Wednesday, April 27, 2016

“If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.” ― Malcolm X



CP24 Toronto News! Cherubim’s of brutality and death: the Toronto Police?
It is hard to believe that this force is the most fearful, detested, despised, and not to mention the horrible harmful evil police, more than the Karma, Dina, and Gestapo. These demons under the motto “To Serve & Protect,” are stablishing a system of terror, torture and abusing the freedom of children, women, and vulnerable seniors in the poor neighborhoods. For many years the Toronto police are carrying out unjustified provocations, sadistic beatings and committing murders to innocent and vulnerable civilians. “The Toronto Cherubim’s of brutality and death,” are acting outside of the normal judicial process and had its own courts to act as a judge, jury and executioners.  

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Secrecy continues on chief's report into Loku death

Police board chair Andy Pringle isn't saying whether the mandatory report was even submitted, and won't reopen discussion about releasing it until mid-May.

Toronto Police Services Board chair Andy Pringle says the board will revisit its option to release the Andrew Loku internal investigation report when it meets again in May, but refused to say whether the board had received a report from Chief Mark Saunders.
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Toronto Police Services Board chair Andy Pringle says the board will revisit its option to release the Andrew Loku internal investigation report when it meets again in May, but refused to say whether the board had received a report from Chief Mark Saunders.
The Toronto police board is refusing to say if Chief Mark Saunders submitted the results of an internal review of the fatal police shooting of Andrew Loku.
Such reviews are mandatory after every Special Investigations Unit probe — and the reports are made public, in whole or part, by at least three other Ontario police boards.
Pending an inquest, for which no date has been set, Saunders’ report is the only chance the public has to learn more about Loku’s death, a shooting that has provoked calls for more transparency about the civilian police watchdog’s investigations.
Premier Kathleen Wynne has still not said when the SIU director’s report into Loku’s death, currently being kept secret by Ontario’s Attorney General, might be released.
Under Ontario’s Police Services Act, every time the SIU launches an investigation, the police force involved must conduct its own internal investigation of the incident to determine whether a policy change, disciplinary action or additional training is required. A report must go to the police board within 30 days after the SIU finishes its investigation.
Legally, the board “may” make the chief’s report public, in full or in part. When asked by the Star if the board plans to release Saunders’ internal report, Toronto Police Services Board chair Andy Pringle would not confirm if the board had even received the report during the in camera session at its April 20 meeting.
The SIU announced that it had completed its investigation on March 18, and that no charges would be laid.
Pringle said in an interview Tuesday that at the upcoming May 19 board meeting, the board would re-open the discussion about making the chief’s reports on SIU investigations public.
“I’m not prepared to go public on any part of it until I’ve consulted and discussed with my colleagues and we come back to the public meeting in May. That’s it, pure and simple,” Pringle said, repeatedly refusing to say whether the board had even received a report from Saunders.
Board practice has been to keep such reports secret, though it has the power to release them. Pringle said the board has periodically discussed whether to change that policy ever since he joined in 2011.
“It has come up on a number of occasions since I’ve been on the board. We’ve looked at it and obviously, to date, have felt that the existing policy was appropriate,” he said.
With ongoing discussion about the Loku case, Pringle said it’s clear a review of the current policy is necessary, “which is exactly what we are doing.”
Saunders, however, does not want the reports made public, a position also held by former chief Bill Blair, who cited concerns about personnel issues being released.
“However, it is ultimately up to the Toronto Police Services Board to make a decision,” police spokesperson Meaghan Gray said in an email.
At least three police boards across Ontario regularly release chief’s reports on the internal investigation of an SIU incident in some form.
In Ottawa, the reports are made available online and searchable on the city’s website. The board released two at Monday’s meeting, both of which included the names of the officers involved, a brief review of each incident and whether there was a need for action by the force. In both cases, the service’s professional standards unit is continuing to investigate.
Two other boards aim to make the reports available to the public when possible. In Niagara, the chief reports to the board secretly and provides a recommendation as to whether that report should be released publicly or not, “and the majority are,” said Deb Reid, executive director of the Niagara Police Services Board. A recent report made public did not name the officers.
Bill Clancy, executive director of the Durham Regional Police Services Board, said it is the board’s practice to receive the reports “in public session.”
Other police boards across Ontario do not release the reports, a fact Pringle cited as a reason not to do so.
“Given that the norm is that most boards do not release this, why would we make an exception?” he said. “However, every time there is a question that comes up, we’ll want to review, ‘Are we doing the right thing?’ To date, I would say it would be obvious by the fact that we haven’t changed, that we have thought so.”
Former Toronto police board chair Alok Mukherjee said the board has long attempted to find ways to make the chief’s reports public. Police concerns typically have focused on the issue of releasing classified police procedures or naming officers.
In 2013, the board attempted to come up with a template for making some parts of the report public. Mukherjee told the Star on Tuesday that the board had asked Blair to come back with another version of a secret report that could be released.
But there wasn’t enough information provided, Mukherjee said, and the board was concerned the report would “create more contempt.” He believes the template idea was dropped.
Mukherjee says the report submitted to the board also lacked detail — even though the point is to ensure that the police service learns from an incident where the SIU is called, and where necessary, and makes changes to policy, procedure, training or equipment, or lays discipline charges under the Police Act.
“It got to the point where I stopped reading these reports, they were so meaningless,” he said. “I don’t recall a single case where they said: ‘Here’s what we learned.’”
In 2013, John Sewell, head of the Toronto Police Accountability Coalition, attempted to obtain the chief’s reports into four fatal shootings involving Toronto police: that of Reyal Jardine-Douglas, Sylvia Klibingaitis, Michael Eligon and Charles McGillivary.
Aware that privacy considerations might prohibit their release, Sewell made it clear he was not interested in the names of the officers.
“We wanted to find out what the police force had learned in respect to each of the shootings,” Sewell said Tuesday, and whether changes had been made to avoid similar situations in the future.
When the requests to the board were denied, he filed a Freedom of Information request that was also denied. He appealed to Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner. The process ended when the privacy adjudicator found that the records requested by Sewell did not contain an analysis of the events that would inform the actions of other officers.
“At least we can be prepared for the next time someone in mental crisis is killed by police,” Sewell wrote in a September 2015 TPAC bulletin. “We can demand that the mandatory report required from the chief … (include) lessons learned. Perhaps that’s a good starting point for requiring police responsibility after the killing in early July of Andrew Loku.”
Loku, 45, was killed by an unnamed Toronto police officer on July 5, 2015, while carrying a hammer. In March, Ontario’s civilian police watchdog announced no charges would be laid because the fatal shooting was justified to prevent an imminent hammer attack.
The SIU’s decision launched weeks of heated protest by Black Lives Matter, and calls for the release of more information to explain how the watchdog makes its decisions.
Wendy Gillis can be reached at wgillis@thestar.ca

TO SERVE & PROTECT

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

“Canada Mainstream Media as an Instrument of Mind Control”



Mnar Muhawesh: ‘We Don’t Have A Mainstream Media, We Have A Very Extremist Media’
According to a recent poll, almost half of Americans distrust the mainstream media, which the MintPress News editor-in-chief believes is because “the media is lying to us.”
According to a recent poll, almost half of Americans distrust the mainstream media, which the MintPress News editor-in-chief believes is because “the media is lying to us.”
 
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WASHINGTON — Trust in the mainstream media has reached dramatic lows, and MintPress News’ founder and editor-in-chief believes it’s because “the media is lying to us.”
Mnar Muhawesh appeared on RT’s “Watching the Hawks” on April 22, where she told hosts Tyrel Ventura and Tabetha Wallace that the general public is right to grow wary of the mainstream media. “Accuracy in reporting is gone,” Muhawesh suggested.
Two recent reports highlight the modern media’s struggle for accuracy and relevancy.
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On April 20, Reporters Without Borders released its annual “World Press Freedom Index.” The United States was ranked 41, up from 49 last year, but still far behind other developed nations, including the top-ranking countries of Finland, Netherlands, and Norway. Our neighbor to the north, Canada, also ranked higher at 18.
“This has become an era of propaganda, especially under the Obama administration,” warned Muhawesh, paraphrasing from the report itself.
Explaining the United States’ low ranking, Reporters Without Borders cited “the government’s war on whistleblowers who leak information about its surveillance activities, spying and foreign operations, especially those linked to counter-terrorism.” The group also warned that the U.S. lacks a “shield law” which would protect reporters from being forced to reveal their sources.
“For anybody that cares about press freedom or democracy, this should concern them,” said Muhawesh. “This has set a very dangerous precedent on our press freedom.”
And on April 18, the Associated Press reported on Americans’ waning confidence in the mainstream media, as demonstrated by a joint study between the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the American Press Institute.
“Just 6 percent of people say they have a lot of confidence in the media, putting the news industry about equal to Congress and well below the public’s view of other institutions,” according to the AP.
On “Watching the Hawks,” Muhawesh praised the American public’s growing awareness of the mainstream media’s bias, noting that just six corporations control the majority of American news reporting. “We don’t have a mainstream media, we have a very extremist media beating the drums of war,” she said.
Ventura and Wallace also asked Muhawesh to comment on congressional efforts to release the 28 classified pages of the censored from the 9/11 Commission Report. Muhawesh described herself as skeptical: “Our politicians are once again trying to show us that they care about 9/11.”
She also noted that U.S. support for Saudi Arabia has helped sustain the kingdom, but its economy is failing nonetheless. The International Monetary Fund warned in January that the Gulf Kingdom’s economy could collapse by 2020.
Between increasing economic instability and a growing awareness of the possible Saudi role in 9/11 as well as its war crimes, Muhawesh says Saudi Arabia’s close friendship with the U.S. can’t last forever.
“I think that relationship is actually coming to an end,” she said. “The petrodollar is going to collapse completely.”
Watch “Mass Media Fails & Unredacting the 28 Pages” from RT’s “Watching the Hawks”:

Thursday, April 21, 2016

"Canada Mainstream Media as an Instrument of Mind Control"

The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything. - Clarence Darrow
From Brockille FACTS website: The issue is that the FACS and the mass media appear to be intentionally misleading the public into believing that this was some sort of an illegal attack on their website when the reality is much different.

Brockville FACS website breech is not what it seems.


 

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Canada was involved in the Syrian war? Prime Minister of Canada and Mr. Ezra Levant: Syrian children are facing ‘catastrophic’ psychological trauma!!!




EZRA LEVANT! “PENNANT OF THE RACIST JOURNALISM IN CANADA” For the journalist Ezra Levant racism has become a banner to justify his anger against communities who are different from their dangerous nationalist design. For years he has demonstrated a fascist and discriminatory attitude towards different communities, racially motivated against blacks, Asians, Latinos, Islamists ... His instinct of racial superiority, aims to end the rights that people have according to the Convention on the status of Refugees. This journalist is prone of racial hatred against the minority groups, he must learn to be respectful regardless the color of the skin, religion and ideology.
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Syrian children are facing ‘catastrophic’ psychological trauma

December 8, 2015
Syrian refugee child picture from Save The Children report
Picture: Save The Children (Childhood in the Shadow of War)
By Thomson Reuters Foundation
A generation of Syrian children are facing "catastrophic" psychological damage with one in four inside Syria at risk of developing a mental health disorder from witnessing traumatic events, a global children's charity said today.
The psychological needs of children fleeing four-and-a-half years of war remain largely unmet due to lack of funding, spiralling numbers of refugees and over-stretched resources in host countries, Save the Children said in a report.
"The repercussions for the future mental health of an entire generation could be catastrophic," Ian Rodgers, country director for Save the Children in Lebanon, said in a statement.
"In addition to the obvious psychological damage caused by witnessing traumatic events and extreme violence, there are a myriad of secondary, under-funded and often over-looked, daily causes of psychological and social damage once a displaced child arrives in a new community."
Some 10% of children participating in Save the Children programmes in the Iraqi Kurdistan region had lost at least one parent, while in Lebanon a "considerable portion" have been out of school for at least three years, the charity said.
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"For children ... being out of school for months or years, dealing with the acute tension and anxiety at home, as well as separation from friends and relatives, daily discrimination, child labour, early marriage, and living in insecure, poor parts of cities or towns, has a serious and profound impact on their mental and physical health," Rodgers said.
Normal routines, such as being able to go to school and seeing their parents carrying out regular household duties, are crucial for children, Rodgers said.
Among teenagers acute stress is leading to suicidal thoughts and self-harm, with a few suicides documented in some locations, said Save the Children. Other widely reported issues include speech disorders, problems with hearing or vision, and bed wetting.
 "Leaving children untreated has a negative impact later on - they can become aggressive, depressed, and acquire phobias," Reem Nasri, Save the Children psychologist said.
Syria's war, which erupted in 2011, has killed some 250,000 people and created more than four million refugees.
Read the Save The Children report.
Canada's Defense Department said on Wednesday that Canadian armed forces conducted their first air strike in Syria... Syrian children are facing ‘catastrophic’ psychological trauma!!!