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Newly released video footage shows Chicago man who later died in hospital being tased repeatedly and dragged out of cell


RT
Wed, 09 Dec 2015 15:47 UTC
Chicago prison cell
© Chicago Sun-Times / YouTube
Newly released security camera footage from a Chicago, Illinois jail shows an African American man being repeatedly tased and dragged out of his cell by police. He later died in hospital. The recording was released amid a federal probe into police abuses.

The 2012 footage documenting the treatment of Phillip Coleman prior to his death was released by Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday, accompanied by a statement denouncing the treatment of the prisoner.

"I do not see how the manner in which Mr. Coleman was physically treated could possibly be acceptable," Emanuel said."While the medical examiner ruled that Mr. Coleman died accidentally as a result of treatment he received in the hospital, it does not excuse the way he was treated when he was in custody."

Earlier in the day, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a "patterns and practices" investigation into the Chicago Police Department following almost two weeks of protests over the authorities' handling of a 2014 shooting of African-American teenager Laquan McDonald. Emanuel said that he fully supported the probe.

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UN: Death toll over 9,000 in Ukraine since 2014


Press TV
Wed, 09 Dec 2015 10:45 UTC
crosses
© www.presstv.irUkraine's victims: the manipulations of self-serving ideologies and manmade tragedy.
  • Elderly people have no access to their life savings
  • People with disabilities have little assistance
  • Reduced healthcare left many in dismal, life-threatening situations
The United Nations says more than 9,000 people have been killed since the start of the conflict in eastern Ukraine in April 2014. The UN human rights office said in a report on Wednesday that 9,098 people, including civilians and soldiers, have been killed, while 20,732 others have been wounded during the time period.

The report added that 52 percent of the deaths had occurred as a result of landmines and other explosive devices, underlining the "urgent need for extensive mine clearance and mine awareness actions on both sides of the conflict.

The UN, however noted that it had recorded a "sharp de-escalation of hostilities" in eastern Ukraine, which has been the scene of clashes between Ukrainian army soldiers and pro-Russian forces. According to figures provided in the report, 47 civilians were killed and 131 wounded in the conflict areas of Donetsk and Lugansk between August 16 and November 15 this year. The number shows a decline in comparison with deaths over the previous three-month time period.

Comment: When will Ukraine realize it has been horrifically used and abused? Are they better off today? Would they wish to turn back the clock and choose wisely? What is in store for tomorrow and at what price?

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Houston company gives every employee $100k bonus

Scarlett Fakhar
Fox 26 Houston
Tue, 08 Dec 2015 15:43 UTC
Billionaire Jeffery Hildebrand is founder and CEO of Hilcorp.
Billionaire Jeffery Hildebrand is founder and CEO of Hilcorp.
This holiday season a Houston-based company is rewarding its workers with a major bonus.

Hilcorp has 1,381 employees total, and all of them were given a $100,000 to top off an excellent year.

Amanda Thompson has been the receptionist at Hilcorp for 10 years and she said she along with all of her coworkers have a good reason to give it their all everyday.
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Potty-mouthed Fox News 'analysts' weigh in on the presidential address

Melissa Dykes
The Daily Sheeple
Tue, 08 Dec 2015 15:21 UTC
Lt. Col. Ralph Peters
We've moved a bit beyond the days of Putin calling Obama an 'oatmeal head'.

Not that many of us don't agree with at least some of the sentiments retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peters expressed during his live interview yesterday on Fox regarding the president's address on "keeping America safe," but the downward slide in regards to that thin veneer of respectability and deference (no matter how contrived it may have always been) to America's president has just officially hit all all-time low.
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Obama's remarks to US Muslims draws criticism, discrimination


Press TV
Wed, 09 Dec 2015 08:48 UTC
muslim americans
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US President Barack Obama's call for American Muslims to help "root out" extremism in their communities has drawn criticism from Islamic centers and mosques. In a prime-time Oval Office address on Sunday, Obama called on Muslim community to help confront extremism in their midst following the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, which killed 14 people.
"If we're to succeed in defeating terrorism, we must enlist Muslim communities as some of our strongest allies, rather than push them away through suspicion and hate," the president said. "That does not mean denying the fact that an extremist ideology has spread within some Muslim communities. It's a real problem that Muslims must confront without excuse."
Obama's request was followed by a similar appeal from Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.

"It is unfair to speak about the Muslim community in this way," said Mustafa Kamel, the imam of the West Coast Islamic Center in Anaheim, southern California, Reuters reports. Two 24-year-old men, who had worshiped in mosques in that part of California, were arrested in May accused of conspiring to aid the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group. Imams and mosque workers said the arrested men were victims of biased law enforcement. "There is a lot of suspicion of the FBI here," said Kamel, an immigrant from Egypt who came to the US 13 years ago.

The Islamic Shura Council of Southern California also criticized Obama's request, arguing it singled out Muslims. The council's executive director, Shakeel Syed, questioned why US leaders did ask Christian churches to self-police for white supremacists after nine African-Americans were shot to death at a church in Charleston, South Carolina in June.

Comment: The US is home to approximately 6 million Muslims, many of whom feel discrimination has become a daily way of life, along with the demand to rectify social problems exacerbated by escalating phobic propaganda. The US, itself, is currently a hotbed of injustice, fomented by the illegal, dishonest and horrific actions of its government in the Middle East and elsewhere around the world. It does not bode well.

The 9/11 tragedy and the attack in San Bernardino were manufactured/manipulated events blamed on targets of Arab/Muslim profile to influence the American public to a particular response and action. 9/11 was about initiating the Iraq war. San Bernardino was a grand media deflection to limit coverage of events happening in the Middle East while increasing fear at home.

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Fox News tells children to charge and disarm active shooters


RT
Tue, 08 Dec 2015 15:01 UTC
Kids and Krav Maga
© Fox News
Fox News has defied reason and official federal guidelines to tell children they should confront a gunman in an active shooter situation.

Fox and Friends, hosted by Elisabeth Hasselbeck, included a segment on Tuesday that showed children how they could stop a gunman.

"In an active shooter situation, five seconds can mean the difference between life and death, but there are some things that you can do, and your children can do, to make a difference," Hasselbeck began the segment by saying.

Two Krav Maga self-defense instructors and three of their students - children - joined her for the demonstration. They showed how a gunman could be disarmed with an attack from behind, but didn't explain that this should be used as a last resort.

Additionally, it was never pointed out that people should prioritize evacuation and hiding as preferable options.

Comment: Fox News holds out this information as something a person can do in 5 seconds. What they don't tell viewers is that learning how to effectively use a martial art - both in terms of self-control and proper application - can take years. At best this sort of willy nilly "reporting" by Fox is extremely irresponsible, and at worst it could result in children being killed.

Not only that, but Fox is propagating "mass shooter" hysteria.

As for Krav Maga, it is an extremely aggressive and brutal type of hand-to-hand combat developed for the Israel Defense Force (IDF) and is used by many police forces around the United States and other countries. Unlike a typical martial art, there's no peaceful philosophy at its core. Something to keep in mind for anyone, particularly parents, who might think Krav Maga is appropriate to learn or teach children.

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EU lapdog to US, ignoring constituents: 'eager to continue anti-Russian sanctions' despite desperate pleas from industry - German press


Sputnik
Wed, 09 Dec 2015 13:16 UTC
industry
© Unknown
Germany's agricultural and car sectors are protesting against the possibility of the EU prolonging economic sanctions against Russia ahead of an EU summit later this month to discuss the issue, the German press reports.

Representatives of Germany's agricultural sector and car industry are in protest about the possibility of the EU prolonging its economic sanctions against Russia, reported Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten (DWN) on Tuesday.

US Treasury representative Adam Szubin arrived in Europe on Monday to hold talks with government officials in Italy, Germany and the UK and ensure the prolongation of sanctions; following the talks, German and UK officials are in turn supposed to convince France not to oppose the continuation of sanctions against Russia, wrote DWN.

Comment: If the EU voted to prolong this economic misery it would be no suprise whatsoever. See also:
Hell hath no fury like angry French farmers. Thus, after the disruption, President François Hollande caved in, promising help.

It's not only in France. Over the Spanish border, in Santiago De Compostela, a similar demonstration erupted a week later. In between,Irish farmers pulled milk off supermarket shelves to express their anger at price drops.

Inspired by the reaction in Paris, hundreds of farmers descended on Brussels - from as far away as Finland - a few days later, demanding EU intervention. Soon, €500 million was found for "support measures" for agronomists.

However, Albert Jan Maat of Copa-Cogeca, the umbrella organisation for EU farmers and agri-co-operatives, remains unhappy. "EU producers have lost their main export market to Russia, worth €5.5 billion annually, and a €500 million aid package will not be enough to compensate for this," he says.

EU tastes bitter fruit of sanctions war


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Baghdad: Shia mosque blast kills 5, wounds 16


Press TV
Wed, 09 Dec 2015 12:49 UTC
mosque bombing
© www.worldbulletin.netDeadly suicide bombing at Baghdad-area mosque.
At least five people have been killed and over a dozen others wounded in a bomb blast at a Shia mosque in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, security officials say. The bombing was carried out on Wednesday in the Obeidi area of the city when an assailant blew up his explosives in the entrance of the mosque as worshippers were exiting after midday prayers.

The Daesh Takfiri terror group, which captured parts of Iraq's west and north in 2014, claimed the bombing in a statement, saying an attacker identified as "Abu Salem" carried it out with an explosives-rigged belt.

Iraqi forces have succeeded in taking back significant territory [in the] north of the country, as the militants have been pushed back from some of their major bastions, including the cities of Tikrit and Baiji in Salahuddin Province, while the operation continues to retake positions in the Western province of Anbar and also in the northern province of Nineveh.

Daesh has also suffered setbacks in the north of Anbar as Kurdish forces, known as Peshmerga, purged the militants from the border city of Sinjar last month. The loss of Sinjar and other areas in Anbar would deprive militants from most of their communications with Daesh-controlled areas in neighboring Syria.

Comment: Thanks to US-rael, Iraq's trauma and devastation has no ending. The Middle East is out of control and neither relief nor repair is readily in sight. The unfettered slaughter-fest is a daily occurrence. What now, Mr. Obama? How do you account for, how do you justify what is gone and what remains?

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FBI admits using Stingrays, hacking computers and software


RT
Wed, 09 Dec 2015 04:15 UTC
Man on cell phone
© Edgard Garrido / Reuters
A top official in the FBI's Operational Technology Division admitted that in addition to using biometric databases and rapid DNA-matching machines, the agency hacks computers and software, and uses Stingrays to mimic cell phone towers.

The revelations came in a Washington Post profile of the executive assistant director for science and technology, Amy Hess, who oversees the Bureau's Operational Technology Division.

"All of the most interesting and troubling stuff that the FBI does happens under Amy Hess," Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union, told The Washington Post. "If it's high-tech and creepy, it's happening in the Operational Technology Division."
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Another execution: Dashcam footage shows Chicago cop shooting man as he ran from police

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 07 Dec 2015 02:36 UTC
Shocking dashcam footage was just released confirming what the victim's mother has been saying all along -- her son was murder by police
Ronald Johnson shooting
© Screenshot via The Free Thought Project
In the wake of the recent dashcam footage showing Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke kill Laquan McDonald, the Chicago police department has quietly been hiding another dashcam as well.

On October 12, 2014, Ronald Johnson, 25, was involved in a highly disputed interaction with Chicago police. At the end of this interaction, Ronald 'Ronnieman' Johnson would be dead at the hands of Chicago's finest. According to Dorothy Holmes, Johnson's mother, the officer who fired the fatal rounds into her son was officer George Hernandez. This information was kept secret by the Chicago police until now, as officials have announced that no charges will be filed against this killer cop.

Holmes has refused to be bullied by the Chicago police since this horrific incident wrecked her world last year. Despite not getting the media spotlight as in the case of McDonald, Holmes continued to fight for justice. Because of her relentless drive to bring Hernandez to justice, the Chicago police have finally released the dashcam of that fateful night.


Comment: We are the government: Tactics for taking down the police state

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