Playstation 2 component incites African war

Parasitic as ever.

Has the video game industry dug up its very own blood diamond?

According to a report by activist site Toward Freedom, for the past decade the search for a rare metal necessary in the manufacturing of Sony’s Playstation 2 game console has fueled a brutal conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

At the center of the conflict is the unrefined metallic ore, coltan. After processing, coltan turns into a powder called tantalum, which is used extensively in a wealth of western electronic devices including cell phones, computers and, of course, game consoles.

Allegedly, the demand for coltan prompted Rwandan military groups and western mining companies to plunder hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the rare metal, often by forcing prisoners-of-war and even children to work in the country’s coltan mines.

“Kids in Congo were being sent down mines to die so that kids in Europe and America could kill imaginary aliens in their living rooms,” said Ex-British Parliament Member Oona King.

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So where’s the connection to Sony? According to Toward Freedom, during the 2000 launch of the PS2, the electronics giant was having trouble meeting consumer demand. To pump out more units, Sony required a significant increase in the production of electric capacitors, which are primarily made with tantalum. This helped drive the world price of the powder from $49/pound to a whopping $275/pound, resulting in the frenzied scouring of the Congolese hills known for being ripe with coltan.

Sony has since sworn off using tantalum acquired from the Congo, claiming that current builds of the PS2, PSP and PS3 consoles are sourced from a variety of mines in several different countries.

But according to researcher David Barouski, they’re hardly off the hook.

“SONY’s PlayStation 2 launch…was a big part of the huge increase in demand for coltan that began in early 1999,” he explained. “SONY and other companies like it, have the benefit of plausible deniability, because the coltan ore trades hands so many times from when it is mined to when SONY gets a processed product, that a company often has no idea where the original coltan ore came from, and frankly don’t care to know. But statistical analysis shows it to be nearly inconceivable that SONY made all its PlayStations without using Congolese coltan.”

Currently, the Playstation 2 is the best-selling video game console of all-time, having sold through over 140 million units.

Swine flu, depopulation scheme by Whites?

Why would they want to do this?

Unless you live on Planet Zod (somewhere the other side of the galaxy), you will know there is growing international concern, amounting almost to panic, that we are facing a deadly worldwide pandemic of swine flu. The actual figures, as of today Apr. 27th, are: 1,614 cases and 103 deaths (not all confirmed as swine flu).

After years of trying to will into existence a pandemic of avian flu, the media loonies have finally got what they wanted: something to scream and wring their hands about, trying to induce fear and despair in the population they seek to mind-control.

There is nothing the media likes more than fear and panic. They try to create it, every day, in the news and on television. Living here in the USA, I laugh sometimes. If there is nothing to be scared of that day, they drag up past miseries, instead of saying “It’s been a great day folks. Go home and sleep peacefully”.

In the hurricane season, if nothing is blowing in, they run stories of past hurricanes, over and over and over, just in case the population should relax and start to behave normally.

That said, the media in the USA is almost totally censored by control from the owners. The population is told there are dangers and threats on every hand. They are NOT told that most of this hysteria is full-on lies and counterfeit stories. They are CERTAINLY not told that there are plenty of solutions to the dangers posed.

What lies hidden, covered up by your leaders, can certainly cause trouble and even kill you.

US vaccine manufacturers bio-terrorists?

Now, nobody here is being told that the present “outbreak” of ‘flu was deliberately engineered by a US pharmaceutical company. Baxter International Inc. were caught on the brink of starting an avian flu “pandemic,” by distributing flu vaccines contaminated with H5N1 avian flu virus to 18 countries last December.

It was only by providence that the batch was first tested on ferrets in the Czech Republic, before being shipped out for injection into humans. The ferrets all died and the shocking discovery was made.

H5N1 is a strain of avian flu virus classed as a bio-terrorism agent, as it has a kill ratio of 60%. If they had gone into full human inoculation procedures—and well they might—they would have perpetrated the biggest crime against humanity ever to take place. The scale would make Hiroshima, genocide and the Holocaust seem like schoolboy pranks.

By the way, it is impossible and almost inconceivable, that the vaccines could have been “accidentally” contaminated. You will hear that as an excuse, I’m sure, and the government will back them—because the government also has dirty fingers (I’m referring to the previous administration, which spent most of its term in office trying to create the myth of a flu pandemic and putting in place severe population control methods to coerce the masses into doing what they are told).

The fact is, that if Baxter has such dirty cross-contamination techniques, they are not fit to produce pig food, never mind vaccines for inoculation into human beings. Yet they are now snooping around the back door and asking for samples of the virus—so they can make up more vaccine and get more profits. What?

Why should Baxter be trusted, when they have already been proven to be at the very least criminally negligent, and at worst a prime suspect in attempting to carry off one of the most heinous crimes in the history of mankind?

The company has already put the safety of the entire human race at risk, and now, just a few weeks later, we’re expected to invest our confidence in them and take their shots with a smile and keep quiet?

As Mike Adams, The Health Ranger, has commented, “If you mail an envelope full of anthrax to your Senator, you get arrested as a terrorist. So why is Baxter — which mailed samples of a far more deadly viral strain to labs around the world — getting away with saying, essentially, ‘Oops?’”

A Bigger Conspiracy

Along with total silence and connivance from the US government about Baxter’s criminal intent (or negligence), the controlled US press has been totally unwilling to talk about this story or investigate it. All they bleat about is the coming pandemic and the fear it generates.

Yet in other countries, this shocking revelation is being freely talked about.

Not only that, but there is the whisper of a mass extermination agenda. People are asking: is this a blatant attempt to reduce the world’s population by over 50%?

It would suit the elite—but, of course, not the billions of dead people, if such a scenario could be truly engineered.

And while I am talking about engineered, let me tell you something TOTALLY SHOCKING that puts the whole thing into the right perspective…

The scores of people who have so far died in Mexico were killed by a strange virus that has bits of genetic material from swine flu, avian flu and human flu, consisting of an intercontinental mix of viruses from North America, Europe and Asia. This is odd, to say the least.

Scientists said the virus combines genetic material from pigs, birds and humans in a way researchers have not seen before. The official view states that despite mutations which are considered normal, viruses ‘rarely’ pass from one species of animal to another. So how could this swine flu manage to traverse the boundaries of humans, birds and pigs all by itself?

“We are very, very concerned,” World Health Organization spokesman Thomas Abraham said. “We have what appears to be a novel virus and it has spread from human to human,” he said. Flu DNA does mix but such an unusual combination does raise the likelihood that it is an artificial virus—perhaps derived from the Baxter vaccine, released only weeks before.

I didn’t believe the stories of deliberately manufactured AIDS disease: but I have no choice, as a scientist, except to grasp the fact that in this outbreak could have been caused when somebody deliberately released a contrived artificial virus into the population.

I mean, maybe the Baxter story is just a ruse, a device, to deflect attention from the fact that the power elite are working on this program and have just ordered the release of this “mass extermination” agent. Not that I am saying that Baxter might be innocent; goofs of such magnitude are criminal, not merely a slip up.

But this story already smacks of dirty, dark hidden layers upon layers, and I doubt very much that the Baxter plot is any more than the tip of a very nasty iceberg.

Meanwhile, if there is a high-up conspiracy, President Obama doesn’t seem to be in on it. On Apr. 16th Obama was received at Mexico’s anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist, who died the following day from symptoms similar to flu.

The president seems to have been closer to contact with the mutant virus than almost anyone else in the USA!

In fact the really paranoid among us might even wonder if this was an elaborate attempt to assassinate him. It remains a rather strange “coincidence” that it all started on ground zero, right where he was visiting.

So, here’s how to decode the official dissembling and the media hysteria

Item #1. Somebody, somewhere wants this pandemic. It’s been pushed for years and the fact that the dangerous virus is now an engineered mix of strains does not alter this fact.

Item #2. The response will be totally unscientific, not based on sound medical reasoning but based on a manipulative and evil political agenda.

Item #3. Somebody wants the dollars. That means worthless vaccines will be forced on the population as a response. It may even come to the point where the population is forced, at gunpoint, to accept a dangerous and quite ineffective vaccine, because big shots like Rumsfeld have shares in the vaccine company.

Item #4. The Bush administration prepared the ground for an avian flu “pandemic,”
calling it “inevitable”, although in order to even jump from human to human, the virus would have to have mutated (or “evolved”) in a very specific way—a totally unpredictable event. So how could they know about it in advance?

Well, they could if they CAUSED it to happen. One might draw the conclusion that the government was working on that very mutation, and were going to release it soon. That’s how they knew…

Item #5. This is a tool for further restrictions of freedom. Regulations
have been set in place so that, should the government declare a pandemic,
vaccinations could become mandatory; if refused, the person would be
“quarantined,” which, of course, means imprisoned (you have wonder why so MANY new prisons are being rapidly built in the US, when there is no corresponding increase in crime statistics).

Committed anti-establishment figures seem to have a way of dying suddenly and conveniently in US prisons. It could be a pre-planned way to get rid of political troublemakers. Deaths will be blamed on the fact they didn’t get the vaccine in time.

Anyone who stands in the way of profits for Big Pharma is obviously, by definition, politically undesirable.

Item #6. The mandatory vaccine, in this Hell scenario, would become a further source of the disease, not a protection against it. If the depopulation agenda has been set in motion, instead of the pandemic being controlled, it will be fanned. The vaccine will infect healthy people. Figures will rise rapidly. Deaths will soon be out of control.

At the first sign of forced vaccinations, I’m over the border. Care to join me?

The 1918 Flu Pandemic

You’ll start hearing officials comparing this pandemic scenario with the great flu disaster of 1918- 1922. There is a persistent myth about this pandemic and its deadly effects, which 99.99% of doctors and experts get wrong, even when they are sincere.

The fact that most of the Mexican dead were aged between 25 and 45 rather than being elderly or very young is seen as a particularly worrying sign. The first victims of the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 were also healthy young adults.

[MYTH There were no real healthy young people in 1918. By the turn of the century, 50% of recruits for the British Army were being turned down as unfit for service, because of severe nutritional deficiencies. The picture was the same in the USA and elsewhere. After 4 years of wartime restrictions, malnutrition only got worse, not better. In other words young people were greatly a risk].

I’ve uncovered the real truth of why so many people died of flu at that time and who so few have died in subsequent outbreaks. It doesn’t make sense, until you know what I have uncovered. Then one of the biggest medical mysteries of all time becomes understandable. It also explains why the flu struck young and fit adults first.

It’s a very neat but of detective work. I’ve told the whole story in a recording I did years ago for alternative-doctor-radio. You can listen to it, using this link:  http://www.alternative-doctor-radio.com You can see the box around the center of the page, with a headline about 1918 flu.

You will also hear some good advice on how to combat flu, nutritionally and homeopathically (my first choice).

German parents abandon children

Whites sure have their priorities in order.

A German couple who abandoned three young children in an Italian pizzeria on Sunday have told police they fled because they had no money, reports say.

Ina Caterina Remhof, the 26-year-old mother, and her partner Sascha Schmidt, 24, said they had to eat scraps of food from bins, the Ansa news agency said.

The pair were found on Thursday in a wood near the northern town of Aosta.

The two left the restaurant in Aosta, supposedly for a cigarette, but never returned. The children are now in care.

Arrangements are being made to take the children – believed to be aged four, two and eight months – back home to western Germany, where they may be placed in their grandmother’s care.

‘Relief’

Police had been combing the Aosta valley before the couple were found by a patrol on Thursday afternoon.

Investigators had feared they would not be found alive, as their car was also abandoned, along with a diary detailing financial problems.

“They immediately asked about the children, but were sure that they were in a safe place,” Ansa quoted local police official Salvatore Aprile as saying.

The two “seemed almost relieved that their flight was over,” he said, though Ms Remhof was said to have started crying when told her children would probably be taken away from her.

The Italian newspaper, La Stampa, quoted Ms Remhof as saying that she and her boyfriend had left for a holiday in Italy with 900 euros (£815) but had quickly run out of money.

They decided to leave the children when they started crying because “they didn’t have anything to eat”, Ansa quoted her as saying.

She reportedly said that she had been confident the children would be “sent back to Germany, and I would have found them again when I got up some money”.

Italian prosecutors have said Ms Remhof could be charged with the offence under Italian law of abandoning a vulnerable person. German officials have said her parental rights may be withdrawn.

German police have said that Mr Schmidt was on the run after not returning to prison while on parole, while the children’s biological father is serving a prison sentence for fatally mistreating a fourth child he had with Ms Remhof.

Naked white man gets tazered by police at art festival

Defiant till the end despite repeated warnings. I think they went easy on him.Watch the video here.

Indio, California  — The Coachella Valley Music and Arts festival aka ‘Coachella Fest’ is often home base for demonstrator antics. Last weekend’s festival was no exception.

While dozens of bands play, festival goers sometimes use the event to “challenge the establishment”. Others simply use the event to burn out the eye sockets of other patrons by getting their “freak” on.

This time around, a man believed to be inebriated on something or other shocked onlookers by disrobing out in the open and then becoming engaged in a scuffle with officers who eventually used a stun gun to bring him into submission.

Officers asked the man repeatedly to cover up – while festival patrons urged him to continue. When officers began effecting an arrest, the crowd booed and warned them that “the whole world was watching”.

Undaunted, the officer tased the man several times until he finally allowed officers to handcuff him.

A patron at the event captured the video above, which making it’s rounds across Internet websites and forums as an example of “harsh police arrest tactics.”

White woman tries to sell baby for rent money

The joys of white motherhood.

Charleston, West Virginia — Rebecca Sue Taylor, a 19-year-old Charleston woman was charged Wednesday with trying to sell her 5-month-old son for rent money.

According to police, Taylor offered to sell her baby to another woman – identified as Leigh Burr – for $10,000.

Investigators say Taylor told the woman she wasn’t able to bond with the baby and needed the money to buy a new apartment. When the woman didn’t take the deal, Taylor allegedly dropped her price to $5,000.

The two women had allegedly talked about Taylor serving as a surrogate mother for Burr when the alleged offer was made. Police became aware of the plot when Burr went to police, according to Charleston Police Sgt E.L. Hodges.

Taylor was booked into the South Central Regional Jail on a charge of offering the purchase or sale of a child. Bond in her case was set at $2,500.

White man beats father with a flashlight, cuts pacemaker out of his chest with pocket knife

I’m sure this is all a misunderstanding.

Manchester, Iowa — Jesse Fierstine, a 32-year-old Iowa man was arrested Saturday after police say he beat his father over the head and then cut the man’s pacemaker out of his chest with a pocket knife.

Yeah, you read that right – pocket knife.

According to the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office, Fierstine struck his 63-year-old father over the head with a flashlight and then beat him with a piece of firewood Saturday. Once his father was down, Fierstine proceeded to cut his father’s chest open and dig out his pacemaker with a pocket knife.

Authorities were alerted by way of a 911 call at about 10:30 Saturday night.

The victim, identified as Charles Fierstine was rushed to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics for treatment. Details of his condition were still unknown as of Sunday night.

Fierstine was booked into the Delaware County Jail on a charge of attempted murder. Bail has not been set in the case.

White policeman opens fire in public, kills 3

Lose a woman, go on a killing spree?

MOSCOW – A Moscow district police chief opened fire on the street and in a supermarket early Monday, killing three people and wounding seven others — four of them critically, Russian investigators said.

Police Maj. Denis Yevsyukov, who heads a southern Moscow police department, opened fire just after midnight and was detained after killing a driver, a supermarket cashier and customer, federal investigators said in a statement.

Yevsyukov, whose wife had recently left him, finished his late shift Sunday and hitched a ride to the supermarket, Moscow police chief Vladimir Pronin told Russian television. Yevsyukov was in civilian clothes, with one part of his uniform slung around his shoulders, Pronin said.

Yevsyukov shot the driver of the car with a gun that Russian news agencies reported was unlicensed. Yevsyukov then entered a supermarket and killed a cashier and customer before shooting at least seven others, authorities said.

Details of those killed were unavailable, but Russian news agency Interfax reported that four people were hospitalized with head injuries and they were aged between 19 and 23.

Russian television network NTV reported that supermarket employees activated a silent alarm to alert police as the shooting progressed. Yevsyukov shot and missed at an officer who managed to disarm and detain him, NTV said.

“He killed the cashier, we know for sure, and then there were more shots, three shots inside the store,” a young, unnamed female witness told NTV. “Then a shop assistant came running up to us and asked: ‘What are you doing here? There is a killer here and you should run away,’” the witness said.

 

Officials: 2 Fla. sheriff’s deputies fatally shot

Another day, another white shooting rampage.

CRESTVIEW, Fla. – Two north Florida sheriff’s deputies were fatally shot at a shooting range by a suspect who was later killed by deputies after he fled across the county line, authorities said.

It happened around 1 p.m. Saturday when the two Okaloosa County deputies went to Shoal River Sporting Clays and Shooting Center in response to a domestic violence call, sheriff’s officials said.

Deputies Burt Lopez and Deputy Warren “Skip” York were pronounced dead after being airlifted to Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola, about 45 miles away, the sheriff’s office said. Sheriff’s officials identified their killer as Joshua Cartwright, 28, of Fort Walton Beach.

Authorities said the suspect shot both deputies and took off toward neighboring Walton County, where he was shot and killed by deputies.

A witness, Mark Illich was near the DeFuniak Springs intersection where the officers killed Cartwright.

“It must have been like 30 or 40 shots,” Illich told The Northwest Florida Daily News.

Illich said he saw one officer putting down spikes at the intersection and knew “something’s about to happen.”

Then, “(Cartwright’s) truck, he started coming. And we saw him, and he seemed calm as a cucumber,” Illich said.

Cartwright veered around the spike strip, and an officer opened fire at the back of his truck, Illich said.

The incident began shortly after 10 a.m. when the Fort Walton Beach Medical Center notified the sheriff’s office that Cartwright’s wife said she had been beaten by her husband, according to a timeline released by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the sheriff’s office.

The two deputies found Cartwright at the shooting range and began trying to arrest him shortly before 1 p.m., but they reported that he was refusing to cooperate with their attempts to handcuff him.

At 12:51 p.m. dispatchers received a call that an officer had been hit and began their search for Cartwright, who had left the shooting range in his truck.

Deputies shot at killed Cartwright around 1:10 p.m.

The Daily News reported that Cartwright had been arrested in November on a charge of domestic battery against his wife, and that the charge was still pending. The paper said he had worked as a bouncer at a Fort Walton Beach bar.

A man who answered the telephone at the shooting center near Crestview said he had no comment on the shooting.

Another Okaloosa County sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed in July following a standoff with a man who had barricaded himself inside a home.

Okaloosa County Sheriff Charles Morris was suspended by Gov. Charlie Crist in February after he was arrested by FBI agents while on a gambling trip to Las Vegas.

Morris and his former office manager were indicted by a federal grand jury on Thursday on theft, money laundering and conspiracy charges. Prosecutors allege Morris and his former office manager, Teresa Adams, created fictitious bonuses for sheriff’s department employees then pocketed some of the money.

3 dead, 2 hurt in Ga. shooting; professor sought

Whites are out of control. Even the educated seem to be prone to violent acts.

ATHENS, Ga. – A University of Georgia professor who police suspect in the fatal shootings of his ex-wife and two men outside a theater near campus Saturday disappeared in his Jeep after dropping his children off with a neighbor, authorities said.

A nationwide manhunt was on for 57-year-old George Zinkhan, whom neighbors and others described as a quiet, introverted and well-respected marketing professor at the university in Athens.

Members of a local theater group had gathered midday at the Athens Community Theater when Zinkhan left his children in his car and fired at the group, said Athens-Clarke County Police Capt. Clarence Holeman. Killed were Zinkhan’s ex-wife Marie Bruce, 47, Tom Tanner, 40, and Ben Teague, 63, Holeman said. Two others were injured by flying shrapnel.

SWAT members swarmed Zinkhan’s neighborhood about seven miles from campus and authorities searched his university office but came up empty. It didn’t appear he had used his credit cards or ATM card, police said.

“We’re doing everything we can to shut him down,” Holeman said. “I believe he will turn up somewhere, somehow.”

Zinkhan has been a professor in the Terry College of Business and had no disciplinary problems, university spokesman Pete Konenkamp said. He has taught at the school since the 1990s.

“His track record is impeccable as far as his teaching credentials,” Konenkamp said. “He’s a respected professor on campus.”

The three victims were all involved with the Town & Gown Players Inc., a group that had planned an evening performance of “Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure” at the theater. The show was canceled after the shooting.

Tanner was set to be Dr. John Watson in the play, and Teague described himself as “a confirmed theater bum” for the local group on a Web site that bears his name. Bruce, a family law attorney her friends described as a well-respected, had for years volunteered as a set designer and director for the group.

Zinkhan had argued with at least one of the victims prior to the shooting, Holeman said. After walking away, he returned with the guns and opened fire. Police said they received a call about 12:25 p.m.

Zinkhan then drove his young son and daughter to a next-door neighbor’s home in Bogart and dropped them off, only saying he needed them to watch them for about an hour because of an emergency.

Neighbor Robert Covington said when he asked Zinkhan’s daughter, who is about 10 years old, about the emergency “all she would relate to me was there was something about a firecracker.” The children were with police, and Covington said his neighborhood for awhile was “police central.” Covington described Zinkhan and Bruce as still living together in the house.

Athens-Clarke County Coroner Sonny Wilson said the three victims were shot multiple times. Two different guns were involved, and neither was recovered at the scene, nor at Zinkhan’s two-story colonial in the tidy middle-class suburb of Athens, Holeman said.

Authorities issued a nationwide alert for Zinkhan and his 2005 red Jeep Liberty. Zinkhan also has a house in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and authorities were keeping a lookout at airports. Also, police in Austin, Texas, have been alerted since Zinkhan has family there.

“Anyone who shoots three people is dangerous, that’s the best way I can put it,” Holeman said.

Shortly after the shooting, the university issued a campus-wide alert as a precaution.

“Our first thoughts are for safety of the university community and for prompt apprehension of the person responsible,” university President Michael F. Adams said in a statement.

Zinkhan was quiet and introverted, Covington said, but he never suspected something like the shootings.

“It’s a pretty huge shock,” Covington said.

Dana Adams, who lives across the street, said police looking for Zinkhan had hidden in her backyard. She didn’t know the professor that well, but described him as “kind of a strange character,” who would sometimes walk off in the middle of a conversation. “But I would never suspect this.”

Bruce, his ex-wife, loved the theater and recently directed a production of “Trip to Bountiful,” said Wesley Cook who knew Bruce through the theater company, where Cook’s girlfriend performs.

“She was very lively and charming and was an integral part of that theater community,” Clark said.

Bruce graduated from the University of Georgia’s law school and specialized in family law. She moved to Athens in 1980 from Augusta, where she performed in school and church shows, according to a 2002 profile of her in the Athens Banner-Herald. She taught high school and college before law school.

Athens attorney Ed Tolley said he and Bruce worked on cases together and knew her well.

“She was a wonderful person,” Tolley said, “Red-headed, very attractive, very professional, and a wonderful mother.”

He said when he heard one of the victims was a lawyer whose husband was a professor, he feared it was Bruce.

“My heart breaks for the children,” he said.

Teague wrote on his site: “For over 17 years I’ve spent most of my weekends (and a lot of evenings) working with a community theater company here in Athens.”

Teague, who was married to a longtime University of Georgia professor, also said he had worked providing German to English translation services to business, industry, government and the law since 1972. He said he grew up in East Tennessee and lived in Texas for several years and moved to Athens in 1977.

Before joining the faculty at the University of Georgia, Zinkhan held academic positions at the universities of Houston and Pittsburgh. He has a doctorate from the University of Michigan and graduated from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania in 1974.

Tom Reichert, a professor at the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, knew Zinkhan from around the campus.

“This is a total shock,” Reichert said. “I wouldn’t say he was particularly vivacious or particularly quiet. He was right down the middle.”

Craigslist killer held without bail

Lots of psychos on Craigslist these days…

BOSTON – Prosecutors said Tuesday they found a semiautomatic weapon at the home of a Boston medical student who has been ordered held without bail on charges he shot to death a masseuse he had lured to a hotel through Craigslist.

Philip Markoff said nothing during the brief hearing in Boston Municipal Court.

Authorities said they followed a computer trail to Markoff, linking an account used to set up appointments on Craigslist with two women who were attacked to his address in Quincy.

They say a search of his home found the gun, ammunition and materials exactly matching those used in an attack on another masseuse in a Boston hotel.

Markoff is charged with murder in the death of Julissa Brisman of New York City and kidnapping and armed robbery in the other assault.

The second-year Boston University medical student lives with his fiance, who claims police have the wrong man.

“He could not hurt a fly,” Megan McAllister said in an e-mail to ABC’s “Good Morning America. “All I have to say is Philip is a beautiful person, inside and out,” she said in the e-mail read on Tuesday’s program.

Markoff’s attorney, John Salsberg, did not immediately comment.

Authorities have said there could be more victims.

“Our top priority is holding Philip Markoff accountable. He’s a predator,” Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley said Monday night in announcing Markoff’s arrest earlier in the day during a traffic stop south of Boston.

An e-mail message sent to McAllister via her Facebook page was not immediately returned Tuesday. The McAllister family did not respond to knocks of the door of their Little Silver, N.J. home Tuesday. Shortly after, a police officer emerged from home and said the family did not wish to speak with reporters, and asked the media respect their privacy.

Michael Bernard, who lives in Markoff’s building in Quincy, was shocked to recognize his neighbor on television reports of the killing.

“He was smart, he carried himself well, he was clean, a good looking guy,” said Bernard, a retired electric company worker. “He seemed like the type that would have it all. It doesn’t make sense.”

Authorities believe Markoff also may be connected to the attempted robbery Thursday in Warwick, R.I., of a stripper who had posted an ad on Craigslist. She was held at gunpoint before her husband entered the room and her attacker fled.

A Boston University spokeswoman said Markoff was suspended from the medical school after his arrest.

White man charged with rape, victim says he threatened her child

Advanced white mating rituals : refuse sodomy, pull a knife on a baby.

FULTON — A Fulton man has been arrested on rape charges.

21-year-old William Marks is charged with attempted forcible rape, attempted forcible sodomy, and three other crimes.

The woman reporting the crimes told police that marks tried to hold her down and assault her.

She says that when she escaped, Marks held a knife to her child’s throat and demanded that she have sex with him.

Officers arrested Marks today. His bond is set at $130,000.

Children removed from filthy, roach-infested trailer in Rylie area of Dallas

Quality white parenting.

A couple were arrested early Friday after Dallas police discovered them living with their 6-month-old girl and three other children in a filthy Rylie-area trailer crawling with roaches and strewn with rotting food and beer cans.

Joshua Benz and Rachel Crowell, both 27, were arrested at a trailer park in the 13200 block of Fish Road, near Interstate 20 and Belt Line Road. Benz was booked on a charge of evading arrest and was still in custody Friday evening at the Dallas County Jail. Crowell was released after being arrested on two misdemeanor tickets.

The baby and three other children, ages 2, 7 and 12, were released to their grandmother, authorities said.

About 2:30 a.m., Dallas police officers investigating reports of people siphoning gas from vehicles at the trailer park saw Benz and another man dressed in dark clothes standing next to a parked vehicle. Officers arrested the other man, 20-year-old Brandon Schoonover, who was being held on suspicion of evading arrest and marijuana possession, jail officials said.

Benz ran inside the trailer he shares with Crowell, according to a police report. When officers knocked on the door, she answered, but was drunk and barely able to stand, the report said. Police found Benz hiding under a children’s mattress.

While inside, officers saw that the floor “was covered in dirt, food, beer cans and various tools,” the police report says. The smell of rotting food in the kitchen was overpowering, they said.

There was no food in the refrigerator, but it was “stocked full of alcohol.”

Officers also found exposed electrical wires within reach of the children. The walls were discolored and pocked with fist-sized holes. The bathrooms were “covered in fecal matter.” One toilet was backed up and full of feces, police said.

The baby was asleep on a urine-soaked couch with an open beer can nearby, the report said. Officers also saw roaches “crawling on the children as they slept.”

Child Protective Services is investigating. Authorities could file additional charges.

Exposing yourself will not get you free cable, only jail time

Why do white people do things like these?

A Howell man was ordered to stand trial on charges he exposed his genitals to a computer technician trying to fix his slow Internet service.

triggerAd(1,PaginationPage,8);The Comcast cable technician was the only prosecution witness to testify Wednesday at Chris Philip Trikes’ preliminary examination in Livingston County District Court. The hearing ended with Judge Carol Sue Reader ordering Trikes, 45, tried on a charge of indecent exposure by a sexually delinquent person.

The charge carries a penalty ranging from one day to life in prison.

Trikes’ criminal history includes a misdemeanor conviction for indecent exposure in 1999, for which he was subsequently sentenced to 10 days of community service, probation and counseling.

The technician testified that he went to Trikes’ Pinckney Road home Oct. 17, after Trikes complained his Internet service was too slow.

While at the defendant’s home, the technician said, Trikes began discussing pornographic Web sites that he had visited online as well as a sexually explicit video that he said he found in a gas station garbage can. The technician said he began talking about his date later that evening “to ease the uncomfortableness” of the situation.

However, the witness said, Trikes then exposed his genitals, which made the technician extremely uncomfortable, so the technician quickly left the home and reported the incident to his supervisor, who called police.

White couple caught having sex in Wal-Mart parking lot

Did he get the senior discount?

A man and woman accused of having sex in a Wal-Mart parking lot face a charge of crime against nature Wednesday.

According to arrest warrants and an affidavit, police stopped William Walter Stephens, 83, of 5601 Union Road, Gastonia, and Asia Marie Howard, 25, of 1032 West Airline Ave., Gastonia, as they were leaving the Wal-Mart on Myrtle School Road after receiving a report that the two were having sex in the brown Buick they were leaving in.

According to the affidavit, Howard told police that they were having sex and Stephens gave her $20 for oral sex.
Stephens was released from Gaston County Jail Wednesday under a $1,000 unsecured bond.

Howard was placed in the Gaston County Jail Wednesday under a $2,500 secured bond.

Jealous white woman attacks teen, runs car over her face

Now why would she be jealous? Why are white woman so prone to extreme violence?

A Eufaula woman is behind bars after allegedly striking a Georgetown woman with her vehicle.

The victim, an 18-year-old, is reportedly fighting for her life in a Dothan hospital.

“This is a very tragic situation for everyone involved. When a hot-temper or emotions replace common-sense, anything can happen. We’re just praying that the victim will survive right now,” said Quitman County Sheriff Steve Newton.

According to the Quitman County Sheriff’s Department, Christy Ann Purswell, 30, of Eufaula turned herself in to Quitman County deputies sometime Wednesday. She currently faces felony counts of aggravated assault and aggravated battery. She has no bond and additional charges are pending.

According to a release from the department, Purswell first confronted the victim, whose name has not yet been identified, at approximately 4 a.m. from a Main Street residence.

“Purswell confronted the [victim] which led to a physical altercation between the two women,” the release states. “Family members inside the residence were awaken and went outside to find out what was occurring. Purswell, at some point, armed herself with a large ‘screwdriver’ which she used to threaten the woman and other family members.

“Two women (sisters) attempted to disarm Purswell and she retreated to her car. Purswell allegedly jumped into the vehicle and drove forward into an unidentified female knocking her to the ground.

“According to witnesses, Purswell then placed the vehicle in reverse and accelerated at a high rate of speed backwards at which time she struck the victim with the left front of the vehicle and ran completely over her head and upper torso. The victim was dragged a short distance down the road before she became dislodged from underneath the vehicle.”

Family members took the victim to Medical Center Barbour. She has since been transported to Southeast Alabama Medical Center.

According to the release, the victim was immediately taken to surgery and is listed in critical condition with severe head trauma and internal injuries.

Domino’s Pizza Workers Who Videotaped Themselves putting boogers and farting on Food Face Felony Charges

White professionalism at work.

Two Domino’s Pizza employees in North Carolina face felony charges after a video showed them passing gas on salami, stuffing cheese up their nostrils — then using the foul fixins’ in the fast food.

The silly-yet-stomach-turning clips — which also showed the workers sneezing and blowing their noses on meals they were handling — were filmed at a Conover, N.C., Domino’s and posted on YouTube.

Kristy Lynn Hammonds, 31, and Michael Anthony Setzer, 32, have each been charged with distributing prohibited foods — the same North Carolina statute that forbids any tampering with Halloween candy, police said.

The pair, who called themselves “Michael” and “Kristy,” were fired immediately after the video surfaced and turned themselves in to police Wednesday.

Setzer was later released under $7,500 bond, while Hammonds remained in jail under a similar bond. Both reportedly have court dates set for Thursday.

The pizza delivery giant said it was stunned when the footage surfaced.

Click here to watch one of the videos on YouTube. Warning: Graphic Content.

Click here to watch another of the videos on YouTube. Warning: Graphic Content.

Click here to watch more footage on WCNC.com. Warning: Graphic Content.

Employees characterized the stunt as a prank, and Domino’s said the filthy food was never served.

But a spokeswoman said the company “was not in a forgive-and-forget mood,” the BBC reported, thus, taking the extra step to file a criminal complaint.

Domino’s apologized for the actions of “Michael” and “Kristy” and said the videos marred “the hard work performed by the 125,000 men and women working for Domino’s” in the United States and all over the world.

The company also said it plans to file a civil lawsuit against the pranksters.

Give us the Porn or else!

Robbing the same place twice for material which could have been easily downloaded for free online? Ren and stimpy live!

KILGORE, Texas – Two Texas men likely wish they could hit “rewind” after they allegedly robbed an adult video store of dozens of movies.

The incident happened on Monday just after midnight at the Adult Video and DVD store in the 1900 block of Industrial Avenues.

According to Kilgore police, 20-year-old Christopher Fitzgerald of Longview and John Scott Kincaid, 21, of Kilgore robbed the store at gunpoint.

Police said the pair stole 50 pornographic videos. They also said officers found an automatic handgun and face mask inside the suspects’ vehicle.

Both men are charged with Aggravated Robbery.

Investigators said Fitzgerald and Kincaid are also involved in two other recent armed robberies in the Kilgore area.

Police : White man threatens family, but wife shoots him first

Has anyone noticed white males are becoming more homicidal of late…

WINTER HAVEN | A Winter Haven woman shot her husband early Tuesday after he loaded a gun and threatened to kill his family, according to Winter Haven police.

Troy Christoff, 34, of 1121 Seventh St. S.W., was undergoing surgery Tuesday night after he was shot several times with a 9 mm handgun by his wife, Dawn Christoff, about 4 a.m., police said.

Police said it appeared Dawn Christoff fired in self-defense, and she wasn’t charged.

The State Attorney’s Office will review the case.

“If everything played out like what was told to our detectives she may have prevented a really major event from occurring,” said Sgt. Brad Coleman.

Troy Christoff was charged with five counts of attempted first-degree murder with a firearm, police said.

Witness statements and an examination of physical evidence indicate that he intended to shoot several members of his family who lived with him, police said.

Officials didn’t say what led to the threats.

“Prior to the shooting he armed himself with a handgun and began to load the weapon, stating which member of his family each bullet was intended for,” said a statement from police.

Police didn’t identify the others in the home.

After the handgun was loaded, Troy raised the weapon and pointed it at his 35-year-old wife, police said.

Dawn Christoff had armed herself to protect other family members, including at least two children, Coleman said. She fired several shots at Troy, wounding him in the arm and upper body.

He was airlifted to Lakeland Regional Medical Center, officials said.

Detectives hope to interview him today, Coleman said.

White woman murders her 6 month old baby

More white parenting 101 : “if you can’t raise a child, kill it.”

ANDERSON, S.C. — The mother charged with killing her daughter by child abuse broke down in tears during her bond hearing on Thursday.

Danielle Bowen was charged with homicide by child abuse after her 6-month-old daughter, Haley, died on Tuesday. According to the arrest warrant, 18-year-old Bowen slapped, choked and stepped on her daughter and then left the baby alone for almost 30 minutes. As the charges against her were read in court, Bowen sobbed and tried to explain what happened.

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“I didn’t mean to step on Haley,” Bowen said. “I was running after Samuel when I did it. It was an accident!” Deputies said Bowen called paramedics to her home when she noticed the baby had stopped breathing. Emergency crews were able to revive the girl, but she died about seven hours later at the hospital. Haley’s father’s family attended the hearing and said they were worried about the safety of Bowen’s second child, 1-year-old Samuel. “We do request no bond due to the consideration of Haley’s younger brother, Samuel,” said Duane Wilson, a father’s relative. “Everybody is a victim,” said Rebecca Grite, Bowen’s mother. “I don’t think Danielle was in her right mind. That’s not Danielle.” The judge denied bond for Bowen, citing the nature of the charges against her. Bowen could face from 20 years to life in prison if convicted of the charges.

Music producer Phil Spector guilty of murder

Time to face the music, afro or no afro.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Legendary US music producer Phil Spector was found guilty of second degree murder in the shooting death of an actress at his mansion in Los Angeles six years ago.

Spector, 69, who created the famed “Wall of Sound” recording technique during the 1960s when he worked with some of the biggest names in music, stared glumly as the verdict was read out.

The diminutive producer, who had arrived at court to hear the verdict in a trademark long jacket bearing a lapel badge reading “Barack Obama Rocks!” could face up to 18 years in prison when he is sentenced on May 29.

Despite protests from defense attorneys, Judge Larry Paul Fidler remanded Spector in custody until his sentencing hearing, stating that “public safety and public protection are paramount.”

The six-man, six-woman jury began deliberating on March 26 after a five-month court case following his first trial in 2007 that ended deadlocked with jurors unable to reach a unanimous verdict.

Prosecutors said Spector had shot dead former B-movie actress Lana Clarkson at his home in the early hours of February 3, 2003 after meeting her only a few hours before at the Hollywood nightclub where she worked.

Defense lawyers said the 40-year-old Clarkson, best known for her role in Roger Corman’s 1985 cult classic “The Barbarian Queen” but whose career had stalled at the time of her death, killed herself.

Clarkson’s family thanked jurors and prosecutors Monday after the guilty verdict, accusing Spector’s defense team of “trashing” the victim.

“We are pleased that the jury has rejected the distortion and trashing of Lana Clarkson’s life by the defense in this trial, the last trial and the past six plus years,” the family said in a statement.

“There is no joy today. This is tragic, but actions have consequences.”

The Clarkson family will now pursue a civil trial against Spector, which could see them awarded tens of millions of dollars in damages if successful.

Jurors meanwhile described the deliberations as “painful” before settling on the guilty verdict. “We listened to everything, we reviewed everything and could not have been more painful in our decision,” said the jury forewoman, who declined to give her name.

Spector is regarded as one of the most influential figures in pop music history. In the early 1960s, he scored hits including “Da Doo Ron Ron,” “Be My Baby, Baby” and “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin.’”

But during his trials, prosecutors said Spector, who was famed for his work with The Beatles, Tina Turner, The Righteous Brothers, The Ronettes and The Ramones, had a sinister side.

Prosecutor Alan Jackson painted a picture of Spector as a gun-crazed eccentric with a “history of violence” toward women who tried to leave him.

Five female acquaintances testified that Spector had threatened them at gunpoint in incidents dating back to the 1970s.

In his closing argument last month, Jackson said Spector had repeatedly pulled guns on women who wouldn’t go to bed with him.

“A woman, alcohol, a loss of control, and Phillip Spector reaches for a gun. Click,” the prosecutor told jurors repeatedly, displaying photos one-by-one of the five women who testified against him.

“February 3rd, 2003, Lana Clarkson — a woman, alcohol, a loss of control — and Phillip reaches for a gun. Pow! Lana Clarkson got the bullet. It’s as simple as that,” Jackson said.

Spector’s former chauffeur also gave damaging evidence, telling jurors that on the night of the shooting, his employer had emerged from a doorway clutching a pistol in a bloodied hand, saying: “I think I killed somebody.”

Only weeks before Clarkson’s killing, Spector gave a rare interview in which he described himself as “relatively insane.”

Defense lawyers however argued there was no forensic evidence to convict Spector, pointing to the absence of gunshot residue on his hands and clothing.

White couple arrested after husband pimps wife out on Craigslist

Is there no honor amongst white men?

Winder, Georgia — Elizabeth and Richard McCannon were arrested last Friday afternoon after a man reportedly used Craigslist to pimp his wife out for prostitution.

According to Winder police, several anonymous tips lead them to a Craigslist ad the couple had allegedly posted offering erotic-related services. Investigators contacted Elizabeth, who was listed in the ad as Miss Red, and scheduled an appointment to meet her.

The undercover officer met Elizabeth at her home on Cedar Grove Trail at about 7:00 p.m. that evening while Winder Police and the Barrow County Sheriff’s Office stood ready to assist.

After the officer and the suspect agreed to a sex deal, authorities entered the home and took Elizabeth and her husband Richard into custody.

Elizabeth McCannon was charged with prostitution and keeping a place of prostitution. Richard McCannon was charged with pimping, party to a crime of prostitution and keeping a place of prostitution.

White terrorists admit killing mother, children

The Army of Scum winning hearts and minds, as usual.

KABUL (AFP) – The US military in Afghanistan admitted Thursday that four people its troops killed in a raid were not “combatants”, after Afghans said they included a mother and her children, with a baby dying afterwards.

Afghan officials and witnesses earlier accused the forces of killing civilians in an overnight raid in the eastern province of Khost that the US military initially said killed “four combatants”.

“Further inquiries into the coalition and ANSF (Afghan National Security Force) operation in Khost earlier today suggest that the people killed and wounded were not enemy combatants as previously reported,” the military said.

“Coalition forces are working closely with local Afghan officials and family members to express condolences and provide assistance in the aftermath of this tragic event,” it said, adding that an investigation was continuing.

It is the latest in a series of incidents in which civilians have been killed or wounded by international forces, who are in Afghanistan to hunt down Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants.

The Khost police chief in charge of counter-terrorism, who is named only Ghazuddin, told AFP that the soldiers had gone to a village outside of Khost city in search of a militant.

They climbed on the roofs of other houses to surround the targeted building, he told AFP.

The occupants of one of the homes, which belonged to a colonel in the Afghan National Army who was serving elsewhere, suspected they were thieves, came out with guns and opened fire, Ghazuddin said.

“The Americans shot them thinking they are insurgents,” he said.

The colonel’s wife and daughter, son and brother were killed, he said.

Two women and a baby boy were also wounded. “The coalition took the women and little boy to hospital for treatment. Later the boy died,” Ghazuddin said.

He was unable to say what injuries killed the baby, whom he said was nine months old.

However, the baby’s uncle, Janat Gul, said the child was seven days old.

The dead woman was a school teacher, the Afghan education ministry said in a statement. It added that the girl who died was in the fourth grade at school, which would make her about 10 years old, and the boy was in the ninth grade, making him around 15.

The US military gave a similar version of events.

“Coalition and Afghan forces do not believe that this family was involved with militant activities and that they were defending their home against an unknown threat,” its statement said.

The force said earlier that the raid targeted a militant linked to the radical Haqqani network and the Islamic Jihad Union, both associated with Al-Qaeda.

Three suspected militants were arrested at the compound that was initially targeted, it said. They included the targeted militant, the force told locals.

Civilian casualties caused by international forces in Afghanistan have sparked frequent anger and resentment, leading President Hamid Karzai to accuse them of not taking enough care.

Karzai has told the international forces to work in close consultation with the Afghan authorities to avoid harming civilians.

The United Nations said in February that a record 2,118 civilians were killed in the Afghan conflict in 2008, with nearly 40 percent of the deaths caused by pro-government forces, including US-led and NATO troops.

White man kills family, himself in Alabama shooting

Unemployed and stressed out whites are predisposed to killing themselves and their families?

Five were found killed on Tuesday in northwest Alabama, the United States, apparently as a result of a suspected family feud, police said.

Local police said that they found Kevin Lee Garner’s body near his house in Morgan County.

The 40-year-old man was the top suspect in the deaths of his wife, daughter, sister and nephew, whose bodies were found in a house in Greenhill earlier the day, said the police.

During the searching, police also found that Garner’s house was burned and a car parking nearby belonged to one of the victims.

Police suspected that Garner committed suicide after killing four relatives but the case was still under investigation.

Garner and his wife were undertaking divorce proceedings and had a hearing scheduled on Monday, which was, however, postponed until Wednesday, it added.

The United States has been shocked by several shooting incidents in the past two weeks. The latest took place in New York State last weekend, when a Vietnamese American broke into an immigration service center and shot 13 dead before taking his own life.

White terrorist acquitted of murder in Iraq slaying

How is it “self-defence” to kill an unarmed and detained man?

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – A military jury has acquitted an Illinois Marine sergeant on charges of murdering an unarmed detainee during battle in Fallujah, Iraq.

The jury of eight Marines who served in Iraq or Afghanistan also acquitted Sgt. Ryan Weemer on Thursday of dereliction of duty in the November 2004 death.

Weemer could have faced a maximum sentence of life in prison and dishonorable discharge if convicted of murder. The maximum sentence for dereliction is six months in prison and a bad conduct discharge.

The defense argued during closing arguments that the 26-year-old Weemer acted in self-defense.

A prosecutor recounted that Weemer said in recorded interviews that he shot the man and told a squadmate that he would have to live with that for the rest of his life.

Cambridge University pedophile avoids jail after judge rules prison would ‘ruin his studies’

Perhaps the judge is a pedophile sympathizer?

A Cambridge University student found with child porn images was spared jail by a judge because it would ruin his studies.

Jonathan Jenkins, 21, was caught with 293 indecent images of children on his computer when police raided his university accommodation in October 2007.

But in a decision that provoked a storm of anger yesterday, Judge Gareth Hawkesworth said jailing him would be a ‘cruel and pointless exercise’ as it would wreck his studies.

He gave him a four-month suspended sentence instead. It is the second time that Judge Hawkesworth has been involved in controversy after he allowed Cambridge University professor Nicholas Hammond to walk free last September.

Hammond had more than 1,000 child porn images on his computer. He was given a 12-month sentence suspended for two years.

Five of the images Jenkins downloaded, which were of girls aged nine to 15, were classed as level five, the most serious.

The former Selwyn College student, who is originally from Cornwall and now studies in Bath, pleaded guilty to 15 counts of making indecent images of children and one count of possession at Cambridge Crown Court on Friday.

He was ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register and given a two-year community order with supervision.

He was also banned from contacting children other than his relatives and ordered to inform police of his address over the next seven years.

Claude Knights, director of children’s charity Kidscape, said: ‘A four-month suspended sentence does not send out the required strong message and does not act as a deterrent.

‘The concern about the interruption of his studies will be read with some anger by the victims of child abuse.’

The court was told that Jenkins downloaded the images as a teenager and had not looked at them for some years.

Judge Hawkesworth told him: ‘A sentence in prison for a short period of time would be a cruel and pointless exercise. It would do nothing to help you.’

Britain launches massive, one-year program to archive every email

White dictatorship coming to a nation near you…

In a move that even the most nonchalant of privacy advocates is crying foul over, the UK has put into effect a European Union directive which mandates the archival of information regarding virtually all internet traffic for the next 12 months. The program formally goes into effect today.

The data retention rules require the archival of all email traffic (the identities of the sender and receiver, but not the contents of the messages), records of VOIP telephone calls (traditional phone calls are already monitored), and information about every website visited by any computer user in the country. The rules are being pushed down “across the board to even the smallest company,” as every ISP large or small will be required to collect and store the data. That data will then be accessible — to fight “crime and terrorism,” of course — by “hundreds of public bodies” to investigate whatever crimes they see fit.

Technically the new directive applies to all countries of the EU, but individual nations appear to be complying with the rules to various degrees. Privacy-obsessed Sweden is reportedly ignoring the rule completely, for example.

The privacy implications of the rule are enormous, as everything UK citizens do online will now be under the watchful eye of EU’s powerful Home Office. One privacy advocate, whose anger is clearly barely being held back, called it “the kind of technology that the Stasi would have dreamed of.” Naturally, the government counters that this kind of information has already proven invaluable in tracking down criminals, including the killer of an 11-year-old boy a couple of years ago.

Privacy concerns aside, another issue becomes one of how exactly to manage all this data. A report dating back to 2004 estimated that a single, large ISP in the UK would need up to 40 million gigabytes of storage capacity to store the traffic data from a year of user activity. Even in 2009, that kind of storage doesn’t come cheap, nor does the challenge of managing it all come easy.

Wash. police: White father kills 5 children, himself

Its one thing kill yourself, but why do whites take out their own children as well?

GRAHAM, Wash. – A father apparently shot to death five of his children, ages 7 to 16, at their mobile home and then killed himself near a casino miles away, police said Saturday.

Ed Troyer, a spokesman for the Pierce County Sheriff, called it a domestic violence situation and a murder-suicide.

“We believe they all died of gunshot wounds,” Troyer said.

Police found the father’s body early Saturday in his still-running car near the Muckleshoot Casino in Auburn, about 30 miles south of Seattle. He had apparently killed himself with a rifle, although no note was left in the car, Auburn Police Sgt. Scott Near said.

Later in the day, a relative stopped by the mobile home and called authorities after seeing a child lying motionless on a bed through a window. Pierce County deputies checked the mobile home, which is about 20 miles southeast of the casino, and found four of the children dead in their beds and the fifth in the bathroom.

Troyer said investigators believe the husband and the wife, who was not home, were not estranged.

The mother’s aunt, Penny Flansburg, was at a loss to explain the crime.

“They were pleasant together,” Flansburg said. “We can’t even figure out why.”

Flansburg identified the couple as Angela and James Harrison and the children as Maxine, Samantha, Heather, Jamie and James. The father worked as a diesel mechanic, and the mother works at Wal-Mart, Flansburg said.

Ryan Peden, a classmate of the eldest daughter, said she told him Friday night that her parents had gotten into a fight and her mother had left. The father followed the mother and tried to get her to return, said Peden, 16.

Neighbors in the Deer Run mobile home park, a neat, well-kept community nestled among towering evergreens, were shocked and weeping at the news.

“How could something like this happen?” asked Mary Riplinger, whose kids were playmates of the slain children. “Everyone’s asking: Why did he do it? It’s not right.”

Pierce County Sheriff Paul Pastor described the crime as a “horrible thing.”

“This was not a tragedy. It was a rotten murder,” Pastor said. “This appears to be the terrible work of the biological father. If that doesn’t break your heart, I don’t know what does.”

Another neighbor, Dale Lund, told The Seattle Times the 7-year-old boy who was killed played at times with his grandson and the boys shared the same school bus stop and attended the same elementary school together.

He said the dead boy played in his own yard most of the time.

“They pretty much kept to themselves over there,” Lund said.

Dozens of investigators were on the scene trying to reconstruct the crime and discover a motive.

White Gunman ‘lying in wait’ kills 3 Pittsburgh officers

Is it time to take away their guns?

PITTSBURGH – A gunman wearing a bulletproof vest and “lying in wait” opened fire on officers responding to a domestic disturbance call Saturday, killing three of them and turning a quiet Pittsburgh street into a battlefield, police said.

Police Chief Nate Harper said the motive for the shooting isn’t clear, but friends said the gunman recently had been upset about losing his job and feared the Obama administration was poised to ban guns.

Richard Poplawski, 23, met officers at the doorway and shot two of them in the head immediately, Harper said. An officer who tried to help the two also was killed.

Poplawski, armed with an assault rifle and two other guns, then held police at bay for four hours as the fallen officers were left bleeding nearby, their colleagues unable to reach them, according to police and witnesses. More than 100 rounds were fired by the SWAT teams and Poplawski, Harper said.

The three slain officers were Eric Kelly, 41, Stephen Mayhle, 29, and Paul Sciullo III, 37. Kelly had been on the force for 14 years, Mayhle and Sciullo for two years each. Another officer, Timothy McManaway, was shot in the hand and a fifth broke his leg on a fence.

Poplawski had gunshot wounds in his legs but was otherwise unharmed because he was wearing a bulletproof vest, Harper said. He was charged with three counts of homicide, aggravated assault and a weapons violation.

The shooting occurred just two weeks after four police officers were fatally shot in Oakland, Calif., in the deadliest day for U.S. law enforcement since Sept. 11, 2001. The officers were the first Pittsburgh city officers to die in the line of duty in 18 years.

“This is a solemn day and it’s a very sad day in the city of Pittsburgh,” Harper said. “We’ve seen this kind of violence happen in California. We never would think this kind of violence would happen in the city of Pittsburgh.”

At 7 a.m., Sciullo and Mayhle responded to a 911 call from Poplawski’s mother, who remained holed up in the basement during the entire dispute and escaped unharmed, Harper said.

When they arrived at the home, Sciullo was immediately shot in the head. Mayhle, who was right behind him, was also shot in the head.

“It appears he was lying in wait for the officers,” Harper said.

Kelly, who was on his way home after completing his overnight shift when he heard the call for help, rushed to the scene and was killed trying to help Sciullo and Mayhle, Harper said. SWAT teams and other officers arrived and were immediately fired on as well.

Don Sand, who lives across the street from Poplawski, said he was woken up by the sound of gunfire. Hunkering down behind a wall in his home, he saw the first two officers go down and then saw Kelly get shot.

“They couldn’t get the scene secure enough to get to them. They were just lying there bleeding,” Sand said. “By the time they secured the scene enough to get to them it was way too late.”

Deputy Chief Paul Donaldson, who lives nearby, was one of the first officers to arrive. He saw Mayhle by a bush to the right of the door; Kelly was in the street and McManaway, his hand injured, was kneeling beside him, yelling that Kelly needed help.

Donaldson suggested using a police van to get them. They draped a bulletproof vest on the window to protect the driver and several officers got into the van to get Kelly and McManaway.

During this time, Poplawski was somehow distracted, Donaldson said.

“We were fortunate that he didn’t fire on us. I don’t know why he was distracted, but he apparently didn’t see us coming down to get them,” he said. “It could have been worse.”

Poplawski had feared “the Obama gun ban that’s on the way” and “didn’t like our rights being infringed upon,” said Edward Perkovic, his best friend.

Perkovic, 22, said he got a call at work from him in which he said, “Eddie, I am going to die today. … Tell your family I love them and I love you.”

Perkovic said: “I heard gunshots and he hung up. … He sounded like he was in pain, like he got shot.”

Poplawski had once tried to join the Marines, but was kicked out of boot camp after throwing a food tray at a drill sergeant, Perkovic said.

Another longtime friend, Aaron Vire, said Poplawski feared that President Barack Obama was going to take away his rights, though he said he “wasn’t violently against Obama.”

Vire, 23, said Poplawski once had an Internet talk show but that it wasn’t successful. He said Poplawski owned an AK-47 rifle and several powerful handguns, including a .357 Magnum.

Obama has said he respects Americans’ constitutional right to bear arms, but that he favors “common sense” gun laws. Gun rights advocates interpret that as meaning he would approve some curbs on assault and concealed weapons.

Poplawski had been laid off from his job at a glass factory earlier this year, said another friend, Joe DiMarco. DiMarco said he didn’t know the name of the company, but knew his friend had been upset about it.

The last Pittsburgh police officers killed in the line of duty were Officers Thomas L. Herron and Joseph J. Grill, according to a Web site that tracks police killings. They died after their patrol car collided with another vehicle while chasing a stolen car on March 6, 1991.

In 1995, an off-duty officer was shot with his own gun after he confronted a group of teenagers about graffiti. Tests later showed the officer had been drinking.

According to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, 133 law enforcement officers died in the line of duty in 2008, a 27 percent decrease from year before and the lowest annual total since 1960.

Poplawski had often fought with neighbors and had even gotten into fist fights with a couple, Sand said.

“This is a relatively really quiet neighborhood except for him,” Sand said. “He was just one of those kids that we knew to stay clear from.”

Harper confirmed police had responded to calls from the Poplawski house several times but said the incidents were still being investigated.

Rob Gift, 45, who lives a block away, said the well-kept single-family houses with manicured lawns are home to many police officers, firefighters, paramedics and other city workers.

“It’s just a very quiet neighborhood,” Gift said.

1 dies as violent whites rampage in London

Why can’t white demonstrate peacefully to get their message across?

LONDON, theAFP) (AFP) – Thousands of people demonstrated on the streets of London ahead of the G20 summit here in angry protests that descended into violent battles with police and saw one man collapse and die.

After a day of protests Wednesday to mark the summit of world leaders in the capital, a man died in hospital after falling unconscious inside a police cordon near the Bank of England.

Police and the London Ambulance Service said they were alerted by a member of the public and tried to resuscitate the man — despite at one point being pelted by bottles from protesters — but he was declared dead in hospital.

It was not clear how he died, but several people were earlier injured when protesters held in a police cordon surged against the barriers, following violent clashes and an attack on a bank that led to 63 arrests.

The independent police complaints body, the IPCC, has been informed of the death and could decide to investigate.

Thousands of protesters rallied outside the Bank of England ahead of Thursday’s summit, where world leaders including US President Barack Obama will seek a response to the global financial crisis.

Anti-war activists also peacefully protested outside the US embassy across town.

Police said about 4,000 protesters, including anti-globalisation, anti-war and environmental activists, converged on the City to demand more help for the poor and the punishment of bankers they blame for the crisis.

Some of the demonstrators smashed their way into a branch of the state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) near the Bank of England, breaking the windows and hurling out office equipment including computer parts.

Riot police protecting the main doors of the building came under a hail of glass bottles, beer cans and eggs, while other officers entered the bank to try to repel anyone attempting to get inside.

“Scum” and “Beat inflation — eat the rich,” were sprayed in graffiti on the windows of the office, which had been closed for the day as a precaution.

Outside the Bank of England activists scuffled with police, hurling taunts, paint bombs, firecrackers and glass bottles, while baton-wielding police responded with occasional charges to keep masked demonstrators at bay.

“Build a bonfire, build a bonfire. Put the bankers on the top,” protesters chanted, while others taunted staff watching from the Bank of England balcony and urged them to jump.

Metropolitan Police Commander Simon O’Brien said: “It did seem to us from CCTV and police on the scene that they tried to find a way to ramp up the protest and hijack it into violence.

“We saw a determined attack on the RBS where… there was a clear attempt to throw lighted material in that premises.”

The violence calmed briefly but flared up as dusk fell, with protesters held in by police cordons charging the lines. Some tore down the crash barriers and dragged them towards the police, before riot officers surrounded them.

A shop dummy dressed as a banker was hanged by a noose from a lamp post, and then torched, with bits of the burning effigy hurled at police officers.

Several people were injured in the clashes, including one girl whose hair was soaked with blood as medics bandaged her head.

Neil Caffrey, an unemployed 45-year-old from London who had blood streaming down his cheek, claimed a policeman had caused his injury.

He told AFP: “I was standing my ground peacefully, there was a surge forward and he attacked me with a big metal truncheon.”

Asked about the raid on the RBS office, he said: “I saw one man pick up a large metal pole and smash the window. So what? He smashed a window, he’s angry. Sometimes a man has to shout to be heard.”