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Monday, 8 December 2014

Brutal police beating of model shocks Australia

© Reuters/Darren Whiteside A video showing three Sydney police officers brutally beating a young woman has gone viral, with over 750,000 views on Facebook. During the clip, the victim is repeatedly hit with a police baton and appears to be kicked in the head by a male officer.Police brutality has been hitting the headlines in the US , but now it seems the unfortunate trend has made its way to Australia. The woman in question, Claire Helen, who works...

Israel bombs Syria's infrastructure again and further assists ISIS

© UnknownThe Israeli air force reaping death and destruction in Gaza last summer during Operation Ethnic Cleansing 2.0 They are now just a hair-breadth's away from directly killing innocent Syrian civilians in the same way. On Sunday December 7, Israel reportedly launched airstrikes inside Syria yet again, this time very close to Damascus in the area near Damascus International airport. Israeli airstrikes also took place in the town of Dimas which...

UNICEF declares 2014 a devastating year for children due to global conflicts and disease

© REUTERS/Osman OrsalKurdish refugee girls from the Syrian town of Kobani play in a refugee camp in the Turkish border town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province November 13, 2014. The United Nations children's agency UNICEF declared 2014 a devastating year for children on Monday with as many as 15 million caught in conflicts in Central African Republic, Iraq, South Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and the Palestinian territories.UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake...

Terror attacks in Russia: Made in the USA? It sure looks like it!

The latest terror attacks in Russia are not, in themselves, news. This may sound odd to those who have endured them, but they are no different to any number of previous attacks. What IS news is that the world might finally be waking up to what is going on.The same great programme to destabilise the Russian Federation and the countries friendly to it has been a dominant underlying feature of international relations since the end of the Cold War....

Putin's pipeline genius, and EU's laughable stupidity

South Stream, the $45 billion project to deliver Russian natural gas via underwater pipeline through the Black Sea to Bulgaria and on to other Balkan and southern European markets, is dead. Russian President Vladimir Putin made the death pronouncement on December 1, during a trip to Turkey to meet Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It has major geopolitical and economic consequences for the EU.As Putin explained, "If Europe doesn't want to...

Another drone near-miss with passenger plane at Heathrow

© AFP Photo/Bertrand Langlois A passenger airplane almost collided with an unidentified drone near Heathrow marking the first such incident in the biggest UK airline hub's history, British media revealed on Sunday citing a report due to be published next week.An Airbus A320 which can carry 180 passengers avoided a collision with a drone on July 22 at 2.16 pm flying at an altitude of 700 feet, the Sunday Times reported.It said that the official report...

BEST OF THE WEB: #ICantBreathe - Comedian Jon Stewart on Eric Garner grand jury decision: 'The idea that we live in a society, much less a post-racial society, is a joke'

John Stewart couldn't find anything to laugh about following the grand jury non-indictment of NYPD cops murdering black man Eric Garner It's part of Jon Stewart's job to make comedy out of the terrible things happening in the world, but even he was unable to find anything to laugh at following a grand jury's decision not to indict the cop who killed Eric Garner.He only got to covering the situation in Ferguson after being on vacation last week,...

Is intelligent design the answer? Laying out the evolutionary logic

Monday we published a paper in the journal BIO-Complexity that demonstrates that enzymes can't evolve genuinely new functions by unguided means. We argue that design by a very sophisticated intelligent agent is the best explanation for their origin. I want to take some time to lay out our argument against evolution and for intelligent design. It's important, because it reveals the logical fallacy in most evolutionary thinking.Just to give an example...

San Jose, California: Nation's largest homeless encampment dismantled

© UnknownPolice and city crews on Thursday began dismantling the nation's largest homeless encampment, notoriously named "The Jungle," in a controversial move that aims to move hundreds of transients from the center of San Jose and find them affordable housing. Peggy Bunker reports. Police and city crews on Thursday began dismantling the nation's largest homeless encampment, notoriously named "The Jungle," in a controversial move that aims to move...

Poll: 65% Israelis don't want Netanyahu as prime minister

© Alex Kolomoisky/POOL/FLASH90Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on Sunday, November 30, 2014. Almost two-thirds of Israelis do not want Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to lead the next government, a poll published Saturday by Channel 2 found.The poll was released as the leaders of Israel's center and center-left parties talk of building various alliances to prevent Netanyahu retaining his post after...

Russia doesn't want Ukraine to be split up: NATO intelligence officials

© nato.int Russia doesn't want Ukraine to be split up, NATO intelligence officials say, warning their colleagues against wrongly assessing Moscow's policy on the crisis in eastern Ukraine.That's according to a report in German magazine written by intelligence officers from several NATO countries. They argue that Moscow is not interested in escalating the situation in Ukraine, and is not going to repeat the scenario of what happened in Crimea.The...

Censorship of police killings inspires crowd-sourced database

began to compile a list of all police-involved shootings in the U.S. He's not the only one to undertake such a project: D. Brian Burghart, editor of the Reno News & Reviewcrowdsourced national database of deadly police violence. We asked Brian to write about what he's learned from his project.It began simply enough. Commuting home from my work at Reno's alt-weekly newspaper, the , on May 18, 2012, I drove past the aftermath of a police shooting...

Punishing kids for lying just doesn't work

If you want your child to tell the truth, it's best not to threaten to punish them if they lie. That's what researchers discovered through a simple experiment involving 372 children between the ages of 4 and 8.How the experiment was done The researchers, led by Prof. Victoria Talwar of McGill's Dept. of Educational and Counselling Psychology, left each child alone in a room for 1 minute with a toy behind them on a table, having told the child not...

Another banker found dead under questionable circumstances

Geert Tack Haaltert 52-year-old Belgian Geert Tack - a private banker for ING who managed portfolios for wealthy individuals - was described as 'impeccable', 'sporty', 'cared-for', and 'successful' and so as Vermist reports, after disappearing a month ago, the appearance of his body off the coast of Ostend is surrpunded by riddles...Tack disappeared on November 5th... Impeccable. Sporty. Cared for. Successful. Just some qualifications that are attributed...

The Cop Who Killed Eric Garner Was Previously Sued For Civil Rights Violations

The cop who killed a man while trying to subdue him for arrest (pictured above) has been sued several times for allegedly violating the constitutional rights of black men, USA Today reports.Daniel Pantaleo, a 29-year-old officer for the New York Police Department, put 43-year-old Eric Garner, a black man, in a chokehold on Staten Island when Garner tried to resist arrest. Garner, who was unarmed, told police he wasn’t doing anything wrong and wouldn’t...

Yet another reason to detest police brutality: Taxpayers bear the burden of damages rewarded

A UCLA Law Professor has found that in cases of police brutality, damages rewarded in suits against the city of New York are almost entirely paid for by taxpayers, with just a fraction of the cost incurred by officers involved or the NYPD as a whole.Joanna Schwartz, who has extensive experience studying and analyzing cases of misconduct amongst police nationwide, presented her findings in a paper she wrote recently for the New York University Law...

SOTT Exclusive: U.S. Congress anti-Russia law pulls the Empire of Chaos deeper into the black hole of its own making

© shabalgnob.blogspot.comGigantic black hole spotted by Hubble The U.S. Empire's plan was to use the chaos it generated in Ukraine to draw Russia into an overt military intervention, and to ultimately isolate, divide and pacify Russia. This is according to political analyst Andrew Korbyko, who labels this bizarre strategy the 'Reverse Brzezinski':The idea is to create 'black holes' of absolute disorder in which Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran are "damned...

CIA bracing for 'most damaging moment' - Release of report detailing its 'embrace of torture'

© Manuel Balce Ceneta/APSecretary of state John Kerry asked Dianne Feinstein on Friday to consider the timing of the expected release of a report on CIA interrogation techniques. The CIA is bracing for what could be one of the most damaging moments in its history: a public airing of its post-9/11 embrace of torture.The Senate intelligence committee is poised to release a landmark inquiry into torture as early as Tuesday, even as the Obama administration...
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