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Video shows Texas police officer coaxing friendly pets closer with kissing noises before opening fire

Police State USA
Sun, 19 Oct 2014 19:36 UTC

Cleburne - Body-cam video shows how an officer coaxed a family dog toward him with friendly kissing sounds before raising his weapon and firing.

The incident took place on August 10, 2014, when dogs belonging to Quinton Tatum and Amanda Henderson escaped from their fenced-in yard while the married couple was not at home. Some neighbors called the government to complain that the dogs were loose and interfering with them walking from their car to their house.

When a Cleburne police officer arrived at the scene, one of the pit bulls happily approached him, wagging its tail, and licked his face. This was included in the police report and can be seen on video from the officer's body cam.

After the friendly interaction with the first dog took place in the front of the house, the officer then attempted to locate the other two dogs. They turned out to be playing in a nearby irrigation ditch between the homes, in a more obscured area.

Caged bear bites off 9-year-old boy's arm in China

Fiona Keating
International Business Times
Sun, 19 Oct 2014 19:12 UTC

Bear savaged the Chinese boy's arm after he tried to feed the animal through its cage on Sunday

A bear savaged the arm of a boy who tried to feed the animal through its cage in central China on Sunday.

The accident happened when the nine-year-old attempted to give it food through the bars of its cage, said a doctor and state media.

The boy was pushing his arm into the bear enclosure at Pingdingshan Hebin Park in Henan province, when the animal caught hold of him.

Medical staff at Pingdingshan Number 152 treated the child and a doctor said that the boy had lost his entire right arm, which needed to be amputated.

3-year-old 'stable' after mauling in jaguar pit at Arkansas Zoo

New York Post
Sun, 12 Oct 2014 17:44 UTC

A 3-year-old who was critically injured after falling into a Little Rock Zoo exhibit and being bitten by jaguars was improving Saturday, hospital officials said.

"The child's condition has been upgraded to stable and is expected to improve," Arkansas Children's Hospital spokesman Dan McFadden said in a statement.

The child's guardian has asked that the name and other information about the child not be released, McFadden said. The hospital statement didn't identify how the guardian is related to the child.

A Little Rock police report says the child's father told officers he was taking a photograph of the jaguar exhibit Friday morning when he saw the child's feet go over the railing. The report says the child's grandfather also only saw the child's feet disappear over the railing.

Human rights observer speaks of atrocities and war crimes committed in Ukraine by volunteer battalions

Youtube
Sun, 19 Oct 2014 16:36 UTC

Comment: The following is a youtube of an Latvian human rights observer, who speaks about the atrocities committed by the retreating Ukrainian army and especially the volunteer battalions, based on witnessing the aftermath and interviews with survivors.

Wealth inequality is not a problem, it's a symptom

Raúl Ilargi Meijer
The Automatic Earth
Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:17 UTC

© National Photo Company Collection
"Dedication, George Washington Masonic Memorial, Alexandria, Virginia." In a year that was probably the zenith of Freemasonry in the United States, and saw a giant national Masonic gathering in the capital, President Coolidge on this day used a silver trowel to spread mortar for the laying of the cornerstone of what is today one of metro Washington's best known traffic landmarks. Nov 1 1923

A comment on an article that comments on a book. I don't think either provides, for the topic they deal with, the depth it needs and deserves. Not so much a criticism, more a 'look further, keep digging, and ye shall find more'. And since the topic in question is perhaps the most defining one of our day and age, it seems worth it to me to try and explain.

The article in question is Charles Hugh Smith's Why Nations (and organizations) Fail: Self-Serving Elites, and the book he references is Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson.

Charles starts off by saying:

The book neatly summarizes why nations fail in a few lines:
(A nation) is poor precisely because it has been ruled by a narrow elite that has organized society for their own benefit at the expense of the vast mass of people. Political power has been narrowly concentrated, and has been used to create great wealth for those who possess it.

Comment: For a better understanding on how this 'power elite' think and control power, read this seminal book Political Ponerology.

Saudi Arabia: Death sentence to Al-Nimr, a Shia cleric

Finian Cunningham
Press TV
Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:32 UTC

The sentencing to death this week of Saudi pro-democracy leader Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr illustrates at least two things.

The utter barbaric nature of Saudi Arabia under the rule of the House of Saud's absolute monarchy; and, secondly, the utter fraudulence of the US-backed military coalition bombing Syria and Iraq in the name of eradicating extremism.

Comment: The whole U.S. led coalition is a lie. They suppress freedom in their own countries while pretending to be fighting terrorist of their own creation abroad to restore democracy.

Within hours of US President Barack Obama hosting military leaders from 21 countries, including favoured client state Saudi Arabia, allegedly to improve bombing tactics to defeat the IS terror network, a Saudi court announced the death penalty on Sheikh al-Nimr.

Saudi prosecutors have called for al-Nimr to be "crucified" - which means death by public beheading.

His crime? Al-Nimr is one of Saudi Arabia's most prominent and respected Shia clerics, who for the past 10 years has been an ardent critic of the kingdom's autocratic rulers. He has consistently championed the democratic rights of ordinary Saudis, defended the thousands of political prisoners rotting away in Saudi dungeons, and has called for the end of absolute rule under the self-styled House of Saud monarchy.

In particular, Sheikh al-Nimr has highlighted the chronic injustice against the Saudi Shia population, who form a majority in the country's oil-rich Eastern Province but who have endured decades of poverty and oppression under the Wahhabi House of Saud.

At no time in his years of campaigning for justice has Sheikh Al-Nimr advocated violence. He is on record for explicitly condemning violence and has urged followers to use the "roar of the word" to challenge Saudi despotism.

In other words, his only "crime" is that Sheikh al-Nimr has eloquently exposed the oppression and corruption of Saudi rule under a dynastic, backward family.

Excessive Force? Three Colorado cops, one with a boot on his head, hold down and taser a 60 year old man

Cassandra Rules
The Free Thought Project.com
Fri, 17 Oct 2014 02:06 UTC

The Lakeside Police Department in Colorado is facing scrutiny and backlash after a video of three officers man handling and tasing a 60 year old alleged shop lifter was uploaded online.

The incident took place on Friday, after the suspect had fled a Walmart he is accused of stealing from and hid behind a dumpster across the street.

Pete Ortega, the witness who recorded the incident, believes the officers used excessive force when he saw two officers pin the senior citizen down on the ground and a third rush over and step on his face before tasing him.

UK entrepreneur plans first cashless supermarket

Louise Eccles
Daily Mail, UK
Sat, 18 Oct 2014 06:31 UTC

Easyjet entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou hopes the store (mock up teacher) will become the UK's leading cashless supermarket.

It will sell low-cost unbranded food in cheap locations aimed at people 'on benefits' and in poorly-paid jobs.

And, true to its founder's philosophy of offering pared-back, no-frills service, eventually it won't even take cash.

EasyJet entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou has unveiled details for his first easyFoodstore budget supermarket - his latest venture after bargain easyJet flights and windowless rooms at the easyHotel.

He hopes it will eventually become the UK's first cashless supermarket, suggesting it is cheaper to process card payments than to cash up every day and pay a security firm to bank it.

But the company admits that, in an effort to compete with discount chains such as Aldi and Lidl, staff wages will also be low-cost.

Pennsylvania mother charged after 'pulling her daughter's hair so hard it removed scalp from her skull'

Chris Spargo
Daily Mail, UK
Wed, 15 Oct 2014 23:53 UTC

Jailed: Brittany Ruck (above) is being held in jail after pulling her 6-year-old daughter's hair so hard that the young girl had her scalp separate from her skull and blood pool in her eyes.

Brittany Ruck, 25, allegedly puller her 6-year-old daughter's hair so hard that the scalp separated from the skull and blood pooled in the girl's eyes
The incident happened after Ruck became angry her daughter could not count to 12 and pulled her out of a chair by her hair
The mother of three from Conway, Pennsylvania, has been charged with assault and endangering the welfare of a child and being held in jail
All three children are currently with other family members

A young girl was admitted to the hospital after she allegedly suffered horrific abuse at the hands of her mother.

Brittany Ruck, 25, of Conway, Pennsylvania, was so angry with her 6-year-old daughter's inability to count to 12 that she lifted the little girl out of a chair by her hair.

The child was pulled so hard that 'the girl's scalp was separated from her skull and blood pooled around the girl's eyes.'

Ruck reportedly admitted to pulling the young girl's hair on multiple occasions when questioned by authorities.

Doctors at Children's Hospital alerted police when the girl was brought in suffering from traction on August 31, a few days after the incident.

This is when the child revealed what happened, and said her mother had pulled her hair to throw her in a corner the day after she was pulled from the chair.

'The little girl told us she could only count to 10 because she had 10 fingers, but she couldn't count any higher. That's when the mother grabbed her by her hair,' Conway police Officer Mike Priolo told WPXI.

'It's just sad because she didn't do anything wrong and she had to bear the brunt of pain.'

Idaho SWAT team storms community yard sale in front of customers, children

Police State USA
Sat, 18 Oct 2014 21:23 UTC

Meridian - A SWAT team swarmed into a charity-based community yard sale pointing weapons and "scaring the heck out of" bystanders.

The raid took place at the "Neighborhood Angel" yard sale in Meridian, Idaho, which annually sells donated items to benefit a young girl suffering from cancer. When a 39-year-old man arrived on a motorcycle to browse the tables on September 22, 2014, the event organizer described him as an "Every day kind of a guy, [an] all-American boy."

Minutes later, in front of numerous customers and children, armored police officers descended upon the community event, throwing a man to the ground, along with an innocent woman who happened to be standing next to him.

"All of a sudden the SWAT team came in and arrested him and they told me he was a really bad guy," said Flo Martinez to WTVB. "I'm a single mom of four kids and it scared the heck out of us."

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Society's Child

Video shows Texas police officer coaxing friendly pets closer with kissing noises before opening fire

Caged bear bites off 9-year-old boy's arm in China

3-year-old 'stable' after mauling in jaguar pit at Arkansas Zoo

Human rights observer speaks of atrocities and war crimes committed in Ukraine by volunteer battalions

Wealth inequality is not a problem, it's a symptom

Saudi Arabia: Death sentence to Al-Nimr, a Shia cleric

Excessive Force? Three Colorado cops, one with a boot on his head, hold down and taser a 60 year old man

UK entrepreneur plans first cashless supermarket

Pennsylvania mother charged after 'pulling her daughter's hair so hard it removed scalp from her skull'

Idaho SWAT team storms community yard sale in front of customers, children

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