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Hamburg train attack: 2 suspects on the run after teargassing dozens of passengers, including child


RT
Sat, 11 Mar 2017 01:02 UTC
Hamburg spray attack
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At least six people, including a three-year-old girl, were treated for eye and respiratory irritation after two young attackers sprayed tear gas into a train car full of passengers. It comes less than a day after an attack at Dusseldorf train station.

Police in the northern German city of Hamburg have staged a manhunt for two youngsters, believed to be responsible for a Friday evening gas attack on the S-Bahn rapid transit train on its way from the city's main railway station toward the station of Sternschanze , Germany's dpa news agency reported. At the time of the incident, which happened at around 18:55 local time, the train's car was packed with some 50 passengers.

"The recordings of the surveillance cameras have been obtained. Investigations are continuing," police spokesman Rüdiger Carstens said, according to Bild.
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Controversial professor Jordan Peterson draws overflow crowd as well as protesters at sold-out auditorium lecture

Andrew Duffy
Ottawa Citizen
Fri, 10 Mar 2017 00:37 UTC
Jordan Peterson
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A controversial U of T professor filled the National Gallery of Canada's 400-seat auditorium for a lecture on the "psychology of creativity" Thursday night as protesters outside the glass atrium denounced the institution's decision to invite him to speak.

Another 300 people who lined up hoping to hear Prof. Jordan Peterson were turned away from the venue because it wasn't big enough for the overflow crowd, which featured artists, university students, free speech advocates and at least one Donald Trump supporter.

Peterson is one of the most galvanizing figures in Canadian academia today.

Last fall, in a series of videos posted online, the psychology professor criticized Bill C-16, legislation that seeks to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act by adding gender identity and gender expression to the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination.

Comment:
National Gallery of Canada urged to cancel talk by prof who refuses genderless pronouns

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Saudi airstrike on Yemen marketplace kills up to 20 civilians


RT
Fri, 10 Mar 2017 21:04 UTC
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© Naif Rahma / Reuters
At least 17 people have been killed in a Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a marketplace in the town of Al Hudaydah in Yemen, medics told an RT stringer.

More than 12 people were injured, with the medics warning that the death toll may rise to over two dozen.

According to AFP, 26 people, including 20 civilians and 6 Houthi rebel fighters, were killed in the airstrike.

The militants allegedly fled to the market to escape the bombardment, but were still targeted by the warplanes.

A military source close to Saudi-backed President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi told AFP that the rebels used civilians as "human shields."

Al-Masirah TV channel, controlled by the Houthis, reported that 27 people were killed and dozens wounded in the attack.
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Role Reversal: Democrats now like the CIA more than Republicans

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:18 UTC
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© Carolyn Kaster/AP
Never mind decades of coups, mind-control programs, media infiltration, faulty intelligence and overseas election meddling, all it took was an embarrassing loss from Hillary Clinton to spark a furious love affair between Democrats and the CIA. It appears unaccountable intelligence agency worship is suddenly a "liberal" position. Who knew!

The following poll was taken two months ago, but many of you probably missed it back then. The shift is simply mind-boggling.

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Rand Paul heads charge against GOP 'ObamaCare Lite', files repeal-only bill


RT
Thu, 09 Mar 2017 21:57 UTC
Fix obamacare
© Washington Post
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky is one of several Republicans who have vowed to vote against the GOP's bill to repeal-and-replace Obamacare. Instead, he has introduced legislation that would simply repeal the Affordable Care Act.

House Republicans published their Obamacare replacement legislation, entitled the American Health Care Act, on Monday. Their 123-page proposal, which is supported by the Trump administration, would give power and decision-making back to the states, restore the free market to health insurance, and provide $10 billion a year from Congress to the states to subsidize Medicaid and ensure continuing coverage, the bill's architects said. Tax credits toward health care would be available immediately, grow with age, expand with family, and transfer with employment.

The House GOP proposal was met with a tepid reception in the upper chamber, with a dozen Republican senators saying they were uncertain whether they would vote for it, according to The Hill's latest whip count. Paul is the only one to definitively say he will vote against it.

"The Republican Party is unified on Obamacare repeal," Paul said in a statement. "We can honor our promise right away by passing the same language we acted on in the last Congress. Then, we can have a separate vote on replacement legislation that will deliver lower costs, better care, and greater access to the American people."

Comment: The US healthcare system is on life-support, both proponents and antagonists are in political comas, and the media promotes products ad nauseam that will kill off the population before their skyrocketing premiums are due. What's to fix?

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The military-entertainment complex: How the armed forces use violent video games to recruit and train soldiers

Scott Nicholas Romaniuk & Tobias Burgers
The Conversation
Tue, 07 Mar 2017 19:25 UTC
video game
Violent video games have become embedded within American culture over the past several decades and especially since 9/11. First-person shooters, in particular, have become increasingly popular.

These games - in which players are positioned behind a gun - have turned a generation of kids into digital warriors who fight terrorists and battle alien invaders. Many play first-person shooters for pure, innocent enjoyment. Some like achieving objectives and being a part of a team. And, for others, it simply feels good to eliminate an enemy - especially someone who's trying to harm them.

For the U.S. military, the rise of first-person shooters has been a welcome development. In recent years, the military has encouraged many of its soldiers to partake in the thrill of violent video games as a way to continue combat training, even when not on active duty. (In fact, using games to teach military tactics has been a longstanding practice in the U.S. military: Before video games, troops were encouraged to play military-themed board games.)

The games allow soldiers to take their combat roles home with them and blur their on-duty responsibilities with their off-duty, noncombat routines and lives.

But what effect have these video games had on U.S. soldiers? How accurately do they depict military life? And do they actually help recruit, train and retain troops?
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Sleepwalking into disaster: 5 nightmare scenarios connected to the Wikileaks Vault7 revelations

Jasper Hamill
The Sun
Fri, 10 Mar 2017 19:11 UTC
Amazon Echo
© Press AssociationThe Amazon Echo, a voice activated computer which records its owner's spoken commands.
If you're a law-abiding citizen reading about government surveillance, you might just shrug and think: 'I've got nothing to hide."

But every right-minded person should be very afraid of the power of modern spies and the tech industry's array of intrusive digital spy gadgets.

This week, Wikileaks released documents which claimed the CIA was able to hack smart televisions and use them to spy on their owners.

If you're not cooking up improvised explosive devices in your lounge or growing cannabis in your kitchen, you might think this is nothing to be worried about.

Sadly, you are wrong.

Your phone is already tracking your movements, whilst Google records every search you make - gaining an extraordinary and unprecedented insight into your day to day existence.

Extraordinarily, billions of us have opted to share every moment of our waking lives with Facebook or upload naked images of ourselves to Apple's iCloud.

Comment: WikiLeaks Vault 7 CIA hacking release: Highlights and updates

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New study: Journalists' elitist view of democracy responsible for disconnect between Americans and the media

Nathan Hurst
MU News Bureau
Mon, 27 Feb 2017 19:00 UTC
journalists
Recently, mainstream media have faced heavy criticism from all sides of the political spectrum regarding coverage of the presidential election and other political issues. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri School of Journalism have found that many national journalists have views of democracy that are different than many Americans. The researchers believe this difference in philosophy might be contributing to a disconnect between Americans and the media.

Tim Vos, an associate professor of journalism studies at MU, along with David Wolfgang, a former doctoral student at MU, performed in-depth interviews with political journalists, many of whom work for national news outlets. They found that most political journalists had an "elitist" view of democracy, meaning they believe that American citizens should elect political candidates every four years and then allow those office holders to perform their jobs with little input from the public. Furthermore, journalists believe their role is to update the public on the actions of elected officials so the public will be well-informed during the next election cycle, the study found.

Vos says this philosophy, also called "administrative democracy," is at odds with a more populist view of democracy many Americans hold, which is that the public should have influence over elected officials' decisions on a more regular basis.

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Heartless cops caught betting a sandwich that an inmate would commit suicide -- and they cheered when she did

John Vibes
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 10 Mar 2017 18:51 UTC
Janika Edmond
Janika Edmond
According to a new lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Corrections, multiple corrections officers made jokes about the potential of an inmate killing herself and even made bets that she would. Sadly, 25-year-old Janika Edmond did end up killing herself, and one of the corrections officers ended up winning lunch, a subway sandwich.

Edmond had a history of depression and suicide attempts, and she allegedly announced to the prison guards that she was going to kill herself, but was ignored by the guards as people in her position often are. The lawsuit states that everyone in the prison was well aware of her condition, considering that she had attempted suicide or requested to be put on suicide watch 8 times in 13 months.

Her mental health was such a concern prison doctors ordered she receive certain treatments for her depression, and that she be kept under a close watch in case she ended up attempting suicide, or even talked about it.

However, for some reason, police never called prison doctors or any authorities when Edmond acted out and then threatened to kill herself. The officers took her and isolated her in a shower area, threatening to take her to solitary confinement. When she asked for a suicide-prevention vest, her cries for help were ignored.
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Pedophile cop pleads guilty to impregnating 14 y.o. girl he was mentoring

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 10 Mar 2017 18:44 UTC
James Blair
James Blair
On Thursday, a fifty-one-year-old Lowell, NC police officer, James Blair, pleaded guilty to felony statutory rape of a child under 15. He could spend the next 19 years in prison for impregnating a 14-year-old girl he was supposed to have been mentoring. As The Free Thought Project first reported in September, Blair confessed his sin to the girl's mother and begged her forgiveness. At the time of our first story, Blair was awaiting trial and had been on medical leave from his position since June.

In an interview with the mother, immediately following the guilty plea, she told WSOC-TV 9 that the whole incident, "destroyed my family." "He manipulated my daughter. He manipulated my family. I would have never thought that an officer would have done this," she said describing the hurt and pain they've been through.

"Like I said, my family is upside down, but we're trying to pick up the pieces and we're trying to move on. She told reporters that the teenager would carry the baby full term and that it would become part of their family. She stated she was a religious woman and abortion was not even a consideration. Yet she was very happy to hear the judge tell Blair to have no contact with her daughter as he was previously doing from jail. "We've got this new baby coming. We're going to love this baby," the mother told reporters.
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