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Stormtrooper

Police stage realistic hostage drill on nursing home, terrorize unsuspecting staff in Carbondale, Colorado

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In a desperate plea for her life, she begged the man not to hurt her, telling him she had a young child.

A nurse says she begged for her life after being taken hostage by an unidentified gunman during a shift at a Colorado nursing home. Unbeknownst to her, the armed intruder was actually a cop in disguise, masquerading as a bad guy in a "routine" safety drill.

The incident occurred on October 16th, 2013, at the Heritage Park Care Center in Carbondale, Colorado. Nurse Michelle Meeker was working a day shift and attending to her patients. Around 1:00 p.m., she was diverted from her work and asked to check out a "suspicious" man sitting in a waiting room.

When Ms. Meeker approached the man, she asked him if he was there to see someone at the facility or if he needed help. According to her account, after asking twice, "the man gruffly responded with words to the effect of, 'follow me, I'll show you.'"

The stranger then took her down the hall to an empty room and exposed a handgun tucked in his waistband. He ordered Ms. Meeker to get in the empty room.

"Terrified, Ms. Meeker shook her head and said 'No,' afraid that if she went through that doorway she would not make it out alive," her lawsuit states.

The armed man demanded she comply three times, and finally placed his hand on his gun and physically ushered her into the room.

Ms. Meeker began to cry and shake with terror. "In a desperate plea for her life, she begged the man not to hurt her, telling him she had a young child," her lawsuit alleged.

Her captor then told her "in a hushed tone" that he was a Carbondale Police Officer and that "this is a drill."

Ms. Meeker had no way of knowing if his explanation was true, and continued to fear for her life, she claimed. She proceeded to comply quietly under duress.

Light Saber

Gaza protest in Tel-Aviv: Hundreds defy police ban and take to the streets

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© Reuters/Suhaib SalemSmoke rises following what witnesses said was an Israeli air strike in Gaza City August 9, 2014.
Despite the police ban on public gatherings, several hundred anti-war activists took to the streets in Tel-Aviv on Saturday to say 'no' to the continuation of Israel's bloody military operation in Gaza.

There are conflicting reports on the demonstration's turnout, with Reuters reporting 150 people attending.

However, Israeli +972 web magazine said that "roughly 500 non-aligned activists flooded Tel Aviv's Rabin Square."

Protesters chanted slogans such as "Stop the massacre," "Free Gaza," "Funds to welfare not to war," "Build more classrooms not more bombs" as well as "Gaza children want to live."
"The occupation is a crime that harms us all" Sign at the anti-war protest in Tel Aviv tonight pic.twitter.com/jVq1hnpjHl
- Elizabeth Tsurkov (@Elizrael) August 9, 2014
Two dozen right-wing demonstrators staged a counter-protest nearby, but there were no reports of any clashes between the two groups.


Stock Down

Tech stocks take a hit as market sinks to two-month low

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© USAToday.comShares of Facebook, Twitter and the S&P 500 over the last month.
You might be nursing some losses in your stock portfolio.

But at least you didn't lose $1 billion, right?

The company stock fortunes of some of the richest entrepreneurs in America got skinned over the last two weeks, as stocks sank to a two-month low and talk picked up that a correction was in the works.

Amazon's Jeff Bezos lost $4 billion alone, on paper at any rate. Google CEO Larry Page lost $1.4 billion, as did Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg gave up $772 million.

USA Today estimated the value of their holdings based on SEC filings, FactSet ownership data, and their companies' stock prices from July 24, when the S&P 500 SPY hit a high, to the close of Aug. 7. Stocks recovered some lost ground in Friday's 1% rally.

Heart - Black

Race car driver Tony Stewart hits and kills fellow driver who had left his crashed car

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Tony Stewart
Former NASCAR racing champion Tony Stewart hit and killed a driver who left his damaged car mid-race at the Canandaigua Motorsports Park in upstate New York, US media reported Sunday.

ESPN.com said that Stewart, a three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion, first bumped the victim's car and knocked it out of the late Saturday race.

On his next time around the track Stewart then struck the driver when the victim left his car to confront the NASCAR champion on the dirt track, Ontario County Sheriff Phil Povero told reporters, according to FoxNews.com.

Povero later told US media, including ABC affiliate 13WHAM, that the driver had died but did not identify him.

Eye 2

17-year-old male arrested in rape and murder of 6-year-old girl in Washington

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Yesterday evening, the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office in Washington announced that it had arrested a 17-year-old male suspected of raping and murdering 6-year-old Jenise Paulette Wright, MyNorthwest.com reports.

The girl went missing last Saturday night, but was not reported until Sunday morning, as it was not unusual for her to wander around the Steele Creek mobile home park with friends and extended family.

Phyllis Tindall, a neighbor, said that although the mobile home park is safe, she "wouldn't let my six year run around by herself and [Jenise] has been doing it since she was 3-years-old." Tindall noted that she once found a 4-year-old Jenise standing in the yard wearing nothing but a man's shirt early in the morning.

Pirates

State of Louisiana tricks hospital into providing ingredient in execution cocktail

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According to a report in The Lens, the Louisiana Department of Corrections tricked a hospital into providing one of the ingredients in a drug cocktail it was going to use in an execution.

The Lens reports that the state's supply of pentobarbital had expired in September, and that it was having difficulty acquiring a new source because pharmaceutical companies are increasingly wary of having their product associated with state-sponsored executions. After the harrowing 25-minute-long execution of Dennis McGuire in January, the state of Louisiana agreed to delay Christoper Sepulvado's execution for six months as it "explored" options other than the drug cocktail that Oklahoma used.

Sepulvado was convicted of torturing and beating his 6-year-old stepson, Wesley Allen Mercer, to death in 1992. In March, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (R) told The Advocate that the state had acquired the drugs it needed to put Sepulvado to death, but declined to say where it had acquired them.

Roses

Missouri teen murdered by police for not walking on the sidewalk - protest ensues

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© NYDailynews.comMichael Brown, 18-years old.
Conflicting accounts are slowly emerging about a Missouri teen who was stopped for walking in the middle of the road, and then was fatally shot by Ferguson police on Saturday.

Following the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, police dispatched riot-control officers to deal with hundreds of protesters at the crime scene on Saturday night. KMOV reported that more than 100 police cars responded to the demonstration.

In a press conference on Sunday, St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said that the Ferguson Police Department had requested that his office take over the investigation.

According to Belmar, one of the two teens who were stopped on the street "allegedly pushed the police officer back into the [patrol] car, where he physically assaulted the police officer."

Belmar confirmed that the teen was unarmed, and said that his "understanding" was that there was a "struggle over the officer's weapon" inside the police car.

"After that, the officer exited his vehicle, and there was a shooting where the officer, in fact, shot the subject," he explained.

Comment: If our psychopathic leaders don't respect the laws, why should police?

New Jersey cop: 'Obama decimated the Constitution, we don't have to' follow it


Ambulance

40 killed as airliner crashes just after takeoff in Tehran, Iran

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© AFP Photo / Atta KenareA member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards reacts as he stands next to the remains of a plane that crashed near Tehran's Mehrabad airport on August 10, 2014.
A passenger plane has crashed in the vicinity of the Iranian capital's Mehrabad airport, with 48 people on board. Reports indicate 39-45 dead, six of them children.

The Iran-140 Sepahan Air jetliner had barely left the airport, crashing shortly after take off on the outskirts of the capital at 09:45 (0515 GMT) on Sunday, according to Iran's semi-official Fars news agency.
Info of crashed jet in #Tehran: flight number: 5915 departure: Tehran destination: Tabas. Time: 9:15 am Airplane: Iran 140, Sepahan Air

- Abas Aslani (@abasinfo) August 10, 2014
Iran's police chief put the death toll at 45, with three survivors, but later reports fluctuated around 39 dead and a further nine injured. The Deputy Minister for Transport told the Mehr News Agency that this included six children, of whom three were under two and another three under 12 years of age. There is no unified consensus yet at this point.

Heart

4-year-old girl lost in Siberian forest for 12 days rescued by authorities using drone, helicopters, and dogs

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A missing four-year-old girl was rescued by Russian authorities after spending nearly two weeks wandering in Siberian forests and swamps. An unmanned aerial vehicle, helicopters, search dogs and dozens of people took part in the rescue operation.

Little Karina went missing in Russia's Yakutia Republic on July 29, but local authorities were only notified on August 3 about the missing child.

The girl's mother thought her husband had picked her up, while he was in fact fighting local fires with a brigade of firemen and there had been no communication between the two.

Before the child went missing, she was last seen heading off into the forest with her puppy.

Light Sabers

Two Spanish volunteers arrive in E. Ukraine to help spread the truth of Kiev's actions against its people

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Two Spanish volunteers have joined the fight against Kiev's offensive on eastern Ukraine, speaking out against the actions of the nation's military. They say their main objective is to spread the truth about the conflict.

Anhel Davilla-Rivas, 29, and Rafa Munez, 28, arrived in Donetsk two weeks ago to offer their assistance to the residents of eastern Ukraine.

"What we see in these weeks that we are here is only bombing of the people and the assault of all the fronts from Kiev. They are trying to separate the cities, they are sending mercenaries to kill the journalists and to demoralize any person that can tell the truth about what's happening here," Davilla-Rivas told RT's Ruptly agency on Saturday.

The pair has not engaged in the fighting just yet, stressing that their main goal is to reveal the truth about what is happening on the ground.