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Mexican priest with HIV who raped 30 young girls absolved by church

Ariel Zilber
Daily Mail
Tue, 20 Sep 2016 16:46 UTC
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The priest, Jose Garcia Ataulfo, was absolved of any wrongdoing by the Archdiocese of Mexico.
The Catholic Church has acquitted an HIV-infected priest who has admitted to raping close to 30 young girls between the ages of five and 10 years old.

According to a bombshell report, which appeared in the Spanish-language news site Urgente24.com, the priest, Jose Garcia Ataulfo, was absolved of any wrongdoing by the Archdiocese of Mexico.

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Caught!: Millions found in Chicago police dept. from secret asset forfeiture fund

Ryan Bannister
Daily Sheeple
Sat, 15 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC
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A detailed report released in September 2016 by the Chicago Reader unveiled a secret civil asset forfeiture fund that amounted to nearly $50 million in seized cash which the Chicago Police Department was attempting to keep for themselves. The detailed analysis shows that CPD officials were attempting to pocket 65% of the cash and assets they brought in through civil asset forfeiture. This is policing for profit, and it is no different than highway robbery.

The Reader reports:
Since 2009, the year CPD began keeping electronic records of its forfeiture accounts, the department has brought in nearly $72 million in cash and assets through civil forfeiture, keeping nearly $47 million for itself and sending on almost $18 million to the Cook County state's attorney's office and almost $7.2 million to the Illinois State Police, according to our analysis of CPD records.

Comment: From this recent article we learn that police civil asset forfeiture is a widespread phenomenon:
Such pointless raids were the norm rather than the exception in about a half a dozen ride-alongs on which Atkinson and his crew went. But while the cops found almost no drugs, they did seize $876 through a controversial policing practice known as civil asset forfeiture.

"It gives you a reason to enter the home and almost always there's something you can seize within the home," Atkinson said in an interview with Truthdig. "We've created a for-profit policing system," said Atkinson, the son of a SWAT-team commander. "You're sending SWAT teams into homes, and if they find anything, they get to keep it."

According to Eastern Kentucky University criminologist Peter Kraska, there are 50,000 to 80,000 raids like this per year, up from 3,000 per year in the 1980s. The turning point came in the 1990s with the 1208 program, which authorized the Department of Defense (DOD) to transfer to federal and state police any weaponry and supplies "suitable for use by such agencies in counter-drug activities." The 1208 was expanded into the 1033 Program in 1997, and the new policy gave police the right to asset forfeiture.

Today, 80 percent of SWAT deployments are based on search warrants. Nearly all of those are drug raids, which, according to the movie, yield results about half of the time. The situation is so out of control that in 2014, police seized more private property from ordinary citizens than was stolen by criminals.


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Europeans Take To Streets To Protest TTIP, CETA Trade Agreements


RT
Sun, 16 Oct 2016 12:25 UTC
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Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Paris, Warsaw, and Madrid, urging their governments to reject the TTIP and CETA free-trade agreements with the US and Canada.

Some 7,000 people demonstrated in the Polish capital of Warsaw on Saturday, RIA Novosti reported.

Expressing disapproval of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the US and the strikingly similar Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) deal with Canada, protesters marched in central Warsaw near the country's Agriculture Ministry building and prime minister's offices.

People carried banners that called the deals "toxic," "threatening to local agriculture" and a "dictatorship of corporations." People opposing the deals also fear that genetically modified products might appear on local markets.

Organized by a non-governmental group, Akcja Democracja, the Warsaw protest was joined by trade unions and several opposition parties. The Polish parliament has recently adopted a plan towards the deal, having pronounced CETA economically "neutral," with no reasons not to join it.
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Big banks warn that the economy has gone suicidal

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com
Fri, 14 Oct 2016 12:00 UTC
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The economy has gone suicidal.

It is working against the very people who need its energy to survive. It is collapsing on its own weight, and the weight of literally incalculable levels of toxic debt. And it is going to create the greatest disaster of our time, if the warnings from the world's most powerful bankers are any indication.

While the general population is obsessed with the details of the world's most entertaining and bizarre election in American history, the big banks are gearing up for a deadly serious economic collapse.

Just during the past few weeks, there have been major discussions about stock markets dropping, the insolvency of Europe's biggest investment bank, the mounting debt crisis and a deeper, long-term decline for 'everyday Americans.'

Here's what you probably missed while the Hillary-Trump cage match has taken over the collective psyche:
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River turns blood red overnight alarming residents in Guatemala


Strange Sounds
Fri, 14 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC
Samalá river turns blood red overnight alarming residents in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala Friday 14th October 2016
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Samalá river in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala turns blood red overnight
The Samalá river in Quetzaltenango turned blood red overnight on October 14, 2016, alarming residents of nearby communities. The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MARN) has launched an investigation to determine the source of this mysterious color.

Samalá river in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala turns blood red overnight

Local residents were alarmed
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What economic recovery? 35% of Americans have debt that is in collections

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Fri, 14 Oct 2016 11:40 UTC
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More than a third of all Americans can't pay their debts. I don't know about you, but to me that is a shocking figure. As you will see below, 35 percent of the people living in this country have debt in collections. When a debt is in collections, it is at least 180 days past due. And this is happening during the "economic recovery" that the mainstream media keeps touting, although the truth is that Barack Obama is going to be the only president in United States history to never have a single year when the economy grew by at least 3 percent. But at least things are fairly stable for the moment, and if this many Americans are having trouble paying their bills right now, what are things going to look like when the economy becomes extremely unstable once again.

The 35 percent figure is a nugget that I discovered in a CNN article about Detroit that I was reading earlier today...
And the city's troubles have left a mark on the financial stability of its residents in a big way, according to a new report from the Urban Institute.

About 66% of residents have debt in collections — meaning more than 180 days past due — at a median amount of $1,847. Across the U.S., 35% of Americans have debt in collections.

Comment: Debt slaves: Most Americans believe that debt is a necessity

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Hysteria: Killer clown craze hits tattoo parlors

Hannah Ferrett
The Sun, UK
Sat, 15 Oct 2016 09:44 UTC
Now people have started getting permanent tributes to creepy clowns etched on their bodies
Creepy clown tattoo
© Via Instagram@belfasttatoocollective
Clowns have barely been out of the news in recent weeks, with seemingly ever-more horrifying incidents involving people dressed as them each day.

In Sweden, a teenager was stabbed by a violent jester in the middle of the street, and Childline has reported a massive surge in calls from kids who've been left frightened by the phenomenon.

Not everyone is so scared though, as this new tattoo craze shows. People have been paying homage to the killer clown trend with spooky inkings etched on their skin. The trend seems to be for tattoos of creepy clowns, with black-and-white and just a hint of colour the most popular.
Creepy clown tattoo

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School administrator body slams 13 y.o. girl giving her a concussion

Ryan Banister
The Daily Sheeple
Fri, 14 Oct 2016 10:54 UTC
cop body slams student
A mother is still trying to get answers about a school administrator who was seen body slamming her daughter on camera at Canyon Springs High School in North Las Vegas. A report from the emergency room shows that the girl has suffered a concussion and has multiple scratches and bruises.

The camera pans away just as the 13-year-old girl is thrown to the ground, but footage clearly shows the school administrator handling the girl prior to her fall and immediately shows him on top of her after the incident.
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LOL: Trump calls for drug testing before next debate - 'she's getting pumped up'


RT
Sun, 16 Oct 2016 09:28 UTC
Donald Trump
© Jonathan Ernest/Reuters
Donald Trump has suggested that he and Hillary Clinton should undergo drug testing before their next election debate, appearing to accuse his Democratic rival of using performance enhancing drugs.

The Republican nominee compared presidential candidates to athletes and said they should be subject to similar drug screenings. "I think we should take a drug test prior to the debate," he said during a rally at a car dealership in New Hampshire on Saturday.

"Because I don't know what's going on with her, but at the beginning of her last debate, she was all pumped up at the beginning, and at the end it was like, huh, take me down. She could barely reach her car. I think we should take a drug test. Anyway, I'm willing to do it."

"A lot of things are going on, folks. A lot of things. I think she's actually getting pumped, you want to know the truth? She's getting pumped up," the businessman said.


Trump has repeatedly raised concerns about Clinton's health and fitness to be president throughout the campaign, particularly after she fell ill with pneumonia in September. His campaign released an attack ad last week saying Clinton doesn't have the "fortitude, strength or stamina to lead in our world."

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Gun culture: Accidental shootings kill one American child every 48 hours


RT
Fri, 14 Oct 2016 18:55 UTC
Guns and children
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A child is killed every other day as a direct result of an accidental shooting, whether self-inflicted or at the hands of another child or an adult, new research has found. The analysis supersedes federal statistics, relying on 1,500 news sources.

"October 13, 2016, Waukegan, Illinois, victim, age three, male, killed, accidental shooting, self-inflicted, child involved incident, child picked up and fired gun, child killed self, child shot self with 9mm from father's room. Rifle in home also confiscated," a typical entry reads in the raw data collected by Gun Violence Archive, a nonpartisan research group. Data was taken from news reports, using some 1,500 sources, and its third quarter data was released Friday.

For the first 10 months of this year, 804 children, aged 0-11 were killed or injured, as were 750 teenagers, aged 12-17, according to the data. In all, more than 301 children under 11 were killed, and 503 were injured. A further 150 teens died and 600 were injured. Findings revealed that deaths and injuries spiked for children under five, with three-year-olds being both the most common shooters and victims among children.

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