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Delaware cop under investigation after being filmed repeatedly punching a teen in the head during drug bust


RT
Tue, 19 Feb 2019 20:08 UTC
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© Facebook / Jaiden Palmer
Police in Delaware have launched an internal investigation after footage was posted to social media showing an arresting officer repeatedly punching and elbowing a teenager in the head during a drug bust.

New Castle County police officers responded to reports of "on-going drug transactions" and noticed an "odor of marijuana" upon arrival at the scene at roughly 5pm local time Friday evening. The main suspect was asked to dismount from a dirtbike in the driveway of his friend's house and was then being tackled to the ground while doing so, when a "struggle ensued," according to testimony from Jaiden Palmer, the friend who filmed the incident.

The as-yet-unidentified cops are already standing over and restraining the teenager when the eyewitness footage begins, while one of the arresting officers can be seen punching him repeatedly in the head, shouting "Stop resisting!"

The 16-year-old male suspect was subsequently identified as Roger Darnell Brown and he was found to have "numerous individual bags of marijuana, a digital scale, prescription pills and over $1,000.00 in suspected drug proceeds" on him at the time of the arrest, according to a police statement.
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Best of the Web: A Farewell to Arts: Marxism, Semiotics and Feminism

David Stove
Quadrant
Thu, 01 May 1986 18:05 UTC
university of sydney
The Faculty of Arts at the University of Sydney is a disaster-area, and not of the merely passive kind, like a bombed building, or an area that has been flooded. It is the active kind, like a badly-leaking nuclear reactor, or an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in cattle.

Just as a few spots are often improbably spared even in the worst disaster-areas, there are still a few departments in our Faculty of Arts which are passable-to-good. And the disaster I am speaking of has not overtaken the Faculty of Science, or any of the science-based faculties, such as Engineering or Agriculture.

This disaster in Arts has all happened in the last twenty years. In 1965 the Faculty as a whole was undistinguished, as it has always been. But it was not, then or earlier, what it is now, an important source of intellectual and moral devastation. Of course the disaster is not confined to Sydney University. Far from that, it is common to the Arts faculties of most Western universities. So far as there still survives anything of value from the Western tradition of humanistic studies, it is in spite of most of the people in the universities who are the heirs of that tradition.

It is extremely difficult to convey to outsiders the scale of the Arts disaster, and I certainly have not the skill to do it. The quality of it, on the other hand, I can easily convey, by giving a few concrete and representative specimens of what it is that typical members of the Faculty of Arts at Sydney University now do and say.

Comment: Before there was Peterson, there was Stove. The crisis in the universities is not new. As Stove points out, it is by now 2 generations old, at least. And he was right: there was nothing we could have done about it. In fact, it has only gotten worse.

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5 US citizens among heavily-armed mercenaries arrested amid Haiti insurrection aginst US puppet government


RT
Tue, 19 Feb 2019 16:31 UTC
guns seized by Haitian government
© Instagram / Frantz Duval / Le Nouvelliste
A group of seven foreigners and one local were apprehended by Haitian authorities amid violent unrest in the nation. The suspects, who allegedly have military backgrounds, were equipped with an arsenal of guns and even drones.

The group was apprehended on Sunday in the Haitian capital city of Port-au-Prince, shortly after leaving the Bank of Haiti, local newspaper Le Nouvelliste reported.

The suspects, traveling in two vehicles without license plates, were well-equipped with military-grade weapons, body armor and even drones. They had several sets of plates with them, but it was unclear if they were genuine or fake. The individuals initially refused to leave their vehicles, reportedly claiming they had been working "for the Haitian government."

Comment: While the US is trying to regime change elsewhere in the Gulf, in Haiti it appears to be 'regime maintain'...

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Famous Egyptian YouTuber leaves Islam - fans split between support and opposition


RT
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:32 UTC
shady srour
© Rami Khoury/Al Bawaba News
Social media fallout has followed Shady Srour's Facebook post where the Egyptian YouTube star announced he was leaving Islam, citing how the "racism and cruelty" of its adherents had almost led him to suicide.

"I left Islam because of racism and cruelty in the hearts of people who are supposed to believe in God but in fact, they are a bunch of insincere hypocrites," 24-year-old Srour wrote in a post on Friday, blaming his former religion for the excessive cyberbullying which almost cost him his life late last year.

Over the weekend, the status generated over 100,000 comments and was shared across social media, with most reactions divided between staunch support and harsh opposition.

The most popular comment on the status came from another victim of bullying, TV presenter Sherif Madkour, who wrote that Srour didn't truly understand Islam, advising him to "ignore people with shallow minds, be yourself and trust your beliefs," adding "God be with you."

Srour eventually backpedaled from his comments in a YouTube video where he made it clear that the bullies he had called out were not true Muslims, and that Islam itself hadn't played a role in the hatred he had experienced.
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Why UK report on 'digital gangster' Facebook is a thinly veiled call for censorship


RT
Tue, 19 Feb 2019 08:43 UTC
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© Reuters / Toby Melville
A new UK 108-page report on "disinformation and fake news" online strongly reprimands Facebook for its ongoing misuse of personal data - but also casually promotes unprecedented levels of political censorship on social media.

The report, which is the culmination of an 18-month investigation by a UK parliamentary committee, lambastes Facebook over its failure to protect its users' data and accuses it of deliberate breaches of privacy and anti-competition laws. It offers numerous examples of Facebook sins, including the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which saw the shady firm mine the personal data of 50 million users without permission.

The report also accuses CEO Mark Zuckerberg of showing "contempt" towards the UK parliament for refusing three requests to appear before the committee and admonishes Facebook for behaving like a "digital gangster."

Comment: Facebook is already an Orwellian nightmare, so even if implementing what this report calls for, can it really get any worse? It will be curious to see what proves to be the final tipping point when a significant number of users have had enough and start exiting the platform in droves. We wait with baited breath.

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Kamala Harris' own father slams her 'identity politics' after she mocks 'pot-smoking Jamaicans' on radio show

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 19 Feb 2019 11:22 UTC
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The father of 2020 Democratic presidential contender Kamala Harris, Jamaican Professor Donald Harris, has issued a sharp rebuke after his daughter casually stereotyped Jamaicans in an effort to look cool on a radio show.

When asked on New York City's hip-hop radio show "The Breakfast Club" if she opposes legalizing marijuana, Harris replied: "That's not true," adding "and look, I joke about it - half-joking, half of my family's from Jamaica. Are you kidding me?"

Responding to his daughter's shameless pandering, Donald Harris said in a statment to Jamaica Global Online:
"My dear departed grandmothers (whose extraordinary legacy I described in a recent essay on this website), as well as my deceased parents, must be turning in their grave right now to see their family's name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics. Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty." -Jamaica Global Online
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Pathetic! Former NYT executive editor plagiarized her 'journalistic integrity' book

Rose Tennent
Breitbart
Tue, 19 Feb 2019 11:11 UTC
Jill Abramson New York times
© Brad Barket, Mario Tama/Getty Images; BNN Edit
Even humanity's greatest novelists would be hard-pressed to compose a more poetic indictment of the Fake News media than a 500-page defense of journalistic integrity that turns out to be plagiarized. Next to absolute falsehood, this is the literary world's most deadly sin.

The former executive editor of The New York Times just published a book scolding insurgent online media outlets and pleading for journalistic ethics and integrity... and it looks like she plagiarized and got facts wrong throughout the book, unfortunately named Merchants of Truth.

Jill Abramson is the very personification of the media establishment. She spent four decades on the mastheads of the oldest names in prestige news media: Time, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and more. She even has facsimiles of the big Harvard University "H" and the iconic, New York Times font "T" tattooed on her body in homage to "the two institutions that I revere, that have shaped me."
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Protesters deface pictures of fallen agents after occupying Border Patrol museum

Anna Giaritelli
Washington Examiner
Tue, 19 Feb 2019 11:11 UTC
U.S. Border Patrol Museum
The U.S. Border Patrol Museum was vandalized by dozens of protesters
Dozens of demonstrators occupied and vandalized a privately owned U.S. Border Patrol museum near El Paso, Texas, over the weekend, according to the site's top official.

Museum director David Ham told the Washington Examiner his staff and guests worried for their safety Saturday when a group of about 50 rowdy protesters entered the facility, defaced property, and refused to leave the grounds.

"Say it loud, say it clear, Border Patrol kills!" group members standing inside and outside the facility yelled.
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11-year-old Florida boy ARRESTED for not standing during pledge of allegiance ritual at school

Stephanie Claytor
Bay News
Tue, 19 Feb 2019 11:11 UTC
Dhakira Talbot Lawton Chiles Middle Academy
An 11-year-old Polk County student refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, and after explaining his reasons, he was kicked out of class and eventually arrested for being disruptive and disobeying commands to calm down and leave the classroom.

He was also suspended for three days.

The incident happened at Lawton Chiles Middle Academy in Lakeland on February 4. The sixth grader was arrested and taken to a juvenile detention center, charged with disrupting a school function and resisting arrest without violence.
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Multi-culti programming? Swedish state-owned broadcaster airs documentary claiming 'first Swedes' were black Africans


RT
Tue, 19 Feb 2019 11:11 UTC
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© CC0
An ad for an upcoming documentary about 'The First Swedes,' who were dark-skinned and blue eyed, has prompted fear and denial on Twitter.

The series will start to air on Swedish television this Wednesday, and when channel SVT began promoting it last week, some people reacted on social media with disbelief and anger.

The documentary will look at DNA technology which has revealed more about how Sweden was populated after the Ice Age and detailing how the first pioneers in the country were dark-skinned with blue eyes and came from the south.
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