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Melania Trump settles defamation lawsuit against Webster Tarpley for falsely claiming she worked as an escort

Joseph Ax
The Raw Story
Tue, 07 Feb 2017 13:55 UTC
Melania Trump
© Mike Segar/ReutersMelania Trump
First lady Melania Trump has settled a defamation lawsuit for a "substantial sum" against a Maryland blogger who wrote about unsubstantiated rumors she had worked as an escort and falsely said she suffered a breakdown, Trump's lawyer said on Tuesday.

"I acknowledge that these false statements were very harmful and hurtful to Mrs. Trump and her family, and therefore I sincerely apologize to Mrs. Trump, her son, her husband and her parents for making these false statements," the blogger, Webster Tarpley, wrote in a statement released by Trump's lawyer.

A lawyer for Tarpley confirmed the accuracy of the statement in an email and said the case had been resolved. Neither side would divulge the amount of the settlement, though Trump's lawyer Charles Harder called it a "substantial sum."

Trump, who is married to U.S. President Donald Trump, filed the lawsuit last year against both Tarpley and the Daily Mail, a British tabloid, after the newspaper published an article that falsely alleged she had worked for an escort service.
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'Cannibal' cop killer Stefano Brizzi found dead in jail

Emma Lake
Daily Mail
Mon, 06 Feb 2017 18:16 UTC
Stefano Brizzi
Stefano Brizzi killed cop Gordon Semple after meeting him on gay hook-up app Grindr
Breaking Bad obsessed Satanist Stefano Brizzi who murdered a cop he met on Grindr and dissolved him in acid has been found dead in prison.

Brizzi, 50, was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of PC Gordon Semple in December and told he would serve a minimum of 24 years. He is believed to have committed suicide on Sunday in Belmarsh prison, the Mirror reports. Brizzi strangled PC Gordon Semple after meeting him on the gay cruising app.

The crystal meth addict copied a storyline from US crime drama Breaking Bad to try to dispose of the corpse in acid. Brizzi also boiled and roasted parts of Gordon's body and attempted to eat them with chopsticks at his flat in Southwark, South London.

Police were called by neighbours reporting foul smells six days after Gordon, 59, from Inverness, vanished in April last year. Brizzi, dressed in sunglasses and pink underpants, opened the door to two female officers.

They found an acid-filled bath with flesh floating in it and a bucket with Gordon's head inside. Brizzi, a former Morgan Stanley merchant bank computer programmer, told the officers that Satan had ordered him to kill. He was brought up in a devout Italian Catholic family but thought being homosexual meant he had been spawned by the devil.
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Vizio smart TVs monitor you around the clock without your consent

Dan Goodin
ars technica
Tue, 07 Feb 2017 17:01 UTC
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Manufacturer will pay $2.2 million and delete data to settle privacy-invasion charges.

Vizio, one of the world's biggest makers of Smart TVs, is paying $2.2 million to settle charges that it collected viewing habits from 11 million devices without the knowledge or consent of the people watching them.

According to a complaint filed Monday by the US Federal Trade Commission, Internet-connected TVs from Vizio contained ACR—short for automated content recognition—software. Without asking for permission, the ACR code captured second-by-second information about the video the TVs displayed. The software collected other personal information and transmitted it, along with the viewing data, to servers controlled by the manufacturer. Vizio then sold the data to unnamed third-parties for purposes of audience measurement, analysis, and tracking.

Comment: Further reading: 1984 becomes reality as surveillance technologies are deployed without public consent
We are fast approaching an era when humanity will be subjugated by a technological tyranny managed by an untouchable organization of elites, bureaucrats and paid public minders hired to monitor our behaviors, emotions and thoughts. In an environment like this, law and justice will be meaningless, as the tools of a technocracy can used to enforce the policies and whims of whoever monitors us, whether it be corporate employees, criminals, or abusive state actors.


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NYPD cop harassed, punished and beaten by fellow cops for being Muslim

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 06 Feb 2017 17:25 UTC
New York female muslim police officer
A female police officer has filed a lawsuit against her New York Police Department colleagues after she endured punishing discrimination and was even beaten — because she's Muslim and wears a hijab.

Thirty-eight-year-old Officer Danielle Alamrani describes years of horrendous verbal abuse — fellow cops called her a "Muslim bitch," regularly referred to her as "the Taliban" and "terrorist," and even refused to work with her, once she began wearing the headcovering on the job.

According to the lawsuit, as paraphrased by Gothamist, "In one particularly disturbing incident [on Christmas Day] December 2012, Alamrani claims that two officers in the precinct tried to rip off her hijab, referred to her as 'a Muslim bitch' and one told her 'I will punch you in the face.' Alamrani's suit says the officers who allegedly did this weren't disciplined and therefore felt empowered to continue harassing her. Two years later, in 2014, Alamrani's suit says she and her husband were arrested after a neighbor made a noise complaint about their children despite a responding officer finding the children asleep when they came to her home. The suit claims that the responding officer also detained Alamrani's children for eight hours 'just to harass her.'"

"During this incident, the responding officer," states the lawsuit, "made numerous comments about Plaintiff Alamrani's religion, including that Plaintiff Alamrani's family were 'Arabs' who 'slept on the floor like animals.'"
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Swedish veteran cop rants about immigrant crimes on Facebook, ignites nationwide row


RT
Tue, 07 Feb 2017 17:16 UTC
Swedish police
© Reuters
A Swedish police investigator triggered a media tsunami with a Facebook post linking violent crimes with immigrants. Peter Springare received an outpouring of support from fellow officers and common Swedes, as well as some accusations of racism.

Springare is a senior investigator at the serious crimes division at the Örebro Police Department with 47 years under his belt. In the Saturday post he said what he was going to say would not be politically correct and that saying such things could harm an officer's position or pay grade, but he was about to retire and didn't care.

"Here we go; this is what I've handled from Monday-Friday this week: rape, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, rape-assault and rape, extortion, blackmail, assault, violence against police, threats to police, drug crime, drugs, crime, felony, attempted murder, rape again, extortion again and ill-treatment," he wrote.

"Suspected perpetrators; Ali Mohammed, Mahmod, Mohammed, Mohammed Ali, again, again, again. Christopher... what, is it true? Yes, a Swedish name snuck in on the edges of a drug crime. Mohammed, Mahmod Ali, again and again," he added.
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Kurdish fighter shares story of Russia saving him from ISIS

Anastasia Levchenko
Sputnik
Tue, 07 Feb 2017 17:01 UTC
Peshmerga Kurdistan
A fighter of Peshmerga, military forces of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, was wounded by three shots during the Daesh offensive on Kirkuk, and already lost all hope to survive when he was found by the Iraqi Kurdistan representative to Russia and brought to Moscow for medical treatment, he told Sputnik in an interview.

Hersh Mahmood Khudhur, 36, now feels embarrassed to smile, and wears a scarf to hide part of his face. Three months ago, after he and other Kurdish fighters embarked on a mission to protect Kirkuk from Daesh terrorists, what is now covered with scars was hard to call a face.

"At around 4 am some hundred of Daesh suiciders penetrated the city. We advanced immediately. Gunfire started, and I caught three shots from a Daesh militant. The first one hit my gun. The second got in my shoulder. I tried to bend to save my head, and the third shot hit the cheek and the chin. It could easily be in the forehead if I did not move... I saw the man who was firing at me. I can still remember him," Khudhur said.
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Afghan interpreter blown up by Taliban tells of continued dangers after working with occupation forces


RT
Tue, 07 Feb 2017 17:03 UTC
UK forces in Afghanistan
© Omar Sobhani / Reuters
A former interpreter with UK forces in Afghanistan who was blown up by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) has told the parliamentary Defence Committee about the dangers now faced by those who worked with occupation forces.

Former 'terp' Rafi Hottak was wounded by an IED in 2007 while working with a British military unit and later fled to Britain fearing for his life.

Since the withdrawal of the majority of UK forces from the region, and the collapse of Helmand province following the occupation, many interpreters have been targeted by local militants and some have even been killed.
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Flashback Kaepernick was right about police vs. cosmetology training

Mike Florio
Pro Football Talk
Tue, 30 Aug 2016 18:44 UTC
A cosmetologist in training colors hair on a mannequin at Victoria Beauty College
© Tom Martinez for The Victoria Advocate
Of the various things 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's said during a lengthy media availability on Sunday, the one that resonated the most with many (including me) entailed the comparison of legally-required training for those who are supposed to keep us safe to those who are supposed to keep us looking presentable.

"There is police brutality," Kaepernick said. "People of color have been targeted by police. So that's a large part of it. And they're government officials. They're put in place by the government so that's something that this country has to change. There's things we can do to hold them more accountable, make those standards higher.

"You have people that practice law and our lawyers and go to school for eight years, but you can become a cop in six months and don't have to have the same amount of training as a cosmetologist. That's insane. Someone that's holding a curling iron has more education and more training than people that have a gun and are going out on the street to protect us."
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Book 2

Age of Anger by Pankaj Mishra

Pepe Escobar
Asian Times
Tue, 07 Feb 2017 15:49 UTC
Athens protesters
Every once in a (long) while a book comes out that rips the zeitgeist, shining on like a crazy diamond. Age of Anger, by Pankaj Mishra, author of the also-seminal From the Ruins of Empire, might as well be the latest avatar.

Think of this book as the ultimate (conceptual) lethal weapon in the hearts and minds of a rootless cosmopolitan Teenage Wasteland striving to find its true call as we slouch through the longest - the Pentagon would say infinite - of world wars; a global civil war (which in my 2007 book Globalistan I called "Liquid War").

Mishra, a sterling product of East-meets-West, essentially argues it's impossible to understand the present if we don't acknowledge the subterranean homesick blues contradicting the ideal of cosmopolitan liberalism — the "universal commercial society of self-interested rational individuals" first conceptualized by the Enlightenment via Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Voltaire and Kant.
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4 Danish teens arrested after setting Afghan classmate on fire


RT
Tue, 07 Feb 2017 16:10 UTC
Ry, South Jutland, Denmark
© Mette Hvid Hansen/FacebookRy, South Jutland, Denmark
A 16-year-old Afghan boy is in hospital in critical condition after four of his Danish classmates, aged 15 and 16, attacked him with a bottle of burning gasoline, according to police.

The assault took place in the suburban town of Ry, 20 miles west of the city of Aarhus, Demark.

"There is no question that the boys chased their victim around and attacked him," Deputy Police Inspector Lars P. Madsen of South Jutland police told Ekstrabladet newspaper. "The boys all agreed to meet at an outdoor spot in Ry on Monday night, and the attackers brought a bottle of gasoline. We are not sure what happened next - and this is what we are investigating - but the burning bottle was thrown."

The victim's life is not in immediate danger. The purported attackers, who are all of Danish ethnicity, appeared in a local court on Tuesday morning, on preliminary charges of attempted murder, and could remain in detention for up to four weeks.

Police do not believe that the attack was a hate crime. "Based on the currently available information, we are probably looking at a conflict between the five boys, who all live and attend school in Ry. There is no current evidence to suggest that the conflict has anything to do with the boys' different ethnicities," South Jutland police said in a statement.
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