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Bad Guys

Coroner says man fatally shot himself in the chest while handcuffed behind his back

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​The release of an autopsy report in Louisiana is raising new questions about the unusual shooting death of a 22-year-old black male who died earlier this year in a police car while his hands were cuffed behind his back.

RT reported earlier this year that police in Iberia Parish, LA said Victor White III died in early March after he fatally shot himself while handcuffed in the back of a squad car. White had reportedly been apprehended for possession of drugs, and was searched no fewer than two times before being cuffed and placed in the backseat of a police vehicle. According to the police report from the time, White uncovered a gun while in the car and shot himself in the back.

According to a coroner's report just recently obtained by NBC News, however, White died from a gunshot wound that entered his body in the chest. Nevertheless, Dr. Carl Ditch wrote in the report that White was capable of firing the shot while cuffed "due to his body habitus" and has agreed to rule the death a suicide.

Hannah Rappleye, a reporter for NBC, compared the coroner's story with the official police report from March in an article published by the outlet this week.

"White was shot in the front, not the back. The bullet entered his right chest and exited under his left armpit. White was left-handed, according to family members. According to the report, the forensic pathologist found gunshot residue in the wound, but not the sort ofstipplingthat a close-range shot can sometimes produce. He also found abrasions on White's face," she wrote. "And yet, despite the contradictions - and even though White's hands were never tested for gunpowder residue - the Iberia Parish coroner still supported the central contention of the initial police statement issued back in March."

"Although the decedent was handcuffed at the time with his hands to his back, due to his body habitus, the pathologist and investigators agree that he would have been able to manipulate the weapon to the point where the contact entrance wound was found," Ditch wrote.


Comment: You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means:

Body habitus
Body habitus (or "bodily habitus") is the medical term for physique, and is defined as either endomorphic (overweight), ectomorphic (underweight) or mesomorphic (normal weight). In this sense, habitus can be understood as the physical and constitutional characteristics of an individual, especially as related to the tendency to develop a certain disease.[6] For example, "Marfanoid bodily habitus". - From Wikipedia
How do you know when doctor's are lying? They start using non-sensical jargon. Everyone nods sagely and just accepts the bullshit. Which this is bullshit.


The deceased's father, Rev. Victor White II, told NBC that he had his doubts about the coroner's report.

"You can't make me understand," he said. "You can't make me understand how my son took his left hand, when he was handcuffed behind the back, and shot himself. I don't believe a thing they're saying at this point."

People 2

Border crisis: What's really behind the "invasion" of Latin American children

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© Sara A. Carter/TheBlazeMiriam and her son Daniel, 1, took seven days by bus and car to reach the U.S.-Mexico border from Honduras. She said they paid a trafficker more than $1000 to make the crossing; Miriam turned herself into Border Patrol officials along the Rio Grande Valley sector. They were being processed on one of the public access roads that has since been closed off by federal law enforcement to journalists attempting to report in the region
Call it irony or call it a nightmare, but the "crisis" of Central American children crossing the U.S.-Mexican border, which lasted for months amid fervent and angry debate, is now fading from the news. The media stories have been legion, the words expended many. And yet, as the "crisis" leaves town, as the sound and fury die down and attention shifts elsewhere (even though the children continue to arrive), the real factors that would have made sense of what's been happening remain essentially untouched and largely unmentioned. It couldn't be stranger -- or sadder.

Since late June 2014, the "surge" of those thousands of desperate children entering this country has been in the news. Sensational stories were followed by fervent demonstrations and counter-demonstrations with emotions running high. And it's not a debate that stayed near the southern border either. In my home state, Massachusetts, Governor Deval Patrick tearfully offered to detain some of the children -- and that was somehow turned into a humanitarian gesture that liberals applauded and anti-immigrant activists decried. Meanwhile the mayor of Lynn, a city north of Boston, echoed nativists on the border, announcing that her town didn't want any more immigrants. The months of this sort of emotion, partisanship, and one-upmanship have, however, diverted attention from the real issues. As so often is the case, there is so much more to the story than what we've been hearing in the news.

Comment: While the mainstream media has been stoking up fear about the immigration crisis, what is rarely mentioned is how the US/ CIA involvement in wars in Latin American and the funding of drug cartels have contributed to the need for families to literally escape for their lives.

Missing the point: Why is Obama encouraging illegal immigration when we can't care for millions of our own citizens?
How the CIA Kills Countries


Bizarro Earth

Pathetic: Wall Street Journal editor says Eric Holder should tell Ferguson protesters to 'pull up their pants'

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editorial board member Jason Riley criticized the impending arrival of Attorney General Eric Holder in Ferguson, Missouri on Tuesday, saying Holder was there as part of President Barack Obama's efforts to play "race-healer-in-chief."

"These looters and rioters do not need to hear from the attorney general that criticism of Obama is race-based," Riley told host Bret Bauer. "What they need to hear from this Black man in this position - the nation's leading law enforcement official - is that they need to stay out of trouble with the law. They need to pull up their pants and finish school and take care of their kids. That is the message they need to hear."


Comment: Oh, cause this isn't about out of control paramilitary police playing judge, jury, and executioner.


Riley did not mention, however, that according to the International Business Times, Black residents in Ferguson were arrested four times as often as white residents.

Water

Water-starved South Asia introduces the 'rice bucket challenge'

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Water-starved South Asian nations have devised their own answer to the Ice Bucket Challenge taking the social media world by storm, instead filling buckets with rice and other supplies for the needy.

Since June, thousands of people worldwide have doused themselves with a bucket of icy water, then posted a video recording of the stunt online and challenged others to do the same or pledge a donation.

The "Ice Bucket Challenge" aims to raise awareness about ALS, a condition of the nervous system also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

However, in India, a 38-year-old woman decided to transform the #IceBucketChallenge into the #RiceBucketChallenge, encouraging social media users to donate a bucket or bowl of rice to someone in need.

Flashlight

Escape from New York: City dwellers prepare for doomsday

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The day after tomorrow - may be here sooner than you think!
San Francisco - Quick: In the event of a zombie apocalypse, how would you make it out of New York City alive?

If you're like most New Yorkers, you probably have no idea. But a small group of folks in the city are gearing up for the next doomsday scenario by prepping survival gear, planning escape routes, and training to get out of New York City - even by inflatable kayak if necessary.

These urban doomsday preppers look very different from the stereotype of the rural, gun-toting conservative depicted on shows such as "Doomsday Castle," Anna Maria Bounds, a sociologist at Queens College, City University of New York, said on Monday (Aug. 18) here at the 109th annual American Sociological Association meeting.

Comment: listen to or read transcript:
SOTT Talk Radio - Surviving the End of the World (as we know it)

One such 'doomsday scenario' involves the intense Earth Changes we are currently experiencing. The evidence indicates that we are one step away from an ice age! The alleged 'pause' in global warming, as promoted by mainstream media, is nothing more than propaganda to enable the warmists to keep pushing their agenda.

New Ice Age 'to begin in 2014'
Global Cooling: Is an Ice Age coming?
Global warming? - Still no warming for 17 years 9 months
Ice Age Cometh: Russian Academy of Sciences experts warn of imminent cold period: "Global warming is a marketing trick"

See also Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk's new book, Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection.


Heart - Black

On-going nightmare in Rotherham UK: About 1,400 children were 'sexually exploited over 16-year period'

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© Alfonso Cacciola/Getty ImagesThe report said around 1,400 child victims had been systematically failed by police and agencies in Rotherham
Report claims police and council agencies failed victims, some of whom were threatened with guns and gang-raped

About 1,400 children were sexually exploited in Rotherham over a 16-year period, according to a report that concluded "it is hard to describe the appalling nature of the abuse that child victims suffered".

The report on events in the town in South Yorkshire, between 1997 and 2013, found that in more than a third of these cases the youngsters were already known to child protection agencies. It said there had been "blatant" collective failures by the council's leadership.

Council leader Roger Stone said: "Having considered the report, I believe it is only right that I, as leader, take responsibility on behalf of the council for the historic failings that are described so clearly in the report and it is my intention to do so.

Comment: 1,400 children lived through "the most horrific forms of abuse imaginable" and yet not a single one of the perpetrators was brought to justice. And perhaps they never will, because these pedophile rings are usually run and exist to meet the perverted needs of psychopaths with money and power. Like in countless heartbreaking stories that we've seen before: As long as these monsters remain unpunished, all our children are at risk.


Star of David

Pariah state Israel: On course for Holocaust II...?

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This is the most controversial article the gentile me has ever written or is ever likely to write, but I believe that what I am going to say needs to be said and should be widely debated if the rising, global tide of "anti-Israelism" (I prefer the term anti-Zionism) is not to be transformed into anti-Semitism on a scale that could lead, in a foreseeable future, to Holocaust II, my shorthand for another great turning against the Jews.

I am, of course, aware that anti-Semitism is more than prejudice against and loathing even hatred of Jews just because they are Jews. Arabs are Semites, too. So anti-Semitism is prejudice against Arabs as well as Jews. In other words, Islamophobia, a monster on the prowl across America and Europe and licking its lips, is also a manifestation of anti-Semitism. That said my use of the term anti-Semitism in this article relates only to prejudice against and loathing even hatred of Jews just because they are Jews.

A clear, early warning that anti-Israelism could be transformed into anti-Semitism was given by Yehoshafat Harkabi, a former Director of Israeli Military Intelligence, in his book ISRAEL'S FATEFUL HOUR, first published in Hebrew in 1986 and in English two years later. (He started out as a rabid right-winger and a supporter of Menachem Begin, arguably the most successful terrorist leader of modern times. But he, Harkabi, subsequently broke with Begin and launched a blistering attack on the ideological mindset of the proponents of Greater Israel and the expansionist policies of the Begin and Shamir governments. Instead of the policy of not yielding an inch and waiting for the Palestinians to surrender, he advocated negotiations with the PLO to establish an independent Palestinian state. "Israel must withdraw from the occupied territories with their growing Arab population" is the first sentence on the back cover of his book).

Comment: Indeed, without an awareness of the psychopathy at the heart of Zionism, and of ponerology in general, most people will think with their emotions, not their heads. A real injustice -- the Israelis' genocide of the Palestinians -- will breed more injustices, against Jews, regardless of whether they supported the Zionist state and its policies or not. It's the responsibility of all of us -- Jews included -- to speak out against the Zionist monstrosity. But first, that means getting educated. Hart's book, Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, is a good place to start, along with Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Joe Quinn's 9/11: The Ultimate Truth.


Windsock

Growing national unrest has many worried - even capitalists are talking about it

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© Jeff Roberson/Associated PressProtesters walk through a cloud of tear gas Monday, Aug. 18, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo.
"You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It's not if, it's when."

A few days before the dramatic events in Ferguson, Missouri, demonstrated so dramatically what decades of institutionalized inequality can do to a population, the economists at Standard & Poor's Ratings Services issued a report highlighting the dangers growing inequality holds for America's long-term economic growth.

More a research note summarizing findings on the topic than the presentation of new scholarship, the economists working for one of the premier institutions of American financial capitalism undoubtedly state that inequality is a clear and present danger to both the health of American society and the U.S. economy.

Something's happening here...

According to S&P's assessment, "extreme" levels of income inequality can harm growth over long periods of time, and in their view, the United States is approaching a level of inequality that is very near the threshold of being dangerous. As such, S&P says its 10-year growth forecast for the country has been lowered from 2.8 percent to 2.5 percent, noting that the country's economic prospects were much brighter five years ago than they are today.

A primary driver of this inequality, the rating agency continues, is growing disparities in education outcomes between rich and poor that are significantly dragging down overall growth rates. Indeed, S&P estimates that if the American workforce completed just one more year of schooling by 2021, "the resulting productivity gains could add about $525 billion, or 2.4%, to the level of GDP" relative to the agency's baseline prediction. Schooling - especially in terms of more Americans finishing college - is seen as crucial to lifting wages, incomes and well-being in the years ahead.

What's more, S&P goes on to challenge one of the most commonly held assumptions about growth held by the capitalist class in America: a rising tide inevitably lifts all boats. This, the agency's economists say, is not an accurate reflection of what is occurring in America today. Instead, in a country where the ultra-wealthy have captured an ever increasing segment of national income, the tide is merely lifting "a lifeboat carrying a few, surrounded by many treading water." Moreover, say these deeply conservative business economists, such a lifeboat "risks capsizing" the longer such a situation persists.

While not exactly a warning that revolution à la Marx might be around the corner, it is nonetheless a rather remarkable thing for those so close to the beating heart of Wall Street to say so openly and frankly. It is also a sentiment being echoed by others in our capitalist ruling class who are similarly disturbed by the possibilities opened up by an America that looks more like Mexico or Brazil than Western Europe. Consider, for instance, the open letter to "fellow zillionaires" penned by Nick Hanauer, a self-described "0.1%er" and serial entrepreneur who nonetheless warns that "the pitchforks are coming."

Comment: All the studies in the world won't make a difference to the 1%. They wishfully believe that life will go on as it has, and furthermore, they are perfectly entitled to it. A rude awakening is not far away.


Bad Guys

Is Michael Brown a martyr?

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© HUY MACH/ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH/APLesley McSpadden and Louis Head, the mother and stepfather of Michael Brown, on August 9th.
Michael Brown is dead. Eighteen years old, a young man gunned down - not just shot - by police in his neighborhood in Ferguson, Missouri.

Brown's experience earns international attention not because he is dead, but because of sustained outrage, first by his grieving family, then over video available from bystanders, then by people in his community denied answers, then by shocked citizens around the county.

Extrajudicial killing of Black Americans, especially our young men, is common today. Many pass unnoticed. So, why the attention to this murder?

Comment: Thank you for dying a horrible death before you had a chance to live the miserable, thankless life that most all Americans, especially minorities, live? His murder is tragic, and falling into a pit of sentimental nonsense, instead of seeking the answers as to what causes a society to reach such a state of decay, does nothing but show how tragic the situation truly is.


Pistol

Chicago goon cops shoot two teens to death after they refuse to drop their guns

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Two teens were shot to death by Chicago police in two separate incidents on Sunday after they refused to drop their guns and pointed them at officers, police and a police union spokesman said on Monday.

In the first incident, gang enforcement officers responded to a complaint of armed men on a west side block. When officers arrived, one of the men fled into a passageway and drew a handgun from his waistband, police said in a statement.

The suspect, 19, ran up a back staircase of a building, according to police union spokesman Pat Camden. An officer ordered the man to drop his gun, but he pointed it in the officer's direction, and the officer shot him, police said.

Comment: Great, let only all the crazy trigger-happy goon cops carry guns so that the rest of us have no defense against them! About now it's a great time to resurface this excellent SOTT focus about gun rights and control in America:

Liars, Gun Control and Money in a Culture of Violence