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Off-duty deputy kills Florida man in suspected road rage incident

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 20 Jun 2016 14:38 UTC
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© Photo: Chris BonannoPalm Bay Police along with personnel from the Brevard County Sheriff's Office are on scene after a shooting left one person injured in the area of Emerson Drive and St. John's Heritage Parkway in Palm Bay on Sunday.
A 22-year-old man was shot dead in Palm Bay, Florida, by an off-duty Brevard County Sheriff's deputy in a fit of uncontrolled road rage late Sunday morning, marking the latest in incidents involving police coming unhinged and targeting civilians.

Deputy Yousef Hafza, a veteran cop with 11 years in law enforcement, shot Clarence Mahogany X. Howard in an apparent case of road rage, though details about what took place remain murky, unnamed investigators told local ABC affiliate, WFTV 9.

"There were no witnesses to the exact incident other than the person who was in the vehicle," stated Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey. He added without clarifying, "There was somebody who came up right after."

WFTV 9 reported Howard had followed the Hafza for a time prior to the shooting, though the deputy was not injured in the apparent confrontation.
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Eye 1

Professor dismissed for insulting Turkish dictator Erdogan


Inside Higher Ed
Mon, 20 Jun 2016 12:17 UTC
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A professor in the communications faculty at Istanbul Bilgi University, in Turkey, was dismissed after allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a lecture, Turkish Minute and the Hurriyet Daily News reported. Zeynep Sayin Balikcioglu was dismissed from the university after pro-government media outlets reported alleged remarks she made criticizing the Turkish president as "vulgar" and "rude."

Insulting the president is a criminal offense punishable by up to four years in prison in Turkey. Balikcioglu's dismissal comes amid a larger crackdown on academics and free speech in Turkey.

Comment: Further reading:

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Airplane

Iran to buy 100 Boeing passenger planes in milestone deal


RT
Mon, 20 Jun 2016 12:15 UTC
Boeing passenger jet
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Tehran has signed a historic agreement to buy 100 passenger jets from US-based Boeing, Iranian media reports. Both sides are now awaiting approval from the US Treasury.

Boeing has only been permitted to sell to Iran Air and a small number of other airlines. If finalized, this would be the first deal for the US plane maker with Iran in nearly four decades.

The agreement could also become the Islamic Republic's second multibillion-dollar plane acquisition this year. In January, Tehran secured a $27 billion agreement with Airbus to purchase 118 planes, including the A380 and A350 models.
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Bullseye

New York Senate passes bill that bans short-term apartment listings on Airbnb

Chris Welch
The Verge
Sun, 19 Jun 2016 13:47 UTC
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© Andrew Burton/Getty ImagesAirbnb hosts speak at a rally on the steps of New York City Hall last October.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo will soon either veto or sign into law a bill that makes it illegal to advertise entire unoccupied apartments for short-term rentals on Airbnb. Despite loud objections from Airbnb and Silicon Valley investors like Ashton Kutcher and Paul Graham, the New York State Senate passed the bill on Friday, the latest development in a complicated relationship between Airbnb and its biggest market. Now the measure is headed to Cuomo's desk. The bill prohibits online apartment listings that last under 30 days and run up against the city's multiple dwelling law, which is designed to stop apartment buyers from renting out the entire space and basically turning their units into Airbnb hotels.

First-time offenders would be fined $1,000, but a third infraction would be much costlier at $7,500. "Let's be clear: this is a bad proposal that will make it harder for thousands of New Yorkers to pay the bills," an Airbnb spokesperson told TechCrunch. "Dozens of governments around the world have demonstrated that there is a sensible way to regulate home sharing and we hope New York will follow their lead and protect the middle class."
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Megaphone

Voting in America: Choices for the lazy, ungrateful, and uninformed

Jason Goldfarb
Counter Punch
Fri, 17 Jun 2016 00:00 UTC
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Electoral voting is the sacred cow of The United States. When one refuses to partake in the ritual they are often hit with a plethora of insults and rash arguments. The most recent target of these attacks has been the so-called "Bernie or Bust" demographic. This faction, as its name suggests, is on the left of the political spectrum (Bernie supporters) yet refuses to settle for the lesser of two evils; that is support Clinton over Trump. For these soon to be labeled social-deviants, once Hillary Clinton wins the democratic nomination (it is fair to assume her victory barring an improbable catastrophe) they will refuse to participate in the electoral process.

This type of political withdrawal is not simply unique to the present election. Over the past 20 years voter turnout has been on the decline, reaching 53 percent in 2012 (with some projecting it to reach bellow 50 percent in 2016). Congressional approval rates were as low as 9 percent in 2013 and distrust in government currently stands at 19 percent. Majorities of people express indignation and resentment at the current political process. Increasingly citizens feel rejected and unrepresented by an elite political class.
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Target

Almost nailed it: Female protestor throws shoe at Hillary during speech


The Daily Bail
Sat, 18 Jun 2016 21:08 UTC
Clinton after shoe thrown
So Hillary has a shoe fired at her in Las Vegas by a female protester, and we hear virtually nothing about it in the mainstream media, such that I had not even caught wind of this glorious spectacle until today. But when an Iraqi man throws a shoe at Bush it made news all over the world (as it should have), and played on continuous loop on cable news. Sounds about right for the Clinton protection racket and the American liberal media.
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People

Major German cities hold massive anti-racism protests


Sputnik
Sun, 19 Jun 2016 20:28 UTC
German police at rally
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The residents of major German cities took to the streets on Sunday to express their protest against racism.

All of them were marching under the common motto "Hand in Hand Against Racism," forming miles-long human chains, according to social media and local municipal press.

In Berlin, some 9,000 people took part in the demonstrations, in Munich they brought together from 3,500 to 5,000 participants, according to various estimates, while in Hamburg at least 7,200 people were involved in the protest action.

The city of Bochum literally witnessed "almost four kilometers" of human chain holding each other's hands in support of equality and human diversity.
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Stock Down

Jeff Gundlach predicts: "Things are going to get pretty scary"

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Fri, 17 Jun 2016 11:46 UTC
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One day before the Fed's June statement, Jeff Gundlach once again accurately predicted the somber mood that would ensue as a result of Yellen's Wednesday decision and press conference when he correctly said that "Central Banks Are Losing Control." Today, in the aftermath of James Bullard stunning U-turn where he cast aside years of fake hawkishness and emerged as the market manipulating dove he had been all along, Gundlach appeared on CNBC, to discuss many things, among which his latest take on central banks.

Specifically, he said that central banks are "out of control" because they don't understand the consequences of their own policies. On CNBC's "Halftime Report", the DoubleLine bond guru projected that markets are likely to see another round of negative interest rates before central bankers realize they aren't working and that fiscal stimulus may be the better option. "The policies that they're implementing don't have the consequences that they're looking for," he said.

Gundlach pointed out the chart which we said back in 2010 is the only one that matters: the S&P's liquidity "flow" manifested by the Fed's balance sheet overlaid on top of the Fed's balance sheet:

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He said that "it's really uncanny how the S&P500 rallied when they were doing QE and expanding their balance sheet, and how the S&P never goes anywhere when they stopped expanding their balance sheet. They stopped QE3 back in December of 2014 and the S&P500, the DJIA, the Nasdaq are all exactly the same when they stopped expanding their balance sheet. The S&P has been dead money for 18 months."
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Quenelle - Golden

Over 50,000 Okinawans gather for anti-US military rally after yet another rape and murder by US soldier


RT
Sun, 19 Jun 2016 10:55 UTC
protester signs okinawa japan
© Toru Yamanaka /AFP/Getty ImagesDemonstrators hold placards that read "Withdraw Marine Corps" during a rally against the US military presence in Naha, Okinawa prefecture on Sunday, following the alleged rape and murder of a local woman by a former U.S. marine employed on the U.S. military base.
The Japanese island of Okinawa sees one of the biggest demonstrations in two decades, involving at least 50,000 people who protest against heavy US military presence after a local woman was murdered by an ex-Marine and a string of other incidents.

The rally, which organizers said numbered more than 65,000 - including Governor Takeshi Onaga and officials from opposition parties - has taken place in Okinawa's capital Naha located in close proximity to US air bases Kadena and Futenma. Simultaneous solidarity protest took place outside the national parliament in Tokyo.

The demonstrators were protesting against heavy US military presence and grave crimes repeatedly committed by servicemen against the residents. In the most recent case that resonated amongst the locals, a 20-year-old woman has been murdered by an ex-Marine employed as civil worker at the US military base.

Comment: With the amount of abuse suffered by the Okinawans at the hands of the US military occupiers, it's no wonder that they want them OUT of Japan.

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Quenelle

#FreeAssange: Events in cities around the world call for Wikileaks founder's freedom


RT
Sun, 19 Jun 2016 11:08 UTC
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange balcony ecuador embassy
© Toby Melville / ReutersWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
Ten cities across the world are hosting a week of events dubbed "First they came for Assange," featuring Noam Chomsky, Slavoj Zizek, Yanis Varoufakis and Patti Smith, among others. It marks four years of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's detention.

Assange has been unable to leave Ecuadorian Embassy since June 19, 2012, due to the UK police's 24/7 watch on the building, a legal case opened against him in Sweden, but, crucially, because of what he says is Washington's persecution for publishing and maintaining the largest trove of explosive leaks in world's history.
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