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Suspect arrested in Newman, CA, cop shooting; five others held

Erin Tracy and Kevin Valine
The Modesto Bee
Sat, 29 Dec 2018 16:23 UTC
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© Stanislaus County Sheriff's Dept.Officer Ronil Singh of Newman Police Department is survived by his wife, Anamika, and a five-month-old son, who are pictured next to him on Christmas
A valleywide manhunt lasting about 55 hours came to a sudden end Friday morning with the arrest of the man authorities say shot and killed a 33-year-old Newman Police Department corporal.

Gustavo Perez Arriaga, 32, was arrested in the small town of Lamont, just east of Bakersfield and about 200 miles from where he's suspected of killing Cpl. Ronil Singh after a traffic stop early Wednesday morning in east Newman.

Arriaga was on his way to Mexico, said Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson at a noon news conference Friday in Modesto as several of Singh's grieving family members, along with other county employees and media from throughout California listened to details of the arrest.
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Attention

5 monks injured in attack on Vienna church - robbery suspected


Sputnik
Thu, 27 Dec 2018 17:16 UTC
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© Sputnik / Stringer
A group of unidentified assailants attacked a church in the Austrian capital of Vienna on Thursday, the Kronen Zeitung newspaper reported.

According to the outlet, two gunmen attacked a Catholic church in the afternoon as gunshots were heard.

The EKO Cobra federal police anti-terrorism unit and the SWAT team of the Vienna Riot Squad had arrived at the scene of the incident, the report said.

According to preliminary data, from eight to 15 people have been injured in the attack.


Comment: According to later reports, five monks were tied up and left with head injuries. They had demanded money and valuables. So far, the assailants have not been caught.

See also: Suspect detained after shootout in Vienna historic center; witnesses say several gunmen involved

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Bullseye

Hunting season on Russian governor who allegedly killed hibernating bear and told teen to shoot caged boar


RT
Sat, 29 Dec 2018 16:15 UTC
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Governor Levchenko (r) shakes hands with a guide after killing a bear.
A Russian governor is in hot water after leaked footage of his hunting habits sparked public outrage. He is now facing prosecution for illegal hunting and his reputation has been marred by the media.

Sergey Levchenko, the governor of Siberia's Irkutsk Region, came under fire from both the law enforcement and national Russian television this week. The cause is the footage of a hunt, in which he and his family members participated and which is seen as highly inappropriate by many people.

In one episode of the hunt, the governor is seen shooting an apparently hibernating bear inside its den as other members of the session cheer on him. In another, a teenage boy, presumably the governor's grandson, is given a rifle and instructions to kill a boar lying inside a cage, which the boy does. The footage was reported by major Russian TV stations while the Prosecutor General ordered to check whether the hunt violated the laws of Russia.

The hunting scandal in Irkutsk started slowly in September when the bear-killing episode was leaked online in a three-minute video. The footage shows the governor first testing out a rifle and later approaching a bear den and shooting inside several times as a guide instructs him what to do. The men present congratulate the official with his first and discuss how the trophy is a good photo opportunity before dragging the slain bear out.

Comment: See also: New Russian law bans killing & mistreating animals, restricts petting zoos & illegal circuses

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Veteran Austrian journalist reporting on corruption in Ukraine fears for his life


RT
Thu, 27 Dec 2018 14:03 UTC
Ukrainian nationalists light flares during a procession in Kiev
© REUTERS / Gleb GaranichUkrainian nationalists light flares during a procession in Kiev
A veteran Austrian journalist has urged for action against media crackdown in Ukraine, saying he fears for his life after being labeled "a Kremlin agent" by a vigilante website, according to Kronen Zeitung.

Christian Wehrschuetz, a correspondent with Austria's leading ORF broadcaster, said it is increasingly hard for him and his employees to feel safe in modern-day Ukraine, Kronen Zeitung reported, citing excerpts from Wehrschuetz's letter to the channel's management and the Austrian government.

Wehrschuetz, who started his journalistic career in the mid-1980s, reportedly said there are "militant ultranationalist groups threatening journalists who critically report on the policies of Ukraine's leadership and try to stay objective."

Comment: Obviously the Western powers using Ukraine as a proxy to attack Russia are happy that their puppets are free to foster neo-Nazi's and nutjobs in their midst in the knowledge none of it will ever be publicized: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Donbass Leader Assassinated as Russia Exposes Chemical Plot in Syria

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Briefcase

Georgia family sues after cops storm mentally ill man's home shooting him 76 times

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 28 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC
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The family of a 26-year-old Atlanta man who was killed after police shot him 76 times has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the officers involved.

In August of 2016, police broke down the door of Jamarion Robinson's girlfriend's home in Parkside Camp Creek Luxury Apartments and began spraying the interior of the apartment with bullets. Robinson was killed by multiple police task force officers from several different departments, including the U.S. Marshal Service.

On that fateful day in August, police were serving a warrant for Robinson's arrest. Police claimed that during a previous confrontation, Robinson had fired a gun at officers. However, members of a local civil rights organization explained at a press conference on Wednesday that they didn't know why police were looking for Robinson.

"At the time of the shooting, Jamarion Robinson presented no threat to the defendant officers or anyone else," according to the lawsuit, filed in federal court.

The lawsuit claims that Robinson had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and that the responding officers were never trained in dealing with the mentally ill.

Comment: Georgia's police have made quite an unsavory reputation for themselves:

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Snakes in Suits

The ongoing decline of the American male

Jeff Minick
Intellectual Takeout
Wed, 26 Dec 2018 00:01 UTC
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"We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful." ~ C.S. Lewis, The Abolition Of Man

In the movie Falling Down, Bill Foster (Michael Douglas) is a defense engineer who has lost his family, his home, and his job. We follow him on the day he finally snaps, his despair morphing into rage against his misfortunes. Among other incidents, he shoots up a Mexican-American gang, berates the employees of a fast-food restaurant for the hamburger they serve him, kills a vicious neo-Nazi, and blows up part of a construction site. At the end of the film, held at gunpoint by a detective, Foster says in surprise, "I'm the bad guy?"

A lot of men are saying the same thing these days.

Comment: 'No man left behind' is taking on an ironic meaning in today's world - it seems that all men are being left behind. With growing perspective of masculinity as being 'toxic', what do we expect is going to happen? If the future is female, to the exclusion of the male, what kind of dystopian world can we expect to live in?

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Family

Study finds older women more conservative than men while younger women are more left-wing

Rosalind Shorrocks
Quillette
Sat, 29 Dec 2018 12:51 UTC
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© Reuters/Jonathan ErnstWomen with “Believe” and other words written on their hands outside the U.S. Supreme Court after the vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, October 6, 2018
Young women across Western Europe and Canada are more left wing than their male counterparts, according to new research I carried out that also shows among older voters women more likely to be right wing than men.

We already know that younger people are often more likely to vote for left-wing parties than their older peers, but it seems this trend is particularly pronounced among women. Younger women are the most left wing in their voting habits and older women the most right wing when we compared voters by age and gender. This is shown in a study using data on over 40,000 people from the World Values Survey/European Values Study in Western Europe and Canada, 1989-2014.

This trend is summarised in the graph below. Negative numbers indicate more men voting for a left-wing party in a given country. Positive numbers indicate more women voting for a left-wing party. In almost all countries, women born after 1955 are more likely to vote for left-wing parties than men of the same age group. Conversely, in many countries, women born before 1955 are less likely to vote for left-wing parties than their male peers.
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People

Second oldest women's college to accept transgender students

Jon Street
Campus Reform
Thu, 27 Dec 2018 17:54 UTC
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America's second oldest women-only college will begin accepting admission applications from transgender and "non-binary" candidates.

Stephens College in Columbia, Mo. made the announcement in a recent email to students. The college had been discussing the policy change since 2014, according to KOMU-TV.

The new policy will take effect beginning in fall 2019 and arrives not long after the Trump administration's proposed changes to Title IX, which would not legally define "gender," thus limiting one's gender identity to that of the sex assigned to them at birth: male or female. It is unclear what impact the proposed Title IX change, if implemented, could have on the new Stephens College policy.

The U.S. Education Department and Stephens College did not respond to a request for comment in time for publication.

"Admission and continued enrollment in Stephens College's undergraduate residential program will be restricted exclusively to women, including students who are legally identified as female and who self-identify as women; students who document an ongoing transition to female and who self-identify as women; and students who are legally identified as female but do not fit within the gender binary," the Stephens College email read.

Transgender and non-binary students who apply "will be required to prove that they identify and live as women through legal documentation," according to an explainer released by the college.

Comment: See also:

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House

UK landlords offering free rooms in return for sex amid record high homelessness


PressTV
Sat, 29 Dec 2018 10:10 UTC
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UK landlords offering free rooms in return for sex as the housing crisis deepens.
Landlords in the UK are offering young women rooms free of rent in return for sex, a trend that has been growing amid record-high homelessness in Britain.

Renting rooms for sexual favors is seen as a growing risk by homeless charities and campaigners, and a consequence of a housing crisis where young people are unable to find somewhere affordable to live.

The Ministry of Justice says offering accommodation in exchange for sex is illegal and even placing an advert is breaking the law and could result in a seven year jail term.

The problem has become particularly marked in university towns, where young women are targeted by rogue landlords.

Two landlords in Bristol were filmed by hidden cameras in September offering free rent in return for sex, in a sting aimed at exposing the dangers faced by female tenants.

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Stock Down

US debt soars nearly $1.4 trillion from last Christmas, rising $3.8 billion per day


RT
Fri, 28 Dec 2018 11:38 UTC
US debt
The year-on-year surge in US sovereign debt has totaled $1.37 trillion, the latest data released by the US Treasury Department shows.

The national debt reportedly rose to $21,863,635,176,724.12 as of December 20 of the current year compared to $20,492,874,492,282.58 on December 25, 2017.

The current US population stands at 328,082,386 according to the December statistics produced by the Census Bureau, a unit of the US Department of Commerce. Rough calculations show that Christmas-to-Christmas growth in the federal debt equals approximately $4,178.10 per average US citizen.

Comment: For an idea of why the country's economy is tanking, see:

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