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Hello, Harriet! Andrew Jackson gets booted off the twenty dollar bill


RT
Wed, 20 Apr 2016 16:46 UTC
twenty dollar bill
Former slave Harriet Tubman will replace former President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is expected to announce.

There will also be changes made to the $5 bill to depict civil rights-era leaders and on the $10 for the suffragette movement, Politoco reported citing sources.

Comment: With the War on Cash in full swing and the dollar about to crash, does it really make a difference?

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Israel's psychopathic society: "Death to the Arabs" rally draws thousands in support of soldier who murdered wounded Palestinian

Ali Abunimah
Electronic Intifida
Tue, 19 Apr 2016 00:00 UTC
Israel protest
In Tel Aviv's Yitzhak Rabin Square on Tuesday evening, thousands of Israelis rallied in support of Elor Azarya, the soldier filmed executing a gravely wounded Palestinian last month.

Rally-goers shouted anti-Arab slogans and attacked persons perceived as being leftists or journalists.

Hours earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a call for leniency for the soldier.

Times of Israel reporter Judah Ari Gross tweeted that an activist from B'Tselem, the human rights group that released the video of Azarya shooting and killing Abd al-Fattah al-Sharif, had to be escorted out of Rabin Square by police in order to "protect his life."

Comment: For more context on the events leading up to this abhorrent display of racism and pathological hatred, see:

Israeli medic: "He's not dead, shoot him in the head"


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Punta Gorda airport becomes the latest to kick out the TSA

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:17 UTC
TSA screening
It goes without saying that if the people of any country want something done efficiently, and in the most cost-efficient manner, they do it themselves or outsource it to private third-party service providers, instead of entrusting it to a bunch of bureaucrats and unmotivated government workers.

Finally, airports in the United States are starting to come to that realization as well. So far, private security agents monitor at least 22 airports in major cities like San Francisco and Kansas City. The latest airport to replace the TSA is the Punta Gorda Airport in Florida.

As Sputnik reports, Florida's Punta Gorda airport has begun to privatize security, taking the keys away from the what according to many is America's most inept, inefficient and often, grotesquely demeaning governmental organization, the TSA, and handing them over to a firm called ISS Action, a security company out of Queens, New York.
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Florida: Cops stand by and do nothing as three teen girls drown in submerged car

Andrew Emett
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:58 UTC
honda pulled from pond
Newly released dash cam footage reveals a Florida sheriff lied last month when he falsely claimed that his deputies took off their gun belts and attempted to save three drowning teenage girls. Instead of attempting to rescue the dying teens, the deputies can be seen on video standing beside the pond while listening to the girls' final screams.

According to Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, a friend asked 35-year-old Damien Marriott to drive the three teenage girls to Child's Park on Wednesday, March 30. For some reason, Marriott reportedly stopped at a Walmart to buy a TV when he left his keys in the ignition with the engine running along with three girls that he did not know sitting in his 1990 Honda Accord. Although Child's Park closes at 8 p.m. on Wednesdays, Marriott did not return to his vehicle or report his car stolen until 8:30 p.m. that night.

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Rape culture: Young girls in UK fear going to school because of out-of-control sexual harassment and violence


Sputnik
Tue, 19 Apr 2016 15:38 UTC
rape schools britain
A major investigation into the prevalence of sexual harassment and violence in schools is underway in Britain after more than 600 alleged rapes were recorded over the last three years.

A revelation of little surprise to a mother from south east London who revealed to Sputnik that her 13-year-old daughter was missing out on her education because she felt pressured to have sex at school every day.

"My daughter came to me emotionally distraught saying that the pressure she's getting for sex at school means that she doesn't want to go to school," the mother told Sputnik.

"I took it up with the teachers and said my daughter would not be returning to school until someone deals with this.

"The school did take steps to improve the situation and my daughter goes to school every day but she tells me, 'Mum, everybody in every year has asked me for sex.' "

The Commons Women and Equalities Committee is behind the investigation into UK schools after data last year showed 5,500 alleged sexual offences, more than 600 alleged rapes and 4,000 alleged physical assaults were recorded in UK schools over three years.

Comment: Rape culture: 1 in 5 women in the UK are sexually assaulted in school

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U.S. housing watchdog says it's time to hold industry accountable for lead poisoning


RT
Tue, 19 Apr 2016 21:06 UTC
lead water pipes
© Oleg Popov / Reuters
The US lead industry should be held accountable for nationwide exposure from pipes and paint that poison both adults and children daily, a scientist for an American healthy housing watchdog told RT.

"There's really no good excuse for this, the lead and copper rule, which is the EPA law governing drinking water systems, hasn't been updated since 1991, along with many other lead and copper requirements," Dr. David Jacobs of the National Center for Healthy Housing said, stressing that not disclosing possible lead contamination strips Americans of their right to protect themselves.

According to a recent report, areas of a possible lead exposure risk go far beyond Flint, Michigan, where massive pollution and poisoning drew attention to the problem in the US.

A map compiled by Vox shows areas scattered across the country where children are at the highest risk of lead exposure, most of which are concentrated in America's heartland. It is also extremely high in the country's oldest urban areas, such as New York and Chicago, where over 20 percent of the territory scored the highest on their 0 to 10 scale.

Comment: Every government agency is now deflecting blame for the crisis while the empire continues to crumble. This is the expected result when pathological individuals overtake society, and begin to systematically dismantle or ignore core necessities that in a normal society would insure the common good.

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Polling stats show majority of Americans can't see supporting Trump, Cruz OR Clinton

Tré Goins-Phillips
The Blaze
Tue, 19 Apr 2016 20:03 UTC
Republican presidential candidates
© Rhone Wise/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Nope! None of the above.
As Americans begin looking toward the general election, the path to the White House is looking rockier every day, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds.

According to the new poll, seven-in-10 registered voters can't see themselves supporting current Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump in November, followed by 61 percent of voters who say they couldn't support GOP candidate Ted Cruz and 58 percent who can't imagine casting a ballot for Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton.

In addition, neither Trump nor Clinton are viewed favorably by a majority voters.

Based on the poll, which surveyed 1,000 registered voters from April 10 to 14, 65 percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of Trump, making him the most unpopular presidential hopeful in the history of the NBC/WSJ poll, and 56 percent of voters have an negative view of Clinton. Nearly half of voters have a negative view of Cruz, also.

Even more, only 19 percent found Clinton to be honest and trustworthy and only 12 percent believe Trump has the right temperament to be the leader of the free world.

"The Republicans have a party problem, and the Democrats have a candidate problem," Peter Hart, the Democratic pollster who conducted the survey along with Republican analyst Bill McInturff, said.

Comment: Who to choose when there are no good choices? If elections are rigged anyway, is there any point in voting at all?

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Cop caught on video repeatedly punching teen in the head during arrest


RT
Tue, 19 Apr 2016 19:57 UTC
cop beating teen
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A peaceful event celebrating the planet broke out in violence when a White police officer repeatedly punched a Black teenager in the head while trying to arrest him.

Sgt Todd Bourgoyne, a 22-year veteran of the Baton Rouge Police Department, has been placed on administrative leave, Sgt Don Coppola announced Tuesday morning, although he "would not confirm what role Bourgoyne played in the event", according to the local newspaper The Advocate.

An internal investigation has been launched after video emerged showing the brutality at Sunday's annual Earth Day Event. Ja'Colby Davis, 16, was pinned to the ground by other cops with his hands behind his back when he was hit.

Another officer can also be seen pointing what appears to be a taser to the teenager's head, although it wasn't fired on the video.

The victim's mother, Danielle Todd, said Davis and his younger brother complied when police asked them to stand back from a fight that erupted nearby.

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Researchers explain how porn alters the brain the same way hard drugs do

Chris Enloe
The Blaze
Tue, 19 Apr 2016 18:40 UTC
brain on porn
© Chris Enloe/TheBlazeAn artist’s depiction of scientific research on pornography use
Top medical researchers explained earlier this month at a pastors gathering in North Carolina how pornography use physically effects the human brain, revealing information not well-known outside of the medical and scientific communities.

"Porn is all of the sex — without the body," Dr. William Struthers, a professor of neuroscience and psychology at Wheaton College in Chicago, told TheBlaze. "It gives you every aspect of a sexual encounter without the physical touch or the smells."

During his presentation at the event, dubbed "The Set Free Summit," Struthers explained and elaborated on many topics, from how the human brain changes under repeated pornography use to how the brain naturally has its own "mirroring" effect to how natural bodily hormones — such as oxytocin — can bond a person to pixels on a screen.
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People power! Tens of thousands of Verizon workers take to streets in second week of strike


Press TV
Tue, 19 Apr 2016 07:22 UTC
Striking Verizon workers in DC
© AFPStriking workers of Verizon picket in front of a Verizon office in Washington, DC, on April 14, 2016.
Tens of thousands of workers of the US communications giant, Verizon, have gone on strike again over low wages and job insecurity.

Some 40,000 Verizon Communications Inc workers across the East Coast walked off their jobs and took to the streets amid a contract dispute on Monday.

The striking workers chanted, whistled, and used noisemakers in order to make their demands heard.

The work stoppage started six days ago due to concerns over wage security and Verizon's decision to move jobs out of the US to the Philippines, Mexico and the Dominican Republic.

Two unions — the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) — have organized the protest.

Verizon says employees from other departments across the US were being sent to replace the striking workers.

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