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Sheriff

Cop gets golden parachute for stomping handcuffed man's head, two cops get promoted for helping cover it up

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 26 Sep 2017 20:17 UTC
Sean Spell
Last year, police released dash camera footage of a controversial arrest - showing an officer in street clothes walk up to a handcuffed suspect sitting on the curb, and kick his head into the ground - it hit so hard, it bounced. Several other officers were also involved in attacking two restrained suspects. They admitted to doing it and covering it up, and now, two of them are being promoted while another gets a golden parachute.

Officers Steven Barone and Detective Christopher Mastroianni, who were recently punished for excessive force and lying on police reports, were just promoted to sergeant last week. What's more, the officer seen on video stomping a suspect's head, Sean Spell, who was arrested for his role in the attack, was allowed to quietly retire and avoid all accountability.

On June 4, officers pursued Ricardo Perez and Emilio Diaz through the streets of Hartford and West Hartford in a vehicle police suspected to be stolen. When the chase ended, officers arrested the pair - but the details of those arrests became the subject of multiple investigations when supervisors saw the bloody mugshots of the suspects.
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Dollar

Bill prohibiting foreign financing of Swiss mosques and requiring preaching in national language passes lower house


RT
Wed, 27 Sep 2017 20:09 UTC
Geneva mosque
© Fabrice Coffrini / AFPMinaret of Geneva mosque in the neighbourhood of Le Petit-Saconnex Geneva.
Mosques in Switzerland should be prohibited from receiving financing from abroad and imams should be required to preach in a Swiss national language, the country's lower house of parliament has decided.

MPs voted 94 to 89 in favor of a bill proposed by the member of the Lega dei Ticinesi party, which aims to make rules for mosques in Switzerland stricter, the local media outlet Neue Zuercher Zeitung reports.

The legislation stipulates that mosques would be forbidden from receiving foreign money.

They would also have to declare where their financial backing comes from and for what purpose their money would be used.
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Smoking

University of Rhode Island receives grant to ban smoking on campus


The News & Observer
Sat, 23 Sep 2017 15:20 UTC
University of Rhode Island
© University of Rhode Island
The University of Rhode Island has received a grant to help it become a smoke and tobacco-free campus.

The university received a $20,000 grant from the American Cancer Society and CVS Health Foundation to develop policies to prohibit smoking and tobacco use.

The American Cancer Society's "Tobacco-Free Generation Campus Initiative" is funded by the foundation to accelerate and expand the number of smoke and tobacco-free campuses nationwide.

URI plans to survey students, faculty and staff to see if they're ready to adopt the change.

School officials say they want a campus policy that reflects shared values and creates a healthier and greener university.

Comment: See also: John D. Rockefeller's American Cancer Society never meant to 'CURE' cancer

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Heart - Black

Snake expert live streams suicide after letting a deadly black mamba bite his hand

Will Stewart and Aletha Adu
The Sun
Tue, 26 Sep 2017 19:18 UTC
Arslan Valeev
© EAST2WEST NewsA day before he live streamed his death, Valeev announced a special broadcast of his beloved snake, Mamba
A heartbroken snake expert filmed himself dying on a live stream broadcast - after he let his pet black mamba bite his hand in the wake of his marital breakdown.

Arslan Valeev, 31, from St Petersburg, Russia pleaded with viewers to call his ex-wife, Ekaterina 'Katya' Pyatyzhkina, as he visibly deteriorated on camera.

Valeev - who had reportedly split with his wife after beating her - initially went off camera and a muffled "ouch" can be heard as the deadly snake bit him.

The actual snake bite and moment of death were not shown, but the blogger - a former zoo employee - allowed viewers to see the bite on his hand.

At the end of the footage, he got up from his chair and staggered off camera, possibly towards a bathroom. He died soon afterwards.

Comment: Details of snake handler Dan Brandon's death:
Dan Brandon, 31, was discovered at his home in Church Crookham, Fleet, in the room in which he kept his snakes, with the pet out of his pen.

It was confirmed to The Sun yesterday that there is an investigation into whether the python was involved in Dan's death.

And today authorities confirmed Dan had died of asphyxiation.

Non-venomous pythons kill by wrapping round their pray and squeezing them to death.

Dan's inquest was opened in a minute-long hearing before being adjourned to next month.

The coroner's official told The Sun: "The post mortem has come back and the inquest was opened.

"His cause of death was asphyxia and he was identified by his mum and dad.

"The full inquest will happen next month."

A different source added today: "The snake is still part of the death investigation. It definitely hasn't been ruled out."

Police described gentle Dan as being seriously injured when they found him dead.

The Sun's exclusive on the snake riddle made worldwide news this morning, with outlets as far as America and Australia following up our story.

Dan's social media presence show him with a number of snakes around his neck.

A JustGiving page set up in memory of him is raising money for WWF in his honour.

It reads "Dan unexpectedly passed away at home.

"He was obsessed with snakes, spiders, birds and all wildlife.

"Dan... We will all miss you so much."

A spokesman for Hampshire Police told The Sun: "We were called to an address in Church Crookham. A 31-year-old man had suffered serious injuries and died at the scene.

"The death is not being treated as suspicious at this stage. A file will be prepared for the coroner."


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Bad Guys

Thugs in India abduct underage bride, beat mother for resisting after father approves 'marriage'

Gabriel Zamfir
Mirror
Wed, 27 Sep 2017 08:04 UTC
indian child bride abduction
© CENThe men drag the young bride away after being promised her hand in marriage
This is the moment that shows two thugs violently abducting a teenage girl after her father had promised one of them his daughter as their wife.

The clip shot by an unknown relative in the village, shows the men trying to kidnap the girl as her mother desperately attempts to stop them.

Despite her efforts, the girl's mother is thrown roughly to the ground, in a shocking act of violence witnessed by a small boy thought to be the girl's little brother.

In the background the "bride" is seen trying to run away but one of the thugs, wielding a stick, catches her.

The other grabs her mother, throws her to the ground again and starts raining blows down on her head as the little boy cries in horror.

Comment: Child-marriages have been illegal in India since the 2006 passage of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, but the practice persists unabated, particularly among the rural poor. Girls forced into early marriage rarely continue their education, denying them any hope of independence, the ability to earn a livelihood or of making an economic contribution to their households. Girls under 15, their bodies still developing and their pelvises narrow, are five times more likely to die during pregnancy or childbirth than women over 20, the U.S. Agency for International Development estimates.

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Arrow Down

Ghanaian asylum seeker calls woman he raped a "prostitute" in German court

Ian Burns and Sara Malm
Daily Mail, UK
Tue, 26 Sep 2017 17:17 UTC
Eric X
© Mario Jungling/BILDAsylum seeker Eric X, 32, from Ghana,appeared in court today in Bonn, Germany
A Ghanaian asylum seeker accused of raping a German woman while forcing her boyfriend to watch called his victim 'a prostitute' in court.

The man - only identified as Eric X - is accused of raping a 23-year-old woman after spotting the couple camping in a nature reserve near Bonn, west Germany in April.

Appearing in a Bonn district court today, Eric X, 32, defied his lawyers' advice to stay silent and after insulting his alleged victim, he added that anyone who believed her was 'filthy'.

The attack took place on April 2, shortly after midnight. The couple were already asleep when Eric X allegedly cut through the tarpaulin, threatened them with a tree saw and ordered them to hand over their valuables - six euros (£5.35) and a music box.

After robbing them he is said to have dragged the 23-year-old woman outside, where he raped her and forced her boyfriend, 26, to watch.

German media have reported that the boyfriend's call to police was initially considered a joke.
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TV

Southern California TV viewers alarmed by apocalyptic emergency alert


ABC7
Wed, 27 Sep 2017 17:05 UTC
Emergency alert in California
© ABC7
Some television viewers in southern California were startled when an apocalyptic emergency alert flashed on their screens.

The Orange County Register reports a Lake Forest woman says she was watching HGTV on her Cox Communications cable service on Thursday when the alert flashed across the screen. Video shows the message included the voice of a man warning that "in the last days extremely violent time will come." The newspaper says Spectrum cable customers also got the message.

A Cox spokesman tells the newspaper that viewers should have seen a typical emergency-broadcast test but a technical malfunction caused it to go on longer than it should have. He says the broadcast picked up an audio feed that bled into the alert.

The cable companies say they're investigating.

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USA

The brilliant scam behind the Left's NFL anthem protests

Jazz Shaw
Hot Air
Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:40 UTC
nfl football
It didn't happen until last night. For the entire time that the recent spate of highly inflamed National Anthem protests on NFL playing fields has been unfolding this year, there's been something nagging at the back of my mind. Watching liberal activists (not to be confused with rank and file voters who may happen to be registered Democrats but also enjoy sports) charging to the barricades over these displays of kneeling, sitting or otherwise acting disrespectfully during the playing of the anthem and the display of the American flag, something just didn't seem right. But last night was when it hit me. This isn't about protesting racism, police misconduct or anything of the sort. What we're observing is potentially one of the greatest red herrings in the history of American political scams.

The question I was most confused over was... why this location? Why this particular time? The reality is that any of these well paid players could call a press conference or show up at any rally to talk about racism, police shootings and all the rest, and they would draw the attention of millions, along with the media. (God only knows ESPN would show up.) So why were the liberal activists insisting that it had to be at the start of a game while the National Anthem is playing and the flag is on display? It didn't make sense. And then, suddenly, it did.

Comment: Shaw has an interesting take on this. It does seem to present a strange set of coincidences: the Left's disdain for football (but not other, more damaging, sports), the politicization and subsequent wedge driven between players and fans, and the precipitous drop-off in ratings. It all fits together in a way that makes it look deliberate. Of course, that doesn't mean it was deliberate. Sometimes things just work out that way - suiting one group's aims over another's.

Where it goes from here is anyone's guess. Obama politicized the NFL by moving players onto the field for the anthem. Since patriotism and the "America" brand trumps everything else, good luck getting them to go back into the locker room for the anthems. (Making people more patriotic is socially acceptable; making them less so - not so much.) Now it has become even more political, in the other direction. Either the protests continue, in which case ratings will continue to fall and polarization will increase. Or maybe they fizzle out. We'll have to wait and see.

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TV

New media study rocks political world: Campaign ads don't work?

Ed Morrissey
Hot Air
Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:48 UTC
Hillary clinton
What if everything we assumed about political campaigns turned out to be wrong? Well, for one thing, it might explain how Donald Trump beat a talented field of Republican primary candidates, and then won an upset against one of the least competent major-party nominees in decades last November. Hillary Clinton had all of the advantages - better fundraising, better media penetration, and the power of identity politics, and still lost anyway.

That might not have been a fluke. A new study by two California academics concludes that persuasion isn't effective with voters, especially in the later stages of an election cycle. That has a potentially devastating implication for campaign advertising ... and perhaps a sigh of relief for TV and radio audiences who dread election seasons:
The study's authors combined a hodgepodge of 40 existing experiments on the persuasive effects of advertising and campaign contacts, and then they added nine extensive new studies of their own. The new studies were conducted during the 2016 election with the labor group Working America, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO.

Their conclusion? Advertising and campaign contacts have almost no measurable impact, at least in general elections.

"The best estimate for the persuasive effects of campaign contact and advertising - such as mail, phone calls, and canvassing - on Americans' candidate choices in general elections is zero," Kalla and Broockman write. "Our best guess for online and television advertising is also zero, but there is less evidence" in these cases.
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Ambulance

Deterioration of society: Sexually transmitted diseases set new record in US

Julie Steenhuysen
Reuters
Tue, 26 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
STD infection
New U.S. cases of three common sexually transmitted diseases - chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis - reached more than 2 million in 2016, a new record, U.S. health officials said, prompting calls for more effective prevention efforts.

Most of the new diagnoses were cases of chlamydia, which comprised 1.6 million cases. But there were also nearly a half million (470,000) new gonorrhea cases and nearly 28,000 new cases of syphilis, according to an annual report issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday.

All three sexually transmitted diseases can be cured with antibiotics, but if left undiagnosed, they can cause serious health problems, including infertility, life-threatening ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth in infants, and increased risk for HIV transmission.
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