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'Systemic breakdown': 16yo girl died in juvenile jail as staff ignored her dead body, lawsuit claims


RT
Wed, 07 Sep 2016 17:18 UTC
Gynnya McMillen
© WLKY News Louisville / YouTube
Gynnya McMillen gasped for air amid a seizure as a juvenile jail staffer watched and did nothing, and for the next 10 hours, staffers ignored her dead body in a "systemic breakdown" of duty, according to an state investigation revealed in a new lawsuit.

Arrested for dubious reasons and taken to a Kentucky juvenile detention center more than an hour from her home, McMillen, 16, was left to die on January 10 as several staff members at Lincoln Village Regional Juvenile Detention Center failed to perform basic duties to ensure the unresponsive teenager was safe, a federal lawsuit filed by her family on August 31 against the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice and Lincoln Village employees has alleged.

Comment: See also: SOTT Exclusive: Black Lives Matter: Teen girl dies in state-run detention center, coroner claims there's 'no cause of death'

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Portable straightjackets: NYPD introduces restraining bags to deal with the 'emotionally disturbed'

Isaac Davis
Waking Times
Wed, 07 Sep 2016 16:26 UTC
police bags
The tone of policing in America is on a downward spiral as cops around the nation are hardening themselves against a public that is growing more and more frightened of the thin blue line. Along with many well-publicized incidents that make it to national media, many concerning changes are happening outside of the limelight. An example of this is a new living body bag that is being used to restrain uncooperative individuals.

Earlier this year the New York Police Department (NYPD), an organization of some 34,000 uniformed officers and an annual budget surpassing $5 billion, introduced a new crime fighting device, the 'restraining bag,' or as it is sometimes affectionately called, 'the burrito.' It is essentially a full-body sized duffel bag that officers can stuff a perpetrator into and cart him off to jail like a piece of luggage.

Manufactured by DeSantis Gunhide, a division of HELGEN Industries Inc., the EDP bag, which is an acronym for 'emotionally disturbed person,' retails from $750 to $899 and has already been used hundreds of times in 2016 by the NYPD. As reported by Gothamist, the EDP bag was used 122 times in a 110-day period between January and April of 2016, with one very disturbing incident being caught on video by a concerned bystander.

Comment: And on the other side of the pond...Abusive force: Metropolitan Police will soon start bagging people's heads during arrests

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Attention

Dog bites suffered by young children often inflicted by the family dog


Phys.org
Wed, 07 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
children dog bits
© Christian Damböck People trust their own dog and exclude the possibility of a bite incident.

Dog bites suffered by young children are often inflicted by the family dog. Such incidents frequently occur despite the presence of an adult. Even benign behaviours on the part of children, such as hugging the dog, can trigger an aggressive response from the animal. A survey of dog owners conducted by researchers from the Institute of Animal Husbandry and Animal Welfare at Vetmeduni Vienna shows that people underestimate risky situations involving the family dog. A better understanding of the dog's needs and simple measures such as child-free resting and feeding places for the dogs can significantly reduce the risk of dog bites. The analysis of the survey was published in the Journal of Veterinary Behavior.

Children love petting dogs, playing with them and crawling after them. They especially love to hug or cuddle the family dog. Unwanted close contact sometimes causes dogs to feel harassed and they respond by snapping at the child. Many cases of dog bites involving small children happen in everyday lifeas the result of an apparently friendly interaction on the part of the child.

Comment: SOTT has been documenting unusual canine behavior for the past several years, noting that even apparently docile family pets can turn on their owners with little provocation.

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Bad Guys

Mother of Russian pilot who was kidnapped and tortured by US government pleads with Obama to return her son


RT
Sun, 04 Sep 2016 16:34 UTC
Konstantin Yaroshenko
© Sputnik
The mother of Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko addressed US President Barack Obama with a letter asking him to show mercy and return her son, who is currently serving a 20-year sentence in New Jersey's Fort Dix prison, to Russia.

The woman, Lyubov Yaroshenko, told Izvestia Daily that she would exhaust all means to have her son returned to Russia, and even after failing to receive justice from the US court system, she still hopes that Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama will help her.

"American lawyers have spent a whole year gathering proof that my son is not guilty or complicit in crimes he was convicted of. There are irrefutable facts that prove that the sentence passed by Judge Jed Rakoff was a mistake. I am confident that the truth will sooner or later become public and this will cast a shadow on the United States that declares itself a state with the rule of law with obligations to protect human rights all over the world," Yaroshenko wrote in her letter.

She added that she was seriously concerned about her son's health which was rapidly deteriorating and, in Yaroshenko's own words, this has happened because of the poor prison conditions and inadequate medical assistance.

Comment: See also: 'There is no justice here' - Russian pilot jailed in US tells of kidnap, torture & lies

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Question

Was the SpaceX rocket attacked by a drone?

Joshua Nevett
Daily Star
Sat, 03 Sep 2016 15:52 UTC
SpaceX explosion
© SpaceXConspiracy theorists claim SpaceX was 'attacked'

Comment: SOTT's own analysis theorizes that it's possible that a UFO, or at the least something unidentified, was flying near the rocket in the moments before the explosion. See the below video for more evidence:



Now conspiracy theorists are claiming the space rocket was "attacked".

The "reusable" rocket was destroyed after suffering a catastrophic explosion on launch at Cape Canaveral in Florida, US on Thursday. The huge blast, which caused no injuries, ripped through the rocket during a pre-launch check - sending plumes of thick black smoke into the air.

Billionaire SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said the cause of the explosion, which was caught on camera, is still unknown. But new analysis of the footage appears to show there may have been foul play, it has been claimed.

A grainy video of the blast, posted to YouTube by Steve Svensson, appears to shows a small, silver spherical object flying over the rocket as it exploded.

In the description to the video, he wrote: "It appears that SpaceX may have been shot by a very fast moving drone, or possibly an explosive in the satellite was triggered? We all know people love to hate Elon Musk."

Comment: There could be more to this story than first appears. It was reported in July that a naval ship, the USS Jackson, was undergoing "full ship shock trials" off the coast of Florida. This was to test the ship for its ability to withstand underwater shocks by using 10,000 pounds of explosives. It turns out that, at the time of the testing, many Floridians thought an earthquake had occurred, but it turned out to be the explosion from the shock test. Even the geophysicists at the National Earthquake Information Center were fooled, although one man quoted said it was obvious that it was an "induced quake". The explosion was so intense that it recorded a 3.7 on the Richter scale

Another interesting piece of data is that a "military-style" helicopter recently crashed in Florida, despite there being no signs of distress or engine failure as it fell. Could this possibly be another sign of secret military weapons being tested in Florida? Images at the crash site show only the tail and rotors remaining, as the rest of the very large helicopter apparently disintegrated upon crashing.

So what exactly is going on in Florida? Was the military secretly testing a weapon and accidentally blew up the SpaceX rocket? Is it possible that the explosion of the SpaceX rocket was done by elements of the US government to sabotage the sale of the Israel satellite operator Spacecom to the Chinese conglomerate Beijing Xinwei Technology Group? The Americans might very well be wary of the Chinese going into business with the Israelis and getting more heavily involved in the space industry. It certainly looks like the elites in the US went to great lengths to sabotage this deal by using its super-secret weaponry to destroy the SpaceX rocket and deep-six the Israeli-Chinese deal.

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Bad Guys

Court on Corsica approves mayor's burkini ban


RT
Wed, 07 Sep 2016 02:44 UTC
Burkini ban
© Stringer / Reuters
A French administrative court has approved the ban on full-body swimming suits worn by Muslim women on beaches in the Corsica commune of Sisko, bypassing the recent State Council's decision on the matter.

The Bastia Administrative Court agreed with Sisko's mayor, Ange-Pierre Vivoni, who passed a law in August prohibiting women wearing so-called burkinis to visit municipal beaches for safety reasons. The court rejected an appeal filed by the Human Rights League (LDH) against the ban, French website BFMTV reported on Tuesday.

The court "considered that in this case, given the recent events of August 13, 2016... and that the sentiment is not settled, the presence of women wearing a bathing suit [burkini]... would in the current circumstances risk the disturbance of public order, which is to be prevented by the mayor," the court ruling said.

Comment: See also:
  • Marine Le Pen promises Frexit and burkini ban if elected French president
  • Burkini ban overturned in Nice after court declares it illegal


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Pistol

Judge, jury and executioner: Graphic body cam shows cops kill man after he put his hands up and pointed at them

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 06 Sep 2016 16:05 UTC
Evansville Police body camera footage
© Evansville Police body camera footageThe Evansville Police released the body camera footage on Friday from a March officer-involved shooting that killed Daniel Wooters, 38.
Daniel Wooters, 38, was homeless and likely mentally ill when he was killed by Evansville police. In March of this year, Wooters stole a police cruiser, led cops on a chase, crashed the car, and was then killed as he held a knife in the air — over 30 feet away from the nearest officer.

In spite of the incident happening in March, the body cam video was not released until this month, likely due to the reason that it does not fit their narrative.

As the Courier Press Reports:
Police were in route to TGI Friday's at the Eastland Mall March 15 to look for a man who, according to a mall security guard, "threatened to kill people."

By the time police arrived, Wooters had walked to the Fifth-Third Bank parking lot, where a uniformed officer approached him. According to police, Wooters advanced at the officer with a knife and stole the officer's car, leading other arriving officers on a chase up Morgan Avenue.
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Pistol

Stranger danger: 1/3 of all murder victims are killed by police

Alice Salles
The Anti Media
Wed, 07 Sep 2016 15:08 UTC
stranger danger
To famed and celebrated American author Mark Twain, there are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. After all, facts are facts, and that's all we need to rely on. Everything else is panis et circenses.

The notion that public policing has failed us is a fact — not a statistic. But looking at the numbers may help us attain a better understanding of where they have failed and what led these institutions to pursue policies that not only incentivize crime but also create it out of thin air — so much so that police officers are at the top of the list of threats the common American faces today.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics, most homicides involve fewer than three victims. About three-quarters of all homicide victims are murdered by someone they know. But among those victims of homicide who aren't familiar with the murderer, at least one third are killed by law enforcement, reports Granta, citing an analysis published by the Human Rights Data Analysis group.
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Pistol

Cop gets into fight with his own son, shoots him twice, Dept says it was 'accidental'

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 06 Sep 2016 15:52 UTC
Shooting in Northwest Philadelphia
© WPVI-TV
A 19-year-old man is in critical condition suffering gunshot wounds inflicted on him by his father — a Philadelphia cop. In spite of the officer admitting that he fired the weapon, no charges have been filed against him — for obvious reasons.

Monday afternoon, at approximately 6:30 pm, police responded to multiple calls about shots fired at a northeast Philadelphia residence; home of the unnamed police officer. Police say the officer got into an argument with his son, which then escalated into a physical altercation. During the altercation, the officer brandished a gun and fired, striking his son in the torso.

According to police, there were four people inside the home.
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Star of David

UN report - Without Zionist occupation, Palestinian economy would double


RT
Wed, 07 Sep 2016 14:51 UTC
Gaza city
© Suhaib Salem / ReutersPalestinians use wood to light a fire inside the ruins of their house, that witnesses said was destroyed by Israeli shelling during a 50-day war in the summer of 2014, on a rainy day in Gaza city
In a damning report, the UN development body (UNCTAD) described the ways Israeli occupation of Gaza and West Bank has been preventing the Palestinian economy from recovery and getting twice as big as it is now.

The document detailing the "staggering economic cost" of Israeli occupation was released on Tuesday by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

"The Palestinian economy would be at least twice as large without Israeli occupation," the findings reveal.
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