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'Heroic' K-9 dog Poncho performs CPR on his trainer (VIDEO)

oncho performs cpr
© PoliciaDeMadrid
Poncho the Spanish police K-9 has again shown why dogs truly are 'man's best friend' after he "saved the life" of his handler by performing CPR.

Madrid police shared video footage of Poncho rushing to save the life of an agent who collapsed on the ground in a simulation of someone in mortal danger.

Handcuffs

Massachusetts State Troopers arrested in massive overtime embezzling scheme

bad apples
Going far beyond simply cheating on their time cards, three Massachusetts State Troopers have been arrested and charged with embezzlement. According to the allegations brought against the troopers, they stole tens of thousands of dollars when they billed the state for overtime they either did not work or time they stole when they clocked out early.

The officers are Paul Cesan, Gary Herman, and David Wilson. In 2016, Cesan is believed to have embezzled $29,000, Herman $12,468, and Wilson $12,450, which amounts to a year's salary for some hourly workers. Following the discovery, Cesan and Wilson resigned, and Herman was suspended.

NBC 10 in Boston reported:
They altered citations they had given out to make them appear as though they were given during overtime hours, or in some cases they (prosecutors) allege, they made up tickets that were never actually even issued.
In other words, the officers issued tickets - presumably to unsuspecting citizens - but forged the time on the ticket to appear as though they were working overtime. That is called lying by all intents and purposes, but the crime took place when they cashed in their paychecks for the overtime they simply never worked.

Info

UK Football commander will face 95 counts of manslaughter over deadly crushing incident in 1989

football vigil
© Phil Noble / Reuters
The football match commander who oversaw the Hillsborough football tragedy that saw 96 Liverpool fans die as a result of a crush - will now face trial, accused of 95 counts of manslaughter by gross negligence.

Former South Yorkshire chief superintendent, David Duckenfield, 73, will face prosecution in September for his role in the disaster, alongside Graham Mackrell, Sheffield Wednesday Football Club's secretary at the time, who is charged with two offences - one involving the stadium safety certificate, and the another relating to health and safety.


Comment: More on the crush from the BBC:
At least 93 football supporters have been killed in Britain's worst-ever sporting disaster.

They were crushed to death at Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield during the FA Cup semi-final between Nottingham Forest and Liverpool.

The crush is said to have resulted from too many Liverpool fans being allowed in to the back of an already full stand at the Leppings Lane end of the ground.

More than 2,000 Liverpool fans had still not got into the stadium when the match started at 1500.

A police spokesman said orders were given for the gate to the stand to be opened because they believed the pressure of fans outside the ground was "a danger to life".

But as fans rushed in, those already there were pushed forward and crushed against the high, wired-topped safety fences.

However, it was more than five minutes into the match before what was happening became apparent to those not in the Leppings Lane stand.

Then, alerted by fans spilling through a narrow gap onto the pitch or being lifted by others into the seating areas above, a policeman ran onto the field and ordered the referee to stop the game.

Bodies

But improved security measures recently introduced at grounds to keep rival fans apart meant, for many, there was no escape from the crush.

Police and match officials attempted to help those trapped clamber over the safety barrier.

Bodies were lifted forward and laid out on the pitch - many of them teenagers and children.

Other injured fans were ferried to ambulances on stretchers improvised from crash barriers and advertising hoardings.

At least 200 people were injured, about 20 seriously.



USA

Stressed out Americans desperately try to escape the news

trump protest
© Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg
Demonstrators hold signs and an American flag during the “March For Truth” protest at Foley Square in New York.
Last week, Jen Wrenn, a children's literacy advocate in San Diego, attended her first political protest after reading about the Trump administration policy of separating small children from their immigrant parents at the border.

She had heard ProPublica's audio of a little girl crying in the border camp and decided to do something about it. She shouted. She marched. And afterwards, she decompressed by watching the Mr. Rogers documentary, "Won't You Be My Neighbor?"

"As soon as I hear the theme song, my blood pressure goes down," Wrenn said. "I think that kind of calm is what we all crave mentally right now."

The film about Fred Rogers, the beloved figure of American childhood, has made $4.9 million at the box office since it opened on June 8-more than 20 times the typical haul for a documentary. In interviews, director Morgan Neville paints the documentary's success as indicative of our times. "We're in this period in our culture where I feel like nobody wants to be an adult anymore," Neville recently told Deadline. "A character like Fred takes us back to how we should treat each other."

Violin

Howard Dean wonders if Ukraine's anti-Semitism struggle is Russian disinformation - gets told off by researcher

Ukraine Ukraninan neonazis nazis
© Yuriy Dyachyshyn / AFP
The author of an article published in the Jewish-American press about anti-Semitic attacks in Ukraine has pushed back against progressive heartthrob Howard Dean, who suggested that the piece was inspired by Russian propaganda.

Lev Golinkin wrote an open letter to Dean - former six-term governor of Vermont and Chair of the Democratic National Committee - after he speculated on Twitter about Golinkin's article, 'Violent Anti-Semitism Is Gripping Ukraine - And The Government Is Standing Idly By,' which was published by prominent Jewish-American outlet The Forward.

"Be interested to know if this is based on Russian disinformation," Dean tweeted on June 24, in response to Golinkin's piece.


Comment: Howard Dean just made a fool of himself by displaying his absolute ignorance of what is going on in Ukraine. The coup was largely carried out with the support of neo-nazi groups, and these same groups have supported the government that followed. So why would anti-semitism (of the real type) come as a surprise in Ukraine??

For people who are still struggling to figure out who is who and what is going on in Ukraine, we recommend watching this documentary:

'Ukraine on Fire': How US, Not Russia, Destroyed Ukraine - Oliver Stone Documentary Finally Available (VIDEO)

See also:

Sputnik takes an inside look into Ukraine's Security Services' death squads


Newspaper

Provocative article shaming Russian girls for romancing World Cup visitors sparks online fury

Russia world cup
© Dylan Martinez / Reuters
A provocative article in a popular Russian tabloid, shaming women as 'whores' for their hospitality and romance with foreign fans during the World Cup, has triggered an avalanche of criticism and heated debate on women's rights.

The controversial piece, entitled "The time of whores: Russian women disgrace their country and themselves during the Mundial," has brought Moskovsky Komsomolets (MK) over half a million clicks in less than a day and was widely reposted and discussed on social media.

The author, Platon Besedin, wrote that, while the coaches and footballers praised the organization of the World Cup, and the visiting fans claim that, contrary to what they'd been led to believe about Russia, it turned out to be an awesome country with welcoming people, the Russian women are working hard to maintain the sad stereotype that "they are for sale."

"Not all of them are like this, of course, but the black sheep bring shame on the whole flock. And let's be frank, there's quite a lot of those black sheep," Besedin claimed, adding that social media is full of videos of interactions between foreign fans and local women, who "behave like shabby broads with low social responsibility."

"We've raised a generation of whores, ready to spread their legs to only the sound of foreign speech. And if they're also shown a dollar then it's absolutely perfect for them," he stated. The author went on to blame such behavior of the country's females on the "degradation of Russian men, who are both weak and irresponsible."

Megaphone

Tucker: 'Time for adults on the Left to rein in the mob'

Tucker Carlson
© Associated Press
Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson said in his monologue Tuesday that the left is showing that it no longer believes its political opponents have the same Constitutional rights that it has.

"Progressives decided the Bill of Rights applies only to people who agree with them," Carlson said. "Their views are protected by the First Amendment. Yours are hate speech."

Carlson said liberals have already shown that they are allowed security details while telling conservatives they can't "have a gun at home."

"[Non-liberals] no longer have freedom of movement or association. They're surrounded by mobs and threatened," he said, adding that it is time for the "adults on the left" to "rein in" that "mob."

Comment: Things are fast approaching the tipping point and as the rhetoric escalates, the likelihood that America will find itself in the midst of a civil war increases each day. See also:


Attention

Antifa: Growth of an American Insurgency

Antifa
While Trump hoped the release of the long-awaited Inspector General report on June 14th would exonerate him and lead to real investigations into real criminals, it instead revealed a tepidness that led some commentators to the conclusion that the Inspector General is 'not merely afraid' of the FBI, but that he 'isn't sure that Trump is going to win the war' political insiders are waging against him.

The latest family separation crisis along the border is part and parcel of that war. It was no doubt timed to steal headlines from the release of the IG report. Since its release the media, Democrats and Progressive groups have dominated those headlines and taken the war against the Trump Administration to an entirely new level.

Family

'Abolish ICE!' Women protesters occupy US Senate building, 575 arrested

Abolish ICE protest
© Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
Nearly 600 activists, protesting Donald Trump's 'zero-tolerance' policy against illegal immigrants, have been arrested after staging an occupy sit-in at the Hart Senate Office building in the nation's capital.

Hundreds of women, wrapped in metallic silver blankets, referencing the duvets given to migrant children in detention centers, occupied the Senate office building in Washington DC after marching down the streets of the city chanting "Shame! Shame! Shame!" and "This is what democracy looks like."

Demanding the closure of the detention centers for illegal immigrants, the activists made a brief stop in front of the Department of Justice, urging the government to "abolish ICE," the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

Comment: See also:


No Entry

'Occupy ICE' tent camp taken down by feds

portland ice tent protest
© AP Photo/Don Ryan
Federal authorities on Thursday began taking apart a makeshift tent camp blockading U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in Portland, Oregon.

Federal officers wearing tactical gear began clearing out protesters demonstrating at the facility against the Trump administration's now-halted family separation policy

"At approximately 5:30 a.m. today, federal law enforcement officers initiated a law enforcement action to reopen the federal facility at 4310 SW Macadam Avenue in Portland," a Federal Protective Service spokesperson said.

Photos and videos of the clear-out have begun circulating on social media.

Comment: See also: Portland: Ground zero for the next American civil war?