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School administrator body slams 13 y.o. girl giving her a concussion

Ryan Banister
The Daily Sheeple
Fri, 14 Oct 2016 10:54 UTC
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A mother is still trying to get answers about a school administrator who was seen body slamming her daughter on camera at Canyon Springs High School in North Las Vegas. A report from the emergency room shows that the girl has suffered a concussion and has multiple scratches and bruises.

The camera pans away just as the 13-year-old girl is thrown to the ground, but footage clearly shows the school administrator handling the girl prior to her fall and immediately shows him on top of her after the incident.
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LOL: Trump calls for drug testing before next debate - 'she's getting pumped up'


RT
Sun, 16 Oct 2016 09:28 UTC
Donald Trump
© Jonathan Ernest/Reuters
Donald Trump has suggested that he and Hillary Clinton should undergo drug testing before their next election debate, appearing to accuse his Democratic rival of using performance enhancing drugs.

The Republican nominee compared presidential candidates to athletes and said they should be subject to similar drug screenings. "I think we should take a drug test prior to the debate," he said during a rally at a car dealership in New Hampshire on Saturday.

"Because I don't know what's going on with her, but at the beginning of her last debate, she was all pumped up at the beginning, and at the end it was like, huh, take me down. She could barely reach her car. I think we should take a drug test. Anyway, I'm willing to do it."

"A lot of things are going on, folks. A lot of things. I think she's actually getting pumped, you want to know the truth? She's getting pumped up," the businessman said.


Trump has repeatedly raised concerns about Clinton's health and fitness to be president throughout the campaign, particularly after she fell ill with pneumonia in September. His campaign released an attack ad last week saying Clinton doesn't have the "fortitude, strength or stamina to lead in our world."

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Pistol

Gun culture: Accidental shootings kill one American child every 48 hours


RT
Fri, 14 Oct 2016 18:55 UTC
Guns and children
© Ron Chapple/Getty Images
A child is killed every other day as a direct result of an accidental shooting, whether self-inflicted or at the hands of another child or an adult, new research has found. The analysis supersedes federal statistics, relying on 1,500 news sources.

"October 13, 2016, Waukegan, Illinois, victim, age three, male, killed, accidental shooting, self-inflicted, child involved incident, child picked up and fired gun, child killed self, child shot self with 9mm from father's room. Rifle in home also confiscated," a typical entry reads in the raw data collected by Gun Violence Archive, a nonpartisan research group. Data was taken from news reports, using some 1,500 sources, and its third quarter data was released Friday.

For the first 10 months of this year, 804 children, aged 0-11 were killed or injured, as were 750 teenagers, aged 12-17, according to the data. In all, more than 301 children under 11 were killed, and 503 were injured. A further 150 teens died and 600 were injured. Findings revealed that deaths and injuries spiked for children under five, with three-year-olds being both the most common shooters and victims among children.

Comment: See also:

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Pistol

Los Angeles: 3 dead, 12 injured in shooting at Jamaican eatery

Richard Winton, Matt Stevens, Deborah Netburn, Ruben Vives and Brittny Mejia
Los Angeles Times
Sat, 15 Oct 2016 10:20 UTC
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© Onscene.TVA shooting victim is treated at the scene of the West Adams shooting.

Los Angeles police are searching for several suspects in connection with the mass shooting at a restaurant in the West Adams district that left three people dead and 12 others wounded.

Detectives are searching for at least three suspects in the shooting, said LAPD Capt. Peter Whittingham. Police took into custody two "persons of interest" — a man and a woman, who was among those injured — but neither has been formally arrested.

"We have street names for these suspects but we don't know who the killers are yet," he said. "The people shot either don't know the killers or aren't telling us what they do know."

As for the motive, Whittingham said it may have been more than a simple argument that erupted at the eatery, but detectives could not say for sure. A gun was recovered from the scene.

Comment: Update:
Two suspects were arrested early Sunday in connection with a shooting at a popular Jamaican restaurant in Los Angeles that left three people dead and 12 others wounded, police said.

Police tracked down Mowayne McKay, 33, and Diego Reid, 25, both Jamaican nationals, at area hospitals where they had sought treatment for gunshot wounds, said Los Angeles Police Capt. Peter Whittingham.

Eyewitness accounts and other evidence, including videos, led police to the men, Whittingham said. They are expected to be booked on murder charges.


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War Whore

Good cop blows whistle: Threatened, abused, mistreated, & cast out for exposing corruption in his own department

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 15 Oct 2016 07:41 UTC
Blue code of silence
Though corruption and violence may permeate departments across the nation, good cops have repeatedly tried to stand against their less honest colleagues — but all too often run into the Blue Wall of Silence for their efforts.

It is no question that if fellow officers become good cops and blow the whistle on their peers for breaking the law, they will be shunned, and their careers will be over.

The blue code of silence, as our friend and former Baltimore cop, Joe Crystal has shown us, is not to be broken. Crystal attempted to expose an officer who beat a handcuffed man and was subsequently threatened and his career ruined.

The Free Thought Project has worked with many cops and former cops whose careers have been ruined after they exposed corruption in their departments. And, Chicago Police Officer Jaeho Jung, is one of those cops.

Comment: See also:
  • Retired police officer's viewpoint on police shootings in America: Law, policy, & accountability

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Solar Flares

New Executive Order points to devastating space event, unprecedented government response - and public's lack of preparedness

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan
Sat, 15 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC
solar flare
Once considered a fringe conspiracy theory, it appears that the Obama administration is now actively preparing for a massive solar event that could wipe out life as we have come to know it. Space weather events such as solar flares, solar energetic particles, and geomagnetic disturbances have long been believed to pose a significant threat to our technologically advanced society with the ability to not only affect global positioning satellites, but on-earth electronics that include the entire domestic (and global) power grid.

In the latest Executive Order signed by Barack Obama, the President calls for coordination between various government agencies including the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland security should a major "space weather event" come to pass.
Via WhiteHouse.Gov

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to prepare the Nation for space weather events, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Policy. Space weather events, in the form of solar flares, solar energetic particles, and geomagnetic disturbances, occur regularly, some with measurable effects on critical infrastructure systems and technologies, such as the Global Positioning System (GPS), satellite operations and communication, aviation, and the electrical power grid. Extreme space weather events — those that could significantly degrade critical infrastructure — could disable large portions of the electrical power grid, resulting in cascading failures that would affect key services such as water supply, healthcare, and transportation. Space weather has the potential to simultaneously affect and disrupt health and safety across entire continents. Successfully preparing for space weather events is an all-of-nation endeavor that requires partnerships across governments, emergency managers, academia, the media, the insurance industry, non-profits, and the private sector.

Comment: While 'space weather events' do in fact present the dangers presented here, and may quite probably occur, it seems just as likely that 'space weather events' has become a euphemistic description for the destruction caused by neo's, meteors, comets, etc. - which have their own electrical properties. Whatever the case, being prepared for such an eventuality (and others in the offing) seems like a very good idea!

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Roses

Russian traveler returns home after 3 years in Syrian rebel captivity


RT
Sat, 15 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC
Konstantin Zhuravlev release
© Ruptly
A Russian blogger and traveler, who was abducted in Syria three years ago, has finally been reunited with his family after being held in captivity in northern Syria and then, allegedly, in Turkey, by an armed rebel groups affiliated with Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists.

"A Russian national, Konstantin Zhuravlev, born in 1981, has been returned to the territory of the Russian Federation," the public relations center of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) announced. The man "was kidnapped in the north of Syria by an armed group in October 2013, as he was traveling the world, and was held there by force for three years."

"I'm fine," Zhuravlev told reporters upon arrival in his native Siberian city of Tomsk after the FSB completed all the necessary procedures. Despite being kept in captivity for 1,095 days, Zhuravlev called his incarceration a "journey," as he thanked everyone for their support.
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Syringe

Doped to the gills: British Tour de France and Olympic champion cyclist has track record of skipping drug tests


RT
Sat, 15 Oct 2016 17:05 UTC
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Sir Bradley Wiggins, winner of the 2012 Tour de France and Great British Olympic champion
The controversy surrounding Sir Bradley Wiggins took another turn on Friday after it was alleged the British cyclist committed a 'whereabouts' failure just months before the Rio Olympics, for the third time in his career.

The 36-year-old, who is the focus of a UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) investigation into claims of wrongdoing in cycling, is believed to have missed a drug test just months before the Rio Olympics.

According to the Daily Mail, Wiggins previously missed tests in 2005 and 2009, and under World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) rules, any athlete who misses three tests in 12 months can be banned for up to two years.

Comment: We're not quite sure what point this German is making, but what should really be introduced is the Pharmalympics. Let all these cheaters cheat to their heart's content! And stop pretending that only Russians cheat.

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Arrow Up

Charity calls on DiCaprio to step down from UN climate change role

Alex Ritman
The Hollywood Reporter
Fri, 14 Oct 2016 17:26 UTC
DiCaprio
© Olivier Marteau on Twitter
A rainforest charity calls on the star to either denounce his connection to individuals involved in a Malaysian corruption scandal and return laundered money he allegedly received or give up his role.

In perhaps the biggest attack on Leonardo DiCaprio's environmental credibility, a rainforest charity on Friday called on the actor to give up his title as UN Messenger of Peace with a special focus on climate change.

At a press conference in London, the Bruno Manser Funds offered DiCaprio an ultimatum: either he renounce his connections to the "politically exposed persons" at the center of the multi-billion dollar 1MDB Malaysian corruption scandal now being investigated by the U.S. Justice Department and return corrupt money he allegedly received or resign from the position he was given by UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon in 2014.

"If DiCaprio is unwilling to come clean, we ask him to step down as UN Messenger for Peace for climate change, because he simply lacks the credibility for such an important role," said Lukas Straumann, director of the Switzerland-based charity, which has a particular focus on deforestation in Malaysia.

DiCaprio is alleged to have received millions of dollars diverted from the 1MDB sovereign wealth fund for his role as star and producer of The Wolf of Wall Street, alleged by the DOJ to have been funded by stolen Malaysian money and produced by Red Granite, co-founded by Riza Aziz, the stepson of the Malaysian prime minister and a major figure in a DOJ filing. He is also alleged to have received laundered 1MDB money for his charity, the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, from his former close associate Jho Low, the controversial Malaysian businessman at the heart of the scandal.
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Day of atonement: What will a Jewish confession sound like on a future Yom Kippur?

Marc H. Ellis
Mondoweiss
Wed, 12 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC
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Israeli soldier praying on a tank.
Another Yom Kippur has arrived. That special time of reflection and confession is upon us. Yet the reflection and confessional pickings are slim. In the mainstream Jewish communities of Israel and America there has been little reflection. The confession we Jews should have made, the confession we Jews have to make, won't be made today.

So we begin yet another New Year, this being the 50th anniversary of the occupation of the Palestinian territories that weren't occupied in 1948, with no sign, no sign at all, that Jews in any great number in Israel or America are ready to step back and assess the fundamental questions facing us a people. Has our commemoration of the Holocaust and celebration of Israel run its course? Have the twin events that define contemporary Jewish life brought us closer to ourselves. our ethical heritage, to others, to the world community?
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