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West Bank Palestinian killed by Israeli forces following alleged stabbing attempt


RT
Thu, 20 Jul 2017 20:30 UTC
Palestinian man gestures where man was shot dead
© Mussa Qawasma / ReutersA Palestinian man gestures at the scene where a Palestinian who attempted to stab Israeli soldiers was shot dead by Israeli troops in the West Bank village of Tuqu near Bethlehem July 20, 2017.
Videos have emerged showing the immediate aftermath of an alleged attempted knife attack by a Palestinian man on Israeli forces in the West Bank. The suspect was shot and killed by the IDF, with the incident reportedly triggering clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces.

Video said to be taken immediately following the encounter shows the alleged attacker lying on the ground beside an Israeli military vehicle. RT has reached out to the earliest uploader of the footage in an effort to ascertain who filmed the video.

According to a statement from the Israeli army, quoted by the Times of Israel, "in response to the immediate threat, forces fired shots towards the assailant."

The Palestinian Ma'an news agency identified the deceased Palestinian as Muhammad Hussein Ahmad Tnouh, citing Palestinian medical and security sources.
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Attention

Stupid WaPo reporter tells MSNBC that Americans are too stupid to understand 'Trump-Russia' story

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Thu, 20 Jul 2017 19:52 UTC
Hallie Jackson and Ashley Parker
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WaPo Reporter: Trump voters do not care about Russia because "names are incredibly hard to pronounce."

MSNBC's, Hallie Jackson wanted to see what "the rest of America" (the one outside NY, LA, and SF) thought of President Trump, by interviewing Donald Trump voters in Central Virginia.

Joining MSNBC was Washington Post White House Correspondent Ashley Parker, who suggested that difficult and hard-to-pronounce Russian names were alienating Trump country voters from the Hillary Clinton concocted story that to date has provided zero evidence of "collusion" between Trump and Russia...whatever "collusion" even means in this context.

The only stupid people in this entire Russia freak out are reporters like Ashley Parker.

Comment: Or is it the media that is too stupid to report on stuff that really matters instead of the 'fake news' about Russia?

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Bulb

China phasing out coal as it becomes a world leader in renewable energy production

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Thu, 20 Jul 2017 00:00 UTC
China renewable energy
China is quietly leading a green energy revolution and may soon be almost entirely reliant on clean energy as coal is phased out.
China is fast becoming the world leader in green energy production and in the innovation of technologies to more effectively harness green energy.

One of the keys to understanding China's green revolution lies in China's ability to quickly produce large quantities of modern green technologies, thus making these technologies cheaper, more abundant and more efficient to install than those in other countries.

Comment: See also: Chinese province larger than Texas ran 7 days on renewable energy

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Headphones

Audio released of Minnesota cop who killed Justine Damond, while incident sparks outrage as news hits Australia (Update)

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 18 Jul 2017 20:48 UTC
Justine Damond and Mohamed Moor
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New details are emerging about the tragic shooting of Justine Damond, an Australian yoga teacher and spiritual healer, by Officer Mohamed Noor. The Free Thought Project has learned that Noor had a history of complaints against him, neither he nor his partner chose to activate their body cameras before the shooting, and the audio from the radio dispatch has been released capturing Damond's final moments on earth.

Officer Noor, who was sitting in the passenger seat of his patrol car at the time, opened fire through the driver's side door hitting Damond at least once in the abdomen. Noor and his partner were responding to her 911 call about a possible sexual assault.

Police have yet to release any reason for Noor, who joined the force in 2015, to have opened fire as Damond was unarmed.

Witnesses told The Star Tribune that Damond, wearing pajamas, was speaking to officer Matthew Harrity, 25, through the driver-side window of the police cruiser when Noor, sitting in the passenger's seat, shot Damond through the driver-side door.

Noor's partner was allegedly "stunned" when Noor opened fire, KARE11 reported through a source.

Comment: This tragic incident has sparked anger and outrage in Australia over the culture of gun violence in the US and the problems of police brutality:
"To most Australians, the recent surge in police shootings across the US was obviously concerning but at the same time a remote issue, far from Australia's shores," the front-page story reads. "That view has changed now with the fatal shooting by police of Sydney woman Justine Ruszczyk Damond in the suburb of Fulton, Minneapolis."

The story has struck a chord in Australia partly because it feeds "into Australians' long-held fears about America's notorious culture of gun violence," according to the Associated Press.

Ruszczyk's killing has led to numerous TV news reports and newspaper articles recounting the tragically high number of people killed by American police.

"Justine Ruszczyk's mistake was to greet police as you or I would in her native city of Sydney, after she'd reported what sounded like someone being sexually assaulted in the alley behind her Minneapolis home late on a Saturday night," reads a report in The Australian.

While The Sydney Morning Herald said: "The tragic shooting death of Justine Damond will bring home for many Australians a disturbing phenomenon they had only observed from afar and may have even thought was on the decline: the extraordinary rate of people killed during encounters with police in the United States."
The Australian Prime Minister has now chimed in on this growing scandal, calling the incident inexplicable (he must not be paying attention to US police behavior) and demanding answers over why Justine Damond was shot and killed. Meanwhile, the cops are now attempting to cover their behinds by claiming that the unarmed woman in her pajamas "ambushed" the officers and that due to "fearing for his life" the officer shot her. It has also come to light that the officer had his pistol in his lap cocked and loaded. He must be quite scared whenever anybody comes up to his car and knocks on the window to get their attention. As this story makes abundantly clear, it's becoming safer to not call the cops for help than to call for help and end up getting murdered by trigger-happy cops who face no repercussions for murdering innocent people who did nothing but what they've been taught to do when they need police assistance.

For more on this tragic story, see:

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Red Flag

Historical authenticity getting in the way of identity politics - Reviewer bemoans the lack of women and minorities in new Nolan film Dunkirk

Alex Griswold
Washington Free Beacon
Wed, 19 Jul 2017 18:25 UTC
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The USA Today review of Christopher Nolan's newest film Dunkirk notes that there are not enough women and people of color in the World War II epic.

Film critic Brian Truitt gave the film a glowing review.

"The movie captures the real-life heroism of the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940, when nearly 400,000 Allied soldiers were pulled out after the Germans trapped them on a beach in Nazi-occupied France," he wrote. "Nolan's ambitious story revolves around three tales unfolding at different times over land, sea, and air, only coming together at the end."
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Star of David

Thousands of extra IDF troops put on alert in West Bank amid Temple Mount tensions


RT
Thu, 20 Jul 2017 20:18 UTC
An Israeli soldier fires a tear gas canister
© Mussa Qawasma / ReutersAn Israeli soldier fires a tear gas canister towards Palestinian protesters during clashes in the West Bank city of Bethlehem July 19, 2017
The Israeli army will put thousands of extra troops on alert in the West Bank ahead of Friday prayers at Jerusalem's Temple Mount, fearing that clashes over security measures implemented at the holy site will spread.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Thursday that it would be putting five extra battalions on call in the West Bank, adding that they could be deployed if backup is needed, the Jerusalem Post reported.

The army fears that clashes could erupt on Friday, as Muslims make their way to the Temple Mount for prayers. Jerusalem police will also be reinforced by thousands of special police forces, according to Haaretz.

It comes after the mufti of Jerusalem and the heads of the Waqf called on all imams in the city and surrounding areas not to hold Friday prayers in their mosque, but to come to the holy site - known as Ḥaram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary) to Muslims - instead.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Islamic Jihad group, Hamas, and the Umm al-Fahm Popular Committee, a local community organization, echoed those calls on Thursday.

Comment: See also:

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Black Cat

Pedophile Florida teacher accused of having sexual relationships with students

Adrienne Cutway
ClickOrlando.com
Thu, 20 Jul 2017 12:50 UTC
jon north minneola florida pedophile teacher
A Lake Minneola High School band director bonded out of jail Wednesday night after a student at the school said he and the teacher had been involved in a sexual relationship, according to the Lake County Sheriff's Office.

The victim told school officials that he began texting with Jon North, 32, in November or December 2015 and the relationship progressed to hugging and kissing, according to an arrest report.

Beginning around January 2016, North started taking the boy to the corner of the band room closet, where they would engage in oral sex several times a week, deputies said. The sexual contact decreased from daily to weekly until it stopped entirely by the end of May 2016, the affidavit said.
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Arrow Down

Dehumanizing: Florida prison withholds basic necessities from inmates

Mary Ellen Klas
Miami Herald
Wed, 19 Jul 2017 23:05 UTC
Tomoka prison Florida
Rep. David Richardson, D-Miami Beach, saw several inmates with torn and threadbare clothing on a visit Saturday to Tomoka Correctional Institution near Daytona Beach. Because the Florida Department of Corrections no longer allows Richardson to take photos, he asked the agency to take photos for him. Florida Department of Corrections.
The four wings of Florida's Tomoka Correctional Institution's E cell block are home to some of the prison's most menacing inmates. They have arrived there because of administrative and disciplinary problems but, in addition to restricting them to confined, two-man cells, the prison also deprives them of society's most basic necessities.

Toilet paper.

In prison after prison over seven months, Rep. David Richardson, D-Miami Beach, reported that toilet paper, toothbrushes, toothpaste, pillows, sheets, shirts and soap were often withheld from inmates, especially those in confinement.

Richardson, who has been on a one-man mission to hold the state's troubled prison agency accountable, first observed the toilet paper troubles during a Jan. 19 visit to Baker Correctional Institution in northern Florida. After finding dozens of inmates without toilet paper, toothbrushes and other supplies, he asked the prison warden to open the storage unit just feet away from the inmate dorms, and deliver hygiene products with him to more than 50 inmates.

"It is behavior that is intended to dehumanize them — treating them like an animal," Richardson said.

Comment: Unfortunately such horrifying conditions are by no means confined to Florida but can be found in numerous prisons and jails, a testament to the systemic cruelty of the US police state.

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Handcuffs

Saudi Prince arrested on the orders of King Salman after violent videos go viral


RT
Thu, 20 Jul 2017 19:29 UTC
Prince Saudi bin Abdulaziz bin Musaed bin Saud bin Abdulaziz was arrested
© Al Arabiya English / YouTubePrince Saudi bin Abdulaziz bin Musaed bin Saud bin Abdulaziz was arrested
A Saudi prince has been arrested on the orders of King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, after footage emerged allegedly exposing his violent behavior, including aiming a gun at a man's head.

Local media outlets reported that Prince Saudi bin Abdulaziz bin Musaed bin Saud bin Abdulaziz was arrested on Thursday on the orders of the king, pending the outcome of an investigation into a series of video clips that went viral with the Arabic hashtag "prince transgresses against citizens."
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Eye 2

Couple pleads guilty to enslaving children from Korea after using fear and abuse to intimidate them for over 6 years

Karen Hua
NBC New York
Thu, 20 Jul 2017 17:30 UTC
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A husband and wife from Queens have pleaded guilty to enslaving two children from Korea, forcing them to do housework, provide massages, and turn over pay from outside jobs, prosecutors in New York said Wednesday.

The Flushing couple — 54-year-old Jeong Taek Lee and his wife, 50-year-old Sook Yeon Park — were charged on two counts of labor trafficking. Lee was sentenced to five months' probation, while his wife faces six months in prison followed by five years' probation.

The brother and sister, whose names and ages were not released, moved from Korea to live with the couple in January 2010, according to Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.

Shortly after they arrived, Lee and Park seized the children's passports and, over the course of six years, used fear and physical abuse to intimidate the kids to do their bidding, Brown said.
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