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Stunning music by: Hauschka, song "Stumm (Kein Wort)"
Music Label: Karaoke Kalk label based in Berlin
Including amazing shots from Alex Mallis and Kristopher Rae - sociallyawkwrd.tumblr.com
"Where Do We Go From Here?"
On the one month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, I went to Liberty Plaza to find out where the movement will go next.
Director ED DAVID
Producer DANA SALVATORE
Cinematography ED DAVID & ANDREW MCMULLEN
Editors LILY HENDERSON & ED DAVID
Assistant Producer JILLIAN MASON
Music:
"I Drive" by Cliff Martinez
ED - kittyguerrilla.com
ANDREW - andrewmcmullen.com
LILY - thinplacepictures.com
© Pickens County Detention Center'Cover up': Susan Hendricks shot and killed her two sons, her ex-husband and her stepmother then tried to make it look like her son was the killer, police said
Susan Hendricks, 48, was charged with the murder of her two sons, her ex-husband and her stepmother after being arrested at a motel Monday night, police said.
She was also charged with possession of a weapon during a violent crime -- a handgun she kept in her night stand.
Police were called to a house in Liberty, South Carolina, on October 14, Pickens County Assistant Sheriff Tim Morgan said. Based on observations at the scene, forensic evidence and interviews with family members, police determined Hendricks' version of what happened was false, he said.
Family members told police her motive was life insurance money. Hendricks was the beneficiary of multiple life insurance policies taken out by the victims, a police report said.
© The Associated Press / Lincoln County SheriffAshly Clark (left) Samantha Eyten (right)
North Platte officers went to the home late Monday after receiving a call from someone asking that police check on the welfare of the children living there, police Lt. Rich Hoaglund said. When officers went inside, they were met with the stench of urine and found trash and animal feces throughout the home, Hoaglund said.
An officer soon found two boys, ages 3 and 5, in a 30-by-42-inch wire dog kennel.
"They had a small child's mattress in there, and that's where both kids were sleeping," Hoaglund said. "The gate on that door was wired shut."
The children's mother, 22-year-old Ashly Clark, told officers she put her boys in the kennel at night to keep them from climbing out of the trailer through a window, Hoaglund said.
A couple - 25-year-old Bryson Eyten and 24-year-old Samantha Eyten - also lived in the trailer with their 8-year-old and 8-month-old children. Hoaglund said those children were not kept in the kennel.
1. There is no electricity bill in Libya; electricity is free for all its citizens.
2. There is no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at zero percent interest by law.
3. Having a home [is] considered a human right in Libya.
4. All newlyweds in Libya receive $60,000 dinar (U.S.$50,000) by the government to buy their first apartment so to help start up the family.
5. Education and medical treatments are free in Libya. Before Gaddafi only 25 percent of Libyans were literate. Today, the figure is 83 percent.
6. Should Libyans want to take up [a] farming career, they would receive farming land, a farm house, equipment, seeds and livestock to kickstart their farms are all for free.
2. There is no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at zero percent interest by law.
3. Having a home [is] considered a human right in Libya.
4. All newlyweds in Libya receive $60,000 dinar (U.S.$50,000) by the government to buy their first apartment so to help start up the family.
5. Education and medical treatments are free in Libya. Before Gaddafi only 25 percent of Libyans were literate. Today, the figure is 83 percent.
6. Should Libyans want to take up [a] farming career, they would receive farming land, a farm house, equipment, seeds and livestock to kickstart their farms are all for free.
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Skelton, Taintor & Abbott represented a group of customers in a complaint against CMP, and convinced the MPUC to order CMP to offer customers the option of opting out of the smart meter program and retaining their existing electromagnetic meters. Stone proved that because of unresolved concerns relating to health, privacy and cyber security resulting from the installation of wireless meters on their homes, customers should have a choice concerning the installation of those meters. CMP argued vigorously that customers should not be allowed to opt out, and the MPUC found that position to be unjust and unreasonable.
Oakland, Calif., police in riot gear stand guard after firing tear gas, beanbag rounds overnight
Police moved into a downtown Atlanta park and arrested around 50 Occupy Wall Street protesters who had been encamped there for about two weeks early Wednesday, while across the country in Oakland, Calif., officers in riot gear stood watch after clashes there with demonstrators overnight.
The scene was calm but tense early Wednesday in Oakland, where only a few dozen stalwart demonstrators remained in the aftermath of skirmishes in front of City Hall. Police deployed five volleys of tear gas in blasts that seemed to intensify with each round over a roughly three-hour stretch of Tuesday evening scuffles, causing some protesters to douse their eyes with water and even vomit, NBC affiliate KNTV in San Francisco reported.
Officers also fired beanbag rounds, clearing out the encampment of protesters in less than an hour.
The site was among numerous camps that have sprung up around the country as protesters rally against what they see as corporate greed and a wide range of other economic issues. The protests have attracted a wide range of people, including college students looking for work and the homeless.
© David Goldman/APAn anti-Wall Street protestor in Atlanta is arrested early Wednesday after refusing to leave a city park.
Police moved into a downtown Atlanta park and arrested around 50 Occupy Wall Street protesters who had been encamped there for about two weeks early Wednesday, while across the country in Oakland, Calif., officers in riot gear stood watch after clashes there with demonstrators overnight.
The scene was calm but tense early Wednesday in Oakland, where only a few dozen stalwart demonstrators remained in the aftermath of skirmishes in front of City Hall. Police deployed five volleys of tear gas in blasts that seemed to intensify with each round over a roughly three-hour stretch of Tuesday evening scuffles, causing some protesters to douse their eyes with water and even vomit, NBC affiliate KNTV in San Francisco reported.
Officers also fired beanbag rounds, clearing out the encampment of protesters in less than an hour.
The site was among numerous camps that have sprung up around the country as protesters rally against what they see as corporate greed and a wide range of other economic issues. The protests have attracted a wide range of people, including college students looking for work and the homeless.
The chief technology officer of eBay sends his children to a nine-classroom school here. So do employees of Silicon Valley giants like Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard.
But the school's chief teaching tools are anything but high-tech: pens and paper, knitting needles and, occasionally, mud. Not a computer to be found. No screens at all. They are not allowed in the classroom, and the school even frowns on their use at home.
Schools nationwide have rushed to supply their classrooms with computers, and many policy makers say it is foolish to do otherwise. But the contrarian point of view can be found at the epicenter of the tech economy, where some parents and educators have a message: computers and schools don't mix.
But the school's chief teaching tools are anything but high-tech: pens and paper, knitting needles and, occasionally, mud. Not a computer to be found. No screens at all. They are not allowed in the classroom, and the school even frowns on their use at home.
Schools nationwide have rushed to supply their classrooms with computers, and many policy makers say it is foolish to do otherwise. But the contrarian point of view can be found at the epicenter of the tech economy, where some parents and educators have a message: computers and schools don't mix.
Frontline: Four child soldiers have been deployed alongside British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, it has emerged
Campaigners against use of child soldiers demand ministers end 'outdated practice'
Four British child soldiers have been sent to war zones - despite a Government ban, it was revealed last night.
Military chiefs 'inadvertently' sent the youngsters - all under 18 - to fight on the frontline.
It is understood the teenagers were deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan where they risked being shot or blown up by homemade bombs.
The revelation sparked outrage because the UK is a signatory to a United Nations pledge not to send children on to battlefields.
The disclosure will also give fresh ammunition to campaigners urging the government to change in the law to end the recruitment of 16 and 17-year-olds into the Armed Forces.
The London-based charity Warchild said: 'Using kids as soldiers constitutes one of the most horrendous breaches of those rights and it is simply and unequivocally wrong.'
© Anthony Freda Art
Yet, we try to live the change that we want to see. We don't have TV, we homeschool our boys, and we've opted out of the system as much as possible. We eat healthy, don't use dangerous household chemicals, and shop almost exclusively at the local level. We grow food, keep chickens, recycle, and live as simply and independently as feasible. And we've taught our children that the principles of peace and love carry more weight than patriotism or any other manufactured beliefs.
But sometimes personal change doesn't seem to be good enough to counteract a powerful establishment intent on having more war and more power.
Comment: For more on the dangers of smart meters see:
"Smart" meters' flaws aid hacking
UK: Smart meters in homes could be hacked
Some Cancers Linked To Very Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields, Study Suggests