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Cop acquitted for felony rape even though five videos show him having sex with a child

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 07 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
Acquitted cop
© UnknownEx-NYPD Police Officer Raul Olmeda
Flexing his mighty blue privilege granted to him by his badge, a former NYPD cop was acquitted on felony child rape and sex abuse charges this month — despite filming the interactions with the 15-year-old victim himself. Instead of going to jail for years, like he should have, this cop will likely escape any actual accountability.

The ex-NYPD Police Officer Raul Olmeda was accused of recording his sexual encounters with the 15-year-old girl on at least five occasions. He was confronted with these videos by investigators and the teen admitted to the acts. These facts were indisputable, yet Olmeda was acquitted.

Instead of facing the time in prison for the felony rape charges, Olmeda was convicted of two petty misdemeanors of official misconduct and witness tampering. The witness tampering stems from the fact that Olmeda told the girl not to testify against him in court. The official misconduct charge was brought on after this cop was caught accessing NYPD computers to see what evidence internal affairs had against him.
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American footballer Megan Rapinoe hoping for settlement in gender discrimination suit against US Soccer

Amy Tennery
KFGO
Tue, 15 Oct 2019 19:17 UTC
Megan Rapinoe
Megan Rapinoe
U.S. women's national team standout Megan Rapinoe said she's "optimistic" that she and her fellow players can reach an agreement in their gender discrimination suit against U.S. Soccer, but that they're also ready for a fight.

"I'm always open, I think the team is always open for a settlement," Rapinoe told Reuters on Tuesday, a day before a Women's Sports Foundation gala at which she and her 2019 World Cup-winning squad were set to be honored.


Comment: So is this not about increasing the pay of female footballers? A settlement is a nice chunk of cash for those included in the suit, but what about all others who won't benefit? The so-called wage gap won't go away.


"I don't think anyone really ever wants to go to trial or to take this thing to that level. But obviously if we have to, we will," said Rapinoe, who won the Golden Boot and Golden Ball at this year's World Cup.

"We're not willing to compromise on what we know is right and what we know we deserve and have already earned."
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Watch as Highway Patrol trooper pushes unconscious man from car just seconds before train crash


RT
Wed, 16 Oct 2019 23:26 UTC
Officer saves man
© Twitter/Utah Highway Patrol
A man who fell unconscious and got stuck on railway tracks walked away from a train crash unscathed, thanks to the quick thinking of a heroic Utah Highway Patrol trooper, who pulled him out with just seconds to spare.

The movie-like rescue by UHP Trooper Ruben Correa early on Wednesday was caught on the dashboard camera of his car, producing truly terrifying - yet awesome - material.

Footage from the scene shows Correa checking on a SUV that smashed through a barrier and got stuck on railway tracks. It took him some 30 seconds to get out of his cruiser, get to the car and pull its driver out - literally moments before it was struck by a train.
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Chicago public school teachers on strike as union and mayor fail to reach deal

Gregory Pratt, Hannah Leone, Juan Perez Jr. and Javonte Anderson
Chicago Tribune
Thu, 17 Oct 2019 11:45 UTC
Chicago public teachers strike 2019
© Antonio Perez / Chicago TribuneVice President of Chicago Teachers Union Stacy Davis Gates speaks to the media concerning negotiations between the union and the mayor on Oct. 16, 2019.
It's official — Chicago Public Schools teachers are on strike and hit picket lines early Thursday after failing to reach a new contract deal with the city following months of negotiations.

In announcing the Chicago Teachers Union's first open-ended walkout since 2012, President Jesse Sharkey said teachers and school support staff deserve "to have pay and benefits that give us dignity and respect. I don't think we are there on that yet."

Even before the formal decision to strike, the union's overtures toward a walkout prompted Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago schools chief Janice Jackson to preemptively cancel Thursday classes, though the hundreds of schools in the district will remain open for children who need a safe place to go.

Lightfoot told reporters after the official word came down Wednesday night that she was "disappointed" with CTU's decision.

"We will remain at the table," Lightfoot said. "We hope CTU will as well. I hope this work stoppage will end soon."
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Dior brand genuflects to 'one China' policy, apologizes over map of China lacking Taiwan

Brenda Goh
Reuters
Wed, 16 Oct 2019 17:06 UTC
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French luxury brand Christian Dior apologized on Thursday and said it supported China's territorial sovereignty after it was criticized for using a map of China that excluded Taiwan in a presentation.

Taiwan is China's most sensitive territorial issue. Beijing considers the self-ruled island a wayward province and part of "one China".

The incident involving the map occurred during a presentation Dior was making about its boutique network at Zhejiang Gongshang University in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, posts on China's Weibo social media platform showed.

A staff member at the university's careers office told Reuters that Dior had held a recruitment event on Wednesday and there had been an issue with the maps it had shown.

Dior, which is part of luxury group LVMH (LVMH.PA), said in a post on its Weibo account that it had started to "seriously investigate" the incident.

Comment: China's repeated bouts of hysteria over Taiwan have a lot in common with Israel's. In this case, as with the recent NBA controversy, it all comes down to money: these countries want Chinese business, and China demands ideological conformity. But really, who should care what the Chinese government thinks? Or the Israeli government? Or any government? The only thing that really matters is what the people think.

The West considers Crimea to be Ukrainian, for example. The Russians don't throw a hissy fit. They know Crimea is Russian. Crimeans know Crimea is Russian. Over 95% of Crimeans voted to return to Russia, and polls show that over 85% of Crimeans would vote the same today. How many Taiwanese want to rejoin China? 10-15%. (See here, here and here.) China could benefit by toning down the snowflakery.

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Multiculturalism is 'great': Nearly half of immigrant descendants in Denmark think it should be illegal to criticize religion


RT
Thu, 17 Oct 2019 17:09 UTC
european muslims
© Reuters / Andrew Kelly
Nearly 50 percent of descendants of non-Western immigrants in Denmark think it should be illegal to criticize religion — a sharp contrast with the numbers of ethnic Danes, a new survey shows.

The report from the Immigration and Integration Ministry found that descendants of immigrants are more interested in defending religion than recent immigrants who have been settled in the country.

While 48 percent of descendants said criticizing religion should be illegal, only 42 percent of first-generation immigrants who have been in Denmark for three years or more said the same.

For ethnic Danes, the number who want to get rid of the freedom to criticize religion was dramatically lower at only 20 percent.

Despite the conflicting views on freedom of speech regarding religion between immigrants and ethnic Danes, the survey also found that immigrants have begun to feel more Danish than they did 10 years ago. Tolerance for homosexuality has also risen, the Copenhagen Post reported.

At the same time, the number of 'new Danes' who believe women should only be allowed to marry a man approved by their family has risen.
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'Lazarus phenomena': Declared dead twice by two hospitals, woman revives and dies again in Chandigarh, India


The Times of India
Wed, 16 Oct 2019 23:56 UTC
corpse on gurney
In first documented case of its kind in India, a woman was recently officially declared dead twice by two different city hospitals, and on both occasions she was alive until being declared dead.

The 45-year-old woman, who was earlier declared dead by another hospital, was brought to the Emergency of the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH)-32, Chandigarh. Her carotid artery pulse was beating, her ECG showed spikes and her vital organs were intact. However, after undergoing treatment for two hours, she died.

The case was reported by the GMCH 32 doctors recently at their conference.

According to them, last month, the woman was declared dead in the Government Multispecialty Hospital (GMSH)-16. However, after a gap of 3 hours, when the body was packed and kept in the ambulance, her relatives noticed signs of her body regaining life.

"She was taken to GMCH-32 and admitted to the Emergency and given treatment. However, she died again after 2 hours. In medical terms, this is called 'Lazarus phenomena' and worldwide only 38 such cases have been reported so far," said Dr Dasari Harish, head of the forensic medicine department, GMCH-32.

Comment: A number of variants of this scenario have come to light in other news stories:

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Shameful: Millions hungry and food insecure in the US

Stephen Lendman
stephenlendman.org
Wed, 16 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
food pantry
Poverty, unemployment, underemployment, hunger, food insecurity, and overall deprivation affect million of households in the world's richest country USA.

Why? It's because both right wings of its war party devote most of the nation's discretionary income for militarism, maintaining the Pentagon's global empire of bases, and endless aggression in multiple theaters — along with bailouts for and handouts to corporate America.

In the new millennium alone, countless trillions of dollars went for the above interests, combined with tax cuts for the rich, while food stamps and other social justice programs are fast eroding to help pay for them as the national debt soars by over $1 trillion annually.

Most US households with one or more working members have little or no savings — leaving them vulnerable to hunger and homelessness from one or more missed paychecks.

According to Feeding America, 79% of US households the organization aids rely on "inexpensive unhealthy food to feed their families," 84% of households with children functioning this way.
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African swine fever outbreak devastates world food supply

Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Global Research
Wed, 16 Oct 2019 01:00 UTC
swine fever deaths
You cannot get away from it, at least in print or in Google land. African swine fever is doing its rounds, cutting through the swine population of Asia with remorseless dedication. Since its deadly debut in China last year, it has done away with some 25 percent of the globe's pig population. The symptoms are dramatic and lethal (mortality rates range from 95 to 100 percent), with the infected animal haemorrhaging and perishing between a period of five to fifteen days. This decline has sparked all manner of comment: a feared deprivation of pork dishes, a spark of hope in exports of pork untouched by the disease and alternative meat supplies, and the more serious issue of food security.

In China itself, the decline of pork is causing a strain of desperation, though it is always marked by reassurance and stiff-upper lip confidence. Pork supplies, both domestically and internationally, had been seen to be something of an essential in Chinese food security. In September, the country's pig population, numbering some 440 million animals, had shrunk by 41.1 percent. While figures coming out of various Chinese ministries should be viewed with a healthy dose of scepticism, the numbers from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs have caused a stir. Such contractions are perpetuating and will continue to perpetuate a loss in the global consumption of protein.
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Rush hour rumble: Livid Londoners drag Extinction Rebellion protesters off Tube train roof


RT
Thu, 17 Oct 2019 13:48 UTC
Extinction Rebellion London Tube
© Courtesy ITV NewsWell done to the gutsy commuters who removed the Extinction Rebellion idiots from their train.
Extinction Rebellion's planned protest to disrupt public transport in London during rush hour took an unexpected turn when commuters dragged the activists off a train roof before staff came to their aid.

The scene unfolded at Canning Town Tube station on the Jubilee line, where the protesters were besieged on all sides of the trains before being unceremoniously dragged back down to Earth and dumped on the platform.

London Underground staff were forced to intervene to defend the protesters from the angry crowd.

Comment: Paul Joseph Watson of Summit News adds:
London Underground staff had to intervene to prevent the protesters getting a substantial beating.

Another video shows commuters arguing with one of the protesters before forcing her to admit she's a hypocrite.


Police said four protesters were arrested.

The official Extinction Rebellion Twitter account later tried to compare their activists to Rosa Parks, despite the fact the footage shows white middle class activists being confronted by a mixed crowd which includes numerous black people.

As we document in the video below, the 'Extinction Rebellion' protest movement is one huge virtue signal centered around middle and upper middle class people lecturing working class people on how to live their lives.




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