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Wednesday, 26 November 2014

Video shows Cleveland cop shot Tamir Rice seconds after encountering him

The police officer who fatally shot a 12-year-old boy carrying a pellet gun fired within 1½ to two seconds of pulling up in his cruiser, police said Wednesday. During those few moments, he ordered the youngster three times to put up his hands, they said.The city released a surveillance video that shows the shooting of Tamir Rice, who was carrying an airsoft gun that shoots non-lethal plastic pellets.Much of the footage shows what appears to be...

Greedy pastor refuses to bury woman for not tithing enough while in nursing home and a coma

© KRIVBarbara Day says that a Houston pastor refused to bury her mother A Houston pastor has come under fire for refusing to bury a 93-year-old woman who had been a member of his church for 50 years but had not tithed enough as her death neared.Barbara Day told KRIV that she was devastated by the way pastor Walter F. Houston treated her when she contacted him about a funeral at Fourth Missionary Baptist Church for her mother, Olivia Blair."It was...

22,729,389 U.S. households will celebrate Thanksgiving on food stamps

Nearly one in five U.S. households will celebrate Thanksgiving on food stamps this year, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on participation in the Supplemental Nutrition and Assistance Program.Back in fiscal 2000, there were 106,061,000 households in the United States and, according to a USDA report published in November 2012, there was a monthly average of 7,335,000 households - or 6.9 percent - getting food stamps...

Are you celebrating American war crimes when you sit down for your turkey dinner?

© Rigourous Intuition When Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, they don't know what they are celebrating.In American folklore, Thanksgiving is a holiday that originated in 1621 with the Pilgrims celebrating a good harvest. Some historians say that this event is poorly documented, and others believe that the Thanksgiving tradition travelled to the New World with the Pilgrims and Puritans who brought with them the English Days of Thanksgiving. Other...

Twenty-one porcelain dolls on bamboo stakes found in Alabama swamp, some missing heads

Twenty-one dolls on bamboo stakes have been mysteriously found in an Alabama swamp.Autauga County sheriff's deputies traveled by canoe into Bear Creek Swamp on Tuesday to recover the dolls, whose faces and hair were painted white.Most of the dolls are porcelain and have the appearance of being antique, reports The . 'I noticed the dolls several weeks ago while driving through the swamp working on a stolen vehicle report,' he sad.'I noticed the...

Media spin in action: CNN's Amanpour show edits out criticism by visiting RT host

© Agence France-Presse/Mike CoppolaChristiane Amanpour Last week, CNN's Christiane Amanpour invited RT's Anissa Naouai to discuss what the US channel called 'a heated propaganda war' by the Russian government. But it never showed viewers Naouai's criticism of Amanpour's own propaganda exercises.Naouai, host of RT's In The Now, was invited to speak along with Mikhail Kasyanov, a former Russian prime minister and a fierce critic of President Vladimir...

NATO top commander reiterates 'Russian threat' while pledging more military aid to Kiev

© Reuters / Valentyn OgirenkoU.S. General Philip Breedlove, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, reacts during a news conference in Kiev, November 26, 2014. The US and NATO have started helping the Ukrainian military 'increase its capacities and capabilities,' NATO's top military commander said during a visit to Kiev.US Air Force General Philip Breedlove, who is the commander of the US European Command and NATO Allied Command Operations, said at...

Electromagnetic Radiation and your health

© ascendingstarseed.wordpress.com "Life is electromagnetic." - Dr. Erica Mallery-BlytheAwareness continues to increase surrounding the pervasive dangers of Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs). Our modern world is becoming an electromagnetic soup filled with pulses, radio frequencies, computer screens, wireless signals, as well as personal devices such as cell phones and gadgets that are emitting damaging radiation.There are many peer-reviewed scientific...

Transparency?! Why do we allow Kiev to write the official report on MH17?

"The Russkies are comin'! ... Where's the damn safety on this thing?!" There are only two suspects in the shoot-down of the MH17 Malaysian airliner over Ukraine on July 17th: the separatist rebels, whom the Ukrainian Government charge had shot it down mistaking it for one of the Ukrainian Air Force bombers that routinely drop bombs onto the separatists and their families and indiscriminately onto everyone else in that region; or otherwise the Ukrainian...

Israel sees rainiest season in center of country in 20 years - parts hit with up to 110 mm. of rain

© Skymet WeatherFloods wreak havoc in Lebanon, Israel and Palestine | Heavy rains battered Israel from north to south on Wednesday, as part of what the Israel Meteorological Society said is the wettest rainy season in central Israel in 20 years.Some of the heaviest rain fall was in Petah Tikva, where over 110mm of rain was recorded, while similar levels were recorded in the Negev, flooding dry creek beds and causing serious road congestion. The...

SOTT EXCLUSIVE: U.S., Canada, Ukraine whitewashing fascism - CrossTalk

U.S. and Canada: supporting their Nazi brothers in Ukraine! Today, RT's CrossTalk features Dmitry Babich, Alexander Mercouris and Nebojsa Malic talking about the recent vote by the U.S., Canada and Ukraine against a Russian-proposed UN resolution condemning the heroization of Nazism. (See Revealing their fascist allegiance: US, Canada & Ukraine vote against Russia's anti-Nazism resolution at UN for details.) As host Peter Lavelle asks, "Is this...

Graves of 'vampires' discovered in Poland were cholera victims

© PLOS OneExcavations of graves suggested the deaths of six occupants were likely to have been viewed with fear and suspicion. When archaeologists discovered graves in Poland where the dead had been buried with sickles across their throats and rocks under their chins, they assumed the unfortunate victims were suspected vampires.But a new study suggests they actually died of cholera, and villages were afraid they would rise from the dead, bringing...

Dead humpback whale washes up on Nantucket beach, Massachusetts

© Nantucket Natural Resources DepartmentA 25-foot humpback whale was found dead on a Nantucket beach. A 25-foot humpback whale was found dead on a Nantucket beach early Tuesday morning.The whale was found on Miacomet Beach, said Maggie Mooney-Seus, spokeswoman for the Greater Atlantic Regional office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It had has no visible wounds, Mooney-Seus said. She speculated it could have died from disease...

Hiker killed by bear in New Jersey took photo shortly before attack

© AP Photo/Darsh Patel via West Milford Police Department A New Jersey hiker killed by a bear in September took a series of photos of the animal with his cellphone before it mauled him to death.Police in West Milford have released five photos taken by 22-year-old Darsh Patel before he was killed by the 300-pound black bear while hiking with four friends in the Apshawa Preserve, 45 miles northwest of New York.The photos show the bear behind a fallen...

Japan's huge Mt. Aso belching smoke and ash 1,000 metres into the air

Mt Aso A huge volcano in southern Japan was belching smoke and ash 1,000 metres (3,000 feet) into the air Wednesday, the latest eruption in one of the world's most volcanically-active countries, AFP reported.Mount Aso, whose huge caldera dominates the southwestern main island of Kyushu, rumbled into life on Tuesday.Meteorologists warned volcanic stones and ash could fall in a one-kilometre (half a mile) radius of the volcano. The eruption is Aso's...

From Russia with love and support: Russia sends humanitarian cargo for Palestine

While Israel continues to kill and torture Palestinians, Russia sends humanitarian aid. So who's the "bad guy" here? Russia sent a humanitarian cargo to Palestine on Wednesday. A transport plane of the Emergencies Ministry took on board 26 tons of humanitarian supplies that will be airlifted to Jordan, the ministry's spokesman Alexander Drobyshevsky said Wednesday. The cargo will be handed over to representatives of the Palestinian embassy in Amman."Interaction...

Shoot first: Cop shoots at unarmed man rushing home during daughter's asthma attack

Brian Dennison A Florida sheriff's deputy averted a gunshot at the last second Tuesday to avoid wounding a man he realized was not armed.Officer J.C. Garcia mistakenly believed a driver who led him on a brief pursuit was armed, so he drew and fired his weapon about 9:15 p.m., investigators said.But the Jacksonville sheriff's officer managed to wave his gun off immediately upon determining the driver, 29-year-old Brian Dennison, was not actually...

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.8 - 160km NW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia

© USGS Event Time2014-11-26 14:33:43 UTC2014-11-26 22:33:43 UTC+08:00 at epicenterLocation1.975°N 126.546°E depth=41.1km (25.5mi)Nearby Cities160km (99mi) NW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia161km (100mi) NW of Ternate, Indonesia162km (101mi) ENE of Bitung, Indonesia165km (103mi) W of Tobelo, Indonesia1061km (659mi) SW of Koror Town, PalauScientific Data...

British tourist victim of 'worst-ever' attack by Gibraltar monkey

A British tourist needed 40 stitches after being attacked by one of Gibraltar's famous apes.Stuart Gravenell, 53, was walking through the Upper Rock Nature Reserve with his son, Bradley, when he was attacked.A pack of apes charged at them, and one male sunk his teeth into Stuart's forearm and shook its head, opening up two bloody wounds. Stuart collapsed and was rushed to hospital, where nurses said it was the worst injury inflicted by a local...

Free speech no more: Man sues police for arresting him at home after he called them racist on Facebook

A federal lawsuit filed by a Wisconsin man alleges that Arena police violated his civil rights by charging him for calling officers racists on Facebook.In 2012, Thomas G. Smith had seen an Arena Police Department Facebook post thanking community members for helping to detain two black children. Smith responded with a profanity-laced message about how Arena officers were racists.A federal lawsuit obtained by the StarTribune said that Officer Nicholas...

It was so cold that . . .

Freezing temperatures didn't stop intrepid passengers from "helping out" a Russian plane that couldn't move, because its wheels were frozen to the ground. The "selfie" won the day in a remote Siberian town beyond the Arctic Circle.74 passengers, who were on board, offered the seven-member crew and technical staff to help move the frozen Tupolev Tu-134 plane to the takeoff runway on Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the UTair company told TASS."The passengers disembarked to lighten the weight, and then they volunteered to move it," she said.[embedded content]The...

Villager trampled to death by elephant in West Bengal, India

In Early hours on Wednesday, at Dhupguri area in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, a local villager was trampled to death by an elephant, a forest official said.This shocking incident of animal attack on a human took place when a herd of elephants from the neighbouring forest entered Duramari village. This group of elephants damaged paddy crops and was on the way towards the dwellings of the village.Jalpaiguri Wildlife Warden Seema Chowdhury...

U.S. baiting Russia by increasing number of armored vehicles next to its borders

© Reuters / Ints KalninsU.S. soldiers deployed in Latvia perform during a drill at Adazi military base October 14, 2014 American armored vehicles sent to Poland and the Baltic States for military drills are to remain for the constant training of local troops and rotation of US forces. More fighting vehicles will be "pre-positioned" at US military bases in Germany.The US Department of Defense intends to boost the number of its armored vehicles on...
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