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Police state revenue scheme: Wisconsin town criminalizes bullying

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 04 May 2016 17:45 UTC
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According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, one out of every four students (22%) report being bullied during the school year. Often times, when the bullying goes unchecked, students are at increased risk for poor school adjustment, sleep difficulties, anxiety, and depression, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Bullying can be problematic for many students and is most assuredly unacceptable. However, as long as there have been schools, there have been bullies. Unfortunately, bullying is inevitable.

Adolescent quarrels are a frequent occurrence. As hormones rush in, children attempt to assert control over their environment as well as other children and the result can often manifest into a fight or bullying. Studies even show that bullies suffer from the same symptoms as their victims.

In the past, if a fight were to break out at school, or a child would be caught bullying another child, the teachers, and in some cases, the students would rush in to stop it. In fact, studies show that bullying situations are resolved the majority of the time when a peer intervenes on behalf of the student being bullied.

However, in modern day police state USA, normal childhood behavior is now dealt with using police action.

A new city ordinance in Shawano, Wisconson now criminalizes the act of bullying. However, it's not the child who will be punished, it's their parent.
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Best of the Web: The catastrophic events that have a high probability of leading to an American 'apocalypse'

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Sun, 01 May 2016 00:00 UTC
Apocalyptic scene
Is the strongest and most powerful nation on the planet headed for an apocalypse which will bring it to its knees? We live in a world that is becoming increasingly unstable, and apocalyptic themes have become very common in books, movies, television shows and video games. It is almost as if there is an unconscious understanding on a societal level that something very big and very bad is coming, even if the vast majority of the population cannot specifically identify what that is going to be. Last week, the Global Challenges Foundation released a new report entitled "Global Catastrophic Risks 2016" in which they discussed various apocalyptic events that they believe could wipe out more than 10 percent of the population of our planet, and they warned that these types of events "are more likely than we intuitively think"...
Sebastian Farquhar, director at the Global Priorities Project, told the Press Association: "There are some things that are on the horizon, things that probably won't happen in any one year but could happen, which could completely reshape our world and do so in a really devastating and disastrous way.

"History teaches us that many of these things are more likely than we intuitively think. Many of these risks are changing and growing as technologies change and grow and reshape our world. But there are also things we can do about the risks."

Comment: Do not be surprised if some of these probable developments occur in quick succession, or even more or less simultaneously. It's a good time now to prepare for them.

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Public school or prison? It's hard to tell

Alice Jones Web
The Mind Unleashed
Wed, 04 May 2016 16:11 UTC
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Every weekday morning, from September through June, parents across the country get up earlier than they want to, rush like crazy, wrangle kids into appropriate clothing, and wait in exhausting drop-off lines to get their children to school on time. Why? Because punctuality is a virtue? Or because they are afraid of getting in trouble?

In big cities and small communities, the same routine is repeated with minor variations. Small children and near adult adolescents will spend the majority of their waking hours somewhere they would rather not be. But few people question the set-up. Parents send their kids to school with the best of intentions, wanting to produce happy, healthy, productive adults. Public school is supposed to be for their own good. Very few question its necessity and virtue. No one questions the fact that our country's public schools are looking less and less like places of learning and more and more like places of detention (and I don't mean The Breakfast Club type either).

Comment: How do you prepare a child for life in the American police state? Send them to school:
In an age dominated with news of school shootings, school lockdowns, police shootings of unarmed citizens (including children), SWAT team raids gone awry (leaving children devastated and damaged), reports of school resource officers tasering and shackling unruly students, and public schools undergoing lockdowns and active drills, I find myself wrestling with the question: how do you prepare a child for life in the American police state?

It's difficult enough raising a child in a world ravaged by war, disease, poverty and hate, but when you add the police state into the mix—with its battlefield mindset, weaponry, rigidity, surveillance, fascism, indoctrination, violence, etc.—it becomes near impossible to guard against the toxic stress of police shootings, SWAT team raids, students being tasered and shackled, lockdown drills, and a growing unease that some of the monsters of our age come dressed in government uniforms.

Children are taught from an early age that there are consequences for their actions. Hurt somebody, lie, steal, cheat, etc., and you will get punished. But how do you explain to a child that a police officer can shoot someone who was doing nothing wrong and get away with it? That a cop can lie, steal, cheat, or kill and still not be punished?


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Wealthy Swiss municipality to pay $300k per year to not have asylum seekers live there


RT
Wed, 04 May 2016 16:29 UTC
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The mayor of a rich Swiss municipality, which would rather pay $300,000 a year than allow 10 asylum seekers to live there, says the country should close its borders with barbed wire. A referendum on the country's asylum law is to take place in June.

Last weekend, the municipality of Oberwil-Lieli in the canton of Aargau held a local referendum on a budget passed last November. The budget decided not to pay 290,000 Swiss francs (about $300,000) a year as a compensation for not hosting its quota of 10 asylum seekers.

But the direct vote overturned the representatives' decision in a 579 to 525 vote. The wealthy municipality has some 2,100 residents.

The pay-off option has long existed for Swiss municipalities. But the price was hiked 11-fold last year as the country faced its share of the pan-European refugee crisis.

Comment: How about paying the US/UK/NATO to NOT bomb and destroy other countries so their people don't become refugees?

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LAPD sheriff resigns after racist emails discovered


RT
Tue, 03 May 2016 15:26 UTC
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© Mario Anzuoni / Reuters
A former Los Angeles Sheriff's Department official resigned after a slew of racist joke emails which he had forwarded were discovered. The emails were sent in 2012 and 2013 while he was the assistant chief of the Burbank Police Department.

Tom Angel became the chief of staff to LA County Sheriff Jim McDonnell last year, but on Sunday he resigned after some troubling emails surfaced.

"I took my Biology exam last Friday," one of the joke emails read. "I was asked to name two things commonly found in cells. Apparently, 'Blacks' and 'Mexicans' were NOT the correct answers."

"Japanese scientists have recently created a camera with such a fantastic shutter speed that it is now possible to take a photograph of a woman with her mouth closed," another said.
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Police impunity: Virginia cops who tased man to death while in handcuffs won't face charges


RT
Tue, 03 May 2016 17:41 UTC
virginia cops taser death
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Prosecutors in Virginia will not charge police officers in South Boston for their part in the death of a man who was shot with a taser 20 times in 30 minutes while handcuffed in police custody, according to a new report.

Linwood Lambert was pronounced dead about an hour after he was taken into police custody in South Boston, Virginia, on May 4, 2013, following reports of a noise disturbance at a motel. Police decided to take Lambert, who later admitted he had used cocaine, to a nearby hospital, telling him they were not taking him to jail. When Lambert became agitated and ran out of the police squad car toward the hospital, police subsequently tased him repeatedly despite his pleas for them to stop.

Lambert died after about 87 seconds, total, of tasing by the officers, who acted in violation of the South Boston Police Department's guidelines for taser-use given Lambert was handcuffed the entire time.
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Pentagon security analyst: 'Unbelievable' amount of child porn on US military and intelligence computers


Privacy SOS
Tue, 03 May 2016 00:00 UTC
NSA's mammoth data center in Utah
© Parker Higgins (Electronic Frontier Foundation)NSA's mammoth data center in Utah
If you've got nothing to hide, why worry about warrantless mass surveillance? One reason among many: The people who have access to your private communications may not have your—or your child's—best interest at heart.

NextGov reports that officials at a recent Intelligence and National Security Alliance symposium in Chantilly, Virginia discussed the widespread storage of child pornography on NSA and other military computer systems. Daniel Payne, director of the Pentagon's Defense Security Service, reportedly said that "the amount of child porn [he sees on government devices] is just unbelievable." An NSA official agreed, saying "what people do is amazing."

Comment: The level of psychological illness (not to mention hypocrisy) that is demonstrated by Security/Intelligence/Military personnel is breathtaking - and almost suggests that you have to have one of these perverted proclivities to fit in with the pathological culture of these institutions!

See also:

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Researchers find spanking is ineffective yet parents spank their children for even mundane offenses

Scott Kaufman
Raw Story
Sat, 16 Apr 2016 14:51 UTC
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New research published in the Journal of Family Psychology indicates not only that parents punish their children more frequently than they admit, but that the form of the punishment — spanking — is an ineffective means of behavioral modification.

The study analyzed real-time audio recordings of parents interacting with their children. The parents had been given guidelines: spank infrequently, only for serious misbehavior, and only as a last resort.

Thirty-three families were recorded for between four and six evenings, and in 90 percent of the incidents involving corporal punishment, the immediate cause was "noncompliance," such as a refusal to stop sucking fingers, eating improperly, leaving the house without asking permission. In 49 percent of the spanking incidents, the parent sounded angry prior to initiating the spanking.

"The recordings show that most parents responded either impulsively or emotionally, rather than being intentional with their discipline," lead author George Holden, a psychology professor at Southern Methodist University, said. On average, it only required 30 seconds for nonviolent discipline to escalate to corporal punishment.
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Germany considering legalization of medical marijuana


RT
Wed, 04 May 2016 11:59 UTC
medical marijuana plant
© Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters
Cannabis will be available to seriously ill German patients on prescription in drug stores and its use may be covered by medical insurance, German Health Minister Hermann Gröhe announced Tuesday. The law is expected to come into force in 2017.

The draft relaxing the regulations on the use of medical marijuana is aimed to alleviating the suffering of seriously ill patients who were previously not eligible to obtain the drug. The draft law is set to be approved by the government Wednesday and then forwarded to the German parliament for further debate.

"Without wishing to pre-judge the work of the Bundestag, it is likely that the law will come into force in the spring of 2017," Gröhe told die Welt.
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Good job - not! FBI thwarts its own terror plot in Florida


RT
Wed, 04 May 2016 01:28 UTC
James Gonzalo Medina
© Broward Sheriff's OfficeJames Gonzalo Medina
The FBI has thwarted a plot to bomb a Florida Jewish center on the last night of Passover. The suspect, who shared details of the planned attack with an informant, was arrested on his way to the synagogue carrying what he thought was an explosive.

On Monday, James Gonzalo Medina, 40, of Hollywood, Florida, was charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, which carries a potential life prison sentence. Department of Justice documents show he told an FBI informant in the run-up to the would-be attack, "I feel that I'm doing it for a good cause for Allah."

Comment: Ahh, the good ol' FBI, busy meeting their otherwise-unreachable quota of foiled terror plots! Just think about the absurdity of this drama: Medina is being charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. This is a legal fiction, because the weapon he used was utterly useless, created and provided by the FBI. But following the logic of this legal fiction, should not the FBI informant and his FBI handlers also be charged with building a WMD, trafficking in WMDs, and providing a WMD to a potential murderer? The only thing that made this 'bomb' a 'weapon of mass destruction' was Medina's belief that it was real. And since figures like George W. and Dick Cheney got away with murder for their own WMD delusion, maybe the justice system should re-consider Medina's charges and replace them with something more grounded in reality.

If any of our readers haven't noticed the pattern yet, please watch this TED Talk with Trevor Aaronson:


And read this article: The FBI honeypot entrapment of Khalil Abu Rayyan: Just another case of FBI incitement and radicalization

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