KKK leader Frank Ancona tells Anonymous his group ‘is all about stopping violence’

Scott Kaufman | Raw Story | November 24, 2014

Alex Poucher, a self-professed member of the collective Anonymous, sat down with Frank Ancona, leader of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, to discuss threats allegedly made by Ancona against both Anonymous and other protesters in Ferguson, Missouri.

According to the letter attributed to Ancona, the Klan decided that if Anonymous wanted “war, we will give you war, not online, but on the streets, we will hunt you down and tear those masks from your face. You’ll be strung up next to the chimps. On display for the whole world to see. The Klan is to be feared, not threatened. Turn away, or face the consequences.”

This alleged threat was in response to Anonymous taking control of the Klan’s official Twitter account and revealing the identities of KKK members living in and around Ferguson.

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Man Who Falsely Accused Four Gay Guys Of Raping Him Is Headed Off To Prison

Graham Gremore | Queerty | November 25, 2014

U.K. man who made false rape accusations against four gay guys is headed to the slammer.

43-year-old Mark Wixey (pictured) will spend the next six years behind bars after accusing four innocent men of rape. Wixey met three of the men on the dating sites Gaydar and Plenty of Fish. After hooking up with each of them, he contacted different police departments in various parts of the country to report being raped, resulting in at least one of the men being arrested.

“The false allegation made by Mr. Wixey in Worcester resulted in the arrest, detention and interview of an innocent man,” officer Zoey Carter said. “As part of the detention process he was forensically examined and provided intimate samples. The victim described the week following his arrest as the worst in his life and believes the incident has changed him completely.”

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This Is the Next Big Fight Between Progressives and the Wall Street Dems

Zoë Carpenter | The Nation | November 24, 2014

(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

If Burger King has its way, the company will soon leave its Miami headquarters for Canada and enter the coffee-and-donut business. When the fast-food giant announced its intention to buy the Canadian company Tim Hortons in August, it stressed the coffee-and-donuts part of the deal—or, rather, the opportunities for “growth” and “expansion.” But the chance to move to a country with lower corporate tax rates was undoubtedly part of the appeal. Since 2003, more than thirty-five American companies have dodged taxes through similar deals, which are known as “corporate inversions.”

Now the Burger King move is implicated in a fight brewing between some Senate Democrats and President Obama, a clash that throws into relief the split between the party’s Wall Street wing and its progressives. One of the people involved in the deal was Antonio Weiss, a major Democratic fundraiser, the publisher of The Paris Review, and the global head of investment banking at Lazard Ltd, a firm that has put together several major inversion deals. As of November 12, he’s also President Obama’s pick to oversee the domestic financial system—including the implementation of the Dodd-Frank financial-reform act, and consumer protection—at the Treasury.

But a growing number of senators are objecting to Obama’s latest Wall Street nominee. Unsurprisingly, Massachusetts’s Elizabeth Warren is at the front of the insurrection. “Enough is enough,” she proclaimed in the Huffington Post last week. “It’s time for the Obama administration to loosen the hold that Wall Street banks have over economic policy making.”

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Darren Wilson Wasn’t Indicted – The System Was

Too many innocent people are being killed by law enforcement. (photo: AP)

Michael Daly | The Daily Beast | Reader Supported News | November 24, 2014

The St. Louis County prosecutor seemed to blame society more than the cop who shot Michael Brown, but he didn’t address the race and class issues that set the tone of life in Ferguson.

 

olice Officer Darren Wilson was not indicted on Monday, but society itself was.

“For how many years have we been talking about issues that lead to situations like this?” asked St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch. “I don’t want to be here again.”

He went so far as to say, “If the laws are not working, we need to change them.”

McCulloch said this immediately after announcing to the world that under present Missouri law the grand jury had not found reasonable cause to charge Wilson with a crime in the shooting death of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown.

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The Results Are In: Open Letter From a Ferguson Protest Organizer

The results in Ferguson were no surprise. (photo: Reuters)

DeRay McKesson | Reader Supported News | November 24, 2014

n Ferguson, a wound bleeds.

For 108 days, we have been in a state of prolonged and protracted grief. In that time, we have found community with one another, bonding together as family around the simple notion that our love for our community compels us to fight for our community. We have had no choice but to cling together in hope, faith, love, and indomitable determination to capture that ever-escaping reality of justice.

After 108 days, that bleeding wound has been reopened, salt poured in, insult added to the deepest of injury. On August 9, we found ourselves pushed into unknown territory, learning day by day, minute by minute, to lead and support a movement bigger than ourselves, the most important of our lifetime. We were indeed unprepared to begin with, and even in our maturation through these 108 days, we find ourselves reinjured, continually heartbroken, and robbed of even the remote possibility of judicial resolution. A life has been violently taken before it could barely begin. In this moment, we know, beyond any doubt, that no one will be held accountable within the confines of a system to which we were taught to pledge allegiance. The very hands with which we pledged that allegiance were not enough to save Mike in surrender.

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Protests Spread Far Beyond Ferguson

A crowd, consisting of students from Howard University and others, gather in front of the White House. (photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

Jessica Ravitz and John Blake | CNN | Reader Supported News | November 24, 2014

creams of outrage. Crowds marching down streets, blocking intersections and interstates. Fists raised in silence.

As the Ferguson grand jury’s decision was announced Monday night, protesters around the country — who had begun to gather hours earlier — responded in solidarity.

In New York, a roving crowd wound its way through the city, surging to more than 1,000 in Times Square before heading toward the Upper West Side, CNN’s Miguel Marquez tweeted.

Earlier in the evening, about 200 people flocked to Union Square, brandishing signs that read, “Jail killer cops,” and a large display, in lights: “Black lives matter.”

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Ferguson Ablaze After Michael Brown Verdict: ‘This Is a War Zone Now’

ALSO SEE: Gunfire and Flames After Officer Cleared in Ferguson Teen’s Shooting Death

Anger in Ferguson over injustice is fueling the protests. (photo: Scott Olsen/Getty Images)

Paul Lewis and Jon Swaine | Guardian UK | Reader Supported News | November 24, 2014

Grand jury’s ruling in the Michael Brown case sparks scenes of frenzied looting, violence and burning in Missouri and across the US

 

ires were raging when a man with a scarf wrapped around his face walked out of the smoke and looked around him in disbelief. “All they had to do was give us justice and look at this,” he said. “This a war zone now.”

Chaos broke out on Ferguson’s West Florissant Avenue after it was announced that Darren Wilson, a white police officer, would not be charged for shooting dead Michael Brown, a 18-year-old African-American, earlier this year.

“It feels like someone took a pitchfork, stuck it in a fire and put it right in my stomach and then twisted it,” the man in the bandana said of the grand jury’s decision.

Outside Papa John’s Pizza, a man in a military-style balaclava scuffled with a woman who was trying to stop him from breaking in. Six men climbed out of the broken window of the next building, a tax office. Across the road, people were emptying Fashions R Boutique. Thick black smoke billowing from three blazing auto parts garages blurred the silhouettes of looters.

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