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Mass-Killer Breivik Sane and Sentenced to Prison

USA Today
Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:00 UTC

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Anders Behring Breivik talks to his lawyer Vibeke Hein Baera in the courtroom in Oslo where he was sentenced to prison.

Oslo, Norway - Anders Behring Breivik got what he wanted - a prison term instead of an insanity ruling - as he received his sentence Friday for bomb and gun attacks that killed 77 people last year.

Breivik, a self-styled anti-Muslim militant, looked pleased as Judge Wenche Elisabeth Arntzen read the ruling, declaring him sane enough to be held criminally responsible for Norway's worst peacetime attacks.

Going against the recommendation of prosecutors, who had asked for an insanity ruling, the five-judge panel in the Oslo district court convicted Breivik of terrorism and premeditated murder. They imposed a sentence of "preventive detention," a special prison term for criminals considered dangerous to society.

She set the minimum length of imprisonment to 10 years and the maximum at 21 years, the longest allowed under Norwegian law.

Chinese Fisherman Hooks £300,000 Fish

Malcolm Moore
The Telegraph, UK
Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:22 UTC

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The bahaba is listed as an endangered fish but its high market price is down to its value in Chinese medicine as its bladder can be used to cure diseases related to the lungs and heart.

A Chinese fisherman has netted a fortune after catching a critically endangered, but hugely prized, fish worth £300,000.

The fisherman, whose identity has not been revealed, caught a Chinese Bahaba, or Giant Yellow Croaker, off the coast of Fujian province last week.

After a bidding war, a local fishmonger paid him three million yuan (£300,000) for the 176lb fish, or £1,700 a pound, according to the Strait News, a local newspaper in Fujian.

The fisherman told the newspaper he had found the fish floating on the surface of the sea and had "picked it up". The size of the fish caught the attention of his fellow villagers, and the specimen was quickly identified. After the auction, the fisherman said he would use the windfall to buy a bigger boat.

The Chinese Bahaba (Bahaba taipingensis) can reach 6ft 7in in length and weigh more than 220lb. It is particularly prized for its swim bladder, which is used by practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine to cure heart and lung ailments.

Detroit Palm Reader Threatens to Curse New Jersey Woman in Case of Psychic Ransom

Gus Burns
mLive.com
Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:25 UTC

A case of supernatural blackmail has become a Detroit police matter.

Police in Hoboken, N.J. say a woman reported being cursed by three friends after she informed on someone regarding a police incident more than three years ago.

The victim was told, although it unclear by whom, that she would have to visit a palm reader on Arlington in Detroit to have the curse removed.

Hoboken Police Sgt. Sam Williams confirmed, based on the woman's statement, that she visited the palm reader as requested and paid $2,000 for the lifting of the curse.

It didn't work.

Two weeks later, the victim felt the curse still loomed and called the Detroit mystic again for help.

Williams said the palm reader told the New Jersey woman that the curse had been reinstated; to lift it would require a bit more money.

The victim obliged - for at least a while - paying over $2,000 throughout the next two years.

The victim stopped paying the clairvoyant's mystical ransom about four months ago, prompting the psychic to take action.

Faith in Army's direction falls to all-time low

Jeff Black
NBC News
Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:50 UTC

The number of Army leaders who believe that the largest military branch is heading in the right direction has hit an all-time low, according to an independent survey of 17,000 commissioned and non-commissioned officers.

In a global survey conducted in November and December of 2011, only 26 percent of Army leaders who participated agreed with the statement that the Army "is headed in the right direction to prepare for the challenges of the next 10 years."

That compares to 33 percent who agreed with that statement in 2010 and 38 percent in 2006.

The survey was taken in the midst of more than a decade of war, a shrinking force and the development of a new U.S. defense strategy, announced by President

2 Good Samaritans electrocuted trying to help car crash victim

Andrew Mach
NBC News
Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:20 UTC

Two women were electrocuted Wednesday after trying to help the victims of a car accident in Los Angeles, fire department officials said.

The women, who have not been identified, were apparently responding separately to the scene of a crash in Valley Village in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles., where a vehicle slammed into a fire hydrant and a light pole which knocked down a power line around 8:30 p.m.

The SUV came to a stop about 10 feet away from the fire hydrant, which burst, shooting water two stories into the air, witnesses said. The gushing water quickly pooled underneath the vehicle where the damaged light pole left electrical wires sticking out of the ground.

Fire department officials said the wires were disguised by the darkness, the running water and the growing number of startled neighbors and passing drivers who came running to help. Unbeknownst to the first people who tried to help the victim of the crash, an adult male, the water was electrified.

Three Mile Island nuclear plant releases steam, but no radiation detected

Matthew Kemeny
Penn Live
Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:13 UTC

Pennsylvania, US - People who live near Three Mile Island in Londonderry Township may have heard a loud noise this morning when steam was released into the atmosphere during a shutdown of the nuclear power plant.

If there were traces of radiation in the steam, the amount was so low it was undetectable, Exelon Corp. spokesman Ralph DeSantis said.

The plant was being manually shut down today for repairs to a slight leak in a heater element when a pump in the non-nuclear section malfunctioned around 8 a.m., causing the plant to shut down immediately. When this happened, steam was released from valves, DeSantis said.

TMI will return to service after the repairs, inspections and testing on the heater element on the plant's pressurizer tank are complete, DeSantis said.

Electric customers were not affected by the plant being offline.

Comment: Comment: Now, here is a question; if electric customers were not affected by the plant being offline, why is it needed?

New jobless claims take surprise jump

NBC News
Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:50 UTC

New claims for unemployment benefits took an unexpected jump in the latest week, raising more concerns about the struggling job market and providing further incentive for the Federal Reserve to jump in and help the economy.

The Labor Department reported Thursday that seasonally-adjusted initial claims rose 4,000 to 372,000. That's compared to a decline of 1,000 that economists on average had been expecting.

The data keeps pressure on President Barack Obama ahead of his November re-election bid. His Republican challenger is trying to focus voters' attention on a lofty unemployment rate that has dogged Obama's presidency.

"It's not a great number. The trend for jobless claims has been flat and has been erratic of late. But overall it does keep the odds for more quantitative easing from the Fed," said currency strategist Brian Kim of RBS Securities.

United Church of Canada Clarifies its Boycott of Israeli Settlements

David Taub Bancroft
rabble.com
Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:00 UTC

After months of controversy and negative media attention, the United Church of Canada, the country's largest Protestant denomination, finally made it official. The church's General Council voted today to call on its members to avoid buying products coming from Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Presbyterian and Methodist churches in the United States have made similar calls.

Despite the tameness of such proposals, we may expect a continuation of the widespread and exaggerated complaints that have saturated the Canadian press for the last few months. In the interests of honesty and clarity, I would like to address three common distortions.

Ecuador Doesn't Fear US Revenge for Giving Asylum to Assange

Ricardo Patino
RT America
Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:00 UTC

Ecuador does not fear US revenge for granting asylum to Julian Assange. Despite America's power in the world, it is not Ecuador's "father or teacher to punish us," the country's foreign minister said exclusively to RT Spanish host Eva Golinger.

"We don't think that any punishment is possible, nor do we think that there is a reason for revenge (let's call it this way, it is stronger than "punishment") for Ecuador's sovereign decision. The USA does it every day," Ricardo Patino said.

Ecuador believes that the situation around Assange, who is wanted in Sweden for questioning on sexual assault allegations, will not provoke a breach in relations between his country and the US because there are no grounds for the relationship to worsen.

"The only difference is that it may appear now that a small, less-developed country has fewer rights to protect freedom and lives of other people than world powers," Patino told Eva Golinger, RT Spanish TV host, lawyer and writer. "We have the same rights as they do. We will not accept any revenge in any case," he stressed.

Congressional Budget Office Warns of Looming Recession

Aljazeera
Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:15 UTC

Congressional Budget Office says massive spending cuts and tax hikes due in 2013 could lead to fiscal crisis.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has said that the US economy can fall into recession, if the Congress fails to take action to stave off tax increases and automatic budget cuts scheduled for January 1.

The nonpartisan analysis, released on Wednesday, said massive spending cuts and tax hikes due next year would cause even worse economic damage than previously thought if Washington failed to come up with a solution.

Failure to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff" of expiring tax cuts and automatic spending reductions would cause US gross domestic product to shrink 0.5 per cent in 2013.

Previously, CBO forecast full-year GDP growth of 0.5 per cent.

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Society's Child

Mass-Killer Breivik Sane and Sentenced to Prison

Chinese Fisherman Hooks £300,000 Fish

Detroit Palm Reader Threatens to Curse New Jersey Woman in Case of Psychic Ransom

Faith in Army's direction falls to all-time low

2 Good Samaritans electrocuted trying to help car crash victim

Three Mile Island nuclear plant releases steam, but no radiation detected

New jobless claims take surprise jump

United Church of Canada Clarifies its Boycott of Israeli Settlements

Ecuador Doesn't Fear US Revenge for Giving Asylum to Assange

Congressional Budget Office Warns of Looming Recession

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