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Navy sailor uses Clinton case as precedent in asking for leniency from court

RT
Mon, 15 Aug 2016 19:04 UTC

A US Navy sailor facing prison time over photos he took with his cellphone inside a nuclear attack submarine is pointing to the case of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to ask for probation instead.

Petty Officer First Class Kristian Saucier, 29, will be sentenced this week in federal court, having pleaded guilty in May to "unlawful retention of national defense information," a charge leveled against him under the 1917 Espionage Act, according to Politico.

A 10-year Navy veteran and machinist aboard the USS Alexandria, Saucier was charged after his cellphone - with several photos taken inside the nuclear attack submarine - was found in the trash in March 2012. Upon learning he was under investigation, Saucier destroyed a laptop, camera and memory card, leading to additional charges of obstruction of justice.

Federal sentencing guidelines call for a prison term of 63 to 78 months, but Saucier's attorney Derrick Hogan is asking for probation, citing the treatment of the Democratic presidential nominee in the probe over her use of a private server to handle classified and sensitive government information while serving as secretary of state.

Knife attack & shooting in Cologne, two suspects still on the run

RT
Mon, 15 Aug 2016 18:47 UTC

© Wolfgang Rattay / Reuters /File photo
A police vehicle patrols at the main square and in front of the central railway station in Cologne.

At least one person has been injured in a stabbing and shooting attack in the German city of Cologne, police and the public prosecutor's office said. Local media reported that two suspects are currently at large.

The incident took place on Flandrische Street on Monday morning, Koelner Express newspaper reported. When police arrived at the scene, they determined there had been a knife attack and shooting.

Two suspects are now on the run, the paper said.

According to witness accounts cited by Koelner Express, there were three or four people in the street having an argument with the victim before they attacked him with a knife or knives.

When the victim tried to escape in his Mercedes, the attackers began shooting at him, but the bullets only hit the car, according to the witnesses.

Police said the car was riddled with bullets when the officers arrived at the scene.

The victim, a 34-year-old male, received stab wounds and head injuries and was taken to hospital, police and prosecutors said.

Father & 7yo daughter terrorized at gunpoint by 'insane & violent' police officer

RT
Sun, 14 Aug 2016 17:38 UTC

A father and his young daughter claim they were terrorized by a highway patrolman in Arizona while they were en route to the Grand Canyon on Friday.

Ken Walton, who is from California, described the horrifying ordeal in a lengthy Facebook post where he and his 7-year-old daughter were held at gunpoint after being pulled over by the out-of-control highway patrolman.

"Tonight, I was arrested at gunpoint by an Arizona highway patrol officer who threatened to shoot me in the back (twice) in front of my 7-year-old daughter. For a moment, I was certain he was going to kill me for no reason," he wrote.

Walton had been making his way to the Grand Canyon in a rented car when he was pulled over by the Arizona Highway Patrol who had been tailing him for a few miles.

Comment: As Mr. Walton further writes, he feels it was only by virtue of his demographic (white male) that he survived the terrifying encounter at all:

"Maybe it's because, as I sat in that back of that police car and heard the AHP officer learn the truth from his dispatcher - that the man he'd just captured at gunpoint and threatened to murder was totally innocent - I realized it was very possible that the only reason I was alive was because I am a scrawny 48-year-old white man wearing a Micky Mouse t-shirt and cargo shorts and hiking boots. The officer that arrested me was so pumped up on adrenaline and eager to get a "bad guy" that he could barely control himself, and if I'd looked just a little bit more threatening to him - because I was black, or young, or long-haired, or tattooed, or didn't speak English - I believe he might have pulled the trigger.

If you are a person who has ever looked skeptically [sic] at the claims of Black Lives Matter, or others who talk about police violence, I urge you to consider what happened to me and put yourselves in the shoes of others. I just survived a bizarre gunpoint situation in which I was as innocent as Philando Castile, who was not as lucky as I was. We live in a society where anywhere and everyone can have a gun at any time, and police are responding with fear in dangerous ways. I got lucky tonight. My daughter and I made it to the Grand Canyon and I'm going to try to salvage what's left of our vacation. Many others - because of the color of their skin or the way they look or because of simple bad luck - did not meet the same fate."

New Black Panther leader on Milwaukee: This is a war on black people

Aaron Klein
Breitbart
Sun, 14 Aug 2016 16:44 UTC

Responding to the latest violent incidents in Milwaukee over the weekend, Babu Omowale, the so-called national minister of defense for the People's New Black Panther Party, declared "Is it a war? Yes, it is. It's a war against black people because we're the ones being murdered."

Omowale is also co-founder of the Huey P. Newton Gun Club, a black militant gun group named after Black Panther Party founder Huey P. Newton.

Omowale was speaking in an interview set to air Sunday night on this reporter's talk radio program, Aaron Klein Investigative Radio, broadcast on New York's AM 970 The Answer and News Talk 990 AM in Philadelphia.

Asked if the riots in Milwaukee following the police shooting on Saturday of an armed assailant fleeing the scene amounted to a "civil war," Omowale responded thusly:

"The people against terrorism, and tyranny in their community is not a civil war. When you are speaking about civil war, you are talking about a country fighting against a country. This is oppressed people fighting against a racist, white supremacist police system. Which is meant to oppress a certain group of people. More than likely black people and poor people around the country."

"What you see is people lashing out and fighting against the system. As it is said in the Second Amendment, you know. So this is not new. The people in this country have always defended themselves against tyranny. So I can't liken this to a civil war. No it's not. Is it a war? Yes, it is. It's a war against black people because we're the ones being murdered. We're the ones being killed. So there's been a war against us. But is it a civil war? I can't say that that's the case."

Comment: After the interview, Klein takes a caller and then goes on to spout the usual rightwing rant against progressive movements, especially decrying criticism of Israel by black organizations. Further reading:

Milwaukee unrest continues: Police 'rescue' new shooting victim amid 2nd night of violent protests

RT
Mon, 15 Aug 2016 17:05 UTC

© Aaron P. Bernstein / Reuters
A gas station is seen burned down after disturbances following the police shooting of a man in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. August 14, 2016.

One person was shot and rushed to the hospital in Milwaukee where disturbances continued for a second night. The crowd has been throwing objects at officers, blocking roads and firing some shots, police said.

Russian long jumper Klishina wins appeal and allowed to compete at Rio Olympics

RT
Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:58 UTC

Long jumper Darya Klishina, the only Russian track and field athlete cleared to take part in the 2016 Olympics, but who was then banned from competing at the last minute by her athletic federation, has finally won her appeal and will join the Rio Games.

Early Monday morning, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), temporarily based at a beachfront hotel in Rio, ruled that Klishina is eligible to take part in the Olympics, overruling a last minute ban imposed on her by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). In rendering its decision, the court noted that Klishina has been training outside Russia for the last three years and passed drug testing regularly, the Associated Press reports.

The IAAF has confirmed that Klishina is now allowed to join the Games and will take part in qualifications on Tuesday.

Two women sexually assaulted at music festival in US - right-wing media ignore story

RT
Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:59 UTC

Two women were sexually abused at the Willamette Country Music Festival in the US city of Brownsville, Oregon this past weekend, with two men arrested for the assaults.

A 20-year-old woman reported the first incident early Sunday after she woke up naked in the RV in which she was staying with no memory of the night before.

Terry Allen Pepiot, a 56-year-old who was staying in the RV with the woman, admitted he sexually assaulted her. He was arrested for "unlawful sexual penetration."

A second 20-year-old woman reported a sexual assault on Sunday. She and a friend were drinking with a man they had just met. A few hours later, she woke up to find the man sexually assaulting her. Jeremy Russell Janssen, 37, was subsequently arrested for sex abuse.

'Gunfire' scare in French Riviera resort sparks stampede injuring dozens

RT
Sun, 14 Aug 2016 20:52 UTC

© Jean Christophe Magnenet / AFP
People sunbath on a beach in the French southeastern city of Juan les Pins, near Antibes

Forty people have reportedly been injured in a stampede in the French Mediterranean resort of Juan-les-Pins after fears of gunfire led to panic. The noise, however, was caused by firecrackers thrown from a nearby car, local media said.

There were "a lot of people running" in a "stampede caused by the panic" that "left dozens of people slightly injured," a local witness told AFP.

Comment: For more information on how the population has been traumatized by global terror attacks leading to this kind of PTSD-like behavior, see this article: Limbic Warfare and Martha Stout's "Paranoia Switch"

State of Wyoming claims ownership of the wind so it can tax renewable energy firms out of existence

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 14 Aug 2016 00:00 UTC

Shortly after they realized the potential for wind energy creation in Wyoming, renewable energy companies began constructing turbines on private property and then selling the clean power they generated to the residents. However, shortly after their ventures began, Wyoming government officials, acting on behalf of fossil fuel interests, moved in for the kill.

The state legislature asked the question, "Who owns the wind?"

Without much debate, the Wyoming legislature quickly determined that the state does.

Unlike any other resource derived from the use of private property, which the property owner maintains from surface ownership, the state of Wyoming claims wind is different.

So, lawmakers decided to tax it. For the last several years, Wyoming has been taxing the power generated by wind turbines at $1 per megawatt.

Do not mistake this tax as part of the regular taxes that already apply to businesses like income tax and employment taxes. No, this is an entirely new tax based solely on the assertion by Wyoming officials that they own the wind.

"Wind is different than anything else. It's not like a mineral, which is something that sits there in the ground until you go after it," says Bob Whitton, chairman of the Renewable Energy Association of Landowners (REAL). "It's not like water that can be put in a lake or pond. The wind blows in and blows out and you can't put it in a pond, pipeline, truck or train and send it somewhere."

Pharmaceuticals moving in? Cannabis vaporizer being tested by NHS could lead to 'properly regulated market in UK'

RT
Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:33 UTC

A cannabis product used by people suffering from various conditions is now being tested by the National Health Service (NHS) in a move it has been said could potentially shift perceptions of the drug.

The 'MediPen', which contains the active ingredient cannabidoil, an oil extracted from the cannabis plant, is legal in the UK because it is fully non-psychoactive and is used to relieve a variety of conditions including depression, anxiety and arthritis.

MediPen Ltd has reportedly been liaising with NHS production and regulatory support pharmacists who have been testing the oil over the last few months, according to the Independent.

A report on the testing process is due to be released, and could open the way for the beginning of a medical cannabis industry in the UK.

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Society's Child

Navy sailor uses Clinton case as precedent in asking for leniency from court

Knife attack & shooting in Cologne, two suspects still on the run

Father & 7yo daughter terrorized at gunpoint by 'insane & violent' police officer

New Black Panther leader on Milwaukee: This is a war on black people

Milwaukee unrest continues: Police 'rescue' new shooting victim amid 2nd night of violent protests

Russian long jumper Klishina wins appeal and allowed to compete at Rio Olympics

Two women sexually assaulted at music festival in US - right-wing media ignore story

'Gunfire' scare in French Riviera resort sparks stampede injuring dozens

State of Wyoming claims ownership of the wind so it can tax renewable energy firms out of existence

Pharmaceuticals moving in? Cannabis vaporizer being tested by NHS could lead to 'properly regulated market in UK'

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