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Bullseye

Case against Bill Cosby grows stronger as 13 women prepare to testify if court allows them

Graham Bowley and Sydney Ember
The New York Times
Fri, 23 Sep 2016 17:23 UTC
Bill Cosby
© Michael Bryant — Pool/Getty ImagesBill Cosby, center, being led to court by an aide in Norristown, Pa.
Some knew him for only a day. Others built friendships over months, even years, and introduced him to their mothers, an aunt, even a 9-year-old son, they say.

But all 13 women say the same thing: Bill Cosby finally gave them a pill, or some other intoxicant, sometimes hidden at the bottom of a fizzing glass of champagne or a glass of wine or soda, and they awoke hours later having been sexually abused.

Prosecutors in Montgomery County, Pa., announced this month that 13 women, selected from a larger pool of nearly 50 who say Mr. Cosby assaulted them, have now agreed to come forward and testify at a long-anticipated criminal trial next June.

The prosecution has asked the court to allow the women to testify, and the judge's ruling, expected in coming months, will be critical to Mr. Cosby's fate.

If the testimony is allowed, the prosecution's case would be bolstered by its ability to bring forth accuser after accuser with accounts similar to that of Andrea Constand, the former Temple University basketball staff member whose accusations are at the center of the June trial. Prosecutors have charged Mr. Cosby with drugging and sexually assaulting Ms. Constand at his home near Philadelphia in 2004.

Comment: See also: Bill Cosby, charged with sexual assault allegations, is the victim of 'racial bias and prejudice' lawyers say

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War Whore

Cop fabricates story, now facing several years behind bars


RT
Sat, 24 Sep 2016 01:44 UTC
Police
© Michael Rivera / Wikipedia
A police officer for Butts County, Georgia is facing serious charges after claiming she was shot by an unidentified black man. It took a little over a week for investigators to discover she was lying and that the whole thing was an elaborate setup.

Officer Sherry Hall is facing four felony charges after the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) found that she had fabricated a harrowing story of being shot while on duty. She has been placed on paid administrative leave and checked herself into a "private facility" to seek help, GBI Special Agent Joe Wooten told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

This began on September 13, when Hall was on patrol and claimed she came across a man in a wooded area.

"He had a presentation of somebody who might need medical attention," Hall told WGCL shortly after the incident allegedly occurred. "Or might have been under the influence of a substance."

She claimed that she talked to him from a distance "and during that time we had a little bit of a confrontation, he fired a shot and then I began to return fire and take fire."
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Attention

Former MMA fighter arrested for kidnapping and rape


RT
Sat, 24 Sep 2016 16:59 UTC
rodolfo ramirez kidnapping woman
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A former professional American MMA fighter Rodolfo Ramirez has been accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting an unconscious woman in Arizona.

Ramirez was seen on a surveillance video picking up the woman, who is believed to be in her 20s, outside a local bar in Scottsville, Arizona and carrying her away over his shoulder.

Police say the 28-year-old then sexually assaulted her inside a parking garage, before taking her back to his home and raping her two more times.
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Bad Guys

Allow 'After-School Satan' programs or face costly lawsuits, Washington state school told


RT
Fri, 23 Sep 2016 18:09 UTC
Satan statue
© Adrian Scottow / Flickr
A lawyer hired by a school district in Washington state has advised education officials that The Satanic Temple must be allowed to hold 'After-School Satan' programs.

Attorney Duncan Fobes told Mount Vernon School District that it could face costly litigation, which it would likely lose, if it prevented the The Satanic Temple from holding after-school programs for children at its facilities, the Skagit Valley Herald has reported.

The Temple announced its intention to hold the clubs earlier this year in response to a Supreme Court ruling allowing evangelical religious programs to operate in schools.
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Laptop

'Fancy Bears' release more athletes' names in WADA hack


RT
Sat, 24 Sep 2016 16:04 UTC
WADA
© Marc Braibant / Reuters
Representative athletes of thirteen different nations, including six of Great Britain and seven of the USA, have been included in the latest list of World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) drug test results released by hack team 'Fancy Bears'.

The list details the drug tests of a total forty-one athletes from Australia, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Serbia, South Africa, Switzerland, Sweden and USA.

The list includes Great Britain athletes Nile Wilson, who won gymnastics bronze, and Saskia Clark who won sailing gold, in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

Comment: More WADA leaks: British Olympic champion Mo Farah, Spanish tennis star Rafael were given 'exemptions' to take performance-enhancing drugs

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USA

The war on drugs and the rise in heroin overdoses

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 23 Sep 2016 14:45 UTC
dollar store overdose
A video has begun to go viral showing a heartbreaking scene of a mother laying on the floor of a Dollar Store, unconscious from an apparent overdose, while her 2-year-old cries in horror trying to revive her.

When police arrived at the store, they were able to immediately reverse the overdose using Narcan. However, the mother was then arrested and charged with child endangerment and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to authorities. The child has now become a ward of the state.

According to police, around 10 percent of the fentanyl and heroin cases they respond to, have children present.

Cops are busting down doors and arresting drug users and dealers at a higher rate now than at any other time in history — yet these scenarios continue to play out. Why is that?

It is undeniable that the shocking and heartbreaking video below shows the horrors of what a heroin addiction can do. However, in order to reverse this massive epidemic, we must realize the root of the problem.

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Cult

Burkini ban: Calling oppression by its true ugly name

Andre Vltchek
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 17 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
Burkini ban
© Stringer / Reuters
In Europe, oppression is never really called by its true ugly name. It is constantly concealed by lofty slogans such as culture, even tolerance. Repression, discrimination and harassment are administered in order for the 'entire society to be free'.

Or so at least the official narrative goes.

In France, recent and ugly row over so-called burkinis, a swimsuit used by many Muslim women all over the world, has demonstrated how little tolerance there really is in today's Europe for other cultures and for different ways of life.

Recently, France's highest administrative court has ruled that "burkini bans" being enforced on the country's beaches are illegal and a violation of fundamental liberties. Still, more than 90 percent of French people are supporting the ban, which is thoroughly illogical and philosophically as well as ethically indefensible.

What is suddenly so shocking about a woman wearing a wetsuit on some French beach? And let's face it: burkinis are nothing else but a wetsuit, which is commonly used on countless beaches of California, Australia, and Europe, in fact all over the world, by surfers and other water sport enthusiasts.

Just compare these images and these. Can you really tell much of a difference?

Comment: France's absurd, misogynist burkini ban is an Islamophobic assault on feminist values

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Attention

4th night of Charlotte protests; interstate shut down as demonstrators demand release of police footage


RT
Sat, 24 Sep 2016 14:27 UTC
charlotte protesters
© Mike Blake / ReutersProtesters march in the streets during another night of protests over the police shooting of Keith Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. September 23, 2016.
In their fourth night of protest, Charlotte demonstrators, demanding the release of police tapes of the fatal shooting of Keith Scott, made their way onto Interstate-277, shutting down the highway.

After a few minutes on and near the highway, protesters left, chanting, "The people united will never be defeated" and "We young, we strong, we marching all night long." The protesters also marched behind banners, one of which read, "Release the tapes."

They also passed the Charlotte Jail Central, where prisoners flicked lights off and on. "We see you, we love you," protesters chanted in response.

The rally remained peaceful and the police did not enforce a curfew this night as several hundred protesters marched the streets

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Handcuffs

Trigger-happy Louisiana cop who murdered unarmed homeless veteran just found not guilty

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 24 Sep 2016 13:55 UTC
Louisiana cop murder homeless veteran
On Tuesday, a Ouachita Parish jury somehow returned a verdict of not-guilty for West Monroe police officer Jody LeDoux on charges of negligent homicide. A six-person jury returned the unanimous verdict after less than a single hour of deliberation.

LeDoux plead not guilty at his arraignment on in 2015, for negligent homicide after shooting and killing homeless veteran, Raymond Keith Martinez, 51.

On the evening of December 5, Martinez was attempting to go into a convenience store that he frequented. The store employees would often call the police to have him removed when he would ask people for spare change outside. The owner of the store alleges that on this evening, he told the victim that he could not come inside the store because he was intoxicated
"He (the store owner) stated that officer got out of the car and told him to get his hands up," the police report reads. "He stated that he did not hear the suspect say anything and the suspect turned to reach inside the paper machine, at which time the officer shot him. He stated that he did not hear the suspect say anything to the police. He stated that while the suspect was on the ground he observed a black cellphone by his hand."

Comment: Once again this proves that cops can murder almost anyone with little to no repercussion, this lack of accountability continues to feed the epidemic of criminal behavior and brutality by police.

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Pistol

Mall shooter kills five, manhunt underway in Burlington, Washington State


RT
Sat, 24 Sep 2016 12:12 UTC
Cascade Mall shooting suspect
© KOMO News / Twitter
A manhunt is still underway after SWAT teams swept the Cascade Mall and nearby areas in Burlington, WA, for an active shooter with a rifle. The gunman, believed to have acted alone, killed five people opening fire in the Macy's make-up store.

In their latest briefing, police said that four female victims are confirmed dead, while one man was taken to hospital in a critical condition. Several hours later the man died of his wounds.

"We're doing everything we can to find this person. Stay vigilant. If you see something, just like they say, say something," said Washington State Patrol spokesman Mark Francis as quoted by local Komo News TV. "Avoid the area. If you live close to the area, stay inside - lock your doors."

A still from CCTV footage showing the suspect was also released. Francis tweeted the shooter was "armed with rifle." He reportedly entered a Macy's department store around 7pm.
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