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Man builds deadly weapons with items he bought AFTER going through airport security

Kristin Tate
BenSwann.com
Thu, 12 Dec 2013 22:46 UTC
Blunder
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BLUNDERBUSiness
As we reported several weeks ago, a Tennessee man built a firing gun from items he purchased at the airport - after going through security. Since his project received a huge variety of responses from our readers, I decided to reach out to him and find out more. Evan Booth, a computer programmer from Greensboro, created the gun using items like a hairdryer, lithium batteries, and body spray. He calls his creation BLUNDERBUSiness.

Booth said he decided to embark on this project after the TSA introduced body scanners, which he believes violate travelers' privacy.

He told me, "People who understand security understand that the current screening procedures exist primarily to put passengers at ease - 'security theater,' if you will. They also know that, given enough time, a persistent attacker will succeed to some degree."

Booth was able to shoot pocket change out of his gun with enough power to blow a hole through Sheetrock.
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12 Wuhan petitioners attempt mass suicide in Beijing


Want China Times
Thu, 12 Dec 2013 09:09 UTC
Mass Suicide
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The 12 petitioners display their petitions in Beijing, Dec. 10.
Twelve people from Wuhan in central China's Hubei province attempted to commit suicide together in Beijing after their petitions against the forced demolition of their houses three years ago received no response.

They have been hospitalized after drinking pesticide but two have since fled and another three are otherwise unaccounted for, reports Hong Kong's China Review News Agency.

The petitioners, three men and nine women from Wuhan's Jiangan district, drank pesticide in Zhengyangmen in Beijing at around 4pm on Tuesday to protest against the forceful demolition of their houses and unfair compensations.

Their houses were demolished when their village, Xinchun, was remodeled in 2010. They did not reach an agreement on compensation with the village committee but their houses were destroyed without their consent. They had traveled to Beijing to petition multiple times over the past few years.

One of the three men in the group said they had planned to kill themselves in November but they were prevented by officials who discovered their plan.

They stated their suicide plan in Beijing again in the same month and to multiple government departments in Wuhan in the hope of securing their attention.
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The Real Deliverance: Incest hillbilly family discovered in remote Australian valley

Jack Moore
International Business Times
Wed, 11 Dec 2013 17:44 UTC
Australian children deformed by decades of incest found in scenes akin to Deliverance movie
Deliverance
© International Business Times
The incest cult found in the Australian valleys was reminiscent of the 1972 film Deliverance.
A disturbing incest cult has been found in New South Wales, Australia, where four generations of family inbreeding has left children deformed and mute.

In a scene reminiscent of the 1970s thriller Deliverance, the depraved relations of brothers, sisters, uncles and aunts created children that were incapable of speech, had odd features and lived in squalor.

The name of the valley has been kept secret and the family has been given the pseudonym of Colt to protect the identities of the children. It was only when residents of a nearby town reported that children were living in the hills that anyone realised what was happening.

Details were made public on the instruction of judges at the New South Wales Children's Court.
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Kiev riot police retreat after storming protest bastions


BBC News
Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:59 UTC
Police have abandoned an attempt to dislodge anti-government protesters from their strongholds in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.
Protestors

Hundreds of police tried to dismantle protest barricades in nearby Independence Square overnight.
Clashes erupted at the occupied city hall hours after riot police tried to clear nearby Independence Square - prompting the US to express "disgust".

The president said force would not be used against peaceful protesters.

The demonstrations were sparked by the government's refusal to sign a deal on closer ties with the European Union.

The U-turn followed pressure from Russia, which has said Ukraine's free trade deal with the EU would flood the Russian market.

Prime Minister Mykola Azarov on Wednesday said Ukraine wanted 20bn euros ($28bn; £17bn) in aid from the EU in return for signing the agreement.
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Police State: Wyoming woman says cops charged into her house, used stun gun in lawsuit


Fox News
Wed, 11 Dec 2013 00:00 UTC
Police state
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A Gillette woman who says police tackled her and used a stun gun on her after finding her 12-year-old son driving in the middle of the night is suing the city and its police department.

The Gillette News Record reported Monday that April J. Fox claims the officers came into her house with her son in November 2011, woke her up and refused numerous demands to leave. She says they tackled her even though she didn't pose any threat to them and wrongly arrested her.
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Rocket

U.S. drone strike kills 15 on way to wedding in Yemen


Reuters
Thu, 12 Dec 2013 15:06 UTC
yemen drone

U.S. drone strikes in Yemen jumped from 10 in 2011 to 42 in 2012
Fifteen people on their way to a wedding in Yemen were killed in an air strike after their party was mistaken for an al Qaeda convoy, local security officials said on Thursday.

The officials did not identify the plane in the strike in central al-Bayda province, but tribal and local media sources said that it was a drone.

"An air strike missed its target and hit a wedding car convoy, ten people were killed immediately and another five who were injured died after being admitted to the hospital," one security official said.
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Nearly $80 million judgment awarded in New Mexico woman's sand suffocation death


Fox News
Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:34 UTC
Laura Miera
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Laura Miera is seen with her daughter Cassandra. In 2002, a tractor-trailer overturned, burying Laura Miera's car in sand and suffocating her inside, in Albuquerque, N.M.
A judge has awarded nearly $80 million to the family of a woman who died in 2002 when a tractor-trailer struck her car and buried it in sand, suffocating the woman as teachers and students at a nearby school frantically tried to dig her out.

Laura Miera had just dropped off her 14-year-old daughter at Jimmy Carter Middle School and was waiting at a traffic light when the semi exited a freeway and came barreling toward her.
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Child 'training' book causes deaths of children - triggers backlash

Aidan Lewis
BBC News
Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:01 UTC
to train up a child
A child-raising book that advocates whipping with branches and belts has sold hundreds of thousands of copies to evangelical Christians. But the deaths of three children whose parents appear to have been influenced by the authors' teachings have provoked a growing backlash.

The implements can vary. For a child under one year old, a willowy branch or a 1ft (30cm) ruler is recommended. For older children, a larger branch or a belt.

But the objective of the "spanking" described in Michael and Debi Pearl's To Train Up a Child is the same - making children surrender completely to their parents' will.

Comment: For those looking for a humane approach to raising children see the following books:

Nelson Jane, Positive Discipline
Sears Robert, M.D., The Baby Book
Solter Aletha J., The Aware Baby
Thomas Lewis, M.D, Fari Amini, M.D. and Richard Lannon, M.D., A General Theory of Love

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Georgia police brutally slam 72-yr-old woman to ground, intimidate witness filming

Chris
InformationLiberation
Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:29 UTC

In this outrageous video out of Georgia a police officer is seen slamming a 72-year-old woman to the ground in an entirely unnecessary act of raw violence, then his fellow officer intimidates the man who filmed the incident.

From Nick James on YouTube:
A DUI arrest on a 72 year old women turns bad when Kevin Jones (badge #149) of the Glynn County police is trying to cuff the woman. She was taken down, and did not have her arms to break the force that Jones decided to use on her. The sound is the worst part. Both sides will need this footage, and it deserves to be put online for people to make their own judgement. Glynn County Police,157 Public Safety Blvd. Brunswick, GA

This event happened on 12/5/2013
The video is going viral on YouTube but it appears no articles have yet been written about it.
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Light Saber

Will Uruguay trigger a global marijuana revolution?

Ted Hesson
Fusion.net
Mon, 09 Dec 2013 10:08 UTC
legalizar uruguay
© Pablo Bielli/AFP/Getty Images
Uruguay is poised to legalize recreational marijuana on Tuesday, an experiment that will force the United States to reevaluate its own international drug policies.

The Uruguayan government will oversee the cultivation and distribution of pot, and residents will be able to purchase up to 1.4 ounces of marijuana each month.

Along with Uruguay, other nations are considering marijuana law reforms.
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