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Teacher in China jailed for sexually abusing boys in a prominent school


RT
Sun, 06 Nov 2016 17:04 UTC
China student
© Tyrone Siu / Reuters
A veteran teacher working in a prominent school in the Chinese port city of Dalian has been jailed for 16 years after being found guilty of sexual assault and beating his pupils for over two years, local media reports.

Li Chao Yuan taught at the elite Rui Ge Middle School and had been charged with indecent assault and acting indecently against 16 children, according to the South China Morning Post.

It was only after a pupil from Yuan's class told his parents his teacher did "something extremely gross" to him in January - when the boy was taken to Yuan's home - that authorities took action.

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Mass exodus of 80,000 people a week leave Ukraine for Russia

Alexander Boyko (Tom Winter, translator)
Fort Russ / Konsomolskaya Pravda
Thu, 03 Nov 2016 00:00 UTC
Ukraine migration

"No need for Ukrainian youth in migrant-saturated Europe, but it's easy to find earnings in Russia"
From the "Square:" a mass exodus of Ukrainians to Russia

The symbol of the new year in Ukraine may be a Cossack Vakula* that flies over precincts in St. Petersburg. Or a deserted farm near Little Russian Dikanka, a hut where the wind sings through the windows. Ukrainians are rushing to Russia not for overseas slippers, but for daily bread. They run from the country with their families, together with their farm neighbors, leaving forever.

1/4 WON'T RETURN

Members of the International human rights organization Human Rights Action (HRA) said that over the past year in Ukraine, where over the last 10 years the population has decreased from 48 to 42 million, more than three million people have left for Russia! And according to European researchers the depopulation going on in the Ukraine is about to cause a social explosion.

This is what the Prime Minister of Ukraine Vladimir Groisman acknowledged at one of the recent sessions of the government. In the session there was talk that Ukraine in the next year may be deprived of its last support - the agricultural sector. The land will soon have no one to work it, as it's the elderly who remain in the villages.

Comment: This further goes to show that all most Ukrainians want - and need - is a basic life-sustaining environment from which to live their lives - not some Western-puppet regime's idea of democratization, or a government run by fascist ideology. That these migrants are finding this life-sustaining place to move to in the land of Russia - the stated enemy of Kiev - is pretty ironic and revealing to say the least.

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Arrow Up

Polls show Trump has gained ground with African-American voters

Neil Munro
Breitbart
Sat, 05 Nov 2016 16:49 UTC
black voters
© Joshua Lott/AFP/Getty Images
Donald Trump is on track to double Gov. Mitt Romney's support among African-American voters, according to a series of state polls.

In 2012, African-Americans comprised a record 13 percent of all voters. President Barack Obama was reelected with 93 percent of the African-American vote, leaving Gov. Mitt Romney with only 6 percent of the African-American vote. Obama is now campaigning against Trump, and hoping to keep his share of the African-American vote below the 11 percent that George W. Bush won in 2004 during the housing bubble.

On Friday, a poll of 506 Pennsylvania voters by Harper Polling showed Trump has the support of 18.46 percent of African-Americans. That's 12.5 points more than Romney's share of the national vote in 2012, and if it proves true during the ballot, that 18.46 percent African-American support translates into 2 point shift towards Trump. The poll also said another 4.6 percent were undecided.
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Video of cop run over by driver leads to multiple complaints regarding his history of corruption

Justin Gardner
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 06 Nov 2016 16:22 UTC
police arrest
In a monumental twist of irony, a police officer's dashcam - which caught another driver running over his legs - has led to the officer being exposed for victimizing several people with false DUI arrests.

As the video shows, when Officer Marc Lofton tried to arrest Jessica Fox after pulling her over, Fox fled the scene and Lofton attempted to cling to her driver side, resulting in his falling to the ground and having both his legs run over.

Lofton was able to get up and run back to his car. He was treated for a concussion and Achilles tear afterward. Fox was charged with a number of crimes related to the incident, including "aggravated battery" and "aggravated assault" on a police officer.

However, in the days that followed the video release, dozens of people began submitting complaints about Officer Lofton, and they all point to a corrupt cop using his badge to ruthlessly prey on everyone he can.

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Sheriff

Dirty cop caught on body camera raping domestic violence victim

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 06 Nov 2016 16:10 UTC
Cpl. Benjamin Candelaria

Cpl. Benjamin Candelaria
A domestic violence victim has found out the hard way that calling 911 for help is a crap shoot. After an unnamed victim had been beaten by a male assailant, who she had a restraining order against, she called the police. When police showed up, they arrested her attacker and left. However, hours later, Cpl. Benjamin Candelaria, 48, would return, cover his body camera, and sexually assault the victim, according to a recent arrest report.

On Friday, Pueblo police arrested one of their own after he was was accused of sexually assaulting the victim he was supposed to be helping.

According to KOAA, officer Candelaria, along with other Pueblo officers, were called to a report of domestic violence between a man and a woman early Thursday morning. After a brief investigation, the officers arrested the man on domestic violence and violation of a protective order charges. Court documents say all of the officers left the residence, but Candelaria returned shortly thereafter to finish paperwork.

According to the arrest report, 'paperwork' was the last thing on Candelaria's mind. The next day, the woman went to Parkview Hospital and claimed that she'd been sexually assaulted by a police officer. However, her memory was limited because she'd been hit in the head with a wrench, beaten, knocked unconscious, and was intoxicated.
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Canada: Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project protest declared a victory

Alexa Erickson
Collective Evolution
Sun, 06 Nov 2016 15:38 UTC
muskrat falls protest
The protest site at the multibillion-dollar hydroelectric project in Labrador is finally coming to a close.

This marks an important victory for the Inuit, who protested and went on hunger strikes in the wake of Harvard University studies that warned the project at Muskrat Falls would poison their food sources. They urged the government to wake up and step in to help keep methylmercury from making its way into their waterways.

"The decisions that will be made, going forward, will not be at the whim of government," announced Todd Russell, president of the NunatuKavut Community Council. "They will be made by science and it will incorporate the traditional knowledge of our people. This is a huge step forward."

People took the protesting to extremes, like Labrador Inuk artist and activist Billy Gauthier, who vowed he would die if that's what it took to ensure the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project was done right."I know this is for a good reason, for a good cause, and I will stand for as long as I can," he said.
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Eye 1

Not quite Skynet but close: The ubiquity of surveillance cameras and the loss of privacy

Katherine
Collective Evolution
Fri, 04 Nov 2016 15:23 UTC
surveillance
If you've left your house since this morning — perhaps even if you haven't — odds are you've already been captured on camera, probably more than once.

In fact, studies have found that the average city-dwelling American is captured on camera an average of 75 times in any given 24 hour period. This is, of course, in addition to the #selfies and user-generated imagery we voluntarily upload each day to apps and other social networking platforms. For any young person in the connected world, cameras are now a natural part of the ecosystem.

The ubiquitous recording of real-time events has undoubtedly changed the world, contributing untold depths to society's knowledge about what happens everywhere, to everyone, all the time. Many companies are racing to combine machine learning algorithms into surveillance camera devices, giving them the ability to analyze the images they see and collect.

Once cameras take on more AI-capabilities and become more "sensing" rather than "imaging" devices, understanding that they can understand our movements and identities, we will have come that much closer to mechanically replicating the biological wonder that is human sight.

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Newspaper

National Enquirer paid $150,000 for Trump Playmate affair scoop, didn't publish story, Trump denies affair


RT
Sat, 05 Nov 2016 18:21 UTC
Trump
© Carlo Allegri / Reuters
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump.
The National Enquirer paid a former Playboy model $150,000 for a story about an affair with Donald Trump, but then didn't publish it.

David J Pecker, the CEO of American Media Inc., the company that owns the National Enquirer, is a Trump supporter and longtime friend of the billionaire, the Wall Street Journal reports. The National Enquirer has endorsed Trump and has run positive content about him throughout the election campaign. Trump has also written a number of columns for the publication.

The tabloid agreed to pay Karen McDougal $150,00 for her story in August, but didn't publish anything about it. A contract seen by the WSJ gave the company exclusive rights to her story and barred her from telling it elsewhere, stating she would be liable to pay $150,000 to the company were she to tell the story elsewhere.

Comment: See also: Interview with one of Killary's 'fixers' reveals coverup of multiple Clinton sexual affairs

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Eye 1

South Carolina man confesses to seven murders after police find woman 'chained like a dog' on his property


RT
Sun, 06 Nov 2016 14:04 UTC
Todd Kohlhepp
© Reuters
Todd Kohlhepp
A 45-year-old man who was arrested after police found a woman chained up on his property killed at least seven people, police said, adding that the discovery helped solve a 13-year-old murder case. Todd Kohlhepp admitted that he had killed four people at a motorcycle shop in Spartanburg County in 2003.

"God is good," county Sheriff Chuck Wright said, as cited by AP, adding that the community is no longer wondering who is responsible for the "four people who were brutally murdered."

Kohlhepp also led police to the graves of two of his other victims on his property.

"He's been very cooperative. He told us some stuff nobody else ought to know," Wright said.

The revelation follows the discovery of a body on Kohlhepp's property near Woodruff on Friday. That victim was identified as 32-year-old Charles Carver, the boyfriend of the woman found locked and chained up a day earlier.
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Pistol

Trump rushed off stage by security service at Reno, NV


RT
Sun, 06 Nov 2016 13:44 UTC
Donald Trump security incident
© Carlo Allegri / Reuters
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump discusses a security incident, where he was hustled off the stage by security agents, during a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada, U.S. November 5, 2016
The security service intervened in Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's speech and hustled him off stage at a Nevada rally as more guards detained a man close to the podium. While Trump later continued the rally, the detained man was led out by SWAT.

Trump's Reno rally briefly turned into chaotic scenes on Saturday as a man in his thirties was subdued and apprehended by the security service. A SWAT unit of police then appeared to lead the man away.
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