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Texas cops shoot mentally ill man armed with pellet gun until 'he had no face'

Travis Gettys
The Raw Story
Thu, 04 Sep 2014 07:29 UTC
Policeman with gun
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Police in Texas shot and killed a mentally ill man armed with a pellet gun.

Officers fired more than 80 shots at 30-year-old Jose Walter Garza during a confrontation early Saturday at a truck stop in Laredo.

Police said Garza "put his finger on the trigger guard and pointed at the officers" before they opened fire.

Six officers were placed on administrative leave following the fatal shooting.

"These officers, although justified, are going to have to carry that around with them for the rest of their lives," said Chief Ray Garner, of Laredo police. "I've been in contact with all six of the officers from that evening through today. They seem to be holding up. No officer goes to work thinking they're going to kill somebody."

Surveillance video does not show Garza threatening the officers, but it does show police shoot and then handcuff him.
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Syringe

Pennsylvania sued for details on secret execution cocktail


RT.com
Fri, 12 Sep 2014 20:41 UTC
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© ReutersAn undated handout photo of the revamped lethal injection room.
The American Civil Liberties Union, along with four newspapers, has filed a lawsuit against the state of Pennsylvania seeking to uncover the source of the drugs used in its lethal injection procedures.

As Pennsylvania prepares to execute its first inmate in 15 years, the ACLU, the Guardian, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the Philadelphia City Paper are arguing that the state's refusal to reveal where it purchases its drugs is illegal.

Comment: For more information on how lethal injections can affect those receiving them, read:
Arizona execution of Joseph Wood took nearly two hours

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Bad Guys

European farmers hit by Russian sanctions abandoned by Brussels


RT
Thu, 11 Sep 2014 20:24 UTC
french farmer
© Reuters / Pascal RossignolFrench farmer Hubert Deusy harvest apples in his 8 hectare apple orchard at the Verger d'Epinoy near Cambrai, northern France September 3, 2014.
The European Commission has suspended its aid to European farmers hit by the Russian import ban.

The amount of submitted claims for some products is several times higher than EU's annual trade with Russia, with some sources blaming Poland for the exaggerations.

The 125 million euros ($160 million) scheme was announced on August 18 after Russia responded to several rounds of western sanctions with a ban on import on food from the countries involved. EU members, particularly those close to Russia, were most affected by the loss of the Russian market.

The money was meant to compensate the damage caused to producers of perishable fruits and vegetables. Apple and pear producers were entitled to receive up to 82 million euros ($106 million) and 43 million euros ($56 million) respectively with the rest of the sum going to growers of tomatoes, cabbages, grapes and a dozen other products.

But the scheme has proved to be inefficient and needs to be suspended now, the Commission announced.

"There has been strong interest from the sectors concerned, but the scheme has to be closed due to a disproportionate surge in claims - for example where the figures submitted for some products are several times higher than the total EU average annual exports to Russia," the EC said in a statement.

Comment: As the economic blowback from the idiotic sanctions imposed on Russia hits home, those most vulnerable are abandoned to their fate by the pathocratic elites using any excuses they can muster - what a surprise!

Sanctions against Russia may backfire on EU - President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz
Russian sanctions and eastern turmoil already taking economic toll on Western businesses

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Cardboard Box

Squeezing turnips: FEMA attempting to recoup $5.8M from families who received Hurricane Sandy aid


Yahoo News
Fri, 12 Sep 2014 00:00 UTC
Sandy victim
© AP Photo/John Minchillo In this Sept. 5, 2014 photo, Gary Silberman stands for a picture as he guides reporters on a tour of his parent's home that was destroyed by Superstorm Sandy, in Lindenhurst, N.Y. After Silberman received nearly $17,000 in assistance from FEMA, the agency is demanding a return on the funds.
After Superstorm Sandy hit the East Coast nearly two years ago, the federal government quickly sent out $1.4 billion in emergency disaster aid to the hurricane's victims.

Now, thousands of people might have to pay back their share.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is scrutinizing about 4,500 households that it suspects received improper payments after the storm, according to program officials and data obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request. As of early September, FEMA had asked around 850 of those aid recipients to return a collective $5.8 million. The other cases were still under review.

FEMA's campaign to recover overpayments, called "recoupment" in agency lingo, typically involves instances where the agency believes a household got more money than allowed under program rules, but not necessarily because of an intentional attempt to cheat the system. Fraud cases are handled separately.

Many people asked to return money were deemed ineligible because their damaged properties were vacation houses or rental properties, not their primary residences. Others had double dipped into the aid pool, with more than one household member getting payments. Some received FEMA money for things later covered by insurance.
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Vader

Take that! Barrage of hate mail heaped on authoritarian NY judge who sentenced grandmother protesting drones to one year jail term


RT
Fri, 12 Sep 2014 07:19 UTC
drone protest
© Reuters / Jonathan Ernst
A small-town New York judge - who recently sentenced a grandmother to one year in jail over her involvement with an anti-drone protest near a US military base - is receiving a barrage of hate and anti-Semitic e-mails from people all across the country.

"Are you considering a career change moving to Israel to judge Palestinian rock throwers, for 'Publicity at any cost, without any regard for the rules of society?'" reads one of the e-mails sent to DeWitt Town Judge David S. Gideon, who is Jewish. Another statement called him a "Nazi."

This incident stems from a case involving a grandmother of three - 58-year-old Mary Anne Grady-Flores - who was charged in July with a second-degree criminal count for violating an order of protection while protesting with the Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones at the Hancock Air Base back in October 2012.

People expressed their outrage in the emails to Judge Gideon, with letters coming from different states across the US. These letters were acquired through a Freedom of Information Act request by Syracuse.com

Comment: Hundreds of drones are already deployed over the US, with local law enforcement agencies acquiring their own drones as well. Drones can carry facial recognition cameras, license plate scanners, thermal imaging cameras, open WiFi sniffers, and other sensors. And they can be armed. The precise technological capabilities of these drones, developed by defense giants such as Northrop Grumman at a cost of billions of dollars, are a closely guarded state secret.

Nevertheless, the surveillance potential of today's drones makes the spying carried out by the dictatorships of the last century look like child's play. Everywhere one goes, everything one says, everything one does - even within one's home - can now be surreptitiously observed, recorded, and collected in huge government databanks being secretly constructed by the Obama administration. The authoritarians running the US police state are terrified of anyone who dares to protest.

Drones over America: Infrastructure of US Police State

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Airplane Paper

Private drone lands in Michigan man's backyard

Jonathan Carlson
WXYZ Detroit
Thu, 11 Sep 2014 10:49 UTC
Update:

mystery drone michigan
Allen Park Police say the owner of the Drone came forward Friday morning, after seeing this report.

The device has been returned to him.

Officers say the owner is from Lincoln Park, and got the Drone as a gift. He put it in the air from a local school, and lost it in the trees. His daughter was taking a live feed of what the on-board camera was displaying, but its not believed anything was recorded, nor was he trying to intentionally invade anyone's privacy.

Original Story:

A mystery drone is the talk of Allen Park, as a family there watched the flying device land in their backyard. The operator--nowhere to be found.

Comment: So anyone can fly a drone in your backyard and record you, yet they cannot watch the recording. Yeah right - and who is going to stop them?

Bats, butterflies, roaches, mosquitoes, and birds: The coming micro-drone revolution

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Handcuffs

Paralympian Pistorius cleared of all murder charges, can still be convicted of culpable homicide

Robyn Dixon
Los Angeles Times
Thu, 11 Sep 2014 17:56 UTC
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© Kim Ludbrook / EPAOscar Pistorius weeps at the reading of the verdict in his murder trial in Pretoria, South Africa, on Sept. 11.
Oscar Pistorius, the South African Olympian who shot and killed his girlfriend on Valentine's Day last year, was found "negligent" in the killing Thursday, but was acquitted of murder charges before the court recessed for the day without a final verdict.

Judge Thokozile Masipa halted the proceedings before delivering a ruling on a lesser charge of culpable homicide and said she would resume the proceedings on Friday.

"It's clear that his conduct was negligent," Masipa said.

But the judge said she did not find sufficient evidence to prove the prosecution's contention that Pistorius intended to kill Reeva Steenkamp after the couple had an argument, though she did conclude that the athlete was negligent in firing his weapon four times through the door of the bathroom in his residence, in which Steenkamp had locked herself.

Comment: See also:
  • Prosecutor says Pistorius 'concocted' story as runner sobs on witness stand

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Easter Egg

Invasion and occupation? Crimea for Dummies

Miguel Francis
RT
Fri, 12 Sep 2014 12:23 UTC
crimea cartoon
Typical Western propaganda.
For his first film project American filmmaker Miguel Francis chose the highly controversial subject of Crimea and how it was reunited with Russia. He travels to the beautiful Peninsula to see the current situation first hand and to explore its history and cultural heritage. He takes in some of Crimea's tourist attractions and historical sites while talking to local people about their attitudes to becoming Russian citizens.


Comment: See what Crimeans really think about rejoining their Motherland.

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Arrow Down

Spanish gravedigger suspended for corpse photo gaffe

Steve Tallantyre
The Local, Spain
Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:49 UTC
Dead Man Photo
© TwitterThe photo was shared by family members of the deceased but town hall officials described the act as "silliness".
A cemetery worker in a town in southern Spain has been suspended after a photo of him posing with an exhumed corpse went viral on social media.

The mummified body of a man who died 23 years ago had been moved from his grave to allow the burial of his wife alongside him in the family tomb in Guardamar del Segura.

The niece of the deceased had arranged for the grave to be extended. Clemente, the gravedigger, opened the tomb to begin his usual job of breaking up the corpse to allow another body to fit into the same space.

For reasons unknown, the niece then took a photo on her mobile of Clemente holding up the body alongside another man, said to be the corpse's nephew by marriage, who is grinning broadly.
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Arrow Down

Freaked-out mushroom pickers discover bag-loads of body parts in Southern Ukrainian woods


Austrian Times
Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:30 UTC
Body Parts
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A Ukrainian gang that took medical waste that included body parts and disease testing samples for cremation dumped it all in local woodlands instead of burning it.

The gang reportedly made hundreds of thousands of pounds collecting medical waste including amputated limbs and aborted foetuses from hospitals in Zaporizhia Oblast in southern Ukraine.

They also collected other biologically hazardous waste including parts from veterinary surgeries and laboratory samples awaiting safe disposal.

The gang's activities were uncovered when surprised mushroom pickers spotted sack-loads of amputated limbs dumped around the woods.
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