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Missouri cops force man to frame someone or face prison

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© KMOVTerry Robinson recorded police threatening to set him up.
St. Louis - A man has brought forth evidence that a team of police officers repeatedly intimidated him with prison time if he didn't find someone to frame up with a weapons charge.

Terry Robinson, 21, is currently on probation from a previous offense and working to stay out of trouble and finish school, according to KMOV. Should he get arrested again, he will face at least 9 years in prison. Police officers used his precarious position as a way to leverage him into being their pawn in setting up innocent people with undeserved charges.

It began when officers saw him in his neighborhood, cuffed him, and pretended to drive him to the police station. During the drive, they began to lay out their demands.

What they didn't know was that Robinson had access to his cell phone and initiated the recording feature.

Officers reportedly told Robinson that they intended to arrest someone on weapons charges and would plant a gun on someone if necessary. Robinson could either give up a name of someone who could be framed, or else the officers would plant a .38 caliber revolver on him and make sure he was sent to prison.

Megaphone

Bulgarian man behind on his mortgage demolishes his house and dumps it at the bank

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At the end of 2013, a man from Lovech-Bulgaria who could not afford to pay the mortgage for his house gave his last penny to demolish it right before the banksters took it away.

The land that the house was built on was not included in the mortgage so the family decided to destroy the house and give it to its new owner.

The remains of the building were loaded on a big truck and moved to the central district office of the bank in the city of Teteven, where the contract for the mortgage was signed.

Question

Why were there no cellphone calls from Flight 370 passengers?

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© Feng Li/Getty Images Relatives of passengers who were traveling on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 watched a news conference at a hotel in Beijing on Monday
When hijackers took control of four airplanes on Sept. 11, 2001, and sent them hurtling low across the countryside toward New York and Washington, frantic passengers and flight attendants turned on cellphones and air phones and began making calls to loved ones, airline managers and the authorities.

But when Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 did a wide U-turn in the middle of the night over the Gulf of Thailand and then spent nearly half an hour swooping over two large Malaysian cities and various towns and villages, there was apparently silence. As far as investigators have been able to determine, there have been no phone calls, Twitter or Weibo postings, Instagram photos or any other communication from anyone aboard the aircraft since it was diverted.

There has been no evidence "of any number they're trying to contact, but anyway they are still checking and there are millions of records for them to process," said Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, the chief executive of Malaysia Airlines, at a news conference on Monday.

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UK living standards have fallen across the board since last election

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© Dominic Lipinski/PAChancellor George Osborne will come under pressure before the Budget to make sure economic growth is translated into higher incomes

Households at every income level have seen their living standards fall since the last election, according to independent figures that put pressure on George Osborne to translate economic growth into higher incomes.

According to data from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, households at the top and bottom of the income scale are worst affected, but middle-income earners who pay the 40p tax rate suffer most when their wages increase.

As the chancellor puts the finishing touches to his Budget, the findings will add to the clamour from Tory backbenchers for a rise in the 40p threshold to exclude more middle-income families who are dragged into the higher rate tax band as their salaries rise.

New figures from the IFS's "green budget", a scene-setter for the chancellor's statement, reveal that stagnant wages, rising shop prices and austerity measures have hit the real incomes of all workers across the pay spectrum, supporting Labour's claims that all workers are worse off since 2010.

The detailed analysis contrasts with a study by Treasury officials, published on Tuesday, that found a majority of workers saw a boost to their real incomes in all but one of the last seven years.

Bizarro Earth

If you didn't know it already: Industrial civilisation headed for irreversible collapse - NASA

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A new study sponsored by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution.

Noting that warnings of 'collapse' are often seen to be fringe or controversial, the study attempts to make sense of compelling historical data showing that "the process of rise-and-collapse is actually a recurrent cycle found throughout history." Cases of severe civilisational disruption due to "precipitous collapse - often lasting centuries - have been quite common."

Comment: The only way this world can ever change is through knowledge of psychopathology, and a good understanding of how 'evil' operates. This knowledge has been severely lacking - by design, no doubt - throughout the previous few millenia, leading to the inevitable rise and fall of civilizations as a function of the concentration and power of the destructive parasites (referred to as "elites" in this study).


Blackbox

A good question: Is anyone really in control in Ukraine?

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More tweets from our deep throat at Kiev Airport:

The military and the border police continue to confiscate equipment that is being sent for the failed National Guard.
All cargo planes are inspected by the army. From what I can tell, they are of the same opinion as the Air Force.
The military command of Ukraine will make a decision in the next few days and communicate it to Russia, and their government, in that order.

70% percent of soldiers in Crimea have already communicated officially that they are transferring to the Russian army.
The EU, the USA and their blasted mother don't recognize the referendum, yet in Kiev most people accept it and care little or nothing about it.
It's incredible that [the referendum] is more accepted here than in the rest of the world. Why don't they leave these people alone, may I ask?

Bad Guys

From Helen to Hillary: Nuclear bombs, war and women

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Accepted wisdom in U.S. culture, despite overwhelming evidence, holds that the two nuclear bombs dropped on Japan shortened World War II and saved more lives than the some 200,000 lives they took away.

And yet, weeks before the first bomb was dropped, on July 13, 1945, Japan sent a telegram to the Soviet Union expressing its desire to surrender and end the war. The United States had broken Japan's codes and read the telegram. U.S. President Harry Truman referred in his diary to "the telegram from Jap Emperor asking for peace."

Truman had been informed through Swiss and Portuguese channels of Japanese peace overtures as early as three months before Hiroshima. Japan objected only to surrendering unconditionally and giving up its emperor, but the United States insisted on those terms until after the bombs fell, at which point it allowed Japan to keep its emperor.

Snowflake Cold

Professor: Global Warming deniers should go to prison for "an organised campaign funding misinformation"

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Despite the fact that many parts of the United States have suffered through the coldest temperatures this century (source), one professor from the Rochester Institute of Technology believes that those who deny global warming are part of a grand scheme and should be jailed for criminal negligence.

Dr. Lawrence Torcello has a PhD in Philosophy. In a paper published by an academic magazine called The Conversation, he outlines his belief that "climate denial" is "science misinformation" that should be considered criminally negligent.

Torcello's entire career focuses on this topic. His bio states:

Airplane

Jet loses part of its wing on flight from Orlando to Atlanta

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© CNNA large panel is missing from the wing of a Delta Air Lines Boeing 757 jet in this photo from a passenger after crewmembers said the panel flew off during a flight from Orlando to Atlanta, Sunday, March 16, 2014.
A Delta Air Lines jet lost part of its wing during a flight from Orlando International Airport to Atlanta on Sunday.

A photo taken by a passenger on the flight shows a large panel missing from one of the jet's wings.

The crew of Delta Flight 2412 reported the panel flew off while in flight.

The jet landed safely and without incident at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Six crewmembers and 179 passengers were on board.

A Delta spokeswoman said the jet is a Boeing 757. She could not immediately confirm how old the aircraft was.

Delta officials are trying to determine what caused the panel to fly off, the spokeswoman said.

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Mexican police nab cartel member in organ trafficking case

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Mexico City - Police in Mexico's western state of Michoacan detained an alleged member of the Knights Templar cartel, saying he is suspected of trafficking organs.

Michoacan state Public Safety Secretary Carlos Castellanos Becerra alleged that Manuel Plancarte Gaspar was part of a cartel ring that would target people with certain characteristics, especially children, for kidnapping and harvesting organs.

He did not give any specifics or present cases. He said investigators are looking into alleged cases that occurred in previous years.

"We have several statements in open investigations," Castellenos said at a news conference Monday.

Plancarte Gaspar, 34, was detained last week along with another suspect in a stolen car. The men were carrying cash and crystal meth, Castellanos Becerra said. He said Plancarte Gaspar is the nephew of Enrique Plancarte Solis, a top Knights Templar leader.

The federal government generally handles cases of trafficking that have to do with cartels, such as drugs and in the case of the Knights Templar, iron ore. Federal officials were not immediately available for comment Monday, which was a holiday in Mexico.

Mexican authorities have said drug trafficking is no longer the top source of income for the Knights Templar, which was once a top producer of crystal meth. The officials say the cartel's main sources of income are illegal mining, illegal logging and extortion.