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Family to sue Atlantic City police over son's brutal beating

Wallace McKelvey
Press of Atlantic City
Sun, 29 Sep 2013 08:57 UTC
Castellani
© Ben Fogletto
David Castellani and his wife, Terri, look at photos of injuries sustained by their son, David Connor Castellani during a June 15 arrest.
One of six Atlantic City police officers recorded on video beating a 20-year-old Linwood man this summer was the subject of at least three prior allegations of excessive force and civil rights violations.

Court records show K-9 Officer Sterling Wheaten has appeared as a defendant in at least three civil cases filed in the past three years.

Surveillance footage obtained via subpoena from Tropicana Casino and Resort show the officers tackling David Connor Castellani to the ground about 3:10 a.m. June 15, followed by a succession of blows from clubs and the officers' knees.

The incident occurred off Pacific Avenue near South Morris Avenue, after Castellani was removed from Tropicana. It was unclear Saturday why he was removed.

Less than a minute later, a K-9 vehicle drives into frame. Within seconds, the K-9 is seen biting Castellani's neck and dragging him to the curb.
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Life Preserver

Lampedusa boat sinking a tragedy for Europe: up to 350 feared dead

Nick Squires
The Telegraph
Thu, 03 Oct 2013 08:30 UTC
lampedusa
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Survivors arrive wrapped in thermal blankets

The accident happened when a fire broke out on board a boat packed with an estimated 500 Eritrean and Somali refugees as it neared the end of its journey from the Libyan coast and approached Lampedusa, Italy's southernmost scrap of territory.

The boat's engine stopped working and it began to take on water, prompting some of the passengers to burn a sheet in order to summon help from the island.

But that started a fire on board and terrified migrants rushed to one side of the 65ft-long boat, causing it to capsize about half a nautical mile off the coast.

The Italian coast guard managed to rescue about 155 people but another 220 were still missing.
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Camcorder

Capitol Hill shootout caught on video

Samuel Warde
Liberals Unite / Alhurra TV
Thu, 03 Oct 2013 07:35 UTC

A dramatic video has emerged of the driver in Thursday's Capitol Hill incident being confronted by Washington D.C. police.

Alhurra TV exclusive video of shooting incident in Washington near Capitol Hill. The police pulled over a car suspected of involvement in the shooting incident on October 3, 2013. The car managed to escape after the sound of several gun shots.
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USA

Meet Miriam Carey, the dental assistant summarily executed by Capitol Hill police

Connor Adams Sheets
International Business Times
Fri, 04 Oct 2013 05:06 UTC
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© Advanced Periodontics
Miriam Carey (right), is the woman identified in news reports as the shot to death in front of her daughter by Capitol Hill police on Thursday afternoon. This photo is from a newsletter announcing her having been hired as a hygenist at a Connecticut periodontics practice.
Here's what we know about Miriam Carey, the woman identified in news reports as the suspect in a shooting incident that left Capitol Hill on lockdown for a brief period Thursday afternoon, and has now reportedly been shot dead by police.

According to the New York Post and the New Haven Register newspapers, Carey, a 34-year-old dental hygenist, was involved in the episode that began when she allegedly rammed her black Infiniti luxury sedan into a barricade near the White House. The incident ended when Carey led police on a high-speed car chase towards the U.S. Capitol. After repeatedly warning Carey to stop and get out of her car, the Capitol Police shot and killed her.

The altercation led to the U.S. Capitol being locked down for a brief period of time after shots rang out near Garfield Circle, in the vicinity of the Hart Senate Office Building.

Comment: The U.S. is so hystericized that a dental assistant in her car with her daughter can be summarily executed with no questions asked.

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Bad Guys

Roseanne Barr: MKULTRA rules in Hollywood

Arjun Walia
Collective Evolution
Wed, 21 Aug 2013 00:00 UTC
Roseanne Barr
© Unkown
For those of you that don't know, Roseanne Barr is a well known actress, comedian, writer, television producer and director. She has won several awards which include Emmy awards, Golden Globe awards, People's Choice awards and more. She has been in the industry for over twenty years and has gained much respect from many of her Hollywood colleagues who she is now speaking on behalf of. I just want to make it clear how long she has been inside the industry, and the connections she has to others within it. Industry insiders are feeling the need to share inspirational words and food for thought to the millions of people that pay attention to them as of late. We saw this recently with Ashton Kutcher. Celebrities have a voice that can reach a large sum of people, they can be a threat to corporate interests and the controlling elite and as Roseanne states, many celebrities bite their tongue and live in a culture of fear.

Not long ago, Roseanne made some shocking statements, alluding that Hollywood and the entertainment industry is dominated by MK Ultra. MK Ultra was the name for a previously classified research program through the CIA's scientific intelligence division. It was the CIA's program of research in behavioral modification and perception manipulation of human beings (1). It was previously known as Operation Paperclip (2). Roseanne is suggesting that Hollywood is a tool used in the manipulation of human consciousness, used as a tool for behavior modification and perception control in human beings.
Hollywood is the one that keeps all of this power structure. They perpetuate the culture of racism, sexism, classism, genderism and keep it all in place. They continue to feed it, and they make a lot of money doing it. They do it at the behest of their masters, who run everything.

I speak on behalf of Hollywood. I go to parties, Oscar parties and things like that and big stars pull me aside, take my arm and whisper: "I just want to thank you for the things you say." And it blows my mind, but that's the culture, it's a culture of fear.

It's a big culture of mind control, MK Ultra rules in Hollywood
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Our kids in handcuffs: allow 14 year old Kyle Thompson to return to school


change.org
Thu, 03 Oct 2013 20:29 UTC

In March 2013 with ten minutes left in a freshman science class, boys were being boys. Kyle, 14 at the time, and a member of the football team sat with a few teammates and wrote up a "hit list", people they would like to hit on the football field. "It was just a joke, it wasn't to hurt anybody," Kyle explained afterwards. The list included silly names like "Applesauce Head". The Easter Bunny may even have been mentioned. It is apparent to any and all readers that while the joke may be questionable in it's level of humor, it was, in fact, a joke.
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Ambulance

8 killed in Tennessee bus crash

M. Alex Johnson
NBC News
Thu, 03 Oct 2013 20:09 UTC
8 killed tennessee
© Associated Press/Chuck Burton
Daniel Morrison holds a photo of his parents, Randolph and Barbara Morrison, in front of his home Thursday in Statesville, N.C. Randolph and Barbara Morrison were two of six members of Front Street Baptist Church who were killed when their bus crossed a highway median and crashed Wednesday in Tennessee.
The small town of Statesville, N.C., was in mourning Thursday, a day after six members of Front Street Baptist Church were killed and 12 others were injured when their bus overturned on an East Tennessee interstate.

"My prayers are with all of them and my faith is in God, but this is definitely going to be a grieving community, the Rev. Jeff Luxon, the church's former senior care pastor, told The Statesville Record & Landmark.

With Front Street's senior pastor in Tennessee to be with his congregants, Luxon made sure he was at the church after he heard the news.

"I had some great friends on that bus, and I'm sure knew all of them who were members of the church," Luxon said.

The church members on the bus were part of Front Street's Young at Heart group for senior citizens, who were returning from a Christian conference in Gatlinburg, Tenn. The dead ranged in age from 62 to 95.

"I knew probably everybody who was on the bus," said Emmy Miller, a member of the church.

"They would want us to know they are in a better place now," Miller told the Record & Landmark. "We all know God is in charge and that this will make us stronger. That's what Front Street is all about."
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Network

Al Qaeda opens first official Twitter account

Bill Gertz
Free Bacon
Fri, 27 Sep 2013 00:00 UTC
Move seen as bid to halt division among jihadists over Syrian rebel split

twitter
© AP
An official al Qaeda website that is restricted to members of the terrorist group opened its first Twitter account this week in what U.S. officials say is an effort to resolve a major split over Syria's Islamist rebels.

The Shamukh al-Islam website, used as an official clearing house for al Qaeda members to communicate and issue propaganda statements, started its first Twitter account on Tuesday.

The first posts on the account focused on divisions between two al Qaeda rebel groups in Syria, al Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

The account, @shomokhalislam, issued 29 tweets, followed one account, and attracted 1,532 followers as of Friday afternoon. U.S. officials said among its followers are several high-profile digital jihadists.

Counterterrorism analysts view the new account as another indicator that terrorist groups are stepping up their use of social media over traditional Internet sites.

The official al Qaeda account also highlights the view among Islamists that Twitter is fast becoming an essential tool for online jihad, or holy war.

"We've seen terrorist groups make increasingly effective use of social media, particularly Twitter and Facebook, in recent years," said Patrick Poole, a counterterrorism expert. "Not only is this important for propaganda purposes but also recruitment."
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People 2

Government shutdown is bad news for women, infants and children program

Arthur Delaney
Huffington Post
Tue, 01 Oct 2013 13:27 UTC
WIC program
An increasingly likely government shutdown won't affect most of the federal government's safety net, like retirement and health insurance programs, but nutrition support for millions of women and babies could be in trouble.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Saturday that if Congress can't cut a deal to fund government operations past Monday, "No additional federal funds would be available to support the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC)'s clinical services, food benefits and administrative costs."

The $6 billion program helps pregnant women and new moms buy healthy food if they're poor and facing "nutrition risk," meaning that they have medical problems or trouble following nutrition guidelines. Although the program that mitigates nutrition risk for 9 million Americans is in jeopardy, the impact of a shutdown would depend on how individual states react and how long the shutdown lasts.

"States can probably shelter families receiving WIC from the effects of a shutdown for a short period, but it could be a real problem if it lasts more than a few days," policy analyst Elizabeth Lower-Basch of the Center for Law and Social Policy said in an email Saturday.

The USDA suggested that some aspects of the program could last through a short shutdown.

Comment: The psychopaths in charge don't see any reason to set aside enough money to insure that children are fed, but they have made sure that the police state programs will keep running.
From NSA spying and VIPR sweeps to domestic drones: A round-up of the police state programs NOT affected by a Government shutdown

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Chess

McCain's Syrian moderates join al-Qaeda


Press TV
Sun, 29 Sep 2013 00:00 UTC
McCain
© Unknown
Terrorist McCain ?
Senator John McCain was just sure he could pick moderates in Syria worth supporting. To prove his point he made a trip to Syria this spring to demonstrate how much the insurgents were just like us, struggling for democracy and equal rights for all.

But his trip was organized by the Syria Emergency Task Force's Mouaz Moustafa, who not long ago headed up the Libyan Council of North America. Both organizations are partly funded by the US State Department through a mirrored wilderness of NGO cutouts. But both have close ties to extremists fighting in each country. (In Libya, for example, Mustafa was with the people who killed US ambassador Stevens.) In McCain's case, the "moderates" he met and was so attracted to in Syria tunred out to be kidnappers and thugs.

Moustafa's key staffer until recently was war lobbyist Elizabeth O'Bagy, whose day job was with the US military contractor funded neoconservative "think tank," the Institute for the Study of War. Shockingly enough, this "think tank" never saw a potential war it did not want to turn into a real one. O'Bagy was the bagman for the State Department, delivering goodies to the Syrian rebels while delivering fantasies of Syrian moderates needing support to Capitol Hill and environs.

She had many customers, including McCain and Secretary of State John Kerry, who were eager to cite her "studies" revealing that the rebels in Syria were by and large all moderates, with a few extremists who could simply be marginalized and ignored.
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