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California pastor, parishioners plead guilty to forcing 13-year old boy to dig his own grave

David Edwards
The Raw Story
Tue, 08 Jul 2014 15:25 UTC
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A California pastor and two members of his congregation admitted in court that they physically abused a 13-year-old boy and made him dig his own grave.

According to affidavits published by The Los Angeles Times, 56-year-old Heart of Worship Community Church Pastor Lonny Lee Remmers, 24-year-old Nicholas James Craig and 30-year-old Darryll Duane Jeter Jr. said that they were following instructions to "scare" the victim. All three of the men had worked at a group home where the boy lived.

In March of 2012, the men reportedly took the victim to the desert where he was forced to dig a grave. After he got in the grave, the men threw dirt on him.

The men also rubbed salt into his wounds while he was showering, tied him to a chair with zip ties, and sprayed mace on his face until he bled.

At one point, the boy was made to sit in the middle of a Bible study group and pinch his own nipples with pliers, investigators said.
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'Getting Even': Sixteen dead, over one-hundred wounded in massive Israeli assault on Gaza


Reuters
Tue, 08 Jul 2014 20:23 UTC
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© AFP - Said Khatib
Palestinians sitting on a street react after a deadly Israeli air strike that targeted their house on July 8, 2014 in the town of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip.
Sixteen Palestinians have been killed and 106 injured in a massive Israeli air and naval assault against the besieged Gaza Strip Tuesday, bombing dozens of targets, including homes.

"The casualty toll from the [Israeli] aggression has reached 16 dead and 106 injured," health ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra wrote on Twitter.The casualties are "mostly children, women and the elderly," he added.In the deadliest of the attacks, eight people were killed when Israel bombed the Kaware family home in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis, Qudra announced, writing on Twitter that three children aged eight, 13 and 14 were among the dead. Another 25 people were injured in that bombing.

Witnesses told AFP a drone launched a warning flare, prompting relatives and neighbors to gather at the house as a human shield, but shortly afterwards an F-16 fired a missile which leveled the building.That attack came after four bodies had arrived to Shifa Hospital after Israel bombed a car transporting them in Gaza City, Qudra said.

Israel claims its offensive is meant to end Palestinian rocket fire into Israeli occupied territories, urging Israelis within a 40 kilometer radius of the southern coastal territory to stay within reach of protected areas. The military said it targeted about 50 sites in aerial and naval assaults by morning. Palestinian officials said more than 30 of them were bombed in little more than an hour before dawn, including two homes in southern Gaza, one of which was identified by a neighbor as belonging to a Hamas member.

Comment: Seems like everything is going according to plan. Interesting how this all began with three boys being abducted and killed by parties unknown.

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Ethnic cleansing: 24,000 Ukrainians find refuge in Russia's Rostov region


RiaNovosti
Mon, 07 Jul 2014 00:00 UTC
Refugee camp for Ukrainians in Rostov region
© © RIA Novosti. Valeriy Melnikov
Refugee camp for Ukrainians in Rostov region
Almost 24,000 refugees from Ukraine are staying in Russia's Rostov Region, the regional emergency department reported Monday.

"In total, 23,845 people, including 8,857 children, have been accommodated" in the region, according to the authorities.

Almost 20,000 people are staying with relatives and local residents, while others have been housed in temporary accommodation centers.

The influx of refugees from the southeastern Ukraine increased dramatically in June amid continuing clashes between independence supporters and Kiev-led security forces.

Comment: This is the result of the Obama Administration's sponsored ethnic cleansing to reduce the population in the areas of Ukraine that had voted overwhelmingly "the wrong way" in Ukraine's final nationwide election.

Despite what Western media tells you, Americans are engaged in ethnic cleansing in Ukraine

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Looming foreclosure crisis in US could be alleviated by action of Fed to renegotiate mortgages

Ellen Brown
Nation of Change
Tue, 08 Jul 2014 00:00 UTC
foreclosure
Mortgage debt overhang from the housing bust has meant lack of middle-class spending power and consumer demand, preventing the economy from growing. The problem might be fixed by a new approach from the Fed. But if the Fed won't act, counties will, as seen in the latest developments on eminent domain and litigation over MERS.

Former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts wrote on June 25th that real US GDP growth for the first quarter of 2014 was a negative 2.9%, off by 5.5% from the positive 2.6% predicted by economists. If the second quarter also shows a decline, the US will officially be in recession. That means not only fiscal policy (government deficit spending) but monetary policy (unprecedented quantitative easing) will have failed. The Federal Reserve is out of bullets.

Or is it? Perhaps it is just aiming at the wrong target.

The Fed's massive quantitative easing program was ostensibly designed to lower mortgage interest rates, stimulating the economy. And rates have indeed been lowered - for banks. But the form of QE the Fed has engaged in - creating money on a computer screen and trading it for assets on bank balance sheets - has not delivered money where it needs to go: into the pockets of consumers, who create the demand that drives productivity.

Some ways the Fed could get money into consumer pockets with QE, discussed in earlier articles, include very-low-interest loans for students and very-low-interest loans to state and local governments. Both options would stimulate demand. But the biggest brake on the economy remains the languishing housing market. The Fed has been buying up new issues of mortgage-backed securities so fast that it now owns 12% of the mortgage market; yet housing continues to sputter, largely because of the huge inventory of underwater mortgages.
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US cops protest: Nearly 500 cops call in sick to protest healthcare cuts in Memphis


RT
Mon, 07 Jul 2014 15:09 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Rusty Russell
The Memphis, Tennessee Police Department is hemorrhaging officers as hundreds of cops continue to call in sick as part of a growing act of protest.

On Monday this week, MPD spokesperson Sgt. Karen Rudolph confirmed to the Knoxville News Sentinel that 472 officers were off of work that afternoon after claiming to be sick. One day earlier, Mayor A C Wharton said at a news conference that 308 officer had called out of work since the previous Monday, causing a noticeable strain on the department's ability to patrol the streets. Now if the trend continues in this manner, the number of active cops on the MPD may be obliterated even further.

Over the weekend, Police Director Toney Armstrong acknowledged that the growing number of officers calling out of work was the result of an effort waged after the City Council voted recently to reduce health care subsidies for city employees. According to the Memphis Flyer, city officials approved those changes when they agreed to pass a new budget last month. Now ahead of a July 15 vote where changes to the city employee pension plan are expected to be approved, officers are striking en masse by using up their sick days to express their outrage.

Officer Mike Williams, the president of the local police union, told a Memphis CBS News affiliate recently that a potential strike seemed to be among the only options the cops had left to speak up.
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Nurse: VA medical staff stole morphine from dying patients

Patrick Howley
Dailycaller.com
Mon, 07 Jul 2014 17:11 UTC
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Vials of morphine were systemically stolen from a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center and replaced with water and saline so that dying veterans got the wrong treatments, a longtime VA nurse told The Daily Caller.

"A nurse taking care of hospice patients over the past year had been diverting vials of morphine," said Valerie Riviello, a 28-year veteran nurse at the Albany Stratton VA Medical Center in Albany, New York. "Those patients that were dying in hospice were not getting their intended pain medication."
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Detroit's Blight Removal Task Force wants to bulldoze one-fifth of the city

Barbara Speed
WealthyDebates
Tue, 08 Jul 2014 17:06 UTC
Detroit
© unknown
Downtown Detroit
Bad news for fans of ruin porn: Detroit is hoping to rid itself of its unique collection of dilapidated buildings and elegantly rubbish-strewn abandoned lots, and all within the next five years.

In May, a group ominously titled the "Detroit Blight Removal Task Force" released a report claiming that around 22 per cent of the city's properties were "blighted" - vacant, damaged or considered dangerous. They also found that, of the 84,000 properties owned by public entities, just over 5,000 were occupied by squatters, making the city of Detroit, the report's authors noted, "a very large and inadvertent landlord".
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Black Magic

Ponerized militia group heading to Texas-Mexico border


The Brownsville Herald
Tue, 08 Jul 2014 16:27 UTC
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© Fromthetrenchesworldreport.com
A group that identifies itself as a coalition of "Patriots" has put out a call for people to go to the Texas-Mexico border and help with a citizen militia operation called "Secure our Border - Laredo."

A spokeswoman for the group, Denice Freeman, said the operation is a call for civilian militia members - both armed and unarmed - to voluntarily guard private property in the Laredo area and other Texas locations where owners feel threatened by "drug cartels and from gangs, particularly the MS-13 gangs," a Salvadoran-based gang that is considered among the most dangerous in this country by law enforcement.

Freeman said she expected militia members to become visible in border communities, including the Rio Grande Valley, in the coming weeks but she wanted to stress that the operation's commander - Chris Davis - is warning members against using any violent means.

"This is not a 'go-in-guns-blazing' kind of thing," Freeman said. "This will be handled with the utmost professionalism and security and safety for everyone involved."

Comment: Human beings crossing the border to make a better life for themselves should be shot between the eyes?!

From What does it mean to be "ponerized"?:
"When something or someone has become "Ponerized" in its strictest sense, it means that the person or group can no longer make the distinction between healthy and pathological thought processes and logic. One is no longer able to draw a line between correct thinking and deviate thinking.Flagrant examples of such ponerization can be found in the press of oppressor countries justifying their exploitation of others. In Germany in the 30s, the Reich proclaimed the faith of the unification of the German people."
More on the ponerization process from Andrew Lobaczewski:
"Any human group affected by the process described herein is characterized by its increasing regression from natural common sense and the ability to perceive psychological reality. Someone considering this in terms of traditional categories might consider it an instance of "turning into half-wits" or the development of intellectual deficiencies and moral failings. A ponerological analysis of this process, however, indicates that pressure is being applied to the more normal part of the association by pathological factors present in certain individuals who have been allowed to participate in the group because the lack of good psychological knowledge has not mandated their exclusion."
Case Study on COINTELPRO and Ponerization: Report from an 'Alternative Convention'

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U.S. economy: Somewhere between 'the toilet and a rat hole'

James Kunstler
Kunstler.com
Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:43 UTC
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© Thisistheendoftheworldasweknowit.com
With lakes, swimming holes, rivers, and pools beckoning, I went to a sporting goods chain store at the mall - where else? - seeking a new bathing suit (pardon the quaint locution). The store was curiously named Dick's. All they had were clown trunks. By this I mean a garment designed to hang somewhere around mid-calf, instantly transforming a normally-proportioned adult male into a stock slapstick character: the oafish man-child.

This being a commodious warehouse-style store, there was rack upon rack of different brands of bathing suits, all cut in the same clown style. I chanced by one of the sparsely-deployed employees and inquired if they had any swimming togs in a shorter cut.

"What you see is alls we got," he said.

Even the Speedo brand had gone clown - except for the bikini brief, which I wore back during 30 years of lap-swimming, but which I deemed not quite okay for an elderly gentleman on the casual summer swim scene. So I left Dick's without a new suit, but not before having a completely unsatisfying conversation with one of the managers.
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More UK airport terror measures: Passengers warned to keep mobile phones and laptops charged or lose them at security for U.S.-bound flights

Adam Withnall
The Independant
Mon, 07 Jul 2014 05:36 UTC
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© The Independant
Even tighter airport 'security' - for your 'protection'! Where will it end - searching for 'bottom bombs'? Actually, see Comment below.
Passengers hoping to fly to the US this summer will be turned away at airport security checkpoints if they have forgotten to put their mobile phone on to charge the night before. According to new guidelines issued by the Department for Transport (DfT), any electronic device that has a flat battery will not be allowed on America-bound flights.

Officials advised that people "make sure electronic devices are charged before travel" and warned: "If your device doesn't switch on, you won't be allowed to bring it onto the aircraft."

The new restriction is in line with an announcement from US authorities that security staff may ask travellers to turn on devices to prove they still have battery power.

And it comes as part of a wider crackdown on airport security, led by the US, afterAmerican spies received intelligence of a "credible threat" from terror groups based in Syria and Yemen.

Comment: For more 'holiday season terrorist hysteria' listen to this week's SOTT Talk Radio: 'Terrorist Rectal Bombs' Social and Climate Chaos: Has Our World Gone Mad?

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