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Update: Arrest made in shooting death of 7-year-old Chicago girl

Arthur Weinreb
Digital Journal
Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00 UTC

A 26-year-old man was arrested late Friday night and formally charged Saturday in the death of Heaven Sutton who was shot in front of her Chicago home.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports Jerrell Dorsey has been charged with one count of first-degree murder and one count of aggravated battery with a firearm.

Last Wednesday evening, Heaven was outside her home with her mother and some friends. The little girl, who was to enter Grade 2 next year, had a stand where she sold lemonade and candy. She had just finished for the night and was sitting with her mother.

Shortly after 10:30 p.m., two men walked up and began shooting into the crowd. Heaven was hit once in the chest and was taken to Loyola University Medical Center where she later died. A 19-year-old man was shot in the ankle. The shooters then fled.
Heaven was the 253rd person murdered in Chicago this year.

Heaven Sutton, 7-year-old Chicago girl latest victim of rising Chicago gun violence

Brian Browdie
New York Daily News
Sat, 30 Jun 2012 01:34 UTC

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Heaven Sutton, 7, died Wednesday after being struck in the back by a stray bullet as she reportedly raced for cover from a stand where she was selling candy in front of her Chicago home.

A 7-year-old girl has become the latest symbol of surging violence in the Windy City.

Heaven Sutton died Wednesday after being struck in the back by a stray bullet as she reportedly raced for cover from a stand where she was selling candy in front of her Chicago home.

Sutton was the fourth person killed in her neighborhood on the city's west side this week and the 20th person under age 17 killed by gunfire in Chicago this year, the Chicago Tribune reported. Overall, the city has had more than 250 homicides this year, a nearly 40 percent rise since 2011.

The brother of Heaven Sutton, 7, who died Wednesday after being struck in the back by a stray bullet as she reportedly raced for cover from a stand where she was selling candy in front of her Chicago home.

"She loved to sing, dance and crack jokes," Ashake Banks, Sutton's mother, told ABC News. "And she always smiled."

Banks told ABC she hoped gangs would stay away from the candy stand, which Banks set up to give kids a safe place to gather. "But they really didn't even care...They killed my baby," she added.

Attacks on 2 Kenyan Churches Kill at Least 15 People

Jeffrey Gettleman
The New York Times
Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00 UTC

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A sheet covered a body outside the African Inland Church in Garrisa, Kenya, near the border with Somalia. Four gunmen threw grenades there on Sunday then fired at fleeing worshipers.

Nairobi, Kenya - Masked gunmen hurled grenades into two churches in eastern Kenya on Sunday and then sprayed gunfire at fleeing worshipers, killing at least 15 people in one of the worst terrorist attacks Kenya has suffered in years.

When Kenyan forces stormed into Somalia eight months ago, Somalia's fiercest militant Islamist group, the Shabab, vowed to wreak vengeance, saying it would topple Nairobi's skyscrapers and kill Kenyan civilians.

The skyscrapers are still standing, but militants believed to be connected to the Shabab have carried out more than a dozen attacks in Kenya, scaring off tourists and putting a serious dent in this country's economy and sense of security.

At 10:30 a.m. Sunday, four gunmen attacked the African Inland Church in Garissa, an outpost town in the arid flatlands near the border with Somalia. Kenyan police officials said the gunmen had hurled two grenades into the church and shot and killed two police officers who had been posted at the church's door because of several recent attacks in Garissa.

Mass Protests in Hong Kong Over China's 15-Year Rule

Clifford Coonan
The Independent
Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:00 UTC

More than 100,000 Hong Kong residents marched through the streets yesterday to protest against Chinese rule on the 15th anniversary of the former British colony's return to Beijing.

The protest was designed as a message of defiance to the visiting Chinese premier Hu Jintao, who was greeted by Hong Kong's new chief executive Leung Chun-ying ((below left, with Mr Hu), that Hong Kong values its autonomy and does not want to be a puppet of Beijing.

"Hong Kong has freedoms and we have the right to protest. Why do you stop us from walking?" said a councillor and democracy activist, Lee Cheuk-yan. During Mr Hu's speech, a heckler who called for an end to one-party rule and dictatorship in China was led away by police.

Middle-class Americans, Suddenly Homeless and Living in their Cars

Jeff Tietz
Rolling Stone
Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:45 UTC

Every night around nine, Janis Adkins falls asleep in the back of her Toyota Sienna van in a church parking lot at the edge of Santa Barbara, California. On the van's roof is a black Yakima SpaceBooster, full of previous-life belongings like a snorkel and fins and camping gear. Adkins, who is 56 years old, parks the van at the lot's remotest corner, aligning its side with a row of dense, shading avocado trees. The trees provide privacy, but they are also useful because she can pick their fallen fruit, and she doesn't always have enough to eat. Despite a continuous, two-year job search, she remains without dependable work. She says she doesn't need to eat much - if she gets a decent hot meal in the morning, she can get by for the rest of the day on a piece of fruit or bulk-purchased almonds - but food stamps supply only a fraction of her nutritional needs, so foraging opportunities are welcome.

Prior to the Great Recession, Adkins owned and ran a successful plant nursery in Moab, Utah. At its peak, it was grossing $300,000 a year. She had never before been unemployed - she'd worked for 40 years, through three major recessions. During her first year of unemployment, in 2010, she wrote three or four cover letters a day, five days a week. Now, to keep her mind occupied when she's not looking for work or doing odd jobs, she volunteers at an animal shelter called the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network. ("I always ask for the most physically hard jobs just to get out my frustration," she says.) She has permission to pick fruit directly from the branches of the shelter's orange and avocado trees. Another benefit is that when she scrambles eggs to hand-feed wounded seabirds, she can surreptitiously make a dish for herself.

17 Reasons To Be Extremely Concerned About The Second Half Of 2012

Michael Snyder
Economic Collapse Blog
Fri, 29 Jun 2012 11:48 UTC

What is the second half of 2012 going to bring? Are things going to get even worse than they are right now? Unfortunately, that appears more likely with each passing day. I will admit that I am extremely concerned about the second half of 2012. Historically, a financial crisis is much more likely to begin in the fall than during any other season of the year. Just think about it.

The stock market crash of 1929 happened in the fall. "Black Monday" happened on October 19th, 1987. The financial crisis of 2008 started in the fall. There just seems to be something about the fall that brings out the worst in the financial markets. But of course there is not a stock market crash every year. So are there specific reasons why we should be extremely concerned about what is coming this year? Yes, there are.

The ingredients for a "perfect storm" are slowly coming together, and in the months ahead we could very well see the next wave of the economic collapse strike. Sadly, we have never even come close to recovering from the last recession, and this next crisis might end up being even more painful than the last one.

The following are 17 reasons to be extremely concerned about the second half of 2012....

Clinton-Bush Haiti "Reconstruction" Fund Used to Build Five Star Hotels

Julie Lévesque
Global Research
Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:00 UTC

As some 500 000 Haitians still live in displaced camps, five star hotels are being built amid shanty towns.

As part of the country's "Reconstruction", The Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund recently invested $2 million in the Royal Oasis Hotel, a deluxe structure to be built in a poverty-stricken metropolitan area "filled with displaced-persons camps housing hundreds of thousands". Royal Oasis belongs to a Haitian investment group (SCIOP SA) and will be managed by the Spanish chain Occidental Hotels & Resorts.

AP reported in April that funds raised by the former US Presidents to help the neediest Haitians are now being used to build a hotel for "rich foreigners" including tourists as well many foreign NGO "aid workers" currently in Haiti. (Daniel Trenton, AP: New hotels arise amid ruins in Haitian capital, Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, April 29, 2012)

Penn State president agreed not to report Sandusky abuse, emails suggest

Matt Williams
Guardian
Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:11 UTC

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Jerry Sandusky. CNN said it had seen emails in which Spanier discusses with two other officials a 2001 incident of alleged abuse.

Graham Spanier allegedly failed to report abuse claims despite knowing that inaction could leave Penn State 'vulnerable'

A former president of Penn State University failed to report allegations of child sex abuse against Jerry Sandusky despite knowing inaction could leave the college "vulnerable", according to emails seen by several news organisations.

Sandusky, a former assistant football coach at Penn State, is currently awaiting sentencing after being found guilty of 45 counts of sexually assaulting underage boys over a 15-year period.

But with Sandusky now behind bars - potentially for the rest of his life - attention is turning to whether there was a cover-up at the university, one that may have allowed Sandusky to carry on with his abuse for many years. Two of Sandusky's former colleagues, athletic director Tim Curley and finance official Gary Schultz, have already been charged with perjury and failing to alert authorities to one act of sexual abuse.

The Poison Beneath: How Toxic Waste from Injection Wells Could be Endangering the U.S. Water Supply for Years to Come

Propublica
The Daily Mail
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:02 UTC

Over the past several decades, U.S. industries have injected more than 30 trillion gallons of toxic liquid deep into the earth, using broad expanses of the nation's geology as an invisible dumping ground.

No company would be allowed to pour such dangerous chemicals into the rivers or onto the soil. But until recently, scientists and environmental officials have assumed that deep layers of rock beneath the earth would safely entomb the waste for millennia.

There are growing signs they were mistaken.

Records from disparate corners of the United States show that wells drilled to bury this waste deep beneath the ground have repeatedly leaked, sending dangerous chemicals and waste gurgling to the surface or, on occasion, seeping into shallow aquifers that store a significant portion of the nation's drinking water.

Mother Who Questions Vax at Hospital Has Newborn Taken Away

Fromthetrenchesworldreport
Sun, 01 Jul 2012 08:40 UTC

The Healthy Economist - by Sarah I am having a great deal of trouble typing this post. I am so upset and outraged over what was done to Jodi Ferris and her baby at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center in Pennsylvania shortly after she gave birth that I am having difficulty staying composed enough to write a coherent story.

If you recall, this is the same area of the state where officials allowed a serial child molester like Jerry Sandusky, former Penn State assistant football coach, to go free for decades and continue to abuse children unfortunate enough to come across his lecherous path while a mother who gives birth in a government hospital has her baby taken away for questioning whether vaccination with Hep B is truly necessary.

Does something seem very very wrong with this picture?

She's better off dead. The ones that die quickly are the lucky ones. Cancers, chronic pain and exhaustion? No thanks.

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She always looks like she's having a painful bowel movement, and is trying very hard to do it silently.

Eventide

Parzival. [Link] Documentary on who owns everything and the current situation and intention NWO. Good summary.

Joyly

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Society's Child

Update: Arrest made in shooting death of 7-year-old Chicago girl

Heaven Sutton, 7-year-old Chicago girl latest victim of rising Chicago gun violence

Attacks on 2 Kenyan Churches Kill at Least 15 People

Mass Protests in Hong Kong Over China's 15-Year Rule

Middle-class Americans, Suddenly Homeless and Living in their Cars

17 Reasons To Be Extremely Concerned About The Second Half Of 2012

Clinton-Bush Haiti "Reconstruction" Fund Used to Build Five Star Hotels

Penn State president agreed not to report Sandusky abuse, emails suggest

The Poison Beneath: How Toxic Waste from Injection Wells Could be Endangering the U.S. Water Supply for Years to Come

Mother Who Questions Vax at Hospital Has Newborn Taken Away

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