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German police storm home-school class, take children by force

Bob Unruh
WND Education
Sun, 01 Sep 2013 00:00 UTC
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The Wunderlich family, with Michael Farris of the HSLDA.
'Officers brought a battering ram and were about to break the door in'

Four children, ages 7 to 14, have been forcibly taken from their Darmstadt, Germany, home by police armed with a battering ram, and their parents have been told they won't see them again soon, all over the issue of homeschooling, according to a stunning new report from the Home School Legal Defense Association.

HSLDA, the world's premiere advocate for homeschoolers, said the family of Dirk and Petra Wunderlich has battled for several years Germany's World War II-era requirement that all children submit to the indoctrination programs in the nation's public schools.

The shocking raid was made solely because the parents were providing their children's education, HSLDA said. The organization noted the paperwork that authorized police officers and social workers to use force on the children contained no claims of mistreatment.

"The children were taken to unknown locations," HSLDA said. "Officials ominously promised the parents that they would not be seeing their children anytime soon."

The raid, which took place Thursday at 8 a.m. as the children were beginning their day's classes, has been described by observers as "brutal and vicious."
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USA

Best of the Web: Constituents inundating Congressmen to voice misgivings about attacking Syria - Elijah Cummings (D-Md): "99% of calls to my office are against the war"

Noel Sheppard
NewsBusters
Wed, 04 Sep 2013 16:58 UTC
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We're sick of the lies Obama, just give it up already
Arizona Republican Congressman Matt Salmon told National Review Wednesday that only two of the 500 calls his office has received concerning Syria have supported President Obama's planned attack.

Far more shocking, Maryland Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings told MSNBC's Ed Shultz Wednesday that 99 percent of the calls his office has received also oppose such an attack.
ED SCHULTZ, HOST: But Congressman, how can we assume that the Syrian people are going to say that this is not an act of war, that they only hit us with a few citizen missiles, that they only hit with us 200? I mean, we may not view it as an act of war in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the debate coming up in the House, but who is to say that the Syrian people and the Arab world isn't going to view this as some, you know, cowboy diplomacy that we've taken a shot at them, and it could inflame the entire Arab world against the United States?

CONGRESSMAN ELIJAH CUMMINGS (D-MARYLAND): Well, I got to tell you, Ed, this is the argument, the argument that you're making right now is one that I'm hearing from my constituents. I know Bernie Sanders says most of the calls coming into his office were against this effort. I can tell you 99 percent of the calls coming to my office are against it, and they are citing the types of things that you just said.
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Info

Limes blamed for second degree burns

Rick Montanez
KFSN
Thu, 05 Sep 2013 14:37 UTC

Lemoore, California -- An everyday piece of fruit is being blamed for causing severe burns on five young girls in the South Valley. The burns cover much of their bodies.

The five little girls were simply enjoying a summer day in the backyard pool when they decided to make a lime and lemonade stand, little did anyone know that the lime juice would be so dangerous.

Reyghan, Candy, Bailey, Jewels and Jazmyn are all recovering now. But, the marks on their faces, hands and legs show just a glimpse into their painful experience following a fun day in the sun.

"So you're thinking when they're like 'we need cups. Ok, here's cups for the lemonade and lime,' it's just so innocent, but yet so, you know... traumatizing to the kids at the same time," Stephanie Ellwanger said.
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Arrow Down

The world's tallest skyscrapers have a dirty little secret

Colin Lecher
PopSci
Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:00 UTC
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© CTBUHThe Worst Offender: The Burj Khalifa
Supertall skyscrapers aren't necessarily built to fit as many people inside as possible--sometimes they're just aiming to be, well, really tall. Large portions of these buildings are designed to increase height, but remain unoccupied. Wasteful!

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, a not-for-profit organization that tracks the world's skyscrapers, just released some data on that subject. Surprise! Some really tall buildings don't need to be so tall.
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Propaganda

Syria: Learn to see lies

Michel (Mikado) Warschawski
Alternativenews.org
Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:10 UTC
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© parlement.ukBritish parliament was recalled early from summer recess Thursday to vote on - and reject - a military attack on Syria/Photo: parliament.uk
Syria is a tragedy: tens of thousands of innocent victims are murdered and a country that was the heart of Arab civilisation is being destroyed. Our heart is bleeding for the suffering of the Syrian people. Rage and sadness, however, should not be incompatible with a critical reading of the information we are fed with from the mainstream media.

These media are accusing the regime of all the crimes committed during the last year, especially the alleged use of chemical weapons.

Even before the UN inquiry commission landed in Damascus, it was seemingly acceptable to state that chemical weapons had been used, and that it was the Syrian army which used them against the Syrian people. A bloody or even crazy dictatorship against a liberation movement comprised of angels?

Let's start with the so-call Syrian Liberation Army (SLA): it is not a united body - in fact, they are fighting each other - and though it originally contained true Syrian democrats, most of them have left the movement that is increasingly led by Muslim fundamentalists, criminal gangs and foreign agents. The international powers supporting the SLA may quickly regret their choice of partners, as happened with Al Qaida in Afghanistan...
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Pistol

'Stand Your Ground' law, 'Bush Doctrine' used to defend double homicide


RT
Thu, 05 Sep 2013 03:05 UTC
Florida murder case
© Joe Raedle / Getty Images / AFP
A Florida man accused of killing two men and seriously injuring a third has invoked the state's controversial "stand your ground" law as well as the "Bush Doctrine," which provided legal justification for the war in Iraq, for his defense.

William T. Woodward, 44, allegedly confronted his neighbors during a Labor Day picnic in Titusville, Florida.

Police had responded to the neighborhood multiple times in the past, reportedly because of an ongoing feud between the two parties. Officials say they previously offered to mediate the dispute, but when officers arrived at the scene on Tuesday they found that Gary Lee Hembree, Roger Picior, and Bruce Timothy Blake had all been shot.

Hembree and Picior were mortally wounded, but Blake survived despite being shot at least 11 times. Blake later told Wesh.com that he needed to call the police dozens of times on Woodward, who is a combat veteran.

"I feel about as good as I can with 16 bullet holes in me," he said. "Who in the world think they are going to walk outside to smoke a cigarette and get shot 11 times from somebody a month earlier who was your friend."
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Stormtrooper

US military sick and tired of war, have no faith in government


RT
Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:13 UTC
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The US government has no more credibility with the American people and the military that are "sick and tired" of war which has now lasted for 13 years, Gordon Duff, a marine veteran has told RT.

As President Barack Obama is seeking support from Congress for military action in Syria, anti-war sentiment among the population is growing. Earlier last week, images emerged on social media purporting to show US servicemen speaking out against a looming strike against Damascus.

People wearing military uniform are seen posing in front of cameras with posters saying they did not join-up to fight with Al-Qaeda in Syria. Those pictures cannot be verified but the Pentagon is reportedly already looking into the identities of those involved.
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Display

Watch LG use 4K TVs to trick people into thinking a meteor hit Earth

Casey Chan
Gizmodo
Wed, 04 Sep 2013 21:17 UTC
LG, maker of fine displays and wonderful prankster of innocent people, has cooked up another beautiful visual trick: installing LG 4K TVs as fake window units and tricking people into believing a meteor has crashed onto Earth. Because the screen is so clear!

Supposedly, the people in the video are all innocent bystanders trying to apply for a job but hey, if the LG 4K TV is that clear (and it probably is), I'm pretty sure I'd fall for the same prank too. I've watched too many apocalyptic movies to not properly freak out.


Source: LG Chile
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Radar

Mystery drone seen hovering over six-alarm warehouse fire in Virginia near Pentagon

Meredith Somers
The Washington Times
Tue, 03 Sep 2013 00:00 UTC
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© Robert RapanutAlexandria resident Robert Rapanut photographed a drone he saw hovering over a six-alarm fire at a warehouse Monday afternoon.
It wasn't flying for long and it's unclear what it was doing, but at least one witness spotted a drone hovering over a six-alarm fire at a warehouse in Alexandria, just miles from the Pentagon.

Robert Rapanut of Alexandria said he was near the scene of the blaze that destroyed a warehouse in the 800 block of South Pickett Street when he saw an object rise. He took out a camera and photographed it.

"I just saw some black thing go up" Mr. Rapanut said. "It was up maybe two or three minutes. It hovered over the roof of the Red Lobster" a few hundred feet east of the fire.

Alexandria fire officials said the drone didn't belong to them.

"It's not ours," said Robert Rodriguez, chief fire marshal and spokesman for the Alexandria fire department. "It was none of our departments'," he added, referring to the three other fire departments that provided assistance in putting out the blaze.

A Fairfax fire department spokesman practically laughed when asked if the drone at the Monday blaze could have been theirs.

A law passed this year in Virginia placed a temporary moratorium on the use of drones by government agencies, except for situations in which lives might be at risk.
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Sheriff

Long Beach Police brutally beat and repeatedly taze man as he lies on the ground screaming in pain

Beatriz Valenzuela
Press-Telegram
Wed, 04 Sep 2013 03:29 UTC
Long Beach police have been accused of brutality after a YouTube video shows an officer striking a prone man multiple of times with a baton.

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Several officers are shown surrounding the man, who is lying on the ground, and then one of the officers strikes the man in the legs as the others shout orders.

The video, which was posted to YouTube on Monday, also shows the man being Tased by the officers at least once Monday at Locust Avenue and South Street.

"Police can only use force that is proportionate to the risk of injury or resistance," said Peter Bibring, spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union. "And it's difficult to see how striking someone who's lying on the ground in a proportionate response."

Family members identified the man who was struck by police as Porfirio Santos-Lopez, 46, of Long Beach.

Santos-Lopez was taken into surgery late Tuesday at Long Beach Memorial Hospital for his injuries, his wife Lee Ann Hernandez said.

Long Beach police are expected to comment on the incident later today.

Comment: Becoming a Police Officer is the perfect job for a psychopath. Once they get a badge, they can brutalize people with complete impunity.

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