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Botswana deports US pastor after he calls for 'killing gays'


TeleSur
Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:15 UTC
Steven Anderson has been banned from entering the U.K., Botswana and South Africa due to his homophobic views.
© YouTube / sanderson1611Steven Anderson has been banned from entering the U.K., Botswana and South Africa due to his homophobic views.
U.S. pastor Steven Anderson was arrested and deported from the African nation of Botswana after calling for gay people to be killed, President Ian Khama told Reuters Tuesday, just days after the pastor was banned from neighboring South Africa over his anti-gay views.

Anderson, of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Arizona, notoriously welcomed the gunning down in June of 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida by saying "there's 50 less pedophiles in this world," including Omar Mateen, the mass shooter.

Khama told Reuters he had ordered Anderson's immediate arrest and deportation after the pastor said in an interview with a local radio station in the capital Gabarone that gays and lesbians should be killed.
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Bomb

NYC on high alert as suspicious package closes down Times Square

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Wed, 21 Sep 2016 14:05 UTC
times square cop
Update: The Bomb squad just arrived:

As we detailed earlier, the NYPD has descended on 42nd St. between 7th and 8th Avenues in Manhattan where a suspicious package was reported. As Fox5NY reports, the street has been closed while police investigate.

It is unclear what the package consists of. Police have roped off the area in front of a McDonald's in Times Square.

People who work in businesses and office buildings in the area are being kept away by the NYPD.

The Times Square subway station was also not allowing passengers to enter or exit. That station is a major transportation hub in Midtown Manhattan.


Comment: Updates to follow.

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Pistol

US police kill black man 'armed with a book,' fire at protesters


teleSUR
Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:53 UTC
Protests in Charlotte, NC
© ReutersPolice officers wearing riot gear block a road during protests after police fatally shot Keith Lamont Scott in the parking lot of an apartment complex in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. September 20, 2016.
Police unleashed teargas on protesters after they fatally shot a Black man Tuesday afternoon in Charlotte, North Carolina, when they approached him as he was getting out of his car, with relatives and family members rejecting the police's claim that he was armed.

Twelve police officers have been injured in clashes between protesters and police, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. According to Twitter users, protesters have blocked the Interstate 85, or I-85, a major highway in the south east.

The man who was shot and killed was identified late Tuesday as Keith Lamont Scott. The officer who fired the fatal shot was identified as Officer Brentley Vinson, a police statement said. The statement confirmed both men were Black, according to the Charlotte Observer, while the victims family have said he was holding a book, not a firearm.

Comment: Protests, tear gas, cops injured after 'disabled, unarmed' black man shot dead by Charlotte police

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Gold Coins

Canadian Mint worker busted for smuggling gold nuggets using a common prison trick

Kelly Egan
Ottowa Citizen
Wed, 21 Sep 2016 13:53 UTC
gold bars
© Sebastian Derungs/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
An employee of the Royal Canadian Mint allegedly smuggled about $180,000 in gold from the fortress-like facility, possibly evading multiple levels of detection with a time-honoured prison trick.

Hiding the precious metal up his bum.

The case against Leston Lawrence, 35, of Barrhaven concluded in an Ottawa courtroom Tuesday. Justice Peter Doody reserved decision until Nov. 9 on a number of smuggling-for-cash charges, including theft, laundering the proceeds of crime, possession of stolen property and breach of trust.

The Uck! factor aside, the case was also an illuminating look at security measures inside the Mint, the building on Sussex Drive that produces hundreds of millions of gold coins annually for the federal Crown corporation.
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People

Protests, tear gas, cops injured after 'disabled, unarmed' black man shot dead by Charlotte police


RT
Wed, 21 Sep 2016 13:05 UTC
Police protests in Charlotte, NC
© Ryan Harris / YouTube
Details of Keith Lamont Scott's shooting in Charlotte, North Carolina, are in dispute as protests and clashes break out and police deploy tear gas. Officers say Scott aroused suspicion after being seen with a gun, but others claim all he had was a book.

At least 100 protesters in Charlotte, North Carolina clashed with police late Tuesday night following the deadly police shooting of 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott. Tear gas has been deployed and SWAT teams formed after reports of protesters throwing bottles.

Demonstrators began breaking into a nearby Walmart, smashing through several doors. Police later arrived and the protesters began to scatter. Officers are now on guard at the store.
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Pistol

Excessive force: Dashcam shows mentally-ill man shot 14 times as he flees Sacramento police


RT
Wed, 21 Sep 2016 12:50 UTC
Sacramento police dashcam video
© Entertainment 10 / YouTube
Sacramento police have released three dashcam videos and one surveillance video which show the pursuit and killing of 50-year-old Joseph Mann, who was shot 14 times by police.

Video and audio recordings were released by Sacramento Police Chief Sam Somers on Tuesday after mounting pressure from the mayor, members of the city council and Mann's family, who called for more information surrounding the July 11 shooting.

"It's unprecedented for us to release video prior to the adjudication process," Somers told reporters. "There are times that we're in today, sometimes it's important that we come out with this video or this audio.

"It's a very disturbing situation when you have to see someone lose their life and it's captured on video."
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Eye 2

Cash-strapped Daesh reportedly trafficking children and human organs through Turkish company


Sputnik
Tue, 20 Sep 2016 22:02 UTC
Daesh flag
© Reuters/Ali Hashisho
As Daesh continues to lose territory -- and therefore their means of collecting revenue through oil -- in Iraq and Syria, it is believed that the violent extremist group has resorted to trafficking children, and their own members' organs.

According to an Iraqi News report, the terror group has sold approximately 23 organs taken from their own injured or dead members to a Turkish organ trading organization, the same organization that they are also using to traffic children.

Special medical unit of the organization [ISIS] proceeded to steal human organs for about 23 [Daesh] militants of those who slept in the hospitals of Nineveh," a local source told the outlet. "What has been stolen from those members included the kidneys, intestines and more; they were transferred under tight control to [an] affiliated hospital on the outskirts of the city."

Comment: We can remind ourselves of this story the next time we hear about the US "accidentally" and "inadvertently" dropping a bomb on the individuals working to defeat ISIS.

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Attention

'End prison slavery!' 24,000+ inmates join nationwide jail strike causing lockdowns (VIDEO)


RT
Wed, 21 Sep 2016 02:23 UTC
Prison strike
© Lucy Nicholson / Reuters
More than 24,000 inmates in at least 40 prisons from over two dozen states have refused to follow orders, failing to report for work and causing prisons to go on lockdown, since the nationwide prison work strike began in early September.

From Alabama to Michigan to Texas, despite the isolation of prisons and a desire to cover-up news of the work stoppages by correctional departments, reports are leaking of widespread disruption at prisons.

The nationwide prison strike began September 9, when inmates refused to report for their prison jobs. It is becoming the largest prison strike in US history.

Comment: It seems like a complete overhaul of the prison system is in order.
See also: Bend the bars: US inmates organizing nationwide strike in protest of prison slavery

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Wolf

Dallas has a stray dog problem — about 9,000 of them, woman fatally attacked

Marisa Gerber
Los Angeles Times
Tue, 20 Sep 2016 18:38 UTC
killer dogs
© Guy Reynolds / Dallas Morning NewsStray dogs wander past apartments in south Dallas, where many residents fear the thousands of strays living in the area.
A deep growl came from the other side of Shaniqua Roland's front door.

She was pregnant at the time and headed to a doctor's appointment, but she knew she couldn't leave the house. Not with the dogs back.

For half an hour, as she tried to shoo them away, a pack of pit bulls snarled and snapped at her metal door. She thought of her sister, who'd recently lost a chunk of her calf in a dog attack. She'd see her doctor another day.

"It's crazy," Roland said, sighing. "I don't walk outside anymore. No way."

Across the low-income, predominantly black and Latino neighborhoods of southern Dallas, so many stray, sometimes vicious dogs roam the streets that many residents have given up on going outside without a bat or pipe for protection. Some carry pepper spray, others ride in golf carts to outpace the canine cliques.
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Laptop

Maine high school employs computer program after call for foreign language teacher yields no responses


RT
Tue, 20 Sep 2016 19:46 UTC
computers replacing teachers
© reuters
Foreshadowing a future crisis in teacher availability, a small central Maine high school seeking a teacher for French- and Spanish-language classes has come up with a radical solution: employ a computer program instead.

Madison Area Memorial High School, in the 4,800-person town of Madison, Maine, has turned to a Rosetta Stone program to teach the foreign languages after its call for a teacher yielded no responses. The school also hired an education technician to help oversee the class and the program's operation, according to the Morning Sentinel.

Despite posting the job in numerous places, no applicants answered, and the rural high school was left with few options, Principal Jessica Ward said.

"It was coming down to the wire and school was starting," Ward told the Sentinel. "Students were already scheduled for foreign language, and we can't just not offer it."

Comment: More schools may be facing such dilemmas as many teachers are leaving the profession and fewer students are signing up to replace them. A majority of teachers are stressed to the point of burnout, and it's no wonder considering the robotic experiment of Common Core, the police presence in schools and the difficulties posed by having a large majority of students under stress due to hunger and poverty.

In dark times - why teachers matter

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