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Cop slams woman's head into ATM machine, arrests her for reporting on him

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 30 Mar 2016 00:00 UTC

An ex-transit cop has been found guilty of false imprisonment and official oppression stemming from a Christmas Day incident when he stepped on a woman's foot and refused to apologize — after cutting in line at Dunkin' Donuts in 2013. When the woman attempted to alert the officer's superiors, he slammed her head into an ATM machine — and placed her under arrest.

Douglas Ioven, a former officer with the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA), cut in line on Christmas in front of Muibat Williamson, a nurse at Einstein Medical Center, who was on her way home from a night shift. When Ioven was leaving, with coffee and doughnuts in hand, he stepped on Williamson's foot.

In testimony about the 2013 row, reported philly.com, Williamson said she confronted the officer and demanded he apologize — but Ioven refused. An argument ensued, and an unnamed witness said she even inserted herself between the pair to remind them of the holiday. She overheard Ioven tell Williamson,

"Next time, move out of the way."

Survey reveals nearly two-thirds of working population want to flee from Ukraine

DONi News
Thu, 31 Mar 2016 13:19 UTC

Two-thirds of efficient professionals want to leave Ukraine. This is evidenced by results of a survey conducted by the international personnel portal hh.ua, reports The Politnavigator.

In particular, a large part of office workers are inclined to move out of the country as one in six respondents said.

'IT professionals and media representatives are more focused on moving abroad than others. Those whose experience and expertise are difficult to adapt to the conditions of another country - lawyers, bankers and specialists in insurance - are less inclined to leave,' say the results of the survey.

Most of Ukrainians desiring to move live in the Ukraine-controlled part of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, as well as in Western Ukraine. Ukrainian migrants are most attracted to Western Europe. 25% of respondents expressed a desire to move there, the same number would choose Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. The rest of preferences were distributed between the CIS countries and Asia, some have selected Australia, Israel and the United Arab Emirates.

Comment: Conditions will only get worse for those living under Washington's puppet regime. After all, the best Kiev has to offer is to rob the country blind, burn it to the ground, and blame Russia for the catastrophe. Leaving the country may just be the best option, if anyone can afford to do so. Also see:

These sentiments are quite understandable if we look at average incomes in Ukraine. According to official data from the finance ministry(as of March 2, 2016), the average salary in Ukraine is only 4,362 hryvnas per month (approximately 145 Euros). The minimum monthly wage is currently set at 1,378 hryvnas (46 Euros). Therefore, the vast majority of working people in Ukraine have to get by on a salary of 2,000-3,000 hryvnas (70-100 Euros) each month. And the number of employed is declining every day. In September 2015, Ukrainian Minister of Social Politics Valery Yaroshenko acknowledged that the unemployment rate had reached its highest point in the history of Ukraine as an independent country, with 23% of young Ukrainians unable to find work (in the parts of the Donetsk region that are controlled by Kiev the jobless rate does approach that of Liberia - 50%!).

Ukraine now being compared to Liberia

Widespread protests and strikes hit France over unpopular labor reforms

Sputnik
Thu, 31 Mar 2016 12:12 UTC

Massive strikes and protests over labor reforms are taking place across France on Thursday, with public transport disruptions and many schools, as well as popular tourist attractions such as the Eiffel Tower, remaining closed, local media reported.

The protests are against a bill that would relax France's labor laws, permitting employees to work much more than the current statutory 35-hour week, imposing a cap on damages in cases of unfair dismissal as well as removing barriers to firing employees on economic grounds.

Polls show majority of Europeans want a say in who joins the EU

Sputnik
Thu, 31 Mar 2016 10:52 UTC

Comment: Europeans hopefully remember just how much respect the EU's technocrats have for referendums. Remember how Germany crushed Greece, or how UK's ruling elites rigged the Scottish referendum? The elite have already responded to the fact that the Dutch plan to vote 'no' on Ukraine's EU membership by having the Hague "reconsider" its position. While Europeans want democracy, remember that it's hypocrisy and tyranny that rule the day.

According to Sputnik.Polls, the majority of Italians (66%), Germans (63%) and the French (63%) want to be involved in decisions regarding the conclusion of EU association agreements* with other countries through national referendums.

The survey was conducted by the opinion poll companies Populus and Ifop for Sputnik News Agency and Radio.

A referendum on the EU-Ukraine association agreement will take place in the Netherlands on April 6.

According to Sputnik.Polls, Italians are most enthusiastic about holding referendums on such deals with other countries. Sixty-six percent of Italians would like to hold a referendum before concluding an association agreement with any new country.

Creepiest airport in the world - Denver International Airport

Eli Orzessek
New Zealand Herald
Thu, 31 Mar 2016 01:56 UTC

With apocalyptic murals, a terrifying giant horse statue and curiously laid-out runways, Denver International Airport has been the subject of many conspiracy theories since it opened in 1995.

Located 25 miles outside of Denver, the airport is enormous - it's twice the size of Manhattan and reportedly went $2 billion over budget.

Before its construction, Denver already had an airport, Stapleton, which added fuel to beliefs that it was constructed to hide a large underground bunker, presumably reserved for members of the Illuminati.

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

IMEMC News & Agencies
Mon, 28 Mar 2016 10:17 UTC

After Thursday's execution of a wounded young Palestinian man and his friend (who bled to death), was captured on tape, many details started emerging, including the involvement of an Israeli military medic in the crime.

In one of the videos that captured this extrajudicial assassination of the already seriously wounded, completely incapacitated Palestinian, the sound of an Israeli colonialist settler, who is also a medic and a cameraman, could be heard saying, "He is not dead... shoot him in the head."

The second video shows an Israeli soldier executing the wounded Palestinian, Abdul-Fattah Sharif, with a gunshot to the head, after conspiring with an Israeli colonialist settler to drive his van forward to block surveillance cameras and prevent onlookers from documenting the crime. The soldiers and settler did not see the Palestinian who was filming from an upstairs window.

The Israeli medics did not attempt any first aid on the two Palestinians, leaving one of them to bleed to death and executing the other.

Issa Amro, the coordinator of the Youth against Settlements Coalition, said what happened "is clear proof that the Israeli soldiers and the medics conspire and cooperate in executing the Palestinians."

Man killed by Arizona cop was obviously compliant and offered no resistance

Andy Cush
Gawker
Thu, 31 Mar 2016 00:00 UTC

Daniel Shaver, 26, a traveling businessman and father-of-two from Granbury, Texas, was fatally shot by a police officer on January 18 inside the La Quinta Inn in Mesa, Arizona. He is pictured here with his daughters Natalie, 6, and Emery, 3

Moments before a Mesa, Arizona, police officer killed Daniel Shaver with five shots from an AR-15, Shaver was on all fours, pleading with officers not to shoot him, according to a newly released police report from the incident.

Shaver, a twenty-six-year-old from Texas, was killed on January 18. Philip Brailsford, the two-year Mesa Police Department officer who allegedly killed him, was fired from the department and charged with second-degree murder.

Shaver was staying at a Mesa La Quinta Inn on a work-related trip when he was killed, according to a local ABC affiliate. The police report (viewable in full here) alleges that officers received a call about a man pointing a rifle out Shaver's fifth-floor hotel window.

Comment: The knee-jerk reactions of cops who are killing people and their pets has become frighteningly common in the US police state. The only thing uncommon about this tragic incident is that the officer responsible is actually being charged with murder - most of them walk away with barely a hand-slap.

Sott Exclusive: Police are the new gestapo, able to brutalize, steal and murder on a whim, and get away with it

California's plan to raise minimum wage to $15 clears key hurdle

Sharon Bernstein
Yahoo News
Thu, 31 Mar 2016 00:29 UTC

© REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/Files
Fast-food workers and their supporters join a nationwide protest for higher wages and union rights in Los Angeles, California, United States, in this file photo taken November 10, 2015.

A plan to raise California's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022 cleared its first legislative hurdle on Wednesday, putting the state on track to become the first in the nation to commit to such a large pay hike for the working poor.

The measure, incorporating a deal Governor Jerry Brown reached with labor leaders and fellow Democrats in the Legislature, was approved on a party-line vote of 12-7 by the Assembly Appropriations Committee, where a previous version of the bill had stalled last summer.

One Democrat, Tom Daly, joined six Republicans in opposing the measure, which now advances to the full Assembly for action as early as this week. It would then return to the Senate for a final vote.

If enacted, the bill would put California, home to one of the world's biggest economies, in the vanguard of a growing number of U.S. states and cities that have moved in recent years to surpass the federal minimum wage, which has remained at $7.25 an hour since 2009.

Sex offenders file lawsuit against carrying unique passports

RT
Wed, 30 Mar 2016 17:29 UTC

Sex offenders required by a new federal law to carry marked passports are hoping a Wednesday court hearing will suspend the regulation. The law, signed by President Barack Obama last month, is a violation of their constitutional rights, they say.

A federal judge in Oakland, California could potentially block the International Megan's Law to Prevent Demand for Child Sex Trafficking as requested by California Reform Sex Offender Laws, a civil rights group. Just six weeks old, the law requires the State Department to mark the passports of certain sex offenders.

The plaintiffs claim that the law violates the US Constitution's First Amendment, forcing them to divulge information that will "publicly stigmatize a disfavored minority group using a document foundational to citizenship," the lawsuit states.

The lawsuit also alleges that because passports are a vital form of identification abroad, a unique symbol that identifies sex offenders could "invite significant risk of harm to themselves, their families, and other with whom they may be traveling."

Comment: It could also serve as a warning that could prevent predation.

The intention of International Megan's Law is to prevent child trafficking and exploitation abroad, an expansion of Megan's Law, a law passed by Congress in 1996 to mandate authorities publicly disclose information about convicted sex offenders. The new law was sponsored by Rep. Chris Smith (R-New Jersey) after a meeting with a delegation of Thai officials about human trafficking, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Saudi Arabia has lost oil market shares in key countries over the past three years

RT
Tue, 29 Mar 2016 17:26 UTC

The world's largest crude exporter, Saudi Arabia has lost its leading position in nine of the 15 top markets in the past three years reports the Financial Times citing data from energy consultancy group FGE.

According to the analysis, the kingdom lost ground in China, South Africa and the US between 2013 and 2015, despite the goal of maintaining its crude market share amid the oil glut.

"Saudi Arabia has had very difficult time selling oil in this environment," Citigroup analyst Ed Morse told the FT. "Its rivals are going into a very crowded market in a very aggressive way."

The country has also lost its market share in South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan and several western European countries, the FGE data showed.

Saudi Arabia's share of Chinese oil imports fell from more than 19 percent in 2013 to almost 15 percent in 2015, because of increased supplies from Russia.

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Society's Child

Cop slams woman's head into ATM machine, arrests her for reporting on him

Survey reveals nearly two-thirds of working population want to flee from Ukraine

Widespread protests and strikes hit France over unpopular labor reforms

Polls show majority of Europeans want a say in who joins the EU

Creepiest airport in the world - Denver International Airport

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

Man killed by Arizona cop was obviously compliant and offered no resistance

California's plan to raise minimum wage to $15 clears key hurdle

Sex offenders file lawsuit against carrying unique passports

Saudi Arabia has lost oil market shares in key countries over the past three years

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