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Four mysterious murders in Paris suburbs

Julie Chabanas
The Gazette
Sat, 07 Apr 2012 01:30 UTC
Shootings raise fear serial killer is at large.

Fears grew Friday that a serial killer was stalking low-income housing projects in the suburbs of Paris, where the same weapon has been used to murder four apparently innocent citizens since November.

The latest killing on Thursday of a 47-year-old mother, shot dead near her home in the Essonne suburb, prompted Interior Minister Claude Gueant to vow every effort was being made to find the killer.

All the victims were shot with the same small-calibre 7.65-mm weapon by a gunman who fled on a motorbike, recalling the methods of an Islamist extremist killed by police in southern France in March after murdering seven people.

Comment: Read Joe Quinn's recent articles to understand what is really going on in France:

Sarkozy's Backers To Use Toulouse Attacks To Steal French Election - UPDATE!
Toulouse Attacks: The Official Story of the Death of Mohamed Merah is a Lie
Sarkozy The American's 9/11: Mohamed Merah: 'Liquidated' French Intelligence Asset

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Penis Pump

Is the whole world looking at porn? Biggest site gets over FOUR BILLION hits a month

Ted Thornhill
Daily Mail, UK
Mon, 09 Apr 2012 07:46 UTC
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Xvideos: The world's biggest porn site receives billions of hits a month
30% of all web traffic is porn, according to a report

'The internet is for porn,' is the title of a song on hit musical Avenue Q.

And it turns out the lyricists had touched on a home truth, because researchers have discovered that a staggering 30 per cent of all internet traffic is pornography.

The biggest porn site on the web - Xvideos - receives 4.4billion page views and 350million unique visits per month, according to a report on the ExtremeTech website.

The only sites that surpass this in size are the likes of Google and Facebook.

The report uncovered the viewing figures for Xvideos from Google's DoubleClick Ad Planner, which uses cookies to gather information about users.
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Heart - Black

A Needed Revolution: Rape and U.S. Justice

Sarah Tofte
The Daily Beast
Sun, 08 Apr 2012 11:00 UTC
The arrest rate for rape - 24 percent - has not changed since the late 1970s. In the new Human Rights Watch book The Unfinished Revolution, Sarah Tofte explains why.

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© The Associated Press/Damian Dovarganes DNA was collected from Helena Lazaro of Glendale, Calif., after she was raped at knifepoint seven years ago, but it sat untested with thousands of other rape kits in a police storeroom instead of being entered into an FBI database. The man was arrested and released during that time.
The U.S. has struggled to make progress in the way the criminal-justice system addresses violence against women and girls. Only in the last 40 years have laws and systems been put in place to prohibit a victim's prior sexual activity from being entered into evidence, to eliminate the requirement that there be a corroborating witness to a rape, and to create procedures to collect physical evidence from victims.

Today police and prosecutors are extensively trained in how to move cases forward, and sexual-assault investigative and prosecutorial units are common in most major cities.

Yet despite these reforms, the number of reported rapes that lead to an arrest - much less a conviction - remains intractably small. In 2010 the arrest rate for rape was 24 percent, which was exactly what it was in the late 1970s, when the FBI first began tracking such data. Too many rape cases in this country don't just remain unresolved - they remain uninvestigated.

Most reported rapes are perpetrated by someone the victim knows, and law enforcement operate on the misguided assumption that these so-called acquaintance-rape cases are too hard to prove or are false reports by victims motivated to harm the accused. Consequently, these "non-stranger" rape cases often languish after they are reported, and, even when they do move forward, law-enforcement officers see no need to test a rape kit in the case, since they already know who the suspect is.
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Question

Case of Obama-Bashing Marine Renews Debate Over First Amendment Rights

Jeremy Herb
The Hill
Sun, 08 Apr 2012 04:30 UTC
Gary Stein
© The Associated PressMarine Sgt. Gary Stein
The case of a Marine who is facing discharge for posting disparaging comments about President Obama on Facebook has renewed a debate about free speech rights for members of the military.

A review board on Thursday recommended that Marine Sgt. Gary Stein be discharged for comments on his "Armed Forces Tea Party" site, where he called Obama "the domestic enemy," superimposed his face on a Jackass movie poster and said he would not follow some orders from Obama.

Service members are banned from engaging in political speech or activities while representing the military.

Stein and his lawyers argue he was acting as a private citizen when posting on the Facebook page, and say the Marine Corps are violating his First Amendment rights by prosecuting him for his comments.

Stein has an ally on Capitol Hill in Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), a Marine reservist who sent a letter to the Marines Tuesday urging them to drop the case against Stein.

Hunter received a response Friday from Marines Maj. Gen. Vaughan Ary, staff judge advocate to Marine Commandant Gen. James Amos, according to Hunter's spokesman.
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Arrow Up

Gas Prices On Catalina Island Pass $7 Mark


CBS News Los Angeles
Sat, 07 Apr 2012 11:53 UTC
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© Ivan Hernandez/Avalon Marine Dock
US, California - Catalina Island is known for many things... its picturesque scenery, seafood and hiking, to name a few. But what about high gas prices?

For the past two weeks, gas prices on Catalina Island have been an average of $7 a gallon.

Stacy Dizon, who works at the Santa Catalina Island Co.-owned gas station on Pebbly Road, tells CBSLA that a gallon of regular unleaded on Saturday is $7.03.

The gas station is one of two service stations catering to the island and nearby, Avalon.

About 1.5 miles away, Ivan Hernandez at the city-owned Avalon Marine Dock says the price of regular unleaded is $6.90 a gallon, down 10 cents from Friday.

While some residents may be feeling the pinch, many aren't complaining.

"There's not a lot to complain about when we're living on an island," said Catherine Rogers, a server at Original Jack's Country Kitchen.
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Stormtrooper

Hysteria in Action: Armed Neo-Nazis Now Patrolling Sanford, Say They Are "Prepared" For Post-Trayvon Martin Violence

Michael Miller
Miami New Times
Sun, 08 Apr 2012 01:48 UTC
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© nsm88.orgMembers of the National Socialist Movement during a patrol on the US-Mexico border in January
US, Florida - Neo-Nazis are currently conducting heavily armed patrols in and around Sanford, Florida and are "prepared" for violence in the case of a race riot. The patrols are to protect "white citizens in the area who are concerned for their safety" in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting last month, says Commander Jeff Schoep of the National Socialist Movement. "We are not advocating any type of violence or attacks on anybody, but we are prepared for it," he says. "We are not the type of white people who are going to be walked all over."

Because nothing diffuses racial tension like gun-toting racial separatists patrolling an already on-edge community.

UPDATE: The Sanford Police Department says that it has no evidence of neo-Nazis in the area. "We have not seen any neo-Nazis on patrol nor have we had any reports of them," says Sgt. David Morgenstern. He added that there had been no sign of the New Black Panther Party, either.

Schoep, whose neo-Nazi group is based in Detroit, tells Riptide the patrols are a response to white residents' fears of a race riot. A group called the New Black Panther Party recently offered $10,000 for a citizens' arrest of George Zimmerman, Martin's shooter. Schoep said the bounty is a sign that "the possibility of further racial violence... is brimming over like a powder keg ready to explode into the streets."

Comment: Please read the Sott Focus: Hysterization Via Racism in the Trayvon Martin Case for a better understanding of the dynamics at play in the Trayvon Martin case.

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Phoenix

7-Year-Old Boy Tied to Alaska Arson Fires


The Associated Press
Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:00 UTC
US, Alaska - A 7-year-old Juneau boy has admitted setting five arson fires over a little more than four months, according to fire officials in Alaska's capital.

Juneau fire marshal Dan Jager tells the Juneau Empire that the boy caused about $1,000 in damages by setting fires in restrooms at Harborview Elementary School and the Terry Miller Legislative Building, plus a downtown grass fire and two fires at a Fred Meyer store.

The boy's name was not released.

"He won't be going to jail," Fire Chief Richard Etheridge said, but the case will be forwarded to probation officers at the Johnson Youth Center.

The boy told fire officials during interviews Wednesday that he set the small fires with a lighter he found. There was no immediate indication of why, Jager said, but the incidents were dangerous.
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Cut

Sony to Axe 10,000 Jobs in Turnaround Bid

Chris Gallagher
Reuters
Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00 UTC
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Japan's Sony Corp is cutting 10,000 jobs, about 6 percent of its global workforce, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Monday, as new CEO Kazuo Hirai looks to steer the electronics and entertainment giant back to profit after four years in the red.

The job cuts would be the latest downsizing in Japan Inc where companies from cellphone maker NEC Corp to electronics firm Panasonic Corp are trimming costs in the face of a strong yen and competition from rivals like Apple and Samsung Electronics.

TV makers in particular have been hit hard by the tough business climate as well as sharp price falls, with Sony, Panasonic and Sharp expecting to have lost a combined $17 billion in the fiscal year just ended.

Investors will closely monitor a briefing on Thursday by Hirai, who formally took over this month as chief executive from Howard Stringer, for further clues on how Sony plans to revamp its business.
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Pistol

1 Dead, 2 Wounded in Texas Beach Shooting


The Daily Mail, UK
Sun, 08 Apr 2012 17:51 UTC
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US, Texas - One person has been killed and two others wounded in a shooting during a packed Texas Gulf Coast beach party.

Word of mouth of the unauthorized party spread on social media Saturday, drawing thousands to Surfside Beach, about 40 miles south of Galveston, before it turned deadly.

Among the victims, 25-year-old Derrick Milam was hit in the neck by a stray bullet and pronounced dead on the beach.

According to his step-sister Danielle Banks who was also in attendance, the party had become chaotic with numerous fights breaking out prior to the shooting that took over the entire beach.
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Suspect in Dismembering Says He Met Woman Online


The Associated Press
Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:00 UTC
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© The Associated Press/Butler County Sheriff DepartmentThis undated file photo provided by the Butler County Sheriff Department shows Matthew Puccio. Puccio, 25, is one of five people arrested after the body of 21-year-old Jessica Rae Sacco was found Friday, March 30, 2012 in her Urbana, Ohio apartment. Puccio, who lived with Sacco, is accused of killing her.
US: Urbana, Ohio - A man suspected of stabbing, suffocating and dismembering his girlfriend told a newspaper that he met her through Facebook while looking for new friends and that he met two of his alleged accomplices at a library just three days before the killing.

Matthew Puccio, 25, is among five people charged in connection with the death of 21-year-old Jessica Rae Sacco, whose remains were found in the bathtub of their Urbana duplex apartment in late March, about a week after police believe she was killed. A couple from Fenton, Mich., and two people from Urbana are accused of failing to intervene in the killing and helping Puccio cut off or transport limbs that were dumped in southern Ohio and Kentucky, about 70 to 85 miles away.

In an interview, Puccio said he met Urbana residents Sharon Cook and Christopher Wright at a local library days before the killing, then contacted them afterward and was stunned that they helped him cover it up instead of calling the police, the Springfield News-Sun reported Sunday.

"It shocked the hell out of me," Puccio said. "I figured they'd be the first to call the cops on me."

Puccio said he had met Sacco through Facebook while he was living in Texas. Puccio said Sacco provided support he needed after his former fiancée left him and took two of his children.

Puccio said he and Sacco argued often and that their relationship became more stressed because she didn't get along with Andrew Forney and his wife, the Michigan couple who began living at the home shortly after Puccio moved in last fall.
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