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Atlanta cop indicted on murder charges for killing an innocent, unarmed man

Andrew Emett
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 17:05 UTC
Officer James Burns
© CNNOfficer James Burns
Recently fired from the Atlanta Police Department for gunning down an innocent driver, a former cop was indicted Wednesday night on multiple charges including murder, making a false statement, and violating his oath of office. Although the ex-cop reported that the driver was attempting to run him over when he opened fire, investigators determined his claims were false after reviewing dashcam footage and witness statements.

Shortly before midnight on June 22, Officer James Burns responded to a call from an off-duty cop reporting a suspicious person breaking into cars. Arriving at the scene in his patrol car, Burns hit his lights and siren immediately after seeing a 2011 Ford Fusion driving towards him.

Burns suddenly exited his vehicle and fired a single bullet into the head of 22-year-old Deravis Caine Rogers. According to Burns, Rogers ignored his order to "Stop!" before gunning his engine and attempting to run him down with the sedan. Blinded by the headlights and fearing for his life, Burns claimed that he killed Rogers in self-defense.
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New trade deal TISA could be an even greater threat to public services than TTIP

Global Justice Now
defenddemocracy.press
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 16:55 UTC
TISA deal
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  • Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) could lock in privatisation and increase ability of big business to call the shots on health, education and basic utilities
  • Rights of some migrant workers could regress to system similar to Saudi Arabia and Qatar
  • UK likely to emulate Norway signing up as individual nation post-Brexit
A global trade deal currently being negotiated in secret and involving 50 different countries could prove to be a serious threat to public services according to a briefing published today by campaign group Global Justice Now.

The Trade In Services Agreement (TISA) is a proposed international trade treaty between 23 parties, including the European Union and the United States. Unlike most trade deals, TISA is about services, not goods. The briefing argues that this means it will affect areas like labour rights, banking regulation and whether public services like electricity and water are run for public good or private benefit.

Nick Dearden the director of Global Justice Now said:

"This deal is a threat to the very concept of public services. It is a turbo-charged privatisation pact, based on the idea that, rather than serving the public interest, governments must step out of the way and allow corporations to 'get on with it'. Of particular concern, we fear TiSA will include clauses that will prevent governments taking public control of strategic services, and inhibit regulation of the very banks that created the financial crash. TISA will also affect countries that haven't even had the opportunity to develop decent public services like Pakistan. No wonder Uruguay has already walked away from the talks. We urge MEPs to tell the European Union to do the same.
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Another senseless death: SWAT team raids unarmed man's home and kills him over two grams of pot

Justin Gardner
Free Thought Project
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 16:25 UTC
war on drugs
Another life was taken by cops in the senseless war on drugs, this time an unarmed man sitting in a bedroom with two grams of weed.

A military-style raid took place at the home of Levonia Riggins, 22, by a SWAT team looking for "illegal narcotics." Riggins, who had previously been arrested for cannabis possession with intent to sell, was subject to a month-long "drug investigation" before being gunned down in his home.

According to Tampa Bay Times:
"When investigators arrived at the house at 1432 Longwood Loop with a search warrant about 8 a.m., everyone inside came out except for Riggins, the major said. Others who left the house told deputies Riggins was inside, most likely in the rear, sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter said in a news release.

That's when Deputy Caleb Johnson, 32, a seven-year veteran of the agency, entered the house with fellow SWAT members.

"After making numerous commands for Riggins to exit the residence, Deputy Johnson visually located Riggins in a bedroom, at which time Johnson perceived Riggins as an immediate threat and fired one shot, striking Riggins," Carter reported.

Riggins was taken to Tampa General Hospital, where he died."

Comment: The "The War on Drugs" is a fraud and a complete failure. Just look at the victim Levonia Riggins. He was killed over 2 grams of weed. Meanwhile intelligence agencies are flooding the planet with illicit hard drugs. Read more:

Insignificant arrest of El Chapo versus the longstanding CIA global drugs business

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Vegetables are ugly! Miami judge rules front yard gardens illegal

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 16:51 UTC
vegetable garden judgment
Last week, a Miami-Dade judge became the focus of much-deserved anger when she ruled on an ordinance banning front yard vegetable gardens. The village of Miami Shores, according to the ruling, has every right to take legal action against residents who dare to grow food in their own yards because they are "ugly."

The ruling was a whopping ten pages long as it was filled with legal analysis and definitions of what constitutes a vegetable. Even though she ruled in favor of the ban, Judge Monica Gordo acknowledged that she wasn't quite sure how a vegetable garden can ruin the aesthetics of one's property.

However, she stated that the democratically elected government has every right to dictate what constitutes an ugly front yard, and gardens are apparently a contributing factor.

"Given the high degree of deference that must be given to a democratically elected governmental body ... Miami Shores' ban on vegetable gardens outside of the backyard passes constitutional scrutiny," Gordo wrote.

Comment: More on the War on Gardening:

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Attacker who stabbed a police officer in a Paris suburb is shot dead


RT
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 16:39 UTC
police attack paris
A police officer has been seriously injured in the Paris suburb of Vincennes, local media said. The attacker was reported dead after an exchange of gunfire in the area.

The incident took place on Friday morning when a 29-year-old man tried to attack a nurse, French Le Figaro newspaper reported.

The victim called the police and officers arrived at the scene. The man then attacked a female police officer with a knife, reportedly injuring her in the throat.
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Biden silences protester by invoking memory of his son during Clinton rally

Daniel Halper
New York Post
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 16:33 UTC
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden
© Jeff Haynes / Reuters
Vice President Joe Biden invoked the memory of his son to silence a protester at a campaign event for Hillary Clinton.

"My friends died, my American friends," an audience member heckled, interrupting the vice president at a campaign rally Thursday night in Cleveland.

The crowd tried to silence the protester with chants of "U-S-A!" and "Hillary! Hillary!"

The heckler, referring to the US policy in Syria and the fight against ISIS, continued, "My friend died."

"Will you listen?" Biden answered. "So did my son, OK?"
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Organ trafficking: Prostitutes used to lure migrants into selling their kidneys

Tom Esslemont
Yahoo News
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 16:22 UTC
kidney removal scar
© EPA/STR
Brokers in Egypt's underground trade in human body parts use prostitutes to tempt migrants to sell their kidneys as hospitals turn a blind eye to illicit dealing in donated organs for transplants, a report says.

Undocumented African migrants arriving in Cairo, desperate for cash, told the British Journal of Criminology that sex workers were offered as a "sweetener" before or after removal of their organs.

"(One pimp) used the services of sex workers as leverage when negotiating fees with both sellers and buyers," the report said. "A night with a sex worker was offered as an extra inducement to sell."

Organ purchase is banned in Egypt, though the country is a common destination for transplant tourism, along with India, Pakistan and Russia, according to separate research by Erasmus MC University Hospital Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

Comment: Illegal organ trafficking is big business throughout the world.

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French hysteria: Mosque busted for "illegal school" - teaching Koran to children


RT
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 16:08 UTC
Mosquée Al Islah de Villiers-sur-Seine
© Google MapsMosquée Al Islah de Villiers-sur-Seine
An Illegal Koranic school teaching up to 20 children as young as six was discovered inside a mosque, earlier attended by several extremists, in a Paris suburb. French prosecutors believe the children were at risk of being "turned into jihadist recruits."

The 'Little Bees School' was found during a police raid in Al-Islah mosque in Villiers-sur-Marne commune in Paris eastern suburbs on Wednesday. Some 40 police officers were involved in the operation, French media reported.

It was organizing Koran classes for some 15-20 children between six and 12 years old, Le Parisien newspaper reported. The classes were held for some two years.

"The investigation has confirmed the existence of a Koranic school, which was illegally teaching students and where [children] were at risk of indoctrination," the French interior minister said in a statement.


Comment: They'd better have some good evidence for that. Otherwise, this amounts to little more than busting a church group for running Sunday school and saying the kids were at risk of becoming radical Christian white supremacists.

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Pueblo, Colorado: US Army robots to aid in destroying mustard gas stockpiles


RT
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 15:51 UTC
mustard gas
© Pallets Of Artillery Shells Containing Mustard Agent. US Government / Wikipedia
US Army robots are set to destroy 78,000 mustard-gas artillery shells in a specially made $4.5 billion plant in Colorado. The move is to comply with an international treaty that bans chemical weapons.

Robots at the largely automated planet at the military's Pueblo Chemical Depot in Pueblo, Colorado, are scheduled to begin destroying the weapons next week, according to the Associated Press.

The deadly chemical weapon was widely used during WW1. Once dispersed in the air, the mustard gas acts like a mist and melts any flesh it encounters.
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Japanese police avert 'all-out yakuza war' by arresting nearly 1,000 gangsters


RT
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 15:38 UTC
Japanese riot police
© Toru Hanai / Reuters
Japanese police claim to have averted an "all-out war" between two rival yakuza factions by arresting nearly 1,000 members. Tensions between the gangs have been high since the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi broke away from the largest crime syndicate Yamaguchi-gumi last year.

A total of 976 gangsters from Yamaguchi-gumi and its spin off the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi were arrested since March when National Police Agency (NPA) agency said the factions declared "a state of all-out war", The Asahi Shimbun reports. Of those arrested 623 were members of the Yamaguchi-gumi, and 353 were from the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi.

NPA said it would hold both of the groups in iron fists adding that the crackdown on yakuza gangs would continue.

"We will try to destroy both groups by tightening controls and appropriating the anti-organized crime law," Masayoshi Sakaguchi, commissioner general of the NPA, said during a news conference on August 25. "We will also keep our strictest watch on them to prevent civilian casualties."

"The situation is exceptionally serious," said Taro Kono, the chairman of the National Public Safety Commission in March adding that the major task for law was to shield ordinary citizens from getting caught up in the hostilities of criminal groups.
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