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Police call it 'civil unrest' as demonstrators gather after Alfred Olango memorial is removed


RT
Tue, 18 Oct 2016 06:17 UTC
Memorial Alfred Olango
© World Socialist Web SiteA memorial for Olango
Protesters have taken to the streets of El Cajon, California, after the shooting of African-American man Alfred Olango by police and the removal of a memorial to the dead man. Officers have described the situation as "civil unrest."

Demonstrators gathered in the San Diego suburb at around 6pm on Monday, according to El Cajon Police. Footage posted on social media showed protesters gathered while police stood guard. Reports have claimed some of the protesters are armed, citing information obtained through a police scanner.

Some citizens told local news outlet NBC 7 that the demonstration was called because a memorial for Olango, set up near the restaurant where he was killed last month, was taken down on Sunday. Police are asking motorists to avoid Broadway and N. Mollison Avenue, where the protest is taking place.

Olango was shot and killed in the parking lot behind a restaurant by El Cajon officers Richard Gonsalves and Josh McDaniel on September 27. Police arrived at the scene following a 911 in which the person on the phone, reportedly Olango's sister call described the 38-year-old as "not acting like himself," while stressing that he was mentally ill and unarmed.

It took police 50 minutes to arrive at the scene. As an officer prepared a taser, Olango reportedly drew an object from his pocket and held it in both hands "like you would be holding a firearm," Police Chief Jeff Davis said. Police then opened fire, shooting Olango multiple times. It was later revealed that Olango was holding a cylindrical vape pen. Footage of the shooting was released by the El Cajon Police Department.

The 38-year-old's death led to days of protests in El Cajon, in which demonstrations ranged from peaceful to violent.


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Tory MP's aide arrested on allegation of rape within Houses of Parliament


RT
Tue, 18 Oct 2016 11:41 UTC
sam armstrong
© The TelegraphSam Armstrong, the accused.
A Conservative MP's aide has been arrested on suspicion of rape inside his Parliamentary office. Sam Armstrong, chief of staff to South Thanet MP Craig Mackinlay, was remanded in custody last week by police investigating an allegation of rape.

The 23-year-old is accused of taking a woman into Mackinlay's office after he and other Tory aide had been drinking in a taxpayer-subsidized bar within Parliament from late Thursday night to early Friday morning. Armstrong has been bailed pending further enquiries to a date in mid-January 2017.

"There were a group of Tory advisers and female guests drinking there all night. Some were very drunk indeed," an unnamed source told the Sun. The drinking session reportedly took place on the House of Lords' terrace - a publicly-subsidized bar that backs on to the River Thames. According to the Sun, Mackinlay's office was raided by police on Friday and sealed off as a potential crime scene.
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Amnesty report: Nauru asylum system explicitly designed to inflict damage, torture


RT
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 20:23 UTC
Nauru protesters
© The New York Times
The battle to close Australia's brutal island-based asylum centers is set to rage even harder as Amnesty International has come out with a scathing report on the torture of refugees and the government's complicity in deliberate torture and the purpose of its cover-up.

Australians and other countries and international institutions have all campaigned for the veil of secrecy to drop, as more compelling evidence of rampant human rights abuse kept coming in from the desolate tiny island state of Nauru. Previous reports by Amnesty and others have already detailed the scale of the misery faced by this most vulnerable group of people at the hands of their guards and the system.

Saturday's report, entitled Island of Despair, deals another blow to the system that keeps the island prisons running. It reveals systematic denial of health services, coupled with physical abuse and legal and psychological intimidation carried out by staff and companies hired by the Australian government to oversee the island facility. Children are particularly at risk, and "the extent to which child refugees are subjected to abuse on Nauru is chilling," the authors write, as they list particular cases of asylum-seeker children falling into deep psychological distress and bad health.

The organization documents numerous cases of self-harm and attempted suicides. This would often take place as a result of both treatment at the facility and the recycling of the stigma against asylum-seekers on the island, leading to their shunning by locals and peers.

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10 cases prove voter fraud isn't a myth

Kelly Riddell
The Washington Times
Tue, 18 Oct 2016 09:45 UTC
characters voting
© Barry Blitt
As Donald Trump takes on the Republican establishment, Democrats and the mainstream media, he's telling supporters they're fighting against a "rigged" system, rife with voter fraud and those eager to protect the status quo. The left, predictably, says this type of talk is "dangerous" to the integrity of our electoral system, and then glibly asks for Mr. Trump to prove his voter fraud allegations.

This is where the left is wrong: The argument isn't whether voter fraud is real, but how widespread it is. Here's 10 examples documenting that voter fraud isn't a myth and how Mr. Trump's claims aren't just speculation.

1. Dead people voting in Colorado.

A CBS affiliate's evidence of voter fraud in Colorado in September sparked an immediate investigation by Secretary of State Wayne Williams. A report in Denver exposed multiple incidents in recent years where dead Coloradans were still voting. A dead World War II veteran named John Grosso voted in a 2006 primary election, and a woman named Sara Sosa who died in 2009 cast ballots in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. Mrs. Sosa's husband Miguel died in 2008, but a vote was cast in his name one year later.

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Bad Guys

Violent gang riots breakout in Brazilian prison: 'Seven people beheaded, and six burned to death'


RT
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 17:14 UTC
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© TV FolhaBV / YouTube
At least 25 inmates have reportedly been killed in a bloody Brazilian prison riot involving rival gangs on Sunday.

Rioting broke out at a northern facility known as the Agricultural Penitentiary of Monte Cristo, Roraima, when prisoners from one wing of the prison attacked rival inmates, according to news outlet Globo.

Seven people were reportedly beheaded and six others burned to death during the violence, which broke out during prison visiting hours as convicts were meeting with their relatives.

Comment: For further reading: Brazil world's seventh most violent country: 1.1 million murdered in 30 years

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Robot 'journalists' to write news and sports stories for Britain and Ireland's national news agency

Jon Dean
Mirror, UK
Tue, 18 Oct 2016 17:38 UTC
robot reporter
© Getty
Robot journalists are set to start working at Britain and Ireland's national news agency.

Non-human hacks will be rolled out to cover sports, football and elections for the Press Association in the next few months.

The cybernetic scribes will be "more accurate" than flesh and blood journos in some cases, according to PA's editor in chief Pete Clifton.

Addressing the Society of Editors conference in Carlisle this morning, Mr Clifton said: "This won't be replacing any of our fantastic journalists, it will be more a case of offering an extra level when it comes to short market reports, election results and football reporting."

Comment: Zombie nation gets upgrade with robot reporting reboot

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USA

Nearly 40 percent of Americans report election has caused tension with family or friends

Rachel Tillman
ABC
Sun, 16 Oct 2016 17:28 UTC
US voting machines
© Clay Jackson/AP
Nearly 40 percent of Americans have experienced tension with friends or family over the 2016 presidential election.

Together with SSRS, a survey research firm, ABC News asked voters how often they discuss the presidential election with relatives or friends and whether the subject causes any friction.

Ninety percent of Americans talk about the presidential race often with friends or family, the survey shows.

Of those, 58 percent discuss the election very often and 32 percent somewhat often. Only 4 percent never talk about the presidential election.

Thirty-seven percent of respondents said the 2016 race has caused tension with relatives or friends.

The major-party nominees, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, are two of the most disliked presidential candidates in history. An ABC News/Washington Post released today found that 63 percent of registered voters see Trump unfavorably and 57 percent have an unfavorable view of Clinton — the highest such ratings for major-party candidates in ABC/Washington Post polling dating back 32 years.

Even though the presidential contest is causing at least some friction in many voters' relationships, more than three-quarters of Americans think it is appropriate that children pay attention to the race. Seventy-one percent of respondents said it is appropriate that children pay attention to the election, and 29 percent said it is inappropriate.
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Snakes in Suits

Stop the War Coalition invites Boris Johnson to debate UK's 'shambolic' foreign policy


RT
Tue, 18 Oct 2016 16:53 UTC
Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson
© Justin Tallis / Reuters
Britain's Stop the War Coalition has invited Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to join a public debate on UK foreign policy after he controversially urged the group to stage protests outside the Russian embassy in London last week.

Stop the War described the UK's foreign policy towards the Middle East and Russia under Johnson's leadership as "alarmingly shambolic."

In a statement, the group invited Johnson to debate British foreign policy, especially his claim that negotiations with Russia over the Syrian crisis have "run out of road" and his thinly veiled suggestion that force may be necessary against Moscow.

"After Boris Johnson's extraordinary outbursts last week Stop the War has requested a public debate with him on foreign policy," the group said.

Comment: Johnson definitely needs to be called out on his hypocrisy but he will most likely decline to join the debate. Too bad because it might be fun to watch this clown debate.

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Surgeons find 53 sacks of cocaine in belly of 'drug mule' who collapsed at airport

David Ovalle
McClatchy DC
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 16:44 UTC
Waldemar Wojtczak, 45
© Miami HeraldWaldemar Wojtczak, 45, who is accused of trafficking in cocaine after half-a-kilo of the drug was found inside his belly.
When a Polish man collapsed at Miami International Airport, he was rushed to the hospital — where doctors removed half a kilo of cocaine from his belly. That's more than a pound of the illegal drug.

In all, surgeons found 53 small rubber sacks inside the stomach of Waldemar Wojtczak, 45, who nearly died from ingesting the narcotics. The pellet-sized sacks were immediately handed over to Miami-Dade narcotics detectives, who had donned scrubs and witnessed the procedure inside the operating room at Hialeah Hospital.

Wojtczak has recovered and was formally charged Monday with cocaine trafficking and the rare state charge of using commercial transport while committing a felony. Through a Polish interpreter, he pleaded not guilty on Monday at his arraignment.
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Hysteria: Target officials remove clown masks from stores after 'creepy clown' scares


CBS Minnesota
Sun, 16 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC
clowns
© Facebook
Target officials said Sunday they have removed some clown masks from stores and online due to the recent rise of "crazy clown" scares.

A recent craze that has gone to social media shows people wearing creepy or scary looking clown masks and going up to people to scare them. There have been arrests associated with the creepy clown craze, and a high school soccer coach was fired after a photo of himself wearing a mask at his team's final practice appeared on social media.

Many of the instances were intended to be pranks, but some feel the incidents went too far and were threatening.

Comment: Clowns scare kids: They're 'universally disliked by children,' British researchers discover

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