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Wyoming police trounced on social media after bragging about seizing money from homeless man

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 00:00 UTC
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A heartening trend is growing on social media showing that people are waking up to the state persecuting individuals over victimless crimes. The latest example of this trend comes from the Cheyenne Police Department who posted a photo of money they seized from a homeless man and then attempted to justify and brag about it. When people read the department's post, they lashed out - peacefully - to let them know what they were doing is wrong.

The department's post has since gone viral, prompting both praise and scorn for their ridiculous image bragging about stealing money from a homeless man because he was drunk.
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Kadyrov's response on Jerusalem clashes: 'I'm ready to go and guard Al-Aqsa mosque for rest of my life'


RT
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 16:32 UTC
Al-Aqsa mosque
© Ammar Awad / Reuters
The head of the Chechen Republic has announced he would be ready to resign and move to Jerusalem to serve in the security force that guards the Al-Aqsa mosque "for the rest of his life."

Ramzan Kadyrov made the announcement on Thursday via his personal channel on the Telegram internet messenger.

"I am ready to give up my powers and serve in the structures that provide security at this site that is holy for all Muslims. To be a volunteer and guard the Al-Aqsa Mosque for the rest of my life," he wrote.

Kadyrov also noted that he was against the situation in which the fight against terrorism was used as a tool in the political struggle aimed against Muslims.
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Heart - Black

Rationing healthcare: The murder of Charlie Gard

Derek Hunter
Townhall
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 12:20 UTC
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As the father of a 2-month-old, I can only imagine the horror the parents of 11-month-old Charlie Gard are going through. No words, no thoughts or prayers, or even time, will be able to wipe away their pain.

But that pain did not have to be so great, and it may not have had to have been at all were it not for the single-payer health care system in the United Kingdom and the bureaucrats politicians who rallied to keep Charlie a prisoner to it.

Gard was born with a rare genetic disease that was working to destroy his body. A few months after his birth he wasn't able to live without machines feeding and breathing for him. All medical professionals involved said there was little chance anything could help Charlie.

But note that phrase: little chance.

As a new father, I know there is nothing I wouldn't do to protect my daughter or make her better if, God forbid, something horrible were to happen. Charlie's parents, as would most parents, felt the same way.

Unfortunately for the Gards, their government didn't agree.
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Mr. Potato

Russian ombudsman says excluding women from military conscription is a violation of their rights


RT
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 15:14 UTC
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© Alexey Danichev / Sputnik
Russia's human rights ombudsman says excluding women from universal military conscription is a violation, and has promised to address the issue in the near future.

"Maybe I will not get support from everyone here, but I think that our girls' right for conscription service as privates is infringed. They cannot get permission for this and this is wrong," Tatyana Moskalkova said as she spoke at the Terra Scientia international educational youth forum.

Moskalkova also said the government should offer more support to military pensioners, and to widows and orphans of deceased servicemen.
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Prison bans in-person visits to inmates and replaces them with video calls


RT
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 15:34 UTC
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A jail in Dartmouth, Massachusetts is ending in-person visits to inmates and replacing them with Skype-like video calls. The move is supposed to crack down on drug smuggling, prison officials said.


Comment: Until prisons start making a real effort to keep guards from importing contraband, there will be no end to drugs being smuggled in to prison.


In the coming weeks, visitors who wish to talk to their loved ones at the Bristol County House of Corrections will be taken to a trailer set up on the prison grounds and outfitted with rows of video conference equipment, according to Boston's WCVB-TV.

"We want to keep visitors out of the secure portion of our jail," Bristol County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Jonathan Darling told WCVB. He said they've had issues with drugs being left in the visitor's room.

Darling told Quartz that it was also about "convenience" for the families, who now won't have to go through security to visit their loved ones. He said the visitors weren't losing any contact with the inmates, because up until now visitors and inmates were separated by glass barriers.


Comment: It's doubtful many families or prisoners will see the "convenience" behind being separated from their loved ones because prison officials are tired of dealing with security.

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Bundy Ranch activist convicted and given 68 years in prison for connection to armed militia standoff in Nevada


RT
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 14:11 UTC
Land Management's base camp near Bunkerville
© Jim Urquhart / ReutersFILE PHOTO: Protesters gather at the Bureau of Land Management's base camp near Bunkerville, Nevada April 12, 2014
A man has been sentenced to 68 years behind bars in relation to a standoff in Nevada, which came to be led by infamous rancher Cliven Bundy. He is one of two men who has been convicted in the first of many trials related to the armed standoff.

Gregory Burleson, 53, of Phoenix was found guilty of eight felony counts in April, which included charges of obstruction of justice, threatening and assaulting federal officers, interstate travel in aid of extortion, and firearms offenses related to a crime of violence. US District Judge Gloria Navarro presided over the case.

One co-defendant in the case, Todd Engel, was also found guilty by the same jury and is awaiting a September trial. Seventeen defendants in all are implicated in the Bundy ranch standoff, Reuters reported.
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Teen arrested after live-streaming fatal car crash


RT
Tue, 25 Jul 2017 14:23 UTC
Obdulia Sanchez
An 18-year-old woman who allegedly caused a crash that killed her younger sister - a tragic incident which was also live-streamed on Instagram - has been arrested by police in California.

Obdulia Sanchez from Stockton, south of Sacramento, was booked into Mercer County Jail on charges of driving under the influence and vehicular manslaughter while under the influence, KFSN reported.

The suspect's 14-year-old sister was killed in the crash while another girl of the same age from Fresno, south of San Jose, was badly injured.

Neither were wearing seatbelts, according to Mercer County Sheriff Vern Warnke.
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As Ukraine cuts energy to Donetsk, Germany's press reverts to its dark past

Dmitry Babich
The Duran
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 14:57 UTC
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Kiev has left Donetsk totally in the dark with all electricity supplies cut off. The ensuing humanitarian disaster has been not only ignored by the German media, but there are alarming similarities in today's press with how press outlets from Germany and central Europe spoke of the same places in the 1940s.

When one looks at the Western (and in particular the German) interpretation of news from Ukraine and Crimea, the impression is that journalists in modern Germany (and in the West in general) have an even more crooked psyche and conscience than journalists in the Hitler-dominated Nazi Third Reich.

Wednesday's news is a good example. The Ukrainian media triumphantly reported that "on July 26 Ukraine has totally stopped all deliveries of electric energy to the temporarily uncontrolled territory of Donetsk region (ORDO)." Explanation for the Westerners: ORDLO is the abbreviated name which the Ukrainian "revolutionary" authorities gave to those areas in Donetsk region which did not recognize the post-Maidan "revolutionary" government of Ukraine and managed to fend off the Ukrainian army's punitive onslaught during the summer war in 2014.
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Human trafficking in the Philippines: Its root causes and present day tragedies


Media Roots
Mon, 24 Jul 2017 00:00 UTC
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In this two part series on the US/Philippines human trafficking epidemic, Abby Martin recalls the history of the colonization of the Philippines and how it has led to a dramatic rise in human trafficking of Philippine workers. She interviews the executive director of Damayan, the 8,000 member strong New York City based organization created and led by Filipino women domestic workers that provides legal assistance to migrant workers and human trafficking victims, as well as other victims of human trafficking who have experienced the dark side of migrant employment.

Part One: Buying a Slave - The Hidden World of US/Philippines Trafficking

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Obesity has become a global epidemic, US leads the way as world's fattest nation

Paul Bedard
Washington Examiner
Wed, 26 Jul 2017 14:34 UTC
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Life threatening obesity has become a worldwide epidemic, with 711 million overweight around the globe led by French fry loving Americans.

A detailed report in the latest New England Journal of Medicine is winning alarmed attention in Washington because it finds that American children and adults are leading the obesity parade.

"The highest level of age-standardized childhood obesity was observed in the United States, 12.7 percent," said the report.

"The United States and China had the highest numbers of obese adults," added the authoritative study.

Obesity is no secret in the U.S., but the continued domestic epidemic, especially after the former Obama administration declared war on it, is alarming officials.

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