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Cops force catheterize 3yo boy, man for drug urinalysis

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Sat, 08 Apr 2017 13:02 UTC
Catheterize 3yo Boy
In all the years the Free Thought Project has been reporting on police misconduct and government corruption, we've seen some vile, horrific, and nightmarish acts committed by those sworn to protect. However, a recent case getting exposed by the ACLU of South Dakota may be one of the most insanely cruel and horrifying acts committed by police in the name of the drug war — and they're doing it to children too.

Forced catheterization.

To find out if a person has traces of an arbitrary substance deemed illegal by the state, cops are torturing adults and children alike.

Dirk Sparks recalls that horrid night that it happened to him. "It was degrading," Sparks said. "I was angry. I felt like my civil rights were being violated."
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DC cop arrested for child sex trafficking, assault and stealing his 15yo victim's money at gunpoint

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Sat, 08 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC
DC cop arrested
As news of the missing and sex trafficked children gets swept under the rug in Washington DC, cops, as the Free Thought Project has pointed out, have often been caught not only engaging in the trade but also running it. Now, in a new low, we've found a cop who was engaging in the child sex trade and then stooping even lower to rob his victim after.

Chukwuemeka Ekwonna, 27, of Glenn Dale, was arrested Thursday at his home in the 7500 block of Lake Glen Drive in Prince George's County for a slew of despicable acts. Ekwonna stands accused of armed robbery, robbery, first- and second-degree assault, two counts of third-degree sex offense, reckless endangerment, prostitution and related weapons charges, according to police.

Ekwonna was caught participating in underage sex trafficking by paying a 15-year-old girl to have sex with him. Then, after he engaged in the sex act, this low-life cop pulled out his gun and robbed the poor girl.
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Terror attack in Sweden - who's behind it?

Marcello Ferrada de Noli
The Indicter
Sat, 08 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC
Terror in Sweden
© DN
The newspaper Izvestia contacted me for a comment on the terrorist attack perpetrated in Stockholm April 7, 2017. This is my opinion, which I addressed to journalist Anna Khalitova of the newspaper Izvestia:

Donald Trump has proven being mistaken about some important issues. The last missile attack he ordered against Syria in retaliation of an unclear (to say the least) event, is the latest of such mistakes in the geopolitical scenario. It is about an alleged gas-attack attributed to the Syrian forces, and where - to the best of my knowledge - no substantial evidence has been put forward. The risk being that, about this particular item, history might end placing President Trump in the same box than Bush's "weapons of mass destruction".

But Donald Trump was indeed right about Sweden. Weeks ago he predicted that Sweden would naturally follow the fate of Germany or Belgium, as a target of terrorism. At that time, PM Stefan Löfven, and with him Sweden's political elite in full choir, made yet another laugh of Trump and also absolutely denied that calm in the 'Swedish paradise' (the elite's paradise) was threatened.
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Nationwide manhunt: FBI offers $10,000 reward for fugitive gun thief who may be targeting Trump


RT
Sun, 09 Apr 2017 12:49 UTC
Joseph Jakubowski
© Rock County Sheriff's Office/FacebookJoseph Jakubowski
A nationwide manhunt is underway in the US for an "armed and highly dangerous" suspect who robbed 16 high-end guns and may be plotting an act of mass violence targeting government officials.

The suspect, Joseph Jakubowski from Janesville, Wisconsin, allegedly broke into the Armageddon Supplies gun shop on Tuesday and made off with at least 16 firearms including "high-end handguns and rifles" according to police.

He fled the scene, set fire to his car and has not been seen since.

"Deputies responded to an audible alarm at Armageddon Gun Shop and found evidence of a break in and burglary. Video surveillance showed a white male suspect smashed the front door glass," Rock County Sheriff, Robert D. Spoden said in a statement.

Speaking at a press conference on Friday, Spoden shed some light on the suspect's modus operandi.

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6 arrested after clashes break out at antiwar protest in Florida


RT
Sun, 09 Apr 2017 12:10 UTC
florida policeman
© AFP Photo / Scott Olson
A three-way melee between police, protesters and counter-protesters broke out at an antiwar Jacksonville, Florida, leading to six people being arrested.

On Friday evening, a group of up to 200 people gathered at Hemming Park in Jacksonville, chanting "Hands off Syria!"and "No justice, no peace, US out of the Middle East!"

But the crowd was confronted by a group of counter-protesters, one of them waving a Donald Trump flag, which is what apparently provoked the fight. In the subsequent brawl over the flag police officers got involved and were themselves attacked, being punched, kicked, and in one case reportedly choked, as they tried to split up the two groups.
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Ideology above truth: Eric Draitser and the 'Pro-Assad Syria fetishists'

Barbara McKenzie
barbaramckenzie.wordpress.com
Tue, 06 Dec 2016 10:35 UTC
leon trotsky
Ever since Nick Cohen, supporter of imperialist wars and Israel, lectured in the New Statesman to the 'Left' about what direction it should take, I have been deeply suspicious of people who follow suit (and unsubscribed from the New Statesman). This latest article from Eric Draitser only confirms my prejudices.

Eric Draitser has taken it upon himself to lead the 'Left' back on to the right path in his article Syria and the Left: Time to Break the Silence.
The cold, hard reality of the war in Syria is that the violence, bloodshed, and chaos continues unabated while the Left, such as it is, continues on in a state of schizophrenic madness. Different points of view, conflicting ideological tendencies [etc, etc ...]. But those issues are not the urgent task of this article; the Left does need to seriously self-reflect though about just how it responds to crises of imperialism and issues of war and peace.
Those 'on the pro-Assad side of the argument' who have spent years studying, researching and sharing facts on the Syrian conflict and the role of external powers will be somewhat bemused to be told, only now, that they need to start thinking about how to respond to crises of imperialism and issues of war and peace.

Comment: Obsession with the 'ideological purity of my side' is incompatible with accurately reading the global situation. Only disinterested parsing of the facts and an honest appraisal of the nuances thrown up by complex and often-changing contexts can guide people through understanding the situation in Syria and beyond.

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Indian news anchor reads out news of husband's death in car accident - live on air


RT
Sun, 09 Apr 2017 05:03 UTC
Supreet Kaur
© IBC24
An Indian news anchor kept her composure during a live broadcast on Saturday as she read out the details of a car accident in which her husband had died.

Anchor Supreet Kaur of news channel IBC 24, in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, was reading a bulletin on the 10pm evening news when, after about 15 minutes, she went live to a reporter on the scene of a fatal car accident.
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2 of 3 floors collapses in Poland apartment building; 5 killed, 4 injured, 1 missing


Daily Mail, UK
Sat, 08 Apr 2017 19:30 UTC
Poland house collapse
A pre-World War II apartment house collapsed Saturday in southwestern Poland, leaving five people dead, four injured and one missing, authorities said.

Scores of firefighters with dogs were searching the rubble of the building in the town of Swiebodzice (Shvyeh-'boh-tchi-tseh), according to Daniel Mucha, regional spokesman for the firefighters. He said the collapse of two floors of the three-floor building might have been caused by a gas explosion.

Regional governor Pawel Hreniak said the search-and-rescue operation was expected to continue through Sunday. He confirmed five fatalities, including two school-age children. Still, firefighters looking for one more missing person said there were no sounds yet coming from the building's bricks and broken wood.

Prime Minister Beata Szydlo was heading to the site, 420 kilometers (250 miles) southwest of Warsaw, to be with the victims and the rescue workers. The governor of Swiebodzice, Bogdan Kozuchowicz, said the pre-World War II building was recently renovated and had been in good technical condition.

The injured were taken to hospitals in Swiebodzice and in Wroclaw. One survivor, identified only by her first name Stanislawa, told TVN24 that she was "miraculously saved". "I was in the kitchen and suddenly it was dark and full of debris and some broken wooden planks," she said from her hospital bed in Swiebodzice. "I got on top of those planks and started calling 'Help! Help!' Two firefighters came and pulled me out by the arm." She said her husband was resting on the bed at the time of the collapse. "I don't know what has happened to him," she said, her voice trembling. With her teenage son, also a survivor, at her side, she said the family had lost everything.
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Media's transformation: Committed jihadist becomes 'humanitarian rescuer'


Sputnik
Fri, 07 Apr 2017 16:48 UTC
Dr. Shajul Islam
© Daily MailDr. Shajul Islam and reporter
A British doctor who documented the controversial chemical weapons incident in Syria was considered a "committed jihadist" by MI6 and struck off the General Medical Council in 2016 - and an independent researcher has told Sputnik it is not the first time a figure with extremist links has been given mainstream media airtime.

In the immediate aftermath of the incident, Shajul Islam, 31, posted a flurry of photos on Twitter depicting individuals allegedly afflicted by sarin gas, and was subsequently interviewed by several mainstream television networks. Paraded as the savior of innocent civilians, he repeatedly called for Western intervention in Syria, claiming the April 4 incident was merely the latest installment of a concerted campaign of gas attacks, which was "continuing every day."

What the mainstream media didn't reveal, however, is that far from a modern day Florence Nightingale, Islam, who hails from Stratford in East London, was deemed a "committed jihadist" by the UK intelligence services.

Comment: For many media outlets, 'questionable sources' means the ability to ask them a question. Likewise, 'reliable sources' means you can rely on them to give you an answer. Discernment unneeded.

See also:Germany's FM raises doubts of SOHR credibility regarding report on deadly coalition airstrike in Syria

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Three children, one woman killed in Glendale, Arizona home fire

Bobby Jo Kelly
3TV/CBS 5
Wed, 05 Apr 2017 17:44 UTC
Glendale house fire
© 2017 KPHO/KTVK
Four people, three of them children, were found dead inside a home that caught fire early Wednesday morning and now investigators are trying to figure out how it started.

Sgt. Scott Waite of the Glendale Police Department said the victims are a 41-year-old woman and three children younger than 18.

The woman and two of the children, 11-year-old boys, were found first. Firefighters located the third, a teenage girl, while going through the rubble.

Neighbors had told firefighters that more people might have lived in the home in the neighborhood of 51st and Peoria Avenues, Sgt. Scott Waite of the Glendale Police Department said. That means the first priority for firefighters was to make sure everyone is accounted for.

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