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49 Ukrainian troops killed as transport plane shot down in Lugansk


RT
Sat, 14 Jun 2014 04:57 UTC
Ukrainian transport plane shot down
© YoutubeA fire that allegedly started at the crash site of the downed Ukrainian military transport.
Forty-nine Ukrainian troops were killed when their military Il-76 transport jet was taken down by local militia forces just before landing at Lugansk Airport. Some military hardware and supplies were lost as well.

The death toll was confirmed by the Ukrainian General Prosecutor's office on Saturday morning in a statement, which said nine crew members and 40 troops were killed.

Earlier the Defense Ministry said the troops were being transported to the Lugansk Airport for rotation along with military equipment and supplies.

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Brazilian police fire tear gas at World Cup protesters as journalist 'injured' amid rubber bullets and stun grenades

Gordon Rayner and Donna Bowater
The Telegraph
Thu, 12 Jun 2014 03:15 UTC
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© Nelson Antoine/APA protester is detained by police during the demonstration in Sao Paulo
Within 10 minutes of the demonstration, officers had reportedly fired tear gas and sound bombs, and arrested one, according to local press.

Local people angry at the amount of public money being spent on the tournament have begun to carry out their threat of taking to the streets around the stadium where the opening ceremony will take place ahead of the first match.

The protest started in the east of São Paulo, which will host the opening ceremony of the World Cup from around 3pm local time (9pm UK time).

Comment: Again, we see that psychopathic leaders continue with their agendas with no consideration for civilians. It is clear that the majority of the Brazilian people are against the World Cup being held in Brazil, on which the government is wasting billions of money that could have been used to improve life in Brazil, not to mention offering help to the children living there: as of right now, poor Brazilian children are being forced into prostitution to meet the demand of fans of the World Cup. It is sad to see that protests are met with violence from the police force. There is nobody to listen, and the government ministers have the nerve to say that they will be hoping for a win in the match "to bring a feel-good factor to the country''?!

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Jealous lover eats rival's heart with a knife and fork in South Africa


Agence France Presse
Thu, 12 Jun 2014 19:43 UTC
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A jealous lover in South Africa stabbed a rival, cut out his heart and ate it with a knife and fork, police and media reported Thursday.

Police were called to the gruesome scene at a house in Cape Town's Gugulethu township by frantic neighbours, spokesman Frederick van Wyk told the Cape Times.

"On the scene they found a suspect, a Zimbabwean national, busy eating the heart of a human with a knife and fork," he said.

The woman at the centre of the love triangle told police that her former lover had visited the house where she was living with her current partner and they had chatted together before he gave her money to buy liquor and she left.

When she returned she found her partner, 62-year-old Mbuyiselo Manona, had been stabbed, Van Wyk said.

Neighbours alerted by the commotion said they had peered through the house windows to see the man cutting out Manona's heart and eating it.

Comment: This is happening more and more often, and there are probably several explanations. For more info see:
Cannibals rising - Zombie Apocalypse 2012
Is Solar and Cosmic Radiation Playing Havoc With Life on Planet Earth?
Zombie Nation: 70 MILLION Americans are on mind-altering drugs

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Heart - Black

Rise of debtor's prisons: Truancy ticketing enriches schools by targeting those already impoverished

Liz Dwyer
Yahoo News
Fri, 13 Jun 2014 00:00 UTC
Eileen DiNino
Eileen DiNino
There's no doubt that Ferris Bueller's Day Off is one of the most iconic films from the 1980s. Ferris skips school, goes to a Cubs game, drives a Ferrari, gets the gorgeous girl, and outwits Principal Rooney. But would we have been laughing if Ferris' mother had been thrown in jail because of her son's truancy and ended up dying there?

That's exactly what happened to 55-year-old Pennsylvania mom Eileen DiNino. The unemployed mother of seven didn't have the wealth of the fictional Bueller family, so she was unable to pony up $2,000 for truancy fines that her kids racked up for missing school. Although the federal government outlawed debtor's prisons in the 1830s, last Friday DiNino, who lived in Berks County, an hour northwest of Philadelphia, was tossed in a jail cell to serve out a two-day sentence. A cause of death is still to be determined, but law enforcement officials didn't give DiNino the high blood pressure medication she needed. She was found dead in her cell on Saturday, reported The Associated Press.

While the trend of jailing impoverished people is chilling enough, what's also concerning is that being locked up for truancy fines is more common than most Americans realize. In Berks County alone, over 1,600 parents and guardians have been locked up since 2000 due to nonpayment of truancy fines, and two-thirds of those incarcerated are women. Like DiNino, the majority come from low income backgrounds and have no Bueller-style cash, savings, or credit card to offer up as payment.

Comment: Related:
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Eulogy for NHS: Heath care act to usher in two-tier health care system

Harry Leslie Smith
The Guardian
Wed, 04 Jun 2014 12:03 UTC
Harry Leslie Smith
© Sarah Lee for the GuardianHarry Leslie Smith: 'The ­creation of the NHS made us understand that we were our brother’s keeper.'
In 1926, Harry Leslie Smith's sister died of TB in a workhouse infirmary, too poor for proper medical care. In 1948, the creation of the NHS put a stop to all that. In an extract from his new book, Harry's Last Stand, he describes his despair at the coalition's dismantling of the welfare state

A midwife with a penchant for gin delivered me into the arms of my exhausted mother on a cold, blustery day in February 1923. I slept that night in my new crib, a dresser drawer beside her bed, unaware of the troubles that surrounded me. Because my dad was a coal miner, we lived rough and ready in the hardscrabble Yorkshire town of Barnsley. Money and happiness didn't come easily for the likes of us.

Considering the hunger, the turmoil and the squalor in Britain during the early years of the 20th century, it was miraculous that I lived to see my third birthday. That I survived colic, flu, infection, scrapes and bangs without the benefits of modern sanitation, hygiene or health care, I must give thanks to my sturdy peasant genes. As a baby, I was ignorant of the great sorrow that enveloped England and Europe like a damp, grey fog. The nation was still in mourning for her dead from the world's first Great War. It had ended only five short years before my arrival. Nearly a million British soldiers had been killed in that conflict. It had begun in farce in 1914 and ended in bloody tragedy in 1918. In four years, that war killed more than 37 million men, women and children around the world.

Comment: It appears the UK is moving toward a disastrous system similar to the USA where 'health care' will only be available for those wealthy enough to afford it.

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Bad Guys

Tensions brewing in South Yorkshire: Angry villagers warn of riots due to clashes with immigrant population

Chris Brooke
Daily Mail
Fri, 13 Jun 2014 06:09 UTC
hexthorpe shouth yorkshire
Trouble brewing: Residents of Hexthorpe, South Yorkshire, said people would take the law into their own hands unless the authorities step in to combat anti-social behaviour they blame on Roma immigrants
Angry villagers yesterday said riots could break out if police do not deal with hundreds of Roma immigrants who they claim have ruined their community.

Residents of Hexthorpe, South Yorkshire, said people would take the law into their own hands unless the authorities step in to combat anti-social behaviour.

At a public meeting yesterday, emotions ran high as 120 locals confronted police and council officials.

Hexthorpe has a population of 3,300 and 500 Roma residents, most of whom are said to have arrived since January when entry rules to the UK were relaxed.

Villagers claim Roma groups are fly-tipping and leaving litter in the streets. They say they make so much noise at night that elderly residents have to sleep with ear plugs, while others are scared to go outside.

The meeting also heard allegations of assault.
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Police departments target low-level drug arrests to get millions in funding from the federal government

Michael Allen
Opposing Views
Wed, 11 Jun 2014 00:00 UTC
marijuana drug money
A new report revealed that state and local police departments make low-level drug arrests, such as marijuana possession, to get millions in funding from the federal government.

This little-known funding channel is called the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program, which awards federal money to state and local police who are willing to join the failed and never-ending "War on Drugs."

"This money has helped reshape policing strategies and policies in major cities and a lot of rural areas throughout the United States," Harry Levine, a sociologist at Queens College, CUNY, told AlterNet.org.

"Although the government claims [Byrne grant money] goes toward apprehending high level traffickers, it's often very low level people who get arrested," added Levine. "It targets low-income people and people of color much more than anyone understands."

Comment: This may be one reason police departments are able to afford high tech military gear:

The militarization of US police continues...Machine guns, grenade launchers, silencers and more

Why Do the Police Have Tanks? The Strange and Dangerous Militarization of the US Police Force

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Dozens of aircrafts briefly vanished from Europe radar


Guardian
Fri, 13 Jun 2014 00:00 UTC
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© Alex Grimm/ReutersAn air-traffic controller watches his screen at a German air-traffic control centre in Langen near Frankfurt.
Dozens of aircraft briefly vanished from air-traffic control radars in Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia over the last two weeks in incidents that Slovak authorities blamed on military electronic warfare exercises.

Air-traffic controllers in Austria and Germany said data about the planes' position, direction, height or speed went missing on 5 and 10 June, but the outages posed no serious danger to aircraft travelling at high altitude.

Their Czech and Slovak counterparts also encountered cases of vanishing aircraft on the same days.

"The disappearance of objects on radar screens was connected with a planned military exercise which took place in various parts of Europe ... whose goal was the interruption of radio communication frequencies," the Slovak air traffic services said.

"This activity also caused the temporary disappearance of several targets on the radar display, while in the meantime the planes were in radio contact with air traffic controllers and continued in their flight normally.

"Immediately after the identification of the problem with the displays, the side organising the exercises was contacted and the exercise was stopped."
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Green puppies shock Spanish dog breeders

George Mills
The Local, Spain
Wed, 11 Jun 2014 15:50 UTC
Green Puppies
© Aida Vallelado Molina The animals, born on June 3rd, were smaller and weaker than the other pups in the litter.
A pair of dog breeders in the Spanish province of Valladolid were shocked recently when two pups were born green.

"I couldn't believe it when I first saw them," Aida Vallelado Molina told The Local.

"I thought the puppies were dirty and tried to clean them, but the colour wouldn't come off," said Molina, who breeds hunting dogs with her father in the town of Laguna de Duero.

The animals, born on June 3rd, were smaller and weaker than the other pups in the litter. One of them, a female, died shortly after birth while the male pup is still alive, but very weak.

He is now beginning to lose his pigment.
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The police will kill your dog

Melissa Melton
The Daily Sheeple
Wed, 04 Jun 2014 00:00 UTC
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© cesarsway.com
Flipping on the radio during my early commute Monday landed me smack dab in the middle of one of those morning zoos which instantly reminded me why I never flip on the radio during early commutes (and especially not on Mondays).
The debate centered around cops shooting dogs. Apparently police officers from Round Rock, Texas had responded to a burglary alarm at a private residence, and arrived to find the front door ajar. They went inside to sweep the house, only to be confronted by the home owner's eight-year-old, 120-pound rottweiler with hip dysplasia.

The officers proceeded to reportedly shoot the animal a combined total of seven times; one officer firing one round, while the other fired six.
The debate centered around what people thought. One of the deejays argued that the Round Rock PD had already offered to buy the owners a new dog, so it was ridiculous that "some ambulance chaser" would wind up getting them an additional 100-500k for pain and suffering on top of it. The seemingly obligatory female deejay played the sympathetic role, talking about how the pet was the residence owners' baby. Then some guy called in with the rebuttal that a dog "can't make no woman pregnant" so therefore it doesn't count as family (couldn't make that one up if I tried).

Officers killing dogs in "the line of duty" - how common is this becoming in modern America? Seems like no more than three days go by before I hear about a new pet dog slain at the hands of police who, in most cases, were called for help.


Comment: According to these guys a dog is shot by law enforcement every 98 minutes!


Comment: And why are police shooting dogs instead of using less-than-deadly force? Are they trained to do this? Do they not understand that dogs are beloved members of people's families?

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