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Police chief admits officers knew clock Ahmed Mohamed brought to school wasn't bomb

Arturo Garcia
Raw Story
Thu, 17 Sep 2015 17:12 UTC
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Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd appears on 'All In With Chris Hayes' on Sept. 17, 2015
Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd refused to say on Thursday that his officers erred in arresting 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed on Monday even though they allegedly knew he did not bring a bomb to his high school.

MSNBC host Chris Hayes gave Boyd the opportunity to admit to a mistake, while conceding that people understood that officers need to be on high alert regarding possible attacks against a school.

However, Hayes said, "I think it's hard for folks watching this from the outside, seeing this all link up, seeing this kid — who seems like a tremendously poised, bright, genuine kid — be put through this. To not hear from anyone in officialdom down there that 'Yeah, we didn't get this one right.'"

"The officers made the decision they did with the information they had with what they thought was right at the time," Boyd responded. "We are clearly going to review this. We want to always look at ways we can enhance and have a better outcome. There's a lot of decision points, there's a lot of alternatives that they have available to them."


Comment: See also: Hysterical police state USA: 14-year-old Muslim schoolboy arrested for taking homemade clock to school

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San Jose cop busted for lewd acts after woman snaps pics with her cell phone

Andrew Emett
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 17 Sep 2015 19:12 UTC
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While walking down the sidewalk this month, a vigilant citizen pulled out her cellphone and took photos of a perverted police sergeant exposing himself while harassing her. Instead of remaining silent and accepting his abuse, the 39-year-old woman notified the police and showed them the vulgar photographs. A few days after the sergeant was arrested, the San Jose Police Department finally decided to place him on paid administrative leave.

Around 5:15 p.m. on September 4, a 39-year-old woman was walking down the sidewalk when she noticed a man sitting in a parked car. After she realized that the man was exposing himself and masturbating in the car, the woman immediately turned around and began walking the other way. To prevent her from escaping, Sergeant James Rainey Mason allegedly pulled up in front of her and parked his car while continuing to expose himself.

Comment: It's good to know we are being protected by members of the police force who are such, fine upstanding citizens and not perverted in any way.

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US government continues to push Real ID Act, some residents will need passports for domestic travel

John Vibes
The Anti Media
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 18:51 UTC
Passport
© RIA Novosti/Mihail Mokrushin
To comply with the 2005 Real ID Act, which the U.S. government has been slowly implementing for the past decade, citizens in a number of different U.S. states will now be forced to obtain a passport if they want to board an airplane — even for domestic flights.

The Department of Homeland Security and representatives with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection have declined to comment on why certain states have been singled out, but starting in 2016, residents of New York, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and American Samoa will need a passport to fly domestically. All other states will still be able to use their state-issued driver's licenses and IDs — for now, at least.

Comment: The government has consistently shown that despite the wishes of the people, it will do whatever it wants. These moves are priming to population to get used to travel restrictions as there may come a day when no one is allowed to leave.

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Handcuffs

Guantanamo prison: One detainee freed, 115 to go


RT
Thu, 17 Sep 2015 17:57 UTC
Guantanamo prisoners
© www.worldcantwait.net"Good morning, Guantanamo."
A long-cleared Guantanamo Bay detainee, never charged with a crime, has been transferred back to his home country of Morocco, the Pentagon announced on Thursday. The move comes as Congress considers the expansion of restrictions on such transfers.

Younis Abdurrahman Chekkouri, 47, was repatriated after officials unanimously approved his transfer, said Cmdr. Gary Ross, a Defense Department spokesman. He was taken to Guantanamo 13 years ago under suspicion of being a militant from the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group in Afghanistan. He was approved for release in 2009 and was never charged with a crime.

Chekkouri
© www.moroccoworldnews.comGoing home.
Chekkouri was delivered to the North African country on Wednesday.

"The United States is grateful to the Government of Morocco for its willingness to support ongoing U.S. efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility," the Pentagon said in a statement.


Comment: What hubris!


The Cuba-based prison camp still houses 115 detainees, who are being held under suspicion of involvement in terrorist activities. Fifty-two of the detainees have been cleared for release but reside in administrative limbo, much like Chekkouri did.

Comment: Of the 115 detainees remaining in Guantanamo, which is down from 242 when Obama took office, at least half have been cleared for transfer but are still unlawfully detained. What will it take, Mr. President? As you once said: "It's not who we are." Apparently it is who some of us are!

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Unrest in Jerusalem: 'Palestinians' open fire and hurl firebombs on Israel policemen


RT
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 14:48 UTC
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© ReutersA Palestinian policeman reacts next to fellow police officers as he tries to prevent Palestinian demonstrators from reaching an Israeli checkpoint during a protest against the Israeli police raid on Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem September 18, 2015.
An Israeli policeman was shot in Jerusalem after Palestinians opened fire, local journalists reported on Twitter. At least three others were injured. A Molotov cocktail was also reportedly thrown at officers.

The shots were fired in Jerusalem's Armon Hanetziv neighborhood, according to Haaretz.

A tweet from Israel News Feed stated that some of the officers were injured after being hit with stones.


Comment: How convenient.

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Florida 'house of horrors' contains 3,714 bladed weapons


RT
Thu, 17 Sep 2015 13:47 UTC
Some of Nickcole Dykema’s vast collection of bladed weapons
© Hernando County Sheriff’s OfficeSome of Nickcole Dykema’s vast collection of bladed weapons
Coming home to slashed window screens and air conditioner is enough to make anyone feel on edge. Especially when it turns out that a neighbor is armed to the teeth with more than 3,700 machetes, swords and knives hanging on her walls.

Those who live near Nickcole Dykema's mobile home in Brooksville, Florida say that she has been terrorizing the neighborhood for years.

"I was just petrified all the time," next-door neighbor Dorothy Clagg told WTSP. "She had a habit of banging on the inside of her house all the time on the walls, and screaming and hollering."

Paula Deford, another neighbor, caught Dykema on her home security system slicing through the window screens and slashing into her air conditioner with a large knife.

"She cut all the screens on these windows in one incident," Deford told WTSP. There was also a second, similar incident.

And that's what brought police to Dykema's door: The 47-year-old isn't supposed to have any knives. It's a violation of her probation. She was arrested after being caught shoplifting at Dollar Tree in December, stealing chef knives with a sword down her pants and dagger around her waist.
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Here's what Ahmed the clock-making kid should ask Obama when he visits the White House

David Sanchez
The Anti Media
Thu, 17 Sep 2015 00:00 UTC
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"Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House?"

That is what President Obama tweeted in support of Ahmed Mohamed, the Muslim-American 9th-grader who was arrested and threatened with charges for bringing a homemade clock for show-and-tell, because idiocrat school officials and cops thought, "It looks like a movie bomb to me."

Ahmed, who has become a viral sympathetic cause célèbre, has since confirmed in a press conference that he will indeed be visiting the White House.

For his supporters, this is a reappearance of the Obama they fell in love with: an American president who Muslims around the world can view not as an imperialist persecutor, but as a champion for tolerance, civil rights, and democracy.

Comment: This story explains so well precisely why Obama was given the role President: His extraordinary capacity to Lie about his crimes against humanity - and pretend to be sincere and benevolent at the same time. Par for the course for psychopaths in positions of power.

See also: Hysterical police state USA: 14-year-old Muslim schoolboy arrested for taking homemade clock to school

Arrest of 14-year-old student for making a clock: The fruits of sustained fearmongering and anti-Muslim animus

And for more on how on the resounding hypocrisy of world "leaders" see:

Sott Exclusive: Israel PM Netanyahu welcomes Jews but turns away Syrian NATO war refugees

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National alert in north England - 'Super-gonorrhoea' outbreak spreading


The Telegraph
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 13:07 UTC
Public Health England 'concerned' about drug-resistant strain first reported in Leeds but which has spread to Macclesfield, Oldham and Scunthorpe
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© AlamyElectron micrograph of Neisseria gonorrhoeae
An outbreak of highly drug-resistant gonorrhoea has been detected in the north of England, triggering a national alert. Fifteen cases have been detected by Public Health England (PHE) so far, the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV said.

Reports to PHE's sexually transmitted bacteria reference unit (STBRU) of cases of the infection being highly resistant to the azithromycin drug have previously been rare, it added.

The outbreak, which was first detected in Leeds in March, has since spread - with cases reported in patients from Macclesfield, Oldham and Scunthorpe. All of the cases involve heterosexual patients, and some people have reported partners from other parts of England. Around 10 per cent of men and almost half of women with gonorrhoea do not experience symptoms - meaning the condition can go untreated for some time.

In a statement, PHE said: "An outbreak control team meeting has been convened and STBRU are currently performing next generation sequencing on these strains to better understand the molecular epidemiology."It added: "PHE is concerned that the effectiveness of current front-line dual therapy for gonorrhoea will be threatened if this resistant strain continues to spread unchecked."

Comment: What better indication that we are out of balance with nature and with ourselves?

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Bad Guys

The illusion of choice: The ten corporations that own your supermarket


Sputnik News
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 12:24 UTC
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© Sputnik/ Alexandr Kryazhev
You might think there is a variety of choice when you go shopping to a supermarket, but you were wrong - there is only the illusion of choice as shown by the graph underneath.

Did you know the Kit-Kat chocolate bar and L'Oreal shampoo are owned by one parent company — Nestle?

The ten largest multinational corporations own almost everything people buy in supermarkets around the world. These corporations create a chain of smaller brands that specialize in different products, but at the end of the day customers' money still goes to the top ten corporations.

Comment: Also see: The American dream is an illusion with rates of social mobility that are no better than medieval England

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Snakes in Suits

"To better serve the American people": Obama's behavioral science order


RT
Wed, 16 Sep 2015 18:27 UTC
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© © Jonathan Ernst / ReutersU.S. President Barack Obama
President Barack Obama ordered government agencies to use behavioral science insights to 'better serve the American people.' While insiders are praising the step as historic, critics are blasting the measure - and the president - as manipulative.

"To more fully realize the benefits of behavioral insights and deliver better results at a lower cost for the American people, the Federal Government should design its policies and programs to reflect our best understanding of how people engage with, participate in, use, and respond to those policies and programs," says the executive order issued by the president Tuesday.

Obama instructed federal agencies to identify policies and operations where applying behavioral science could improve"public welfare, program outcomes, and program cost effectiveness," develop strategies for using behavior science insights, and recruit behavioral experts as necessary.

Comment: "To Better Serve the American People" might cause one to recall this Twilight Zone episode:



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