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US Police rape culture: 'Go ahead, call the cops. They can't un-rape you.' - Texas cop

David Ferguson
Raw Story
Sat, 01 Nov 2014 00:00 UTC
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© Shutterstock.comHighway patrol officer and female motorist
In the video embedded below, two Austin, Texas police officers were accidentally recorded by a dashboard camera having what they thought was a private conversation.

After a brief back-and-forth between the two men about a minor collision they handled earlier in the day and other matters, an attractive woman walks by.

"Look at that girl over there," one officer says.

Comment: This is not a isolated case and these type of reports are coming from all over the "land of the free" (aka USA):

Abu Ghraibs stateside: Texas sheriff's jail ran 'Rape Camp' for years, female inmates violated hundreds of times

Former cop headed to trial for raping a child while other officers watched

Cops beat and kidnap 12 yr. old girl in front of her home, claiming she was a prostitute

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Eye 1

Google fined for capturing Canadian's cleavage on street view


RT
Sat, 01 Nov 2014 00:00 UTC
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A Canadian woman has successfully sued Google for displaying her cleavage on Street View. The ruling stated her privacy had been disrespected - despite Maria Pia Grillo being in public, sitting on the steps of her house.

"In addition to malicious comments and humiliation she suffered at work, the plaintiff, in particular, has experienced a significant loss of personal modesty and dignity," the judge Alain Breault declared.

Google hasn't commented on the ruling yet.

Initially, Grillo had demanded $45,000 in damages, complaining about "mockeries, derisions, disrespectful and sexually related comments in relation to the photographs," due to the fact that she was identified using her house and car number plate, despite her face having been blurred.

"This puts me, my house, my vehicle and my family members that I live with at the mercy of potential predators. I feel very vulnerable knowing that the information is available to anyone with internet access. The damage has been done," Grillo stated in the court documents.

Comment: Spying and storing: Assange says 'Google works like NSA'

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Heart - Black

Jehovah's witnesses to pay $13.5 million in California sex abuse ruling

Curtis Skinner
Raw Story
Sat, 01 Nov 2014 00:00 UTC
Watchtower Bible & Tract Society
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A Californian judge has ordered the Jehovah's Witnesses to pay $13.5 million to a man who was sexually abused in the 1980s by a church leader, attorney for the victim said on Friday.

Church elders had assigned a man to work with Jose Lopez on bible studies, even though they knew he had admitted to molesting another boy in 1982, because they felt he was "repentant", Lopez's attorney Irwin Zalkin said.

Lopez, who filed the civil suit in 2010, first went to the Spanish-speaking Kingdom Hall church in San Diego in 1985 at the age of seven, according to the complaint.

Comment:

Jehovah's Witness elder abused girls as young as 12 for 14 years, raped woman

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Pirates

West finds another funding source for war of terror via antiquities smuggling from conflict states

Sam Hardy
Reuters
Mon, 27 Oct 2014 00:00 UTC
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"Many antique collectors unwillingly support terrorists like Islamic State, " Michel van Rijn, one of the most successful smugglers of antique artifacts in the past century, told German broadcaster Das Erste this month.

And smuggling is booming in Iraq and Syria right now. In Iraq, 4,500 archaeological sites, some of them UNESCO World Heritage sites, are reportedly controlled by Islamic State and are exposed to looting. Iraqi intelligence claim that Islamic State alone has collected as much as $36 million from the sales of artifacts, some of them thousands of years old. The accounts data have not been released for verification but, whatever the exact number is, the sale of conflict antiquities to fund military and paramilitary activity is real and systematic.
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Pistol

14-year-old girl dies a week after Marysville school shooting

Martha Bellisle
The Associated Press
Sat, 01 Nov 2014 09:11 UTC
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Another of the teenagers wounded in a Washington state high school shooting has died, raising to four the number of fatalities after a student opened fire in a cafeteria a week ago.

Shaylee Chuckulnaskit, 14, died late Friday afternoon, officials at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett said.

Zoe Galasso, 14, was killed during the shooting Oct. 24 by a popular freshman at Marysville-Pilchuck High School. Gia Soriano, also 14, died Sunday at the Everett hospital.

Two other students remain hospitalized at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Andrew Fryberg, 15, was in critical condition Friday and Nate Hatch, 14, was in satisfactory condition.

The shooter, Jaylen Fryberg, 15, died of a self-inflicted wound.
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Marchers protest Ireland's new tax on water supply


The Associated Press
Sat, 01 Nov 2014 15:57 UTC
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Organizers say at least 100,000 people are marching against Ireland's new tax on water, a charge imposed as part of the country's successful exit from an international bailout.

Saturday's street demonstrations across Ireland organized by the Right2Water campaign are some of the largest since 2008 when the country started raising taxes and cutting spending amid a deepening financial crisis. European Union and International Monetary Fund experts who oversaw Ireland's 2010 bailout recommended that Ireland create a water utility charge to help regain control of budget deficits.

The water charges introduced Oct. 1 are expected to cost a typical household 278 euros ($350) annually. Tens of thousands are refusing to pay.
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Spain police nab 19 suspected of trafficking women


The Associated Press
Sat, 01 Nov 2014 14:01 UTC
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Spanish police say they have arrested 19 people suspected of smuggling Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian women into the country for the purpose of prostitution.

Police say women were enticed from various locations in Russia through travel agencies or adverts for jobs abroad and flown into the European Union's borderless Schengen zone using different airports and false passports that included Spanish, Finnish and Dutch tourist visas.

They were then allegedly forced to work in nightclubs.

A police statement on Saturday added that 16 other people were charged and four nightclubs in the southern Mediterranean coastal city of El Ejido closed.
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Attention

Teen's disappearance helps reveal Alabama sex ring

Jay Reeves
The Associated Press
Sat, 01 Nov 2014 15:38 UTC
Stephanie Hanke
© AP Photo/Jay ReevesIn this Oct. 21, 2014 photo, Stephanie Hanke, stepmother of missing teenager Brittney Wood, looks over materials related to the search for the youth at her home in Mobile, Ala. The teen hasn't been seen since May 2012 and is presumed dead, but 11 relatives and family friends have since been arrested as members of an alleged ring that swapped children for sex. Authorities said Wood could have been a key witness.
By most accounts, 19-year-old Brittney Wood was with uncle Donnie Holland the night of May 30, 2012, the last time anyone saw her. Holland - who was under investigation for horrific sex crimes at the time - died from a bullet within days in what was ruled a suicide.

The investigation that followed has publicly unraveled what authorities describe as a dark, twisted tale of perversion in the working-class neighborhoods and piney backwoods of coastal Alabama.

Eight of Woods' adult relatives and three family friends have been charged with dozens of felonies in two counties as the alleged members of an incestuous ring that authorities say shared children for group sex. Holland was the leader, prosecutors say, of what has been described as the largest sex ring ever uncovered in Alabama. Wood was a victim and likely key witness.

"Brittney could have been huge," said prosecutor Teresa Heinz. "She could have corroborated so many things."

Wood is presumed dead, but authorities haven't found a trace of her and no one is charged in her disappearance.
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Black Magic

Monsanto's slick new marketing director tries to pull the wool over the eyes of millennials

Abby Zimet
Common Dreams
Thu, 30 Oct 2014 00:00 UTC
monsanto protests
Biotech behemoth Monsanto may control much of the world's food supply, but they have yet to beat the "face of corporate evil" rap they've been handed by many of the roughly 80 million millennials who constitute their future consumer base, and who may or may not like the idea of their fresh-faced babies' formula being seasoned with glyphosate runoff from genetically engineered soy.

Thus, meet Vance Crowe, Monsanto's new, slick, 32-year-old Director of Millennial Engagement, who says actually Monsanto is pretty hip, and a woman in a sweater and ponytail works for them, and he's met a farmer with a handlebar moustache, and really, kids, it's all good, if genetically engineered.

Comment: No slick marketing campaign is going to be able to hide the predatory tactics and the increasing knowledge of the environmental and health devastation wrought by this corporation. If anyone has any lingering doubts as to the nature of this corporate monster, read:

Monsanto: The complete history of the world's most evil corporation

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Water

#Droughtshaming: Residents play water cop while Big Agra gets away with sucking California dry

Melissa Melton
The Daily Sheeple
Fri, 31 Oct 2014 13:57 UTC
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Amid California's record drought, towns up and down the state are rolling out smartphone apps that enable people to snap pictures of neighbors and businesses who are violating water restriction rules and "play water cop":
The apps put more boots on the ground to spot waste and leaks that might go unnoticed, officials say. They say the high-tech citizen reporting programs are intended to encourage water conservation, and not to be used as evidence to fine offenders.

But at least one private company is taking things a step further. Creators of Vizsafe, a neighborhood watch app, have added a feature allowing users to map photos of water wasters - a practice dubbed "drought shaming" on Twitter and Instagram.
Here are a few examples:
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