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Best of the Web: SWAT cop guns down unarmed man for trying to answer door during pot raid

Jackson Marciana
Counter Current News
Sun, 08 Mar 2015 12:25 UTC
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Witnesses say that they saw a murder happen right before their eyes when a Florida SWAT team gunned down an unarmed Deltona man over a tiny amount of marijuana.

They say that the SWAT raid looked more like a police-executed "murder" (their words) than anything that could be construed as "enforcing the law."

But Volusia County sheriff's deputies are defending the dawn SWAT raid where they shot and killed 26-year-old Derek Cruice, 26, even though he was unarmed and non-violent. Cruice became the 10th person to be executed by law enforcement officials in the so-called "War on Drugs" this year.

"They were met with resistance," Sheriff Ben Johnson said to local My News 13.

Johnson told local WFTV that the raid was part of an "ongoing narcotic investigation." Cruice allegedly "advanced on a member of the SWAT Team who was entering the residence," but friends and family explain that there wasn't a violent bone in Cruice's body, suggesting instead that he was going towards the front of his home when he heard the noise and was shot for this alone.

The shooter has now been identified as 10-year veteran Todd Raible, who police say "opened fire one time, shooting the suspect in the face while just inside the doorway of the home."
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Whistle

Terror 101: Scottish primary school kids get terrorism homework


RT
Wed, 04 Mar 2015 18:09 UTC
Kids in school
© rt.comScottish school children and the topic of global terrorism. Children "A" - School "F"
A Scottish school has come under fire for issuing primary school kids homework featuring questions about global terrorist organizations. Children were asked to describe the various tactics of Al-Qaeda, the IRA and Hamas.

Children, some as young as seven at New Stevenston Primary in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, were handed worksheets with a cartoon of an exploding bomb.

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© www.independent.co.ukHomework that refers to Palestinians as 'terrorists.'
One of the exercises required pupils to consider why "Palestinians feel that they have the RIGHT to use terrorism against the Israelis." The students were encouraged to give two examples of why, and to describe two of the methods used.

Copies of the worksheets were later posted online, provoking complaints from parents and campaigners.

Another question - presented in a multiple-choice format - involved identifying the two most prominent terror groups in Northern Ireland. Pupils were asked to explain the aims of Loyalists and Republicans.

Comment: This is beyond the pale. These school curriculum whackos don't even recognize what is truly wrong here! Obsolete? Poor Quality? No Judgement? Seven-year-olds? Really!!!

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Attention

2014 saw sharp increase in torture of Palestinians detainees by Israel


RT
Sun, 08 Mar 2015 19:04 UTC
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© Reuters / Suhaib Salem
The instances of torture of Palestinian prisoners by Israeli services soared sharply in the second half of 2014, after the killings of three Jewish teenagers in June, says data from military courts and anti-torture bodies, collected by Haaretz.

All in all, 51 cases of torture were reported in the second half of last year, according to an attorney representing those accused of security offences. The data was obtained by Haaretz from military courts, and the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel.

"In years past there were a few rare cases. But something has changed," the attorney said.

Twenty-three Palestinians sent a number of complaints of torture they had suffered in 2014 by Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service. Each of the plaintiffs said they experienced several methods of torture.

Comment: Israel just keeps doing what Israel does best. This is what happens in a ponerized country. And anyone who justifies actions like this is just as much a part of that system as the ones doing the torturing.

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Blackbox

Russian police arrest 5 suspects in Nemtsov murder - 1 has confessed


RT
Sun, 08 Mar 2015 18:40 UTC
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© RIA Novosti / Maksim Blinov
Moscow's Basmanny district court has arrested five people in connection with the murder of Boris Nemtsov, a prominent opposition figure, who was gunned down last week. Two judges are reviewing the charges against the five people brought before the court by the prosecutors on Sunday.

Two of them are Zaur Dadaev and Anzor Gubashev, who were identified as key suspects in the killing of Nemtsov after their detention on Saturday. The prosecutors asked the court to arrest the duo by April 28, the current deadline for the investigation, saying that otherwise they may flee or interfere with the investigation.

According to the judge, who ordered Dadaev's arrest as requested by the prosecution, he confessed his involvement to the police. The accused didn't comment on this during the court session. Gubashev pleaded not guilty to the crimes he is charged with.

The other individuals, who may have had a hand in the crime, are Gubashev's brother Shagit and two identified as Ramzat Bakhaev and Tamerlan Eskerkhanov. The request for their arrest has been reviewed separately by another judge.


Comment: From Fort Russ:
Dadayev served with the rank of Sergeant (though some reports claim he was the deputy commander) in the Sever [North] battalion of the Republic of Chechnya Interior Troops. Yusupov served in the same unit. Anzur Gubashev worked in a private security firm providing protection for supermarkets, his younger brother worked as a truck driver.
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Handcuffs

An Eritrean refugee in Israel

Dan Connell
Foreign Policy in Focus
Thu, 19 Feb 2015 00:00 UTC
Eritreans in Israel
© www.haaretz.comAfrican migrants behind barbed wire, curtesy Israel
Over 35,000 Eritrean refugees live in Israel today. Dubbed a "cancer" by right-wing politicians, just four have been granted asylum.

Kifle was in the fourth grade at Bet Soira — the "Revolution School" run by the Eritrean People's Liberation Front at their rear base in Harareb — when the final battle of the 30-year struggle for independence from Ethiopia was fought in 1991 outside Asmara.

His father, a fighter, had been killed in the war, and his mother and a younger brother were based elsewhere then. But Kifle was not alone. His family was the liberation front.

Today, Kifle languishes in a minimum-security prison, euphemistically termed a "detention center," in Israel's sweltering Negev Desert, unsure where his life is headed. His brother is a refugee in South Africa. His mother remains in Eritrea. Like most Eritrean refugees I've interviewed on four continents over the past six months, he asked that his real name be withheld to protect relatives from retribution at home and himself from repercussions in Israel.

Whether he or the others are right to be afraid at this point — many tell stories of family members punished in Eritrea after their flight — fear and uncertainty are their constant companions. Their experience teaches them this.

Comment: Victims at home, victims in the hands of "rescuers." Eritreans have fled because of lack of human rights, lack of freedom of speech, religion and movement, suffering torture, sexual abuse, human trafficking, organ harvesting and inhumane treatment in underground prisons. Eritreans are defined by the UNHCR as a "temporary humanitarian protection group." Instead of finding a safe haven, they are treated as cattle in Israeli concentration camps. The Palestinian atrocities are only one example of Israel's appalling behavior to "others." Incarceration of inconvenient people seems to be the popular policy and Israel is one of several countries that exemplifies this action.

The Israeli High Court struck down the anti-infiltration law and ordered the state to close Holot and limit the detention of migrants, citing conditions were an "unbearable violation of basic rights, right to freedom and right to dignity." Right-wing MKs are attempting to limit the court and reinstate the abusive protocol, justifying that African immigrants may be "operatives of hostile states or terrorist organizations," contribute to "congestion," and are a "demographic threat to the Jewish majority." The Israeli government currently employs a policy that includes neglect, vilification, detention and repatriation in order to create a Jewish state with maximum land and minimum Arabs/non-Jews, the homeland agenda.

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Shoe

Best of the Web: Is it time to leave America before it's too late?

Dave Hodges
The Common Sense Show
Sat, 07 Mar 2015 18:11 UTC
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The US-Mexico border fence: for now it's to keep Mexicans out, but there could soon be a time when it's for keeping Americans in...
Not a day goes by that I do not receive an email from one of my readers advising me to get out of America while I still can. As the level of tyranny in this country increases, there is a proportionate increase in Americans wondering out loud as to whether they should stay or go.

Americans Have Three Options When It Comes to Expatriation

As I see it, Americans have three choices when it comes to expatriation:

1. We can leave the country for a less volatile place to live.

2. There are places we could emigrate to which would buy us a little time against the full rollout of tyranny.

3. We could simply lay down and take our beating as so many victims of genocide have in the past. Or, we can resist the final stages of tyranny and pay for our disobedience with our lives.

The Reasons to Leave America Are Compelling

There can be no question that we are headed for hyperinflation and economic collapse. Because America has notions of freedom and entrepreneurship, the globalists must make an example out of such undesirable attributes.
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Pirates

Expressed uncertainty about winning the war against terrorism

Issa al Shuaibi
Watching America
Wed, 04 Mar 2015 00:00 UTC
ISIS Iraq
© www.turkishweekly.net
Although the United States — which is armed, capable and powerful — lowered its ceiling of expectations from the war that it began waging against terrorism, and announced before its airstrikes campaign that its targets don't exceed the purpose of weakening the Islamic State and curbing its surge, some among us are saying with absolute certainty that the defeat of the Islamic State group is possible, lies in the hands of the international coalition, and that it's only a matter of time.

Enthusiasts about a military confrontation with terrorism removed from their calculations the fact that third-generation wars are not resolved, even once, and that battles between uneven forces are long, costly and endless. The only "powerful country" didn't manage to win such a war in Afghanistan or Iraq. Adding to that, Israel, which is the superior regional power, couldn't win a series of big battles either in the Gaza Strip or in South Lebanon.


Comment: Makes you wonder if there isn't a secondary and tertiary gain by not 'winning' these wars...especially if you have your hands dirty in the creation and perpetration of terrorism and it serves your goals ideologically, both globally and locally.


War in Afghanistan entered its fourth decade and remains without a visible end. The situation in Iraq is similar, as whenever a fierce round hurries toward it, an even fiercer round is born without the appearance of a candle of hope at the end of the long tunnel. The same case is applied to all the latest wars with Israel, which came to realize that every ceasefire is only a truce between two wars, the second of which is even more formidable than its predecessor.


Comment: Unresolved escalation furthers an agenda. We must always look at results, or non-results, as to whom it benefits.


What makes the matter more difficult today is that we stand in front of a player that outperforms all players belonging to nonstate actors that we witnessed before; the outperformance is in financial power and self-motivation, not to mention brutality and attractiveness and other factors which al-Qaida, for instance, lacks. The experience of the previous months shows, perhaps, that even the modest goal that America set for its coalition—the point of weakening the Islamic State group or restraining it—didn't materialize, as it is still expanding and fiercely attacking.


Comment: Mothers love and preserve even their ugliest children. They dote, martyr and cover for them, especially if they serve a purpose.


Comment: If we lived in a logical, humanitarian, truly free world...yes...there are probably ways out of this ongoing crisis, but not if the crisis is serving evil agendas and masking the ideological and self-serving purposes of those who fight against it, evident once you scratch the surface. This author is much too kind and may need to dig deeper for a broader understanding of what is actually happening and why.

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Phoenix

Huge fire: Yet another train carrying crude oil derails in Canada


RT
Sat, 07 Mar 2015 20:21 UTC
A train carrying crude oil has derailed in Northern Ontario and burst into flames. This is the fourth derailment in the province since the start of the year.
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© Reuters / Transportation Safety Board of Canada / Handout via ReutersHeavy equipment is used in an attempt to extinguish a fire after a crude oil train derailment 50 miles (80 km) south of Timmins, Ontario, February 16, 2015.
CN Rail, the owner of the rail network in the eastern Canadian province, said the crash took place at 2:45 am on Saturday. No one was injured.

Three roads near the community of Gogama, where the accident took place, have been sealed off for up to 36 hours.

The $70-billion Canadian National Railway Company suffered its last derailment in nearby Horneypayne just two days earlier, though there was no chemical spillage in that crash.

Comment: So many train derailments and crude oil/gas explosions lately. Symbolic?

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Evil Rays

Mom faces prison sentence for blocking son's circumcision


RT
Sat, 07 Mar 2015 14:31 UTC
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© Reuters / Pierre Marsaut
A mother who has taken flight with her son to prevent his circumcision could face a prison sentence if she fails to have the boy undergo the procedure, a judge ruled, in a case that has become a rallying cry for 'intactivists.'

The case, which began as a domestic dispute between Heather Hironimus and her husband, Dennis Nebus, over whether or not to circumcise their four-year-old son, has caught the attention of circumcision opponents, who call themselves 'intactivists,' as the courts have intervened in the matter.

Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Jeffrey Gillen on Friday said Hironimus was in contempt for violating an order to appear in court Friday with her son. Gillen called it "reprehensible" that she has not allowed the father to see his son since February 20, AP reported.

The judge, meanwhile, is determined to ensure that the child undergoes the medical process to have his foreskin removed.

"I will allow her to avoid incarceration or get out of jail if she signs the consent to the procedure," Gillen told Hironimus' attorney Thomas Hunker, who said he did not know the whereabouts of his client or her son.


Comment: This judge is clearly incapable of determining what is important for the child. Using threats and bully tactics is unprofessional.


Comment: This is truly tragic. Phimosis usually corrects itself, no need to circumcise the boy. To have the courts intervene and force the procedure rather than get professional advice is a clear indication of how humanity has degraded itself into non-thinking, unnatural beings.

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Arrow Down

Nuclear waste has been dumped in fracking wells for decades

Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton
Activist Post
Thu, 05 Mar 2015 00:00 UTC
frackingstein
© Desconocido
Unearthed articles from the 1960s detail how nuclear waste was buried beneath the Earth's surface by Halliburton & Co. for decades as a means of disposing the by-products of post-World War II atomic energy production.

Fracking is already a controversial practice on its face; allowing U.S. industries to inject slurries of toxic, potentially carcinogenic compounds deep beneath the planet's surface — as a means of "see no evil" waste disposal — already sounds ridiculous, dangerous, and stupid anyway without even going into further detail.

Alleged fracking links to the contamination of the public water supply and critical aquifers, as well as ties to earthquake upticks near drilling locations that are otherwise not prone to seismic activity have created uproar in the years since the 2005 "Cheney loophole," which allowed the industry to circumvent the Safe Drinking Water Act by exempting fracking fluids, thus fast tracking shale fracking as a source of cheap natural gas.

Now, it is apparent that the fracking industry is also privy to many secrets of the nuclear energy industry and, specifically, where the bodies are buried, err... dangerous nuclear waste is buried, rather — waste that atomic researchers have otherwise found so difficult to eliminate.

Comment: One other disconcerting thought is that meteors are entering the atmosphere with increasing regularity. How likely is it that anyone in the industry has factored into the equation the potential dangers of an impact or overhead explosion occurring near a disposal site?? Not very likely!

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