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Russian police arrest 5 suspects in Nemtsov murder - 1 has confessed


RT
Sun, 08 Mar 2015 18:40 UTC
nemtsov suspects
© RIA Novosti / Maksim Blinov
Moscow's Basmanny district court has arrested five people in connection with the murder of Boris Nemtsov, a prominent opposition figure, who was gunned down last week. Two judges are reviewing the charges against the five people brought before the court by the prosecutors on Sunday.

Two of them are Zaur Dadaev and Anzor Gubashev, who were identified as key suspects in the killing of Nemtsov after their detention on Saturday. The prosecutors asked the court to arrest the duo by April 28, the current deadline for the investigation, saying that otherwise they may flee or interfere with the investigation.

According to the judge, who ordered Dadaev's arrest as requested by the prosecution, he confessed his involvement to the police. The accused didn't comment on this during the court session. Gubashev pleaded not guilty to the crimes he is charged with.

The other individuals, who may have had a hand in the crime, are Gubashev's brother Shagit and two identified as Ramzat Bakhaev and Tamerlan Eskerkhanov. The request for their arrest has been reviewed separately by another judge.


Comment: From Fort Russ:
Dadayev served with the rank of Sergeant (though some reports claim he was the deputy commander) in the Sever [North] battalion of the Republic of Chechnya Interior Troops. Yusupov served in the same unit. Anzur Gubashev worked in a private security firm providing protection for supermarkets, his younger brother worked as a truck driver.
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An Eritrean refugee in Israel

Dan Connell
Foreign Policy in Focus
Thu, 19 Feb 2015 00:00 UTC
Eritreans in Israel
© www.haaretz.com
African migrants behind barbed wire, curtesy Israel
Over 35,000 Eritrean refugees live in Israel today. Dubbed a "cancer" by right-wing politicians, just four have been granted asylum.

Kifle was in the fourth grade at Bet Soira — the "Revolution School" run by the Eritrean People's Liberation Front at their rear base in Harareb — when the final battle of the 30-year struggle for independence from Ethiopia was fought in 1991 outside Asmara.

His father, a fighter, had been killed in the war, and his mother and a younger brother were based elsewhere then. But Kifle was not alone. His family was the liberation front.

Today, Kifle languishes in a minimum-security prison, euphemistically termed a "detention center," in Israel's sweltering Negev Desert, unsure where his life is headed. His brother is a refugee in South Africa. His mother remains in Eritrea. Like most Eritrean refugees I've interviewed on four continents over the past six months, he asked that his real name be withheld to protect relatives from retribution at home and himself from repercussions in Israel.

Whether he or the others are right to be afraid at this point — many tell stories of family members punished in Eritrea after their flight — fear and uncertainty are their constant companions. Their experience teaches them this.

Comment: Victims at home, victims in the hands of "rescuers." Eritreans have fled because of lack of human rights, lack of freedom of speech, religion and movement, suffering torture, sexual abuse, human trafficking, organ harvesting and inhumane treatment in underground prisons. Eritreans are defined by the UNHCR as a "temporary humanitarian protection group." Instead of finding a safe haven, they are treated as cattle in Israeli concentration camps. The Palestinian atrocities are only one example of Israel's appalling behavior to "others." Incarceration of inconvenient people seems to be the popular policy and Israel is one of several countries that exemplifies this action.

The Israeli High Court struck down the anti-infiltration law and ordered the state to close Holot and limit the detention of migrants, citing conditions were an "unbearable violation of basic rights, right to freedom and right to dignity." Right-wing MKs are attempting to limit the court and reinstate the abusive protocol, justifying that African immigrants may be "operatives of hostile states or terrorist organizations," contribute to "congestion," and are a "demographic threat to the Jewish majority." The Israeli government currently employs a policy that includes neglect, vilification, detention and repatriation in order to create a Jewish state with maximum land and minimum Arabs/non-Jews, the homeland agenda.

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Shoe

Is it time to leave America before it's too late?

Dave Hodges
The Common Sense Show
Sat, 07 Mar 2015 18:11 UTC
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The US-Mexico border fence: for now it's to keep Mexicans out, but there could soon be a time when it's for keeping Americans in...
Not a day goes by that I do not receive an email from one of my readers advising me to get out of America while I still can. As the level of tyranny in this country increases, there is a proportionate increase in Americans wondering out loud as to whether they should stay or go.

Americans Have Three Options When It Comes to Expatriation

As I see it, Americans have three choices when it comes to expatriation:

1. We can leave the country for a less volatile place to live.

2. There are places we could emigrate to which would buy us a little time against the full rollout of tyranny.

3. We could simply lay down and take our beating as so many victims of genocide have in the past. Or, we can resist the final stages of tyranny and pay for our disobedience with our lives.

The Reasons to Leave America Are Compelling

There can be no question that we are headed for hyperinflation and economic collapse. Because America has notions of freedom and entrepreneurship, the globalists must make an example out of such undesirable attributes.
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Pirates

Expressed uncertainty about winning the war against terrorism

Issa al Shuaibi
Watching America
Wed, 04 Mar 2015 00:00 UTC
ISIS Iraq
© www.turkishweekly.net
Although the United States — which is armed, capable and powerful — lowered its ceiling of expectations from the war that it began waging against terrorism, and announced before its airstrikes campaign that its targets don't exceed the purpose of weakening the Islamic State and curbing its surge, some among us are saying with absolute certainty that the defeat of the Islamic State group is possible, lies in the hands of the international coalition, and that it's only a matter of time.

Enthusiasts about a military confrontation with terrorism removed from their calculations the fact that third-generation wars are not resolved, even once, and that battles between uneven forces are long, costly and endless. The only "powerful country" didn't manage to win such a war in Afghanistan or Iraq. Adding to that, Israel, which is the superior regional power, couldn't win a series of big battles either in the Gaza Strip or in South Lebanon.


Comment: Makes you wonder if there isn't a secondary and tertiary gain by not 'winning' these wars...especially if you have your hands dirty in the creation and perpetration of terrorism and it serves your goals ideologically, both globally and locally.


War in Afghanistan entered its fourth decade and remains without a visible end. The situation in Iraq is similar, as whenever a fierce round hurries toward it, an even fiercer round is born without the appearance of a candle of hope at the end of the long tunnel. The same case is applied to all the latest wars with Israel, which came to realize that every ceasefire is only a truce between two wars, the second of which is even more formidable than its predecessor.


Comment: Unresolved escalation furthers an agenda. We must always look at results, or non-results, as to whom it benefits.


What makes the matter more difficult today is that we stand in front of a player that outperforms all players belonging to nonstate actors that we witnessed before; the outperformance is in financial power and self-motivation, not to mention brutality and attractiveness and other factors which al-Qaida, for instance, lacks. The experience of the previous months shows, perhaps, that even the modest goal that America set for its coalition—the point of weakening the Islamic State group or restraining it—didn't materialize, as it is still expanding and fiercely attacking.


Comment: Mothers love and preserve even their ugliest children. They dote, martyr and cover for them, especially if they serve a purpose.


Comment: If we lived in a logical, humanitarian, truly free world...yes...there are probably ways out of this ongoing crisis, but not if the crisis is serving evil agendas and masking the ideological and self-serving purposes of those who fight against it, evident once you scratch the surface. This author is much too kind and may need to dig deeper for a broader understanding of what is actually happening and why.

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Phoenix

Huge fire: Yet another train carrying crude oil derails in Canada


RT
Sat, 07 Mar 2015 20:21 UTC
A train carrying crude oil has derailed in Northern Ontario and burst into flames. This is the fourth derailment in the province since the start of the year.
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© Reuters / Transportation Safety Board of Canada / Handout via Reuters
Heavy equipment is used in an attempt to extinguish a fire after a crude oil train derailment 50 miles (80 km) south of Timmins, Ontario, February 16, 2015.
CN Rail, the owner of the rail network in the eastern Canadian province, said the crash took place at 2:45 am on Saturday. No one was injured.

Three roads near the community of Gogama, where the accident took place, have been sealed off for up to 36 hours.

The $70-billion Canadian National Railway Company suffered its last derailment in nearby Horneypayne just two days earlier, though there was no chemical spillage in that crash.

Comment: So many train derailments and crude oil/gas explosions lately. Symbolic?

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Evil Rays

Mom faces prison sentence for blocking son's circumcision


RT
Sat, 07 Mar 2015 14:31 UTC
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© Reuters / Pierre Marsaut
A mother who has taken flight with her son to prevent his circumcision could face a prison sentence if she fails to have the boy undergo the procedure, a judge ruled, in a case that has become a rallying cry for 'intactivists.'

The case, which began as a domestic dispute between Heather Hironimus and her husband, Dennis Nebus, over whether or not to circumcise their four-year-old son, has caught the attention of circumcision opponents, who call themselves 'intactivists,' as the courts have intervened in the matter.

Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Jeffrey Gillen on Friday said Hironimus was in contempt for violating an order to appear in court Friday with her son. Gillen called it "reprehensible" that she has not allowed the father to see his son since February 20, AP reported.

The judge, meanwhile, is determined to ensure that the child undergoes the medical process to have his foreskin removed.

"I will allow her to avoid incarceration or get out of jail if she signs the consent to the procedure," Gillen told Hironimus' attorney Thomas Hunker, who said he did not know the whereabouts of his client or her son.


Comment: This judge is clearly incapable of determining what is important for the child. Using threats and bully tactics is unprofessional.


Comment: This is truly tragic. Phimosis usually corrects itself, no need to circumcise the boy. To have the courts intervene and force the procedure rather than get professional advice is a clear indication of how humanity has degraded itself into non-thinking, unnatural beings.

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Arrow Down

Nuclear waste has been dumped in fracking wells for decades

Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton
Activist Post
Thu, 05 Mar 2015 00:00 UTC
frackingstein
© Desconocido
Unearthed articles from the 1960s detail how nuclear waste was buried beneath the Earth's surface by Halliburton & Co. for decades as a means of disposing the by-products of post-World War II atomic energy production.

Fracking is already a controversial practice on its face; allowing U.S. industries to inject slurries of toxic, potentially carcinogenic compounds deep beneath the planet's surface — as a means of "see no evil" waste disposal — already sounds ridiculous, dangerous, and stupid anyway without even going into further detail.

Alleged fracking links to the contamination of the public water supply and critical aquifers, as well as ties to earthquake upticks near drilling locations that are otherwise not prone to seismic activity have created uproar in the years since the 2005 "Cheney loophole," which allowed the industry to circumvent the Safe Drinking Water Act by exempting fracking fluids, thus fast tracking shale fracking as a source of cheap natural gas.

Now, it is apparent that the fracking industry is also privy to many secrets of the nuclear energy industry and, specifically, where the bodies are buried, err... dangerous nuclear waste is buried, rather — waste that atomic researchers have otherwise found so difficult to eliminate.

Comment: One other disconcerting thought is that meteors are entering the atmosphere with increasing regularity. How likely is it that anyone in the industry has factored into the equation the potential dangers of an impact or overhead explosion occurring near a disposal site?? Not very likely!

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Pistol

Muslim man shot dead while taking pictures of snow with his family

AGB
PressTV
Sat, 07 Mar 2015 00:18 UTC
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Another Muslim man has been shot dead in the United States while he was taking pictures of the snow with his family in Dallas, Texas.

Ahmed al-Jumaili, 36, who came to the US from Iraq about one month ago, was killed in a shooting incident on Thursday.

The victim died from his injuries after he was transported to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, Dallas Police Department Spokeswoman Monica Cordova said.

Investigation is under way to find out whether the shooting was a hate crime, according to police officials.

The North Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called on authorities in a statement on Friday to investigate the incident as a hate crime.

"Because of recent incidents targeting American Muslims, including the murder of three young Muslims in North Carolina, we urge law enforcement authorities to address community concerns about a motive in this case," said Alia Salem, Executive Director of the North Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Comment: Here we go again. Such a tragedy! This man was obviously not a threat to anyone yet not allowed to live.

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Hearts

Attaboy! 10-year-old saves his sister from sex offender

Paul Williams
independent.ie
Fri, 06 Mar 2015 14:30 UTC
Cullahill, Ireland
© unknown
Cullahill
A ten-year-old boy has been hailed as a hero after clinging onto a moving SUV to rescue his sister from a convicted sex offender.

The criminal, who was on bail for robbery, attempted to abduct the girl (12) on the side of a country road near the village of Cullahill in Laois.

She was playing with her two brothers near their home when the man stopped and asked for directions to the local priest's house.

He then jumped from the stolen vehicle and grabbed the girl.

But her younger brother lunged through the driver's window at the would-be kidnapper punching him as the jeep began to drive away.

The brave boy distracted the driver long enough so that his sister could jump from the moving vehicle.

Comment: Way to go, brother! Too bad not all such stories have a happy ending.

For more information on protecting your loved ones from these psychopaths in our midst, see:SOTT Talk Radio: Predators Among Us - Interview With Dr. Anna Salter

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Bad Guys

Corruption at the top: Ferguson, MO judge who owes thousands in unpaid debts routinely imprisons poor citizens for minor offenses

Jon Swaine
The Guardian
Fri, 06 Mar 2015 20:28 UTC
Ronald Brockmeyer

Federal tax liens filed against Ronald Brockmeyer by the Internal Revenue Service state that he has tens of thousands of dollars in overdue personal income taxes from joint filings with his wife, Amy.
Ronald J Brockmeyer, who is accused of fixing traffic tickets for himself and associates, was a driving force behind using fines and fees to generate revenue

The judge in Ferguson, Missouri, who is accused of fixing traffic tickets for himself and colleagues while inflicting a punishing regime of fines and fees on the city's residents, also owes more than $170,000 in unpaid taxes.

Ronald J Brockmeyer, whose court allegedly jailed impoverished defendants unable to pay fines of a few hundred dollars, has a string of outstanding debts to the US government dating back to 2007, according to tax filings obtained by the Guardian from authorities in Missouri.

Brockmeyer, 70, was this week singled out by Department of Justice investigators as being a driving force behind Ferguson's strategy of using its municipal court to aggressively generate revenues. The policy has been blamed for a breakdown in relations between the city's overwhelmingly white authorities and residents, two-thirds of whom are African American.

Investigators found Brockmeyer had boasted of creating a range of new court fees, "many of which are widely considered abusive and may be unlawful". A city councilman opposing the judge's reappointment was warned "switching judges would/could lead to loss of revenue".

Comment: Throwing people into jails for minor offenses is becoming rampant, as they are increasingly being imprisoned for little more than just being poor and defenseless. A number of judges have been fueling the rise of these debtors prisons so they may use their powers to increase revenues for the court system. This judge is behaving exactly as one would expect a psychopath to act, as they always rise to the top where they may exercise power over others to fuel their rampant greed while preying upon the rest of the citizenry.

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