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Kiev riot police retreat after storming protest bastions


BBC News
Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:59 UTC
Police have abandoned an attempt to dislodge anti-government protesters from their strongholds in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.
Protestors
Hundreds of police tried to dismantle protest barricades in nearby Independence Square overnight.
Clashes erupted at the occupied city hall hours after riot police tried to clear nearby Independence Square - prompting the US to express "disgust".

The president said force would not be used against peaceful protesters.

The demonstrations were sparked by the government's refusal to sign a deal on closer ties with the European Union.

The U-turn followed pressure from Russia, which has said Ukraine's free trade deal with the EU would flood the Russian market.

Prime Minister Mykola Azarov on Wednesday said Ukraine wanted 20bn euros ($28bn; £17bn) in aid from the EU in return for signing the agreement.
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Police State: Wyoming woman says cops charged into her house, used stun gun in lawsuit


Fox News
Wed, 11 Dec 2013 00:00 UTC
Police state
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A Gillette woman who says police tackled her and used a stun gun on her after finding her 12-year-old son driving in the middle of the night is suing the city and its police department.

The Gillette News Record reported Monday that April J. Fox claims the officers came into her house with her son in November 2011, woke her up and refused numerous demands to leave. She says they tackled her even though she didn't pose any threat to them and wrongly arrested her.
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U.S. drone strike kills 15 on way to wedding in Yemen


Reuters
Thu, 12 Dec 2013 15:06 UTC
yemen drone
U.S. drone strikes in Yemen jumped from 10 in 2011 to 42 in 2012
Fifteen people on their way to a wedding in Yemen were killed in an air strike after their party was mistaken for an al Qaeda convoy, local security officials said on Thursday.

The officials did not identify the plane in the strike in central al-Bayda province, but tribal and local media sources said that it was a drone.

"An air strike missed its target and hit a wedding car convoy, ten people were killed immediately and another five who were injured died after being admitted to the hospital," one security official said.
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Nearly $80 million judgment awarded in New Mexico woman's sand suffocation death


Fox News
Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:34 UTC
Laura Miera
© Associated Press/Courtesy Vigil Law FirmLaura Miera is seen with her daughter Cassandra. In 2002, a tractor-trailer overturned, burying Laura Miera's car in sand and suffocating her inside, in Albuquerque, N.M.
A judge has awarded nearly $80 million to the family of a woman who died in 2002 when a tractor-trailer struck her car and buried it in sand, suffocating the woman as teachers and students at a nearby school frantically tried to dig her out.

Laura Miera had just dropped off her 14-year-old daughter at Jimmy Carter Middle School and was waiting at a traffic light when the semi exited a freeway and came barreling toward her.
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Child 'training' book causes deaths of children - triggers backlash

Aidan Lewis
BBC News
Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:01 UTC
to train up a child
A child-raising book that advocates whipping with branches and belts has sold hundreds of thousands of copies to evangelical Christians. But the deaths of three children whose parents appear to have been influenced by the authors' teachings have provoked a growing backlash.

The implements can vary. For a child under one year old, a willowy branch or a 1ft (30cm) ruler is recommended. For older children, a larger branch or a belt.

But the objective of the "spanking" described in Michael and Debi Pearl's To Train Up a Child is the same - making children surrender completely to their parents' will.

Comment: For those looking for a humane approach to raising children see the following books:

Nelson Jane, Positive Discipline
Sears Robert, M.D., The Baby Book
Solter Aletha J., The Aware Baby
Thomas Lewis, M.D, Fari Amini, M.D. and Richard Lannon, M.D., A General Theory of Love

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Arrow Down

Georgia police brutally slam 72-yr-old woman to ground, intimidate witness filming

Chris
InformationLiberation
Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:29 UTC

In this outrageous video out of Georgia a police officer is seen slamming a 72-year-old woman to the ground in an entirely unnecessary act of raw violence, then his fellow officer intimidates the man who filmed the incident.

From Nick James on YouTube:
A DUI arrest on a 72 year old women turns bad when Kevin Jones (badge #149) of the Glynn County police is trying to cuff the woman. She was taken down, and did not have her arms to break the force that Jones decided to use on her. The sound is the worst part. Both sides will need this footage, and it deserves to be put online for people to make their own judgement. Glynn County Police,157 Public Safety Blvd. Brunswick, GA

This event happened on 12/5/2013
The video is going viral on YouTube but it appears no articles have yet been written about it.
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Light Saber

Will Uruguay trigger a global marijuana revolution?

Ted Hesson
Fusion.net
Mon, 09 Dec 2013 10:08 UTC
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© Pablo Bielli/AFP/Getty Images
Uruguay is poised to legalize recreational marijuana on Tuesday, an experiment that will force the United States to reevaluate its own international drug policies.

The Uruguayan government will oversee the cultivation and distribution of pot, and residents will be able to purchase up to 1.4 ounces of marijuana each month.

Along with Uruguay, other nations are considering marijuana law reforms.
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Question

Suit: Marine's body sent home to Pennsylvania without heart

Maryclaire Dale
myway.com
Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:10 UTC
LaLoup
Marine Sgt Brian LaLoup is believed to have killed himself at the American embassy in Athens
The parents of a Marine sergeant who died while stationed in Greece say that they discovered weeks after his funeral that his body had been sent home without a heart - and that the Department of Defense later gave them somebody else's heart in its place.

Craig and Beverly LaLoup, who are suing the department, said Tuesday that authorities told them 21-year-old Brian LaLoup had shot himself in the head during a party at the U.S. Embassy compound in Athens, where he worked a security detail.

The Marine was taken to an Athens hospital and died a few hours later. Six days after that, on Aug. 18, 2012, the state-run hospital performed an unauthorized autopsy, according to the family's lawsuit, filed Friday in Pennsylvania.
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Coffee

Heartless: Nescafé #AlexaStorm tweet leaves a bad taste

Alec Swintun
Sott.net
Thu, 12 Dec 2013 08:26 UTC
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We were sickened to see this #AlexaStorm Tweet from Nescafé today. While thousands suffer the effects of winter storm Alexa right across the middle east, and as over 1 million refugees from Syria endure the snow and sub-zero temperatures in Lebanon - many of them living in makeshift tents - they are informed that a blanket and a warm cup of Nescafé is all they need.

It will take a lot more than coffee and blankets for those families to weather the storm. Still never mind that when there's potential profit to be made from the suffering of others.
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Che Guevara

Flashback Mandela to Arafat: If peace with Israel is impossible, then the only alternative is violence

Niall Bradley
Sott.net
Thu, 12 Dec 2013 04:17 UTC
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© James Zogby
As the mainstream media publishes countless sanitised obituaries in honour of one of the world's last true peace-makers, it's important to remember that Mandela wasn't preaching 'peace at any price'. He made this quite clear on numerous occasions. While on a visit to Ireland in the mid-1990s he told reporters that the IRA should not have surrendered it weapons until the British military had withdrawn from the north of the country. In the above snippet of a speech he gave in Palestine around the same time, we hear him intimate that violence towards oppressors isn't just right, it's necessary.

Israel shares a large portion of blame for institutionalising Apartheid in South Africa, without whose financial contributions and military support the South African enclave of white supremacists would never have been able to establish and sustain the bantustan model that has since been applied to the West Bank and Gaza. Arafat, who we see seated left of Mandela, and who really tried to believe the Israelis actually wanted peace, was later discretely assassinated by Israel.

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