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One cop fired, the other resigned after footage showed them harassing and beating a black man sitting on his own porch

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 02 Oct 2016 15:27 UTC
Dejuan Yourse
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One day after the public release of body-worn camera footage showed excessive and altogether unnecessary force against a Greensboro, North Carolina, resident sitting on his own front porch led to the permanent suspension of one officer's law enforcement certification, the second officer involved has tendered her resignation.

Officer Charlotte N. Jackson resigned this week, according to Greensboro Police spokesperson Susan Danielsen cited by Triad City Beat, likely due to public outcry over the female cop's role in the harassment, intimidation, and assault on resident Dejuan Yourse.

On June 17, Yourse waited for his mom to meet him at the house he's intermittently shared with her for a decade, and because he did not have a current key, she asked him to wait on the front porch in the quiet neighborhood.

An unidentified person who did not recognize the man thought he was a prowler and called police to report a possible case of breaking and entering. Responding officers Cole and Jackson approached Yourse under the assumption the caller — not the man relaxing calmly in broad daylight on the front porch where anyone passing by could clearly see him — must be correct.
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Family

'Global war against marriage and family': Pope Francis denounces gender theory


RT
Sun, 02 Oct 2016 04:54 UTC
Gender bathroom sign
© Shannon Stapleton / Reuters
A Gender Neutral Restroom sign
In the age of "ideological colonization" where gender theory has become a key part of a "global war" on marriage and family, the Pope defended the traditional union between a woman and a man as "the most beautiful thing God created."

Responding to one woman in the audience in Tbilisi, who asked about gender theory being taught in schools, the Pope said: "You mentioned a great enemy of marriage today: gender theory."

Comment: For more information on gender theory: Mummy, why is Daddy wearing a dress? Daddy, why does Mummy have a moustache? (See also Pierre Lescaudron's excellent book: Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection.)

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Fire

Tensions flare in front of ADL office at rival White & Black Lives Matter protests in Houston


RT
Sun, 02 Oct 2016 14:36 UTC
white lives matter
A small group of White Lives Matter activists protested outside of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) office in southwest Houston on Saturday where they were met by Black Lives Matter counter-protesters and a heavy police presence.

Holding placards and signs while shouting "White Lives Matter!" the group gathered in front of the Jewish non-governmental organization after ADL allegedly accused the activists of being racist.

Comment: Interestingly the protest was held outside the ADL. If there was ever a hate group it's the ADL.

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No Entry

Banksters: Wells Fargo illegally repossessed 413 cars from members of the military

Jackie Wattles
CNN Money
Fri, 30 Sep 2016 14:13 UTC
CEO John Stumpf

Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf: "Aw c'mon guys, what's the harm in a little 10 or $20 million scam these days?"
Wells Fargo will pay $24 million to settle allegations that it mistreated members of the military -- including illegally repossessing their cars.

The bank, already reeling from a scandal over fake accounts, will pay $4.1 million to settle Justice Department charges that it seized 413 cars owned by service members without a court order, a violation of federal law.

The Justice Department said the illegal repossessions took place from 2008 to 2015. The first complaint came from an Army National Guardsman in North Carolina who said the bank seized his car while he was preparing to deploy to Afghanistan.

Wells Fargo then auctioned his car and tried to collect a balance of $10,000 from his family, the Justice Department said.

Comment: Wells Fargo has had its hands in a lot of cookie jars recently. Thing of it is, these stories are, relatively speaking, small potatoes. And what these, and larger banks, are just quite often in the business of doing. See this article about how the Fed - the US government's privately owned regulator - "shifted wealth" several orders of magnitude greater than what we're reading here about Wells Fargo. The recent fines against Wells Fargo are nothing but a dog and pony show designed to give the public the impression that the government cares about banking oversight.

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Camcorder

'Sensationalist' documentary sparks controversy over radical Islam


RT
Thu, 29 Sep 2016 23:38 UTC
French documentary islam
© Yves Herman / Reuters
A new documentary on the rise of radical Islam in France has sparked controversy among the French public, with viewers' opinions ranging from praise to outrage. The filmmaker has been slammed as 'sensationalist' and 'provocateur' by the head of the town in which part of it was filmed.

The first episode of new show "Dossier Tabou" (Banned Dossier) titled "Islam in France: the failure of the Republic" was airedon Wednesday, September 28 on the French M6 channel, the most profitable private national French television channel and the third most watched TV network in the French-speaking world. Watched by some 2.4 million viewers, it immediately grabbed public attention, topping of Twitter discussion trends in France.

The documentary revolved around the financing of Islamism by foreign powers, such as Saudi Arabia, its organization and its internal divisions, as well as the training of imams. In a manner of illustration, it showed excerpts from sermons by a confirmed radical cleric named Mohamed Khattabi, who had been under house arrest for nearly three months after the attacks in France in November 2015.

A part of the documentary was filmed in the northern French city of Sevran, in the department of Seine Saint Denis. The city has been regarded as a place of widespread Islamist recruitment, after at least 15 young men left it to go and fight within the ranks of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in Syria and Iraq since 2014. Six are known to have died there.
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Safe

Preparing for financial collapse in the US: "Get out of debt. Store. Prep. Cash. Gold."

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan
Fri, 30 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
prep for collapse
Mass unemployment. Loss of income. Heavy dependence on assistance. And the biggest strain on the system we can imagine.

The United States is once again brought to the brink of collapse. Regardless of how dismissive mainstream voices are on the issue, it is clear that Americas is only a few shades and another crisis away from an all out return to the Great Depression era.

In 1929, it was a banking collapse that spread the panic, but it was the fallout in the heartland where its effects were felt. The means of survival become very difficult for the working class.

The comforts disappear, and even items like toilet paper are hard to come by. People line up in droves for handouts, because they are too desperate to do without. The proud become embittered as they wither to the bone, and people in the 1930s depression-era were hedged much better in mostly rural settings, with the ability to grow their own food.

Today, populations rely almost entirely upon deliveries, stocks and stores. All that could be gone in a matter of hours. If trucking were to halt, shelves would be empty and people would be rioting within three days, especially if EBT and other payments stopped or were cut off.
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2 + 2 = 4

Historic black school defaced with 'white power' and Nazi graffiti

T. Rees Shapiro
Washington Post
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 23:49 UTC
Ashburn Colored School
© Deep Sran
The Ashburn Colored School building in Loudoun County was vandalized Friday night.
A historic one-room school house that once served as a segregated place of learning for black children in Loudoun County was defaced Friday night with the Nazi swastika and references to "white power".

The old Ashburn Colored School building, which dates to 1892, was spray-painted with graffiti that covered three sides of the structure with the Nazi-era symbol as well as racist slogans.
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Attention

At least 77 people reported injured in gas leak explosion at cafe in Velez-Malaga, Spain


RT
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 23:02 UTC
Gas explosion Malaga, Spain
© APTN
Personnel examine the cafe where the explosion happened.
Scores of people have been reported injured and at least five seriously hurt in a gas cylinder explosion near the southern Spanish city of Malaga.

77 people have been injured in the explosion, according to a spokesman for the Andalucia region's emergency unit, as reported by Reuters. Earlier reports put the number of those injured at around 50.

The blast occurred at a cafe in Velez-Malaga. Five people are being treated for serious injuries while dozens of others are being treated for cuts.

More than fifty people were transferred to the Regional Hospital of Axarquia for emergency treatment, while dozens others were tended to at a nearby health center, according to Cadena SER.
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Attention

Navy widow first to sue Saudi Arabia over 9/11 attacks, hundreds more set to follow


RT
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 21:30 UTC
World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001
© Peter Morgan / Reuters
The first lawsuit has been filed against Saudi Arabia for allegedly providing material support to Osama bin Laden and his team of terrorist hijackers prior to the 9/11 attacks. The filing comes days after Congress passed a law that allows US citizens to sue terror-supporting states.

Stephanie Ross DeSimone was pregnant with Navy Commander Patrick Dunn's daughter when he was killed by American Airlines Flight 77, which was deliberately steered into the Pentagon building on the morning of September 11, 2001.

The hijackers at the wheel of that plane were Saudi nationals, as were 15 of the 19 who took control of the four planes, the crashing of which resulted in the deaths of almost 3,000 people in what remains the worst-ever terrorist attack on US soil.
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Fire

Up in smoke: Marijuana grow labs are exploding across the country

Verena Dobnik
Seattle Times
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 20:18 UTC
apartment explosion
© Michael Schwartz/NY Daily News
A deadly drug lab explosion in a Bronx home killed an FDNY battalion chief and left 20 others injured on Sept. 27, 2016.
An explosion that destroyed a New York City home and killed a firefighter has drawn attention to marijuana-making methods that are legal in many states — but can also be lethal.

A New York fire battalion chief died responding to the blast Tuesday in a Bronx home that authorities say had been converted into an indoor marijuana farm. They're investigating whether the alleged growers tampered with gas lines and mishandled other materials in ways that caused the explosion.

Indoor marijuana farmers can create potential fire hazards by using natural gas, propane or butane to power carbon dioxide generators that make the plants grow. In recent years across the country, similar methods used to produce more potent marijuana extracts have resulted in explosions and other catastrophes.
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