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Raging megalomaniacs and natural born killers: Who will save us from America?

John Wight
Counterpunch
Fri, 30 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC

The first US presidential debate did not reveal anything new when it came to either candidate. Instead it merely confirmed that Donald Trump is a slobbering megalomaniac who should be kept away from political office in the same way a three-year-old child is kept away from a box of matches. A poster boy for unfettered capitalism, he is a man so divorced from reality — and, with it, his own humanity —that every word that leaves his mouth comes over as a cry for help.

Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, is a natural born killer, a passionate disciple of US exceptionalism who believes there is no country that can't be improved with a shower of cruise and tomahawk missiles. She and her husband come as a package of liberal opportunism who have made their way through speaking left and acting right. The fruits of this opportunism are mass incarceration, the entrenchment of Wall Street as the golden temple of the US economy, and perpetual war and regime change overseas. When Farrakhan described Hillary as a "wicked woman" he couldn't have been more right. Christopher Hitchens said it even better when he observed, "She and her husband haven't met a foreign political donor they don't like and haven't taken from."

Has missing RAF serviceman, last seen over a week ago, been abducted?

RT
Mon, 03 Oct 2016 11:39 UTC

Police have expanded the search for a missing RAF serviceman who was last seen over a week ago, amid fears the 23 year old may have been abducted.

Corrie McKeague, a serviceman based at RAF Honignton in Suffolk, was last seen early Saturday morning in the town of Bury St. Edmunds, 12km south of the base. CCTV footage released by Suffolk Police shows McKeague leave the Grapes pub around 3am last Saturday morning.

On Monday morning, Suffolk police released images of the pink Ralph Lauren shirt and brown suede Timberland boots McKeague is believed to have been wearing at the time of his disappearance.

At least 20 killed, scores injured in suicide bombing at Kurdish wedding in Hasaka, Syria

RT
Mon, 03 Oct 2016 20:33 UTC

At least 22 people were killed and scores more injured in a suicide bombing on the outskirts of the northeastern Syrian city of Hasaka, local media reported.

The blast reportedly occurred during a Kurdish wedding when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest in the crowd.

The figures on casualties differ in various reports. State television citing a police source said the casualties also included 55 injured. A Kurdistan24 reporter provided a different number of casualties, with 14 killed and 25 others wounded.

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.

Comment: Why do these suicide bombers always like to hit weddings? Maximum fear.

Catholic school says orphaned refugees to use separate bathroom after parents cite 'health risk' concerns

RT
Mon, 03 Oct 2016 17:26 UTC

A Catholic school in Sardinia has decided to ask African refugee children to use separate bathrooms after parents claimed the refugees posed a "health risk" to their kids, with some even transferring their children to other schools, a local newspaper reports.

According to Italy's La Stampa, the story involves two refugees from Egypt and Ethiopia, aged nine and 11, living in Cagliari, Sardinia and enrolled at a private Catholic school there. They were within an inch of death as they made the perilous boat journey from Libya, before they were rescued by the Italian military earlier in 2016, along with 380 other people on that boat.

Their parents are believed to have drowned, and the two were entrusted to two Italian lawyers by the Juvenile Court in Cagliari.

Parents of other children at the primary school believed that the two Africans would infect their children and staged a protest. Several parents even insisted on moving their children to a different school.

Trouble first started when the two kids noticed that other children wouldn't socialize with them. It later emerged that this was the result of the parents' concern that they may have brought unknown African diseases with them to Italy.

Comment: Racism and dark-skin phobias, though psychic in nature, are a far greater health risk for humanity.

See also: Islamic Holocaust: Western wars have killed AT LEAST 4 million Muslims since 1990

French humanitarian workers shed light on terrible situation in besieged Eastern Aleppo

Sputnik
Mon, 03 Oct 2016 19:42 UTC

Aleppo is the long-suffering city of Syria which the representative of France to the United Nations compared to Sarajevo and Guernica on September 25. Sputnik met with the people involved in the humanitarian help in Aleppo.

According to reports, more than 200,000 people live in the eastern part of Aleppo which is still in the hands of the rebels. 1.2 million people reside in the western part and the media doesn't have much information about those civilians living in the government zone.

Pierre le Corf, founder of the NGO called "We are superheroes," has been helping the population of the west of Aleppo for more than six months.

Comment: And who is fault for this terrible situation? UN report: U.S. and EU sanctions are punishing ordinary Syrians, crippling efforts to deliver aid

Life without a government just fine for most Spaniards

Raphael Minder and David Zucchinooct
New York Times
Sun, 02 Oct 2016 19:30 UTC

© Susana Vera/Reuters
A supporter holding a poster of Pedro Sánchez, who stepped down as the leader of the Socialist Party, outside a party meeting in Madrid on Saturday. Credit

For the past 288 days, Spain has plodded along without an elected national government. For some Spaniards, this is a wonderful thing.

"No government, no thieves," said Félix Pastor, a language teacher who, like many voters, is fed up with the corruption and scandals that tarnished the two previous governing parties.

Mr. Pastor, a wiry, animated 59-year-old, said Spain could last without a government "until hell freezes over" because politicians were in no position to do more harm.

After two grueling national elections in six months, and with a third vote possible in December, no party has won enough seats or forged the coalition needed to form a government. For the first time in Spain's four decades as a modern democracy, this country of 47 million people has a caretaker government.

That has produced an unprecedented public spectacle: Politicians scheme and plot but reject the difficult compromises needed to form a government. Voters watch ruefully with a mix of fascination and contempt.

Israel indicts Issa Amro, "Palestinian Gandhi" to stand trial

Charlotte Silver
The Electronic Intifada
Tue, 06 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC

The Israeli army has laid a lengthy list of charges against Issa Amro, the longtime Palestinian activist and organizer in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. The indictment includes incidents that span the last six years. Among the 18 charges are organizing an "illegal demonstration" in August 2010, spitting in the direction of a settler in 2012, insulting a soldier in March 2013 and entering a "closed military zone" in February this year.

Amro's lawyer, Gaby Laski, told the Tel Aviv newspaper Haaretz that the sudden resuscitation of past events for which Amro was arrested and released at the time, "absolutely seems to be a matter of political persecution." "They closed all the cases I was framed for in the past," Amro told Haaretz last week. "I don't think somebody can claim that my political activity is criminal. The court always lets me go when they arrest me for no reason."

Comment: Amro's upcoming trial is a case of double jeopardy and an accumulation of petty charges. It will likely goad his Palestinian followers into protest and/or push-back widening the net, a devious calculation by Israel.

'We run the streets': Video shows angry mob attacking California Highway Patrol car with officer still inside

Kristine Guerra
Washington Post
Mon, 03 Oct 2016 17:02 UTC

A police officer who responded to several calls about illegal street racing and reckless driving found himself surrounded by a mob of angry people, some of whom yelled and cursed at him while others hit and kicked his vehicle as he sat inside.

"F the police, we run the streets," they said, according to Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer, ABC affiliate KFSN-TV reported.

The incident happened the afternoon of Sept. 25. The Fresno Police Department and California Highway Patrol received reports of large crowds blocking traffic a few miles outside of downtown Fresno, according to the police department.

A California Highway Patrol officer, who was first on scene, spotted a reckless driver and got out of his vehicle to make a traffic stop, the police department said. Then, people began yelling at the driver to leave. The driver sped away, and the officer went back to his vehicle to chase him. That's when a crowd of about 30 to 40 surrounded the officer's sport-utility vehicle.

Several people can be seen violently kicking the sides of the SUV while others recorded the incident with their phones.

The officer, whose name was not released, was able to drive away unharmed.

Over the past week, the police department has posted to its Facebook page several still photos taken from videos of the attack.

Comment: The officer in question was lucky. He nearly became the victim of a much larger problem. Unless police departments are able to rein in their aggressive approach to the civilian population, especially blacks and latinos, the pitchforks will be out for every officer.

Greek police fire tear gas and use pepper spray on protesting pensioners over austerity measures

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 03 Oct 2016 16:38 UTC

Familiar scenes returned to Athens today, when Greek police fired teargas at a demonstration of pensioners protesting over cutbacks to their benefits, part of an austerity drive dictated by the Troika (or was it Quadriga). Between 1,500 and 2,0000 pensioners attempted to march to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's office, however they were blocked when riot police blocked their path, intercepting them with pepper spray and tear gas.

Greek pensioners called on the nation to rise against the government's harsh austerity policy as they attempted to break through a cordon of police buses and special operations troops barring their way to the prime minister's residence.

'Merkel has to go!' Hundreds protest in Dresden on German Unity Day

RT
Mon, 03 Oct 2016 16:27 UTC

© Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters
Police watches protestors holding a placard "Merkel must go" during celebrations marking the German Unification Day in Dresden, Germany, October 3, 2016.

Several hundred protesters have gathered in the German city of Dresden to protest against Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Joachim Gauck as they celebrate Unity Day in the city.

Footage posted on social media showed the protesters braving rainy weather outside the Church of Our Lady, blowing whistles and shouting "Traitors!"and "Get out!" as well as "Merkel has to go!"

One sign referred to Merkel's "dictatorship."

Many of the protesters are from the far-right Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West, better known as the PEGIDA Alliance, Germany's N-TV reported. Dresden is PEGIDA's birthplace.

Comment: Since "Merkel must go", surely the U.S. will promptly get together a ragtag bunch of moderate German militants to fight her evil regime - where she clearly doesn't have the support of the people. Maybe ship them some Grad missiles, too.

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Society's Child

Raging megalomaniacs and natural born killers: Who will save us from America?

Has missing RAF serviceman, last seen over a week ago, been abducted?

At least 20 killed, scores injured in suicide bombing at Kurdish wedding in Hasaka, Syria

Catholic school says orphaned refugees to use separate bathroom after parents cite 'health risk' concerns

French humanitarian workers shed light on terrible situation in besieged Eastern Aleppo

Life without a government just fine for most Spaniards

Israel indicts Issa Amro, "Palestinian Gandhi" to stand trial

'We run the streets': Video shows angry mob attacking California Highway Patrol car with officer still inside

Greek police fire tear gas and use pepper spray on protesting pensioners over austerity measures

'Merkel has to go!' Hundreds protest in Dresden on German Unity Day

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