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NAACP calls on Justice Dept., Secret Service to investigate rodeo clown flap

Cheryl K. Chumley
The Washington Times
Wed, 14 Aug 2013 00:00 UTC
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© AP/Jameson Hsieh
This photo provided by Jameson Hsieh shows a clown wearing a mask intended to look like President Obama at the Missouri State Fair. The announcer asked the crowd if anyone wanted to see “Obama run down by a bull,” according to a spectator. “So then everybody screamed. ... They just went wild,” said Perry Beam, who attended the rodeo at the State Fair in Sedalia on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013. State Fair officials apologized calling the display inappropriate and disrespectful.
The Missouri chapter of the NAACP appealed for the U.S. Department of Justice and the Secret Service to launch an investigation and open a federal case against the rodeo clown who donned a mask of President Obama's face and mocked with the crowd: Do you want to see a bull run down Mr. Obama?

The NAACP says the clown was guilty of inciting violence against the president.

In a statement reported by Breitbart, the NAACP's state president, Mary Ratliff, wrote: "The activities at the Missouri State Fair targeting and inciting violence against our president are serious and warrant a full review by both the Secret Service and the Justice Department. Incidents involving individuals acting out with extreme violent behavior in movie theaters, schools, churches, political appearances, and outdoor events in general speaks volume to the irresponsible behavior of all the parties involved with the incendiary events at the Missouri State Fair."

Comment: Considering the fact that Obama is remotely murdering innocent men, women and children with Drones on a regular basis, it sure sounds like the wrong clown is getting the "sensitivity training" here.

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Indiana firefighter George Madison says local police officers threatened him with stun gun

Evan Bleier
Opposing Views
Thu, 15 Aug 2013 19:04 UTC
indiana firefighter
© Unknown
An Indiana firefighter has filed a formal complaint about an Evansville Police Department officer who he claims stopped him while he was riding his bike, handcuffed him and threatened him with a Taser.

George Madison Jr., 38, says he was stopped by two officers after he waved at them.

"The officer jumped out and says, 'What are you doing throwing your hands up at us?'" Madison said. "He is talking to me as he is coming toward me. I tried to explain, but I couldn't get a word in edgewise."

Madison declined to identify the officers, but it has been reported that they are EPD officers Darin Clifton and Jason Clegg. He called Evansville Police Chief Bolin to tell him what had happened and then met with the department's internal affairs division.

"I remember looking down the barrel of a Taser, because [the officer] was gritting his teeth and saying, 'Don't make me pull this trigger,'" Madison said. "It was literally maybe inches from my face. I immediately threw my hands in the air. What he asked me to do I was more than willing to do. I said 'Please don't hurt me.' The next thing I know I'm laying down the ground and they cuffed me."
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Psychopath behind bars: Rockefeller imposter Gerhartsreiter jailed for murder


BBC News
Thu, 15 Aug 2013 17:48 UTC
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Gerhartsreiter pretended to be a Hollywood producer and an English aristocrat
A German man who pretended to be heir to the Rockefeller oil fortune has been jailed for killing his California landlady's adult son in 1985.

Christian Gerhartsreiter, 52, was sentenced to 27 years to life in prison at a Los Angeles federal court.

He had been living in Los Angeles under a false name when he murdered John Sohus, 27. His bones were later dug up at the house.

Sohus' wife Linda, 29, also vanished. No trace of her has ever been found.

In April, a jury found Gerhartsreiter guilty of first-degree murder with malicious intent, and of using a blunt object as a deadly and dangerous weapon to kill.

False identities

Gerhartsreiter proclaimed his innocence as he was sentenced on Thursday, accusing Linda Sohus of the killing.
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Dave Lee Travis, ex-Radio 1 DJ, faces indecent assault charges


BBC News
Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:22 UTC
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© Unknown
Mr Travis spoke to reporters as he arrived at his home

Former BBC Radio 1 presenter Dave Lee Travis has been charged with 12 historical sexual offences, police say.

The 68-year-old faces 11 counts of indecent assault and one of sexual assault, and will appear before Westminster magistrates on 23 August.

Mr Travis, of Mentmore, Bucks, said he was "disappointed and surprised" to be charged and denied the allegations.

The allegations date from 1977 to 2007 and relate to nine female complainants aged between 15 and 29 at the time.

Mr Travis was questioned by police as part of Operation Yewtree, an investigation into historical claims linked to the entertainment industry.

The probe was launched in the wake of sexual offence allegations against ex-TV presenter and Radio 1 DJ Jimmy Savile.
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Massive gas blast in Bulgaria caught on camera


youtube
Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:19 UTC

Massive gas blast in Bulgaria caught on camera.

Moment a gas cistern ignited near a railway line in Varna, Bulgaria, causing a massive blast which injured 12 people.
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78 children missing from Oklahoma Department of Human Services

Kristan Harris
Cudhaynow.com
Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:38 UTC
Missing Children
© Cudahynow.com
The Oklahoman reported that seventy-eight children in custody of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services are missing. Thirty-eight of them have been missing for more than three months. Melissa Jones, a DHS program supervisor, insisted that "there is accountability, but keeping children from running away can be harder than it seems".

Kim Baker who formerly worked for the DHS in Oklahoma City commented "I worked for DHS child abuse center in OKC about 30 years ago and I saw corruption then. I had to quit. I went to a state attorney for help because I was 19 and didn't know where to turn to report the abuse and nothing was done. I had to quit and not be part of it."
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Bubblemania: Why Marc 'Wolf' Faber still thinks a 1987-style market crash is coming

Barbara Kollmeyer
MarketWatch.com
Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:35 UTC
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Dr. Doom is doomish again.

Marc Faber, the author of "The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report," says investors need to brace for a drop of 20% or more by the time 2013 closes, predicting a market fallout similar to what was seen in 1987.
"In 1987, we had a very powerful rally, but also earnings were no longer rising substantially, and the market became very overbought," Faber said Thursday on CNBC. "The final rally into Aug. 25 occurred with a diminishing number of stocks hitting 52-week highs. In other words, the new-high list was contracting, and we have several breaks in different stocks."
October 1987 marks a period no investor could easily forget. The S&P 500 SPX -1.29% is up around 20% for 2013 so far. Faber compares that to 1987, when stocks rose more than 30% up to the same point. But it was in the latter half of 1987 that things fell apart. On "Black Monday," Oct. 19, 1987, the S&P 500 fell 20.4% in the biggest single-day loss for Wall Street in history. It marked the end of a five-year bull market, and stocks ended up just about where they'd started that phase.

He noted that during a two-day period this week, as the S&P 500 nears an all-time high of 1,709, there have been 170 new 52-week lows. That means just a relatively few companies are driving the market higher.
"The only way this market can go up is if the 10 or 50 stocks that are very strong continue to drive the market higher, with the majority of stocks having actually peaked out."
Of course, the 1987-crash theme is not a new one for Faber. He made similar predictions in May and February. So how many times is Faber going to cry wolf before we see this happen? Well, ZeroHedge says he may be on to something, if you look at a Hindenburg cluster that's been happening over the last four days. This indicator warns when more than 2.2% of traded issues are hitting new highs, while another 2.2% or more are making new lows. (Read more on the Hindenburg Omen.)
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China to stop using organs from executed prisoners in transplants


The Guardian, UK
Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:32 UTC
Organ Harvesting
© Fu Zhiyong/Imaginechina
Chinese doctors perform a kidney transplant operation at a hospital in Changsha, Hunan province.
China will start phasing out its decades-long practice of using the organs of executed prisoners for transplant operations from November, as it pushes to mandate the use of organs from ethical sources, a senior official said.

China is the only country that still systematically uses organs extracted from executed prisoners in transplants, a practice that has drawn widespread international criticism.

Many Chinese view the practice as a way for criminals to redeem themselves. But officials have recently spoken out against harvesting organs from dead inmates, saying it "tarnishes the image of China".

Huang Jiefu, head of the health ministry's organ transplant office, said it would begin enforcing the use of organs from voluntary donors allocated through a fledgling national programme at a meeting to be held in November.

"I am confident that before long all accredited hospitals will forfeit the use of prisoner organs," Huang said. He did not say how many of the 165 hospitals that are licensed for transplants would be among the first batch to stop using organs from executed prisoners.
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Morning sex on TV during major network news program

Rebeca Seitz
Rebeca Seitz's Blog
Thu, 08 Aug 2013 05:54 UTC
Kids sleeping
© Rebeca Seitz
This morning, I woke up with both kiddos in bed with me. Their daddy is out of town on business for a few days - giving me ample opportunity to avoid bedtime scheduling madness (guess who's the disciplinarian here) and revel in those snuffly sighs and giggles that escape just before exhaustion overtakes them and they drift into dreamland.

We slept in. School starts here in 11 days. Gotta sleep in while we can.

Eventually, Andy and I rolled out of bed and went into the living room to start our day in the customary way. A pastry. Some cereal. Flipping back and forth between Morning Express (hi, Robin Meade!) and Good Morning America (hello, GMA crew!). We love Robin's laughter and the lighthearted interaction among the GMA team, the care they seem to give each other when topics turn serious.

Ella heard the television and stirred. I watched from the living room as she sat up, wiped the sleepy from her big brown eyes, and yawned. The GMA segment went to commercial.

And then, wham.

Confusion.

Disbelief.

Did that just flash on my TV screen?
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Angry man confronts Republican congressman over NSA surveillance

Eric W. Dolan
The Raw Story
Wed, 14 Aug 2013 05:27 UTC
Ewbanks
© YouTube
Ewbanks said. “It needs to end now.”
Republican Congressman James Lankford of Oklahoma received a verbal lashing at a town hall meeting on Tuesday from a man upset with the National Security Agency's surveillance program.

"The DEA and the IRS are getting information from the NSA and using it to frame American citizens and then lying about where they got the information," Dax Ewbank of Oklahoma City said at the event. "This is what is happening. Now, what happens if the government becomes politically against my belief system or my lifestyle?"

Ewbank was referring to documents recently obtained by Reuters that showed the NSA was providing data to the Special Operations Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The DEA Special Operations Division in turn was sending tips to both local authorities and federal agencies, including the IRS, to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.
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