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Feds to press criminal charges against Arizona Sheriff Arpaio over immigration patrols, racial profiling


RT
Wed, 12 Oct 2016 16:12 UTC
sherriff joe arpaio
© Laura SegallMaricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
The federal government charged Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio with criminal contempt charges for violating a judge's order to stop immigration patrols that led to a court finding of racial profiling. If convicted, he could spend six months in jail.

The controversial sheriff is expected to be charged on Wednesday. If convicted of misdemeanor contempt, the 84-year old Arpaio could face six months in jail. The trial is expected to start December 6.

The charges are the latest development in a long-running legal battle over Arpaio's policy of enforcing federal immigration laws. In December 2011, US District Judge G. Murray Snow issued a preliminary injunction ordering Arpaio and his deputies to stop targeting Latino drivers. The Sheriff's Office was discovered, after a three year investigation, to be detaining drivers solely on the belief that they were in the country illegally, without being suspected of a crime. Prosecutors alleged that Arpaio's deputies defied the injunction for at least 18 months. In May 2013, Snow ruled that Arpaio's office had engaged in racial profiling.

Comment: More on the antics of this insane, controversial sheriff:

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Wealthy bigwigs donate lots of money to screw over the homeless in San Francisco

Sophie Kleeman
Gizmodo
Wed, 12 Oct 2016 18:25 UTC
Marissa Mayer and Zachary Bogue
© Getty ImagesZachary Bogue, Silicon Valley investor and husband of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer.
Proposition Q, an upcoming ballot measure to rid San Francisco's streets of homeless encampments, has divided the city. One figure firmly on the side of "screw the homeless and their tents" is Zachary Bogue, the Silicon Valley investor and husband of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer.

As The Guardian reported earlier today, Bogue is one of several tech bigwigs who donated to Housing Not Tents, a pro-Proposition Q campaign. The $2,500 donation can be found buried in the group's campaign filings.

The documents in which Bogue's name appears cover the period from January 1 of this year until September 24. Bogue made his donation on September 15. Other donors named in the filing include Michael Moritz, a partner at venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, and investors William Oberndorf and Ron Conway.

All three men gave $49,999, which roundly bests Bogue's donation, though "bests" perhaps isn't the right word to use, because Proposition Q has been resoundingly criticized for its approach to San Francisco's homeless population.

The measure would give people living in homeless encampments around San Francisco 24 hours to vacate their tents; it does mandate that the city provide "transportation assistance back to loved ones, temporary shelter or permanent housing" before scrapping an encampment. But, as the San Francisco Chronicle points out, that doesn't mean much when many of the city's shelters can't spare a bed. (The Chronicle advised readers to vote against the measure, which will appear on ballots on November 8.)

"With Proposition Q, we're just taking away someone's tent and making them sleep on the cold concrete," Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness, told the Guardian. "They're not going to disappear."
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Red Flag

UK police "lost" thousands of victims of modern slavery through failed record-keeping system


RT
Thu, 13 Oct 2016 10:27 UTC
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© Reuters
Police forces across the country are failing thousands of victims of modern slavery by failing to properly record the crimes and prosecute traffickers, the UK's anti-slavery commissioner has warned, as he called for "urgent improvements" to combat the offense.

In his first annual report, Kevin Hyland highlighted major inadequacies in the recording of modern slavery, noting that in some forces victims are being "lost" in the system.

Hyland, whose job was created under the Modern Slavery Act last year, found 3,146 National Referral Mechanism (NRM) referrals - a process set up to identify and support victims of trafficking - resulted in just 884 recordings of slavery crimes in 2015/16.

Four of the 39 responding forces in England and Wales could not find any internal record of NRM referrals at all, while more than half had trouble answering whether a referral made by their force had resulted in a modern slavery crime record.

Comment: This is nowhere near a recent problem for the UK and elsewhere. The spread of capitalism via globalization has led to a serious problem of the rich and wealthy using the rest of the population as its slave workforce. For anything to change, the world has to rid itself of the psychopaths who are in control throughout the world and happily turn people into slaves to use for their own selfish needs. See also:

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Cult

Australia has a teenaged terror problem: 2 more teens charged with 'imminent ISIS-inspired attack'


RT
Thu, 13 Oct 2016 05:12 UTC
FILE PHOTO Will Burgess/Reuters
© Will Burgess/ReutersFile Photo.
An "imminent" terror attack allegedly inspired by Islamic State was prevented in Australia, Sydney, authorities claimed after arresting and charging two 16-year-old boys with plotting a knife assault.

Two teens were arrested by a counter-terrorism unit on Wednesday at a prayer hall in Sydney's Bankstown, after they allegedly purchased the "bayonet-style" knives from a nearby gunshop. The charges were filed on Thursday, although the specific target of the planned attack remains unknown.

"We did prevent what we would suspect was going to be an attack," Deputy Commissioner of New South Wales Police Catherine Burn said. The authorities believe that the alleged attack was imminent.

"Had we not been in the right place at the right time ... certainly somebody, potentially today, would be, or another day imminently, would be without their life," AFP Deputy Commissioner Michael Phelan told local media on Thursday.

The teens were charged with planning an act of terror and being members of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL). Such crimes could result in a lifetime behind bars.

Comment: That's about the 20th case of 'teenaged terror' in Australia in the last couple of years.

It rather sounds like its government has made a political decision to prosecute teenaged anti-social behavior as 'terrorism'.

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Cult

Indonesia approves chemical castration, capital punishment for pedophiles


RT
Thu, 13 Oct 2016 04:31 UTC
Darren Whiteside/Reuters
© Darren Whiteside/Reuters
Convicted pedophiles in Indonesia could be subjected to chemical castration after the government approved a set of laws to better protect minors against predators. Additional punishments would include harsher prison terms and the introduction of tracking chips.

Despite a strong objection to the introduction of new punishments by the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) and the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), lawmakers from ten other parties represented in the government went on to adopt the regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) following President Joko Widodo proposed changes to existing law in May.
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No justice: Mistrial allows cops to walk free after murdering man for illegally camping

Claire Bernish
Free Thought Project
Wed, 12 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC
mistrial
Two Albuquerque cops charged with the second-degree murder of a homeless man suffering schizophrenia — whose only crime had been illegally camping — have now been let off the hook for the killing after a hung jury left a judge no choice but to declare a mistrial.

Retired Officer Keith Sandy and Officer Dominique Perez had been charged for the murder of 38-year-old James Boyd in August last year — after Albuquerque police cleared them of wrongdoing — in a rare case where cops were forced to face legal responsibility for a highly questionable and brutal killing.

A mistrial was declared by Judge Alisa Hadfield on Tuesday when only three of twelve jurors voted to convict the two officers — which, though deplorably typical, seems inexplicable given officer helmet-camera footage and several nasty details in the case.


Comment: Yes, inexplicable seems the best way to describe it - unless the prosecutor was completely incompetent and/or allowed jurists to be chosen who demonstrated the traits of brain-dead zombies.


Prior to the fatal shooting, a conversation involving Officer Sandy was captured on tape, revealing not only a lack of compassion or understanding for those with mental health issues, but utter disregard for human life:

Comment: "He mattered. His life mattered," are the words we all too often need to recall as a pathological US police force continues to snuff out life, after life, after life.

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Bizarro Earth

Area 51: Bikers held at gunpoint at 'secret back gate'


Sputnik
Thu, 13 Oct 2016 02:46 UTC
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© YouTube/MacADVentures
A dramatic scene as two bikers, using a hidden helmet camera to record video, approach a secret back entrance to Area 51 and are held at gunpoint by unidentified men in camouflage gear, is going viral after being posted online.

The men, who describe themselves as "adventure tourists," had attempted to get close to the Nevada base once before, and declare at the beginning of the video, "hey camo dudes - we're back."


The video has been viewed over 230,000 times since it was posted on Monday.

"EVERYONE SHARE LIKE CRAZY, WE MIGHT HAVE TO TAKE THIS DOWN SOON DUE TO THE US GOVERNMENT!! DON'T LET THEM HIDE THIS!! This is raw and shot in realtime. Not fake or PHONY! We bring you the extreme footage shot by us. I don't know how long it will be up until the Gov't makes us take it down!" the caption on the video reads.

Comment: Not very surprising to be turned away from a secretive base. They best be very careful in their 'adventures'.

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Putin proposes special Olympics for sick athletes who must take performance-enhancing drugs


RFE/RL
Wed, 12 Oct 2016 17:57 UTC
woman athlete runner
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the leaked drug profiles of dozens of top athletes by Russia's Fancy Bears hackers show the need for greater disclosure of drug use by sick athletes.

"As we have come to know -- and the World Anti-Doping Agency is not denying that -- dozens or hundreds of athletes are taking these [banned] substances. Does anybody know that? No one does. Everything is done secretly," Putin said in televised comments to a sports forum on October 11. "It is clear that the whole system can and should be improved."

More than 100 Russian athletes were barred from the Rio Olympics this summer on charges of state-sponsored doping. Since that time, the Fancy Bears hacking group, which has been traced to Russia, has posted information hacked from anti-doping agency files about Olympic athletes who were granted exemptions so they can use banned drugs to treat medical conditions such as allergies.

"If things go on further this way, only asthmatics or other athletes suffering from chronic diseases will win major sports events," Putin said. He suggested putting athletes with medical conditions in a "special category" or having them compete separately from healthy athletes because of their drug exemptions.

Comment: Can't say we disagree. But maybe that's because we had the same idea: SOTT News Snapshot: Everything you need to know about American doping.

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Briefcase

Lawyers quit defence of key terrorist suspect in Paris attacks because he won't say what he knows


RT
Wed, 12 Oct 2016 18:08 UTC
Salah Abdeslam
The lawyers of Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving terrorist suspect behind the Paris attacks, confirmed they will no longer defend him, French media reported. They had hoped that Abdeslam would speak about the attacks, but he has remained silent.

Abdeslam is currently in detention in the town of Fleury-Mérogis, northern France. His two high-profile lawyers, Belgian Sven Mary and Frenchman Frank Berton, informed their client on October 6 that they would no longer work with him, French media reported.

"We both decided to give up the defence of Salah Abdeslam," lawyer Frank Berton said in an interview to BFM TV.

Comment: There would seem to be a few possibilities for Abdeslam's silence here: 1.) He is loyal to his terrorist buddies 2.) He knows that the operation was state-sponsored, and also knows that if he talks, he's dead 3.) He's a mind-controlled patsy programmed not to say anything but the few hints that suggest his involvement 4.) Some combination of the above.

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Alarm Clock

Bombers attack Kabul mosque, may have hostages - US Embassy


Sputnik
Wed, 12 Oct 2016 07:03 UTC
AFP 2016/FARSHAD USYAN
© AFP 2016/FARSHAD USYAN
According to the US Embassy in Kabul, armed suicide bombers attacked a mosque in the Afghan capital and may be holding hostages.

Armed suicide bombers have attacked a mosque in the Afghan capital and may be holding hostages, the US Embassy in Kabul said in a statement on Tuesday.

"The US Embassy in Kabul has received reports that several heavily armed suicide bombers entered Karte Sakhi Mosque (PD-3) and may have opened fire on parishioners," the statement said.


Comment: Attacking a mosque you say? Curious.


Comment: Fourteen dead and 36 wounded at last count. The mosque was densely packed when the attack occurred, and initial reports anywhere from 1 to 8 attackers. The Afghan interior ministry now says there was only one attacker, and police say he was dressed in a police uniform and suicide vest. He initially shot a policeman with a handgun, then started randomly shooting at worshipers with an AK-74 (video from outside the mosque has the sound of gunfire). No word as yet on the fate of the attacker. The Taliban explicitly denied responsibility for the attack.

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