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Chaos in Liberia as capital sealed-off from outside world, placed under Ebola quarantine - Police open fire on panicked protestors

RT
Thu, 21 Aug 2014 10:11 UTC

© Reuters
Liberian security forces stand in front of protesters after clashes at West Point neighbourhood in Monrovia August 20, 2014

Four people were injured in clashes when soldiers opened fire and used tear gas on demonstrators in the quarantine zone in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, as the world tries to contain the fatal outbreak and to find a cure for the deadly disease.

The death toll from the spreading virus mounted by 106 in just two days, and constituted 1,350 victims. In Liberia alone, 576 people have died from 972 cases, AFP reported.

The clashes broke out after the Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf quarantined the West Point and Dolo Town areas, to the east of Monrovia, and introduced a curfew.

Residents of West Point were outraged at the move, protesting, throwing stones and shouting at police. Witnesses also stated that the violence began after the security forces blocked roads to the neighborhood with tables, chairs and barbed wire. Locals told Al Jazeera they hadn't been warned.

World's eyes on Ferguson race protests - US Lawmaker

RIA Novosti
Thu, 21 Aug 2014 13:44 UTC

US Attorney General Eric Holder said eyes around the "world are watching Ferguson right now" during his visit to the city aimed at easing tensions in the suburb that has been rocked by protests over the police killing of an unarmed African-American teenager.

"The eyes of the nation and the world are watching Ferguson right now," Holder said at talks with public figures on Wednesday in Ferguson, which has endured race protests since 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed on August 9.

Outlook for work in 2022: How your boss will run your life in a few years

Rick Newman
Yahoo! Finance
Tue, 19 Aug 2014 00:00 UTC

You might think the typical workplace is pretty Orwellian these days. You ain't seen nuthin', Winston.

Consulting firm PwC recently published its outlook for work in 2022, based on interviews with 500 human resources experts and 10,000 others in the United States and several other countries. You probably won't be surprised to hear that big companies could end up so powerful and influential they morph into "ministates" that fill the void when government is unable to provide essential services. Companies will also use sensors and other gizmos to monitor employees around the clock. And workers will mostly acquiesce to this digital leash, in exchange for job security, decent pay and important benefits.

That's the most dystopian of scenarios PwC outlines in its report, yet it's not so far-fetched, given the dramatic ways globalization and digital technology are changing the way people work and live. An increasing share of income is flowing to tech barons, data wizards and the privileged holders of capital, while ordinary workers find it harder to earn a living. There are more minimum-wage jobs today but fewer good-paying ones than there were just a few years ago, a trend many forecasters only expect to intensify.

Comment: The scenarios mentioned above in PwC's book Outlook for Work in 2022 are have already been in progress for a while in many corporations.

'I never saw people die before': Teenaged girl shares horrors of Donetsk shelling by Kiev

RT
Thu, 21 Aug 2014 12:41 UTC

Ukrainian army shelling has forever changed the life of a teenage girl near Donetsk. She is now lying in hospital with a shattered arm and shrapnel wounds. The teen saw several people, including children, being killed by falling bombs on the riverbank.

Comment: The lives of many are forever changed. They have experienced the cold, remorseless destructiveness of psychopaths firsthand.

Government forces first bombed the village of Zugres in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine on August 14. Several shells hit a beach full of people relaxing by the river, with shrapnel killing 12 people, the Rossiya 24 TV channel reported. Several people were injured and taken to hospital.

Yana Fenenko was one of the lucky ones who survived that day.

"We were swimming in the river when lots of bombs started falling all at once. We left the water and I threw myself down on the ground. I was lying prone, but I was still hit by a bomb," 15-year-old Yana told RT's Ruptly agency from a hospital bed.

"I had never seen how people die before," she said. "The beach was filled with kids... A man got his hand blown off by one of the bombs. I saw it, he was laying right next to me. Also, one of the kids' heads was blown off... It was very scary."

Comment: That's Kiev for you, taking another page out of Israel's playbook.

(Link to RUPTLY's video)

Comment: Every so-many years, it seems that humans get the uncontrollable desire to start tearing each other to shreds. Or rather, one group gets such a desire. The ones on the receiving end try to resist, to fight back, but the butchery of the attackers outstrips anything of which the attacked are capable, or can even imagine. That's the essence of psychopathy -- the reason humanity periodically descends into complete and utter madness and barbarity: it is mind of the psychopath writ large, and painted in the blood of the innocent.

Giant Palestinian flag hung from Brooklyn Bridge during NYC Boycott Divestment Sanctions protest

RT
Thu, 21 Aug 2014 12:29 UTC

Hundreds of protesters flooded the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City on Wednesday, carrying signs and chanting in support of Palestinians as violence continues to rage in Gaza.

As demonstrators marched across the bridge, activists also dropped a huge Palestinian flag from the nearby Manhattan Bridge that read, "Boycott Divestment Sanctions."

Although it is unknown exactly how many people participated in the event, photographs from the event on social media clearly indicate that at least several hundred were present. During the last pro-Gaza rally in New York City, somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 people took part.

The latest demonstration comes as talks between Israelis and Palestinians fell apart yet again on Tuesday, renewing hostilities between the two parties. As RT reported then, 500 rockets were fired at Israel by Hamas, while Israel launched at least 35 airstrikes against various targets in the Gaza Strip.

Both sides have accused each other of breaking the ceasefire that was previously in place.

Comment: There is a connection between Gaza and Ferguson: psychopaths in power. Birds of a feather...

Fighting the genocide: Lugansk self-defense fighters shoot down another Su-25 jet sent by Kiev

RIA Novosti
Thu, 21 Aug 2014 12:11 UTC

Independence supporters have downed a Ukrainian Air Force Su-25 Frogfoot attack plane over the Luhansk region late on Wednesday, a spokesman for the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine said.

Earlier a number of media reports suggested that a war plane had been shot down in the region.

"Today a Su-25 attack aircraft has been shot down while on a combat mission. The fate of the pilot is unknown yet but hope remains that he will be alright," Andriy Lysenko told Ukrainian news channel 112.ua.

In early August, independence supporters in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic confirmed they had downed a Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft. Late last month, the militia shot down two Su-25 planes. Both pilots ejected.

Comment: The "combat mission" of Kiev really serves two purposes: to destroy the resistance to their illegitimate Nazi regime and to terrorize and murder the civilian population.

Cop threatens to kill peaceful protestors with assault rifle in Ferguson

Greg Botelho
CNN
Thu, 21 Aug 2014 00:00 UTC

“I will f**ing kill you — get back!” says the officer (armed with an assault rifle), in the direction of a camera capturing the entire death threat. Asked for his name, the officer responds, “Go f### yourself.”

An officer who pointed a semi-automatic assault rifle at a Ferguson, Missouri, protester and threatened to kill him -- a tense episode caught on video and posted online -- is off the job, at least for now.

The St. Louis County Police Department announced Wednesday that a police officer from St. Ann, Missouri, "has been relieved of duty and suspended indefinitely" over the incident.

Police threatening to kill a citizen takes on special significance given what protesters are loudly, passionately demanding: charges against Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson for the August 9 fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teen.

Comment: Is it really necessary for the police to be using assault rifles against protestors? This is what results when the pentagon supplies local police forces with military grade equipment:

Militarized Police: St. Louis County police were supplied with military-grade weapons by Pentagon during Ferguson protests

Worse than police brutality: "They invaded Ferguson like they invaded Iraq" - Ferguson residents say crackdown turns city into war zone

Hundreds gather outside CNN building in Atlanta to protest coverage of Michael Brown shooting

RT
Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:22 UTC

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the CNN center in Atlanta on Monday to march in memory of unarmed Missouri teenager Michael Brown who was gunned down by a police officer, many in protest of CNN's controversial coverage of the incident.

Demonstrators who had been urged to attend dressed in their "Sunday's best" marched under the slogan: "How good must we look to be considered innocent?" and used the #ItsBiggerThanYou hashtag.

The protest was staged in response to CNN's Ferguson protests coverage, which had a strong emphasis on past actions by Brown which may have incriminated him. According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, as many as 1,000 protesters marched. Participants and observers also took to Twitter to denounce CNN's lack of coverage of a protest directly outside its offices.

the people united will never be divided #ITSBIGGERTHANYOU #NotOneMore #ATLstandswithFerguson #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/r6H76EIxNw

- QuakerArmy (@QuakerArmy) August 18, 2014

"@Cnn nothing about the protest in front of your Building in Atlanta" one tweeter observed.

"Hey @CNN when were you guys going to report on the Ferguson protest at your Atlanta headquarters yesterday?" another user wrote.

California highway patrol officer under investigation for beating mentally ill woman

The Sacramento Bee
Thu, 21 Aug 2014 10:59 UTC

© David Diaz, File/AP Photo
In this July 1, 2014 file image made from video provided by motorist David Diaz, a California Highway Patrol officer punches Marlene Pinnock, 51, on the shoulder of a Los Angeles freeway. The CHP announced Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014, that it has forwarded its investigation into the beating of Pinnock to the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, and the probe outlines "potentially serious charges'' against the officer.

A California Highway Patrol officer who was videotaped repeatedly striking a woman on the side of a Los Angeles freeway could face serious charges, the agency said Wednesday after forwarding its investigation to the district attorney.

Officer Daniel Andrew, who was put on a desk assignment after the incident, has been removed from duty and put on paid administrative leave, the CHP said.

The agency didn't reveal if it made a recommendation to prosecutors but said in a news release that its report outlined potentially serious charges he could face. It didn't specify possible charges.

The Los Angeles County district attorney's office confirmed the case is under review. A separate, internal CHP investigation is ongoing.

The July 1 incident sparked outrage as video showed Andrew hitting Marlene Pinnock, 51, several times alongside Interstate 10.

Comment: At least the CHP has removed the officer in question from the streets, which is more than most police departments have done recently. The police in the US have gone completely berserk and most receive no punishment for their crimes.

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College friend of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev agrees to plead guilty to obstruction of justice charges

En.ria.ru
Thu, 21 Aug 2014 11:09 UTC

A 20-year-old Kazakh citizen and a college friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Dias Kadyrbayev, accused by the US authorities of hindering the investigation into the 2013 bombing, has agreed to plead guilty to a number of charges, The Boston Globe reported.

According to Kadyrbayev's lawyer Robert Stahl, the young man is expected to issue a statement in US District Court in Boston later on Thursday. The attorney also confirmed that Kadyrbayev had agreed to plead guilty, but refused, however, to provide further details on the issue before the hearing.

The move might allow for a more lenient sentence for the defendant.

Kadyrbayev is charged with obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice for allegedly removing Tsarnaev's laptop computer and a backpack, filled with fireworks from his college dorm room and trying to dispose of them after learning that Tsarnaev was a suspect in the bombing. Kadyrbayev is scheduled to go on trial on September 8. He faces up to 25 years in prison and possible deportation if found guilty.

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Society's Child

Chaos in Liberia as capital sealed-off from outside world, placed under Ebola quarantine - Police open fire on panicked protestors

World's eyes on Ferguson race protests - US Lawmaker

Outlook for work in 2022: How your boss will run your life in a few years

'I never saw people die before': Teenaged girl shares horrors of Donetsk shelling by Kiev

Giant Palestinian flag hung from Brooklyn Bridge during NYC Boycott Divestment Sanctions protest

Fighting the genocide: Lugansk self-defense fighters shoot down another Su-25 jet sent by Kiev

Cop threatens to kill peaceful protestors with assault rifle in Ferguson

Hundreds gather outside CNN building in Atlanta to protest coverage of Michael Brown shooting

California highway patrol officer under investigation for beating mentally ill woman

College friend of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev agrees to plead guilty to obstruction of justice charges

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