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Horse

California police officers accused of screening women on internet dating sites using police system

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Court documents show that Fairfield Police Officers Stephen Ruiz and Jacob Glashoff used company time and equipment to search for women on internet dating sites.

The documents also show that two used the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System - a statewide police database - to screen the women they liked.

"I feel like it's an abuse of their power, using it for their own personal gain," said Fairfield resident Carlos Thompson.

The court documents allege another Fairfield officer reported the incidents to his superior back in June.

The reporting officer alleged that both Ruiz and Glashoff found women's profiles had been browsing women on dating websites like Tinder, eHarmony, and Match.com while working at the investigations bureau office of the Fairfield Police Department.

"Downtime during their breaks or whatever, that's their own thing. But not on the clock," said another Fairfield resident.

Stormtrooper

Dallas cop shoots, kills unarmed man

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An unarmed man was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer in Dallas, Texas on Sunday.

According to Dallas police, the suspect charged at the officer before being shot.

The slain man is Andrew Scott Gaynier, 26, and the officer is Senior Corporal Antonio Hudson.

Corporal Hudon was on Extended Neighborhood Patrol when the incident happened. He was called to the scene in response to a report that Gaynier was making lewd comments to passing females.

When Hudson arrived, he saw Gaynier stop a vehicle with a family inside and try to get in the car. Hudson gave loud verbal commands to Gaynier telling him to step away from the car. Gaynier turned away from the car, but then started rushing towards Hudson. Hudson shot Gaynier multiple times, killing him.

Chess

Not enough economic pain? Germany threatens more Russian sanctions if Kiev situation deteriorates

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© REUTERS/ Thomas Peter German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a general debate in the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, in Berlin, June 25, 2014
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday that new sanctions against Russia are not on agenda at the moment but they are possible in future if the situation in Ukraine deteriorates.

"We cannot rule out thinking about further sanctions if things do not progress," the chancellor said, following talks with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Kiev.

The European Union, the United States and some other countries have imposed sanctions against Russian companies, banks, politicians, as well as the financial, energy and defense sectors of the Russian economy over the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.

Comment: So in spite of the negative economic consequences to the German economy, Merkel is trying to keep her US overlords pacified:

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Star of David

Holocaust survivors condemn Israel for Gaza massacre, call for full economic, cultural and academic boycott

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© AFPPalestinian men look on as a bomb from an Israeli air strike hits a house in Gaza City on August 23, 2014.
In response to Elie Wiesel advertisement comparing Hamas to Nazis, 327 Jewish Holocaust survivors and descendants publish New York Times ad accusing Israel of 'ongoing massacre of the Palestinian people.'

Hundreds of Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors have signed a letter, published as an advertisement in Saturday's New York Times, condemning "the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza" and calling for a complete boycott of Israel.

According to the letter, the condemnation was prompted by an advertisement written by Elie Wiesel and published in major news outlets worldwide, accusing Hamas of "child sacrifice" and comparing the group to the Nazis.

The letter, signed by 327 Jewish Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors and sponsored by the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, accuses Wiesel of "abuse of history" in order to justify Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip:

Bad Guys

Fatal traffic stop for Texas police chief

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© Bexar County Sheriff's OfficeThis booking photo shows 24-year-old Joshua Lopez, who is accused of fatally shooting Elmendorf, Texas police chief Michael Pimentel during a traffic stop.
The police chief of a small south Texas town was shot dead during a traffic stop on Saturday, a county sheriff said.

Michael Pimentel died of multiple gunshot wounds suffered in a confrontation with a motorist shortly before noon in Elmendorf, a rural community of about 1,500 people just southeast of San Antonio, said Bexar County Sheriff Susan Pamerleau.

"We don't know exactly what ensued between the two individuals but it did result in the suspect firing a weapon that hit the chief several times," Pamerleau said.

Pimentel was taken by air ambulance to a San Antonio hospital where he died a short time later, she said.

Comment: Yes, law enforcement officers' jobs are dangerous generally, but nowadays it is even more dangerous to be an ordinary citizen in the US:

Goon cops have gone wild all over America
Police are more dangerous to citizens than criminals


Shopping Bag

High-tech rationing: Venezuela to enact mandatory fingerprinting to control grocery sales

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© AP Photo/Rodrigo AbdA woman walks downtown after buying bread in Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuelans may soon have to scan their fingers to buy bread at the supermarket. President Nicolas Maduro announced late Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014 a new, mandatory grocery fingerprinting system to combat food shortages.
Venezuela's food shortage is so bad the country is mandating that people scan their fingerprints at grocery stores in order to keep people from buying too much of a single item.

President Nicolas Maduro says a mandatory fingerprinting system is being implemented at grocery stores to combat food shortages. He calls it an "anti-fraud system" like the fingerprint scan the country uses for voting.

In announcing the plan late Wednesday, Maduro did not say when the system would take effect, but other administration officials suggested it could be in place by December or January.

The move was met with skepticism. Critics said the new system is tantamount to rationing and constitutes a breach of privacy. Others simply wondered if anything short of a systemic overhaul of the economy could help the socialist South American country's chronically bare shelves.

Venezuela has been grappling with shortages of basic goods like cooking oil and flour for more than a year. In the spring, the administration tried out a similar system in government-run supermarkets on a voluntary basis.

Comment:
Food prices skyrocketed 72% in Venezuela in 2013: International financiers' currency speculation to blame?

Scarce in Venezuela: Flour, cooking oil, butter, milk, diapers, toilet paper


Star of David

The new center? International condemnation of Israel may serve Israel's ultimate cause of subjugating Palestinians

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This is part of Marc H. Ellis's "Exile and the Prophetic" feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page.

The Holocaust civil war in major newspapers around the world continues. Last week it was Elie Wiesel's paid statement that accused Hamas of using children as human shields. Yesterday it was other Holocaust survivors "disgusted and outraged by Elie Wiesel's abuse of history."

These Jewish survivors aren't mincing worlds:
Jewish survivors and descendants of survivors and victims of Nazi genocide unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza.

As Jewish survivors and descendants of survivors and victims of the Nazi genocide we unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and the ongoing occupation and colonization of historic Palestine. We further condemn the United States for providing Israel with the funding to carry out the attack, and Western states more generally for using their diplomatic muscle to protect Israel from condemnation. Genocide begins with the silence of the world.

We are alarmed by the extreme, racist dehumanization of Palestinians in Israeli society, which has reached a fever-pitch. In Israel, politicians and pundits in The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post have called openly for genocide of Palestinians and right-wing Israelis are adopting Neo-Nazi insignia.

Furthermore, we are disgusted and outraged by Elie Wiesel's abuse of our history in these pages to justify the unjustifiable: Israel's wholesale effort to destroy Gaza and the murder of more than 2,000 Palestinians, including many hundreds of children. Nothing can justify bombing UN shelters, homes, hospitals and universities. Nothing can justify depriving people of electricity and water.

We must raise our collective voices and use our collective power to bring about an end to all forms of racism, including the ongoing genocide of Palestinian people. We call for an immediate end to the siege against and blockade of Gaza. We call for the full economic, cultural and academic boycott of Israel. "Never again" must mean NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE!
Aside from the use of the Holocaust by both sides in the Jewish civil war, is the Holocaust relevant anymore or has the Holocaust become ancient symbolism trotted out for its last curtain call?

Comment: Israel is trying to play a long game. The Universe may have other plans.


V

Thousands protest police violence in New York, call for justice in Eric Garner death

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© AFP/Stan HondaProtesters at a rally against police brutality in memory of Eric Garner August 23, 2014 in Staten Island, New York. The New York City medical examiner's office ruled that Garner, the 43-year-old father of six, died from a chokehold and chest compressions while being arrested by the police on July 17, 2014.
Thousands of people gathered on New York's Staten Island on Saturday as they protested against police violence and called for justice in the case of an unarmed man killed by an officer via an illegal chokehold.

Organized by Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network advocacy group, the #WeWillNotGoBack march attracted close to 3,000 people from across New York City and New Jersey, according to initial estimates by the police.

Protesters marched through the streets, chanting against police brutality and holding up numerous signs, many of which read, "Respect Human Rights." Others featured statements like, "The police are criminals, not our youth," and, "We seek justice, not violence."
People playing music, singing "don't shoot" to voice opposition to police brutality #WeWillNotGoBackpic.twitter.com/1JfTHHAkfd
- Jordan Mammo (@jordanmammo) August 23, 2014
The event specifically highlighted the death of Staten Island resident Eric Garner, who was killed in July after a New York Police Department officer placed him in a chokehold for allegedly selling loose, untaxed cigarettes. With the additional help of other law enforcement officials, the 43-year-old father of six was taken to the ground, where he repeatedly complained that he could not breathe. However, video of the incident shows that police did not seem to respond to his objections.

No Entry

Sierra Leone imposes jail time for harboring Ebola patients, flights barred and borders closed due to outbreak


Ebola continues to spread in West Africa as Sierra Leone voted to pass a new amendment imposing jail time for anyone caught hiding an Ebola patient.

With 142 new cases recorded, the total number is now 2,615 with 1,427 deaths, the World Health Organization said Friday. The group added that the magnitude of the Ebola outbreak has been "underestimated."

"Many families hide infected loved ones in their homes," the organization wrote in an assessment. "Others deny that a patient has Ebola and believe that care in an isolation ward - viewed as an incubator of the disease - will lead to infection and certain death. Most fear the stigma and social rejection that come to patients and families when a diagnosis of Ebola is confirmed."

Gold Coins

Crooked cops in the U.S.: Cashing in on overtime scheme uncovered when a police officer cited a colleague for speeding

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© ShutterstockIt's all right for some; one cop might have made $ 158,000 within these past three years, but committed suicide while being investigated
A Houston police officer handed another man a speeding ticket and probably didn't realize that the offender he was citing was also a cop. What this ticket-receiving officer noticed on his paper slip though has led to a department-wide investigation.

"I immediately [knew] that something's hinky with the ticket," the man KHOU-TV only identified as Jerry said. "There was no other officer, he was the only officer there."

The ticket, however, listed another officer as an additional witness.

Comment: This is how ponerization works. The elite robs us blind and cops just follow in their footsteps.

Ponerization:
"On the macro scale, this is the infection of a group with pathological individuals, resulting in a ponerogenicunion (that is, a group that contributes to the formation and development of evil). Primary ponerization (which gives rise to primary ponerogenic unions) creates groups that are obviously deviant, like mobs and gangs, and they are generally rejected by the society of normal people. Secondary ponerization (which gives rise to secondary ponerogenic unions) is the method by which pathological individuals infiltrate and subvert the ideology of a group of normal people. On the micro scale, this is the process of "transpersonification" whereby pathologic individuals resonate to the pathologic essence of pathocracy. There are probably degrees of ponerization, those who are "transpersonified" (6% of the general population) being those ponerized to the highest degree, while a greater percentage of the population are ponerized to a lesser degree (i.e. the pathological material "hooks" a pathological element of their personality, which could be an intellectual, emotional, moral, even physical weakness, thus causing the individual to act based on a "lower" level of their psyche). Thus, you could say that an individual or group is ponerized to the degree that it acts based on lower instincts (often under the guise of higher ideals), as opposed to truly "higher" ideals and humanistic principles."