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Ridiculous! Unsupervised cartwheels, handstands banned in Queensland school

Victor Skinner
EAGnews.com
Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:22 UTC
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Students and parents at Peregian Springs State School are flipping out after officials banned unsupervised playground cartwheels and handstands to prevent injuries.

Two children at the school have been injured recently - one broke a wrist, the other was kicked in the head - while performing "cheerleader type stunts," prompting principal Gwen Sands to issue a ban on Monday in the school's newsletter, SunshineCoastDaily.au reports.

"All students have been advised that under no circumstances are they allowed to perform cart wheels, handstands or any other type of gymnastic move at school unless they are properly supervised by a trained PE teacher," according to the announcement. "It would be appreciated if you could remind your children about the safety issues involved with these types of moves."

The news site reports the announcement "caused a stir and left many parents wondering what would be next on the 'ban' wagon."

"When are we going to let kids just be kids?" local government minister David Crisafulli questioned. "I respect the right of the school to protect their students but I also respect the right of children to have a happy childhood, and surely we can find a middle ground in all of this."

Comment: The nanny state run amok!
"We have relinquished control over the most intimate aspects of our lives to government officials who, while they may occupy seats of authority, are neither wiser, smarter, more in tune with our needs, more knowledgeable about our problems, nor more aware of what is really in our best interests. Yet having bought into the false notion that the government does indeed know what's best for us and can ensure not only our safety but our happiness and will take care of us from cradle to grave - that is, from daycare centers to nursing homes - we have in actuality allowed ourselves to be bridled and turned into slaves at the bidding of a government that cares little for our freedoms or our happiness."
The tyranny of the nanny state, where the government knows what's best for you

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Minnesota police chief enforces city ordinance by killing boy's pet chicken with shovel

Jessica Chasmar
The Washington Times
Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:35 UTC
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© AP Photo/Seth Perlman
Chickens peck at flowers, recycle plant waste and provide manure for the gardens inside a fenced-in enclosure at the Illinois governor’s mansion Friday, May 9, 2014, in Springfield, Ill.
A Minnesota police chief has come under fire after he walked onto a resident's property and beheaded their pet chicken with a shovel, arguing that he was only enforcing a city ordinance that prohibits fowl.

"I guess I don't regret it, because it's like taking care of any rodent in town," Atwater Police Chief Trevor Berger told the West Central Tribune.

Chief Berger entered the property of Ashley Turnbull when no one was home on Aug. 16, and he clubbed, killed and decapitated a small, red hen with a shovel, leaving the head behind after disposing the carcass.

"I'm sorry it had to happen that way," Chief Berger told the Tribune. "It's against city ordinance for a chicken to be in the city and running around in people's yards."

Ms. Turnbull admitted she she was verbally warned Aug. 7 by police to remove the three chickens and two ducks from her property. She said she ignored the warning, because local city council members were considering lifting the ban. She also said she never received a written warning on the issue.
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Road rage: Michigan man guns down married father picking up kids from first day of school

Travis Gettys
Rawstory.com
Fri, 05 Sep 2014 07:42 UTC
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A Michigan man and his wife had just eaten lunch Tuesday afternoon and were on their way to pick up their children from the first day of school when they were cut off by a speeding pickup truck.

Police said 43-year-old Derek Flemming got out of his SUV at the next stoplight, approached the Dodge pickup, and asked the driver: "What's your problem?" The other driver then rolled down his window and shot Flemming in the face, killing him, police said.

Police took 69-year-old Martin Zale into custody after the shooting, and prosecutors waited two days to charge him with open murder, two counts of felony firearms, and discharge of a weapon from a vehicle. Michigan law does not require prosecutors to choose between first- or second-degree murder, even at trial, and a jury may determine the appropriate charge based on the evidence. "I fully support the right of individuals to keep and possess firearms, but it's when they misuse those weapons that it becomes a problem," said Livingston County Prosecutor William Vailliencourt.

The prosecutor said he was confident Zale, who has a concealed carry permit, was not acting in self-defense when he shot Flemming once in the face with a handgun. "You can't shoot someone because you're not happy with them," Vailliencourt said. Flemming was not carrying any weapons, investigators said, and witnesses said he did not make any verbal threats.
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Texas school districts militarize campus cops with military rifles, armored vehicles, ammunition

Tom Boggioni
Rawstory.com
Fri, 05 Sep 2014 08:16 UTC
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Taking advantage of U.S. Defense Department offers of free or low-cost military hardware, Texas school districts have been helping themselves to high-powered weaponry, bullet-proof vests, and armored vehicles to militarize their campus police officers.

A KHOU investigation shows that ten school districts in Texas have been acquiring the military surplus under a government program that allows them to load up at little to no cost.

According to the investigation, the districts have acquired 64 M-16 rifles, 18 M-14 rifles, 25 automatic pistols, extended magazines, and 4,500 rounds of ammunition. Additionally, the schools stocked up on armored plating, tactical vests, as well as 15 surplus military vehicles.

In the wake of the over-the-top military-like response by police in Ferguson to protestors, not everyone is thrilled by the idea of campus police outfitted like SWAT teams.

"We don't necessarily believe that this kind of equipment leads to students feeling more secure and safe in schools," said Brennan Griffin of Texas Appleseed, which has been studying police on campus policies for years.

"We've seen how even much less-lethal devices like Tasers and pepper spray get used inappropriately and end up harming children," he told the KHOU.

Comment: A fine example of the social hysteria created by psychopaths - the result of living in a pathocracy:

Kids are now being brainwashed into accepting the police state

The American Delusion: Distracted, diverted and insulated from the grim reality of the police state

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Ravages of war in E. Ukraine: Donetsk residents fear unexploded shells


RT
Fri, 05 Sep 2014 11:34 UTC
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© Reuters/Maxim Shemetov
The shelling of Donetsk by Ukrainian forces on September 4, 2014 one day before peace talks were set to begin in Minsk, Belarus
The city of Donetsk not only faces a threat from the sky, with bombs and shells fired by Kiev troops, but also from the ground, from thousands of unexploded shells. RT Paula Slier followed local sappers as they deactivated the deadly weapons.

"About 10 percent of the missiles that we discover on the ground are unexploded," one of the sappers working in Donetsk told RT.

RT's Paula Slier reported that one of the unexploded shells hit a gas pipe, adding that one can actually smell gas in the area.

Together with the sappers, Slier headed to the outskirts of the city where massive shelling was reported earlier.

"This whole village has been shelled by grads [rockets]. And there is one that didn't explode. It didn't detonate," said the sapper.

According another sapper, looking for unexploded shells is a very complicated job as they can't always say "about the consequences because [they] don't know what kind of missile [they] are looking for."

Comment: Is this going to be a ceasefire the Kiev way?

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Woman says comic book store in Salem, Massachusetts fired her after she revealed alleged 'rape room'

Arturo Garcia
Rawstory.com
Fri, 05 Sep 2014 11:47 UTC
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© Harrison's Comics & Pop Culture official Facebook page
Police in Salem, Massachusetts are reportedly looking into a local woman's allegation that she was harassed while briefly working at a comic book store that also contained a "rape room."

Bleeding Cool reported that the woman, Jennifer Williams, posted online that "the owner's friend Julian" told her about the nickname for one of the store's storage rooms last week. She also said the man put his arm around her without her consent.
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U.S. propaganda works: More and more Americans support U.S. actions

Susan Page
fdlreporter.com
Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:27 UTC
After years of retrenchment in the wake of two costly wars, a new USA TODAY/Pew Research Center Poll finds that Americans increasingly are open to a larger U.S. role in trying to solve problems around the world.

The public remains conflicted over just how much the United States can and should do to address global challenges. But the initial shifts in public opinion could make it easier for President Obama to order more muscular options in striking Islamic State terrorists in Syria and Iraq. If the trend continues, it could help shape the 2016 campaign to succeed him.


Comment: The latest poll from YouGov shows the change in public opinion over the past year. Mainly due to ISIS propaganda. Now 63% of Americans support the use of military force in Syria and 16% oppose it, last year it was the reverse.

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"This runs counter to this conventional wisdom that the public is isolationist," says Bruce Jentleson, a former State Department adviser in the Obama administration who is now a professor at Duke and a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. "It's not trigger-happy, but it's also not totally gun-shy."

Comment: For a broad overview of what this implies see: Global Pathocracy, Authoritarian Followers and the Hope of the World

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Heart - Black

Hidden in plain sight: US child homicide rate leads West - UNICEF


RT.com
Fri, 05 Sep 2014 10:32 UTC
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© Reuters / Michelle McLoughlin
The US leads Western nations in child homicide rates, while millions of children around the world are threatened with physical, sexual and emotional abuse, including murder, rape and bullying, a new UNICEF report revealed.

The report, entitled 'Hidden in Plain Sight: A Statistical Analysis of Violence against Children', demonstrated that death by homicide is every much a threat for young people as it is for adults.
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Dollars

Judge rules BP's reckless conduct and gross negligence were responsible for Deepwater Horizon oil spill


The Guardian
Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:00 UTC
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© US Coast Guard/EPA
A fire aboard the mobile offshore oil drilling unit Deepwater Horizon, located in the Gulf of Mexico some 50 miles southeast of Venice, Louisiana, US
BP bears the majority of responsibility among the companies involved in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a federal judge ruled Thursday, citing the energy giant's reckless conduct over the disaster in a ruling that exposes it to billions of dollars in penalties.

BP plc already has agreed to pay billions of dollars in criminal fines and compensation to people and businesses affected by the disaster, the worst-ever US oil spill. But US district Judge Carl Barbier's ruling could nearly quadruple what the London-based company has to pay in civil fines for polluting the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 spill.

Barbier presided over a trial in 2013 to apportion blame for the spill that spewed oil for 87 days in 2010. Eleven men died after the well blew.

The judge essentially divided blame among the three companies involved in the spill, ruling that BP bears 67% of the blame; Swiss-based drilling rig owner Transocean Ltd takes 30%; and Houston-based cement contractor Halliburton Energy Service takes 3%.

Comment: See also:

Over a million birds died during Deepwater Horizon disaster
BP hit with new $34 billion Deepwater Horizon claim from southern state governments
BP 'close to deal' on Deepwater Horizon Gulf oil spill

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Sadistic Texas cops shot at schizophrenic man 80 times, killing him


RT
Thu, 04 Sep 2014 01:35 UTC
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© Reuters / Mike Stone
Police in Laredo, Texas opened fire on a schizophrenic man armed with a pellet gun this week, killing him after unleashing upwards of 80 shots, according to the victim's family.

Six officers from the Laredo Police Department have been reassigned to administrative duties while officials investigate the incident, which occurred early Saturday morning outside of a truck stop in the southern part of the Lone Star State.


Comment: It wouldn't be surprising if they end up with a promotion.

Goon cops have gone wild all over America


According to authorities, police spent around five minutes attempting to negotiate with 30-year-old Jose Walter Garza before the man made an "offensive gesture," then allegedly aimed the would-be weapon - a pellet gun made to resemble a semiautomatic handgun, according to the Laredo Morning Times - at the cops who then opened fire.

"He put his finger in the trigger guard and pointed it at the officers," Joe E. Baeza, an investigator and police spokesperson, told the paper.

Law enforcement has since opened a probe in order to get to the bottom of the incident, but Andrea Martinez, Garza's cousin, told the New York Daily News that police shot no fewer than 80 times. Surveillance footage from a camera at the truck stop has since been published online, but the angle it was filmed from shows only the fatal shots, and not how Garza acted beforehand.
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