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Man on tractor tasered, choked and killed after asking cops for proof of a warrant

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Last year, Armando Frank was sitting on his tractor when he was approached by police who were going to serve him a warrant for alleged trespassing. When Frank asked to see the warrant - which the cops never produced - he was tasered, choked, pulled from his tractor and killed. In the attack caught on video, never once did Frank try to hurt the officers.

As the police body camera video shows, within just a few moments of confronting Frank, officers grow agitated with his passive resistance. Frank is merely asking to see the warrant the officers claim to have, but they do not produce it, nor did they give him any reason for the arrest.

Instead, Frank is told to come with them downtown where they will show him the warrant. This was an idea that Frank did not like, so he merely sat there on his tractor in the parking lot of a Walmart.

During the incident, which took place Oct 20, 2017, two Avoyelles Parish sheriff's deputies, Brandon Spillman and Alexander Daniel, along with Marksville Police officer Kenneth Parnell, tried to force Frank from his tractor. All three cops are named in a recent lawsuit on behalf of Frank's estate.

Heart - Black

UK cop gets 16 years after colleagues view footage of him raping a baby

PC Dean Roberts
© South Wales PolicePC Dean Roberts, 48
A police officer has been sentenced to 16 years in jail for raping a baby. PC Dean Roberts, 48, was caught by his own colleagues after he filmed himself abusing the child before sending the footage to other pedophiles.

Roberts' crime was exposed after the arrest of a fellow pedophile, lawyer John Guess, led detectives to their colleague. The pair planned to jointly abuse children and share footage of their crimes, Cardiff Crown Court heard.

The now ex-police officer admitted to a litany of charges that included rape, sexual assault of a child, as well as possession and distribution of indecent images of children.

In court, the mother of Roberts' victim said: "I can never forget the knock on my door and my whole world just falling apart. It was just like being hit by a bus. We will always have to live with the consequences."

Gear

Israel: Ultra-Orthodox Jews confronted by police during demonstration over military draft law

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© Nir Elias / ReutersIsraeli police officers stand in front of ultra-Orthodox Jews during a protest
Nearly 20 activists have been arrested in the Israeli city of Bnei Brak after hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews clashed with police over the recent arrest of a yeshiva student who tried to evade military service.

Some 500 members of the radical Jerusalem Faction took to the streets of Bnei Brak on Monday, causing traffic mayhem. During the rally, organizers instructed their followers to continue the legacy of their founder and spiritual leader, the late Rabbi Shmuel Orbach, who called on ultra-Orthodox Jews to "shake the foundations of the world" over each arrest of a yeshiva student who refuses to show up at the Israeli Defense Forces' recruitment center.

Shouting "We'd rather die than be recruited" in Hebrew and waving placards reading "religion-persecuting nation," protesters demanded the release of Nissan Rada, who was placed in military prison last week over failure to comply with the draft.


Book

Former Education Secretary says the school system runs on lies

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Typically, when Americans hear someone say that the education system in the United States "runs on lies," they would expect the statement to come from a disgruntled parent or student- but now it is coming from the former Secretary of Education, as he admits that the U.S. lies to families on a daily basis by promising them a quality education through public schools.

Arne Duncan, who served as education secretary for the Obama Administration, now appears to be calling out all sides of the spectrum for failing to prioritize the next generation. In an interview with CBS' Face The Nation, Duncan argued that politicians are never held accountable for failing students and teachers.

"We say we value education but we never vote on education, we never hold politicians accountable local, state, or national level for getting better results, higher graduation rates, more people graduate from college," Duncan said. "We say we value teachers but we don't pay teachers, we don't support them. We don't mentor them, the way they need to do their incredibly important, tough, complex work."

"As a nation, we're not top 10 in anything," Duncan said. And he has a solid point-the U.S. Department of Education released a troubling set of statistics in May, which showed that the majority of eighth graders in public schools are not proficient in reading or basic math.

Comment: It goes much deeper. The public school system is designed to produce obedient drones.


Archaeology

Ukrainian officials threaten to cut off railway connections with Russia

Ukraine railway
© Stringer / Sputnik
Officials in Kiev say they are considering cutting train connections with Russia, the most profitable destination for Ukrainian Railways.

"We are considering the option of closing the railway communication with Moscow," Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure Vladimir Omelyan told 1+1 TV channel. This is not the first time the official has suggested a similar measure. In December 2017, he also threatened to stop sending buses to Russia.

Ukrainian Railways has not yet reacted to the official's statement. Trains to Russia are a valuable business for the company with three routes being the company's most profitable destinations.

Comment: Kiev officials are the defining faces of unbridled idiocy. They're quite willing to cut of their nose to spite their face. Their blind and Western-provoked animosity toward Russia has led them to hurt their own people time and time again.


Info

Kurdish YPG ready to fight alongside Syrian army in Sweida offensive - US not happy with recent talks between SDF and Damascus

Fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
© AFP 2018 / Delil souleimanFighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
After defeating several extremist terrorist groups in Daraa and Quneitra provinces, the Syrian Army is ready to defeat ISIS terrorists in Sweida province in southern Syria.

Kurdish YPG forces are ready to help government forces in their campaign against ISIS in Sweida, the Firat news agency reported on Sunday. In an interview, Commander-in-chief Sipan Hemo said that the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) "has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to fight and defeat ISIS terrorists in many parts of Syria."

Syrian Army troops and local allied militiamen were angered by a series of ISIS terrorist attacks that targeted the Druze community of Sweida last month, killing about 200 civilians. Dozens of young people have also been abducted by terrorists and have not been released.

Comment: According to the Arabic-language al-Akhbar newspaper, apparently Washington is not happy with the recent talks between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Damascus.
It added that Washington's dissatisfaction was revealed after an unexpected visit by former US Ambassador to Bahrain William Robak to the town of al-Tabaqah in Aleppo province and his meeting with a number of Kurdish officials who had participated in talks with Damascus.



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The psychopaths celebrate: Israel 'welcomes' assassination of Syrian scientist - but deny any 'involvement'

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© Menahem Kahana / ReutersPair of scum: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman (L).
Israel's minister of intelligence says he "welcomes" news that a Syrian scientist was killed by a car bomb, even as Tel Aviv denies any part in the murder. The New York Times reported that Israel's Mossad was behind the attack.

Intelligence and Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz weighed in on allegations that Israeli Mossad agents killed Dr. Aziz Asbar near the northwestern Syrian city of Masyaf, commenting that "assuming that [Asbar] was indeed involved in terrorist activity, I welcome his departure from the world."

Asbar, the research director at Syria's Scientific Studies and Research Center, was believed to be developing a secret weapons manufacturing facility with the help of Iran, which was to be used to manufacture precision-guided missiles in Syria. He was killed on Saturday by an explosive device planted on his car.

Comment: Does anyone actually believe Israel's claim that it was not behind Asbar's summary execution? Assassination is a Mossad speciality.


Smoking

Plans in motion to ban smoking on the streets of Rotterdam, Netherlands

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© Wikimedia Commons/Senior Airman Anthony Sanchelli
There are plans in motion to ban smoking on multiple Rotterdam streets in the area around Erasmus MC, the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences and the Erasmiaans Gymnasium, AD reports. According to non-smokers association Clean Air Nederland, if these plans succeed, Rotterdam will be the first municipality to implement a smoking ban for entire streets.

The smoking ban is the initiative of the hospital and two educational institutions. "We have trouble with dumped cigarette butts and are thinking about the health of the 30 thousand students, pupils, patients and employees who are here on a daily basis", a spokesperson for the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences said to the newspaper. To prevent their smokers from just moving to the neighboring premises or the intervening streets, they want to ban smoking on Zimmermanweg, Wytemagweg and the corner of Museumpark.

Comment: For the truth about tobacco and why the PTB want to stamp out smoking, see:


Bell

Big Brother: Governor Cuomo unveils facial scanning at New York toll plazas

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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo revealed on Friday that facial recognition cameras installed at bridge and tunnel toll plazas across New York City are scanning every driver's face and feeding them into a massive database designed to catch suspected criminals.

"When it reads that license plate, it reads it for scofflaws . . . [but] the toll is almost the least significant contribution that this electronic equipment can actually perform," Cuomo said at a press conference outside the Queens Midtown Tunnel.

"We are now moving to facial-recognition technology, which takes it to a whole new level, where it can see the face of the person in the car and run that technology against databases... Because many times a person will turn their head when they see a security camera, so they are now experimenting with technology that just identifies a person by their ear, believe it or not," he continued.

Black Cat

Entitlement AND guilt-tripping: 'Jesus said give to men in need': Refugee says Austrians should share money & homes with migrants

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© Leonhard Foeger / Reuters / FileAn Austrian army soldier observes migrants as they wait to cross the border from Slovenia
A Syrian refugee living in Germany and writing columns for the local Huffington Post edition says all Austrians should take migrants into their homes, if they want integration to work.

Aras Bacho, who says he is 19 and has lived in Germany for the past eight years, has penned an open letter in the Austrian daily newspaper OE24. According to Bacho, "integration only works on two sides - one side is not enough."

"Those who ask for integration should begin to wonder why integration takes longer or why it does not work in part for many refugees and migrants," Bacho writes. Therefore, he says, Austrians and migrants should not only go out together and communicate by learning each other's languages, he also wants to see every Austrian take in a migrant at home, and donate money to those migrants.

Comment: He thinks Jesus said 'gimme your stuff'?