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History teacher denies Native American Genocide: Native student disagrees - ejected from the class and expelled

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A Native American student at Cal State Sacramento University was told by her history teacher that there was no genocide against the indigenous population of North America. When the student, Chiitaanibah Johnson, took issue with this claim and challenged him, she was ejected from the class and expelled.

The professor said he didn't care for the term "genocide" as he didn't think it accurately describes what happened in relation to Native American history.

U.S. History Professor Maury Wiseman accused Johnson of "hijacking" his class when she challenged him on this. He also pointed out that he was very offended at her accusations that he was a "bigot" and "racist."

The professor cancelled class for the rest of the day and apologized for the 19-year-old sophomore's "disruptions."

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Hundreds of thousands of Catalans fill Barcelona streets calling for secession from Spain

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© Albert Gea / ReutersCatalan pro-independence supporters take part in a demonstration, called "Via Lliure a la Republica Catalana" (free way to the Republic of Catalonia) at during the "Diada de Catalunya" (Catalunya's National day) in Barcelona, Spain, September 11, 2015
Hundreds of thousands of Catalans have filled the streets of Barcelona, calling for secession from Spain, as the region prepares to go to the polls in what local politicians say will serve as a proxy vote for independence.

The massive pro-independence rally, called under the title "Gateway to the Catalan Republic" (Via Lliure cap a la República Catalana) is taking place in Barcelona, the regional capital, on Catalonia's national Day, September 11.

About 500,000 people registered on social networks to participate in the pro-independence event, Jordi Sanchez, the president of the Catalan National Assembly (ANC), told Sputnik news agency on Friday. However, photos and videos from the scene suggest that many more people had flooded into the streets of Barcelona.

Sanchez said he believed the rally will be one of the largest in Catalonia's history.


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Crane collapse at Grand Mosque in Mecca kills at least 87 people

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At least 87 people have died after a crane collapsed on the Grand Mosque of Mecca on Friday, Saudi authorities say.

According to Saudi Interior Ministry, at least 184 more people were injured in the incident.

The tragedy comes ahead of the annual Hajj pilgrimage which is due later this month. Millions of Muslims from around the world will converge on the holy city between September 21-26.
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Local media reports suggested that the accident occurred due to heavy rains the Kingdom. The governor of the Makkah region, the capital of which is Mecca, Khalid al-Faisal has ordered the launch of an investigation into the causes of the accident.

Photos taken from the scene and posted on social media show bodies lying in blood on the mosque's floor surrounded by construction rubble and metal parts of the crane.


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Party like it's 2008: 'Liar loans' making a come-back

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Earlier this year, as the US auto sales miracle unfolded on the back of record loan terms and record high average monthly payments, we continually argued that underwriting standards were likely to deteriorate going forward as competition for the finite pool of creditworthy borrowers heats up.

Helping to drive (no pun intended) the shift towards looser lending standards is the proliferation of the originate-to-sell model - the same originate-to-sell model that helped steer the US housing market right off a cliff in 2007/2008. The concept is simple: if you're making loans with the intention of carrying them on your books, you're likely to care far more about the creditworthiness of the borrower than you are if you're simply going to ship the loans off to Wall Street to be run through the securitization machine and then sold off to investors via MBS [mortgage-backed securities]. That same dynamic is now at play in the market for car loans. Auto-backed ABS issuance should come in at around $125 billion this year - that's up 25% from 2014 and accounts for more than half of total consumer loan-backed supply.

As was the case during the lead up to the housing market collapse, this dynamic embeds an enormous amount of hidden risk in the paper backed by the shoddy loans. This paper is very often highly rated because despite what happened in 2008, the idea still exists that although one risky loan may be properly viewed as a speculative investment, a whole bunch of pooled risky loans are somehow safe as can be.

Comment: Looking back:


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Double rainbow over WTC on eve of 9/11 anniversary amazes social media

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An amazing double rainbow has appeared at the place where the World Trade Center used to stand, one day before the anniversary of 9/11, the tragedy that took thousands of lives 14 years ago.

The rainbow appeared over the city at about 8am between rain showers.


Comment: Mother Nature giving us hope?


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French court finds Monsanto guilty of poisoning farmer with flagship product Roundup

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© Reuters A banner is pictured during a protest against Monsanto, the world's largest seed company, in Rio de Janeiro May 23, 2015. Similar demonstrations took part around the world in May to raise awareness to what the activists claim are dangers surrounding Monsanto's glyphosate-containing herbicide Roundup. The poster reads, "Monsanto bio terrorist."
Amid global protests over toxic chemicals, French court rules against US firm.

Similar demonstrations took part around the world in May to raise awareness to what the activists claim are dangers surrounding Monsanto's glyphosate-containing herbicide Roundup. The poster reads, "Monsanto bio terrorist." Reuters

Monsanto, the world's largest seed company, was found guilty of chemical poisoning of a French farmer by a French court this week. The decision Thursday by an appeal court in Lyon in southeast France upheld a 2012 ruling in which the farmer claimed he suffered neurological problems after working with the U.S. company's Lasso weedkiller, Reuters reported.

The court found Monsanto was "responsible" for the poisoning and ordered the company to "fully compensate" grain grower Paul Francois, who said he suffered memory loss, headaches and stammering after inhaling Monsanto's Lasso in 2004. The farmer said he was happy with the ruling. "David can win against Goliath," he said. "And a giant like Monsanto is not above the law."

Comment: It will take a lot more than the ruling of one French court to rein in this psychopathic company. They have friends (and officers and shareholders) in high places.


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Dehumanizing! Refugees at Roszke camp in Hungary fed 'like animals in pen'

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© Peter Kohalmi / AFPA migrant woman holds a child and food in a refugee camp near Roszke at the Hungarian-Serbian border on September 11, 2015.
Dramatic footage has emerged showing people at Hungary's main refugee camp on the border with Serbia being fed like wild animals. Crowds of refugees, children and women among them, shout to get the officers' attention, struggling to catch the bread thrown to them through the air.

Some 150 people can be seen at Roszke camp in a fenced-in enclosure inside a big hall as Hungarian police, equipped with helmets and hygiene masks, throw bags of sandwiches at them.

The video was shot secretly by an Austrian volunteer who visited the flashpoint camp earlier this week. The footage, which was uploaded on YouTube late Thursday, had over 25,000 views by Friday afternoon.

"It was like animals being fed in a pen, like Guantanamo in Europe," Alexander Spritzendorfer, whose wife, Michaela filmed the scenes, told AFP. The couple came to Roszke to bring food, clothes and medication to the refugees.

"It was inhumane and it really speaks for these people that they didn't fight over the food despite being clearly very hungry," Michaela Spritzendorfer-Ehrenhauser said.

"It was around 8 o'clock and they were giving dinner to people," she said. "There were maybe 100 people trying to catch these plastic bags with sausages... They were not able to organize a camp and treat them like human beings," Reuters quoted Spritzendorfer-Ehrenhauser as saying.


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Eye 1

Prison-industrial complex threatens to sue states to get more slave labor

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In July 2010, a trio of violent inmates managed to escape from a privately owned and operated prison in Arizona, which led to a massive, two-week, multi-state manhunt.

At the time, reports The Huffington Post, state corrections officials demanded that the facility, which is operated by Management & Training Corp., make improvements to security. They stopped sending inmates to what they described as a "dysfunctional" 3,300-bed facility.

Less than a year later, the company threatened to sue the state, alleging contract violations. Specifically, the company said the state guaranteed the prison would remain at least 97 percent full, and officials argued the company lost $10 million from the reduced inmate population.

Comment: Also see: 'Give me liberty or give my death': The loss of freedom and institution of a corporate police state in the 14 years since 9/11


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21st Century Fox just bought National Geographic

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Since 1888, the National Geographic Society has stood for science, discovery and storytelling. Its yellow-bordered magazine has served as the ultimate stage for award-winning photography, depicting the wonders of the world, and the group has supported pursuits as diverse as the underwater explorations of Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Jane Goodall's study of chimpanzees in Tanzania.

Now, the nonprofit organization plans to continue that mission, backed by the Murdoch media empire.

Comment: 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America


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Florida man arrested for alleged 9/11 memorial bomb plot

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The Justice Department has arrested Florida resident Joshua Ryne Goldberg for allegedly distributing documents on manufacturing explosives as part of a bomb plot for a 9/11 memorial event in Kansas City, Missouri.

US Attorney Lee Bentley announced the arrest on Thursday. Goldberg, 20, was charged with alleged "illegal distribution of information relating to explosives, destructive devices, and weapons of mass destruction." The distribution of such material is considered a federal crime.

According to the criminal complaint, FBI Special Agent William Berry was conducting an investigation into the attack on the May 2015 Mohammed Art Exhibit and Contest in Garland, Texas, when he tracked down a Twitter account called "Australi Witness," which was posting tweets calling for an attack on the exhibition.

The Twitter user posted maps of the center and called for people to attack "with your weapons, bombs, or knives." Berry also found a statement by Australi Witness that implied he was in Australia and working with contacts in the US to carry out attacks.

Comment: Smells like maybe another FBI setup: Former U.S. Intelligence officer: 'Every terrorist attack in the U.S. was a false-flag or egged on by the government'