Two award-winning journalists have shed light on the story of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's journey to Hong Kong and Moscow, when his revelations on US government surveillance shook the world, in a new documentary presented in Moscow by RT.
The documentary, made by German investigative journalist John Goetz and Danish documentary filmmaker Poul-Erik Heilbuth, tells Snowden's story from the moment he left the US for Hong Kong to his arrival to Terminal F at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport in 2013.
Snowden tells the story himself, along with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Sarah Harrison of WikiLeaks Legal Defense, who helped Snowden to escape from Hong Kong.
The US Air Force is employing the author of the May I Kiss You? talk to teach service personnel about consent and sexual assault prevention. Mike Domitrz' company, the Date Safe Project, is being paid $10,000 for three training sessions.
The Domitrz sessions last for up to 90 minutes and offer a "unique combination of humor and dramatic story telling engaging audience with role-playing and portrayal of intriguing characters," the Air Force said in a contract document. Domitrz's Date Safe Project will receive $10,000 for the contract, including $7,500 for a standard day of training and $2,500 for two additional sessions.
According to the Air Force, the May I Kiss You talk "promotes an open discussion of an often silent topic." A 2012 Pentagon survey found 38 men and 33 women in uniform are sexually assaulted every day.
"This program is needed to increase awareness of the importance of obtaining consent and of intervening when it looks like a situation could escalate into an assault."
Comment: It's all about 'the mission' isn't it? The Pentagon seems to be trying to ameliorate the public by saying 'see, we are aware of it and doing something'. Maybe these talks will have some effect but until the subject of psychopathy and how it infects society is brought up, society will not change for the better.
Michael Slager describes 'pumping' feeling in audio recording as he discusses what will happen next with a senior officer
The police officer who killed Walter Scott in South Carolina laughed about the adrenaline rush he was feeling, in a conversation that offers a new insight into his mindset in the minutes after the shooting.
Patrolman Michael Slager made the remarks during a discussion with a senior officer after fatally shooting Scott in North Charleston on 5 April. A recording of their conversation was obtained by the Guardian.
"By the time you get home, it would probably be a good idea to kind of jot down your thoughts on what happened," the senior officer said. "You know, once the adrenaline quits pumping."
A California cop is on paid leave for allegedly tickling and tampering with the corpse of a man shot and killed by police - and the dead man's outraged family wants answers, their lawyer said.
Bakersfield Police Officer Aaron Stringer allegedly pulled on the toes of Ramiro James Villegas'' body in November, touched the bottom of Villegas' feet saying "tickle tickle," manipulated his head and told a trainee he "loved" playing with dead bodies, lawyer Mark Geragos told the Daily News.
"We are grossly disturbed by the ghoulish behavior of the police," Geragos told The News.
"The family wants answers and accountability," the prominent lawyer said.
Comment: The whole chain of events was "unconstitutional" and for a police officer to play with a corpses' body is beyond disturbing! Accountability is in order and rightfully so.
A D.C. couple have been forced to take down posters seeking help finding their missing rescue dog after police threatened them with $750,000 in fines, reports NBC4.
According to Roger Horowitz, he and and wife Annemarie spent Friday ripping down fliers they posted about his missing dog, Ollie, after receiving a call from a police officer telling them to take the signs down or face a massive fine.
"He told me that regardless if we put up the fliers, or if other people put them up, we had made the original flier that had my phone number, and that we could get fined up to $750,000," Horowitz said.
Horowitz admitted that he and volunteers had posted thousands of fliers after receiving encouragement from the police when filing a report about the missing dog.
The reserve Tulsa County Sheriff's deputy who fatally shot and killed a man last week when he thought he had pulled his Taser, is part of a group of wealthy donors who make large contributions to the department for the privilege of playing police officer.
According to Tulsa World, Robert Bates, 73, who made the fatal mistake that cost a man his life, is a local insurance company executive who has donated multiple vehicles, weapons, and stun guns to the Sheriff's Office since becoming a reserve deputy in 2008.
Bates is responsible for the death of Eric Harris, when he attempted to assist in the arrest of Harris as he struggled on the ground with Tulsa sheriff's deputies. Bates shot Harris with his service weapon believing he had pulled his Taser.
In video released Friday, Bates can be heard apologizing, saying "I'm sorry, I'm sorry," as police handcuffed Harris before he was taken to a local hospital where he died from his gunshot wound.
Explosions in downtown Buffalo near the intersection of Franklin and West Tupper forced several people to evacuate from a nearby building Sunday afternoon.
The area was covered in smoke, billowing out from manholes. There were three minor explosions in total, which National Grid believes to have been the result of an underground electrical fire. Thankfully, no one was injured.
Two employees of Buffalo Proper saw the smoke, felt those explosions, and acted fast.
Matthew Quirey and Josh Levine were busy preparing for round two of new brunch service at Buffalo Proper on Sunday morning when they felt the ground shake. They described it as surreal.
"We were just getting ready and just starting to get set up. And smoke started coming out of this manhole cover here," Levine told News 4.
Quirky added, "When Josh noticed the lights were flickering and we see the thick black smoke coming out of the manhole it seemed very clear to us there was a fire."
Levine grabbed a fire extinguisher and Quirey called 911.
"Apparently the wires in the manholes were burning and there were some small explosions happening so National Grid arrived on location," explained Capt. Keith Burke, Buffalo Fire Department.
College students were arrested in Florida for gang raping a girl on a public beach as spring breakers stood by and watched. According to reports, 23-year-old Ryan Austin Calhoun and 22-year-old Delonte Martistee were arrested on Friday and charged with sexual battery by multiple perpetrators after the incident in Panama City was recorded on video and discovered by Troy, Alabama police while investigating a separate incident at Troy University, where both Calhoun and Matistee are students. The video reportedly showed the men surrounding a woman on a beach chair as a crowded beach of spring breakers watched.
Comment: Out of the dozens if not hundreds of voyeurs, there wasn't one person who deemed this "incident" as an attack?
Comment: Could it be that the victim does have memory of being violated and is too fearful of the many ramifications of reporting the "incident"?
Virginia police unsuccessfully attempted to delete evidence of their assault on an unarmed teenager during a traffic stop for a broken license plate light. Video of the incident, taken by the car's driver, was recovered despite police efforts.
In January, Courtney Griffith, 18, was pulled over in Virginia Beach, Virginia for the defective light. Soon after being pulled over, she activated a camera just behind the steering wheel on her vehicle's dashboard.
The officers then told her the vehicle smelled of marijuana and demanded Griffith and her two passengers exit the vehicle. According to Free Thought Project, four cop cars were present on the scene.
Comment: Brandon should be released immediately and the cop who perpetrated this crime should take his place in jail.
We've all heard of EuroVision. But there's another song that's being sung across Europe - the peoples' chants of protest against Europe's austerity measures.
Today we'll hear some of the leading and loudest voices in this competition, such as Greece, Spain and Ireland, who are fighting back against austerity with people power; before turning to the contest's three judges: Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, Slovenian philosopher-rockstar Slavoj ลฝiลพek, and IMF dominatrix err... director, Christine Lagarde.
Join Robert Foster as he examines the Eurozone crisis and the causes behind it: Is it all economics and budgets? Or is this an ideological class war aimed at the welfare state? What are the solutions? And what on earth is Australia doing competing in this EuroZone song contest? All these questions and more will be tackled as Juice Rap News dives into this most bizarre of modern European traditions. Welcome to the EURODIVISION CONTEST!
Comment: It's all about 'the mission' isn't it? The Pentagon seems to be trying to ameliorate the public by saying 'see, we are aware of it and doing something'. Maybe these talks will have some effect but until the subject of psychopathy and how it infects society is brought up, society will not change for the better.