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"The police are out of control": St. Louis dept mired in corruption and violence, two charged with death of patron during bar altercation

Jim Salter
AP
Tue, 29 Jan 2019 12:00 UTC
Officer William Olsten
© HEATHER DE MIANOfficer William Olsten has been charged with assault tied to an April 2018 bar shooting.
Two St. Louis police officers have been charged in a shooting outside a bar, the latest embarrassment for a department still reeling from an officer's shooting death at the hands of a colleague.

Prosecutors on Monday charged officers Joseph Schmitt and William Olsten with first-degree assault and armed criminal action stemming from a violent altercation last April. Schmitt also faces a weapons charge.

The charges come just days after Officer Katlyn Alix, 24, was fatally shot while allegedly playing with a gun with a colleague, Nathaniel Hendren. He is accused of involuntary manslaughter .

And in November, four St. Louis officers were accused in a federal indictment of beating a black undercover colleague during a 2017 protest against police. That same protest has spawned more than a dozen federal lawsuits alleging that several officers roughed up innocent demonstrators, onlookers and journalists.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Para-military Police State: U.S. cops out of control?

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NPC

Democrats move to strike 'so help me God' from House committee oath

Gregg Re
Fox News
Wed, 30 Jan 2019 10:31 UTC
Nancy Pelosi
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A key committee in the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives is moving to eliminate the God reference from the oath administered to witnesses testifying before the panel, as part of a new rules package expected to be approved this week, according to a draft obtained exclusively by Fox News.

The draft shows that the House Committee on Natural Resources would ask witnesses to recite only, "Do you solemnly swear or affirm, under penalty of law, that the testimony that you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?"

The rules proposal places the words "so help you God" in red brackets, indicating they are slated to be cut. The words "under penalty of law" are in red text, indicating that Democrats propose to add that phrasing to the oath.
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Twitter erupts after EU bigwig Verhofstadt's 'choose your own identity' mantra


RT
Wed, 30 Jan 2019 10:31 UTC
Guy Verhofstadt
Guy Verhofstadt, Belgium's staunch pro-EU politician, tried to hail the pan-European cause on Twitter, claiming that multiple identities don't clash in the continent, provoking the ire of Europeans and Catalans in particular.

"I am from Gent, I am Flemish, I live in Belgium and I am European," he says in a video he uploaded to Twitter. "There is no contradictions at all! There is no war of identities in Europe!"

Verhofstadt, a key Brexit negotiator in the European Parliament and an over-the-top EU supporter, wrote that Europeans should feel free to choose multiple identities and "be proud of all of them."
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Surveillance guinea pigs? Facebook pays teens $20 a month to install 'research app' that gives them unfettered access to mobile data


RT
Wed, 30 Jan 2019 10:40 UTC
facebook secret
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Facebook has been paying users $20 a month to install an app which monitors their phone and web activity and sends it back to the social media giant, a report has revealed. The app may run afoul of Apple's privacy guidelines.

Launched in 2016, the "research app," first uncovered by TechCrunch, allows Facebook to continuously collect a user's private data, including chats from instant messaging apps, photos and videos, emails, web browsing activity, and more. Aimed at people aged 13 to 25, the app, according to Facebook, is designed to study mobile usage habits. Users were also asked to take screenshots of their Amazon order history page.


While the app is voluntarily downloaded and installed in exchange for upwards of $20 a month, critics have noted that the program closely resembles a similar Facebook-owned app, Onavo, which gave the company undisclosed access to sensitive user data. Facebook was later forced to remove Onavo from Apple's App Store, due to violations with Apple's data collection policies.

Comment: That Facebook is paying people to install an app that collects data is interesting considering how much information they get from your phone already by virtue of just having Facebook installed in the first place. However, it does suggest that there are limits to what they can collect, hence requiring someone to install a dedicated 'research' app. See also:

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Local polls show 86% of Venezuelans oppose military intervention, 81% against US sanctions

Ben Norton
The Grayzone
Tue, 29 Jan 2019 10:23 UTC
The vast majority of Venezuelans oppose military intervention and US sanctions to try to remove President Nicolás Maduro from power, according to polling by the local firm Hinterlaces.

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More than eight out of ten Venezuelans oppose international intervention, both military and non-military, in their country, as well as the crippling sanctions imposed by the United States to force leftist President Nicolás Maduro out of power.

According to a study conducted in early January 2019 by the local polling firm Hinterlaces, 86 percent of Venezuelans would disagree with international military intervention. And 81 percent oppose the US sanctions that have gravely hurt the South American nation's economy.

This poll was conducted before the Donald Trump administration launched a political coup in Venezuela on January 23, attempting to replace its government with a right-wing opposition that has made it clear that it seeks to impose neoliberal capitalist economic policies.

Hinterlaces is led by the independent pollster Oscar Schemel, who has experience studying numerous elections in Venezuela and has a pro-business perspective. Most polling firms in the country, such as the competitor Datanálisis, tend to be pro-opposition. Hinterlaces is more neutral, and often leans toward the government, although Schemel has criticized some of Maduro's economic policies.
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California college board scraps Pledge of Allegiance because it's 'steeped in white nationalism'

Adam Sabes
Campus Reform
Mon, 28 Jan 2019 03:18 UTC
eagle american flag
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The Santa Barbara City College Board of Trustees President says the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag is "steeped in expressions of nativism and white nationalism."

In emails obtained exclusively by Campus Reform, the president of the SBCC Board of Trustees, Robert Miller, stated that he decided to "discontinue use of the Pledge of Allegiance" at board meetings because of its history.

Live stream videos of the board's past several meetings show that the last time members recited the Pledge of Allegiance during a board meeting was Dec. 13. During the Jan. 10 live-streamed meeting, Miller noted at the beginning that it was his first meeting as president of the board. It was also the first meeting since a similar circumstance in summer 2018 that members did not recite the pledge.

Comment: It doesn't appear that Miller actually embraces the constitution. That sounds like a narrative. He embraces outrage and grievance culture. He's playing the part of the delusional white knight saving non-victims from non-threats, while creating divisions among people he should be working with.

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MAGA hat gets man kicked off of Frontier Airlines flight for the second time

Cassandra Fairbanks
Gateway Pundit
Tue, 29 Jan 2019 20:44 UTC
Kenny Cool
In 2016, Kenny Cool was booted off of a Frontier Airlines flight for saying "Make America Great Again." On Monday evening it happened once again - on the same airline.

While attempting to travel from Las Vegas back home to St. Louis, Cool was called a "school shooter" over his hat and says another passenger asserted that they want to kill the president.

He was the only one escorted from the aircraft.

Comment: Say what you will about MAGA hats but they sure are a handy tool in identifying NPCs.
The Truth Perspective: What MAGA-hat Kid Can Teach Us About The Corruption of Ideology

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Washington Post political reporter calls Trump supporters 'rubes'

John Nolte
Breitbart
Tue, 29 Jan 2019 20:49 UTC
Trump supporters
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The far-left Washington Post's Dave Weigel called President Trump's supporters "rubes" during an appearance on a left-wing podcast.

In response, the Post told the Daily Caller, which first reported on the incident, that "We do not think our reporters should be using derogatory terms to characterize anyone [and the] matter is being handled internally."

Weigel appeared on the left-wing podcast Chapo Trap Host and in reference to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) handling of the partial government shutdown and the funding for President Trump's wall, said that McConnell "is very good at identifying what the rubes want to hear."
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Antifa member killed after pulling gun on cops at a middle school

Peter D'Abrosca
Big League Politics
Mon, 28 Jan 2019 20:37 UTC
Charlie Landeros
A member of an Antifa-related organization was killed after he pulled a weapon on Eugene, Oregon police at a middle school.

"An armed man involved in a custody dispute was shot to death by Eugene police during a struggle just outside Cascade Middle School Friday morning," said KOIN. "Authorities said they were called to the school shortly before 10:30 a.m. to escort the man from the school. As they were walking him out, authorities said, he produced a gun."

Charlie Landeros was a far-left activist who used they/them/theirs pronouns. He had recently lost custody of his child, which is reportedly why he was at the school in the first place. He had a loaded pistol in his person, and extra 9mm ammunition in his backpack.

"Landeros was a member of Community Armed Self Defense (CLDC), a group that was created as a "new liberatory and inclusive space for all oppressed peoples to learn about armed self-defense," according to the group's Facebook page, which is no longer publicly available on Facebook as of 4 p.m. Saturday," said a local news report.

The group outwardly hated police. Its Facebook page is archived here.
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Thousands of Muslims demand Nike recall 'blasphemous' Air Max sneaker that may or may not have 'Allah' written on the sole

Alex Matthews
The Sun
Tue, 29 Jan 2019 20:03 UTC
Nike airmax
© REUTERS / Mike BlakeAn Air Max shoe made by Nike
NIKE has been urged to recall "offensive" Air Max trainers because they have "Allah's name in Arabic" on the sole.

Saiqa Noreen was appalled when she spotted text on the bottom of the shoe and accused the sports brand of "blasphemy".

The illustrative wording appears to spell out the words Air Max in a joined up font.

However, Saiqa is not convinced and at the very least believes Nike have made a clumsy error - offending millions of Muslims in the process.

Comment: Nike wanted to cater to outrage culture, so it got outrage culture!

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