Society's Child

Mass murder, violence and the social structure of America

Vince Montes
Global Research
Tue, 02 Oct 2018 18:27 UTC

C. Wright Mills had warned about the excessive bureaucratization in the social sciences during his time, but he could not have envisioned the tremendous amount of fragmented analyses that occurs when attempts to understand the structure of U.S. society.

The focus on recent mass murders in public places such as at the Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Connecticut are clear examples. According to the Gun Violence 2017 website, there were 346 mass shootings (446 deaths/1803 injuries) incidents and as of September 22, 2018, there are 42,123 mass shootings for 2018 (10,628 deaths/20,805 injuries).

Mass murders create a public stir, an outcry for all the obvious reasons such as because they tend to occur in public places like schools, which violates a sense of safety, the innocence of the victims are not contested, and there is a tremendous amount of media coverage of the tragedy.

UK: Knifeman storms London Underground stabbing one man in chest meanwhile Birmingham knife attack leaves 3 injured

Rod Ardehali
Daily Mail
Tue, 02 Oct 2018 19:06 UTC

Officers in Birmingham say that it is not clear how extensive the injuries were after this afternoon's stabbing in the city centre

A knifeman has been arrested by police this evening following a stabbing on the London Overground.

One person was knifed in the attack at Hackney Central station in East London, his condition is not thought to be life-threatening.

Pictures from frightened commuters show hundreds of passengers evacuating the station with service suspended between Highbury & Islington and Stratford following the incident.

It came at the same time as three people were injured in a stabbing in Birmingham - the latest example of violent crime plaguing Britain's streets.

Witness Leon Bruff, 29, who was in the same carriage as the attack, said passengers 'trampled over each other' to escape the 'maniac'.

Mr Bruff The Sun how the knifeman yelled: 'Don't mess with me, I'll kill you' while storming the train which was full of commuters and TfL staff.

Comment: This is the second stabbing on London's underground in just a few days: Man stabbed in the face on London Underground train - Latest attack in city's crime epidemic

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Rap battle: Snoop Dogg calls Kanye West an 'Uncle Tom' over Trump support

RT
Tue, 02 Oct 2018 19:50 UTC

Venerable rapper and consummate dope-fiend Snoop Dogg called fellow rapper Kanye West an "Uncle Tom" for his support of President Trump, as West's reinvention as a political commentator continues to draw liberal ire.

In an Instagram comment on a post by producer DJ Pooh, Snoop ridiculed West's now-trademark "Make America Great Again" hat, writing "Make ya music great again n**ga."

Snoop then called West an "Uncle Tom. Ass n**ga," referring to West's supposed selling out to the 'white devil.'

Comment: We wonder how many 'white devils' contributed to Snoop Dogg's success?

'They will reap what they sow': Hong Kong airport passengers are incensed at the sloppy handling of their luggage

RT
Tue, 02 Oct 2018 19:44 UTC

Two baggage handlers at Hong Kong International Airport have provoked the rage of air travelers everywhere after they were filmed adopting an apparent 'don't give a sh*t' approach to their jobs.

Video shot by a plane passenger depicting two luggage handlers clumsily hurling suitcases and bags into the back of an awaiting trolley has now been viewed more than six million times. The incident was caught on camera last week by a woman who says she noticed the staff as she got off a flight from the Chinese city of Xiamen.

Quebec swings right after nearly 15 years of liberal power

France24
Tue, 02 Oct 2018 18:45 UTC

The centre-right Coalition Avenir Quebec is on track to win power for the first time in Canada's Quebec province, turning the page on nearly 15 years of liberal rule and allowing the party to make good on its promises to curb immigration.

The business-friendly CAQ is expected to win a majority of seats in Canada's second most populous province, according to early results from Elections Quebec and network projections.

"My team and I are very eager to get to work for you," Legault said Monday night on Twitter.

The CAQ win would follow a shift to the right in Ontario, where Premier Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative government swept to power in June, ending 15 years of Liberal rule in Canada's most populous province.

University of Manchester bans clapping at student events, orders students to 'use jazz hands instead'

Amy Wei
The Mancunion
Fri, 28 Sep 2018 18:37 UTC

Jazz hands will be used instead of traditional clapping, whooping, and cheering at University of Manchester Students' Union (SU) events, following a motion voted through the first Senate session of the academic year, held on Thursday 27th September.

It was argued that the loud noise of traditional clapping and whooping pose an issue to students with anxiety or sensory issues. BSL (British Sign Language) clapping - or, jazz hands - would be a more inclusive form of expression.

Liberation and Access Officer Sara Khan authored the motion, called 'Making Senate More Accessible'. It resolved to swap out audible clapping for BSL clapping at SU events, and to "encourage student groups and societies to do the same, and to include BSL clapping as a part of inclusion training".

The National Union of Students (NUS) has been using BSL clapping since 2015. Khan's motion received little opposition in Senate.

Thrice per semester, the SU holds a Senate session where students can bring forward motions to amend the SU constitution.

Comment: The inmates have taken over the asylum.

Sex-crimes prosecutor who questioned Christine Blasey Ford says that Democrats', lawyers' actions 'affected' her testimony

Becket Adams
Washington Examiner
Mon, 01 Oct 2018 18:26 UTC

© Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images
Rachel Mitchell sits before the Senate Judiciary Committee and questions Christine Blasey Ford in September 2018

The headlines only pointed to the bottom line: Rachel Mitchell wouldn't have prosecuted Brett Kavanaugh based on the available evidence after her questioning of both Christine Blasey Ford and the Supreme Court nominee during last week's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

But there is a lot more to it than that. The sex crimes bureau chief for the Maricopa County Attorney's Office in Phoenix, Ariz., also said in a memo released this weekend that she did not find Ford's story credible. One reason was the lack of corroboration from the witnesses the alleged victim cited. Another was Ford's own failure to recollect important details about the sexual assault she alleges occurred nearly 40 years ago.

But more importantly, Mitchell found Ford to be evasive in her answers about more recent events - specifically, events that occurred this summer when she began discussing her story with Democratic lawmakers and with the Washington Post.

#NotHer: Kellyanne Conway's sex assault story doesn't matter to media, because she's not a liberal

RT
Tue, 02 Oct 2018 18:22 UTC

With the Democratic party demanding that survivors of sexual assault be believed and their motives for coming forward unquestioned, one woman's story isn't deserving of the same respect: White House counselor Kellyanne Conway's.

Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh's ongoing did he / didn't he sexual assault controversy has thrown the judge's confirmation process into jeopardy, and made the "believe survivors" mantra of the #MeToo movement a rallying cry of the left.

However, while Democrats fall over each other to issue the most emphatic support for Kavanaugh's accuser(s) and blast Republicans questioning the convenient timing of the allegations, the same unconditional support isn't extended to women on the opposite side of America's vast political divide.

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway told CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday that she supports Kavanaugh's nomination, and has "had it" with the devolution of Kavanaugh's Senate hearing into a "meeting of the Me Too movement," despite having been sexually assaulted herself.

French Catholics demand parliament investigate child sex abuse by priests

RT
Tue, 02 Oct 2018 18:18 UTC

A group of French Catholics has urged the parliament to establish a special commission tasked with investigating reports of pedophilia within the Roman Catholic Church, which they say continues to ignore and cover the abuse.

"We call for the creation of a parliamentary investigative commission to probe the crimes of pedophilia and their concealment within the Catholic Church," says the petition published by the French Catholic weekly Temoignage Chretien, adding that the church in France is a subject to the law and cannot escape justice.

The instances of child sex abuse within the Catholic Church are not some isolated cases but a "systemic problem" acknowledged by the Pope himself, the petition says, adding that this problem cannot just be left for the Church to sort it out all by itself as "an interested party cannot be the judge."

"Today in our country the Catholic Church thinks it is enough to repeat the words of the Pope without taking any significant initiative to look into these crimes ... and especially their institutional and structural causes," the petition says, adding that the Church still prefers to either "ignore" or even "conceal" such instances of abuse.

Worldwide opinion poll finds people trust Putin more than Trump - Analysts blame US' selfish and reckless foreign policy

RT
Tue, 02 Oct 2018 18:11 UTC

A recent worldwide opinion poll conducted by Pew Research Center shows that Vladimir Putin enjoys more trust than Donald Trump, and analysts blame this fact on America's selfish and reckless foreign policy.

Trade wars with key economic partners, continuing military operations abroad, and the ongoing split among US political elites have been thought to do little for the president's image. This conclusion appears to have been confirmed by the poll.

According to recent research conducted by Washington-based think tank Pew Research Center, people now trust Vladimir Putin more than Donald Trump. Over 26,000 people were surveyed for the study in 25 countries throughout the world.

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Society's Child

Mass murder, violence and the social structure of America

UK: Knifeman storms London Underground stabbing one man in chest meanwhile Birmingham knife attack leaves 3 injured

Rap battle: Snoop Dogg calls Kanye West an 'Uncle Tom' over Trump support

'They will reap what they sow': Hong Kong airport passengers are incensed at the sloppy handling of their luggage

Quebec swings right after nearly 15 years of liberal power

University of Manchester bans clapping at student events, orders students to 'use jazz hands instead'

Sex-crimes prosecutor who questioned Christine Blasey Ford says that Democrats', lawyers' actions 'affected' her testimony

#NotHer: Kellyanne Conway's sex assault story doesn't matter to media, because she's not a liberal

French Catholics demand parliament investigate child sex abuse by priests

Worldwide opinion poll finds people trust Putin more than Trump - Analysts blame US' selfish and reckless foreign policy

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