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Europe's brand new country: Welcome to the 'Republic of Liberland'


Sputnik
Wed, 15 Apr 2015 19:28 UTC
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A Czech named Vít Jedlicka has declared himself the president of Europe's youngest country, which he formed on April 13 with the name 'Liberland,' and the motto "to live and let live."

The country is located on the on the west bank of the Danube river between Croatia and Serbia, on land which has been subject to a decades-long border dispute and therefore, according to Jedlicka, a 'terra nuillius' or no man's land, before the institution of his state on Monday.

President Jedlicka is in the process of writing the country's constitution, which, in keeping with the country's name, "significantly limits the power of politicians so they could not interfere too much in the freedoms of the Liberland nation."

Comment: Imagine if this started happening all over the place!

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Snakes in Suits

TSA fires agents who set up system to grope men's genitals


RT
Wed, 15 Apr 2015 19:11 UTC
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Two Transportation Security Administration officials at Denver International Airport (DIA) have been fired for conducting a scam on male passengers. A male and female agent collaborated so the male could fondle the genitals of men he found attractive.

At some point in 2014, the male TSA agent told a female coworker that he "gropes" male passengers he finds attractive, and he asked her for help manipulating the system, according to law enforcement documents obtained by KCNC.

"He related that when a male he finds attractive comes to be screened by the scanning machine he will alert another TSA screener to indicate to the scanning computer that the party being screened is a female. When the screener does this, the scanning machine will indicate an anomaly in the genital area and this allows [the male TSA screener] to conduct a pat-down search of that area," the documents said.

Enhanced pat-downs were introduced by the TSA in 2010, and are "primarily used to resolve alarms that occur at a walk-through metal detector, if an anomaly is detected during screening with advanced imaging technology (AIT), or during random screening," according to the agency's blog. Pat-downs are conducted by same gender officers.
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Handcuffs

Chicago to pay $5.5 million for decades of torture during police interrogations


RT
Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:48 UTC
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The city of Chicago says it will pay $5.5 million to compensate victims who were tortured by law enforcement under the administration of a former top cop.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Monday that he is endorsing a proposed deal that establishes a $5.5 million reparations package, which the Windy City will make available to people who suffered in the 1970s and 1980s under former police commander Jon Burge and his officers.

An internal review determined in 1993 that Burge had used torture, including electric shock, mock executions and suffocation, during interrogations carried out by the Chicago Police Department on his watch starting in 1972. Four death row inmates who later said they falsely confessed during those sessions have since been pardoned, and the city believes that more than 100 people in all, mostly African-American men, were subjected to unlawful treatment during a nearly two-decade span.


Comment: While Burge's actions are now rightfully being seen as a disgrace, the victims and families have had to fight for decades for this recognition. It's equally disgraceful that Chicago spent over $120 million trying to cover-up and sweep under the rug such inhuman and deplorable treatment. Rahm Emanuel's fund is long overdue, but his previous stint as Obama's Chief of Staff indicate he's not as concerned over torture as it would seem.

This case serves as a reminder that the rampant police brutality we're seeing today didn't come out of nowhere. There's a long history of systemic police barbarity and cover-up, and it's just now so immense that the cockroaches are coming out in the sunlight.

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Bad Guys

Jodia Arias sentenced to natural life in prison with no chance of parole

Michael Kiefer
The Arizona Republic
Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:53 UTC
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Jodi Arias
Jodi Arias surprised the court at her sentencing hearing Monday when she admitted for the first time that she "remembered the night I put the knife in Travis' throat."

During her first trial, she insisted that she was in a fog and didn't remember anything after she shot Travis Alexander, who she claimed was charging at her in a rage. She slit his throat, she said Monday, because he was still attacking her.

But it was no surprise that Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens sentenced Arias to natural life in prison, meaning she will have no possibility of release.

The murder was savage, and Stephens said she felt Arias had planned it out. It was cruel, the judge said, and a jury had found it so. Furthermore, she said, it had caused financial and emotional hardship for Alexander's family.

So ended 2 1/2 years of speculation, anger, titillation, harassment, spectacle and social-media hysteria since the first of Arias' trials began in January 2013.

The prosecution wanted death.

But two consecutive juries were unable to reach a unanimous death verdict; in the second trial, it came down to a single vote for life.

Comment: See also:

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Red Flag

Mother charged for hosting party for her 16-year-old daughter - Provided drugs, alcohol and slept with multiple teens

Valerie Rowell
Augusta Chronicle
Wed, 15 Apr 2015 16:39 UTC
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Rachel Lynn Lehnardt
An Evans mother was arrested Monday accused of hosting a party with drugs and alcohol for her teenage daughter and her friends.

Rachel Lynn Lehnardt, 35, was charged with two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

An Augusta woman told authorities Saturday that she was recently appointed as Lehnardt's sponsor through Alcoholics Anonymous and Lehnardt told her about a recent incident at her home, according to a Columbia County Sheriff's Office incident report.

Lenhardt said her children were with their father when her 16-year-old daughter texted asking if she could have friends over "to party," according to the report. She agreed and allowed her daughter and her friends to drink alcohol and smoke marijuana in her home.

The woman said Lehnardt continued to describe the incident stating she played naked Twister with the teens and had sex with an 18-year-old and her daughter's 16-year-old boyfriend, according to the report. The woman said Lehnardt also claimed she showed photos of herself and her boyfriend having sex and other pornographic material to her daughter.

Lehnardt was released from the Columbia County Detention Center after posting a $3,200 bond, according to jailers.

Comment: Another sign of the total decline of society in the U.S. Most would find her actions unthinkable. But in the current reality, it's just another day in the ponerized society of the USA.

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Handcuffs

Two cops in Louisiana arrested for taking bribe to incriminate man's brother


RT
Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:29 UTC
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Two Louisiana law enforcement officers have been arrested on charges of racketeering for accepting a bribe of over $100,000, and unlawfully arresting an innocent man after planting drugs in his car.

The man accused of paying the bribe is Mark Knight, CEO of major oil and gas company 'Knight Oil Tools'. He and his former employee, Russell Manual, have been notified of the warrants for their arrest.

Allegedly, Mark Knight paid State Trooper Corey Jackson and Sheriff's Deputy Jason Kinch in exchange for planting containers filled with cocaine and prescription drugs underneath his brother's car, Bryan Knight, the company's co-owner. The law enforcers subsequently arrested him in June 2014.

But in March 2015, investigators established the magnetic cases recovered from the undercarriage of Bryan Knight's vehicle were purchased by Knight Oil Tools at the request of Russell Manual, an employee who answered directly to the CEO Mark Knight, KATC reports.
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Yoda

Time Magazine readers - over half of whom are Americans - name Putin most influential person in world


RT
Wed, 15 Apr 2015 13:21 UTC
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In a diverse field of competitors made up of pop stars, technology gurus, visionaries and politicians - and at a time when US-Russia relations have hit rock bottom - President Putin has emerged victorious in Time magazine's 2015 reader poll.

Among the 100 most influential people in the world, as hand selected by the editors of TIME, the Russian leader proved his rock-star credentials by edging out 24-year-old rapper Lee Chae-rin (better known by her stage name, 'CL') of the South Korean girl-group 2NE1 to claim the number-one spot with 6.95 percent of the votes in the final tally.

Putin - the only world leader to rank in the top 10 - grabbed the global spotlight from the leading divas of pop music: Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Taylor Swift (2.6 percent, 1.9 percent and 1.8 percent of the votes, respectively). Aside from the Russian leader, the only non-celebrities to appear in the top 10 were the Dalai Lama (1.7 percent), Pakistani female activist Malala Yousafzai (1.6 percent) and Pope Francis (1.5 percent).
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Stormtrooper

Ex-Philly cop admits he planted drugs in scheme targeting white 'khaki-pants type' males


RT
Wed, 15 Apr 2015 01:59 UTC
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Testifying against his colleagues, a former Philadelphia cop told the court about the extortions, robberies, drug deals and other abuses perpetrated by six narcotics officers currently standing trial for a six-year racketeering scheme.

"White males, college boys, wearing khaki pants, easy to intimidate," were the group's preferred targets, ex-officer Jeffrey Walker told the jury. "We'd catch them doing whatever they were doing, we'd scream at them, sometimes get physical. I'd slap them around. These guys crack under the pressure."

Walker said he and the other African-American officer in the group, Linwood Norman, were known as "The Twin Towers" and were often assigned by the ringleader, Thomas Liciardello, to rough people up. On one occasion, Walker said, he and Norman extorted a password from a drug dealer by holding him over the railing of a high-rise balcony.
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Pirates

Mexico authorities confirm ISIS camp a few miles from Texas


Judicial Watch
Tue, 14 Apr 2015 00:00 UTC
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ISIS is operating a camp just a few miles from El Paso, Texas, according to Judicial Watch sources that include a Mexican Army field grade officer and a Mexican Federal Police Inspector.

The exact location where the terrorist group has established its base is around eight miles from the U.S. border in an area known as "Anapra" situated just west of Ciudad Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Another ISIS cell to the west of Ciudad Juárez, in Puerto Palomas, targets the New Mexico towns of Columbus and Deming for easy access to the United States, the same knowledgeable sources confirm.

During the course of a joint operation last week, Mexican Army and federal law enforcement officials discovered documents in Arabic and Urdu, as well as "plans" of Fort Bliss - the sprawling military installation that houses the US Army's 1st Armored Division. Muslim prayer rugs were recovered with the documents during the operation.

Law enforcement and intelligence sources report the area around Anapra is dominated by the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Cartel ("Juárez Cartel"), La Línea (the enforcement arm of the cartel) and the Barrio Azteca (a gang originally formed in the jails of El Paso). Cartel control of the Anapra area make it an extremely dangerous and hostile operating environment for Mexican Army and Federal Police operations.


Comment: Does something about this report seem contrived? Well, like all of it? Wow, those ISIS guys are really busy. If this were true, this story would be splashed all over the media in big bold black letters and would suck all the air out of the newsroom. However, having "vented" that, there is this little military exercise upcoming that you may have heard about, Jade Helm 15, in nine US states. "They" say it is a test, but is looking a lot like the real thing. Troops are to operate undetected amongst civilian populations, while Green Berets, Navy Seals, and the 82nd Airborne Division perform military maneuvers from July 15-September 15 with all their heavy equipment, classifying several states as hostile territory. Marshall Law and your local internment camp await. Trial run? For two months?

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Sheriff

Georgia man arrested for attempting to fix bridge where daughter was killed

Cassandra Fairbanks
TheFreeThoughtProject
Tue, 14 Apr 2015 15:07 UTC

Two high school students were tragically killed last month after 18-year-old Taylor Swing lost control of his vehicle on a curve. The high school student's car then careened over the edge of a bridge. Swing, as well as his passenger,16-year-old Cecily Hamilton, both drowned after the vehicle landed in the creek below. There are currently barricades along the length of the bridge, but none at the entrance after the curve. Had there been barricades, Hamilton's father believes that the teenagers may still be alive today.

Since this tragic accident, the father of 16-year-old Cecily, Shannon Hamilton, has been attempting to get the county to construct barricades to prevent any more lives being lost. Unsatisfied with the county seeming to blow off the issue, the grieving father decided to take matters into his own hands to make his community a safer place. Hamilton began constructing temporary safety features himself using materials donated by neighbors. Sadly, Hamilton was arrested for interference with government property, but his proud son took to Facebook to share a video and express his support and love for his father.

Comment: Instead of arresting a grieving father for trying to do something constructive for his community, why aren't the police arresting real criminals? There's plenty of white collared psychopaths and sexual predators that would fit perfectly into the back of a police cruiser.

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