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Government buildings in Lugansk region in East Ukraine taken over by anti-Kiev protesters


RT
Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:51 UTC
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© RIA Novosti / Vitaly Belousov
Anti-government protesters have taken control of the regional administration building and prosecutor's office in the city of Lugansk, eastern Ukraine. Protests continue as the deadline for the protesters' ultimatum to the government expired.

For more videos and photos from the scene, follow RT's stringer Graham Phillips on Twitter

"The building is ours. That's it," local protest leader Oleg Dereko told RIA Novosti.

"A regional administration building has been taken by storm," an activist who asked not to be named has told RT. "A coordination committee and militia are now inside and are getting ready for an emergency meeting."

The Ukrainian flag on the building has been replaced with Russia's tricolor.
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Best of the Web: Capital punishment: A gruesome spectacle of suffering and a messy display of incompetence

Austin Sarat
Boston Globe
Sun, 27 Apr 2014 11:00 UTC
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Earlier this month, the New Hampshire State Senate deadlocked on a vote to repeal the state's death penalty, tying 12 to 12 and leaving the law in place. The vote, though a disappointment to opponents of capital punishment, was hardly a serious blow to the abolitionist cause. There is just one person on New Hampshire's death row, and it has no execution chamber. No one has been put to death there since Howard Long was hanged in 1939.

But in keeping its death penalty, New Hampshire did preserve a strange distinction: It is one of three states where hanging still is a legal method of execution.

If it seems surprising, even brutal, that hanging would still be technically legal in 2014, that's because the evolution of the death penalty in America has been so closely entwined with our belief in technological progress. As executions have evolved from one method to the next - from hanging to electrocution, from electrocution to lethal gas, from electrocution and gas to lethal injection - supporters have proclaimed the dawning of an era of more humane executions while denouncing previous methods as barbaric and unreliable. The story of execution in the United States is partly a story of technology making a final punishment less painful and cruel.
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Fatalities in munitions depot explosions in East Siberia


RT
Wed, 30 Apr 2014 11:31 UTC
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Still from Vesti video
At least 11 people were killed and 13 others seriously injured in a series of explosions at a munitions depot in Russia's East Siberia, authorities in Zabaykalsky Krai stated.

It was earlier reported that ten people were feared dead.

Those who were injured have sustained burns and four remain in critical condition. Another 12 people sought medical assistance, but did not require treatment in hospital.

Russia's defense ministry stated that authorities were able to localize the fire around the arsenal and local village.

About 400 people have been evacuated from nearby towns and villages in Zabaykalsky Krai.
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Fort Worth vet accused of keeping animals alive for blood transfusions, experimental treatments


Star-telegram
Tue, 29 Apr 2014 08:59 UTC
Authorities raided a popular veterinary clinic Tuesday morning after a woman said that a dog she took in to be euthanized was being kept alive and used for blood transfusions.
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© Star-Telegram Khampha BouaphahnFort Worth police were part of a raid at the Camp Bowie Animal Clinic in west Fort Worth Tuesday morning.
Fort Worth police and officers from the Texas Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners spent several hours at the Camp Bowie Animal Clinic at 5709 Lovell Ave., in west Fort Worth. Two dogs were seized by animal control officers, authorities said.

Lou Tierce, a long-time Fort Worth veterinarian, is accused of deceiving Jamie and Marian Harris of Aledo into believing that their 5-year-old Leonberger named Sid was euthanized last fall because of a degenerative spinal condition.

In fact, Sid was being "bled" for plasma and other experimental treatments, Marian Harris said.

"The biggest hurt in all of this is the deception and what it means with something that means so much to you," she said. "Our pets are family members."

The family filed a complaint with the state last week.
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Light Sabers

Far-right gangs clash at yet another torchlit nighttime rally in Kiev, this time on anniversary of Hitler's death


RT
Wed, 30 Apr 2014 08:51 UTC
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Return to Europe's 'never again': EU-funded Blackshirts with flaming torches are on the march in Kiev...
A massive fight broke out on Kiev's landmark Independence Square (Maidan) on Tuesday night, with shots and explosives being heard, according to Ukrainian media. There are reports of injuries.

Eye witnesses described over 100 people, reportedly members of the far-right Social-National Assembly, marching with burning torches towards Maidan - the epicenter of the massive uprising that removed former President Yanukovich from power. The marchers came to commemorate those killed during anti-government protests in December-February.

Maidan self-defense units blocked the rally at the barricades across from the main post office, prompting a massive fight.

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Symbolic? Plane's engine catches fire in Western Australia


Associated Press
Tue, 29 Apr 2014 08:22 UTC
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© AAPA plane has made an emergency landing in Perth after flames were spotted coming from its engine.
A plane carrying 97 people made an emergency landing in western Australia on Tuesday after one of its engines caught fire. No one was injured.

Cobham Aviation Services said one of the plane's four engines caught fire as it was climbing shortly after takeoff from Perth Airport.

"When the fire was detected, the engine was shut down and the fire extinguished," the company said in a statement. "There were no injuries among the 92 passengers or two pilots and three cabin crew."

The British Aerospace BAe 146 jet, which had been heading to Barrow Island off the west Australian coast, returned to Perth and landed safely. The cause of the fire was under investigation.

Passenger Jason Grimmett said he was sitting near the engine that caught fire.
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Another case of mind controlled violence or manufactured terror? FedEx facility shooting in Georgia leaves 6 injured, suspect dead

Tami Chappel
Reuters
Tue, 29 Apr 2014 07:09 UTC
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A FedEx Corp package handler armed with a shotgun opened fire at a shipping facility in suburban Atlanta early on Tuesday, injuring six people before killing himself, apparently with his own weapon, police and hospital officials said.

Three people were in critical condition, two of them with life-threatening injuries, after being shot by the 19-year-old gunman just before 6 a.m. EDT at a FedEx warehouse near the airport in Kennesaw, Georgia, about 30 miles northwest of Atlanta, police and hospital officials said.

The shooter, identified as Geddy L. Kramer of Acworth, Georgia, drove up to the security guard shack at the warehouse and shot the guard before entering the warehouse where he shot the other five people, according to police.

FedEx employee Liza Aiken told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution she was correcting addresses on packages when she saw a colleague dressed in black and armed with a knife, gun and a cartridge belt strapped across this chest.

Comment: Read the following book by Joe Quinn and Niall Bradley to learn more about increasing insanity in the US:
Manufactured Terror: The Boston Marathon Bombings, Sandy Hook, Aurora Shooting and Other False Flag Terror Attacks
In this SOTT.net anthology, Joe Quinn and Niall Bradley cover the biggest mass shootings and terror attacks in recent memory: from the Fort Hood, Sandy Hook, Washington Navy Yard and Aurora theater shootings to the Boston Marathon bombing and Toulouse attacks. Included are original, on-the-spot reports and subsequent analyses showing the contradictions and distortions in the official accounts. After looking at all the evidence, it's clear we have not been told the truth about these attacks. From eyewitness reports of multiple shooters to intelligence-agency connections, the major attacks in recent years show all the hallmarks of manufactured terror.


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Thousands surround Int. Ministry HQ in Lugansk, demand police surrender


RT
Tue, 29 Apr 2014 05:02 UTC
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© Reuters / Vasily Fedosenko
Anti-government protesters have surrounded the Interior Ministry office in Lugansk, after seizing the city's regional administration building and prosecutor's office.

Several hours into the gathering, a large crowd of people remains outside. According to live stream footage from the scene, the mood of the crowd is mostly joyful with people singing songs and joking. Protesters are demanding that police surrender and leave the HQ. A group of people formed a "human corridor" through which they want police to leave the building. From time to time, protesters chanted pro-Russian slogans.
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Florida man arrested for filming another arrest


RT
Tue, 29 Apr 2014 04:47 UTC
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A Florida man is facing criminal charges after an officer arrested him - all for taping the officer as he attempted to detain another individual.

The incident began on St. Patrick's Day, when Miami-Dade Officer Michael Valdez arrived at a store in Cutler Bay in order to arrest the owner on misdemeanor traffic charges. Freelance disc jockey Lazaro Estrada was performing a promotional event at the time Valdez arrived, and started recording the arrest on his smartphone.

According to CBS Miami, Estrada said he started taping the incident when the officer threw the handcuffed owner down onto the sidewalk. Valdez can be seen signaling to Estrada to move away, and the disc jockey can be seen stepping back into the store, though he continues recording.
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Wikipedia is worthless and damaging

Nigel Scott
Spiked-Online
Tue, 29 Apr 2014 03:37 UTC
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A man knocks at your door. You answer and he tells you he is an encyclopaedia salesman.

'I have the largest and most comprehensive encyclopaedia the world has ever seen', he says.

'Tell me about it!'

'It has more editors and more entries than any other encyclopaedia ever. Most of the contributors are anonymous and no entry is ever finished. It is constantly changing. Any entry may be different each time you go back to it. Celebrities and companies pay PR agencies to edit entries. Controversial topics are often the subject of edit wars that can go on for years and involve scores of editors. Pranksters and jokers may change entries and insert bogus facts. Whole entries about events that never happened may be created. Other entries will disappear without notice. Experts may be banned from editing subjects that they are leading authorities on, because they are cited as primary sources. University academics and teachers warn their students to exercise extreme caution when using it. Nothing in it can be relied on. You will never know whether anything you read in it is true or not. Are you interested?'

'I'll think about it', you say, and close the door.
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