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Footage from a bizarre ceremony in Tokyo Friday shows a suited Japanese groom exchanging vows with his cartoon VR girlfriend.
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Footage from a bizarre ceremony in Tokyo Friday shows a suited Japanese groom exchanging vows with his cartoon VR girlfriend.
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Over 2,000 people took part in the march "against the fascist and racist organization" and "for solidarity to migrants and against borders" on Friday, heading from Piazza Alimonda to Piazza De Ferrari in central Genoa, local media reported. A red and black banner, reading "anti-fascist Genoa," was carried at the head of the procession.
"We decided to get everyone behind a single banner, "anti-fascist Genoa," to emphasize the unity of the Genoese at this time of the great need," genova24.it cited activists as saying.
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DeMarlo Berry freed after being wrongly imprisoned for 22 years.
DeMarlo Berry freed after being wrongly imprisoned for 22 years.
On Thursday, the Clark County district attorney's office announced the conclusion to an investigation by the newly launched Conviction Review Unit (CRU). It concluded that DeMarlo Berry, 42, was wrongfully convicted of burglary, robbery and murder.
On Friday morning, Berry was released into a world he did not recognize.
"It was a surreal moment, just taking it all in," Berry said at a news conference on Friday, adding the the feeling of freedom was a "sensory overload," according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
The video, which was recorded and uploaded to YouTube by "Hezakya News," shows a scene in which police already have the suspect pinned down on the ground. Because so much of the incident is not captured on video, it has yet to be determined what kind of an encounter led to police attempting to arrest the man.
Pointing out an important aspect of the encounter, North Miami Beach Police Officer Ericson Harrell—who has a reputation for being highly critical of his fellow boys in blue—wrote the following Facebook post about the psychological tactics used by police:
"Did you know police are in fact trained to shout, "Stop resisting?" Someone somewhere did a study showing if witnesses are out of eyesight of the encounter, psychologically they will perceive the person to be resisting. Thanks to cell phone footage we have seen cops yelling, 'Stop resisting, stop resisting', when the individual clearly isn't resisting because he's been trained to say it."
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An American Civil Liberties Union report alleges that Orange County sheriff's deputies assaulted inmates at county jails.
An American Civil Liberties Union report alleges that Orange County sheriff's deputies assaulted inmates at county jails.
The report also alleges that holding cells for the inmates are filthy, smeared with human waste and packed with people sleeping on the floors. In one case, deputies slammed a woman's face against the wall, handcuffed her to a wheelchair and "paraded" her around while she was partially nude, she told the ACLU.
Those are some of the findings described in the 104-page report on the county's jails by the ACLU, which said it spent two years investigating the second-largest jail system in the state.
The ACLU based its report on post-release surveys of 120 inmates, interviews with those incarcerated, reports by the Orange County grand jury and media accounts. ACLU advocates said their investigation is the first public glimpse of the county's jail from the point of view of the people who inhabit them.
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Burnet Institute researcher Dr. Megan Lim, who headed the study of 940 Australians aged 15 to 29 years old, said she was surprised by the results.
"All the young men in our study said they'd seen pornography, and so did the majority of women. They also reported seeing pornography at quite high frequency," Lim told Burnet Institute's official page.
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Members of Brazil's Homeless Workers Movement (MTST) block a highway during the general strike in Eldorado do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil June 30, 2017
Members of Brazil's Homeless Workers Movement (MTST) block a highway during the general strike in Eldorado do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil June 30, 2017
Labor unions called the demonstrations on Friday, demanding that the authorities roll back the social security and welfare reforms initiated by Temer, local media reported.
The protests shut down subway and bus services. Highways were also blocked, causing major traffic delays in Brasil, Sao Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro.
In Sao Paulo, protests blocked some of the city's main roads and highways and hindered access to Guarulhos Airport, the nation's biggest.
Comment: Unlike Venezuela where much of the opposition is being spurred on by outside forces (ie. the CIA) what we're seeing in Brazil is an ultimate response to the CIA and US Government's inspired coup against democratically elected Dilma Rousseff. Anyway you cut it, the 'Secret Team' or US Deep State is underhandedly working to destabilize and exploit any country it can, wherever it can - if it thinks it can somehow profit by it.
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Giuseppe Mastini, 57, also known as 'Johnny the Gypsy', is an infamous criminal who reportedly engaged in a series of murders, kidnappings and robberies in Rome in the 1980s.
Mastini had been on probationary day release from northern Italy's Fossano prison since November to allow him to work at the prison police academy in Savona, reports Corriere della Sera. However, he failed to return to jail Friday evening.
It's believed the criminal made his escape by car from his local train station. A nationwide manhunt is currently underway, reports La Stampa.
The rally, titled 'Not One Day More #ToriesOut', started at BBC Broadcasting House in Portland Place and finished at the Houses of Parliament in Westminster.
Before the event, at least 10,000 people said on Facebook they would attend the protest organized by the People's Assembly Against Austerity (PAAA) group.
"Theresa May called the General Election to gain a bigger majority, and despite massive media bias in favour of the Conservatives, she failed spectacularly to deliver on that," a PAAA statement reads.Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn addressed the crowd at Parliament Square.
"Now the Tories are in chaos trying to prop up a government with the deeply conservative and regressive DUP."
"We're marching against a government committed to austerity, cuts and privatisation," the group adds. "We're marching for a decent health service, education system, housing, jobs and living standards for all."
Israel arresting Palestinians for "incitement" Facebook posts - resistance to occupation is verboten
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An ongoing narrative popular among Israeli propagandists in the past few years blames the nebulous concept of "incitement" for the phenomenon of Palestinians fighting back against Israel's brutal occupation forces. A Mossad proxy organisation misleadingly known as the "Israel Law Centre" (aka Shurat HaDin) has even launched lawsuits against Facebook for supposedly facilitating terrorism. A US federal court threw the billion-dollar case out in May.
Last year, Israel's anti-BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) minister Gilad Erdan claimed that Israeli blood was "on the hands of Facebook" and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Shurat HaDin even organised a campaign to raise money for a billboard that would have been erected outside Zuckerberg's home.
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