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Handcuffs

Chicago cop sentenced to two years in prison for beating an unarmed, non-combative man

Aldo Brown
© Anthony Souffle / Chicago TribuneFlanked by family and his attorneys, Chicago police Officer Aldo Brown leaves court after sentencing March 2, 2016, at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago. Brown was sentenced to two years in prison for beating and kicking a convenience store worker.
Chicago Police Officer Aldo Brown tearfully bemoaned his "split-second decision" in 2012 to strike an unarmed, non-combative man — moments before a federal judge handed down a sentence of two years in prison.

Brown and his then-partner Officer George Stacker were responding to a tip in September 2012 about possible drug sales taking place at the Omar Salma convenience store in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood. The plainclothes officers can be seen in security footage interacting with a small group inside the store. Brown, seemingly out of the blue, proceeds to strike Jecque Howard in the face, knocking him to the floor — whom he falsely claimed had a handgun protruding from his back pocket.

Brown can be seen on tape punching and kicking Howard — even after he was lying on the ground, handcuffed.

Comment: If only such justice could be meted out to all cops who misuse the badge.


Eye 2

Psychopath alert: Teen girl on trial for manslaughter after she urged her boyfriend to commit suicide - which he did

michelle carter
© APMichelle Carter is on trial after her boyfriend committed suicide at her urging
In Massachusetts, a teen named Michelle Carter is on trial in connection to the suicide of her boyfriend Conrad "Coco" Roy. What's up for debate is who, exactly, is at fault for the boy's death.

Michelle and Conrad each suffered from mental health problems, according to Marin Cogan's in-depth look at the ongoing case for New York Magazine. Michelle sometimes made reference to a stint at the local psychiatric facility McLean Hospital to friends at school and possibly suffered from suicidal thoughts herself. Conrad also suffered from severe depression and social anxiety, and had overdosed on acetaminophen when he was 17.

As teens in love do, the pair communicated mostly through text messages, which police found the day Conrad committed suicide by carbon-monoxide poisoning in his truck in 2014. In February 2015, Michelle was indicted for involuntary manslaughter for her texts, in which she appeared to encourage Conrad to kill himself, saying that he "just [had] to do it."

Comment: A few more details about how she kept instigating Conrad to commit suicide:
"He sent the message at 6:25 p.m., then told his mother he was leaving the house to visit a friend and not to expect him home for dinner. He made a short drive to a remote corner of the Fairhaven Kmart parking lot. At 6:28 p.m., he called Carter and talked to her for 43 minutes. At 7:12, she called him. The call lasted 47 minutes. During that conversation, as the cab of his the truck filled with gas fumes, Roy decided to get out, Carter later told a friend. In a message she probably didn't expect to ever become public, she wrote: "I fucken told him to get back in."
CONRAD: Like, why am I so hesitant lately. Like two weeks ago I was willing to try everything and now I'm worse, really bad and I'm LOL not following through. It's eating me inside.

CARTER: You're so hesitant because you keeping over thinking it and keep pushing it off. You just need to do it, Conrad. The more you push it off, the more it will eat at you. You're ready and prepared. All you have to do is turn the generator on and you will be free and happy. No more pushing it off. No more waiting.

CONRAD: You're right.

CARTER: If you want it as bad as you say you do it's time to do it today.

CONRAD: Yup. No more waiting.

CARTER: Okay. I'm serious. Like you can't even wait 'till tonight. You have to do it when you get back from your walk.
Michelle Carter and her horrific actions in relation to the suicide of Conrad Roy give a clear insight into the mind of a classic psychopath. Carter is obviously a 'common or garden variety' psychopath, too consumed with their own pathological narcissism and pleasure in the suffering of others to realise she would be exposed. There are, however, more intelligent and 'ambitious' psychopaths who are careful to ensure that their inhuman predilections are covered up by a mask of sanity and humanity. Such types can most commonly be found in positions of power around the world.

Read Political Ponerology and Without Conscience: the disturbing world of psychopaths among us, for more on this most important of topics.


Handcuffs

Two cops arrested and charged for arresting people on bogus charges and making them pay fines to get the charges reduced

white, georgia police arrested
© Bartow County Sheriff’s OfficeWhite, Georgia Police Chief David King (L) and Officer Blake Scheff
Two White, Georgia police officers are under investigation for allegedly arresting people on trumped-up charges and making them pay fines to get the charges reduced, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

State officials arrested and charged 58-year-old Police Chief David King and 26-year-old Officer Blake Scheff with false imprisonment, extortion and violating oaths of public office on Wednesday. The two suspects are the only two full-time officers in the town, located 50 miles from Atlanta.

According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the suspects carried out their activities between December 2011 and April 2015. At least two separate victims were arrested and falsely charged with felony deposit account fraud, then told that the department would not pursue the charges if they paid a $1,000 fine and accepted a citation for disorderly conduct.

"We have to go back and basically have close to 2,000 documents we have to go through," Special Agent Greg Ramey told WSB-TV.

Ramey's agency and federal agents executed search warrants in both the town's police headquarters and city hall in January. The suspects have been released on bond.

Comment: When the cops are the criminals, as they increasingly seem to be in the US, then no citizen is safe.


Evil Rays

Moscow beheading nanny was mental patient, says she killed child in revenge for 'Putin's airstrikes in Syria'

Gyulchekhra Bobokulova
© Grigorly Sisoev/SputnikBabysitter Gyulchekhra Bobokulova, accused of killing four-year-old Nastya Maksimova, at the Presnensky Court of Moscow.
The nanny accused of beheading a four-year-old girl and waving her severed head outside a Moscow Metro station said it was revenge for "Putin's airstrikes in Syria" while it has emerged the woman was a mental hospital patient in her native Uzbekistan.

"While people commit such crimes at the time of a sharp aggravation of the disease, they explain their actions when already in remission. One can hear some of the most incredible and fantastic versions of the motives. Some consider themselves to be Napoleons, others think they are an Indira Gandhi, etc - you name it. If there's anyone who should take [Gulchekhra Bobokulova's] words seriously, it's the psychiatrists," Vladimir Markin, spokesman for the Investigative Committee, said on Thursday.

A Samarkand regional mental hospital in Uzbekistan confirmed on Wednesday that Bobokulova had been registered with a local psychiatrist. "Gulchekhra Bobokulova has been registered with our institution with a diagnosis of 'acute schizophrenic disorder' since 2003," hospital officials told RIA Novosti, adding that the patient had regularly demonstrated "deviations in psyche, along with the loss of control over her actions."


In video footage leaked online on Wednesday, Bobokulova is heard speaking erratically: "I took revenge against those who spilled blood... Putin spilled blood, planes carried out bombings. Why are Muslims being killed? They also want to live," she told an investigator in the video.

She says that she had wanted to relocate to Syria, but lacked the money to move. When asked whether she wanted to join Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), Bobokulova replies"I don't know," adding that she "just wanted to live there." She says she has been avidly reading the Koran, and that God told her that "the end of the world is coming in a second."

Comment: This is truly stranger than fiction. All of the signs point to this poor woman being a mind control victim:
Dr. Ross: Well that question is actually a very complicated problem in the mental health field. One of my books, it's called Schizophrenia - Innovations and Diagnosis and Treatment. It's all about this problem. Which is ninety nine percent ignored in the regular general schizophrenia field. But, in the dissociative disorder field, which is multiple personality as is officially called dissociative identify disorder, so it's one of the dissociative disorders. In the dissociative disorder's field there's quite a literature about this. What are the differences, what are the similarities, how you tell them apart? If you go to the National Institute of Mental Health or any schizophrenia information website, you will hear and read that schizophrenia is a brain illness. It's genetic. It's not caused by childhood trauma and it's got the following symptoms, and it's not multiple personalities. And so, the idea that it's multiple personalities or split personality is just dismissed as confusion in the general public. The psychiatry profession, including all these experts on schizophrenia, act as if the difference is very clear that multiple personalities prove very rare. Most psychiatrists will never see a case and often these people say it's not only rare but, pretty questionable that it's real at all. They just don't think about it on day in day out basis. But, actually many of the symptoms are very similar. I've done a whole bunch of different research studies on this. So if you go to a group of people who have a stable diagnosis of schizophrenia from a physician, psychiatrist, psychologist and you interview them with a standardized interview that inquires about dissociative symptoms, twenty five to forty percent of these people who supposedly have schizophrenia, will come up with the diagnosis of dissociative identify disorder. Other way around, if you interview a large group of people with long lasting stable diagnosis of dissociative identify disorder, using the standardized interview, as many as two thirds will come up with some sort of schizophrenia or schizophrenia related diagnosis. Actually, the reality of the situation is that the official diagnostic criteria and the standardized interviews used for research can't tell the difference. So, what are the differences and what are the things in common would be the next question. So, I'll launch in to that.

Niall:Go for it.

Dr. Ross:
The things that are similar and that they have in common are auditory hallucinations, hearing voices and the voices can either be coming from inside the head or from outside the head. They can be friendly, hostile, there's no real feature of the voices that leads you to automatically say for sure, "oh this is a schizophrenic voice", as opposed "this is a dissociative voice". The only research in that regard, that's showing a bit of a hint, is probably people with multiple personalities have more child voices than people with schizophrenia. So, hearing voices is actually a symptom in common and is a whole long workshop to go into why I think voices are dissociative in general. But, that's the number one point of confusion. Then there's several other symptoms and especially if the voices are talking to each other or the voices keep a running commentary on the person's behavior. In the 1994 edition of the Diagnostic Manual, which is now going to be replaced by a 5th edition that's coming out in a couple of weeks. In the prior editions it said if you have any one of those two symptoms. Voices talking to each other or voices keeping a running commentary on the persons behavior, then you have schizophrenia. That's the only symptom you require. It has to last for six months. There has to be some distress and deterioration. But in terms of symptoms, you can get the diagnosis with just that symptom. So, I and others have done research and actually those voices are more common in multiple personality then they are in schizophrenia.

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Book 2

New Quran translation and commentary has the Saudis fuming

study quran
© The Daily Beast
A new translation of the Quran, with commentary, is causing a stir—and maybe something of a revolution—in the world of English-speaking Muslims.

Why's that? Because Salafists—adherents of a very conservative brand of Islam—have dominated the world market for Qurans for decades.

Funded by the oil-rich royal family in Saudi Arabia, which has an especially rigid Wahhabi branch of Islam, the Salafis have exported their teachers, their mosques, their audio and video productions, and religious texts across the Arab world and into Pakistan, Europe, and North America, quashing alternate interpretations that don't fit their narrow views.

Eye 2

Celebrated Honduran indigenous rights leader Berta Cáceres murdered

Berta Cáceres honduran indigenous leader
© The Guardian Berta Cáceres was realistic about the risks she faced, but said she felt obliged to fight on and urged others to do so.
Cáceres, who was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for her opposition to one of Central America's biggest hydropower projects, was shot at home.

Berta Cáceres, the Honduran indigenous and environmental rights campaigner, has been murdered, barely a week after she was threatened for opposing a hydroelectric project.

Her death prompted international outrage at the murderous treatment of campaigners in Honduras, as well as a flood of tributes to a prominent and courageous defender of the natural world.

The co-founder of the Council of Indigenous Peoples of Honduras (Copinh) was shot dead by gunmen who entered her home in La Esperanza at around 1am on Thursday. Some reports say there were two killers; others suggest 11. They escaped without being identified, after also wounding her brother.

Police told local media the killings occurred during an attempted robbery, but the family said they had no doubt it was an assassination prompted by Cáceres's high-profile campaigns against dams, illegal loggers and plantation owners.

"I have no doubt that she has been killed because of her struggle and that soldiers and people from the dam are responsible, I am sure of that. I hold the government responsible," her 84-year-old mother said on radio Globo at 6.

Pistol

Selfies kill: Man fatally shoots himself in the face while taking a picture

selfies
© Reuters
Taking a selfie with a loaded gun ended tragically in Washington, when a man accidentally shot himself in the face while taking a picture. His girlfriend was next to him when the gun went off.

As she told the police, this was not his first selfie with the weapon.

The fatal accident took place over the weekend, police in Skagit County said.

The man, whose name has not been released, thought the gun was unloaded and attempted to take a selfie while pointing the weapon at himself, the Skagit Valley Herald reported.

Comment: See more: Anti-selfie pills hit the shelves to cure 'sick to death of selfies' ailments
  • Consumer culture 'feeding' body image anxiety



Health

Health regulators order psychiatric hospital to close because of patient safety concerns

Timberlawn Psychiatric Center
© Ron Baselice/Staff PhotographerFederal authorities have cut off funding to Timberlawn Mental Health System on Samuell Boulevard in Buckner Terrace.
Texas health regulators have ordered the largest psychiatric hospital in Dallas to close because of safety problems that endanger patients.

The Dallas Morning News reported Thursday that the Department of State Health Services has told Timberlawn Mental Health System to surrender its license and pay a $1 million fine.

State officials cited a patient's 2014 suicide, violent fights among patients, dirty conditions and medical records issues at the 144-bed complex.

Universal Health Services Inc., which owns Timberlawn, says it's made improvements at the 108-year-old campus, plus brought in new leadership and consultants. The company seeks to keep the hospital open and will make its case during an April 28 meeting.

The newspaper reports Timberlawn is one of the few psychiatric hospitals in Dallas that accepts the poor and uninsured.

Airplane

Three Russian airports share first place in European airport rankings

Adler Airport Sochi Russia
© Mihail Mokrushin / Sputnik View of Adler airport in Sochi
Three Russian airports share first place in the best European airport rankings by Airport Service Quality (ASQ), ahead of London's Heathrow, Vienna and Zurich.

The award winners are Moscow's Sheremetyevo, St. Petersburg's Pulkovo and Sochi Airport in Adler.

Sheremetyevo Airport was recognized by ASQ as the best in Europe in 2012-2014. It's the first time Pulkovo and Sochi have been in first place.

Second place was shared by Zurich (Switzerland), Prague (Czech Republic), Dublin (Ireland) and Malta.

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Eye 1

UK 'snooper's charter' could give government access to individuals' entire internet history

UK spying laws, spying internet history
Two years after Edward Snowden's revelations, which included details about the U.K. government's own blanket surveillance operations, authorities are champing at the bit to update laws on what data spies and police can access — and under what circumstances.

Hailed by the Home Secretary Teresa May as "world-leading" legislation that balances security and privacy, the Investigatory Powers Bill, dubbed the "Snoopers Charter," has long-been rumoured to be a sinister mandate for mass surveillance that chills free speech.

The U.K. has rapidly expanded its surveillance capabilities over recent years. With the Investigatory Powers Bill, Britain has sought to legitimise surveillance that many governments conduct covertly.

In Tuesday's publication of the re-drafted bill, May expanded the number of situations in which the powers can be used. The increase in powers came in spite of heavy scrutiny and criticism from pressure groups and parliamentary committees.

One of the new provisions allows police forces to access individuals' internet history and hack into laptops and phones, under certain conditions. According to the Guardian, the bill dictates that U.K. security services will only extend remote computer hacking 'privileges' to major police forces in cases involving a threat to life, missing persons, or "damage to somebody's mental health."


Comment: Government police forces are not above manufacturing these 'certain conditions' to obtain information when they so desire.


Comment: UK spy unit engaged in online propaganda, psychological operations, and domestic law enforcement