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Ex-police chief found guilty of coercing drunk woman into sex


RT
Tue, 07 Jun 2016 17:36 UTC
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© Reuters
A former police chief of a small town in Louisiana has been found guilty of violating a woman's rights by sexually assaulting her in his office while she was inebriated. The police department was abolished due to mismanagement associated with the chief.

US District Judge Shelly Dick concluded on Monday evening that the woman was legally incapable of consenting to sex with former Sorrento police chief Earl Theriot. Dick has not specified what penalties, if any, Theriot faces in the civil suit.

On November 2013, Theriot responded to a 911 call about an unconscious woman at a gas station. The police chief allegedly put her in the front seat of his cruiser and took her to his office at the Sorrento Police Department instead of taking her home, and subsequently engaged in sexual contact with her.

In the daylong case, the woman testified that she was heavily intoxicated before the encounter, and that Theriot purchased more alcohol for her before driving back to her office.
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Nuke

Fukushima: 'Disaster' doesn't even begin to describe it

Robert Hunziker
Counterpunch
Tue, 07 Jun 2016 00:00 UTC
Fukushima don't forget
Disasters can be cleaned up.

Naohiro Masuda, TEPCO Chief of Decommissioning at Fukushima Diiachi Nuclear Power Plant, finally publicly "officially" announced that 600 tons of hot molten core, or corium, is missing (Fukushima Nuclear Plant Operator Says 600 Tons of Melted Fuels is Missing, Epoch Times, May 24, 2016).

Now what?

According to Gregory Jaczko, former head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), it is not likely the fuel will ever be recovered: "Nobody really knows where the fuel is at this point, and this fuel is still very radioactive and will be for a long time."

A big part of the problem is that nobody has experience with a Fukushima-type meltdown, which now appears to be 100% meltdown, possibly burrowed into the ground, but nobody really knows for sure.

What's next is like a trip into The Twilight Zone.

"The absolutely uncontrollable fission of the melted nuclear fuel assemblies continue somewhere under the remains of the station. 'It's important to find it as soon as possible,' acknowledged Masuda, admitting that Japan does not yet possess the technology to extract the melted uranium fuel," (600 Tons of Melted Radioactive Fukushima Fuel Still Not Found, Clean-Up Chief Reveals, RT, May 24, 2016).
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Quenelle

350,000+ sign petition to recall judge who gave rapist Brock Turner a mere 6-month sentence


RT
Tue, 07 Jun 2016 22:35 UTC
brock turner
© Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office / ReutersRapist Brock Turner
More than 350,000 people have signed a petition seeking to recall Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky, who sentenced a 20-year-old former Stanford University swimmer to just six months in jail for sexual assaulting an unconscious woman.

Persky has come under extreme scrutiny for his lenient sentencing of Brock Turner, who was convicted in March of three felony charges for the January 2015 sexual assault of an unconscious 23-year-old woman on Stanford's campus. Turner admitted to sexual contact with the woman, but said she had given consent. Both were heavily intoxicated, and the woman testified in court that she has no memory of the assault. Turner was spotted by two male graduate students "thrusting his hips atop an unconscious woman lying on the ground." The two men confronted Turner, who then fled. They chased him and held him down until police arrived.

A jury found Turner guilty of assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated person, sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object, and sexually penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object.
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Airplane

FAA issues notice of GPS testing affecting aircraft over Southwestern US

Matt Novak
Gizmodo
Tue, 07 Jun 2016 20:42 UTC
Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake
© Wikipedia CommonsAn aerial view of the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake.
Starting today, it appears the US military will be testing a device or devices that will potentially jam GPS signals for six hours each day. We say "appears" because officially the tests were announced by the FAA but are centered near the US Navy's largest installation in the Mojave Desert. And the Navy won't tell us much about what's going on.

The FAA issued an advisory warning pilots on Saturday that global positioning systems (GPS) could be unreliable during six different days this month, primarily in the Southwestern United States. On June 7, 9, 21, 23, 28, and 30th the GPS interference testing will be taking place between 9:30am and 3:30pm Pacific time. But if you're on the ground, you probably won't notice interference.

The testing will be centered on China Lake, California—home to the Navy's 1.1 million acre Naval Air Weapons Center in the Mojave Desert. The potentially lost signals will stretch hundreds of miles in each direction and will affect various types of GPS, reaching the furthest at higher altitudes. But the jamming will only affect aircraft above 50 feet. As you can see from the FAA map below, the jamming will almost reach the California-Oregon border at 40,000 feet above sea level and 505 nautical miles at its greatest range.
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Vader

Majority of Americans believe US should stop supporting Saudi Arabia


RT
Tue, 07 Jun 2016 19:03 UTC
obama, king salman
© Kevin Lamarque / Reuters U.S. President Barack Obama and Saudi King Salman
The latest poll by the Sputnik media outlet has revealed that the majority of Americans - 68 percent - believe the US should stop supporting Saudi Arabia until its authorities can prove they don't finance terrorism.

The survey showed respondents a leaked memo from Hillary Clinton stating that Saudi donors were also the source of funding for Sunni terrorist cells all over the world.

Poll participants voiced their opinion about the future of US policies towards the Saudis.

Comment: The percentage of Americans voicing dissent over support of the despotic Saudi regime would likely be much higher if the Western media actually reported the full extent of the war crimes and other atrocities committed by the Saudi's and the fact that the US is complicit in these crimes.

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Bomb

Istanbul: 11 killed, 36 injured in police bus explosion


RT
Tue, 07 Jun 2016 18:16 UTC
Istanbul bus explosion
© Osman Orsal / Reuters
At least 11 people have been killed and 36 others injured after a bomb attack on a police vehicle, Istanbul's governor has said. The deadly explosion ripped through central Istanbul near a university and tourist sites during the morning rush hour.

"Seven law enforcers and four civilians have died in the attack," Istanbul Governor Vasip Sahin told reporters. "Thirty-six people have been injured, three are in critical condition."

Citing a police source, Turkish broadcaster NTV reported that some 14 people have been injured in the attack, eight law enforcers among them.
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Smiley

Symbolism: Finnish military base put on high alert after baby bear rips through soldiers' belongings and eats their food


RT
Tue, 07 Jun 2016 18:18 UTC
bear
© Eloy Alonso / Reuters
A one-year-old bear made an incursion into a Finnish army's base and disrupted a brigade training exercise of more than 3,000 troops, with some taking cover in their trucks, local media reported.

Kainuu brigade, one of the largest and most capable units in the Finnish army which trains around 4,000 conscripts annually, was on high alert this weekend after a the young bear made his way into the military camp, according to Finland's Iltalehti tabloid newspaper.

The bear gained access to the base on Saturday feasting on the soldiers' meals and tearing some of their belongings. Scared by the bear, the soldiers dispersed and took cover in their trucks sitting it out until the animal left the scene.

During the standoff, commanders decided it would be wise to shoot the stubborn animal as "it wasn't afraid of humans," unlike other representatives of the species.
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Christmas Tree

Holy smoke: California nuns defy cannabis cultivation ban to provide medicinal marijuana to poor


RT
Tue, 07 Jun 2016 16:44 UTC
nuns marijuana
© Ruptly
A California town's crackdown on cannabis commerce is no match for two weed-growing 'nuns' who say their herb heals, and that the rules do not apply to them.

Despite a ban on cannabis cultivation in the town of Mercad, the Sisters of the Valley 'nuns' continue to grow their plants. "This ban does not apply to us and so we've been operating straight through it," they told RT.

Sister Darcey and Sister Kate have been growing marijuana and creating cannabidiol (CBD)-infused products for three years. They claim their marijuana has low levels of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) which gives the 'high' effect associated with marijuana.

"Our medicine is medicine, and it is non-psychoactive," they explained. "We're dealing with what is actually hemp but really we advocate for whole plant legalization."

However, the 'nuns' are not the traditionally religious kind but rather 'spiritual'.
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Attention

Surprise! Ukraine launches petition to appoint Savchenko as ambassador to Russia


Sputnik
Tue, 07 Jun 2016 13:31 UTC
Nadezhda Savchenko
© Sputnik/ Alexey Vovk
An online petition was registered on Tuesday on the official website of the Ukrainian President calling to appoint Ukrainian national Nadezhda Savchenko, convicted in Russia of being an accomplice to the murder of two journalists in Donbas, as an ambassador to Russia.

The petition notes that Ukraine has no ambassador in Russia and calls for the appointment of a person "who will do everything it takes to bring our fellow countrymen back home."
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People 2

Germans living in Crimea slam Berlin for calling Russia a 'global threat'


Sputnik
Tue, 07 Jun 2016 12:05 UTC
Crimea referendum celebrations
Celebration in Simferopol’s Lenin Square following the Crimean secession vote in March 2014.
The Head of the Crimean regional German national-cultural autonomy of Crimea, Yury Hempel, criticized the new defense doctrine of the German authorities in which Russia is viewed as a global threat.

Earlier, German newspaper Die Welt, citing governmental sources, reported that Germany's new defense doctrine, which is currently in the final stage of its preparation, will view Russia as one of the top 10 global threats.

"This is another foolish step of German politicians. Unfortunately, due to the pressure from the upper echelons of the power and German Chancellor decisions are being made that go against the interests of the German people," Hempel said.

The German autonomy was created in Crimea in 2014 in order to preserve the identity of the German community in the peninsula, develop the German language as well as education and national culture.
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