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Veteran arrested for living off the grid on his own land

Daisy Luther
daisyluther.com
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:53 UTC
tyler truitt
Here's an entry for the "Job-Doing Hall of Fame."

What if your job meant that you had to go arrest a guy who just wanted to live off the grid on his own land? What if that guy was a veteran? What if his only crime was refusing a service that he was supposed to pay for, like public water or utilities?

Is it actually acceptable to go to his place, kidnap him, and hold him against his will for that?

If YOU are the person who takes any of those actions, are you to blame if you're "just doing your job?"

Meet Tyler Truitt

Tyler Truitt is a veteran who owns two acres of land in Madison County, Alabama. He and his girlfriend live off-grid. They have a clean, well-cared-for home with solar panels and a rainwater collection system. They don't have loud parties, deal drugs, or do anything else that could be deemed anti-social.

Well, except refusing to tie into the grid.

And the government can't have that.

Comment: Full dependence on the state is mandatory. No semblance of freedom allowed.

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Family

Trump effect? IBM plan to create 25000 jobs and invest $1Bn in employee development

Hannah Al-Othman
Mail Online
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:05 UTC
Virginia 'Ginni' Rometty

Virginia 'Ginni' Rometty, chief executive officer of International Business Machines Corp, said IBM will invest $1billion on employee training and development in the next four years
US technology giant IBM has said it will hire 25,000 people in the United States over the next four years, ahead of a meeting between President-elect Donald Trump and tech industry leaders.

About 6,000 of those appointments will be made in 2017, IBM chief executive Ginni Rometty wrote in opinion article published in USA Today.

IBM, which in recent years has restructured its activities, will invest $1billion on employee training and development in the next four years, said the IBM president, chairman and CEO.
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Sheriff

Arrest of Texas jailer who violated an inmate's anus multiple times with baton

Ben Keller
PINAC News
Wed, 23 Nov 2016 00:00 UTC
Texas jailer
© Photography is Not a Crime
A Texas jailer was arrested and fired after he tried to wake up an inmate for fingerprints and a mugshot by thrusting a baton into his anus, according to a criminal complaint. It was such a egregious act, several jailers who witnessed the assault gave sworn statements against their fellow detention officer, 32-year-old Michael David Hinojosa of Mercedes, confirming the inmate's story. One jailer "confirmed that he observed Detention Officer Michael Hinojosa push his ASP baton into [the inmate's] anus four to five times."

Investigators with the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Officer arrested Hinojosa on Monday, charging him with improper sexual activity with a person in custody, a state jail felony.

Comment: What are the chances this jailer will actually do jail time? He was released in 48 minutes. PDs notably fire perverts and send them on their way, good riddance.

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Pistol

Former Army recruiter admits funneling guns to Mexico's drug cartel

Guillermo Contreras
My San Antonio
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 09:33 UTC
former Army recruiter from San Antonio
© Bob Owen /San Antonio Express-News
A former Army recruiter from San Antonio has admitted he funneled dozens of assault rifles to operatives of Mexico's Gulf Cartel last year by organizing other soldiers to help him buy the weapons.

Sgt. Julian Prezas, who is facing a disciplinary discharge from the military, pleaded guilty in two separate cases Monday to a total of five counts of lying on federal firearms forms and attempting to export defense articles to Mexico.

Prezas, 36, acknowledged acquiring 42 guns — 23 of which were seized and forfeited to the government during the investigation. However, a co-defendant who became an informant told agents with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms that Prezas sold him 13 AR-15s, some 50 to 60 AK-47s and a shotgun last year.

That co-defendant, who was not identified in court documents, told agents he met Prezas after Prezas posted on a Facebook group he had 1,000 magazines of ammunition for sale in the Rio Grande Valley, Prezas' plea deal said.

The co-defendant bought the ammunition and asked for more, court documents said. Prezas also began selling him rifles with the serial numbers obliterated — and the co-defendant told Prezas that the guns were going to Mexico, the plea deal stated.

Comment: See also:

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People

FOX news poll finds majority of Americans don't think 'Russian hacking' influenced election

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 20:23 UTC
Obama on phone
As the mainstream media, democratic electors to the electoral college and the White House continue to assert, ever more forcefully by the day, that Russia "hacked" the 2016 election (Keith Olbermann literally almost had a heart attack on air), a new Fox News Poll reveals that Americans just aren't buying it.

Asked whether "Russia's attempts to influence the presidential election" helped Trump, Hillary or had no effect, 59% of American said it had no impact on the way they voted. That said, we assume this poll is wrong as it completely contradicts the media narrative and those guys are never wrong, right?
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Horse

Political Correctness in Ancient China

Stefan Verstappen
chinastrategies.com
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 19:24 UTC
Zhao Gao
© danieldendy.blogspot.com
Excerpted from: The Thirty-Six Strategies of Ancient China, Stefan Verstappen

Qin Dynasty China, 221 to 206 BC

The notorious eunuch Zhao Gao is credited with helping to bring down the house of Qin, ending China's first and shortest imperial dynasty.

After the first emperor died, Zhao Gao conspired with the chief minister Li Si to dispose of the legitimate heir to the throne and install a weak and corrupt puppet emperor, Huhei.

Having established his influence over the young emperor, Zhao Gao was nervous about possible opposition from the other ministers of state. So he devised a test to see which ones would be faithful to him. One day he brought a stag into the court and presented it to the emperor explaining that it was a horse.
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Attention

Some voting machines may be hackable after all: Cellular modem allows results to be sent over the Internet

Russ Baker
Who What Why
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 19:21 UTC
Connector
For weeks now, we've heard that voting machines cannot be hacked because they are not connected to the Internet. We now learn that is not true.

It turns out that machines which electronically record and tabulate votes are in fact equipped with modems — permitting communication with the outside world.

In an affidavit, John R. Brakey, an Arizona-based election integrity activist currently seeking a hand count in a number of Wisconsin counties that used optical scanners to recount paper ballots, states his knowledge that:
"...many of these counties are vulnerable to insider or sophisticated hacking because election results are transmitted through a cellular modem that is connected to the Internet."
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Blackbox

Dramatic surge in populist movements rising up against the Establishment makes for uncertain 2017

Catherine Triomph
Yahoo
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 19:24 UTC
Donald Trump
© Mike Segar / Reuters
Donald Trump and Brexit: 2016 was a year of populist earthquakes on both sides of the Atlantic, spelling huge uncertainty for upcoming European elections and the direction of US policy.

On June 23 and November 8, barely 20 weeks apart, millions of Britons and Americans rejected the establishment in what Richard Wike of the Pew Research Center interpreted as a surge of anxiety about globalization, immigration and terrorism.

Globalization and immigration have shifted the jobs market and demographics in the West. Many people, even in a country built by immigrants such as the United States, draw a connection between crime and immigration, Wike said.

Across Europe, from the Netherlands to Poland, from Sweden to Italy, comparisons with the 1930s have become an echoing refrain.
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Star of David

Saga of the Murdering Medic shows Hasbara has hardened into Israeli construction of reality

Yakov Hirsch
Mondoweiss
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 17:26 UTC
Azaria's conviction
In the beginning of January 2017, Israeli sergeant Elor Azaria is going to be found guilty for the execution of Abd al Fatah Al-Sharif lying prostate on the ground in Hebron last March 24. And the Israeli political reaction to that verdict will be transformative. It is then that the hasbara culture cultivated by Benjamin Netanyahu will at last be confronted by a sane Israel led by former Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

The discourse that will resound in Israel in defense of Azaria will be incoherent to anyone who is not an adherent of the hasbara culture that now permeates that society. Naftali Bennett, the education minister under Netanyahu, has already been saying that Azaria needs to be pardoned if convicted.

We have already heard from soldiers who say they will go "AWOL" or even desert should their fellow combatant be convicted of manslaughter charges by the military court.

The saga of the Murdering Medic is so important because it has revealed the way that "hasbara" - or the Israeli tradition of spinning its actions to try and make them acceptable to the world - has so deeply affected the spinners themselves that hasbara has hardened into an Israeli construction of reality, so much so that the many participants in that reality no longer think it is necessary to even spin bad events.

Comment: Snipit from Netanyahu's bloody incitement to the world:
Netanyahu has spouted so much Hasbara in his life he forgot it originally had a purpose? And now that Israel has won and settled as much as the occupied territory as they could possible get away with he just cant stop? And even though there is no need to dehumanize the Palestinians anymore, he just is unable to pass up the photo opportunity of a 13 year old dead girl's room with blood all over the room and even a teddy bear to boot. Who is going to dare point out this happened in the occupied territories? This murdered girl with blood on the walls has to be worth at least a week's worth of news cycles no matter what the crazy settlers do in the meantime.

But whatever Netanyahu was thinking with this video, it is sure to raise even more questions among the Israeli officials in and out of government who view Benjamin Netanyahu as the biggest threat to the whole Zionist project.

Finally: Netanyahu was speaking to the English-speaking world, to us. This video, this "narrative" must be fought tooth and nail. The "ideology" and the "story" Netanyahu is telling about Jews and their enemies in this video is the most toxic propaganda, not least to the Israeli public themselves.

As I will demonstrate in weeks to come: It has been toxic to our culture and politics here in the U.S. I believe it has poisoned our souls.
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Ambulance

Woman killed after falling into vat of chocolate

Richard Hartley-Parkinson
Metro UK
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 17:54 UTC
Svetlana Roslina
© East2West news
Svetlana Roslina with her husband Vladimir on their wedding day
A woman has died after falling into a giant mixer that was stirring molten chocolate.

Svetlana Roslina, 24, is believed to have been crushed to death as she tried to get out of the vat at the factory in Fedortsovo, north of Moscow.

There are mixed accounts as to how she ended up in the vat with one witness saying she was emptying ingredients into the container while another said that she was trying to retrieve her mobile phone.
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