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Texas cops shoot, kill special needs teen with the mental capacity of a 7-year-old

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 07 Feb 2018 19:25 UTC
Dustin Castillo
© KENS5Dustin Castillo, 19
A heartbroken mother is speaking out after her disabled teenage son was shot and killed by police, and she is questioning why the three officers who confronted the boy decided to use lethal force against him.

Dustin Castillo, 19, was killed after a confrontation with police officers who accused him of stealing a BMX bicycle from a local Target. Police Chief William McManus claimed that Castillo "evaded security and rode the bike on the Northwest Loop 410 highway, with three police cars in pursuit."

The officers surrounded Castillo, and when he got off of the bike, McManus claimed that he pulled out a knife that was "certainly big enough to kill someone," and then cut officer Paul Armendariz' hand.

Armendariz responded by pulling out his gun and shooting Castillo in the abdomen, according to the chief. Castillo was pronounced dead at the scene.

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Ninth-grader arrested over Snapchat post threatening 'Round 2 of Florida'


RT
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 13:33 UTC
Cops
© Mark Wilson / AFP
A ninth-grader was arrested after threatening students and staff at a school in eastern Spartanburg County, South Carolina with "Round 2 of Florida tomorrow" via Snapchat, according to the local sheriff's office.

The minor, whose name cannot be revealed due to his age, was charged with disturbing schools, and was transported to the Department of Juvenile Justice facility in Greenville.

Lieutenant Kevin Bobo of the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office said another student had showed their father a Snapchat picture of a Broome High School freshman wearing a mask and holding what appeared to be an assault rifle, WSPA reported.

School officials were alerted early on Thursday morning. According to Spartanburg School District 3 officials, enhanced security is being provided at Broome High School to ensure students' safety.

Comment: See also: Student witnesses report multiple shooters & mass shooting drill at Florida high school

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Arrow Down

Men across the US are fighting a quiet, unbearable war against false accusations of sexual abuse

Natasha Pascetta
The Blaze
Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:05 UTC
James Madison University
© GettyWilson Hall at James Madison University.
John's freshman year at James Madison University started out great. He did well in his classes. He made friends easily. He even started dating a fellow student. But just a couple weeks into his first semester, John's world came crashing down. The girl he had been dating accused him of sexual assault and took her charge to the campus authorities. James Madison promptly conducted an initial hearing and found that John was "not responsible."

And John lived happily ever after...only he didn't. After all, this is 2018, people.

The campus hearing should have been the end of this nightmare for John, but it was far from over. The girl appealed James Madison's initial decision and a separate appeal board called for John's immediate suspension until 2020. After that, he could re-enroll at the university if he wished. John couldn't just sit back and let his good name and education vanish before his eyes so he initiated a lengthy and expensive legal war against James Madison that lasted three years.

It was worth it, because he won.

Comment: Radical feminism has been ruining lives for decades. The advent of #MeToo movement which has virtually eliminated due process, has provided the movement with a horrific tool to further a political agenda which rests on the false narrative of male oppression and female victimization.

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Take 2

Female actors urged to ditch low-cut gowns and heels at Berlin film festival

Kate Connolly
The Guardian
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
Anna Brüggemann
© Franziska Krug/Getty ImagesAnna Brüggemann attends the premiere of Er Ist Wieder Da , a satirical film about Hitler, in Berlin.
Female actors attending this year's Berlin film festival are being encouraged to ditch high heels and tight gowns in favor of comfortable clothes in a campaign to bring equal rights to the red carpet.

Under the Twitter hashtag #NobodysDoll, German actor Anna Brüggemann has said she wishes to challenge the "patriarchal gaze" women habitually face at film festivals and award ceremonies, and to inspire actors to wear what they want instead.

"The red carpet is like a throwback to the 1950s," she told the Guardian ahead of the film festival, which begins on Thursday.

"Women are expected to squeeze into tight-fitting, low-cut dresses and totter on impossible heels in order to serve the gaze of those who'll judge whether they are marketable or not.
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Rocket

Russian MoD: Russia tests new Arctic air-defense system


RT
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 19:26 UTC
Russia’s new anti-aircraft complex Tor-M2DT
© RuptlyRussia’s new anti-aircraft complex Tor-M2DT
Russia's new anti-aircraft complex Tor-M2DT, developed for the extreme weather conditions of the Arctic region, has been successfully tested, intercepting two mock cruise missiles.

The Arctic modification of the short-range air defense missile system Tor has been honing its skills during military exercises at the Kapustin Yar proving grounds in southern Russia. The Tor-M2DT system fired a volley of missiles and intercepted all the mock targets.


"The live firing was carried out by a single vehicle at two targets, simulating cruise missiles, in complicated targeting and radio interference conditions," the Russian Defense Ministry said.
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TV

'Shut up and dribble': Fox News host slams LeBron James' political commentary


RT
Wed, 14 Feb 2018 18:18 UTC
Laura Ingraham and Lebron James
© ReutersLaura Ingraham and Lebron James
Fox News host Laura Ingraham laid into NBA star LeBron James over his critical comments made about President Donald Trump. Ingraham urged Trump-bashing James to "keep the political commentary to yourself."

Laura Ingraham made the attacks on the Thursday night edition of her Fox News show, The Ingraham Angle.

In the video, which was filmed for James' multimedia platform UNINTERRUPTED, the Cleveland Cavaliers All-Star forward says that the president "is someone who doesn't understand the people. He doesn't give a f**k about the people." James has been vocal about his dislike for Trump in the past.

The video also features Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant.
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Highline Community College near Seattle, Washington on lock-down amid reports of active shooter


RT
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 18:01 UTC
Highline College shooter
© KOMO PhotoPolice respond to reports of gunfire at Highline College
Highline Community College, located in Des Moines, Washington, has been placed on lockdown following reports of an active shooter. Police have blocked a nearby highway.

A warning went out to students about 9 a.m. on Friday. "Police are responding and evacuating buildings. Remain in lockdown position. We will update you as further details become available. This is an unfolding situation," says a post on the school's Facebook page.
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DIY detective work of CCTV 'evidence' by father of Yorkshire murder convict proves his son wasn't even at the scene

Mary Baines
RT
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:33 UTC
Andrew Feather
© Michelle Feather / Family handoutAndrew Feather
DIY detective work by the father of murder convict Andrew Feather has cast doubt on the reliability of CCTV evidence gathered by police to jail him, his family told RT, as they prepare to appeal his case.

Feather, 27, was jailed under so-called joint enterprise law for a minimum of 26 years in 2014 after he was convicted of being the secondary getaway driver in the murder of Bradford man Barry Selby, 50. The father-of-three was confronted at 2am by a masked gang who burst into his bedroom, shot him in the knee and covered him with acid, resulting in injuries that would lead to his death four days later.

Feather has always protested his innocence, saying he was driving around the Holmewood estate where he lived at the time of the killing. In 2016, Feather and his three co-accused - Lee Calvert, Robert Woodhead and Joseph Lowther - had appeals against their convictions thrown out, but each had their minimum jail sentences cut. Feather now must serve 20 years.

"The case against him is all about CCTV. But the timings are just all wrong - they even don't marry up," Feather's mother, Michelle Feather, told RT. "If they don't marry up, how can they possibly say that this is my son's car? They can't.
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If America 'won the Cold War,' why is the Empire pushing a 'second Cold War' with Russia?

Stephen Cohen
The Nation
Wed, 14 Feb 2018 16:53 UTC
new cold war
© GTACartoons
Cohen has been warning about the danger of an American-post-Soviet Cold War for nearly 20 years. During those years, representatives of the US political-media establishment have insisted that such a recapitulation was impossible because Russia was too weak; any US-Russian conflicts were regional, not global, and limited; and because the two countries now had the same social-economic system, capitalism, there was no ideological conflict between them. Any attentive observer of relations between Washington and Moscow at least since the early 2000s could have seen the unfolding reality, but only recently have authoritative representatives of the bipartisan American establishment acknowledged the new Cold War or "second Cold War with Russia." It was openly declared by the highly influential and fully bipartisan Council on Foreign Relations. It is implicit in the US Department of Defense's February Nuclear Posture Review, which specifies Russia as a global threat. And it underlies daily Russiagate allegations that "the Kremlin attacked American democracy" in 2016 and is now attacking democracies around the world. Indeed, these hyperbolic accounts often make "Putin's Russia" appear to be more menacing, invidious, and looming than was the Soviet Union.

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Attention

Environmental groups suing US government for allowing oil companies to dump hazardous drilling chemicals into Gulf of Mexico


teleSUR
Wed, 14 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
Fracking chemicals Gulf of Mexico
© Reuters"The Trump administration is letting oil companies dump toxic fracking chemicals into the Gulf with no regard for the risks or the law," said Kristen Monsell, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity.
The environmental group says 10 fracking chemicals were being routinely being dumped into ocean waters.

Several environmental groups have sued the Trump administration for allowing oil companies to dump fracking and drilling waste into the waters of Gulf of Mexico, endangering marine species and environment.

The Center for Biological Diversity, Gulf Restoration Network, and Louisiana Bucket Brigade are challenging the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA's Clean Water Act, which allows the oil companies to dump hazardous waste in the waters, through the lawsuit filed on Tuesday.


Comment: The EPA has a long history of collusion with industry at the expense of human and environmental health:

"The Trump administration is letting oil companies dump toxic fracking chemicals into the Gulf with no regard for the risks or the law," said Kristen Monsell, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity.

Comment: Another nail in the coffin for the Gulf of Mexico which is also being poisoned by commercial agricultural practices:

The Gulf of Mexico is now the largest dead zone in the world - and we have factory farming to blame for it

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