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Massive power outage leaves most of Detroit, Michigan in the dark


RT
Tue, 02 Dec 2014 22:42 UTC
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© Bill Pugliano / Getty Images / AFPA view of Downtown Detroit
A massive power outage in Detroit, Michigan on Tuesday morning is leaving much of the Motor City in the dark.

Spokespeople for the city and DTE Energy confirmed at around 11:00 a.m. local time on Tuesday that most of Detroit's municipal grid is offline, preventing power from being delivered to police stations, schools, traffic lights and other city-run facilities and services.

Municipal buildings were being evacuated, WXYZ Radio anchor Alicia Smith tweeted early Tuesday, although eyewitnesses on the ground told her shortly after 11 a.m. that people were reportedly becoming stuck in elevators.

According to Smith, a spokesperson for the city of Detroit confirmed that most of the municipal power grid was down. Residential structures are apparently unaffected, and some of the emergency facilities - like fire stations - have back-up generators, a local Fox News affiliate reported.

Comment: Somewhat symbolic that the municipal electrical grid has shut down, considering that the City has been conducting economic shock therapy on its residents by cutting off their water.

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Che Guevara

Best of the Web: #HandsUpWalkOut rallies spread across U.S. in wake of rigged Ferguson decision


RT
Tue, 02 Dec 2014 14:33 UTC
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Thousands of people across the United States walked out of work and classrooms for a nationwide day of action dubbed 'Hands Up, Walk Out!' The protest comes after a grand jury declined to indict an officer for killing a black teenager.

The organizers - driven primarily by young people - spread the word online via the hashtag #HandsUpWalkOut, asking people to walk out in solidarity with those affected by police violence in Ferguson, Missouri, and around the country.

The walkouts occurred simultaneously at 12 p.m. CST and referenced the 'Hands Up! Don't Shoot!' chant that has been used as a rallying cry all over the US ever since African American teenager Michael Brown, 18, was fatally shot by Officer Darren Wilson on August 9.


Comment: See also:

Prosecutor in Ferguson case deliberately misled jurors to ensure Wilson acquittal

Nationwide protests against police brutality in AmeriKKKa: Wilson gets away with murder, Anonymous: #HoodsOff "The war is on!"

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Sheriff

Road-raging off-duty Houston Texas cop shoots woman in the head

Scott Kaufman
Raw Story
Mon, 01 Dec 2014 23:23 UTC
Kenneth Caplan Arrest
A Houston woman was shot in the head by an off-duty police officer after she honked at him for cutting her off, KHOU 11 reports.The victim - who did not wish to be identified for fear of retaliation - said that she was driving on the 610 Loop when Kenneth Caplan cut her off.

"He was about to hit me," she said, "so I switched to the other lane, got in front of him and cut him off. I guess that pissed him off," because he pulled alongside her, rolled down his window and opened fire.

"He was aiming at me and I thought he was going to cuss me out. I just started crying because I knew I was going to die," the victim said. "I wanted to call my mom to tell her 'I love you.'"

Comment: Of course his precinct condemned his actions; he was off duty! Had Caplan been on active patrol, you can bet they would've concocted some story and stood behind him until his name was cleared and the charges dropped.

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Heart - Black

Psychopathic doctor who sexually abused child cancer patients jailed for 22 years


RT
Mon, 01 Dec 2014 16:07 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Fred Dufour
A Cambridge doctor who admitted to serial sexual abuse of dozens of young cancer patients has been sentenced to 22 years in prison.

Myles Bradbury, who worked at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, admitted to 25 offences including sexual assault, voyeurism and possession of over 16,000 images of children.

The 41-year-old blood cancer specialist further admitted to the abuse of 18 young patients in his care between 2009 and 2013.

Bradbury was arrested in 2013 after Canadian Authorities informed the UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) that Bradbury had bought a DVD containing indecent images of children.

The judge told Bradbury that his behaviour was a "gross and grotesque breach of trust," saying he had never before seen such a flagrant abuse of the trust placed in a medical figure.

Some of the doctor's victims suffered from rare and life-threatening diseases such as leukaemia and haemophilia.

Judge Gareth Hawkesworth said "in many years on the bench, I've never come across a more culpable or grave course of sexual criminality which has involved such a gross and grotesque breach and betrayal of your Hippocratic Oath and trust reposed in you by your patients."
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Indian ISIL recruit goes home after he's assigned to toilet duty instead of holy war


Raw Story
Mon, 01 Dec 2014 20:19 UTC
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© ShutterstockPerson cleaning toilet in rubber gloves
An Indian student who traveled to Iraq to join the Islamic State group has returned home disillusioned after jihadists made him clean toilets and do other menial jobs, according to media reports.

Areeb Majeed, 23, left for Iraq with three friends in late May amid fears by authorities that IS militants were attempting to recruit from India's large pool of young Muslim men.

The engineering student flew home Friday to Mumbai where he was arrested and charged by India's elite National Investigation Agency (NIA) with terror-related offences.

Majeed told NIA officers he was sidelined by the jihadists for whom he fetched water and performed other lowly tasks such as cleaning toilets, instead of taking part in the deadly offensive like he wanted, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.

He phoned his family to say he wanted to come home after suffering an unexplained bullet wound for which he did not get proper medical attention, the agency said late Sunday.
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Stock Down

Cracks are forming in central economic control

John Rubino
DollarCollapse.com
Sun, 30 Nov 2014 00:00 UTC
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John Rubino
Last week saw the global financial system tip from delusion - where it had happily drifted for several years - into chaos. Consider the following more-or-less randomly chosen data points:

French unemployment hits record high

Italian unemployment hits record high

Oil's price falls by $10.36/bbl, or 13.5%, in a single day, to its lowest price since 2010.

Copper falls by 6% to $2.86/lb, 25% below its 2013 high.

European bond yields fall to record lows. Even Italy, with government debt exceeding 130% of GDP, can now borrow for around 2%. Japan, meanwhile, issues bonds with negative interest rates.

European inflation approaches zero, with several member states apparently already in deflation.

Comment: Gordon T Long notes similar cracks in the central framework:



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Sheriff

Why the world needs fewer cops

Charles Kenny
Bloomberg Business Week
Mon, 01 Dec 2014 19:47 UTC
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The tragedy in Ferguson, Mo., highlights how predatory policing has reduced trust in law enforcement in many parts of the U.S. Court fines (mostly connected with traffic violations) are worth 20 percent of Ferguson's general-fund revenue. That's considerably more than property tax revenue and about two-thirds sales tax revenue. The police force accounts for 41 percent of the city's expenses, suggesting fines are worth about one-half of the police budget. The incentives that such a system created to fine people overzealously were one factor behind the dismal state of relations between locals and cops in the city even before the death of Michael Brown.

Comment: "If the police aren't fining, arresting, or investigating, they must be doing something else."

That something else includes tasing, maiming, stealing, raping, shooting, killing and getting off scot-free. Police worldwide are nothing but tools of the state. (When was the last time you heard of a wealthy member of the elite suffering at the hands of the police?) Police don't stop crimes from happening, they just show up after a crime has been committed. One should consider themselves lucky if they aren't subjected to further victimization after cops arrive on the scene.

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Attention

Sickening hypocrisy: Human rights violations ignored in NATO's war in Ukraine

Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 01 Dec 2014 16:34 UTC
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Grad rockets fired indiscriminately into populated areas by Kiev regime - a war crime NATO has condemned before, but only when politically convenient.

"The Grad rocket cannot be targeted, so shooting it into a town full of civilians, with no specific military objective, violates the laws of war." These words were found in a 2011 Human Rights Watch (HRW) document titled, "Libya: Rocket Attacks on Western Mountain Towns - Grads Striking Civilian Areas," one of many reports ceaselessly cited by the United Nations and in turn, NATO as part of justifying a military intervention in the North African nation.

At the time, accusations of indiscriminate bombardment of populated areas by air and artillery, and the use of punitive squads to detain, beat, torture, and/or arbitrary arrest citizens served as the rhetorical and legal foundation of NATO's "humanitarian war."

Comment: So let's get this straight. Libya fires a ballistic missile that doesn't hit anything or kill anyone, and it's a horrible crime showing how evil Gaddafi was. Kiev fires ballistic missiles into Novorussia regularly, killing civilians, and it's perfectly OK. Saddam, Gadaffi and Assad all "kill their own people" (either total lies or a gross progaganda slogan to cover the fact that they were engaged in fighting U.S. proxy terrorists) and get the regime-change, destroy-your-country treatment, and yet Kiev gets away with doing exactly this thing - killing their own people - no spin, no lie. The hypocrisy is stunning.

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Gold Bar

Rob Kirby: Gold price now at 50% over spot

Greg Hunter
USAWatchdog
Sun, 30 Nov 2014 00:00 UTC
Rob Kirby
A few months ago, financial analyst Rob Kirby said the gold price was ready to go up. In the international market, where it is sold by the ton - it has. Kirby explains,
"For large amounts of bullion in the Asian market, the pricing mechanism has completely and utterly divorced itself from the fraudulent paper prices that are being reflected in the exchanges in the Western world.

In the Asian market, if you could find . . . physical bullion . . . as cheap as spot plus 50%, you'd be doing really, really, really well . . . and you'd be hard pressed to find serious tonnage at that price in Asia."

Comment: Rob Kirby pretty much says it all. It's only a matter of time before the physical gold price diverges greatly from the paper spot price for even small quantities of gold. For the Russian perspective on gold, see:Chessmaster Putin's golden trap

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Heart - Black

Assisted suicide and the slippery slope towards eugenics

Janet Phelan
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 29 Nov 2014 12:00 UTC
euthanasia supporters
With last week's vote on A2270, New Jersey's Assembly approved physician assisted suicide. Oregon, Washington and Vermont have also passed AS (Assisted Suicide) laws.

State courts in Montana and New Mexico have affirmed the rights to physician assisted suicide.

What's wrong with that, you might well ask. If a person is terminally ill and wishes to end his or her suffering, why should this not be permitted?

In fact, this issue is not as clear cut as some might wish you to believe. The effect of such legal permissions, as seen in other countries which have historically permitted doctor assisted suicide, is worth reviewing.

Comment: It's not as if eugenics euthanasia has not been used in the past to dispose of so-called "useless eaters". Nazi Germany comes to mind. It may start out as a choice, but in a totalitarian society that choice will be taken away.

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