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Cologne police rejected accusations of 'racial profiling' after mass migrant screening on NYE


RT
Mon, 02 Jan 2017 19:35 UTC
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© Patrik Stollarz / AFPPolicemen patrol around the main train station in Cologne on December 31, 2016 during the New Year's eve.
Politicians and social media users are questioning the mass screening of migrants conducted by Cologne police on New Years' Eve, slamming the tactic as "racial profiling," but law enforcement officials have defended the screening, citing security concerns.

The Cologne police chief, Jurgen Mathies, rejected accusations of racial profiling saying, "there were by no means only North Africans who were checked."

Yet, Green Party (Die Gruenen) leader Simone Peter has questioned the legality of the mass ID checks of migrants that were conducted on New Year's Eve in the German city of Cologne.

"A question of proportionality and legitimacy arises when almost 1,000 people are being checked and some detained based on how they look like," Peter told the Rheinische Post.

Her concerns were echoed by her colleague, Volker Beck, the party's representative for migration.

"Police measures should be based on [the person's] dangers or the behavior of a person, not their identity," he said, noting that "so-called 'racial profiling' - meaning police action based only on the supposed ethnic group, religion, and national origin - would not be a legitimate method." He stressed, however, that he should first hear from the police before making a final judgement.

Comment: The propaganda surrounding the Cologne sexual assaults is still being used to manipulate people. Only 3 out of 58 detained suspects in Cologne sexual assaults are refugees.

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Over 900 cars set on fire or damaged in France on New Year's Eve


Sputnik
Mon, 02 Jan 2017 20:15 UTC
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© AP Photo/ Francois Mori
More than 900 cars were set on fire or damaged as a result of arson in France on New Year's Eve, local media reported Monday, citing the country's Interior Ministry.

On Sunday, the French Interior Ministry said that 650 vehicles were set on fire on the New Year's Eve compared to 602 cars last year. The number of torched vehicles has decreased by 20 percent over the past five years, the ministry noted.

The following day, the Parisien newspaper reported, citing the ministry's spokesman, Pierre-Henry Brandet, that as much as 945 vehicles were set alight or damaged as a result of arson from 6 p.m. [17:00 GMT] on December 31 to 6:00 a.m. on January 1, which shows that the number of torched vehicles has increased by 17.5 percent compared to the last year.

Car-burning on the New Year's Eve has become an annual "tradition" in French suburbs since urban riots in 2005.
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Nick Cannon: Planned Parenthood founded to "exterminate the Negro race"

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 02 Jan 2017 19:15 UTC
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© Youtube/@djvladRapper Nick Cannon continued his criticism of Planned Parenthood this week, arguing that the organization was founded to increase the number of abortions in urban areas and “exterminate the negro race.”
Emcee, entertainer, rapper, and actor Nick Cannon, was recently interviewed by VLADTV where he discussed several controversial issues, including but not limited to institutional racism, the political establishment, and greed. While you may or may not agree with Cannon's stance on certain issues, his ability to dissect and transcend the two-party paradigm deserves commendation.

"I don't have the right to speak on what a woman should do with her body. And I don't think the government should have the right," Cannon said after acknowledging his mother once visited an abortion clinic to abort him, before having a change of heart.

"There are certain things that I don't agree with because of the way that the system is set up," Cannon said further acknowledging there's a bigger "systemic" issue at work in the process of ending the life of an unborn child.

Rather than addressing the ethical implications of abortion, Cannon addressed what he referred to as the systemic institutional racism which gave rise to organizations such as the Planned Parenthood. Margaret Sanger, forced sterilizations, eugenics, classism, injecting black people with diseases such as HIV and Syphilis, were just some of the topics Cannon voiced vehement objections to.

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Banner year for Apartheid State: Israeli demolitions and seizures throughout West Bank broke all records in 2016

Charlotte Silver
Electronic Intifada
Fri, 30 Dec 2016 00:00 UTC
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© Mahfouz Abu Turk / APA imagesA Palestinian boy sits on a sofa following the 26 October 2016 demolition of his family’s home, which Israel said was built without a permit, in occupied East Jerusalem’s Silwan neigborhood. The destruction of the multi-unit building left 30 people, mostly children, homeless, in a year which saw Israel’s demolitions of Palestinian buildings break all records.
Israel has demolished or seized a record number of Palestinian buildings throughout the West Bank in 2016, according to the United Nations, displacing over 1,500 people.

In its year-end report, the UN humanitarian coordination agency OCHA states that Israel demolished 1,089 structures, double the number in 2015.

The demolitions and seizures displaced 1,593 persons and affected the livelihoods of another 7,000.

These are the highest figures for displacement and demolitions in the occupied West Bank since OCHA began tracking them in 2009.

The staggering rate of demolitions and displacement kicked off early in 2016, and barely relented over the 12 months.

On one cold morning in February, the Israeli army conducted what some described as the single largest demolition in over a decade, razing 23 Palestinian homes in two villages in the South Hebron Hills and leaving 100 people homeless.

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Robin Hood's Sherwood Forest hideout under threat from frackers


RT
Mon, 02 Jan 2017 18:16 UTC
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© ricksborauuu_33 / Instagram
The UK has long grappled with the issue of fracking but now that none other than Sherwood Forest has been listed as a target for seismic surveying by Anglo-Swiss chemical giant Ineos, the fight could take on mythic proportions.

Having only relocated their headquarters to the UK in December 2016, the company, which currently supplies 1 in 10 British homes with gas, has made clear their intentions to pursue fracking in the UK as part of an overall investment of $2bn in the coming years, according to an Ineos press release.

While the company's safety record has previously come under fire over a gas leak at their plant in Grangemouth, this latest controversy isn't purely environmental but cultural.

The environmental activist group Friends of the Earth has obtained documents which show that Ineos plans to begin seismic testing within 200 meters of the famous Major Oak of Sherwood Forest, a 1,000 year-old tree at the heart of the Robin Hood folktales.

"I can't think of anything more iconic in the English mindset to go for. You'd have thought they'd have learnt from the mistakes of some of the other fracking companies to avoid it, but they've gone straight for it," said Guy Shrubsole, a Friends of the Earth activist, highlighting the immediate public backlash to such a historic site being considered for fracking operations.
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Land of the free? 7 signs that you're not living in it

Paul A. Philips
New Paradigm
Mon, 02 Jan 2017 17:37 UTC
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Alternative media followers know that there are numerous citizens sleeping away with their eyes wide open, falsely believing they're living in the 'land of the free.' They still think that their government 'cares' for them....

Taking the case of America as an example, many American citizens have no idea about the nature of their Washington, D.C Judas-despotic leaders and how they are covertly screwing them all over. How they are nothing more than henchmen for the ruling elite's corporate/banker oppressive control system...

In reflection of this here are just 7 things to show that you're not living in the 'land of the free' and what needs to be done.
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Florida deputies suspended after son films brutal beating and posts it to YouTube

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 02 Jan 2017 17:17 UTC
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© YouTubeA Nassau County sheriff’s deputy has been removed from patrol amid a state investigation into home video that apparently shows him spanking a child with a belt while shouting profanities, authorities said.
After having enough abuse doled out by his parents, both of whom are law enforcement officers, a brave little boy decided to take matters into his own hands and expose the abuse. The father, who is a Nassau County Sheriff's deputy, has now been taken off patrol, and the mother, who is a corrections officer for Baker County, has been suspended after the boy posted a video to YouTube of the alleged abuse suffered by him and his sister.

The video was posted to YouTube in July. However, it was only recently noticed by the Nassau County Sheriff's department. The video, titled "How no (sic) to discipline a child," has since been removed from YouTube "for violating YouTube's Community Guidelines."

However, parts of it were aired on several local news stations. It is hard to watch and shows a depressing scene as Deputy Troy Gill chases his children through a dilapidated home threatening to inflict serious bodily harm.

The video begins with the little boy narrating, saying, "this is what I have to deal with every day, guys." The tirade apparently began after a demand for the boy's sister to change her shirt.

The argument escalates to the point of Gill picking the toddler up off the ground by her arm and repeatedly beating her with a belt as she screams in agony.
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When it comes to basic survival skills, millennials are clueless

Megan White
Express
Sun, 01 Jan 2017 17:08 UTC
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© GettyMillennials lack basic survival skills such as tying a knot or swimming in open water.
A survey shows millennials are missing out on practical skills such as map reading or fishing, compared to their grandparents' generation.

More than half of young adults were unable to tie a single knot and 40 per cent had never swum in open water, despite Britain being an island nation.

The poll, conducted ahead of the London Boat Show, found simple life skills have been left behind with advances in technology.

Researchers also found that most people under the age of 44 prefer to use Google Maps and Sat Navs to get around, but half of over-55s stick to a paper street map.

Just a third of the 2,000 surveyed know how to spark a flame by natural means, with less than a third having caught their own fish or seafood.
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Facebook knows much more about you than it lets on

Julia Angwin, Terry Parris Jr. and Surya Mattu
ProPublica
Tue, 27 Dec 2016 12:00 UTC
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© Jochen Eckel / Global Look Press
The site shows users how Facebook categorizes them. It doesn't reveal the data it is buying about their offline lives.

Facebook has long let users see all sorts of things the site knows about them, like whether they enjoy soccer, have recently moved, or like Melania Trump.

But the tech giant gives users little indication that it buys far more sensitive data about them, including their income, the types of restaurants they frequent and even how many credit cards are in their wallets.

Since September, ProPublica has been encouraging Facebook users to share the categories of interest that the site has assigned to them. Users showed us everything from "Pretending to Text in Awkward Situations" to "Breastfeeding in Public." In total, we collected more than 52,000 unique attributes that Facebook has used to classify users.

Facebook's site says it gets information about its users "from a few different sources."

What the page doesn't say is that those sources include detailed dossiers obtained from commercial data brokers about users' offline lives. Nor does Facebook show users any of the often remarkably detailed information it gets from those brokers.

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'Uneven and unspectacular': The global economic outlook for 2017


RT
Mon, 02 Jan 2017 17:02 UTC
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© Phil Noble / Reuters
The economic outlook for this year looks similar to 2016 - uneven and unspectacular, according to economists worldwide polled by Reuters in December. The result is despite investor optimism about a breakout for the world economy.

Many of the experts said the global trade slowdown, seen during the slight recovery from the financial crisis that started nearly a decade ago, could worsen.

Emerging economies are expected to remain vulnerable. Much of Asia will grow below potential, putting the latest global growth forecast for 2017 at 3.2 percent. The projection is less optimistic than for the previous year.

Economists called accelerating inflation and a soaring US dollar among the risks to the economic balance.

Dollar strength, weakening other currencies, will influence how emerging markets manage relatively higher inflation, as well as falling business confidence, they said.

As for the developed world, productivity gains have been lacking for a long time. Policymakers will continue uncovering the reasons and ways to remedy the problem.
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