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New York students suspended indefinitely for displaying Confederate flag


CBS News - New York
Tue, 15 Apr 2014 17:14 UTC
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Two Long Island high school students have been suspended for allegedly bringing a Confederate flag to school.

Brother Gary Cregan, principal of St. Anthony's High School in South Huntington, said the two seniors walked in with a Confederate flag draped around their shoulders during an after-hours sporting event at the school.

As CBS 2′s Kathryn Brown reported, there is outrage and disgust on Long Island.

"The African-American students who immediately saw it really exercised heroic restraint and fortunately a teacher immediately confiscated the flag and took the students out of the gym," Cregan said.
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Water

Teen caught urinating in reservoir - 38 million gallons will be discarded

Steven Dubois
Myfoxny.com
Thu, 17 Apr 2014 20:24 UTC
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Mount Tabor reservoir
Call it the Big Flush 2, and this time the sequel promises to be much bigger than the original.

Portland officials said Wednesday they are flushing away millions of gallons of treated water for the second time in less than three years because someone urinated into a city reservoir.

In June 2011, the city drained a 7.5 million-gallon reservoir at Mount Tabor in southeast Portland. This time, 38 million gallons from a different reservoir at the same location will be discarded after a 19-year-old was videotaped in the act.

"The basic commandment of the Water Bureau is to provide clean, cold and constant water to its customers," bureau administrator David Shaff said Wednesday. "And the premise behind that is we don't have pee in it."
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Bacon

Pork, bacon prices rise as deadly diarrhea virus wipes out newborn piglets in Michigan


CBS News - Detroit
Wed, 16 Apr 2014 06:29 UTC
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Love your bacon, ham and baby-back ribs? Get used to forking over more dough for your pork.

A virus that kills piglets at an alarming rate has been found on 93 farms in Michigan, according to the state agriculture department.

Sam Hines, executive vice president of the Michigan Pork Producers Association, said porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) is not a human health concern, but is deadly to newborn pigs.

"This is not a food safety issue," Hines told WWJ's Marie Osborne. "Most hogs do acquire the virus but bigger animals can recover from it. Pigs that are less than a month old will have such a severe diarrhea that they dehydrate. There's nearly 100 percent mortality with pigs less than three-weeks of age."
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Stormtrooper

Beware the police: Cops show up and beat elderly man who called ambulance for his wife

Melissa Melton
The Daily Sheeple
Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:07 UTC
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It seems more and more these days that if you think a loved one is in danger in America, calling the cops should be your absolute last possible resort.

Missourian Elbert Breshears recently called for an ambulance because his elderly wife, who suffers dementia, had endured an episode and knocked a window out of their home.

According to ABC affiliate KSPR33 and unfortunately for Breshears, the cops showed up before the ambulance did:
"The wife and I were standing about here, that's the window she knocked out. I was standing here holding her hand and she was wavering hollering help," Breshears said.

When police got there,"police car drove up, he bailed out ran over and knocked me down. He told me to get up, I told him I couldn't," he explained.

That's when Breshears says police got aggressive. "First thing, I know they grab me, threw me out there on the gravel. One of them sat down on my back, the other sat down on my head. They were trying to get handcuffs on me. I told them I can't get my hands up. I have no objection to being handcuffed," says Breshears.

By then paramedics arrived. Breshears says he and his wife were taken to the hospital. A doctor looked him over. "He dug out the gravel out of my head and sewed my head up," he says.

Comment: Ironically, this situation took place in Humansville, Missouri. The vicious thug cops who beat this man should be banned from the town.

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Stormtrooper

California TV station films dog calmly playing with kids after cop shoots himself trying to kill it

David Edwards
The Raw Story
Thu, 17 Apr 2014 15:41 UTC
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© KNBC
A California deputy accidentally shot himself while trying to kill a dog that he said was threatening his life on Wednesday, but video captured by a local television station later showed the animal much smaller than reported and peacefully playing with children.

According to a Riverside County sheriff's spokesperson, the deputy was serving an eviction notice at around 2 p.m. on Wednesday when a "large" dog tried to attack him, KCAL reported.

"A dog came at the deputy in an aggressive manner," Deputy Armando Munoz said, according to The Press-Enterprise. "The deputy, (attempting to defend himself) pulled his service weapon, shot one round, and injured himself in the leg."

"He's OK. He has non life-threatening injuries."

Munoz said that the dog's aggressive behavior ended when it was startled by the gunfire.

When KNBC film crews arrived on the scene later on Wednesday, they found a medium-sized pit bull - named "Precious" - confined to a pen, and calmly playing with several children. The dog's owner admitted that it had been barking when the officer arrived.

Animal Services did not take the dog into custody because there was no evidence it or the owner had done anything wrong.

Watch the video below from KNBC, broadcast April 16, 2014.
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Eye 2

Simone Steenkamp says: Pistorius is a 'disgusting liar'

Barbara Jones
The Daily Mail
Sun, 13 Apr 2014 09:55 UTC
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Reeva Steenkamp who was shot on Valentine's day by the Bladerunner
  • In exclusive interview Simone Steenkamp says: Pistorius is a 'disgusting liar'
  • 'Smirking' Pistorius 'seems to be enjoying his celebrity status,' she says
  • Says family had offered forgiveness but feelings have changed since trial
  • Reeva was 'very assertive', Simone believes she 'would have screamed'
  • Reeva's father Barry, who has stroke since tragedy watches trial from home
  • He said: 'When I feel strong enough I'll go there to ask him one thing - "Why? Why did you kill my lovely Reeva?"
  • Simone describes Pistorius as an 'insecure, unpredictable man'
As Oscar Pistorius gave his account of the night he shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, claiming it was a tragic accident, he repeatedly retched and broke down in histrionic, heaving sobs.

A few feet away in the Pretoria courtroom last week, June, the grieving mother of the beautiful 29-year-old model, sat in dignified silence, her eyes fixed on Pistorius's face.

Her remarkable composure faltered only rarely, when she wiped away tears.

But back at their home in Port Elizabeth, 710 miles away, her family are far from composed. They are deeply, devastatingly angry.
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Horse

Breaking scandal: BLM rounding up wild horses, sending to slaugherhouse...in Canada

B. Christopher Agee
Western Journalism
Fri, 18 Apr 2014 23:59 UTC
wid horses
© Facebook/Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary
The Bureau of Land Management is clearly having an image problem. As the outrage over its intimidating show of force during last week's showdown at the Bundy Ranch in Nevada proved, the federal agency is now caught up in a controversy originating in Wyoming.

According to recent reports, agents herded a large group of wild horses in the state before ceding control of the majestic animals to state authorities. At that point, Wyoming officials sold them off to a slaughterhouse in Canada.

Obviously, this development outraged countless advocates already incensed by accusations that BLM officers gunned down multiple cows at the Bundy Ranch.

Paula Todd King, a wild horse advocate with Colorado's Cloud Foundation, said it would have taken "very little to do this in a more effective way so that horses are not just sent off to slaughter indiscriminately."

Though wild horses, which have roamed throughout the American West for hundreds of years, are protected by federal law, the BLM contends these animals do not qualify for such protection. Instead, agency spokesperson Sarah Beckwith contends they are strays descended from rodeo horses from four decades ago.
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Stormtrooper

Civilians say they can't 'continue to pretend' they have power over Albuquerque police


RT
Thu, 17 Apr 2014 21:24 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Jewel Samad

Half of the commission that conducts oversight of the Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Department has resigned in protest follow a scathing report from the United States Department of Justice.

Oversight commission members Jennifer Barela, Jonathan Siegel and Richard Shine sent letters of resignation to Albuquerque, NM Mayor Richard Berry on Tuesday, leaving just three members of the nine-person panel to assess the police department's actions. Prior to Tuesday, only six people held seats on the Police Oversight Commission, or POC.

Tuesday's resignations were announced less than a week after the Justice Dept. accused the APD of what it determined to be excessive abuse force and a culture of abuse and aggression. According to the DOJ's findings, Albuquerque police have shot 37 men since 2010, killing 23.

"We have determined that structural and systemic deficiencies - including insufficient oversight, inadequate training and ineffective policies - contributed to the use of unreasonable force," the Justice Dept. said. "Albuquerque's external oversight structure could do much more to address unreasonable uses of deadly force, and it is apparent from our review of documents and interviews that the failure to do so in the past has contributed to the pattern of unreasonable force that we have found."


Anger directed at the APD has rekindled in recent weeks after a video of a local police officer shooting and killing a homeless man caught illegally camping in a rural area went viral. Demonstrators responded with a series of rallies in Albuquerque, which the APD countered by using tear gas against activists and issuing arrests.
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USA

You won't believe the method that Common Core is using to teach our kids subtraction

Michael Snyder
The Truth Wins
Fri, 18 Apr 2014 20:50 UTC
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© The Truth Wins
The dumbing down of America is accelerating. A massive federal takeover of education known as "Common Core" is attempting to impose nationwide academic standards on public schools throughout the entire country. Thanks to the backing of billionaire Bill Gates, endless promotion by the U.S. Department of Education, and financial bribes to state governments by the Obama administration, 45 states and Washington, D.C. have already agreed to implement the full Common Core standards in their schools.

Unfortunately, these "standards" are doing to public education what Obamacare is doing to our health care system - absolutely ruining it. Just look at how basic math instruction has changed. Posted below is a comparison between the "old method" of subtraction and the "new method" of subtraction being taught in many of our schools. When I first came across this on Facebook, I thought that it was a joke...
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Che Guevara

Russia: The last keeper of European culture, Christian values and truly European civilisation

Maria Antonova
Yahoo! News
Fri, 18 Apr 2014 18:49 UTC
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© AFP Photo/Yuri Kadobnov
Russian students sing and dance around a Soviet-era street decoration with a portrait of Lenin displayed in an open air museum in Moscow, on April 9, 2014
The Kremlin is preparing a new culture policy for Russia focusing on its distinctive civilisation and traditional values, which observers say has political ends amid Moscow's standoff with the West.

At the end of four hours of questions Thursday in his annual call-in, President Vladimir Putin waxed philosophical on what it means to be Russian.

Russians not only have their own "cultural code," he said, they also have a unique moral outlook -- unlike Westerners, Russians are selfless and prone to self-sacrifice.

"These are the deep roots of our patriotism," Putin said.

Tapping into perceived "traditional cultural values" of Russian civilisation, the culture ministry is drawing up a government strategy that observers say has all the trappings of a new state ideology, echoing Soviet legacy.

The authors preparing the document, who are kept secret, believe that such a policy must be based on the thesis that "Russia is not Europe" and generously quote from Putin's speeches.
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