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"Hey Sean, I've got a question for you: were you there?" Uygur asked. "I mean, you've got all these assumptions - 'Oh, the cops, gotta respect the cops, maybe [Brown] had his head down and he was charging, he was doing all these things.' Wait, Sean. Why don't you shut the f*ck up, 'cause you weren't there?"
On Wednesday, Hannity berated local committeewoman Patricia Bynes (D) during an interview, saying she could not say that Brown's shooting at the hands of Officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9 was a case of police brutality because she was not at the scene at the time.
Hannity told Bynes on multiple occasions that he wanted to "educate" her regarding the criminal justice system, and argued that Wilson suffered "an orbital eye socket fracture" during his encounter with Brown. However, CNN reported that early reports that he suffered that kind of injury were false. The Washington Post also reported on Thursday that Wilson has still not spoken to prosecutors about the shooting.
"Eyewitnesses say that Brown charged at [Wilson]," Hannity told Bynes. "You weren't there. What if that turns out to be true in our court system? Then that would mean you're wrong, doesn't it?"
"We have lots of eyewitnesses that are saying something different," Bynes responded.
"So you don't know, do you?" Hannity pressed.
On Thursday, Uygur sarcastically wondered why Hannity was so intent on reminding Bynes about the presumption of innocence for Wilson, then tried to "educate" the Fox News host.
"Just because we're not in a court of law - and the reason we're not is that the cop hasn't even been arrested after he put 6 to 8 bullets in that kid - doe not mean that facts don't exist," Uygur explained. "Facts can exist outside of a courtroom. So you keep saying to her, 'You don't know 'cause you weren't there,' but you don't know because you weren't there."
Uygur also chided Hannity for seemingly siding with accounts supporting Wilson, while claiming he was being impartial.
"Sean, nobody's convicting the officer - they haven't even arrested him," Uygur repeated. "Bill O'Reilly talks about a 'lynch mob.' How dare you?"
The dogs harshly savaged the five-year-old boy, who is in dire need of several surgeries, including a facial reconstructive one.
The boy, identified as Karmel Moayyad Shakir, was playing with his peers in the village of Azawiyeh when the illegal settlers from the nearby Kannat settlement arrived at the spot along with a large pack of dogs.
Before the boy's family could intervene, the dogs attacked the five-year-old who was lucky enough not to die, yet sustained severe injuries.
The writer had a problem. Books he read and people he knew had been warning him that the nation and maybe mankind itself had wandered into a sort of creativity doldrums. Economic growth was slackening. The Internet revolution was less awesome than we had anticipated, and the forward march of innovation, once a cultural constant, had slowed to a crawl. One of the few fields in which we generated lots of novelties - financial engineering - had come back to bite us. And in other departments, we actually seemed to be going backward. You could no longer take a supersonic airliner across the Atlantic, for example, and sending astronauts to the moon had become either fiscally insupportable or just passé.
And yet the troubled writer also knew that there had been, over these same years, fantastic growth in our creativity promoting sector. There were TED talks on how to be a creative person. There were "Innovation Jams" at which IBM employees brainstormed collectively over a global hookup, and "Thinking Out of the Box" desktop sculptures for sale at Sam's Club. There were creativity consultants you could hire, and cities that had spent billions reworking neighborhoods into arts-friendly districts where rule-bending whimsicality was a thing to be celebrated. If you listened to certain people, creativity was the story of our time, from the halls of MIT to the incubators of Silicon Valley.

In light of the upcoming deployment of drones on the border, the DPR Defense Ministry stressed that it is not technically possible to identify drones but the information they may carry can be intercepted by Ukraine's Special Forces.
"The Defense Ministry of the Donetsk People's Republic reserves the right to destroy such unmanned aerial vehicles," a statement posted on the website of the press service read Wednesday.
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine will receive drones within 6-10 weeks. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier this week that Russia supports the idea of equipping the OSCE monitoring mission with unmanned aerial vehicles to enhance their control of the Russian-Ukrainian border.
In light of the upcoming deployment of drones on the border the DPR Defense Ministry stressed that it is not technically possible to identify drones but the information they may carry can be intercepted by Ukraine's Special Forces.
The DPR, however, said that it was open for dialogue and cooperation with the international community and expressed hope that unarmed drones would help expose Ukraine's aggression and the humanitarian catastrophe in the country's southeast.
The planned rally is among dozens around the nation organized by the group Anonymous, which is demanding the "immediate arrest and prosecution" of Officer Darren Wilson. Wilson has been identified as the officer who shot 18-year-old Michael Brown on Aug. 9, whose death touched off violent protests in the streets of Ferguson, Mo.
"We call upon the citizens of the United States to collectively gather in support for those who are suffering in Ferguson," a voice claiming to represent Anonymous says in a video posted to YouTube. "We must indeed all hang together as one nation, or most assuredly we will all hang separately."

Liberian security forces stand in front of protesters after clashes at West Point neighbourhood in Monrovia August 20, 2014
The death toll from the spreading virus mounted by 106 in just two days, and constituted 1,350 victims. In Liberia alone, 576 people have died from 972 cases, AFP reported.
The clashes broke out after the Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf quarantined the West Point and Dolo Town areas, to the east of Monrovia, and introduced a curfew.
Residents of West Point were outraged at the move, protesting, throwing stones and shouting at police. Witnesses also stated that the violence began after the security forces blocked roads to the neighborhood with tables, chairs and barbed wire. Locals told Al Jazeera they hadn't been warned.
"The eyes of the nation and the world are watching Ferguson right now," Holder said at talks with public figures on Wednesday in Ferguson, which has endured race protests since 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed on August 9.
Consulting firm PwC recently published its outlook for work in 2022, based on interviews with 500 human resources experts and 10,000 others in the United States and several other countries. You probably won't be surprised to hear that big companies could end up so powerful and influential they morph into "ministates" that fill the void when government is unable to provide essential services. Companies will also use sensors and other gizmos to monitor employees around the clock. And workers will mostly acquiesce to this digital leash, in exchange for job security, decent pay and important benefits.
That's the most dystopian of scenarios PwC outlines in its report, yet it's not so far-fetched, given the dramatic ways globalization and digital technology are changing the way people work and live. An increasing share of income is flowing to tech barons, data wizards and the privileged holders of capital, while ordinary workers find it harder to earn a living. There are more minimum-wage jobs today but fewer good-paying ones than there were just a few years ago, a trend many forecasters only expect to intensify.
Comment: The scenarios mentioned above in PwC's book Outlook for Work in 2022 are have already been in progress for a while in many corporations.
Comment: The lives of many are forever changed. They have experienced the cold, remorseless destructiveness of psychopaths firsthand.
Government forces first bombed the village of Zugres in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine on August 14. Several shells hit a beach full of people relaxing by the river, with shrapnel killing 12 people, the Rossiya 24 TV channel reported. Several people were injured and taken to hospital.
Yana Fenenko was one of the lucky ones who survived that day.
"We were swimming in the river when lots of bombs started falling all at once. We left the water and I threw myself down on the ground. I was lying prone, but I was still hit by a bomb," 15-year-old Yana told RT's Ruptly agency from a hospital bed.
"I had never seen how people die before," she said. "The beach was filled with kids... A man got his hand blown off by one of the bombs. I saw it, he was laying right next to me. Also, one of the kids' heads was blown off... It was very scary."
(Link to RUPTLY's video)
Comment: Every so-many years, it seems that humans get the uncontrollable desire to start tearing each other to shreds. Or rather, one group gets such a desire. The ones on the receiving end try to resist, to fight back, but the butchery of the attackers outstrips anything of which the attacked are capable, or can even imagine. That's the essence of psychopathy -- the reason humanity periodically descends into complete and utter madness and barbarity: it is mind of the psychopath writ large, and painted in the blood of the innocent.
As demonstrators marched across the bridge, activists also dropped a huge Palestinian flag from the nearby Manhattan Bridge that read, "Boycott Divestment Sanctions."
Although it is unknown exactly how many people participated in the event, photographs from the event on social media clearly indicate that at least several hundred were present. During the last pro-Gaza rally in New York City, somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 people took part.
The latest demonstration comes as talks between Israelis and Palestinians fell apart yet again on Tuesday, renewing hostilities between the two parties. As RT reported then, 500 rockets were fired at Israel by Hamas, while Israel launched at least 35 airstrikes against various targets in the Gaza Strip.
Both sides have accused each other of breaking the ceasefire that was previously in place.
Comment: There is a connection between Gaza and Ferguson: psychopaths in power. Birds of a feather...













Comment: According to OSCE, the drones must have the technical ability to reach the altitude of 4,000 meters (approx.13,100 ft.) which will track moving objects at a distance of several kilometers. Eight international inspection teams are checking troop deployment status and OSCE has been invited by Moscow to observe.