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Affidavit: Tahlequah Mom Burns Baby's Testicles With Hair Straightener

Brandi Ball
News9.com
Fri, 04 May 2012 13:16 UTC
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Jodi Rock.
A Tahlequah mother is in jail after authorities say she admitted to burning her 15-month-old baby's genitals with a hair-straightening iron.

Jodi Rock, 19, is being held on a $200,000 bond at the Cherokee County Detention Center on accusations of felony injury to a child.

According to an affidavit for arrest, which was obtained Thursday by News On 6, authorities were called to the Tahlequah City Hospital on April 26 for a possible child abuse case. Investigators found Rock's baby had several bone fractures to both shoulders and burns to the groin and genital area, with some of the fractures being 12 weeks old, the affidavit says.

A deputy reported seeing three burns on the baby's genital area, including across his testicles, documents say.
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The electorate's silent, withering rebellion against the political class

Brendan O'Neill
The Telegraph
Fri, 04 May 2012 11:37 UTC
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The tumbleweed is just out of shot to the right
If you needed any further proof that the political class inhabits a different moral universe to normal human beings, look no further than this morning's analyses of yesterday's elections. "It was a good night for Labour," chirp Ed Miliband's delusional cheerleaders. "It shows that Cameron must re-engage with traditionalists," say Tory desperadoes. "It confirms the British public's rejection of the mayoral system," intone deathly dull political studies lecturers. All of these yawn-inducing attempts to decipher what message the British electorate was trying to send to the political class yesterday overlooks what the majority of us chose to say to them: absolutely nothing. Zilch. Diddly squat.

Sixty-eight per cent of eligible voters did not vote in the elections, a bloc of people so big it could be described as "the vast majority", or certainly "most people". Most people chose not to take part in these elections, and in doing so they implicitly rejected the political class in its entirety; its ideas, its policy proposals, its representatives - all were very publicly and humiliatingly cold-shouldered. What we witnessed yesterday was a silent, withering rebellion against the political elites of this country. A good night for Labour? Are you kidding me? Labour got roughly 39 per cent of the vote on an estimated turnout of 32 per cent. This means around 12 per cent of the eligible electorate voted Labour. To put it another way, 88 per cent of us - the heaving mass of society - did not vote Labour. If that's a good night for Labour, I'd hate to see a bad one.
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The Man Who Quit Money

Abby Ellin
Yahoo! News
Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00 UTC
Daniel Suelo
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Can Going Without Money Hurt the Economy? One Man's Quest to Be Penniless
Daniel Suelo is 51 years old and broke. Happily broke. Consciously, deliberately, blessedly broke.

Not only does he not have debt, a mortgage or rent, he does not earn a salary. Nor does he buy food or clothes, or own any product with a lower case "i" before it. Home is a cave on public land outside Moab, Utah. He scavenges for food from the garbage or off the land (fried grasshoppers, anyone?). He has been known to carve up and boil fresh road kill. He bathes, without soap, in the creek.

In the fall of 2000, Suelo (who changed his name from Shellabarger), decided to stop using money altogether. That meant no "conscious barter," food stamps or other government handouts. His mission was to "use only what is freely given or discarded and what is already present and already running," he wrote on his web site, Zero Currency.

The question many people wonder: Is he insane, or a mooch, or simply dedicated to leading a simple, honest, dare we say, Christ-like existence?
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Student Files $20 Million Lawsuit After Being Left For Five Days Without Food or Water in DEA Cell

Stephen C. Webster
Raw Story
Thu, 03 May 2012 08:54 UTC
Daniel Chong
Daniel Chong, the 23-year-old student at UC San Diego who was left in a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) holding cell for five days without food or water, has filed a $20 million lawsuit against the agency, according to NBC San Diego.

"The deprivation of food and water for four and one-half days, while the person is handcuffed the entire time, constitutes torture under both international and domestic law," Chong's claim says. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has asked Attorney General Eric Holder for a formal probe.

"Given the seriousness of this incident, I urge you to personally ensure that the Department of Justice conducts a full and thorough investigation to find out what happened, who was responsible and what steps must be taken to make sure it never happens again," the senator wrote. "After the investigation is completed, I ask that you please provide me with the results and the actions the department will take to make sure those responsible are held accountable and that no one in DEA custody will ever again be forced to endure such treatment."
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Human Societies Beginning to Resemble Ant Colonies

Jennifer Viegas
Discovery News
Wed, 02 May 2012 09:50 UTC
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As human populations grow, our societies are behaving more and more like ant colonies.
The similarities offer a look at just how ever-growing human societies could collapse.

The human population is growing at such a staggering rate that we are organizing ourselves more like ant supercolonies, with new research finding that we have more in common now with some ants than we do with our closest living animal kingdom relatives.

The new study, published in the journal Behavioral Ecology, points out that both humans and ants (termites, too) live in societies that may consist of up to a million plus members.

"As a result, modern humans have more in common with some ants than we do with our closest relatives the chimpanzees," Mark Moffett, author of the study, told Discovery News. "With a maximum size of about 100, no chimpanzee group has to deal with issues of public health, infrastructure, distribution of goods and services, market economies, mass transit problems, assembly lines and complex teamwork, agriculture and animal domestication, warfare and slavery."
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Indonesian Atheist Jailed for Expressing Disbelief on Facebook

Kate Hodal
The Guardian
Thu, 03 May 2012 10:22 UTC
Alex Aan
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Activists say Alex Aan’s is the first case in which an atheist in Indonesia is being tried in relation to 'pancasila', which requires belief in one god.
When Alex Aan picked up a copy of Karen Armstrong's Holy War from his local library in west Sumatra in 2005, he had little inkling of his own religious battle to come. But after posting "God doesn't exist" on Facebook, the soft-spoken civil servant, 30, faces up to 11 years in jail for what is considered blasphemy in Indonesia.

His case has stoked a debate in the world's most populous Muslim nation, whose 240 million citizens are technically guaranteed freedom of religion but protected by law only if they believe in one of six credos: Islam, Catholicism, Protestantism, Buddhism, Confucianism and Hinduism. Those who question any of those face five years in prison for "insulting a major religion", plus an additional six years if they use the internet to spread such "blasphemy" to others.

Activists say Aan's is the first case in which an atheist is being tried in relation to the first pillar of Indonesia's state philosophy - pancasila, which requires belief in one god. From the medium-security rural prison where he has been held for the past two months, Aan has little hope for the future. He has been beaten by angry mobs, rejected by his community and endured public calls for his beheading. For now he is lying low in his cramped cell, awaiting an imminent verdict and has told none of his fellow inmates about his supposed crime.
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Breivik Trial Forces Norway to Look Again at Insanity

Liss Goril Anda
BBC News
Thu, 03 May 2012 19:26 UTC
Anders Behring Breivik
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Accused Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik gestures between his defence team Vibeke Hein Baera, left, and Odd Ivar Groen, at the courtroom, in Oslo, Norway.
As Anders Behring Breivik's trial progresses in Oslo district court, the big question remains whether he can be considered responsible for his actions.

The penal codes of most Western countries allow for punishment to be adjusted according to the severity of the criminal act. In addition, the perpetrator's level of responsibility for their actions is usually considered. Other legal systems, such as the Sharia-based one of Iran, also make allowances for diminished responsibility.

In Breivik's case, there is no doubting the extreme severity of his criminal act. His killing of 77 people is the worst case of murder in Norway since World War II. The unanswered question is whether he can be held to account for a massacre to which he confesses.

Two psychiatric reports have come to conflicting conclusions as to whether Breivik was psychotic at the time of his action. The first set of experts believed he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, yet the second report concluded that he showed no signs of psychosis.

Although Norwegian courts are able to disregard forensic psychiatry reports, in practice it is extremely rare for them to do so. And a quirk in Norway's penal code means that the question of psychosis is particularly important.
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Nigeria: Gunmen Kill Dozens at Market


The New York Times
Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00 UTC
At least 34 people were killed after a failed cattle raid in a northeastern market, an official and witnesses said Thursday. Other officials offered higher death tolls. Witnesses said the violence began Wednesday when gunmen started shooting in the Potiskum market in Yobe State as they tried to steal cattle. Three people were killed before the attackers ran out of ammunition. All but one of the gunmen escaped. People in the market beat the gunman left behind before dousing him in gasoline and lighting him on fire, witnesses said. Later, the gunmen returned, killing more people and cattle. A local hospital said it had received 34 bodies. Nwakpa O. Nwakpa, a spokesman for the Nigerian Red Cross, said at least 33 people had been wounded. Toyin Gbadegeshin, a Yobe State police spokesman, blamed Boko Haram, an Islamic sect, but witnesses said the gunmen were cattle raiders who sought revenge after their first attack failed.

Source: The Associated Press
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Would you want this taught to your child?: He-Men and Virginity Pledges - Obama Administration Quietly Endorses Absurd Anti-Sex Curriculum

Debra Hauser, Monica Rodriguez, Elizabeth Schroeder and Danene Sorace
AlterNet
Tue, 01 May 2012 17:22 UTC
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The administration has succumbed to the political pressure of social conservatives, allowing ideology to prevail over the health and well-being of the nation's youth.

Sometime this month, an updated list of "evidence-based" teen pregnancy prevention programs was endorsed by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and posted to the website of the Office of Adolescent Health (OAH).

No notice, not even a press release to announce the addition of three programs to the coveted list of 28 deemed effective and carrying the HHS seal of approval. Until now, this list was the holy grail of the Administration's commitment to a science-based approach to teen pregnancy prevention and a directive for grantees of the President's Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative (TPPI).

So why the secrecy about the new additions? What does the Administration have to hide?

Because one of the "new" programs is actually an old, dis-proven and dangerous abstinence-only-until-marriage program.
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Prominent neo-Nazi believed to kill 4, himself in Gilbert, Arizona - Update


KTAR.com
Thu, 03 May 2012 15:38 UTC
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In this undated handout photo from J.T. Ready. Ready is a reputed neo-Nazi who has been conducting heavily armed patrols to catch illegal aliens in the Arizona desert amid the furor over immigration in the state and angering local law enforcement officials who say right-wing radicals are not welcome.
Gilbert Police Sergeant Bill Balafas said they believe 39-year old Jason Todd Ready was the gunman in Wednesday's shootings, an apparent-murder- suicide.

Police say they believe a former Marine with ties to neo- Nazi and Minutemen groups is responsible for shooting four people and taking his own life in a suburban Phoenix home.

"It's safe to say this was a domestic-violence incident," said Balafas.

Authorities say that the four others killed were 15-month- old Lily Lynn Mederos; 23-year-old Amber Nieve Mederos; 47-year-old Lisa Lynn Mederos and 24-year-old Jim Franklin Hiott.

Media reports say Lisa Mederos was Ready's girlfriend and Amber and Lily were her daughter and granddaughter.

Ready was known in Arizona for organizing a militia in the desert with the goal of finding illegal immigrants and drug smugglers. The 39-year-old outfitted himself with military fatigues, body armor and gas masks, and carrying assault rifles.
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