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Sheriff

Cowardly cop fears for his life and tasers 81-year-old grandma with dementia

cop taser elderly woman
Greene County Sheriff Pat Hankins is standing up for his deputy this week-noting that he supports his deputy's decision to deploy his taser on an 81-year-old woman on Sunday. Apparently, 81-year-old women with dementia holding gardening tools are now cause for cops to fear for their lives.

The family of Beunos Erwin has now hired an attorney after police showed up to their home responding to a 911 call for help and ended up tasering the very old woman in the street.

The sheriff said he supports his deputy's decision because the officer was forced to think fast and only had 14 seconds to decide what to do. According to Hankins, the deputy's only options were to kill the woman or take a chance risking his life. Naturally, bravery was out of the question-apparently, so was walking backward.

Info

Tehran: Funeral for 'iconic martyr' killed by IS draws thousands

Iranian funeral
© Atta Kenare/AFPMourners raise portraits of Mohsen Hojaji, during a funerary procession for him at Imam Hossein Square in the capital Tehran on September 27, 2017.
Thousands of black-clad Iranians have filled the streets of Tehran for the funeral procession of 25-year-old Revolutionary Guard Mohsen Hojaji who was captured and killed by Islamic State in Syria last month.

The crowd carried black flags for mourning, red flags symbolizing martyrdom as well as photos and flowers. The casket carrying the military advisor was honored by the country's Supreme Leader Ali Khamanei along with senior politicians and military leaders.

"God emboldened Hojaji as an evidence of numerous young people willing to fight and be killed defending Islam," Khamenei said in a statement.

Bad Guys

Israeli soldier-medic-killer has 'endured a lot', so his already short sentence is cut by four months

Palestinian protest Elor Azaria
© Wisam HashlamounA Palestinian holds a poster of Israeli Sergeant Elor Azaria that reads "wanted" who killed the Palestinian Abdel Fattah al-Sharif during a protest in the West Bank city of Hebron on January 4, 2017.
Elor Azarya had "endured a lot", said an Israeli military spokesman, announcing Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot's decision to cut four months off the soldier-medic's already lenient 18-month sentence for killing a wounded, immobile Palestinian alleged attacker by a bullet to the head at point blank on the street in Hebron in 2016.

There is no end to Jewish victimhood. He's after all "everyone's child," a claim Benjamin Netanyahu echoed.

Azarya had only begun to serve his sentence last month, and last week he got a furlough for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new-year- an unusual move that early in the sentence. As Israel National News noted, "soldiers are usually only granted furloughs from prison after serving a third of their sentence".

Comment: This is Israeli "justice".


Fire

Thousands forced to flee, airspace closed after munitions warehouse explodes in central Ukraine - UPDATE

explosion ukraine military depot sept 2017
© ReutersMassive explosions and a blaze at a military ammunition depot in central Ukraine forced authorities to evacuate 24,000 people and close airspace over the region
Over 1,000 rescue workers are battling a massive blaze at a military warehouse in Ukraine's Vinnytsia region, where over 20,000 people have been cleared as the explosions of munitions for multiple rocket launchers continue to threaten the lives of locals.

According to reports, the depot is spread across 60 hectares and holds some 188,000 tons of ammunition including rockets to multiple launch systems, such as the 'Smerch', 'Uragan' and 'Grad'.

Over 1,000 firefighters and dozens of rescue vehicles continue to battle the blaze.


Comment: These military warehouse explosions seem to be an ongoing trend: Ukrainian authorities are calling it sabotage. But, if so, by whom? Some Ukrainians are offering up their speculations, and the culprit ain't Russia!
The fire at the munition arsenal near Vinnytsia could have been organized by the Ukrainian authorities themselves, and not only to hide the theft of the army. This assumption was made in a conversation with a serviceman of the Dnieper Army, a volunteer from Odessa Igor Nemodruk.

"My personal opinion - they undermined the warehouse themselves. And here are two motives. The first is arson in order to hide theft. The second motive of a higher level is the preparation of public opinion for the fact that they need to negotiate with the Donbass.

Poroshenko did not achieve anything with his last trip. And in order to save himself, he needs to make some kind of non-standard move. To unleash a full-scale war is death for him. Leaving the situation like it is now - too, will not lead to anything good, because Saakashvili and the opposition are preparing to overthrow him.

Therefore, it is entirely possible that he is now preparing such a move, which is, say, to negotiate with the republics of Donbass. And here it is convenient to say: see, our warehouses have exploded, there are no shells, let's agree on something quick.

This explosion could also kill two birds with one stone - concealment of theft and preparation of public opinion for the fact that the war needs to end somehow," he summed up.
Savchenko has similar ideas:
The deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, Nadezhda Savchenko, believes that a fire in the ammunition depots near Vinnitsa could been organized to hide Ukraine's links with the weapons trade.

"We are talking about the following, we see a lot of warehouses in Ukraine, which have been blown up. How they are blown apart, an investigation will establish, but these warehouses have been getting emptied for a long time by the arms trade. Now that all these warehouses are exploding, we need to analyze what was in them," she said.

In this context she recalled in this the report of the international human rights organization Amnesty International, which referred to Ukraine's involvement in the illegal supply of arms to Southern Sudan.
"We ought not overlook at the fact that warehouses could be half empty, so they are destroyed," she added.
Update (Sept. 28): The following quote, from Ukraine's secretary of the Security and Defense Council, Oleksandr Turchynov, suggests that the two explanations above may not be too far off the mark:
"The country has suffered the biggest blow to our fighting capacity since the start of the war."
And the chief military prosecutor Anatoliy Matios "ruled out the possibility that the blast had been caused by foreign saboteurs". Looks like they haven't ruled out domestic saboteurs!
Matios said investigators were looking into possible negligence, abuse of power, or sabotage by those who were authorized to handle the ammunition.
So far the investigation has uncovered that the fire alarm wasn't working and security was understaffed. Sounds like Ukraine!


Sheriff

Police investigate historic abuse claims at children's home where 'hundreds' of Islington kids went

Graeme Sergeant
© James MorrisGraeme Sergeant, founder of the Beechholme survivors group.
A home where up to 200 Islington kids were sent between the 1950s and 1970s is being investigated by police over allegations children there were raped and tortured.

This week the town hall agreed to meet survivors' group organiser Graeme Sergeant, who says Islington children were regularly sent to Beechholme.

Beechholme, in Banstead, shut in 1974. Surrey Police has confirmed it is investigating allegations of abuse spanning 17 years.

Mr Sergeant - who has waived his right to anonymity for this story - formed the Beechholme survivors' group six months ago. He has already spoken to eight victims who were sent there from Islington, and is now appealing for more to come forward.

Evil Rays

Creepy: Mysterious metal towers popping up in tunnels & bridges

Mysterious metal towers
Mysterious metal towers are popping up at local tunnels, and soon they'll start appearing at bridges, too.

But even people on the MTA board in charge of the towers can't say why they're being used or what's in them, CBS2's Dave Carlin reports.

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Comment: 100 million dollars of taxpayers' money and no explanation of what the towers are being used for!? Not to worry, go about your day.


Newspaper

"Fake news" writer who may have influenced U.S. election found dead in Phoenix, Arizona

Paul Horner
Paul Horner "felt responsible for Trump's election" victory

Why is Hillary Clinton not adding "fake news" writer Paul Horner to the list of things to blame for her pathetic US election loss to Donald Trump?

According to Zerohedge, a self-described "fake news" writer has been found dead in Phoenix of an apparent "accidental overdose."

Paul Horner often said that he felt "responsible for Trump's election" because of how many of his fake news stories went viral over Facebook and Twitter but an immediate inconsistency arises when you realize the "Horner" doesn't sound Russian at all.

While Horner may have felt guilt in his ability to craft viral news that he felt aided Trump, the writer failed to realize that if his stories had any effect in handing Hillary Clinton an election loss, then he did the United States, and the entire planet, a great service by preventing a woman who slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people in Libya, Syria and Iraq from entering the White House.

Alarm Clock

Citing lack of violence, perverted French prosecutors say 11yo girl had 'consensual' sex with 28yo man

Child rape
© Michaela Begsteiger/Global Look Press
French prosecutors have dropped rape charges against a 28-year-old man who they say did not force a girl of 11 to have sex with him. The incident has sparked mass outrage, with critics saying that consent is not possible at such an age.

On April 24, 2017, the 11-year-old victim named Sarah from Val-d'Oise, just north of Paris, allegedly agreed to follow a 28-year-old man back to his apartment to engage in what she believed would be "kissing" lessons, according to her mother.

The man named Antoine - now only accused of sexually assaulting a minor under the age of 15 but not rape - allegedly lured the sixth-grade student to his apartment building where the odd couple engaged in three sexual act attempts.

The father of two first tried to have sex with the girl on the stairwell, but the guard of the building interrupted them. The pair then got into the elevator where the girl allegedly consented to perform fellatio. After that the schoolgirl followed Antoine to his parents' apartment, where the couple engaged in a further intimate act.

Heart - Black

A feeble 'no' can mean 'yes': Judge overturns rape conviction of Indian filmmaker

distressed woman
© PeopleImages/Getty Images
An Indian court has overturned a conviction for a film director accused of raping an American student, ruling that a "feeble no" can actually mean "yes" when it comes to sexual consent.

The case centers on Mamood Farooqui, who was convicted last year of raping a Columbia University graduate student in New Delhi in March 2015.

The student said she arrived at the home of Farooqui, co-director of the 2010 Bollywood film Peepli Live, to accompany him and his wife to a wedding. However, when the student arrived at the house, Farooqui was alone and drunk, and began to make advances toward her.

The film director allegedly ignored the student when she repeatedly said "no" and restrained her arms when she tried to stop him from removing her clothes.

Popcorn

Bread & circuses: NFL hysteria a reminder of how the Elite have controlled men for thousands of years

National Football League
"So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance... Films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult." ~ George Orwell, 1984
Few things in American culture exemplify the fractured status of the collective psyche quite like the popularity of the National Football League (NFL). The NFL has become a de facto symbol of American freedom, while in reality it performs the function of the Roman circus, keeping the distracted from the extortion and crimes of state.