A homeowner says a Phoenix police officer shot him six times in the back during a 911 home-invasion call, and the 911 tape recorded the officer's partner saying, "That's all right. Don't worry about it. I got your back. ... We clear?" The family says the officers were not aware that the 911 call was still recording as they spoke about covering up the shooting.
In their complaint in Maricopa County Court, Anthony and Lesley Arambula say an armed intruder "crashed through the front window" of their home on Sept. 17, 2008 and ran into one of their son's bedrooms.
Anthony, worried about his son who was still in his bedroom, says he "held the intruder calmly at gunpoint" and called 911.
Phoenix Police officers already in the neighborhood heard the crash of the Arambulas' window. When they approached the house, Lesley says, she told Sgt. Sean Coutts that her husband was inside holding the intruder at gunpoint. Lesley says Coutts failed to pass on that information to the two other officers.
Inside the house, the Arambulas say, Officer Brian Lilly shot Anthony six times in the back while he was still on the phone with the 911 operator - twice when he was on the ground.
The officers ran into the bedroom after Anthony told them, "You just killed ... you just killed the homeowner. The bad guy is in there."
The complaint states that Officer Lilly "admitted that it was only after Tony was laying, bullet-ridden, on the ground that he assessed the situation. The 911 tape continued to record what happened even after Officer Lilly unloaded his weapon into Tony, including Officer Lilly's post-shooting, one-word 'assessment': 'Fuck.'
"Tony believed he was going to die; the 911 tape records his plaintive goodbye to his family: '... I love you ... I love you.' Then Tony made what he believed was a dying request to the officers; he did not want his young family to see him shot and bloodied. Officers callously ignored his request and painfully dragged Tony by his injured leg, through the home and out to his backyard patio, where they left him bloodied and shot right in front of Lesley, Matthew and Zachary."
The Arambulas say the officers later dragged Anthony onto gravel, then put him on top of the hot hood of a squad car, and "drove the squad car down the street with Tony lying on top, writing in pain."
According to the complaint, Lilly can be heard on the 911 tape telling Coutts, "We fucked up."
Lilly says on the tape that he did not know where Anthony's gun was when he shot him and that he "opened fire because he heard loud noises and saw someone who looked like he might be the 'Hispanic' male they were pursuing" before getting to the Arambulas' house, according to the complaint.
The complaint states: "Sgt. Coutts knew that officers has just shot up and likely killed an innocent homeowner and the husband of Lesley, with whom he had spoken before entering the home, instead of the armed intruder. Sgt. Coutts was quick to commence the cover-up of their terrible mistake. Sgt. Coutts asked Office Lilly where Tony's gun was at the time Officer Lilly had opened fire on Tony. Officer Lilly admitted that he did not know where Tony's gun was: 'I don't know. I heard screaming and I fired.'"
Lilly later told a police internal affairs investigator that Anthony had pointed his gun in his direction, "in the 'ready' position," the complaint states. But Anthony Arambula says he was facing away from the officers, who could not have even seen his gun.
The complaint continues: "Still not knowing that he is being recorded n the 911 tape, Sgt. Coutts interrupted Officer Lilly's admission and apology with his assurance that the cover-up would commence: 'That's all right. Don't worry about it. I got your back. ... We clear?'"
After the shooting, the Arambulas say, the Phoenix Police Department treated them "like suspects in a drug bust," denying Lesley, Michael and Zachary information about Anthony's condition and denying friends and family members access to him at the hospital.
Anthony Arambula survived, but continues to suffer pain, which he expects will last for the rest of his life.
The City of Phoenix and Officer Dzenan Ahmetovic also are named as defendants.
The Arambulas seek punitive damages for gross negligence, civil rights violations, failure to supervise, excessive force, deliberate indifference to medical needs, false arrest, and emotional distress. They are represented by Michael Manning with son Morrison Hecker.
Women who are sexually satisfied are also happier, no matter their age, a new study suggests. Where do I send my research grant proposal?
You might be thinking, "Duh, better sex makes for a better mood." But in science, thinking something is true doesn't make it so. "A lot of the things we make assumptions about have never been documented," said study researcher Susan Davis Next grant proposal: Does the same thing hold true for men?
Professor Stephen Hawking has given up a prestigious academic title.
The physicist, who has motor neurone disease, is completing his last day as Cambridge University's Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. The university said it was policy for holders of the title to retire at 67 and Prof Hawking was 67 in January.
Prof Hawking, who is one of the world's leading cosmologists, will continue working at the university and a new Lucasian Professor will be appointed.
Previous holders of the title, founded by MP Henry Lucas in 1663, include Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, Sir Joseph Larmor and Sir James Lighthill.
Prof Hawking, who began work in Cambridge in 1962 and has held the Lucasian Professorship since 1979, is a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. He gained fame following the publication of his best-selling book A Brief History of Time in 1988.
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How 'bout Joe Biden? He's always telling us how greater and greater numbers of people out of work is "a success." Got to be some advanced math in that...
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It has amazed me that Prof Hawking has lived this long with his health problems. An example for all.
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Something the Crisis Mongers don't want you to pay attention to. Checking census date will reveal we're all living longer and longer. In America, if certain communities wouldn't kill off their teenage and young adult males in lower primate territorial and behavior rituals, the life span data would be even more impressive.
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Re #3: You've obviously visited my former hometown of Chicago (southside esp.) or on a much more minor scale my current hometown of Tucson (southside esp.). Territorial ritual killings are a mainstay in both for "da yoot".
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IMHO, Hawking is somewhat of a charlatan, self-promoter, and general sob who has built his reputation on the backs of others. He's worked hard to erase reference to Jacob Bekenstein, who IMO deserves a Nobel, when he talks about (Bekenstein-)Hawking radiation.
Considering all the adulation he's received, he has accomplished remarkably little, and has few notable awards.
I'll be interested to see who will be the next Lucasian Professor.
Pilots and cabin crew have come to blows on an international flight bound for India, media reports say. The scuffle is said to have begun as an argument in the plane's cockpit over claims of sexual harassment but spilled into the galley, startling passengers. One pilot and one air hostess suffered bruises, as punches were thrown.
The incident took place over Pakistan on an Air India flight from the United Arab Emirates to Delhi, with 106 passengers and seven crew on board.
The cabin crew alleged that pilots sexually harassed a 24-year-old air hostess, who filed a complaint once the plane landed.
But the Times of India newspaper said the pilots made a counter-claim, saying that the harassment claim was an attempt to divert attention from accusations of misconduct against a male flight attendant.
Air India said it had ordered an inquiry into the incident, and had grounded all the staff involved.
Crew (or Cockpit) Resource Management (CRM) training originated from a NASA workshop in 1979 that focused on improving air safety. The NASA research presented at this meeting found that the primary cause of the majority of aviation accidents was human error, and that the main problems were failures of interpersonal communication, leadership, and decision making in the cockpit.
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These clowns are in-freakin-sane
At the moment the UK is committed to cutting greenhouse gases by a third by 2020.
However a new report from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research said these targets are inadequate to keep global warming below two degrees C above pre-industrial levels. The report says the only way to avoid going beyond the dangerous tipping point is to double the target to 70 per cent by 2020.
This would mean reducing the size of the economy through a "planned recession". Why don't you start by reducing the income of all the people pushing this stuff by 50%? Not willing to put your money where your mouth is?
Kevin Anderson, director of the research body, said the building of new airports, petrol cars and dirty coal-fired power stations will have to be halted in the UK until new technology provides an alternative to burning fossil fuels.
"To meet [Government] targets of not exceeding two degrees C, there would have to be a moratorium on airport expansion, stringent measures on the type of vehicle being used and a rapid transition to low carbon technology," he said.
Prof Anderson also said individuals will have to consume less. Except, of course, for the elites, who will continue to spend to excess and flit around the world in private jets - but the rules never apply to them, don'tcha know.
"For most of the population it would mean fairly modest changes to how they live, maybe they will drive less, share a car to work or take more holidays in Britain."
More than 190 countries are due to meet in Copenhagen in December to decide a new way of picking the working people's pockets international deal on climate change.
Speaking at an Oxford University conference on the threat of climate change, Profjkj Anderson said rich countries will have to make much more ambitious cuts to have any chance of keeping temperature rise below four degrees C. "If we do everything we can do then we might have a chance of getting even more power and control of every aspect of the proles' lives," he said. Check out the "related story" headlines, including "U.S. ignorant about climate change, expert claims." In a way, the "expert" is right; the so-call "leaders" in the U.S. are ignorant - about a lot more than Gerbil Worming climate change.
Idiots.
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"For most of the population it would mean fairly modest changes to how they live"
Note how this is worded - the "scientist" doesn't include himself in the group.
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For a recession to even theoretically avert climate change it would have to be a global recession; I'm not sure China and India would be willing participants (though because the current plans would not require them to participate, those plans could not even theoretically avert climate change.)
In other words, it's not about the climate, it's about economic redistribution!
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It's always been about "Economic redistribution" in plain speak, MONEY.
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The English forget the (Relatively) Tiny Island they live on, they'd need to entirely depopulate their Island to make any tiny almost unmeasurable change, By "Depopulate" I do NOT mesn move, but they'd need to execute all persons animals and other living, breathing lifeforms, leaving only plsnts.
Syupid dumbass morons, no knowledge of science at all.
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IIRC TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > SCIENTISTS: WORLD WILL CONTINUE TO HEAT UP,
versus
* SAME > THE PROBLEM WITH THE ENVIRONMENT [Global Warming] IS THAT THERE ARE TOO MANY HUMANS.
IOW, that so-called GLOBAL COOLING = FUTURE NEW ICE AGE may only be TEMPORARY [GLOBAL SLUSHY]???
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D *** NG IT, HOW CAN YOUNG JETHRO CLAMPETT {"Beverly Hillbillies"] EAT HIS BELOVED "SNOW ICE CREAM" WIDOUT SNOW [Ice Age] + WIDOUT HIS FAVORITE FLAVORS [OWG-NWO Solyent Green, Orange, etc. ala FUTURAMA]!?]
JEDDAH -- An imam of a mosque in Kandara District here admitted Saturday embezzlement of donation money and forging stamps for Al-Bir Charity Society to collect charity money from donors for his private bank account, according to a source at the Commission of Investigation and Prosecution (CIP).
With the end of investigation at the CIP, the case has been transferred to an administrative court in Jeddah for ruling. The court is scheduled to look into the case Sunday. If found guilty in court, the court is expected to hand down a verdict of up to five years imprisonment, a SR100,000 fine, and refund of all embezzled charity cash money. The imam is facing two cases: one by Al-Bir Chairty Society asking him to refund SR200,000 and one by a businesswoman seeking the refund of SR700,000 which she reportedly gave him for the society.
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So is he now stripped of his Title?
Bet not.
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A top Saudi cleric resigned from the board of the Council of Senior Clerics Sunday in the wake of controversy over his statements opposing gender mixing at the first co-ed university in the Kingdom.
Sheikh Saad bin Nasser al-Shethri's resignation from the senior ulema came just days after he appeared on the Qatar-based al-Majd satellite channel and lashed out at the newly-opened King Abdullah Science and Technology University for offering co-education.
Shithri was one of several clerics who objected to the mixed gender university, which is outside the purview of the conservative cleric-dominated education ministry.
Saudi king Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, who has promoted reforms since taking office in 2005, accepted Shithri's resignation.
The senior cleric said religious scholars should vet the curriculum to prevent alien ideologies such as "evolution" and set up a committee to ensure it does not violate sharia, or Islamic law.
"We are looking at some of the sciences that have included some irregular and alien ideologies, like evolution and such other ideologies," the daily al-Watan newspaper quoted Shithri as saying last week in response to a viewer's question.
He later withdraw his statements and stressed the importance of the university in the progress of education. He also accused journalists of taking his statements out of context.
Al-Majd TV sought to distance itself from the channel, saying it is not responsible for Shithri's statements. Executive director Ahmed Saqr stressed that the comments reflected the sheikh's personal opinion.
Shithri's statements sparked outrage among Saudi liberals and columnists, who have been supportive of the university and liberalizing education and accused both the Shethri and the station of overlooking the significant educational role of the university and of focusing on minor issues that are likely to spread controversy.
" This is a strategy for the conservatives to control the university or at least have a major say in it. This is the old trick for them to have the upper hand to sabotage reform "
Jamal Khashoggi, al-Watan
"Amidst the Kingdom's celebrations marking the opening of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) there were some calls which bore the dust of Tora Bora and belittled this gigantic national accomplishment by raising the issue of co-education," Khalaf Al-Harbi wrote in the Arabic daily Okaz.
A columnist for the London-based Asharq al-Awsat described the singular focus on co-education as "the chronic state of obsession with virtue creeping in once again."
"This is a strategy for the conservatives to control the university or at least have a major say in it. This is the old trick for them to have the upper hand to sabotage reform," said Jamal Khashoggi, editor-in-chief of al-Watan.
King Abdullah's University of Science and Technology (KAUST), designed to produce Saudi scientists, is the only educational institution in the kingdom where men and women can mix. It is located near a Red Sea village away from the clutches of religious police.
It has attracted top scientists from around the world with research potential unmatched in many advanced countries and one of the largest endowments in the world.
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Gordon Brown was warned last night to raise the retirement age above 65 and introduce NHS charges to tackle the soaring state deficit.
In a devastating intervention, the International Monetary Fund called for radical changes to the pension system and spending cuts that go far beyond the plans outlined by the Prime Minister this week. The global watchdog said root and branch changes to public sector spending would be necessary to 'help keep a lid on the debt' and restore financial stability.
The IMF's broadside is highly unusual ahead of an election and reflects grave concern at the debt mountain built up by the Brown government
The public reprimand will rekindle memories of the humiliation of the Callaghan government in 1976 when the IMF forced massive budget cuts on Britain to deal with the collapse of the pound.
Treasury ministers privately admit that the budget deficit is expected to rise to £200billion this year - £25billion more than the Chancellor predicted in the Budget. That is the equivalent of £3,257 of debt for every man, woman and child, or £9,457 for the average family.
Oliver Blanchard, the IMF's top economist, told a press conference at a joint annual meeting with the World Bank that the next British government will 'have to take measures that improve the medium-term debt outlook'.
He added: 'That means reforms of the retirement system, that means reform of the healthcare system.'
The IMF said that radical reform of pensions should lead to a rise in the national retirement age from 65 and save billions of pounds. And they called for politicians to target 'unfunded' final salary public-sector pension schemes which will potentially cost the the Exchequer up to £1trillion.
Mr Blanchard said reform was vital, adding that it would be 'a joke' if the Government settled instead for new fiscal rules that might be torn up at times of crisis.
The IMF estimated that by next year Britain's debt will represent 81.7 per cent of output. Even with planned cuts and tax increases, it predicted a figure of 98.3 per cent by 2014.
There was a glimmer of hope for Alistair Darling in that the IMF raised Britain's growth forecast for next year to 0.9 per cent from 0.2 per cent. The Chancellor's March budget went for a more optimistic 1.25 per cent.
The upgraded UK forecast was accompanied by caution that unemployment will continue to rise from 7.6 per cent of the workforce this year to 9.3 per cent next year. That would see three million without jobs.
The IMF also warned that Britain risks a new house price slump, despite an apparent recent market upturn. Their global outlook pointed to ' further large declines'.
In a bid to ease public concerns, senior Cabinet sources have revealed that Labour plans to make spending cuts and asset sales worth £75billion, taking an axe to major defence projects and the pay of judges, top civil servants and NHS managers.
Asked yesterday whether his spending plans were credible, Mr Brown told Five News: 'Absolutely. I've offered a deficit reduction plan. We've raised the top rate of tax. National insurance will rise by half of 1 per cent and we'll be cutting costs.
'There will be further announcements about how we sell off more than £16billion of assets. I have been absolutely straight with the British people.'
But Philip Hammond, Tory Treasury spokesman, said: 'It is increasingly clear that Labour have no plan to tackle the debt crisis they created. At their conference this week they showed absolutely no recognition of the size of the problem, and refused to be straight with people about the fact that their own Treasury documents show they are planning cuts to spending on public services.
'Labour still won't come clean with the British people.'
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Britain DOES charge for health"care" (although it doesn't deliver). The productive are punished to reward those who do not look after their own health.
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Increasing tax will lead to more avoidance action (work less, work abroad, work differently), the one thing it won't do is raise the amount the state extorts.
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We have been duly warned. Thank you, Daniel Hannan, who opines we must heed the words of Edmund Burke, the man who best expressed the difference between the regular folk and the politicans:
"Because half a dozen grasshoppers concealed under the fern make the field ring with their importunate chink while thousands of great castles take their repose under the shade of the British oak and are silent. Pray do not imagine that those who make all the noise are the only inhabitants of the field."
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Britain also gives benefits to their many Muslim immigrants and their four wives, none of whom work, but breed for the Ummah. The IMF is also disproportionately represented by the US, meaning we also help bailout stupid EU policies.
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's Söcialists, who campaigned on a promise to inject a 3 billion euro ($4.36 billion) stimulus package into the economy, have won Sunday's national election with enough seats to form a government.
$4.4 billion? Pikers. Can't even do a stimulus right. Watch the big O and learn, you Greeks ...
No, no, Dr. Steve! Never "you Greeks," but "O Greeks", thusly:
When springs Aurora, rosy-fingered dawn
Up in the sky, to greet Apollo's golden chariot
With its great horses; driven always
By that golden youth, Apollo, golden-haired Apollo,
Ever wise, the silver-tongued Apollo,
Quicksilver-fingered player of the lyre,
Then hark! O Greeks, unto this man before you,
This Apollo manifest, this silver-tongued Obama,
Quicksilver-tongue'd, player of the liar,
Or so 'tis said, among the wise men,
Elders enhalled in the Hall of the Elders, the Senate,
No longer woolen-robed nor staid of gait and manner,
But like them hark, and listen to this man,
This Apollo, this Obama come to Earth.
Hark ye and learn, O Greeks!
One must speak to one's audience in the language they will best understand, after all.
My mistake, I never did study the classics properly ...
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Wine and moussaka for everyone, there as well as here. Emperor ObamAchilles wills it!
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Better throw a "y'all" or two in there as well, ma'am. It makes certain Greeks feel better.
And so I shall, Pappy, when writing in American. But that was pure Homerian Greek, that was. One of the lost stanzas of the Illiad. You can tell because it's written in all those funny hooks and squiggles of the Classic Greek alphabet, the one that came so many centuries after Homer.
Lumpy Elmoluck5091, glad I could help. Even the worst doggerel contains a tiny insight or two if approached with the proper frame of mind.
Cause definitive goals are measurable. When the 'touchy feely' doesn't then work, people would recognize it as the failure for what it is. When classical liberalism pushed through equal opportunity and the poor continued behaviors which kept them poor, they fell back upon social@ism with equal outcome as their goal regardless of individual effort. That's why they fuzz up the goals because there's nothing left for them after social@ism fails to end poverty (social justice). They won't recognize that with human free will there will always be some poor.
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I see only one "Goal" and yes it's unannounced.
MAKE OBAMALOOK VERY IMPORTANT
there's no other goal at all.
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I'm beginning to think that Obumble is only a distraction, and the real culprits (and cretins, criminals, and cutthroats) are the "czars" he's appointed. THEY are the ones trying to do the dirty work while Obumble gets the spotlight. Their "plan" is to see how much they can scam from the government before they're forced to flee, like cockroaches when the light's turned on.
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I caught a frame about 90% through the video, showing the broken balloon bottom half. Neat little project. If they can make or get a mylar balloon, they can go up to 130,000 ft altitude.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Pilots and cabin crew have come to blows on an international flight bound for India, media reports say. The scuffle is said to have begun as an argument in the plane's cockpit over claims of sexual harassment but spilled into the galley, startling passengers. One pilot and one air hostess suffered bruises, as punches were thrown. 
