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Sheriff

Autopsy shows police shot teen in back, contradicting police claims


Sputnik
Fri, 21 Aug 2015 18:32 UTC
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A young black man, who was killed by police in St. Louis this week, died from a gunshot to the back, according to the results of an autopsy.

An autopsy of 18-year-old Mansur Ball-Bey, who was killed by St. Louis policemen on Wednesday, has revealed that he died from a single wound in the back, media reports quoted police officials as saying.

It was earlier reported that St. Louis police officers killed the 18-year-old while conducting a search on his home.

Police claimed that two suspects had been attempting to flee, when the young man pointed a gun at officers and refused to drop it, prompting them to shoot and kill him. The other man remains on the run.
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Bulb

NSA, Bush, and Cheney sued by former Salt Lake City mayor for spying during 2002 Winter Olympic Games


RT
Fri, 21 Aug 2015 16:47 UTC
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The former mayor of Salt Lake City is suing former President George W. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney and the National Security Agency for spying on the city during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.

Attorney and former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson filed a class-action lawsuit Tuesday in a US district court, accusing the Bush administration and the NSA of illegal blanket surveillance in the Salt Lake City Area before and during the Olympic games, which were held only months after the 9/11 attacks.

"I've reactivated my Bar license, and I decided that if nobody else is going to do it, I have to do it," Anderson told RT. "We can't stand by and watch this kind of law-breaking, this massive criminality and incursions on our rights to privacy."

Anderson heard about the spying from a 2013 report in the Wall Street Journal and has since confirmed it with an unnamed, "high-ranking" NSA source.
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USA

Retired Army veteran who endured rough arrest by cops "ashamed to be American"

Arturo Garcia
Raw Story
Thu, 20 Aug 2015 15:37 UTC
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© WSB-TVRetired Army Gen. William J. Livsey
A retired four-star Army general and his neighbors accused police in Fayetteville, Georgia of using excessive force to arrest him following an alleged dispute with a food delivery driver.

"It's the first time in my life I'm ashamed to be an American," 84-year-old William J. Livsey told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "They took me away without my shoes, glasses or medicine. I fought for this country so hard, and I've tried to do good all my life."

Livsey was arrested at his home on Saturday and charged with simple assault, robbery, misdemeanor obstruction, theft and making terroristic threats. Police said he grabbed the driver by the throat and pinned him against a refrigerator when Livsey's debit card was not accepted and the driver said he could not take a check to pay for an order.
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Eye 2

Cop faces life in prison for allegedly forcing 7-year-old girl to perform oral sex

David Edwards
Raw Story
Thu, 20 Aug 2015 15:29 UTC
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© Orleans Parish Sheriff's OfficeNOPD Officer Michael Thomassie
New Orleans police officer is facing life in prison over allegations that he raped a 7-year-old girl and forced her to perform oral sex on him.

At a court hearing on Wednesday, child abuse investigator Sgt. Lawrence Jones testified that he found it suspicious that Officer Michael Thomassie, a 13-year veteran with the NOPD, had failed to notify his supervisors after he was accused of raping his girlfriend's daughter.

"You don't keep that a secret," Jones told the court, The Times-Picayune reported. "You let a supervisor know about something as serious as that. It's a requirement for the police department to report if you're being accused of a crime."

In testimony on Wednesday, the victim, who is now 19, said that she was about 7 years old when Thomassie penetrated her in the living room of their home. She said he then told her to go into the living room, where he forced her to perform oral sex.

The mother told the court that she remembered screaming when she woke up from her nap to find her daughter being raped.
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Bad Guys

Pastor sentenced to 7 years in prison for defrauding elderly investors

Bethania Palma Markus
Raw Story
Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:09 UTC
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Jim Staley delivering a sermon in April
Missouri pastor at a church called "Passion for Truth Ministries" will serve prison time for lying to and defrauding elderly investors, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.

Jim Staley, 40, was sentenced Wednesday to 7 years in prison and ordered to repay elderly investors $3.3 million. He pleaded guilty to four counts of wire fraud and profited $570,000 in the scam of elderly people who trusted him because of his Christian faith and family values. Some of them were suffering from dementia.

Although he apologized, the daughter of a man who lost $155,000 in Staley's scam said it wasn't sincere and was staged for church members.

His victims were not members of his parish.
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Snakes in Suits

Anonymous essay details shocking practice of doctors sexually abusing unconscious patients

David Ferguson
Raw Story
Tue, 18 Aug 2015 15:05 UTC
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An essay published on Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine detailed the shocking practice of doctors abusing patients who are anesthetized into unconsciousness.

The anonymous author described a class session in medical humanities in which he was talking to young doctors about the power of forgiveness. One student, named David for the essay — titled "Our Family Secrets" — raised his hand and said that he had seen something unforgivable in the course of his clinical residency.

"I was scrubbed into a vaginal hysterectomy," said David. "The patient was under general anesthesia. My attending was prepping the patient's vagina. He picked up a clamp holding sterile cotton balls and dipped them into Betadine. While he was cleansing and scrubbing her labia and inner thighs, he looked at me and said, 'I bet she's enjoying this.' My attending winked at me and laughed."

The experience disgusted him, the student said.

"Man, I was just standing there trying to learn. The guy was a dirtball. It still pisses me off," he said.
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Bomb

Children pose for pictures near unexploded WWII mine they thought was a buoy

Lydia Willgress
Daily Mail
Fri, 21 Aug 2015 11:46 UTC
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Kelly Gravell was on a beach near Burry Port, Carmarthenshire, with her two children last Wednesday when they posed for photographs next to an unexploded World War II mine.

A family narrowly avoided disaster after posing for photographs next to an unexploded World War II mine they thought was a buoy.

Kelly Gravell was on a beach near Burry Port, Carmarthenshire, with her two children last Wednesday when they discovered the seaweed-covered object.

The 32-year-old was left stunned when the beach was closed five days later after Carmarthenshire Council rangers spotted the 70-year-old bomb and called in the bomb squad to blow it up.

Comment: The legacy of WWII and other wars linger as bombs and mines still litter the landscape.

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Snakes in Suits

Snakes in suits: City of London fraudsters stealing millions from vulnerable pensioners in toxic scams


RT
Thu, 20 Aug 2015 13:38 UTC
The City of London
© Stefan Wermuth / ReutersThe City of London - playground for psychopaths
Ruthless white collar criminals in the City of London are targeting large numbers of vulnerable Brits, luring them into investment scams, stealing their hard earned cash and driving some to commit suicide, it has emerged.

Soaring levels of investment fraud across London have caused serious alarm, as UK authorities scramble to disrupt fraudsters and salvage the City's reputation as a safe space to invest.

Dozens of suspected criminals have been arrested in recent months as detectives arrived unannounced at offices around London's financial district, the Financial Times revealed on Thursday.

The scams are varied, meticulously constructed and devastating to those whose funds they steal.

Detective Inspector Teresa Russell of the City of London Police said growing reports of financial crime in the City have forced anti-fraud authorities to take urgent action.

"We saw a spike in investment fraudsters operating in the City of London. Reports of fraud were getting to the point where we were almost imploding," she told the Financial Times.

"We thought: 'How can we tackle this in a different way?' We need to get ahead of the curve."

Comment: These 'toxic scams', particularly the brand emanating from the nefarious City of London, are widespread and affect far more than the savings of these vulnerable pensioners: Corruption in Science: Francesco Fucilla and the Telesio-Galilei Academy of Science. See also:

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Post-It Note

How to endure a collapsing empire

Joshua Krause
Ready Nutrition
Fri, 21 Aug 2015 00:27 UTC
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While the United States has done everything in its power to convince the world and its own citizens, that it's just a freedom loving democracy or republic, many of us know better. With hundreds of military bases scattered across the globe, the largest military budget on the planet, and a growing police state at home, it's plainly obvious that the US is really just another empire.

The only problem with empires (ethical concerns aside) is that they always collapse, one way or another. And since the standard of living of their people is tied directly to their ability to conquer and dominate, the collapse of an empire often has some rather unsavory results for their citizens, at least temporarily.

Comment: For more listen to this episode of Sott Talk Radio: Surviving the End of the World (as we Know it)

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Top Secret

'We are not amused': The FBI had a 12-page file on George Carlin

John Vibes
Activist Post
Thu, 20 Aug 2015 22:05 UTC
George Carlin
Comedian George Carlin is known as one of the most controversial and outspoken entertainers of his time and, as far as the government is concerned, he could have possibly been a terrorist.

He went into great detail about corruption in government and business.

During the 1978 Supreme Court case, FCC v Pacifica Foundation, the government cited Carlin's work as an example of profanity. They used his "Seven Dirty Words" segment to show the type of language that was being used in records and broadcasts. However, the government's interest in his work did not stop there.

Just after his 1969 appearance on the Jackie Gleason show, Carlin caught the attention of the FBI because he made jokes about then-FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover. According to the government, Carlin had "referred to the Bureau and the Director in a satirical vein."
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