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Two people shot and killed in Kentucky grocery store, suspect in custody


RT
Thu, 25 Oct 2018 12:13 UTC
Gregory Alan bush shooting Louisville Kentucky
© Louisville Metro Connections
Investigators in Jeffersontown say 51-year-old Gregory Alan Bush shot another man several times inside the store before shooting a woman in the parking lot.
At least two people, including an elderly woman, have been shot and killed by a gunman in a grocery store on the outskirts of Louisville, Kentucky. The suspect has been apprehended.

A man and a woman were killed in a shooting that started inside the Kroger grocery store in Jeffersontown and continued in its parking lot.

The incident took place around 3pm on Wednesday and saw an armed man enter the popular store and fire several shots at another male, who succumbed to his wounds on the spot. The perpetrator than fled the scene, heading into the parking lot where he shot an elderly woman, presumably an innocent bystander. She also died at the scene.
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Taking lessons from IDF: Human Rights Watch report reveals arbitrary arrests and torture of Palestinians by PA and Hamas

Allison Deger
Mondoweiss
Tue, 23 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC
Palestinian riot police Ramallah
© Isaam Rimawi / AP
Palestinian Riot police show their skills during a training session with police members of the European Union, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on March 16, 2014. The EU training will help the Palestinian police force develop their riot control techniques.
In April 2017, Alaa Zaqeq, 28, was dragged out of his in-law's house in the al-Aroub refugee camp in the south of the West Bank by Palestinian security forces and thrown into the back of one of eight police vehicles waiting outside.

When he arrived at the Jericho detention facility hours later, blindfolded and handcuffed, an officer who hurled him against a wall said the abuse was a "welcome." Over the next 23 days Zaqeq was beaten until he confessed, falsely he said, to the crime of financing the Islamic movement on campus where Zaqeq is a graduate student. Yet after his release Zaqeq was never charged with any crime.

Zaqeq is one of 147 people who spoke to Human Rights Watch over the last two years about arbitrary detention and systematic abuse in Palestinian jails, prisons and interrogation sites across the West Bank and Gaza. Researchers found the stints in prison are short and often do not end in charges, or signs of physical abuse that are visible upon their release.

The new report, "Two Authorities, One Way, Zero Dissent: Arbitrary Arrest and Torture Under the Palestinian Authority and Hamas," examines 86 cases of Palestinians who were harmed under arrest, and interviews 95 former detainees.

Comment: Hamas is a Mossad creation...

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Angry young men & gangbangers marching to US yelling "Vamos Para Allá Trump!"


Judicial Watch
Tue, 23 Oct 2018 13:30 UTC
caravan mixigo burn flag
© Associated PRess
Two people burn a United States flag during a protest in favor of the caravan of migrants that is currently stuck on the Guatemala-Mexico border, in front of the American embassy, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Friday
Besides gang members and mobs of young angry men, the Central American caravan making its way into the United States also consists of Africans, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans and Indians. Judicial Watch is covering the crisis from the Guatemalan-Honduran border this week and observed that the popular mainstream media narrative of desperate migrants - many of them women and children - seeking a better life is hardly accurate. Guatemalan intelligence officials confirmed that the caravan that originated in the northern Honduran city of San Pedro Sula includes a multitude of Special Interest Aliens (SIA) from the countries listed above as well as other criminal elements and gang members.

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Another Facebook fail: Network apologizes for auto-ban of art museum's Chagall exhibition ad


RT
Thu, 25 Oct 2018 13:06 UTC
nude over Virbinsk
© Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso
The Nude over Vitebsk by Mark Chagall
Facebook's overeager nudity filter has flopped again when it banned an advertising of an exhibition of paintings by Marc Chagall in Germany's Münster.

The Pablo Picasso museum produced a two-minute clip to promote the exhibition of works by the world-famous Russian-French artist. It features some of the paintings and commentary by Professor Markus Muller, the museum's director.

But when they tried to use Facebook's paid advertising tools, the social media giant rejected the video, reported the local newspaper Münstersche Zeitung. Apparently the automatic algorithm screening ads was not happy with some of the paintings, like the Nude over Vitebsk, a 1933 surrealist work which features a woman's naked backside.
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San Francisco: Lawyers release names of 212 alleged priest sex offenders in attempt to make Archdiocese come clean

Lisa Fernandez and Cristina Rendon
Fox 11
Tue, 23 Oct 2018 10:56 UTC
priest offenders
As dioceses around the country are disclosing names of priests accused of misconduct, a law firm on Tuesday released a report containing the names of 212 Catholic Clergy members accused of sexual misconduct in the Bay Area.

The report, compiled by lawyers from Jeff Anderson and Associates based in St. Paul, Minn., accuses 135 offenders from the Archdiocese of San Francisco, 95 from the Diocese of Oakland and 33 from the Diocese of San Jose. A total of 111 of these priests are dead or thought to be dead.

It was initially reported that there were 263 names on the list but 51 of those names were duplicates, because some of the priests served in multiple diocese.

So why release the names? Because it's important to let other survivors know that they weren't alone, said Tom Emens, a sex abuse survivor, at a news conference in San Francisco.
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Midterm elections: Sorry Dems, voters reject your political correctness shtick - and for good reason

Glenn Harlan Reynolds
USA Today
Tue, 23 Oct 2018 06:00 UTC
political correctness
Democrats push for political correctness, Republicans mock them for it, and most Americans are uncomfortable with it. No one wins with PC culture.

Democrats are hoping to administer a tough midterm-election blow to the Republicans - akin to the "shellacking" President Barack Obama got from the Tea Party in 2010 - as a means of shutting down President Donald Trump. But it's looking iffy now, post-Kavanaugh, and if they fail, they'll have the politically correct culture that has moved from college campuses into the Democratic Party to blame.

As I wrote in these pages back before the 2016 election, opposition to PC culture was a major source of Trump's appeal to voters. While most politicians, even Republican politicians, were afraid to challenge it head-on, Trump was unafraid, mocking the PC social justice warriors even on their own ground.

Since Trump's election, the response among Democrats has been to double down. After all, if Trump's against politically correct culture, then they have to be for it. But that puts them right where Trump wants them to be, because PC culture is highly unpopular.

Most Americans don't want to be 'woke'

Comment: The upcoming midterm elections have quickly become another flashpoint in the rapidly growing US political, cultural and ideological divide - and the further deterioration of any cohesion America once had.

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Evil: Nestlé sued for continuing child slavery overseas while headquartered in US


RT
Wed, 24 Oct 2018 19:21 UTC
child slavery
© Reuters / Yusuf Ahmad
A federal appeals court in San Francisco has reinstated a lawsuit by a group of former child slaves accusing food conglomerates Nestle and Cargill of perpetuating slavery at Ivory Coast cocoa farms.

The ruling described the plaintiffs as ex-slaves who were kidnapped and forced to work on cocoa farms for as long as 14 hours a day without pay.

The judges said in a unanimous decision that the group could proceed with its claims despite the alleged abuses having occurred overseas.

"In sum, the allegations paint a picture of overseas slave labor that defendants perpetuated from headquarters in the United States," the court wrote.

Comment: Is Nestlé vying for the top spot of most evil and pathologically run corporation in America?? Sure looks like they're trying! See:

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Bad Guys

Israeli police arrest monk & forcibly remove other protesters in East Jerusalem


RT
Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:57 UTC
The arrest of Monk Macarius Orshalemy.
© Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate Jerusalem
The arrest of Monk Macarius Orshalemy.
Video footage has captured Israeli police manhandling a group of Coptic Orthodox monks who were protesting outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in East Jerusalem's Old City.

Israeli forces can be seen dragging Monk Macarius Orshalemy along the ground before forcibly handcuffing him. The monk is pinned down for several minutes before being yanked to his feet and carried away.
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Bad Guys

The US Census Bureau: Cradle of identity politics

Michael Gonzalez
Quillette
Tue, 23 Oct 2018 18:55 UTC
government office
© Census.gov
Keypunch operators at the U.S. Census Bureau's National Processing Center in Jeffersonville, Indiana, hard at work preparing for the 1980 Census.
The phrase "grievance studies" recently has entered public discourse thanks to a scandal by three liberal academics who set out to expose the vacuous nature of critical theory, post-colonial studies, queer theory and other sub-disciplines within the social sciences. Mathematician James Lindsay, writer Helen Pluckrose, and Portland State philosophy professor Peter Boghossian spent a year writing fake papers, which they then pitched to journals specializing in these fields. Seven passed peer review and were accepted for publication. As various commentators (including several here at Quillette) have noted, the hoax has shown what many have long suspected - that ivory-tower academics who study in fashionable fields inhabit ideological domains far removed from those of ordinary people.

But while observers have correctly focused on the lessons that may be inferred about high academic culture in the United States, it should be noted that the drifts of the liberal arts into postmodern gibberish has not been an isolated phenomenon. The trend also has its cheerleaders in government, even in Donald Trump's very own Washington D.C. backyard.

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Teens arrested after beating, threatening boy with gun on camera


RT
Wed, 24 Oct 2018 18:56 UTC
bully video gun to child head
© Facebook screenshot
Disturbing footage depicting a juvenile holding a gun to another child's head is being investigated by Missouri police after it went viral on social media.

In the clip, which shows the child in the red shirt being punched repeatedly, a person off camera can be heard angrily instructing the kneeling victim to kiss the feet of an assailant.

The video then takes an even more disturbing turn when a second individual holding a camera phone approaches the cowering victim and points what appears to be a gun at his head. A 17-year-old boy and two other persons of interest have since handed themselves in for questioning, according to Independence Police Department .

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