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Teen clockmaker Ahmed Mohamed asks police to give clock back

RT
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 20:24 UTC

Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old Muslim boy from Texas who became famous after he was arrested for bringing a homemade digital clock to school, now says he wants his creation back. The timepiece has been in police custody ever since his Monday arrest.

The young engineer has been invited as a guest to myriad talk shows, to tour several high-profile Silicon Valley companies and even to the White House for a conversation with President Barack Obama. Despite all the hoopla surrounding him, Ahmed says he wants to get the thing back.

"The clock is still in the custody of the police. I want it back, with my humility," Ahmed said on 'Good Morning America'.

Ahmed is a ninth-grader keen on mechanics, and he said he just wanted to impress his new teachers at MacArthur High School in Irving with a clock he made by himself. Instead, the 14-year-old was suspended from school for three days after his English teacher confused it with a bomb.

Russia will completely exclude any GMO ingredients in food production

RT
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 20:14 UTC

© Tatyana Kuznetsova / RIA Novosti
Members of Russian nationalist party LDPR protest against GMO foods near a McDonalds restaurant

A senior Russian government member told reporters the cabinet decided that any food production in the country will completely exclude any genetically-modified organisms or parts thereof.

"As far as genetically-modified organisms are concerned, we have made decision not to use any GMO in food productions," Deputy PM Arkady Dvorkovich said at an international conference on biotechnology in the Russian city of Kirov.

At the same time the official emphasized that there was a very clear line between this decision and the development of science, medicine and some other branches.

"This is not a simple issue, we must do very thorough work on division on these spheres and form a legal base on this foundation," he said.

Comment: Fortunately, more countries are realizing that GMO's pose serious risks to health and the environment and many are finally taking a stand against Monsanto's tyranny.

"Pervasive misconduct" costing taxpayers over $1million found at U.S. census bureau

RT
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 20:20 UTC

Employees at the US Census Bureau's hiring office cost the taxpayers over $1 million by falsified time cards, broke rules by hiring friends and family, and threatened whistleblowers who reported them, government inspectors have found.

At least nine employees of the Bureau's Census Hiring and Employment Check (CHEC) office engaged in "pervasive misconduct over several years," says a report by the Office of the Inspector-General (OIG) for the Department of Commerce, the Bureau's parent agency, citing "widespread time and attendance abuse, misuse of office, and repeated attempts to retaliate against a perceived whistleblower."

The OIG investigated 40 current and former employees, finding a "systemic pattern of time and attendance abuse" by the"significant portion of the CHEC Office since the start of the decade."

Between 2010 and 2014, CHEC employees claimed at least 19,162 hours they never actually worked, the inspectors found. One employee charged the government $85,000 in wages for 890 hours never worked. Another collected nearly $65,000 for 1277 falsely claimed hours. Altogether, nineteen employees of CHEC had "discrepancies of over 400 hours"over a four-year span, the inspectors wrote.

Police State USA: 5 ways to be easily mistreated and abused by cops in the U.S.

RT
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 19:49 UTC

From being innovative to having a disability, many in the US have been treated like criminals without actually committing a crime at all. Others have been brutalized for the most minor of infractions, such as crossing the street in the wrong place.

1. Jaywalk

Crossing the street in an area that isn't an official crosswalk can apparently lead to a beating with a baton. That's exactly what happened to a boy in Stockton, California, who was only trying to walk to his bus.

Police chief admits officers knew clock Ahmed Mohamed brought to school wasn't bomb

Arturo Garcia
Raw Story
Thu, 17 Sep 2015 17:12 UTC

Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd appears on 'All In With Chris Hayes' on Sept. 17, 2015

Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd refused to say on Thursday that his officers erred in arresting 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed on Monday even though they allegedly knew he did not bring a bomb to his high school.

MSNBC host Chris Hayes gave Boyd the opportunity to admit to a mistake, while conceding that people understood that officers need to be on high alert regarding possible attacks against a school.

However, Hayes said, "I think it's hard for folks watching this from the outside, seeing this all link up, seeing this kid — who seems like a tremendously poised, bright, genuine kid — be put through this. To not hear from anyone in officialdom down there that 'Yeah, we didn't get this one right.'"

"The officers made the decision they did with the information they had with what they thought was right at the time," Boyd responded. "We are clearly going to review this. We want to always look at ways we can enhance and have a better outcome. There's a lot of decision points, there's a lot of alternatives that they have available to them."

San Jose cop busted for lewd acts after woman snaps pics with her cell phone

Andrew Emett
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 17 Sep 2015 19:12 UTC

While walking down the sidewalk this month, a vigilant citizen pulled out her cellphone and took photos of a perverted police sergeant exposing himself while harassing her. Instead of remaining silent and accepting his abuse, the 39-year-old woman notified the police and showed them the vulgar photographs. A few days after the sergeant was arrested, the San Jose Police Department finally decided to place him on paid administrative leave.

Around 5:15 p.m. on September 4, a 39-year-old woman was walking down the sidewalk when she noticed a man sitting in a parked car. After she realized that the man was exposing himself and masturbating in the car, the woman immediately turned around and began walking the other way. To prevent her from escaping, Sergeant James Rainey Mason allegedly pulled up in front of her and parked his car while continuing to expose himself.

Comment: It's good to know we are being protected by members of the police force who are such, fine upstanding citizens and not perverted in any way.

US government continues to push Real ID Act, some residents will need passports for domestic travel

John Vibes
The Anti Media
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 18:51 UTC

To comply with the 2005 Real ID Act, which the U.S. government has been slowly implementing for the past decade, citizens in a number of different U.S. states will now be forced to obtain a passport if they want to board an airplane — even for domestic flights.

The Department of Homeland Security and representatives with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection have declined to comment on why certain states have been singled out, but starting in 2016, residents of New York, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and American Samoa will need a passport to fly domestically. All other states will still be able to use their state-issued driver's licenses and IDs — for now, at least.

Comment: The government has consistently shown that despite the wishes of the people, it will do whatever it wants. These moves are priming to population to get used to travel restrictions as there may come a day when no one is allowed to leave.

Guantanamo prison: One detainee freed, 115 to go

RT
Thu, 17 Sep 2015 17:57 UTC

A long-cleared Guantanamo Bay detainee, never charged with a crime, has been transferred back to his home country of Morocco, the Pentagon announced on Thursday. The move comes as Congress considers the expansion of restrictions on such transfers.

Younis Abdurrahman Chekkouri, 47, was repatriated after officials unanimously approved his transfer, said Cmdr. Gary Ross, a Defense Department spokesman. He was taken to Guantanamo 13 years ago under suspicion of being a militant from the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group in Afghanistan. He was approved for release in 2009 and was never charged with a crime.

Chekkouri was delivered to the North African country on Wednesday.

"The United States is grateful to the Government of Morocco for its willingness to support ongoing U.S. efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility," the Pentagon said in a statement.

Comment: What hubris!

The Cuba-based prison camp still houses 115 detainees, who are being held under suspicion of involvement in terrorist activities. Fifty-two of the detainees have been cleared for release but reside in administrative limbo, much like Chekkouri did.

Comment: Of the 115 detainees remaining in Guantanamo, which is down from 242 when Obama took office, at least half have been cleared for transfer but are still unlawfully detained. What will it take, Mr. President? As you once said: "It's not who we are." Apparently it is who some of us are!

Unrest in Jerusalem: 'Palestinians' open fire and hurl firebombs on Israel policemen

RT
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 14:48 UTC

© Reuters
A Palestinian policeman reacts next to fellow police officers as he tries to prevent Palestinian demonstrators from reaching an Israeli checkpoint during a protest against the Israeli police raid on Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem September 18, 2015.

An Israeli policeman was shot in Jerusalem after Palestinians opened fire, local journalists reported on Twitter. At least three others were injured. A Molotov cocktail was also reportedly thrown at officers.

The shots were fired in Jerusalem's Armon Hanetziv neighborhood, according to Haaretz.

A tweet from Israel News Feed stated that some of the officers were injured after being hit with stones.

#UPDATE: #Jerusalem: Pictures from the scene: 3 @IL_police policemen injured pic.twitter.com/SD1TpcIFw6— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) September 18, 2015

Comment: How convenient.

Florida 'house of horrors' contains 3,714 bladed weapons

RT
Thu, 17 Sep 2015 13:47 UTC

Some of Nickcole Dykema’s vast collection of bladed weapons

Coming home to slashed window screens and air conditioner is enough to make anyone feel on edge. Especially when it turns out that a neighbor is armed to the teeth with more than 3,700 machetes, swords and knives hanging on her walls.

Those who live near Nickcole Dykema's mobile home in Brooksville, Florida say that she has been terrorizing the neighborhood for years.

"I was just petrified all the time," next-door neighbor Dorothy Clagg told WTSP. "She had a habit of banging on the inside of her house all the time on the walls, and screaming and hollering."

Paula Deford, another neighbor, caught Dykema on her home security system slicing through the window screens and slashing into her air conditioner with a large knife.

"She cut all the screens on these windows in one incident," Deford told WTSP. There was also a second, similar incident.

And that's what brought police to Dykema's door: The 47-year-old isn't supposed to have any knives. It's a violation of her probation. She was arrested after being caught shoplifting at Dollar Tree in December, stealing chef knives with a sword down her pants and dagger around her waist.

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Society's Child

Teen clockmaker Ahmed Mohamed asks police to give clock back

Russia will completely exclude any GMO ingredients in food production

"Pervasive misconduct" costing taxpayers over $1million found at U.S. census bureau

Police State USA: 5 ways to be easily mistreated and abused by cops in the U.S.

Police chief admits officers knew clock Ahmed Mohamed brought to school wasn't bomb

San Jose cop busted for lewd acts after woman snaps pics with her cell phone

US government continues to push Real ID Act, some residents will need passports for domestic travel

Guantanamo prison: One detainee freed, 115 to go

Unrest in Jerusalem: 'Palestinians' open fire and hurl firebombs on Israel policemen

Florida 'house of horrors' contains 3,714 bladed weapons

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