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Indiana woman resident charged with resisting arrest for not pulling over on abandoned street

Matiss Batarags
Opposing Views
Wed, 01 Apr 2015 02:11 UTC
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Indiana resident DelRea Good was arrested last week for refusing to pull over on a dark street because she felt unsafe. Good claimed that she did not want to stop on the deserted road even though it seemed like a police officer was attempting to pull her over.

The 52-year-old woman was driving after 11 p.m. when the flashing lights appeared behind her car. She thought it was a police officer but did not want to stop in case it was an imposter attempting to hurt her.

Good said she slowed down, turned on the hazard lights and waved with her arm out of the window to let the police officer know that she was not resisting arrest. She drove for less than a mile, where she pulled over into a well-lit parking lot.

While Good thought her actions were not illegal, Porter County Sheriff's Department Patrolman William Marshall arrested her and took her to the Porter County Jail. She was charged with a felony crime of resisting arrest.

Good claims that she was trying to protect herself. "I felt I didn't do anything wrong. I got to a safe place and I told him that."
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Angry outcry in South Ukraine at soldier's pro-war speech


Sputnik News
Mon, 30 Mar 2015 00:40 UTC
Ukraine rally protest war
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Rally in South Ukraine, erupts into anti-war shouting.
A rally in the southern Ukrainian city of Nikolaev commemorating the 71st anniversary of the freeing of the city from Nazi occupation became heated after a speech by a soldier in the Ukrainian armed forces prompted an angry outcry from residents.

The event, organized by the local administration, sparked an angry outcry from locals after a soldier began a speech on his service in the "anti-terrorist operation" in eastern Ukraine. The soldier's speech was met with cries from the crowd, people shouting "Shame!" "Bastards!" "Screw You!" "Murderers!" "Fascists!" and "You're killing your own people!"

The meeting was attended by state officials, including the mayor, regional officials, and members of parliament, along with religious leaders and veterans' organizations.

Comment: It seems the Ukraine people's common sense is starting to reassert itself as they see the results of Kiev's submission to their Western masters.

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The 12 and 13-year-olds making their own porn: One in ten say they have made or been part of sexually explicit videos


The Daily Mail
Mon, 30 Mar 2015 00:09 UTC
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Children aged 12 to 13 have made or been part of sexually explicit videos, research shows (file pic).
More than one in ten children aged 12 to 13 have made or been part of a sexually explicit video, according to shocking new research.

Nearly one in ten in the same age group are worried that they are addicted to porn, a survey of nearly 700 children for the NSPCC's ChildLine service found.

Comment: The video above places the onus on children to be responsible when really it's pathologicals and the effect they have on our society that's at fault.

Children Grow Up Addicted to Online Porn Sites: Third of 10-year-Olds Have Seen Explicit Images
It's called TV programming for a reason: Children exposed to sex on screen go on to be promiscuous

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Angry memo that Macintosh's original developer sent to Apple after Steve Jobs forced him out

Drake Baer
Business Insiders
Wed, 25 Mar 2015 00:00 UTC
Steve Jobs
© Unknown
In 1978, Jef Raskin became the 31st employee of Apple computer.

The next year, he started leading a "computer appliance" project — an easy-to-use device that would sell for a mere $1,000.

It would be called the Macintosh.

And it could change the world — and make Apple a ton of money.

"It does not take much imagination to see that a portable computer will open up entire new application areas, and once again give Apple access to a totally untapped, yet ripe, market," Raskin wrote in a memo to Steve Jobs that was uncovered by Fast Company.

But as journalists Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli note in their new biography "Becoming Steve Jobs," then-CEO Michael Scott encouraged Jobs to consider working on the project after he was taken off of the team for the ill-fated Apple Lisa.

Comment: See:

SOTT Talk Radio: Steve Jobs' Apple Revolution and the Fall of Man
Steve Jobs's response to finding out he just got a Google employee fired typical of shady world of Silicon Valley companies
What Everyone Is Too Polite to Say About Steve Jobs

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First woman to be sentenced for feticide handed a 20-year prison term; condemned by women's groups

Heather Saul
The Independent, UK
Wed, 01 Apr 2015 21:17 UTC
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Patel is the first woman to be sentenced for feticide in the U.S.
The first woman to be sentenced for killing a foetus has been handed a 20-year prison term for feticide and neglect of a dependent, despite claiming she gave birth to a stillborn baby.

Purvi Patel was bleeding heavily when she entered a hospital emergency room in Indiana in 2013 after giving birth unexpectedly in her bathroom.

She initially denied a pregnancy but later said she had a miscarriage and had disposed of the foetus by placing it in a plastic bag and then in a rubbish bin.

Prosecutors claimed the 33-year-old was 25 weeks pregnant at the time she gave birth, while activists said she was most likely to have been between 23 and 24 weeks pregnant, NBC News reports.

Her lawyers say Patel, who is from a conservative Hindu family, had concealed her pregnancy from her parents and panicked when she realised she was in labour. Patel lived with and cared for her parents and infirm grandparents in a house in South Bend, Indiana.

Patel maintained that the foetus was stillborn but the prosecution argued that she gave birth to a live foetus that died within a few seconds.

"I assumed because the baby was dead there was nothing to do," the South Bend Tribune quoted her as saying during a police interview. "I've never been in this situation. I've never been pregnant before." The prosecution also claimed that Patel had ordered drugs to induce an abortion on the internet. However, a toxicology report did not find any evidence of the drugs in her system.

Comment: How did prosecuting a woman for having a miscarriage become the new normal? This is truly inhumane.

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Philadelphia police shoot nearly a person a week, says Justice dept.

German Lopez
Vox
Tue, 24 Mar 2015 00:00 UTC
  1. A new report from the US Department of Justice found that Philadelphia police officers were involved in 394 shootings between 2007 and 2014, or nearly one shooting each week over eight years.
  2. The report outlined several failures that led to the high number of shootings, including inadequate training and poor oversight, and made dozens of recommendations to revamp how officers use force.
  3. Most officers involved in the shootings were white, and more than eight in 10 shooting victims were black — although the report didn't say whether the disparities were a result of police misconduct or profiling.
  4. The report comes in the midst of a nationwide debate about racial disparities in police use of force, following the killings of several unarmed black men in the past year.
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Superstition: Girl born with 'elephant trunk' deformity is worshipped like a god in India

Dab Brook
Mirror
Mon, 30 Mar 2015 00:00 UTC
Villagers in Uttar Pradesh have flocked to see the 'divine' baby even after doctors warned a genetic mutation may be to blame


A baby girl is reportedly being worshipped like a god in India after she was born with a facial deformity resembling an elephant's trunk.

Villagers near Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, have flocked to see the 'divine' girl in the belief she is an incarnation of the elephant-headed god Ganesha.

They have continued despite doctors warning her condition may well be a genetic mutation, Asian News International reported.

The newborn's aunt, named as Rajani, told the news agency: "My sister-in-law gave birth to a girl and her face looks exactly like Lord Ganesha.

"Everybody is saying she is an incarnation of the god.
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Oregon gun control proposes: Buying and selling guns a privilege, not a right

AWR Hawkins
Breitbart
Tue, 31 Mar 2015 00:00 UTC
flag gun
© personalliberty.com
A flag on the play...lawmakers want to pull the trigger.
On Wednesday, Oregon lawmakers will discuss a gun control proposal that outlaws all private gun sales except those between "close relatives," and that makes sales between "close relatives" a privilege that exists only as long as the government allows it to continue. The gun control bill is sponsored by state senator Floyd Prozanski (D-Eugene).

According to the Statesman Journal, Statesman Journal, it requires a private buyer and seller to find a licensed gun dealer, pay a fee, and "run a background check through the Oregon State Police." The bill would make the first violation of selling a gun without a background check a misdemeanor, "punishable by up to a year in jail and a $6,250 fine." The second violation would be a felony, carrying a possible 10 year prison sentence and "$250,000 fine."

Think about it: A $250,000 fine for selling a gun the same way other Americans have been selling them since the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791. Prozanski said he's chief "goal is to keep individuals who shouldn't have access to guns from having easy access to guns."

Comment: Oregon would be the eighth state to restrict private sales. "Public benefit legislation" always increases governmental control, eroding public rights until there is no recourse except to raise both hands high in the air and look straight down the barrel. ...another Freedom, another Liberty, another Right...into the crosshairs.

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Teens charged with violation of child pornography laws after filming consensual sex orgy


Rt
Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:36 UTC
couple walking
© Reuters/Alexandre Meneghini
Four suburban Chicago teens between the ages of 14 and 16 were arrested for allegedly posting a group sex video of themselves on Twitter. The group, three boys and a girl, recorded the consensual sex orgy but have run afoul of child pornography laws.

Joliet police got involved when the mother of the 15-year-old girl found out about the video and reported the Twitter post to law enforcement, who seized the original recording. The teens were arrested last Friday and are remanded in juvenile custody until their court hearing on April 13. They have been charged as juveniles with child pornography.

Joliet Police Chief Brian Benton said posting the 10 minute video online made it a criminal offense.

Comment: Though it is questionable whether these teens should be charged with violation of child pornography laws and possibly have to register as sex offenders for doing something so stupid, it is highly indicative of the hyper-sexualization and moral degradation of society.

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Racketeering trial in Philadelphia underway for 6 former narcotics cops


RT
Wed, 01 Apr 2015 17:52 UTC
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(TOP L-R) Brian Reynolds, Michael Spicer, John Speiser (BOTTOM L-R) Linwood Norman, Perry Betts, Thomas Liciardello
In the trial for six ex-Pennsylvania narcotics officers accused of conspiracy, robbery, extortion, kidnapping and drug dealing during a six-year racketeering scheme, opening statements began with a verbal sparring match between the lawyers.

The former Philadelphia police officers were charged with committing a variety of crimes between February 2006 and November 2012, among them beatings, threatening to shoot suspects, busting into homes without warrants to steal drugs and money, and the distribution of narcotics.

The officers standing trial are Thomas Liciardello, 38; Brian Reynolds, 43; Michael Spicer, 46; Perry Betts, 46; Linwood Norman, 46; and John Speiser, 44.

"Make no mistake about it ‒ taking money while armed and while exercising your power as a Philadelphia police officer and keeping it for yourself and your co-conspirators is robbery, even if the money is illegal drug money," Assistant US Attorney Anthony Wzorek said during his opening statements on Monday.

He told jurors the former officers routinely broke into homes without search warrants and ransacked them to steal drugs, cash, a Rolex watch and other valuables.
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