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Missouri cops now using 80,000-volt 'stun cuffs' on prisoners

Arturo Garcia
Raw Story
Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:55 UTC
Stun Guns
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The Sheriff's Department in Buchanan County, Missouri has begun using 80,000-volt enhanced handcuffs for prisoner transfers and some court appearances while dismissing potential safety concerns, KQTV-TV reported on Monday.

"It affects the muscles of the body and it doesn't really affect anything else," Captain Jody Hovey told KQTV. "Every one says it affects your heart, and it does not. What it does really is it just sends a charge through the body that locks up your muscles."

Hovey said to KQTV that the "stun cuffs," as they have been called, are tied around a prisoner's arm or leg and can be operated via remote control from as far as 100 yards away. His department is currently using only two pairs, valued at $2,200 apiece, citing "bugs and kinks" that need to be corrected before more are ordered.

In one demonstration, an unidentified officer from another department was seen flailing on the ground after being shocked while wearing the device. Hovey explained to KQTV that prisoners will be informed of the handcuffs' voltage capacity before being forced to wear them.
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Parent arrested after questioning Common Core: Beck's chilling break-down of what this means for America

Erica Ritz
The Blaze
Mon, 23 Sep 2013 11:14 UTC
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Glenn Beck told his audience on Monday that the arrest of a Maryland father who was asking questions about Common Core is frightening evidence of the country moving further along the path that he says goes from "nudge," to "shove," to "shoot."

For those unfamiliar with the terms, Beck explained that "it's how every Marxist utopian dream begins."

"You start simple, with just a little 'nudge,'" he said. "It's Cash for Clunkers. It is trying to figure out a way to make energy prices 'necessarily skyrocket,' to nudge you into hybrids."

But when that doesn't work, the government starts to "shove," Beck continued. "That's when they use the IRS to shut down opposing voices. They use the NSA to monitor and track American citizens...Then they start using regulation and they start arresting people to scare everybody."

If that also fails to produce the results the government seeks, Beck said, historically, they start to shoot, or send people to re-education or internment camps.

"So where are we in the scale?" Beck asked the audience. "Are we at nudge, shove, or shoot?"

Beck said after he saw the video of what happened in Towson, Maryland, he couldn't sleep for two hours because he believes "it is a very important piece that moves us further towards shoot."

Here's complete video of the event, in case you missed it:


During a public forum on Common Core, Robert Small stood up because he had a question (it should be noted that the flyer for the event encourages, "your chance to get answers to your Common Core questions" but parents were asked to submit their questions on paper).
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Militants steal hundreds of US weapons in Libya, sources say

Adam Housley
Fox News
Wed, 25 Sep 2013 11:14 UTC

The recent theft of massive amounts of highly sensitive U.S. military equipment from Libya is far worse than previously thought, Fox News has learned, with raiders swiping hundreds of weapons that are now in the hands of militia groups aligned with terror organizations and the Muslim Brotherhood.

The equipment, as Fox News previously reported, was used for training in Libya by U.S. Special Forces. The training team, which was funded by the Pentagon, has since been pulled, partly in response to the overnight raids last August.

According to State Department and military sources, dozens of highly armored vehicles called GMV's, provided by the United States, are now missing. The vehicles feature GPS navigation as well as various sets of weapon mounts and can be outfitted with smoke-grenade launchers. U.S. Special Forces undergo significant training to operate these vehicles. Fox News is told the vehicles provided to the Libyans are now gone.

Along with the GMV's, hundreds of weapons are now missing, including roughly 100 Glock pistols and more than 100 M4 rifles. More disturbing, according to the sources, is that it seems almost every set of night-vision goggles has also been taken. This is advanced technology that gives very few war fighters an advantage on the battlefield.
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'Staged and scripted': Mother Agnes finalizes chronology of Damascus chemical attack


RT
Thu, 26 Sep 2013 08:00 UTC
Mother Agnes Mariam el-Salib
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Mother Agnes Mariam el-Salib
A new version of a study produced by Mother Agnes, a catholic nun, pointing to a number of fabricated videos used as evidence of complicity by the Assad government in a recent chemical attack is in the works, she told RT.

The report by the Christian nun, Mother Agnes Mariam el-Salib, mother superior of St. James Monastery in Qara, Syria, has alleged that many videos featuring supposed victims of the chemical weapons attack in the Syrian village of Guta in August were in fact staged and scripted.

The question for the nun now revolves around the "humanitarian" question of what happened to the children featured in the video.
"Those children are the children of whom? From where did you get them? Why are you using them and manipulating them?"
The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic was created in August 2011 by the Human Rights Council to investigate alleged violations of human rights.

RT: What exactly led you to the conclusion that the videos of the chemical attack were fabricated?

Mother Agnes Mariam el-Salib: I have been contacted by families from the province of Lattakia. They alleged that they discovered victims, the children that are presented as victims of the chemical attacks in Eastern Ghouta, would be their own children. They had asked me to interfere, so I had to study a little bit of those videos to see where those children are carried, because in some videos they are alive and in some videos they seem not to be alive.

I came to identify in many videos real staging, real screen playing and today after having redacted a study concerning my first impression, I called it a better version.

Today I'm just finishing the chronology of those videos and of the action they are unveiling to the public opinion. I'm more and more convinced that it is not the coverage of an ongoing reality , the ongoing emergency of chemical strikes, but a kind of screen playing with a script that has been worked on many days before.
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Venezuela's President Maduro cancels UN trip over threats


Press TV
Thu, 26 Sep 2013 07:06 UTC
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has abandoned his plan to participate in the United Nations General Assembly in New York due to threats to his life.

Maduro, who had just returned from a visit to China, said on Wednesday that on a layover in the Canadian city of Vancouver he obtained intelligence on what he described as "two highly serious provocations." The data impelled him to scrap his UN trip.
"When I got into Vancouver I evaluated the intelligence which we received from several sources. I decided then and there to continue back to Caracas and drop the New York trip to protect a key goal: safeguarding my physical integrity, protecting my life," the Venezuelan president told local media.
Maduro further said one of the alleged provocations had been planned against his "physical integrity," adding that the other one could have involved violence in New York.

Earlier this month, Maduro said Washington is plotting to bring about the "collapse" of his country in October by targeting food, electricity and fuel supplies.

"I have data about a meeting at the White House, the full names of those who attended. I know what plans they made for the total collapse" of the country, Maduro said on September 7 during a ceremony in northern Aragua state.
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World Cup slaves

Jeannette Francis
SBS2Australia/Youtube
Thu, 26 Sep 2013 06:04 UTC

Qatar will be hosting the 2022 World Cup and a Guardian Investigation has found that Nepalese workers are being shipped in as to become, what they call, "World Cup Slaves"

And as Jeannette Francis found: they're dying for the sake of football.
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Revealed: Qatar's World Cup 'slaves'

Pete Pattisson
The Guardian
Thu, 26 Sep 2013 05:37 UTC
Qatar's world cup slaves
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Dozens of Nepalese migrant labourers have died in Qatar in recent weeks and thousands more are enduring appalling labour abuses, a Guardian investigation has found, raising serious questions about Qatar's preparations to host the 2022 World Cup.

This summer, Nepalese workers died at a rate of almost one a day in Qatar, many of them young men who had sudden heart attacks. The investigation found evidence to suggest that thousands of Nepalese, who make up the single largest group of labourers in Qatar, face exploitation and abuses that amount to modern-day slavery, as defined by the International Labour Organisation, during a building binge paving the way for 2022.

According to documents obtained from the Nepalese embassy in Doha, at least 44 workers died between 4 June and 8 August. More than half died of heart attacks, heart failure or workplace accidents.

The investigation also reveals:

- Evidence of forced labour on a huge World Cup infrastructure project.

- Some Nepalese men have alleged that they have not been paid for months and have had their salaries retained to stop them running away.

- Some workers on other sites say employers routinely confiscate passports and refuse to issue ID cards, in effect reducing them to the status of illegal aliens.

- Some labourers say they have been denied access to free drinking water in the desert heat.

- About 30 Nepalese sought refuge at their embassy in Doha to escape the brutal conditions of their employment.

Comment: Remember that Qatar is the country who has been wanting to bring "democracy" to Syria and whom the West support.

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London Heathrow 'rips off' passengers amid £600m price hike


Press TV
Thu, 26 Sep 2013 04:35 UTC
London Heathrow airport
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A welcome sign on approach to London Heathrow airport.
London Heathrow airport has been "ripping off" passengers amid plans to slap a £600 million price hike on passengers over five years, the British Airways (BA) boss has announced.

Speaking at a press conference in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu, Willie Walsh, head of BA and International Airline Group, said the equivalent of £140 million annual hike to prices at Heathrow comes amid bad management and practice.

He called on BA Chief Executive Colin Mathews to step down and criticized senior officials' saying they work toward getting the "right regulatory outcome" rather than running the airport properly.

Walsh claims the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has allowed Britain's biggest and the world's third busiest airport to reward its foreign investors with higher-than-average returns at the expense of passengers.

"I think Heathrow is ripping off passengers and I think if the CAA does not take a stronger line on this, Heathrow will continue to be inefficient and over rewarded."

Heathrow's move will put an extra £7 per head per trip, which the British flag carrier airline said makes it the most expensive hub airport in the world.

"In an environment where everybody has been tightening their belt, for an airport to continue to increase their charges by well in excess of inflation will come as a great surprise to passengers."
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Death toll from Sudan demos nears 30


Press TV
Thu, 26 Sep 2013 04:30 UTC
Sudan protests
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Sudanese protesters gather for a demonstration in Khartoum’s twin city of Omdurmanon, September 25, 2013.
The death toll from three days of protests over a cut in fuel subsidies in Sudan has reached to nearly 30.

Protests broke out in the country on September 23 following a government decision to lift fuel subsidies to raise revenue.

According to initial reports, seven people died during the protests, but a hospital source in Khartoum's twin city Omdurman said the bodies of 21 people had been received since the protests began on September 23. That announcement put the death at nearly 30 people.

The source also stated that all the victims were civilians.

Activists are scheduled to hold fresh protests in the capital on Thursday.

On Wednesday, security forces fired tear gas and used force to disperse the demonstrators in Khartoum and Omdurman.

The demonstrators burned vehicles in a hotel car park near Khartoum International Airport, and a petrol station in the area was also set alight.

On September 24, protesters stormed and torched the offices of the ruling National Congress Party in Omdurman.

Sudan's Education Ministry announced that schools in the capital would remain closed until the end of the month.
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Italian lawmakers threaten to resign over Berlusconi issue


Press TV
Thu, 26 Sep 2013 04:23 UTC
Silvio Berlusconi
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Italy’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
Parliament members from the party of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi have threatened to resign all together if a senate committee votes to expel him from the legislative body over a tax fraud conviction.

A cross-party senate committee is set to vote on October 4 whether the 76-year-old billionaire should be stripped of his senator post following the criminal conviction. It is widely speculated that the 23-member senate committee will vote for Berlusconi's expulsion.

On Wednesday, Italy's former Senate chief Renato Schifani put forward a proposal at Berlusconi's People of Freedom (PDL) meeting for lawmakers to resign en bloc, which was highly greeted.

However, an aide of Berlusconi, Renato Brunetta said, "There was no proposal for mass resignation. We have only asked each parliamentarian to reflect on and decide according to his or her conscience."
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