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US cops tase 11 year old girl for shoplifting

taser
© Regis Duvignau / Reuters
A police officer working an off-duty detail at a grocery store used a Taser on an 11-year-old girl Monday evening, prompting Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot K. Isaac to promise "a very thorough review" of his actions as well as the department's use-of-force policies as they pertain to juvenile suspects.

"We are extremely concerned when force is used by one of our officers on a child of this age," Isaac said in a news release.

The officer had been called to investigate reports of several young girls stealing items from the Kennard Avenue Kroger when he spotted the 11-year-old walking away with a backpack full of items, according to the release and Lt. Steve Saunders. She refused to stop after being verbally warned, and the officer stunned her with the Taser.

Comment: It seems to get a job in the police these days you need to be a coward and a sadist:


Propaganda

NYT implies Alex Jones' content removal from Apple, Facebook and YouTube is not enough

Alex Jones
Top technology companies erased most of the posts and videos on their services from Alex Jones, the internet's notorious conspiracy theorist, thrusting themselves into a fraught debate over their role in regulating what can be said online.

Apple, Google, Facebook and Spotify severely restricted the reach of Mr. Jones and Infowars, his right-wing site that has been a leading peddler of false information online. Mr. Jones and Infowars have used social media for years to spread dark and bizarre theories, such as that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax and that Democrats run a global child-sex ring. Apple made its move on Sunday and the others followed on Monday.

The actions, one of the tech companies' most aggressive efforts against misinformation, highlighted a difficult dilemma for their businesses. They have long desired to combat misinformation online, but they have also been reluctant to be arbiters of truth.

Comment: Alex Jones is certainly not a bastion of truth in the current political landscape which makes it awkward for some to get behind calling out this injustice for fear of being associated with Jones or approving of his opinions. But remember that censorship often sneaks in in exactly this way - first going for the radicals few align themselves with, and slowly going further along the spectrum until the reasonable voices are similarly silenced. Those who don't voice their dissent now will find it's too late once their own speech is being threatened.

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Heart - Black

Outrageous feminist 'professor' ridicules homeless men's 'hegemonic masculinity'

homeless man
A feminist professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada recently published a book chapter documenting the myriad ways homeless men allegedly perpetuate "hegemonic masculinity" while discussing their hardships.

The book chapter, "When a Man's Home is Not a Castle: Hegemonic Masculinity Among Men Experiencing Homelessness," was published last Wednesday by Professor Erin Dej, in a book she co-edited on patriarchy in psychiatric wards and homeless shelters.

The goal of her research, she explains, was to "assess the ways hypermasculinity is performed among men experiencing homelessness." And to do this, Dej interviewed 27 homeless men and spent and additional 296 hours spying on them in homeless shelters.

While research on vulnerable people typically requires informed consent and approval by an ethics board, it is unclear if Dej sought this. She declined to comment on this when emailed by PJ Media, and her research makes no mention of ethics review.

Comment: Let's get this straight - a relatively wealthy and privileged 'academic' targets society's most vulnerable and downtrodden people to blame them for their 'oppressive masculinity'? Feminism is no longer a mask for predation; it is an open platform for it.


Bad Guys

Ridiculous: West Hollywood wants the removal of Trump's Walk of Fame star, but not that of convicted rapist Bill Cosby

Donald Trump's star at Hollywood's Walk of Fame
© David McNew / AFP
Donald Trump's star at Hollywood's Walk of Fame
The city of West Hollywood has voted unanimously in favor of removing President Donald Trump's star at the Walk of Fame, citing Russiagate allegations as well as his take on women, immigration and transgender soldiers.

The five-member city council approved a proposal put forth by West Hollywood Mayor Pro Tempore John D'Amico and Councilwoman Lindsey Horvath, who called for the removal of the star, US media report. Both D'Amico and Horvath said the marker had to be removed "due to [Trump's] disturbing treatment of women and other actions."

Ahead of the vote on Monday, West Hollywood City Council said they were following the steps of the American film industry, which suspended "certain members of the entertainment community... due to their actions toward women."

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Megaphone

UK Labour Party is right to drop racist IHRA guidelines of anti-Semitism - Manchester Jewish Group

Jeremy Corbyn
© Dan Kitwood
As Jewish people in Manchester, England, we resent the despicable racism shown towards the Palestinians by Guardian stalwarts such as Jonathan Freedland, Polly Toynbee, Jessica Elgott, Eddie Izzard, Nick Cohen, Marina Hyde and Gaby Hinsliff among others, all saturating comment sections on mainstream news websites with attacks designed to bring down the UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, and to protect Israel from accountability. The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Anti-Semitism definition guidelines the Labour Party are correctly omitting, are designed by Israeli propagandists to aid their many mass lobby attempts to stop international solidarity with the Palestinians and to deny Palestinians the right to express the nature of Israel's 70 years of violence and racism towards them.

We call on everyone to see that creating a largely-mythical anti-Semitism 'crisis' in the Labour Party is one of the few tools left to ailing and desperate establishment hacks wanting to smear Corbyn and maintain UK support for Israel, no matter how many Palestinians the Israeli army slaughters, or how many houses, schools, and hospitals Israeli jets destroy in Gaza. In the face of this, Zionist groups with a history of uncritical support for Israel claim that Corbyn presents an existential threat to British Jews? This is obscene, hypocritical scaremongering.

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Megaphone

Former Iranian President Ahmadinejad scorns 'dollar dictatorship' as foundation of American Empire

Ahmadinejad
Former two-term Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the dollar is one of the major pillars of US dominance over global finance and trade. He has called for change in the current world order.

"Things need to change, current orders should be reordered," the former leader of the Islamic Republic tweeted on Monday, hours before the first round of the US sanctions came into effect.


Black Cat 2

Corbyn, Assange, Trump: Incidents and accidents, hints and allegations

jeremy corbyn anti-semitism
Jeremy Corbyn is an anti-semite. Julian Assange is a rapist, a Russian agent and a terrorist. Donald Trump is an anti-semite, a rapist AND a Russian agent. Vladimir Putin wants to invade and enslave the entire western world and to that end employs Assange, Trump, maybe also Corbyn(?), as well as thousands upon thousands of hackers and murderers who make people vote for whoever Putin chooses, and poison former Russian agents on western soil.

These allegations, and there's many more of them, have a number of things in common. Most importantly, they serve to change your mind. They serve to change your perception of reality. They seek to whip up your support for the very people and forces that launch them into the media.

Something else they have in common is that none of them has ever been proven, even though some of them are getting on in years. But they were never meant to be proven, simply because they don't have to be. If your mind is a fertile breeding ground for such allegations, all that needs to be done is plant a seed, and plant another, and then water them day after day by repeating the allegations and make them 'yummier', until they sprout a plant or a tree 'spontaneously'.

Handcuffs

Crooks who spent two years digging tunnel to tap Russian oil pipeline busted just three meters from goal

Crooks tunnel Russian oil pipeline
© Screen grab from police footage
The entrance to the secret tunnel.
Six people in Russia who spent two years digging a 125m tunnel by hand, through which they wanted to reach a major oil pipeline to tap into, have been busted a mere three meters away from their goal.

The peculiar story happened in Irkutsk region in Western Siberia. According to a police report, six people in the city of Angarsk, where a large oil refinement center is located, joined forces to tap into a major oil pipeline.

The scheme was not of the get-rich-quick kind however. Stealing oil for a significant gain would require time, so the gang needed to reach the closely monitored pipeline undetected. They got some shovels and spent two years digging a tunnel from a concealed location.

Vader

The Pentagon exercises direct influence and supervision of more movies than you would believe

pentagon influence films movies

Pentagon-influenced films
A year ago we featured a detailed report by authors Tom Secker and Matthew Alford exposing just how vast the Pentagon and CIA programs for partnering with Hollywood actually are, based on some 4,000 new pages of formerly classified archived documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

The report noted at the time that
"These documents for the first time demonstrate that the US government has worked behind the scenes on over 800 major movies and more than 1,000 TV titles."
Reviewing the ever expanding list, the average movie watcher might be in for a shock at what films are actually included - there are the more predictable ones like Black Hawk Down, Zero Dark Thirty, and Lone Survivor; but also entirely unexpected ones that apparently needed the military-industrial complex's propaganda touch like Earnest Saves Christmas, Karate Kid 2, The Silence of the Lambs, Twister, the Iron Man movies, and more recently Pitch Perfect 3.

Eye 2

Hundreds of gypsies flee region in Russia fearing retaliation for the rape and murder of 9yo girl

Gypsies in Russia.
© Andrey Varenkov / Sputnik
Gypsies in Russia.
Around 200 gypsies have fled a village in Russia's Belgorod Region fearing retaliation from the locals after the rape and murder of a schoolgirl by one of the group's members.

The body of the 9-year-old, showing signs of violent death, was discovered in Urazovo village on July 31. Shortly after that a man from the local gypsy community was detained on suspicion of committing the crime and charged with murder and rape. He confessed to the crime.

The investigators believe the perpetrator spotted the girl at a village store a day before that. The 30-year-old then followed the child and attacked her in a quiet place, raping and strangling his victim.

The villagers were outraged after they learned of the tragedy and called on the police to hand the rapist over to them. When their demand was rejected, the people vowed to burn down the gypsy homes.