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'Until a reboot do us part': Japanese guys are marrying VR brides (VIDEO)


RT
Sat, 01 Jul 2017 13:44 UTC
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Japanese men are tieing the digital knot with Virtual Reality brides - and the ceremony is just as strange as it sounds.

Footage from a bizarre ceremony in Tokyo Friday shows a suited Japanese groom exchanging vows with his cartoon VR girlfriend.
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Smoke bombs and flares as 2,000 march in Genoa to protest far-right group's new HQ


RT
Sat, 01 Jul 2017 20:32 UTC
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About 2,000 activists poured into the streets of Genoa, Italy, voicing their indignation over the opening of the new CasaPound group's offices at a site symbolic for the leftist movement. The activists set off smoke bombs and fireworks.

Over 2,000 people took part in the march "against the fascist and racist organization" and "for solidarity to migrants and against borders" on Friday, heading from Piazza Alimonda to Piazza De Ferrari in central Genoa, local media reported. A red and black banner, reading "anti-fascist Genoa," was carried at the head of the procession.

"We decided to get everyone behind a single banner, "anti-fascist Genoa," to emphasize the unity of the Genoese at this time of the great need," genova24.it cited activists as saying.
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After 22 years in prison for murder he didn't commit Nevada man finally freed


RT
Sat, 01 Jul 2017 00:33 UTC
DeMarlo Berry
© Rocky Mountain Innocence Center / FacebookDeMarlo Berry freed after being wrongly imprisoned for 22 years.
A Las Vegas man who spent more than half his life behind bars for a murder he didn't commit has been exonerated and released after a California inmate confessed to the crime.

On Thursday, the Clark County district attorney's office announced the conclusion to an investigation by the newly launched Conviction Review Unit (CRU). It concluded that DeMarlo Berry, 42, was wrongfully convicted of burglary, robbery and murder.


On Friday morning, Berry was released into a world he did not recognize.
"It was a surreal moment, just taking it all in," Berry said at a news conference on Friday, adding the the feeling of freedom was a "sensory overload," according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Cops use the 'Stop resisting!' tactic to beat up and arrest a jaywalker

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 01 Jul 2017 20:01 UTC
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A viral video of police hitting a man in the head, while yelling "Stop resisting!" after they reportedly confronted him for jaywalking, has resulted in an official investigation in Millville, New Jersey.

The video, which was recorded and uploaded to YouTube by "Hezakya News," shows a scene in which police already have the suspect pinned down on the ground. Because so much of the incident is not captured on video, it has yet to be determined what kind of an encounter led to police attempting to arrest the man.

Pointing out an important aspect of the encounter, North Miami Beach Police Officer Ericson Harrell—who has a reputation for being highly critical of his fellow boys in blue—wrote the following Facebook post about the psychological tactics used by police:
"Did you know police are in fact trained to shout, "Stop resisting?" Someone somewhere did a study showing if witnesses are out of eyesight of the encounter, psychologically they will perceive the person to be resisting. Thanks to cell phone footage we have seen cops yelling, 'Stop resisting, stop resisting', when the individual clearly isn't resisting because he's been trained to say it."
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ACLU report alleges inhumane conditions and violence plaguing Orange County, California jails

Adam Elmahrek
Los Angeles Times
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 22:10 UTC
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© Mark Boster / Los Angeles TimesAn American Civil Liberties Union report alleges that Orange County sheriff's deputies assaulted inmates at county jails.
Sheriff's deputies working at Orange County jails have assaulted inmates, instigated fights and verbally abused them, according to a report released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.

The report also alleges that holding cells for the inmates are filthy, smeared with human waste and packed with people sleeping on the floors. In one case, deputies slammed a woman's face against the wall, handcuffed her to a wheelchair and "paraded" her around while she was partially nude, she told the ACLU.

Those are some of the findings described in the 104-page report on the county's jails by the ACLU, which said it spent two years investigating the second-largest jail system in the state.

The ACLU based its report on post-release surveys of 120 inmates, interviews with those incarcerated, reports by the Orange County grand jury and media accounts. ACLU advocates said their investigation is the first public glimpse of the county's jail from the point of view of the people who inhabit them.
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More Aussie teens are watching porn


RT
Sat, 01 Jul 2017 16:15 UTC
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More Australian youths are regularly watching porn and are exposed at quite an early age - 13 for boys and 16 for girls, a new study reveals. The researchers doubt the effectiveness of mechanisms meant to protect younger audiences from adult content.

Burnet Institute researcher Dr. Megan Lim, who headed the study of 940 Australians aged 15 to 29 years old, said she was surprised by the results.

"All the young men in our study said they'd seen pornography, and so did the majority of women. They also reported seeing pornography at quite high frequency," Lim told Burnet Institute's official page.

Comment: The Health & Wellness Show: The Death of Intimacy: Porn and the Ponerization of Sex

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Revolt in Brazil as looming pension reform and austerity measures spark widespread anger


RT
Fri, 30 Jun 2017 20:13 UTC
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© Diego Vara / ReutersMembers of Brazil's Homeless Workers Movement (MTST) block a highway during the general strike in Eldorado do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil June 30, 2017
Demonstrations rolled through Brazil on Friday, triggered by President Michel Temer's austerity policy and looming pension reforms. In several cities, protesters faced off with police, who deployed tear gas and rubber bullets.

Labor unions called the demonstrations on Friday, demanding that the authorities roll back the social security and welfare reforms initiated by Temer, local media reported.

The protests shut down subway and bus services. Highways were also blocked, causing major traffic delays in Brasil, Sao Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro.

In Sao Paulo, protests blocked some of the city's main roads and highways and hindered access to Guarulhos Airport, the nation's biggest.


Comment: Unlike Venezuela where much of the opposition is being spurred on by outside forces (ie. the CIA) what we're seeing in Brazil is an ultimate response to the CIA and US Government's inspired coup against democratically elected Dilma Rousseff. Anyway you cut it, the 'Secret Team' or US Deep State is underhandedly working to destabilize and exploit any country it can, wherever it can - if it thinks it can somehow profit by it.

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Italian murderer 'Johnny the Gypsy' escapes prison for 4th time in a 40-year prison stint


RT
Sat, 01 Jul 2017 17:15 UTC
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Italian authorities are hunting a convicted murderer who has escaped police custody for the fourth time in a 40-year prison stint.

Giuseppe Mastini, 57, also known as 'Johnny the Gypsy', is an infamous criminal who reportedly engaged in a series of murders, kidnappings and robberies in Rome in the 1980s.

Mastini had been on probationary day release from northern Italy's Fossano prison since November to allow him to work at the prison police academy in Savona, reports Corriere della Sera. However, he failed to return to jail Friday evening.

It's believed the criminal made his escape by car from his local train station. A nationwide manhunt is currently underway, reports La Stampa.
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Thousands rally in London against reviled Tory government


RT
Sat, 01 Jul 2017 17:12 UTC
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Thousands of protesters took to the streets of London Saturday to protest Britain's Conservative government.

The rally, titled 'Not One Day More #ToriesOut', started at BBC Broadcasting House in Portland Place and finished at the Houses of Parliament in Westminster.

Before the event, at least 10,000 people said on Facebook they would attend the protest organized by the People's Assembly Against Austerity (PAAA) group.
"Theresa May called the General Election to gain a bigger majority, and despite massive media bias in favour of the Conservatives, she failed spectacularly to deliver on that," a PAAA statement reads.

"Now the Tories are in chaos trying to prop up a government with the deeply conservative and regressive DUP."

"We're marching against a government committed to austerity, cuts and privatisation," the group adds. "We're marching for a decent health service, education system, housing, jobs and living standards for all."
Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn addressed the crowd at Parliament Square.

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Israel arresting Palestinians for "incitement" Facebook posts - resistance to occupation is verboten

Asa Winstanley
Middle East Monitor
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 16:16 UTC
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One of the more insidious aspects of Israel's military dictatorship in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is its blanket monitoring of Palestinian social networks and other forms of communication via the internet. This often leads to arrests being made. A recent report by 7amleh, the Arab Centre for Social Media Advancement, names 21 Palestinians who have been imprisoned or detained by Israel for their posts on Facebook.

An ongoing narrative popular among Israeli propagandists in the past few years blames the nebulous concept of "incitement" for the phenomenon of Palestinians fighting back against Israel's brutal occupation forces. A Mossad proxy organisation misleadingly known as the "Israel Law Centre" (aka Shurat HaDin) has even launched lawsuits against Facebook for supposedly facilitating terrorism. A US federal court threw the billion-dollar case out in May.

Last year, Israel's anti-BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) minister Gilad Erdan claimed that Israeli blood was "on the hands of Facebook" and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Shurat HaDin even organised a campaign to raise money for a billboard that would have been erected outside Zuckerberg's home.
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