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Up to 20 victims and up to 3 armed suspects on the loose in San Bernardino shooting


RT
Wed, 02 Dec 2015 20:36 UTC
police tape line
© Max Whittaker / Reuters
Police in San Bernardino, California are responding to reports of an active shooter in an office building. There are 20 victims, according to the fire department. The location is around the corner from a Planned Parenthood.

The San Bernardino Sheriff's Office is urging the public to avoid the area of Orange Show Road, South Waterman Avenue and Park Center Circle.

The San Bernardino Fire Department has confirmed the presence of an active shooter near Park Center. SWAT teams have been deployed to the scene.


Live feed from the location shows many injured people being helped by emergency services.

Along with San Bernardino police officers, the California Highway Patrol, FBI and agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms are on the scene.

People are leaving the building where the suspected shooter or shooters are located.

Witnesses told police that the shooters were wearing ski masks, KABC reported.
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Portland student's winter jacket idea that melts hearts and warms the needy


RT
Wed, 02 Dec 2015 20:02 UTC
jackets on light posts
© @Grady_Trimble / NEWS CENTER / Twitter
A Portland student's simple gesture of goodwill is reminding the world that you don't need deep pockets to be able to help people in need.

As temperatures drop with each passing winter's day, Gabby Kaper decided to tape heavy jackets to lampposts in downtown Portland for any homeless people feeling the cold.

The sight of jackets attached to the street lights caused a mini mystery until good Samaritan Kaper stepped forward.


Comment: Good on this young lady for helping to warm society, in more ways than one! An inspiring act of kindness that reminds us that giving is good for the soul!

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Botswana sells fracking rights in one of Africa's largest conservation areas to UK energy company


Sputnik
Wed, 02 Dec 2015 17:58 UTC
Kgalagai Transfrontier Park
© Flickr/Andrew Ashton
Kgalagai Transfrontier Park
Botswana's government has recently sold the rights to the British Karoo Energy company to frack for shale gas in the Kgalagadi transfrontier park, the Guardian newspaper reported Wednesday.

Botswana's government has recently sold the rights to the British Karoo Energy company to frack for shale gas in the Kgalagadi transfrontier park, the Guardian newspaper reported Wednesday.

The Kgalagadi park is among Africa's largest conservation areas.
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Man hit with felony charges for handing out jury nullification fliers


RT
Wed, 02 Dec 2015 19:11 UTC
Gavel
© Reuters
A Michigan man was arrested and charged with a felony for handing out fliers informing people of their jury nullification rights on the sidewalk in front of a courthouse.

Keith Wood, 39, faces a felony charge for obstruction of justice and a misdemeanor for attempting to influence jurors. Wood said he was handing out pamphlets from the Fully Informed Jury Association on November 24, while standing on a sidewalk in front of a Mecosta County courthouse.

Obstruction of justice is carries a penalty of five years in prison with up to $10,000 in fines, and attempting to influence jurors is a one-year misdemeanor with fines of up to $1,000.

Comment: A similar incident happened to a Denver man: Denver activist charged with multiple felonies for informing jurors of their rights.

For the judge to blatantly charge a man for informing people of their rights is a clear indication that the judge views himself as all powerful and he apparently expects everyone to be obedient authoritarian followers.

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TV

We are being gamed: Beware the Media Industrial Complex

Chris Veritas
Activist Post
Wed, 02 Dec 2015 18:40 UTC
media reality
In conversations with various people, I have often brought up the fact that the Media seems to have no memory of the past, is entirely uniform when it comes to urging war, and patently ignores a plethora of glaring issues. The issues it does catch sight of, it seems incapable of penetrating, remaining at the surface of things, and therefore keeping discourse at the most superficial level. When questioned about these tendencies of Media, the responses I've received range from "well, that's just the way they maintain ratings", to "but my paper or network has the better ideology". Americans appear satisfied to accept what occurs to them as given, and like Pangloss to reply, indeed, this is "the best of all possible worlds".

I beg to differ.

Here are a few troubling questions that I feel greatly undermine the idea that Mainstream Media is credible:
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This is fascism, and we should say it clearly ... while we can

Marc Summer
Daily Kos
Sun, 29 Nov 2015 18:19 UTC
Trump/Hitler
© Trump image from Reuters
Sixty million people died in World War II, but fascism won. It didn't win on the battlefield. It didn't win right away. It won because the same fears, the same greed, the same hatred that fueled its growth in the first part of the twentieth century never went away. The symbols of fascism became anathema, but the causes ... went deep. And gradually, slowly, one step at a time, all those vices became first tolerated, then treated as virtues, and then as the only acceptable view.

Godwin's Law—the contention that any argument will eventually come round to warnings about Hitler—is twenty-five years old, but for much longer than that, we've been taught that the use of that... f-word, is not to be taken seriously. Sure, every government program, new or old, is open to accusations of communism and warnings of a slippery slope toward some failed dictatorship. That's expected. But to even acknowledge our long, stumbling lurch to the right; the building force of corporate power; the relentless need for war; a police whose power of enforcement is divorced from law; a preening nationalism that rewards the full rights of citizenship only to those who fit an ever-narrower mold... You can't call it fascism. People will only laugh.

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Black Cat

Tennessee church hid rape of 3-year-old boy, lied to parents, urged against prosecution; lawsuit filed

David Edwards
Raw Story
Tue, 01 Dec 2015 12:55 UTC
Fellowship Baptist Church bathroom
© Fellowship Baptist Church training video
A church volunteer takes children to the bathroom.
A family filed a lawsuit this week against a church in Brentwood, Tennessee for allegedly covering up the rape of their 3-year-old child. The lawsuit, which was obtained by WTVF, indicates that the family left their 3-year-old-boy in the care of the church's Children's Ministry on the Sunday of August 24, 2014.

When the boy said that he did not want to go back to church the next week, the family discovered that a teenage volunteer had raped the child in one of the church's bathrooms. The family explained in the lawsuit that they confronted church leaders, who initially claimed that the child was lying about the incident. The church later "urged the [family] not to pursue criminal charges against the perpetrator," the lawsuit stated.

After the volunteer pled guilty to aggravated sexual assault, the lawsuit said that the church "sought to hide the truth about the perpetrator pedophile and about the rape of [the 3-year-old child] from other families."

"We want justice for this family," attorney Kathryn Barnett of Morgan & Morgan told WTVF. "But also we want to make sure that every child at this church and every church is safe." "It's not okay to wait until a child is raped before you start to take youth protection seriously." she added.

A Fellowship Baptist Church training video that was created earlier this year explains that the Children's Ministry has a strict bathroom policy. "In all cases, no one should be alone with a child," the video says. "Two adults are required to escort a child to the bathroom."

Comment: We hope they get millions from the church. Sadly, for this child, his family and other families yet to be victimized, churches are a place where where predators have easy access to children and most offenses are covered up by the church. The best we can do in this day and age is educate and protect ourselves with knowledge of where and how these sexual predators operate. Listen to or read our interview with Dr. Anna Salter, author of the best-selling book, Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders, Who They Are, How They Operate, and How We Can Protect Ourselves and Our Children. And do read the book.

See also: Men Who Hate Women: The Franklin Scandal and the Truth About Our Leaders

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Owner of Varsity Theater, Loring Pasta Bar accused in Children's Theatre sex-abuse suit

Rohan Preston
Star Tribune
Tue, 01 Dec 2015 17:35 UTC
2 allege they were abused by founder, teacher in '80s

Pasta Bar sex abuse
© Jeff Wheeler, Star Tribune
Attorney Jeff Anderson with plaintiff Laura Adams during a news conference at his office in St. Paul Tuesday afternoon.
Alleging sexual abuse in the 1970s and '80s, two former student actors at Children's Theatre Company have filed suit against the Minneapolis theater, co-founder John Clark Donahue and Minneapolis entrepreneur Jason McLean.

The civil complaint, filed Monday in Hennepin County District Court, revisits a disturbing chapter of the company's past that sent Donahue to jail after he pleaded guilty in 1984 to sexual misconduct with three teenage boys.
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Eye 1

Has the NSA stopped mass surveillance on the American people? Absolutely not!


Washington's Blog
Tue, 01 Dec 2015 15:37 UTC
american spying
The mainstream press says that the NSA has "ended" its bulk phone records collection program.

Does that mean we can all relax ... and forget about mass surveillance?

We asked the highest-level NSA whistleblower in history - William Binney - the high-level NSA executive who created the agency's mass surveillance program for digital information, 36-year NSA veteran widely regarded as a "legend" within the agency, who served as the senior technical director within the agency, and managed thousands of NSA employees

WASHINGTON'S BLOG: The mainstream U.S. news is saying that the NSA's metadata collection program is over.

Can we all relax and enjoy a beer now? Or is the NSA still spying on Americans?
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Big surprise: Research shows 45% increase in deaths from law enforcement during past 15 years


Science Daily
Tue, 01 Dec 2015 00:00 UTC
deaths legal intervention
© Florida Atlantic University
Researchers from the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University and colleagues conducted analyses of nationwide data on individuals who were killed as a result of legal intervention or law enforcement in the US between 1999 and 2013.
Between 1999 and 2013 in the United States, between 279 (in 2000) to 507 (in 2012) people were killed each year by legal intervention or law enforcement, other than by legal execution. In 2013, an estimated 11.3 million arrests in the U.S. resulted in approximately 480 deaths from legal intervention. Between 1999 and 2013, there were 5,511 deaths by legal intervention.

Researchers from the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University and colleagues conducted analyses of nationwide data on individuals who were killed as a result of legal intervention or law enforcement in the U.S. between 1999 and 2013.

Results from this report show:
  • During this 15-year period, there was a 45 percent net increase in deaths from legal intervention.
  • 96 percent of these deaths occurred among men, of which 78 percent occurred between ages 15 and 44 years.
  • In men ages 15 to 44 years, American Indians or Alaska Natives (whose numbers were small) had the highest rates of death from legal intervention, but blacks and African Americans, and white Hispanics or Latinos all had rates that were significantly higher than those experienced by non-Hispanic whites and Asians or Pacific Islanders.

Comment: While these statistics are hardly surprising to regular readers of Sott.net, it may be that a scientific study published in the mainstream press is what is needed to get the attention of the masses. However, as the authors 'suggest the need for further research', it is likely that little else will be done (as usual) to stop the progression of the lethal police state.

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