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'Like Locusts' - Connecticut parents trample children, Black Friday-style, for Easter eggs

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 27 Mar 2016 02:00 UTC
Egg Hunt Chaos
© CBS
Agoraphobia in modern day America could be considered more of a natural reaction than it is a disorder as a recent egg hunt in Connecticut illustrates.

For the third year in a row, the Pez candy visitor's center in Orange hosted its Easter Egg Hunt. The event was structured in a way to allow children, grouped into three different age groups, to pick up 9,000 eggs scattered about the area. There were more than enough eggs for everyone.

Instead of allowing the 4-year-olds to go first, however, parents, apparently so infatuated with the idea of crappy free candy, bum-rushed the fields, greedily taking the eggs for themselves — children and Easter be damned.

"Unfortunately, people chose to enter the first field prior to anyone from Pez staff starting the activity. The crowd moved to the second field, waited for only a couple of minutes and proceeded to rush the field without being directed to do so and before the posted start time," Pez officials said in a statement on Saturday.

Pez officials described the chaos, saying, parents "immediately moved to the third field, took over and removed everything well before the activity was to even start."

"So we started talking to people and say 'hey this is supposed to start at certain time'," Pez General Manager Shawn Peterson said. "Well that lasted about a minute, and everyone just rushed the field and took everything."

West Haven resident Nicole Welch told Eyewitness News that children were trampled, parents knocked over children and eggs were stolen out of peoples' baskets. Peterson said the crowd was "kind of like locusts."
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Parisian protests over labour reforms turn violent in response to police brutality


The Local
Fri, 25 Mar 2016 15:46 UTC
parisians attack police station
School pupils, angered by an officer's beating of a fellow student, on Friday staged violent protests in Paris, pelting at least two police stations with rocks and setting off tear gas canisters.

The outrage stems from a day earlier when a policeman was caught on video punching a 15-year-old boy on the sidelines of a student demonstration against the government's proposed labour reforms.

In the video, the boy is seen lying on the ground when an officer shouts at him to get up. Two policemen then hold him up, while a third suddenly punches him in the stomach.

"We were protesting, throwing eggs. A policeman ... charged at me, hit me to the ground then he told me 'get up, get up' and he punched me ... my head was spinning," the shocked boy told local media afterward.
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Karma? Cop who filmed himself raping women and children found dead in his cell

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 27 Mar 2016 15:00 UTC
Marty Rainey
Former Gasconade County sheriff's deputy Marty Rainey
On Saturday morning, Ste. Genevieve County Sheriff's Major Jason Schott announced Marty L. Rainey, a former Gasconade County law enforcement officer facing state and federal charges involving a series of assaults on women and children, was found dead in his cell.

The sheriff's office is remaining tight-lipped on the details for now, only saying that "At this point, it appears to be a suicide, but the investigation is ongoing."

St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports:
Asked if Rainey had been on suicide watch, Schott declined to answer, citing the ongoing investigation and saying he would not answer any specific questions. He said that video from jail cameras was being downloaded and staff was being interviewed.
For years, this predator used his badge and gun to inflict his sick desires on countless victims.
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At least 50 dead after bomb attack in Lahore park, Taliban claimed responsibility


Dawn
Sun, 27 Mar 2016 16:02 UTC
Lahore park suicide attack
© Dawn
At least 50 people have been killed in a suicide attack in Gulshan-i-Iqbal Park of Iqbal Town on Sunday evening. Adviser to Chief Minister on Health Salman Rafique confirmed the death toll. Edhi sources add that over 200 are injured.

Iqbal Town Superintendent Police Dr Muhammad Iqbal confirmed this was a suicide attack and took place at a children's park, where a large number of families, especially women and children, were present.

DIG Operations Captain (Retd) Muhammad Usman said the head of the suicide bomber has been recovered. Ball bearings have also been found at the site.

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Taliban has claimed responsibility

A Pakistan Taliban splinter group claimed responsibility for the deadly suicide attack.

"We claim responsibility for the attack on Christians as they were celebrating Easter," spokesperson for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, Jamaat ul Ahrar, Ehansullah Ehsan told The Express Tribune over telephone.

"It was part of the annual martyrdom attacks we have started this year," Ehsan said, adding the operation codenamed "Saut-ul-Raad" will continue this year.

"We had been waiting for this occasion," the TTP JA spokesperson said. "We want to convey to the ruling PML-N and the prime minister that we we have arrived in Punjab and we will reach you".

At least 69 people were killed and over 300 others injured in a deadly suicide explosion near the city's Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park on Sunday, rescue and security officials said.


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Top 10 most obese cities in America

Kali Holloway
AlterNet
Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:10 UTC
obese americans
© Rick Wilking / Reuters
The whole world is getting fatter. One 2015 study, from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, found that an astounding 2 billion people around the globe are either overweight or obese, and that figure just keeps climbing. While the United States has been unseated as the world's fattest country, we're still home to 13 percent of the world's fat population, despite making up less than 5 percent of the world's total citizenry. (Taken together, China and India, the world's most populous countries with a combined total of 37 percent of the world's people, just pass us with 15 percent of the globe's fat population.)

We've known this for a while, but apparently, we're still just getting fatter. One study last year found that two-thirds of American adults qualify as either overweight or obese. That's 75 percent of men and 67 percent of women age 25 and up. Conservatives like Rush Limbaugh—who really has no room at all to talk—complain about efforts like Michelle Obama's "Get Moving" campaign to curb childhood obesity, because every time an American sheds a pound, a bald eagle dies or something. But the Centers for Disease Control reports that half of American adults have chronic disease related to obesity, such as heart disease and diabetes. Considering that those kinds of health problems cost taxpayers an estimated $147 billion to $210 billion, you'd think the anti-IRS party would be all for watching our weight.

Comment: See also:

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Blast carried out by bomber outside public park in Pakistan's Lahore, 53 dead, 100 injured


RT
Sun, 27 Mar 2016 15:23 UTC
At least 53 people died and 100 more were injured in a blast outside a public park in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Sunday, police said as quoted by local media. Most of the injured are women and children.

Earlier police officials said 38 people died.

"At least 38 people were killed and more than 100 are injured," Mustansar Feroz, superintedent of police for the area told Reuters.

"Most of the dead and injured are women and children."

Comment: Read also: Conventional wisdom on suicide bombers is wrong - What one man's research into every suicide bombing reveals

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"We make the terror": Fourth season of popular 'House of Cards' lets the cat out of the bag

Andre Damon
World Socialist Web Site
Thu, 24 Mar 2016 00:00 UTC
House of Cards
Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright in House of Cards
The US streaming television drama House of Cards returned for a fourth season on Netflix this month to a muted reception in major newspapers and media outlets.

The series, particularly in its mediocre and complacent third season, had been championed as the fictional representation par excellence of the American political system, with its producers and leading actors paraded and celebrated on news programs and Sunday morning talk shows.

One would have expected, based on the trajectory of the previous season and its warm reception by the establishment, that the fourth season would have settled into a self-satisfied stride, content with its role as light entertainment for America's political elite.

Intriguingly, this season has taken a different turn. To be blunt, House of Cards strongly suggests that the US government sponsors radical Islamist terrorism to keep a lid on domestic crises, spies on the American population for political gain and conspires to go to war, while claiming high ideals, for purely Machiavellian ends.

Comment: House of Cards is considered an incredibly popular show among Washington political circles. You have to wonder what this bunch is thinking and feeling with a mirror being held up to them - if they think and feel anything at all, that is.

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Delaware music teacher sent student 11,000 sexual text messages

Sean Kelly
Opposing Views
Fri, 25 Mar 2016 14:20 UTC
Nicole Veneroso
A Delaware music teacher was arrested after it was discovered that she sent over 11,000 sexually explicit text messages, photos and video to a 13-year-old student on an iPod that she bought for him.

Nicole Veneroso reportedly told the boy several times that she loved him and was confused by her feelings for him, according to court papers obtained by the Delaware News Journal.

"I don't understand my feelings," she reportedly wrote in a text.

"This isn't like me and I'm scared. I am careful and guarded. I don't leave myself exposed and vulnerable, but that's what happened. I don't understand how you have this effect on me. I have fought and denied. I have pushed down feelings, and it's all been for nothing. I want things. I have collapsed. I have fallen ... and I know it will hurt."

Veneroso was suspended in January after school officials were contacted by the boy's parents. She is currently being held at Baylor Women's Correctional Institution.
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Lying cops claim innocent man assaulted them -- secret video proves otherwise

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 27 Mar 2016 14:39 UTC
Larry Faulkenberry
Larry Faulkenberry after his arrest.
In January of last year, Larry Faulkenberry's 16-year-old son decided that he would play a trick on his dad for grounding him. So, he called the Caldwell County Sheriff's Department, and claimed his dad was drunk and waving a gun.

Deputies, responding to the call, arrived to find Faulkenberry entirely compliant, not drunk, and unarmed. He does not even own a gun.

These facts, however, were of no concern to the cops who arrived only to assault, injure, arrest, and lie about Faulkenberry attacking them.

"They yelled 'sheriff's department.' What do you need? I put my hands up. 'Turn around and walk backwards.' I'll stand here, you come here and put handcuffs on me," Faulkenberry said.

Comment: Memo to Faulkenberry's son: This is why you should never call the cops for anything, let alone to play a trick on your dad. Cops are dangerous thugs who cause chaos and mayhem wherever they go.

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Brussels 'March Against Fear' cancelled due to overwhelming fear

Bernie Suarez
Activist Post
Sun, 27 Mar 2016 13:46 UTC
fear march
Is everyone taking note on how the false flag script is developing? Apparently staged attacks that take place in Europe are followed up by these weird "anti-fear" marches which only serve to bring more attention to the false flag event and state-sponsored "terrorism." It's all part of the "terrorism" propaganda, fear and social engineering that the state is exerting over the masses on their road to their new global order.

The irony of seeing the "march against fear" canceled by "fear" itself only goes to show that there is nothing genuine and organic about this effort. It also shows us that the state, not the people, is controlling these events.
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