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Dearborn Heights dad asphyxiated younger kids, shot teens

Katrease Stafford
Detroit Free Press
Wed, 21 Sep 2016 17:38 UTC
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© Eric Seals/Detroit Free PressA Dearborn Heights, Michigan police officer protects the scene as Michigan State Police medical examiners remain in this house processing and collecting evidence.
A man is in police custody after authorities said he asphyxiated his two young children in a car at their Dearborn Heights home, shot and killed his two stepchildren and slashed and shot his wife early Wednesday.

Dearborn Heights Police Lt. Michael Krause told the Free Press the father called 911 about 1:15 a.m., saying he had just killed his family at their home in the 4400 block of Hipp Street. When officers arrived, the man was standing on the front porch and he told them his family was inside dead.
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Despicable: Florida prisoner gassed to death by guards, prison officials attempt cover-up


RT
Wed, 21 Sep 2016 16:45 UTC
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© Miami Herald A cloud of orange residue on the wall of Jordan-Aparo’s cell shows the intensity of the chemical spray.
Florida prison officials tried to cover up the death of an ill inmate who was gassed at least three times as he screamed for help, according to a federal civil rights lawsuit filed on behalf of the man's 12-year-old daughter.

The suit also alleges prison officials conspired to cover up the death.

The federal civil rights lawsuit alleges corrections officers murdered Randall Jordan-Aparo instead of giving him medical attention. The 27-year-old was serving a sentence of one year and seven months for credit card fraud in the Franklin Correctional Institution at the time of his death in March 2010.

He was found dead in his cell, naked except for his boxer shorts. Photographs of his body show him face-up next to his Bible. His hair, legs, toes and mouth - as well as the walls of his cell - were coated with orange residue, a byproduct of the chemical spray.
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War Whore

Cops shoot dog while serving warrant - pushed door open after it was closed to contain family pet

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Mon, 19 Sep 2016 16:24 UTC
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© Caldwell Police DepartmentCaldwell Police body camera video of dog shooting
On August 18, two Caldwell police officers went to the home of Crystal Holden and Alinah Stelly to serve Holden with a warrant. Instead of just serving the woman with a warrant, however, one of the officers killed their dog. The incident was captured on both of the officers' body cameras.

As the video begins, Alinah Stelly is talking with the officers.

"What is this for?" asked Stelly.

"I've just got to talk with her... for some follow-up," replied the Caldwell police officer.

Stelly then agrees nicely to go get her sister to talk to the police. As she turns in to retrieve her sister, Stelly pushed on the door to close it.

However, after Stelly attempted to close the door, so her dog didn't go out, the officer on the right pushes the door open again.
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Sixty schools in Canada evacuated over 'potential threats'


PressTV
Wed, 21 Sep 2016 16:19 UTC
Students in a campus of Nova Scotia Community College
© CBC NewsStudents in a campus of Nova Scotia Community College in Halifax, Canada, are being evacuated on September 21, 2016.
The Canadian police have evacuated 60 schools and universities in eastern Canada after receiving several threats, including a bomb threat.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said all primary and secondary schools across the province of Prince Edward Island were being evacuated and the students were being taken to safe locations.

"Police agencies and school administration are evacuating all Prince Edward Island schools due to a potential threat," the country's police said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Piggy Bank

Americans' money habits go 'from bad to worse' as 34% have $0 in savings, report finds


RT
Wed, 21 Sep 2016 15:36 UTC
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© Jim Watson / AFP
Americans are dipping into their savings, if they have any, even more than they did last year, a new survey finds. Nearly 70 percent of Americans report having less than $1,000 in savings, and the pattern touches all age groups.

Even those making $100,000 to $149,999 a year had less than $1,000 or nothing at all in savings 44 percent of the time, according to GoBankingRates.com, which released its findings Monday.

Spendthrift habits seem to have increased from last year, when the Los Angeles-based financial website found 62 percent of more than 5,000 adults had less than $1,000 in savings. This year's survey asking the same question to more than 7,000 adults, 69 percent of whom said their savings account total lacked a comma. Half of those, 34 percent, had saved a big fat goose egg, an increase of 6 percent from the year prior, when 28 percent reported having $0 in savings.

Comment: Here are some of the reasons people can't save:

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Quenelle - Golden

People power: Thousands protest in Brussels against TTIP, CETA trade agreements


RT
Tue, 20 Sep 2016 21:08 UTC
TTIP protest Brussels
© Eric Vidal/Reuters
Thousands of people in Brussels have taken to streets to protest against the planned free trade deals between the US, the EU and Canada amid fears that they may affect labor conditions and environment as well as violate consumer rights.

Some 10,000 to 15,000 people from trade unions, environmental and consumer groups have taken part in protests against the US-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) on Tuesday, the organizers said, according to AP. Police put the number of protesters at 6,000.

Comment: The three ugly sisters of transatlantic trade: TTIP, CETA & TISA

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Man posed as 15yo girl on Facebook to sexually abuse 60 young boys


RT
Wed, 21 Sep 2016 14:44 UTC
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© Dado Ruvic / Reuters
A man in his late 20s from the Norwegian city of Tromsø allegedly posed as a 15-year-old girl on Facebook to sexually abuse around 60 young boys.

The Tromsø police have disclosed some details regarding the investigation on Tuesday. Most of the victims were aged between 12 and 15 at the time, when the alleged crimes took place between 2014 and 2016. The suspect has been in custody since March, though few details in the case have been revealed until now.

"Police have so far provided little information to the media. The reason for this is our concern for the victims and the danger that they will not speak freely on the matter if it is discussed in the media," The Local Norway quotes the police prosecutor's statement as saying.

Most of the victims were from the Tromsø area, but the scope of the case is increasing as police search for possible victims in other parts of the Nordic country.
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Newly released video shows shows cop murder man then plant gun on him

Christine Byers
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Wed, 21 Sep 2016 13:45 UTC
Anthony Lamar shooting
© Surveillance videoSurveillance video shows Anthony Lamar fleeing after police try to stop him on Dec. 20, 2011.
Video from a police SUV and a business, obtained by the Post-Dispatch, provide the most complete picture yet of a shooting in which a former St. Louis police officer is charged with murder.

Included are store surveillance video of the attempt by Officers Jason Stockley and Brian Bianchi to arrest drug suspect Anthony Lamar Smith on Dec. 20, 2011, and a police recording of a pursuit that ends with a crash and Stockley shooting Smith.

Stockley, now 35, who left the force in 2013, was charged this year with first-degree murder based on what Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce's office said was new evidence that she did not disclose. Bianchi was not accused of wrongdoing and remains on the force.

A federal judge had issued a protective order forbidding release of the material by lawyers who obtained it as part of a civil suit in which the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners paid a $900,000 settlement in 2013 for Smith's young daughter. In August, the judge turned down a request from the Post-Dispatch to lift the order. Joyce had told the judge she did not want the material released.

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'Put your hands up', bang: Cop gave man less than a second to comply before killing him

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 21 Sep 2016 14:28 UTC
Benny Herrera
Tustin Police Officer Osvaldo Villarreal didn't give 31-year-old Benny Herrera more than a second before shooting him dead, an appeals court asserted in refusing to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit Friday — but the undoubtedly disturbing dash cam video remains under court seal.

"Less than a second elapsed between Villarreal commanding Herrera to take his hand from his pocket and Villarreal shooting him," the Los Angeles Times quoted the court's statement. "Just as Herrera's hand came out of his pocket, Villarreal fired two shots in rapid succession ... The command and the shots were almost simultaneous."

Because he acted so swiftly, a three-judge panel for the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco found Villarreal could not have reasonably feared for his life — a finding which directly contradicts a 2013 determination by the Orange County district attorney's office claiming Herrera had ignored the officer's demands to raise his hands.
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Election or revolution? An open letter to citizens of the US

Robert J Burrowes
Counter Currents
Tue, 20 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
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As citizens of the USA with a presidential election approaching you have a wonderful opportunity to ponder whether to participate in this election or to participate in the ongoing American Revolution.

Your first revolution might have overthrown the authority of the British monarchy and aristocracy but the one in progress must remove the US elite which has executed a political coup against your government. And you cannot remove elite coupmakers in a fraudulently conducted election in which the 'choice' is essentially between two violently insane individuals, each of whom represents the violently insane US elite. See 'The Global Elite is Insane' and 'Why Violence?'

The real value of this second revolution, which moves along steadily with routine outbreaks over a multitude of peace, environmental and social justice issues and occasional 'uprisings', such as the Occupy Movement in 2011 which spawned a range of new and visionary initiatives, is that it could give citizens of your country the chance to finally reclaim the Republic for those people who genuinely care about 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness'. And, just as importantly, have sufficient vision to regard these aspirations as something to be shared with the entire US population, starting with Native Americans, and even those of us in the rest of the world including those countries that are currently victims of US elite violence, whether it be wars, drone strikes, coups, economic exploitation or ecological destruction.
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