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Wednesday, 3 December 2014

Man dies of asthma attack after cop stops him from going to ER

© WEAU 13 Casey Kressin was having a life-threatening asthma attack early Sunday morning when the car he was riding in was stopped by a police officer for running a red light in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.Kressin's girlfriend was rushing him to the hospital to get medical care when the unidentified police officer pulled them over (video below).After the officer realized Kressin was having an asthma attack, the cop called for an ambulance, which got...

A grand jury did indict one person involved in Eric Garner's killing -- The man who filmed it

© Staten Island Advance/Ryan LavisRamsey Orta, 22, in this photo taken shortly after Eric Garner's death, held a memorial for Garner on Bay Street. Orta was later arrested Saturday, Aug. 2, on weapon possession charges. On Wednesday, a Staten Island grand jury decided not to return an indictment for the police officer who put Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, in a chokehold shortly before his death. A different Staten Island grand jury was less...

Canada family keeps father's corpse for 6 months, praying for resurrection

© CBCHamilton A small community of Christians in Canada left the body of a deceased member for six months trusting God to resurrect him from the dead. The Crown found no criminal intent and the grieving widow was ordered to seek public health counseling.The unusual case was resolved on Monday as Kaling Wald, 50, pledged guilty to failing to notify the authorities of her husband Peter's death.The 52-year-old, who suffered from diabetes, got a leg...

Florida judge lifts ban on feeding homeless in public

© Reuters/Fred Prouser After a wave of protests and massive backlash, a Fort Lauderdale judge has temporarily suspended the city's recent ban on feeding the homeless in public places.Broward Circuit Judge Thomas Lynch on Tuesday suspended the enforcement of the ordinance that forbids people from feeding the homeless in parks and other public places in the city. Specifically, the local law limits the location of outdoor feeding sites and requires...

Student arrested in rape case that led to mass protest in Oklahoma

© Reuters / Heide BrandesStudents at Norman High School walk out of classes in Norman, Oklahoma November 24, 2014 to protest what they said was a failure by school administrators to take care of three girls who have accused a male classmate of sexually assaulting them. Police arrested on Tuesday a former Norman High School student charged with raping a fellow classmate. The sexual assault, and other rape accusations, spurred a mass walk-out at the...

Putin's counterpunch to EU: Exit South Stream, enter Turk Stream

© RIA Novosti/Sergey GuneevRussian President Vladimir Putin, left, and President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the concluding news conference in Ankara. So the EU "defeated" Putin by forcing him to cancel the South Stream pipeline. Thus ruled Western corporate media. Nonsense. Facts on the ground spell otherwise.This "Pipelineistan" gambit will continue to send massive geopolitical shockwaves all across Eurasia for quite some time. In a nutshell,...

South Stream project cancelled: What it means and why it's important

© Presidential Press and Information OfficeIt's tiring having to deal with morons for a living. But Putin does a good job at it, that's for sure! The reaction to the cancellation of the Sound Stream project has been a wonder to behold and needs to be explained very carefully.In order to understand what has happened it is first necessary to go back to the way Russian-European relations were developing in the 1990s.Briefly, at that period, the assumption...

For the EU Russia was always just a land of resources for the use by the EU and on EU terms, hence the South Stream shock reaction

The reaction to the cancellation of the Sound Stream project has been a wonder to behold and needs to be explained very carefully. © UnknownThe EU always wanted Russian resources to be privatized and controlled by Western corporations. Putin put a stopper to that dream and took the interests of his people seriously. In order to understand what has happened it is first necessary to go back to the way Russian-European relations were developing in the...

US: Lake Erie temperature at end of November coldest since 1976

© NASANASA image of Lake Erie was taken the week of the dual lake-effect storms. The lake had the coldest water temperature on Nov. 30 since 1976. Lake Erie's water temperature at the end of November fell to 40 degrees. That's the coldest Nov. 30 reading in Buffalo since 1976, when the lake temperature was 38 degrees. Anyone old enough to remember November 1976 needs no further reminder of what happened the following January.The lake froze, and...

"Class Dismissed": New Film Promotes Homeschooling

Class Dismissed, a new full-length documentary film about homeschooling, was screened in the Boston area on December 1, having already been seen by sold out audiences in November on the West Coast (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland). It explores the rapidly growing homeschool movement - its challenges and great successes. I was informed about it by my old friend and "unschooling" pioneer Pat Farenga, who appears briefly in the film....

UFO fleet over Mexico City Airport

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Human Rights Watch: Kiev failed to probe cluster bomb use against Donbass civilians - should invite ICC investigation

© RIA Novosti/Alexey KudenkoA local resident outside his house destroyed in the Ukrainian army's artillery attack in Donetsk's Oktyabrsky district. Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Kiev has failed to investigate its army's use of prohibited cluster bombs against civilians in the country's east. It also recommends Kiev invite the International Criminal Court to investigate.The human rights watchdog is dissatisfied with the investigation conducted by...

Russian bears and Byzantium: Misreading Russian grand strategy

© Maxim Shemetov/ReutersA Russian convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian aid for Ukraine is parked at a camp near Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov Region, Aug. 16, 2014. Common complaints within Intelligence Studies about the examination of foreign intelligence communities, especially those not residing in the west, run the gamut from being too historically driven to being completely ahistorical and thus nothing more than a simple organizational review...

The US' most dangerous nuclear reactor in south Florida in partial shutdown due to steam leaks

South Florida's ailing Turkey Point nuclear power station is in the news again, with Unit 4, one of its two reactors, taken offline Sunday due to a steam leak, according to a Dec. 1st update released by Industrial Info Resources online. Conspicuously, as of the writing of this article, there is no indication that this highly concerning event has received mainstream media coverage. In a recent report, Is Miami on the Brink of a Nuclear Disaster?,...

America's Children: The trials of growing up in a police state

"It's been three weeks since the flashbang exploded next to my sleeping baby, and he's still covered in burns. There's still a hole in his chest that exposes his ribs. After breaking down the door, throwing my husband to the ground, and screaming at my children, the officers - armed with M16s - filed through the house like they were playing war. They searched for drugs and never found any.I heard my baby wailing and asked one of the officers to let...
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