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Five children among eight shot and killed as psycho Houston man goes on rampage

Diane Schiller, Susan Carroll, Lauren Caruba and Lomi Kriel
Houston Chronicle
Sun, 09 Aug 2015 14:25 UTC
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© Jon Shapley, Houston ChronicleHarris County Sheriffs Office deputies investigate after finding eight people dead inside a home in the 2200 block of Falling Oaks Road, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015, in Houston.
The man accused in the murderous rampage that left five children and three adults dead inside a northwest Harris County home climbed through an open window, tied everyone up and shot each one in the head, according to prosecutors.

"He restrained, shot and killed eight people," Celeste Byrom, an assistant district attorney said during a brief court hearing in which David Ray Conley III, 49, who is charged with multiple counts of capital murder, was ordered held without bail.

One of the dead, Valerie Jackson, had recently changed the locks, but Conley was still able to get inside the home as a window had been left unlocked, according to the prosecutor. The charging documents identify four of the victims: Valerie Jackson, Jonah Jackson, 6, Trinity Jackson and Nathaniel Conley. No other ages or relations are provided.

Conley has a history of domestic violence that dates back to at least 2000. He has previously threatened and attacked Jackson, who listed her address in those court papers as the house in the 2100 block of Falling Oaks where the bodies were discovered.

Authorities have not yet revealed the names of all the dead, but those identified include Jackson.
He was last arrested in July for allegedly smashing Jackson's head into a refrigerator multiple times, after she fought to get a belt from him that he said he was going to use to discipline one of her children for staying out late.

In another case, a Harris County judge in 2013 issued an emergency protective order to keep Conley away from Jackson who was later sentenced to nine months in jail.

Comment: Dangerous men are sometimes hard to spot, especially since our society does not teach those skills at home or in school. If they all looked and acted like Charles Manson, it would be much easier to save yourself (and your children) from people like this. Learn how to avoid them - read Sandra Brown's book, How To Spot A Dangerous Man Before You Get Involved.

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Attention

Feds hijack your right to grow your own food

Christina Sarich
Natural Society
Sat, 08 Aug 2015 19:31 UTC
vegetables
No gardening allowed.
In a document quietly signed into law a few years ago, your right to grow your own food was surreptitiously taken away and given to the Federal government through the right of 'seizure' given to the Feds, by the Feds. Was this a preemptive strike to make all Americans dependent upon corporations like Monsanto, Syngenta, Dow, Bayer, etc. for food?

The document is titled executive order 13603: "National Defense Resources Preparedness." In this 10-page document the federal government declares its right to seize control of many things - from 'all forms of energy' to 'all useable water sources' - and perhaps most alarming:
"All commodities and products that are capable of being ingested by either human beings or animals."
That means food.

Comment: Self-sufficiency and self-sustainability have no place in America.

See also: Your votes don't count: Politicians against labeling of GMO's were huge beneficiaries of BigAg donations

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Light Saber

Scotland to ban growing genetically modified crops


RT
Sun, 09 Aug 2015 16:21 UTC
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© Pascal Rossignol/Reuters
Scotland says it will ban genetically modified crops on its soil. According to officials, the move will protect the environment. They are also taking advantage of new EU laws, allowing member states to decide whether they want to grow the crops or not.

Although the EU imports large quantities of GM crops from abroad, it is less sure about growing them on their own soil. Some environmental groups are worried about the impact they could have on the countryside, while there are also concerns over health issues for humans, despite producers of the crops insisting they are safe.

Only Monsanto's maize MON810, which is cultivated in Spain and Portugal, is currently on sale for human consumption within the EU.

"Scotland is known around the world for our beautiful natural environment - and banning growing genetically modified crops will protect and further enhance our clean, green status," Richard Lochhead, the Scottish government's minister for the environment, food and rural affairs, said in a statement.

The politician also added there was no public demand for introducing GM crops.

"There is no evidence of significant demand for GM products by Scottish consumers and I am concerned that allowing GM crops to be grown in Scotland would damage our clean and green brand, thereby gambling with the future of our £14 billion ($22 billion) food and drink sector," Lochhead added.

Comment: More and more countries are recognizing who the terrorist are when it comes to our food supply. Bravo Scotland!

Down with Monsanto: Increasing number of countries banning cancer causing glyphosate and GMO's

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Chart Pie

A record 93,770,000 Americans unemployed

Carolina May
Breitbart
Fri, 07 Aug 2015 16:08 UTC
The number of people not in the labor force reached another record high in July, according to new jobs data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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The BLS reports that 93,770,000 people (16 and older) were neither employed last month nor had made specific efforts to find work in the prior four weeks.

The number of people outside the workforce in July increased 144,000 over June's record when 93,626,000 were not in the workforce.

July's labor force participation rate however remained the the same as June at 62.6 percent. Before last month the labor force participation rate had not been that low since October 1977, when the participation rate was 62.4 percent.

The BLS reports that the civilian labor force did experience a slight uptick from 157,037,000 in June to 157,106,000 in July after the month of June saw it drop by 432,000.

While the labor participation rate remains at the lowest its been since the late 1970s, the BLS highlighted that the unemployment rate remained at 5.3 percent and nonfarm payroll jobs increased by 215,000.

Comment: When the government tells you that we are recovering economically, they are lying to you. Things are going to get worse.

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Woman accuses police of sexual assault and threatening to break her legs

Bethania Palma Markus
Raw Story
Fri, 07 Aug 2015 12:57 UTC
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© Screenshot/ABC13Charnesia Corley
A Texas woman says she suffered a nightmare scenario in which Harris County sheriff's deputies sexually assaulted her in public during a traffic stop last month.

Charnesia Corley, 21, said officers with the Harris County Sheriff's Department made her pull her pants down and did a body cavity search without her consent while she was lying in a gas station parking lot, according to ABC13.

Corley was driving to a nearby market when she was stopped by deputies. The department told the station she was pulled over for running a stop sign. After stopping her, the deputy ordered Corley out of her car because he said he smelled weed. He cuffed her and placed her in his patrol vehicle parked at a gas station.

After searching Corley's car and finding nothing, the deputy returned to his car and said he smelled pot there. He called for a female deputy to search Corley, who ordered Corley out of the car and onto the ground.
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Pistol

Police shoot and kill unarmed college football player

Sneha Shankar
Raw Story
Sat, 08 Aug 2015 12:42 UTC
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© TwitterChristian Taylor
An unarmed college football player was shot and killed by a police officer in suburban Dallas, Texas Friday, after he crashed his car through the front window of a car dealership. The teenager, who is black, was identified as 19-year-old Christian Taylor of Arlington, who was enrolled as a sophomore at Angelo State University in San Angelo.

The Arlington Police Department said in a statement, cited by the Associated Press, that officers were responding to a burglary call at 1.a.m. on Friday, when they discovered a car had been driven through the front window of the Classic Buick GMC dealership. The statement added that there was a struggle after the officer approached Taylor, who was a 2014 graduate of Mansfield Summit High School and a football player. The officer, identified as Brad Miller, 49, shot Taylor during the altercation. Miller, who was placed on administrative leave after the incident, has been with the department since last September after graduating from the police academy in March. He had been working under the supervision of a training officer.
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Mr. Potato

Government agency tries firing dead man

Scott Beale
Sputnik
Sat, 08 Aug 2015 02:17 UTC
Geoffrey Toliver
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The New York City Human Resources Administration moved to fire an employee for missing 18 months of work.

The man's excuse?

He was dead.

Geoffrey Toliver, a Medicaid-eligibility specialist, died of cancer at age 65 on Dec. 8, 2014.

Even though an obituary had been written about him and published online, the HRA recently filed charges against Toliver and an administrative-law judge supported his firing noting that Toliver had failed to show up for his hearing.

"How do you fire a man who is already dead? He deserves better. The agency itself should have known," said Ted Willbright, who considers Toliver as a brother. "Some people he worked with were very supportive, so how did HRA, the organization, not know? He's dead and they're saying he abandoned his job. He didn't abandon his job. His job abandoned him. He was a good man. Truly, truly a good man."

The HRA said it had sent Toliver several calls and letters which weren't answered. The agency marked the begin date of his absence as Nov. 12, 2013.

"We did everything we could to contact him and his family," said HRA spokesman David Neustadt. "This employee was not paid when he wasn't working, but we left his job open in case he recovered."

However, Toliver's brother Anthony said he believed the agency was aware of his brother's passing.

"It's my understanding that my brother's family spoke directly to his supervisor during his long hospitalization and informed them of his death," Anthony said.

According to an obituary, Toliver was born in Harlem and "very well liked by his colleagues."

Comment:
How much stupider can it get? We should be afraid of the answer!

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Handcuffs

Man sentenced to 30 years of jail for insulting the Thai monarchy on Facebook

Glyn Moody
arstechnica.co.uk
Sat, 08 Aug 2015 01:35 UTC
A man has been sentenced to 30 years of imprisonment for insulting Thailand's monarchy on Facebook. The long jail term was imposed under the country's harsh lèse-majesté law (literally "injured majesty"), which lays down that anyone convicted of insulting the king, queen, heir, or regent faces up to 15 years in prison on each count.
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As The Guardian reports, Bangkok's military court found Pongsak Sriboonpeng, 48, guilty of "posting messages and pictures defaming the monarchy in six posts on the social media site." Although he faced a possible 90 years in prison, the court imposed "only" 60 years—ten years for each insulting post—which was then halved because he pleaded guilty.

His lawyer pointed out that this is a new record for the law, and noted that there could be no appeal against the sentence, since it was imposed by a military court in a country still under martial law. The Guardian article says that convictions for lèse-majesté have increased dramatically since Thailand's generals seized power from the elected government in May 2014.

Comment: And this isn't the first case. This is a common case in Thailand where people cannot say anything about their monarchy. Same with the majority of countries where monarchies still exist.

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Family

5 women killed in India by villagers who accused them of being witches

Tim Macfarlan
Daily Mail, UK
Sat, 08 Aug 2015 16:39 UTC
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Police officers talk to villagers following the killing. Jharkhand police spokesman S.N. Pradhan claimed some had ganged up on the force, accusing them of the murders
Five women have been beaten to death by dozens of villagers in India who accused them of practicing witchcraft and blamed them for a series of misfortunes in the area.

Residents of Kinjia village, around 40km (25 miles) from Jharkhand state capital Ranchi, dragged the women out of their homes and attacked them with sticks and iron rods on Saturday, said Arun Kumar Singh, a deputy inspector-general of police in Ranchi.

The attackers blamed the women for several accidents and misfortunes suffered by villagers, including the death of an infant in Kinjia earlier in the week, Singh said.

Jharkhand police spokesman S.N. Pradhan said the villagers also used stones and knives after blaming the five women for bringing illness, poor crops and bad luck on the village through witchcraft.

'It looks like the village held a grudge against these women for a very long time, holding them responsible for... various misfortunes,' Pradhan told AFP.
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Arrow Down

Economic reality and market fantasy

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.com
Fri, 07 Aug 2015 18:46 UTC
global economy
In the mind of a schizophrenic person, internal elements of fantasy (negative and positive) are made manifest in the psyche and projected out onto the real world. Often, the daydream images of the mind are not merely images to them. Rather, what they imagine subconsciously becomes reality. Their faculties of observation become so limited, either due to a reaction to trauma or merely an inherent inability to cope, that they cannot decipher between fact and fiction. A person could go on like this for quite some time if all his needs are provided for by someone else. But the moment that support ends (and it will), the realities of necessity, not to mention supply and demand, take hold. One cannot live in a schizophrenic world indefinitely.

The current global mishmash of interdependent and socialized economies are, at bottom, schizophrenic. Our markets are not based in any fundamental reality. There is very little tangible foundation left to stand on, and this has been the case for several years. Yet some people might argue that since the derivatives crash of 2008, most of the world has continued to walk on air and there is little for us to worry about.
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