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65yo diabetic amputee wrongfully accused of his wife's murder, dies in jail

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The family of Melvin Stubbs is preparing to sue the Oakland Police Department over the death of the 65-year-old diabetic amputee charged with murdering his wife. Stubbs was proven innocent by a coroner's report, but not before he died in police custody.

Oakland police made the arrest on Saturday when they entered the home of Stubbs and his wife Terry Cameron. Cameron lay dead and Stubbs was in an exhausted state. Officers observed signs of trauma on Cameron and scratch marks on Stubbs, and combined with the fact that the home was disheveled, police presumed it was a murder scene and took Stubbs to jail, according to a police spokeswoman, the San Jose Mercury News reported.

Upon arriving at the jail, however, Stubbs' blood sugar was so high that police were first forced to take him to a hospital. The following day, Stubbs was admitted to Santa Rita Jail, where he was later found unresponsive. He was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital two hours later.

The Alameda County Coroner's Bureau confirmed to the Stubbs family on Monday that 58-year-old Cameron had, in fact, died from acute bacterial meningitis, exonerating the deceased Stubbs.

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'Erdogan destroyed our world': Kurds report Turkish forces have beheaded & burned to death hundreds of civilians

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Harrowing accounts of an alleged massacre of dozens of Kurdish civilians in the southeastern Turkish town of Cizre have been collected by RT's William Whiteman, who traveled to the area following reports of a brutal military crackdown on the population.

Reports of Turkish troops slaughtering hundreds of civilians trapped in the basements of Cizre, which is located in Turkey's Sirnak province, first surfaced in February. Some 150 people were allegedly burned to death in one of them.

That particular claim was made by Turkish MP Feleknas Uca from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party, who spoke to Sputnik agency. These and other trapped people were reportedly denied access to food and medical supplies. However, until now, the alleged atrocities committed by the Turkish forces could not be substantiated on the ground.

Comment: The Turkish elite have successfully used the refugee crisis to both extort the EU and begin a systematic destruction of the Kurds. If terrorism is defined as:

1. the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes,
2. the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization,
3. a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government,

then Turkey, and indeed NATO as a whole, are terrorists without equal.


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Oliver Stone reveals fears of NSA interference, things he had to do to make Edward Snowden film

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"We moved to Germany, because we did not feel comfortable in the U.S.," the director says about his upcoming movie about government whistle-blower Edward Snowden, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

Fears of interference by the National Security Agency led Oliver Stone to shoot Snowden, his upcoming movie about government whistle-blower Edward Snowden, outside the United States.

"We moved to Germany, because we did not feel comfortable in the U.S.," Stone said on March 6, speaking before an audience at the Sun Valley Film Festival in Idaho, in a Q&A moderated byThe Hollywood Reporter's Stephen Galloway. "We felt like we were at risk here. We didn't know what the NSA might do, so we ended up in Munich, which was a beautiful experience."

Even there, problems arose with companies that had connections to the U.S., he said: "The American subsidiary says, 'You can't get involved with this; we don't want our name on it.' So BMW couldn't even help us in any way in Germany."

Comment: Just goes to show how far in lock step (or cowardly) Hollywood is with US intelligence agencies these days that Stone had such a difficult time producing this film.


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Caught on Video: Drumpf supporter punches protester in the face at a rally, charges filed

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A Donald Drumpf supporter sucker-punched a protester at a rally in North Carolina on Wednesday. Police then pulled the protester to the ground and handcuffed him, allowing his assailant to continue enjoying the GOP front-runner's speech. It may shock you to learn that, in the videos documenting the altercation, the Drumpf supporter appears to have white skin, while the protester is black.

Happily, many hours and viral videos later, the Fayetteville police have brought charges against the attacker, a 78-year-old man named John McGraw, according to local station WRAL.


Comment: And it gets worse: reporters caught up with 78-year-old McGraw after the rally, and this is what he had to say:
"Next time, we might have to kill him. We don't know who he is. He might be with a terrorist organization."



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Reservation to prison pipeline: Native Americans disproportionately incarcerated

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A new report details how Montana is sending more people to prison than it releases, with Native Americans making up a disproportionate share of the prison population.

A new report has been released from the Council of State Governments Justice Center, a national nonprofit organization tasked with helping Montana officials reduce prison spending and overcrowding. The Missoulian reported on the release of the study:
The report, presented Tuesday to lawmakers and others appointed to Montana's Commission on Sentencing, found a 12 percent rise in arrests between 2009 and 2015, despite an 18 percent decline in property and violent crimes between 2000 and 2014. It also found Native Americans represent a disproportionate share of those totals, accounting for nearly one in five arrests while making up only 7 percent of the state's population.

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Christian 'prophet' loses his buttocks to hungry lion while proving god would save him...

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Comment: What a nincompoop.
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin

Alec Ndiwane was filled with the Holy Spirit when he decided to "challenge" lions at the Kruger National Park.

The Zion Christian Church Prophet was at the park with his fellow church members when, according to GhanaWeb, he went into a trance and began speaking in tongues. The group approached the pride of lions while they munched happily on an antelope, but that's when Ndiwane ran toward the lions.

Out To Africa lists humans as the major predator to lions, so it's no surprise that the lions took on the challenge. Once he realized what was happening, Ndiwane made an about-face and immediately ran away. Unfortunately, lions are fast and fierce animals and when one of the lions snapped her paws on him, Ndiwane sustained injuries to his buttocks.

The ranger fired his gun into the air to scare the lions off and rush the prophet to the hospital where he underwent emergency surgery to ensure he didn't lose a majority of his buttocks.

"I do not know what came over me," Ndiwane confessed. "I thought the Lord wanted to use me to show his power over animals. Is it not we were given dominion over all creatures of the earth." He was eventually stitched up and discharged after spending the night in hospital.

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Morons: Wyoming SWAT goes to wrong home, smashes up house, deploys flashbang grenade

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Multiple members of Sweetwater County's Joint Special Weapons and Tactics Team made an epic blunder last week when executing a search warrant in search of arbitrary substances deemed illegal by the state, crystal meth. As the heavily militarized team began smashing up the house and deploying flashbang grenades, they realized they were destroying the wrong home.

"It's our responsibility to be in the right place at the right time; and we failed to do that," Tom Jarvie, Patrol Lieutenant for the Green River Police Department said.

The SWAT team had the correct address which was 355 Fir Street. However, they were apparently so enthralled with the idea of breaking into someone's home to arrest them for selling drugs, that they forgot how to work the GPS and arbitrarily picked an innocent family's home to victimize.

But fret not, after breaking into the home through the front window and deploying a flash-bang at the wrong home, officers then found the correct home and arrested the owner for possession of methamphetamine.

Jason Normand, 35, was arrested Thursday, March 3, by DCI and charged with two felony counts of unlawful delivery of methamphetamine and one felony count of possession of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver.

After their blunder, the Sweetwater County Sheriff's Office, Green River Police Department, and Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation released a joint press release.
On Thursday, March 3, 2016, at approximately 8:30 p.m., members of Sweetwater County's Joint Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team, at the request of the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation, executed a high risk search warrant at 355 Fir Street, Green River, Wyoming where individuals believed to be armed and in possession of controlled substances were located. This warrant had been issued by a Judge in Sweetwater County, who authorized the search for weapons, illegal drugs and other drug paraphernalia.

During the execution, some members of the Sweetwater County Joint SWAT team regrettably broke a window and utilized flash bang distraction device at an incorrect address. Immediately recognizing this mistake, personnel from the Sweetwater County Sheriff's Office and the Green River Police Department made contact with the homeowners and coordinated the repair of the damaged property.

As previously reported, the execution of the search warrant at 355 Fir Street resulted in the seizure of methamphetamine, multiple firearms, and the arrests of multiple individuals.

Comment: Georgia police SWAT team throw flashbang into crib during raid, 50% chance baby will die


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Buzzkill: South Padre Island cops to deploy drones to spy on spring breakers

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It was recently reported that spring break celebrations will be monitored by police drones. For generations, college students have been able blow off some steam during spring break in relative safety. Even in the past, students who went on vacation to party, had a better chance of getting arrested than they did of getting hurt or mugged.

Police encounters are the greatest danger that spring breakers face while they are on vacation, and it has become even worse in the modern police state.

As 25,000 college students expect to attend the spring break festivities, the South Padre Island Police Department recently announced that they will be using drones to monitor partiers during spring break this year.

Comment: Pentagon admits to using drones to spy on Americans


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Run by the CIA no doubt: Only traffickers, smugglers benefit from EU's anti-migrant artificial barriers

Joel Millman interview
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Comment: If the CIA stopped creating terror as a way to overthrow governments they don't like, there would be no refugee issues in Europe. The very same tax dollars he's concerned about created and support the terrorist organizations that these families are running from.


By creating artificial barriers to keep out migrants instead of letting them reunite with their communities, Europe only aggravates illegal smuggling, a spokesperson for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Joel Millman told RT.

RT: How would you describe the humanitarian situation in Europe right now?

Joel Millman: We regard it with concern and we wait patiently to see how European countries can accommodate each other as well as the migrants coming through. Last year was a very hard year and we expect 2016 to be equally difficult, but we hope that progress is being made and the countries are coming to some kind of synthesis on how to proceed.

RT: We have seen European countries trying to help the migrants, trying to respect their human rights, but we have also seen European countries trying to kick them out, trying to fence them off. How do you see Europe as a whole trying to manage this crisis?

JM: The 28 members of the EU are certainly IOM members and we know how difficult this is for them. And we have been saying consistently that barriers are only an aid to traffickers and smugglers. When you make passage difficult you force people who are coming from desperate situations and are only pursuing safety into bad decisions. Bad decisions like linking up with criminal groups who have less regard for their well-being than the governments do. And of course the extreme case of last year of 71 people found killed in a truck from suffocation in Austria. We see these boats which killed almost 4,000 people last year in the Mediterranean as examples of the consequences of barriers and illegal or irregular migration. So we certainly hope that governments consider all those consequences when they erect fences or make passage impossible.

RT: We're seeing the likes of Macedonia putting up fences with thousands of migrants simply becoming stranded in Greece. How fair is it or unfair on Athens to be expected to deal with all of these people?

JM: That of course is a crucial question. In the years past the numbers were so small it was easy to insist on certain regulations like seeking asylum in the first country that they arrive in. This [was] obviously [part of] a wave where over one million people came to Europe last year, from Africa and the Middle East and beyond, is really a test to the resolve and efficacy of those kinds of rules.

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Prepping the masses: Monopoly board game goes cashless

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When events that were formally considered conspiracy theories become the foundation of popular culture, you know an entirely new reality is being created. The 5th bestselling board game in the world is now embracing the onset of the cashless society.

The war on cash in the real world is taking place on many fronts - from penalizing the holding of it through negative interest rates; eradicating large-denomination banknotes; surveillance of it through Suspicious Activity Reports; or outright banning larger transactions.

Perhaps recognizing that today's children might very soon not understand how to even use cash - or maybe to help to speed up their education and acceptance - the Monopoly board game is certainly living up to its name by promoting a future of centralized bank surveillance and management. Fittingly, the new version calls itself "Ultimate Banking."