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Twitter to restore access to politicians' deleted tweets


Sputnik
Fri, 01 Jan 2016 01:56 UTC
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© Leon Neal/Agence France-Presse
Twitters unblocks Politiwoops website

On Thursday, Twitter announced that it will open up access to deleted tweets from politicians, to help "bring more transparency to public dialogue." Twitter previously blocked access to the deleted tweets on the website Politwoops, which collected deleted tweets from politicians in 30 countries, Agence France-Presse reported. The site hoped to offer the public a glimpse at what "politicians hoped you wouldn't see."

Initially, Twitter argued with the Dutch-based Open State Foundation, the creators of Politiwoops, that politicians deserve the same privacy as other users, including the right to change their minds and delete tweets.

"On June 3, 2015, the Sunlight Foundation received word from Twitter that it was pulling the plug on Politwoops, reversing an agreement made in 2012 that allowed us to run the project using its API," a pop-up statement on their website read.

This week however, Twitter announced that they have changed their tune and wish to allow for "holding public officials accountable."
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Financial analyst: For 2016 "...have a healthy storage of food, precious metals and supplies"

Mac Slavo
The Daily Sheeple
Thu, 31 Dec 2015 00:00 UTC
Prepare
While the band plays on and Americans celebrate New Year's many have no idea what may be in store in 2016. Mainstream financial pundits like to paint a rosy picture of the current economic conditions, suggesting that the government's green shoots of yesteryear have now turned to full blown money trees, wherein consumers are spending, businesses are selling and everyone has an unlimited flow of cash.

But as noted by analysts at CrushTheStreet.com in their latest video report, "what we have become accustomed to in terms of normal is rapidly coming to an end."

Indeed, with the Federal Reserve recently having raised interest rates, corporate bond markets starting to crack, and abysmal sales numbers over the holiday season, 2016 could very well spell disaster for financial markets, including government bonds.


Comment: See also: What fresh horror awaits the US economy now that Fed has raised interest rates?


So serious is the potential destruction to come that, according to the report, you'd better be ready with an alternate monetary mechanism of exchange such as gold or silver, as well as food and other stockpiles to mitigate supply disruptions and shortages.
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Demanding justice: Black Lives Matter gives end-of-year protest in Washington


RT
Fri, 01 Jan 2016 09:51 UTC
Black Lives Matter protest
© Ruptley
Black Lives Matter has held a large protest in the US capital against the number of black deaths and to demand justice for Tamir Rice. A recent survey found that blacks are nine times more likely to be killed by police than other Americans.

Although protests took place across the country, one of the largest was in Washington, DC. Around 500 supporters of Black Lives Matter, a group that demands justice for blacks, took to the streets in the US capital. The demonstrators mainly gathered in the Chinatown district, shutting down an intersection at 7th and H Street in northwest Washington. Police closed off surrounding streets to allow the protest to continue.
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Since Christmas, U.S. police have killed twice as many people as the British cops in the past 5 years

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 01 Jan 2016 21:52 UTC
Police brutality activist
© Scott Olson/Getty Images
In all of 2011, British police killed 2 people. In 2012, 1 person. In 2013, a total of 3 bullets left the barrels of British police guns, and no one was killed. In the last two years, a total of 4 people have lost their lives because of British cops, bringing the total number of citizens killed in the UK to 7 in the last 5 years.

Since Christmas, police in America have killed 14 people. In 1 week, American cops have killed twice as many people as the British police have killed since 2011!

But if we zoom out just a little further, those numbers become even more shocking. Since 1990, police officers in the United Kingdom have killed exactly 58 people.

Since the 14th of December, police in America have killed 60 citizens — It took English cops 25 years to do what American cops have done in the last two weeks of December. On average, British police kill around two citizens a year. American cops kill more than that every day.

Of course, all those killed were not innocent, but many were unarmed, shot while running away, and their deaths recorded on video. And all of them deserved due process. Some will say that since the US is much larger in population than the UK, that is why American cops kill more. But this is a farce.

To expose this farce, we can compare the US with communist China. China, whose population is 4 and 1/2 times the size of the United States, recorded 12 killings by law enforcement officers in 2014. Law enforcement in the United States killed 92 times more citizens in the same period.

Comment: Police brutality, the war on drugs and profit-driven imprisonment are only a symptom of a much larger problem. The U.S. (and the world) have become a totalitarian state similar to what psychopaths created in Nazi, Germany. History repeats itself and we have allowed it to happen again. The psychopathic elite created these Gestapo law enforcers to protect them from all of us. To end the police state, we have to expose it for what it is and overcome our greatest obstacle: psychopathy.

See also: Ponerology 101: Lobaczewski and the origins of Political Ponerology

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94% of Crimeans would endure power shortages in order to remain part of Russia


Sputnik
Fri, 01 Jan 2016 20:57 UTC
Crimea
© Sputnik/ Andrey Iglov
Over 90% of the residents of Crimea are ready to endure power shortages to ensure that their contract from Ukraine's state energy company defines their peninsula to be legally part of Russia, a poll by post-Soviet Russia's oldest polling institute has revealed.

On Wednesday, Crimea once again faced the disruption of its power supplies, authorities in Ukraine's neighboring Kherson region confirming that an 'explosion' had damaged an electricity pylon. The abrupt cutoff coincided with the expiry of a contract for the supply of electricity from Ukraine to the peninsula.

In late November, Crimean Tatar radicals and Right Sector militants had set up an 'electricity blockade' of the peninsula, leaving Crimea almost completely without power until the first leg of the Russian energy bridge stretching across the Kerch Strait was completed, and supplies from Ukraine restored in early December.

Comment: Also see: Poroshenko dreaming: Visa-free regime will make Donbass and Crimea want to rejoin Ukraine

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Warning: Global food crisis early 2016, predicts aid agencies


Press TV
Fri, 01 Jan 2016 10:16 UTC
ethiopia drought
© www.dw.com
Bone-dry region of Ethiopia, a dead zone.
Aid agencies have warned that hundreds of millions of people around the world are threatened by a lack of food and water due to severe weather conditions and wars in early 2016. The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) said on Thursday that about 795 million people across the world, 98 percent of them from developing countries, were going hungry as a result of the current global situation.

The United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) also warned that droughts and floods would be strong in March, as the El Niño weather phenomenon was expected to peak in the start of 2016. In a similar statement, Oxfam's Humanitarian Director Jane Cocking stated that millions of people in countries such as Ethiopia, Haiti and Papua New Guinea were already feeling the effects of "drought and crop failure."

Some 10.2 million in Ethiopia's population of 94 million are in need of humanitarian assistance due to weather conditions in 2016, while some three million are in serious need of aid in Malawai, where they are struggling with drought. South Africa has also declared disaster in a number of areas. According to Oxfam, two million people across Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua are already in need of food aid after drought and erratic rains.

The aid agencies all urged more funding and assistance to the nations in need in 2016. This comes as figures indicate that more than 60 million people have been forced to flee their homes as a result of war and persecution in countries, particularly Syria, where over 250,000 have so far lost their lives to the militancy that broke out there in 2011. According to the WFP, some 7.6 million people from Yemen's 24 million population have been going without food for weeks.

Comment: The worst may be yet to come as global chaos and extreme weather phenomena collide, creating a worsening refugee situation coupled with a burgeoning food supply crisis. Can/will we cope? Is it too late?

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Police dog mauls a 17-month-old baby after officers detain innocent father in Henderson, Nevada

James Dunn
Daily Mail, UK
Sat, 31 Dec 2016 18:22 UTC
Police dog attack

Ayleen Arena's piercing screams can be heard on the dashcam footage after the huge Belgian Malinois Doerak (right) is released into the car, mauling her arm, leaving her with nine punctures and abrasions
This is the shocking moment a police dog savaged a 17-month-old girl while cops were detaining her father for a robbery they knew he did not commit.

Ayleen Arena's piercing screams can be heard on the dashcam footage after the huge Belgian Malinois is released into the car, mauling her arm, leaving her with nine punctures and abrasions.

Meanwhile, her father was standing with cops meters away, after they detained the Spanish-speaking man in a white hooded jumper after reports of as black robbery suspect in a black T-shirt.

Since then, the city has agreed to pay the family $13,000 to settle the claim, reports the Las Vegas Review Journal.

Police were called to the incident in a shopping plaza in Henderson, Nervada, in which a customer trying to return protein powder had turned nasty and threatened to rob the shop.


dog Bite marks

These are the scars left on Ayleen after four-year-old Belgian Malinois Doerak attacked her arm. A police officer can be heard saying 'The last forearm, the guy didn't have anything left but bone,' on the video
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Timing is everything: Several injured, at least 2 killed in Tel Aviv shooting - terror attack suspected


RT
Fri, 01 Jan 2016 17:42 UTC
Israeli police
© Baz Ratner/Reuters
Israeli gestapo
At least two people have been killed and several others have been injured following a shooting in central Tel Aviv on Friday afternoon, local media are reporting. The injured have been taken to hospital, while security and medical teams have arrived at the scene.

The incident was reported to have taken place on Dizengoff Street, while various local publications are reporting that two people have been killed after a gunman opened fire at a bar. At least seven people are believed to have been wounded, four of whom are in a critical condition, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Government spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said that police are investigating the attack and it is not clear who was behind it. It is not clear whether the attacker was a Palestinian, or whether it was a gangland shooting. Meanwhile, a witness told Haaretz that there was only one gunman, who he described as being "light-skinned and not Eastern looking," carrying an M-16.


Comment: What timing for an attack against the Israeli people.

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"Shocking and inexcusable": 2015 was the deadliest year for refugees fleeing NATO's conflict zones


RT
Fri, 01 Jan 2016 16:09 UTC
migrant crisis refugee Mediterranean
© Darrin Zammit Lupi / Reuters
Migrants hang onto flotation tubes in the sea after jumping from an overloaded wooden boat during a rescue operation 16km off the coast of Libya August 6, 2015.
Last year saw more than 3,770 migrants and refugees lose their lives in the Mediterranean as they made the perilous journey from North Africa to Europe.

Most of those deaths occurred along a dangerous central Mediterranean route used by smugglers operating out of Libya, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Comment: People worldwide are treated like cattle thanks to the sadistic greed of psychopaths in power.

Also see:

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Pistol

Open carry of guns now allowed in Texas, USA


Press TV
Fri, 01 Jan 2016 02:50 UTC
open carry
© combatblog.net
Texans take buying bread seriously...
All licensed gun owners in the US state of Texas can begin carrying their weapons in plain sight for the first time since 1871 under an "open carry" law passed in the Republican-dominated Texas Legislature.

Beginning from the New Year, nearly 1 million people in Texas who have passed a required gun course and have a concealed handgun permit will be allowed to carry holstered handguns, according to the new law. The law, however, bans the carrying of guns, either openly or concealed, in a wide variety of places including schools, sports arenas, bars and secure areas of airports.

Although 45 other states in the US have legalized carrying a weapon in public view, Texas will become the largest state in the nation to pass such a measure.

"Open carry" is strongly opposed by gun control groups such as the Brady Campaign and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. Opponents of the new law have said it could be frightening for the public to see armed people on city streets, and inside public buildings and designated stores.

Law enforcement officials have also expressed concern about how to deal with an unfolding crime scene where multiple people can be seen with weapons, which could cause deadly confusion. Texas State Representative Diego Bernal, a Democrat representing San Antonio who voted against the bill, said the law is a mistake. "I don't see how introducing firearms into everyday life makes anything better," he said.

Comment: A rising tide for self-protection? This says something, but what? The bombardment of fear messages and false flags may be doing its work, or the threatened American right to bear arms may be kicking in, or the society senses it is degrading at a faster and faster pace to the point that toting a gun represents physical and mental stability in an atmosphere of a growing distrust of psycho-militarized police to protect (versus assault) the public. The next question must be: What is the underlying goal for fomenting real and/or perceived threats and how close is America to the breaking point of choreographed destruction?

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