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Stormtrooper

Psycho-bully Toronto cop goes "off the chart ballistic"


Militarized bully Cop didn't like me calling 911 to get a hold of a supervisor, so he went ballistic, beating on my window, ordering me out of the car so he could 'protect me' (cuff, stuff, taze and beat) and essentially acting like a wing nut who should not be dealing with the public. If bullies like him are walking around armed, the people who hire him and others like him will have nothing to complain about if the peace officers employed by The Canadian Common Corps of Peace Officers are armed as well.

Pistol

Seattle Pacific University campus shooting leaves one dead, three injured

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One person has died of gunshot wounds and three other people were injured Thursday afternoon in a shooting on the campus of Seattle Pacific University in Seattle, Washington. Police have one suspect in custody.

One female victim is still in critical condition, while two male victims are in "satisfactory" condition, Harborview Medical Center sources told KIRO. The four victims, each in their 20s, are all believed to be students of the university. Three of the four victims suffered gunshot wounds.

One suspected shooter is in custody, Seattle police told KIRO. The suspect was disarmed by university staff, according to police, after entering Otto Miller Hall on the university's campus.

A building monitor confronted the shooter, according to police, as the suspect was reloading a shotgun. The monitor, a student, pepper-sprayed and tackled the suspect, then was joined by other individuals in neutralizing the shooter before police arrived.

Info

Top EU court rules individuals have 'right to be forgotten': Google must amend results

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© Georges Gobet/AFP/Getty ImagesGoogle had argued that it did not control personal data and should not have to act as censor.
Individuals have right to control their data and can ask search engines to remove results, says European court

The top European court has backed the "right to be forgotten" and said Google must delete "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant" data from its results when a member of the public requests it.

The test case privacy ruling by the European Union's court of justice against Google Spain was brought by a Spanish man, Mario Costeja González, after he failed to secure the deletion of an auction notice of his repossessed home dating from 1998 on the website of a mass circulation newspaper in Catalonia.

Costeja González argued that the matter, in which his house had been auctioned to recover his social security debts, had been resolved and should no longer be linked to him whenever his name was searched on Google.

He told the Guardian: "Like anyone would be when you tell them they're right, I'm happy. I was fighting for the elimination of data that adversely affects people's honour, dignity and exposes their private lives. Everything that undermines human beings, that's not freedom of expression."

Comment: On the surface, it seems like a good thing that one can exercise their "right to be forgotten" on the internet, but one wonders who will use this court ruling to erase an unsavory, depraved past?


Books

One more reason higher (and all) public education is in trouble

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A picture sure is worth a lot of words.... The above map, from here, really demonstrates how completely insane higher education has become.

That's a map of highest paid public employees, by state.

State by state, every state, the highest paid public employee is in higher education. Not the governor, not a senator, not some life-saver...but someone in higher education.

Yes, most of it is coaches, so I guess the time for me to talk about the immense fraud of college athletics draws nigh...but the fact remains, higher education is a system of plunder, devoid of integrity. All the money poured into higher education has not gone to education, or to educators.

And the picture tells the tale.

Airplane Paper

Symbolic! Second fighter jet crashes in California within 24 hours

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Two US Navy fighter planes crashed in California, CBS reported on Thursday.

The first incident occurred at 16:20 local time on Wednesday. An AV-8B Harrier fighter jet crashed in El Centro, a residential neighborhood near the US-Mexican border, 120 kilometers from San Diego.

At least two houses caught fire, but no one was hurt. The pilot also managed to eject safely. The crashed jet was stationed at MCAS Yuma and attached to the Miramar-based Third Marine Aircraft Wing.

Later on the same night, at 22:00 local time an F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jet crash landed into the sea when attempting to land on the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier, CBS reported.

The plane sank, but the pilot was able to eject into the sea and was later recovered and brought on board. The planes still in the air were diverted to the Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego.

Comment: Military Harrier jet crashes into residential area in California


Cow Skull

'Nine meals away from anarchy' - Our food supply: When it's gone...it's gone

It's often said that we are only nine meals from anarchy. The theory behind the saying is simple. Most people have no more than a three day supply of food in their homes, and that equates to nine meals before they start to go hungry.
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Some believe that many governments would take advantage of this and use it against their own people in times of civil unrest. History shows us there is justification for holding this view.

The delivery and supply chain employed by major stores across the world is very simple and designed to increase profits by reducing waste.

Each time a barcode is scanned at the checkout it sends a message to the warehouse that a particular item has been sold. Warehouse staff restock the shelves having scanned the barcode on the boxes they are unpacking. That triggers a message to a distribution centre, where a tally is kept and the required number of boxes, each full of an individual item, will then be dispatched on the next truck heading to that store.

This system is why you may be told " We are having some more in tomorrow madam" They really are, they know that if it is not in the store it is in the distribution centre/truck and it will be arriving the next day.

There are of course other systems that come into play. Large stores that sell clothing etc will have sales projected on what they sold during the same season the previous year and that will be the stock starting point.
There is a couple of major flaws in this just in time delivery system, namely that it assumes what is true today will also be true tomorrow, and that it relies on electricity.
With the war that is being waged against coal in the name of protecting the environment this is a rather stupid policy. The UK has already had warnings from energy providers that lack of investment is likely to lead to rolling blackouts within the next couple of years.

Comment: The best preparation you can do is to optimize your health with a diet that maximizes nutrition with minimal food input. Given the rise in world-wide weather anomalies, a good supply of canned meat and high-quality fats is far more reliable than a garden plot.


Airplane

Mysterious noise picked up in ocean on day MH370 vanished

A mystery underwater sound recorded at the time missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanished is being investigated by Australian researchers
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© Press Association/Associated PressFlight MH370 disappeared three months ago
The low-frequency noise was picked up by underwater listening devices in the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia on March 8, the same day that the stricken plane carrying 239 people disappeared.

Researchers are analysing the signal to determine whether it could be the noise of the jet crashing into the ocean.

Search teams have been working on the theory that the plane, which was meant to be heading to China, instead went south before crashing into a remote part of the Indian Ocean.

Despite extensive underwater searches of an area narrowed down by authorities, no sign of the missing Boeing 777 has been found.

Researcher Alec Duncan, of Curtin University in Western Australia, acknowledged that the sound being analysed by his team fell outside of the projected flight path officials believed the plane took.

He said: "It's one of these situations where you find yourself willing it all to fit together but it really doesn't.

"I'd love to be able to sit here and say, 'Yeah, we've found this thing and it's from the plane' - but the reality is, there's a lot of things that make noise in the ocean."

He said there was about a 20 per cent chance of the noise being linked to the missing plane, adding that it could have been caused by a natural event such as a small earthquake.

The International Air Transport Association has said that plans to improve global tracking will be ready in September, to make sure there is "no repeat" of the mystery surrounding the fate of flight MH370.

Airplane Paper

Military Harrier jet crashes into residential area in California

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A military jet has crashed into a residential area in Imperial Valley, Southern California. At least two houses caught fire, but no one on the ground was hurt. The pilot ejected successfully and was uninjured.

The fire on the ground was quickly extinguished, yet homes impacted by the crash have been severely damaged by debris and fire.

The Third Marine Aircraft Wing AV-8B Harrier crashed at approximately 2:20pm local time (21:20 GMT). The jet was stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, in Arizona, said Cpl. Melissa Lee, a spokeswoman for Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. The officials said the pilot ejected successfully and landed about 200 meters from the crash site. He was brought to a hospital only for a medical check.

No details about the reason for the crash have been announced yet.


Stormtrooper

Ukrainazis National Guard assaults hospital in Slavyansk, executes more than 25 wounded patients

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Ukrainian armed forces have allegedly killed more than 25 wounded people in a hospital in Krasny Liman, on the outskirts of Slavyansk, as the National Guard seized the town from the local militia following heavy shelling.

"According to preliminary information, more than 25 people have been killed,"Denis Pushilin, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the People's Republic of Donetsk was quoted by Itar-Tass.

While there are no official figures yet, Pushilin fears the body count in Tuesday's assault on the hospital will eventually rise. "We fear that there may be more victims," Pushilin said, adding that the figures announced by Kiev and reported by locals "differ greatly."

The number of injured is still unknown as well. During an assault on the town people inside the hospital tried to flee in panic and hide in the basement. Medical staff scrambled to get the wounded, mostly elderly out, as mortar shelling on the medical facility continued.

Pistol

Three RCMP officers gunned down in Canada, two more injured

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© Marc Grandmaison/Associated Press A police roadblock in Moncton, New Brunswick, where a gunman killed three Canadian mounted police and wounded two others.
Two other RCMP officers wounded and manhunt under way for Justin Bourque, 24

A gunman has shot dead three Canadian mounted police and injured two more in one of the worst losses of life for the country's police forces in a decade.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in New Brunswick said on their Twitter feed that they were in pursuit of 24-year-old Justin Bourque of Moncton who was considered armed and dangerous. The police force tweeted an image of a suspect wearing military camouflage and carrying two guns.
#Codiac #RCMPNB - 3 officers mortally wounded by shooter. 2 officers sustained non life threatning injuries. Shooter still actively sought.

- RCMP New Brunswick (@RCMPNB) June 5, 2014
RCMP spokesman Paul Greene said the two wounded RCMP officers had non-life-threatening injuries. The Horizon Health Network, a provincial health authority, said on its Twitter feed that two patients were taken to the Moncton hospital with gunshot wounds.

Constable Damien Theriault said police were urging people in a certain area of Moncton, New Brunswick, to stay inside.

He said the search for the suspect was concentrated around two streets.

Sean Gallacher, who lives near the area where police were concentrating their search, said he heard what he now believed were gunshots. "I was downstairs and heard a few bangs," said Gallacher, 35.

Four Canadian RCMP officers, known as "mounties", were killed in March 2005 by a gunman on a farm in the province of Alberta. It was the RCMP's worst single-day loss of life in more than 100 years.