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Internet has become a 'pedophile playground': Sexual predators targeting increasing number of children online


RT
Mon, 19 Sep 2016 17:37 UTC
pedophiles internet children
© Thomas Peter / Reuters
The internet is increasingly a "playground" for predatory pedophiles, a charity warns, allowing them to groom children, view pictures, and even direct live sexual abuse online.

Social networks and online gaming communities are leaving an increasing number of children and teens vulnerable to grooming and other forms of online harassment and abuse, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) said.

ChildLine, the NSPCC's telephone counseling service, conducted more than 3,700, counseling sessions with children and teens worried about online abuse in 2015-2016 — a 24 percent uptick from the previous year.

"Most of us talk to people online and it's a great way to stay connected and make new friends," said NSPCC Chief Executive Peter Wanless.

"But it can be a playground for pedophiles, exposing young people to groomers who trawl social networks and online game forums exploiting any vulnerabilities they may find."
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New study reveals 'killer haze' caused 100,000 deaths in Southeast Asia last year


RT
Mon, 19 Sep 2016 17:22 UTC
Sumatra fires
© Antara Foto / Reuters
A series of forest fires followed by a devastating smog outbreak in Southeast Asia last year may have led to as many as 100,000 premature deaths, a new study has shown. The numbers are tens of thousands of times higher than those officially declared by authorities.

The haze in Southeast Asia which lasted for several months last year resulted in some 91,600 deaths in Indonesia, 6,500 in Malaysia and 2,200 in Singapore, scientists from Harvard and Columbia Universities said in a new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters on Monday.

During the study scientists used satellite data and computer modeling to estimate the potential number of deaths. The results showed that the smog had a capacity of killing somewhere between 26,300 and 174,300 people, meaning 100,300 was the average.

"We estimate that haze in 2015 resulted in 100,300 excess deaths across Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, more than double those of the 2006 event, with much of the increase due to fires in Indonesia's South Sumatra Province," scientists said.
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Despite state-of-the-art equipment, NYPD admits accounting for its civil-forfeiture seizures is hopeless


RT
Mon, 19 Sep 2016 17:03 UTC
New York Police Department officers
© Lucas Jackson / Reuters
A detailed account of money and property seized by the New York Police Department is essentially impossible, an official says, as a comprehensive effort to report how much money the NYPD takes during arrests would "lead to system crashes."

The New York City Council is considering a bill that would require the NYPD to offer annual reports of how much money and property it collects as potential evidence through the process of civil forfeiture. The bill aims to make civil forfeiture more transparent, but the NYPD claims it has no idea how much money it seized from New Yorkers and others it arrested last year.

Late last week, in testimony to the city council's Public Safety Committee, NYPD Assistant Deputy Commissioner Robert Messner said detailing department seizures is technologically unworkable based on limitations of the NYPD's Property and Evidence Tracking System (PETS).

"Attempts to perform the types of searches envisioned in the bill will lead to system crashes and significant delays during the intake and release process," said Messner, according to the Village Voice. "The only way the department could possibly comply with the bill would be a manual count of over half a million invoices each year."

Comment: Since the NYPD can't seem to properly track the seizures, it shows a vulnerability in the system that can be abused.

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Arrow Up

Is this what panic looks like? Polls show huge shift in electoral map toward Trump

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sun, 18 Sep 2016 16:03 UTC
trump killary
A few weeks back, Reuters/Ipsos released a fun, interactive electoral college map that allowed users to model their own expectations of how the 2016 presidential election would play out. Reuters also offered up their own scenario based on their internal polling data from all 50 states. And, as early as August 26, 2016 Reuters was predicting a landslide victory for Clinton.
us election prediction
But, now it's looking increasingly likely that Reuters will have to "tweak" their polling dataagain as recent results show a massive Trump surge that have thrust him into the lead.
us election prediction
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People

Survey finds more than a quarter of French Muslims support ultra-conservative form of Islam


RT
Mon, 19 Sep 2016 15:29 UTC
islamic veil
© Raheb Homavandi/Reuters
More than a quarter of French Muslims, mostly aged under 25, support an ultra-conservative form of Islam, including the wearing of the full-face veil, a new survey shows. The majority of people who identify as Muslim support strict French secular laws, however.

The survey of 1,029 people was commissioned by Ifop, and carried out by a liberal think tank, Institut Montaigne.

At least 60 percent of the respondents said girls should be allowed to wear the headscarf in school and college, the survey published exclusively in Le Journal du Dimanche (LJD) weekly found.

Twelve years after headscarves and other religious symbols were forbidden in classrooms, the ban no longer seems to convince Muslims in France, the LJD reported.

Outside of school, 65 percent are in favor of wearing headscarves, and 24 percent support the wearing of full-face veils - the burqa or niqab - banned in public since 2010.
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Sticking it to the man: As protests spread nationwide, federal court halts pipeline construction

Claire Bernish
Free Thought Project
Sun, 18 Sep 2016 15:15 UTC
Dakota Access Pipeline
While the government scrambles to decide if indigenous peoples have a right to the land they've inhabited for eons, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an order to temporarily halt construction on another section of the searingly controversial Dakota Access Pipeline.

Clarifying its ruling, the court stated the order "should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion" — the motion being the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's demand for an emergency injunction.

On September 9, federal Judge James E. Boasberg, presiding over the case between the Standing Rock Sioux and construction firm Energy Transfer Partners, ordered a construction stoppage on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land under and around Lake Oahe — and yesterday's ruling expands the halt to include land within 20 miles on either side of the lake.
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Bomb

Are the multiple explosions and the crazed cop shooting markers of the engineered chaos to come?

Bernie Suarez
Activist Post
Sun, 18 Sep 2016 15:38 UTC
end game obama soros
With about six weeks remaining before the highly volatile US presidential election it appears the ruling elite could be officially going for it all. That is, in terms of destroying America.

With ISIS stories apparently on the side burner, and with too much attention focused on the Hillary saga, and with George Soros (like the DNC and the Clinton Foundation before him) now exposed for not only funding the Black Lives Matter civil unrest psyop to the tune of 33 million dollars but also for his agenda to federalize the local police in America, all of a sudden in one day the mainstream media is reporting on not one, not two but three chaotic stories which, given the strong history of staged events we've seen over the past few years, could all be psyop events to move the ruling elites plan to create chaos and unrest in America going forward.


Comment: Add this event to the mix. Third suspicious explosion in two days -- this time at train station in Elizabeth, NJ


The first of these three events (at the time of this article or 16 hours after the incident) takes place in Philadelphia where a lunatic "unidentified" shooter is said to have suddenly and for no particular reason run up to a police car and just started shooting randomly at police officer Sgt Silvia Young. Sgt Young (get this) gets shot up all over, a total of 8 times and still survives and is in stable condition. Former police officer Ed Miller also supposedly gets shot but there is no specific information about this other than we're told he, too, is in stable condition.
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Handcuffs

New York and New Jersey bombing suspect Ahmad Rahami arrested in Linden, NJ after shootout with police


RT
Mon, 19 Sep 2016 15:33 UTC
New Jersey police
© Eduardo Munoz / Reuters
Police have arrested Ahmad Rahami, wanted in connection with the bombings in Elizabeth, New Jersey and the Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea, after a shoot-out in Linden, New Jersey.

Two officers were reported injured, one struck by a car and another by gunfire, after they responded to reports of a suspect shooting at passing cars in Linden, a city just south of Elizabeth.

Police said the suspect was detained. Sources told NBC News the suspect was identified as Rahami, a 28-year-old Elizabeth, NJ resident suspected in a series of explosions in New Jersey and New York over the weekend.
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Eye 2

Suspects in Baltimore Wyman Park stabbing filmed the assault and posted to Facebook

Justin Fenton
The Baltimore Sun
Fri, 16 Sep 2016 15:03 UTC
A bench at Wyman Park Dell is blocked by police tape after a 64-year-old man was stabbed

A bench at Wyman Park Dell is blocked by police tape after a 64-year-old man was stabbed there Monday.
A group of young people put a gun to the head of a 64-year-old man reading a book at the Wyman Park Dell, sprayed him with Mace and stabbed him before stealing his belongings — an attack that they recorded on video and posted on Facebook, city police revealed Friday.

Police announced the arrests of two people in connection with the daytime crime, which occurred Monday, and said the group is believed to be responsible for other recent robberies. At least one of the suspects has already been charged in another robbery earlier this month, of a pizza delivery driver who was choked until she nearly lost consciousness.

Zannay Laws and Dakei Perry, both 18, were charged Thursday with attempted murder and robbery, police said. In charging documents for Laws, police wrote that she admitted standing with the attackers and recording the Wyman Park attack with her cellphone and posting to Facebook.
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Handcuffs

Louisiana cop caught on camera kicking and stepping on handcuffed man

Andrew Emett
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 19 Sep 2016 15:05 UTC
Officer Robert Wallow

Officer Robert Wallow
Caught on video beating a handcuffed man without provocation, a Louisiana cop was recently fired and arrested nearly five months after the incident. According to Gretna Police Chief Arthur Lawson Jr., his department had no knowledge of the needless beating until last month during an internal inquiry.

On April 22, a security camera video captured Officer Robert Wallow approaching a burglary suspect lying on the ground with his hands behind his head. After holstering his gun, Officer Wallow dragged Carlos Gustavo Pineda across the pavement before repeatedly punching him in the head for no apparent reason.

Despite the fact that Pineda never resisted nor fought back, Wallow immediately kicked him in the ribs after handcuffing the compliant suspect. While stepping on Pineda's back, Wallow pulled out his firearm and aimed it at the suspect's back while appearing to illegally question him.
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