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Craigslist "thrill killer" claims to have killed 22 others with Satanic cult

Columbus Dispatch
Mon, 17 Feb 2014 08:05 UTC

© MIKE STAUGAITIS | THE (SUNBURY, PA.) NEWS-ITEM
Miranda Barbour, with Sunbury Police Officer Travis Bremigen, claims to have killed with a satanic cult.

A Pennsylvania woman charged with her newlywed husband with killing a man they met through Craigslist admitted to the slaying in a jailhouse interview with a local newspaper and said she has killed more than 20 other people across the country. Police said investigating.

In an interview with The Daily Item in Sunbury, 19-year-old Miranda Barbour said she wants to plead guilty to killing Troy LaFerrara in November. She also said in the interview that she has killed at least 22 other people from Alaska to North Carolina in the past six years as part of her involvement in a satanic cult.

"I feel it is time to get all of this out. I don't care if people believe me. I just want to get it out," Barbour told the newspaper for a story published on Saturday.

Sunbury Police Chief Steve Mazzeo told the newspaper that investigators are aware of Barbour's claims of involvement in other murders. He said they are "seriously concerned" and have contacted police in other jurisdictions.

Comment: Here's the previous article that reported the initial murder by Ms. Barbour and her husband: Newlywed couple found murder victim on Craigslist, police say

Two sperm whales beached in Denmark, one dead, which people think is perfect to stand on for family photos

Politiken
Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:02 UTC

Translated by SOTT.net

Taxidermists puncture one of the stranded whales to reduce the explosion hazard in front of large audiences.

A large crowd of people were up early to see conservators from the Natural History Museum have the most rotten of two stranded sperm whales to explode.

It says whale expert Thygesen Jensen, itself come to Henne Strand to follow the process.

»Taxidermists prepare to puncture the most decayed - that is rotten - of the two stranded whales. When they do, there will definitely be definitely an explosion, because there is real pressure enclosed, "he predicted earlier in the day.

Comment: The amount of disrespect these folks display is unbelievable!

Florida man guilty of lesser counts in loud-music shooting

Derek Kinner
Washington Times
Mon, 17 Feb 2014 07:36 UTC

A Florida jury's inability to agree on a murder charge will give prosecutors and defense attorneys fodder for their next moves in the case of a teen fatally shot after an argument over loud music.

Michael Dunn, a 47-year-old software developer, was convicted Saturday of attempted murder for shooting into a carful of teenagers after the argument but jurors couldn't agree on the most serious charge of first-degree murder. A mistrial was declared on the murder charge.

State Attorney Angela Corey said her office would consider seeking a retrial of Dunn on a first-degree murder charge.

Meanwhile, defense attorney Cory Strolla said he plans to appeal based on several issues, including how the jury could reach guilty verdicts on four counts and deadlock on another.

Ethiopian Airlines co-pilot hijacks plane to seek Geneva asylum

Emmanuel Igunza
BBC
Mon, 17 Feb 2014 07:30 UTC

The co-pilot of an Ethiopian Airlines plane flying from Addis Ababa to Rome has hijacked the aircraft and landed in Geneva, Swiss police say.

The hijacker - who has been arrested - waited for the pilot to go to the toilet to lock himself in the cockpit. He was unarmed. He has requested asylum in Switzerland.

The airline said in a statement that all 202 passengers and crew were safe. Geneva airport, which was closed for a time, has now reopened.

An Ethiopian man born in 1983, the co-pilot has sought asylum due to fear of persecution in Ethiopia, police said at a news conference.

After locking himself in the cockpit, he asked to refuel at Geneva, landed the plane, climbed down from the cockpit window using a rope (available in the cockpit), and gave himself up to police.

He was unarmed and there was no risk at any time to crew or passengers, police said.

UK: WH Smith removes 'honesty boxes' as shoppers aren't honest!

Andy Dolan
Mail Online
Sun, 16 Feb 2014 18:35 UTC

They were heralded as a demonstration of the travelling public's integrity.

But after introducing honesty boxes to help time-pressed customers quickly pay for their newspapers, retailer WH Smith has discovered some shoppers can no longer be trusted to pay the correct amount.

The company installed the boxes at around 60 train station kiosks and airport shops nationwide, after a trial at two branches showed sales had risen and checkout queues had shrunk dramatically - with no increase in shoplifting.

But the store has now removed around a third of the boxes, which were sited near store newspaper racks and near store exits for customers who needed to buy a newspaper or magazine in a hurry.

Los Angeles, California: Cops burn man's genitals with taser in front of his family

Kristin Tate
Blacklisted News
Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:00 UTC

According to a lawsuit filed last month, Los Angeles police tasered 26-year-old Daniel Johnson in the genitals.

An officer knocked on Johnson's front door on December 26. The lawsuit alleges that Johnson was then informed that his 58-year-old father would be issued a $1,000 littering fine for dropping a cigarette on the ground.

Johnson asked the officer if he could pick up the cigarette butt for his father rather than face the fine. Apparently, the father suffers from nerve damage which causes him to drop things by accident on a regular basis.

The exact details regarding what happened next are unclear, but at some point an argument broke out between Johnson and the officers outside on the front lawn. This resulted in two policemen tackling the 26-year-old to the ground, securing him in a "full Nelson" hold, and then tasering him in the genitals.

The family has made it clear that the police intentionally targeted Johnson's genitals with the taser. Johnson said, "He was right above me as he tased me, so there's no mistake that he was trying to tase me in my genitalia."

Killing of zoo giraffe raises questions of science, ethics and education

Richard Steed and Malin Rising
Yahoo! News
Sun, 09 Feb 2014 12:55 UTC

Danish zoo kills giraffe to prevent inbreeding, rebuffs efforts to save 2-year-old Marius' life

Saying it needed to prevent inbreeding, the Copenhagen Zoo killed a 2-year-old giraffe and fed its remains to lions as visitors watched, ignoring a petition signed by thousands and offers from other zoos and a private individual to save the animal.

Marius, a healthy male, was put down Sunday using a bolt pistol, said zoo spokesman Tobias Stenbaek Bro. Visitors, including children, were invited to watch while the giraffe was then skinned and fed to the lions.

Marius' plight triggered a wave of online protests and renewed debate about the conditions of zoo animals. Before the giraffe was killed, an online petition to save it had received more than 20,000 signatures.

But the public feeding of Marius' remains to the lions was popular at Copenhagen Zoo. Stenbaek Bro said it allowed parents to decide whether their children should watch what the zoo regards as an important display of scientific knowledge about animals.

"I'm actually proud because I think we have given children a huge understanding of the anatomy of a giraffe that they wouldn't have had from watching a giraffe in a photo," Stenbaek Bro said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.

He said the zoo, which now has seven giraffes left, followed the recommendation of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria to put down Marius by because there already were a lot of giraffes with similar genes in the organization's breeding program.

Comment: There is an interesting discussion on our forum here about this very issue.

Warning! Fake funeral notice cyber-scam

Jason Sickles
Yahoo! News
Mon, 10 Feb 2014 10:37 UTC

In his line of work, funeral home director Brian Bass has come to expect the occasional juvenile phone prank.

But the hoax recently perpetrated on the small-town Eubank Funeral Home where Bass works is bigger than any adolescent antics. Cybercriminals hijacked the funeral home's identity as part of a worldwide email phishing scam.

For the past month, inboxes across the United States and beyond have been getting funeral notices that appear to be from Eubank Funeral Home in Canton, Texas, 60 miles east of Dallas.

Without saying who has died, the fake emails invite the recipient to an upcoming "celebration of your friend's life service" and instruct the recipient to click a link for "more detailed information about the farewell ceremony."

"It reaches to people's curiosity and their natural instinct to find out who passed away," Bass told Yahoo News.

But instead of going to Eubank's website, the Better Business Bureau says, the link in the email takes readers to a foreign domain where malicious software is downloaded onto the user's computer allowing criminals access to passwords, financial records, and other personal information stored on the computer.

We can be certain of this

Charles Hugh Smith
Of Two Minds
Sat, 15 Feb 2014 16:31 UTC

Just as the addict feels "I can't live any other way," so we continue clinging to a way of living that is equally self-destructive because we too see no other way to live.

Yesterday I discussed the intrinsic uncertainties in complex systems. (Certainty, Complex Systems, and Unintended Consequences). Amidst this sea of uncertainty we can be certain of this: humans will continue down an unsustainable path that inevitably leads to a tragic end until they succeed in destroying themselves or they reach a point of no return and abruptly change course.

That process of clinging to the present arrangement "because I can't live any other way" until that arrangement collapses is the primary narrative of our era. It is truly remarkable how humans will cling to a visibly self-destructive, no-exit arrangement because they see no alternative, and then after the present arrangement crumbles and the wreckage is cleared, we somehow manage to find some other arrangement.

Sadly, we only rouse ourselves to change when there is no other choice, that is, after we've destroyed the previous arrangement. Take the seas, for example: we're losing the oceans. The scale of our destruction of this resource is unprecedented and easily visible to all. The Consequences of Oceanic Destruction (Foreign Affairs) Over the last several decades, human activities have so altered the basic chemistry of the seas that they are now experiencing evolution in reverse: a return to the barren primeval waters of hundreds of millions of years ago.

Portland, Oregon: Angry residents wave pitchforks, torches in protest of Mayor's crackdown on homelessness

Eleanor Goldberg
The Huffington Post
Sat, 15 Feb 2014 21:59 UTC

A group of fired-up activists in Portland, Ore., who were tired of seeing homeless people being mistreated staged the kind of protest that will be difficult for the mayor to ignore.

An estimated 4,000 people sleep on the streets of Portland, Ore., on any given night and, since last summer, life has become increasingly difficult for them.

So, a group of protesters descended upon Portland City Hall on Tuesday night carrying pitchforks and torches to "shame the mayor into action," organizer Jessie Sponberg told The Oregonian.

peep this shit. stop criminalizing homelessness! #angrymob#portlandpic.twitter.com/pdvWv4SjIj

- jessie sponberg (@ozone2016) February 12, 2014

Portland appears to be gearing up to revive a bill that would allow police to rouse homeless people sitting on sidewalks, The Oregonian reported at the end of last year. In July, Mayor Charlie Hales launched an effort to clear out homeless campsites, according to the Portland Mercury.

Sweeping campsites often exacerbates the situation for people living on the streets because the police discard homeless people's few possessions, which may include their only warm clothing and blankets, advocates noted in a Change.org petition.

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Society's Child

Craigslist "thrill killer" claims to have killed 22 others with Satanic cult

Two sperm whales beached in Denmark, one dead, which people think is perfect to stand on for family photos

Florida man guilty of lesser counts in loud-music shooting

Ethiopian Airlines co-pilot hijacks plane to seek Geneva asylum

UK: WH Smith removes 'honesty boxes' as shoppers aren't honest!

Los Angeles, California: Cops burn man's genitals with taser in front of his family

Killing of zoo giraffe raises questions of science, ethics and education

Warning! Fake funeral notice cyber-scam

We can be certain of this

Portland, Oregon: Angry residents wave pitchforks, torches in protest of Mayor's crackdown on homelessness

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