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Baltimore police serving arrest warrants kill black mother Korryn Gaines, 5yo also shot

RT
Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:53 UTC

Baltimore police fatally shot 23-year-old mother Korryn Gaines in her home after a standoff that lasted hours. A five-year-old was also shot in the incident.

Three officers arrived at an apartment in Randallstown on Monday morning to serve both Gaines and a man who lived at the residence with arrest warrants.

Gaines was wanted for failing to appear in court over a March incident where she was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and numerous other traffic charges, police chief Jim Johnson said.

According to police, they acquired a key from the landlord after the two failed to open the door. Upon entering, they saw Gaines sitting on the floor with the child in her arms. She had a gun which she pointed at one of the officers.

Past two years hundreds of soldiers resign from German army

Sputnik
Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:48 UTC

Over 400 German soldiers have filed applications for resignation from the country's armed forces, Rheinische Post reported.

Most applications have been approved. Though, the exiting soldiers have to pay back their education expenses to the state.

From the middle of 2014 to present, 469 soldiers, including 62 women, have filed applications to suspend their military service.

According to the newspaper, 67% of the applications were accepted, 25% were disapproved. The remaining applications were considered unlawful or withdrawn by the applicants themselves.

"When the risk in the profession of a soldier — to kill or be killed in specific combat situations — is perceived as a fundamental experience for the first time...only then it leads to such consequences," German political expert Katrin Kunert said, cited by DW.

Incidents of Texan teachers' sexual misconduct with students continue to increase

Merrill Hope
Breitbart
Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:27 UTC

Incidents of Texas educators accused of sexual misconduct with students and other related inappropriate behaviors continue to trickle in over these final weeks of summer vacation.

While the Texas Education Agency (TEA) inches closer to its annual deadline for releasing the number of reported cases in the 2015-16 school year, the reality of such improper relationships remains a violation of the public trust on its youth.

On Monday, an ongoing educator sexual misconduct case concluded when U.S. District Judge Amos L. Mazzant sentenced former north Texas elementary school principal Oscar Figueroa to 10 years in federal prison and ordered him to pay $17,600 in fines and assessments, U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced. Breitbart Texas first reported on Figueroa, 47, last year after officials charged him with one count of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor.

13 year old child arrested, thrown in jail for burping in class, court rules this police state madness justified

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 31 Jul 2016 16:18 UTC

Albuquerque, New Mexico is home to some of the world's most dangerous cops. After a recent federal appeals court ruling this week, the world now knows why they are likely never held accountable. In typical police state fashion, the court upheld the arrest and charges of a 13-year-old child — for burping in class.

In what sounds like a piece from the Onion, the 10th circuit court of appeals ruled that the cop who arrested the child and the school staff were entitled to 'immunity' from any lawsuit filed against them on behalf of the child. The law the court cited in their ruling prohibits anyone from interfering with the educational process.

The original incident happened in May of 2011 at Albuquerque's Cleveland Middle School. After repeatedly burping in class, instead of simply disciplining the child, the school called the cops. The 13-year-old boy, who was in 7th grade at the time, was then searched, arrested, handcuffed, and brought to jail — for burping.

After being held in a juvenile detention center for over an hour, his mother was finally informed that her son had been arrested.

Historic opening? Pope Francis appoints commission to study possibility of women becoming deacons

France24
Tue, 02 Aug 2016 00:00 UTC

© Filippo Monteforte, AFP
Pope Francis sits with youth for a prayer vigil at Campus Misericordiae in Brzegi as part of the World Youth Days on July 30, 2016.

Pope Francis on Tuesday appointed a special commission to examine the role of female deacons in the Church, in a potentially historic opening on the possibility of women joining the clergy.

The 13-member commission, made up of seven men and six women, will study the question of female deacons with a particular focus on the history of women having played this role in the early years of the Church, the Vatican said in a statement.

The move follows a pledge made by Francis in May during a question-and-answer session with members of female religious orders.

Advocates of women serving as deacons have long argued that they are pitifully under-represented in the Church's hierarchy and decision-making processes.

Allowing women to enter the clergy at a rank just below a priest would represent a first step towards correcting this imbalance, they argue.

Citibank: No significant negative impact in wake of Brexit

RT
Mon, 01 Aug 2016 16:27 UTC

Citigroup has not seen any "significant negative impact" on its results or client activity in the aftermath of Britain's vote to leave the European Union, the bank said on Monday.

According to Citi's regulatory filing, market activity has increased after the UK referendum, but it still expects the operating environment to continue to be challenging.

"The result of the referendum has raised numerous uncertainties, including as to when the UK may begin the official process of withdrawal and the commencement of negotiations with the EU regarding the terms of the withdrawal," the bank stated, adding it hadn't yet faced "any significant negative impact to its results" from the vote.

Presidential influence: 465 drug dealers/addicts killed in Philippines in July after Duterte's call for extrajudicial killings

RT
Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:09 UTC

© Czar Dancel / Reuters
Funeral workers carry the body of one of the five suspected drug pushers killed in a police operation in Quiapo city, metro Manila, Philippines July 3, 2016.

The Philippines president's appeal to eliminate all drug-related suspects has so far reaped a bloody harvest of hundreds of victims. The criminal world is ready to pay over $1 million for Rodrigo Duterte's head, but his popular support remains huge.

Statistics published twice a week in the national Philippine Daily Inquirer have counted 465 deaths of drug dealers, pushers and addicts, killed by vigilantes in July alone. This means that on average, 15 people have lost their lives extra-judicially every day for alleged links to drug trafficking.

Duterte, 71, launched his anti-drug campaign immediately after being sworn in on June 30.

"If you know of any addicts, go ahead and kill them yourself as getting their parents to do it would be too painful," Duterte said on July 1, a day after entering office. At the same time the president pledged to remain within the boundaries of the law.

"As a lawyer and former prosecutor, I know the limits of the power and authority of the president. I know what is legal and what is not. My adherence to due process and rule of law is uncompromising," Duterte said.

Comment: It's hard to see how Duterte squares his call for killings of this sort with the rule of law... The drug lords aren't the only ones who don't like him (to put it mildly). He's a thorn in the side of the Empire:

Hundreds join PEGIDA rally in Dresden to protest Berlin's refugee policy

RT
Mon, 01 Aug 2016 16:09 UTC

Hundreds of people have taken to the streets of the German city of Dresden to participate in an anti-immigration and anti-Islamism rally organized by the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West (PEGIDA) movement.

Demonstrators marched through the city and gathered at the Neumarkt square in the Old Town.

The rally began at 18:30 (local time) (17:30 GMT). According to the witnesses, about 2300-2900 people joined the rally.

Participants were protesting against German Chancellor Angela Merkel's open door refugee policy and what they called the "Islamization of Europe." They also voiced discontent with the influx of Muslim migrants and refugees.

LA sheriff to face trial for county jail abuses

RT
Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:05 UTC

Former Los Angeles County sheriff Lee Baca will face trial on charges of lying to the FBI during an investigation into corruption and abuse at county jails. Baca had pleaded guilty in a deal with prosecutors, but the judge rejected it as too lenient.

Baca, 74, was the county sheriff from December 1998 to January 2014, when he resigned under the cloud of a federal probe into corruption and brutality by county deputies. Baca and his deputy, Paul Tanaka, were accused of lying to the FBI, hiding a Bureau informant from federal agents, and intimidating a female FBI agent involved in the investigation. Tanaka was sentenced in June to five years in prison, the maximum sentence for making a false statement to federal investigators.

In the agreement reached between Baca's lawyers and the prosecution in February, the former sheriff would have faced only six months in prison in exchange for a guilty plea. The deal was rejected last month, however, by US District Judge Percy Anderson, who said the deal "would trivialize the seriousness of the offenses," citing "the need for a just punishment, the need to deter others."

Monday's hearing was reportedly delayed until the afternoon, in hopes of hammering out another plea agreement, but nothing came of it. Rescinding his previous guilty pleas, Baca will go to trial on September 20.

Comment: Note that the punishment went from a six month plea deal to a five year sentence, not for the seriousness of abusing inmates, but because of his behavior towards the FBI.

Welsh mother jailed after filming sex abuse with 14 year old son

RT
Tue, 02 Aug 2016 15:47 UTC

A Welsh mother has been jailed for five years after filming videos of her having sex with her 14-year-old son. She then sent the videos to a cousin of hers in Pakistan, alongside indecent images of her three-year-old daughter too. Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court heard how the 36-year-old, who has not been identified, recorded the "truly shocking" pornographic clips on her mobile phone, including oral sex and other sex acts.

"The videos showed the boy rubbing her breasts and rubbing her vagina," prosecutor Ian Kolvin told the court Monday." Under instructions she gave him they are seen having sexual intercourse."

It's understood the mother-of-four recorded the videos at the request of a cousin in Pakistan, according to The Express. The videos were discovered by the woman's 13-year-old daughter when she borrowed her brother's phone during a birthday party. She forwarded the images to her iPad and then on to her father, who no longer lives with their mother.

When police seized the woman's phone, they also discovered indecent images of her three-year-old daughter. Lawyers for the woman, who appeared via video link from Eastwood Park prison in Bristol, argued that "cultural differences" had hugely impacted the direction of her client's life and that this was "completely out of character."

Comment: It is not mere 'cultural differences' that prompted this woman to abuse her son in such a horrific way. The mothering instinct is one of the strongest that exists, and clearly this drive to protect her children was either extremely twisted and warped or non-existent all together.

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Society's Child

Baltimore police serving arrest warrants kill black mother Korryn Gaines, 5yo also shot

Past two years hundreds of soldiers resign from German army

Incidents of Texan teachers' sexual misconduct with students continue to increase

13 year old child arrested, thrown in jail for burping in class, court rules this police state madness justified

Historic opening? Pope Francis appoints commission to study possibility of women becoming deacons

Citibank: No significant negative impact in wake of Brexit

Presidential influence: 465 drug dealers/addicts killed in Philippines in July after Duterte's call for extrajudicial killings

Hundreds join PEGIDA rally in Dresden to protest Berlin's refugee policy

LA sheriff to face trial for county jail abuses

Welsh mother jailed after filming sex abuse with 14 year old son

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