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Brick Wall

Checkpoint violence: Blood, humiliation, desperation and occupation

Israeli checkpoints
On December 17, Naseer was driving from Nablus to Ramallah. Light rain fell as he approached the Israeli military's checkpoint at Huwwara. In front of him was another car, moving cautiously. About fifty meters before that car was an Israeli military vehicle. Caution is the order of the day in the vicinity of the Israeli military. No sense in provoking their ire. Naseer kept some distance between the cars. They were moving slowly.

Beside the road, on the grass off the sidewalk, a young boy walked in the same direction of the cars. Naseer observed that the boy seemed to be on the grass to avoid the puddles on the sidewalk.

The Israeli military vehicle braked. An order must have come from the soldiers. The boy put his hands up. Naseer did not hear them but saw him obey. The car in front of his began to go around the military vehicle. Naseer followed. He saw the boy with his hands up. The next minute, in his rear view mirror, Naseer saw the boy on the ground. All this happened in a split second. One minute the boy was standing with his hands up, and the next minute he was dead on the ground.

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Network

German Finance Minister Schäuble calls for a one-army EU

Schauble
© finance.yahoo.comGerman Finance Minister Schäuble and the military conundrum.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble says the EU requires one common army instead of 28 separate ones to tackle domestic and foreign security threats. During an interview published in the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag on Sunday, Schäuble said that as "We will have to spend a lot more funds for joint European defense initiatives...our aim must be a joint European army."

He noted that the funds required to maintain and organize 28 separate armies could be used "far more effectively together. For Germany, this means that we will have to support our foreign and security policies more strongly than we would perhaps like," he said. He also stressed that controlling the crises in Africa and the Middle East requires stronger European engagement.

Over the last few months, Germany has gradually taken on a more assertive role in international military operations, which was highlighted recently after German lawmakers approved a mission to send six reconnaissance jets, a frigate and 1,200 troops to Syria to help the so-called international coalition against Daesh.

The redeployment was faced with opposition from Damascus, which has repeatedly expressed skepticism about the effectiveness and the true purpose of the US-led airstrikes. German forces are also deployed in several other locations around the globe, including Afghanistan and Mali.

Comment: This is the old dyadic argument of member-state autonomy countered with global perception of regional strength and international force. The EU theoretically unites its disparate military capability as a part of NATO, but is essentially a US puppet. As military upgrades increase in cost and the EU economy declines, there are no assurances for the EU that it has the independent (of NATO) capability to meet an offensive confrontation with disjointed forces. It is likewise infeasible to create this entity for only defense capabilities as this crosses the line on unique national issues. Militarily both options are a bad fit. As EUrocrats, perhaps it make more sense to actualize strong centralization for political purposes and unify an agreement to detach from the US.


Pirates

Unconscionable: Private bankers charged with stealing from accounts belonging to very elderly

jp morgan chase bank
Two private bankers in New York City have been indicted for forging debit cards in order to withdraw $400,000 from bank accounts belonging to the very elderly or deceased.

The bankers, Jonathan Francis, 27, and Dion Allison, 30, of JP Morgan Chase bank, allegedly targeted 15 dormant accounts, at least eight of which belong to deceased persons who were still receiving deposits from the Social Security Administration, the New York Times reported.

Along with two friends, Gregory Desrameaux, 24, and Kery Phillips, 40, the men withdrew money from the accounts using ATM's located across New York City for a period of two years, with withdrawals ranging from $200 up to $2,000, according to the indictment.

Magnify

The Year in Male Tears


Comment: This article is archived for historical purposes. Read with caution and discernment.


MagicMikeXXL
© Warner BrosThe Movie, Magic Mike XXL, about male strippers.
2014 was the year that misandry became chic. That January began with the reminder from Madeleine Holden, creator of Critique my Dick Pic, that "dick is abundant and low value," a Tweet that resonated with the power of a 140-character manifesto. The movie release of Gone Girl and Taylor Swift's video for "Blank Space" made misandry aspirational. Etsy samplers emblazoned with "men are scum" and Café Press mugs reading "male tears" proliferated. The year ended with feminazis opening their 2014 Misandmas presents with glee, finding copies of Bitch Planet and Bad Feminist.

Comment: So this is feminism? We can hardly believe it. This is merely a program of oppression and violence. Of kicking men "in the throats and groins." Of body shaming, and sexual objectification and dehumanization. And what is worse, laughing about it. This is what a female psychopath looks like. They are different than the male variety, but just as alien, disturbed and pathological. Everything is a justification, even the misrepresentation of history. Every act and thought justified, rationalized by a pathologically distorted view of history and masculinity. A complete lack of appreciation for men. Will you attach your name to this? Does this woman speak for all women?


Megaphone

The politically motivated agenda behind false GMO claims

GMO politics
Critics of GM promote pseudo-science, make false claims based on ignorance and are driven by politically motivated ideology. The actions of these affluent elitists effectively deny food to the hungry. They are therefore committing crimes against humanity. If you follow the GM issue, no doubt you've heard this kind of simplistic, tired and predictable diatribe before.

A good deal of the debate surrounding GMOs involves attacking critics of the technology who voice genuine concerns and put forward valid arguments to back up their case. The attacks by the pro-GM lobby are nonsensical because there is sufficient, credible evidence that questions the safety, efficacy and the science used to promote GM, as well as the politics and practices used to get GMOs on the commercial market.

This evidence has been validated many times before by peer-reviewed studies and official reports. Furthermore, many of the slick PR claims made by the pro-GM lobby have been deconstructed and found to be seriously wanting. Such evidence has been referred or linked to on many occasions in my numerous previous articles, and I see no need to regurgitate this here.

Attacks on opponents of GM are designed to whip up emotive, populist sentiment and denigrate critics with the aim of diverting attention from the underlying issues pertaining to hunger and poverty, as well as ideology, commercial interests and political motivations of the pro-GM lobby itself.

Comment: Money and politics are primary forces driving the pro-GMO agenda. It is clear that consumers would largely reject these frankenfoods if given the necessary information needed to make informed choices. This is why the industry and their shill politicians and scientists are so vehemently against GMO labeling.


Heart - Black

Jaw-dropping incompetence: Police dog unleashed on 17-month-old baby

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© news3lvDog bites on the arm of Ayleen Arenas.
On January 30, 2015, a health food store in Henderson called the police after a disgruntled customer, attempting to return some protein powder, allegedly threatened to rob them. The store described the suspect to police as a black male wearing a black and tan t-shirt who left in an SUV.

As police responded to the call, they quickly stopped the first person they saw, who happened to be Arturo Arenas-Alvarez. Arenas-Alvarez had just pulled up in the shopping center to do some shopping when police drew their weapons and demanded he put his hands in the air and step toward them.

Arenas-Alvarez did not appear to understand why multiple armed men were pointing their guns at him, so one officer asked him in Spanish to approach the vehicle.

Before Arenas-Alvarez makes it all the way to the vehicle, officers realized they had the wrong guy.

"That's not him, dude. That's not a black man in a black shirt," one officer said to another.

Comment: Police officers possess no common sense. Their immediate reply to any situation is violence and more violence.


Sheriff

If the cops are using reasonable force, why do they lie about it?

laquan mcdonald
Twenty-four years ago, I watched a police officer shoot a man. It was right outside a supermarket, the Acme Market on Route 40 in Havre de Grace, Maryland. A ferocious thunderstorm had rolled through, all noise and eerie green light, while we were shopping, and the parking lot was still flooded with rain.

Word had filtered in from the rest of the shopping plaza that a man was out there with a knife, waving it at people, menacing them. And there he was—an old man, with glasses and a Santa Claus beard—just a little ways down, to the left. I couldn't see the knife myself.

Someone had called the police, and a squad car came speeding up through the sheeted water and an officer got out. Maybe there were other officers around, in the background. It was all confusing but in certain respects it was very clear. The officer had his gun out. He shouted Drop it at the man. From where I was, I still couldn't see the knife.

The old man didn't drop anything. He walked toward the police officer. The officer told him, loudly, to drop it, over and over. The officer backed up, gradually, from the open front door of the car to somewhere near the back of the car, gun up, in a firing stance. Drop it.

Eye 1

Federal judge rules cops can hold you at gunpoint at your home essentially for growing vegetables indoors and drinking tea

Robert Harte
© David EulittRobert Harte (pictured in a 2013 file photo) and his wife, Adlynn, filed a lawsuit after Johnson County sheriff’s deputies raided their Leawood home in 2012 in an unsuccessful search for marijuana. On Friday a federal judge dismissed the suit, ruling that the deputies had probable cause for a search warrant.
Kansas couple lost their lawsuit after a federal judge essentially ruled that drinking tea and gardening were probable cause for a drug search warrant — but they forced a change in state law that could prevent similar raids.

A SWAT team raided Adlynn and Harte's home in April 2012 searching for marijuana as part of an annual series of drug busts timed to the unofficial "4/20" holiday.

Local news accounts of those "Operation Constant Gardener" raids reported that investigators found evidence of drug activity by "average families" in "good neighborhoods" such as Leawood, where the Hartes live, noted the Washington Post's Radley Balko.

The investigation started seven months earlier, when a state trooper spotted Bob Harte and his teenage son buying supplies to grow hydroponic tomatoes for a school project.

The state trooper passed that information along to the Johnson County Sheriff's Department, which searched the couple's trash months later and seized "saturated plant material" they believed could be pot.

Handcuffs

Keepin us safe: FBI lures intellectually disabled teen into terrorist plot

terrorist patsy
It isn't clear what use ISIS or the Pakistani Taliban would have for an 18-year-old American student with an estimated IQ of 51, is marginally verbal, and has little ability to perform routine tasks like tying his shoelaces. Peyton Pruitt, described by family and school officials as a developmentally stunted child, displays little understanding of terrorism and has no skills a terrorist group would covet. However, he is able to participate in online chats, which made him an irresistible target for FBI agents trolling the web in search of patsies to cast in Homeland Security Theater productions.

Although Pruitt is unable to use the bathroom without assistance, the FBI and the St. Clair, Alabama Sheriff's Office are pretending that he was part of a plot to provide "material assistance to terrorism" on the basis of online conversations with FBI agents posing as recruiters for ISIS and the Taliban. He remains incarcerated in the St. Clair County Jail on $1 million bond.

Following an evidentiary hearing on December 22, Judge Alan Furr refused to reduce the bond and referred the case to a grand jury. In what might be an indication of the case, the FBI, rather than seeking charges under a federal statute, is assisting the effort to prosecute Pruitt under an Alabama state anti-terrorism statute.

Comment: Creating terrorist patsies is the FBI's modus operandi. This isn't the first and it won't be the last.


Eye 2

Sadistic cops command dog to attack suicidal teen - caught planning and celebrating attack in texts

child mauled by police dog
Months after the Herald-Tribune exposed the North Port Police Department for routinely commanding their K-9 dogs to attack people without provocation, the department has done nothing to address the problem. In fact, it defends its officers even in the most egregious cases, including the mutilation of unarmed juveniles.

There is clearly a culture within the North Port PD that encourages and applauds this cowardly form of brutality, as revealed by messages sent between K-9 handlers involving the case of 18-year-old Jared Lemay.

Lemay's mother had called the North Port PD when she learned that her son was apparently about to commit suicide. Keith Bush, the leader of their K-9 unit, responded to the scene, but not before telling a fellow K-9 handler to come join in the fun.
"On this day, before he or any other officer reached Jared Lemay's home, Bush sent a message to fellow K-9 handler Michael Dietz: "COME GET UR BITE."

Minutes later, records show, Bush messaged Dietz again: "IM GONNA TAKE UR BITE IF U DONT HURRY UP."

Lemay, who was found unarmed and hiding in a trash can in his garage, was bitten in the face and back by Dietz's dog, a Belgian Malinois named Cammo."
After he was taken to the emergency room, another cop, William Carter, messaged Dietz "CONGRATS," commending him for his dog's first bite.