"Hysteria."

A fascinating thing I did not know.  Natural nuclear fission reactor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "A natural nuclear fission reactor is a uranium deposit where self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions have occurred. This can be examined by analysis of isotope ratios. The existence of

this phenomenon was discovered in 1972 at Oklo in Gabon, Africa, by French physicist Francis Perrin. The conditions under which a natural nuclear reactor could exist had been predicted in 1956 by Paul Kazuo Kuroda. The conditions found were very similar to what was predicted. Oklo is the only known location for this in the world and consists of 16 sites at which self-sustaining nuclear fission reactions took place approximately 1.7 billion years ago, and ran for a few hundred thousand years, averaging 100 kW of thermal power during that time."

Brickbat: Well, He Has Been Sentenced to Death - Hit & Run : Reason.com: "A Pakistani policeman shot and wounded a man who was sentenced to death earlier this year for blasphemy. Muhammad Asghar, a British national who reportedly suffers from schizophrenia, was convicted for allegedly writing letters claiming to be a prophet."

"Hysteria."

+1 for accountability.  Ct. Police Department Trying to Do Right, Terminates Cop Involved in Beating That State's Attorney Refused to Handle - Hit & Run : Reason.com: "In late July police officers in Enfield, Ct. wanted to arrest one of their own, Matthew Worden, and charge him with assault and fabricating evidence related to his beating a man, Mark Maher, he claimed was resisting arrest (on charges eventually dropped). Although the incident was caught on dashcam, the state’s attorney rejected the department’s request for an arrest warrant against Worden because the video was “extremely difficult to keep up with.” 

Neverthleess, the police investigation into the incident, at the town’s April boat launch, continued, and last week Worden was fired. The Hartford Courant reports: "The police department conducted a very fair, thorough, exhaustive investigation and we believe the proper conclusion - the termination of Officer Worden - has been reached in this case," Sferrazza said. The chief said the internal affairs report was reviewed by two captains and Deputy Chief Gary Collins who all agreed that Worden should be fired. Sferrazza said he also agreed that Worden needed to be fired for his actions on April 1. 

Sferrazza said that he doesn't want Worden's actions to taint the entire department. "We have 99 sworn police officers who responded to 50,000 calls last year alone and we have had only 16 citizens complaints in the past three years," Sferrazza said. "I would ask that residents of the community not allow this unprecedented incident to overshadow the fine work done by the men and women of our department." Worden had been the target of 14 complaints in the last seven years, and has one more investigation pending. "

New docs show how Reagan-era executive order unbounded NSA | Ars Technica: "The DIA document shows that for the NSA, 'collection' of your e-mails doesn't mean what you think it means. It means something totally different," he said. "They want to be able to say they're not 'collecting' your data, so they claim that even though they copied all your e-mails, put them in a server for five years, and searched them at will, that's not 'collection' because your e-mail didn't go into a report."

"The NSA plays the same games with all of the words they use—they say you are not a 'target,' even though they collect, store and search all your data," Tye continued. "They say your data is collected only 'incidentally,' even though the NSA intentionally designs its programs to collect everything you do online. They say your data is not collected 'under this program,' which almost certainly means it is collected under some other program. The NSA says things, using some very tortured and legalistic definitions, which are technically true but designed to mislead Americans about how it collects and uses our data. The NSA's collection and use of Americans' data would never stand up to any kind of public scrutiny or judicial review. The only way these programs survive is because they are shielded from review and oversight and challenge in the courts.""

Meet 59-year-old David Hooks, the latest drug raid fatality - The Washington Post: "A Georgia SWAT team shot and killed an armed homeowner during a September 24 drug raid sparked by the word of a self-confessed meth addict and burglar who had robbed the property the previous day. No drugs were found. David Hooks, 59, becomes the 34th person to die in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far this year...

 Hooks was not a drug user or seller, but was a successful businessman who ran a construction company that, among other things, did work on US military bases. Hooks had passed background checks and had a security clearance...

The search warrant to raid Hooks’ home came about after a local meth addict named Rodney Garrett came onto the property two nights earlier and stole one of Hooks’ vehicles...

Hooks was asleep when armed deputies arrived at his house at 1184 Ga. 319 just before 11 p.m. Sept. 24. His wife, Teresa, was upstairs in her craft room when she heard a car drive fast up the driveway, and she looked out the window. “She saw several men all in black and camo with hoods on,” Shook said. “She ran downstairs, woke David and said, ‘The burglars are back.’ ” Hooks retrieved a gun and headed out of the bedroom as the officers broke down the back door..."

So close. 

Civil Asset Forfeiture = Theft Under Color of Authority/Police Shakedowns.  Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Civil Forfeiture