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Babies born in Indiana had their blood and DNA stored for research without parents' consent since 1991


RT
Sun, 13 Jul 2014 17:11 UTC
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The Indiana State Department of Health has been collecting babies' blood and DNA without their parents' permission since 1991, according to an investigation by a local news station. Now the state wants to know what to do with the blood samples.

When a baby is born in Indiana, as with other states, the state conducts a newborn screening test. A nurse or midwife takes a few drops of blood from the heel of each infant. The blood is collected on a specialized filter paper, which is then sent to the state's Newborn Screening Lab in downtown Indianapolis.

At the lab, researchers conduct tests on the blood for more than 50 medical disorders, including hypothyroidism, sickle cell disease and conditions where a child is unable to process certain nutrients. Parents and doctors are then notified of the results.

"All babies are screened, even if they look healthy, because some medical conditions cannot be seen by just looking at the baby," the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. "Finding these conditions soon after birth can help prevent some serious problems, such as brain damage, organ damage, and even death."
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French court overturns ban on wearing hijab on the beach


RT
Sun, 13 Jul 2014 13:03 UTC
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A French court has suspended a by-law banning wearing religious symbols on a public beach in a Paris suburb. The local mayor maintains the legislation protects the secular community and had previously banned two women from the beach for wearing hijabs.

The Versailles Administrative Court has temporarily reversed the ban in the suburb of Wissous after plaintiffs alleged the by-law "violates the principals of the Republic" and amounts to "religious discrimination" reports AFP. The court will now decide whether to overturn the legislation for good.

The by-law was challenged after the mayor of Wissous refused two women wearing hijabs entry onto a temporary beach. Mayor Richard Trinquier, of the right-wing UMP party, claimed that he was protecting France's commitment to secularism by barring the two women from the public space.

"We wanted to affirm our commitment to secularism to promote community harmony," said Trinquer. He said the legislation was inspired by a 2004 law that made it illegal to wear religious garments or symbols in state schools. According to Trinquer Wissous, the beach should also be subject to the law because it is "an establishment that receives the public" and not "a public place."

Comment: Paranoiac, barbaric discrimination.

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Massachusetts man considering legal action against cops who beat him with batons, doused with pepper spray, and shot him with tasers and bean bags at police station

Travis Gettys
Raw Story
Sat, 12 Jul 2014 12:03 UTC
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A Massachusetts man is considering legal action against police officers who repeatedly struck him with batons and shot him with beanbags in a booking room.

Joseph O'Brien had been taken into custody in April 2012 after he was found unconscious in some woods.

A video obtained by WCVB-TV shows that he was initially cooperative, but O'Brien becomes more combative as officers act aggressively toward him.

The two-hour-long video shows two Bellingham police officers strike him repeatedly with their batons and doused with pepper spray as O'Brien - who has one wrist handcuffed to a bar - swings at officers with a phone receiver.

"The police response looks like something out of the Keystone Cops," said former Boston Police Lt. Tom Nolan. "The video should be used as a training video in any police academy to train novice police officers what not to do."
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California sheriff's deputy arrested on teen sex charges

Travis Gettys
Raw Story
Sat, 12 Jul 2014 11:58 UTC
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Ken Skogen
A decorated California sheriff's deputy has been arrested on teen sex charges.

Ken Skogen was placed on leave in May after prosecutors began investigating claims that the Placer County sheriff's deputy had engaged in a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old volunteer with the sheriff's department.

The claims against the 35-year-old law enforcement officer date back to 2011, when another deputy reported that Skogen had a questionable relationship with the teen.

Skogen was awarded a public safety officer medal for valor in 2009 after pulling an elderly woman from a burning home.
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Deputy police chief and officer in Florida resign after FBI identifies them as KKK members

Scott Kaufman
Raw Story
Sun, 13 Jul 2014 11:53 UTC
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Police morale in Fruitland Park, Florida has been shaken after a deputy chief and officer resigned when the Federal Bureau of Investigations identified them as members of the Ku Klux Klan.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement presented Chief Terry Isaacs with copies of a confidential FBI report last week that allegedly identified Deputy Chief David Borst and Officer George Hunnewell as members of the KKK.

Earlier this year, a Florida Klan leader boasted to WFTV 9 that the organization has "police officers, paramedics, judges...everywhere."

However, Chief Isaacs would only tell reporters for the Orlando Sentinel that the pair belonged to a "subversive organization," because he did not believe he was authorized to release the results of the report.
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Lightning strike hits Frontier Airlines plane and diverts it to Salt Lake City


Fox News
Sun, 13 Jul 2014 10:33 UTC
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A Frontier Airlines official says one of its planes was diverted to Salt Lake City after it was hit by lightning.

Spokeswoman Tyri Squyres says that Friday night's lightning strike damaged the airplane's weather radar.

Squyres says none of the 168 passengers were injured.

She tells the Denver Post that the plane was traveling to Seattle when lightning hit around 6:50 p.m.

Because of bad weather, she said it was not safe to return to its Denver starting point without the radar system, so it landed in Salt Lake.

The flight remained there for several hours while repairs were made.

Officials with Frontier and the Salt Lake airport didn't immediately return calls from The Associated Press.

Comment: Is is just coincidence that 4 airplanes have had problems in the last 48 hours?

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Engine failure: Stricken Portuguese airliner 'rains debris' on house, cars below


Agence France-Presse
Sun, 13 Jul 2014 10:23 UTC
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A Portuguese airliner suffered engine failure shortly after taking off from Lisbon early on Saturday, scattering debris on cars below and forcing it to turn around.

The TAP Portugal Airbus 330 had just begun its journey to Sao Paulo in Brazil with 268 passengers on board when smoke was seen coming from one of the engines.

"Debris from the engine fell on cars and a house, but no passengers were injured," a police spokesman told AFP.

The plane made an "uneventful landing" at Lisbon airport shortly after the incident, a TAP spokesman said.

"A huge plume of smoke came from one of the engines and a rain of debris hit cars," a young woman who witnessed the incident told local television.

On Tuesday, another Airbus plane belonging to TAP was flying between Lisbon and Amsterdam when it had to land at Paris's Orly airport after suffering cabin depressurisation.

Delays in the delivery of six Airbus aircraft that TAP acquired from other airlines have led to a series of flight cancellations in recent months.

TAP has recently seen significant growth in its operations.

During the first half of this year it flew 5.2 million passengers, 7.2 percent more than in the same period last year. It also opened 11 new routes this summer, including four to Latin America.

Comment: More airplane trouble in the last 48 hours.

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Another failure: NYC-bound Delta flight from Israel develops mechanical problem, returns to Tel Aviv; lands safely


Times Colonist
Sun, 13 Jul 2014 10:12 UTC
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In this photo provided by Michael Simon, a New York-bound Delta Air Lines plane is seen at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, after an emergency Sunday, July 13, 2014. The flight returned safely to Tel Aviv about two hours after it left for John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York after flaps on the jumbo jet failed to retract properly on takeoff, the airline said. Delta spokeswoman Jennifer Martin said the crew made the emergency landing “out of an abundance of caution.”
A New York-bound Delta Air Lines flight from Israel declared an emergency and returned to Tel Aviv early Sunday after developing a mechanical problem, vexing passengers already on edge as Palestinian militants launched rocket attacks on the city.

Flight 469 - a Boeing 747 with 370 passengers and 17 crew members aboard - landed safely back at Ben Gurion Airport around 2:30 a.m. local time after flaps on the jumbo jet failed to retract properly on takeoff about two hours earlier, the airline said.

Delta spokeswoman Jennifer Martin said the crew made the emergency landing "out of an abundance of caution." She said there was no indication the plane's problem was related to the Israeli-Palestine conflict or terrorism.

Passenger Michael Simon said the crew disclosed an unspecified problem with the plane about a half-hour into the flight. The mood on board, he said, "was not so much panic as bewilderment and frustration."

"Obviously it has been a tense week in Tel Aviv," he said.

Simon said they soon started circling and dumping fuel.

Radar images showed Flight 469 in a holding pattern above the Mediterranean Sea, off the Israeli coast, for more than an hour.

Comment: The talk in this article about Israeli military intercepting rokets is just noise and as it says at the bottom of the article the only cancelled plane was the one with apparent mechanical problems. It is not the only plane with engine trouble in the last 48 hours.

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Right to die: Justin Welby and ex-Archbishop Lord Carey clash over 'assisted dying' issue

James Chapman
Daily Mail UK
Sat, 12 Jul 2014 10:03 UTC
Former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey
© Peter MacDiamid, Rex Features
Former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey
Former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey has tonight sensationally come out in favour of the right to die.

The ex-head of the Church of England revealed that he had dropped his long-standing opposition to the legalisation of assisted dying - and declared that it would not be 'anti-Christian' to change the law. Lord Carey warned that by opposing reform, the Church he led risks 'promoting anguish and pain, the very opposite of a Christian message of hope.' His intervention will send shockwaves through the religious establishment and is a significant boost for the latest attempt to legalise the right to die.

In an article for the Daily Mail, the former Archbishop reveals that he is to back legislation tabled by Labour peer Lord Falconer that will seek to legalise assisted dying for the terminally ill in England and Wales. Under the bill, to be discussed in the House of Lords next week, mentally-capable adults with less than six months to live would be able to request help to end their lives.
  • Any change in the law has always been implacably opposed by Church of England bishops sitting in the Lords, who have argued it threatens the sanctity of life. The British Medical Association has also rejected calls for it to soften its opposition to assisted dying. Opponents - including the incumbent Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby - warn that changing the law could put vulnerable people under pressure to end their lives so as 'not to be a burden' and say numbers of assisted deaths have risen alarmingly in countries where it has been legalised. The archbishop said today legalising assisted suicide would leave the 'sword of Damocles' hanging over the heads of elderly people.

    He added if the change was enacted, many elderly people would 'be put under pressure to end their lives if assisted suicide were permitted by law.' Under the new legislation, a patient would have to prove they have the mental capacity to make a 'settled' choice to end their lives and were not being unduly influenced by others. Before going ahead, their condition would have to be assessed by at least two doctors. They would also have to be informed about alternative 'end-of-life' care options

    • Comment: With many desperate for the 'right to die', others such as the Palestinians at the present time, are desperate for the 'right to live' - or even exist. See SOTT Focus

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    Female psychopath? Prostitute arrested over mysterious death of Google exec

    Josie Ensor
    Telegraph
    Thu, 10 Jul 2014 18:26 UTC
    A prostitute has been arrested on suspicion of murder after injecting a Google executive with a fatal dose of heroin on his yacht and watching him die, police have said.
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    Alix Tichelman confers with public defender Diane August during her arraignment in Santa Cruz Superior Court
    Alix Tichelman, 26, was arrested over the death of Forrest Hayes, a 51-year-old father-of-five and former Apple exec, aboard his yacht in Santa Cruz, California last November.

    Surveillance footage from the yacht shows Miss Tichelman, 26, gather her belongings, including the heroin and needles, step over the 51-year-old victim's body to finish a glass of wine and then lower a blind before leaving the boat, Santa Cruz police said.
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