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Black councilman tased by police outside his home in Prairie View, Texas; same city (and cop) as activist Sandra Bland

RT
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 19:32 UTC

In the same Texas city where activist Sandra Bland was arrested and later died in jail, Prairie View City Councilman Jonathan Miller was tased while on his knees and turned away from officers, who say he was resisting arrest.

On Thursday evening, Prairie View police pulled up outside Miller's home as three of his fraternity brothers were preparing to practice a step routine for homecoming, according to KHOU.

"There's been drug activity, little girls and little guys in the car doing whatever, so when we see this, we come investigate," Prairie View Officer Pennie Goodie can be heard in footage from a police body camera.

Below is footage from the police body camera. The second video is further post-taser footage from police, and footage shot by Miller's friend.

Miller's friends told KHOU they were changing their shoes near one of their cars when police arrived.

"She's like, 'What are you guys doing?'" said Alaric Jones. "We're like, 'Nothing. Gonna practice some steps.' And she said, 'No it looks like you guys are doing some drug-related stuff because this is a high-drug area, high crime area also.'"

Miller, 26, came outside to check on matters. "They were at my house," he told the officers.

"OK, I don't know that pulling up," Officer Goodie replied.

"OK, that's fine, I'm not trying to be combative or anything," said Miller.

"OK, I'm not either," Officer Goodie said, at some point adding: "I understand you're coming in at the tale end of it. I just told you everything is okay. They already explained everything to me."

A second officer then told Miller to back away. "This is a scene, come on," said Officer Kelley, as he reached for Miller.

Comment:

"I think the American people should be extremely concerned about their personal rights and privacy. As I was being searched at the airport, there was a Latino couple to my left, and an Asian couple to my right also being aggressively searched. I briefly had to remind myself that this was not North Korea or Nazi Germany. This is the land of the Free. - Anthony Silva, Mayor of Stockton, California

California mayor compares U.S. to Nazi Germany

Global Hunger Index report finds 3.1m children die of starvation every year

RT
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 10:01 UTC

Nearly 800,000 people across more than 50 developing countries are suffering from hunger, with violent conflicts and instability being named among the main causes.However, the situation has improved somewhat since last year, according to the new Global Hunger Index report.

Some 795 million people are struggling with hunger, with one in nine people worldwide malnourished and nearly 3.1 million child deaths per year, said the Global Hunger Index report, released jointly on Monday by German charitable organization, Welthungerhilfe, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and Concern Worldwide.

The Central African Republic and Chad, where people have long suffered from instability and violent conflicts, claimed first places on the list. "Conflict and hunger are closely connected," says the report.

Horrific: Police detain two men in India suspected of severely beating and raping 4yo girl

RT
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 09:53 UTC

Indian police have detained two men who allegedly raped a four-year-old girl in New Delhi. The girl, who comes from an extremely poor family, now requires a series of surgeries in order to recover from the severe injuries she sustained.

The four-year-old girl who lived in a slum was raped and beaten with stones last week, a senior police officer involved in the investigation, told Reuters on Monday.

"We are questioning the men in our custody and trying to help the victim's father obtain [the] best medical care for the child," Vijay Singh said.

The girl has recognized one of her abusers, a 26-year-old going by the name Rahul, local news outlet NDTV reported. From what the girl has told police, it appears that Raul lured her with noodles and then took her to the city's leafy Keshav Puram district.

Hysteria: Bearded men unnerve locals in Sweden who mistook group for terrorists

RT
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 09:44 UTC

A group of men who share a love of facial hair were mistaken for terrorists during a recent meeting in Sweden. Locals were unnerved by the men's whiskered appearance and their official flag, which loosely resembles the flag of ISIS.

Around 30 Bearded Villains - who describe themselves a "brotherhood of elite bearded men from all over the world" - gathered at the ruins of Brahehus Castle outside Gränna, Sweden on Saturday, for a day of bearded bliss. But although their intentions were good, they still managed to attract the attention of locals.

One local phoned the police while driving by, telling law enforcement that men from Islamic State (formerly ISIS/ISIL) were at the site, waving the militant group's flag. The Bearded Villains' flag is black with white text, just like the flag of ISIS. However, the men's flag clearly states the name of their group in English.

Comment: It's this kind of social hysteria that Western governments and media are responsible for. People who see men with beards and a black flag are primed to associate it with Islamic terrorism. The programming is so strong that people don't seem to be able to even use their brains anymore.

Obamacare causes Tennessee district to close schools over lack of funding

RT
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 07:29 UTC

A school district in Tennessee voted to cancel classes and shut down its schools as a result of a budget problem that has left the government unable to fund the facilities. The school director blamed Obamacare for its problems.

Clay County, Tennessee operates three schools total - one high school and two that cover pre-kindergarten through eighth grade - on a $9.5 million budget. However, now more than 1,100 students are sitting at home while officials try to figure out how to reopen the doors. A school board meeting last week saw the board voting 6-4 to close the schools. A separate vote to keep them open failed.

Comment: With the US economy in the doldrums, expect to see more of these kinds of problems.

SOTT Exclusive: South Carolina plane crash and a loud boom

Mike L
Sott.net
Sun, 11 Oct 2015 16:06 UTC

SOTT.net recently reported on a story of a plane crash in South Carolina on Oct 2nd, at approximately 3:15 pm.

Authorities from Georgia and South Carolina say four people were killed in a plane crash near the state line at Lake Hartwell.

The Stephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley confirmed to WYFF News 4 a small plane had crashed near the state line along Lake Hartwell.

Investigators said the plane's debris field was discovered in a tree line near the lake, and in the lake.

New information has been released from the investigation of the crash:

Several people living in the area said they heard and saw the plane before it crashed at 3:12 p.m., the report says.

One person reported hearing a loud "boom," then saw pieces of white debris falling into the lake, the report says. Another said the plane fell vertically, spiraling downward until it disappeared among the trees, according to the report. The plane's engine was running until it hit the ground, another witness told the NTSB.

The area's 911 center received multiple calls about the crash, and first responders were able to locate the wreckage shortly afterward, the report says.

The airplane was destroyed by the force of the impact and did not catch fire, the report says. It was found in a wooded area, about 50 yards north of the lake where radar contact was reportedly lost. Based on damage to the trees around the wreckage, it's believed the plane made a near-vertical descent before hitting the ground, the report says.

The main cabin, cockpit, engine, propeller, left wing and inboard half of the right wing were found north of the lake, while about a tenth of the plane's empennage — or tail — was found near the lake's southern shore, the report says.

When the preliminary report was published Friday, the outboard portion of the right wing and the rest of the tail hadn't been found.

Columbus Day: How America is now discovering its genocidal origins

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 00:00 UTC

When Gutenberg introduced the printing press in 1440, the world had no idea that things were about to drastically change. Prior to the release and production of the printing press, books were incredibly expensive, rare, mostly written in Latin, and reserved for royalty and clergy.

The spread of information was kept under lock and key.

However, in just a few decades after its spread throughout the world, Gutenberg's press had rolled out hundreds of millions of books. The operation of a printing press became synonymous with the enterprise of printing and lent its name to a new branch of media, the press.

Sickening: Another ponerized Catholic priest defends pedophilia, blames the victims

RT
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 03:23 UTC

A Catholic priest from the Italian city of Trento has been suspended after defending pedophiles on live TV and blaming abused children for "seeking affection" from clerics. The comments, which called on people to "accept" pedophilia among other sins, triggered outrage.

Don Gino Flaim from the of the San Giuseppe and Pio X parish said he "understands pedophilia" when the issues was raised during an interview with La7 channel.

"Unfortunately there are children who seek affection because they don't receive it at home and I understand that some priests can give up," Flaim said.

Comment: Pedophiles and Popes: Doing the Vatican Shuffle

Shame! Native populations in US and Canada still lack easy access to clean water

Kit O'Connell
MintPress News
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 14:15 UTC

© AP Photo/Matt York
Richard Charley, right, and Melvin Jones deliver water to a ranch along the San Juan River on the Navajo Reservation, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015, in Shiprock, NM.

For many in North America, the notion of a community without access to clean water seems like something that would only exist in a far-off, undeveloped country. Yet impoverished indigenous communities throughout the continent don't have clean water or, in some cases, any running water at all.

For members of the Navajo Nation, and some of Canada's First Nations tribes, the struggle to get clean water is a part of daily life.

The Navajo Nation

According to a January report from NPR's Laurel Morales, about 40 percent of the Navajo lack running water and must painstakingly conserve the water they receive from monthly deliveries. While these members of the Navajo Nation make do with an average of about 7 gallons of water per day, the average American uses 80-100 gallons of water per day, including all the uses of water in their home from cooking to cleaning to flushing the toilet.

Hajji Putin: Popularity of 'Putin the Shiite' sky high in Iraq

Jean-Marc Mojon & Raji Nasser
Yahoo! News
Thu, 08 Oct 2015 00:00 UTC

© AFP Photo/Sabah Arar
Iraqi artist Mohammed Karim Nihaya touches up a painting of Russian President Vladimir Putin in his studio in the Karada district of Baghdad on October 7, 2015

Russian President Vladimir Putin's bullish entry into the Syrian conflict has worked wonders for his popularity in neighbouring Iraq, where some await "Hajji Putin" like a saviour.

Sitting at his easel in his central Baghdad workshop, painter Mohammed Karim Nihaya touches up a portrait of Putin he copied from the Internet.

"I have been waiting for Russia to get involved in the fight against Daesh," he says, referring to the Islamic State group that last year declared a "caliphate" straddling Iraq and Syria.

"They get results. The United States and its allies on the other hand have been bombing for a year and achieved nothing," the bespectacled artist says.

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Society's Child

Black councilman tased by police outside his home in Prairie View, Texas; same city (and cop) as activist Sandra Bland

Global Hunger Index report finds 3.1m children die of starvation every year

Horrific: Police detain two men in India suspected of severely beating and raping 4yo girl

Hysteria: Bearded men unnerve locals in Sweden who mistook group for terrorists

Obamacare causes Tennessee district to close schools over lack of funding

SOTT Exclusive: South Carolina plane crash and a loud boom

Columbus Day: How America is now discovering its genocidal origins

Sickening: Another ponerized Catholic priest defends pedophilia, blames the victims

Shame! Native populations in US and Canada still lack easy access to clean water

Hajji Putin: Popularity of 'Putin the Shiite' sky high in Iraq

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