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Not this again! Two armed men dressed as clowns frighten a group of children playing in the woods

Julie Grant
CBS Pittsburgh
Mon, 06 Mar 2017 16:21 UTC
west mifflin woods
Extra police are patrolling West Mifflin tonight after two men with weapons, dressed as clowns, frightened a group of children.

Police from West Mifflin and the City of Pittsburgh went searching for the men, as soon as the father of three of the children called 911. The search didn't turn up any evidence.

It was a typical Saturday afternoon for the kids on Lauder Street, playing hide and go seek in the woods, until around 4:15 p.m.

That's when the kids say two men dressed like scary clowns and carrying weapons seemed to come out of nowhere.

"They were chasing us," said 8-year-old Dylan Milkowski, of West Mifflin.

"My kid came running in the house screaming that there were two guys chasing him," said Michael Milkowski, of West Mifflin.
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USA

New poll shows shows Americans are divided on basic identity & threats to their way of life


RT
Mon, 06 Mar 2017 16:07 UTC
people under umbrellas
© Andrew Kelly / Reuters
Americans have a lot more than its tweet-happy president to worry about, as according to a new poll, people in the US are starkly divided on what it means to be an American and the greatest threats to their way of life.

Both sides come together to agree that the country is losing its identity, so at least there's that.

When the Associated Press-NORC and the Center for Public Affairs Research asked participants about the essential aspects of American identity, Republicans cited a culture grounded in Christian beliefs and maintaining the traditions of early European immigrants. Democrats pointed to the country's history of offering refuge and its mixed culture as defining elements of identity.
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Syringe

"Shooting galleries": UK police plan to fund free heroin to addicts


RT
Mon, 06 Mar 2017 14:24 UTC
Drugs
© Castello-Ferbos / Godong / Global Look Press 36
Police plan to fund "shooting galleries" where heroin addicts are given a free supply of the Class A drug in a bid to cut substance-related crime.

Durham Constabulary is the first force in the country to set aside money to fund drugs in the hope that it stops users from stealing to pay for their addiction. The force has asked public health experts to provide an "options paper" that will suggest different ways the scheme could work.

Chief Constable Mike Barton told the Mail on Sunday that, under the plan, addicts would be able to inject themselves twice a day in supervised shooting galleries, also known as fix rooms.

Addiction is "a medical problem, not a criminal justice problem," Barton says. He believes the police's main priority is to prevent crime, not to help people get over their drug addiction.

"We need to get over our moral panic about giving people heroin as part of a treatment plan.

"Police were set up to prevent crime. If we've got people who are addicted to Class A drugs committing crime, it makes good sense to get that person off drugs.

"Addiction is a medical problem, not a criminal justice problem," he said.

Comment: See also:

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Heart - Black

Nazi collaborator & other 'fallen heroes' honored by Ukrainian nationalists during torch-lit march


RT
Mon, 06 Mar 2017 03:37 UTC
Ukrainian Nazis
© Ruptly
Far-right activists alongside veterans of the ultranationalist Azov battalion have held a torch-lit march commemorating a Nazi collaborator and late leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, as well as contemporary "heroes" who lost their lives in Ukraine's civil war.

The torchlight procession dubbed, "Remembering the heroes," marched through the streets of the western Ukrainian city of Lvov late on Sunday. Chanting "Glory to nation - death to the enemies" and "glory to Ukraine," the ultra-nationalist activists carried flags of the National Corps party alongside lit torches and flares.


Comment: The banality of evil personified. And now these Ukonazis have a new enemy in the form of the people of Eastern Ukraine and Russia - all thanks to the US-led coup of Kiev.



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Roses

97-year-old twin sisters die of probable hypothermia after falling outside Rhode Island home

Katherine Gregg
Providence Journal
Sun, 05 Mar 2017 23:07 UTC
21 Opechee Drive in Barrington, RI.
© Kris Craig/The Providence JournalThe house at 21 Opechee Drive, Barrington, Rhode Island.
Born together nearly a century ago, 97-year-old twins Jean Haley and Martha Williams died after falling within steps of each other outside a home on Opechee Drive in Barrington in the bitter cold on Friday night.

The Barrington police do not suspect foul play in the deaths of the Haley, 97, of Barrington, and Williams, 97, of East Providence.

The women were not found until Saturday morning when Haley's neighbor on Opechee Drive looked outside his window, saw something that prompted him to take a closer look and found Williams face down at the rear of her vehicle in the driveway around 8:11 a.m. Haley was subsequently found in the garage.

The police believe the women, who spent hours exposed to the cold before they were found, died of hypothermia. With arctic air flowing into the region from Canada, temperatures were well below freezing overnight.

The women were both taken to Rhode Island Hospital on Saturday morning and pronounced dead a short time later.
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Dig

Human remains found inside attic wall of missing Houston woman's home

Mark Collette
Houston Chronicle
Sat, 04 Mar 2017 22:09 UTC
Mary Cerruti
© Houston Police DepartmentMary Cerruti
The two-bedroom, steel-blue 1930s-era home is among the last few standing next to condo towers and shiny new townhomes in the 600 block of Allston Street in the Heights.

The new owners were just moving into the 1,161-square-foot house on Saturday -- the upturned soil still fresh in a row of pink, white, yellow and purple flowers in front of the porch -- when one of them shifted a board in the attic, peered down inside a wall and saw a jumble of bones.

In the rain-soaked grass, thrown into relief by the soft glow of a single porch light, a little pile of broken sheet rock looked like just another moving-day project. "We popped a pretty good hole in the wall," Houston Police Detective Jason Fay said.

Neighbors said the remains could belong to a woman who went missing in 2015. Marry Cerruti, 61, was last seen in February or March of 2015 and is still listed as missing, Fay said. Public records show she was the previous homeowner of the $400,000 home.

According to a post on the West Heights Coalition website, police visited the home in the summer of 2015 after receiving calls about the house, but didn't find Cerruti. "Neighbors remain hopeful that Mary will be found alive and well," the post said.

There was nothing else in the wall but a tattered rag and a pair of red-framed eyeglasses, of the $5 drugstore variety. Animals had disturbed the skeleton.
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Bad Guys

Refugees describe Mosul terror: 'ISIS cut off heads, break legs and provoke airstrikes'


RT
Mon, 06 Mar 2017 15:23 UTC
refugee in Mosul
© RT
As US-backed Iraqi troops push deeper into the IS-held areas of Mosul, thousands of civilians are forced to flee amid the terrorist's increasingly gruesome attempts to hold them as human shields, inhabitants of an overflowing refugee camp told RT.

RT's Murad Gazdiev visited the Hasan Sham refugee camp, which is a relatively small facility housing some 10,000 people 25km east of Mosul. The camp was established only last November, but it's already nearing its capacity as newcomers arrive daily as a result of the US-backed coalition's massive offensive to recapture western parts of Mosul from the IS (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) fighters.

Comment: Mosul residents may also be suffering from chemical attacks: UN reports twelve treated for chemical weapons agents in Mosul since March 1

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Camera

US Marines in hot water over pictures of '100s - possibly 1000s of naked recruits' posted on secret FB page


RT
Mon, 06 Mar 2017 13:39 UTC
Marines
© Getty Images
The US Defense Department is investigating reports that dozens of US Marines shared "hundreds - possibly thousands" of naked photos of female recruits, veterans, and other women on a secret Facebook page, many of whom were unaware they had been photographed.

The photographs were reportedly shared on a page entitled 'Marines United', which boasted some 30,000 followers, triggering an avalanche of obscene comments, according to the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR).

The closed Facebook group's membership allegedly consisted of active-duty and retired male Marines, Navy personnel, and British Royal Marines.

More than two dozen active-duty women, officers, and enlisted service members were identified by their rank, full name, and location in the photographs posted on the Facebook page, according to CIR. Some containing active duty and veteran women were also posted and linked through a Google Drive link, the report said.

CIR reports that, in one case, a female corporal pictured in uniform had been followed at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina by a fellow Marine who secretly photographed her. Rude comments reportedly burst through like a flood after the picture was posted to the 'Marines United' page.

One Facebook user allegedly wrote "Take her out back and pound her out," adding "video it though... for science."
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Clipboard

War on language: Words like mankind, man-made, housewife banned at UK university

Whitney Webb
True Activist
Mon, 06 Mar 2017 15:18 UTC
cardiff metropolitan university
© Telegraph
In an effort to be more politically correct, Cardiff Metropolitan University has banned its professors and lecturers from using a list of common words such as waitress, fireman, manpower, and mankind.

With many universities throughout the West attempting to create a more inclusive environment for some of its members, some institutions of higher learning have decided to take such gestures to the extreme. In a crack-down on "gendered language," Cardiff Metropolitan University has decided to ban lecturers and professors from using numerous common phrases including mankind, man-made, and housewife among numerous others. The university said that these terms should be replaced with "politically correct" words that would "promote an atmosphere in which all students and staff feel valued."

The new rules on "inclusive language" are not just limited to gender. Other banned terms includes the term "Christian name" which - according to the university - should be replaced with "forename" or "last name" to avoid offering those practicing different faiths. In addition, staff are prohibited from saying "wheelchair bound" which is "patronizing" and must now use the term "wheelchair user" which is "empowering."
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Red Flag

Another one: Police investigating death of holistic doctor as a homicide

Erin Elizabeth
Health Nut News
Sat, 04 Mar 2017 15:04 UTC
Dr. Juan Gonzalez
Dr. Juan Gonzalez
UPDATE: Police are treating his death as a HOMICIDE, reports the mainstream media.

Police have now confirmed that 59-year-old old Dr. Juan Gonzalez, a board certified holistic doctor, has died.

Dr. Juan Sanchez Gonzalez had a business degree from WKU and multiple degrees in naturopathic medicine. He retired from the United States Army with his last assignment at Fort Knox, Kentucky, but appears to have had a thriving practice with many loving patients who are now mourning his death online.

Comment: The word bizarre doesn't even begin to describe these holistic doctor deaths:

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