Arizona Tucson ( The lost tribe of Israel - or what is it ? ) Found in 1924

TUCSON - It's a desert mystery that has baffled Tucsonans and historians for nearly nine decades.

In 1924, Tucsonan Charles Manier was traveling with his family to Picture Rocks, when he discovered what is now known as "The Silverbell Artifacts", along Silverbell Road.
The collection includes more than 30 lead crosses and swords. To this day, nobody knows where they came from. "Some people say the Romans lived here, others say they're from the lost tribe of Israel, all sorts of theories," says Julia Arriola, Curator of the Arizona History Museum.

Arriola recently decided to pull the artifacts out of the vault, after the History Channel's "America Unearthed" aired a documentary about the artifacts. "I think people are just fascinated by buried treasure," Arriola says.
Many of the artifacts have Latin words written all over them. "Some of the professors who looked at them found out the text was actually lifted right from textbooks," Arriola says.
She says one other strange characteristic about the artifacts is that they were embedded in caliche, which is a type of cement. "So whoever did it went through a lot of work," Arriola says.
The questions have led many to believe the collection is one big archaeological hoax. Arriola says we may never know. "I invite anyone to come in, have a look, do some research and find out for yourself," Arriola says.

"The Silverbell Artifacts" will be on display at the Arizona History Museum at 949 E. 2nd Street for the next few months.
To check out the History Channel documentary head to: www.history.com/shows/america-unearthed/videos
The video is titled "America Unearthed: The Desert Cross".

ARIZONA ( 2 Cheerleaders post ' Hit list ' online ) Instagram wild wild west

Sheriff: 2 Pinal County cheerleaders post 'hit list' online

 Posted: Mar 06, 2013 9:59 AM PST Updated: Mar 06, 2013 10:09 AM PST





FLORENCE, AZ (CBS5) -
Two Pinal County cheerleaders are under investigation by the sheriff's office after a "hit list" they created was posted online.




 


The cheerleaders, an eighth-grade student at Walker Butte K-8 school and a sophomore at Poston Butte High School, placed the list on the social media site Instagram with an icon of a pistol next to the words "hit list."
A Pinal County Sheriff's spokesman said the girls told deputies they created the list to name people they didn't like, but didn't intend on harming any of them. The list contained names of students and a teacher, the spokesman said.
The Florence Unified School District was notified about the list by a parent of one of the students on the list. The district then notified the sheriff's office about 6 a.m. Wednesday, the spokesman said.
Deputies were continuing their investigation to determine whether to submit the case to the Pinal County Attorney's Office for charges of threatening and intimidating, the spokesman said.
There was no word on whether the girls were still at their respective schools Wednesday.
"With recent school shootings across the country, all possible threats of violence at schools are taken seriously by law enforcement," Sheriff Paul Babeu said. "Parents are encouraged to talk with their children and explain the seriousness of making such threats whether they are meant as a joke or not."
No other information was immediately available.

Iran News ( 4 Afghans executed on monday - Afghans protest and want the bodies of the dead )

Iran: Four Afghan prisoners hanged

 

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Residents of Afghan city protest executions in Iran

NCRI - The Iranian regime’s henchmen have hanged four Afghan prisoners on Monday (March 4) in Vakil Abad Prison in northeastern city of Mashhad in Iran.

Dozens of Afghan prisoners have been executed in the previous months in Iran.
400 other Afghan prisoners are under death penalty and awaiting their execution.
Last week, Hundreds of angry residents in the western province of Herat blocked the Herat city’s highway to protest against the execution of Afghans in Iran.
The protesters also called on the Iranian regime to hand over the dead bodies of the Afghans to their families and urged the Afghan government to follow the issue of execution of Afghan citizens in Iran.

U.S Drones used on citizens ( We want to see the memo's on Drones )

Barack Obama 'has authority to use drone strikes to kill Americans on US soil'

President Barack Obama has the authority to use an unmanned drone strike to kill US citizens on American soil, his attorney general has said.

Eric Holder, left, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee as Code Pink demonstrator Medea Benjamin protests against the use of drone strikes Photo: Getty Images

By Jon Swaine, Washington

6:52PM GMT 06 Mar 2013

 

Eric Holder argued that using lethal military force against an American in his home country would be legal and justified in an "extraordinary circumstance" comparable to the September 11 terrorist attacks.

"The president could conceivably have no choice but to authorise the military to use such force if necessary to protect the homeland," Mr Holder said.

His statement was described as "more than frightening" by Senator Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, who had demanded to know the Obama administration's position on the subject.

"It is an affront the constitutional due process rights of all Americans," said Mr Paul, a 50-year-old favourite of the anti-government Tea Party movement, who is expected to run for president in 2016.

Mr Holder wrote to Mr Paul after the senator threatened to block the appointment of John Brennan as the director of the CIA unless he received answers to a series of questions on its activities.

China ( Shock in China after car thief strangles baby ) sad story

Shock in China after car thief strangles baby

A Chinese man who allegedly strangled an infant after stealing a car with the child inside has handed himself in to police in the north-eastern province of Jilin in a case that has shocked the nation.

Zhou handed himself in to police on Tuesday and made a full confession Photo: Rex Features

By Harry Alsop and agencies

5:13PM GMT 06 Mar 2013

Zhou Xijun, 48, has confessed to stealing an SUV in Changchun city on Monday, which had been left with the engine running and the doors unlocked. The father, Xu Jialin, had wanted to keep the baby warm whilst he ran into the shop where he worked, according to the South China Morning Post.

According to a police statement, Zhou “discovered a baby in the back seat of the stolen car, stopped at the side of the road before strangling the baby to death and burying it in the snow.”

Changchun police said they had sent the entire force, more than 3,500 officers, on a manhunt for the suspect and the missing baby. Local media reported that thousands of residents and taxi drivers joined in the search after hearing the news.

Police found the car abandoned near a school 40 kilometres outside the city but with no sign of the child.

The baby’s father told Xinhua: “Early Wednesday morning, my wife and I identified the body of our son.” 
Chinese media have reported that the baby’s mother had to receive treatment in hospital after learning of the death of her son, with at least one report claiming she suffered a heart attack.

Zhou handed himself in to police on Tuesday and made a full confession, although witnesses have claimed that the man they saw was much younger, leading to rumours that Zhou is covering for someone else.

The case has sparked considerable outrage online in China, which had a murder rate of 1.0 per 100,000 people in 2010, according to the United Nations, among the lowest in the world.

Wang, a taxi driver who joined the hunt for the baby, told China News: “I cried when I heard about the killing on the radio.”

“I would never have imagined that what people most feared would actually happen... the killer should be severely punished," wrote one user of Sina Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter.

“Killing him would not be enough,” said another.

Users of the site also posted photos of candle-lit vigils being held in Changchun on Tuesday.

A fierce debate has begun in China on whether the parents should be punished for negligence.

"What happens when you take away the child from negligent parents in China?” one user commented. “Do we have foster homes to send them to like in the US? Or do you want to fine the parents who are often poverty-stricken?”

“Defending [such parents] is akin to murdering more babies,” argued another.

Further anger was triggered after photos of a list of government guidelines for media coverage of the case emerged on Weibo.

The list, which was swiftly deleted, called for the media to avoid criticism of the police or sky-net, the city’s surveillance grid, whilst limiting reports to no more than half a page of a newspaper.

“Isn’t this like murdering the baby for a second time?” asked several users.

Iran News ( Killed Human rights Activists - Spouse and daughter arrested and told to shut up )

Iran: Spouse and daughter slain political prisoner arrested

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NCRI - The agents of Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) have arrested spouse and daughter of slain political prisoner Mansour Radpour and transferred them to MOIS branch in Karaj on February 26.
Political prisoner Mansour Radpour, an activist of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), 44, father of two, was slain on May 21 in Gohardasht prison, after enduring five years detention in the mullahs’ dungeons and standing up against all sorts of tortures and pressures in order to make forced confessions.

A few months after travelling to Ashraf, Mansour Radpour was arrested on May 17, 2007 for filming a workers’ protest in Iran. He was put under pressure and torture. He was sentenced to three years imprisonment for propaganda against the regime and supporting the PMOI, which subsequently was increased to 8 years imprisonment after making further bogus charges against him.
Mrs. Radpour had already been arrested in 2007 two weeks after her husband’s death. The henchmen threatened her with physical and psychological torture to stay silent over killing of her husband by mullahs’ henchmen in prison.
Over the past month, a large number of members families PMOI supporters and Camp Liberty residents have been arrested by MOIS including Mrs. Akram Sanjari and her 15 year old son, Milad Misagh nejad, Mrs. Dina Karami and her 16 year old son, Hanif, Hassan Sadeghi, his wife Fatemeh Mossana and her 17 year old son, Nima, Asef Rezaian, 19, son of Teymour Rezaian, a political prisoner of the 80’s.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
March 3, 2012

Colombia ( Government gets ready to arrest coffee strike leaders )

Colombian authorities prepare ‘arrest warrants’ for coffee strike leaders

Wednesday, 06 March 2013 11:22 Olle Ohlsen Pettersson

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Colombia's prosecutor general is preparing arrest warrants for the leaders of the ongoing coffee strike in the south-central Huila department, a local ombudsman told Colombia Reports Wednesday.
"The Prosecutor General is preparing arrest warrants to capture the leaders of the strike," said the ombudsman of Neiva (capital of Huila) Jesus Elias Meneses.
According to the ombudsman, riot police continued to commit "arbitrary acts" against protestors in various municipalities across the department. Meneses said that police have indiscriminately lobbed tear gas grenades and restricted the protestors' right to free movement.
"We know they sent a big squadron [to Garzon, Huila]...to evict them... yesterday [Tuesday] they continued throwing [tear] gas...and today they are throwing gas from helicopters and continue to intimidate the protestors," said the ombudsman.
Demonstrators were on their way back to Neiva from a Tuesday protest, said Meneses, when police arbitrarily stopped them "for almost an hour in the middle of the road."

MORE: 'Colombia Police using excessive force against striking coffee workers'

The coffee strikes in Huila and other southern departments have been marred by violence. Several videos showing what appears to be excessive police force have been shared on several social media websites.

MORE: Colombians turn to Facebook to share painful, violent side of coffee strike

Colombia's prosecutor general on Wednesday ordered investigations into 70 alleged "disturbances" committed by protestors at various times during the coffee strike. According to preliminary reports, 30 formal investigations had been opened in the departments of Antioquia, Cauca, Huila, Caldas, Tolima and Valle del Cauca. One person had already been apprehended Wednesday for "obstructing public roads."
Meanwhile, Meneses said that his office was getting ready to receive a slew of complaints from strikers about the tactics employed by riot police.
"We are [getting ready] to begin receiving complaints and formal denunciations with video material [from demonstrators]," he said.
Approximately 90,000 coffee farmers have been protesting since February 25 in departments all across the country over what they perceive is a lack of financial support from the government during this tough time for one of Colombia's iconic industries. On numerous occasions, the government expressed an eagerness to sit down with the protestors to iron out an agreement, but claimed that a prerequisite to do so was that the strikers had to stop blocking roads. However, as of Wednesday afternoon, a government envoy led by vice president Angelino Garzon, was meeting with protest leaders in the central Risaralda department.
"Today, there has to be a solution to the coffee strike," said the Vice President.