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Who's behind the Portland riots? 60% of arrested anti-Trump protesters were from out of state and didn't vote

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 15 Nov 2016 23:04 UTC
Portland protesters against Trump
© The Washington Times / Twitter
Two months ago, Charlotte police confirmed that 70% of those arrested during the riots were from out-of-state. 18 months before that, as the riots flared in Ferguson, George Soros spurred the protest movement through years of funding and mobilizing groups across the U.S., according to financial records reviewed by The Washington Times. And now, amid more headlines of Soros' involvement, KGW reports that more than half of the anti-Trump protesters arrested in Portland were from out of state.
At least sixty-nine demonstrators either didn't turn in a ballot or weren't registered to vote in the state.

KGW compiled a list of the 112 people arrested by the Portland Police Bureau during recent protests. Those names and ages, provided by police, were then compared to state voter logs by Multnomah County Elections officials.

Records show 34 of the protesters arrested didn't return a ballot for the November 8 election. Thirty-five of the demonstrators taken into custody weren't registered to vote in Oregon.

Twenty-five protesters who were arrested did vote.

KGW is still working to verify voting records for the remaining 17 protesters who were arrested.
In other words over 60% of the arrested protesters in Portland were not local voters dismayed by the election of Donald Trump.
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Sickening: Stepmom gets life sentence for horrible abuse of son leading to his death; body fed to pigs

Tony Rizzo
Kansas City Star
Mon, 14 Nov 2016 21:25 UTC
Adrian Jones
© Submitted photo
Prosecutors said Adrian Jones, seen here at age 5, was physically and emotionally abused, confined and “essentially starved to death.”
The living hell of Adrian Jones' last year on earth ended with his emaciated and battered 7-year-old body consumed by pigs.

On Monday, one of the adults who inflicted such horrific abuse on the Kansas City, Kan., boy was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.

Heather Jones, Adrian's stepmother, also was sentenced Monday to five years and eight months in prison for two counts of child abuse. District Judge Mike Grosko followed the terms of the plea agreement and ordered the sentences to run consecutively.

Jones, 30, pleaded guilty in Wyandotte County District Court last month to a charge of first-degree murder.

The boy's remains were found last year, and authorities said it appeared he had been fed to pigs on property rented by Jones and her husband in the 5200 block of North 99th Street.
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Thousands of Greeks take to streets in Athens to protest Obama's visit


RT
Tue, 15 Nov 2016 21:04 UTC
athens greece protests
© Alkis Konstantinidis / Reuters
Protesters clash with riot police during a demonstration against the visit of U.S President Barack Obama, in Athens, Greece, November 15, 2016
Leftist demonstrators protesting against US President Barack Obama's visit to Athens have clashed with police, who used tear gas to disperse the crowd as people tried to break through cordons.

Some 7,000 people took to the streets of central Athens on Tuesday to protest Obama's visit to the Greek capital, Reuters reports. The demonstrators initially planned to walk all the way to the US Embassy located in another part of the city, but the procession was disrupted as protesters clashed with police officers.

"We don't need protectors!" one of the banners carried by the demonstrators read. Some could be heard exclaiming: "Yankees go home!"

One protester was seen setting an American flag on fire.

All public gatherings were banned in the central part of Athens due to Obama's two-day visit. Riot police parked buses along Obama's route and erected cordons.

No injuries or arrests have been reported so far, according to AP.

Comment: Leftist "progressive" Greeks have a very different opinion than their US counterparts. It's this kind of cluelessness about anything that has ever happened outside the USA that dominates "progressive" thinking in the USA that leads them to think Obummer and Killary are wonderful pacifist populist lefties and Trump is a fascist.

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Smile! Over half of Americans have their photos in facial recognition databases

John Vibes
Activist Post
Mon, 14 Nov 2016 14:05 UTC
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According to a new report by Georgetown Law's Center on Privacy and Technology, half of Americans now have photos of themselves stored in facial recognition databases. The vast majority of these citizens are not suspects in crimes, nor do they have criminal records.

The report indicated that over 117 million adults are stored in facial recognition databases, and any of their photos can be used at any time in a "virtual lineup," where they can be picked out by law enforcement as potential suspects.

According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), many police departments use photos from Facebook, photos from protests, and even videos of average people walking down the street taken from cameras posted up around urban centers. It was even indicated in the report that drivers license photos are used to populate these databases, meaning that almost anyone could be a potential suspect in one of these lineups.

The report's findings, along with revelations from the ACLU on police monitoring in Baltimore, suggest that the technology may be violating the rights of millions of Americans and is disproportionately affecting communities of color, advocates said.

Comment: Half of Americans in 'virtual lineup' face-recognition police programs - study

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We're all being played for chumps: How the media profits from ceaseless fearmongering

Charles Hugh Smith
Of Two Minds
Mon, 14 Nov 2016 13:49 UTC
Watching TV
© Petr Malyshev, Shutterstock
If you want to stop being played as a chump, turn off the CNN/MSM and disengage from the self-referential social media distraction.

Let's start by asking: if Trump had lost and his supporters had angrily taken to the streets, destroying private property and threatening police officers while proclaiming "not my president," would the mainstream media have characterized the rioters differently than it has the pro-Clinton rioters?

Any fair-minded observer knows the answer is yes: the CNN/MSM would have lambasted the "rioting deplorables" as "what's wrong with America."

Substitution is a useful tool to expose bias. How come the CNN/mainstream corporate media isn't declaring the pro-Clinton rioters "deplorables"?

This tells us something else is going on here. I want to explain what's really going on, but first we need to run a simple experiment:

Turn off CNN, PBS, CBS et al., your Twitter and Facebook feeds, etc. for seven days, and live solely in the media-free real world for a week. If you're truly interested in understanding what's really going on in America, then come back in a week and read the rest of the essay.

Have you pulled out the CNN/MSM/social media fearmongering/propaganda dripline for a few days? This is a necessary step, as we shall soon see.
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How to break an illusion: Trump the master-persuader is just getting started

Scott Adams
Dilbert.com
Mon, 14 Nov 2016 20:19 UTC
Scott Adams - Dilbert creator
© AP
Scott Adams - Dilbert creator
Anti-Trump protesters believe they are fighting the good fight to stop a racist, homophobic, sexist monster. But about half of the country - the half that I'm in - is in a different movie. In our movie, we selected a new president and half of the country is in cognitive dissonance over it. Assuming the protesters are the ones experiencing the illusion, and not us, how can we release them from their zombie-like existence so they will stop blocking traffic?

I'll tell you the general approach.

The main thing you have to do is violate the frame. Clinton framed Trump as a monster, and now protesters are locked into that illusion. If Trump does things that can be construed as monster-like, the illusion is strengthened. But every time he violates that framing, the illusion gets a crack. If it cracks enough, it breaks.

For example, half the country thought Trump was going to eliminate every good thing about Obamacare. But recently the public learned that Trump wants to keep the most popular provisions and just "fix" the rest of it. That violates the monster frame. But it isn't enough by itself. You need more violations.
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Four scapegoats stand trial for using UK convoys in Syria to aid terrorism


RT
Tue, 15 Nov 2016 19:50 UTC
ISIS soldiers
© AFP
Four men accused of using aid convoys bound for Syria to transport 'items for terrorists' are standing trial at the Old Bailey in London. Syed Hoque, 37, of Stoke-on-Trent, allegedly sent £4,500, to his nephew who was fighting the government of Bashar Assad.

Hoque is also accused of making "other property" available between December 1, 2012, and May 31, 2014, along with three other men: Mashoud Miah, 27, of east London; Mohammed Hussain, 30, of east London; and Pervez Rafiq, 46, of Birkby, Huddersfield. All four men have denied the charges, and Hoque has also refuted two additional counts of funding terrorism.

Prosecutor Annabel Darlow QC said: "The defendants made use, or so it would appear, of aid convoys as a means of moving money and other property out of the UK to Syria." Darlow added that the prosecution was not suggesting the convoys did not have a legitimate charitable purpose.

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Evolution or revolution? Anti-Trump protestors need to be honest about their true intentions

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Tue, 15 Nov 2016 00:00 UTC
trump protest

The anti-Trump protesters must be honest with themselves about the true intentions of their protest. And here's why.

The protests against Donald Trump that happened directly after his election victory appear to be petering out. They were never very large, and were always going to end given the indisputable fact - which the protests can't change - that Donald Trump is going to be the next President of the United States.

The protests have, however, attracted a great deal of attention and in view of that, and because I know of some people who have taken part in them, I feel that I should offer my views of them.

Firstly, people have a right to protest provided they do so in a lawful and peaceful way.

Secondly, whilst they have a right to protest against Donald Trump, they need to be clear what they are protesting against. If by protesting they are trying to stop Donald Trump from becoming President of the United States, then since Trump has been elected legally and constitutionally, they are taking a revolutionary position.
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Lawyers for Assange will likely appeal to Trump to close rape investigation


Sputnik
Tue, 15 Nov 2016 19:50 UTC
assange
© AP Photo/ Kirsty Wigglesworth
Lawyers for WikiLeaks have announced that they may appeal to US president-elect Donald Trump to close the investigation into publisher Julian Assange.

Lawyers for Assange say that they are hopeful that Swedish prosecutors will also close the rape case against him after concluding their questioning of him in London on Tuesday. His lawyers argued that the Swedish prosecutors have made procedural mistakes in the investigation into their client.

"The interview with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London has ended. The results of the interview will later be reported from Ecuador to the Swedish prosecutors in a written statement. After this report, the prosecutors will take a view on the continuation of the investigation," a statement from the Swedish Prosecution Authority read.
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Ohio attorney jailed for sexually assaulting clients under hypnosis


RT
Tue, 15 Nov 2016 19:35 UTC
Michael Fine
© Court Chatter View/ Youtube
An Ohio attorney who induced clients into a hypnotic trance before sexually assaulting them has been jailed for 12 years. Prosecutors in Lorain County said 59-year-old Michael Fine had, under the guise of providing legal assistance, carried out a spate of attacks on women for his own sexual pleasure by using hypnosis on his victims.

The father-of-two's crimes were exposed only when a client became suspicious and began recording her conversations with Fine. The extent of his manipulation later became apparent when one of his victims secretly videoed a meeting at his office as part of a police sting, reports NBC4I news. The attorney was sentenced to 12 years in prison at a Lorain County court on Monday, two months after he plead guilty to sexually-motivated kidnapping and attempted kidnapping, report The Chronicle Telegram.

Judge Patricia A. Cosgrove said Fine had used relaxation techniques to hypnotize, abuse people and "take their dignity." Prior to sentencing, Fine said he had "remorse and grief in my heart."
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