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Connecticut babysitter charged with manslaughter in toddler's death


CBS Connecticut
Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:50 UTC
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A 27-year-old babysitter is charged with manslaughter and risk of injury to a child in the death of a toddler she was caring for.

New Haven Police say 19-month-old Athiyan Sivakumar died Sunday as a result of injuries he suffered earlier this month. He was taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital with a skull fracture and rushed into surgery.

Police say the baby-sitter, Kinjal Patel, admitted to becoming angry with the child, and forcing him to the floor, causing him to strike his head. The Chief State Medical Examiner's Office concluded that the death was a homicide caused by blunt force. Patel is held in lieu of a million dollars bond.

New Haven Police Chief Dean Esserman called the death "senseless" and says it deeply affected members of his department.
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500,000 march in France's major cities to protest against corrupt elites


Raw Story
Sun, 02 Feb 2014 13:37 UTC
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Supporters of the "La Manif Pour Tous" (Protest for Everyone) movement demonstrate to defend their vision of the traditional family, on February 2, 2014 in Paris.
Tens of thousands of people marched in Paris and Lyon on Sunday against new laws easing abortion restrictions and legalising gay marriage, accusing French President Francois Hollande's government of "family phobia".

Police said 80,000 people took to the streets of the French capital, creating a sea of blue, white and pink -- the colours of the lead organising movement LMPT (Protest for Everyone) -- who gave a far higher turnout figure of half a million.

Demonstrator Philippe Blin, a pastor from nearby Sevres, said he felt a "relentlessness against the family" in France.

At least 20,000 rallied in Lyon, many of them ferried in aboard dozens of buses, waving placards reading "Mom and Dad, There's Nothing Better for a Child" and "Two Fathers, Two Mothers, Children With No Bearings" -- a slogan that rhymes in French.

Comment: Although the media in France and abroad has been trying to spin the mass demonstrations in France as 'right-wing extremist', it's clearly anything but, with people from all ethnic and political backgrounds protesting against the corrupt elites.

The 500,000 figure is what the organizers claim, which is probably far closer to reality.

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Missouri inmate executed while Supreme Court Considered his appeal‏

Scott Kaufman
Raw Story
Sun, 02 Feb 2014 11:20 UTC
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Last Wednesday, the state of Missouri executed a man while his appeal was still being considered by the justices of the Supreme Court.

In an article in The Atlantic, Andrew Cohen reports that Herbert Smulls - a black man convicted by an all-white jury - was on the phone discussing the status of his pending federal appeal when he was taken to be executed.

Cohen constructs a time-line of the events surrounding Smulls's final minutes: at 10:11 p.m., lethal injection protocols were initiated, and Smulls was pronounced dead at 10:20 p.m. Ten minutes later, at 10:30 p.m., the Supreme Court notified Smulls lawyers that they denied his request for a stay of execution at 10:24 p.m., four minutes after he had been pronounced dead.
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Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal thinks it's 'fair' to execute people with a chemical cocktail that takes 26 minutes to work

David Edwards
Raw Story
Sun, 02 Feb 2014 10:11 UTC
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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) on Sunday said that using a new lethal drug that took as long as 26 minutes to kill an inmate is a "fair way" to conduct an execution.

Earlier this month, Ohio elected to use two drugs never combined before to execute Dennis McGuire after manufacturers began refusing to sell traditional execution drugs to U.S. states. According to reports, "McGuire gasped for air and took almost 26 minutes to die."

Louisiana announced last week that it would also use the drug cocktail to convicted killer Christopher Sepulvado.
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Modern day Robinson Crusoe: 'I wanted to kill myself', Mexico castaway reveals

Jonathan Pearlman, Majuro
The Telegraph
Mon, 03 Feb 2014 04:53 UTC
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Castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga arrives in the capital of the Marshall Islands
A castaway who spent more than a year at sea before landing on a remote Pacific island has recounted his "incredible" voyage as he drifted for thousands of miles surviving on turtles, birds and hand-caught sharks.

Appearing bewildered after being told that he was in the Marshall Islands - a country he had never heard of - Jose Salvador Alvarenga, 37, a fisherman who set off from Mexico in December 2012, said his first words on spotting land were: "Oh, God".
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School shooting kills two in Russian capital


Press TV
Mon, 03 Feb 2014 04:42 UTC

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Emergency vehicles parked outside a school in Russian capital Moscow, where a gunman shot dead a police officer and a teacher on February 3, 2014.

Russian police have confirmed that a police officer and a teacher were killed as an armed young man took children hostage at a school in the capital Moscow.

The man armed with a rifle entered the school located in northeast of Moscow on Monday, threatening the school's security guard, the police added.

The security guard managed to contact the police. Upon arrival, the guard showed the officers the biology room where the assailant had taken 20 teenagers aged 15 hostage, most of whom were released shortly afterwards.

The attacker opened fire at the police when they reached the room, killing the officer and wounding another, according to local media.

Authorities said the police officers had detained the gunman, who is reportedly a high school student.
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Property rights bill introduced after Virginian woman threatened with fines for hosting kids' birthday party

Mark Fitzgibbons
cnsnews.com
Sun, 02 Feb 2014 04:24 UTC
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Farmers gather at a Board of Zoning Appeals meeting in Fauquier County Virginia to hold a "Pitchfork Protest" in support of Liberty Farms owner Martha Boneta.
"Local officials who abuse zoning authority powers to cower citizens into submission and deprive land owners of Constitutional rights in the enjoyment of their land must be subject to fines and actual damages they cause including attorney fees," Delegate Bob Marshall noted in support of his HB 1219 recently introduced in the Virginia General Assembly.

Marshall introduced his bill in direct response to incidents precipitated by county officials who threatened Virginia citizen farmer Martha Boneta. Boneta gained national attention after she was cited and threatened with $5,000 per-day fines for hosting such 'menacing activities' as a birthday party for eight 10-year old girls without a permit and advertising pumpkin carvings. Virginians rallied at two "pitchfork protests" in support of Boneta.

Marshall said, "I am convinced this harassment will continue until local officials realize they can be held liable in the form of fines and other costs." H.B. 1219 provides that local governments violating constitutional rights through zoning shall pay their victims (1) the amount of the fines they sought to impose, and (2) actual damages including attorney fees. Local government officials who intentionally violate this law would also be liable.

Comment: See also:

Interview with the lunatic farmer Joel Salatin

Regarding 'pitchfork protests', they're taking off in Italy too:

Italy's president fears violent insurrection in 2014 but offers no remedy

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Cell phone tower collapse kills 3 and injures 2 in Western Virginia


CBS News
Sat, 01 Feb 2014 04:14 UTC
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A 300-foot cell phone tower collapsed Saturday and minutes later a smaller tower fell, killing two contractors and a firefighter, authorities said.

The contractors were tethered to the larger tower when it collapsed in Clarksburg, State Police Cpl. Mark Waggamon said. A firefighter with the Nutter Fort Fire Department was killed when he was walking from his vehicle to the scene.

Two other contractors working on the larger tower were hurt and taken to a hospital. Waggamon described their injuries as serious but not life-threatening.

Waggamon said three of the workers were more than 60 feet up on the tower. One of those workers was killed along with a co-worker who was about 20 feet up when the tower toppled.

Two other workers at the site were not injured.
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Federal lawsuit accuses eight Chicago cops of illegal strip searches


CBS Chicago
Wed, 29 Jan 2014 20:37 UTC
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Three people are part of the federal lawsuit alleging eight Chicago police officers searched them illegally.

The attorney for the three people says the police apparently targeted the trio, thinking they were selling drugs.

The lawsuit says on or about May 23rd of last year, the three were stopped near 9040 S. Laflin. Their car was confronted head on by two plain clothed officers in an unmarked Chicago police car.

The lawsuit alleges that, "...an officer "pulled up" a man's shirt...and "pulled his elastic waistband away from his body, and searched down the front of his pants," and that, "a second man had his waistband pulled "away from his body" and was also searched down the front of his pants."

The suit also alleges officers demanded a woman remove her pants to be searched. She told them she was menstruating.
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Syringe

Lethal batches of 'bad heroin' hit East Coast the same week Philip Seymour Hoffman died

Scott Kaufman
The Raw Story
Sun, 02 Feb 2014 15:47 UTC
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For the past three weeks, authorities have been tracking batches of deadly fentanyl-laced heroin that has been moving east from Pittsburgh.

Twenty-two people in western Pennsylvania died of overdoses in the past week. Authorities believe that most of the deaths were related to heroin laced with fentanyl, a powerful narcotic typically prescribed to terminal cancer patients as means of pain management.

It is 100 times more powerful than morphine, and in combination with heroin can shut down the respiratory system of users.

The laced heroin went by the street names "Theraflu" and "Bud Ice" in Pennsylvania, but as it made its way to Long Island it was re-branded as "24K."

It has already been linked to five Long Island overdoses.
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