Society's ChildS


Sheriff

Cop threatens to arrest breastfeeding mother because it was "offensive"

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A woman's Facebook post went viral after a deputy sheriff allegedly threatened to arrest the woman if she refused to stop breastfeeding her baby in public - claiming that it some individuals may find it "offensive."

Upon being accosted by the officer, Savvy Shukla uploaded a photo and post addressing the incident that took place while in a Piggly Wiggly grocery store with her two children and sister.

TV

Man shouts, 'Bill Clinton is a rapist!' during live Fox News broadcast before being dragged away by security

Fox News
A guy walked up behind the crew on Fox and Friends wearing what appears to be a Bill Clinton shirt in the fashion of the Obama "hope" artwork, except where it says "hope" has been changed for Bill to "rape".

He started shouting "Bill Clinton is a rapist!" at the camera. Tucker Carlson's crazy laugh in response is pretty hilarious. The guy started climbing the barrier and security came and dragged him away, literally grabbing the barrier and dragging it as he continued to shout "Bill Clinton is a rapist! Bill Clinton is a rapist!"

Comment: Well....


Pistol

14-yo black teen hospitalized after shootout with Missouri police

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© Adrees Latif / Reuters
A 14-year-old black teenager has been hospitalized after being shot by police in St. Louis, Missouri, local media and law enforcers said. The teenager reportedly opened fire on officers first.

The incident occurred at around 9:25 a.m on Sunday in the Walnut Park East area of the city's northwest with police stopping the teenager to talk to him about a carjacking which occurred in the area in September, according to The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Comment: See also: El Cajon Police Department releases Alfred Olango shooting footage from drive-thru restaurant


Boat

Israeli Navy issues orders to intercept all-women flotilla bound for Gaza

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© Occupied JerusalemThe al-Zaytouna carries an all-women activist crew bound for Gaza.
The Israeli occupation navy has received instructions to intercept women's boat to Gaza and arrest onboard activists, Israeli daily Maariv reported Sunday. The Israeli naval forces have received orders to intercept al-Zaytouna ship and arrest activists as soon as they reach Gaza shores. The boat is reportedly to be towed to the Ashdod Harbor while female activists will be deported to their mother countries after they sign pledges to never return.

Zaytouna ship is expected to reach Gaza shores in the next three days following a stopover in the Greek Island of Crete to fix a sudden breakdown.

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Cult

Thought Police: Campus politics lead to Albright student suspensions over #BlackLivesMatter Blackface satire

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© Unknown
Albright College in Pennsylvania has suspended two students after a blackface video mocking the Black Lives Matter movement went viral.


Comment: "Going viral" implies it was unintentional.


The video, which was uploaded to one of the girls' Snapchat accounts, shows a girl named as Carly Dickinson wearing blackface makeup.


Comment: Name and shame much?


She calls herself Karlisha and mocks the movement throughout the video. Halfway through, she is seen with padding stuffed down her pants and twerking.


Comment: How is this not the definition of satire?
satire /satʌɪə/
noun
the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

Comment: We would strongly suggest you actually watch the video, especially here where a black participant, in making the video, runs by the camera. Criticism, satire, even mocking is not racism. Racism is when you attribute something to a specific ethnicity by virtue of being a member of that group. Whether or not it is tasteful is irrelevant. Whether or not the student was making a political statement is irrelevant. She's a young girl putting on a dramatic imitation/satire for friends.

The brouhaha it generated is social media mining for shock value. This is not just a tempest in a tea pot, but typical of modern campus politics.


Chart Pie

98% of Hungarians reject EU refugee quotas, but low turnout undermines validity of referendum

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Who lost this battle?
98.3% of Hungarian voters have rejected mandatory EU asylum seeker quotas in a referendum proposed by PM Viktor Orban. But the opposition boycott of Sunday's ballot appears to have worked, as turnout failed to clear the key 50 percent threshold.

Only 1.7 percent of the voters answered 'Yes' to the question "Do you want the European Union to be able to mandate the obligatory resettlement of non-Hungarian citizens into Hungary even without the approval of the National Assembly?"

But the turnout of 43.8 percent, or 3.6 million voters, means that the referendum will be declared invalid. Over 200,000 ballots were spoiled, another tactic by those opposing the vote.

The referendum was non-binding, but became a symbolic litmus test for Orban's pro-sovereignty, anti-migrant and anti-Islamist policies.

His mostly left-wing political opponents rejected the very idea of the referendum, suggesting it would cause "tension" inside the country and in Budapest's relationship with Brussels, and urged a boycott to prevent a validating turnout.


Comment: Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage tweeted:

Steady on there, old boy!

That's 98% of 43%, which comes to about 42% of the Hungarian electorate agreeing with Orban, which is about what he won by in the 2014 general election, so they are 'his supporters'.

The rest, presumably, either don't care, or they stand with Merkel and the EU.Orban calling for this referendum over taking in just 1,200 people is 'playing the race card', but to what end? He says he's doing it for all of Europe, while Western liberal pundits routinely speculate that he's 'doing it for Putin'. Meanwhile, Hungarian intelligence does its bit for the Global War on Islamic TerrorTM...

The bottom line: this 'refugee crisis', manipulated from the get-go by the Powers That Be, has evidently been successful in dividing Europe and giving its leaders 'something to think about'.


Heart - Black

Anxiety attack makes teen tardy to class; cops taser him twice

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© Reuters/Sebastien Nogier
Police violence against young black men is not confined to the streets, a high school student says in a lawsuit claiming a school police officer Tasered him twice for being late to class after having an anxiety attack.

Tyson Reed and his mother, Linda Reed, sued Kern High School District, KHSD Officer Luis Pena, and teacher Brett Bonetti on Sept. 22 in Kern County Superior Court, alleging disability discrimination and civil rights violations.

"Schools are supposed to be safe places for kids," the Reeds' Los Angeles-based attorney Shawna Parks told Courthouse News. "This case demonstrates how quickly it can go horribly wrong when schools don't follow proper protocol" for students with disabilities.

Parks said Reed was attacked primarily because of his disability, but his race was likely a "determining factor" as well.

Comment: The line between school and prison is becoming more and more blurred each day.


Quenelle - Golden

Dozens dead after police fired tear gas at anti-government protesters in Ethiopia

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© Tiksa Negeri / Reuters
Multiple deaths are reported in a stampede in Ethiopia, which happened after the police fired tear gas and warning shots at a crowd of anti-government protesters who gathered for a religious festival.

A reporter from AFP on the scene reported seeing up to 20 unmoving bodies in the aftermath of the stampede, some of which were clearly dead. The opposition put the number of fatalities at 50.

The altercation happened in the Oromiya region of the African nation, where clashes between the government and the opposition have become increasingly bloody over the past two years.

Cell Phone

Orwellian censorship in the age of social media

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© Pawel Kopczynski / Reuters
If George Orwell is watching from above, he must be impressed. In his novel 1984, what was meant as a cautionary tale against government control and intellectual obscurantism, seems to have come to pass without our full knowledge.

Where have our media taken us?

To be brutally honest, I would say down the yellow brick road and around the tree a few times over already. As our world has become more and more dependent on media, we have opened ourselves up to the bite of censorship, control and the ever-evolving deity which is 'social trend'.

In other words, our need to be "connected" has pretty much left us dependent on information technology.

Our modern media complex

Social media, the printed press and television networks, has, more often than not, become trapped in a political cycle, serving not the people but their owners - and by extension the interests they each represent.

Whistle

Creepy clown sightings spike; sightings in more than 10 states since August

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© Getty Images/EyeEm
A recent spike in clown sightings across the country has prompted fears that a menacing trend is on the rise.

Terrified residents have reported being terrorized by people dressed up in the costumes in more than ten states since August.

Among them was one woman who claimed to have been assaulted and worrying accounts of children being lured towards woods by the disguised figures.

In South Carolina, police have issued a stark warning to whoever is frightening the community.

'It's illegal. It's dangerous. It's inappropriate, and it's creating community concern so it needs to stop,' Greenville Police Chief Ken Miller said last month.

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