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Patience, respect and compassion: How to become an officer of the peace

Alek Hidell
We Are Anonymous
Sun, 26 Jun 2016 16:34 UTC
peace officer
Matthew Cooke is dedicating himself to do at least one thing each week to engage in democracy. Do you have it in you to join him?

Mathew Cooke is more than a Hollywood director. He is an activist with a camera. Cooke directed the 2012 film How To Make Money Selling Drugs, a realistic look at the war on drugs and those who profit from it. Most recently, Cooke focused his efforts on the US prison system in the soon-to-be-released film The Survivor's Guide To Prison. He has spent many years exposing the police state through his documentaries and his video shorts.

Cooke's website features new videos weekly.

Comment: Great sentiments for officers with a conscience. Unfortunately, police departments are overrun with psychopaths and they typically don't respond well to pleas for compassion.

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Stock Down

World markets hemorrhage in wake of Brexit vote

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Sun, 26 Jun 2016 16:12 UTC
burning euro
More stock market wealth was lost on Friday than on any other day in world history. As you will see below, global investors lost two trillion dollars on the day following the Brexit vote. And remember, this is on top of the trillions that global investors have already lost over the past 12 months. It is important to understand that the Brexit vote was not the beginning of a new crisis - it has simply accelerated a global financial crisis that started last year and that was already in the process of unfolding. As I noted on Friday, we have been waiting for "the next Lehman Brothers moment" that would really unleash fear and panic globally, and now we have it. The next six months should be absolutely fascinating to watch.

According to CNBC, the total amount of money lost on global stock markets on Friday surpassed anything that we had ever seen before, and that includes the darkest days of the financial crisis of 2008...
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Saudi twins kill own mother for opposing their joining IS terrorists


RT
Mon, 27 Jun 2016 02:44 UTC
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© Getty
Detectives believe the young men used meat cleavers to first stab their mother
Twin brothers in Riyadh have stabbed their entire family, killing their mother and seriously injuring their father and elder brother. The 20-year-olds are reportedly loyal to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).

The twins, Khalid and Saleh Al Areeni, allegedly carried out the attack in their family home in the Saudi capital on Friday. According to investigators, the young men first stabbed their mother with a cleaver and sharp knives brought from the outside, before going after their father. They then chased their elder brother and stabbed him multiple times as well. Having thought the entire family was finished, the twins fled the scene in a stolen car.

The two stabbed men were critically injured and taken to hospital, while the woman died on the spot. Hundreds turned up at the slain mother's funeral this weekend, Gulf News reported, adding that people prayed for her as they would for a terror victim.
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Cop bodyslams handcuffed man for refusing orders to sit

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 26 Jun 2016 15:39 UTC
police brutality
A disturbing video was uploaded to Facebook showing a Philadelphia SEPTA police officer slam a handcuffed man to the concrete. The reason for the cop slamming down the non-violent man was that he was not obeying his command to sit.

As the video begins, the officer is threatening the man filming the interaction with arrest. He then turns his attention back to the man in handcuffs.

During their exchange, the officer admits he handcuffed the man for the simple reason that he did not provide his ID fast enough. When the man in cuffs attempts to explain that he could not hear the officer due to having his headphones in, the cop wants nothing of it.

"I had my headphones in. Obviously, I couldn't hear you," explains the man, sending the cop into drill instructor mode.
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Cop who shot at fleeing teen claims driver tried to run him over; video proves otherwise

Rob Beschizza
Boingboing
Sat, 25 Jun 2016 14:03 UTC

In his police report, officer Robert Cooper claims he was "barely able to get out of the way" as a teen driver tried to run him over, forcing him to shoot into a moving vehicle. But his own dashcam footage made a liar of him.
A police video released Thursday by the State Law Enforcement Division of the May 19 shooting of a motorist by a Forest Acres police officer shows the officer firing seven shots into a slow-moving car as the motorist began to drive away.

"Stop! Stop! Do not make me shoot you!" yells the officer, who is on foot in front of the vehicle with his weapon drawn and pointed at the car's windshield. The driver is inside a small sedan and is the car's only occupant.
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Pistol

Dog snuffers: US-owned security firm slaughters 24 working sniffer dogs for loss of Kuwait oil contract


RT
Sun, 26 Jun 2016 04:26 UTC
boots and dead dog
© Saad Shalash / Reuters
Two dozen bomb-sniffing dogs were killed by an American-owned security firm in Kuwait after its contract with a local oil company expired. The owners say they killed 24 dogs "humanely" because they were sick. The animals were slaughtered on June 17. There are a further 100 or so dogs at risk of being killed, according to Kuwait Animal Rescue Unit, an animal rights group.

Earlier this week, the group posted graphic pictures on social media showing bodies of dead dogs piled up in corridors inside the base of Eastern Securities of Kuwait. In one of the pictures, a man is seen resting his foot on a dog's corpse. This US-owned company provided services to Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC).

Kuwait Animal Rescue Unit says the security firm killed 24 of its sniffer dogs after losing a contract with the oil company, which reportedly paid Eastern Securities $9,900 monthly for each dog. KNPC has denied being involved in the slaughter. In an interview with the Kuwaiti News Agency, official spokesman Khaled Al-Asousi said the contract with Eastern Securities was terminated after the dogs failed to sniff out explosives during a third-party test.
dead dogs
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Comment: Man's cruelty knows no bounds. Working dogs have skills and value, have been precisely trained to do their job and should be regarded as such. This company should be choke-chained.

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Syringe

Arizona says it has no more lethal drugs left to carry out death penalty executions


RT
Sat, 25 Jun 2016 09:33 UTC
death row
The US state of Arizona says it doesn't have any more lethal drugs left to carry out executions after a lawsuit was filed by seven inmates on death row, who say the state is using harmful drugs that violate a ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

The Arizona Department of Corrections says its supply of midazolam, which is a sedative that has been linked to botched lethal injections, ran out on May 31. State lawyers say they have been unable to find replacements as they filed proceedings at Phoenix's US District Court.

Comment: See also: Pfizer puts a halt to its drugs being used for lethal injection

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Newspaper

'Captivity is degrading': Buenos Aires to shut down its zoo

Elahe Izadi
Washington Post
Sun, 26 Jun 2016 15:48 UTC
rhino
© Juan Mabromata/AFP/Getty
A Rhino at the Buenos Aires Zoo, June 24, 2016.
The Argentinian capital has hosted a zoo for more than 140 years. But that's coming to an end, Buenos Aires Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta announced this week, as he unveiled plans to transform the facility into an ecological park.

"This situation of captivity is degrading for the animals, it's not the way to take care of them," he said Thursday, the Guardian reported.

"Animals have to live in their habitat, not in the middle of buildings," the mayor tweeted.

Most of the Buenos Aires Zoo's 1,500 animals will be relocated to Argentinian sanctuaries and to locations overseas, according to the Associated Press. Some of the birds will be released in a riverside ecological reserve spanning 864 acres in the city.

Comment: Great news for the captives. Zoos are little more than animal prisons.

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Water

Dying of thirst: Privatization of water as an owned commodity rather than a Universal Human Right

Joachim Hagopian
Global Research
Thu, 23 Jun 2016 17:32 UTC
water crisis
© watergrabbing.net
First published in April 2014: There is no greater natural resource on this earth than water. As the sustenance of all life, water keeps every living and breathing organism, every plant, every animal and every human being on this planet alive. In the same way that without air to breathe, without water we humans cannot sustain life for more than a few days.

Due to global warming, widespread drought and increasingly polluted water systems, the projected availability of clean freshwater in years to come to meet the rising demands of a growing global population is among the most daunting human challenges of this century. By 2015 a 17% increase in global water demand is projected just for increasing agriculturally produced food. By the same year 2025, the growing global population will increase water consumption needs by a whopping 40%. While oil played the keenly critical role during the twentieth century, water is being deemed the most valued precious natural resource of the twenty-first century.

As such, several years ago the United Nations declared access to clean drinking water a universal human right. Conversely, willfully denying it is considered a serious human rights violation that denies life itself. And any calculated decision denying people their universal right to life is nothing short of a murderous, shameful crime against humanity.

Comment: Check out the documentary FLOW - For the Love of Water
Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis.

Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.

Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question "CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?"

Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround.


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Airplane

American Airlines plane fills with smoke; passengers forced to evacuate

Anthony Joseph
Daily Mail
Sun, 26 Jun 2016 14:49 UTC
American airlines plane

Smoke could be seen coming from the rear of the aircraft, forcing passengers to flee to safety.

Passengers have been forced to evacuate an American Airlines flight in London today due to smoke in the cabin.

The incident happened at 12.30pm at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 3, with around a dozen people having to use the emergency slides to get out of the plane.

Emergency services have been called to the scenes as the passengers made their way to safety.

A 50-second video was posted on Twitter by Ross Hiscock, 28, who was on another plane.

It shows the American Airlines passengers throwing themselves down the slides at the rear of the aircraft.

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