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Judge recommends prosecution for Arizona's Sheriff Arpaio for continuous targeting of Latinos

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 21 Aug 2016 15:37 UTC

"America's toughest sheriff," as Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio frequently boasts of himself, is in hot water after a federal judge on Friday recommended criminal prosecution against the contentious Arizona lawman for violating court orders from a 2011 racial profiling case.

U.S. District Court Judge Murray Snow recommended prosecutors press criminal contempt charges against Arpaio as well as his second-in-command, Gerard Sheridan, Maricopa County Sheriff's Captain and Chief Deputy Steve Bailey, and an Arpaio attorney, Michele Iafrate.

Snow's 32-page recommendation comes on the heels of a ruling in May which found Arpaio and Bailey guilty of civil contempt "for intentionally ignoring an order to stop their immigration patrols," as local CBS affiliate KPHO reported.

Comment: More on the mad Sheriff:

Gulen followers living in Europe receiving death threats and feel intimidated

RT
Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:12 UTC

Some Turkish people living in Europe who have links to supporters of Fethullah Gulen, accused by Ankara of masterminding the July 15 thwarted coup, have receive death threats and feel intimidated, media reported on Monday.

According to Politico newspaper, Turks who live in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Switzerland and have links to the co-called Gulenist movement say they are frightened amid Turkey's crackdown on Gulen's followers.

"Many of us received death threats.... I have reported six death threats to the police, and I know many people who have done the same. I am in constant touch with the police," the head of one the of the main Gulen think tanks in Europe, based in Berlin, was quoted as saying by the media outlet.

Comment: Ankara warns India already 'infiltrated' by Turkey coup mastermind Gulen followers

Russian Far East land giveaway gains ground with business guide on using plots effectively

RT
Mon, 22 Aug 2016 14:53 UTC

The Russian Ministry for Far East Development will soon prepare and release 30 model business plans to develop and use the free 1-hectare land plots that are being offered to citizens for free.

"These will be business plans of a sort that describe how new owners can make proper use of the land. It is important that a potential owner could see how the plot is used by other people, what can be done on a particular land plot and how promising the various types of economic activity are," the head of the ministry, Aleksandr Galushka, said in an interview with Izvestia daily.

He also said the ministry planned to draft several amendments to the law on the free handover of land that would specify several points in the procedure, give additional powers in allocating the plots to regional authorities, and introduce the procedure of taking back the land from owners who lose their Russian citizenship. "Exclusively Russian citizens must make use of our land," Galushka told reporters.

Pisa, Italy residents petition and protest against mosque construction

RT
Mon, 22 Aug 2016 14:50 UTC

Hundreds of residents of the Italian city of Pisa have staged a rally, calling for others to sign a petition against the planned construction of a mosque only 400 meters to the city's main attraction, the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

The rally was organized at the city market of the city of some 90,000 residents. According to Ruptly video agency, hundreds of people took part in the protest.

"We have to halt the construction of new mosques to prevent Italy from becoming an Islamic suburb to avoid losing our identity," right wing MP and leader of the 'No Mosque Campaign' Daniela Santanche said.

Comment: These morons should visit Syria for a week, and see what religious freedom and tolerance actually looks like.

In defense of the burka: How bans do nothing to counter radicalization

Catherine Shakdam
RT
Mon, 22 Aug 2016 14:34 UTC

Brace yourself ladies and gentlemen for Germany can now cure radicalism. In one swift swoop, Berlin has offered to both eradicate radicalism and free women from the diktat of their modesty. Aren't you glad you live in a democracy?

Lost in the throes of a grand debate over its immigration policy and Chancellor Angela Merkel's insistence that refugees should come in their uncontrolled droves, come what may, all in the name of righteous "tolerance", German officials are now actively considering legislating over fashion to address "integration" and radicalization.

Rather than actually formulate, or even legislate against the source of radicalism: unfettered Salafism, or as we should really call it, Wahhabism, Germany, like France, has chosen to focus on the one element it feels comfortable tackling: women fashion, singling out the burka as the manifestation of latent terrorism.

Fivefold increase in the number of slavery victim reports in the UK

RT
Mon, 22 Aug 2016 14:23 UTC

There has been a fivefold rise in the number of slavery victims in England and Wales since 2012, according to the Salvation Army.

The charity says it has supported 1,805 people from April 2015 to March 2016. That's compared to 378 referrals between July 2011 and June 2012 - the first year of the government contract to support victims.

In the past five years, the group has helped nearly 4,500 modern slaves, but Home Office figures estimate there are still between 10,000 and 13,000 slaves in the UK.

Almost half of its referrals had been sexually exploited, 42 percent were victims of labor exploitation working within industries such as agriculture and construction, and 13 percent had been held in domestic servitude, the Salvation Army says.

Comment: More on the modern day slavery problem.

Symbolic? Black biofilm spreads on Washington D.C. monuments

Kiri Blakeley
Daily Mail
Sat, 20 Aug 2016 14:00 UTC

The normally pure white marble dome of the Jefferson Memorial has turned gray-ish with biofilm, otherwise known as black slime.

Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson have been slimed.

A mysterious black slime has been steadily oozing over Washington DC's most famous monuments, including the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials.

The Jefferson Memorial's white marble dome is slowly turning gray from the icky substance, which is called biofilm, and not actually a slime, but more of a powder, reports CBS News.

The black stuff hasalso creeped over the Arlington National Cemetery and on the Washington Monument and the tombstones at Congressional Cemetery, according to NPS.gov.

Comment: This could be a physical manifestation of the ever-increasing degradation of the Washington D.C. political scene.

Using kids as guinea pigs: UK approved secret experimental drug trials in youth detention centers during 1960s

RT
Mon, 22 Aug 2016 12:15 UTC

Home Office employees approved plans to carry out experimental drug trials on children at two schools for disruptive teenagers in the 1960s, newly-declassified documents reveal.

Government psychiatrists gave the green light to testing new behavior-modifying drugs on boys at Richmond Hill Approved School in North Yorkshire and girls at Springhead Park Approved School in Rothwell, near Leeds.

The boys, aged 15 and above, were given an anticonvulsant drug in a bid to control their behavior.

But plans for drug trials at Springhead Park were shelved after the headmistress and school managers rejected them.

Comment: Unfortunately children around the world are still being used as subjects in drug trials, often without knowledge or consent.

LA County proposes millionaires' tax to fund the homeless

Amando Flavio
AnonHQ.com
Sun, 21 Aug 2016 13:35 UTC

The most populous county in the United States, the County of Los Angeles (LA County), is hoping to institute a new law that will ensure that millionaires living in the county will be taxed to fund homeless programs for the poor.

The law, nicknamed the "millionaires' tax" will pay for housing and other services for the homeless in the county. The County Board of Supervisors has already voted to pursue the new legislation at the state level.

LA County has a population of more than 10 million people. However, the county has one of the highest homeless populations in the United States. According to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, the county is home to almost 47,000 homeless people. The staggering number of the homeless dents the image of the county, which is also considered one of the richest in the United States. In 2012, the Guardian reported that the city of Los Angeles alone in the county, was home to 126,000 millionaires.

Comment: If this bill passes will the money just be frittered away on 'programs' or will it do the one thing that makes a person not homeless?

Dallas P.D. tries to block the release of information related to their use of bomb robot

Derrick Broze
Activist Post
Sun, 21 Aug 2016 13:24 UTC

The Dallas Police Department is attempting to block the release of information related to the use of a bomb robot that was used to kill the sniper who murdered five officers in July.

On July 7, Micah Xavier Johnson attacked a group of police officers in Dallas, Texas, killing five officers and injuring two others. Johnson was reportedly upset about the police shootings of black men and wanted to target white officers. After hours of negotiations, Dallas Police Chief David Brown decided to send in a robot armed with a brick of C-4 explosive. The robot detonated the bomb near Johnson on the campus of El Centro College in downtown Dallas. Johnson was killed in the explosion.

"Our bomb robot detonated a bomb where the suspect was," Brown said at the time. "Other options would have subjected officers to great danger."

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Society's Child

Judge recommends prosecution for Arizona's Sheriff Arpaio for continuous targeting of Latinos

Gulen followers living in Europe receiving death threats and feel intimidated

Russian Far East land giveaway gains ground with business guide on using plots effectively

Pisa, Italy residents petition and protest against mosque construction

In defense of the burka: How bans do nothing to counter radicalization

Fivefold increase in the number of slavery victim reports in the UK

Symbolic? Black biofilm spreads on Washington D.C. monuments

Using kids as guinea pigs: UK approved secret experimental drug trials in youth detention centers during 1960s

LA County proposes millionaires' tax to fund the homeless

Dallas P.D. tries to block the release of information related to their use of bomb robot

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