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Pennsylvania man convicted in his daughter's death after police bullet went through him and hit her


The Guardian
Sun, 29 Jul 2018 19:50 UTC
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‘Parents are supposed to protect their children, not put them in harm’s way,’ said a defense attorney.

Ciara Meyer, 12, was killed when a constable serving eviction papers fired on Donald Meyer Jr, who pointed a loaded rifle

A Pennsylvania man was convicted on all charges in the death of his 12-year-old daughter, who was shot by a constable serving eviction papers with a bullet that went through her father's arm.

Perry county authorities said that in January 2016 Donald Meyer Jr, 60, pointed a loaded rifle at the constable. The officer fired and the bullet wounded Meyer but killed Ciara Meyer, who was standing behind him.

District attorney Andrew Bender told jurors Meyer was responsible for his daughter's death.

Comment: It would seem like Meyer is responsible for the events that lead to his daughter's death, but it seems odd to charge him with murder given the bullet that killed her wasn't fired by him. Shouldn't the cop have known better than to shoot someone with a young child standing behind him?

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Norwegian Olympic champion Vibeke Skofterud found dead after jet ski accident


RT
Mon, 30 Jul 2018 12:29 UTC
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Norwegian Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist Vibeke Skofterud has been found dead at the age of 38 after a tragic jet ski accident in southern Norway.

Skofterud was found by rescue services near the island of St. Helen at around noon on Sunday after being reported missing overnight.

Police are investigating the cause of death but are treating the tragic incident as an accident, according to Spiegel. The former cross country skier was said to have been traveling alone at the time of her death.
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Gunmen open fire at busy strip mall in New Orleans, killing three, injuring seven

Jamiles Lartey
The Guardian
Mon, 30 Jul 2018 14:40 UTC
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Police says the pair fired multiple shots into the crowd on Saturday night before fleeing the scene.


Two men shot 'indiscriminately' in area popular with locals, police say, as city mayor calls for end to violence

Three people were killed and seven injured when two men opened fire into a large crowd outside a New Orleans strip mall on Saturday.

Police said the men shot "indiscriminately", one with a rifle and the other with a handgun. According to the city police chief, Michael Harrison, the pair stood over one person and fired multiple shots before fleeing.

First responders found two men and one woman who were pronounced dead at the scene. Five men and two women were taken to two hospitals. None were immediately publicly identified.

Comment: Random shootings are the new normal. Are we used to this yet?

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Canadian gov't admits hundreds of thousands of unwed mothers were forced to give up their babies in post-war period


RT
Mon, 30 Jul 2018 13:08 UTC
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One of the hundreds of thousands of unwed mothers forced by the Canadian government to surrender their babies after WWII has told RT she thought she would never see her daughter again.

Over 300,000 mothers are believed to have been impacted by Canada's draconian adoption laws between the 1940s and 1970s. They saw unwed women being forced to give their babies up for adoption to traditional families. Some were told to "get a puppy to cuddle" instead.

Hanne Andersen told RT she was impregnated at the age of 15 after being allegedly raped. Yet authorities failed to assess her case thoroughly.

"There was no conversation with me about how I got pregnant, all they cared about was the fact that I got pregnant and that I had a baby that they could take," Andersen told RT.
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Coke, meth and booze: The flip side of the Texas Permian Basin oil boom


RT
Mon, 30 Jul 2018 13:20 UTC
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The fastest-growing oil region in the US is fueling not only the second American shale revolution-it's fueling a subculture of drug and alcohol abuse among oil field workers.

The Permian shale play in West Texas is once again booming with drilling and is full of oil field workers, some of which are abusing drugs and alcohol to help them get through long shifts, harsh working conditions, and loneliness and isolation.

Drugs are easily accessible in the Permian, which is close to highways and to Mexico. For oil field workers making six-figure salaries, money is not a problem to buy all kinds of illegal substances to shoot, snort and swallow to get through 24-hour-plus shifts. The physically exhaustive work also sometimes causes aches for workers, making them susceptible to getting hooked on prescription painkillers.

The drug and alcohol abuse subculture in the Permian is a known-yet rarely reported or discussed-issue in the most prolific US shale play, where oil production is booming, and relentless drilling attracts oil field workers from all over Texas and all parts of the United States.
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Italy: 3rd soldier suicide in 6 months involved in Operation Safe Streets


RT
Mon, 30 Jul 2018 09:08 UTC
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A 25-year-old Italian military has committed suicide while on duty at Palazzo Grazioli, the residence of ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Rome. The man went to the bathroom, where he took his own life.

Corporal Enrico De Mattia was participating in "Operation Safe Streets" at Palazzo Grazioli on Saturday before deciding to kill himself, according to Italian GrNet website. He reportedly took his service gun to the toilet and shot himself in the head. The motives that drove the man to this desperate act have not been revealed.

The suicide was later confirmed by the Italian military, politician Gianluca Rizzo from 5 Star Movement wrote on Facebook. He said that soldiers face "psychological shocks" more than other groups due to the specifics of the occupation.

Comment: A report by the Express detailed the operations mission:
The southern European country has about 2,000 troops in Lazio, Umbria and Abruzzo and a total of 7,000 throughout the entire nation.

The move is part of the 'Safe Streets' operation which is now in its ninth year which is used to keep a watchful eye on various possible activities - terrorism, migrants, fires and drought as well as the current 'Lucifer' heatwave that has swept through Italy as well as a number of European countries.
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Across the capital, there are 158 points that have a fixed army presence, which include embassies, archaeological sites, two airports - Fiumicino and Ciampino, one port, 13 train stations and 37 metro stations.
So is it the working conditions that are driving these soldiers to suicide or is there something else to the operation that for whatever reason is more "psychologically shocking" than other possible army assignments?

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Boats loaded with illegal immigrants caught on camera as they land on Spanish tourist beaches

Jack Montgomery
Breitbart
Mon, 30 Jul 2018 12:57 UTC
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Pressure on Spain's maritime border is increasing, with videos showing boatloads of illegal migrants crashing into busy tourist beaches circulating online as the country overtakes Italy and Greece as the EU's major weak point.

Footage shared by Diario de Cádiz on Twitter shows an entire boatload of migrants landing in the middle of the packed tourist beach of Zahora on Saturday, July 28th, and disgorging onto the sand, before scattering into the interior unregistered and unvetted.


Comment: See also: Over 700 migrants storm Spanish exclave of Ceuta, several use homemade 'flamethrowers' (VIDEO)

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Save the Children report: Migrant children sexually exploited to 'pay' for crossing from Italy to France

Angela Giuffrida
Guardian
Sun, 29 Jul 2018 12:41 UTC
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A demonstration in support of migrants in Ventimiglia. The town is a major transit hub for migrants attempting to cross into France.


Save the Children report says children are being abused in order to afford safe border passage

Migrant children are being sexually exploited to pay for their safe passage into France from the Italian border, according to a report from Save the Children Italy. The minors, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, are being forced to perform sex acts if they cannot afford the €50-€150 asked by drivers in exchange for a lift across the border.

The children are also being offered food or shelter in return for being abused. The charity says it has evidence of many cases, particularly since the beginning of this year.

"These are very young, and particularly at-risk girls, who are among the invisible flow of unaccompanied migrant minors in transit at the northern Italian border who, in an attempt to reunite with their relatives or acquaintances in other European countries, are deprived of the opportunity to travel safely and legally," Raffaela Milano, the director of Italy-Europe programmes at Save the Children, said in the report.
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Police releases video of Thurman Blevins shooting in Minneapolis that sparked mass protests (warning: graphic)


RT
Mon, 30 Jul 2018 12:20 UTC
Minneapolis police video

Screenshot from Minneapolis police video
Body camera footage has been made public, which shows the chasing of and the shots that killed Thurman Blevins, an African American whose death in June led to mass protests in Minneapolis.

The video shows two officers, Justin Schmidt and Ryan Kelly, driving in a car as they were responding to a 911 call about a man firing a gun into the air in the northern part of the city.


Comment: This seems to happen a lot in Minneapolis.

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Ann Coulter: 'If Trump builds the wall, media will go crazy and his poll numbers will go through the roof'

John Binder
Breitbart
Sun, 29 Jul 2018 12:19 UTC
Ann Coulter
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New York Times best-selling author and populist conservative columnist Ann Coulter says President Trump's "poll numbers will go through the roof" if he would simply build the border wall he promised to construct along the U.S.-Mexico border.

During an interview on SiriusXM's Breitbart News Daily, Coulter told Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow that if Trump finally followed through on his key campaign promise to build a wall along the southern border, his poll numbers would skyrocket.

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