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Another round: COMERS v. Bank of Canada, fighting to restore their National Public Bank

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A few days ago, on October 14, the Canadian Court of Appeals heard another attempt from the Crown (representing the Bank of Canada) to dismiss a case against it--a case that argues the Bank has retreated from its mandate to operate as a public bank. The Canadian government is now repeating arguments it has already made concerning justiciability, and is throwing in some other procedural objections. The plaintiffs are confident that this will be the last round of procedural appeals, and that the case will actually go to trial.


Comment:
"The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one which complexity is used to disguise truth not reveal it."
Economist, John Kenneth Galbraith

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Protesters gather in NYC for 'Rise Up October' rally against police killing civilians

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© RuptlyL'Sana DJahspora speaks at the Say Their Names rally in New York City, October 22, 201
Hundreds gathered in New York City's Times Square on Thursday, launching a three-day protest against officer-involved killings, brutality and mass imprisonment dubbed "Rise Up October."

The three-day protest began Thursday morning with a "Say Their Names" rally. Hundreds gathered in midtown Manhattan to hear relatives speak about their loved ones who were killed by police officers over the past several years.

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Legalized child abuse: Children can be hit as "punishment" in 19 US states

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Notice the complete lack of green?
Every single school day in the United States, an estimated 838 students face corporal punishment from school staff, despite overwhelming studies indicating the practice is ineffective and can have long-term negative effects.


Comment: Is child abuse another area where America is #1?


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Several 'men' indicted on charges of drugging and videotaping the rape of a 6-year-old

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© Cumberland County PrisonIra S. Task, 61, of Harrisburg, is facing charges that include rape of a child. He was charged Wednesday, and his charges are connected to charges filed against a Carlisle man accused of raping the same victim, and video-recording Task. o.O
An HIV-positive Harrisburg man charged with raping a child, whose case police say is connected with a Carlisle man charged with video recording the incident and putting it on the Internet, is facing criminal charges in Cumberland County. Charges that include rape of a child were filed Wednesday against Ira S. Task, 61.

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North Middleton Township Police say they have filed additional charges against William C. Byers Augusta, 19
The investigation began locally when North Middleton Township Police Detective Matthew Johnson and Detective Ryan Parthemore of the Cumberland County District Attorney's Office of Criminal Investigation Division were contacted by the Department of Homeland Security regarding an ongoing child-exploitation investigation.

According to charging documents filed on Wednesday, the investigation unfolded like this:

Federal investigators told local authorities of a live-streamed rape of a 6-year-old over a video-conferencing website that occurred on July 22. The man in the video, who investigators identified as William C. Byers Augusta, 19, was having sexual contact with the victim. The investigation led police to a North Middleton Township home where they found a laptop in Byers Augusta's bedroom. The laptop revealed numerous videos and photographs of child pornography.

Comment: It's only been a few years since Jerry Sandusky was arrested and charged with raping several children during his tenure at Penn State University. It was rumored that he was part of a larger ring, but the rumors were largely swept from the public's mind and the entire affair left the headlines. It's possible those rumors had some truth to them, especially when political connections to covering up investigations into larger pedophile rings have happened time and time again.

The curious reader is invited to google the Dutroux Affair, the Franklin Scandal, the Finder's cult or pedophiles in the Pentagon. All of these connections and events are discussed in a Sott Focus by Harrison Koehli: Men Who Hate Women: The Franklin Scandal and the Truth About Our Leaders.

What's clear is that there are a lot of pedophiles out there, they are very well connected and rarely caught.


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Class action lawsuit filed by Missouri community over nuclear contamination

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Memories once cherished have turned bittersweet for some living near Coldwater Creek in North St. Louis, Missouri, where improperly handled World War II-era nuclear waste has contaminated their environment and, according to a community group, their lives.

"We're still casualties of World War II," Mary Oscko, a non-smoker with stage 4 lung cancer who lives by Coldwater Creek, told RT in an interview.

In 1947, the Manhattan Project, which created the first atom bomb, chose about 22 acres of land north of Lambert Airport in St. Louis as its dumping grounds for radioactive waste. Hundreds of thousands of tons of it, all owned by the government, were carelessly stored outside, allowing the holding containers to rust and spill uranium and other contaminants out onto the ground.

"People started getting diagnosed with cancer before 40 and these were active people, very healthy people. It just didn't make sense," Jenelle Wright, a community advocate who helps run a Facebook group that collects stories from cancer- and disease-stricken neighbors, told RT's Marina Portnaya.

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Man tries to strangle Muslim woman, bites police officer

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Triceten Bickford
The FBI is looking into whether to file federal charges against a 19-year old university student who was arrested at the weekend for shouting racial slurs and carrying out a physical attack on a Muslim woman in a café in Bloomington, Indiana.

Regardless of whether the FBI charges Triceten Bickford with a hate crime, he already faces multiples state charges for the incident which occurred on Saturday night. Those include felony charges of strangulation, battery on a police officer, and intimidation and misdemeanor charges of battery and battery by bodily waste in connection with the attack, according to the Associated Press.

The woman at the center of the attack, who remains unnamed, said Bickford approached her yelling "white power, white power," as well as anti-black slurs and "kill the police." Things escalated when he yanked her scarf, said the police affidavit, according to the Fort Wayne News Sentinel.

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Woman arrested for leaving creepy notes to neighbor family: "The children look delicious"

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Carrie Pernula
What should've been a simple dispute between neighbors over exuberant children turned into a frightened family believing they had a cannibal in their midst. They began to receive mail saying their "children look delicious" and asking "may I have a taste."

The two phrases sent to the parents in Champlin, Minnesota, were certainly a bolt from the blue, and a rather unpleasant one at that. They received the threatening letter September 27.

"Opened our mail today to this letter. Obviously my stomach started doing somersaults," the parents posted on the Champlin community Facebook page.
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The terrified family called the local police to look into the matter after they began to receive magazine subscriptions with similarly frightening lines on them.

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Psycho cops run over elderly dog several times then shoot it

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© Natalie Kalata/CBCKaren Sutherland says her dog was run over and shot dead by the OPP.
A disturbing video surfaced this week showing Ontario Provincial Police officers conducting themselves in a most disgusting and cruel manner.

A 21-year-old German Shepard-cattle dog mix belonging to Karen Sutherland had gotten loose during a storm. When police officers arrived on the scene and saw the mostly deaf and nearly decrepit dog, they apparently feared for their lives and took offensive action.

Instead of seeing if the dog had an ID tag and perhaps attempting to return it to the owner, these cowardly cops decided to run it down - multiple times.

The entire gruesome incident was captured on cellphone video from a nearby neighbor who originally thought the beloved pet was a coyote.

Comment: Nothing and no one is safe around cops.

'A cop tried to kill my dog last night': Tales from the police state


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Colorado man dies of dehydration in police custody; DA declares it a 'natural cause'

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© screenshotTyler Tabor
A Colorado family has been left without justice after an Adams County District Attorney found no criminal negligence on the part of the jail staff who allowed a 25-year-old man in custody to die from dehydration.

Tyler Tabor, 25, was being held in the Adams County Detention Facility this past May for outstanding warrants. Three days later, he would be dead from what District Attorney Dave Young has called "natural causes."

Tabor had told the staff at the jail that he was suffering from a heroin withdrawal and asked to be placed on an IV the evening before he died. He was reportedly falling on the floor and unable to grasp his medication, yet he was refused proper medical attention.

A nurse who was on duty told the suffering man that they try not to use an IV unless it is absolutely necessary.

The morning of his death, the 5 a.m. routine "row check" was passed over because of other incidents that were occurring at the jail. When staff finally made their way to Tabor's cell to check on him at 5:25, he was having trouble breathing.

An ambulance was called to transport him to a hospital, but it was too late, and Tabor succumbed to the dehydration and died before help arrived.

Young decided that staff followed protocol when they allowed Tabor to die in their care, and wrote that even if they had checked on him at 5:00 a.m., it likely would not have made a difference.

His parents have already hired an attorney and plan to sue the facility as well as the controversial medical services provider that the jail uses, Corizon Health.


Comment: Good! The detention center should also be criminally charged for denying the requested (and clearly needed) medical attention.


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Adolescent psychopaths? Students add cleaning solution to teacher's drink

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A Gillett, Wisconsin, high school school teacher went to the hospital after a group of students filled his soda with cleaning solution, police say.

On Oct. 20, the Gillett Secondary School teacher noticed a strange smell coming from his bottle after he had left it unattended, Fox 11 News reports.

"Something was off. He thought that maybe a foreign substance could have been put in it," school superintendent Todd Carlson told Fox 11.

While the teacher had no symptoms, he decided to admit himself to the hospital as a precaution.