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Pittsburgh officer charged with homicide in killing of unarmed teen

Kenneth Moton and Morgan Winsor
ABC News
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 14:15 UTC

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Officer Michael Rosfeld of the East Pittsburgh Police Department was arrested and charged in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Antwon Rose, June 27, 2018.

The Pittsburgh-area police officer who shot and killed an unarmed teenager last week has been charged in his death, with prosecutors calling the killing an "intentional act."

The officer, identified by authorities as Michael Rosfeld of the East Pittsburgh Police Department, was arrested and arraigned on one count of criminal homicide Wednesday morning, according to court documents obtained by ABC News. He is scheduled to appear before a judge for a preliminary hearing July 6.

An attorney for Rosfeld told ABC News in an interview Wednesday that he's not surprised by the charge but his client is "devastated" by what happened and is seeking counseling. The officer, who has been placed on unpaid leave, was released from jail after posting bond Wednesday, his attorney said.

300 brave Russians get government support in conquering the uninhabited Far East

RT
Sun, 10 Jun 2018 13:24 UTC

More than 300 Russian trailblazers who have claimed free land in the country's Far East are getting government support to survive the hardships of settling uninhabited areas.

The overall aid for the 314 settlers reached about $500,000 for various needs in farming, like the purchase of agricultural machinery, buying cattle or fodder, the government of Sakhalin Region said.

The Russian government is also seeking to build infrastructure in the areas where the land is given out. There are plans to allocate about $15 million in the next three years to build transport and energy infrastructure.

Comment: And on the other side of the country, via RT

"Russia's northwestern Vologda region will give out unused land to Russian citizens. The program, which started in the country's Far East, has proven to be popular. Read more 300 Russian 'Spartans' get government support in conquering the Far East

The bill on free land in Vologda will be introduced in the regional parliament in September and is likely to be introduced starting January. According to the program launched in Russia's Far East, free land can be used for any lawful purpose, but the new owners cannot rent, sell, or give the land away for five years.

Foreigners are also eligible to use the land, but the registration of full property rights is only possible after the recipient becomes a naturalized citizen. The program started in June 2016 for the local populations of the Far East, and from February 2017 it became available for all Russians.

Vologda will give out 468,000 hectares of vacant agricultural land in 14 remote areas of the region. These lands will be used for farming and raising livestock.

Russia has about 43 million hectares of farmland that is not used for its intended purpose. President Vladimir Putin ordered the land be given out to Russian citizens.

© Stasyan117 / Wikipedia
The area of Vologda region is split between the basins of the White Sea, the Baltic Sea, and the Caspian Sea. Lake Onega, one of the biggest freshwater lakes in Europe, is located in the region.

NHS says Brexit is bad for Britain's health

Haroon Siddique
The Guardian
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 15:59 UTC

Doctors' union endorses public vote on deal now more is known about impact on NHS

Doctors have said leaving the EU is "bad for Britain's health" as they endorsed a public vote on the final Brexit deal.

A motion opposing Brexit, supporting membership of the European single market and calling for the public to have a final say on the terms of the deal was passed at the British Medical Association (BMA) annual meeting in Brighton on Wednesday.

The motion said the deal should be put to the public "now that more is known regarding the potential impact of Brexit on the NHS and the nation's health".

Comment: Brexit could be bad for the NHS, but is it bad for the health of Britain's citizens?

See:

Tech employees revolting over government contracts: Does government need tech more than tech needs government?

Blacklisted News
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 00:01 UTC

While we were still in the middle of the heat storm over Donald Trump's decision to enact a zero tolerance border policy that resulted in children being separated from their parents at the border in far greater numbers than previous administrations, there was some interesting background coverage about the employees and customers of big tech companies like Microsoft receiving backlash for contracting with ICE. While much of that backlash came from outside those companies, there was plenty coming from within as well. Microsoft in particular saw throngs of employees outraged that the technology they had helped to develop was now being turned on the innocent children of migrants and asylum-seekers.

Comment: First restaurants are refusing to serve Trump administration members, now tech company employees are demanding how their tech is being used and by whom. As understandable as it is to not want to be working for a company that makes tech for war and death, if the employees don't like it they should move to a different company. It's highly unlikely the likes of Microsoft, Google and Amazon are going to give up lucrative military or ICE contracts based on the concerns of their employees. The shareholders and customer base might be a different story, of course.

See also: Pokemon Go and the revolving door between big government and big tech

Obama-era family detention center 'no place for human beings' according to New York Times op-ed

Brian Flood
Fox News
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 12:45 UTC

An asylum seeker detailed horrific conditions she faced at a family detention center during the Obama administration.

The New York Times published a shocking first-hand account of the horrific conditions a mother and her young son faced after immigrating to the United States from El Salvador. Unfortunately for the mainstream media that continues to portray President Trump as the face of immigration crisis - the asylum seeker's tragic account happened in 2014.

The author of the Op-Ed wrote on the condition of anonymity because of "gang-related threats" her family has faced. She explained that she wanted to flee the violence of her native El Salvador, so she came to the United States, seeking a new life, during President Barack Obama's second term in the White House.

"Instead, I found myself locked in a family immigration detention center. It's an experience that I wouldn't wish on anyone," she wrote.

The mainstream media has painted Trump as the face of the immigration crisis, but the Times piece illustrates that it is an ongoing issue that has been a series problem since the current president was simply a real estate mogul. However, the woman who sought asylum in 2014 never mentioned Obama in her chilling account. Trump was mentioned by the second paragraph, when the mother noted that she doesn't believe family detention is the answer to the outcry regarding children separated from their parents.

Comment: See also:

28-year-old socialist shocks New York City by defeating 10-term incumbent

RT
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 12:01 UTC

A 28-year-old socialist has shaken up New York politics and sent shockwaves through the Democratic Party by defeating 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley in the party's congressional primary.

The political newcomer, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was working as a server in a New York restaurant just nine months ago, is a former volunteer for Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign and comes from a Puerto Rican family. She won the primary with 57.5 percent of the vote in a largely ethnic-minority district.

Crowley, an establishment Democrat, who had been whispered about as a future leader of the party, had not faced a challenger from the left in 14 years - and his defeat will surely have come as a major shock.

Comment: Ocasio-Cortez still shares a bad case of Trump Derangement Syndrome with the rest of the Left. Breitbart reports:

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old democratic socialist who defeated incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY), told CNN on Wednesday she would support the impeachment of President Donald Trump.

"Would you push for a Trump impeachment should you win?" CNN's Poppy Harlow asked the Bernie Sanders-supporting candidate.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez replied, "Well, I would. I would support impeachment. I think that, you know, we have the grounds to do it."

Head of 'child advocacy center' arrested for child pornography & attempt to rape 2 year olds

Emily Crane
Daily Mail
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 12:01 UTC

He's with her: Davis posted this picture after Hillary Clinton's election defeat, suggesting he had campaigned for the 2016 loser

The head of a charity that campaigns against sexual violence has been arrested in New York for child pornography and allegedly trying to meet with children as young as two for sex.

Joel Davis, 22, is accused of trying to set up sexual encounters between himself and young children, as well as soliciting an undercover FBI agent to send sexually explicit videos of minors.

The New Yorker was arrested on Tuesday on child sex abuse and child pornography charges.

Davis is the chairman of the International Campaign to Stop Rape and Gender Violence in Conflict - an organization devoted to ending sexual violence.

Comment: Further reading: Netflix: N-bombs, NOT OK; Sexual Exploitation of Children, OK

Netflix: N-bombs, NOT OK; Sexual Exploitation of Children, OK

Doug DiPasquale
Sott.net
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 14:00 UTC

Taking a look at the #boycottnetflix hashtag on Twitter, it seems that lots of people have reason to be pissed at the streaming service. If you sort through the people who are mad about the media giant cancelling their favourite shows, and the reactionary cancellations due to the service carrying the latest Star Wars travesty, you'll find the two biggest reasons people are calling for boycotts and cancelling their accounts are because the Netflix CEO was a little too comfortable with the N-word (for which he was fired) and that the streaming service has made a deal with Barack and Michelle Obama to create new content.

The N-word thing is kinda weird, in so much as people are boycotting the service after Netflix fired the offending... offender. The hashtag seems to be being used by anti-racists, so I'm not sure what they're trying to accomplish there. It kind of seems like they're sending the opposite message of what's intended, unless they think the company should be taught a lesson for ever having someone on staff who regularly throws around N-bombs, despite the fact that they tried to do the right thing by firing him. But no one ever accused progressives of being intelligent in their strategies.

The Obama thing - fine. I'm sure Netflix crunched the numbers and figured out how many QAnon-following MAGA conservatives they'd lose versus how many dyed-in-the-wool Obama-4eva regressive lefties they'd gain and made their choice accordingly. From a business perspective, I can't really fault them for that one. Because of the willing delusion of his scores of fans, Obama 4eva = $$$.

Man stabbed to death in north London, 81st murder this year

RT
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 09:20 UTC

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FILE PHOTO: The Metropolitan Police said the boy remains in a critical condition, while the woman’s injuries are not life threatening

Scotland Yard has launched its 81st murder investigation this year after a 20-year-old man was stabbed to death in Edmonton, north London.

London's Metropolitan Police said officers were called, shortly after 6:30 pm on Wednesday, to reports of a brawl between baseball bat-wielding men.

The victim was found with stab wounds on Cavendish Road, despite paramedics' attempts to save him, he was pronounced dead at the scene.

"At this early stage officers retain an open mind as to motive," a police spokesman said.

Comment: Clearly the sky-rocketing rates of violent crime are a symptom of a much wider problem plaguing the UK, which include decades of 'austerity' induced poverty to the overall deterioration of western society:

Hundreds of maids ready to escape abusive employees in Saudi Arabia

Middle East Eye
Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:20 UTC

At least 22 Bangladeshi women returned to their home country on Tuesday after escaping abusive employers in Saudi Arabia - as hundreds of other female workers remain in immigration centres inside the country awaiting repatriation.

The returnees told aid workers that Saudi bosses inflicted physical and sexual abuse, which drove them all to run away.

Many of the women coming back to Bangladesh have returned home with the help of NGO BRAC's migration programme and waited months to go back. The organisation helps Bangladeshi female and male overseas workers escape their abusive employers.

"Several women we spoke to said the abuse began after demanding unpaid wages," Noyon al-Amin, a caseworker for BRAC, told Middle East Eye.

Comment: The way a society treats the less fortunate amongst them is very telling. And these kinds of stories of slave labour and sickening violence are a common occurrence from those who've worked in Saudi Arabia:

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Society's Child

Pittsburgh officer charged with homicide in killing of unarmed teen

300 brave Russians get government support in conquering the uninhabited Far East

NHS says Brexit is bad for Britain's health

Tech employees revolting over government contracts: Does government need tech more than tech needs government?

Obama-era family detention center 'no place for human beings' according to New York Times op-ed

28-year-old socialist shocks New York City by defeating 10-term incumbent

Head of 'child advocacy center' arrested for child pornography & attempt to rape 2 year olds

Netflix: N-bombs, NOT OK; Sexual Exploitation of Children, OK

Man stabbed to death in north London, 81st murder this year

Hundreds of maids ready to escape abusive employees in Saudi Arabia

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