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Suspect in Starbucks robbery may sue Good Samaritan who stopped him

Dianne de Guzman
SFGate
Thu, 21 Sep 2017 15:08 UTC
Ryan Flores, Ryan Flores
© Fresno Police Dept.Ryan Flores, left, was thwarted with an attempted robbery of a Fresno Starbucks in July byRyan Flores, 58.
A man credited with stopping a robbery of a Starbucks in July might now be sued by the suspect, over wounds the would-be robber received from the Good Samaritan.

Ryan Flores, 30, is facing charges for second-degree robbery and assault with a deadly weapon, stemming from a robbery of a Fresno Starbucks. Flores was arrested after he allegedly tried to rob a barista with a fake gun and wearing a Transformers mask - and in the process, he was subdued by a customer and stabbed with his own knife.

Cregg Jerri, 58, was that customer, and he intervened in the attempted robbery by hitting Flores with a chair from behind. Flores pulled out a knife and fought back, with the two men wrestling over the weapon. Jerri sustained a stab wound to the neck, but was able to take the knife away, and stab Flores an apparent 17 times during the fight.
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French cardinal Philippe Barbarin to face trial for not reporting child abuse

Will Worley
The Independent
Wed, 20 Sep 2017 15:01 UTC
French cardinal Philippe Barbarin
© PASCAL PAVANI/AFP/GettyDisgraced French cardinal Philippe Barbarin
A senior French cardinal, Philippe Barbarin, is to be tried on charges of not reporting historical child abuse, according to reports.

The clergyman, who is also the Archbishop of Lyon, was once tipped as a successor to Pope Francis.

But he and six other priests have been ordered to appear in court for allegedly not speaking out against abuse said to be committed by another clergyman, Bernard Preynat, in the 1980s.
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Red Flag

We didn't normalize Trump, we normalized the Left's violence

Megan McArdle
Bloomberg
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:32 UTC
antifa protesters
© Natalie Behring/AFP/Getty ImagesSince when do Americans tolerate political violence?
Last week, conservative Ben Shapiro gave a speech. At Berkeley. And all across America, people watched their screens to see what sort of violence would erupt.

Reality was anticlimactic. Law enforcement was out in force, at an estimated price tag of $600,000. Concrete barriers were erected to hold back the liberal "antifa," and police obtained permission in advance to use pepper spray. Much of campus was locked down and cleared out. Nine people were arrested. And so, Shapiro arrived, gave his speech, and departed without the mayhem we've become accustomed to seeing at such appearances. And collective relief was sighed.

But how relieved should we be that this is what it takes to maintain order in the face of ... a speech? On the one hand it shows that even in the heart of antifa territory, police and authorities that are actually determined to control them can do so. That's good to know (and gives the lie to chicken authorities who would give antifa a heckler's veto). And yet, those authorities could be forgiven for feeling daunted, even aggrieved, when they realize that every speaker antifa doesn't like means vast sums, and considerable effort, expended on turning your public spaces into a demilitarized zone.
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Eye 2

Life with a psychopath for a boyfriend: He 'tried so hard to destroy every shred of who I was as a person'

Tanveer Mann
Metro
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 11:38 UTC
Lauren Richmond
© Cavendish PressLauren Richmond, 22, was beaten black and blue by fiance Jordan Greaves, 23, who banned her from wearing makeup because it would ‘attract other men’
A woman banned from wearing makeup for two years because her partner claimed it would 'attract other men' is finally getting over her ordeal.

Lauren Richmond, 22, was beaten black and blue by fiance Jordan Greaves, 23, during their stormy relationship.

But after he was finally convicted of assault, Lauren managed to enroll in a makeup and beauty therapy course and is now training to become a beauty therapist.

The 22-year-old, originally from Huddersfield, said:
'There are no words to explain how awful it feels to be trapped in a violent relationship, especially since Jordan tried so hard to destroy every shred of who I was as a person.

'I had always adored using makeup and experimenting with how I looked, but through his own insecurities he banned me from using it completely, terrified it would draw attention from other men.

'I have been completely scarred by what Jordan put me through, and I still have days when I wonder if I'm good enough, and feel I have to ask permission to wear certain clothes, makeup or even see my friends.

'Some days I don't even want to leave the house, and I often video call a friend so I can be sure I'm not being followed. He controlled so many elements of my life.'

Comment: These words by Lauren Richmond seem particularly important to remember: "...it was hopeless, there was no point trying to reason with him." And if we imagine that there is a small percentage of people across ALL strata of society (as there surely is) - including and especially the political - who are psychologically, and perhaps even biologically, incapable of seeing reason - we have some better idea as to what the root of many of the world's problems are.

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Stormtrooper

Cops beat woman 'like a rag doll' over failure to use turn signal

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Wed, 20 Sep 2017 14:23 UTC
cops beat women
In the land of the free, police claim the right to detain and extort you for failing to signal a turn in your vehicle. If you do not immediately comply with said detainment, police will claim the right to use violence and often deadly force against you to carry out this extortion. Kim Townsend learned this the hard way.

Townsend, who was beat to a bloody and severly injured pulp during a traffic stop last year has filed a federal lawsuit against Marion County Sheriff's Office and the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. The lawsuit claims police used excessive force during an arrest on January 6, 2016. The horrifying arrest was captured on video.

"All I know is that I was on the ground," said Townsend, after she was tackled for failing to stop for police trying to pull her over for failing to use her turn signal.
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Shopping Bag

UK supermarket - World's first to offer checkout via finger vein scan

Nicholas West
Activist Post
Thu, 21 Sep 2017 11:27 UTC
fingerprint
The march toward a cashless society has now moved from the theoretical to the phase of widespread adoption. This is primarily due to developments in the tech sector that now enable the easy use of biometric recognition systems, as well as the increasing acceptance from a public who is becoming familiar with turning themselves into a password for their personal devices.

Behind the scenes, governments and corporations have been building the political and economic enticements via the Better Than Cash Alliance to ensure that the world eventually gets "de-cashed." We're now witnessing the full roll-out of an architecture that has been in development for many years.
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Pistol

Oklahoma City cops shoot and kill deaf man, despite warnings from witnesses


RT
Wed, 20 Sep 2017 21:07 UTC
police cop gun holster
© Global Look Press
The man shot dead by police in Oklahoma City on Tuesday was deaf, it has emerged. Witnesses say that bystanders told the officers the man could not hear, but they opened fire anyway.

Officers were responding to a reported hit-and-run on Tuesday night and sighted a vehicle matching the description they had been given.

They confronted a man standing near the car holding a stick, who did not respond to their warnings.

One officer shot Magdiel Sanchez, 35, with a Taser while another shot him with his handgun, Police Captain Bo Mathews told reporters.

Witnesses were yelling "he can't hear you" before the officers fired, but the officers didn't hear them, Mathews said.

Sanchez was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Climate alarmists admit their computer models of doomsday global warming were wrong

James Delingpole
Breitbart
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 20:35 UTC
climate protests
© Peter Macdiarmid/Getty
Climate alarmists have finally admitted that they've got it wrong on global warming.

This is the inescapable conclusion of a landmark paper, published in Nature Geoscience, which finally admits that the computer models have overstated the impact of carbon dioxide on climate and that the planet is warming more slowly than predicted.

The paper - titled Emission budgets and pathways consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 °C - concedes that it is now almost impossible that the doomsday predictions made in the last IPCC Assessment Report of 1.5 degrees C warming above pre-industrial levels by 2022 will come true.

In order for that to happen, temperatures would have to rise by a massive 0.5 degrees C in five years.

Since global mean temperatures rarely rise by even as much as 0.25 degrees C in a decade, that would mean the planet would have to do 20 years' worth of extreme warming in the space of the next five years.

This, the scientists admit, is next to impossible. Which means their "carbon budget" - the amount of CO2 they say is needed to increase global warming by a certain degree - is wrong. This in turn means that the computer models they've been using to scare the world with tales of man-made climate doom are wrong too.

Comment: The planet may not be warming, but the climate is changing. See: Ocean cycles, not humans, are responsible for climate change

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Heart - Black

Woman with flight anxiety & her service dog 'rudely' kicked off Ryanair flight


RT
Wed, 20 Sep 2017 19:58 UTC
Service dog
© Sophia Costabal
Ryanair staff have been accused of "a total lack of desire to help" after a woman and her support dog were kicked off a flight - amid mass cancellations for the Irish carrier.

Sophia Costabal managed to catch one of the few flights running today, as the budget airline grapples with cancellations, but found herself being escorted off the plane when staff refused to let her service dog fly between Valencia and Ibiza.

Service dogs are trained to help people with disabilities. Many are used by people suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), major anxiety issues or phobias.
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Eye 2

Pervert caught by 'paedophile hunters' trying to meet girl, 14

Joe Roberts
Metro.co.uk
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 19:46 UTC
Ross Wilcox
© North NewsRoss Wilcox holds his hands up after paedophile hunters catch him in Newcastle
A man was filmed holding his hands up as 'paedophile hunters' caught him trying to meet what he thought was a 14-year-old schoolgirl.

Ross Wilcox, 30, believed he had been sending explicit messages to an underage girl he met over adult dating site Tagged, and arranged to meet her at a train station.

But when he turned up at St James Metro station in Newcastle, he was confronted by members of Dark Justice, an undercover organisation who catch men trying to meet children for sex.

The police were called and Wilcox, from Cramlington, in Northumberland, was later charged with attempting to cause or incite a child to engage in sexual activity.

At Newcastle Crown Court this week, Wilcox was sentenced to 20 weeks in prison, suspended for 18 months, with rehabilitation requirements, sexual harm prevention order and sex offender registration.
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