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12-yo Muslim kid arrested & held 3 days without charges because a bully lied about a bomb in his backpack

Zach Cartwright
US Uncut
Thu, 17 Dec 2015 01:38 UTC
Armaan Singh
© USA Today
The latest victim of Islamophobia is a 12-year-old Sikh boy in Arlington, Texas.

Armaan Singh Sarai, a student at Nichols Junior High School in Arlington with a heart condition, was arrested and jailed for three days based on a bully's accusation that he had a bomb in his backpack. Nichols principal Julie Harcrow immediately called police, who searched Armaan's backpack and determined there was no bomb. Despite that fact, Armaan was detained for three days at a juvenile detention facility. Neither police nor the school informed Armaan's parents where he was being held.

Armaan's cousin, Ginee Haer, described the ordeal in a Facebook post that has since gone viral:
Worried & frightened at home, his family was concerned as to why he had not reached home right after school. They started calling every police department in the area, only to find out he was sent to a Juvenile facility. They kept him held behind bars for three consecutive days, before finally releasing him on Monday, December 15th.
Haer also expressed frustration at the way her cousin was treated, given his medical history. Even though Armaan is just 12 years old, he's endured three open heart surgeries due to an undisclosed heart condition Haer said he was born with.

Comment: So which was it? Was the student making threats or did someone accuse him? Also 'the police said' is not a stamp of veracity by any stretch. We have an incredibly young minor being arrested and detained without his parents being told. He's also held without charges or evidence of a crime for three days. Last time we checked, to hold someone like that was itself a crime. Everyone involved should be arrested.

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Arrow Down

Rahm Emanuel's ignominious downfall and why Hillary Clinton should have her feet held to the fire

Jack Mirkinson
Salon
Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:33 UTC
Rahm Emanuel and Hillary Clinton
Birds of a fascistic friggin' feather

Chicago's mayor has been embroiled in a horrifying police-abuse scandal. This should be front-page news nationwide

Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel is in big trouble. In the wake of the scandal surrounding his police department's execution of teenager Laquan McDonald, local columnists have declared that he has permanently lost his grip on the city. More than half of Chicago residents in a recent poll said he should resign. His teary apology for McDonald's killing got him nowhere.

The mayor of the third-biggest city in America—whose stewardship of Chicago was dire enough before you even got to the police—is on the ropes. He is a former right-hand man to both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, whose wife, you may have heard, is now running for president.

Why isn't any of this a bigger deal in the 2016 presidential race?

Hillary Clinton—who goes a long way back with Emanuel— has gotten away with saying very little about the crisis unfolding in Chicago. She backed the Justice Department investigation into the Chicago Police Department and said that she continued to have confidence in Emanuel. And that's about it.

Comment: And while they're at it, somebody - dear somebody - ask her why she really wanted to destroy Libya, a formerly thriving country, and how she feels about the untold mayhem, carnage and suffering she helped facilitate there.

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Bullseye

Nothing to fear but the fearful themselves

Dan Sanchez
The Antimedia
Thu, 03 Dec 2015 15:58 UTC
Terrified
When I first learned of the recent attacks in Paris, a chill went down my spine. "No," I thought, "This is all happening too fast."

I was terrified. I was not terrorized, mind you. What happened in Paris was tragic, of course. But I was not so ignorant and innumerate as to think the kind of violence it represented was a statistically significant direct threat to myself and my loved ones. I was fully cognizant that, even with the recent uptick in terror attacks, the probability of my family ever being caught up in one was vanishingly minuscule. I am more likely to be felled by a deer or a bolt of lightning than by a jihadist's Kalashnikov.

What terrified me was the response of all the people who are incapable of such a proportional perspective: those who saw the news from France and panicked, thinking "I'm next!" As distant as it was, the Paris attacks unleashed in America a surge of fear and of calls for greater police powers, as well as an attendant wave of anti-Muslim hate and war lust.
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New Orleans City Council votes to remove "terrorist" statues around city


RT
Thu, 17 Dec 2015 21:38 UTC
new orleans statues
© Jonathan Bachman / Reuters
One hundred and fifty years after the end of the US Civil War, New Orleans City Council voted 6-1 to remove statues of what some people call pro-slavery "traitors" and others call "Confederate heroes."

Council President Jason Williams and council members Jared Brossett, Susan Guidry, James Gray, LaToya Cantrell and Nadine Ramsey voted to take the monuments down. Council member Stacy Head was the only vote against the measure.

Thursday's long council meeting drew protesters from both sides and security had to be increased.

Mayor Mitch Landrieu has been talking about having the symbols removed for about a year, but requested to officially topple the statues a week after the Charleston Church shooting in June.
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Michael Moore removed by police after standing outside Trump Tower in NYC holding 'We are all Muslim' sign


RT
Thu, 17 Dec 2015 21:29 UTC
Michael Moore
© michaelfmoore / Instagram
Controversial US filmmaker Michael Moore was removed by police outside Trump Tower in New York City after holding up a sign "We are all Muslim".

The creator of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine was responding to Trump's announcement last week that he would enforce "a complete and total shutdown on all Muslims entering the US" should he be elected to the White House.

Moore, who was standing in solidarity with Muslims rather than announcing a religious conversion, also posted an open letter to the billionaire tycoon on Facebook, where he claimed fear and ignorance were the driving forces behind his incendiary policy choices.

"Here we are in 2015, like many other angry white guys, you are frightened by a bogeyman who is out to get you. That bogeyman, in your mind, are all Muslims. Not just the ones who have killed, but ALL MUSLIMS," he wrote.
Michael Moore
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Star Wars porn parody sales skyrocket in advance of new Star Wars film release


RT
Thu, 17 Dec 2015 21:02 UTC
Star Wars costume parade
© Dylan Martinez / ReutersCharacters in costume parade at the European Premiere of Star Wars, The Force Awakens in Leicester Square, London, December 16, 2015
While the much-anticipated premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens stimulates all kinds of interest worldwide, one company which says it is benefiting hugely is an adult entertainment retailer selling Star Wars XXX material on DVD.

GameLink, a website which provides adult video on demand, has announced a 500 percent rise in DVD sales of the pornographic movie "Star Wars XXX: A Porn Parody."

"We began noticing a gradual increase in sales of the title at the beginning of November, but it wasn't until the past two weeks that purchases of Star Wars XXX really skyrocketed," GameLink executive Jeff Dillon told Mashable.

Comment: While the world burns, an overwhelming number of Americans are turning to distraction in order to avoid the reality of what their country is doing in their name. Sooner or later, it will come back to haunt them.

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Sherlock

An unbelievable story of rape, police coercing the victim to recant, and as a result a man being allowed to rape 4 more women

Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller
The Marshall Project
Wed, 16 Dec 2015 19:23 UTC
illustrated female
© Wesley Allsbrook
An 18-year-old said she was attacked at knifepoint. Then she said she made it up. That's where our story begins.

MARCH 12, 2009 LYNNWOOD, WASHINGTON
No one came to court with her that day, except her public defender.

She was 18 years old, charged with a gross misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail.

Rarely do misdemeanors draw notice. Her case was one of 4,859 filed in 2008 in Lynnwood Municipal Court, a place where the judge says the goal is "to correct behavior — to make Lynnwood a better, safer, healthier place to live, work, shop and visit."

But her misdemeanor had made the news, and made her an object of curiosity or, worse, scorn. It had cost her the newfound independence she was savoring after a life in foster homes. It had cost her sense of worth. Each ring of the phone seemed to announce another friendship, lost. A friend from 10th grade called to ask: How could you lie about something like that? Marie — that's her middle name, Marie — didn't say anything. She just listened, then hung up. Even her foster parents now doubted her. She doubted herself, wondering if there was something in her that needed to be fixed.

She had reported being raped in her apartment by a man who had bound and gagged her. Then, confronted by police with inconsistencies in her story, she had conceded it might have been a dream. Then she admitted making the story up. One TV newscast announced, "A Western Washington woman has confessed that she cried wolf when it came to her rape she reported earlier this week." She had been charged with filing a false report, which is why she was here today, to accept or turn down a plea deal.

Comment: That neither of the two detectives who investigated Marie's case were disciplined is reprehensible. Because of their actions, 4 more women were raped, traumatized beyond by belief by a psychopath. Reading stories like this, where the police are almost as responsible as a rapist for causing trauma to a victim of sexual assault, it's no wonder that so many rapes go unreported. Until every police officer is properly instructed on how to handle rape cases, there will be more Marie's, people who are victims that the police turn into suspects. It's all part of the epidemic of rape culture in America.

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Martin Shkreli has been arrested on federal securities fraud charges

Travis Gettys
Raw Story
Thu, 17 Dec 2015 14:46 UTC
martin shkreli
Martin Shkreli, the price-gouging pharmaceutical company executive, was arrested early Thursday morning on securities fraud charges.

The 32-year-old CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals AG became known as the most hated man on the Internet after buying the rights to a life-saving medication and jacking up the price from $13.50 to $750 per pill.

Federal investigators charged Shkreli with illegally taking stock from Retrophin Inc., another biotech firm he founded in 2011, to pay off debts from unrelated business dealings, reported Bloomberg.

Comment: Hopefully he gets whats coming to him and doesn't find a way to slip through legal cracks.

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Alternate universe: What if presidential candidates really debated?

Jon Rappoport
Activist Post
Thu, 17 Dec 2015 17:57 UTC
spinning debate
If a human mind were composed of a dozen eggs, and you soft-boiled them, broke them open, and let the goo run all over the plate, down on to the table, soon dripping on to the floor, that would be mind control, in the sense that you're creating meaningless chaos, where no thought is important or makes sense or adds up to a cogent point.

That was the CNN-hosted Republic Presidential debate, with what was it, nine candidates sounding off, interrupting one another, and mentioning Trump so often it seemed like they were afflicted with a one-note samba syndrome.

You could conclude CNN, a Democratic stronghold, wanted the chaos, to throw the Republicans into an exceedingly bad and foul light, but other recent Presidential debates, hosted by other networks, have come across in the same basic fashion.
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Airplane

Alaska Airlines plane makes emergency landing in Spokane, Washington


kirotv.com
Tue, 15 Dec 2015 17:52 UTC
Plane emergency
© KHQ, Leslie LoweThe aircraft was met by emergency crews when it landed.
A smoke-filled cabin forced an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Spokane to make an emergency landing.

Alaska spokeswoman Halley Knigge said flight 2372 landed safely in Spokane at 8:15 a.m. Tuesday with 75 passengers and 4 crewmembers on board. There were no injuries.
My @AlaskaAir flight 2372 just emergency landed, smoke filled the cabin. All seem to be safe.

pic.twitter.com/dAZmxERSQ6— Ryan (@ryanmitchfork) December 15, 2015
Knigge said about 15 minutes prior to landing passengers reported "heavy smoke" throughout the cabin. She said the cause is unknown and the Bombardier Q400 has been taken out of service and will be inspected.

Flight attendants created improvised "gas masks" to help passengers breathe. They can be seen in cell phone video taking bottles of water and pouring them on towels and articles of clothing for people to use for breathing.

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