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Snow-plow kills pregnant woman; baby boy delivered

Sophia Rosenbaum, Rocco Parascandola and Barry Paddock
New York Daily News
Fri, 14 Feb 2014 08:28 UTC
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© Daily NewsMin Lin, 36, was pregnant when she was fatally hit by a snow plow operator in Brooklyn. Her baby boy was delivered by caesarean section.
A heartbreaking photo reveals the life-and-death struggle of a newborn, who was delivered after his mother was fatally struck by a snowplow.

The picture shows the bandaged baby, who was delivered by Caesarean section on Thursday, with a breathing tube in his nose. He had a heart monitor attached to his chest and other tubes hooked up to his tiny bandaged body at Maimonides Medical Center.

"He remains in critical condition," a hospital spokeswoman said Friday.

His mother, Min Lin, 36, was hit by a plow-equipped Bobcat during Thursday morning's snowstorm as she and her husband loaded groceries into the trunk of their car in the Fei Long Market parking lot on Eighth Ave. near 63rd St. in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn.
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Pistol

Officials in Connecticut stunned by massive, State-wide act of 'civil disobedience'

Jason Howerton
The Blaze
Thu, 13 Feb 2014 00:04 UTC
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On Jan. 1, 2014, tens of thousands of defiant gun owners seemingly made the choice not to register their semi-automatic rifles with the state of Connecticut as required by a hastily-passed gun control law. By possessing unregistered so-called "assault rifles," they all technically became guilty of committing Class D felonies overnight.

Police had received 47,916 applications for "assault weapons certificates" and 21,000 incomplete applications as of Dec. 31, Lt. Paul Vance told The Courant.

At roughly 50,000 applications, officials estimate that as little as 15 percent of the covered semi-automatic rifles have actually been registered with the state. "No one has anything close to definitive figures, but the most conservative estimates place the number of unregistered assault weapons well above 50,000, and perhaps as high as 350,000," the report states.

Needless to say, officials and some lawmakers are stunned.

Due to the new gun control bill passed in April, likely at least 20,000 individual people - possibly as many as 100,000 - are now in direct violation of the law for refusing to register their guns. As we noted above, that act is now a Class D Felony.
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Heart - Black

Psychopathic U.S. soldiers mugging around empty casket sparks furor

M.L. Johnson
6abc.com
Tue, 18 Feb 2014 00:00 UTC

A group photograph showing soldiers clowning around an empty, flag-draped casket has sparked a furor on Facebook, in military chat rooms and other social media where people say it's disrespectful of veterans and those killed in action.

The Wisconsin National Guard responded Tuesday by announcing that it had suspended the soldier who apparently posted the photograph online from her honor guard duties. The photograph was taken at a guard training facility in Arkansas and included soldiers from other units.

The National Guard also was taking steps to protect the soldier after she received death threats.
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Heart - Black

Ukrainian police shoot protesters in Kiev - video


Independent Video
Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:31 UTC
Amateur footage purports to show Ukrainian protesters in Kiev attempting to protect themselves with shields as they are fired at by police using live rounds.

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Alarm Clock

SOTT Focus: Xenophobic Self-Destruction Or, How the Odyssey and the Old and New Testaments Can Predict Our Future

Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Sott.net
Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:31 UTC
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Sinkholes and wild fires started by meteorites. Sound familiar? It should.
Weird title, huh? How in the world can "fear of strangers", which is touted by our revered leaders as our best protection, be the cause of self-destruction? And what does it have to do with the Odyssey, the Old and New Testaments?

It's pretty simple, actually.

One of the dominant themes of the Odyssey, which also appears in the Old and New Testaments, is hospitality and knowing how to treat a stranger if you are the host, and knowing how, as a guest, you ought to respond to good or bad hospitality.
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Handcuffs

Elderly nun among anti-nuke peace activists sentenced to prison‏


RT
Wed, 19 Feb 2014 04:05 UTC
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A US judge has handed down sentences to three peace activists, including an 84-year-old nun, who were convicted of breaking into a Tennessee defense facility where enrichment material for nuclear weapons is held, and staging a protest on federal property.

Sister Megan Rice, 84, Greg Boertje-Obed, 57, and Michael Walli, 63, were found guilty in May of destroying US government property and causing more than $1,000 in damage to federal property in the demonstration.

Comment: The government sure are embarrassed over this one! They'd better hope she doesn't plan on a daring escape from her highly secure jail.

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Question

Part of Sixth Avenue shut down due to electrified doorknobs & grates

John Del Signore
Gothamist.com
Wed, 19 Feb 2014 12:37 UTC
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Several blocks of Sixth Avenue in the 20s are currently closed off to drivers and pedestrians due to an electrical malfunction that's sending stray voltage into sidewalk grates and doorknobs of nearby buildings.
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Pistol

New Mexico begins training cops to use more deadly force, not less


Police State USA
Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:37 UTC
Colonel Jack
© NM DPSColonel Jack Jones.

New Mexico - All new police cadets will be trained to use more deadly force, thanks to a new curriculum by director of the state's Law Enforcement Academy. That training emphasis will take place in a cadet program that has been shortened by six full weeks.

Jack Jones, a retired Army colonel, was granted sole authority by the LEA over the training curriculum given to all of New Mexico's new recruits. He says the old model was too restrictive with the use of deadly force.

"Evil has come to the state of New Mexico. Evil has come to the Southwest. Evil has come to the United States," Jones said to the Santa Fe New Mexican.

A former instructor named Phillip Gallegos says he was fired by Jones because he refused to teach cadets Jones' controversial philosophy about shooting fleeing vehicles.

"This is the thing - why are you shooting at a car? You should be shooting at the individual that is shooting at you," Gallegos said.
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Snakes in Suits

Mortgages: Shoddy paperwork, erroneous fees and wrongful evictions: Complaints by homeowners rise‏

Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Michael Corkery
New York Times
Tue, 18 Feb 2014 20:16 UTC
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© Daniel Rosenbaum/New York TimesWanda Darden, at home in Riverdale, Md. Her mortgage has bounced among three loan servicers, leading to increasing mix-ups. “I either get conflicting answers or no answer at all,” she said.
A growing number of homeowners trying to avert foreclosure are confronting problems on a new front as the mortgage industry undergoes a seismic shift.

Shoddy paperwork, erroneous fees and wrongful evictions - the same abuses that dogged the nation's largest banks and led to a $26 billion settlement with federal authorities in 2012 - are now cropping up among the specialty firms that collect mortgage payments, according to dozens of foreclosure lawsuits and interviews with borrowers, federal and state regulators and housing lawyers.

These companies are known as servicers, but they do far more than transfer payments from borrowers to lenders. They have great power in deciding whether homeowners can win a mortgage modification or must hand over their home in a foreclosure.

Comment: Indeed, how much more of this organized pathology can the people take?
Portland, Oregon: Angry residents wave pitchforks, torches in protest of Mayor's crackdown on homelessness
100,000 protest against austerity cuts in North Carolina

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Video

Flashback Documentary: The dark side of chocolate

Miki Mistrati & U. Roberto Romano
YouTube
Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:26 UTC

The Dark Side of Chocolate is a 2010 documentary film about the exploitation and slave trading of African children to harvest chocolate still occurring nearly ten years after the cocoa industry pledged to end it.

Synopsis

In 2001, the Chocolate Manufacturers Association formed an action plan entitled the Harkin-Engel Protocol that would aim to end the worse forms of child trafficking and slave labor.However, child trafficking still continued in countries in West Africa. Authorities and companies denied it happened. Due to this conflicting outlook, the filmmakers went undercover to discover the truth. The film starts with its two filmmakers investigating independently by journeying to the western coast of Africa to the country of Mali, the country where children were rumored to be smuggled from and then transported to the Ivory Coast. The team of journalists aimed to investigate human trafficking and child labor in the Ivory Coast and its effects on the worldwide chocolate industry.
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