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Thursday, February 8, 2018

Sheriff On Killing Suspect: "I Love This Sh*t" (VIDEO)

“A Tennessee sheriff is being sued for using excessive force after he was recorded boasting he had told officers to shoot a man rather than risk damaging police cars by ramming him off the road. “They said ‘we’re ramming him,’” Sheriff Oddie Shoupe of White County said on tape in the aftermath of the killing of suspect Michael Dial. “I said, ‘Don’t ram him, shoot him.’ Fuck that shit. Ain’t gonna tear up my cars.” Shoupe arrived on the scene shortly after police had shot Dial at the conclusion of a low-speed chase, clearly upset he had missed the excitement. “I love this shit,” Shoupe said, apparently unaware that his comments were being picked up by another deputy’s body-worn camera. “God, I tell you what, I thrive on it. “If they don’t think I’ll give the damn order to kill that motherfucker they’re full of shit,” he added, laughing. “Take him out. I’m here on the damn wrong end of the county,” he said. Shoupe’s comments have prompted a federal lawsuit from Dial’s widow, Robyn Dial, alleging the use of excessive force against her late husband, who was unarmed.”

Thursday, February 1, 2018

NFL Lawyer, Who Claimed Super Bowl Is ‘Rigged’, Found Dead

An NFL entertainment lawyer, who has worked for the corporation for more than 15 years, has been found dead in New York City hours after telling reporters that Super Bowl LII is “rigged.” Dan Goodes was found dead in his hometown of New York City in what early reports described as an “gangland-style execution”, hours […]

Dan Goodes was found dead in his hometown of New York City in what early reports described as an “gangland-style execution”, hours after blowing the whistle on the “rigged Super Bowl” backstage at a promotional event in Minneapolis.

Early reports claim the 49-year-old was found shot dead in a 2017 BMW 2 Series, along with one other man, believed to be a close friend.

Goodes, an entertainment lawyer who worked at the National Football League’s Park Avenue headquarters, had been representing the NFL in Minneapolis, working alongside Eagles and Patriots franchise staff on promoting Sunday’s Super Bowl featuring the two teams.

However Goodes went “off-script” in Minneapolis and was “physically removed” from the premises by security staff, but not before publicly condemning the NFL as “totally corrupt” and claiming the Super Bowl is “fixed.”

Telling reporters that he is a “football fan first and foremost, and a lawyer second”, Goodes said “Football in America in 2018 doesn’t need another rigged Super Bowl. We need a great match. Not another rigged result that doesn’t pass the sniff test.

“I like money as much as the next guy. But I like football more. I can’t stand by and allow rampant greed and cynicism to destroy the game I love. The little boy in me won’t allow it.

“Football in America won’t recover from this.”

National Football League Headquarters, Manhattan: Dan Goodes was found dead in a BMW 2 Series and now an NFL spokesman is refusing to confirm or deny he worked for the NFL.

Early reports stating Goodes had been shot dead in an “gangland-style execution” in New York City have also been scrubbed from the internet, but not before alert readers captured screenshots of the story.

According to Goodes, the NFL have organized a “rigged game” that will earn “maximum revenue” for the league, and hundreds of millions for broadcasters and advertisers, but will leave increasingly jaded Americans with a bad taste in their mouth.

“This is the biggest scam in sports history,” Goodes said in Minneapolis, according to reports. “The Super Bowl is already completely scripted out.”

“How do I know it’s scripted? I’ve read the damn thing.“

“You need to understand the NFL is a $35 billion shared revenue corporation. Outcomes can’t be left to chance. Total league revenues are shared equally by all franchises, so they don’t care who wins or loses. Let me be perfectly clear here. It doesn’t matter to the franchise owners. It doesn’t matter to the players. But it matters to the league. Outcomes have been fixed to maximize profits ever since my early days here.”

“The sad thing is that it’s legal. Can you believe that? It’s legal thanks to guys [entertainment laywers] like me.”

Explaining that the NFL is officially registered as “entertainment,” Goodes said “The NFL has more in common with WWE than you could possibly imagine.”

The NFL possesses an Anti-Trust Exemption to the law granted to it by President John F. Kennedy, which ultimately allows the NFL to classify itself as “entertainment” rather than sport, as well as incorporate itself as a single entity, instead of the 32 separate “franchises” they would want you to believe.

In a 2004 lawsuit, the NFL argued they are not a collection of 32 teams in competition with each other. They argued they are a single entity, providing “entertainment” in the marketplace, and as such they are not subject to Anti-Trust laws.

The only other “sport” that occupies this legal position is the WWE.

How are games rigged?

According to Goodes, the fat cat franchise owners and their pampered players do not care who wins, as long as they continue reaping the lucrative financial benefits provided by the system.

“Have you ever stopped to wonder how Vegas makes the point spread line and over under so close every week? There is not one game where the result totally blows away the point spread or the over under. It doesn’t happen. Are they that good? Hell, no they’re not. Even the best of the best cannot get it so close every single game. So how is it fixed?

“Refs manipulate who wins for the overall benefit of the NFL. The NFL splits its revenue between teams, so do the players care? I’m telling you now, they don’t care. What player would care if they get an extra $5 million when the salary cap goes up thanks to more revenues built on scripted outcomes?”

“The players have an awareness about it and the refs also make penalty calls in key situations to manipulate the score and outcomes.”

“How come zero players call out the refs? How come zero coaches call out the refs, despite the outrageous calls that change the results of games?”

“Everyone is on the same side, that’s why.”

“These NFL refs are part-time employees of the NFL. They sign the tightest contracts you will ever see in your life. They work for the league, period. They are bound by NFL mandated gag orders. They can’t open their mouth and say a single word to the media or their ass is toast.”

Why doesn’t anyone speak out?

According to Goodes, people do speak out. But nobody wants to hear.

“Remember the Harbaugh Bowl? Arthur Blank, the Atlanta Falcons owner, admitted the results were fixed.

“It is predetermined that these two teams would be here, I was my team was selected to be in the Super Bowl.”

“And the NFL admitted it themselves in court. “We are entertainment and we can manage outcomes as we see fit. We’re exempt.”

Super Bowl LII will be the 52nd Super Bowl and the 48th modern-era NFL championship game, contested between New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles at the US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis on Sunday.

Link: http://www.beaware.one/2018/01/29/nfl-lawyer-who-claimed-super-bowl-is-rigged-found-dead/

Saturday, January 20, 2018

Hamilton – “Wrote My Way Out” (Nas, Dave East, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Aloe Blacc) Video

Monday, November 13, 2017

Black Lives Matter Founder: They Called Me a Terrorist

“We’re in the moment of reckoning right now,” says Patrisse Khan-Cullors, the activist and artist who cofounded the now-global civil rights movement Black Lives Matter with a hashtag in 2013.

Of the continuing violence and racial uprisings currently plaguing our country, the Fulbright scholar and recipient of this year’s Sydney Peace Prize tells The Advocate, “We are clearly in the middle of, really, a war around ideology, and whether or not this country is going to eradicate white supremacy — or is it going to cling to it, like its life depends on it?”

Khan-Cullors — who founded the Black Lives Matter movement with fellow activists Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi in response to the acquittal of 17-year-old Trayvon’s Martin’s killer — says the movement has also always been about inclusiveness and visibility for LGBT people of color.

“I’m queer, so is Alicia — we are openly queer black women, and some of the experiences we’ve faced inside traditional black liberation spaces is that we were to be black first, and that the queer stuff and the woman stuff were sort of things on the side,” says Khan-Cullors. With BLM, she says they wanted it to be clear from the beginning that “this was an organization not only led by black women, but it’s also a movement led by black queer women, black trans women, and that we can’t deny those identities and we can’t put those on the backburners, as we’ve seen historically in other civil rights movements.”

Khan-Cullors says she decided to write her memoir, When They Call You a Terrorist (St. Martin’s Press) — which she coauthored with activist, writer, and her personal mentor, Asha Bandele — to give a voice to other young women of color, whose stories are rarely heard.

“It’s my story, but it’s [also] the story of young black girls that grew up in neighborhoods that were poor, and neighborhoods that were impacted by the war on drugs and the war on gangs,” explains Khan-Cullors. “I talk about my early childhood and my relationship with my mother, my father, and my siblings.”

Khan-Cullors compares her memoir to The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander’s acclaimed dissection of the Unites States’s systematic oppression of African- Americans, which ultimately denies people the very rights supposedly won in the civil rights era. “It’s sort of like taking that book and zoning in on one person’s experience,” Khan-Cullors explains. “And talking about the real-life impact that [these conditions have] on me and my family.”

Khan-Cullors says When They Call You a Terrorist is also the story of the birth of the activist within her — of how the environment and experiences of her youth awoke in her the need to fight the injustices that surrounded her and impacted her community. She says the book, which includes a foreword written by the legendary Angela Davis, is really the story of “why Black Lives Matter lived inside of me long before we created the hashtag.”

Khan-Cullors says that the work of BLM is as much about “changing the ideology that this country was founded on” as it is about changing policy and people’s lives. But, she understands it’s not something that can happen overnight.

“What I’m hopeful for though, in this moment, is that we’re having bold and courageous conversations that are met with bold and courageous action. And we’ve seen Black Lives Matter, in particular, change the culture in which we are able to debate a new way for America.”

Link: https://www.advocate.com/current-issue/2017/11/13/black-lives-matter-founder-they-called-me-terrorist