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Man arrested for leaving 5-year-old granddaughter in Arizona desert with gun to 'shoot bad guys'


RT
Tue, 03 Nov 2015 11:01 UTC
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© Cqui/WikipediaChihuahuan Desert at Big Bend National Park.
A 53-year-old man from Buckeye, Arizona, has been arrested for leaving his five-year-old granddaughter alone in the desert with a powerful handgun for protection. Paul Armand Rater was charged with two counts of child abuse and one count of child endangerment. His bond was set at $25,000 at his initial court appearance Monday.

Rater took his granddaughter for a ride in his new pickup truck on Sunday afternoon from her family house in Buckeye, about 50 km west of Phoenix. Four hours later the girl was reported missing, prompting a helicopter search. The girl was eventually found by her mother and an off-duty firefighter. The child was unharmed, but was holding a powerful .45-calibre loaded and cocked handgun, which, it turned out, her granddaddy gave her. "She was given the gun and told to shoot any bad guys," Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said. "I don't know how a five-year-old can tell a good guy from a bad guy but that's what she said she was told."

Rater himself was located later eating and drinking at a restaurant. He explained that his truck broke down and he and the girl had to walk for help because he left his cellphone at home. But the child complained the she was tired and couldn't walk anymore, so Rater left her under a tree with a gun and "went for a few drinks and a cheeseburger," the sheriff's office said.

Comment: And you wonder why there are so many accidents with guns and children. This is utterly irresponsible and stupid!

Toddlers with guns kill more Americans than terrorists

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Investigator finds injuries to victims of A321 crash in Egypt show midair explosion caused crash, but not explosives.


RT
Tue, 03 Nov 2015 16:30 UTC
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© Mohamed Abd El Ghany / ReutersMilitary investigators from Russia stand near the debris of a Russian airliner at the site of its crash at the Hassana area in Arish city, north Egypt, November 1, 2015.
The nature of passengers' injuries from the Russian jet that crashed in Egypt's Sinai on Saturday may indicate that an explosion took place aboard before the plane hit the ground, an Egyptian doctor who examined the bodies said, Sputnik news agency reported.

"A large number of body parts may indicate that a powerful explosion took place aboard the plane before it hit the ground,"an Egyptian forensic expert told the agency.

A DNA analysis would be required to identify the victims of the Russian A321 airliner crash in Egypt, the expert added.

Earlier, Russian tabloid LifeNews claimed to have obtained the results of a forensic medical examination that allegedly stated that the passengers "in the tail section of the liner died because of so-called blast injuries."

Comment: When the investigator says "explosion", he doesn't mean "explosives". He means a concussive force that dismembered bodies. No evidence of explosive residue has been found.

As Joe Quinn points out in his article, Russian Flight 9268 downed by extreme weather/meteor event?, a midair explosion caused by an incoming object, or some extreme weather event could be the culprit for the plane's practical disintegration and the wide area over which the plane's debris was found.

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Israelis upset over government proposal to deport native kitten population

William Booth
Washington Post
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 16:21 UTC
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On a quiet Friday evening, as the city settles down for Sabbath, the soundtrack of Jerusalem combines Jewish song and clattering dinner plates with Muslim calls to prayer -- often accompanied by the unholy racket of the city's enormous population of wild cats going for it.

Peek into the dumpsters? Chances are there's a cat enjoying some fine dining. Muslim, Christian or Jew? The cats don't care. They're in every neighborhood.

So there's a problem with street cats. (Though this correspondent will attest, it is rare to see a rat). Israel's agricultural minister Uri Ariel proposed a solution. The cats could be deported, he suggested.

Not all cats, of course. That would be crazy. Only male cats. Or female cats. Depending. But either way, only one gender of cat needs to be sent to a receptive third country, to be determined.
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Heart - Black

Palestinian olive trees: IDF and illegal settlers destroying the heart of Palestine

Cesar Chelala
Counterpunch
Tue, 03 Nov 2015 16:06 UTC
During the last few years, Palestinian olive trees — a universal symbol of life and peace - have been systematically destroyed by Israeli settlers. "It has reached a crescendo. What might look like ad hoc violence is actually a tool the settlers are using to push back Palestinian farmers from their own land," stated in the past a spokeswoman for Yesh Din, an Israeli human rights organization monitoring incidents in the West Bank.

The tree and its oil have a special significance throughout the Middle East. The olive tree is an essential aspect of Palestinian culture, heritage and identity, and has been mentioned in the Bible, the Qur'an, and the Torah. Many families depend on the olive trees for their livelihood.

Olive oil is a key product of the Palestinian national economy, and olive production is the main product in terms of total agricultural production, making up 25% of the total agricultural production in the West Bank. Palestinians plant around 10,000 new olive trees in the West Bank every year. Most of the new plants are from the oil-producing variety. Olive oil is the second major export item in Palestine.


For the last forty years, over a million of olive trees and hundreds of thousands of fruit trees have been destroyed in Palestinian lands. The Israel Defense Forces have been accused of uprooting olive trees to facilitate the building of settlements, expand roads and build infrastructure. The uprooting of centuries-old olive trees has caused tremendous losses to farmers and their families. At the same time, restrictions to harvesting have come through curfews, security closures and attacks by settlers.


Comment: Accused? The video looks pretty definitive. Heavy equipment is pulling olive trees out of the ground, with the IDF standing guard. Regardless of the purported reason, this is illegal under many different treaties. Who is calling Israel to account?


Comment: Parasitical Israel is consuming itself. Besides increasing the already horrendous suffering of the Palestinians, every tree downed changes the land for the worse. The Middle East's climate is delicate. Deforestation there will have the same catastrophic effect as in the Amazon. But the short-sighted criminals in government just can't see beyond today.

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Explosion at chemical plant in Japan may have released toxic gas


RT
Tue, 03 Nov 2015 12:10 UTC
mitsubishi gas chemical plant
An explosion has occurred at Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company in Kamisu, Japan, according to reports. There are fears that toxic gas has been released and gone into Kashima plant.

A fire brigade has arrived at the scene. There is so far no information on whether anyone was injured in the explosion.

The plant says there is no risk of hazardous substances being released as a result of the blast.

Comment: There have been a number of unexplained explosions at industrial facilities around the globe recently, and the following examples are only a few of the most recent. For a better understanding of what may be causing these explosions, see Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection.

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Man upset about retail giant not selling items with a Confederate flag detonates bomb at Mississippi Walmart


USA Today
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 15:58 UTC
Marshall W. Leonard
© Lee County jailMarshall W. Leonard
A man is charged after allegedly setting off an explosive at a Mississippi Walmart Sunday morning.

Marshall W. Leonard, 61, of Tupelo, will be charged with placing an explosive device. Under Mississippi Code 97-37-25 he could get life in prison if convicted, the Tupelo Daily Journal reported.

Tupelo Police Chief Bart Aguirre said a vehicle pulled up to an entrance of the Walmart in North Gloster around 1:30 a.m. CT.

"A white male got out, lit the package and threw it in the vestibule," said Aguirre. "There was an employee on break, and the suspect told him, 'You better run.'

"The employee did run and was away from harm when the package went off. It wasn't a large explosion. It didn't cause a lot of damage to the store."

No one was injured in the incident. The remnants of the homemade explosive device have been sent to the crime lab.
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Keystone XL builder asks for a halt to U.S. review while it gets approval to build through Nebraska

Oren Dorell
USA Today
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 15:39 UTC
Stop the TransCanada Pipeline sign
© NH, APA sign in a field near Bradshaw, Neb., on March 11, 2015, says "Stop the Transcanada Pipeline".
A Canadian company building the Keystone XL pipeline on Monday asked the State Department to suspend its review of the controversial project.

TransCanada Corporation asked for a pause in the review process while the Nebraska Public Service Commission approves the pipeline route through that state, something the company resisted in the past.

"We are asking State to pause its review of Keystone XL based on the fact that we have applied to the Nebraska Public Service Commission for approval of its preferred route in the state," said Russ Girling, TransCanada's president and CEO, in a company statement.

President Obama in February vetoed a Congressional bill that would have approved the 1,179-mile pipeline. Environmentalists opposed the project, arguing that transporting 800,000 barrels a day from the oil sands of Alberta, Canada, to ports and refineries in the Gulf of Mexico would result in putting more climate-changing carbon into the atmosphere.

Supporters — eight Democrats voted with 54 Republicans to override the veto and failed — said the pipeline would create thousands of good-paying jobs and support American businesses.

The State Department did not have an immediate response to TransCanada's announcement.

Comment: Of course they're asking for a halt in the review process. If the finished report is even moderately objective, the TransCanada Corporation wouldn't get the approval to build anywhere.

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Princeton study finds white middle-aged people in US dying quicker than in any other developed nation


RT
Tue, 03 Nov 2015 15:28 UTC
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© Toby Melville / ReutersCity workers cross the Millennium footbridge over the River Thames on a misty morning in London, Britain, November 2, 2015.
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Angus Deaton and Anne Case have come out with shocking conclusions that white middle-aged Americans are the only first-world group of people dying faster than their counterparts in any other developed country.

According to them, this is due to an out-of-control alcohol and drug habit, as well as suicide and depression. Researchers have described this as an "epidemic" that threatens the fabric of future America.

The research by economists Deaton and Anne Case, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, follows another paper of theirs from 1999, where questions were raised regarding the relationship between income and mortality.

Comment: A sad statistic indeed for the US. A culmination of factors that will be difficult to address in the current economic situation.

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Recent 'Teacher Of The Year' and 21-year teaching veteran resigns in Alabama after being told she's 'unqualified to teach above 3rd grade'

Bill Chappell
NPR
Sat, 31 Oct 2015 02:30 UTC
Oliver Elementary School in Birmingham, Alabama
© Google MapsOliver Elementary School in Birmingham, Ala., where Ann Marie Corgill taught until Friday. The recent Alabama Teacher of the Year says she quit her job after being told she wasn't highly qualified to teach fifth grade.
Less than two years after being named Alabama's Teacher of the Year, Ann Marie Corgill resigned her post this week, citing her frustration with bureaucracy. After Corgill was moved from teaching second grade to fifth, she was told she wasn't qualified to teach fifth-graders.

In January, Corgill was named one of four finalists for the National Teacher of the Year award. She is a 21-year teaching veteran whose story — and candid resignation letter — has made waves in the education community and beyond.

After running into a "wall of bureaucracy," Corgill said in a statement to AL.com, "When the news came that I was not considered highly qualified, my frustration boiled over."

Comment: Thankfully, Corgill isn't the only one that sees the institutional problems with the American education system, and her standing up adds to the chorus calling for real, positive change.

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California doctor convicted of murder by over-prescription

Steve Gorman
Yahoo News
Fri, 30 Oct 2015 15:09 UTC
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© Los Angeles TimesDr. Hsiu-Ying "Lisa" Tseng Tseng is charged with second-degree murder.
A Southern California doctor was found guilty of murder on Friday for over-prescribing drugs that caused the fatal overdose of three patients, in a landmark verdict prosecutors called the first such conviction in the United States.

The case comes amid what public health officials describe as a national epidemic of prescription drug abuse. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said last year the trend was fueling nearly 17,000 overdose deaths annually, as well as a rise in heroin addiction.

Comment: While it appears that Dr. Tseng was giving her patients potent, addictive medications that they may have not needed, one has to wonder when Big Pharma will be held accountable for their role in unnecessary prescription deaths: Big Pharma: Getting Away With Murder
Big Pharma companies are not in the business of curing disease. They are out to make money - even if it costs your life. It's high time for a corporate death penalty in America along with appropriate prison sentences for those behind the crimes.


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