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Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Largest Oil Refinery in Europe (Tatarstan Russia) is on Fire
“Neftekamskneftehim” is the largest oil refinery in Europe. It is located in Tatarstan, Russia and today, at 7.00pm Moscow Time, dozens of firemen were urgently summoned as the oil giant started burning. More photos and videos inside.
Monday, March 3, 2014
Catholic Church declared and waged war against Ukraine for daring to exit the EU
On November 21, 2013 Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych announced that his majority elected Ukraine government was abandoning an agreement that would strengthen ties with the Catholic Church founded European Union (originally founded by Pope Pius XII in 1942 as the European Economic Community or ECC - as a Catholic cooperation initiative, based on Catholic social teaching) and instead seek closer co-operation with Moscow. The Ukraine government’s new alliance with Russia was seen as a major public embarrassment for the Catholic Church.
It took the Catholic Church over 60 years to form the Vatican occupied Europe – the EU. The Catholic Church wasn’t about to let one of its occupied European states to leave the Vatican Fourth Reich and ally itself with an arch enemy of the Catholic Church. The Soviet Union helped Canada, the United States and Great Britain defeat the Catholic Church German Third Reich and prevented the Vatican from regrouping under a Fourth Reich by occupying East Germany for 45 years.
The Catholic Church ordered members of THE SOVEREIGN ORDER OF MALTA and the Ukrainian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church (UOGCC), that was established in 2009 (the same year as the constitutional basis of the Catholic Church EU, the Treaty of Lisbon, came into force) by the Catholic Church, to take to the streets and defend the European Union economic interests of the Catholic Church Pope. Members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church profess the Catholic faith, including the primacy of the Roman Pontiff (Petrus Romanus – Jorge Mario Bergoglio) and disassociated themselves from “contemporary heresies which destroy both the Eastern and the Western Church.”
The violent civil war in Ukraine was started by the Catholic Church and the newly installed antipope (a false claimant of the Holy See in opposition to a “living” canonically elected pontiff – Pope Benedict XVI) Francis who declared war against the democratically elected Ukraine government and the people of Ukraine for daring to exit the Catholic Church occupied European Union. Members of the Sovereign Order of Malta were called upon by the Vatican to honor their oath to the Catholic Church and the Pope and wage war against the people and government of Ukraine.
November 30, 2013
Pro Catholic Church/EU supporters attempt to overthrow the Ukraine government through violent subversion.
Sunday December 1, 2013
Catholic parishers are urged to support the Catholic Church by protesting against the anti Catholic EU Ukraine government. 300,000 Catholics take to the streets in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine on the Catholic Church Sun god Sol Invictus day of worship.
December 9, 2013
Pro Catholic EU terrorists armed with improvised weapons take and occupy city hall in Kyiv, Ukraine
December 17, 2013
Russian President Vladimir Putin announces that Moscow will buy $15 billion worth of Ukrainian government bonds and allow for a sharp drop in the price Ukrainians pay for Russian natural gas. This announcement infuriates the Catholic Church Pope as Catholic Church oil and gas interests in the region would suffer a major loss with this Ukraine friendly energy deal.
January 22, 2014
Two protesters die after being hit by Catholic Church terrorist sniper and the third after a fall during a confrontation between police and demonstrators manning barricades – the first shots and casualties of the Catholic Church war against Ukraine.
January 28, 2014
The prime minister is forced to resign and parliament is forced under duress to repeal the new anti-protest laws that set off the Catholic Church ordered deadly violence and attacks against the Ukraine government and people a week earlier. Both are imposed by the Catholic Church with the intent to seize control of the elected government of the Ukraine people.
January 31, 2014
Catholic Church terrorists begin kidnapping and torturing Ukrainian citizens to instill fear and anti-government sentiment.
February 16, 2014
Catholic Church terrorists end their occupation of Kyiv City Hall in exchange for the release of all 234 jailed Catholic Church terrorists.
February 18, 2014
Armed Catholic Church terrorists attack Ukraine police leaving at least 26 people, including 10 police officers dead and hundreds injured. The violence began when Catholic Church terrorists attacked police lines and set fires outside parliament after parliament stalls on taking up a Catholic Church imposed constitutional reform to limit presidential powers.
February 20, 2014
Hours after a truce is announced, armed Catholic Church terrorists attack protesters and police in Independence Square, Kyiv, Ukraine, with numerous casualties.
February 22, 2014
Armed Catholic Church terrorirts seize control of the capital of Kyiv by force, seizing the president’s office and forces the anti-EU Ukraine government, at gunpoint, to vote to remove democratically elected president Viktor Yanukovych and hold new elections. under EU mediation. The Catholic Church forces the Ukraine government, under duress and at gunpoint, to appoint Oleksander Turchinov as interim president.
88 people have been killed since 18 February in the Catholic Church provoked civil war in Ukraine. Murdered by the Catholic Church because a trade deal with the Catholic Church controlled EU (occupied Europe) was spurned in favour of closer ties with Russia.
“THESE ARE OUR PRIESTS AND BISHOPS FOLKS! THESE MEN ARE CATHOLIC PRIESTS AND LOYAL TO THE POPE! THE UKRAINIAN GREEK CATHOLIC CHURCH IS ONE OF OUR CHURCHES!! THE GOVT. (PRO RUSSIA) GOVT. IS THREATENING TO OUTLAW THE CATHOLIC CHURCHES IN UKRAINE!! THIS IS WAR!“
63 Black Harvard Students Share Their Experiences In A Powerful Photo Project (21 of the images.)
A group of black students at Harvard are fed up with the institutional racism they say they have experienced, and are speaking out against it through a commanding photography project on Tumblr.
“Our voices often go unheard on this campus, our experiences are devalued, our presence is questioned,” the website says. “This project is our way of speaking back, of claiming this campus, of standing up to say: We are here.”
The Tumblr is part of a larger campus campaign that all started with a play written by sophomore Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence, pictured above.
Matsuda-Lawrence and other members of the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College, Harvard’s older existing black organization, came up with the idea last year around spring break. She conducted 40 interviews with black student on campus for an independent study last semester; those interviews are the basis of the play, called I, Too, Am Harvard, which will premiere on March 7.
She emphasized to BuzzFeed that “I, Too, Am Harvard” is a collective black community project that doesn’t yet reflect that experience of all students of color.
“We want to build a larger movement for students of color in general, but this play is for Harvard’s Black Arts Festival,” said Matsuda-Lawrence. “The project is coming out of the black community on campus.”
As part of the campaign, Harvard sophomore Carol Powell, a fellow Kuumba member, photographed 63 black students holding boards with micro-aggressions and racist remarks they have heard on campus. Some chose to write messages to their peers.
Speaking about her own portrait from the photo campaign, Matsuda-Lawrence told BuzzFeed that while walking through Harvard Yard last Friday night with black friends, they were approached by two white males who appeared to be drunk. “One of them came right up in my face and yelled, ‘CAN YOU READ?’” she said. “This confrontation is just one of many instances in which black intelligence is questioned on this campus.
Since the Tumblr launched Saturday night, it has received over 19,000 page views and the “I, Too, Am Harvard” team has been contacted by students of color on other campuses, including students from the University of Pennsylvania, who want to launch their own campaign.
“We’re part of a nationwide movement of black student activism,” Matsuda-Lawrence said. “We haven’t started this, but we’re hoping we can add to the movement and speak up against racism on college campuses.”
The campaign was created in response to an article written by a white student and printed in the Harvard Crimson in November 2012 called “Affirmative Dissatisfaction,” which instigated debates about Harvard’s affirmative action policy.
“I felt, and other students felt, that our presence and identity as black students was being de-valued. At the time I was a freshman. We’d just shown up on campus, and we felt like people were saying I wasn’t smart enough to be here,” said Matsuda-Lawrence. “Everybody was talking about it on campus and it created a lot of racial tension.”
“This is our way of speaking back and saying we belong here. We’re claiming this campus as our own.”
In one interview, a student told Matsuda-Lawrence how hurt she was by the article:
“There is a feeling a lot of black students share, which is that even thought you got a letter of acceptance, you’re never fully accepted on this campus,” Matsuda-Lawrence said.
She added that throughout her 40 interviews, she hardly ever mentioned the affirmative action article, yet almost every person brought it up. “That’s the effect it had on our campus,” she said.
“The administration was silent on the issue,” said Matsuda-Lawrence. “They did not come to the aid of students of color on campus, and the voices of black students were not heard in the affirmative action debate.”
In another interview, a woman expressed how hard it was for her to feel comfortable in the classroom:
The play is part of the schools 16th Annual Dr. Walter J. Leonard Black Arts Festival, sponsored by the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College, the oldest existing black organization on Harvard’s campus, as well as a number of other institutional organizations.
The “I, Too, Am Harvard” team has invited a number of professors and administrators to the performance, and hopes that they will help work to effect change on campus.
The campaign’s goal is for the Harvard administrators to take note of the movement and address it directly.
“Our biggest demand would be for the president and administration to issue a public statement in response to the affirmation action article to support students of color, and say why they value diversity on campus.”
Harvard did not immediately respond to BuzzFeed’s request for comment.
“This project has helped us realize that we’re not alone,” Matsuda-Lawrence said.
“We want to build a movement that can be translated into real institutional change so that black students feel that we belong. The play isn’t an end, it’s a beginning.”
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Marissa Alexander's sentence could triple in 'warning-shot' case
Already a figure of sympathy over 20 years in first trial, she faces 60 years in retrial
A Jacksonville woman whose case generated outrage when she was sentenced to 20 years in prison may end up behind bars for 60 years for the same crime.
The Office of State Attorney Angela Corey will seek to put Marissa Alexander in prison for 60 years, essentially a life sentence, if it succeeds in convicting her for a second time for firing a shot in the direction of her estranged husband and two of his children. Her trial is scheduled to begin on July 28.
Alexander, 33, was previously convicted in 2012 of three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to 20 years in prison by Circuit Judge James Daniel under the state’s 10-20-life law. Daniel actually imposed three separate 20-year sentences on Alexander but ordered that they be served concurrently, which meant Alexander would get out in 20 years.
The conviction was thrown out after the 1st District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee ruled that Daniel made a mistake in shifting the burden to Alexander to prove she was acting in self-defense. During jury instructions, Daniel said she must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she was battered by her husband.
Sept. 26, 2013: Judge orders new trial for Marissa Alexander
Nov. 28, 2013: Marissa Alexander released from jail
Jan. 10, 2014: Marissa Alexander bond hearing (video)
Alexander’s case drew national attention after she was denied immunity under the state’s Stand Your Ground law, with critics saying the crime Alexander was convicted of didn’t warrant 20 years behind bars. Supporters of Alexander blasted prosecutors Friday for seeking to triple her prison sentence.
“It’s unimaginable that a woman acting in self-defense, who injured no one, can be given what amounts to a life sentence,” said Free Marissa Now spokeswoman Helen Gilbert. “This must send chills down the spine of every woman and everyone who cares about women and every woman in an abusive relationship.”
Seeking 60 years is an incredibly abusive and outrageous action by Corey, Gilbert said.
But Assistant State Attorney Richard Mantei, the lead prosecutor in the case, told the Times-Union his office was simply following the sentencing laws of the state of Florida.
The same appeals court that ordered Alexander’s retrial separately ruled last year that when a defendant is convicted of multiple counts under 10-20-life that arose from the same crime, judges must make the sentences consecutive and are not allowed to impose them concurrently.
The law has not changed since Alexander was sentenced in 2012, but courts throughout the state have been struggling to interpret what the Legislature meant when it passed sentencing laws regarding 10-20-life.
The Alexander case inspired the so-called “warning-shot” bill that will be part of the Florida legislative session that begins Tuesday. The proposal, which is expected to pass, would create an exception to the 10-20-life law and prohibit those who fire a warning shot from getting 20 years in prison.
DEBATE OVER COMBINED SENTENCES
Mantei said the appeals court ruling demanding consecutive 20-year sentences dictates that if Alexander is convicted of the same three counts, Daniel will be required to sentence her to 60 years in prison.
“Absent a plea agreement, if convicted as charged, the law of the State of Florida fixes the sentence,” Mantei said. “At this time, Ms. Alexander has rejected all efforts by the State to resolve the case short of trial.”
Attorney Bruce Zimet said it would be a miscarriage of justice to put his client in prison for the rest of her life.
He said he plans to get Alexander acquitted at trial by arguing that she was acting in self-defense. But he also intends to argue that the 10-20-life law is unconstitutional because it violates the 8th Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, and will claim that Alexander cannot be sentenced to 60 years since she was only sentenced to 20 years at her first trial.
George “Bob” Dekle, a retired prosecutor who is now a law professor at the University of Florida, said if Alexander is convicted again the issue of whether she should get 60 years in prison could end up going to the Supreme Court.
If a sentence increases on a retrial, the law considers that vindictive unless there’s a good reason for the increased sentence, Dekle said.
“Prosecutors will say it’s not vindictive, it’s what the case law now says you have to do,” Dekle said. “It will be up to the judge to decide if he agrees with that.”
If Daniel agrees with prosecutors and sentences Alexander to 60 years in prison, an appeal is almost certain. But if Daniel sentences her to 20 years the issue is probably done.
“I can tell you as a retired prosecutor you (the state) almost never win appeals on issues like this,” Dekle said.
But Dekle cautioned that the issue is fluid, since multiple Florida appellate courts have ruled on this issue, and some of those rulings conflict with each other.
The Florida Supreme Court is expected to take up the issue of whether Florida law requires multiple 10-20-life sentences to be consecutive. While the 1st District has ruled that judges must make sentences consecutive, other appellate courts in Florida have said judges can impose sentences concurrently.
THE SELF-DEFENSE CLAIM
Alexander has claimed she fired a warning shot at her estranged husband, Rico Gray, and wasn’t trying to hit Gray or his two children from a previous relationship. She has said the incident, which happened days after she’d given birth, began when Gray accused her of infidelity and questioned whether the newborn child was his.
Alexander told him to leave and locked herself in the bathroom until he broke through the door, grabbed her by the neck and shoved her to the floor.
She ran into the garage but found she couldn’t leave because the garage door wouldn’t open, according to the report.
She got a gun from the glove compartment of a car in the garage, went back into the house and when Gray saw her, she said he charged, saying he was going to kill her. Alexander fired the gun.
Alexander said it was a warning shot. Prosecutors dispute that and say the bullet hit the wall, not the ceiling, and it could have killed Gray or his children.
Mantei previously said that Gray’s children have suffered because of the incident, and they are the real victims in this case.
Alexander cited the Stand Your Ground law to justify firing the shot. It allows the use of deadly force instead of retreating if the person is afraid for his or her life.
But that defense was rejected by Circuit Judge Elizabeth Senterfitt, who ruled that Alexander’s choice to go back into the house to face her husband was not consistent with someone who was in “genuine fear of his or her life.”
At one point, prosecutors offered Alexander a prison sentence of three years before her original trial, but she turned that down and chose to go to trial.
Larry Hannan: (904) 359-4470
Saturday, March 1, 2014
13 Workers Exposed to Radiation
It’s too early to tell if 13 nuclear waste plant workers who tested positive for radiation exposure inNew Mexico face long-term health risks, plant officials said Thursday.
The workers were notified on Wednesday that tests showed low levels of americium-241 in their bodies. That is one of the radioactive particles emitted from the sprawling waste repository located 26 miles east of Carlsbad, New Mexico. On Thursday, officials from the U.S. Department of Energy and the contractor that runs the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the nation’s first deep underground nuclear facility, provided some details on the leak that occurred on Valentine’s Day.
The 13 workers were above ground doing federal-mandated oversight at the time a radiation detector went off the night of Feb. 14, said Joe Franco, the Department of Energy’s Carlsbad Field Office manager. WIPP officials have said no employees were underground when the leak was detective.
Everyone at the plant at the time was checked for contamination before they were allowed to leave, a news release said. Biological samples were also taken, and subsequent analysis showed low levels of radioactive exposure, officials said.
On-site readings later showed that the workers were likely exposed by “airborne contamination.” Franco said
The workers are now being monitored by specialists and providing fecal and urine samples to see whether the radiological agent is dissipating, the plant’s operator said Thursday.
It still wasn’t clear whether the contamination posed long term health risks to the workers or if they would need ongoing medical treatment.
“It is too early to make any conclusions about whether my employees are endangered,” said. Farok Sharif, Nuclear Waste Partnership president and project manager.
The deep underground waste dump has been shut down since the leak occurred.
The source of the leak has not yet been determined, but the DOE said a plan was in place to go back underground into the waste facility and systematically take readings and observations to determine what specifically happened on Feb. 14.
“Once the source of the contamination is found, we’ll lay out a plan on how to mitigate it,” Franco said.
Higher radiation levels have been detected in the air near the plant, but officials say the readings are not high enough to be considered a public health threat.
A HEPA filtration system designed to keep 99.7 percent of contamination from being released above ground worked, they insisted.
This is the first known accident since the dump began taking plutonium-contaminated waste from nuclear bomb building sites around the country 15 years ago, the Associated Press reported. A container of waste leaked, officials said, but they are not yet sure what caused the accident.
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