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More Police shootings - Arkansas cops lured to an ambush, 1 dead


RT
Thu, 11 Aug 2016 02:02 UTC
Arkansas PD
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An early morning call led three law enforcement officers to an ambush in Sebastian County, Arkansas. The suspect opened fire, killing one officer and injuring a sheriff as well as a K-9 officer.

Billy Monroe Jones, 35, of Greenwood is believed to be responsible for the death of Sebastian County Deputy Bill Cooper, injuring Hackett Police Chief Darrell Spells and shooting a K-9 officer named Kina. The officers were responding to a call at 7 a.m. on Wednesday morning claiming that Jones had pulled a gun on his father, KFSM reported.

When police arrived about ten minutes after dispatch received the call, he greeted them by pointing a rifle at them. Sebastian County Sheriff Bill Hollenbeck told reporters that he may have also been wearing some sort of ballistic vest.

"Immediately when three officers got [to the house] they were basically ambushed," Sgt. Daniel Grubbs with the Fort Smith Police Department told KFSM. "The information we have received right now is it appears this guy was waiting for us to get here. It seems [he had] full intent to inflict violence against us."

Comment: The circumstances and history suggest this is another person 'going off', who also had military training. Over all this only contributes to further chaos in the US, more police crackdown and one step closer to a civil war. There is definitely something in the air.

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Can you say ponzi scheme?: Public pensions are underfunded by as much as $8 trillion in the U.S.

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Tue, 09 Aug 2016 07:10 UTC
pension

Defined Benefit Pension Plans are, in many cases, a ponzi scheme. Current assets are used to pay current claims in full in spite of insufficient funding to pay future liabilities... classic Ponzi. But unlike wall street and corporate ponzi schemes no one goes to jail here because the establishment is complicit. Everyone from government officials to union bosses are incentivized to maintain the status quo...public employees get to sleep better at night thinking they have a "retirement plan," public legislators get to be re-elected by union membership while pretending their states are solvent and union bosses get to keep their jobs while hiding the truth from employees.

We even published a note several days ago entitled "Establishment Tries To Suppress "Dissident Actuaries" Explosive Report On Public Pensions," which pointed out that the American Academy of Actuaries and the Society of Actuaries killed a report that would have warned about the implications of lowering long-term expected returns on pension assets. Apparently the truth was just too scary.

Bill Gross has been warning of the unintended consequences of low interest rates for years, and reiterated his concerns to Bloomberg recently:
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Punta Gorda cop who killed woman has long history of abuse

Carlos Miller
Photography is Not a Crime
Thu, 11 Aug 2016 01:47 UTC
lee coel_mary knoelton
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The Punta Gorda police officer who shot and killed a 73-year-old woman during a citizen academy role playing session Tuesday has been identified as Lee Coel - the same cop who allowed his police dog to maul a man for riding his bicycle at night without lights in a video that went viral two months ago.

A cop that should have been fired long ago, according to a Florida attorney who is suing the Punta Gorda Police Department over the dog mauling incident.

"I've been saying for months that this guy was going to kill somebody and now he has killed somebody," attorney Scott Weinberg said during a telephone interview with Photography is Not a Crime Wednesday.

"Everybody had been put on notice that he was a loose cannon, that he should not have had a badge and a gun. The city, the state attorney and the police department knew he was not mentally fit to serve the public."
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Child rape and Kiev's war against Eastern Ukraine

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Wed, 10 Aug 2016 00:00 UTC
Kiev thugs
Revelations of rape by ultra right-wing paramilitaries during the Donbass war go unreported and unremarked.

In 2002, members of international community gathered at the Security Council of the United Nations to pass the infamous resolution 1441 to encourage the government of Iraq to comply with international weapons inspections. With the inspections were barely underway, George Bush, Tony Blair and a very small band of small allies unilaterally declared that Iraq was in violation of 1441 and invaded the country.

In 2015 under the auspices of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the governments of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine agreed to the Minsk II protocols calling for a ceasefire in the tragic war in Donbass. This agreement was hardly worth the paper it was written on as both official and para-military, and international terrorist forces continued their killings in Donbass.

The wider international community has said little about this conflict which has claimed the lives of thousands of civilians and by some estimates tens of thousands of civilians. The war has ebbed and flowed in the months since Minsk II was signed but this is of little solace to the civilians of Donbass who have been denied their right to peaceful self-determination by the international community. But new facts reveal a criminal ugliness to the conflict that ought to unite the world in condemnation of the war criminals.

Comment: Traumatizing an entire generation - The voice and suffering of children in the war on Donbass

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Stormtrooper

Florida woman killed by cop during 'shoot-don't shoot' exercise


Sputnik
Mon, 01 Aug 2016 13:38 UTC
Mary Knowlton
© Flickr/ Robert Kuykendall
A 73-year-old Florida librarian was shot and killed by police on Tuesday evening as she participated in a roleplaying scenario, in which officers make decisions about using lethal force.

Mary Knowlton was killed while roleplaying as an officer during a "shoot-don't shoot" exercise, hosted by the Punta Gorda Police Department. The officer she partnered with, who was playing the "bad guy," was not supposed to have live ammunition loaded in his weapon, and Knowlton was "mistakenly struck with a live round."


Knowlton was one of 35 participants in a "citizens academy" event, a free, eight-session course for residents to learn more about how the government and police function in their community.

"The Citizens and Police Officers meet each other face to face in a neutral, friendly setting and each becomes a person to the other," the National Citizens Police Academy Association explains on their website. "In the past, citizens have simply seen a uniform, now they have an understanding about the person behind the badge."

Comment: Punta Gorda cop who killed woman has long history of abuse

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Colorado readies for 'all out war' as anti-fracking measures advance to ballot

Lauren McCauley
Common Dreams
Thu, 11 Aug 2016 00:58 UTC
co_fracking
© Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission

Colorado has 73,000 wells with tens of thousands more planned for drilling.
Citizen-led efforts to override the government and fossil fuel industry could be devastating for Big Oil in the state

The government of Colorado has so far managed to quash efforts to halt the spread of fracking in that state, but come November, residents will finally have the chance to overpower the will of politicians and Big Oil and Gas.

Petitioners on Monday submitted more than 200,000 signatures backing two separate initiatives to amend the Colorado constitution, specifically in regards to the controversial drilling method.

"This is a good day for Colorado, and it's a good day for democracy," said Lauren Petrie, Rocky Mountain Region director of Food and Water Watch. "These initiatives will give communities political tools to fend off the oil and gas industry's effort to convert our neighborhoods to industrial sites. This is a significant moment in the national movement to stem the tide of fracking and natural gas."
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Woman dies in police pursuit of suspect car, drone seen flying near jail

Alice Ross
The Guardian
Tue, 09 Aug 2016 12:15 UTC
wandsworth prison
© www.swlondoner.co.uk
Wandsworth Prison
A woman in her 20s has died in a car crash during a police pursuit by officers investigating a drone that was being flown near a prison. Police were called to Groom Crescent near Wandsworth prison in south London just after 3am on Tuesday, and began following a car they saw driving away.

At about 3.10am the car crashed in Ashcombe Street at the junction of Wandsworth Bridge Road; the female passenger was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver, a man also thought to be in his 20s, is in a critical condition in hospital. Police are in the process of telling their families and formal identification has not yet taken place. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating.

An IPCC spokesman said: "The Metropolitan police referred the matter to the IPCC because a police vehicle was following the car involved in the collision immediately prior to the incident. "IPCC investigators attended the scene and also the post-incident procedures where the officers involved are providing their accounts. The investigation is in its early stages."

An HM Prison Service spokeswoman said: "On Tuesday 9 August, staff at HMP Wandsworth alerted the Metropolitan police to a drone flying in close proximity to the prison, as is standard practice. Police investigations are now under way and it would be inappropriate to comment further."

Comment: Other reports say the chase was clocked at 120 mph/193kph. Drones aside, a deadly pursuit.

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Beaker

Shock it! Olympic officials puzzled as diving pool turns green

Jim Iovino
Chicago 5
Wed, 10 Aug 2016 14:16 UTC
olympic pool

What's wrong with the water?
The diving pool at the Rio Olympics has turned green, and inquiring minds -- like silver-medal-winning U.S. diver David Boudia -- aren't sure why.

Tom Daley, who won bronze for Great Britain in Rio, is equally puzzled.

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'She's a liar': Arkansas rape victim speaks out publicly against Hillary Clinton

Alana Goodman
Daily Mail
Tue, 09 Aug 2016 14:25 UTC
Kathy Shelton

Kathy Shelton was just 12 years old when 41-year-old Thomas Alfred Taylor raped her on a desolate Arkansas road in 1975.

A child rape victim says she cannot forgive Hillary Clinton for defending her rapist in court 40 years ago, saying the Democratic presidential candidate attacked her credibility despite knowing that her assailant was guilty - and later laughed about it in a taped interview.

Kathy Shelton was just 12 years old when a 41-year-old drifter raped her on the side of a desolate Arkansas road in 1975.

Now, four decades later, she has agreed to be named and pictured for the first time in this Daily Mail Online exclusive because she is furious that her rapist's defense attorney - Hillary Clinton - has been portraying herself as a lifelong advocate of women and girls on the campaign trail.

Comment: This poor excuse of a woman may become the next president.

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White man calls 911 over 'hoodlums' then fatally shoots black man


RT
Wed, 10 Aug 2016 20:32 UTC
Kouren-Rodney Bernard Thomas
© GoFundMe
Kouren-Rodney Bernard Thomas
In a time of heightened racial tensions comes the story of Kouren-Rodney Bernard Thomas, an African-American man who was shot to death moments after a white homeowner called 911 to complain about "hoodlums," promising to "secure our neighborhood."

Chad Copley, 39, called 911 early Sunday morning from his home in Raleigh, North Carolina. He demanded a police car come quickly and told the dispatcher he was "locked and loaded," ready to confront a group of "hoodlums," the Washington Post reported.

The dispatcher asked Copley to clarify, and he elaborated.

"I'm on neighborhood watch," he said. "I am going to have the neighborhood meet these hoodlums out here racing up and down the street. It's 1 in the morning. There's some devil in them. They have firearms and we're going to secure our neighborhood. If I was you, I would send PD out here as quickly as possible."

The police department did not have time to reach the scene. Just minutes later, Copley called back.

"I yelled at them, 'Please leave the premises,'" he said. "They were showing firearms, so I fired a warning shot and uh, we got somebody that got hit."
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