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Georgia police break man's jaw, lose his puppy, toss his camera in pond to cover it up

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 00:00 UTC
Georgia Police
A Georgia man's personal body camera footage is the only evidence being publicly released showing his alleged assault by Chatham sheriff's deputy Franklin R. Rollins Jr. Luckily for the victim, Anthony Oliver, his body camera is waterproof and survived being thrown into a nearby pond by the deputy seemingly covering up his crimes.

The incident happened on January 23 of this year and all stemmed from an alleged clerical error for an $81 fine. According to Oliver, he was attempting to deliver a puppy at 9 a.m. that morning when a man in a black truck rammed him from behind causing "extreme" damage to his car.

When Oliver got out of his vehicle to assess the damage and talk to the person who hit him, he says that man pulled a gun and never identified himself. Oliver then jumped back into his car and called 911 as the armed man in the black truck began chasing him.
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Diplomatic source reveals terrorists in Syria plan chemical weapons provocation in Daraa Province


Sputnik
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 21:32 UTC
Aleppo university students donning chemical suits
© AFP 2017/ JM LOPEZ
Terrorist groups in Syria are preparing a provocation with use of chemical weapons in the country's Daraa province on analogy with May attack in Idlib, a diplomatic source told Sputnik on Thursday.
"Terrorists will blow up multiple ammunition filled with poisoning materials in near future in one of Daraa province areas. The provocation will be carried out on analogy with the situation in Idlib in the beginning of 2017," the source said.
The information about the plans was reportedly obtained from authorized sources in the political and military leadership of Syria. The recent statements by the White House concerning a potential chemical attack and a warning that if Syrian President Bashar Assad conducted another chemical attack on civilians, both "he and his military" would pay a heavy price, has become an essential motivation for the terrorists, the source added.

Comment: Russia seems to also know about this: Zakharova: Russia is aware of potential locations for false flag attacks in Syria

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Info

Donetsk university partially destroyed in likely explosive device blast


RT
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 21:17 UTC
A general view shows a building of the Donetsk National University of Economics and Trade
© Alexander Ermochenko / Reuters
A general view shows a building of the Donetsk National University of Economics and Trade, Ukraine June 29, 2017.
The University of Commerce in central Donetsk has been partially destroyed in what the head of the emergency services of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) has described preliminarily as a blast caused by an explosive device.

"Preliminarily, judging from the nature of the damage, this was an explosive device," the head of the DPR's emergency services Aleksey Kostrubitsky told journalists, as cited by RIA Novosti.

Earlier, a spokesperson for the DPR administration described what happened as a "terrorist act," saying that the university's auditorium and part of the library were destroyed.
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Crazy Marxists want to give homes to Grenfell survivors. Thankfully, we live in a fair capitalist society

Mark Steel
The Independent
Thu, 22 Jun 2017 00:00 UTC
grenfell
© Jonathan Brady/PA
Protest posters at a rally in Whitehall on Saturday.
Sometimes the terms used in politics, such as Marxism and capitalism, can be confusing. So it was helpful for Tory MPs such as Andrew Bridgen to offer a simple explanation this week. He suggested the proposal of Jeremy Corbyn, that survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire should be housed in properties left empty by speculators, "fits in with his hard Marxist views".

It's always welcome when someone explains complex ideas in a way we can all understand. Now, when someone asks
"what is a crazy Marxist?", all you have to say is, "it's someone silly enough to believe that if someone's house has burned down, they should be allowed to stay in an empty house."
Thankfully we live in a fair capitalist society, so if a Russian oligarch has gone to all the trouble of buying a flat in Kensington and leaving it empty, we won't let some sod enjoy that wealth when they've done nothing to earn it except run screaming in terror from a raging inferno.

Comment: Where is the humanity? This is the kind of mentality we are dealing with here:



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Wolf

34 previous convictions!? Ireland judge agrees to give one last chance to convicted sex offender

Liz Farsaci and Declan Brennan
Independent, Ireland
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:26 UTC
Munir Ghariani
© Collins Courts
Munir Ghariani
A judge has agreed to give one last chance to a convicted sex offender who poses a risk to public safety.

Munir Ghariani (26) received a suspended jail term last May after he admitted attacking a woman on a street "for the thrill". At the time, Judge Melanie Greally warned Ghariani that she would have "no hesitation" in reactivating the three-year sentence if he broke any of the conditions for his release.

Today the Probation Service brought the case back before Judge Greally because of his failure to meet with Probation Officers.

His probation officer Michelle Richardson said she had not seen him in person since his sentencing. She said that a man posing such a risk to public safety as Ghariani needs to present himself regularly to the Probation Service.
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Bulb

Unlike recent hysterical celebrities, Jeff Bridges is taking a laid-back approach to Trump presidency

BOBBY CAINA CALVAN
Associated Press
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:55 UTC
jeff bridges
Jeff Bridges played a president in "The Contender," a political flick released nearly two decades ago in the wake of President Bill Clinton's White House scandals.

But when it comes to critiquing the role of today's real-life president, Bridges is a lot more laid back than some of his fellow celebrities. How would The Dude, the character he played in "The Big Lebowski," handle things?

He likely wouldn't be dangling a severed head in the likeness of President Donald Trump, as comedian Kathy Griffin came under fire for. Neither would The Dude joke about killing the president as Johnny Depp recently did. Griffin and Depp later apologized.
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Gold Seal

Consortium News' Robert Parry awarded Martha Gellhorn prize for journalism

John Pilger
johnpilger.com
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:33 UTC
robert parry martha gellhorn
John Pilger made the following remarks in presenting the 15th Martha Gellhorn Prize to the American journalist Robert Parry at a dinner in London on 27 June 2017...
There are too many awards for journalism. Too many simply celebrate the status quo. The idea that journalists ought to challenge the status quo - what Orwell called Newspeak and Robert Parry calls 'groupthink' - is becoming increasingly rare.

More than a generation ago, a space opened up for a journalism that dissented from the groupthink and flourished briefly and often tenuously in the press and broadcasting. Today, that space has almost closed in the so-called mainstream media. The best journalists have become - often against their will - dissidents.

The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism recognises these honourable exceptions. It is very different from other prizes. Let me quote in full why we give this award:
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Chess

Legal challenge against British intelligence could force disclosure of secret operations


RT
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 16:57 UTC
MI6 Building
© Pete Maclaine / Global Look Press
MI6 Building, London, United Kingdom
A legal challenge brought against British intelligence services aims to shed light on the nature of their most secretive operations.

Civil rights groups Reprieve and Privacy International want to make public the allegedly highly intrusive activities of the UK's security agencies by bringing a case before the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.

The tribunal is responsible for overseeing the activities of the UK's intelligence agencies, including MI5, MI6 and GCHQ.

The legal action is concerned with the set of "directions" issued by then-Prime Minister David Cameron, enabling the Intelligence Services Commissioner to supervise highly invasive and covert intelligence activities.

Two of these directions were subsequently released to the public with certain redactions.
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No Entry

Lawyers to set up shop at New York's JFK airport as Trump travel ban takes effect


CBS News - New York
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 16:38 UTC
Trump travel ban
© Marianique Santos/DoD
President Donald Trump's revised temporary travel ban is set to go into effect Thursday.

It impacts travelers from Libya, Syria, Iran, Somalia, Yemen and Sudan.

Visa applicants in those six Muslim-majority countries will have to prove a relationship with family already in the U.S. to enter. If not, they'll be banned for at least 90 days. The new rules take effect at 8 p.m. EST, according to the State Department.

At least a dozen attorneys will volunteer at John F. Kennedy Airport's Terminal 4, where they will monitor the effects of the ban and assist passengers where needed, 1010 WINS' Glenn Schuck reported.
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Pistol

Shooting of 17-year-old in Georgia linked to feud between transgender groups

Joe Johnson
Online Athens
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 15:38 UTC
Rayquann Deonte Jernigan
© Online Athens
Rayquann Deonte Jernigan
The weekend fatal shooting of a teen at an apartment complex near downtown Athens was the culmination of a feud between two transgender groups, Athens-Clarke County police confirmed Wednesday.

Rayquann Deonte Jernigan, 17, who was known to friends by the chosen name of Ava Le'Ray Barrin, was killed Sunday morning by a single gunshot fired by 21-year-old Jalen Breon Brown in the parking lot of Riverview Apartments on College Avenue, police said.

Neither lived in the complex and both were there to visit friends who did live there when the deadly confrontation occurred, said Capt. Jerry Saulters, commanding officer of the Athens-Clarke County police Criminal Investigations Division.

The initial argument that started the feud was not even between Brown and Jernigan, who had not yet legally changed his name, Saulters said.
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