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Nice, France: Three soldiers attacked outside Jewish center


RT
Tue, 03 Feb 2015 20:05 UTC
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© AFP Photo/Valery Hache
Security Police Forces cordon off the area where three soldiers, patrolling outside a Jewish Community Center as part of the country's Vigipirate security measures, were attacked by a man with a bladed weapon, on February 3, 2015 in downtown Nice, southeastern France.
At least two soldiers guarding a Jewish community center have been wounded by a knife-wielding attacker in Nice, in southern France, police say. The country has suffered a spate of hate crimes in recent months.

AP reported that the attacked pulled out a 20 cm blade, and struck one of the guards on the chin. As two others tried to interfere, he swiped at them, hitting one on the forearm, and another on the cheek. None of the injuries are thought to be life-threatening.

The suspected attacked then attempted to flee by foot, but was quickly stopped and detained. Mayor Christian Estrosi told local television that an ID card with the name Moussa Coulibaly, a common West African surname, had been found on him, and said that a search has been started for potential accomplices.

Comment: Things are really heating up in France.

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Handcuffs

Devout police supporter has change of heart after being arrested by NYPD on bogus charge

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 02 Feb 2015 05:24 UTC
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© The Free Thought Project
A common meme amongst those in the police accountability movement is that it is only a matter of time before an entirely innocent person crosses paths with the wrong cop and gets a hefty dose of police state USA.

All too often we hear the ridiculous statement from the apologist crowd saying, "If you don't break the law, you have nothing to worry about."

However, that statement couldn't be further from the truth.

Former NSA official William Binney sums this myth up quite accurately, "The problem is, if they think they're not doing anything that's wrong, they don't get to define that. The central government does."

Attorney Harvey Silverglate argues that the average American commits three felonies a day without even knowing it.

In reality, there are too many cases to count of innocent people, some who've been recognized as pillars of society, being attacked and imprisoned by a system which claims to protect them.

When people assert that not breaking the law protects them from police abuse, those of us with our finger on the pulse of this corrupt police state, answer back by stating, "it's only a matter of time before they are proven wrong."

As a point of clarification, it is important to state the difference between hating cops and holding police accountable.
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Phoenix

Williamsburg, Brooklin storage fire still burning, may have destroyed sensitive docs

Serena Dai
DNAinfo
Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:14 UTC
More than 70 firefighters were still working to extinguish a blaze on the Williamsburg waterfront Monday after a storage facility caught on fire over the weekend, potentially burning sensitive documents ranging from court records to financial information, officials said.
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The CitiStorage facility at 5 N. 11th Street was still smoldering Monday, more than two full days after the fire broke at the building, which was filled with paper documents, FDNY officials said.

The firefighters were there to monitor the blaze and minimize "hot spots," an FDNY spokesman said. Officials had no estimate on how long it would take for the fire to die down. The smell of smoke still hung in the air and even in some L train cars Monday.

Comment: What an interesting coincidence, that almost at the same time another fire that burned millions of unique documents happened in Moscow.

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Heart - Black

Mother with learning disability facing forced sterilization

James Rush
The Independent
Mon, 02 Feb 2015 23:46 UTC
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Authorities say the woman has physical health problems which could put her life in danger if she became pregnant again

Comment: In this article, a number "authorities" mention this women's life being in danger as being a reason to force sterilization, a horrendously intrusive procedure, on her. But, that should be her choice. Whether she has the mental capacity to make that decision should be decided by a psychiatrist, not "health authorities" and social services. Imagine the precedent this sets, to force someone to undergo a procedure robbing them of the right to give life. This is a decision that health and social services should stay out of, not be intimately involved in.


A mother-of-six with learning disabilities could be sterilised after health authority and social services bosses asked a judge for permission to force entry into her home, restrain her and take her to hospital.

The woman, who is in her 30s, has had her children removed from her care and authorities say she has physical health problems which could put her life in danger if she became pregnant again.

A judge at the Court of Protection in London examined the case last week at a two-day public hearing. Mr Justice Cobb, who told lawyers he was dealing with a case of "enormous gravity", is due to deliver a ruling soon. Authorities have said the moves are in the woman's best interests.

Barrister John McKendrick, who represented a health authority, hospital trust and council involved in the case, said the rulings sought were "extraordinary" and would involve serious interference with the woman's basic human rights, but he said they were necessary.

They say the woman could be at "grave" risk if action is not taken, while specialists say she lacks the mental capacity to make decisions about treatment.

Lawyers appointed by the court to represent the woman's interests have backed the plan put forward by health and social services officials. They have agreed the woman "lacks capacity" because her mind is impaired. Mr Justice Cobb, who has ruled that no-one involved can be identified, received details of the issues in written legal submissioms.

The judge has given permission for a reporter who attended the court hearing to be given access to documents.
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Stormtrooper

Pepper-sprayed teacher: Efforts to curb police brutality 'met with more force'


RT
Sat, 31 Jan 2015 22:32 UTC
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Jesse Hagopian, a high school history teacher who was pepper-sprayed by a police officer in an unprovoked attack, says that what happened to him is reflective of the police brutality that is rampant across the United States.

Hagopian - an activist promoting black causes in the Seattle area - was pepper-sprayed by a police officer after speaking at a Black Lives Matter rally on Martin Luther King Day. He was walking away from the gathering, on a sidewalk, when he was suddenly pepper-sprayed in the face.

He has decided to sue city authorities and the police for $500,000 in damages.


Comment: Good for him. If police are going to indiscriminately cause harm to innocent people and the authorities do nothing to to stop them, then perhaps suing the city will force them to do something about the rampant police brutality. It's gotten way out of control, and people are being hurt for doing nothing other than walking down the street.


In video footage of the incident - which was filmed by a bystander, and where Hagopian is clearly visible - a small crowd is standing on the sidewalk and in the road.

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Alarm Clock

Insanity! School suspends 9-year-old for pretending he had Hobbit 'ring of power'


Counter Current News
Sun, 01 Feb 2015 08:43 UTC
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Aiden Steward had just watched the third Hobbit movie with his family and he wanted to pretend that he had a ring that could make people disappear, just like Bilbo Baggins. But when he brought the toy ring to school, it ended up getting him suspended.

The ring he brought may not have been the true ring of power, but the Kermit, Texas, school where he attended said the pretend Tolkien "one ring" was used in a "threat" against a classmate.

When Aiden told a student that he could make him disappear since the plastic ring was forged in fictional Middle Earth's Mount Doom, the school accused him of "threats of violence" against classmates.

"It sounded unbelievable," Aiden's father, Jason Steward, said in an interview with the Daily News. But Jason said his son "didn't mean anything by it."

He explained that their family had just watched The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies that week, and the elementary school boy was just pretending he had a ring like in the movie.

"Kids act out movies that they see. When I watched Superman as a kid, I went outside and tried to fly," Steward explained.

"I assure you my son lacks the magical powers necessary to threaten his friend's existence," Aiden's father continued. "If he did, I'm sure he'd bring him right back."

Comment: The slow death of fun, imagination, and inspiration in today's society.

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Stormtrooper

Cop pulls gun on teens having snowball fight

Jackson Marciana
Counter Current News
Sun, 01 Feb 2015 12:39 UTC
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© Still from witness video
A disturbing new video was recently uploaded that shows a New York police officer holding a number of teenage kids at gunpoint for nothing other that throwing snowballs at each other.

New Rochelle's Talk of the Sound uploaded the video that shows the teens scared out of their minds, as an officer points his weapon at the kids who can bee seen kneeling on the ground.

The cowardly officer can be heard telling them "Don't f*cking move, guys!"

The officer the frisks with one hand and aims the gun with the other.

"They were having a snowball fight," the eye-witness who filmed the encounter explained.

"This group of guys was having a snowball fight and now a cop has a gun on them."

Comment: Police are now unable to determine any normal human behavior. Every incident requires a gun, or force.

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Better Earth

Auschwitz revisited

Robert Cohen
Micah's Paradigm Shift
Thu, 29 Jan 2015 03:42 UTC
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In the week we have been commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz I have been trying to understand why I am so weary and wary of the Holocaust. Despite the undoubted emotional pull of the survivors' testimonies, is there any lasting meaning be found in the ashes at Auschwitz? Should it even be looked for?

I didn't always feel this way.

We recently moved house and a few weeks ago my older son and I were unpacking boxes of books and finding new homes for them. I noticed just how much reading I had done on the subject of the Holocaust, mostly more than twenty years ago.

I had straight histories like The War Against the Jews by Lucy Dawidowicz and Holocaust by Martin Gilbert. I'd read Last Waltz in Vienna by George Clare, Elie Wiesel's Night, Europa, Europa by Solomon Perel and Primo Levi's If This is a Man, and The Drowned and the Saved. There were Art Spiegelman's graphic novels Maus, where Nazis and Jews become cats and mice. Ghetto accounts such as A Cup of Tears by Abraham Lewin and Marek Edelman's The Ghetto Fights. I remembered being completely absorbed by Theo Richmond's detailed account of the destruction of one tiny shtetl village Konin. I had the complete transcript of Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary Shoah. Hannah Arendt's account of the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem in the 1950s. And of course, Anne Frank's diary, the fully annotated critical edition.

Comment: The lack of human empathy during and since WWII for the Holocaust is horrifying. So much death has visited this world that we clearly have not learned. Our own empathy is being trampled on by the psychopaths of this world. This is a lesson we must learn and will be repeated until we do learn.

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Water

Thirty thousand take to streets as Irish Water Tax rebellion marches on

Lauren McCauley
Common Dreams
Sat, 31 Jan 2015 02:32 UTC
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© @WSMIreland/ Twitter
Water tax protesters in Drogheda cross the River Boyne.
The center of Dublin has reportedly shut down as demonstrators, joining a chorus of nation-wide protests on Saturday, came out in droves to fight government efforts to tax citizens' right to water.

An estimated 30,000 marched in Dublin while other protests were held in cities and towns across the country including Limerick, Waterford and Donegal. According to The Irish Times, the rallies have caused major traffic disruption and road closures in Dublin, with groups marching from separate train stations and converging outside the General Post Office where speakers addressed the massive crowd.

Comment: One can only hope this message from the people gets results.

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Handcuffs

Man arrested after telling black waitress he wants to take her 'Where he hung her Grandpa' (VIDEO)

John Praeger
Addicting Info
Fri, 30 Jan 2015 17:38 UTC
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Racism may be over according to the GOP and the Supreme Court, but outside those particular delusional conservative bubbles the rest of America realizes that outright race-based bigotry is still a... thing.

As is often the case, we need look no further than the state of Missouri to see that racism is alive and well. Tommy Dean Gaa, 65, of Maryville, was charged with felony assault motivated by discrimination after he accosted an African-American waitress whose only crime was serving him breakfast.

Comment: The problem isn't really racism, but rather people's inability or unwillingness to view one another as human beings who deserve respect and acknowledge that they have a right to exist.

"When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast with a scientific and technological abundance. We've learned to fly the air as birds, we've learned to swim the seas as fish, yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters." ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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