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Dept. of Defense holding urban warfare exercise in Tinley Park, Illinois

Gregory Pratt
ChicagoTribune
Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:49 UTC
Tinley Park
© Tribune illustration from GooglemapsMap of the former Tinley Park Mental Health Center.
The Department of Defense is holding an urban warfare training exercise at the former Tinley Park Mental Health Center site tonight and tomorrow, village officials have announced.

The government training exercises "will include building breaching and helicopter operations," according to Mayor Ed Zabrocki.

"Building breaching" involves the use of small explosives that are used to take out doors, explained Pat Carr, the Emergency Management Agency's director in Tinley Park.

"The Mental Health Center grounds provide a very realistic training environment for these different types of exercises," Carr said.

Village officials are notifying the public about the training exercises to avoid frightening local citizens after the Boston Marathon bombing last week.

"The concern we have is that, when this occurs...on the hands of what happened in Boston, it's gonna make people's nerve-endings a little more sensitive," Zabrocki said.

The Tinley Park Mental Health Center will be closed to the public during the event. Carr said there shouldn't be too much noise from the helicopters or the explosives.

In the past two years, the Mental Health Center has been used during training exercises by the Illinois State Police, the Cook County Sheriff's Office, Chicago Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in addition to Tinley Park's public safety agencies.

"What's unique about this one is that it goes on multiple days and it's probably the largest of what we've had so far," Zabrocki said.
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Cow Skull

America The Fallen: 24 Signs that once proud U.S. cities are turning into poverty-stricken hellholes

Michael
The Economic Collapse
Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:19 UTC
Hellhole
© Lyzadanger
What is happening to you America? Once upon a time, the United States was a place where free enterprise thrived and the greatest cities that the world had ever seen sprouted up from coast to coast. Good jobs were plentiful and a manufacturing boom helped fuel the rise of the largest and most vibrant middle class in the history of the planet. Cities such as Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Baltimore were all teeming with economic activity and the rest of the globe looked on our economic miracle with a mixture of wonder and envy. But now look at us. Our once proud cities are being transformed into poverty-stricken hellholes.

Did you know that the city of Detroit once actually had the highest per-capita income in the United States? Looking at Detroit today, it is hard to imagine that it was once one of the most prosperous cities in the world. In fact, as you will read about later in this article, tourists now travel to Detroit from all over the globe just to see the ruins of Detroit. Sadly, the exact same thing that is happening to Detroit is happening to cities all over America. Detroit is just ahead of the curve.

We are in the midst of a long-term economic collapse that is eating away at us like cancer, and things are going to get a lot worse than this. So if you still live in a prosperous area of the country, don't laugh at what is happening to others. What is happening to them will be coming to your area soon enough.

The following are 24 signs that our once proud cities are turning into poverty-stricken hellholes...
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Pills

UK woman prescribed 'too high a dose' of anti-depressant Citalopram, admits killing friend in brutal attack


BBC News
Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:17 UTC
Marie McCracken
© UnknownMarie McCracken was subjected to a prolonged and brutal attack by Torlay
A woman who suffers from depression has admitted killing her friend after she called at her house for tea and a chat.

Marlene Torlay, 61, attacked Mary McCracken, 59, with scalding water, a hammer and a knife sharpener, at her home in East Kilbride, in October 2012.

The Crown accepted her guilty plea to a reduced charge of culpable homicide due to diminished responsibility.

Torlay was ordered to be detained under an interim compulsion order at Royal Edinburgh Hospital's Orchard Clinic.

The High Court in Edinburgh heard that she had been prescribed too high a dose of an anti-depressant which could cause acute withdrawal symptoms, and may have missed a dose of the drug.

The court heard that Torlay was friends with Mrs McCracken, who was known as Marie and was a senior service assistant for the WRVS at Hairmyres Hospital in East Kilbride.
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Alarm Clock

U.S. airlines seek permission to keep passengers waiting on the tarmac for more than 3 hours

Pamela Engel
Business Insider / Yahoo News
Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:51 UTC
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Now that Federal Aviation Administration furloughs have gone into effect, the U.S. Department of Transportation is considering lifting a rule that says airplanes can't remain on the tarmac for more than three hours for domestic flights before allowing passengers to deplane.

The tarmac delay rule was put into place in 2009 after a series of incidents in which passengers were stranded on airplanes for lengthy periods of time. The Department of Transportation mentions one case of a six-hour ground delay in Rochester, Minn.

Two airline industry associations filed a motion with the Department of Transportation requesting a moratorium on the rule for at least 90 days or until the FAA furloughs end. They cite the " substantial delay and disruption to air travel that will occur at U.S. airports from the FAA decision to implement daily ground delays and reduce air traffic control personnel" as part of the federal spending cuts known as the sequester.

The motion notes that about 6,700 flights will be delayed daily at 13 of the country's busiest airports now that the furloughs have started. And that doesn't take into consideration bad weather, staffing problems or " any other issues that could affect daily operations."
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Best of the Web: Media magic: not one angry person in Boston

Jon Rappoport
nomorefakenews.com
Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:09 UTC
Conscience
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Shocked? Horrified? Grief-stricken? Determined? Yes, Boston residents who voiced those feelings passed through the media filters and were interviewed on camera.

But angry? Deeply angry at what happened at the Marathon and ready to give vent to it? The screeners took a pass.

I wrote about this subject after the Sandy Hook murders, and it applies to the Aurora massacre as well.

The sober sepulchral tones of media anchors, and their extreme deference to FBI, police, and politicians, form a hypnotic induction for viewers...and these leaders don't want to break the spell, which is exactly what anger does.

Therefore, it's a no-go.

Anger is a spark that fires up and spreads. So dampen it. Ignore it. Don't show it on television news. Instead, say this: "Step back, everybody, huddle in your homes, let the pros do their job, they'll catch the killers, look at the photos they want you to look at, remain calm, depend on designated officials."

This is the new American dream.
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85% of U.S. teens now being affected by cyberbullying

Ellen Huet
SF Gate
Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:30 UTC
Sheila Pott
© Michael Short / Special to the ChronicleAudrie's mother Sheila Pott stands next to a photo of her daughter during a press conference at the Radisson Hotel in San Jose, CA Monday April 15th, 2013.
Cyberbullying among teens has shot up in frequency in recent years, from affecting just 6 percent of kids in 2000 to 85 percent today, polls show.

Among those in the 85 percent is Audrie Pott, a 15-year-old girl from Saratoga who hanged herself in September after a cell phone picture of her, unconscious after an alleged sexual assault, was circulated around her high school via texts and in person. Three 16-year-old boys were arrested last week in connection with her death.

Cell phones, in teens' hands, make the kids more likely to bully others electronically, experts say. Helping drive this phenomenon is a sense of callousness from communicating electronically and the growth of a documentation mentality, detailed here.
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Heart - Black

ACLU: Detroit police dumping homeless outside city


CBS Detroit
Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:29 UTC
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan says Detroit police are removing homeless people from the popular Greektown entertainment district downtown and dropping them off miles away - sometimes outside the city.

Following a year-long investigation, the ACLU filed a complaint with the U.S. Justice Department and sent a letter to Detroit police demanding an end to what they call a "disturbing practice."

"DPD's practice of essentially kidnapping homeless people and abandoning them miles away from the neighborhoods they know - with no means for a safe return - is inhumane, callous and illegal," said Sarah Mehta, ACLU of Michigan staff attorney. "The city's desire to hide painful reminders of our economic struggles cannot justify discriminating against the poor, banishing them from their city, and endangering their lives. A person who has lost his home has not lost his right to be treated with dignity."

The organization says it started receiving complaints last year and that the homeless are told they are not welcome in Greektown, which is popular with visitors to Detroit. The people are then forced in to vans, driven away and then deserted.

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Bizarro Earth

Gosnell nurse: I saw at least ten babies breathing before they were killed

John Nolte
breitbart.com
Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:15 UTC
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© AP
The final prosecution witness against Kermit Gosnell, the abortion doctor on trial for the capital murder of seven babies and one adult patient, was Kareema Cross, a former employee of Gosnell's. Thursday Cross testified that she saw ten babies breathe before Gosnell killed them.

The AP reports that Cross "saw the babies' chests move but was told by Gosnell they were not breathing." She also claims to have seen three of the babies move their limbs and another let out a "soft whine," before they were aborted alive.
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Bomb

Hooters bomb threat shuts down Hollywood Boulevard

Sophie Schillaci and Kimberly Nordyke
The Hollywood Reporter
Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:10 UTC
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© Twitter, via SidizenKanePolice cordon off Hollywood Boulevard after repiorts a man left a bomb in the Hooters restaurant.
A man claiming to have an explosive in his lunch box drew police response near the Chinese Theatre on Thursday afternoon.

A stretch of Hollywood Boulevard is shut down after a man notified the Los Angeles Police Department that he had brought a lunch box containing a bomb inside the Hooters restaurant located across from the TCL Chinese Theatre.

The stretch of road between Orange and Highland remains closed at this time as police evaluate the situation.
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5 vital strategies for peacefully underthrowing the status quo

J.G. Vibes
IntelliHub
Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:19 UTC
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In this article I am going to list the 5 strategies for achieving freedom that I am most supportive of right now, and offer a brief description of how they work and why I believe they are effective approaches to meeting this goal.

One of the main obstacles that tie the general population to the status quo is that many people are looking for a step by step process for how we can peacefully neutralize the power structure and achieve peace on this planet. This step by step process is not a possibility, because human actions and the advancement of technology are both totally unpredictable.

Sadly, it seems that people are waiting for a list of instructions that could never exist. However, there is definitely hope, because although we cannot precisely chart the course to freedom, we can develop workable solutions that will lead us in the right direction and help us achieve greater levels of peace in our own lives. In this article I am going to list the 5 strategies that I am most supportive of right now, and offer a brief description of how they work and why I believe they are effective approaches to meeting this goal.
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