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Alabama woman set to face trial accused of running 9-year-old granddaughter to death

Verna Gates
Raw Story
Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:02 UTC
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An Alabama woman accused of running her 9-year-old granddaughter to death as punishment for eating forbidden chocolates and lying about it was set to go on trial on Monday.

Joyce Hardin Garrard, 49, stands accused of forcing Savannah Hardin to run non-stop for three hours in February 2012. Authorities say the girl collapsed, went into seizures and died days later at a Birmingham hospital.

Hardin died from dehydration and low sodium, a condition common in marathon runners, Etowah County Sheriff's spokeswoman Natalie Barton said.

Hardin suffered from unspecified medical issues that resulted in frequent doctors visits, according to court documents.
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No charges filed yet against Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson


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Tue, 23 Sep 2014 08:35 UTC
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© PressTVMichael Brown’s death triggered weeks of protests and clashes between police and demonstrators in Ferguson, a predominantly black suburb of St. Louis.
More than a month after the fatal shooting of an unarmed African-American teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, no charges have been pressed against the white police officer who killed him.

Michael Brown, 18, was shot at least six times, including twice in the head, by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson on August 9.

There are conflicting reports from police and residents, but several witnesses say Brown held up his arms in surrender before he was repeatedly shot.

Benjamin Crump, a lawyer for Brown's family told the Times in August "the sheer number of bullets and the way they were scattered all over his body showed this police officer had a brazen disregard for the very people he was supposed to protect in that community."

His death triggered weeks of protests and clashes between police and demonstrators in Ferguson, a predominantly black suburb of St. Louis.

Activists want prosecutors to charge Wilson with murder, although he has continued his job on administrative leave as a police officer.

Wilson has spoken with investigators and testified before the grand jury, who is still considering his case.

Comment: Given the power and omnipotent nature of the police state, officer Wilson probably won't be charged with anything; he is above the law.

Profile of a Police State

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Man filming assault on woman attacked by same men going after her

Tom Boggioni
Raw Story
Sun, 21 Sep 2014 18:49 UTC
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© YouTubeSt. Louis assault on Andrew Doty
A St. Louis man who was filming a street assault on a woman was set upon by her attackers, demanding he quit filming them, until his girlfriend dispersed them with pepper spray, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Andrew Doty, a 27-year-old freelance editor, was strolling with his girlfriend when he came across three men beating a woman in the back seat of a Chevrolet Trailblazer. Doty took out his cell phone and began filming the encounter, as one man walked around the car, pointing and demanding, "Put that up."

According to Doty, "We knew someone was being attacked, and I immediately started filming. It was just something we felt obligated to do in the moment."

Refusing to to stop filming, Doty told the men, "You guys need to sort your shit out, and get it out of here. That's it. Stop fighting on the street."

While one man continued to hit the woman, another kept telling Doty to "Put that up," while bumping up against him, making Doty move backwards.
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Psychopath alert: Cop tasked with protecting children from pedophiles just confessed to being a pedophile

John Vibes
Free Thought Project
Thu, 18 Sep 2014 17:53 UTC
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38-year-old Gregory Pyle, of Crest Hill, Illinois, was sentenced to 50 years in prison this week after confessing to sexually abusing a child and distributing images of the attack online. Pyle was a 10-year veteran of his police department who actually worked in a child predator task force for a long period of time.


Comment: Pedophiles and child molesters often take jobs with youth serving organizations and like the above pedophile who worked in a child predator task force. For more information on pedophiles read: Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, And Other Sex Offenders Pyle or visit Anne Salters website.


Pyle admitted in court that in December of 2008, he took a young child out of state where he sexually abused the child and either recorded or took pictures of the abuse.

According to prosecutors, the child was under 12-years-old at the time and the evidence shows "sadistic, masochistic, and violent," behavior on the part of the former officer. It is not clear what Pyle's relationship was with the child or their parents, or under what pretenses he took the child out of state.
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Jon Stewart: Talking to GOP about climate change is like 'pushing a million pounds of idiot up a mountain'

Arturo Garcia
RawStory
Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:03 UTC
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Daily Show host Jon Stewart blasted three Republican congressmen on Monday for being climate change deniers sitting on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.

Stewart showed footage of Reps. Larry Buschon (R-IN), Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) and Steve Stockman (R-TX) each thinking they could counter White House scientific advisor John Holdren's evidence during a hearing last week, only to get shut down.

Meanwhile, Holdren, Stewart said, had the Sisyphean task of "pushing a million pounds of idiot up a mountain," including one exchange where Holdren told Buschon to "look at the scientific literature" regarding climate change.

In response, Buschon scoffed at reading findings from "climatologists whose career depends on the climate changing," saying, "I could read that, but I don't believe it."

Instead of reading the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Stewart said, Buschon was relying on the opinions of YouTube commenters like "Obummerlies1776″ for his opinions on climate change, and scoffing at people who study the phenomenon for a living.
"Since we're talking about the influence money might have on climate change opinion, it turns out Representative Buschon's three biggest campaign donors are Murray Energy, Koch Enterprises, and Peabody Energy," Stewart said. "And trust me, those three well-funded companies would love to disprove climate change to the satisfaction of the scientific community at large. So if scientists could be bought, these motherf*ckers would've already made it rain in nerdtown."

Comment: A big face palm! Although we can all agree there is climate change, learning about the the various reasons is critical in order to understand the influences of climate change in order to be better prepared. For more information read Laura's groundbreaking book: Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection.

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Shooting at Alabama UPS facility leaves 3 dead, including shooter


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Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:42 UTC
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Three people are confirmed dead in a shooting at the UPS Customer Center in the Inglenook community in north Birmingham.

Birmingham Police Chief A.C. Roper said that the suspected shooter is among the dead. The shooter was a male who was fired recently from the UPS Customer Center.

Police received multiple phone calls about an active shooter at 9:21 a.m. Tuesday. During the shooting, multiple employees fled from the building.

"When police officers entered the facility, they identified and located the three bodies, one of those is obviously the shooter, and it appeared he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound," Roper said.

The incident occured in the warehouse area near the offices. Roper said the person police believe to be shooter was wearing his UPS uniform.

"We have a pretty good idea of what transpired inside the business," Roper said.
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The contrast between elite approved and non-elite approved protests

Penny
Penny for your thoughts
Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:57 UTC
Really think the elites (bankers, multinationals, oil companies) don't approve of the AGW carbon control agenda? The proof is in the protests.

G-20 protests Toronto
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New armored vehicle a surprise to city leaders in Bozeman, Montana

Erin Schattauer
Bozeman Daily Chronicle
Mon, 22 Sep 2014 21:07 UTC
When Mayor Jeff Krauss logged onto Facebook on Friday night, he was surprised to learn the city owned a new armored rescue vehicle.

"It was a vehicle we never discussed. No one told me we needed this," Krauss said. "It raised a lot of questions for me."

The vehicle, a Lenco BearCat G3, was fully paid for by a grant through the Homeland Security Grant Program.

Typically, city staff approaches the City Commission for approval before applying for grants, but that didn't happen this time.

At Monday night's City Commission meeting, City Manager Chris Kukulski told commissioners that a mistake was made - the grant application never came before the City Commission.

In fact, only one city commissioner knew about it prior to the mayor seeing it on Facebook.

Commissioner Chris Mehl was on a police ride-along one night when he caught a glimpse of the vehicle parked at the Law and Justice Center.

Mehl admits he thought it was odd when he saw it, but he has talked with police and is convinced it's something the city needs.

"I hope that we never use this, but it was free," Mehl said.

Krauss isn't convinced.

He said adding the "urban assault vehicle" to the police department's fleet seems like an escalation of police activity.

"I'm not convinced that we need this. It had never been identified as a need in my 11 years here," Krauss said.

He added that the City Commission approves the addition of all vehicles, from police motorcycles to forestry trucks.

The matter will now go through the usual process. The grant application will go before the City Commission at an upcoming meeting.
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Child abuse: There should be no debate about corporal punishment

Laura Finley
Counterpunch.org
Sun, 21 Sep 2014 14:48 UTC
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It is impossible to have missed the many news stories in the past few weeks focusing on NFL players beating their loved ones. And, while many have denounced the vicious attacks perpetrated by players against their girlfriends and children, it continues to shock me that they also have so many defenders. I have written previously about Ray Rice and other players who are perpetrators of domestic violence, so my focus here is on the issue of child abuse.

Minnesota Vikings' star running back Adrian Peterson is facing charges in Texas for felony child abuse based on allegations that he beat his 4-year-old son with a "switch," or tree branch. Pictures of the boy show a series of bloody gashes and welts from the attack. Peterson told police that "the whooping" he gave his son was what he received as a child. It seems that Peterson may be repeat offender, as he was accused last year of beating another son who he said had been cursing. The boy's mother, a different woman than the mother of the child beaten with the switch, filed a report with Child Protective Services but no charges were ever brought against Peterson. Although the Vikings initially planned to allow Peterson to play this weekend, he is now suspended, with pay, of course, while the legal case is pending.

While the Vikings have finally acted, Vikings sponsor Radisson has suspended its support for the team, Nike suspended its contract with Peterson, and Target has removed all number 28 Vikings jerseys from its stores, many have rallied behind Peterson's alleged right to "discipline" his child. People from Peterson's home town of Palestine, Texas commented that corporal punishment is common in East Texas, is considered a family matter, and wouldn't impact their support for their hero. NBC NFL analyst Tony Dungy described having grown up with this type of discipline and commented about the need to give players a second chance, implying support for Peterson. Former NBA player, current analyst, and ever-loudmouth Charles Barkley commented on CBS Sports' NFL Today that "I'm from the South. Whipping is ... we do that all the time...Every black parent in the South is gonna be in jail under those circumstances. I think we have to be careful letting people dictate how they treat their children." NFL player Reggie Bush defended Peterson, claiming that he also "harshly disciplines" his 1-year-old daughter.
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On the Information Superhighway, there's no such thing as a true science denier

Tina Dupuy
Tinadupuy.com
Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:12 UTC
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Science isn't like religion in that you can't just pick and choose the science you don't concur with. You can't, say, believe in evolution, but not for species you think are gross. Or think gravity is a sound theory but it only pertains to left-handed Oregonians. Or accept atomic theory but only for people named Adam.

You get the idea; that's not by definition scientific. If you trust in the rigors of science: evidence, testing, peer review etc. - you're used to the fact that science is completely indifferent to your feelings. Yes, we all want the sun to revolve around the Earth and for plastic to be nutritious for sea creatures, but in science, wishing it were true doesn't make it so.

Religion, on the other hand, gets to be custom fitted. You can be a Christian and if you don't like the part in the Bible about being happy when smashing babies against rocks (Psalms 137:9), you can just ignore it. Or if you no longer think it's kosher to even say publicly, "I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet (1 Timothy 2:12)," you can be mum on that one too. Disagree with slavery? No problem. Want to wear something besides linen? That's fine. Go to Red Lobster religiously? Still OK.

Islam is the same in that respect. President Obama said ISIS, the insanely well-funded terrorist group (who are also don't believe in evolution), isn't Islamic. This is how sectarian wars start - one group degrading the piety of another group claiming to be more pure/better/cleaner/uncorrupted then they are. Instead of a holy war about whose god is better, it's a splinter fight over whom god likes more.

Comment: The author should take her own advice and support real science instead of Zombie science. The data and research behind global cooling and an impending ice age is growing and growing.

Below is a definition of Zombie science from Not even trying... The Corruption of real science:
When a branch of science based on incoherent, false or phoney theories is serving a useful but non-scientific purpose it may be kept-going by continuous transfusions of cash from those whose non-scientific interests it serves.

For example, if a branch of pseudo-science based on a phoney theory is nonetheless valuable for political purposes (e.g. to justify a government intervention such as a new tax) or for marketing purposes (to provide the rationale for a marketing campaign) then real science expires and a 'zombie science' evolves.

Zombie science is science that is dead but will not lie down. It keeps twitching and lumbering around so that (from a distance, and with your eyes half-closed) zombie science looks much like real science.

But in fact the zombie has no life of its own; it is animated and moved only by the incessant pumping of funds.

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Real science is coherent - and testable (testing being a matter of checking coherence with the result of past and future observations).

Real science finds its use, and gets its validation, from common sense evaluation and being deployed in technology.

Real science is validated (contingently) insofar as it leads to precise predictions that later come true; and leads to new ways of solving pressing problems and making useful changes in the world.

But zombie science is not coherent, therefore cannot be tested; its predications are vague or in fact retrospective summaries rather than predictions.

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In a nutshell, zombie science is supported because it is useful propaganda; trading on the prestige which real science used-to have and which zombie science falsely claims for itself.

Zombie science is deployed in arenas such as political rhetoric, public administration, management, public relations, marketing and the mass media generally. It persuades, it constructs taboos, it buttresses rhetorical attempts to shape opinion.

Furthermore, most zombie sciences are supported by moral imperatives - to doubt the zombie science is therefore labelled as wicked, reckless, a tool of sinister and destructive forces.

To challenge zombie science is not merely to attack the livelihoods of zombie scientists (which, considering their consensus-based power, is itself dangerous) - but opens the attacker to being labelled a luddite, demagogue, anti-science, a denialist!

For all its incoherence and scientific worthlessness, zombie science therefore often comes across in the sound bite world of the mass media as being more plausible than real science; and it is precisely the superficial face-plausibility which in actuality is the sole and sufficient purpose of zombie science.
Climate Science is Zombie Science

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