Timothy Loehmann, cop who shot Tamir Rice, deemed unfit for policing 2 years ago

© Unknown The Cleveland police officer who fatally shot a 12-year-old holding a replica gun in November was deemed unsuited for police service two years ago, newly released documents show.Timothy Loehmann, now 26, was employed by the City of Independence Police Department in Independence, Ohio, for six months in 2012, the reports. In an internal memo from that November, Independence Deputy Chief Jim Polak criticized Loehmann's behavior during a...

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SOTT EXCLUSIVE: The foreign government running Ukraine gets a thin gloss of "legitimacy"

Since the coup in Ukraine in February 2014, there have been rumours floating around that CIA has so many operatives in Ukraine they have occupied a whole floor of a building in Kiev. This, plus the fact that there are likely several thousand foreign mercenaries fighting for the junta against the people of Donbass, has been a source of bad publicity, especially when such people die in the fighting. But, with the stroke of a pen, Waltzman aka Poroshenko...

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It's official: America is NOT the largest economy based on IMF numbers

© REUTERS/Petar Kujundzic/FilesA Chinese national flag flutters in front of the headquarters of the People's Bank of China, China's central bank, in central Beijing, May 16, 2014. Hang on to your hats, America.And throw away that big, fat styrofoam finger while you're about it.There's no easy way to say this, so I'll just say it: We're no longer No. 1. Today, we're No. 2. Yes, it's official. The Chinese economy just overtook the United States economy...

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UK: West Midlands police teargas and 'assault' Warwick university students protesting for tuition fee rise

© YT/Warwick Free-Ed A student protest at Warwick University against soaring tuition fees was broken up by police and security guards using tear gas and significant force. Protesters were threatened with a taser, pushed to the ground and rammed against a wall, activists say.The protest, organized by , occurred on Wednesday as part of a nationwide chain of student demonstrations coordinated by the .The students had organized a peaceful sit-in at...

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Hundreds of Israelis protest Jewish 'nation state' law

© AAPLeft wing Israelis participate in a demonstration to protest a controversial proposed law that would define Israel as "the Jewish state" on November 29, 2014. Hundreds of leftwing Israelis have demonstrated in Jerusalem against a controversial draft law enshrining Israel's status as the Jewish national homeland.The rally was organised by Israel's Peace Now settlement watchdog and held across the street from the residence of Prime Minister Benjamin...

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SOTT EXCLUSIVE: Anti-terror operation in Chechnya: 9 militants dead, 10 police

© RIA Novosti/Said TsarnaevThe Press House in Grozny, where law enforcement of the Chechen Republic conducted counter-terrorist operation. Just two days after Putin's announcement of the cancellation of the South Stream project and the beefed up relations with Turkey that will replace what could have been a very good thing for Europe, Chechnya's capital, Grozny, was the site of an encounter between police and members of one of the country's major...

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Finally some American media print the truth about Washington's and NATO's involvement in Ukraine!

NATO was the aggressor and got Ukraine wrong. Many months later, the media has eventually figured out the truth © AP/Mark Lennihan/Photo montage by Salon Well, well, well. Gloating is unseemly, especially in public, but give me this one, will you?It has been a long and lonely winter defending the true version of events in Ukraine, but here comes the sun. We now have open acknowledgment in high places that Washington is indeed responsible for this...

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Who benefits from the American food stamp program?

© Associated Press More than one in seven people.That's how many people are on food stamps in America these days. More than one in seven people.In fact, the number of recipients of federal food assistance rose a whopping 171% between 2000 and 2011 alone, to an all-time record of more than 47 million Americans across the country now on the food stamp dole.That means more U.S. citizens are receiving food stamp benefits now than in the entire history...

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Silicon Valley: One of the largest U.S. homeless encampments dismantled by city

© Marcio Jose Sanchez/APSan Jose police and city officials hand out notices warning residents of the homeless encampment known as the Jungle that they must vacate the premises. The city has spent $4 million over 18 months to relocate some of the inhabitants. Veiled by the yellow willows and brush along a forgotten creek bed in San Jose, hundreds of people jerry-built a treehouse and constructed underground bunkers and ramshackle lean-tos to form...

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'On the Side of the Road': New film exposes Israel's dirty, little secret

Here in Virginia, U.S.A., I'm aware that the native people were murdered, driven out, and moved westward. But my personal connection to that crime is weak, and frankly I'm too busy trying to rein in my government's current abuses to focus on the distant past. Pocahontas is a cartoon, the Redskins a football team, and remaining Native Americans almost invisible. Protests of the European occupation of Virginia are virtually unheard of.But what if...

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Facilitating serfdom: Corporations decimate the middle-class via unpaid overtime

Editor's Note: When's the last time you worked overtime? How about the last time you worked overtime and got paid for it? If you're in the middle class, probably not recently.Only Americans who make less than $23,660 a year are automatically eligible for time-and-a-half pay after working 40 hours a week. Today, that's only 11 percent of salaried workers. It didn't used to be this way, and it doesn't have to stay this way, argues venture capitalist...

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