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Green Light

3 states file lawsuits against Volkswagen accusing them of fraud and a widespread conspiracy to cover up defects


RT
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 18:04 UTC
volkswagon
© Mike Blake / Reuters
Volkswagen's "top brass" stand accused of "defrauding" thousands of people in new lawsuits from New York and two other states alleging a "widespread conspiracy." The German car manufacturer could end up culpable for billions of dollars in fines.

Attorneys general for New York, Massachusetts and Maryland have announced their legal actions against the Volkswagen Group, which also owns German carmakers Porsche and Audi.

The three companies have been accused of selling diesel cars with illegal "defeat devices" that were installed to conceal the actual amounts of harmful emissions, as well as allegedly to try and cover-up their "corrupt behavior."

"Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche defrauded thousands of Massachusetts consumers, polluted our air, and damaged our environment and then, to make matters worse, plotted a massive cover-up to mislead environmental regulators," Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said, vowing to "bring the full force of the law and seek the stiffest possible sanctions."
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Blowback: Are police being victimized by their training?

Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
Mon, 18 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC
militarized police
It is too early to know if the shooting of police in Dallas and Baton Rouge are the beginnings of acts of retribution against police for their wanton murders of citizens. The saying is that "what goes around, comes around." If police murders of citizens have provoked retribution, police and those who train them need to be honest and recognize that they have brought it upon themselves.

Killings by police have gone on too long. The killings are too gratuitous, and the police have largely escaped accountability for actions that, if committed by private citizens, would result in life imprisonment or the death penalty.

There has been no accountability, because the police unions and the white community rush to the defense of the police. In rare instances when prosecutors bring charges, as in the case of Freddie Gray, the police are not convicted.

Presstitutes treat killings by police as acts of racism, and that is the way the public sees them. This infuriates black communities even more as the indifference of whites to the murders is regarded as racist acceptance of the murder of black people.

Comment: U.S. police routinely travel to Israel to learn methods of brutality and repression

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Handcuffs

Paris: Police, youths, clash after death of young man while in custody


RT
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:40 UTC
police Beaumont
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Violence scenes gripped a north Paris suburb overnight as local residents in the Val d'Oise area fought running battles with the police after news broke out that a young man had died at a police station in Beaumont.

A 24-year-old man named Adama had been arrested by police in regards to an extortion case. He later died on Tuesday afternoon, while being held in police custody, according to Le Parisien. Prosecutor Yves Jannier said the man had suffered a heart attack while in custody. However, friends of Adama claim he was beaten by police. "About a hundred individuals ... came looking for the law enforcement forces after a person died at the premises of the gendarmerie in Beaumont," Jean-Simon Merandat, director of the Val d'Oise prefect's office, told France Info radio.

Witnesses said that they heard several explosions, but were unable to determine when they had occurred. Youths were heard shouting "murderers" at the police, while there were at least three outbreaks of fires across the area. There were around 150 police on the scene with the situation stabilizing at around 3:30am local time, a local representative said, while there were also around 60 firefighters present.

Six police officers were injured during the violence after being shot by pellet guns, while one arrest was made as the youths clashed with the police, according to Le Parisien. The violence came in the wake of an announcement by the French government that it had voted to extend the ongoing state of emergency for another six months, until the end of January 2017.

Comment: There are several things going on: The death of the young man - be it natural or inflicted, the extension of state of emergency powers following horrific terrorist attacks - be they grass root or false flags, the atmosphere of authoritarian command palpable by the public - be it necessary or contrived to fit an agenda. All of these calculatedly bring societal frustration and anger to the surface. All of these conveniently extend or escalate the government's response and ultimate control at the expense of the people.

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Massachusetts: Two officers arrested and charged in the beating of a 50-year-old man

Clair Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 17:39 UTC
police beating
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This aerial image made from a helicopter video provided by WHDH shows several officers pummeling Richard Simone, who had exited his vehicle and kneeled on the ground after a high-speed police pursuit.
Two state troopers from Massachusetts and New Hampshire have finally been arrested after they brutally and needlessly beat a surrendering 50-year-old man following a car chase in May.

As news crews filmed from helicopters hovering above, Richard Simone exited his truck, kneeled, and lay prone on his stomach on the asphalt — but several officers rushed the man and initiated a savage attack in what appeared to be retaliation for having led them on an hour-long pursuit through the two states.

Now, as New Hampshire Attorney General Joseph Foster announced Tuesday, Joseph Flynn of the Massachusetts State Police and Andrew Monaco of the New Hampshire State Police have been arrested and charged with several counts of simple assault for excessive use of force.
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Heart - Black

Crime does pay in Finland: Homeowner sentenced 4 years in jail and ordered to pay damages to 3 burglars who he fought off with knife


RT
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 16:11 UTC
judgment
© Carlos Jasso / Reuters
A homeowner in Finland has been sentenced to four years in jail and a hefty fine after fighting off three intruders who attempted to rob his house. The thieves, meanwhile, got lesser prison terms and are to be paid damages by their victim.

In April, a 35-year-old man from Hyvinkää, a town just 50km north of the Finnish capital, Helsinki, heard a knock on the front door of his suburban house and rushed to open it. As soon as he unlocked it, three strangers rushed in and launched at him, toting baseball bats and a gun. The man retreated to the kitchen, where he found a knife and with it was able to overpower the intruders, two men and one woman.

The court spent nearly four months examining the case to come up with the unexpected ruling.
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TV

The new normal in America: Engineered chaos & fear

Bernie Suarez
zengardner.com
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 15:12 UTC
chaos fear
There is a new norm in America that is one of chaos, race wars and mass shootings that are supposedly all "real" ... unless of course you can provide a mountain of evidence to debunk the official mainstream media narrative, police announcements or whatever Intelligence "sources" are "saying." This new norm is even being contributed to by many alternative media sources in the interest of being "correct" and authentic about what they are saying. I discussed this major logical fallacy of "assumed truth" and how it contributes to core government deception long ago in an article about "How Small Lies Obscure Objective Truth and Simplicity" and I can't help but to notice how more than ever we are being asked to accept core narratives presented by mainstream media as truth until and only until you, the independent thinker, can mount up enough "proof" to debunk it. I believe this single fallacy is one of the greatest obstructions to truth and one of the greatest psyop tools being used to sell every single staged shooting event we are now seeing in the news every day. This fallacy is allowing the transition of America from what was a country of law and order to one of chaos, fear and daily psychological operations being played on the general public.
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Red Flag

The deification of criminals: Making rock stars out of mass murderers

Dylan Charles
Waking Times
Mon, 18 Jul 2016 15:35 UTC
micah johnson and Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel
Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel and Micah Johnson
At what point does the deification of criminals itself become a criminal act?

With each new shocking mass murder, a story is created by mainstream media and unleashed on public consciousness. The 'official' narrative of the event never ends up jibing with actual facts revealed by subsequent and independent investigation, and the force-fed version is never retracted or corrected to match any new or uncomfortable findings. Instead, the narrative invariably devolves into an exposé of the private life of the killer, aiming to create a believable character, to suggest his motive, and to develop enough plausibility in the story to make the truth seem uninteresting.

Within hours of each mass-murder, the supposed killer's name is revealed, sending mainstream journalists into a sensational frenzy of internet surfing for any and all morsels of gossip they can find. Social media accounts are ravaged for photos, quotes and conversations that support the official narrative and add clickable drama to front pages. Personal manifestos and haunting comments are put out on display for all to contemplate, then shared to exhaustion. Homes are besieged for clues, and friends, family, neighbors and former employers are coaxed into speaking out about their associations with the maniacs, all helping to construct a seductive cloud of infamy on which our collective imagination can freely project our darkest fantasies.
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Cell Phone

Selfies: Bouhlel poses in same lorry he used to kill 84 Bastille Day revelers three days prior to attack

Jonathan Reilly, Danny Collins
The Sun
Tue, 19 Jul 2016 01:14 UTC
Bouhlil
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The lorry-driving terrorist who killed 84 people when he drove through Bastille Day revelers "like a bowling ball" smirks inside the truck - just days before his murderous rampage. Evil Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, 31, posed for the sick selfie inside the lorry's cab just three days before it knocked over scores of people as they watched a firework display in Nice. The ISIS-inspired French-Tunisian held a bizarre pose alongside his unidentified friend as he sat at the vehicle's steering wheel.

Bouhlil #2
© www.thesun.co.uk
In a second photo Lahouaiej-Bouhlel smirks as he stands in front of the 19-tonne truck alongside a man who is wearing a Paris Saint-Germain football shirt.

A source in the police investigation said the killer's mobile is "loaded with pictures like this" from the days before the attack. The other man in the pictures is in custody.
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Family

UK father catches 13-year-old daughter lying on Tinder, updates her fake bio with angry photo

Erica Rae Chong
Yahoo! News
Wed, 13 Jul 2016 15:22 UTC
Paul Meller
© Tinder
It's never easy for dads when their daughters start dating. So you can imagine this dad's surprise and anger when he found out his 13-year-old daughter was posing as a 20-year-old on Tinder.

But instead of confiscating her phone, grounding her and calling it a night, Paul Mellers took things one step further. He updated the fake Tinder bio with a more accurate description accompanied with a very angry photo of himself.

"My name is 'Megan' and I am really 13 years old," read the updated bio. "I lie to guys on Tinder until my dad finds out. "Right now I'm f—ing grounded. All guys who have been messaging me should block me or my daddy will be reporting them to the police."
Paul Mellers
© Tinder
Mellers also included a photo of Megan's birth certificate to discourage any suitors.

No word on whether anyone swiped right on Meller's grumpy mug, but we're certain this isn't the last daughter-dating encounter he'll have to deal with.
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Dollars

Rising risk: Investor cash levels highest in nearly 15 years

Jeff Cox
CNBC
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 15:14 UTC
US dollars
© Dave Nagel | Getty Images
Despite the post-Brexit market rally, fund managers have gotten even more wary of taking risks.

The S&P 500 has jumped about 8.5 percent since the lows hit in the days after Britain's move to leave the European Union, but that hasn't assuaged professional investors. Cash levels are now at 5.8 percent of portfolios, up a notch from June and at the highest levels since November 2001, according to the latest Bank of America Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey.

In addition to putting money under the mattress, investors also are looking for protection, with equity hedging at its highest level in the survey's history.

Comment: More signs of economic trouble ahead:

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