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Shocking message left by 'spoiled' New Jersey teen suing her parents

Kevin Fobbs
examiner.com
Fri, 07 Mar 2014 10:22 UTC
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Rachel Canning swears up a storm in phone message to mom then sues mom and dad
You have to be a special kind of spoiled brat to think that parents that raised you, fed you and even enrolled you in a private school in order to provide the best education would be steamed rolled over by shocking horrid language that would make a sailor blush. Yet, according to the Blaze, Rachel Canning who saw part of her lawsuit against her parents rejected left her mom a message that even angered New Jersey Morris County Court Judge Peter Bogaard.

The 18-year-old high school senior, who can easily claim the "Worst Daughter of the Year" award, did not feel that she needed to bow to the parental rules being set for her. Imagine the outrage she reasoned in having to:
  • Keep parental curfew rules
  • Doing chores around the home
  • Reconsider her boyfriend relationship which was upsetting her parents
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Pistol

Florida man accidentally shoots passing 12-year-old and self - while giving gun safety demo

David Ferguson
The Raw Story
Wed, 05 Mar 2014 09:44 UTC
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A Florida man claims he was showing a friend how to clean a gun when he discharged the weapon and struck a 12-year-old girl in a passing car, then accidentally shot himself.

The Orlando Sentinel reported that 60-year-old Ventura Santos Matteo was in his garage on Friday when his gun-safety demonstration went awry.

Matteo accidentally fired the Sig Sauer pistol, which struck a 12-year-old girl in a passing car. The bullet penetrated the door and struck her in the right upper arm. Her younger brother, who was riding in the back seat, was unharmed.

Startled by the gunshot, Matteo then discharged a second bullet into his left thigh.

The girl was treated at the Arnold Palmer Children's Hospital and is expected to recover. The Sentinel said that Matteo is scheduled for surgery at Orlando Regional Medical Center and is also expected to recover.
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Heart - Black

Con-artist at large: Oklahoma's 'Dr. Mike' allowed to continue injecting miraculous 'Jesus shot' for $300 a pop

Scott Kaufman
The Raw Story
Wed, 05 Mar 2014 10:04 UTC
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A man known as "Dr. Mike" in Edmond, Oklahoma is being questioned by the community about the ingredients of what he calls a "Jesus shot."

The full name of "Dr. Mike" is John Michael Lonergan, and in 2005 he had his license to practice medicine revoked in Ohio after he was convicted of eight felony counts of tax evasion, mail fraud and health care fraud. After he was released from prison, "Dr. Mike" moved to Oklahoma, which granted him a license to practice medicine on a provisional, supervised basis.

According to News 9, "Dr. Mike" has been injecting local residents with something he calls the "Jesus shot," which allegedly cures all pain for life. At his clinic, he has been charging people $300 per "miracle injection."

Last month, one Oklahoma resident curious about "Dr. Mike" posted about him in a forum devoted to "outing people who falsely claim military service."

"Nobody knows anything about this guy," she wrote, "but he claims that he is a Former Special Forces Doctor and him and another Special Forces Doctor developed a serum for the military called Jesus Juice and it has been used in the military for years and it cures any ailment."
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Music

Australia student ordered to pay $100,000 to music teacher for Twitter defamation

Jonathan Pearlman
The Telegraph
Wed, 05 Mar 2014 09:07 UTC
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© North Queensland Register
Orange High School music teacher Christine Mickle
Music teacher in Australia wins case against former student who defamed her on Twitter and Facebook

A music teacher in Australia has been awarded £57,000 ($AUS105,000) in damages for defamation on Twitter and Facebook after she was targeted by a former student who "bore a grudge".

Andrew Farley, 20, the son of the school's head of the music and arts department, wrote defamatory messages about Christine Mickle, 58, who replaced Mr Farley's father. He had never been taught by the popular teacher but posted the messages a year after graduating, suggesting she was responsible for the fate of his father, who stood down in 2008 for health reasons.

"For some reason it seems that the defendant bears a grudge against the plaintiff, apparently based on a belief that she had something to do with his father leaving the school," said district court judge Michael Elkaim.
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Arrow Down

6 reasons why America is like a third-world country

Sean McElwee
Rolling Stone
Wed, 05 Mar 2014 11:00 UTC
Our society lags behind the rest of the developed world in education, health care, violence and more.
US prison cell
© Michael Criswell/Getty Images
The U.S. imprisons a higer percentage of our population than countries like Russia, China and Iran
Although the U.S. is one of the richest societies in history, it still lags behind other developed nations in many important indicators of human development - key factors like how we educate our children, how we treat our prisoners, how we take care of the sick and more. In some instances, the U.S.'s performance is downright abysmal, far below foreign countries that are snidely looked-down-upon as "third world." Here are six of the most egregious examples that show how far we still have to go:

1. Criminal Justice

We all know the U.S. criminal justice system is flawed, but few are likely aware of just how bad it is compared to the rest of the world. The International Center for Prison Studies estimates that America imprisons 716 people per 100,000 citizens (of any age). That's significantly worse than Russia (484 prisoners per 100,000 citizens), China (121) and Iran (284). The only country that incarcerates a higher percentage of its population than we do is North Korea. The U.S. is also the only developed country that executes prisoners - and our death penalty has a serious race problem: 42 percent of those on death row are black, compared to less than 15 percent of the overall population.

Comment: America is not a great country. The only change we can look forward to is a rapid tumble into literal third world status:

Decline and Fall of the American Empire
U.S. already third world economy: American economist
America becomes a third-world nation in just 4 easy steps

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Eye 2

Top military officer under trial for sexual assault and threatening to kill victim's family

AP
The Guardian
Fri, 07 Mar 2014 16:22 UTC
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Brig Gen Jeffrey Sinclair is thought to be the highest-ranking military officer to be court-martialed on sex assault charges.
An army captain who says she was sexually assaulted by a general sobbed Friday as she testified that they had a three-year affair and that he threatened to kill her and her family - and "do it in a way no one would ever know" - if she ever told anyone.

The testimony came on the opening day of the trial of Brig Gen Jeffrey Sinclair, believed to be the highest-ranking US military officer ever court-martialed on sexual assault charges.
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Eye 2

UK military allowed to investigate (or not) sexual assault cases at their own discretion

Sandra Laville
The Guardian
Fri, 07 Mar 2014 13:32 UTC
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Corporal Anne-Marie Ellement, who killed herself 23 months after an alleged rape by two colleagues, and her sister Sharon Hardy.

Military officers are being allowed to investigate allegations of sexual assaults by soldiers behind closed doors without referring the cases to the police, the Guardian can reveal.

Commanding officers are able to deal internally with more than 50 categories of what the military views as "lesser" sexual offences, including sexual and indecent assaults, voyeurism and exposure.

The officer can then, without independent scrutiny, decide the case should be dealt with by a court martial, or to take no further action.

The family of Corporal Anne-Marie Ellement, who a coroner this week found had killed herself after being bullied in the army following an alleged rape by two Royal Military police officers who were never prosecuted, said they were "shocked and appalled" by the discretion afforded to officers.
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Arrow Down

Israel cuts off water supply to 45,000 Palestinians


Middle East Monitor
Thu, 06 Mar 2014 10:36 UTC
Filling Water
© Middle East Monitor
Palestinian lady filling a water bottle in Gaza.

Some 45,000 Palestinians living in the Shuafat refugee camp and the suburbs of Ras Shehadeh, Ras Khamis, As-Salam and Anata in Jerusalem have had their water cut off for nearly three days.

The residents said Israel's water company Gihon started by gradually reducing the water supply nearly two weeks ago until it stopped entirely.

A member of Shuafat's popular committee; Khaled Al-Khalidi said on Wednesday that 23,000 refugees had no access to water for three days while the residents of Ras Shehadeh; Ras Khamis, As-Salam and Anata have been without water for 20 days.

Al-Khalidi demanded "UNRWA, the camp's service provider, to fulfil its obligations towards the refugees and prosecute the Jerusalem municipality and Gihon to oblige them to return the water supply."

Al-Khalidi pointed out that "UNRWA and Jordan signed an agreement in 1956 to provide water service to the Palestinian refugees without charge and in 1967 the Israeli Civil administration joined the Convention. However in 1988 when Israel tried to cut off the water supply to the camp residents, the refugees prosecuted the company and forced it to return the water supply."
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Airplane

Malaysia Airlines says plane with 227 passengers missing


Yahoo! News
Fri, 07 Mar 2014 00:00 UTC
malaysia airline
© AP File photo
Malaysia Airline jetliners taxi at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, June 4, 2011.
Malaysia Airlines said Saturday it lost contact with a plane carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Flight MH370 lost contact with the Subang air traffic control at 2:40 a.m. Saturday (18:40 GMT Friday). The flight was operated on the Boeing 777-200 aircraft. It departed Kuala Lumpur at 12:41 a.m. Saturday (16:41 GMT Friday) and was expected to land in Beijing at 6:30 a.m. Saturday (22:30 GMT Friday).

The airline said it was working with the authorities who activated their search and rescue team to locate the aircraft.

The flight was carrying 227 passengers, including two infants, and 12 crew members, the airline said.

Comment: Even though it might be a bit early to tell, it makes one wonder whether this event is similar in nature to the one from Flight 447 in 2009. That plane had also lost contact, and the evidence strongly suggests that the cause of the accident was a cometary impact.

For more information, see: What are they hiding? Flight 447 and Tunguska Type Events

Considering the amount of fireballs that have been observed recently, and the asteorids that have passed close to Earth possibly carrying smaller space rocks with them, it might not be such a far-fetched idea...

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Airplane

Malaysia Airlines plane missing with more than 200 passengers on board

Nick Toscano
The Age
Fri, 07 Mar 2014 19:09 UTC
MAS B777
© Airliners Net/Bruno Delliere
Search and rescue teams are trying to find a Malaysia Airlines plane that has gone missing with more than 200 passengers on board.

The airline lost contact with the B777-200 aircraft after it departed Kuala Lumpur shortly after 12.40am local time on Saturday.

It was expected to land in Beijing at 6.30am.

Flight MH370 was carrying 227 passengers including two infants and 12 crew members.

Malaysia Airlines said in a statement that it was working with the authorities who have activated their search and rescue team to locate the aircraft.

An unconfirmed report from a flight tracking website said the plane had plunged more than 200 metres and changed course in the last minute that it had transmitted data.

There have also been reports that it is the same type of plane involved in the Asiana crash last July in San Francisco.

The airline will provide regular updates on the situation.
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