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French highway department refuses to install road signs to reflect new speed limit


The Connexion
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 15:29 UTC
highway driving

"Let the State handle it," department president says.
Authorities in one Nouvelle-Aquitaine department have refused to install new speed limit signs on secondary routes in protest at the change.

The Creuse will not "implement any means, financial, technical or human" to the installation of 80kph signs ahead of the nationwide speed limit reduction on July 1.

But, officials said they "would not oppose the implementation of the new speed limits by the services of the State".

Valérie Simonet, president of the conseil départemental in Creuse, said that the planned speed reduction would "contribute to the department's isolation".

"In the absence of consultation, let the State deal with it," she told France Bleu Creuse.

The planned cut in speed limits on the country's 400,000kms of secondary routes has sparked controversy since it was announced earlier this year by Prime Minister Edouard Philippe.
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Cop who tasered teen in the genitals until he died can now be sued

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 24 Jun 2018 15:21 UTC
police taser
As the Free Thought Project reported last year, police were caught on video tasering a young man's testicles and his body - until he died. Then, in June of 2017, we learned that although the Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson found that the officers involved had committed a crime during their torture - they cannot be charged. After a series of horrifying experiences, however, the family has finally seen some semblance of justice as a federal judge ruled this week that the family's lawsuit can proceed against police.

Last year, to add insult to unaccountable injury and death, according to court documents, the cops defended their tactics, calling their torturous acts that fateful night, standard procedure.

Before the lawsuit was allowed to proceed by the federal judge this week, Mesquite police officers Jack Fyall, Richard Houston, Alan Gafford, Zachary Scott, William Heidelburg and Bill Hedgpeth, the ones responsible for the death of Graham Dyer, asked the judge to dismiss it.

"If I could go back in time and have this case, it would be indicted," said Michael Snipes, the first assistant district attorney. "We would have pursued criminally negligent homicide charges."
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Hypocritical David Hogg struts around NYC with armed guards and publicists on his book tour

Victor Skinner
The American Mirror
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 14:56 UTC
David Hogg
© JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images
David Hogg is a VIP now.

The 18-year-old attended the Parkland, Florida school where a student murdered 17 people in February, then made himself famous with relentless calls for gun control in the wake of the tragedy.

Now he's got a book deal, and publicists - and armed guards.

Sean Di Somma snapped some pictures of Hogg strolling the streets of New York City recently with his new entourage in tow.


Comment: That's hard to believe.

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Bizarro Earth

Feminism: An obituary

Belinda Brown
A Voice for Men
Sun, 24 Jun 2018 13:51 UTC
wooman screaming
It is high time that feminism was recognised as a hate movement, that its ideology was felt as an embarrassment and being a feminist was seen as a badge of shame.

While the article by Suzanna Danuta Walters has been reassuringly and roundly condemned from all quarters - feminists appear to have been embarrassed into silence. Perhaps they are mortified that a mainstream, high profile, feminist academic has shouted from the rooftops those thoughts they knew to keep private and has made unambiguous the association between feminism and hate.

Comment:

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10 illegal-immigrant MS-13 gang members charged in murder of 2 Virginia teens

Greg Norman
Fox News
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 15:03 UTC
Edvin Escobar Mendez, Sergio Arita Triminio
© Fairfax County Police Department
Edvin Escobar Mendez, 17, of Falls Church, left, and Sergio Arita Triminio, 14, of Alexandria, were found dead last year. Eleven MS-13 gang members have been charged Friday in their deaths.
Eleven MS-13 gang members - all of whom are illegal immigrants except one - are facing life in prison after being charged in the kidnappings and deaths of two teens whose bodies were dug up in a Virginia park last year.

The ages of the male gang members charged Friday ranged from 20 to 27. All of them are from El Salvador and only one - who is believed to have fled the country - is not in police custody, according to NBC Washington.

Police uncovered the bodies of 17-year-old Edvin Escobar Mendez and 14-year-old Sergio Arita Triminio at Holmes Run Park in March 2017 after receiving a tip.

The two teens disappeared just weeks apart the prior year.

After Mendez vanished and was reported missing by his family, his brother tracked down Triminio - one of his friends - who revealed to him that Mendez was "abducted or killed" because the MS-13 members thought he was allied with a rival gang.

Two days after that reported conversation, Triminio, who lived near Holmes Run Park, disappeared while taking out the trash.

"He never came back," his mother said.

Comment: These people are animals.

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Family

Mixed-race family requests company rename ice cream flavor to make it more inclusive

Hank Berrien
The Daily Wire
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:45 UTC
choco vanilla ice cream
A Louisiana mother of six children and foster mother to other children has a mixed-race family whose children thought that Blue Bell Ice Cream should change the name of a popular chocolate and vanilla ice cream flavor, The Great Divide, to "Better Together."

As Fox News reports, "Traci Schmidley, her husband, and their brood of six children were sitting down for an ice cream party at their Louisiana home to celebrate the end of a hard week." Schmidley wrote, "We always buy Blue Bell, and this time we chose the flavor The Great Divide, which has chocolate on one half and vanilla on the other half."

Schmidley's older son, 10, joked that the Great Divide flavor reminded him of the Civil War. Schmidley recalled, "The line down the middle of the carton reminded him of the Mason Dixon line, and the name reminded him of a time in history when our nation appeared to be irrevocably divided. He looked at our table and saw a mixture of both black and white people, not divided on one side or another like in the ice cream but gathered around the table together."

Comment: That's all very cute but it's ice cream, people. A summer treat can't be enjoyed without dreaming up racial implications? Get over yourselves!

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Info

US sends wooden caskets to N. Korea in preparation for return of US war dead


RT
Sun, 24 Jun 2018 14:45 UTC
Repatriation ceremony of UN Command and South Korean soldiers, April 2016
© POOL / Reuters
Repatriation ceremony of UN Command and South Korean soldiers, April 2016.
The US military has sent 100 wooden caskets to the border of North Korea in preparation for the repatriation of the remains of US soldiers killed in the Korean War.

More than 36,000 US troops died in the 1950-1953 war. Around 7,800 US military personnel still remain unaccounted for, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

The consignment of "100 wooden temporary transit cases" was confirmed by US Forces Korea, who said that the coffins, built in Seoul, had been transferred to the Joint Security Area (JSA) on Saturday so the remains can be moved in "a dignified manner" when the time comes.

"We are also moving United Nations Command (UNC) flags to the JSA and also trestles on which the boxes can stand as we prep them ready to move them to Osan," a US Forces Korea (USFK) official said.
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Bad Guys

Manchester police allow teenage boy to stay in paedophile's house to protect covert investigation


RT
Sun, 24 Jun 2018 11:56 UTC
Police line
Manchester police let a teenage boy stay in the house of a suspected paedophile and gangster for two hours in order to "protect an undercover investigation."

During the 2011 'Nixon' operation that was carried out to monitor suspect Dominic Noonan, police officers reportedly witnessed a 13-year-old boy walking into the paedophile's house, but were told not to take any action by their superiors, the Times has revealed.

Police officers at the scene were concerned and asked senior staff how they could intervene. It was suggested that a local officer could come in under the pretext that they had received a public call. But that was not carried out.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) chose not to take legal action against the officer in charge, Dominic Sally, and his colleague, when the incident was first revealed to internal investigations by a whistleblower in 2014. On the contrary, Sally has since been promoted to the head of counterterrorism policing in northwest England.
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Gold Bar

Currency war can end global US dollar dominance and those who own gold have power


RT
Sun, 24 Jun 2018 14:34 UTC
Gold bars
© Leonhard Foeger / Reuters
The world is facing a currency war and the only hedge against the crash of the US dollar is real gold, a precious metal analyst has told RT. With geopolitical power shifting from West to East, US dominance may be ending.

One such sign is the recent repatriation of gold from the United States. Countries such as Turkey, Germany, the Netherlands have been moving the bullions home. The reason is the Cold War is over and countries don't see Russia as a threat anymore, says Claudio Grass, an independent precious metals advisor and Mises Ambassador.

"Central banks moved their gold because they felt threatened by the USSR and saw the USA as their natural ally. The fact that central banks are repatriating their gold shows that this has changed. It also implies that they don't see Russia as a bigger threat than the USA any longer. Europe stands in the center of this geopolitical power shift and some countries obviously believe it's wise to store the gold in their home countries," he told RT.

Comment: There does seem to be some currency maneuvering going on in preparation for something:

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Pistol

American towns are using zoning codes to create gun store-free zones

Awr Hawkins
Breitbart
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 14:31 UTC
gun ban
© Joel Pollak / Breitbart News
Cities and townships are using zoning restrictions to create "gun-store-free zones" around the country. This includes over 20 such zones in California alone.

According to the Trace, a gun control journalism outlet, such use of zoning codes allows cities to "effectively ban firearm stores" in lieu of Congressional refusal to pass more gun laws.

Piscataway, New Jersey, is one of the latest townships to adopt this approach. They have no federally licensed firearms dealers in their township, and the town Council hopes to use a zoning resolution to keep any licensed dealers from setting up shop in the future. Their resolution, according to the Trace, "bans gun stores from opening within 1,000 feet of schools, parks, health care facilities, and other sensitive locations. While the new zoning law does not explicitly forbid gun stores from opening in the suburb, it makes dealers subject to conditions that almost no location meets."
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