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Ukiah Police Department Officers Caught On Tape Tasing, Pepper-Spraying, and Punching a Naked, Mentally Ill Man ***WARNING: The video is difficult to watch and portrays police use of force*** Video footage of Ukiah Police Department officers pepper-spraying, tasing, and hitting a naked man with closed fists has drawn community ire with many seeing the officers’ use of force as excessive. According to reporting by Justine Fredrickson of the Ukiah Daily Journal, officers were dispatched to the 1400 block of South State Street in response to reports of a naked man walking in the road. Officers found Ukiah man Gerardo Magdaleno when UPD Lieutenant Andy Phillips said he became “aggressive and took a fighting stance.” Frederickson’s reporting on the circumstance indicates Ukiah Police Lt. Phillips believes Magdaleno was under the influence of methamphetamine. Phillips told Frederickson it is  “very common for people under the influence of meth to get very hot and take their clothes off. ...

How Italy Was Defeated In East Africa In 1941 In October 1935 Italian troops invaded Ethiopia –  then also known as Abyssinia – forcing the country's Emperor, Haile Selassie, into exile. Ignoring protests from the League of   Nations, the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaimed a new Italian empire in East Africa, comprising Ethiopia and the pre-existing territories of Italian Somaliland and Eritrea. Following early successes by Italy's ally, Germany, in the Second World War, Mussolini declared war on Britain in June 1940. This meant that British possessions in East Africa, as well as British-controlled Egypt and the vital supply route of the Suez Canal, were now threatened. The Italians attacked border posts in Kenya and Sudan, and captured British Somaliland in August. The Italian Viceroy, the Duke of Aosta, then ordered his troops to halt, allowing the initiative to pass to the British. General Archibald Wavell, British Commander-in-Chief Middle East, planned a three-p...

The First Liberian Civil War ended in August 1997 when Charles Taylor took power as the President of Liberia.  Taylor had initiated the war when he and his militia, the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), invaded the country from the Ivory Coast to overthrow President Samuel Doe in December 1989. The NPFL rapidly conquered most of Liberia except for the capital Monrovia, which came under the control of the Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia (INPFL), a splinter group led by Prince Johnson. The INPFL captured and executed Doe in September 1990 and resisted attempts by the NPFL to take Monrovia, denying Taylor an outright victory and prolonging the war for years. A peace agreement was signed in 1996 between the major factions and resulted in the 1997 Liberian general election. Taylor won a landslide victory with 75% of the vote for the presidency, while his National Patriotic Party dominated the Legislature of Liberia. His success was mainly due to his control ove...

Civil War in Liberia Liberia, founded by freed American slaves, suffered years of brutal civil war both before and after Charles Taylor's election as President in 1997. Once a guerrilla trained under Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi, an escapee of a Boston maximum security prison with the rumoured help of the CIA for whom he was an informant, a convicted warlord accused of fuelling civil war in Sierra Leone through weapons sales for blood diamonds, the history of Charles Taylor is both impossibly bizarre and gruesomely brutal. One of his election slogans was reported to be "He killed my ma, he killed my pa, but I will vote for him". By 2003 the capital Monrovia was besieged by rebel forces with bitter battles being fought across the city. Under intense regional and U.S. pressure Taylor agreed to step down in exchange for exile, leaving a weary nation to start to rebuild. However he was subsequently handed over and convicted of war crimes in 2015. (Use the white dot at the bottom-r...

How would the war of 5 Kings have played out if Eddard Stark (somehow miraculously)  managed to escape Kings Landing and get back North? What happens next? Well let’s say Varys helps soon to be dead Ned escape. Or should I say Varys maybe has a couple of his most trusted little birds and a palace guard on his payroll help Ned escape. Why might he do this? The only reason I can think is he respects Lord Eddard and he thinks it is better for the realm. But now we do not have a War of the 5 Kings. History is ultimately changed a lot at this point. I’m going to say Varys sends a single trusted rider out ahead of Ned’s release to Riverrun to inform the Blackfish of what is happening. The Blackfish can send a raven with a coded message to Winterfell letting them know who is heading home. It will take Ned about a month to get back home. Ned knew Arya wasn’t in Cersei’s control and he knows they still have Sansa but he knows Cersei isn’t going to let anything happen to her with Winterfell ...

Sept. 19, 1964 - The war in South Vietnam is producing its own vocabulary. Among the Americans stationed there, World War II’s jargon has faded away, and even Korea’s glossary sounds dated. Replacing them are words like these: ARVN — The Army of the Republic of Vietnam, pronounced as though it were a name like “Alvin.” “Then the ARVN moved in,” an American adviser might say, distinguishing those soldiers from civil guard battalions. FRIENDLIES — Generally the ARVN or civil guard troops but sometimes used to designate townspeople who cooperate with the Americans or the Saigon Government. HOG — A helicopter without the M-60 machine guns that have been mounted in the doors of other helicopters. Instead, the Hogs carry 48 rockets, 24 to a side. HOOCHES — The huts woven from banana leaves and roofed with straw or corrugated tin that are the standard housing for Vietnamese outside the cities. Some Americans have appropriated the term for their own Quonset-styled barracks. HUEY — The Helicopt...

Liberia's President Joseph Boakai to set up first war crimes court Liberian President Joseph Boakai has signed an executive order to establish the country's first war crimes court, more than 20 years after the end of two civil wars which killed 250,000 people. Mr Boakai said Liberia had "endured downpours of agony". The 1989-2003 conflicts saw atrocities including mass killings, rape and the forced recruitment of child soldiers. Critics in Liberia have opposed the creation of the court, saying it risks reopening old wounds But Mr Boakai said the court would "help ferret the causes and effects of the violence" and bring about "justice and healing". Adama K Dempster, one of the lead campaigners for the establishment of a war crimes court told the BBC that although some people criticised Mr Boakai for making an "emotional" decision, it will bring closure for many others. "It's an open show of support for war victims and survivors of...

Photos: How a brutal, 14-year civil war tore apart Africa’s oldest republic Joseph Duo, a Liberian militia commander loyal to the government, exults after firing a rocket-propelled grenade at rebel forces at a key strategic bridgePeace has now outlasted war in Liberia. But for 14 years, between 1989 and 2003, a brutal civil war ravaged the nation leading to the death of close to 250,000 people. Women were raped and mutilated; warlords recruited child soldiers to fuel the conflict; tens of thousands of people were displaced and fled the country. The full freight of the war, its callousness, and its collateral effect have continued to remain a defining marker of the West African state. Photographers Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros were there at the height of the infighting and captured some of the war’s most harrowing moments. The duo was there right up to 2005 when the guns fell silent, a peace deal was signed, and the nation began a slow trudge towards recovery. Their photos—powerfu...

Why a Story of Fugitive Slaves May Not Just Be History In light of the current Great Divide, there is no innocent reading of history. We mine every thesis about the Constitutional Convention or the Civil War for evidence of another agenda. History becomes covert commentary on Trump and the Resistance. So when Andrew Delbanco’s wonderful new book on fugitive slaves in antebellum America landed in my hands, I was sure I was looking at a treatise on the 2010s. Congressional dysfunction. The failure of compromise. A breakdown of the major political parties. Strong movements to affirm that black lives matter. Charges that opponents are “drenched in moralistic self-delight” (93) meeting counter-charges that there is “a higher law than the Constitution” (258) demanding separation from ungodly neighbors. Didn’t I read this in the paper this morning? In The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War, Delbanco is not averse to suc...

Show of Shame! 2 Half N.ked Ladies Fight Dirty in Public Over Man (PHOTOS) Two women have been caught fighting each other n*ked and showing their Bosom  to the world. The women allegedly are fighting over a man. One accused the other of sleeping with her man which led to a fight between the ladies. It is obvious the one whose boyfriend was taken away from her feels so pained and does not care even if her private parts are exposed.  The women fought in public exposing their bodies