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Four California cops filmed brutally beating subdued man

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 20:48 UTC
police assault
A video uploaded to YouTube Sunday shows several San Diego cops escalating their use of force on a suspect for seemingly no reason. The video has now sparked controversy online as it shows multiple cops run up to what appears to be a subdued suspect and proceed to unleash a violent fury upon him.

The video begins with two officers holding a suspect face down on the ground in between the rails of a handicap access ramp. "We're done trying to talk to you," one of the officers says and then claims the suspect tried to tackle the two officers.

Incredulously, the suspect responds with his own question saying, "I tackled two of ya'll to the ground? Are you serious?" The man couldn't seem to comprehend why he was being held down.

Andrew Grant is the man behind the camera and explained what happened to KGTV news.
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Arizona teen rescues dog found hanging from tree at home improvement store


CBS News - Dallas/Ft. Worth
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:19 UTC
Dog found hanging from a tree
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Officials say a teen rescued a dog that she found hanging from a tree behind a home improvement store in Tucson.
We need your help! On Jan. 15, @PimaAnimalCare responded to a call involving this dog, who was found hanging from a tree. If you have any info on the dog or tips on the incident, contact PACC at 724-5990 or call the 88-CRIME hotline at (520) 882-7463. https://t.co/nlEunhuPJk pic.twitter.com/jtHifB2Zep

- Official Pima County (@pimaarizona) January 16, 2018
Pima County spokeswoman Marcia Zamorano said in a statement that a 15-year-old girl spotted the dog on Monday after she heard it whimpering from the tree. The teen climbed up and freed the dog from material wrapped around its neck.
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As Facebook continues to blunder, new social media platform 'Steemit' pays you to participate

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Mon, 15 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
Facebook vote down
Facebook's recent announcement over their algorithm shift to keep users in their own little happy bubbles is making its competition, like Steemit, shine.

Last week, Facebook announced that they will be keeping all their users in happy little bubbles that won't show them anything controversial, thus ensuring an entire social media platform devoted to pictures of what people are eating for dinner. Illustrating just how unwelcome this change was, after Facebook announced it's changing the algorithm to focus on friends and family while excluding news and information, the company saw a near-instant drop of 4.4 percent - costing Mark Zuckerberg nearly $3.3 billion.

In a Facebook post last Thursday night, Zuckerberg said that public content from brands had inundated news feeds, overtaking posts from personal connections. By the end of Friday, Facebook shares were trading at $179.37, down more than 4.4 percent from Thursday's price of $187.77, according to a report in Newsweek.


Comment: See: Zuckerberg sees his net worth drop by billions after recent Facebook news feed announcement


"Video and other public content have exploded on Facebook in the past couple of years," wrote Zuckerberg in his post. "Since there's more public content than posts from your friends and family, the balance of what's in News Feed has shifted away from the most important thing Facebook can do - help us connect with each other."
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Time to stop feministsplaining sex to men

Ben Shapiro
Townhall
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 20:03 UTC
Aziz Ansari
There's a word that has become popular in feminist circles these days: "mansplaining." The word is a mashup of "man" and "explaining" and refers to men who condescendingly explain the facts of life to women. So, for example, if a man believes a woman doesn't understand directions and slowly repeats those directions to a woman, he's mansplaining and, therefore, guilty of cruelty and stupidity.

Well, feminists, it's time to stop "feministsplaining" sex to men.

The #MeToo movement has been good for America. It's good that women who have been sexually assaulted and abused are coming forward; it's good that we're finally having conversations about the nature of consent and the problems with a casual hookup culture that obfuscates sexual responsibility. But the #MeToo movement hasn't stopped there. Men are now being pilloried for the sin of taking women too literally -- of not reading women's minds.

Comment: For more on the Aziz Ansari affair see J. Martin's Sott Focus: Even Ethnic Male Feminists Aren't Safe From #MeToo

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Academic and author Dr. Joanna Williams: #MeToo movement trivializes and blurs rape with flirtation


Sputnik
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 19:38 UTC
me too
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Most recently, the French movie star Catherine Deneuve has made vocal her apology to sex assault victims who got offended after the actress slammed the #MeToo movement. Sputnik discussed the harmful side of the activist group with Dr Joanna Williams, academic and author of Women Versus Feminism: Why we all need liberating from the Gender Wars.

Dr Joanna Williams: The first problem [with the #MeToo campaign] is that it blurs all kinds of behaviors some of which are incredible serious - some of the accusations against Harvey Weinstein for instance. You know, these are very serious accusations of sexual assault, of sexual abuse and they need to be treated very seriously, they need to be taken to courts of law, people need to be put in prison, essentially if found guilty for carrying out these crimes.

The problem with #MeToo is that it takes these serious crimes and it blurs them with a whole host of behaviors which are less criminal. For example, the classic example is knee touching, clumsy flirtation, unwanted kisses - these are not the same criminal acts. That's the first problem, in blurring of these behaviors together it actually trivializes rape, trivializes some of the most serious crimes.
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Uncle pleads not guilty to kidnapping, raping & murdering teenage niece before stuffing her into a freezer - UPDATE: Court hears man became fixated on her


RT
Fri, 13 Oct 2017 20:00 UTC
Celine Dookhran
© Celine_Dookhran / Twitter
A man accused of kidnapping and raping a teenage girl before slitting her throat and stuffing her body in a freezer in south London has denied murder.

Mujahid Arshid, 33, pleaded not guilty at the Old Bailey via videolink after Celine Dookhran, 19, was found dead in July, in what prosecutors have described as a gruesome "honor killing."

Her body was discovered in a freezer in a £1.5-million ($2-million) house in Kingston.

Arshid, of no fixed address, appeared in court charged with murder, rape and kidnap.

He is also charged with the sexual assault, rape, kidnap and attempted murder of a second woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons. She managed to escape and sound the alarm.

Comment: Update (Jan.17): The murder trial is underway and even more disturbing details are being revealed about this heinous act. The uncle was apparently so obsessed with his niece that he decided that if he couldn't have her, no one could. This was not, as first reported, an "honor killing" over the teen's relationship with an Libyan Muslim. Instead, it was about a man who let his imagination take over and due to his "criminal mind" it led him to brutally murdering a family member.

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'Smart cities' to unleash data collection that far surpasses anything seen today

Matthew Braga
CBC News
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 18:15 UTC
big brother city cameras
© Dominique Boutin/TASS via Getty ImagesIt's already hard enough to get people to read the terms of service for the apps they use, and experts are skeptical we could expect any better of someone crossing into the boundary of a smart city neighbourhood, where sensors and data collection abound.
The L-shaped parcel of land on Toronto's eastern waterfront known as Quayside isn't much to look at. There's a sprawling parking lot for dry-docked boats opposite aging post-industrial space, where Parliament Street becomes Queens Quay. To its south is one of the saddest stretches of the Martin Goodman trail, an otherwise pleasant running and biking route that spans the city east to west.

But before long, Quayside may be one of the most sensor-laden neighbourhoods in North America, thanks to Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs, which has been working on a plan to redevelop the area from the ground up into a test bed for smart city technology.

It's being imagined as the sort of place where garbage cans and recycling bins can keep track of when and how often they're used, environmental probes can measure noise and pollution over time and cameras can collect data to model and improve the flow of cars, people, buses and bikes throughout the day.
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Far-right 'Reich Citizens' in Germany building own army, preparing for a 'Day X'


RT
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 12:38 UTC
far-right festival
© Thomas Peter / ReutersPeople attend a far-right summer festival in the village of Viereck, August 11, 2012
Germany's far-right Reichsbuerger movement has grown to almost 16,000 members, while some of them are eying their own armed wing and are preparing for 'Day X', Focus magazine reports, citing intelligence sources.

The stunning revelation came into the spotlight earlier this week after Germany's Focus magazine published a report citing an assessment of the domestic intelligence agency, the BfV.

Responding to Focus' request for comment, the BfV, the agency in charge of monitoring extremist groups threatening constitutional order, said the number of Reichsbuerger (Citizens of the Reich in German) members had grown to 15,600 as of January - with the figure marking a dramatic increase of more than 50 percent within one year.
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Britain's Mail on Sunday smears entire Russian football team with single third-hand quote

Simon Rite
RT
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 18:02 UTC
testing
© Reuters
The Mail on Sunday has unleashed another exhaustively researched story to make extra sure that nations competing in Russia's 2018 World Cup really come together in the spirit of hate for the host nation.

This time it rehashes second-hand evidence that Moscow was intending to drug its footballers. The newspaper continues to pioneer its own brand of highly efficient journalism, which allows for provocative and defamatory accusations to be made, without the need for an actual source or evidence.

The claims, nonchalantly tossed into the public domain, are that "Russia doped all its international football teams," and that the host country "planned to swap urine samples at the 2018 World Cup so that its footballers could take drugs with impunity."

Apparently, those allegations come from everyone's favorite mustachioed Russian whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov. Although not exactly from him, because he's currently hidden away by the US witness protection program, presumably sharing pasta recipes with Italian Americans.
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Swiss billionaire speed fiend fined with $320,000 ticket


RT
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 18:05 UTC
Car driving in mts
© Feng Wei Photography / Gettyimages.ru
Swiss pharmaceutical tycoon Ernesto Bertarelli has been fined 310,000 Swiss francs (US$320,000), after being caught driving 88km per hour in a 50 zone, local media report.

While a speeding ticket in the US might set you back a few hundred or perhaps even a few thousand dollars at most, that's not always the case on the other side of the Atlantic.

On December 6, 2016, Ernesto Bertarelli was caught doing 88km per hour in Crans-près-Céligny, just north of Geneva, Switzerland. Bertarelli was fined 10,000 francs, plus a daily penalty of 3,000 francs for a hundred days, 20 Minutes reported on Monday.
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