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Heart - Black

Woman beats and strangles disabled man for his ATM pin number

Nicole Lytton
© Brownstown Township Police DepartmentNicole Lytton
A woman breaks into a home in Brownstown Township and attacks a disabled man.

Police say she tortured him to get the pin number for his debit card - and now she's facing life in prison.

Investigators say 34-year-old Nicole Lytton, went to great lengths to get the ATM code from her victim - including beating, strangling and using a weapon to get what she was after.

That victim was a 63-year-old man who is disabled from a stroke who lives in the Tanglewood mobile home community - which by most accounts is a quiet peaceful place to live.

Footprints

New Zealanders keen to ditch the Queen

Queen Elizabeth
© Russell Cheyne / ReutersBritain's Queen Elizabeth.
New Zealand looks to be drifting closer to becoming a republic, as a new poll reveals a majority of Kiwis want to ditch the Queen as their head of state in favour of a New Zealander.

The poll by campaign group NZ Republic shows about a third, or 34 percent of Kiwis, want to carry on with a British head of state. A substantial majority of 59 percent want to sever the country's centuries-old ties with Britain.

Forty-four percent want a directly elected New Zealand head of state and 15 percent want a leader elected by MPs.
Undecided voters remained unchanged on 7 percent over the last three polls.

Just over two years ago, 44 percent of New Zealanders asked the same question wanted a change from the Queen.

Comment: For more on New Zealand sovereignty see: Planning to do away with the Queen, but cheering for Prince George?


Pharoah

Egyptian 'Mother of the Martyr' statue altered after complaints it symbolized sexual harassment, dominant military

Statue
© Reuters
The ancient pyramids have remained untouched for thousands of years, but a provincial governor in Egypt has demanded that a newer statue undergo changes before being unveiled, following claims that it represents sexual harassment.

The 'Mother of the Martyr' statue in Sohag, Egypt, shows a peasant woman - a traditional artistic representation of Egypt - with her arms outstretched. A soldier is standing behind her, looking over her shoulder with his arms wrapped around her body.

Although the concrete sculpture has yet to be formally unveiled, residents of Sohag - known for their conservative views - have already complained about what the statue, which sits in a public square, seems to represent.

Comment: See also: Egyptian teenager dies during illegal female genital mutilation surgery


Heart - Black

Woman posed as CIA agent to convince her parents to kill her Facebook friends

Billy Payne, Billy Jean Hayworth and baby
Billy Payne and his fiancée Billie-Jean Hayworth were brutally murdered in 2012. Their baby, who was in his mother’s arms as she was killed, miraculously survived.
Dawn was just breaking on January 31, 2012 when the murders were executed with military precision.

Opening the unlocked back door of a house in north-eastern Tennessee, the killers crept into the home of Billy Payne and his fiancée Billie-Jean Hayworth and gunned them down, before slipping away unseen.

A few hours later, a horrified neighbour found the body of Billy, a 36-year-old factory worker, lifeless on his bed, a bullet wound to his face and his throat slashed.

In the nursery next door lay Billie-Jean, 23, shot in the head while cradling their seven-month-old son Tyler.

Bomb

More death: At least 40 killed in multiple blasts in 4 government-held Syrian cities

Syrian army soldiers inspect the damage at the site of two explosions
© SANA / ReutersSyrian army soldiers inspect the damage at the site of two explosions that hit the Arzouna bridge area at the entrance to Tartous, Syria in this handout picture provided by SANA on September 5, 2016.
A series of deadly explosions have rocked at least four government-held cities in Syria, including the capital, Damascus. Local media reports over 40 people have been killed and some 60 injured in the blasts.

Two explosions have rocked the highway well short of the entrance to the Syrian port-city of Tartus, western Syria, which houses a Russian naval base.

"We received information about a double explosion at the entrance to the city of Tartus, on the government highway under Arazona bridge," RIA Novosti reports, citing local militia.

Sana news agency reported that some 30 people have been killed in the blasts and some 45 injured.

Bomb

Two schools evacuated in Bordeaux, France after anonymous bomb threat

soldiers
© Georges Gobet / AFP
Students at two schools in the Bordeaux region of France were forced to leave class under police protection after anonymous calls reportedly threatening a bomb attack.

The calls were received by the Lycee de la Mer and Lycee Saint Famille Saintonge schools at around 11am on Monday morning, report France Info.

The calls are believed to have made references to an explosive device.

At least 20 armed police responded to the incident, and a security sweep was "triggered without delay", an Aquitaine government press release said.

Comment: Strange that there was a emailed threat that forced the closure of schools in Germany on the same date. Coincidence? Braunschweig, Germany: Schools closed after emailed terrorist threat


Attention

Braunschweig, Germany: Schools closed after emailed terrorist threat

empty classroom
© Stefanie Loos / Reuters
Classes in nine schools in Braunschweig, a city in the German state of Lower Saxony, have been canceled following threats of terrorist attacks, sent by email overnight.

"The time when the attacks were supposed to take place has now passed," police spokesman Joachim Grande said, as cited by N24 news outlet.

The email threatened that the attacks would take place at 9am.

At least nine Braunschweig schools received the threats.

Classes were canceled in high schools, as well as corresponding elementary schools in the city, Braunschweiger Zeitung reported.

Comment: An anonymous bomb threat forced the closure of two schools in Bordeaux, France today as well. That's interesting.
Two schools evacuated in Bordeaux, France after anonymous bomb threat


Family

Tens of thousands of outraged Brazilians take to the streets against coup d'etat

Brazil protests
© REUTERS/Fernando DonasciDemonstrators attend a protest against Brazil's President Michel Temer in Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 4, 2016. The sign reads ''Temer Out and Elections now'' in reference to President Michel Temer.
Mass protests have taken place across Brazil as tens of thousands took to the streets denouncing the "coup" that resulted in Dilma Rousseff's impeachment. The largest rally in Sao Paulo turned violent with police intervening to disperse the crowd.

Brazil has once again been rocked by a fresh series of large-scale protests. The largest demonstrations took place in cities like San Paulo and Rio-de-Janeiro, according to the Globo TV Channel. Smaller demonstrations were held in Curitiba and other Brazilian cities. Rallies were also staged in the capital Brasilia.

Demanding that President Michael Temer resign, some 50,000 people took part in the demonstrations in San Paulo, while several thousand participated in Rio de Janeiro, according to organizers' estimates. The official numbers have not been yet released. The demonstrators also called for new elections, shouting: "Out with Temer!"


Comment: Temer would hardly need to address the situation at the G20 summit if there indeed was only, "40, 50, 100 people". This is an absurd statement from an absurd man. Brazilians are justifiably outraged, and corrupt officials like Temer only know how to inflame the situation further. Let's see how that works out.


Black Magic

Why do spiritual groups almost universally choose to vote Democrat? An open letter to 'new agers' on voting for Hillary Clinton

obama second coming
Dear Christian Mystics and Gnostic Christians,
Zen Buddhists and Tibetan Buddhists,
Sufis and Jains,
Kundalini Yogis and Siddha Yogis,
Transcendental Meditators and EST Practitioners,
Anthroposophists and Theosophists,
Kabbalists and Deists,
Pantheist and Wiccans,
Trappist Monks and Cistercian Monks,
Hindus and Sikhs,
Taoists and Shintoists,
Bahais and Zoroastrians,

Back in 2008 Candidate Barack Hussein Obama embarked on an unprecedented Internet campaign to surreptitiously seed the World Wide Web with fictitious stories and fake vignettes about his exceptional character, his parallels to Abraham Lincoln and his deep spirituality, among several other false and cynical messages.

Each of these tall tales eventually found their way into most of the New Age spiritual groups. With each passing month in 2008 some of the different groups came to the understanding that Obama was a Messiah of sorts. Some even spoke of him as "the Second Coming" and/or Lord Maitreya himself. Yes, the BS was flowing fast and furiously and a LOT of very smart, very aware and highly spiritual people were falling for it.

Comment: While it's hard to say exactly what bad juju or karma one can incur by voting for someone like Killary, one thing is for sure: many so-called spiritual or new age groups do easily fall for the thin veneer of progressiveness among politicians that passes for any real concern for the welfare and wellbeing of the average person. Many new agers are quite simply ignorant of the pathological natures of politicians across the political spectrum. But when the bombs fall, or the Universe exacts its cleansing, or both, these blissed-out new agers will be just as subject to the onslaught as the rest. More so perhaps because of their tendency of not looking at reality as objectively as possible.


Che Guevara

Echoes of Wounded Knee: Tribes mount prairie occupation to block North Dakota pipeline

Tribes
© William Yardley/LA TimesNantinki Young--known as Tink -- stirs large pot of soup for protesters gathered along the banks of the Cannonball River in North Dakota
Long before Lewis and Clark paddled by, Native Americans built homes here at the confluence of the Cannonball and Missouri rivers, using the thick earth to guard against brutal winters and hard summer heat. They were called the Mandan people.

Now, Native Americans are living here again. They sleep in teepees and nylon tents. They ride horses and drive quad cabs. They string banners between trees and, when they can get a signal, they post messages with hashtags such as #ReZpectOurWater, #NoDakotaAccess and #NODAPL. For weeks, they have been arriving from the scattered patches of the United States where the government put their ancestors to protest what they say is one indignity too many in a history that has included extermination and exploitation.

It is called the Dakota Access oil pipeline and it could carry more than 400,000 barrels of crude oil a day from the Bakken region of western North Dakota across South Dakota and Iowa to connect with an existing pipeline in Illinois.

The 1,100-mile pipeline, which is estimated to cost $3.7 billion, is nearly halfway complete. But construction on a section that would sink beneath the Missouri River, just north of the reservation of the Standing Rock Sioux, has been halted under orders from the sheriff of Morton County, Kyle Kirchmeier. He said protesters, nearly 30 of whom have been arrested in recent weeks, were creating safety issues.

Comment: Private security mercenaries pepper spray and sic dogs on Dakota Access Pipeline protesters
A private security firm guarding the highly controversial construction of $3.8 billion oil pipeline turned mercenary on Saturday, unleashing vicious attack dogs against a sizable crowd of peaceful protesters — including women and children.
Members of the Standing Rock Sioux and at least 100 other Native American nations as well as activists and advocates peacefully chanted "water is life" while guards held dogs nearby to intimidate the crowd. Without warning, these security henchmen showered the demonstrators with pepper spray and released the dogs — at least six people were bitten, including a young child...

Mainstream media has all but ignored the ongoing protest, despite both its ballooning size and pertinence in the continuing struggle for Native Americans fighting naked government and corporate exploitation.