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Quenelle - Golden

Quentin Tarantino is correct to stand with the victims of US police brutality

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© Eduardo Munoz Alvarez / AFPUS film director Quentin Tarantino (L) takes part in a march against police brutality called "Rise up October" on October 24, 2015, in New York
After taking a public stance in solidarity with the victims of lethal violence in the United States, Hollywood filmmaker Quentin Tarantino is learning that free speech in the land of the free comes at a price.

The movie director recently attended a public demonstration in New York to commemorate the victims of police killings in the US. He did so, he said, because he "stood on the side of the murdered."

Those are undoubtedly strong words, which predictably have met with a fierce reaction in the shape of politicians, chiefs of police, and commentators attacking him. Even more extreme has been the campaign launched by police unions across the country to boycott his movies - the latest of which, The Hateful Eight, is due for release in December.


Comment: Being anti-police brutality doesn't mean being anti-police! But the law enforcement individuals getting riled up here are so identified with their perceived right to abuse the public that they feel the need to lash out at the more-than-justified criticism.


Comment: You would think that there were at least some police and law enforcement organizations who are brave enough to come out in support of Tarantino and others' stance here. Where is the conscience and the bravery of these individuals - who must know that there is something very wrong with this picture? Perhaps it will be individuals like Tarantino who help make it safe to address this serious problem for what it is - to the extent that it is still possible in a ponerized Amerika. Big kudos to Quentin Tarantino for standing up to the pathocracy!


Monkey Wrench

How are those anti-Russian sanctions working out? Russian manufacturing sector grows in October

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Russia's factory activity expanded in October, growing for the first time in 11 months thanks to higher domestic demand, a Markit report showed Monday.

The Purchasing Managers' index (PMI) for the manufacturing sector rose to 50.2 from 49.1 the previous month, edging above the 50.0 mark that separates expansion from contraction.


Eye 1

Academic coach fired from Notre Dame for coercing students to have sex with her daughter

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The University of Notre Dame reportedly has fired a white, female academic coach "who allegedly coerced black football and basketball players into having sex with her daughter," according to the New York Daily News, which says it obtained an internal school report noting that the coach violated the university's "values" and its "discrimination harassment policy."

Additionally, a lawsuit was filed Friday against the employee and university, according to a report in the South Bend Tribune.

The suit, filed in St. Joseph County Circuit Court, reportedly claims the male student was "a victim of sexual harassment and racial discrimination."

According to the suit, the paper reports, "the employee began providing academic help to the male student this past spring and immediately 'initiated, directed and coordinated a sexually and racially motivated inappropriate and demeaning relationship' between the student and her daughter."

The daughter is allegedly a student at a nearby school.

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First look at Russian jet crash site in Sinai (VIDEO)

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Shattered debris and burned out parts of the plane - an RT crew has reached the site of the Russian jet crash in Sinai where experts from the Russian Emergency Ministry are working to recover the remains of the victims and to investigate the tragic accident. Some may find the footage disturbing.

Comment: Read more:


Pumpkin 2

Assistant prosecutor in West Virginia suspended after pulling gun on fake Halloween spiders

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Many people are scared of spiders. Anxious around arachnids. Afraid of eight-legged insects.

And then there's Chris White. He's truly terrified.

Here's the tangled web:

White, an apparently arachnophobic assistant prosecutor in West Virginia has been suspended indefinitely after pulling a gun and threatening to shoot fake spiders that were being used as Halloween decorations in his office.

John Bennett, prosecuting attorney of Logan County, a district in the southwest of the state, told local media that one of his assistants, Chris White, had been put on paid leave after the incident.

Like they often do during holidays, Bennett told the Gazette-Mail, a newspaper in the state capital, Charleston, secretaries decorated the prosecutor's office at the beginning of October to mark Halloween.

"Some black, some brown โ€” but some pretty good sized" spider decorations were hung, Bennett said.

White "told the secretaries that he was deathly afraid of spiders, got out a gun and walked down the hall into an office," Bennett told the paper. "He pulled out a chair, put a fake spider down and threatened to shoot all of the spiders in the place," adding that he was out of the office at the time but was told about the incident by shaken employees.

"He said they had spiders everyplace and he said he told them it wasn't funny and he couldn't stand them, and he did indeed get a gun out," Bennett told local TV station WCHS. "It had no clip in it, of course they wouldn't know that, I wouldn't either if I looked at it, to tell you the truth," Bennett added.

War Whore

Nuclear war: What you didn't know

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A thermonuclear weapon weighing little more than 2,400 pounds (1,100 kg) can produce an explosive force comparable to the detonation of more than 1.2 million tons of TNT.โ€ช A nuclear device no larger than traditional bombs can devastate an entire city by blast, fire, and radiation. Nuclear weapons are considered weapons of mass destruction, and their use and control has been a major focus of international relations policy since their debut.

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament.

Quenelle - Golden

Nearly half a million people support independent probe into US bombing of Doctors Without Borders

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A petition calling for the support of US President Barack Obama to launch an independent investigation into the deadly bombing of the Kunduz hospital in Afghanistan by US forces has gathered over 400,000 signatures.

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders, a medical organization that operates the hospital, initiated the petition, which was posted to the Change.org website, to investigate the October 3 US airstrike on the hospital. The bombing killed at least 30 medical staff and patients, including 3 children.

The United States, NATO, and the Afghan government have launched investigations. MSF said it was "impossible to expect the parties involved in the conflict to carry out independent and impartial investigations of acts in which they themselves are implicated."

Comment: A petition calling for the US to launch an 'independent investigation' into its own war crimes seems doomed to failure. Also see:

New evidence emerges showing the US deliberately attacked the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan


Eye 2

Mark Fuhrman, former LAPD detective, convicted perjurer and racist, brings his 'expert analysis' on the Spring Valley incident to Fox News

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When video emerged showing Deputy Ben Fields of Richland County, South Carolina assaulting a 16-year-old female high school student, Sean Hannity of Fox News turned to that network's in-house expert on police conduct to explain why the deputy's actions were "justified." As expected, Mark Fuhrman, a disgraced ex-LAPD homicide detective, convicted perjurer, and documented bigot, conferred his benediction on Fields.

"I'll tell you why it's not excessive," Fuhrman told Hannity, who is always eager to exonerate abusive police officers. "He [Fields] verbalized, he made contact, he verbalized, he was polite. He requested her. He verbally did that."

When the emotionally troubled - and recently orphaned - teenage girl remained sullenly uncooperative, the "next level is he put a hand on her," Fuhrman interpreted. "She escalated it from there" - which means that she tried to pull away from the armlock that had been applied to her by an apparently steroid-enhanced, armored, gun-toting male stranger twice her size. "He used soft control. He threw her to the ground, he handcuffed her" - and in doing so inflicted injuries that required hospitalization.

For all that the girl endured as summary punishment for being uncooperative in class, she should be abjectly grateful that Fields was restrained, according to Fuhrman: "He didn't use mace. He didn't use a Taser. He didn't use a stick. He didn't kick her. He didn't hit her. He didn't choke her. He used a minimal amount of force necessary to effect an arrest."

Eye 1

The UN wants everyone on the planet to have a biometric ID card by 2030

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Did you know that the United Nations intends to have biometric identification cards in the hands of every single man, woman and child on the entire planet by the year 2030? And did you know that a central database in Geneva, Switzerland will be collecting data from many of these cards?

Previously, I have written about the 17 new "Global Goals" that the UN launched at the end of September. Even after writing several articles about these new Global Goals, I still don't think that most of my readers really grasp how insidious they actually are. This new agenda truly is a template for a "New World Order", and if you dig into the sub-points for these new Global Goals you find some very alarming things.

For example, Goal 16.9 sets the following target...

Snowflake Cold

Up to 100,000 people in Gaza will be forced to spend the winter in tents, shacks and animal shelters

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A spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees said this week that close to 100,000 people in Gaza will be spending this winter in tents, animal shelters, and shacks that will not do much at all to keep them out of the elements.

According to the spokesman, some children froze to death in Gaza last year due to inadequate living conditions.

"As the winter approaches, one shudders how these people are going to survive," the UNRWA spokesman, Christopher Gunness, said in an interview with Reuters last week.

"What these people need is proper homes," he added.

Comment: And Israel, along with its western supporters -- most notably the US and UK -- would have it no other way.