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Bandaid

Hysteria aimed at kids: Bulletproof blankets would protect students in case of school shooting

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Nervous about the rash of school shootings that have taken place over the past decade, an Oklahoma company has launched a new product that, with a lack of effective gun control laws, promises to protect schoolchildren will bulletproof blankets.

The Bodyguard Blanket, designed and manufactured by ProTecht, is advertised as a 5/16-inch thick bulletproof rectangle that students can wear over their back in the event of a tragedy at school. The product comes adorned with a backpack straps and is reportedly able to protect against nails and shards of metal as well as bullets.

Comment: Duck and cover anyone? So once again, the security industry attempts to profit off the fear spread by corrupt government. The 'Bodyguard Blanket' appears to be just another way to take advantage of the ever increasing violence that stems from pathologicals ruling our world.


Alarm Clock

Woman arrested on rape charges held on 50K bond

Police: Woman was naked with boys when she was discovered by boyfriend
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Anne Elizabeth Doubler
A 30-year old Sioux Falls woman has been charged with rape, sexual contact with a child, and sexual exploitation of a minor after her boyfriend discovered her naked in their apartment Wednesday night with at least three boys between age 7 and 10.

Sioux Falls police spokesman Sam Clemens said Anne Elizabeth Doubler's boyfriend returned home with the couple's 4-year-old son and caught her with the boys. The incident took place in their apartment in the 600 block of North Lewis Avenue.

Eye 2

Couple involved in Las Vegas shooting ID'd as right-wing nuts with a deathwish

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A man who gunned down two police officers and a woman Sunday in Las Vegas left behind social media postings that show his concerns over Benghazi, chemtrails, gun control laws, and the government's treatment of rancher Cliven Bundy.

Neighbors identified Jerad and Amanda Miller as the suspects who shot the officers execution-style as they ate lunch at a pizza restaurant, and then shot a woman outside a Walmart in the same plaza.

The couple's apartment was searched Monday morning, and authorities in Lafayette, Indiana, confirmed that Las Vegas police had contacted them about the case.

[Updates added below, showing the couple's postings on right-wing websites such as InfoWars and Breitbart.]

Witnesses said the couple announced the shootings were the start of a revolution and draped the victims' bodies with American Revolution-era Gadsden flags - bearing the slogan "Don't tread on me" - that have become symbols of the Tea Party movement.

The couple exchanged gunfire with police as they pursued them into the store, but Amanda Miller apparently shot her husband to death before turning the gun on herself.

Light Saber

Report from the frontlines in Ukraine June 11th: Is something changing?

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Combat SITREP by Juan

1. Nats Army offer of civilian evacuation corridors rejected. Corridors led only west in to national guard/right sector unit areas and demanded self defense units disarm and surrender.

2. Continuing heavy bombardment of Slavyansk and outlying areas. Confirmed 4 children under age 10 killed last 3 days. Living areas and industry areas targeted including 15.2 cm howitzers and Grad.

3. краснолиманскому area confirmed 2 Grad units destroyed with crews and support vehicles 09 June 03:00 attack of Novorossiya Army units.

4. Nats suffer heavy losses last 4 days. Nats removing destroyed vehicles and armor when possible. Reason unknown. Ural tank transporters used for removal. One photo destroyed/burned T64 turret in transporter. T64 hull not seen.

5. Strong explosion and short fire area Karachun Mountains 03:15 11 June.

6. Unconfirmed reports of large number bodies found in deep lake краснолиманскому area, bodies weighted.

Stock Down

UK food bank demand up 54% in 2013, during economic "recovery"

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Anything wrong with this picture? Note that things have gotten much worse since 2007.
There has been a dramatic increase in demand for food banks and charitable help in the UK, with more than 20m meals provided in 2013 - a 54% increase on the previous year.

A joint report Monday from Oxfam, Church Action on Poverty and the largest operator of food banks, the Trussell Trust, says that much of the increased demand is coming from poor people in affluent areas including Cheltenham, Welwyn Garden City and the northern part of the Lake District, where some food banks report user numbers doubling or even trebling. The Trussell Trust said it was helping to feed 300,000 children, a situation it described as a national disgrace. The report's authors said the poor were caught in a perfect storm of food prices soaring 43.5 % in the past eight years, while over the same period the disposable annual income of the poorest 20% fell by an average of £936.

Low and stagnant wages, zero-hours contracts, benefit sanctions and energy costs are among the factors driving people into food poverty.

Comment: As government spokesmen spew their completely meaningless words, the people of the real world are still faced with Rising food prices, zero hour contracts, benefit sanctions, and forced labour.


Cult

St. Louis Archbishop: 'I didn't know sex with kids was a crime'

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His Holiness, telling it like it is.
St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson testified last month that he wasn't sure whether it was illegal for priests to have sex with children while he served as chancellor of the St. Paul and Minneapolis archdiocese.

The former chancellor gave a deposition last month in a lawsuit that claims the Minnesota archdiocese and the Diocese of Winona created a public nuisance by keeping information on abusive priests secret, reported Minnesota Public Radio.

The 69-year-old Carlson also faces a massive clergy abuse lawsuit in the Archdiocese of St. Louis, where he's served as archbishop since 2009.

One document made public in that case shows more than 100 priests and church employees have been accused of sexual abuse, and the Missouri Supreme Court ordered the archdiocese to turn over their names under seal.

Comment: Make no mistake, these creeps are still at it. Religious institutions are a playground for degenerate psychopaths.
Catholic Church sex abuse scandals around the world
Secrets of the Vatican - Catholic Corruption


Magnify

Stories from an occupation: The Israelis who broke silence

A group called Breaking the Silence has spent 10 years collecting accounts from Israeli soldiers who served in the Palestinian territories. To mark the milestone, 10 hours' worth of testimony was read to an audience in Tel Aviv. Here we print some extracts.

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© Mohamad Torokman/ReutersIsraeli soldiers arrest a Palestinian after clashes at a protest against a Jewish settlement in the West Bank near Ramallah, January 2014.
The young soldier stopped to listen to the man reading on the stage in Tel Aviv's Habima Square, outside the tall façade of Charles Bronfman Auditorium. The reader was Yossi Sarid, a former education and environment minister. His text is the testimony of a soldier in the Israel Defence Forces, one of 350 soldiers, politicians, journalists and activists who on Friday - the anniversary of Israel's occupation of Palestinian land in 1967 - recited first-hand soldiers' accounts for 10 hours straight in Habima Square, all of them collected by the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence.

When one of the group's researchers approached the soldier, they chatted politely out of earshot and then phone numbers were exchanged. Perhaps in the future this young man will give his own account to join the 950 testimonies collected by Breaking the Silence since it was founded 10 years ago.

In that decade, Breaking the Silence has collected a formidable oral history of Israeli soldiers' highly critical assessments of the world of conflict and occupation. The stories may be specific to Israel and its occupation of the Palestinian territories but they have a wider meaning, providing an invaluable resource that describes not just the nature of Israel's occupation but of how occupying soldiers behave more generally. They describe how abuses come from boredom; from the orders of ambitious officers keen to advance in their careers; or from the institutional demands of occupation itself, which desensitises and dehumanises as it creates a distance from the "other".

Handcuffs

U.S. police forcibly strip, lock up, and pepper-spray Indiana woman


A Louisville attorney says one of her clients was stripped naked and left for hours inside a Floyd County Jail cell and she said she has reason to believe it happens all the time.

Attorney Laura Landenwich represents Tabitha Gentry of New Albany, who was arrested and booked into the Floyd County Jail on March 30. After reviewing surveillance video that captured the actions of staff members during Gentry's incarceration, Landenwich says what happened inside the jail during the next few hours should be discussed in front of a judge.

Pistol

74th school shooting since Sandy Hook: Oregon high school gunman kills at least one student and is shot down

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© Faith Cathcart/The Oregonian/APTwo people comfort each other in Troutdale, Ore., after a gunman killed one student.
A lone gunman armed with an assault rifle invaded an Oregon high school Tuesday and opened fire, killing at least one student.

The gunman was also later killed, police said, although it was not clear if he was felled by police bullets or by his own hand.

What was clear is that once again an American school where kids are supposed to be safe was transformed by a gun-toting maniac into a crime scene.

It was the 74th shooting at a school since the December 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. - and the 37th just this year, according to a tally by Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.

"This is a very tragic day, one that I hoped wouldn't be part of my experience," schools superintendent Linda Florence said. "We feel very sorry for our parents."

Books

The myth of meritocracy

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What do you want to be when you grow up? I remember a careers advisor asking me just that question shortly before my sixteenth birthday. Like most of my peers I had very little idea as to what I wanted to do with my life when the seemingly endless horizon of school came to an end. Drink beer, smoke cigarettes and chase girls was about the sum of it.

Looking back, though, the question was a strange one. We insist on asking children what they want to do with their lives when most of the time it's set in stone when they pull on their first school uniform. If they are born poor they will almost certainly stay poor; if their parents have money then it's likely that they will too. The more unequal a society is the truer this statement becomes.

Yes we insist on telling children that they can be 'whatever they want to be', knowing full well that crushing disappointment lies further in their future. Every nation relies to some extent on fairy tales. In Britain we cling to the idea that you can be or do anything in life so long as you put your mind to it. In the process we hand our politicians the one thing they can use to justify the obscene privileges at the top and the revolting squalor at the bottom: the indomitable myth of meritocracy.

Comment: The psychopathic politicians don't care about the poor and care even less about equitable distribution of education and wealth. Worldwide, we have a pathological social and educational control system designed to benefit those at the top of the food chain:
"As we observe the world we live in, the cause-effect consequences of humanity's actions have become quite apparent. With the Occupy Wall Street movement now a global phenomenon, we can see that the unrest, due to systemic and institutionalised greed for material wealth and social power, is a consequence of extreme inequality and indifference to the state and condition of all beings. The systems and institutions of civilisation do not uphold, sustain, or uplift the process of life and cannot so long as they remain focussed on upholding, sustaining and uplifting some forms of life while actively suppressing and destroying others.

This state of inequality, bias for some and indifference toward others is the result of an empathy deficit within the institutions and systems that man has established to govern and direct civilisation. We have, in effect, man-made laws that undermine, suppress and destroy both the forms and the process of life. And while we might be tempted to suggest that equality and empathy are merely choices of morality, our knowledge of physics and physiology is revealing that our environment and our bodies are naturally designed for equality and empathy, but that brain disorders in a small segment of humanity have led the whole planet down a dead-end road toward self-destruction."
Equality, empathy and psychopathy

Further reading:
Political Ponerology: A Science of Evil Applied for Political Purposes
The Pathocrats