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	iStockphoto Tens of millions of trees across the U.S. are dying Katie HerzogSep 19, 2016 Climate change is a big underlying cause. And the tree loss will make climate change worse. From Hawaii’s ohi’a to Seattle’s cottonwoods to the oldest white oak in North America, the country’s trees are in peril. In California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains alone, 66 million trees have died in the past six years, the Guardian reports. But while the specific causes vary — from disease and insects to drought and wildfires — much of this death is driven by climate change. This isn’t just a problem for tree-hugging hikers and homeowners distressed by brown leaves. Forests play a vital role in stabilizing the Earth’s climate. Trees act as a carbon sink by extracting nearly a quarter of human carbon dioxide emissions from the air. But when trees die, instead of sequestering carbon, they emit it. How big could this unfolding disaster be? Richard Birdsey, a researcher with the U.S. Forest Service, told Rolling Stone last year, “if the carbon sink in forests fails, a simple speculation is that global temperatures would increase proportionally to the increase of CO2 concentration, so about 25 percent above current climate projections.” That could mean death for a whole lot more than just trees. (grist.org/briefly)
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9/21/2016 5:15:05 PM

Why Are There So Many Cancers Now?

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

By Catherine J. Frompovich

This is an “anthology” of sorts about the etiology of the current cancer epidemic-pandemic.

C-A-N-C-E-R is the word that strikes horror in the hearts and minds of every human alive. However, that always was not the case. I’m old enough to remember when cancer was a rather ‘rare’ disease or condition. Furthermore, I know medical doctors a little older than my ‘vintage’ who say that when they were in medical school, they were not taught very much about cancer, so much so, that when a cancer patient was in one of the wards in a teaching hospital, the entire class of physicians-in-training was trotted in to see that patient. How interesting?

Personally, I’m of the belief that there is not very much new under the sun EXCEPT what’s being designed and created by genetic modification and geoengineering. Cancer, undoubtedly, has been around in some form probably since very ancient times. However, the current ‘plague of cancers’, even though not an anomaly since just about everyone and his or her brother has or had it, became ‘profitable’ during the latter half of the twentieth century.

There is no doubt that cancer, as an ‘industry’, will become even more problematic—plus profitable—to the point where every person probably will contract cancer in some form or other, almost as if by some ulterior design. Why do I say that? Because of how cancer has been made into a “profitable business,” revenue stream and profit center for varied and numerous vested interests, when there actually are cancer cures controlling vested interests suppress or even keep for themselves. Is that too harsh to hear? Well, have you recently looked into or checked out the ridiculously-priced costs of cancer treatments and protocols? Like all wars, the “war on cancer” is pro

Contrast those prices with the cost of cancer drugs a decade or so ago, which were a mere ‘smidgen’ of only $4,500 a month. Talk about inflation, or is it medical-pharma rip-off time? Owning a ‘cancer insurance’ policy really doesn’t help defray many of those costs either. Usually a cancer policy will state that it provides a lump sum payment for “a covered cancer” or a recurrence of cancer. Some policies will provide a lump sum cash payout of X dollars upon diagnosis and that’s it!

This website gives the “average” medical costs for various types of cancers.

What do you think is the average salary an oncologist pulls in? That salary can range from approximately $294,000 to $383,000 per year. However, how do doctors feel about taking chemotherapy for themselves? When polled, the results showed “75% of physicians in the world refuse chemotherapy for themselves.” Isn’t that interesting?

In this article, “If Chemotherapy Fails 97% Of The Time, Why Do Doctors Recommend It?”you may begin to understand that doctors don’t learn to cure anything! “They learn about chemicalintervention or surgery to suppress symptoms. They don’t go for the root cause.” (That would put them out of business!)

So how did allopathic medicine and humans become ‘partners’ in cancer?

The first documented case of cancer comes from ancient Egypt. According to the American Cancer Society, there are eight documented cases of breast cancer found on papyrus dating all the way back to 3000 B.C. Even the term cancer has been around for centuries— Hippocrates, the Greek physician who is widely considered the Father of Medicine, used the words carcinos and carcinoma to describe tumors. [1]

Incidentally, there is no mention of cancer per se, even though other diseases are mentioned, in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible. However, individual interpretations, though, may lead some to conclude differently.

Cancer as a rarity in ancient times is not disputed, although some fossilized bone tumors have been found in ancient human mummies. The dreaded disease of antiquity was leprosy or what’s known in modern times as Hansen’s disease.

During the Renaissance in Europe, a better understanding of the human body began to develop and that led to more diagnostics, especially once post mortem operations (autopsies) became more of a routine procedure after death. The Renaissance’s Michelangelo, sculptor of “David,” was known to perform detailed anatomical dissections of “fresh cadavers,” which obviously led to his ability to ‘create’ a marble man of extreme anatomical elegance. Additionally, the invention of the microscope moved pathogenesis along to a great degree of sophisticated knowledge regarding diseased tissues.

It wasn’t until the 1900s that the ‘modern’ or current understanding about cancer and things called “carcinogens” began to appear in science and medicine. Coincidentally, or more accurately I say, parallel tracks relating to certain diseases began to manifest too. Those parallels encompassed man-made chemicals and cancer demographics! Currently the ‘buzz words’ also includeepigenetics.

What went wrong

Some of the most egregious assaults upon the human organism that contribute to cancers are the inordinate use and amounts of toxic chemicals placed into food and water—deliberately! Food growing, processing, preserving, coloring and taste enhancement-chemicals do not belong in food—period! They adulterate food and our bodies causing biochemical and nutritional imbalances, including genotoxic DNA problems that program cancers. Neither do most of the man-made chemicals used in water treatment facilities belong in water—the second-most vital element, besides air, for maintaining life.
In my July 2016 book, Eat to Beat Disease, Foods Medicinal Qualities, I devote the Introduction to chronicling how agriculture and the food chain have been polluted chemically, basically since the Industrial Revolution, and especially since World War II when USA businesses and industries went haywire manufacturing, advertising and selling chemicals and pharmaceuticals as ‘needed elements to make life better’—“Better living through chemistry!” Unfortunately, consumers bought into and ‘embraced’ all the ‘kill’ chemicals for eliminating bugs, vermin, crab grass, weeds, etc. How hoodwinked were we not to realize that anything that can kill one life form, can and will do irreparable or long-term damage to other life forms higher up the food chain? Those “can’t do without” lawn chemicals now pollute our drinking water!
In my professional opinion as a retired healthcare professional and consumer health researcher/journalist and author, I feel toxic chemicals that have impacted the human central nervous system (the blood brain barrier being breached, in particular) plus the human immune system quite dramatically are what I’d classify as deliberately deceptive money-making enterprises. In my opinion, one is fluoridation of the water supply and the other is vaccines with all their neurotoxic ingredients.
Fluoride is a protoplasmic poison [2-3-4], which can be involved in the etiology of cancers of the bone (osteosarcoma) and oral cancers. Fluoride causes genetic damage; 19 major university studies have proven that! I’ll talk about vaccine chemicals later on.
Furthermore and sticking with toxically-polluted water, underground water aquifers are being poisoned by chemicals used in fracking for the extraction of gas and oil found in shale deposits. According to the researchers who wrote the paper “Natural Gas Operations from a Public Health Perspective,” there are “71 nasty drilling and fracturing chemicals that result in 10 or more health effects,” which can be found here.
But, I’m getting ahead of myself on the timeline of the cancer epidemic-pandemic.

Radiation and Radioactive particulates

Ever since the Manhattan Project to build and test nuclear weapons began (circa 1942), the human race has been subjected to unnatural levels of ionizing radiation circling the globe and impregnating air, food and water. Thyroid cancers are a prime indication of that type of exposure. The Manhattan Project resulted in the detonation of two atomic bombs dropped by the USA in 1945 (Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan), which created radiation and radionuclides that affected everything on earth, including cow’s milk and the children who drank the milk!

What type of damage does nuclear radiation do to the body?

Three types of radiation damage may occur: bodily damage (mainly leukemia and cancers of the thyroid, lung, breast, bone, and gastrointestinal tract); genetic damage (birth defects and constitutional and degenerative diseases due to gonodal damage suffered by parents); and development and growth damage (primarily growth and mental retardation of unborn infants and young children). [5]
Probably the most serious threat is cesium-137, a gamma emitter with a half-life of 30 years. It is a major source of radiation in nuclear fallout, and since it parallels potassium chemistry, it is readily taken into the blood of animals and men and may be incorporated into tissue. Other hazards are strontium-90, an electron emitter with a half-life of 28 years, and iodine-131 with a half-life of only 8 days. Strontium-90 follows calcium chemistry, so that it is readily incorporated into the bones and teeth, particularly of young children who have received milk from cows consuming contaminated forage. Iodine-131 is a similar threat to infants and children because of its concentration in the thyroid gland. In addition, there is plutonium-239, frequently used in nuclear explosives. A bone-seeker like strontium-90, it may also become lodged in the lungs, where its intense local radiation can cause cancer or other damage.
Plutonium-239 decays through emission of an alpha particle (helium nucleus) and has a half-life of 24,000 years. To the extent that hydrogen fusion contributes to the explosive force of a weapon, two other radionuclides will be released: tritium (hydrogen-3), an electron emitter with a half-life of 12 years, and carbon-14, an electron emitter with a half-life of 5,730 years. Both are taken up through the food cycle and readily incorporated in organic matter. [5]

Shouldn’t we be asking what’s happening to our air, food and water since Chernobyl (1986) and especially since Fukushima (2011) with its uncontained radioactive leaks into the Pacific Ocean and the atmosphere which global nuclear powers seemingly aren’t willing to help clean up? Are food crops growing in USA’s western states of Washington, Oregon and California affected—including organically-grown crops?

How about all the atmospheric nuclear testing done by various “nuclear countries” [10 or 11] that have stockpiled nuclear weapons? What have they put into the atmosphere? Then there are the depleted uranium ordnances used by the USA in fighting the Gulf War, in Iraq, and possibly Syria. Children born in Iraq after that outrageous war based upon the false pretense of “weapons of mass destruction that were not there, but the USA obviously has” are suffering the consequences of ionizing radiation and genotoxic chemicals, as told in this video.

https://youtu.be/CYnDw1ReVhw?

Let’s not overlook all the ‘minor’ nuclear power plant ‘uneventful’ leaks and shutdowns because of some sort of technology failures, the foremost being the Three Mile Island ‘accident’ outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, March 28, 1979. Also, do you know that all nuclear power plants are permitted to emit regularly ‘safe’ levels of radioactivity up their stacks [9]?

Weather Geoengineering “Chemtrails”

Let’s not forget the ever-persistent Solar Radiation Management effort to control the weather—pardon my misspeak—to prevent “climate warming”—using toxic chemical sprays that cloud over the skies and produce toxic rain and snow, which pollute everything on earth, including the food we eat and the water we drink, not to mention contaminating our lungs with nanoparticles probably engineered to tag and ‘track’ us or fashion us into radiofrequency ‘radio signal receivers’. Isn’t the U.S. Air Force gearing up to own the weather as a weapon of war by 2025? [10]

Some of the toxins found in the assays of chemtrail-spiked rain water assayed in California [6] include:

Aluminum
Arsenic
Barium salts
Cadmium
Desiccated human blood cells
Lead
Mercury
Mycoplasma
Polymer fibers
Radio cesium
Strontium
Uranium
Plus others

Add to the above as a ‘contraindication’, another ‘parallel’ of sorts, which involves chemtrails apparently contributing to a newly-occurring terrible health syndrome that presents as a crawling sensation under the skin with nanofibers emerging; it’s called Morgellons disease [7-8].

Genetically Modified Organisms: Food, Animals, Plants and Organisms

The high tech world of genetic engineering or modification is so overwhelmingly large, I cannot begin to touch on it in this article which, if I did, could wind up being the size of a book, so I will focus on only genetically modified ‘phood’, which I cover in great detail in my July 2016 book, Eat to Beat Disease, Foods Medicinal Qualities.

What I touch on next is minuscule in comparison to the known and published research, science and literature, so I may be criticized for not mentioning problems that some readers think I should have included but, inadvertently, have omitted. I apologize for that, but I’ve got to make tracks the best I can in tying this article in to the cancer epidemic-pandemic.

Notably since the 1980s (and even earlier) there have been full-bore scientific determinations to design and recreate Nature and most, if not all, of Nature’s attributes into the scientific power-dream of domination, control, skewing and modifying DNA/RNA in just about everything that most humans refer to as “Intelligent Design”-created or God’s creation. Genetic modification (GM/GMO/GE) affects just about every facet of most life forms on Planet Earth NOW!

The GMO ‘track’ that has the better potential and most immediately-effective strategy for refashioning human DNA/RNA besides vaccines, in my opinion, is GMO ‘phood’! That being said, I’d like to refer readers to another of my books, Our Chemical Lives And The Hijacking Of Our DNA, A Probe Into What’s Probably Making Us Sick, wherein I discuss in greater depth GMOs. As a matter of fact, while I was writing that book, I was in email contact with Professor Séralini, PhD, whose subsequent 2 year rat studies on GMO feed has become a landmark study about cancerous tumors from GMO rations and glyphosate.

Dr Séralini’s work [11] puts to rest, and absolutely trashes, Monsanto’s 90-day GMO-‘safety’-studies presented to the FDA for GMO technology approvals [12-13]!

That being said, Monsanto’s GMO crops and the Monsanto GMO agricultural methods for growing those crops – the use of inordinate amounts of glyphosate in Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup® by contract farming or there are legal problems for farmers – leave the planet, its livestock, almost all plant matter, soils/farms, pollinator insects and, especially, humans, who eat GMO ‘phoods’ in dire straits. Gastrointestinal health problems affecting the human microbiome from glyphosate residues found in most processed food is being documented [16]. Children, who are vaccine damaged, get gastrointestinal relief and find a way to wellness when put on a GMO-free diet [17].

Not only in food is glyphosate found, but in vaccines injected into infants, toddlers, teens, adults and senior citizens! See my article about that confirmation from the scientific research of Anthony Samsel, PhD.

Glyphosate is a very toxic chemical!

I’d like to thank Chris, who made a comment to my article above and which I want to share, since Chris seems to know more about glyphosate’s interesting ‘past’:

Glyphosate=N-phosphonomethylGLYCINE, contains the amino acid glycine, which also happens to be the human inhibiting neurotransmitter!! Dr. Samsel and Seneff published all the relevant data on that issue, which somehow is not becoming loud enough! Carcinogenicity of glyphosate was known by Monsanto in 1981, and first later the biotech seed producer came to the idea to design new artificial genes, which would bind the carcinogen glyphosate and make ~85% of all GMO’s glyphosate resistant. What goes even further into history, is the fact that glycine supports fast proliferation of certain types of cancer, a fact known in 1932!!! Thus features of the glycine, one of the simplest amino acid on our planet were investigated thoroughly for decades, and once it was known that it participates in cancer growth, glyphosate was ‘discovered’, as the artificial chemical mimick (replacement) of glycine. First it was used as ‘safest’ herbicide, later it became the essence of most GMO’s produced by the biotech ‘seed’ giants. The latest article about glyphosate from Dr. Samsel and Seneff, goes into horrifying theoretical scenario, a production of peptoids, within OUR BODIES! Peptoids are not digestible, but once becoming parts of our bodies, certainly support some artificial unknown function. Not for nothing Dr. Seneff works for the office of ‘artificial intelligence’….
The purpose of Glyphosate was planned not only for decades, but for almost a century by now… Since Glyphosate is deeply connected with almost all GMO’s, the entire biotechnology with its ‘fruits’ HAS TO BE PUT INTO A DEEP INVESTIGATION, A.S.A.P. [CJF emphasis added]

Glyphosate’s ‘history’, as stated above, must be investigated immediately by reputable independentscientists, not Monsanto’s or Bayer’s ‘gophers’! The U.S. CDC, FDA, USDA, EPA and Congress must become involved immediately, if not sooner, and prevent the ‘marriage’ of the Bayer-Monsanto ‘families’ that probably will facilitate cancer even more than ever as a result of the ‘scientific’ clout Bayer will attain as the largest GMO seed producer in the world.

Electromagnetic and Radiofrequency Technologies Contribution to Cancer

In this world of ‘smart’ gadgets and appliances, everyone unknowingly has bought into being irradiated with non-ionizing microwave radiofrequency energies that have been declared a class 2B carcinogen by the IARC of the World Health Organization:

PRESS RELEASE N° 208 31 May 2011
IARC Classifies Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields As Possibly Carcinogenic to Humans
Lyon, France – May 30, 2011 The WHO/International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B), based upon an increased risk for glioma, a malignant type of brain cancer associated with wireless phone use. [14]

What most folks PROBABLY aren’t aware of is that all “smart” appliances operate on microwave technology frequencies and fall into the same class 2B above, just not cell phones which are the primary wireless technology in use. However, others equally as dangerous, if not more so, include:

Wi-Fi in schools, offices and public places; utilities’ AMI Smart Meters; and any device that can send and receive data, voice, photos, messages, etc. using microwave technology!

Currently, there’s talk about Google’s 5G “Wi-Fi in the Sky” Project SkyBender [15]. God help us when that goes into effect! If you ever thought about wearing a tin-foil-hat, then that would be the time to do so. Why? In order to protect your brains from being ‘fried’, I offer, from the research that’s been hidden DELIBERATELY by the microwave tech industry for years indicating non-thermal adverse health effects known as electromagnetic hypersensitivity and as a contributing factor to many types of cancers.

Whatever you do, please do not wear a ‘live’ or active cell phone on your body, e.g., on your belt; in your pants pocket; in your bra; or an ear piece that’s not the proper type to prevent RFs from going directly into your ear and brain.

All the above probably will pale to what I will discuss next, I offer.

Probably a more significant factor for the current cancer epidemic-pandemic is the fact that children in the 1950s through 1963 (or longer, it’s thought) were vaccinated with polio vaccines containing a cancer virus, the SV40 virus. More than 100 million children received that cancer virus in the polio vaccine! I discuss that and much more about vaccine ingredients in my book,Vaccination Voodoo, What YOU Don’t Know About Vaccines.

The U.S. Congress held a hearing in 2003 wherein they investigated and had to admit that. Here’s the report “Preventing Another SV40 Tragedy: Are Today’s Safe Vaccine Protocols Effective?” [No! I offer.] dated November 13, 2003 admitting what happened. However, here’s what I wrote about that SV40 vaccine problem for VacTruth in 2011.

Nothing speaks more clearly than Dr Maurice Hilleman, the father of modern vaccines who worked for Merck, talking very candidly about those monkeys from whom the SV40 virus was derived.

https://youtu.be/13QiSV_lrDQ?

The long and short of the above vaccine tragedy is that apparently there may be some impact on cancer rates since the SV40 virus has been found in cancerous tumors excised from cancer patients! This article discusses the “cause and effect” issues revolving around SV40 and cancer. One can assume that there is ‘no cause and effect’ just like there is ‘no cause and effect’ with the MMR vaccine and Autism due to the CDC’s blatant fraudulent scientific findings as exposed by whistleblower William Thompson, PhD, and told in the documentary movie VAXXED.

However, that’s not the first time the CDC had fudged and falsified the connection between vaccines and Autism; there’s the Verstraeten study that was reworked circa 2000. Attorney Robert F Kennedy, Jr disclosed what’s become known as the “Simpsonwood Meeting” that effectuated the rework of CDC epidemiologist Verstraeten’s confirmed Autism-from-vaccines research data that somehow morphed into a newly-generated “no cause and effect to autism from vaccines” study.

Then there is the unfortunate problem of Merck and Company falsifying for ten years the effectiveness rate of the mumps active in their MMR vaccine, which whistleblowers exposed and currently is before the Federal court [18-19] in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

We can’t trust the CDC, FDA or the vaccine makers when it comes to vaccine science! The CDC is the vaccine makers’ champion for mandatory vaccinations. Why, when vaccines contain so many neurotoxins and probable carcinogenic ingredients like formaldehyde, and the CDC/FDA should be protecting healthcare consumers, not Big Pharma?

Is the current cancer epidemic-pandemic a ‘man-made’ problem?

As I said in the beginning of this “anthology,” cancer has been around since ‘forever’, but the current rate of contraction is far beyond what could be termed ‘natural chances’. Everything, including pharmacology, which I’ve not discussed, is implicated in a “cause and effect” with cancer ideologies, especially anything having to do with “man-made” chemicals, a great quantity of which affects our food, water and the air we breathe.

Is it too late to do anything about the cancer epidemic-pandemic? What do you think?

References:

[1] http://www.canaryfoundation.org/2012/08/13/how-long-have-we-been-plagued-by-cancer/
[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18605366
[3] http://www.fluoridation.com/quotes.htm
[4] http://www.healingcancernaturally.com/fluoride-cancer-osteoporosis.html
[5] http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/Effects/wenw_chp2.shtml
[6] http://stopsprayingcalifornia.com/What_are_they_Spraying.php
[7] http://www.mayoclinic.org/morgellons-disease/art-20044996
[8] http://www.thecehf.org/morgellons-disease-pictures-images.html
[9] http://www.nirs.org/factsheets/routineradioactivereleases.htm
[10] http://csat.au.af.mil/2025/volume3/vol3ch15.pdf
[11] http://www.gmoseralini.org/republication-seralini-study-science-speaks/
[12] http://www.monsanto.com/products/pages/animal-safety-assessment.aspx
[13] https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2016/05/24/academies-gmo-safety-finding-leaves-loose-end-say-activists-no-long-term-safety-studies/
[14] http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2011/pdfs/pr208_E.pdf
[15] http://www.informationweek.com/mobile/google-skybender-drone-project-aims-to-deliver-5g-wifi-/d/d-id/1324122
[16] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3945755/
[17] http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/10/06/culprits-autism.aspx
[18] http://philadelphia.legalexaminer.com/fda-prescription-drugs/massive-fraud-in-merck-mmr-vaccine-testing/
[19] http://blogs.wsj.com/pharmalot/2015/06/08/merck-is-accused-of-stonewalling-over-effectiveness-of-mumps-vaccine/

Resources:

Man-Made Pollutants Found in Earth’s Deepest Ocean Trenches
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/man-made-pollutants-found-in-earth-s-deepest-ocean-trenches/

The Weston A Price Foundation / Environmental Toxins
http://www.westonaprice.org/environmental-toxins/

Roundup, cancer & the future of food
http://www.panna.org/blog/roundup-cancer-future-food?gclid=CMWAksCWms8CFQdkhgodlIcE1w

Catherine J Frompovich (website) is a retired natural nutritionist who earned advanced degrees in Nutrition and Holistic Health Sciences, Certification in Orthomolecular Theory and Practice plus Paralegal Studies. Her work has been published in national and airline magazines since the early 1980s. Catherine authored numerous books on health issues along with co-authoring papers and monographs with physicians, nurses, and holistic healthcare professionals. She has been a consumer healthcare researcher 35 years and counting.

Catherine’s latest book, published October 4, 2013, is Vaccination Voodoo, What YOU Don’t Know About Vaccines, available on Amazon.com.

Her 2012 book A Cancer Answer, Holistic BREAST Cancer Management, A Guide to Effective & Non-Toxic Treatments, is available on Amazon.com and as a Kindle eBook.

Two of Catherine’s more recent books on Amazon.com are Our Chemical Lives And The Hijacking Of Our DNA, A Probe Into What’s Probably Making Us Sick (2009) and Lord, How Can I Make It Through Grieving My Loss, An Inspirational Guide Through the Grieving Process(2008)

(activistypost.com)

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9/22/2016 1:21:49 AM

Charlotte police shooting victim was armed with a gun, not a book, chief says

By Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Derek Hawkins and Lindsey Bever

September 21 at 4:27 PM

Protesters flooded out to surround police cars and officers in Charlotte on Sept. 20, after a cop shot and killed 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott. Looting broke out on a nearby highway and officers in riot gear shot tear gas into the crowds. Authorities reported that 12 officers were injured. (Jenny Starrs, Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post)

CHARLOTTE — The morning after violent protests erupted over the fatal police shooting of a black man, officials here called for peace while stressing that the man was armed and posing an “imminent deadly threat” when officers shot and killed him Tuesday near the University of North Carolina at Charlotte campus.

Sixteen police officers and numerous protesters were injured as the two sides clashed overnight, hours after Keith Lamont Scott was fatally shot by an officer from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.

Scott’s family insisted he was not armed when he was killed outside an apartment complex, instead saying he was reading a book in his car at the time of the fatal encounter — a detail seized by protesters in Charlotte and on social media.

On Wednesday, at a midmorning news conference, Charlotte-Mecklenberg Police Chief Kerr Putney said the officers were searching the previous afternoon for a suspect who had outstanding warrants when they spotted Scott — who was not the suspect they were seeking — emerge from a vehicle armed with a handgun.

“The officers gave loud, clear verbal commands,” instructing Scott to drop the weapon, the chief said. “In spite of verbal commands, Mr. Scott exited his vehicle armed with a handgun as the officers continued to yell at him to drop it. He stepped out, posing a threat to the officers” — at which point, Putney said, an officer fired his service weapon, striking 43-year-old Scott, who was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.

“It’s time to change the narrative, because I can tell you from the facts that the story is a little bit different as to how it’s been portrayed so far, especially through social media,” Putney said. “So Charlotte, the challenge is ours.”

Following the shooting, a large crowd of protesters gathered near the university campus. The demonstrations began peacefully, with some people chanting “black lives matter” and “hands up, don’t shoot.” News reports and posts on social media later showed police in riot gear firing tear gas and rubber bullets at the protesters and some people smashing out the windows of police cars.

Activists said the violent overnight demonstrations stemmed from lingering frustrations over previous police shootings in the city — including a deadly encounter in 2013, when Jonathan Ferrell, an unarmed black man, was shot and killed by a white police officer.

Hours after Scott’s death, demonstrators shut down traffic on Interstate 85; some opened up the backs of tractor trailers, took out boxes and set them on fire in the middle of the highway,WSOC reported. The station spoke to one truck driver who said people stole cargo from her trailer. Police reportedly used flash grenades to break up the crowd and cleared the highway by early Wednesday morning.

People dump cargo from tractor trailers on a fire on Interstate 85 during protests in Charlotte early Wednesday. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

A few dozen others broke down the doors of a nearby Walmart, then dispersed when the authorities arrived, according to the news station.

The police chief told reporters that 16 officers were injured during the demonstrations, one of them hit in the face with a rock; the extent of the officers’ injuries varied, Putney said Wednesday. At least 11 people were taken from the demonstrations and treated for life-threatening injuries, hospital officials told the news station.

Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch called on protesters to remain peaceful, criticizing the violence that injured law enforcement officers and demonstrators alike.

“Protest is protected by our Constitution and is a vital instrument for raising issues and creating change,” she said during remarks at a conference Wednesday morning in Washington. “But when it turns violent, it undermines the very justice that it seeks to achieve and I urge those demonstrating in Charlotte to remain peaceful in their expressions of protest and concern.”

In a statement, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R)said Wednesday that his office “will do everything we can to support the mayor and the police chief in their efforts to keep the community calm and to get this situation resolved. It’s very important that we all work together as a team to solve a very difficult issue and to bring peace and resolution.”

He added: “My prayers are with the Scott family and also our law enforcement, especially the 16 police officers who were injured last night. As governor I’m going to do everything I can to support the entire city leadership in their effort to resolve this situation.”

Putney, the police chief, said officers were searching for a suspect Tuesday afternoon at the Village at College Downs apartment complex.

Police said Scott had been sitting in a parked car at the apartment complex and then exited the vehicle holding a firearm. As officers approached, Scott again emerged from the car with the firearm and “posed an imminent deadly threat to the officers who subsequently fired their weapon striking the subject,” police said.

Scott was transported to the Carolinas Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

Detectives said they recovered a firearm Scott was holding during the fatal encounter and were interviewing witnesses Tuesday night. Police declined to comment on the make and model of the firearm.

Putney said he was uncertain whether Scott’s weapon was loaded, or whether he had pointed it directly at the officers. He also said investigators did not find the book referenced by Scott’s family.

Authorities identified the officer who shot and killed Scott as Brentley Vinson, who has worked for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police force since July 2014. He has been placed on paid administrative leave pending an investigation, which is standard procedure in officer-involved shootings. Vinson is also black, authorities told The Washington Post.

Putney said the officer was in plainclothes, wearing a vest with a police logo, but was accompanied by other officers in full uniform.

The police chief also said that the officer was not wearing a body camera but that other officers on the scene were; Wednesday morning, he said he had not yet watched the footage in its entirety.

Police officers wearing riot gear block a road during protests in Charlotte. (Adam Rhew/Charlotte Magazine/Reuters)

A woman who identified herself as Scott’s daughter said her father was unarmed and reading a book in his car when police shot and killed him.

In a widely circulated Facebook Live video, she said Scott was parked and waiting for a school bus to drop off his son when police arrived. Officers used a stun gun on him, then shot him four times with their service weapons, she said.

She added that Scott was disabled.

“My daddy didn’t do nothing; they just pulled up undercover,” she said in the video.

A police spokeswoman declined to comment on the video.

Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts said the city will conduct a “full investigation” into the shooting and promised transparency. She told reporters Wednesday that authorities would release information as soon as allowed to “dispel” inaccurate accounts circulating widely on social media and elsewhere.

Scott is one of at least 702 people who have been fatally shot by police so far this year, 163 of them black men, according to aWashington Post database tracking fatal officer-involved shootings.

This city was the scene of another high-profile police shooting in September 2013, when Charlotte-Mecklenburg officers fatally shot Jonathan Ferrell, a 24-year-old black man who had crashed his car in a residential neighborhood several miles from the complex where Scott was killed.

Officer Randall Kerrick fired 12 rounds at Ferrell, who was unarmed, striking him 10 times. Police said Ferrell ignored officers’ instructions.

Last year, the jury deadlocked during Kerrick’s trial. While most jurors voted to acquit the officer, four had voted to convict him, and after a judge declared a retrial the state said it would not seek another trial. Ferrell’s family and the city of Charlotte settled a lawsuit stemming from the shooting for a reported $2.25 million.

Jibril Hough, a local activist who organized protests during Kerrick’s trial, said the Ferrell shooting was not as “explosive” as this week’s fatal encounter, but that it “weathered on us.”

“What happens is that nine times out of 10, the cop will get off. He’ll get paid leave. He’ll get early retirement. He’ll basically get paid for the killing,” he said. “Nothing is being done to really change anything.”

“What you’re seeing is people have been put in that situation for so long and they’re tired of talking,” he added. “They’re tired of talking and talking and candlelight vigils and dialogue and nothing getting done.”

In 2015, a 20-year-old black woman Janisha Fonville was shot and killed by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police as officers responded to a domestic dispute.

Police later said Fonville was holding a 6- to 8-inch knife and lunged toward them, prompting an officer to open fire, striking Fonville. Fonville’s girlfriend said the woman was unarmed.

Charlotte councilwoman LaWana Mayfield (D) said the mood in the city this week is one of “sadness, pain and loss.”

“We know as a community and a society know where this anger is coming from,” she said. “You have more than several individuals, specifically Latinos and African Americans, who have had interactions with police that have resulted in loss of life.”

Mayfield said that the protests in Charlotte have been fueled in part by long-simmering frustrations from previous police shootings — Ferrell in 2013 and Fonville last year. Scott’s death, she said, added accelerant to an emotionally charged fire.

“This is the pain of the nation — not just African Americans but pain of the entire nation to see the injustice before them,” Mayfield said.

[Debate swirls around unarmed black man’s actions prior to fatal police shooting in Tulsa]

Scott’s death came just one day after police in Tulsa released video of an officer shooting and killing an unarmed black man who had gotten out of a stalled SUV.

Terrence Crutcher, 40, was standing on the side of the road by the broken down vehicle on Friday evening when officers arrived and ordered him to show his hands. Police said they Tasered and shot Crutcher after he refused to obey officers’ commands and reached into the driver’s side window of the SUV.

But video released Monday showed Crutcher walking with his hands in the air, and an attorney for the man’s family said the vehicle’s window was rolled up when an officer opened fire on him. Police said they found PCP in the vehicle but no weapon.

Lynch, the attorney general, said the recent shootings in Charlotte and Tulsa again laid bare friction between law enforcement officials and the regions they police.

“These tragic incidents have once again left Americans with feelings of sorrow, anger and uncertainty,” Lynch said. “They have once again highlighted — in the most vivid and painful terms — the real divisions that still persist in this nation between law enforcement and communities of color.”

Lynch spoke two days after the Justice Department began a civil rights probe into the Tulsa shooting, and she said that federal officials were in touch with local authorities beginning their investigation into Scott’s death in Charlotte.

Hawkins and Bever reported from Washington. Mark Berman in Washington contributed. This post has been updated multiple times.

(The Washington Post)

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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 9/22/2016 11:03:44 AM
	Charlotte Protest Turns Violent, Governor Declares State of Emergency and Deploys National Guard By DAVID CAPLAN3 hours agoGood Morning America CHARLOTTE, NC - SEPTEMBER 21: Police and protesters carry a seriously wounded protester into the parking area of the the Omni Hotel during a march to protest the death of Keith Scott September 21, 2016 in Carolina. Scott, who was black, was shot and killed at an apartment complex near UNC Charlotte by police officers, who say they warned Scott to drop a gun he was allegedly holding. (Photo by Brian Blanco/Getty Images) A prayer vigil in honor of Keith Lamont Scott turned violent Wednesday night in Charlotte, North Carolina, prompting the governor to declare a state of emergency, as riot gear-wearing police fired tear gas at demonstrators who threw bottles at police, blocked an interstate, threw objects at passing cars, jumped on vehicles, looted businesses, vandalized a Hyatt hotel and attacked its employees. View image on Twitter Follow Tina Terry ✔@TinaTerryWSOC9 Picture outside Omni Hotel. Apparently people protesting tried to flood lobby. Tear gas used in the area. @wsoctv 7:53 PM - 21 Sep 2016 94 Retweets 25 likes And one of the protesters was in critical condition and on life support after being shot by another civilian. Four police officers sustained non-life threatening injuries, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department tweeted early Thursday morning. View image on Twitter Follow WSOCTV ✔@wsoctv WATCH LIVE: @PaulBoydWSOC9 at Epicentre where police are now in riot gear, talking to security expert about marchhttp://on.wsoctv.com/2cIoXx0 7:18 PM - 21 Sep 2016 9 Retweets 5 likes View image on Twitter Follow DaShawn Brown @DaShawnWSOC9 Protest back at CMPD headquarters @wsoctv 7:00 PM - 21 Sep 2016 12 Retweets 7 likes "Governor Pat McCrory has declared a State of Emergency upon the request Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney," read a statement from the governor's office. "The governor has also initiated efforts to deploy the North Carolina National Guard and the State Highway Patrol to assist local law enforcement." Earlier in the evening, Gov. McCrory said, "Upon a very recent request of Chief Putney, the State Highway Patrol is sending in troopers to further help the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department." Also on their way to Charlotte are officials from the White House and the Department of Justice, according to ABC affiliate WSOC, citing mayor Jennifer Roberts. And the North Carolina NAACP State Conference said in a statement that it "will be in Charlotte to talk with the family, key members of the community and City leaders" on Thursday, followed by a press conference in the afternoon. Roy Cooper, North Carolina's attorney general said in statement, "Violence will not bring justice ... We must come together as a community to get answers and find a better path forward." Police Say Man Shot in Charlotte Was Carrying Weapon, but Family Says Otherwise Police Say It’s Unclear if Charlotte Man Pointed Gun Before Shooting WSOC reported that looters hit a Charlotte Hornets team store, which the NBA team confirmed. The Hyatt House hotel in the city's downtown also said protesters broke the property's windows and attacked two employees. The protesters' wrath extended into cyberspace, as well: WSOC reported that the city of Charlotte's website had been hacked Wednesday evening. Before midnight, protesters descended upon Interstate 277, which they blocked. According to WSOC, protesters also threw objects at passing vehicles. The city of Charlotte initially tweeted that the protester who was shot by the other civilian was dead, but it later tweeted, "CORRECTION UPDATE: Civilian who suffered gunshot wound during protests is on life support, critical condition. Not deceased." The initial tweet also said police "did not fire shot" at the protester. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department spokeswoman Cindy Wallace said Wednesday night of the shot protester, "Officers responded to North College Street and East Trade Street to an ADW [assault with a deadly weapon] call for service at approximately 8:31 p.m. One person was located with an apparent gunshot wound and transported to CMC Main [Carolinas Medical Center]. This is all the information I have at this time." Keith Lamont Scott is the armed man who was fatally shot by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police at an apartment complex Tuesday. His wife issued a statement Wednesday afternoon addressing the protesters, and urging them to exercise restraint against law enforcement officers. "As a family, we respect the rights of those who wish to protest, but we ask that people protest peacefully," the statement read. "Please do not hurt people or members of law enforcement, damage property or take things that do not belong to you in the name of protesting.” And governor Pat McCrory said in a statement Wednesday night, "Any violence directed toward our citizens or police officers or destruction of property should not be tolerated." Hundreds of protesters Wednesday night shouted slogans, including "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" and "Black Lives Matter" while filling the streets of downtown Charlotte. After protesters rushed riot gear-wearing police, officers responded by firing tear gas to disperse the crowd. At least one person was injured in the confrontation, though it wasn't immediately clear how, according to The Associated Press. Firefighters rushed in to pull the man to a waiting ambulance, the AP reported. ABC News' Darren Reynolds, Joshua Hoyos, and Matthew Foster contributed to this report. Editor's Note: A previous version of this story reported -- based on a statement provided by the city of Charlotte at 9:33 p.m. -- that the protester shot by another civilian was dead. The city of Charlotte then announced at 10:42 p.m. that the protester was not dead, but on life support and in critical condition. (Yahoo News)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 9/22/2016 2:03:08 PM
	JUST 3 PERCENT OF AMERICANS OWN ALMOST HALF OF COUNTRY’S GUNS: REPORT "Super owners" possess an average of 17 guns each. BY MICHELE GORMAN ON 9/19/16 AT 8:46 PM Americans own an estimated 265 million guns, which amounts to more than one gun for every adult in the country. But not everyone owns a gun, of course: According to the first comprehensive study of owners in more than 20 years, just 3 percent of Americans own half of the guns in the United States. These so-called super owners each have about 17 guns at home. The researchers from Harvard and Northeastern universities didn’t immediately respond to Newsweek’s request for the results, some of which were published by The Guardian and The Trace on Monday. Among the study’s major findings: The majority of gun murders are committed using handguns; gun owners typically are white, male, politically conservative and live in rural areas; and two out of three gun owners in the country say self-defense is a main reason for having a firearm at home. (Meanwhile, the country’s crime rate has plummeted over the past 25 years.) The full results of the report, which is based on a 2015 survey of about 4,000 Americans, have not yet been released. The Russell Sage Foundation, which works to improve social policies, reportedly is set to publish the survey next year. The findings of a report published Monday indicate that 3 percent of American adults own nearly half of the guns in the United States.JIM URQUHART/REUTERS Media reports have deemed the survey the most definitive portrait of U.S. gun ownership in two decades, seeing as the country has been lacking in gun violence research since 1996. That year, Congress passed a budget amendment prohibiting federal funds from going toward research meant “to advocate or promote gun control.” Two years earlier, the most comprehensive study conducted before the amendment was authored by Duke University researcher Philip Cook. Guns and gun policy were crucial issues during the Democratic primary election season, as Hillary Clinton continuously brought up opponent Bernie Sanders’s relatively weak voting record on guns. Sanders had supported a bill that was enacted in 2005 and continues to prevent gun-violence victims from taking legal action against distributors whose weapons are used in crimes and fatal shootings. Now, with 50 days left until the election, discussion about guns only sporadically pops up on the campaign trail. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Friday, for instance, called for disarming his rival’s bodyguards because he said Clinton “doesn’t want guns.” The real estate mogul long has warned his supporters that if elected Clinton would take away their guns and essentially abolish the Second Amendment. While the former secretary of state has won the backing of strong gun-control advocates, including former U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, she has never called for a repeal of the Second Amendment. (Newsweek)
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JUST 3 PERCENT OF AMERICANS OWN ALMOST HALF OF COUNTRY’S GUNS: REPORT

"Super owners" possess an average of 17 guns each.