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Cops kill man in front of his girlfriend and three kids

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 22:20 UTC
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A father of three is dead, and his three children are traumatized for life after watching a Strongsville police officer shoot and kill him. Roy Evans Jr. was unarmed when police killed him during a traffic stop as his children, and their mother watched in utter horror. The resultant dashcam video is troubling, to say the least.

During the early morning hours of Tuesday, March 7, a Strongsville police officer attempted to pull over the family's van for a traffic violation. Evans then made the extremely poor decision of not stopping.

For the next 14 minutes, Evans, with his family in the van, would lead police on a chase until they deployed spike strips to stop the van. The mother of the children and Evans' girlfriend, Amanda Pauly explained to police that she attempted to get him to stop. She would later tell Fox 8 news that Evans, an ex-convict, said that he didn't want to go back to jail.

When police finally disabled the vehicle, an officer can be heard demanding Evans show his hands before a gunshot rings out and a dispatcher says, "shots fired."

The officer approached the van and shot Evans in the chest, Pauley told Fox 8.

A single round penetrated Evans' chest, and he died in the front seat of the van.
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Life Preserver

State-sanctioned abuse: Stark photos reveal what life is like in a legal Bangladeshi brothel

Amanda Froelich
True Activist
Sat, 11 Mar 2017 00:00 UTC
Prostitute in Bangladesh
© Sandra Hoyn Sumaiya gets beaten in the face by Titu. They are often fighting because Titu wants to marry her, but she refuses. She is afraid that after marriage he will take away all her money. He is jealous because she has sex with many of his friends. Sumaiya is jealous because he has sex with other sexworkers in the brothel.
Most of the women who become sex workers come from poor families or, in some instances, are victims of trafficking. On an average day, a worker will earn between $11 and $19.

Warning: The following story contains graphic images and may be disturbing to some readers.


Comment: The images in the following photo essay are more emotional in nature than anything else.


It's one of the oldest professions in the world. And though the act of selling one's body is frowned upon in my societies, doing so is still viewed as work in areas of Bangladesh, one of the few Muslim countries where prostitution remains legal.

In the district of Tangail, one will find the Kandapara brothel, which is the oldest and second largest brothel in the country, reports The Independent. The area and its purpose have existed for the last 200 years. In 2014, however, the Kandapara brothel was destroyed. As a result, many women didn't know where to go. So, with the help of local NGOs, it was restarted once again.

Recently, photojournalist Sandra Hoyn traveled to the "brothel district" and documented what life is like inside the walled city. Food stall, tea shops, and street vendors can be found in the narrow streets, and the city is said to have its own rules and hierarchies of power which differ greatly from mainstream society. One example Hoyn shared is that the women are both weak and powerful.
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People 2

Fiance of woman killed in crash with undocumented immigrant says President Trump called to offer condolences


Los Angeles Daily News
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 20:54 UTC
fiance
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Rodrigo Macias, fiancé of fatal crash victim Sandra Duran speaks to the media on Tuesday, March 14, 2017, after the preliminary hearing for Estuardo Alvarado, who faces charges in her death. Alvarado, an undocumented immigrant, had previously been deported from the U.S. five times.
An Arleta man whose fiancee was killed in a car crash last month allegedly by an undocumented immigrant who had been deported five times said he has received words of encouragement from President Donald Trump.

Rodrigo Macias appeared on the television news program Fox & Friends on Wednesday morning to discuss the death of his fiancee, Sandra Duran, 42.

After appearing on the program, Macias said he received a telephone call from Trump, who offered him and the family his condolences and urged them to "stay strong." Trump also said he's fighting hard to secure the nation's borders and to combat sanctuary cities.

"It tells you a lot about this president," Macias, a real estate broker, said during a telephone interview with the Southern California News Group on Wednesday evening. "You can't have the local mayor do that, but the president of the U.S. went out of his way to do that. I'm very glad my fiancée and I voted for him. In fact, I'm extremely happy."

A White House official confirmed Thursday that Trump called Macias the day before to "offer his condolences."
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Handcuffs

What century are we in again? Alabama town busted for running "debtor's prison"

Jack Burns
Free Thought Project
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 00:00 UTC
debtor's prison
The Southern Poverty Law Center has reached a $680,000 settlement in its lawsuit against the Alabama city of Alexander and its police chief Willie Robinson. The settlement was for depriving 190 of its residents their rights to due process (6th Amendment) and the unlawful seizure of their property (4th Amendment). Sheriff Robinson has even been asked to resign by lawyers representing their client.

Each one of the 190 individuals will receive $500 cash from the city for jailing them for being too poor to pay the fines imposed on them by the town. As reported by AL.com,"Hundreds of impoverished residents have faced unconstitutional and unjust treatment in Alexander City simply because they were too poor to pay fines and fees," said Sam Brooke, in a press release. Brooke is the SPLC's deputy legal director. He added, "The shuttering of this modern-day debtors' prison, along with the monetary award, brings justice to many of the people who were unfairly targeted for being poor."

Comment: This mode of police abuse and corruption has been documented in other US cities as well - but fortunately, some state legislators are catching on to the scam:

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Heart - Black

'Vicious' poacher attack prompts Czech zoo to remove horns from 18 white rhinos


The Guardian
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 17:47 UTC
Zoo deems danger to animals from poachers to be 'really intense', with black market rhino horn selling for more than gold or cocaine
Dvur Kralove zoo rhinoceros
© Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty ImagesThe Dvur Kralove zoo currently has a herd of 21 black and southern white rhinos
A Czech zoo has said it will use a chainsaw to remove the horns from its herd of rare rhinos after a brutal attack last week in a French zoo where poachers shot dead a white rhino and hacked off its horns.

"It's for the sake of rhino safety," Andrea Jirousova, spokeswoman for the zoo in the central Czech town of Dvur Kralove nad Labem, said.

"The attack (in France) put us on alert, the danger is really intense," she said, but declined to reveal when the surgery would take place.

Comment: Further reading: Poachers break into zoo, shoot rare white rhino dead and saw off its horn

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After damaging leaks CIA heads to film festival to debut 'D&D-style training games'

Beth Elderkin
Gizmodo
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 17:20 UTC
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The Central Intelligence Agency needs to make sure its operatives are at the top of their game, so maybe it shouldn't be a surprise games have become one of the agency's most popular training tools?

At this year's SXSW, the CIA debuted a series of internal training board games, card games, and RPGs that are used to train officers in the art of intelligence gathering and problem-solving. These include Collection, aPandemic-like board game where analysts collaborate to solve international crises, and Collection Deck, a card game where mazes and monsters are replaced by satellite photos and government red tape. There's also one where you try to capture El Chapo, which teaches collaboration with other law enforcement agencies.

According to CIA Senior Collection Analyst David Clopper, who first started developing the program in 2008, the board games are a creative way to quiz officers on their vast pool of knowledge and problem-solving skills. These games are basically one long Google interview quiz—they're tough, detailed, and unforgiving. They also encourage players to work together toward a common goal, a necessary skill in intelligence gathering.

Comment: The introduction to this panel read, "Join a panel of CIA officers as they discuss how the CIA is developing games and using gaming techniques in support of their national security mission."

American heroes on a national security mission? Or thugs working for a sprawling crime organization known for torture, spy and murder tactics that have blackened the soul of America? Choose wisely in the CIA's new 'role playing game' where you're the one getting played.

Or, as Pepe Escobar would say, 'Relax, global citizen; The CIA is benign & benevolent'

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People

3 women left blind after vision treatment at Florida stem cell clinic


CBS News
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 17:20 UTC
human eye
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Three women were left nearly or totally blind by a vision treatment at a stem cell clinic, in what doctors call a dramatic illustration of how risky such clinics can be.

The clinic's method hasn't been proven effective or tested for safety in people, said ophthalmologist Dr. Thomas Albini of the University of Miami. He and colleagues, who examined the women after their treatments at a Florida clinic, described the outcome in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.

"These women had fairly functional vision prior to the procedure... and were blinded by the next day," Albini said in an interview.
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Megaphone

People Power: Father who lost son to overdose takes fight to Big Pharma's opioid profiteers

Sarah Anderson
CounterPunch
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 17:02 UTC
big pharma
Travis Bornstein never told his friends about his son Tyler's drug problem. He was too embarrassed.

Then, on September 28, 2014, Tyler's body was found in a vacant lot in Akron, Ohio. The 23-year-old had become addicted to opioid pain killers after several sports-related injuries and surgeries. Unable to afford long-term treatment, he ultimately turned to a cheaper drug — the heroin that killed him.

"Now I have no choice but to speak out," the elder Bornstein, president of Teamsters Local 24 in Akron, told a crowd of thousands at the union's convention in 2016. As he shared the unvarnished tale of how a middle-class, star athlete wound up in that vacant lot, Bornstein lit a fire under the 1.4-million-member organization.
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Wake up consumers: The whole POINT of the Internet of Things is so Big Brother can spy on you


Washington's Blog
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:20 UTC
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The government is already spying on us through our computers, phones, cars, buses, streetlights, at airports and on the street, via mobile scanners and drones, through our credit cards and smart meters (see this), television, doll, and in many other ways.

The CIA wants to spy on you through your dishwasher and other "smart" appliances. Slate reported in 2012:
Watch out: the CIA may soon be spying on you—through your beloved, intelligent household appliances, according to Wired.

In early March, at a meeting for the CIA's venture capital firm In-Q-Tel, CIA Director David Petraeus reportedly noted that "smart appliances" connected to the Internet could someday be used by the CIA to track individuals. If your grocery-list-generating refrigerator knows when you're home, the CIA could, too, by using geo-location data from your wired appliances, according to SmartPlanet.

"The current 'Internet of PCs' will move, of course, toward an 'Internet of Things'—of devices of all types—50 to 100 billion of which will be connected to the Internet by 2020," Petraeus said in his speech. He continued:
Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters—all connected to the next-generation Internet using abundant, low cost, and high-power computing—the latter now going to cloud computing, in many areas greater and greater supercomputing, and, ultimately, heading to quantum computing.

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Bandaid

Sick of seeing Jared Fogle treated as a pedophile 'god' in jail, an inmate gave him a severe beating

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:31 UTC
Jared Fogle
© Reuters / Susan GuyettJared Fogle (C) is led from federal court where he asked a judge to accept his guilty plea
A man who gave Jared Fogle, what some would call a well-deserved beating, is speaking out. Fogle, Subway Restaurant's former spokesman, and convicted pedophile is serving a 15-year sentence for possession of child pornography and traveling to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor. Steve Nigg presumably beat up Fogle because he said Fogle was getting rock star treatment and that other pedophiles were looking up to him as a hero and a god.

Fogle wasted no time in learning how to protect himself since being sent to prison last year. He quickly secured some strongmen to serve as his bodyguards while on the inside. And then he began to relish in the attention other pedophiles were giving him, according to Nigg. "Jared is their hero...You would not believe how arrogant Jared was. He hired bodyguards and the other child molesters looked at him as if he was a god," the senior citizen wrote.

But Nigg made sure Fogle would lose his untouchable status when he attacked the millionaire pedophile, beating him so badly he bloodied his nose, swole up his face, and left some scratches on his neck.

Nigg, who is in prison for gun offenses and is not scheduled to be released until 2024, pushed "Fogle to the ground" and struck him "multiple times in the face with a closed fist," according to the report, as covered by Heavy. Nigg's only injuries were a small cut on his hand and abrasion on his knee from the concrete, the report states.
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