Society's ChildS


Life Preserver

Stressed to hell: 83 percent of young French pessimistic about the future


Press TV
Tue, 03 Jul 2012 15:27 UTC

Globalization and the high-tech are meant to make us happy and satisfied.

But the exact opposite is happening, shows a new French study.

At the French National Centre for Scientific Research, or the CNRS, these researchers have come to a conclusion, we live in extremely uncertain times and that is what increases fear and worry.

Experts say, stress is one of the key elements of the rising sense of insecurity around the world. This in turn leads to a vicious circle of more dependence on cutting edge technology which in turn disrupts the rhythm of life in the long run.

Comment: As well they should be, given what they have to go through to become adults and given what's unfolding around them and everyone else on planet Earth:

How is the World Going to End in 2012?

Read More...
Che Guevara

Thousands in Los Angeles Rally Against Wal-Mart Expansion


Press TV
Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00 UTC
Several thousand anti-corporate protesters have staged a march in Los Angeles's Chinatown against the continued expansion of Wal-Mart stores across the United States, Press TV reports.
Image
© Irfan Khan / Los Angeles TimesMyca Tran, 23, shows her opposition to a new Wal-Mart store in Chinatown. Wal-Mart got building permits one day before the Los Angeles City Council approved a moratorium on big-box stores.
Labor activists and union workers from across California gathered in a Saturday rally which organizers said was the biggest demonstration against the company in its 50-year history.

Protesters voiced their anger at Wal-Mart's attempt to open a store in the historic Chinatown area of downtown Los Angeles.

"We're not gonna continue to let Wal-Mart be the biggest retailer in the world and set the pace for corporate America that will oppress and keep our communities at 99 percent," a protester told a Press TVcorrespondent.
Read More...
Sherlock

Possible Head of Chinese Student Found in Montreal Pond

Michael Winter
USA Today
Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:00 UTC
Jun Lin
© unknownJun Lin
Montreal police are examining an apparent human head found Sunday in a pond to determine whether it belongs to a Chinese student allegedly slain and dismembered by a porn actor who fled to Germany, according to news reports.

Test results are expected in about a week to determine whether the remains are the head of Jun Lin, 33, police told The Gazette.

"It's too early to confirm if this finding has anything to do with the homicide," said police Constable Anie Lemieux. "We're waiting on lab results to determine whether what we found are human remains."
Read More...
Document

Mammoth Lakes, California Files for Bankruptcy Over $43-Million Judgment

Louis Sahagun
Los Angeles Times
Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:00 UTC
Image
© Mark Boster/Los Angeles TimesMammoth Lakes' ski resort is quiet in May after a poor season. The High Sierra town said Monday that it filed for bankruptcy because it cannot afford to pay a $43-million breach-of-contract judgment won by a developer.
The High Sierra town of Mammoth Lakes says it is filing for bankruptcy because it cannot afford to pay a breach-of-contract judgment won by a developer.

In a prepared statement, Mammoth Lakes officials said "bankruptcy, unfortunately, is the only option left" for the town, whose largest creditor, Mammoth Lakes Land Acquisition, had won a state court order requiring full payment by June 30, 2012.

Facing a judgment nearly three times the size of its annual operating budget and a $2.8-million shortfall in its 2011-12 fiscal year, the town had already cut many services and asked employees to take reductions in pay. Compounding problems, the adjacent Mammoth Mountain ski resort was forced to lay off 70 full-time employees last year because of a dearth of snow.

A breakdown in negotiations with the developer was the last straw.
Read More...
Info

Harper Confronted by Shouting Protester in Quebec

Alexandre Robillard
CBC News
Mon, 02 Jul 2012 04:02 UTC
PM's speech interrupted by shouts of 'Stop Harper, stop Jean Charest!'


A speech by Stephen Harper was briefly interrupted Monday when a shouting protester approached the stage at an international conference in Quebec City.

As the prime minister addressed a world forum on the French language, the man walked to the front of the large room and delivered a message of his own.

"Stop Harper, stop Jean Charest," the protester yelled in his outburst.

"Citizens rise up. We need you, everybody."

The interruption lasted only a few seconds before the man was grabbed by two security guards and hustled out of the room through a side door.

His rant earned him a muffled applause from some of the attendees inside the Quebec City conference centre.

Quebec provincial police later indicated that the man, in his 30s, was released and will not face charges.
Read More...
Play

Wife of Robert Bales, Soldier Accused in Afghan Massacre Says Husband is Innocent


CBS News
Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:32 UTC

The wife of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the soldier accused of leaving his southern Afghanistan base and murdering 16 unarmed civilians, believes her husband is innocent.

Kari Bales said she's in touch with her husband, but has not asked him about what happened.

"I just don't need to ask him," she said Monday on CBS This Morning. "I know my husband, and it's not a question I really need to ask. I know him. I know what he's capable of and not capable of, so I don't need to ask the question."

When asked what life would be like if her husband were to be found guilty, Bales said, "At this point I haven't gotten that far. I truly believe that my husband did not do this. I really just want the facts to come out through the fair trial."

Bales said she was "completely shocked" and didn't believe that it had happened. "(I) didn't believe that my husband was involved at all. I still do not, no," she said. "I want to know what happened. I don't know what happened. I don't think that anyone really knows what happened."

Bales believes the truth of what happened will come out at trial. She said initial details of what happened were "very confusing and didn't make a lot of sense." "They were sensationalized," she said. "A lot of untruths about me and my husband, our life. So it makes it hard to believe anything that came out."
Read More...
Cowboy Hat

SWAT Team Raids Wrong House, Throwing Stun Grenade After Online Threat

Matt Liebowitz
MSNBC.com
Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:39 UTC
Image
© geeky-gadgets.com
18-year-old was watching Food Network when door came down, stun grenade went off

Imagine you're sitting at home, comfortable on the couch, watching the Food Network, when all of a sudden a heavily armed SWAT team breaks down your door and storms into your living room.

That's what happened to 18-year-old Stephanie Milan, who was watching TV in her family's Evansville, Ind., home last Thursday (June 22), when a team of police officers broke down her storm door - the front door was already open - and tossed a flash-bang stun grenade into the room.
Read More...
Cult

Satanists Claim Theft Is Hate Crime


CBS News Denver
Sun, 01 Jul 2012 10:43 UTC
Image
© CBS NewsSatanists Luigi and Angie Bellaviste have decorations in their yard that depict their religious beliefs

A local couple who claim to be Satanists believe they're a victim of a hate crime and were targeted because of their religious beliefs.

Someone cut down a political poster stating, "VOTE SATAN" from their front porch where they live in Mountain View, a suburb of Denver.

"We are Satanists... Satanists," said Luigi Bellaviste.

Luigi and Angie Bellaviste belong to the Church of Satan. They even have a Satanic Bible in their home.

The couple is upset because a poster they had hanging from their front porch was recently cut down.

It wasn't very popular with some neighbors.
Read More...
Eagle

DA Gets to See Occupy Tweets

Pervaiz Shallwani
The Wall Street Jorunal
Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:06 UTC
twitter
© unknown
Twitter Inc. must turn over messages posted by an Occupy Wall Street protester, a Manhattan judge ruled on Monday, another move toward giving law-enforcement agencies broad access to comments made on social media.

Monday's order was the second time Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Matthew Sciarrino Jr. has ruled that law-enforcement agencies can subpoena messages posted on Twitter.

In April, Judge Sciarrino ruled Malcolm Harris, a 23-year-old writer charged with disorderly conduct during an Oct. 1 protest on the Brooklyn Bridge, couldn't quash the Manhattan district attorney's office's subpoena to Twitter.

On Monday, the judge rejected Twitter's argument that its users have a reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment, much as people who write emails do.
Read More...
Dollar

Philly Archdiocese Ex-CFO Pleads in $900k Theft


CBS News
Mon, 02 Jul 2012 05:11 UTC
Image
© The Associated Press/Philadelphia District Attorney's OfficeIn this undated hand out photo Anita Guzzardi is seen.
Philadelphia - A former financial executive of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $900,000 from the church.

Forty-two-year-old Anita Guzzardi of Haddon Heights, N.J. pleaded guilty Friday to charges of theft by deception, unlawful use of a computer and forgery.

Prosecutors say Guzzardi used hundreds of church checks to pay personal credit card bills from 2005 to 2011. The investigation began after American Express contacted authorities.
Read More...