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Beheaded pets left on people's property in Connecticut

Bob Wilson
News 8 WTNH
Tue, 22 Oct 2013 21:21 UTC

New Canaan -- Police in New Canaan are trying to solve a gruesome mystery. Someone there has been beheading animals and pets and leaving the heads on people's property.

It's happened at least a couple of times over the last few days.

"Normally we are putting up signs for neighbors who are missing animals, not torturing them," said Lillian Worthley.

Police say two animals have been decapitated. A third killed and left in the backseat of a neighbor's car.

It happened last week in three different neighborhoods in New Canaan.

The cat was the neighborhood pet that went missing.

"We are not 100%, we believe that is the same cat. The cat goes missing and the head turns up a day later in the vicinity of where the cat went missing," said Sgt. Carol Ogrinc, New Canaan Police.

Police investigate possible human bones, 'occult altar' at vacant home in Colorado

Lance Hernandez
ABC 7
Tue, 22 Oct 2013 21:10 UTC

Lakewood - Lakewood police are investigating the discovery of possible human bones and items which, they say, may have been used in "occult" religious ceremonies.

The bones were found in a tool shed outside a vacant home on Kline Street.

They were discovered by a cleaning crew hired by the realtor, to help prepare the property for possible sale or rent. That cleaning crew called police.

Nevada student opens fire, kills teacher and himself

Scott Sonner
Associated Press
Mon, 21 Oct 2013 00:01 UTC

© Marilyn Newton - AP
Jorge Martinez, 13, right, cries in his mother Norma's arms following the shooting that left two dead, including the shooter, at Sparks Middle School Monday Oct. 21, 2013. A student at the school opened fire on campus just before the starting bell Monday, wounding two boys and killing a teacher who was trying to protect other children, Sparks police and the victim's family members said.

A student at a Nevada middle school opened fire with a semi-automatic handgun on campus just before the starting bell Monday, wounding two 12-year-old boys and killing a math teacher who was trying to protect children from their classmate.

The unidentified shooter killed himself with the gun after a rampage that occurred in front of 20 to 30 horrified students who had just returned to school from a weeklong fall break. Authorities did not provide a motive for the shooting, and it's unknown where the student got the gun.

Teacher Michael Landsberry was being hailed for his actions during the shooting outside Sparks Middle School.

"In my estimation, he is a hero. ... We do know he was trying to intervene," Reno Deputy Police Chief Tom Robinson said.

Bully apologises after 100 Facebook users stage rally outside school to support teenage victim

Metro UK
Sun, 20 Oct 2013 19:10 UTC

A teenage bully was forced to apologise to his victim after 100 Facebook users staged a rally outside his school.

Halsey Parkerson, who had been taunted and verbally abused by the unnamed bully, has his aunt to thank after she arranged the meet-up at South Salem High School in Oregon.

She had gone to meet Halsey for lunch last Thursday when she witnessed another student telling him that he 'didn't have any friends and no one cares'.

After taking to Facebook to rally support from her local car club, the word quickly spread, with impressive results.

Around 100 people, in around 50 cars, turned up outside the school on Friday, with one person even making the journey from Vancouver in Canada - over 350 miles away.

Pope Francis describes 'ideological Christians' as a 'serious illness' within the Church

Eric W. Dolan
Raw Story
Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:25 UTC

Speaking at daily Mass last Thursday, Pope Francis warned Christians against turning their faith into a rigid ideology.

"The faith passes, so to speak, through a distiller and becomes ideology," he said, according to Radio Vatican. "And ideology does not beckon [people]. In ideologies there is not Jesus: in his tenderness, his love, his meekness. And ideologies are rigid, always. Of every sign: rigid.

"And when a Christian becomes a disciple of the ideology, he has lost the faith: he is no longer a disciple of Jesus, he is a disciple of this attitude of thought... For this reason Jesus said to them: 'You have taken away the key of knowledge.' The knowledge of Jesus is transformed into an ideological and also moralistic knowledge, because these close the door with many requirements."

Japan's depopulation time bomb

Japan Times
Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:09 UTC

The National Institute of Population and Social Security Research on March 27 announced a population estimate for Japan in 2040. As expected, what emerges out of this is a nation with an unprecedented rapidly aging and declining population. The implications of the estimate must be taken very seriously and preparations made to ameliorate the impact of this situation.

The estimate shows population trends in 2040 for each municipality. It is imperative that both the central and local governments design a sustainable social security system in time as well as to consider ways to secure a sufficient number of workers to prevent a decline in industrial capability. Local governments also need to work out measures aimed at maintaining and stabilizing people's lives in local communities by foreseeing what will happen to their industries, social services, transportation and so on.

The estimate shows that Japan's population in 2040 will stand at 107.276 million, a decline of about 20 million from 2010′s 128.057 million. A January 2012 estimate by the same institute had shown that in 2060, Japan's population will number 86.737 million, about 30 percent less from the 2010 level.

Victims to get louder voice in legal system, Justice Minister says

Sean Fine
The Globe and Mail
Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:57 UTC

© Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press
A new victims’ bill of rights put ‘victims in a better place, their more rightful place, which is at the heart of the system,’ Justice Minister Peter MacKay says.

The Conservative government is seeking to give victims of crime a more active role in the legal process.

A bill will be put forward this fall that extends victim involvement "from the time of the offence to the final disposition of the sentence," Justice Minister Peter MacKay said in an exclusive interview with The Globe and Mail. A new victims' bill of rights would attempt to include them "at all levels and at all points in the process."

It would put "victims in a better place, their more rightful place, which is at the heart of the system," he said. "They're not just another Crown witness. They want a more effective voice."

In June, Canada's Ombudsman for Victims of Crime, Sue O'Sullivan, suggested giving victims the right to a speaking role in the plea-bargaining process - a system already in place in Arizona. Mr. MacKay would not say whether this would be part of his bill. What he did say was that it would have substantive and wide-ranging meaning for victims.

Alberta train derailment renews fears over moving oil by rail

Carrie Tait and Kim Mackrael
The Globe and Mail
Sun, 20 Oct 2013 15:44 UTC

© Dan Riedlhuber/Reuters
Investigators survey the site of a train derailment near Gainford, Alta., west of Edmonton, on Oct. 20, 2013. About 100 people were forced to evacuate their homes after the derailment, which resulted in two explosions.

Nine blackened tankers are scattered around the site. Part of the rail is mangled, warped, and burned black.

A train carrying propane and crude that crashed in the hamlet of Gainford, Alta., early Saturday morning is once again raising questions about the safety of moving oil by rail in Canada, particularly in the wake of July's fatal rail disaster in Lac-Mégantic, Que. No one was hurt in Gainford, but it was Canadian National Railway Co.'s third notable derailment in the past month involving hazardous materials, and it caused explosions and fire on both sides of a four-line highway.

Alberta's oil industry is a key reason rail has become a popular shipping method. As oil-sands production climbs, the amount of available space on North America's pipeline network declines. The province's energy industry could stall if shipping by rail came off the table.

"The system is safe," Federal Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said in an interview Saturday. "Although we will see derailments, we've never seen an accident or an incident like Lac-Mégantic, that's for sure. But the system is safe.

Dominican court ruling renders hundreds of thousands stateless

Ricardo Rojas
Reuters
Sat, 12 Oct 2013 15:24 UTC

© REUTERS/Ricardo Rojas
Sentilia Igsema (2nd R, seated), born in 1930 in the Dominican Republic to Haitian immigrants, poses with four generations of her family outside their home in Batey La Higuera, in the eastern Seibo province, October 7, 2013.

For four generations Banesa Blemi's family, descendants of Haitian immigrants, put down roots as low-wage sugar cane cutters in their adopted homeland, and came to consider themselves Dominicans.

Then, last month the country's Constitutional Court issued a decision effectively denationalizing Blemi and her family, along with an estimated 250,000 fellow immigrants born after 1929.

"I have no country. What will become of me?" said Blemi, 27, standing with relatives outside the family's wooden shack near La Romana, the heart of the Dominican Republic's sugar cane industry and one of the Caribbean's top tourist resorts.

"We are Dominicans - we have never been to Haiti. We were born and raised here. We don't even speak Creole," she said, referring to Haiti's native tongue.

Fukushima plant area had collapse and subsidence due to the last Typhoon, no press release

Mochizuki
Fukushima Diary
Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:22 UTC

Two Fukushima workers commented on Twitter that the previous Typhoon "WIPHA" caused a slope in Fukushima plant area to collapse.

The slope faces the main street, and the earth and sand blockaded the street. Also, there was a part to have had a subsidence.

Those workers are surprised because there was no press release from Tepco about this.

The worker added there are more slopes in the area and they may collapse due to the next Typhoon that may hit eastern Japan this weekend.

(cf, Next typhoon to hit eastern Japan this weekend / "Very strong" again [URL 2])

.. .. if it's on Katz's Court TV is an over propagandized ruse? or, (the late) H. Wayne the Carver, coroner?

Jibrish

.. .. A bot in lipstick is still a bot [Link]

Jibrish

Link to the video on YT: [Link]

Jean Michel

It was probably vaccine hesitancy that killed the mammoths!

sbc

Parts shortages been happening for generations. For example how many spineless and brainless people ya know?

sbc

Society's Child

Beheaded pets left on people's property in Connecticut

Police investigate possible human bones, 'occult altar' at vacant home in Colorado

Nevada student opens fire, kills teacher and himself

Bully apologises after 100 Facebook users stage rally outside school to support teenage victim

Pope Francis describes 'ideological Christians' as a 'serious illness' within the Church

Japan's depopulation time bomb

Victims to get louder voice in legal system, Justice Minister says

Alberta train derailment renews fears over moving oil by rail

Dominican court ruling renders hundreds of thousands stateless

Fukushima plant area had collapse and subsidence due to the last Typhoon, no press release

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