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Missouri KKK: We will use 'lethal force' against Ferguson protesters


RT
Sat, 15 Nov 2014 00:43 UTC
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The Missouri chapter of the Ku Klux Klan is threatening to use "lethal force" against protesters in Ferguson who threaten their safety, equating some demonstrators to "terrorists."

Frank Ancona, leader of the KKK's Missouri operations, has been distributing fliers in the metropolitan St. Louis area warning protesters in Ferguson that those who have threatened police officers and their families will be met with violence themselves.

The flier, obtained by Vice News, is addressed to "the terrorists masquerading as peaceful protesters." It also states that they have "awakened a sleeping giant."

"You have been warned by the Klu Klux Klan!" it continues. "There will be consequences for your actions against the peaceful, law abiding citizens of Missouri."

This kind of behavior is not exactly unusual for the KKK, which has circulated similar letters in various cities across the United States. But the delivery of these fliers comes at a particularly sensitive time in Ferguson and the surrounding St. Louis area.

Residents are currently waiting to hear whether or not a grand jury will bring criminal charges against Officer Darren Wilson, the white officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown. The 18-year-old's death sparked massive, weeks-long protests, which made headlines around the country after police deployed a number of controversial crowd-control tactics - the use of tear gas and the establishment of a no-fly zone over the city, for example.
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Westminster, Massachusetts outrage over proposed tobacco sales ban fuels talk of recall

Anna Burgess
Fitchburg Sentinel and Enterprise
Fri, 14 Nov 2014 02:59 UTC
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Westminster, Massachusetts Board of Health
Westminster, Massachusetts -- In the aftermath of an emotional public hearing on the town's proposed tobacco-sales ban, some residents were discussing the possibility of recalling the Board of Health members who proposed the new policy.

If the residents did want to recall the Board of Health, Town Clerk Denise MacAloney said they would only be able to recall two of its members. Since 1995, the town has had a bylaw providing for recall elections, but the bylaw states that an elected official with six months or less left in his or her term is not eligible for recall.

"(Board of Health chair) Andrea Crete's term is up on April 28, so she wouldn't be eligible," MacAloney explained.

Comment: People are getting fed up. It seems like a tipping point is being reached. For more on this story, see:

First tobacco ban in U.S. proposed in Westminster, MA
Raucous town hall meeting on tobacco ban quickly ended

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Walmart sends riot police to arrest employees daring to protest against slave wages

Michael Allen
Opposing Views
Fri, 14 Nov 2014 00:00 UTC
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Protesters rally in front of a Wal-Mart in Pico Rivera on Nov. 13
Police dressed in riot gear arrested dozens of Walmart workers and their supporters who were peacefully protesting outside a Walmart store in Pico Rivera, Calif., last night.

The protest followed an earlier sit-in strike at another nearby Walmart. Pictures of those protesters with their mouths taped and holding signs were tweeted with the hashtag #Walmartstrikers.

Protesters were arrested in Pico Rivera for refusing to move after being ordered to do so by police.

"I have two sons and it's their future that I'm concerned about, mainly. Walmart is setting the trend for all companies," a Walmart employee named Denise told KTLA. "If we don't change it now, the future of our youth is in dire straights."

The protesters want the multibillion-dollar company to pay all employees at least $15 per hour and give workers full-time hours, which would qualify them for health insurance.

Comment: Walmart makes $16 billion dollars per year by squeezing both suppliers and employees, and has destroyed many small communities by making it impossible for local retailers to survive, thus eliminating middle-income jobs. Whenever Walmart has moved into communities, dollars have flowed into it's tills and out of the local economy. These communities are left with little but low-wage jobs for the workers who now toil in Walmart stores. To get by, many Walmart employees have no choice but to rely on food stamps and other public assistance. The heartless sociopaths at the helm of this ruthless corporation continue to try to refashion the US labor force into one more closely resembling that of the third world, no protesting allowed!

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Polish woman declared dead wakes up 11 hours later in morgue


RT
Fri, 14 Nov 2014 20:19 UTC
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Janina Kolkiewicz
A 91-year-old Polish woman was declared dead and spent hours in a morgue before waking up, to the astonishment of hospital staff and relatives. Her demise and resurrection had apparently created an appetite, as she ate soup and pancakes.

Janina Kolkiewicz was declared dead by local medics in a small town of Ostrow Lubelski in eastern Poland, reported TVP public broadcaster. She had no pulse, was not breathing and her eyes didn't react to light.

But 11 hours later she woke up inside a body bag in the cold chamber of the local morgue. The dramatic event happened on November 6, but the information emerged in the local press only on Thursday.

"I was sure she was dead," Kolkiewicz's doctor, Wieslawa Czyz, who has 28 years of medical practice, told TVP. "I'm stunned, I don't understand what happened. Her heart had stopped beating, she was no longer breathing."

Comment: There have been a number of other people who have made remarkable recoveries after being declared dead.



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Police expert: War on terror has turned our cops into occupying armies - and we're the enemy

Travis Gettys
Raw Story
Fri, 14 Nov 2014 22:35 UTC
Thomas Nolan
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The war on terror has essentially turned police into occupying armies in some American communities, said a police and criminology expert.

Thomas Nolan, an associate professor of criminology at Merrimack College and former senior policy analyst with the Department of Homeland Security, said the focus of police work had shifted greatly since he was a Boston police officer in the 1980s and 1990s.

"I remember it being drilled into me as a police officer, as a sergeant and then as a lieutenant: partnership, problem-solving, and prevention - the three Ps," Nolan said Wednesday during a panel sponsored by the American Constitution Society.

He said police were heavily trained to form alliances to help them to better serve and protect communities, and he said those relationships clearly don't exist in Ferguson, Missouri.

While the war on drugs is frequently cited as a major factor in the breakdown of civil liberties and police-community relations, Nolan said a more recent shift was largely to blame.

Comment: As Thomas points out, this militarization of the police will only continue as long as people sit idly by and let it happen under the false impression that they will be protected by these goons. Almost 5,000 people have been killed by police since 2003, more than the 4,486 American casualties in the Iraq war.

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West Virginia: Coal mining CEO indicted for deaths of 29 miners


RT
Fri, 14 Nov 2014 20:22 UTC
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© Reuters / Chris Keane
A West Virginia State Police officer stands at the entrance to the Massey's Performance Coal at the scene of an accident where 12 coal miners were killed, at the Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal, West Virginia April 6, 2010
Donald Blankenship, former chief executive of Massey Energy Co., was indicted Thursday on charges that he violated mine safety laws ahead of an April 2010 blast that killed 29 miners at the company's Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia.

The US Department of Justice said a federal grand jury charged the former Massey CEO with four criminal counts, including conspiring to violate mine safety standards, conspiring to impede mine safety officials, making false statements to the US Securities and Exchange Commission and securities fraud.

The April 5, 2010 explosion at Upper Big Branch was the worst US mining disaster since 1970. Twenty-nine of the 31 miners at the site died, as the explosion occurred around 1,000 feet underground.

The mine, in Raleigh County, West Virginia, 40 miles south of Charleston, is now closed. Alpha Natural Resources Inc. bought Massey in 2011 for around $7 billion.

Blankenship, Massey CEO from 2000 to 2010, now faces a maximum 31 years in prison. He received $17.8 million of compensation in 2009, according to the indictment.

"Mr. Blankenship is entirely innocent of these charges. He will fight them and he will be acquitted,"said William Taylor, Blankenship's lawyer, in a statement, according to Reuters.
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Hawaii sued by Monsanto and Dow over law banning GMOs


RT
Fri, 14 Nov 2014 18:25 UTC
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© Reuters/Mark Blinc
Two biotechnology behemoths have followed through with vows to sue Hawaii's Maui County for passing a law last week that bans the cultivation of genetically modified organisms.

Monsanto Co. and a Dow Chemical Co. unit filed the lawsuit in federal court in Honolulu on Thursday. The agricultural giants are calling on a judge to block the law and to invalidate the voter-approved measure.

Maui County voters approved a temporary ban on GMO crop cultivation in a 50 to 48 percent vote. The state has become a battleground between biotech firms and food activists - it was the country's first ever ballot initiative against global agricultural companies like Monsanto and Dow, which spent $8 million trying to defeat the measure.

According to AP, Monsanto Vice President John Purcell said the law is a violation of state and federal laws that allow for the safe and legal cultivation of GMO products.

The company echoed those sentiments in a statement following last week's vote.

"We believe this referendum is invalid and contrary to long established state and federal laws that support both the safety and lawful testing and planting of GMO plants," Monsanto wrote. "If effective, the referendum will have significant negative consequences for the local economy, Hawaii agriculture and our business on the island. We are committed to ongoing dialogue as we take steps to ask the court to declare that this initiative is legally flawed and cannot be enforced."

Comment: See also:

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The Obamacare extortion plan: Bigger penalties this year if you don't comply

Lily Dane
The Daily Sheeple
Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:03 UTC
obamacare
Oh, yay!

The Obamacare website homepage has an exciting announcement for us!

Here's what it says:
See plans & prices for 2015!
Starting November 15, you can enroll in an affordable health plan that works for you
How about...NO. I'd rather not, thanks.

Like Daisy Luther of The Organic Prepper, I am NOT going to comply with Obamacare. I've said that from the day I first heard about this extortion plan.

The mainstream media is alerting us that UH OH!, the second enrollment season is HERE and if you don't comply like a good citizen, you'll be facing even BIGGER penalties this time around!

Comment: See also:

Obamacare: A Deception

Here's how Obamacare rips off young adults

Obamacare is another private sector rip-off of Americans



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Australians bury heads in sand to mock government climate stance


The Guardian
Thu, 13 Nov 2014 11:13 UTC
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© Mike Bowers
More than 400 people buried their heads in the sand at Sydney's Bondi Beach.
More than 400 protesters stuck their heads in the sand on Australia's Bondi Beach on Thursday, mocking the government's reluctance to put climate change on the agenda of a G20 summit this weekend.

Prime minister Tony Abbott's perceived failure to address climate change is all the more galling in the wake of an agreement between the United States and China on Wednesday to limit their carbon emissions, they said.

"Obama's on board, Xi Jinping's on board, everyone's on board except one man," activist Pat Norman, 28, bellowed into a megaphone on the Sydney beach.

"Tony Abbott!" the protesters shouted back.

Parents with babies, school children and working people in business suits dug holes on the beach and stuck their heads in them. The ostrich is said to stick its head in the sand in futile bid to avoid danger.

Ornithologists say the African bird does no such thing but that didn't spoil the protest.
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Vampire-fanged Utah trucker had multiple victims, says prosecutor

Daniel Wallis
Reuters
Thu, 13 Nov 2014 18:33 UTC
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A Utah truck driver who wore vampire-fang dentures and is charged with sexually abusing and beating two women who he held captive in his vehicle as he traveled the country had four more victims, federal prosecutors have said.

Timothy Jay Vafeades, 54, was arrested in Minnesota late last year after a weigh station officer saw bruises on a 19-year-old hostage's face and intervened. Another woman later came forward to say she, too, was held and abused by the man.

In documents filed in federal court in Utah this week, prosecutors said they now intend to prove that four other women were similarly mistreated in what they called "a pattern of sexual abuse" by the defendant.

Each of the women reported suffering repeated beatings with a belt, being forced into sex, and being warned by Vafeades not to look at nor talk to other people, the court documents said.
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