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France's 'quenelle' crackdown begins: Nine teenagers threatened with fine of 45,000 euros for 'insulting the President of the Republic'


laRep.fr
Tue, 07 Jan 2014 05:31 UTC
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Translated by SOTT.net

An investigation will be opened by Florent Boura, the local state prosecutor who has seen the video footage of the offending scene. Jean-Pierre Door, the local mayor, hopes for strict sanctions

Jean-Pierre Door, the (UMP party) deputy mayor of Montargis in the Loiret department in north-central France, discovered a horrific video of youths committing a 'quenelle' * in front of his town hall yesterday morning. He was absolutely disgusted.

Posted on Youtube on December 29th, it depicts nine youths openly, on the steps of the city hall, before showing their support for the humorist Dieudonné, making the gesture of 'la quenelle' repeatedly, while their spokesman violently attacks the great President of the Republic. All the while, in the background, "Le Chant des Partisans" plays.

A fine of 45,000 euros for insulting the President of the Republic

Jean-Pierre Door sent the video to the police so that they can begin their investigations. An investigation will also be opened by Florent Boura, the state prosecutor of Montargis. He believes that the video contains objectionable features, including an insult to the President of the Republic. The penalty is a fine of € 45,000. The prosecutor also mentioned incitement to racial hatred: "The fact that this crime was performed in the city of Montargis is not an aggravating factor but for a different analysis."

Comment: Gosh, their crime sounds really serious. Let's take a look:



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People

Mexican vigilante gunmen disarm local POLICE so they can rid town of feared Knights Templar drug cartel

Harriet Arkell
MailOnline
Mon, 06 Jan 2014 10:54 UTC
Local vigilantes arrested police in Paracuaro in south-west Mexico
© APDetained: Local vigilantes arrested police in Paracuaro in south-west Mexico yesterday as they seized back control of the town from the Knights Templar drugs gang
Hundreds of armed vigilantes stormed a Mexican town and arrested federal police in the latest bloody battle between residents, criminal gangs, and the police locals say are in league with the gang members.

Around 600 members of local 'autodefensas', or self-defence groups, stormed Paracuaro in the troubled Michoacan state yesterday in an attempt to seize control of the town back from the feared Caballeros Templarios (Knights Templar) drug cartel.

The battle was the latest in a long-running war between the drugs gang in Mexico's south-west and local residents who say state and federal police are not protecting them.
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Bad Guys

Traumatized store manager fired for taking time off after reporting employee who murdered new born twins


Alternet
Thu, 02 Jan 2014 00:00 UTC
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© Decentemployer.blogspot.com
Lawsuit would seem to suggest least sympathetic boss, ever

A general store fired a manager who needed time off work to recover from the shock of having to call police to find an employee's newborn twins, dead, the manager claims in court. Teresa Anderson sued Casey's General Stores and Casey's Marketing Company, in Federal Court. They are the only parties to the complaint.

Anderson claims in the lawsuit that her employee, nonparty Jackie Burkle, looked obviously pregnant in the winter of 2011-12, but denied it. Burkle was charged and arrested for two counts of murder in the first degree of her two baby girls, Anderson says in the lawsuit. Burkle pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder and was sentenced in August 2012 to 50 years in prison, according to the Ames (Iowa) Tribune.

Anderson says in the lawsuit that Burkle called in sick in the early morning of Jan. 7, 2012, and that, believing Ms. Burkle was likely going into labor, Anderson went to work to cover her shift and pleaded with her to let her take her to the doctor. Burkle refused, Anderson says. The lawsuit continues: "Believing something was wrong, plaintiff called the police chief and asked him to come to the store for a cup of coffee." Plaintiff showed Chief Pote surveillance video of Ms. Burkle. At approximately 1:00 p.m. a police officer started looking through Casey's Dumpsters."

The next day, on January 8, 2012, she learned that the 'baby' she suspected Ms. Burkle was pregnant with was actually twins and that they were dead.
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USA

Retired Air Force colonel with three graduate degrees is homeless and sleeps in a van

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse Blog
Mon, 06 Jan 2014 20:45 UTC
Robert Freniere
© Michael Bryant/Philly.comRobert Freniere in the van where he lives. "He's done a lot of things. . . . He's got the gift of gab. Very smart," said Adm. James Hogg, who officiated at Freniere's retirement.
What advice would you give to a retired Air Force Colonel that has three graduate degrees and that cannot even find work as a janitor? 59-year-old Robert Freniere once served as a special assistant to General Stanley McChrystal, and he has spent extensive time in both Iraq and Afghanistan. But now this man who once had an office in the heart of the Pentagon cannot find anyone who will hire him. In addition to his story, in this article you will also hear about several other middle-aged professionals that cannot find work in this economy either.

Despite what the Obama administration and the mainstream media are telling you, the truth is that there has been no employment recovery in this country. What you are about to read is absolutely heartbreaking, but it represents the reality of what is really going on out there in the streets of America today.

A lot of unemployed Americans believe that they cannot find work because they don't have enough "education" or enough "experience". Well, the truth is that there are a whole lot of people out there like Freniere that have lots of both and still can't even get hired as a janitor...
After a 30-year military career in which he earned three graduate degrees, rose to the rank of colonel, and served as an aide to Pentagon brass, Robert Freniere can guess what people might say when they learn he's unemployed and lives out of his van:

Why doesn't this guy get a job as a janitor?

Freniere answers his own question: "Well, I've tried that."

Freniere, 59, says that his plea for help, to a janitor he once praised when the man was mopping the floors of his Washington office, went unfulfilled. So have dozens of job applications, he says, the ones he has filled out six hours a day, day after day, on public library computers.

So Freniere, a man who braved multiple combat zones and was hailed as "a leading light" by an admiral, is now fighting a new battle: homelessness.
You can read the rest of that article right here. This just shows how badly the private sector in the United States is failing. Someone with Freniere's education and experience should be able to find work easily if our economy truly was healthy.
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Boat

Rescue saga: U.S. ship heads to free two trapped icebreakers in Antarctic


RT
Sun, 05 Jan 2014 20:19 UTC
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© Reuters / US Coast Guard / Petty Officer 3rd Class RachelPolar Star, the US Coast Guard icebreaker, completes ice drills in the Arctic in this July 3, 2013 handout photo.
American vessel the Polar Star, the US Coast Guard's only active heavy polar icebreaker, is heading to the Antarctic to rescue over 120 crewmembers aboard Russian and Chinese ships trapped in heavy sea ice.

According to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority's Rescue Coordination Centre (AMSA), it should take the Polar Star about seven days to reach Commonwealth Bay, depending on weather conditions.

The 122-meter US icebreaker canceled its planned stop in Sydney after it received a request Friday from Australia, Russia and China to help the Russian and Chinese ships, who fear they may be unable to free themselves from the ice.

According to an AMSA spokeswoman, the US ship has greater icebreaking capacity than the Russian and Chinese vessels.

"It can break ice over six meters thick, while those vessels can break 1-meter ice," she told Australian Associated Press on Sunday.
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Sheriff

Los Angeles Sheriff's Department misconduct includes rape, drug smuggling, kidnapping - report


RT
Sat, 04 Jan 2014 20:13 UTC
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© Reuters / Chris Miller
Recent misconduct investigations of deputies of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department included rape, smuggling heroin into jail, stealing money from a narcotics arrest and misuse of a department helicopter, an oversight report details.

The Office of Independent Review's new report on misconduct investigations pertaining to the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department (LASD) outlined administrative discipline cases resolved through Sept. 30, 2013. The Office of Independent Review (OIR) is a civilian oversight body charged with monitoring LASD's internal investigations.

Privacy laws do not allow the identities of deputies involved in the summarized misconduct, nor does it include dates of any infractions.

Recently enacted LASD reforms have not made much of a difference on the amount of misconduct, except for excessive use of force in jails, said OIR head Mike Gennaco.

"Unfortunately, the cases are probably the same as far as level of egregiousness," he said Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Daily News.

"With regard to jail cases, I know that force is going down, at least in the downtown jails," Gennaco added. "The fact that there are cameras make it easier to decide whether the conduct was in or out of policy."

Assistant Sheriff Todd Rogers responded with concern over the results of the report, saying the LASD does what it can to avoid such behavior while patrolling the entirety of Los Angeles County.
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Mail

49,000 North Carolina Medicaid cards mailed to wrong addresses


CBS Charlotte
Mon, 06 Jan 2014 20:00 UTC
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© Andreas Rentz/Getty Images
North Carolina health officials said Friday that they had inadvertently disclosed the personal information of tens of thousands of children receiving Medicaid coverage, but were tight-lipped about precisely what caused the massive privacy breach.

The state Department of Health and Human Services issued a written release saying that new Medicaid cards for nearly 49,000 children were mailed on Dec. 30 to the wrong people. The information on the cards includes the children's names, Medicaid identification numbers, dates of birth and the names of their primary care doctors - personal medical data that is supposed to be tightly protected under federal law.

"The department has begun a careful review of this incident to determine how it occurred and to ensure personal information is protected," said Sandra Terrell, the state's acting Medicaid director. "DHHS knows exactly which Medicaid cards were sent to which addresses, and is rapidly working to issue correct Medicaid cards."

Agency spokesman Ricky Diaz said state officials were first informed of the problem on Thursday by county officials. The release publicly disclosing the breach was emailed Friday at 5:20 p.m., shortly after WSOC-TV in Charlotte posted a story about the error.

Diaz insisted that the agency disclosed the information to the public "as quickly as possible."
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Cowboy Hat

Fight back: MMA fighter kills armed intruder, 'severely' injures another and scares off two more


Mail Online
Mon, 06 Jan 2014 19:20 UTC
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MMA Fighter Joe Torrez
A mixed martial arts fighter in New Mexico may face charges after authorities say he fended off four home invaders - killing one and severely injuring another - during a an early morning break in on New Year's Day.

According to authorities in Dora Ana County, MMA fighter Joe Torrez fatally beat and stabbed one of the intruders, beat another so badly he needed to be taken from Torrez's home in an ambulance and then convinced the other two to retreat in fear.

Authorities found the body of 25-year-old Sal Garces near Torrez's trailer home in the 600 block of King James Avenue.

Garces, his 19-year-old brother Raymond Garces, 20-year-old Nathan Avalos and 22-year-old Leonard Calvillo forced their way into 27-year-old Torrez's house about 2 a.m. on New Year's day.

Once inside the home, a fight began between the intruders and Torrez - a fight that ended with Garces dead, Avalos being admitted to a hospital with 'severe' facial injuries and the other two fleeing the scene.

The younger Garces and Calvillo were arrested shortly after the altercation, while Avalos was taken into custody at the hospital.
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Heart - Black

SOUTHWEST leaves 'bags piled everywhere' for weary passengers on delayed flights...

Bob Roberts
CBS Chicago
Sat, 04 Jan 2014 18:14 UTC
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Bags, bags everywhere - and no one to claim them. That's the problem facing travelers at Midway Airport already weary from flight delays and cancellations.

The bags are piled everywhere in the Southwest Airlines baggage claim area on the ground floor of Midway. Southwest has tried to keep the bags in groups by airport codes, but each destination could have a dozen or more widely-scattered piles. In many cases, the bags preceded passengers into Midway by a day or more.

Megan Milk, of Kankakee, said her bag contains a valuable Pandora bracelet and other Christmas presents. She last saw it Thursday when checking it at Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport, where her flight twice left the gate, only to return and be cancelled. She was unable to get a flight into Midway until midday Saturday, but said she was told that her bag went out on the first Southwest flight between Atlanta and Midway Friday.
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Heart - Black

Natalie Webb accused of molesting three of her children while adults watched (GRAPHIC DETAILS)

Sebastian Murdock
The Huffington Post
Mon, 06 Jan 2014 10:02 UTC
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© Beckham County CourtEvil: Natalie Lynn Webb is accused of raping her three young children.
An Oklahoma mother faces serious charges after authorities say she sexually abused her children in the presence of other adults.

Natalie Lynn Webb, 30, was arrested in Elk City, Okla., and charged with sexual abuse of children under 12, and child neglect. Police said she abused three of her children from December 2012 to March 2013.

Webb is due in Beckham County Court Jan. 6 for a preliminary hearing, and is being held on a $2 million bond. Her four children now live with their grandparents.

A Dec. 18 police affidavit, obtained by The Huffington Post, contains accounts of repeated rapes, beatings and deplorable living conditions through interviews with Webb and her children.
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