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Stranger danger: 31% of Americans reportedly see Russia as "greatest danger" to US


RT
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 21:00 UTC
US Russia flags
© Sputnik/ Sergey Pyatakov
Answering an open-ended question, 31 percent of Americans said Russia currently represents the "greatest danger" to the US, according to a new poll. It is the highest percentage of Americans expressing this sentiment in nearly three decades.

The new Pew Research Center survey also found that Russia is by far the number one national threat in the eyes of Democrats, as 39 percent see Russia as the greatest threat to America, while 21 percent cited North Korea, and 13 percent said it was China.

Opinions were divided among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, with 27 percent saying North Korea presently poses the greatest danger to the US; 21 percent cited Russia, and 18 percent - Iran.

Compared with 2013, the last time the same question was asked, larger numbers in both parties cited Russia as posing the greatest danger to the US. Almost twice as many Democrats as Republicans now express a more hostile attitude (39 percent vs. 21 percent).

Comment: How the propaganda machine works. It would probably be wise for Americans to consider this bit of wisdom from Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson:
"Every time you tell yourself a lie and every time you act out a falsehood, you distort the pristine integrity of your nervous system, and the reports it will give you about the nature of the world will be distorted."
And that inevitably leads to bad results.

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Police State USA: Georgia cops illegally grope 900 high school students and find nothing

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 20:26 UTC
Police state USA
Children feel violated, parents are furious, and a lawsuit is getting filed after the Worth County Sheriff's office conducted an illegal search of 900 students — in the name of the war on drugs. The rights-violating intrusive and aggressive pat-downs and drug dog searches yielded absolutely nothing.

On April 14, when the students of Worth County High School returned from spring break, they arrived at school to find a police state had taken over. The sheriff and his deputies — with no probable cause — detained and illegally searched every single child in the school, all 900 of them.

When kids went home that day to tell their parents what happened, naturally, they were furious as it is a gross violation of the children's 4th Amendment rights.

"It's essentially a fourth amendment violation," said attorney Mark Begnaud. "It's 900 illegal searches, suspicion-less pat downs, suspicion-less searches."

Naturally, Sheriff Jeff Hobby is standing by this rights violation on a massive scale, noting that as long as a school administrator was present, the search of the children was legal.

Comment: See also: The disturbing history of police in schools: More than a few rogue cops

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11 clues that 2017 U.S. economy in far worse shape than 2016

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse Blog
Sun, 23 Apr 2017 20:03 UTC
Worsening US economy
There is much debate about where the U.S. economy is ultimately heading, but what everybody should be able to agree on is that economic conditions are significantly worse this year than they were last year.

It is being projected that U.S. economic growth for the first quarter will be close to zero, thousands of retail stores are closing, factory output is falling, and restaurants and automakers have both fallen on very hard times.

As economic activity has slowed down, commercial and consumer bankruptcies are both rising at rates that we have not seen since the last financial crisis. Everywhere you look there are echoes of 2008, and yet most people still seem to be in denial about what is happening. The following are 11 facts that prove that the U.S. economy in 2017 is in far worse shape than it was in 2016...

#1 It is being projected that there will be more than 8,000 retail store closings in the United States in 2017, and that will far surpass the former peak of 6,163 store closings that we witnessed in 2008.

#2 The number of retailers that have filed for bankruptcy so far in 2017 has already surpassed the total for the entire year of 2016.
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War Whore

US Supreme Court will not review police-force case, justifies cop immunity


RT
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 17:37 UTC
Cops
© Carlo Allegri / Reuters
The US Supreme Court will not review a case in which lower courts had decided that a Texas cop's version of events - involving the officer shooting an unarmed man in the back - are "undisputed facts" that effectively block a jury trial.

The case, Ricardo Salazar-Limon v. City of Houston, hinges on Houston police officer Chris Thompson's version of events regarding a 2010 traffic stop during which Thompson shot an unarmed Ricardo Salazar-Limon in the back, leaving him partially paralyzed. The officer said he feared for his life when he shot Salazar-Limon. Salazar-Limon sued, seeking a jury trial to decide the validity of Thompson's claims.

At issue is whether a court could accept the officer's version of events as "undisputed fact" and grant summary judgment to Thompson, effectively avoiding a full trial on Salazar-Limon's excessive force claims.

"The police officer didn't have the right to do this," Salazar-Limon told the Houston Chronicle in 2013. "I didn't abuse him. I didn't insult him. I didn't try to hit him or do anything against him for him to use that kind of force."

Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented over the Supreme Court's decision to let stand a lower court's dismissal of the suit. She wrote in a dissent supported by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that the court's refusal of the case continues a "disturbing trend" of protecting cops from lawsuits and bad behavior.
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New Orleans removes Liberty Monument, prominent symbol of confederate legacy


RT
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 19:47 UTC
confederate statue
© WWLTV / YouTube
A prominent symbol of the confederate legacy in the southern United States was removed Monday morning by masked workers wearing bulletproof vests and under heavy police protection.

The Liberty Monument in New Orleans has been removed following a 2015 city council vote to take down a total of four statues associated with the confederate movement but a series of lawsuits had prevented any action until now.

"There's a better way to use the property these monuments are on and a way that better reflects who we are," New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu told the Associated Press on Sunday.

The city has refused to name the contractors who are carrying out the four removals as there have been multiple threats of violence and intimidation. Work will take place at night to ensure police can sufficiently secure each site while minimizing the impact to traffic flows through the city.
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US high school students' entrepreneurial aspirations at lowest level on record - report


RT
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 17:31 UTC
HS students
© Jim Young / Reuters
Fewer US high school students want to build their own business, with figures hitting their lowest level since 2011, a survey has revealed. However, those in grades five to eight are more optimistic, and show more enthusiasm about potential startups.

The latest Gallup-HOPE Index report suggests that a little over one in four high school students, or 27 percent of respondents, see their future as linked to owning a business.

The numbers are slightly down on the 34-35 percent range over the five-year period since the study began in 2011.

This might be due to teens having a clearer perspective about their career goals as they grow older, the report's authors say.

Another reason suggested for the smaller number of high school students wanting to own a business is that they experience a large number of special courses at school or are interned with a local business, which puts them off starting up on their own.
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Red Flag

UK police: Pedophile hunters interfere with investigations into sexual predators


RT
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 20:02 UTC
laptop
© Fabrice Cateloy / Global Look Press
'Pedophile hunters' posing as children online to catch potential sexual predators could undermine the effectiveness of police investigations, a senior officer has said.

Chief Constable Simon Bailey, of the National Police Chiefs' Council, said that self-styled hunters could interfere with investigations and undermine both the suspect's and the victim's safety.

Bailey's comments come after a court ruled in favor of a group who argued that it should not be subjected to official scrutiny.

"Revealing the identity of suspected pedophiles gives the suspect the opportunity to destroy evidence before the police can investigate them," he said.

"It can jeopardize ongoing police investigations and these people have no way of safeguarding child victims," he said, according to the Guardian.

Comment: Maybe if there weren't so many pedophiles escaping justice or getting extremely light sentences for their terrible crimes there wouldn't be so many people taking justice into their own hands. If the police had the same tenacity as the homemade pedophile hunters, it's possible that the pedophiles would get scared enough to stop their sick behavior.

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6 Israeli men facing charges for beating Arabs who date Jewish women


RT
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 19:05 UTC
orthodox jewish men
© Darren Ornitz / Reuters
Six young Israeli men in the city of Be'er Sheva have been charged with severely assaulting Arab men over their romantic relationships with Jewish women.

The Israeli men are aged between 17 and 20, and two of them are soldiers, according to Haaretz.

In at least six incidents from last December to April 6, they used knives, clubs and metal bars to attack the Arab men for pursuing romantic relationships with Jewish women.

The most severe of the assaults involved 19-year-old Raz Ben-Shalom Amitzur, who approached a Jewish-Arab couple and stabbed the man several times with a knife in his back, chest, abdomen, and arm.

Comment: About Lehava:

Complaint filed by Hebron settlers against Palestinian who filmed execution
Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bentzi Gopstein, far-right settlers and followers of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, have filed a complaint with Israeli police against Emad Abu Shamsiya, the Palestinian videographer who captured the execution of an incapacitated Palestinian suspect in Hebron.

Ben-Gvir is a lawyer who defends Jews suspected of vigilante attacks including the killers of the Dawabshe family. Gopstein is founder of the state-funded anti-miscegenation movement Lehava, and has called for churches to be burned.
Wedding between Arab man and Jewish women in Tel Aviv incites media frenzy and picketing from far-right group Lehava

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The 'March to Silence' - Shots fired at building housing leading climate skeptic scientists

Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
Roy Spencer Blog
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 19:09 UTC
NSSTC
© Image via Google Maps Street ViewNational Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC) building.
A total of seven shots were fired into our National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC) building here at UAH over the weekend.

All bullets hit the 4th floor, which is where John Christy's office is (my office is in another part of the building).

Given that this was Earth Day weekend, with a March for Science passing right past our building on Saturday afternoon, I think this is more than coincidence. When some people cannot argue facts, they resort to violence to get their way. It doesn't matter that we don't "deny global warming"; the fact we disagree with its seriousness and the level of human involvement in warming is enough to send some radicals into a tizzy.

Our street is fairly quiet, so I doubt the shots were fired during Saturday's march here. It was probably late night Saturday or Sunday for the shooter to have a chance of being unnoticed.

Maybe the "March For Science" should have been called the "March To Silence".

Campus and city police say they believe the shots were fired from a passing car, based upon the angle of entry into one of the offices. Shell casings were recovered outside. The closest distance a passing car would have been is 70 yards away.

This is a developing story. I have no other details.
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Jordan closes legal loophole - rapists who marry their victims can still be charged and convicted


RT
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 18:54 UTC
wedding burka
© Adrees Latif / Reuters
Jordan scrapped a law on Sunday that protected rapists from prosecution if they married and stayed with their victim for at least five years.

This follows an amendment to the law, entitled Article 308, made last year which allowed rapists to marry only victims between the ages of 15 and 18.

The law also afforded the option of a pardon for perpetrators of sexual assault in cases that were deemed to be "consensual."

Lawmakers previously defended the clauses saying they were put in place "to protect her [the victim], because in some instances, she could be harmed or killed by her family if she did not marry her rapist," reports The Jordan Times.
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