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Guilty of conspiracy: Police chief framed innocent black men for unsolved crimes

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 15 Sep 2018 14:41 UTC
miami police arrest
Biscayne Park Police Chief Raimundo Atesiano used to brag about solving 100 percent of the town's crimes. However, this week he admitted to how he accomplished such an impossible feat - he framed innocent black people.

A scathing report from the Miami Herald details that on multiple occasions, former chief Atesiano told his cops to target random black people and charge them with crimes in open cases so they could boast their clearance rate - which is defined as the amount of open cases solved by the department.

According to the Miami Herald, Atesiano, 52, pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge of depriving the three suspects of their civil rights because he and the officers framed them. Although race was not a factor in the federal case against the former police chief, the three wrongly arrested men are black.

"If they have burglaries that are open cases that are not solved yet, if you see anybody black walking through our streets and they have somewhat of a record, arrest them so we can pin them for all the burglaries," one cop, Anthony De La Torre, said in an internal probe ordered in 2014, according to the Herald. "They were basically doing this to have a 100% clearance rate for the city."
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'This stinks': Passengers left stranded by toiletless train after loo break in Wales


RT
Sun, 16 Sep 2018 15:31 UTC
Train
© WikipediaAn Arriva Wales train.
Rail passengers in Wales were abandoned at a station after being told that the train they were traveling on - which had no working toilets - would make a special stop to allow commuters to go to the bathroom.

Passengers boarded the bathroomless train at Haverfordwest, West Wales to make the two-and-a-half-hour trip to Cardiff. They were told over the PA system that those in need of a loo break could take advantage of a longer stop at Carmarthen so they could relieve themselves - but that's where it all went wrong.

Travelers who had exited the train to avail of the toilet break watched in horror as the locomotive took off without them, despite the promise that it would wait for them to finish their business.

One stranded commuter told the Sun that after disembarking from the train, passengers "heard a whistle being blown" and then watched open-mouthed as the train pulled out of the station. "We managed to find an official who said he had not been told about the train waiting," the passenger said.
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Bullseye

Lost in translation: Taco Bell fires worker who didn't take order, saying 'I don't speak English'


RT
Sun, 16 Sep 2018 13:56 UTC
Taco Bell sign
© Mario Anzuoni / Reuters
First a Taco Bell employee was lost in translation as she was explaining to a woman that she doesn't understand her ordering in English, now she lost her job. The customer complained the incident was racist as she's black.

"No hablo ingles," (I don't speak English) says a drive-through worker in a video posted by Alexandria Montgomery this week that went viral.

The customer's indignation over her failure to order some Mexican food seemed to fall on deaf ears. Two more workers at the Hialeah, Florida restaurant showed up at the window as the squabble continued, but they didn't take her order. The first worker gestured to Montgomery that she was holding up the line before shutting the window.
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Handcuffs

'Serial killer' arrested after four murders, suspect is a US border patrol agent


RT
Sun, 16 Sep 2018 13:40 UTC
Border patrol agent
© Loren Elliott / ReutersA U.S. Border Patrol agent in Texas, U.S., August 16, 2018.
A US Border Patrol agent who authorities described as a 'serial killer' has confessed to four murders following his arrest. Police say all of his female victims were prostitutes.

Juan Davis Ortiz, 35, a US Navy veteran who has been with the US Border Patrol for 10 years, was captured by state troopers on Saturday in Laredo, a Texan city on the border with Mexico. The hunt for Ortiz began on Friday, when a woman reached out to police claiming she was snatched by a man before managing to escape. She provided police with a detailed description of the suspect, including his tattoos, Webb County District Attorney Isidro R. Alaniz told CNN's affiliate KGNS-TV.

When troopers found him in a parking lot, Ortiz tried to escape on foot but was eventually found in the back of a truck.

Police say he confessed to four killings, but declined to reveal details of the attacks. So far, only two victims have been identified: Melissa Ramirez, a 29-year-old woman from Laredo; and Claudia Anne Luera, 42, who was found alive on Highway 255 but later died in hospital. The other two victims are an unidentified man and woman. Authorities say that all of the female victims were prostitutes.
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Family

Syrians go to polls in 1st local elections after seven years of war


RT
Sun, 16 Sep 2018 14:59 UTC
Syrians voting
© Omar Sanadiki / Reuters
Syrians are electing their local councils during first municipal elections since the start of the lingering seven-year war. Polls have opened on Sunday shortly after an overnight airstrike hit Damascus airport.

As many as 6,551 polling stations opened on Sunday morning with Syrians invited to vote for their representatives in local councils, state news agency SANA reported. It said over 40,000 candidates are contesting 18,478 seats. Polls will be closed at 7.00pm local time, and authorities have said they took all necessary precautions to keep the ballot boxes safe and secure.

Today's local elections, the first to be held since the conflict broke out in 2011, comes amid continued violence in various parts of the war-ravaged country. On Saturday night, an airstrike - purportedly carried out by Israeli jets - hit Damascus international airport causing several explosions.
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Star of David

Impact of Zionism on Jews and Gentiles

Gilad Atzmon
gilad.co.uk
Mon, 10 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
Jew and the gentile
Early Zionism was a significant and glorious moment in Jewish history; a moment of dramatic epiphany fueled by self-loathing. The early Zionists promised to save the Jews from the Jew and to liberate the Jew from the Jews. They were disgusted by the Diaspora non-proletarian urban Jewish culture which they regarded as parasitic. They promised to bond the new Hebrews with labour and soil. They were convinced that they could transform what they saw as a greedy capitalist into a new 'Israelite hard working peasant.' They believed that they could make the 'international cosmopolitan' into a nationalist patriot, they believed that they knew how to convert Soros into a kibbutznik: they were certain that it was within their capacity to make Alan Dershowitz into a Uri Avneri and Abe Foxman into a peacenik. They promised to make Jews into people like all other people while failing to realize that no other people really want to resemble others.

Zionism has been successful on many fronts. It managed to form a Jewish state at the expense of the indigenous people of Palestine. The Jewish state is a wealthy ghetto and one which is internationally supported. But Israel is a state like no other. It is institutionally racist and murderous. It begs for American taxpayers' money despite being filthy rich. Sadly, Zionism didn't solve the Jewish problem, it just moved it to a new location. More significantly, not only did Zionism fail to heal the Jews as it had promised to do, it actually amplified the symptoms it had vowed to obliterate.
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'The system's not working' is just liberal-speak for 'we're not getting what we want'

David Harsanyi
The Federalist
Thu, 13 Sep 2018 20:34 UTC
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© C-SPAN3Judge Brett Kavanaugh
Ezra Klein offers another terrible argument against confirming Brett Kavanaugh

CNN released a new poll this week that alleges only 38 percent of Americans support the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, while 39 percent do not. It was the lowest net approval of any Supreme Court nominee since Harriet Miers. "Even" Robert Bork was +3 in the poll at the time of his confirmation hearing, a helpful reporter pointed out.

The news induced Vox's Ezra Klein to argue that a "lifetime appointment for a Supreme Court Justice who a plurality oppose at the time of his appointment, and who was nominated by a president and confirmed by a political party that were also unpopular, is quite a way for a system to work." His sentiment was echoed across liberal punditry.

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Popcorn

Fake weather too? Weather Channel anchor 'battles' Hurricane Florence winds as others walk casually in background


RT
Sat, 15 Sep 2018 19:34 UTC
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© Weather Channel/Mike Endrizzi / YouTubWeather Channel reporter Mike Seidel struggles to stand on his feet during live broadcast from North Carolina, hit by Hurricane Florence.
A video of Weather Channel's Mike Seidel battling wind gusts in the eye of hurricane Florence has gone viral for all the wrong reasons, after two men casually walking by in the background were spotted on live broadcast.

During a live Weather Channel broadcast from Wilmington, North Carolina, Seidel is seemingly holding on for his life. He has been ridiculed online, though, after an attentive viewer spotted two locals walking by in the background as if nothing special was going on. The men, dressed in hoodies, can be seen taking snaps with their phones while Seidel is struggling to stand on his feet.

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Delhi, India: Police officer's son arrested for rape and filming the brutal beating of a woman in viral video


RT
Sat, 15 Sep 2018 19:01 UTC
man beats woman
© Twitter/aaprajeshrishi
The son of a Delhi police officer filmed brutally beating up a woman after he allegedly raped her has been arrested. The 21-year-old also allegedly assaulted his ex-fiancé on a separate occasion.

A police investigation is underway into allegations against Rohit Kumar Tomar, arrested on Friday after disturbing images of him beating up the woman in an office space on September 2 emerged.

The content of the video, which shows the accused slapping and using his elbows and knees to maximize the pain inflicted on the woman, was so horrific that it prompted the Minister of Home Affairs to tweet an appeal to the Delhi Police Commissioner to take action.
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Star of David

'Teargas became my daily meal': Human rights activist recounts IDF's constant harassment of Palestinians in East Jerusalem

Tom Suarez
Mondoweiss
Fri, 14 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
human rights activist Palestine Abdulwahab Sabbah
Human rights activist Abdulwahab Sabbah is director of the Dar Assadaqa community center in Abu Dis, part of London’s human rights and twinning organization, Camden Abu Dis Friendship Association.

My friend Abdulwahab (Abed) Sabbah is the director of Dar Assadaqa, a community center in Abu Dis, East Jerusalem. He is the Palestinian half of London's human rights organization CADFA, the Camden Abu Dis Friendship Association. He sent me an account of an IDF attack on his family in their apartment in Abu Dis on September 4, and followups.

What a day. We started early, at around 2:30 AM, when savage mercenaries from the Israel IDF invaded my father's and my house. They started to knock hard on the main door, and when my father open the door, eight of them entered with their weapons into the house before I woke up and went down to see what was happening. By that time, five of them went up to my house [apartment], woke my family and pushed them downstairs to my father's. All of us were held in one room; and the soldiers started to go into the rooms, one by one. They took our mobiles [cell phones] and IDs [and] birth certificates. My little daughters were sitting staring, not knowing what is happening. Who are these people with guns and masks wandering in our house, and shouting and pushing? My father was as usual the strongest and fought back.

First, they wanted to arrest my son Mohammed. They took him up stairs without allowing me to go with him, and when he was ready they asked about my youngest son Yassar, who was out helping to prepare our cousin's wedding, which is today. By the end they gave me a military order: to come to the Israeli military camp in Abu Dis at 10 AM.

Four other young people, together with the wife of a "wanted man" (as they said), were arrested. And 10 houses at least were invaded at the same time in Abu Dis today.
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