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Bear hunters in Central Florida hit 99% of season's kill quota the first day; hunting re-frozen

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Florida's first bear hunt in decades has resulted in such a high bear death toll in Central Florida it will be the only region where the hunt will not resume on Sunday. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokeswoman, hunters in the region have already killed 99 bears - just one short of the 100-bear quota allowed for the area, the Orlando Sentinel reports.

By contrast, only 12 bears were killed in the north, and 15 in the south. A total of 207 bears were killed across the state out of a total of 320 allowed under commission laws, the body says. "The harvest objective was set as the number we want to achieve to stabilize the growing populations, "Susan Smith said. "When we set them, we did so with allowable range, recognizing that the harvest may exceed the objective."

The hunt itself is a controversial endeavour. News of its resumption for the first time since 1972 was greeted with protests and lawsuits. That hasn't stopped it, with some 3,778 hunting permits issued by the state on Friday, over 1,000 of which were issued to Central Florida hunters. Each permit allows one kill.

One organization behind an unsuccessful lawsuit, Speak Up Wekiva, set up presence at check-in posts over the weekend to observe the hunt, along with law enforcement. The organization urged authorities late Saturday to abandon this year's hunt.

The check-in posts is where a hunter registers the kill. There are 33 in total, and hunters have 12 hours to haul the animal to a post after the kill. Despite the controversy, many hunters with decades of experience stand by the hunt, arguing that bear numbers are vast, and that they are becoming a nuisance to the locals.

"They [protesters] can't rule what everybody else wants. The protesters, in my opinion, are the vast minority of people. They're not hunters. They live in the city. They probably wouldn't even want to go out in the woods, you know?," Paul Palmer, 71, told the Sentinel.

Comment: Humans numbers are vast and they are becoming a nuisance to the planet.

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Arrow Up

Had enough! Thousands protest in Spain and Italy against NATO

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Thousands of citizens took to the streets in Spain and Italy in protest of NATO's destabilization policies in which their countries are involved, Contra Magazin wrote.

Activists demonstrated against the NATO's "2015 Trident Juncture" military exercise in particular.

In the Italian city of Naples, the protesters carried signs demanding the dissolution of NATO. In the Spanish capital of Madrid, NATO opponents marched carrying anti-war posters and shouting "No to NATO, bases out", "imperialism is terrorism" and "Yankees go home".

Comment: After NATO's decades of unrestrained global aggression and destruction, people around the world are realizing that their best interests are not being served by being vassals of the empire of chaos.


Pistol

Mother and son killed in murder-suicide at nursing home in New Jersey

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A mother and her son were killed in a murder-suicide inside a New Jersey assisted living facility Sunday, according to officials.

The shooting occurred around 5:45 p.m. inside the Genesis HealthCare facility on the 3000 block of East Evesham Road in Voorhees, New Jersey. Police say George Buller III, 62, of Lumberton, shot his mother, 85-year-old Andree Buller, inside her room. He then turned the gun on himself just as a nurse's aide walked in, investigators said.

The man and his mother were both pronounced dead at 6:08 p.m. Police say Buller had visited his mother at the facility in the past.

No one else was hurt during the incident. Staff members cleared the wing and moved the residents to a safe place as police investigated.

Voorhees Township Police Deputy Chief Bill Donnelly told NBC10 no one heard any yelling or argument moments before the shooting. Police are trying to determine how and why a gun was brought inside the facility.

Boat

Tour vessel with 27 aboard sinks off Canada coast, deaths reported

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A whale-watching tour boat with 27 passengers onboard has sunk off the coast of Tofino, British Columbia, rescue officials said on Sunday. There have been fatalities, but the number is yet unclear.

"There are fatalities involved and survivors. We are also conducting a search to confirm that we have recovered everybody," said the Joint Rescue Victoria Coordination Centre in Tofino, British Columbia, as quoted by Reuters.

At least 3 have been killed and four more sent to hospital, while 5 others were being treated, local CKNW radio station reported citing medical workers.

"Multiple but we don't yet have a firm number. Still a very fluid situation so we really are not sure yet," British Columbia Coroner spokeswoman Barb McLintock told AP in an email.

Blue Planet

National Geographic unites with toxic-pushing corporations to the destroy the very planet it once photographed

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What was once considered an excellent resource for educating young minds about science and the environment is now aggressively promoting industry-backed "science," including the claim that water fluoridation is completely safe and anyone who questions it is a disreputable conspiracy theorist.

In operation since 1888, the National Geographic Society is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational institutions in the world, educating minds about geography, archaeology and natural science, as well promoting environmental and historical conservation.

While that may have once been the case, the largely influential scientific nonprofit is now dedicated to pushing the agenda of corporations poisoning and destroying the planet.

Comment: Read also:
  • Toxic agriculture: Poisoning of soils, human health and the environment



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German police use tear gas, deploy water cannon at far-right, antifascists rally in Cologne

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Thousands rallied in Cologne on Sunday as supporters of the 'Hooligans against Salafists' far-right group and their left-wing opponents took to the streets. Tensions spiked as police had to deploy a water cannon in an attempt to control the protesters.

Police had earlier sought to ban Sunday's demonstration by the far-rights, however, a Cologne court dismissed the motion and said the protesters would have the right to gather at a fixed location, but they would not be allowed to march through the city's streets.

Hundreds of anti-fascist demonstrators were also expected to confront the radicals. Heavy police presence was to make sure the two crowds would not go head-to-head. A live feed from Cologne eventually showed officers trying to sustain a crowd of protesters and finally deploying a water cannon. It was not immediately clear which group the demonstrators belonged to.
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The far-right rally was organized by the 'Hooligans against Salafists' group. The organization, which is also known as Ho.Ge.Sa, wants to take a stand against what it sees is the growth of radical Islam in Germany.

Estimates on Twitter put the number of those attending the protest at between 1,500 and 4,000.

A similar demonstration took place in Cologne last year and ended in violent clashes between protesters and the police. Dozens, both protesters and police among them, were injured in the violence.


Comment: People power!

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Light Sabers

War without end in Yemen

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This somewhat funny battle map of Yemen was posted by Haykal Bafana some five weeks ago.
The last bigger post on the war on Yemen here was on September 9. Since then nothing important happened there to write about. Little has changed in the positions on the battlefield. The daily Saudi bombing of the cities continues, the Saudi/U.S. blockade on the country continues and a wide raging famine is imminent.

The Houthis are still fighting the Saudis in Marib in the north-east. They are still invading the former Yemeni areas in Saudi Arabia in the north. They are still targeting Saudi ships that come near the Yemeni coast in the west. (Two were allegedly hit.) They still indiscriminately shell Saudi coalition positions in Taiz. Al-Qaeda and Islamic State groups are still gobbling up more territory in the south-east and around Aden. The Saudi attack on the Yemeni highlands and Sanaa is still stuck right where it started.

The Saudi/U.S. coalition included troops from the UAE which had landed in Aden. They brought in the Saudi sponsored "government" of the former president Hadi. But Hadi left the country after just 24 hours on the ground and the building the "government" occupied in Aden was targeted by double suicide car bombs. Some more UAE troops were killed and the "government" went back to reside in a convention center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The UAE troops now keep to their camps.

Comment: Continuing the party line, the US/Nato/Saudi's are slaughtering innocent people who refuse to accept their insane demands.


Heart - Black

Man strangles mother and keeps her body in a motel room for seven weeks

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A Pleasant Valley man has been accused of strangling his mother, and then keeping her remains in a Pleasant Valley motel for seven weeks before moving her body to a small town in South Carolina.

The gruesome details came to light during a state police press conference Saturday at the Troop K headquarters in Millbrook.

Charles Cole, 48, has been arraigned on a charge of second-degree murder in connection with the death of his mother, Betty Cole, 76. He is being held at Dutchess County Jail without bail.

Cole's wife, Ronalda Cole, 40, faces a charge of tampering with physical evidence, a felony. Police say she assisted her husband with transporting and disposing of Betty Cole's body. She was sent to Dutchess County Jail in lieu of $10,000 cash bail.

Eye 1

What's led to spike in violent crime? FBI says citizens filming viral videos of police brutality, of course!

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What could possibly be behind the surge in violent crime in the US? Quite surprisingly, according to FBI Director James Comey, the answer is - citizens filming viral YouTube videos of police brutality.

"I've been told by a senior police leader who urged his force to remember that their political leadership has no tolerance for a viral video," Comey said as he was talking to law students, faculty, staff and some police officers at the University of Chicago Law School, according to the New York Times. He went on to say that such statements have sent a chill through police departments, making cops feel "under siege."


Comment: There is no doubt that being a police officer these days is difficult. If they are under siege, it is probably due to the flagrant injustices that have been allowed, even encouraged. Thousands of innocent people have been murdered in cold blood by these 'besieged' cops.


"In today's YouTube world, there are officers reluctant to get out of their cars and do the work that controls violent crime," he said. "Our officers are answering 911 calls, but avoiding the informal contact that keeps bad guys from standing around, especially with guns," Comey said, as reported by the Chicago Sun-Times.


Comment: Due to the heinous and brutal crimes that officers commit and which inevitably go unpunished, there is probably reluctance on the side of citizens too. They have learned to fear law enforcement. By design, it seems.


Comment: Police in U.S. killed more blacks in 2014 than died in 9-11 attacks


Cheese

Resourcefulness: Russians learn to make own home products amid food embargo

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Many Russians have started to make their own food as foreign companies had to leave the Russian market due to restrictive measures, Austrian newspaper Die Presse wrote.

The boom especially concerns the cheese industry, with an increase in sales of special tools for making cheese and the growing popularity of cheese making courses.

Mozzarella and Ricotta cheese from Italy, Camembert from France, Feta from Greece — Russians have had to abandon these delicacies. Many European food companies left the Russian market due to trade restrictions imposed by Russia in response to the economic sanctions by the West.