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Sheriff

Indiana mayor's cop son looks on as his coworkers beat a handcuffed suspect


RT
Tue, 06 Nov 2018 20:09 UTC
police beating
© YouTube / ProPublicaOfficers Cory Newland and Joshua Titus have been charged with criminal battery.
The mayor of Elkhart, Indiana has admitted that "in hindsight" the officers who were caught on CCTV beating a handcuffed suspect should have been given a harsher punishment by the police chief.

Earlier this year, a man was arrested by Elkhart police for felony domestic battery in front of a child as well as battery on a police officer, public intoxication, disorderly conduct, and resisting law enforcement.

CCTV footage from the police station shows the suspect spitting at officer Cory Newland before he and another cop, Joshua Titus, repeatedly punch the handcuffed man in front of two other officers - including the mayor's son. The man was subsequently wheeled out of the station on a stretcher.

Speaking about the January 12, 2018 incident, Mayor Tim Neese told ProPublica that on reflection, Police Chief Ed Windbigler should have been tougher on the cops involved.
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Eye 1

White South Africans barred from government employment initiative


RT
Tue, 06 Nov 2018 17:45 UTC
Job seekers South Africa
© Reuters / Mike HutchingsJob seekers wait for employers seeking casual labor on the streets of Cape Town
A registration process on a government partnered youth employment initiative has appeared to exclude white South Africans, sparking criticism from the country's trade union.

The YES (Youth Employment Service) government jobs website aims at helping unemployed young South Africans who have been jobless for longer than six months. The program is endorsed by the National Development Plan 2030, which intends to eliminate poverty and reduce inequality within the next 12 years.

The registration criteria on the site require the applicants to be black, in accordance with the BEE definition (Black Economic Empowerment), between the ages of 18 - 34, and South African citizens.

Comment: 'Equality' is pretty racist these days. This is as Orwellian as it gets.

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Star of David

Thanks to Israel: Nowhere to go, nowhere to live

Annelies Verbeek
The Electronic Intifada
Mon, 05 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
Omar Arif Bisharat
© Annelies VerbeekOmar Arif Bisharat stands in front of the rubble of his home in al-Hadidiya.
With attention focused on the planned demolition of Khan al-Ahmar village, other areas of the Jordan Valley have fallen off the radar.

Out of sight, however, Israeli consolidation over the Jordan Valley is continuing apace. Last month, the Israeli army demolished several Palestinian structures in the communities of al-Hadidiya and the al-Musafa area east of Jiftlik village.

In al-Hadidiya, in the northern Jordan Valley, the bulldozers arrived on the morning of 11 October leaving Omar Arif Bisharat and eight relatives, including five children, homeless. Doles of doves soared over the rubble of his home. He raised his hands, struggling to convey the calamity of what had happened to him. In addition to his home, the army demolished six other structures, including several animal pens.

The doves, Bisharat explained, had been raised by his family. Their pen - with baby doves inside it - had been demolished along with the other structures and the birds were now circling their old home. The family's sheep, too, were homeless.

"I had no idea they were coming," Bisharat told The Electronic Intifada. "When I saw the military jeep, I thought they were coming for my neighbor's house," he added, saying that while he had received a demolition order, he thought the case was pending and he never received notice when his home was going to be demolished.
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USA

USA Gymnastics Olympic governing status revoked over mishandling of Nassar scandal


RT
Tue, 06 Nov 2018 17:27 UTC
US Olympic gymnast
© Reuters/Brian Snyder
The US Olympic Committee is ousting USA Gymnastics from its representation of the sport at the Olympic level, leaving over 150,000 athletes with no leadership as the body fails to recover from the Nassar molestation scandal.

USA Gymnastics has failed to rebuild its organization in the wake of the revelations that team doctor Larry Nassar had abused many of the girls in his care. There is no other organization available to take on the Olympic and elite athletes managed by the group.

USOC CEO Sarah Hirshland opted to strip USA Gymnastics of their title just a few days after the US team won nine medals at the World Championships, the first major competition in the runup to 2020's Tokyo Games.
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Family

Russian MoD says about 20,000 Syrian refugees have left Lebanon for home since beginning of 2018


Sputnik
Tue, 06 Nov 2018 17:41 UTC
Syrian refugees in Lebanon
© Sputnik / Andrey SteninSyrian refugees in Lebanon
About 20,000 refugees who had fled Syria because of the war and been living in neighboring Lebanon have returned to their homes since the beginning of 2018 via the Jaydet-Yabus checkpoint near Damascus, deputy head of the Russian Defense Ministry's Center for Syrian Reconciliation, Maj. Gen. Yevgeny Kharchenko, told reporters.

"According to our registration data, since the beginning of 2018, more than 20,000 refugees have returned to their places of residence [via the Jaydet-Yabus checkpoint]," Kharchenko said.

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Israeli forces incite tensions as they block off West Bank city


PressTV
Sun, 04 Nov 2018 17:27 UTC
al-Khalil Israel block
© Ma'an News AgencyIsraeli forces block areas in the Palestinian city of al-Khalil on November 4, 2018.
Israel forces have closed off several areas of the West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron) under the pretext of marking an annual religious event, Palestinian media reports say.

According to the Palestinian Ma'an News Agency, large numbers of Israeli forces were deployed across the city to seal off various streets on Sunday.

Israeli soldiers and snipers also took up positions on rooftops to ease access for Israeli settlers to a religious site in the area.

Almost all shops and businesses were forcibly closed in the Bab al-Zawiya area and Beersheba and al-Shuhada streets.
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Stock Down

US small businesses on the brink and citizens opting out of the ailing empire

Charles Hugh Smith
Of Two Minds blog
Mon, 05 Nov 2018 11:06 UTC
small business closing down
An unknown but likely staggeringly large percentage of small business owners in the U.S. are an inch away from calling it quits and closing shop.

Timothy Leary famously coined the definitive 60s counterculture phrase, "Turn on, tune in, drop out" in 1966. (According to Wikipedia, In a 1988 interview with Neil Strauss, Leary said the slogan was "given to him" by Marshall McLuhan during a lunch in New York City.)

An updated version of the slogan might be: Turn Off, Tune Out, Drop Out: turn off mobile phones, screens, etc.; tune out Corporate Media, social media, propaganda, official and unofficial, and drop out of the status quo economy and society.

Dropping out of a broken, dysfunctional status quo in terminal decline has a long history. The chapter titles of Michael Grant's excellent account of The Fall of the Roman Empire identify the core dynamics of decline:

Comment: The days of the US empire are numbered, and the fallout for the US could be as catastrophic as it was for Rome: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Babylon, Ancient Rome and the American Empire

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Bad Guys

What does the future hold for Gaza under an unsustainable Israeli blockade?

Soleman Saad Abu Sitta
Middle East Monitor
Mon, 05 Nov 2018 16:52 UTC
Gaza coast Israel
© Mohammed Asad/Middle East MonitorSmoke rises from Gaza's coastal waters after Israeli naval ships fired gas canisters and shot at demonstrators on 3 September 2018
Ever since Hamas's victory in the Palestinian legislative elections in 2006, the Gaza Strip has been subject to an Israeli-led blockade. The intensity of this blockade has varied from time to time, but reached its peak over the past few years with the economic sanctions imposed on the enclave by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, which have led to reduced liquidity in Gaza.

Given the increasing economic pressures on the residents of the besieged territory, they have been forced by circumstances to look at new ways to try to put pressure on Israel to ease or remove the blockade altogether. One such way has been the Great March of Return protests on the nominal border of the Gaza Strip controlled by the Israeli occupation authorities; the first march took place on 30 March.
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Eiffel Tower

Six alleged members of 'ultra-right' arrested for plotting violent attacks against Macron


RT
Tue, 06 Nov 2018 13:38 UTC
French police arrests
© Reuters
Six people, suspected of plotting a "violent action" plan against Emmanuel Macron, have been arrested, French media reported, adding that the men are allegedly members of the ultra-right.

The operation was conducted by the General Directorate for Internal Security, a French intelligence service which is charged with counter-espionage and counter-terrorism.

The men, allegedly members of the ultra-right, were arrested in three different locations across France on Tuesday. They are suspected of undertaking an "imprecise and loosely-formed" plan for "violent action" against the president, sources close to the investigation told media.
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Gold Coins

New study finds cryptocurrency mining surpasses energy consumption of entire countries


RT
Tue, 06 Nov 2018 16:52 UTC
crytocurrency mining
© Reuters/Christinne MuschiA wall of cryptocurrency miners.
Extracting a dollar's worth of cryptocurrency requires up to three times more energy than digging up a dollar's worth of gold, according to a new international study.

Decentralized cryptocurrencies have been hailed as revolutionary economic disruptors, powered by an unknown number of server farms manned by an unknown number of crypto 'miner' machines working around the clock to produce more blockchain-protected finance.

The environmental impact of such huge processing requirements has yet to be fully accounted for, however, global bitcoin mining has surpassed the energy consumption of entire nations in recent years.

Comment: Study says bitcoin miners consume as much energy as the whole nation of Ireland

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