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Boy gnaws on piece of finger in Arby's sandwich


Associated Press
Thu, 17 May 2012 11:55 UTC
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A Michigan teen made a gristly discovery after biting into an Arby's junior roast beef sandwich.

Ryan Hart said he had nearly polished off his sandwich last Friday when he bit into something tough to chew that tasted like rubber, so he spit it out.

Turns out it tasted like finger. The fleshy pad of an unfortunate employee's finger, apparently.

"I was like, 'That (has) to be a finger,'" Hart, 14, told the Jackson Citizen Patriot on Wednesday. "I was about to puke. ... It was just nasty."

The employee apparently cut her finger on a meat slicer and left her station without immediately telling anyone, said Steve Hall, the environmental health director for the Jackson County health department. Her co-workers continued filling orders before they became aware of what happened, he said.

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Yuck!

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EU: Leaders add to rising fears of breakup

John W. Schoen
MSNBC
Thu, 17 May 2012 10:20 UTC
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Greek Archbishop Ieronimos blesses the new caretaker prime minister, Panagiotis Pikrammenos, right, in Athens Thursday. Greeks will return to the polls next month after an inconclusive vote sent jitters across the eurozone.
European officials are playing a dangerous game of chicken with Greece.

In an apparent signal to Greek voters, the head of the World Bank warned Thursday that if Athens were to depart from the common currency, Spain and Italy could well be the next dominoes to fall in Europe's widening financial crisis.

After ousting the Athens government that agreed to deeper spending cuts in return for a financial lifeline, voters return to the polls in June after the winning parties failed to form a new government. Apparently hoping to convince Greek voters to return a pro-austerity government to power, European officials are now openly discussing the likely dire consequences if they don't.

But the comments may have only served to heighten fears of a wider breakup of the eurozone should Greece exit the monetary union.

Investors backed away further from Spain's government debt Thursday, raising the country's borrowing costs to levels that sparked the Greek debt crisis in the first place.
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Quebec student protests: Province bringing in legislation to end strike

Kevin Dougherty
Montreal Gazette
Thu, 17 May 2012 10:12 UTC
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Canada - The Quebec government intends to present a bill to end the province's 14-week tuition strike, Premier Jean Charest announced Wednesday night - a proposal that was quickly and decisively rejected by student leaders.

The bill calls for suspending the current academic session at 14 CEGEP schools and 11 out of 18 universities where students remain out of classes, unless an agreement can be reached.

The winter session would resume in August and September.

The bill would also guarantee that students who want to return to classes can.

The specifics of the bill were not spelled out, respecting legislative protocol, which requires the government to first present bills in the assembly.

Charest also said his April 27 proposal - to add $39 million in bursaries and to change student-aid rules so low-income students would not feel the impact of the $1,778 tuition increase over seven years - would come into force.

The premier appealed to student and union leaders for calm, expressing the hope his new approach would lead to campus peace.

"Nothing can justify violence and intimidation," Charest said. "You and I know there are some individuals who have used this debate to use violence and intimidation, and that's just a fact.
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Bad Guys

Wells Fargo Has Blood on Its Hands: Desperate Man Commits Suicide After Shocking Foreclosure Mistreatment

Dave Johnson
AlterNet
Tue, 15 May 2012 21:30 UTC
Wells Fargo
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This is the story of what happens when an average couple is up against a giant, wealthy, powerful bank.

Norman and Oriane Rousseau were one more couple pushed by a huge, greedy bank to the brink of homelessness. On Sunday, desperate and with nowhere to go, Norman Rousseau shot himself.

This is the story of what happens when an average couple is up against a giant, wealthy, powerful bank. Unfortunately the result is what the result always is when people are on their own against the wealthy and powerful: the bank ends up with all of their money, takes their house to sell and throws them out onto the street. In this case the bank is Wells Fargo.

The quick version of this terrible story is that Norman and Oriane Rousseau of Newbury Park, California were scammed into a predatory mortgage. But they made their payments anyway, always paying with a cashier's check in person at the same branch. Then one day the bank misapplied their payment and said they still owed the money. This started a long, nasty process that led to the bank evicting the Rousseaus from their home.

Here's the shocker: right at the start the Rousseaus came up with proof that the bank had received the payment and had cashed the check. But the bank continued to claim it had missed the payment, gave the Rousseaus the runaround, started applying fees, and used it as an excuse to foreclose on the house anyway.
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Kelly Thomas' Mother Accepts $1M Settlement with City of Fullerton

Samantha Tata and Beverly White
NBC4 Southern California
Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00 UTC
Kelly Thomas died in July 2011 after a violent confrontation with Fullerton police at a bus depot.

A unanimous vote by Fullerton city council members Tuesday granted the mother of a mentally ill homeless man who died after a violent confrontation with police a $1 million settlement with the city, officials said.
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Police Officers to Stand Trial in Kelly Thomas Beating Case


NBC 4
Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00 UTC

Fullerton Officer Manuel Ramos and Cpl. Jay Cicinelli charged in the beating death of transient Kelly Thomas have been ordered to stand trial following a three-day preliminary hearing. Vikki Vargas reports from Santa Ana for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on May 9, 2012.
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Wife of Missing Burbank FBI Agent Implores Public for Help

Melissa Pamer
NBC4
Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00 UTC
He would "never hurt" anyone, Stephen Ivens' wife said in a statement

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It's being called the largest search in Burbank in the past 20 years. FBI Agent Stephen Ivens disappeared after going for a hike near his home. John Cadiz Klemack reports from Burbank for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on May 15, 2012.
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FBI veteran arrested on child pornography charges


Fox 59
Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00 UTC
Donald J. Sachtleben, 54, was charged with possessing and distributing child pornography.


A former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and Carmel resident was arrested on child pornography charges.

Donald J. Sachtleben, 54, has been charged with possessing and distributing child pornography.

U.S. Attorney Joseph Hogsett announced the criminal charges Monday, stating law enforcement began investigating an individual suspected of trading child pornography online in September 2010. That individual, who resided in Illinois, was arrested in January 2012.

After searching the Illinois suspect's computer, authorities discovered he was trading material with several other people. Hogsett said law enforcement was able to trace the alleged online activity to Sachtleben's home in Carmel.
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Blackbox

Robert Kennedy Jr.'s ex-wife Mary found dead in New York home in apparent suicide

Meghan Keneally
DailyMail.co.uk
Wed, 16 May 2012 16:27 UTC
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Mary Kennedy, seen here with her ex-husband Robert Kennedy Jr., was found dead in her Mount Kisco home on Wednesday
Mary Kennedy, the ex-wife of Robert Kennedy Jr., was found dead this morning in her home. Initial reports point to suicide as the cause of death for the 52-year-old.

She and Robert Kennedy, the third-eldest of Robert Kennedy's 11 children, were married for 16 years before they divorced in May of 2010.

The mother-of-four was found dead in her Mount Kisco home Wednesday but there have yet to be formal reports about the exact cause of death.

'There was an EMT vehicle outside the home about an hour ago,' a source told Radar Online.

Just three days after her ex filed for divorce, she was arrested for suspected drunk driving.

She was arrested when police saw her drive over a curb outside of a school carnival. When she failed several sobriety tests, she was given a breathalyzer test and blew a 0.11 which is above the legal limit of 0.08.
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Greeks withdraw $894 million in a day: Is this beginning of a run on banks?

Alastair Jamieson
msnbc.com
Wed, 16 May 2012 10:03 UTC
Political leaders in Athens were due to discuss an emergency government Wednesday to deal with a possible run on banks as it emerged Greeks withdrew almost $900 million in a single day, fearing their country could crash out of the euro currency by the end of the week.

An interim government would take the country through to new elections on June 17, triggered by the collapse on Tuesday of talks to form a coalition between winners of the inconclusive May 6 election.

Greeks are withdrawing euros from banks, apparently afraid of the prospect of rapid devaluation if the country leaves the European single currency and returns to the drachma.

Comment: Despite the fear mongering promoted by the "experts" above, if Greece leaves the eurozone, though they will face difficulties initially, the possibility exists that the country and its people would reclaim their sovereignty eventually. The change in currency has nothing to do with the creation of totalitarian regimes, as a look at current international politics proves.

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