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Two cops caught on camera joking about shooting suspects


RT
Sun, 13 Sep 2015 16:14 UTC
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Two San Francisco police officers have been filmed in a donut cafe joking about getting away with killing suspects. Posted on Instagram, the video has caused public outrage and has prompted an investigation.

The uniformed officers can be seen seated at a Happy Donuts in San Francisco, according to the person who posted the video. The two can be heard graphically describing what bodycams would show as a result of a police shooting - and what evidence they would and wouldn't want to be seen on such footage.

"What you want on video is the guy holding the gun still and going... still pointing at you," one of the officers says in what appears to be a light-hearted conversation that makes the two laugh. "Not [showing hands up] and then BAM-BAM-BAM... cherry pie all over the wall," the officer said.

The videos surfaced on Instagram this week, with the user saying she "simply reposted these videos to inform the community about the individuals who are sworn in to 'serve and protect.'" Police in San Francisco do not wear body cameras yet, but a project to equip them is in the works.

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Lord of the Flies time: Economic dystopia is upon us


Investment Research Dynamics
Thu, 10 Sep 2015 00:00 UTC
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Scene from the classic 1963 film, The Lord of the Flies

Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero - Voltaire

I was driving around Denver yesterday doing my "boots on the ground" due diligence scouting of the local housing market. I continue to see some "sold" and "under contract" signs but I'm seeing a pile-up forming in new "for sale," "price reduced," and "for rent" signs. The traffic update on the sports radio reported a back-up at an intersection in Denver caused by a fist-fight that had broken out between two drivers. This country is sliding back into neanderthal times.

The U.S. economic system is slipping into dystopia and the Government/Fed is doing everything it can to try and prevent the process. The two most obvious signs of this are the perpetual market interventions by the PPT to prevent a stock market dump and the relentless propaganda flowing through the mainstream media which originates from the policy-implementing elitists (business and political). Both efforts are insidious attempts to force control over our system.


Comment: From the comments section on Zerohedge:
NoDebt:

"The U.S. economic system is slipping into dystopia and the Government/Fed is doing everything it can to try and prevent the process"

Yes to the first part, no to the second. If they were trying to "prevent" the process from happening they've sure found a funny way of doing it.

Threy are trying to preserve the oligarchy, not everything else. Do you think it's by accident that essentially ALL wealth (read: ownership) is being concentrated in the top 0.1%?

Small number of rich, large number of poor and just enough middle class to service the rich. As it has been in most societies throughout most of human history. One giant reversion to the mean. The 20th century was the anomaly, not the norm. Now we're reverting to the norm.
Well, perhaps not the norm!

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Number of homeschooled children soars in America

Terence P. Jeffrey
cnsnews.com
Tue, 19 May 2015 15:08 UTC
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In the ten-year period from 2003 to 2012, the number of American children 5 through 17 years old who were being homeschooled by their parents climbed by 61.8 percent, according to newly released data from the U.S. Department of Education.

At the same time, the percentage of all U.S. students in the 5-through-17 age group who were homeschooled increased from 2.2 percent to 3.4 percent.

Homeschooling is most prevalent in two-parent families where one parent works and the other does not, according to the DOE data. Among this type of family, 5.3 percent of all students are homeschooled.

Comment: Another reason the statistics may be going up for homeschooling is the growing concern among parents about the declining quality of American Education and the implementation of abysmal curriculums like Common Core. Christopher Chase makes some important points about about 'education systems' as a whole:

It's a Pink Floyd World - Welcome (back) to the machine - Kids
In most nations, educational systems are set up the same way animals are trained, where children who comply with adult demands are given a pat on the head and rewarded. Those who endure the training process increase their chances of getting into "good" colleges, and hopefully moving on to "good" jobs in the global economy.

Those who are bored, confused or disinterested may eventually find themselves with lower paying jobs and run the risk of being drawn toward "harmful" and "antisocial" activities such as gang membership, drugs, crime or alcoholism. Schools are society's indoctrination system, created to train and measure our children, using test scores to determine their future social status.

Pink Floyd's social criticism was pretty much on target. The system has been set up this way since the beginning of the last century, as a way of programming children, much as soldiers are trained, to serve as "tools" for those in positions of authority. It's a highly mechanistic and authoritarian system, not at all in tune with the creative and holistic ways young people naturally learn.

Time is cut up into disconnected periods, while children are forced to comply with the instructions of a single adult, rather than freely exploring what interests them. Subjects are taught in fragmented compartments, as if they had no connection to one another or the real world. We learned math and science for tests, not for building our own homes, managing bank accounts, understanding the global economy or experiencing how we are connected to the rest of the Universe.


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42 rescued from refrigerated truck containing refugees in Austria


RT
Sun, 13 Sep 2015 19:10 UTC
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© www.middleeasteye.netThis time rescue was successful. Others were not so lucky.
Police from Austria's Upper province say it has rescued 42 asylum seekers from a refrigerated truck near the border with Germany. Austrian authorities expect about 10,000 refugees to arrive from Hungary by the end of the day.

Five women and eight children were among the 42 refugees rescued from the Finnish-registered refrigerated truck used for transporting flowers, DPA news agency reported, citing police. The incident took place on the A8 highway at Aistersheim, about 30 kilometers from the German border.

Police report that none of the refugees had health problems or were in need of medical care. The smugglers, who turned out to be Iraqis, were arrested.
On August 27, Austrian police found 71 dead refugees in a tractor trailer in eastern Austria who had died from asphyxiation. Eight women and four children, including a girl aged one or two, died in that incident.
Police say that Austria expects about 10,000 refugees to cross the border between Hungary and Austria on Sunday. "The flow of refugees remains very high," the police spokesman said. "I don't think I would be wrong in saying that we might exceed the threshold of 10,000 if it continues like this."


Comment: ...and the world has come to this. Over 400,000 refugees and thousands more each day. Sad beyond words.

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In 20 years Russia built and reconstructed more than 8,000 mosques and Islamic schools


ITAR-TASS
Tue, 15 Sep 2015 12:59 UTC
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More than 8,000 mosques and madrasa Islamic schools have been built in Russia over the past 20 years, a deputy head of the Russian Mufti Council said on Tuesday.

"Russia had over 15,000 mosques, madrasas and prayer spaces before [the] 1917 [Bolshevik Revolution]. In 1991, only 100 were left," Rushan Abbyasov said.

"In just 20 years we managed to build and reconstruct more than 8,000 facilities," he added.

The Mufti Council says some 20 million Muslims live within Russia's 146 million population.

Comment: Russia shows us a model of how religions can live together quite peacefully.

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Suspected gunman in Delta State University shooting reportedly dead from self-inflicted gunshot


RT
Tue, 15 Sep 2015 04:53 UTC
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One person has been killed at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi. Local media is reporting that the suspected shooter, who had been suspected of killing another individual 300 miles away, is now dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The suspected gunman, Shannon Lamb, 45, was pulled over Monday night by Greenville police but ended up running away on foot, according to WLBT.

After giving chase, police reportedly found Lamb with a gunshot wound.

A press conference has been scheduled by local authorities for midnight.
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The hunt for Lamb began earlier on Monday, when a professor at Delta State was killed in the shooting.

The victim has been identified as history professor Ethan Schmidt, apparently shot and killed inside his office at Jobe Hall.

According to the university website, Schmidt specialized in US history and colonial America. A native of Kansas, he previously taught at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.

"To be a historian... is to grapple with the very core of what it is that makes us human," Schmidt said in a 2013 interview for the American Historical Association. "Our triumphs, our tragedies, our flaws, and our strengths are all laid bare by the scholarly study of history and without this kind of inquiry there is little hope for mankind."

Comment: Delta State University shooting: College hosted many active shooter drills

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Refugees stuck on Hungary-Serbian border start sit-down hunger strike


RT
Tue, 15 Sep 2015 12:17 UTC
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© Dado Ruvic / ReutersMigrants sit on the ground after being detained by police in Morahalom, Hungary September 15, 2015.
Refugees stuck on the Hungarian-Serbian border have declared a sit-down hunger strike, demanding to be allowed to proceed further into the EU, according to Twitter reports.

Social media reports say refugees stuck on the border are holding banners, saying "No food no water until open border."


Comment: This is really looking like a 'war on refugees'.

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Actor Tom Hardy to gay journalist: 'Why are you asking me about my sexuality?'


Sott.net
Tue, 15 Sep 2015 10:24 UTC
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English actor Tom Hardy
At a Toronto film festival press conference for Legend, which stars Englsh actor Tom Hardy as London gangster twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray, a journalist for a gay news website asks the actor - in a convoluted way - about his sexuality. Hardy answers by asking why the subject is even being raised, before ending the intrusive questioning with a gentle 'thank you'. Really, who gives a damn what anyone's 'sexuality' is...
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34 people displaced by NATO's wars drown off Greek island, 15 babies and children among them


The Guardian
Mon, 14 Sep 2015 07:56 UTC
Capsizing of overcrowded boat in high winds off the Aegean island of Farmakonisi comes as Athens calls for more help to deal with growing crisis
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© AFP/Getty ImagesAsylum seekers wait to cross the Greece-Macedonia border near the village of Idomeni on 13 September
At least 34 people, including 15 babies and children, drowned when their overcrowded boat capsized in high winds off a Greek island on Sunday, the latest asylum seeker tragedy at sea.

The deaths came as Athens angrily defended its handling of the mounting refugee crisis in Europe and appealed for more help.

Four babies and 11 young children - six boys and five girls - were among those on the stricken wooden boat when it sank off the Aegean island of Farmakonisi.

Eight of the victims were found by coastguard divers in the hold of the boat.

A total of 34 people were found dead, while another 68 were plucked alive from the sea and a further 30 managed to swim to a beach on the island, according to latest coastguard figures.

The exact number of those aboard remains unknown but the Athens News Agency said the boat was overcrowded and went down because of high winds in the area.

Comment: Dead 'migrants' and psychopaths in positions of power

The refugees are coming!!! The world is on the move - tens of millions displaced

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Delta State University shooting: College hosted many active shooter drills

Prof. James F. Tracy
Global Research
Mon, 14 Sep 2015 23:46 UTC
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© DELTA STATE UNIVERSITYProfessor Ethan A. Schmidt was killed Monday when a shooter opened fire on the Delta State University campus.
Remarkable Coincidences in Developing Story, Recent News Article on Delta's Active Shooter Exercises Deleted From Web

On Monday, September 14 Delta State University Professor Ethan Schmidt was allegedly shot by an unknown assailant who is presently on the loose. The story is being vigorously promoted by major news media vis-á-vis university and Mississippi state officials, and federal agencies including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Yet Delta State is also noted in the region for "active shooter exercises" - the most recent of which were held in late August of this year (see below news report). "We've had and hosted several active shooter trainings on campus," notes Delta State Campus Police Chief Lynn Buford in a story appearing in the Bolivar Commercial that has since been deleted from its website.

Delta State's police department works with the local sheriff's office on such drills. When a drill scenario begins to play out campus police receive word of an alleged "active shooter" on campus. "Then we send out a text message that goes to Facebook and Twitter and email," Buford explains. "Depending on the situation we'll decide to either lockdown or evacuate."

Comment: As it stands right now, the mainstream media narrative on this incident is that Professor Schmidt was shot by a fellow professor, Dr. Shannon Lamb, due to an ongoing love triangle between the two and a woman, Amy Prentiss, who was Lamb's live-in girlfriend.

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