell about 80 to 90 feet, landing on the beach at 1 p.m. Wednesday. "The fire department had to extricate them with ropes and harnesses and such," said Pupping.

Comment: See also: The 'Pokémon Go' app is doing the CIA's dirty work

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Laptop

Ex DIA chief Flynn: Data on ISIS laptops up to 80% porn


RT
Fri, 15 Jul 2016 00:55 UTC
isis phone
© Dado Ruvic / Reuters
The vast majority of files found by US officers on laptops taken from Islamic State contain pornography, says Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, former chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon's spying arm.

Flynn was repeatedly assigned to senior intelligence posts in Afghanistan and Iraq after 2001, before taking overall control of US military intelligence in 2012. The German newspaper Bild is now serializing a book detailing his experiences of the War on Terror.

"We looked a ruthless enemy in the eye, the one that raped and exploited women and children, boys and girls, who beheaded people because it pleased him and who watched pornography on his laptop," writes Flynn, who retired in 2014.

"At one point we actually had determined that the material on the laptops was up to 80 per cent pornography. These sick, psychopathic enemies were not only unimaginably hideous, but also treacherous and torn."

Comment: Flynn is an interesting character. He was DIA chief when the infamous 2012 memo was produced, the one outlining that an Islamic State was inevitable, and that it was what the U.S. and its allies wanted in Iraq and Syria. His warnings were deliberately ignored, and he was essentially forced out of his position. But ironically, his Islamophobia seems to have made him actually serious about fighting terrorism (the dangers of his views to the wider Muslim community notwithstanding). So this put him in conflict with the neocon breed of the Washington elite who have no problem creating and maintaining terror groups like Daesh to suit their purposes.

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Eggs Fried

THAAD rage: South Koreans egg PM for defending US antimissile deployment


RT
Fri, 15 Jul 2016 12:32 UTC
South Korea protestors
© Yonhap / AFPYonhap / AFP
South Korean protesters egged Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn as he was apologizing to the people of Seongju County for not asking them if they wanted American antimissiles to be deployed.

Seoul announced on Wednesday that it had chosen Seongju, a farming area in southeastern North Gyeongsang Province, to host the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), an anti-missile system that the US is to provide. The decision came as a surprise for local residents and sparked angry protests.

Protesters pelted the senior government official with eggs and plastic water bottles as he addressed them from the stairs of the county office on Friday, footage of the incident shows. Security guards unfolded ballistic boards and umbrellas to protect their boss and took him inside.
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Eye 1

80% of Ukrainians now live in poverty thanks to US-backed 'revolution of dignity'

Translated by J. Arnoldski
Fort Russ
Fri, 15 Jul 2016 11:12 UTC
Ukraine poverty
Two years following the victory of the Euromaidan, 80% of the population of Ukraine has become poor according to UN standards by receiving less than 5$ a day in income. Such sad statistics were presented by the economist Aleksey Plotnikov at a press conference in Kiev....

"The minimum (monthly) wage established in May is $60 and the minimum pension is $47. This means that 80% of citizens are below the poverty line according to official UN criteria," Plotnikov noted.

He added that the "post-Maidan" government has in turn not concerned itself with the people and not even tried to help them survive such difficult economic times.

Comment: Further reading: The "Toretsk Uprising": How Kiev's repression of Donbass feeds a growing rage

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