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War Whore

Cops go wild - anally penetrate man on the roadside for rolling through a stop sign

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A video uploaded to Facebook shows a gang of cops from the Fort Myers Police Department and Lee County Sheriff's Office brutally violating a man on the roadside, after pulling him over for a rolling stop.

Screams of agony can be heard echoing from the trees as the man's arm is twisted almost to the breaking point and his rectum is invaded by the gloved hand of a drug war enforcer.

The cops can be heard saying, "Stop resisting! Just relax!" as the victim continues to scream and kick in pain. Five officers are initially involved in subduing the man and searching his vehicle, and then another joins the fun by posing with gun in hand facing the onlookers.


Comment: Right, because relaxing is just what anyone would do when your rear end is being violated by a gang of armed thugs.


Comment: Again and again we see that this sort of insanity is becoming routine.


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Armed civilians save lives and reduce the number killed in mass shootings ... Citizens can respond in 10 seconds (police take 10 minutes)

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To hear the anti-Second Amendment Left tell it, carrying a firearm for protection - of one's self and of the lives of those around him or her - is a myth perpetuated by the NRA and other gun rights groups and firearm manufacturers.

Comment: See more: Mass shootings and gun control in the U.S.: The problem is not gun laws, but a society dripping in fear, insecurity, anger and violence


USA

The illusion of freedom and the impending collapse of America

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© Carlos Osorio / Associated PressA campaign rally last week in Michigan. In the current presidential contest, a frustrated white working class has been receptive to anti-democracy messages.
The seizure of political and economic power by corporations is unassailable. Who funds and manages our elections? Who writes our legislation and laws? Who determines our defense policies and vast military expenditures? Who is in charge of the Department of the Interior? The Department of Homeland Security? Our intelligence agencies? The Department of Agriculture? The Food and Drug Administration? The Department of Labor? The Federal Reserve? The mass media? Our systems of entertainment? Our prisons and schools? Who determines our trade and environmental policies? Who imposes austerity on the public while enabling the looting of the U.S. Treasury and the tax boycott by Wall Street? Who criminalizes dissent?

A disenfranchised white working class vents its lust for fascism at Trump campaign rallies. Naive liberals, who think they can mount effective resistance within the embrace of the Democratic Party, rally around the presidential candidacy of Bernie Sanders, who knows that the military-industrial complex is sacrosanct. Both the working class and the liberals will be sold out. Our rights and opinions do not matter. We have surrendered to our own form of wehrwirtschaft. We do not count within the political process.

Comment: For more on climate change, see:

What's important to understand is that this totalitarian system Hedges so aptly describe, is one created by psychopaths in power. It's further kept in place by authoritarian followers. Their pathological worldview infects, fractures and eventually destroys the rest of society.


Fire

Huge factory fire breaks out in Leicester, UK

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© Mike SewellFlames leap into the air.
A "massive" fire has broken out at a building near to a number of factories in Leicester.

The blaze started in Ross Walk, near Abbey Park, in the Belgrave area of the city at about 14:30 GMT.

Leicestershire Police have asked people to avoid the area and told residents to keep windows and doors shut.

Eyewitness Roy Rollings, a local parish councillor, said he could hear "loud bangs" and homes had been evacuated nearby.



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Film shows train plowing into bus at level crossing in Mexico, leaving 4 people dead and 22 injured

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Moment of impact: The train ploughed into the bus as it drove onto the tracks of the level crossing in Mexico
This is the horrifying moment a train ploughed into a bus at a level crossing in Mexico killing four people.

According to a police investigation, CCTV shows bus driver Concepcion Beltran Palomares crossing the tracks moments after a smaller car had done the same.

The 43-year-old bus driver had apparently believed it to be safe to proceed and drove onto the crossing, which had no safety gates.

The bus was then hit by the train travelling at full speed, leaving 22 of the 26 people on board injured, some of them severely, and four dead.


Quenelle - Golden

'Your dental plan sucks': Muslims mock ISIS call for new recruits

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Muslims around the world have answered the call of Daesh (Islamic State) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to take up arms and join the terrorist organization with a bunch of hilarious comments mocking his words and the idea of "caliphate."

Daesh recorded an audio message in which al-Baghdadi tried saying that his group is doing "better than ever," despite the increased pressure from the Syrian Army aided by Russian airstrikes, as well as a separate US-led bombing campaign.

Al-Baghdadi called upon Muslims around the world to urgently join Daesh by supporting its cause and becoming new recruits.

Unfortunately for al-Baghdadi, Muslims didn't buy into his nonsense, rejecting the message and laughing at Daesh's message on social media.

Comment: Also see: 2015: The year Russia exposed Western barbarism


Bad Guys

Why Turkish society has been keeping silent about state violence against Kurds

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Turkish society has been keeping silent about what happens in Kurdish towns, where Erdogan's army and police are shelling residential areas, killing more civilians every week. Why do even Kurds in western Turkey appear so indifferent on the issue?

There are four reasons for residents of the west of Turkey to be indifferent or even hostile to the state violence against Kurds in the southeast, as described in a fresh column published in Al Monitor.

The first reason is related to suppression of any opposition in the country.

"It is not easy to raise one's voice in Turkey against the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government on any issue, especially when it involves the [outlawed in Turkey Kurdistan Workers' Party] PKK. Multiple times peace activists have fallen victim to terrorist attacks and arrests. For example, most recently 15 Dokuz Eylul University students were arrested in Izmir while protesting for peace," Al Monitor explains.

Comment: The actions of Turkey under Erdogan are despicable.The people are being terrorized, are being lied to about it, and have no idea what to make of what's really going on. No wonder, since many of these so-called 'terror attacks,' which are used to justify the violence, bear all the hallmarks of being manipulated by Erdogan and Turkish intelligence. Now doesn't that sound familiar? It's happening all around the globe:
The only thing to do is to try to figure out strategies that help us cope with the stress because the psychopaths seeking to become our evil overlords are actually, right now, in the process of making their big move. They are stepping out of the closet and onto the world stage and a lot of people are waking up suddenly and violently and really don't have the resources to know what to make of it all. [...]

The point of all of it is to create division, sow animosity, to evoke fear, fear, fear so as to prevent people from realizing that their real enemies are in the governments - the 1% of specific types of psychopaths who have risen to the top and will do whatever it takes to gain power and stay in control.

Knowledge and Freedom: Antidote to the rising fascism



Red Flag

Disintegrating society: Massive fight involving 2,000 people breaks out at Kentucky mall

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St. Matthews Mall in Kentucky became the scene of a massive brawl involving 2,000 people, forcing it to shut down and a big police presence to be set up around the perimeter. The chaos was apparently caused by a chain reaction, involving separate fights.

Police first began responding to reports of "disturbances" at 7pm ET on Saturday. But the officers assigned to the mall could not cope with the load.

According to the police, there was "a series of brawls" between people aged 13 to early 20s, which quickly grew to include up to 2,000 people, leaving "the entire mall" affected, NBC reports.

"As they were responding to those disturbances, others were breaking out. ... Disturbances started to feed on themselves," police spokesman Dennis McDonald said. "They were just overwhelmed with the number of calls for service and reports of disorder."

The officers had to call for backup, and 50 more officers arrived from five different agencies.

Stormtrooper

Man killed by officer after throwing rocks outside Phoenix police station

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A man has died after being shot by an officer outside a police station on 39th Avenue and Cactus Roads Saturday morning, officials said.

The Phoenix Police Department told ABC15 that a 30-year-old man was throwing rocks at a police cruiser as he was walking on a sidewalk. The officer turned his car around to make contact with the man, but by the time the officer made his way back, the man was already at the police station.

Comment: Sounds like what the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) do when Palestinian kids throw rocks - they shoot them dead, which is clearly an extreme over-reaction to an issue that would be simple to solve without killing anyone.


Heart - Black

Alarming number of homeless, hungry Americans flood major US cities

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The biggest cities in the US are struggling from a lack of homeless shelters and food pantries as they appear unable to cope with the rising number of homeless people nationwide, a study by the US Conference of Mayors revealed on Tuesday.

The past year has marked the year of homelessness in the US as Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Seattle โ€” America's most populated areas โ€” hosted a huge jump in the number of people on the streets, according to the Hunger and Homelessness study. Washington, D.C. ranks first in the list of cities with homeless as figures say it has 28 percent more homeless and 60 percent more transient families. The demand for food for the hungry rose 27 percent over last year's.

The survey said that across twenty-two cities including Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, homelessness rose by 1.6 percent overall and handouts increased by 3 percent over the past year.