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US, Seattle: Man Admitted to Teen's 'Brutal and Senseless Murder'

Levi Pulkkinen
Seattle Pi
Mon, 11 Jul 2011 04:43 UTC
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Kathy Chou
King County prosecutors have charged a 22-year-old man accused of killing Kathy Chou with first-degree murder.

In charging documents filed Monday, prosecutors contend Ezekiel J. Watkins killed the 19-year-old Renton resident on April 18, 2010, then hid her body and evaded detection until his arrest last week.

Describing Chou's slaying as "the brutal and senseless murder of a young woman who posed no threat to him," Senior Deputy Prosecutor Scott O'Toole claimed Watkins admitted to considering luring her to a secluded area where he could kill her.

Watkins, 22, was arrested on July 6 after an alleged accomplice admitted to helping him hide Chou's body the night she was killed. Her body was apparently recovered Saturday evening.

Chou was reported missing the day after she disappeared from her parents' home.

Speaking with investigators, the young woman's parents said she'd returned from a high school field trip earlier in the day, then left home for a walk at 7 p.m.
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Gaza: Siege and sewage force inhabitants to resort to farmed fish

Eva Bartlett
Electronic Intifada
Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:55 UTC
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Fishing is a traditional source of employment and food in Gaza.
"Farmed fish are now better than sea fish in Gaza. They shouldn't be but because of the sewage in Gaza's sea and the Israeli fishing restrictions, farmed fish are cleaner and healthier than sea fish."

Sohail Ekhail has a point. The 38-year-old marine engineer and sea captain is one of the pioneers of the aquaculture industry in Gaza. Coming from a scientific background, he speaks of the current advantages of aquaculture in the Strip.

"It is almost impossible for our fishermen to fish in the sea, so fish farms provide another source of salt water fish."
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Wolf

Canada, Saskatoon: Starving Dogs Survived on Owners' Remains


CBC News
Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:21 UTC
The Saskatoon SPCA is wrestling with the fate of seven dogs rescued from a rural home near Yorkton after the animals ate the remains of their deceased owners.

RCMP last week found the couple - a man, 67, and woman, 57 - who had died on a rural property near Springside. Police do not suspect foul play, but the matter is being investigated by the coroner.

Police concluded that for more than a week the dogs - five Shelties and two mixed breeds - survived by eating the remains of the couple.

The question now is whether the dogs should be put down or given a new home.

Neighbour Margaret-Ann Irving, who knew the dogs' owners, said the animals cannot now be adopted.

"Those dogs need to be put down," she said. "You can't place a dog that's been eating on human flesh for two or three weeks and put it in a home where there might be a child."
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Indigenous Resistance is Now the New 'Terrorism'

Manuela Picq
aljazeera.net
Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:29 UTC
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In South America, indigenous people who protest against government decisions to deplete natural resources for profit are often criminalized [EPA]
In Ecuador, protesting for the rights of the Earth and trying to preserve natural resources may make you a "terrorist".

If you thought there was anything romantic about environmental activism or indigenous rights, think twice. Socialist ideas about nature - such as keeping water a public good - can get you facing charges of sabotage by a leftist government. In the land of the Incas, if you protect the pachamama ["Mother World"], you might just be a "terrorist".

It's becoming tricky to identify "terrorists", at least in Ecuador. They are not members of criminal organizations, they don't spread fear or target civilians, nor have a politically motivated agenda. According to President Correa, "terrorists" are those opposing Ecuador's development. So today's "terrorism" might just look like indigenous peoples peacefully taking over the streets, with their ancestral knowledge and values, to demand environmental and social rights.

In Ecuador, "terrorists" are indigenous peoples from the Amazon and the Andean highlands fighting to preserve access to water in their communities. Old penal codes written in times of dictatorship are being revived by leftist presidents to repress indigenous activists. As "terrorists", they are labelled as enemies of the state, and arrested - by the very president that claimed leftist credentials and staged his inauguration in overtly ethnic style.
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Russian lawmakers to consider chemical castration bill for pedophiles


RIA Novosti
Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:51 UTC
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© RIA Novosti. Sergey Guneev
Medvedev suggested that castration of convicted pedophiles should remain voluntary, while the United Russia party, which holds a majority in parliament, has insisted it should be obligatory.
President Dmitry Medvedev has submitted amendments to the State Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament, introducing chemical castration for criminals guilty of sexual offences against children, a Duma official said on Tuesday.

The castration bill, designed to "increase the effectiveness of the prevention of the strikingly brutal crimes" against children, also introduces life sentence as a possible punishment for pedophiles who are repeat offenders.

The bill also stipulates voluntary medical treatment, including chemical castration, for other rapists.
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US: Black bear, Florida Bicyclist Collide


WTSP 10 News
Mon, 11 Jul 2011 05:36 UTC

A Panama City man is recovering after colliding with a black bear while riding his bike to work.

John Hearn said he saw something out of the corner of his eye early Thursday morning. The nearly 300-pound bear smacked him off his bicycle and then fled into some nearby woods. Passing motorists stopped to help Hearn, who sustained minor injuries. The back tire of his bike was also ripped off.

Hearn, who bikes to work at Tyndall Air Force Base a few times a week, said he still plans to bike to work.
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US, Minnesota: Mother: Teenage Girl Mob Attacked My Family


CBS News
Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:56 UTC

A Minneapolis mother is looking for the public's help in finding a mob of teenage girls that she says assaulted her family.

The attack happened Thursday afternoon inside Folwell Park on Minneapolis' north side.

Shawnee Twiet says she was in and out of consciousness when the attack happened.

"As soon as I hit the ground, I just started feeling just everything coming from everywhere," Twiet said. "I mean blows coming from the back of my head. I felt somebody grabbing the back of my hair."

She suffered a black eye, bruises all over her body and imprints on her back.

Twiet says she was not the original victim; her two daughters were targeted first. Twiet says the group blamed her daughters for taking a pair of sunglasses.

Twiet's 15-year-old called home after she said she was threatened by the group. Twiet then made the three-block journey to Folwell Park.

Twiet said when she arrived at the park she saw a woman and some teenage girls crossing the street. She also saw her 15-year-old walking toward her, but she noticed that her 4-year-old daughter was missing.
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US, Florida: Casey Anthony Juror, 60, Quits Work and Flees Town in Fear of Her Life


The Daily Mail, UK
Mon, 11 Jul 2011 07:24 UTC
  • 'I'd rather go to jail than sit on another jury'
  • Husband worried about her health
A juror in the Casey Anthony trial has told how she received death threats and has been unable to work since she was cleared of murder.

The woman, known only as juror number 12 left her job and went into hiding fearing co-workers would 'want her head on a platter'.

Her husband said before leaving she told him: 'I'd rather go to jail than sit on a jury like this again.'

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Protest: Anthony to four years for lying to investigators but can go free in July or August because she has already served nearly three years in jail

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Controversial verdict: Anthony case has been compared to the controversial OJ Simpson trial
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Canada's Largest Public Sector Union Wages Campaign Against Harper government

Andy Radia
Political Points
Tue, 12 Jul 2011 05:46 UTC
Stephen Harper
© Reuters
Get ready for some more labour unrest in Canada.

Canada's largest public sector union, the Public Service Alliance of Canada, is vowing to initiate a major offensive against any plans to radically reduce its membership.

President John Gordon says his union, which represents about 172,000 federal employees, won't start a general strike but will be actively be campaigning against the Tories and any potential job cuts.

Stephen Harper's government has made it "very clear" its plan to find $4 billion in annual savings to balance the federal budget will mean some programs will be eliminated or scaled back, Gordon told Bloomberg News.
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Attention

US, Massachusetts: Stun Gun Discovery on Jet Blue Plane Raises Questions


NECN
Mon, 11 Jul 2011 05:45 UTC

A Jet Blue flight took off from Boston Friday night and then landed in Newark, New Jersey, where the plane's cleaning crew found a stun gun.

The Striker 1800 was found in a seat back pocket and was turned over to authorities. Now the investigation is turning to how a stun gun made its way onto a plane and who brought it on, something investigators may never know.

Jet Blue passengers are uneasy with the stunning discovery, and rightfully so. Fred Hevalt, an airline security expert who produced the documentary "Please Remove Your Shoes," however, says that it's possible to get all sorts of things through airport security and people shouldn't be all that surprised now.
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