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British man killed while fighting ISIS alongside Kurdish forces

RT
Wed, 03 Aug 2016 14:45 UTC

A British man killed while fighting Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS, ISIL) in Syria alongside Kurdish forces has been described as a "martyr."

Dean Carl Evans, a 22-year-old from Reading, was fighting alongside the Kurdish militia groups trying to wrest Manbij from IS control. Evans is one of many foreign volunteers to join the International Brigades of Rojava, which is fighting alongside the People's Defense Units (YPG).

His father, John Evans, confirmed his son died on July 21 in an announcement on Facebook. "He was loved and will be missed by all his family and friends. RIP son," his father wrote. "I would like to say a massive big thankyou to all my friends and family who sent their condolences for the loss of my son. He would have been very proud and would have regarded you all as his brothers and sisters," he added.

A Kurdish activist with close links to the YPG, Mark Campbell, told the Guardian, "As I understand it, Dean was behind a wall when he was hit by an ISIS bullet. A female YPG fighter came over to help him. As she was tending to his wound, an RPG rocket hit the wall and killed them both."

18-year-old killed by Chicago police died of gunshot wound to the back - autopsy

CBS News - Chicago
Sat, 30 Jul 2016 18:12 UTC

A third Chicago cop involved in the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old man Thursday night in South Shore has been "relieved of his police powers" by Supt. Eddie Johnson after an autopsy showed the dead man was shot in the back, a police spokesman said Saturday.

The other two officers who fired at Paul O'Neal in the 7300 block of South Merrill Avenue were reassigned to administrative duty late Friday, with police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi saying it "appears that departmental policies may have been violated."

Autopsy results released Saturday showed O'Neal, whose shooting is under investigation by the city's Independent Police Review Authority, died of a gunshot wound to the back. The Cook County medical examiner's office ruled the death a homicide.

"Following the release of autopsy results from the Cook County medical examiner this morning, Johnson spent hours behind closed doors at police headquarters Saturday getting briefed on the results and [reviewing] video evidence with department officials," Guglielmi said Saturday night.

Pointing fingers: Chicago police review board has no record of 6 officer-involved shootings

RT
Wed, 03 Aug 2016 13:35 UTC

Head of the Independent Police Review Authority Sharon Fairley

Chicago's inspector general has discovered that reports by the Independent Police Review Authority overlooked six police shootings and 14 incidents of Taser use.

It's been a bad week for the IPRA, according to some, and just a bad agency to others.

Inspector General Joseph Ferguson found that in the agency's most recent quarterly report, they had no evidence showing they looked into six shootings by police officers, which did not hit anyone.

The agency also had no records regarding 14 incidents of police using Tasers between 2007 and 2014, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Is nature saying wake up and smell the corpses? America's pungent corpse flowers are all mysteriously blooming at once

Josh Hrala
Science Alert
Tue, 02 Aug 2016 22:39 UTC

Botanists across the US are trying to figure out why so many titan arums - better known as corpse flowers - are blooming simultaneously around the country this year.

This is super weird, because there have only been 157 recorded blooms ever between 1889 and 2008. But this year in the US alone, at least seven flowers have bloomed.

Before we dive headfirst into this foul-smelling mystery, what's a corpse flower, and why are botanists so into them?

The scientific name for corpse flowers is Amorphophallus titanium, which literally means "giant misshapen penis" in Latin (no, really).

They not only produce one of the biggest flowering structures in the world, sometimes reaching heights of over 1.8 metres (6 feet), their scent happens to mimic the distinct stench of decomposing flesh, with a bit of old fish mixed in.

Native to parts of western Sumatra, these gigantic flowers bloom about once every six years, giving everyone in their vicinity a good whiff of their natural perfume.

Comment: What's also interesting about the timing is 4 of the 7 flowers bloomed within days of Killary's nomination as the Democratic party's presidential candidate. The stench of death is in the air, literally and figuratively.

CNN president says 'Vice, Buzzfeed not legitimate news organizations' but uses them as sources

RT
Wed, 03 Aug 2016 13:05 UTC

CNN President Jeff Zucker completely dissed Vice and Buzzfeed in a feature profile for Variety magazine, calling the rival media outlets "native advertising shops" and saying CNN "crushes" them.

Zucker went on to say that the two aren't worthy of being called journalistic outlets.

"I don't think Vice and BuzzFeed are legitimate news organizations," Zucker said, reportedly cracking a "mischievous" smile, as reported by Variety on Tuesday.

"They are native advertising shops. We crush both of them. They are not even in our same class," he added.

That said, CNN has been using Vice and Buzzfeed quite a lot in their broadcasts, and doesn't hesitate to refer to them as sources.

Family of drowned SEAL trainee feels Navy lied to them

RT
Wed, 03 Aug 2016 02:35 UTC

James Derek Lovelace's family was told he died in an accident in his first week of Navy SEAL training. However, a video which shows an instructor ignoring Lovelace struggling during drills and being dunked underwater have the family feeling "misled."

Lynsi Price, Lovelace's sister, told the Virginian-Pilot that when she learned her brother died in May, she did not receive much in terms of answers.

"We were told and made to believe that this was a tragic accident. ... we trusted these men," she said.

Emirates passenger jet crash-lands in Dubai, engulfed in flames

RT
Wed, 03 Aug 2016 12:22 UTC

An Emirates plane carrying 300 people caught fire on a runway at Dubai International Airport after crash-landing. All departures have been suspended, and arrivals have been diverted to other airports.

Emirates said flight EK521 was involved in an "accident" that occurred at 12:45pm local time (08:45 GMT) on Tuesday.

Photos on social media showed smoke billowing from the aircraft, which crash-landed on arrival from Thiruvananthapuram, India.

The fire has since been completely extinguished, according to the Dubai government's press office.

Emirates has also confirmed that "all passengers and crew are accounted for and safe."

Colombia destroys over 100 cocaine labs in 5 days

RT
Wed, 03 Aug 2016 12:00 UTC

Colombia's anti-narcotics police have raided and destroyed 104 cocaine laboratories across the country's southeastern jungle region in what the authorities called a "structural blow" to the cocaine production and trafficking business.

The special operation, executed over a period of five days, saw 104 labs, which had been producing some 100 tons of narcotics annually, go up in flames. The production facilities, authorities say, belonged to Los Urabenos, also known as Clan Usuga, a drug trafficking neo-paramilitary group that is believed to have a close connection to the notorious FARC rebels.

"This is a structural blow to the finances of drug trafficking," anti-narcotics police director General Jose Angel Mendoza told Reuters in the jungles of Guaviare province.

Police going door-to-door forcing black residents to prove they are really legally allowed to vote

Jaimes Campbell
Counter Current News
Wed, 03 Aug 2016 03:06 UTC

Hancock County, Georgia Seemed to forget that this is 2016, and not the Jim Crow south anymore. More than 180 black residents of Hancock County were visited by sheriff deputies, with paperwork in hand, to demand that residents either appear in person to prove they have the right to vote or be purged from the rolls.

Last week, for instance, a U.S. appeals court struck down a North Carolina voter ID law that it said was specifically designed to lower turnout among black voters. And now the New York Times is reporting that a town in Georgia is using its police department to challenge the rights of its black residents to vote.

The 180 black residents make up roughly one fifth of Sparta's total registered voters, the Times notes.

13-year-old strip searched then thrown in jail for burping in class

Alice Salles
Antimedia
Tue, 02 Aug 2016 18:44 UTC

13-Year-Old Strip Searched Then Thrown in Jail for Burping in Class

In America, burping in class is a serious crime. Need proof? Just look at the story of this 13-year-old from Albuquerque, New Mexico's Cleveland Middle School.

According to George Washington University law professor, Jonathan Turley, the boy was acting like a class clown, doing what many class clowns do: disrupting class. Because of his loud burps, his teacher, Margaret Mines-Hornbeck, reported the boy to Officer Arthur Acosta. The seventh grader was then taken to an administrative office after being searched for drugs, as the assistant principal accused the 13-year-old of participating in a marijuana transaction.

During the search, the boy was asked to remove his jeans and shoes, then flip the waistband of the shorts he had been wearing underneath. This was all in vain considering no drugs were found.

After the traumatizing experience, the boy was suspended for the remainder of the year, all because he burped too loud. But sure enough, that wasn't the end of it.

Instead of letting this matter go after such a harsh punishment, Cleveland Middle School decided to charge him criminally using a provision that says "[n]o person shall willfully interfere with the educational process of any public or private school by committing, threatening to commit or inciting others to commit any act which would disrupt, impair, interfere with or obstruct the lawful mission, processes, procedures or functions of a public or private school."

Making matters even worse, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit decided to uphold the Albuquerque school officials' action by claiming police and school leadership were justified in sending the 13-year-old to juvenile jail.

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Society's Child

British man killed while fighting ISIS alongside Kurdish forces

18-year-old killed by Chicago police died of gunshot wound to the back - autopsy

Pointing fingers: Chicago police review board has no record of 6 officer-involved shootings

Is nature saying wake up and smell the corpses? America's pungent corpse flowers are all mysteriously blooming at once

CNN president says 'Vice, Buzzfeed not legitimate news organizations' but uses them as sources

Family of drowned SEAL trainee feels Navy lied to them

Emirates passenger jet crash-lands in Dubai, engulfed in flames

Colombia destroys over 100 cocaine labs in 5 days

Police going door-to-door forcing black residents to prove they are really legally allowed to vote

13-year-old strip searched then thrown in jail for burping in class

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