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Cops out of control in America: Shocking surveillance video captures cop brutally beating female shoplifter


The Daily Mail, UK
Fri, 09 Aug 2013 05:50 UTC

An Iowa mother is being advised by a civil rights organization after surveillance video recently emerged of her being viciously beaten by a police officer, apparently without provocation.

Brandie Redell admits that she was trying to shoplift around $388 of women's clothing from the Von Maur department store in Davenport on February .

Yet when she was caught and questioned by police she says that Officer Scott Crow repeatedly punched her, leaving her hospitalized with an eye swollen shut and vision that is now 70 per cent impaired. Crow remains in his job and Redell is planning legal action.

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Damage: The punches left Redell needing hospital treatment and she says permanent impairment to her vision
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Americans renouncing citizenship surge 66%

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Thu, 08 Aug 2013 03:05 UTC
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A massive 1,131 individuals renounced their US citizenship last quarter, according to data that has yet to be officially released (though I was able to procure an advanced copy).

This is a HUGE jump.

Compared to the same quarter last year in which 188 people renounced their US citizenship, this year's number is over SIX TIMES higher.

Not to mention, it's 66.5% higher than last quarter's 679 renunciations.

This brings the total number of renunciations so far this year to 1,810.

While still embryonic, it's difficult to ignore this trend - more and more people are starting to renounce their US citizenship.
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Apple Red

Signal Mountain's mystery bowl of fruit piques drivers' interest

Kevin Hardy
TimesFreePress
Thu, 08 Aug 2013 23:52 UTC
Bowl of Fruit
© John RawlstonA bowl of fruit and dried beans rests atop a rock alongside Signal Mountain Boulevard.
Alert: An abandoned bowl of apples and oranges has been found on the edge of the highway coming down from Signal Mountain.

If you know the owner or why the fruit is sitting so neatly inside a wok perched precariously high on a rock between the two-laned road and a deadly drop of several hundred feet to the Tennessee River below, please reveal yourself.

Were they left for the birds? Was it a teenage prank? Or some kind of cult sacrifice? Was it left by a bargainer shopping at the world's longest yard sale?

Just spill the beans. The mystery is maddening for some mountaintop residents.

Sure, there are more important things to fret about than fruit. But you have to understand: On Signal Mountain, people usually know what's going on. And they know it fast.

"Nobody knows how it got there," said Pam Morrison, who lives in Walden. "A lot of people have seen it and nobody knows anything about it."
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Horse found slaughtered, dismembered in Miami Gardens


CBS Miami
Wed, 07 Aug 2013 12:38 UTC
Horse Hoof
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Miami Gardens - A grisly discovery was made Wednesday morning in Miami Gardens when the bloody body of a slaughtered and dismembered horse was found dumped in the city's warehouse district.

In the past, the bodies of slaughtered horses have been found in wooded areas, away from the public, but that wasn't the case Wednesday.

According to South Florida SPCA President Jeanette Jordan, it appeared the horse was slaughtered somewhere else and the remains were dumped at 5295 NW 163rd Street.

Laurie Waggoner, Director of Operations for the South Florida Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was called to the scene by the Miami Gardens Police Department.

"The slaughter of horses in our community continues unabated," stated Ms. Waggoner. "The only difference in this case, is the remains were disposed of in an extremely public area."
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Thieves dressed as ghosts strike across Sweden

John Roberts
YourJewishNews
Thu, 08 Aug 2013 23:32 UTC
Ghost
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People in Sweden have been suffering recently from thieves, who dress in ghost costumes, according to police reports.

Now, police in Sweden are warning tourists in Stockholm, to be on the lookout for people in ghosts costumes, who try to distract their victims and then pick their pockets.

Police said that tourists have reported that their pockets were picked while they were distracted by people wearing white sheets with white face paint.

"The thieves are always finding new methods. Often, the theft is carried out using some sort of distraction. They come onto people very strongly and aggressively, which scares people," Stockholm police spokesperson Gunnar Thun said.

"Many tourists think that Stockholm is a safe city. It is indeed a pretty safe city when it comes to violent crimes, but not when it comes to crimes against personal property. People got robbed often here," Thun said.

He warned tourists to watch out from the ghosts. "People should keep a safe distance from them," he said.
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Piggy Bank

Best of the Web: Woman weeps over Social Security cuts: 'There's no way for me to eat less!'

David Edwards
The Raw Story
Thu, 08 Aug 2013 08:42 UTC
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A woman broke into tears at a town hall event with Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) during a discussion about President Barack Obama's plan to reduce Social Security cost of living increases.

Throughout this year, the White House has been considering adopting what's known as chained CPI, a less generous way of calculating Social Security cost-of-living increases that assumes seniors will change their buying habits as certain items become more expensive.

Compared with the current model, advocacy group Social Security Works has said that a person who began drawing Social Security at the age of 62 would be receiving 7.32 percent less in benefits per year by the age of 88 under chained CPI.

"I'm sorry to say that the president of my own party has advocated this and he's wrong," Harkin told a group of seniors at a retirement center on Tuesday. "I'm so tired of people saying we've got to cut Social Security. I thought, we got to come back and say something, no, you've got to increase Social Security."

Comment: Millions of people are living in poverty, while the elites are sitting on mountains of cash. The government claims cuts are necessary to "balance the budget", yet there is always plenty of money to fund the endless war of terror.
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Russia destroys over 75% of its chemical weapons stockpile


RIA Novosti
Thu, 08 Aug 2013 17:21 UTC
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© RIA NovostiRussia Destroys Over 75% of Its Chemical Weapons Stockpile
Russia has destroyed more than 30,000 metric tons of chemical warfare agents, or about 76 percent of its chemical weapons stockpile, Russia's industry and trade minister said Thursday.

Russia has destroyed more chemical agents than any other of the 180 signees of the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention, Minister Denis Manturov said while visiting a chemical weapons disposal facility in the Bryansk Region, which borders Ukraine and Belarus.

More than 500 inspections of Russia's chemical weapons stockpile have been conducted since the convention came into effect, and not a single violation has been detected in this respect, the official added.

Last year, Deputy Industry and Trade Minister Georgy Kalamanov said Russia planned to destroy all of its chemical weapons by 2015.
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Stormtrooper

World War II veteran, 95, died after police shot him with taser and bean bag rounds for 'threatening care home staff with his cane'


Daily Mail UK
Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:34 UTC
A 95-year-old world War II veteran died after being Tasered and hit with bean bag rounds by police for threatening care home staff - but his family insist he was killed unnecessarily.

Police say that John Wrana, who lived in a Chicago assisting living home, was brandishing his cane, a metal shoehorn and a knife before officers shocked him and hit him with bean bag rounds.
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© Nick GrapsasJohn Wrana (pictured with his wife, Helen) died after being Tasered and shot with bean bag rounds
The senior citizen had been reported to authorities because he was being 'involuntarily' committed for medical treatment by staff at the Victory Centre, the Chicago Tribune reported.

He was behaving in 'combative' manner, by threatening staff with his cane and a shoehorn. Wrana was reportedly scheduled to undergo a risky surgery, and was apparently afraid to end up on life support.

When police arrived at Park Forest at around 8.45pm, they said he was ordered to surrender, but he refused to and continued to berate staff and threaten them.
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Stormtrooper

Executed: Teen graffiti artist dies after Tasering by Miami Beach cops

Julie K. Brown
Miami Herald
Thu, 08 Aug 2013 10:07 UTC
Israel Hernandez-Llach
© UnknownIsrael Hernandez-Llach, the teen artist who died after a tasering by Miami Beach police, was a skilled skateboarder.

At just 17, Israel Hernandez-Llach was already an award-winning artist, on the threshold of acclaim in Miami Beach art circles. He was a sculptor, painter, writer and photographer whose craft was inspired by his home country of Colombia and his adopted city, Miami.

He was also a graffiti artist, known as "Reefa," who sprayed colorful splashes of paint on the city's abandoned buildings while playing cat-and-mouse with cops, who, like many, consider graffiti taggers to be vandals, not artists.

It was while spray-painting a shuttered McDonald's early Tuesday morning that Hernandez-Llach was chased down by Miami Beach police and shot in the chest with a Taser. He later died.
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Kenya airport fire forces closure


The Guardian
Wed, 07 Aug 2013 09:55 UTC
JKIA
© Associated PressSmoke billowing from Jomo Kenyatta international airport in Nairobi.

A massive early-morning fire has destroyed the arrivals hall at Kenya's main international airport - the largest in east Africa - forcing its closure and the rerouting of all inbound flights.

No serious injuries were reported at Jomo Kenyatta international airport (JKIA), said Michael Kamau, the cabinet secretary for transport and infrastructure. Two people were treated for smoke inhalation.

The blaze broke out on the 15th anniversary of the bombings of the US embassy buildings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, in neighboring Tanzania, but there were no immediate signs of terrorism in Wednesday's fire. Kenya's anti-terror police chief, Boniface Mwaniki, told the Associated Press that he was waiting for the fire to be put out so he could inspect the scene before making a judgment.

Black smoke was visible across much of Nairobi as emergency teams battled the blaze. Passengers reported a slow response by the under-resourced fire brigade. The fire raged for more than four hours before being contained, though flames still persisted two hours later.
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