Society's Child
The teen, whose name has not been released, is in police custody in connection with the shooting deaths of his father, Steven Kologi, 44; mother, Linda Kologi, 42; sister, Brittany Kologi, 18; and a family friend, Mary Schultz, 70, who was residing at the Kologi home in Long Branch, New Jersey, according to Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni and a statement from his office.
The teen's brother and grandfather apparently escaped harm. They "thankfully left the home and came out OK," Gramiccioni said at a press conference Monday morning.
Police arrived on the scene shortly after receiving a call from inside the home about shots fired at 11:43 p.m. on Dec. 31, a statement from the prosecutor's office said.
The boy was arrested at the scene without incident, Gramiccioni said.
The prosecutor said he expects that the teen will on Tuesday be charged as an adult with four counts of murder and one count of possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.
No possible motive was revealed.
"It's a terribly tragic incident," Gramiccioni said.
Political science and global studies professor George Ciccariello-Maher announced via Facebook that he would be resigning in order to continue "to support and work with (students) informally, whether in reading groups, in the streets, or both" so that he can battle against the so called "Right and White Supremacists" with the "establishment of the Campus Antifascist Network."
"After December 31st 2017, I will no longer work at Drexel University. This is not a decision I take lightly; however, after nearly a year of prolonged harassment by right-wing white supremacist media outlets and internet mobs...my situation has grown unsustainable," he wrote. "Staying at Drexel in the eye of this storm has become detrimental to my own writing, speaking, and organizing."Adding,
"We are at war, and academia is a crucial front in that war. This is why the Right is targeting campuses with thinly veiled provocations disguised as free speech. My case and many others show just how cynical such appeals are, and how little the Right cares about academic freedom. They will continue to attack me and many others, but from these attacks new unities spring dialectically forth: an upsurge in new AAUP chapters and the establishment of the Campus Antifascist Network (CAN), among others."He left his readers with a call to action.
"In the face of aggression from the racist Right and impending global catastrophe, we must defend our universities, our students, and ourselves by defending the most vulnerable among us and by making our campuses unsafe spaces for white supremacists."Ciccariello-Maher does not mention what these "attacks" entail and neglects to mention that his Christmas Eve 2016 tweet was not the only controversial thing that he has said over the past year.
The innocent victim of gross police negligence and brutality, Miguel Feliz, has filed a $25 million claim against Jersey city and its police department for excessive force used on him in the June 4th incident. Feliz has been unable to return to work since police caused his car to be set on fire, in turn, setting Feliz on fire, and then brutally attacking him.
As TFTP reported last month, the group of New Jersey police officers involved have been indicted, including two for attempted murder, after they were caught on camera kicking Feliz as he crawled from the burning wreckage of a crash involving the pursuit of Leo Pinkston.
The officers face a slew of charges each:
Thousands have engaged in protests since the first rallies against the high cost of living on December 28, marking the biggest show of dissent in Iran since huge rallies took place in 2009.
State TV reported on Monday that 10 people were killed in several cities on Sunday, and showed footage of damage allegedly caused by protesters.
The report did not provide further details about the deaths.
Local media reports said that of those who died, six were killed in Twiserkan, in Hamedan province, and three others in Shahin Shahr, in Esfahan province.
Another person was killed in Izeh, while two others died in Dorud, in western Iran, late on Saturday.
Comment: The protests don't appear to have been fully coordinated. Rather, it appears as though several economic protests have been hijacked by a small minority with political demands. Remind you of anything? Libya, Syria...
See also:
- Have the US and Israel conspired to topple Iran's government?
- Iran: Nationwide protests leave 10 people dead
- US Empire is running the same regime change script with Iran that it ran with Libya and Syria
- Possible new color revolution being attempted in Iran reeks of US and Saudi Arabian influence
- Two people killed during wave of protests across Iran; foreign agitators suspected of inciting violence
- The bigger plan behind US support for riots in Iran
- Alexander Mercouris on Iran protest wave: Regime change very unlikely
- Fort Russ: Everything you need to know about the Iran protest crisis
Amtrak derailment investigation gets even stranger - few details, rumors of poor training procedures
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the accident, which killed three people and injured more than 50 others, and is still trying to determine the probable cause and prevent such accidents in the future.
People have an innate need to know, particularly with unexpected public transportation accidents as part of their own sense of security and trust. The sooner we know, the better.
But we could be waiting a while before we hear from the safety board about what led to the derailment. The length of time the safety board has taken to produce "the facts," let alone a public report, has greatly lengthened over the past two decades, mostly due to safety board management.
An accident investigation has gone from nine months to over two years for a "major" investigation such as this accident. The prolonged process has been sold to Congress and to the public as a way to produce more thorough reports and recommendations, although the success of these efforts is debatable. In the interim, the public is left guessing.
Occasionally it is good to realize that there are actually two parallel realities that are constantly competing for the 'hearts and minds' of people living all over the world. There is real life and 'fake life'. There is reality and elaborately manufactured pseudo-reality, which is designed to appear more real than the reality itself. It is like that chemically produced green apple shampoo that smells more authentic than the fruit itself.
Periodically I disappear into some jungle or a war zone, in Afghanistan, Southern Philippines or in the middle of plundered Borneo Island. When I return to what some people would readily describe as the 'normal world', and a news bulletin unexpectedly confronts me at some airport lounge, everything suddenly appears to be bizarre, grotesque, totally surreal, at least for the few initial but excruciating moments.
It is because most of the mainstream news communiqués and analyses are produced in the plush comfort of an armchair, or at a mahogany writing table, thousands of miles from shrapnel, sweat, torn flesh, blood, burning forests, polluted waterways, and the other horrors which are, in fact, nothing other than the true reality for billions of human beings inhabiting our planet.

New Zealand singer Lorde announced on December 24 she will not be performing in Tel Aviv in 2018.
Of course, the ad was not in fact sponsored by an overwrought fanclub. Nor is it just about the singer. Its headline announces 'Lord and New Zealand Ignore Syria to Attack Israel'.
An act of national aggression against a state is alleged!
Over two decades after California legalized the medical use of marijuana, America's most populous state joins Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and Nevada to grant stores licenses for selling recreational pot to adults 21 or older.
Under Proposition 64, which passed in November 2016, Californians can also legally grow up to six plants for personal use and possess as much as one ounce.
Tax revenues from sales of cannabis are expected to generate at least one billion a year, according to Reuters. More than one in five Americans will now reside in states allowing the purchase of recreational marijuana, though the federal government still designates it as a controlled substance equivalent in status to heroin or LSD.
Comment: See also: California legalizes Cannabis giving hope to 500,000 convicted during prohibition
- Cannabinoid Deficiency and Its Impact on Human Health and Disease
- Controversial experiment: Oakland now giving 'reparations' to ex-cons arrested for selling weed
- Doctor given 18 years for healing autistic son with cannabis while cop gets no time for raping and urinating on woman
- SWAT Team raid innocent family suspected of growing cannabis only to find hibiscus plants
- Irish govt permits special license for medicinal cannabis oil (CBD) to girl suffering from severe form of epilepsy
- Explosive new History Channel series finally exposes CIA drug trafficking conspiracy
- Why CBD oil is better than prescription painkillers Also check out this video:
A group of 63 teens have publicly declared they will refuse to be drafted into the Israel army, Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Thursday morning.
"We have decided not to take part in the occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people," they wrote in a letter sent to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot and the defense and education ministers. "The 'temporary' situation has dragged on for 50 years, and we will not go on lending a hand."
Comment: In a country so utterly ponerized by racism and the institutionalized oppression of Palestinians it is heartening to see such a display of conscience - in the face of possible government retaliation no less. Over the past few years there have been a number of such responses among various parts of Israeli society; each lending others the strength and conviction to speak out against policies that are ultimately destructive to ALL involved.
- Miko Peled: Son of an IDF General - and a silenced critic of Israel's policy towards Palestinians
- Behind the Headlines: Israel massacres Palestinians (again) - Interview with Miko Peled
- Former IDF soldiers 'Breaking the Silence': A drop of conscience in a sea of Israeli psychopathy
- Haaretz op-ed declares 'It is time to admit it - Israeli policy is what it is: Apartheid'
- Holocaust survivors condemn Israel for Gaza massacre, call for full economic, cultural and academic boycott
- In Tel Aviv, around seven thousand protest against the Gaza operation
Sites that do not remove "obviously illegal" posts could face fines of up to 50m euro (£44.3m).
The law gives the networks 24 hours to act after they have been told about law-breaking material.
Social networks and media sites with more than two million members will fall under the law's provisions.
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube will be the law's main focus but it is also likely to be applied to Reddit, Tumblr and Russian social network VK. Other sites such as Vimeo and Flickr could also be caught up in its provisions.
Act faster
The Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz (NetzDG) law was passed at the end of June 2017 and came into force in early October.
The social networks were given until the end of 2017 to prepare themselves for the arrival of NetzDG.
The call to police social media sites more effectively arose after several high-profile cases in which fake news and racist material was being spread via the German arms of prominent social media firms.
Comment: The problem with these kinds of hate speech laws is the vague wording which allow almost anything to be interpreted as hate speech. It follows that content critical of the official narrative will be the first to be considered as such. By forcing these companies to remove content on the basis of a user complaint with no chance to investigate will only lead to further censorship. If you think things are bad now, these kinds of draconian measures will make it worse. See also:
- New German law makes 'full online censorship' official
- German politicians want to fine Facebook if it fails to remove 'fake news' within 24 hours
- Germany's spy chief begs for censorship and FakeNews, says tech giants should take control














Comment: Good riddance. Ciccariello got off lightly by resigning. Just imagine the fallout if he would have called for "black genocide", "Jewish genocide", or claimed that "blackness" is what causes a disproportionate amount of crime in the U.S. The man is ideologically possessed and should not be around young people.