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New Jersey cop punches young woman in the head, puts her in chokehold, over suspicion of underage drinking

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 28 May 2018 00:00 UTC
A police officer was caught on video slamming a young woman to the ground on the beach, and then punching her head repeatedly and putting her in a chokehold.

New Jersey cop beats woman in head
A disturbing video posted on social media shows a police officer slamming a young woman onto the ground at the beach, punching her in the head repeatedly, and then placing her into a chokehold while surrounded by witnesses, including small children.

The incident took place on Sunday afternoon and was posted on Twitter by Lexy Hewitt with the caption, "I was sleeping on the beach and I woke up to this. I can't believe it."

The video was later uploaded to Facebook by Emily Weinman, 20, who claimed that she was the girl in the video, and the incident began when she was on the beach with her family and two officers approached her and demanded to know her age and if she was drinking, according to a report from NJ Advance Media.

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Thousands of Albanian protesters demand resignation of PM Rama over alleged links to organized crime and trafficking

Frank Sellers
The Duran
Sun, 27 May 2018 04:29 UTC
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Angry protesters in the Albanian capital Tirana marched along the city’s Martyrs of the Nation Boulevard on Saturday chanting “Rama go.” Some hurled stones at the premier’s office building and the interior ministry.
Thousands of protesters marched in the streets earlier to day demanding the resignation of Albania's Prime Minister, Edi Rama, over alleged links to organized crime.

Albania is a NATO member and is presently looking forward to upcoming talks on its next phase of European integration. The protests come about a month before talks are set to resume on that topic.

This isn't the first time Rama has fielded mass protests which seek his removal, last year saw multiple such events take place.

Additionally, Albania isn't alone in facing public wrath and demands for a new government, as some of its neighbors have also experienced the same, also on corruption and links to crime organizations.

Comment: UK law enforcement head: Albanian mafia 'fueling surge of violent crime in London'

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Thousands of Albanian protesters demand PM Edi Rama's resignation

Frank Sellers
The Duran
Tue, 29 May 2018 15:00 UTC
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Protestors demand Edi Rama's resignation
Edi Rama is accused of having links to organized crime

Thousands of protesters marched in the streets earlier to day demanding the resignation of Albania's Prime Minister, Edi Rama, over alleged links to organized crime.

Albania is a NATO member and is presently looking forward to upcoming talks on its next phase of European integration. The protests come about a month before talks are set to resume on that topic.

This isn't the first time Rama has fielded mass protests which seek his removal, last year saw multiple such events take place.

Comment: Edi and his government probably do have shady criminal connections, but anyone who thinks the protests are a purely home-gown movement is fooling themselves. The Empire has larger geopolitical considerations.

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Disturbing video shows Virginia police killing a naked, unarmed mentally unstable man


RT
Tue, 29 May 2018 10:19 UTC
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© RichmondPolice / YouTube
The video shows the victim, who was reportedly a high school science teacher, getting out a window of his car after it struck a tree near an interstate highway. Completely naked, Peters is seen running towards the highway, where he appears to be hit by a vehicle and starts rolling on the ground.
Disturbing bodycam footage shows the fatal shooting of an unarmed and naked black man, who seemed to be "mentally unstable," by a Richmond, Virginia police officer. The incident is currently being investigated.

On Friday, Richmond city police published the body camera video showing how an officer used a stun gun and then "lethal force" against 24-year-old Marcus-David Peters. Chief Alfred Durham said that the video was released to provide transparency in relation to the incident that occurred last week.

WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC FOOTAGE


Comment: Nazis euthanized disabled people, the US executes them publicly.

A few recent examples:

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Here comes hell again: Israel launches air strikes on Gaza after "barrage of mortar shells" fired at Israel; Netanyahu says retaliation imminent

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 29 May 2018 14:42 UTC
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© AFP
Israeli reserve forces entering the Gaza Strip.
With the financial crisis back front and center in Europe, Israel picked a good day to remind markets that geopolitics remains as much of a gaping risk factor as ever, and after Palestinian militants on Tuesday launched what Reuters described as their heaviest mortar bomb barrage against Israel since the 2014 Gaza war, Israeli aircraft retaliated striking more than 30 Gaza camps according to AFP.

More than 25 projectiles were launched from the Gaza Strip and Israel's planes attacked three of the Iranian-backed armed group's facilities. There were no immediate reports of casualties from either side, with Israel claiming that the Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepted the majority of the missiles, but one exploded in the yard of a kindergarten, damaging its walls, about an hour before it was scheduled to open for the day.

"The IDF is currently operating in the Gaza Strip. The explosions heard are related to this activity," the Israeli forces said in a statement released on Twitter. "A barrage" of at least 28 mortar shells was launched towards several locations in Israel, according to the IDF.


Comment: It looks like Israel is ready for another round of massacres and destruction in Gaza, just in time for the World Cup to take over the attention of the entire world. The same thing happened during the last World Cup with Israel's 'Operation Protective Edge', by the way.

In case you haven't watched it, this is the hell that Israel brings to the people of Gaza:



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Trust in self-driving cars in decline following fatal crashes involving Tesla, Uber


RT
Sat, 26 May 2018 16:03 UTC
Self-driving car crashes
© Rescue Media / Reuters
Trust in autonomous cars is in decline, a new survey reveals. In the wake of a number of high-profile fatalities, RT looks at some of the most deadly car crashes involving autonomous cars, from Tesla to Uber.

The American Automobile Association (AAA) found 73 percent of drivers surveyed said they would be "too afraid" to ride in a completely autonomous car. In late 2017, only 63 percent said the same. The study shows the biggest increase in fear is among millenials, which is bound to worry tech firms investing billions in the technology.

Man dies in Tesla Model S, China, January, 2016

On January 20, 2016, a Tesla Model S sedan killed Gao Yuning in Handan in China's Hebei province. Yuning was using the car's autopilot function when it crashed into the back of a road-sweeper truck. His family sued Tesla, seeking an admission that the autopilot was faulty.

Comment: Majority of Americans 'not comfortable' with self-driving cars - poll

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A quarter of Ukrainian troops under criminal investigation since April 2014 - more than 27,000 criminals cases opened


The Duran
Tue, 29 May 2018 13:31 UTC
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5,179 crimes committed by Ukrainian soldiers in 2018 alone.

The military prosecutor's offices of Ukraine have opened more than 27,000 criminal cases against 43,000 Ukrainian servicemen since April 2014, which is about 25 percent of all soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the chief military prosecutor, Anatolii Matios, said Tuesday, as reported by Sputnik.

"Since April 2014, the crime rate among military personnel has increased dramatically and remains consistently high ... During the entire period, military prosecutor's offices registered ... 27,200 criminal offenses and crimes, which were committed by 43,000 military personnel. This is one-fourth of the army," Matios said as broadcast by the 112 Ukraina TV channel.

He added that since the beginning of 2018, servicemen had committed a combined total of 5,179 crimes.

Since 2014, Ukrainian authorities have been carrying out a military operation against the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics in the country's east that refused to recognize the new government in Kiev, which came to power after what they considered to be a coup.

Comment: That's what happens when a pathological government is imposed on the people. A society under pathocratic rule has nowhere to go but down.

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Facebook 'apology tour' is anything but charming

Joumanna Bercetche
CNBC
Mon, 28 May 2018 09:57 UTC
Mark Zuckerberg
© Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images
Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 11, 2018.
Founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg was in Europe last week on what is being dubbed an "apology tour."

This was the first time Zuckerberg set ground on the continent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke that compromised the data of about 2.7 million nationals on the continent. This was supposed to be his opportunity to apologize to European lawmakers for allowing the social media platform to be used for malpractice and to dispel some of their concerns about its handling of user information.

Unfortunately, it didn't quite go to plan.

The European Parliament session Tuesday was mired with controversy from the outset. Originally, the testimony in Brussels was arranged as a closed-door meeting with only a select group of policymakers in attendance. This infuriated European lawmakers who insisted on a public hearing similar to the one Zuckerberg had on Capitol Hill six weeks ago. European Parliament President Antonio Tajani eventually acceded and allowed the session to be webstreamed live to the world.

Comment: See also: Happy GDPR day! US news sites block themselves from European users, Facebook sued as EU privacy rules come into force

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USDA Wildlife Services killed over 1.3 million native animals in 2017 in the name of Big Agriculture

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 28 May 2018 12:30 UTC
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Data released by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) shows that more than 1.3 million native animals were killed by Wildlife Services in 2017 - and despite the fact that the slaughter of wolves, cougars, and birds was funded by taxpayers to benefit the agriculture industry, it is receiving very little media attention.

The total number of animals killed by USDA in 2017 was 2.3 million, and many of the species were killed by the thousands as members of Wildlife Services responded to requests from agricultural corporations by turning to lethal measures to remove the animals by employing the use of poisons, gases, snares, and firearms.

According to the report from the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, the death toll in 2017 included 69,041 coyotes - 15,631 were shot and killed by snipers on fixed-wing aircrafts, 14,062 were trapped with snares and 12,119 were killed by cyanide poison; 23,646 beavers - the majority were caught by traps and 2,375 were killed by firearms; and 15,933 prairie dogs - the overwhelming majority were targeted and killed by firearms.

Comment: See also:

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New Jersey cop caught on camera punching beach-goer in the head


RT
Tue, 29 May 2018 11:18 UTC
Jersey cops
© Timothy A. Clary / AFP
A video showing a police officer punching a girl in the head as she apparently resisted arrest on a New Jersey beach on Saturday has gone viral.

Footage of the incident was shared on social media by Twitter user @HewittLexy, who said she was sleeping on Wildwood Beach when she woke up to the altercation just after 4pm local time. RT has reached out to Wildwood Police Department for comment on the video.

Comment: Yet another example of cops using excessive force and acting like brutes. And why not? History shows there will be no consequences.

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