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Sunday, 11 January 2015

'Good cop' physically stops bad cop from abusing handcuffed man

© Youtube As the nation has been torn apart by police violence and abuse, many citizens have begun to wonder whether there are any good cops at all. Critics have suggested that if there are "good cops," they should be out there stopping the bad cops from abusing their power.So where are these legendary "good cops"?Right here, in the video below, it would seem...[embedded content]We can see from the video that the arresting officer repeatedly tries...

Spain seeks to control freedom of movement in EU in Charlie Hebdo aftermath

© AFP Photo / Pedro ArmestreSpanish riot police officers and Spanish civil guards stand guard as Moroccans throw stones at a gate at the Beni-Enzar crossing between the Spanish enclave of Melilla and Morocco, in Melilla Madrid wants to see changes made to the treaty governing the visa-free Schengen area, which would allow Spain to introduce border controls to stem the tide of Islamic militants returning from the Middle East, the country's interior...

Charlie Hebdo cartoonists scorns supporters: 'We vomit on you'

© AFP Photo/Pierre DuffourDutch comic book author Bernard Willem Holtrop, aka Willem, signs books in Angouleme, central France, on January 31, 2014 A prominent Dutch cartoonist at heaped scorn on the French satirical weekly's "new friends" since the massacre at its Paris offices on Wednesday."We have a lot of new friends, like the pope, Queen Elizabeth and (Russian President Vladimir) Putin. It really makes me laugh," Bernard Holtrop, whose pen...

Wild boar population soars in Britain, causing motorway collisions

Ministers are considering bringing out a 'beware of boar' road sign to warn drivers of the animals straying on to the road Ministers are considering bringing out a 'beware of boar' road sign following a fatal motorway collision involving one of the wild animals last week.The new sign could be erected along stretches of roads near 'infested' areas, along with barriers to keep out the 20 stone animals.The plans, to be discussed by transport officials,...

The value of wealth

© Ann Rosener, Office of War InformationJuly 1942. Back at the Melrose Park Buick plant near Chicago. We need to do a lot more thinking, and take a far more critical look at ourselves, than we do at present. We're not even playing it safe, we're only playing it easy. And that's just not enough. The marches in Paris and numerous other cities today were attended by people who mean well, but who should ask themselves if they want to be part of what...

In asking Russia for help, NATO makes screeching U-turn on its 'Russian aggression' narrative

NATO's civilian figurehead Jens Stoltenberg this week urged Russia to be a partner against terrorism. He was speaking the day after the deadly gun attack on a magazine in Paris where 12 people, including three police officers, were killed by assailants purporting to be affiliated with radical Islamists.During a visit to Germany, the NATO general secretary called upon Moscow to be "an ally in the fight against terrorism" - adding: "We think it is...

FLASHBACK: Interview with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad: A man of reason in a sea of madness

The Full Paris Match interview of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, granted in Damascus on November 28th.Paris Match: Mr. President, three years into this war, and considering how things have turned out, do you regret that you haven't managed things differently at the beginning, with the appearance of the first signs of the revolution in March 2011? Do you feel that you are responsible for what happened?Bashar el Assad: Even in the first days of...

Freedom of speech? International Business Times asks if Mossad was behind Paris attacks, then unpublishes and apologizes

The unpublished a story that suggested that Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, carried out the attack on the offices of the satirical magazine .The Jan. 8 story's headline was "Charlie Hebdo Attack and Mossad Link: Is Israel Venting Its Fury for France's Recognition of Palestine State?."According to a screenshot of the article posted on Twitter, the said that "Mossad of Israel is a prime contender" for who was behind yesterday's attack on ."It is believed that Israel has a grouse against France, especially because French MPs voted in favour...

Amnesty reports Western proxy army Boko Haram kills close to 2,000 in latest attacks

© AFP Photo / HOBoko Haram fighters parading on a tank in an unidentified town Boko Haram, the extremist Islamic group that wants to enforce Sharia Law across Nigeria, has inflicted mass casualties in northeast Nigeria. Some reports put the number of fatalities as high as 2,000.Amnesty International, communicating with experts on the ground in Nigeria, has said the assault on the town of Baga could be the deadliest attack by Boko Haram since the...

Oops! Alleged Paris attackers funded by Pentagon dinner guest Awlaki

Just another coincidence... Senior Al Qaeda leader Anwar Al Awlaki was clicking glasses together at the Pentagon with American military brass just months after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. Also, "coincidentally," he had in fact met at least one of the several alleged hijackers. He also, just before being liquidated by a US drone attack in 2011, allegedly funded the terror cell responsible for the recent Paris shootings. Corroborating claims by French...

Be afraid! Paris massacre possible prelude to wave of Europe-wide attacks - media citing NSA

© AFP Photo / Thomas SamsonRescue service workers and firefighters gather near the site of a shooting on the morning of January 8, 2015 in Montrouge, south of Paris. The deadly events that unfolded in France over the last week may be the first in a wave of attacks to strike Europe, a German daily reports, citing NSA intercepts of communications between Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) leaders.Paris was marked as the first in a series of European...

Reporter on Meet the Press: U.S. foreign policy responsible for Islamic radicalization

NBC reporter Ayman Mohyeldin On Sunday, NBC's spent the majority of its program discussing the fallout of the terrorist attack in Paris, France and how the world should respond. While much of the program focused on the challenges associated with identifying and stopping such attacks, NBC News reporter Ayman Mohyeldin chose to partially blame American foreign policy for the rise of Islamic extremism.Speaking during a pre-recorded segment from Dearborn,...

The first question to ask after a terror attack: Was it a false flag?

Governments from around the world admit they've used the bully's trick ... attack first, and then blame the victim:Japanese troops set off a small explosion on a train track in 1931, and falsely blamed it on China in order to justify an invasion of Manchuria. This is known as the "Mukden Incident" or the "Manchurian Incident". The Tokyo International Military Tribunal found: "Several of the participators in the plan, including Hashimoto [a high-ranking...
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