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Former cop charged for brutally kicking man in the head, causing a traumatic brain injury

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 22:36 UTC
Christopher Reiter
Former officer Christopher Reiter
A violent cop is off the streets (for now) after being caught on video kicking a surrendering man, who was not resisting at all, in the face. To illustrate just how terrible police accountability actually is in this country — this was the officer's second time being caught on video kicking a non-violent person.

According to the NY Daily News, "An ex-Minneapolis cop was charged in a brutal kicking assault that left a 35-year-old man with a traumatic brain injury, and a video of the assault contradicts his narrative of what happened." Christopher Reiter, while responding to a domestic assault call, kicked Mohammed Osman in the head, breaking his nose and reportedly causing traumatic brain injury.

Karate kicks and offensive strikes using any part of the foot or lower leg to attack an opponent are sometimes justified in the line of duty to subdue an unruly suspect. But in Osman's case, Officer Reiter cannot say the suspect was fighting with him or even attempting to flee. Osman, upon seeing a gaggle of cops headed his way, with guns drawn, simply dropped to the ground on all fours, on his hands and knees, and waited for the officers to arrest him. It was in that very vulnerable, indefensible position, that officer Reiter chose to deliver a knockout Karate kick to the domestic violence suspect's head.

The Star Tribune reports Reiter has been charged with a 3rd-degree felony for kicking the downed man. While the attack happened May 30th, 2016, it wasn't until March 15th of 2017 that the officer was charged with the heinous crime.

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Family

Russian citizens prefer republic to monarchy - Poll


RT
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:51 UTC
russian duma
The latest poll conducted by state-run VTSIOM shows most Russian citizens currently prefer to live in a republic and strongly oppose the very idea of restoring the monarchy.

The research, published on VTSIOM's website on Thursday, showed the share of Russians who describe the preferred form of state rule as 'republic' is now 88 percent. Only 6 percent answered that they would prefer their country to be a monarchy.

The poll was timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the abdication of the last Russian Emperor - Tsar Nicholas II.
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Target

Westminster's Islamist assault: 'Terror at my workplace'

Dr. Marcus Papadopoulos
RT
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 12:00 UTC
Westminster
© The Independent
The appalling Westminster terror attack was not unexpected. For some years now, MI5, the UK's domestic security service, has set the terrorist threat level in Britain at "severe", meaning that a terror attack in the country is "highly likely".

Politicians, members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery (myself included) and other pass-holders at the Houses of Parliament have been aware for quite some time now that the Palace of Westminster (and the adjacent area, including Westminster Bridge, where the Islamist terror attack began) is a prime target for terrorists, and we have witnessed ever-increasing security measures introduced, including some in recent months.

Members of the public who have visited parliament would not have failed to notice the large numbers of heavily armed police officers guarding and patrolling the Parliamentary estate. I dare say that some of the public may have considered the heavy police presence to be slightly excessive. But yesterday's terror attack clearly and brutally demonstrated why parliament has become one of the most guarded places in the UK.

Comment: See SOTT focus: Westminster 'Car Terror' Attack Raises Questions

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Who controls the (alternate) "reality" in America, and how?

Daisy Luther
The Organic Prepper
Wed, 22 Mar 2017 00:00 UTC
media reality
Who's really got the power in America? Most people are living in an alternate reality created by those with the biggest platforms.

Individual "reality" is defined by what people believe to be true more than what actually exists. A firmly held opinion can create such a vast cognitive dissonance that many people can actually witness something that challenges their belief and still deny that they could be incorrect.

This sounds like the biggest conspiracy theory ever, but if you are here reading this, you probably at least suspect that there are manipulations at play in nearly everything we view or read. There are just a few hundred people who control the media, entertainment, and the internet, and unless we are completely unplugged, we are lambasted with their versions of reality relentlessly every day.

Let's talk about how opinions are really formed and who has the influence to sway the people of America. No matter how well-informed a person tries to be, the truth can be hard to come by when bias is presented from so many primary sources.

Comment: What's wrong with mentioning the "deep state" ad infinitum?!

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Landmark federal case: Man charged with aggravated assault over seizure-inducing tweet to journalist


RT
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 10:03 UTC
Tweet sent to journalist cause seizure
© Chromorange/Bilderbox/globallookpress.comThe gif was sent in a tweet to the journalist.
In a landmark federal case, a man has been charged in the US with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for sending a malicious tweet which triggered an epileptic fit.

John Rayne Rivello, 29, was arrested by the FBI on March 17, following a three-month investigation into a tweet sent to journalist Kurt Eichenwald on December 15, 2016.

The official legal complaint alleges that the defendant sent the tweet while fully aware that it contained "an animated strobe image, knowing that the complainant was susceptible to seizures and that such animations are capable of causing seizures."

The tweet in question also contained the message: "You deserve a seizure for your posts."

The FBI and the Dallas Police Department investigated the case with help from local law enforcement in Maryland.

Comment: See also: Twitter will release info on user who allegedly sent seizure-inducing tweet to anti-Trump journalist

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Struggling to survive: Nearly a third of all Afghan children unable to attend school


PressTV
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 18:06 UTC
Afghan children
© AFPIn this photograph taken on January 18, 2017, internally displaced children gather near their tent on the outskirts of Jalalabad.
Nearly a third of all children in war-torn Afghanistan are unable to attend school, leaving them at increased risk of child labor, recruitment by armed groups, early marriage and other forms of exploitation, an aid group said Thursday.

Save the Children said more than 400,000 Afghan children are expected to drop out of school this year due to growing instability and the forcible return of Afghan refugees from Pakistan, adding to the 3.7 million already out of school.

More than 600,000 Afghans returned from Pakistan in 2016 and around one million more are expected in 2017 after the tightening of regulations by authorities there.
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Wine n Glass

Death rates rise for wide swath of white adults - increase in 'deaths of despair' from drugs, alcohol, suicide

Anne Case and Sir Angus Deaton
Brookings Institution
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 13:07 UTC
Death rates in the U.S.
© Brookings Institute
In "Mortality and morbidity in the 21st Century," Princeton Professors Anne Case and Angus Deaton follow up on their groundbreaking 2015 paper that revealed a shocking increase in midlife mortality among white non-Hispanic Americans, exploring patterns and contributing factors to the troubling trend.

Case and Deaton find that while midlife mortality rates continue to fall among all education classes in most of the rich world, middle-aged non-Hispanic whites in the U.S. with a high school diploma or less have experienced increasing midlife mortality since the late 1990s. This is due to both rises in the number of "deaths of despair"—death by drugs, alcohol and suicide—and to a slowdown in progress against mortality from heart disease and cancer, the two largest killers in middle age.

The combined effect means that mortality rates of whites with no more than a high school degree, which were around 30 percent lower than mortality rates of blacks in 1999, grew to be 30 percent higher than blacks by 2015.

Case and Deaton find that deaths of despair are rising in parallel for both men and women without a high school degree, and they deaths of despair have increased in all parts of the country and at every level of urbanization.
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Mr. Potato

UK FakeNews tabloid fail: Russian pancake festival morphed into "Ultra" football thug fight (Update)


RT
Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:27 UTC
mirror russian football Maslenitsa
UK tabloid the Mirror has used the traditional Russian festival of 'Maslenitsa', celebrated during the last week before Lent, as part of a "shock investigation" into Russian football hooliganism.

A video with the title "Russian 'football fans' in bizarre refereed 'fights'", published on the Mirror website on Monday, was part of an article titled "Russia's Ultra yobs infiltrated amid warnings England fans could be KILLED at World Cup."

The video and accompanying photos purport to show Russian football 'Ultras' in "violent action" at a "special festival."

The article also featured on the front page of Tuesday's Daily Mirror newspaper.

The web article, however, failed to mention that the event was actually part of Maslenitsa celebrations - the traditional Russian pre-Lent festival, which this year was at the end of February, and in which people eat pancakes and participate in activities such as sledding.

Comment: For perspective: 'Treated us like rock stars!' Man United awed by Russian fans welcoming British with blankets for the visiting supporters

Update March 23 RT: The organizers of the festival event are now looking to sue the Daily Mirror:
"I was very surprised, because it's a pure falsification," one of the organizers of the event, Yuri Sidorov told RT. "The (Mirror) story is in no way connected to the actual event."

We've been holding traditional games on Maslenitsa for five years there (in Izmaylovo park). With the support of the Ethnosport Federation.

"It happens quite often, the display of Russian traditions it taken in the wrong way by people who have no interest in learning more about it. They add their own thoughts to taint it, which was the case here. (Ultra) fans have nothing to do with it. If you watch videos of fans fights and our wall-to-wall fight, you will see how different they are.

"The head of the Ethnosport Federation, Alexey Kylasov, who has read the article, says he will look to sue that outlet, since it is a falsification. What was their goal, I can't really tell."


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Dollar

Retail cataclysm: Sears warns on the verge of collapse, Payless Inc. headed for bankruptcy

Michael Snyder
The Economic Colllapse Blog
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:18 UTC
Alarm clock
© theeconomiccollapseblog
More than 3,500 retail stores are going to close all across America over the next few months as the worst retail downturn in U.S. history gets even deeper. Earlier this week, Sears shocked the world when it announced that there is "substantial doubt" that the company will be able to "continue as a going concern" much longer. In other words, Sears has announced that it is on the verge of imminent collapse.

Meanwhile, Payless stunned the retail industry when it came out that they are preparing to file for bankruptcy. The "retail apocalypse" that I have been warning about is greatly accelerating, and many believe that this is one of the early warning signs that the economic collapse that is already going on in other parts of the globe will soon reach U.S. shores.

I have repeatedly warned my readers that "Sears is going to zero", and now Sears is officially saying that it might actually happen. When you file official paperwork with the government that says there is "substantial doubt" that the company will survive, that means that the end is very near:
The company that operates Sears, the department store chain that dominated retail for decades, warned Tuesday that it faces "substantial doubt" about its ability to stay in business unless it can borrow more and tap cash from more of its assets.

"Our historical operating results indicate substantial doubt exists related to the company's ability to continue as a going concern," Sears Holdings said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Sears Holdings operates both Sears and Kmart stores.

In the wake of that statement, the price of Sears stock dipped 13.69% to $7.85 a share.

Comment: From Business Insider:

Number of retail stores closing
© Company Data: Business Insider/Mike Nudelman


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NY State Supreme Court judge orders Exxon to provide missing documents and Tillerson emails on climate change


RT
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:06 UTC
Exxon
© Jim Young / Reuters
ExxonMobil has been ordered to work with New York's attorney general after it revealed it lost emails belonging to its former CEO and current Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who made an account under the alias "Wayne Tracker."

On Wednesday, Judge Barry Ostrager of the State Supreme Court in Manhattan has ordered the company to provide the missing documents from the "Wayne Tracker" account, as well as any undisclosed emails from its management committee by March 31.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is currently leading an investigation into allegations that Exxon misled its investors and the public about risk management issues related to climate change.
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