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Sheriff

New interview reveals Florida cop knew Charles Kinsey had no gun when he shot him


RT
Wed, 05 Apr 2017 21:06 UTC
Officer Jonathan Aledda shot Charles Kinsey
© Tania Francois / YouTube
A recently released audio recording reveals the Florida police officer who shot an unarmed man who was lying on the ground last July had been told that there was no gun before he fired three times.

On Tuesday, an hour-long interview conducted by Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) investigators with North Miami Police Chief Gary Eugene was released by the Miami New Times. The interview reveals that Officer Jonathan Aledda, who shot Charles Kinsey, a behavior therapist at a mental health center, had been told that the gun on the scene was actually a toy truck.

The incident occurred last July when Arnaldo Rios, a 23-year-old man with autism, ran away from a local group home. Kinsey went to bring Rios back when they were confronted by Miami-Dade police officers, who ordered the two men to get on the ground.

Cell phone footage of the event shows Kinsey complying with police, and repeatedly trying to explain the situation to Rios. When Rios did not follow police orders to lie down, a Miami officer shot three times, striking Kinsey in the leg with an assault rifle.
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Snowflake

Precious snowflakes demand university president's resignation after refusal to support "safe spaces"

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Wed, 05 Apr 2017 13:00 UTC
precious snowflakes cartoon
Snowflakes at the ultra-liberal Northern Arizona University are demanding that their President, Rita Cheng, step down today after a student asked for her opinion on 'safe spaces' and got a rather shocking dose of reality as a reply.

During a forum hosted by Cheng, NAU sophomore Breanna Kramer asked the following (per KPNX):
"How can you promote safe spaces, if you don't take action in situations of injustice, such as, last week, when we had the preacher on campus and he was promoting hate speech against marginalized students? As well as, not speaking out against racist incidents like blackface two months ago by student workers followed by no reform and no repercussions?"
And while Kramer expected a softball response from her school's president, what she actually got was a heaping dose of 'real life'...which, of course, immediately 'triggered' every snowflake within an earshot of the president's 'microaggression'.
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Handcuffs

Stupid! Ukrainian media plants 'fake' bombs on subway 'just to see how security would react'


RT
Thu, 06 Apr 2017 12:26 UTC
Kiev Khreschatyk subway
© Gleb Garanich / ReutersAn entrance to underground subway station of Khreschatyk in Kiev, Ukraine.
The Kiev metro says it's going to the police after Ukraine's 1+1 channel placed fake bombs on the Kiev subway to see how Ukrainian security forces would react. The stunt came just days after an explosion killed 14 people in Russia's St. Petersburg Metro.

"Apparently, they think it's funny to do it while people who were killed in a terror attack on the subway in St. Petersburg are being put to the ground. We're going to inform the relevant law enforcement agencies" on the incident, the Kiev Metro said in statement on Facebook.

According to metro officials, the journalists from local 1+1 channel left unattended boxes at the Khreschyatik, Vokzalnaya, and Lesnaya stations.
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Pocket Knife

Silicon Valley survivalist builds "extreme weather tsunamiball" to ride out disaster

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan
Wed, 05 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC
Tsunami
Whenever seismic activity kicks up on the planet, earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis are triggered.

Just how big, and how devastating, depends upon chance, and the build-up of pressures within the earth.

But anyway you slice it, places like Southern California, and globally, the Ring of Fire, are in the danger zone. Many say that it's just a matter of time.

With that in mind, survival-minded individuals and disaster preppers have been trying to get ready, and help others get ready, too.

That's sort of what happened when Chris Robinson and his Silicon Valley friends and associates got into 'sketching ideas for tsunami-proof shelters.'

Comment: How about just moving out of California?

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Bad Guys

ISIS-linked hackers release 9,000-name 'kill list' for US and UK


RT
Thu, 06 Apr 2017 08:07 UTC
UCC hacker screen
© SITE Intelligence Group
A group of hackers supporting Islamic State have released a "kill list" with the names of 8,786 people primarily from the US and UK, inciting violence against them, and also leaving a threatening message for Donald Trump.

The chilling message was delivered via a video posted on Telegram, the private messaging app, on Sunday night. The hackers, known as United Cyber Caliphate (UCC), ordered those watching to murder the people on the list, according to SITE Intelligence Group.

"We have a message to the people of the US and most importantly your President Trump," read the on-screen text.

"Know that we continue to wage war against you. Know that your counter attacks only make us stronger. The UCC will start a new step in this war against you," it continued.
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Attention

Question before you share: How innocent people fall victim to false accusations during terrorism alerts


RT
Tue, 04 Apr 2017 19:56 UTC
Ilyas Nikitin
Some Russian media outlets circulated this CCTV photo, saying the man in it was suspected of involvement in the St. Petersburg bombing. Screenshot from fontanka.ru
In the modern information-driven world a person can easily fall victim to false accusations, as the online rumor mill and click-hungry media rush to find someone to blame for various emotionally-charged crimes. The apparent bombing in the St. Petersburg Metro is just the latest example.

The Monday blast, which killed 14 people and left dozens injured, produced two cases of false accusations. Hours following the apparent bombing, a CCTV image of a man with a long beard and dressed in long clothes and a hat was leaked to several media outlets. They speculated that he was the possible organizer of the suspected terrorist attack. Hours later the man went to a police station, protesting his innocence.

The man, later named as Ilyas Nikitin, was apparently guilty of having an appearance that conforms to the public's expectations of what a terrorist looks like. According to the IslamNews web portal, he was born in the Russian region of Bashkortostan, trained as an airborne trooper and served in the Chechen Republic, retiring with the rank of captain.

Comment: 'Me-first' journalism turned this young man's life into a nightmare, after dozens of media outlets released blurry photos of Ilyas Nikitin before any official confirmation from police. He has been interviewed by the police three times, taken off flights, and claims he has been fired from his job. "My relatives, friends and myself are being followed by everywhere by the same reporters, who had previously called me a terrorist."

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Attention

Nevada jail's inmate deaths drastically escalate 5 times national average - study


RT
Wed, 05 Apr 2017 22:04 UTC
Prison
© Washoe County Sheriff's Office
An investigation found the number of inmate deaths from suicide, accident and homicide at Washoe County jail in Nevada has drastically escalated over a two-year period. The escalation has been attributed in part to staff reductions and a swap in medical contractors.

Over the last two years, 13 inmates have died in custody in Washoe County, marking a 30 percent increase on previous years, according to an 11-month investigation by the Reno Gazette-Journal.

The Washoe County jail's in-custody death rate — a calculation used to compare deaths across jails with varying populations — jumped from 83 per 100,000 in 2014 to 643 per 100,000 in 2015. It dipped to 573 per 100,000 in 2016. That's five times the national average, according to the most recent numbers published by the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Comment: See also: Fearing for his life: Alabama organizer of prison labor protest goes on hunger strike

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Light Saber

Ivanka Trump responds to allegations of "complicity" from CBS' Gayle King

Sean Kelly
America Now
Wed, 05 Apr 2017 23:39 UTC

Ivanka Trump_CBS
© CBS
In an interview with CBS, Ivanka Trump responded to questions about being "complicit" with her father, President Donald Trump, in regard to the allegations against him surrounding Russia.

Trump spoke with CBS' Gayle King about the controversy surrounding her father and her new role in the White House as Assistant to the President. When asked about talk of complicity, Trump gave an answer that quickly went viral.

"If being complicit is wanting to, is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact then I'm complicit. I don't know that the critics who may say that of me, if they found themselves in this very unique and unprecedented situation that I am now in, would do any differently than I am doing," she said.

"So I hope to make a positive impact. I don't know what it means to be complicit, but you know, I hope time will prove that I have done a good job and much more importantly that my father's administration is the success that I know it will be."
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Dollars

Financing your own distraction - It's expensive to keep you distracted

Annabelle Bamforth
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 05 Apr 2017 23:28 UTC
"Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult...."

― George Orwell, 1984
Football Stadiums
© The Free Thought Project
It's no secret that the federal government has little restraint about using taxpayer dollars for non-essential initiatives and projects. One venture, in particular, continuously shouldered by taxpayers is the building, maintaining, and renovating of sports stadiums. These stadiums are often built with the help of federal subsidies as well as funding through state and local taxes. This issue is not new, as study of subsidized stadiums by the Department of Economics at the College of the Holy Cross noted that "construction costs alone for major league professional sports facilities have totaled in excess of $30 billion in nominal terms over the past two decades with over half of the cost being paid by the public."

Of course, there is absolutely nothing wrong with watching sports. However, it has become far more than just a game in this country. It is used to promote militarism, divide, and serve as bread and circus while the empire spreads across the globe. As the study mentions above, all of this comes with a hefty price tag too. Americans are quite literally financing their own distraction.
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2 + 2 = 4

Russian court turns down Jehovah's Witnesses' bid for 'victim of repression' status


TASS
Wed, 05 Apr 2017 21:20 UTC
The Supreme Court decided that the counterclaim could not be reviewed at the moment, as it was filed in an inappropriate court

Russian administrative centre of Jehovah's Witnesses
© Alexander Demianchuk/TASS
Russian administrative centre of Jehovah's Witnesses
The Russian Supreme Court refused to adjudicate a claim by Jehovah's Witnesses on recognizing the organization as a victim of political repression by the Russian Justice Ministry, a TASS correspondent reports.

Earlier in the day, the Russian Supreme Court began hearings on the Justice Ministry's appeal to ban the activities of the Jehovah's Witnesses Managerial Center in Russia as extremist.
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