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Assistant prosecutor in West Virginia suspended after pulling gun on fake Halloween spiders

Matthew Diebel
USA Today
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 15:18 UTC
Spider
© The Economic Times, India
Many people are scared of spiders. Anxious around arachnids. Afraid of eight-legged insects.

And then there's Chris White. He's truly terrified.

Here's the tangled web:

White, an apparently arachnophobic assistant prosecutor in West Virginia has been suspended indefinitely after pulling a gun and threatening to shoot fake spiders that were being used as Halloween decorations in his office.

John Bennett, prosecuting attorney of Logan County, a district in the southwest of the state, told local media that one of his assistants, Chris White, had been put on paid leave after the incident.

Like they often do during holidays, Bennett told the Gazette-Mail, a newspaper in the state capital, Charleston, secretaries decorated the prosecutor's office at the beginning of October to mark Halloween.

"Some black, some brown — but some pretty good sized" spider decorations were hung, Bennett said.

White "told the secretaries that he was deathly afraid of spiders, got out a gun and walked down the hall into an office," Bennett told the paper. "He pulled out a chair, put a fake spider down and threatened to shoot all of the spiders in the place," adding that he was out of the office at the time but was told about the incident by shaken employees.

"He said they had spiders everyplace and he said he told them it wasn't funny and he couldn't stand them, and he did indeed get a gun out," Bennett told local TV station WCHS. "It had no clip in it, of course they wouldn't know that, I wouldn't either if I looked at it, to tell you the truth," Bennett added.
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War Whore

Nuclear war: What you didn't know

Graham Vanbergen
truepublica.org.uk
Thu, 22 Oct 2015 15:42 UTC
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A thermonuclear weapon weighing little more than 2,400 pounds (1,100 kg) can produce an explosive force comparable to the detonation of more than 1.2 million tons of TNT.‪ A nuclear device no larger than traditional bombs can devastate an entire city by blast, fire, and radiation. Nuclear weapons are considered weapons of mass destruction, and their use and control has been a major focus of international relations policy since their debut.

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament.
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Nearly half a million people support independent probe into US bombing of Doctors Without Borders


Sputnik
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 13:38 UTC
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© AP Photo/ Najim Rahim
A petition calling for the support of US President Barack Obama to launch an independent investigation into the deadly bombing of the Kunduz hospital in Afghanistan by US forces has gathered over 400,000 signatures.

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders, a medical organization that operates the hospital, initiated the petition, which was posted to the Change.org website, to investigate the October 3 US airstrike on the hospital. The bombing killed at least 30 medical staff and patients, including 3 children.

The United States, NATO, and the Afghan government have launched investigations. MSF said it was "impossible to expect the parties involved in the conflict to carry out independent and impartial investigations of acts in which they themselves are implicated."

Comment: A petition calling for the US to launch an 'independent investigation' into its own war crimes seems doomed to failure. Also see:

New evidence emerges showing the US deliberately attacked the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan

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Mark Fuhrman, former LAPD detective, convicted perjurer and racist, brings his 'expert analysis' on the Spring Valley incident to Fox News

William N. Grigg
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 15:03 UTC
mark Fuhrman
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When video emerged showing Deputy Ben Fields of Richland County, South Carolina assaulting a 16-year-old female high school student, Sean Hannity of Fox News turned to that network's in-house expert on police conduct to explain why the deputy's actions were "justified." As expected, Mark Fuhrman, a disgraced ex-LAPD homicide detective, convicted perjurer, and documented bigot, conferred his benediction on Fields.

"I'll tell you why it's not excessive," Fuhrman told Hannity, who is always eager to exonerate abusive police officers. "He [Fields] verbalized, he made contact, he verbalized, he was polite. He requested her. He verbally did that."

When the emotionally troubled - and recently orphaned - teenage girl remained sullenly uncooperative, the "next level is he put a hand on her," Fuhrman interpreted. "She escalated it from there" - which means that she tried to pull away from the armlock that had been applied to her by an apparently steroid-enhanced, armored, gun-toting male stranger twice her size. "He used soft control. He threw her to the ground, he handcuffed her" - and in doing so inflicted injuries that required hospitalization.

For all that the girl endured as summary punishment for being uncooperative in class, she should be abjectly grateful that Fields was restrained, according to Fuhrman: "He didn't use mace. He didn't use a Taser. He didn't use a stick. He didn't kick her. He didn't hit her. He didn't choke her. He used a minimal amount of force necessary to effect an arrest."
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Eye 1

The UN wants everyone on the planet to have a biometric ID card by 2030

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Sun, 01 Nov 2015 14:41 UTC
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Did you know that the United Nations intends to have biometric identification cards in the hands of every single man, woman and child on the entire planet by the year 2030? And did you know that a central database in Geneva, Switzerland will be collecting data from many of these cards?

Previously, I have written about the 17 new "Global Goals" that the UN launched at the end of September. Even after writing several articles about these new Global Goals, I still don't think that most of my readers really grasp how insidious they actually are. This new agenda truly is a template for a "New World Order", and if you dig into the sub-points for these new Global Goals you find some very alarming things.

For example, Goal 16.9 sets the following target...
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Snowflake Cold

Up to 100,000 people in Gaza will be forced to spend the winter in tents, shacks and animal shelters

John Vibes
Activist Post
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 14:28 UTC
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A spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees said this week that close to 100,000 people in Gaza will be spending this winter in tents, animal shelters, and shacks that will not do much at all to keep them out of the elements.

According to the spokesman, some children froze to death in Gaza last year due to inadequate living conditions.

"As the winter approaches, one shudders how these people are going to survive," the UNRWA spokesman, Christopher Gunness, said in an interview with Reuters last week.

"What these people need is proper homes," he added.

Comment: And Israel, along with its western supporters -- most notably the US and UK -- would have it no other way.

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Biometrics and cashless society: The extinction of privacy and personal security

Graham Vanbergen
TruePublica
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 00:00 UTC
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© science photo libraryPolice forces in England and Wales have uploaded up to 18 million "mugshots" to a facial recognition database - despite a court ruling it could be unlawful.
  • Mugshot uploads of 18 million innocent people ruled unlawful
  • Facebook: Algorithm identifies people without imaged faces 83 percent of the time
  • Corrupt officers or hackers have means to switch images of the guilty to the innocent
  • UK Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency sells personal data
  • Apple Pay allows for bank hacks, misdirected funds; Cameron: outlaw encryption
In a survey of 1,000 UK shoppers by the retail personalisation company RichRelevance, respondents were asked to rate a suite of in-store shopping technologies as either "cool" or "creepy", and facial recognition fell decidedly on the creepy end of the scale. In this survey it was found that companies will soon be using a range of technical tools to achieve sales via personalised product recommendations and promotions, screens displaying their products, possibly utilising an image of you and even getting assistants to bring products, say clothes, and automatically unlock dressing room doors.

Of course, the only way they can do this is by using facial recognition systems. As soon as you walk in store, your mobile gives you away. This provides the retailer with sufficient information to identify your age and gender, whether you are are a high value customer and your spending habits. All of this was found to be very 'creepy' by respondents.

There are no laws or guidelines limiting their use and as soon as it gets into the wrong hands problems occur. One would not normally think that our own security services would be a threat to innocent civilians going about their lawful business. Police forces in England and Wales have uploaded up to 18 million "mugshots" to a facial recognition database - despite a court ruling to be unlawful. They include photos of people never charged, or others cleared of an offence, and were uploaded without Home Office approval.

Photos of "hundreds of thousands" of innocent people may be on the database, an independent commissioner said. Biometrics Commissioner Alastair MacGregor QC said he was concerned about the implications of the system for privacy and civil liberties. Speaking in his first interview, he told Newsnight that police forces had begun setting up a searchable database of mugshots last year, without telling either him or the Home Office. Almost every police force in England and Wales had now supplied photographs, he said.

Facial recognition systems are already used by Britain's spy agencies and by the Border Force at UK airports and ports. The FBI now has a database that covers one third of the the American adult population, so does Britain's police and security services.

Comment: Gee thanks, Gov! We are now living in a Sci-Fi horror movie with real and menacing implications. As the article stated: "the digital surveillance genie is out of the bottle, and many privacy campaigners have little faith that regulators will ever be able to stuff it back in." We, as individuals, have been sold and sold out, and it is reaching global proportions. Do you have a plan to navigate this insanity, or will you just stand there and smile for the camera?

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FSA cages Alawite citizens as human shields, West blames Putin

Ollie Richardson
Fort Russ
Sun, 01 Nov 2015 10:38 UTC
The phantom Free Syrian Army is taking the word 'disgusting' to a whole new level here. Obama's 'moderates' thought it would be a great idea to imprison Alawite citizens on rooftops, using them as human shields against the Russian Airforce. We know that this is true because the FSA are declaring the opposite.


Comment: That's right. We don't condone it, BUT... In other words, they do condone it. In the minds of these moderate lunatics, it makes perfect sense to cage innocent civilians in order to stop fictional 'mutilations' on the part of Syria and Russia. Russia and Syria aren't mutilating people: the FSA, ISIS and Nusra have that covered.



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Eye 1

Over 2,600 Palestinians shot by Israeli forces during October


PressTV
Sun, 01 Nov 2015 03:53 UTC
Palestine killed Israel
© AFP photoPalestinians wave their national flags as they carry the bodies of five Palestinians who were killed by Israeli security forces in the West Bank on October 31, 2015.
At least 2,617 Palestinians have been shot and injured by Israeli forces using live and rubber bullets in the month of October, a Red Crescent officials says. On Sunday, the Palestinian news agency Ma'an released a report quoting a Red Crescent spokesperson as saying that at least 760 Palestinians were shot with live rounds across the occupied Palestinian territory, while another 1,857 were hit with rubber-coated steel bullets.

At least 5,645 Palestinians sustained injuries, including burns from tear gas canisters and excessive tear gas inhalation. At least 72 Palestinians were also killed in Palestinian territories by Israeli soldiers in October. Tensions have been running high over the past several weeks between the Israeli regime and Palestinians in the occupied territories. The latest wave of tensions was triggered by Israel's imposition in August of restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
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More cracks in the Union: Scottish Labour votes against Trident system renewal - 'utterly useless'


RT
Sun, 01 Nov 2015 03:24 UTC
scotland trident vote
© David Moir / ReutersBritish Royal Navy Vanguard class Trident Ballistic Missile Submarine
Scottish Labour party delegates have voted in favor of abandoning the renewal of the UK's Trident nuclear weapons system at the annual party conference in Perth making it an official policy of the party's section in Scotland.

At the conference, about 70 percent of the delegates voted to scrap the Trident system with both rank and file party members and most trade unions affiliated with the party supporting this move.

The delegates adopted a motion opposing Trident renewal and describing nuclear weapons as "a mortal threat to humanity's survival" and "massively expensive" as well as stressing that if the Trident program was renewed it could potentially provoke nuclear proliferation, British media reported. The motion also emphasizes that the Trident program should only be scrapped on the condition that new engineering and hi-tech jobs for the defense workers could be created as they could be made unemployed because of this decision.

This result puts the Scottish section of the party at loggerheads with the party leaders in Westminster that consistently back the renewal of the UK's nuclear weapons program.

At the same time, this result could possibly boost Labour leader Jeremy Corbin's efforts to force his party to abandon its support for the British nuclear deterrent system. The motion closely resembles Corbyn's stance on the nuclear weapons issue and is regarded as an endorsement of his idea for the UK's unilateral disarmament.

"Scottish Labour Party members have spoken. That will now feed into the wider UK Labor debate and review of defense policy," a Corbyn's spokesman said at the conference after the vote, as quoted by the BBC.
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