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Chicago has the deadliest July in 10 years despite heavy gun control

AWR Hawkins
Breitbart
Wed, 03 Aug 2016 15:04 UTC
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© Flickr/ Tony Webster
July 2016 was the "deadliest July in 10 years" for heavily gun-controlled Chicago: Sixty-five individuals were shot and killed. Moreover, according to the Chicago Tribune, such death figures do not set a new record — they simply tie a record set in 2006, when 65 individuals were killed in the month of July. This brings Chicago's homicide total to "nearly 400" for the first seven months of 2016 alone. The number of homicides for the whole year of 2015 was 490.

Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson tried to abate the feeding frenzy on the July death numbers by pointing out that they are at least better than the numbers for June, "when 72 homicides were reported." Breitbart News previously reported that May 2016 was also a recording-setting month. Almost 400 people were shot and 66 people were killed in that one month. The Chicago Tribune reportedMay 2016 as the deadliest May since 1995, when 75 people were gunned down.

On August 2, the Chicago Tribune reported a total of 2,395 shooting victims in Chicago for the seven months of 2016. There were 2,988 shooting victims for all of 2015. These shootings come in spite of the city's "assault weapons" ban, "violence tax," strict rules on acquiring handguns, and micro-management of the number of gun stores in the city, as well as of the locations of those stores.
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Mr. Potato

Pope Francis slams "terrible and unnatural" practice of teaching gender choice to children


RT
Wed, 03 Aug 2016 14:54 UTC
restroom sign
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Pope Francis has slammed "influential countries" for their "ideological colonization" of societies worldwide, particularly through teaching children they are free to choose their gender, something that the Catholic Church sees as a sin against nature and god.

Reflecting on the idea of gender identity freedom that is being promulgated across the globe, the 79-year-old pontiff termed such approach an "annihilation of man as an image of God."

Francis' remarks that were voiced during a closed-door session with the bishops last week during his trip to Poland. The Vatican released the transcript of the remarks on Tuesday.

He specifically focused on the criticism of educational systems that tolerate and advocate gender choice.
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Attention

'YOU are NOT part of the public!' Cop flips out on innocent man for trying to file a complaint

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 02 Aug 2016 14:38 UTC
Dontrell Brown
© Dan Tepfer / Hearst Connecticut MediaDontrell Brown, right, is shown protesting in April outside the Bridgeport Police Department. Brown was arrested on Thursday, June 30, when police said he tried to bring loaded weapons into the Golden Hill Street courthouse.
A glaring act of intimidation and police misconduct was caught on video Monday as a man simply tried to file a police complaint. Instead of being given the form to fill out the complaint, an innocent man was threatened, harassed and thrown out of a public building.

That man was DonTrell Brown, who knows his rights, the law, and the importance of practicing them. However, this exceptional ability often makes him the target of police retaliation.

On June 30, Brown was arrested by police in spite of having committed no crime. He live-streamed the entire debacle.

Police claimed Brown walked to the front of the courthouse, called 9-1-1, reported he had loaded guns, and said he was going to come in. According to police, they say Brown then began recording and laid down his guns on the front steps of the courthouse.

Comment: Freedom overload! Cops ignore real crimes to unlawfully hold innocents at gunpoint

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Light Saber

British man killed while fighting ISIS alongside Kurdish forces


RT
Wed, 03 Aug 2016 14:45 UTC
isis shelling syria
© Ammar Abdullah / Reuters
A British man killed while fighting Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS, ISIL) in Syria alongside Kurdish forces has been described as a "martyr."

Dean Carl Evans, a 22-year-old from Reading, was fighting alongside the Kurdish militia groups trying to wrest Manbij from IS control. Evans is one of many foreign volunteers to join the International Brigades of Rojava, which is fighting alongside the People's Defense Units (YPG).

His father, John Evans, confirmed his son died on July 21 in an announcement on Facebook. "He was loved and will be missed by all his family and friends. RIP son," his father wrote. "I would like to say a massive big thankyou to all my friends and family who sent their condolences for the loss of my son. He would have been very proud and would have regarded you all as his brothers and sisters," he added.

A Kurdish activist with close links to the YPG, Mark Campbell, told the Guardian, "As I understand it, Dean was behind a wall when he was hit by an ISIS bullet. A female YPG fighter came over to help him. As she was tending to his wound, an RPG rocket hit the wall and killed them both."
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Sheriff

18-year-old killed by Chicago police died of gunshot wound to the back - autopsy


CBS News - Chicago
Sat, 30 Jul 2016 18:12 UTC
Paul O'Neal
© photographyisnotacrime.comPaul O'Neal
A third Chicago cop involved in the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old man Thursday night in South Shore has been "relieved of his police powers" by Supt. Eddie Johnson after an autopsy showed the dead man was shot in the back, a police spokesman said Saturday.

The other two officers who fired at Paul O'Neal in the 7300 block of South Merrill Avenue were reassigned to administrative duty late Friday, with police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi saying it "appears that departmental policies may have been violated."

Autopsy results released Saturday showed O'Neal, whose shooting is under investigation by the city's Independent Police Review Authority, died of a gunshot wound to the back. The Cook County medical examiner's office ruled the death a homicide.

"Following the release of autopsy results from the Cook County medical examiner this morning, Johnson spent hours behind closed doors at police headquarters Saturday getting briefed on the results and [reviewing] video evidence with department officials," Guglielmi said Saturday night.
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Folder

Pointing fingers: Chicago police review board has no record of 6 officer-involved shootings


RT
Wed, 03 Aug 2016 13:35 UTC
Head of the Independent Police Review Authority Sharon Fairley
© Jim Young / Reuters Head of the Independent Police Review Authority Sharon Fairley.
Chicago's inspector general has discovered that reports by the Independent Police Review Authority overlooked six police shootings and 14 incidents of Taser use.

It's been a bad week for the IPRA, according to some, and just a bad agency to others.

Inspector General Joseph Ferguson found that in the agency's most recent quarterly report, they had no evidence showing they looked into six shootings by police officers, which did not hit anyone.

The agency also had no records regarding 14 incidents of police using Tasers between 2007 and 2014, the Chicago Tribune reported.
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Alarm Clock

Is nature saying wake up and smell the corpses? America's pungent corpse flowers are all mysteriously blooming at once

Josh Hrala
Science Alert
Tue, 02 Aug 2016 22:39 UTC
corpse flower
© Mike Ball/Flickr
Botanists across the US are trying to figure out why so many titan arums - better known as corpse flowers - are blooming simultaneously around the country this year.

This is super weird, because there have only been 157 recorded blooms ever between 1889 and 2008. But this year in the US alone, at least seven flowers have bloomed.

Before we dive headfirst into this foul-smelling mystery, what's a corpse flower, and why are botanists so into them?

The scientific name for corpse flowers is Amorphophallus titanium, which literally means "giant misshapen penis" in Latin (no, really).

They not only produce one of the biggest flowering structures in the world, sometimes reaching heights of over 1.8 metres (6 feet), their scent happens to mimic the distinct stench of decomposing flesh, with a bit of old fish mixed in.

Native to parts of western Sumatra, these gigantic flowers bloom about once every six years, giving everyone in their vicinity a good whiff of their natural perfume.

Comment: What's also interesting about the timing is 4 of the 7 flowers bloomed within days of Killary's nomination as the Democratic party's presidential candidate. The stench of death is in the air, literally and figuratively.

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TV

CNN president says 'Vice, Buzzfeed not legitimate news organizations' but uses them as sources


RT
Wed, 03 Aug 2016 13:05 UTC
Vice and BuzzFeed graphic
© Reuters / Wikipedia
CNN President Jeff Zucker completely dissed Vice and Buzzfeed in a feature profile for Variety magazine, calling the rival media outlets "native advertising shops" and saying CNN "crushes" them.

Zucker went on to say that the two aren't worthy of being called journalistic outlets.

"I don't think Vice and BuzzFeed are legitimate news organizations," Zucker said, reportedly cracking a "mischievous" smile, as reported by Variety on Tuesday.

"They are native advertising shops. We crush both of them. They are not even in our same class," he added.

That said, CNN has been using Vice and Buzzfeed quite a lot in their broadcasts, and doesn't hesitate to refer to them as sources.
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Heart - Black

Family of drowned SEAL trainee feels Navy lied to them


RT
Wed, 03 Aug 2016 02:35 UTC
Navy SEAL
© Video News / YouTube
James Derek Lovelace's family was told he died in an accident in his first week of Navy SEAL training. However, a video which shows an instructor ignoring Lovelace struggling during drills and being dunked underwater have the family feeling "misled."

Lynsi Price, Lovelace's sister, told the Virginian-Pilot that when she learned her brother died in May, she did not receive much in terms of answers.

"We were told and made to believe that this was a tragic accident. ... we trusted these men," she said.
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Airplane

Emirates passenger jet crash-lands in Dubai, engulfed in flames


RT
Wed, 03 Aug 2016 12:22 UTC
Emirates jet plane crash
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An Emirates plane carrying 300 people caught fire on a runway at Dubai International Airport after crash-landing. All departures have been suspended, and arrivals have been diverted to other airports.

Emirates said flight EK521 was involved in an "accident" that occurred at 12:45pm local time (08:45 GMT) on Tuesday.

Photos on social media showed smoke billowing from the aircraft, which crash-landed on arrival from Thiruvananthapuram, India.

The fire has since been completely extinguished, according to the Dubai government's press office.

Emirates has also confirmed that "all passengers and crew are accounted for and safe."
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