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Las Vegas police kill knife-wielding carjacker


RT
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 19:01 UTC
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© Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department released bodycam footage of the fatal shooting of a knife-wielding suspect who attempted to steal a car before repeatedly stabbing himself with his own weapon.

Assistant Sheriff Todd Fasulo held a press conference Thursday in which he described the incident in detail before showing security camera and bodycam footage of the entire scene. It was the 11th officer-involved shooting in Las Vegas in 2017.

This incident took place Tuesday July 11, at 1:08pm when officer William Pollock, 56, a 16-year veteran of the police force, responded to a 911 call about an attempted carjacking by a man wielding a 10-inch knife.

Blaylock fled the scene and was met by Pollock at approximately 1:26pm. Despite repeated commands to stop and drop the knife, Blaylock continued to approach the vehicle going so far as to grab the door with his free hand.
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No snowflakes allowed! Pope Francis posts 'no whining' sign outside door to his residence


RT
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 18:11 UTC
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© Max Rossi / Reuters
Pope Francis has made his opinion on complainers very clear, posting a 'No Whining' sign on the door to his Vatican residence. It goes on to stress that the "penalty" is worsened if done in front of children.

Underneath the 'No Whining' warning is a description of the typical symptoms experienced by those who choose to complain all the time.
"Violators are subject to a syndrome of always feeling like a victim and the consequent reduction of your sense of humor and capacity to solve problems," the sign states in Italian, as quoted by Reuters.

It goes on to state that "the penalty is doubled if the violation take[s] place in the presence of children. To get the best out of yourself, concentrate on your potential and not on your limitations.

"Stop complaining and take steps to improve your life," it concludes.
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War Whore

If Trump's tweet about working constructively with Russia bothers you, you're a neocon warmonger maniac

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Sun, 09 Jul 2017 17:15 UTC
trump putin handshake
© Whitehouse.govRussian President Vladimir Putin meets with U.S. President Donald Trump at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7, 2017.
America's WWE Hall-of-Famer internet troll president — currently lurking at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue because that's how spectacularly unelectable the heiress to the Clinton dynasty was and is — has just made a series of tweets celebrating a ceasefire negotiation in Syria and calling for a constructive relationship with Russia. If you have a problem with this, it is because you are a reprehensible neocon piece of s*** with whom I should not have to share a planet.

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No offense.
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No Entry

New refugees to US to face stricter vetting after 50,000 yearly limit reached


RT
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 17:02 UTC
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© Lucas Jackson / Reuters
President Donald Trump's administration has surpassed the limit of 50,000 refugees allowed into the US for this fiscal year. Incoming refugees will still be admitted into the country, if they meet stricter constraints.

Last month, the Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to allow refugees to make their way into the country past the limit of 50,000 people, if those people can show a "bona fide relationship" to someone in the US, according to court documents.

The cap on refugees was met July 12, a spokesman for the US State Department confirmed, CBS News reported.

The department has also notified resettlement agencies that the cap on the limit of refugees coming into the country had already been met, but others heading into the US would still be allowed to come in.
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Study finds mentally ill inmates kept in solitary confinement longer than their peers


RT
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 16:54 UTC
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© Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters
Inmates with mental health issues are kept in solitary confinement longer than their peers in federal prisons, according to a new study that finds the mentally ill spend years holed up without any human contact or treatment for their disorders.

Although the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) claims it does not keep inmates in solitary confinement, a large number of inmates with mental illness were found to be confined to "restrictive housing units" for long periods of time in violation of federal policy, according to a report released Wednesday by the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Inspector General (OIG).

Michael Horowitz, Inspector General for the DOJ, said an investigation into the BOP concluded it does not limit the amount of time that inmates are kept in restrictive housing units (RHU), nor does it monitor the total amount of time that inmates spend in RHU.

"This was particularly concerning given that the BOP recognizes that inmates' mental health can deteriorate while in restrictive housing," Horowitz said.
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Mark Zuckerberg comes face-to-face with why Trump won

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Thu, 13 Jul 2017 04:50 UTC
Zuckerberg hardhats
© Conservative NewsZuckerberg stop on his personal challenge to visit every state this year.
Mark Zuckerberg, the 30-something billionaire founder of Facebook, hasn't lived a 'normal' life...at least not at any point in the recent past. He grew up in a suburb of New York City and now hobnobs with the elites of Silicon Valley, at least when he's not enjoying that massive chunk of Kauai that he recently purchased for his own private use.

So what do you do when you've become completely disconnected from the 'foreign' world that all of middle America calls 'reality' and have no idea why you just got massively blindsided by a national election that you thought was a foregone conclusion? Well, you take a trip to Williston, North Dakota.

As Zuckerberg apparently learned for the first time while visiting oil workers in a tiny North Dakota town, there are entire industries that exist outside of Silicon Valley...industries that provide great wages and support thousands of American families. And, as it turns out, those people are sick and tired of having their jobs threatened by their own government and being demonized by Hollywood liberals for their efforts to provide economical access to energy.

Comment: Some call it progress. Some call it business. Some call it earning a living. The Sioux call it something else. Only hearing the headlines and broad-stroke arguments most definitely slighted the intricacies and benefit/detriment perspectives of this pipeline change-about. Likewise, there will be little to nothing reported on the Sioux and their concerns from here on out.

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School resource police officer fired but avoids charges after getting caught "sexting" with children

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 16:47 UTC
Milton Arroyo
Pasco County Sheriff’s Deputy Corporal Milton Arroyo
A career police officer, who spent nearly two decades in the line of duty in New York, is now one of the latest school resource officers to be fired for inappropriate relationships with children under his supervision.

Pasco County Sheriff's Deputy Corporal Milton Arroyo was fired last week, after investigators said he used police computer systems to find personal information about individuals for his own personal reasons, and he broke police department policies involving social media and minors, with students at a local school.

Detectives said Arroyo was "dancing on that fine line" between what is legal and what is illegal, when it was discovered he had been propositioning minor schoolchildren for "sexting" on Snapchat.

For example, instead of asking a girl to show him her breasts—which would have been a felony—Arroyo reportedly asked her only to show him her bra. That simple distinction kept him from being charged with child sex crimes. Instead, he only lost his job.
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Books

Under Daesh rule Mosul goes three years without education


Sputnik
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 13:01 UTC
School resumes Mosul
© AFP 2017/ Fadel SennaA welcome new normal.
The majority of school-aged children in Iraqi Mosul have failed to study for the past three years, as the city had been under the control of the Daesh terrorist group.

A Sputnik correspondent managed to talk to some of the pupils from Mosul and their parents. After the city was liberated and the siege was lifted, these children went to other districts in the country to pass their exams in public schools that remained open.

Mohammed, a fourth grader, said that the militants deprived him of his favorite teacher.
"I loved my teacher. After Daesh militants came to our neighborhood, they forbade the female teachers from working at the boys' school," Mohammed said. Mohammed added that he studied only one week at school under the Daesh rule, and all he learned was that "one bullet plus one bullet equals two bullets."
The boy's mother said that parents in Mosul made their own decision not to send children to schools managed by Daesh.
"We forbade our children from attending Daesh —controlled schools. For example, my son was given a textbook for fifth grade students which described how to make bombs and explosives," Mohammed's mother told Sputnik, adding that the parents had no idea where the Daesh militants got these textbooks or how they managed to print them.

Comment: Mosul's next generation: Despite the horrors of occupation, there are signs of relief and hope as the city and the society contemplates returning to semblances of normality. What won't be immediately evident is the psychological rends and damage underlying and influencing the way forward.

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Family

HRW condemnation: Collective punishment and war crimes regarding forced relocation of ISIS families in Iraq


RT
Thu, 13 Jul 2017 12:33 UTC
rehab camp
© Thomas Coex / AFP
Forced relocations of alleged Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists' families to a "rehabilitation camp" in Iraq are an act of collective punishment, Human Rights Watch has stated. RT spoke to an HRW member who visited the camp.

In a report published Thursday, HRW said that at least 170 families of suspected ISIS fighters, mainly women and children, were relocated against their will to a closed "rehabilitation camp" in Bartalla, 14 kilometers east of Mosul, Iraq, recently retaken from terrorists. The organization considers the relocations "abusive acts" amounting to "war crimes."

The Middle East director at HRW, Lama Fakih, called on Iraqi authorities to stop abusive actions against entire families, noting that such abuses impede reconciliation in the liberated areas.
"Iraqi authorities shouldn't punish entire families because of their relatives' actions," Fakih said. "These abusive acts are war crimes and are sabotaging efforts to promote reconciliation in areas retaken from ISIS."
The first so-called "rehabilitation camp" was reportedly established on Sunday to give the families "psychological and ideological rehabilitation," according to HRW.


Comment: Precautions edging on rights abuse...a sticky wicket as neither war, nor its cleanup are perfected processes. At least these families are still together and considered 'safe' for the time being. Punishment? Maybe so, maybe no. Depends on what happens next.

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Snakes in Suits

Israel lobby at work: Miami officials force children to boycott Roger Waters performance

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 16:18 UTC
Children have been cheated out of an exciting artistic experience due to pressure from the Israel lobby.
roger waters concert
Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters is currently on tour in North America. In spite of the success of the musical tour, Waters has found himself on the receiving end of a campaign by the Israeli lobby to boycott his performances and records due to his vocal support of Palestine.

Recently, members of the Israel lobby announced the production of a film called 'Wish You Weren't Here' a film critical of Rogers which appropriates the name of the multi-platinum 1975 Pink Floyd album Wish You Were Here.

During recent concert tours, Waters has invited local school children from poor families to sing and dance on stage with his band.

Comment: More on Roger Water's brave stance in support of the Palestinians:

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