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Second grader left to walk streets for hours after teacher locks her out of class for spilled water


Mail Online
Wed, 12 Feb 2014 12:59 UTC
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Demanding answers: Damia and Jason Dillard's seven-year-old daughter Samaya was found wandering the streets on December 13 after being kicked out of class for spilling water
  • Jefferson Elementary School teacher Lupe Rodriguez accused of dragging Samaya Dillard, 7, out of class on her chair on December 18
  • The second grade student then walked about two miles away from the Californian school, across a busy highway and to a parking lot
  • She was missing for more than an hour before anyone noticed
  • Her dad Jason Dillard found her roaming the neighborhood
  • Samaya's parents are suing the school, claiming the teacher had bullied the girl over several months
The parents of a seven-year-old girl who wandered the streets for up to two hours after her 'bully' teacher kicked her out of class for spilling water are suing the school.

Jason and Damia Dillard say the Jefferson Elementary School teacher dragged their daughter, Samaya, out of the second-grade class on a chair 'in a fit of frightening rage' about 9.30am and ordered her to stay outside on December 18.

But after sitting alone through recess and the beginning of her reading class, Samaya walked out of the California school and across major intersections, a freeway and through a shopping center parking lot before she was found.

She'd been missing for more than one hour before anyone noticed she was gone.
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Texas teen gets suspended from school for being human

Jason Howerton
The Blaze
Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:12 UTC
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© FacebookChristian Tumax
An 18-year-old student at Rudder High School in Bryan, Texas, was suspended from school after he stood up for a special needs students at lunch.

Christian Tumax told KBTX-TV that he heard his friend, the special needs student, hollering behind him. When he turned around, he saw him being "harassed."

Immediately, Tumax said he intervened and told the bullies to "be quiet and leave him alone." School officials say there was then an exchange of words.

The incident landed him in a meeting with school officials. He was suspended later that day.

However, Tumax said he isn't angry at school officials for doing their job.

"They had to base it off what they saw in the cameras," the student explained. "They saw me go forward, and that's the reason I got suspended."
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20 Signs that the global economic crisis is starting to catch fire

Michael Snyder
theeconomiccollapseblog.com
Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:29 UTC
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If you have been waiting for the "global economic crisis" to begin, just open up your eyes and look around. I know that most Americans tend to ignore what happens in the rest of the world because they consider it to be "irrelevant" to their daily lives, but the truth is that the massive economic problems that are currently sweeping across Europe, Asia and South America are going to be affecting all of us here in the U.S. very soon.

Sadly, most of the big news organizations in this country seem to be more concerned about the fate of Justin Bieber's wax statue in Times Square than about the horrible financial nightmare that is gripping emerging markets all over the planet. After a brief period of relative calm, we are beginning to see signs of global financial instability that are unlike anything that we have witnessed since the financial crisis of 2008. As you will see below, the problems are not just isolated to a few countries. This is truly a global phenomenon.

Over the past few years, the Federal Reserve and other global central banks have inflated an unprecedented financial bubble with their reckless money printing. Much of this "hot money" poured into emerging markets all over the world. But now that the Federal Reserve has begun "tapering" quantitative easing, investors are taking this as a sign that the party is ending. Money is being pulled out of emerging markets all over the globe at a staggering pace and this is creating a tremendous amount of financial instability. In addition, the economic problems that have been steadily growing over the past few years in established economies throughout Europe and Asia just continue to escalate.
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Serving and hungry: The Farm Bill is a mixed bag for military families

Steve Holt
Takepart.com
Fri, 14 Feb 2014 17:27 UTC
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Stricter eligibility requirements for SNAP will likely drop some service members from the program.

When Congress finally passed a budget deal last year, one cut was included in the bill that neither Democrats nor Republicans planned on allowing to happen: a small reduction in pension payments for 750,000 veterans. It was unexpected because when it comes to benefit programs, service members are deservedly sacrosanct in the eyes of the government: They're owed for their sacrifice. And just this week Congress approved a new bill to restore the full pension payments. The cut in nutrition assistance that will soon hit military families that rely on food stamps, however, isn't being treated so expediently.

Which is not to say that the cuts won't have an impact: Representatives from groups supporting military families say they're seeing plenty of food insecurity in their consultations with service members. And amid a conversation about nutrition assistance that tends to generalize recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits and other federal benefits as "entitled" or "takers," nobody is ready tolabel the more than 5,000 military families receiving SNAP as such. Same goes for the more than 900,000 veterans the Department of Agriculture says live in households that receive food stamps.

Comment: Way to go U.S.A! What a stellar way to go about Supporting your Troops! Take away active-duty families food subsidies and then 'help returning military veterans pursue careers in agriculture and assist them in accessing USDA programs' and this is the good news about the Farm Bill?! Veterans can look forward to working for the Big Ag/Big Pharm controlled USDA:

Corruption: USDA Looks Out Only for Self Interests
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) was created in 1889 and has the stated mission of providing for the health and safety of American agriculture while promoting good agricultural practice. It has devolved into an organization whose primary purpose appears to be to protect and defend Big Agribusiness and the profits it brings while ignoring the safety and health concerns it causes.

The latest in the saga of corruption and conflicts of interest to beset the U.S. government's agricultural oligarchy is President Obama's appointment of Islam Siddiqui as chief agricultural negotiator for the U.S. trade representative.[1] Siddiqui was appointed in a sidestepping maneuver that went around Congress, despite serious concern expressed by citizens, small farm advocates, and organic growers.

Siddiqui is not new to the government game. He was undersecretary in charge of the marketing and regulatory programs of the USDA's organic labeling standards. These are the same standards that allowed genetically modified (GMO) crops, irradiated foods, and worse to be labeled as "organic." He also worked hard to convince the European Union to accept both hormone-treated beef and GMO crops.
USDA Fires Organic Farming Specialist for Expressing Opinions
Wait, Did the USDA Just Deregulate All New Genetically Modified Crops?

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Mass murderer Breivik to hunger strike for better video games

Pierre-Henry Deshayes
Agence France-Presse
Fri, 14 Feb 2014 14:10 UTC
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© AFP/File, Odd AndersenPicture taken on August 24, 2012 shows Anders Behring Breivik arriving in court room at the central court in Oslo for sentencing.
Oslo - Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik threatened to go on hunger strike for better video games and other perks to alleviate his "torture"-like prison conditions, in a letter received by AFP Friday.

The right-wing extremist -- who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage on July 22, 2011 -- enclosed a typed list of 12 demands sent to prison authorities in November.

He described as "torture" the conditions in two prisons -- Ila near Oslo and Skien in southeast Norway -- where he is serving out a 21-year sentence.

The demands include better conditions for his daily walk and the right to communicate more freely with the outside world, which he argues are in line with European rights legislation.

He also demanded the replacement of a PlayStation 2 games console for a more recent PS3 "with access to more adult games that I get to choose myself" as well as a sofa or armchair instead of a "painful" chair.

"Other inmates have access to adult games while I only have the right to play less interesting kids games. One example is "Rayman Revolution", a game aimed at three year olds," wrote the 35-year-old convicted killer.

Held apart from other prisoners since 2011 for security reasons, Breivik wrote that he has behaved in an "exemplary fashion" in prison, arguing that he has the right to a wider "selection of activities" than other inmates to compensate for his strict isolation.

Breivik also wants his standard weekly allowance of 300 kroner ($49, 36 euros) to be doubled, particularly to cover his postal charges for written correspondence.

His mail is monitored and censored by prison authorities which, he complained, considerably restricts and slows down his contact with the outside world.
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Hackers to demo a $20 iPhone-sized gadget that zombifies cars

Lisa Vaas
Naked Security
Fri, 14 Feb 2014 00:00 UTC
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At Black Hat Asia next month, two Spanish security researchers are going to show a palm-sized device that costs less than $20 to build from off-the-shelf, untraceable parts and that, depending on the car model, can screw with windows, headlights and even the truly scary, make-you-crash bits: i.e., steering and brakes.

The upcoming demo, colorfully titled "DUDE, WTF IN MY CAN!", is being given by Javier Vazquez-Vidal and Alberto Garcia Illera.

Forbes's Andy Greenberg spoke to the researchers for his writeup of the technology behind the upcoming demo. The hacking tool works by bypassing the security of a modern vehicle's Controller Area Network, aka the CAN bus. The tool hooks up to a car via four wires, allowing an attacker to then take over a car remotely.
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Nuke

New TEPCO report shows damage to Fukushima Daichii Unit 3 fuel pool MUCH worse than that at Unit 4


Fairewinds.org
Thu, 13 Feb 2014 00:00 UTC
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Damage in Unit 4

As the eyes of the world have been focused on the Unit 4's removal of spent fuel,
TEPCO released a report entitled, TEPCO's Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Roadmap, that contained some astounding information regarding Unit 3. Follow Fairewinds Energy's Arnie Gundersen as he shows you the 35-ton refueling bridge that fell in the Unit 3 spent fuel pool during the Unit 3 detonation explosion. Do the math. The bottom line here is that TEPCO has just acknowledged that at least 50-tons of rubble has fallen on top of and into the spent fuel pool in Unit 3. What does this 50-ton pile of debris mean to the Unit 3 spent fuel pool and its cleanup?
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Psychopathic British veteran murdered four year-old twin boy in his bed


Yorkshire Post
Thu, 13 Feb 2014 15:57 UTC
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Anwar Rosser
A PSYCHOPATH has been given a whole life sentence for the "savage" and "sadistic" murder of a four-year-old twin boy from West Yorkshire who was attacked as he slept in his own bed.

Former soldier Anwar Daniel Rosser stabbed little Riley Turner 30 times after Riley's mum Sharon Smith and her boyfriend Guy Earwaker allowed him to stay at her house in Keighley, last January.

A court heard that Riley's mum woke at around 4.30am and was horrified to find Rosser curled up in a ball next to her bed - with four knives, including a brown-handled one which he had stolen from the pub where he worked as a part-time chef and used to stab little Riley.

Twin Riley was found semi-naked in his bedroom by his step-father who raised the alarm, while Rosser waited downstairs to "hear the devastated reaction" of Riley's parents.
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Sixth major train derailment in five weeks: 4,000 gallons of oil spilled in Vandergrift, Pennsylvania


Russia Today
Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:27 UTC
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© Reuters / Jason CohnEmergency personnel examine the wreckage of a train derailment near Vandergrift, Pennsylvania February 13, 2014.
A 120-car train making its way across Pennsylvania derailed Thursday morning, spilling thousands of gallons of oil and alarming observers who have called for stricter safety standards on trains hauling hazardous material.

The train is owned by the New Jersey-based Norfolk Southern Corp -- company officials told Reuters that 21 tank cars went off the tracks at a turn near the Kiskiminetas River in Vandergrift, a small town in western Pennsylvania.

Nineteen of the cars contained crude oil while the other two held liquefied petroleum gas. Three of the 19 cars spilled as a result of the crash. Company officials maintained that the leaks were plugged but refused to say how many gallons of oil had spilled. Sources told the local WTAE-TV that an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 gallons had escaped the tanks.

"It's contained," said Norfolk Southern spokesman Dan Stevens. "The hazmat crews for the railroad are on site and will be taking care of that situation."

Comment: See the following for other recent train derailments:

Yet another major train derailment: 32 railcars carrying gas explode in Russia

Car-sized boulder breaks off mountain in French Alps, smashes into first carriage and leaves train dangling over steep embankment - 2 dead, 10 injured

Flying drone captures amazing footage of train derailed by shock landslide in Italy

Second Canadian train derailment within a week

CN train carrying crude oil derailed, on fire near Plaster Rock

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Airport security confiscates Toy Story doll's gun

Andrew Johnson
nationalreview.com
Wed, 12 Feb 2014 04:35 UTC
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Another gun-wielding toy has had its weapon seized by airport security. After a cowboy sock monkey Rooster Monkburn had his tiny harmless weapon seized last year, a Woody doll underwent similar probe at London's Heathrow Airport.

Healthrow traveler John Hazen posted a picture of his son's figurine to the social-media website Reddit on Tuesday showing a security official removing the doll's gun. "At Heathrow, security just confiscated his 'weapon,' keep the world safe boys,"​ Hazen wrote on the site. The doll does not usually come armed with gun - it was an accessory the family added.

A Heathrow representative did not confirm whether the gun was confiscated but said if the seizure did occur, it would be "a bit overzealous," according to the Huffington Post.

Hazen said that he brings the Woddy doll with him when he travels for work and sends pictures of it perched at different locations around the world to his son before going to bed.
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