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Road Cone

Oh, the horror? More like hysteria! 5-year-old slapped with sexual misconduct after dropping pants in playground


RT
Mon, 30 Jun 2014 15:25 UTC
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© Arizona 3Sexual misconduct?! Five-year-old Eric Lopez now has a permanent black mark on his school record for "depantsing" in his school playground.
The mother of 5-year-old Eric Lopez, who signed a paper attesting to the act of voluntarily 'depantsing' in his school playground, is now fighting authorities to remove the stain from her son's permanent school record.

Accused of the 'lewd act', Eric Lopez did not ask that his parents be present at the moment he was asked to sign the incriminating document inside the assistant principal's office. The boy's mother said her son had no idea he could make such a request.

"He did not know that he could ask for me," the boy's mother, Erica Martinez, told azfamily.com. "He's five."

The boy also received a detention from school in addition to the permanent sexual misconduct charge on his file.

Martinez, who says school officials failed to take her son's age into account when they labeled his 'depantsing', has been locked in a legal battle for two months to have the charge scratched from her son's record, arguing that Eric's actions were simply the innocent behavior of a child.

Comment: More ridiculous hysteria in the USA. The Onion is right:
Speaking with reporters, citizens across the planet unanimously expressed their bafflement at the consistency with which they either formally or informally select corrupt and self-obsessed sacks of shit for leadership roles in all facets of life, including positions atop corporate boards, judicial and legislative bodies, religious institutions, parent-teacher associations, the military, intramural softball teams, and international and national professional associations, as well as groups of friends deciding where to eat.


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Quenelle

UK: Man leaves dirty protest on floor of Barclays bank


Metro
Mon, 30 Jun 2014 05:34 UTC
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© SWNSUnfortunately, it was other members of the peasant class who had to clean up the mess
A high street bank was forced to close after an irate customer dropped his shorts and pooed on the floor.

Onlookers watched in disbelief as the man scuttled up and down the stairs leaving behind streaks of brown mess at a Barclays branch in Andover, Hampshire.

Comment: He should have gone to their head office!
Barclays and Lloyds hand bosses almost £1m in shares

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Arrow Down

Ohio father arrested because 8-year-old son explored neighborhood


Police State USA
Mon, 30 Jun 2014 13:12 UTC
Jeff and Justin
© WCPOJeffery Williamson and his son, Justin.

Blanchester - An Ohio family is reeling after a father was arrested and lost his job because his 8-year-old son explored the neighborhood by himself. He could face up to six months in jail.

Justin Williamson, 8, recently decided to skip church without telling his father. When the church van came to pick him up on a recent Sunday morning, the boy instead walked a half-mile from his home to a local Dollar General store.

A local busybody called the police to report an unattended minor. The police rounded up Justin and then came after his father, Jeffrey Williamson.

"The next thing you know, [the officer] comes up to me and he says, 'You're under arrest,'" Mr. Williamson told WCPO. "My kids start crying their eyes out wondering why I'm getting arrested."

Mr. Williamson was arrested on a charge of "child endangerment." If convicted, he could potentially spend six months in jail.

"It's ridiculous to me that I was arrested for this," Williamson remarked.
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Stormtrooper

A mother's heartbreaking account: A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son

Alecia Phonesavanh
Salon.com
Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:04 UTC
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Bounkham “Bou Bou” Phonesavanh (Credit: The Phonesavanh Family)
After our house burned down in Wisconsin a few months ago, my husband and I packed our four young kids and all our belongings into a gold minivan and drove to my sister-in-law's place, just outside of Atlanta. On the back windshield, we pasted six stick figures: a dad, a mom, three young girls, and one baby boy.

That minivan was sitting in the front driveway of my sister-in-law's place the night a SWAT team broke in, looking for a small amount of drugs they thought my husband's nephew had. Some of my kids' toys were in the front yard, but the officers claimed they had no way of knowing children might be present. Our whole family was sleeping in the same room, one bed for us, one for the girls, and a crib.

After the SWAT team broke down the door, they threw a flashbang grenade inside. It landed in my son's crib.

Flashbang grenades were created for soldiers to use during battle. When they explode, the noise is so loud and the flash is so bright that anyone close by is temporarily blinded and deafened. It's been three weeks since the flashbang exploded next to my sleeping baby, and he's still covered in burns.

There's still a hole in his chest that exposes his ribs. At least that's what I've been told; I'm afraid to look.

My husband's nephew, the one they were looking for, wasn't there. He doesn't even live in that house. After breaking down the door, throwing my husband to the ground, and screaming at my children, the officers - armed with M16s - filed through the house like they were playing war. They searched for drugs and never found any.

Comment: See also: SWAT team throws flashbang grenade in baby's crib

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Airplane

Plane makes emergency landing after evacuation slide inflates inside cabin


Associated Press
Mon, 30 Jun 2014 09:03 UTC
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An evacuation slide inflated inside a United Airlines plane as it flew from Chicago to California, filling part of the cabin and forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing in Kansas, the airline and passengers said.

Mike Schroeder said he was flying to Orange County, California, late Sunday when he heard a hiss and pop. Schroeder said he turned around and saw the plane's evacuation slide - which would normally go outside the plane during an emergency - inflating inside the cabin.

United Airlines officials said in a statement Monday that no one aboard Flight 1463 was injured.

Passengers remained calm and took pictures of the inflated slide with their phones, Schroeder said. The Boeing 737-700 pilot announced to passengers that they would be landing at Wichita's Mid-Continent Airport.
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Gold Coins

California legalizes the use of alternative currency, including bitcoins


RT
Sun, 29 Jun 2014 08:52 UTC
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© Reuters/Jim Urquhart
California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill making alternative currencies, including bitcoin, lawful in the state.

The bill repeals the provision of the old legislation, which banned the use of "anything but the lawful money of the United States."

Authors of the amendment labeled the old regulatory regime as "stagnant" and lagging behind Californian "growing and innovative payments market."

"This bill makes clarifying changes to current law to ensure that various forms of alternative currency, such as digital currency, points, coupons, or other objects of monetary value do not violate the law when those methods are used for the purchase of goods and services or the transmission of payments," thecomments to the bill read.
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People

S. Korean 'comfort women' for US military sue state for forced prostitution


RT
Sun, 29 Jun 2014 23:12 UTC
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© AFP PhotoAmerican soldiers are on their way to place anti-tank mines on a road, 06 August 1950, to stop the North Koreans from advancing.
A group of South Korean former "comfort women", who worked in state-controlled brothels for the US military after the 1950-53 Korean War, has reportedly filed a suit demanding compensation from the authorities for forced prostitution.

It's the first time that such legal action has been taken regarding the brothels, or "special areas" that were sanctioned by the South Korean government, The Asahi Shimbun media outlet reported.

The women are seeking 10 million won ($9,850) for being made to serve as "US military comfort women" after the Korean War ended in 1953.

The suit, filed on June 25, stated that the South Korean authorities subjugated the women and forced them to provide sex, violating their human rights.

Moreover, the group said that they had been obliged to go through medical check-ups for sexually transmitted diseases.

The plaintiffs also urged the authorities to issue an official apology, revealing the true historical facts.
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Attention

Fracking - you are not important

Paul Mobbs
The Ecologist
Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:13 UTC
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© mariamuir.com
Why does the fracking lobby refuse to engage in open, public debate? Because, writes Paul Mobbs, it has already got its way, with the uncritical support of all the 'mainstream' media and political parties. You and I simply do not matter. So what are we going to do about that?

You are not important!

I'm sorry if that's an unwelcome reality, but if we look at some recent developments in the battle over fracking in Britain (and/or the USA, Canada, Poland, South Africa, Australia, etc.) we can conclude little else.

In mid-June I took part in a UK-wide series of events entitled, 'We Need to Talk About Fracking'.
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Brick Wall

The FCC and the pillaging of the web

Rivera Sun
Truth-out.org
Sun, 29 Jun 2014 00:00 UTC
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© UnknownLarge ISP's in bed with the FCC? You betcha!

Seething below the surface of citizens' outrage at the FCC proposal to create a tiered, pay-to-play internet structure lays a story people know so well, it could be encoded in our DNA.

The rich and powerful are stealing the commons of the people.

Comcast, Verizon and other telecom giants are the new Lairds of the Highlands, the Marie Antoinettes, the Robber Barons of the 1890s. The Commons are no longer large tracks of land or public grazing grounds or local self-governance - those have already been stolen. The Commons under assault is the internet.

As with every achievement of humanity, individual sectors of the populace try to take credit and ownership of the internet, saying, "I created this" or "I provide the infrastructure for your access." This is akin to saying, "I built the Empire State Building" instead of "thousands of hardworking, impoverished Americans poured the concrete and scaled the steel trusses; countless educators and inventors passed the knowledge of engineering to the designers; and the banks financed the construction with funds from war profiteering that was made on the bloodshed of millions."
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Pistol

Indiana turns the tables on brutish police and makes it legal to shoot cops in cases of self defense and unlawful trespass


The Free Thought Project
Sun, 29 Jun 2014 14:02 UTC
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Finally some rational legislation is passed concerning 'public servants' unlawfully entering another person's property.

All too often, we see examples of cops breaking into the wrong house and shooting the family dog, or worse, killing a member of the family.

Well, Indiana has taken action to "recognize the unique character of a citizen's home and to ensure that a citizen feels secure in his or her own home against unlawful intrusion by another individual or a public servant."
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