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Electricity goes out across much of Venezuela

Jorge Rueda and Hannah Dreier
The Telegraph
Fri, 27 Jun 2014 10:32 UTC
A power plant failure knocked out electricity across a big swath of Venezuela on Friday, darkening the lights at a nationally televised presidential ceremony and forcing a suspension of subway and train services around the country


The outage affected at least 14 of the South American country's 23 states and caused several hours of traffic snarls and darkened homes and offices in the capital, Caracas.

A power plant that supplies electricity to Venezuela's central and western regions failed in early afternoon, Electricity Minister Jesse Chacon said. Electricity was mostly restored in Caracas by nightfall, but remained out in other parts of the country, where power failures are more common.
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Another pedophile in the pulpit: Illinois minister accused of molesting boy for 6 years

David Ferguson
The Raw Story
Fri, 27 Jun 2014 11:18 UTC
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© RawstoryPedophile Rev. John Hays
A Chicago-area minister was arrested Thursday on charges of molesting a boy for six years, beginning when the boy was eight years old.

According to the Chicago Tribune, 57-year-old Rev. John Hays was taken into custody by Chicago police and charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse. Hays is the director of congregations life of the First Presbyterian Church of River Forest.

Chicago Police Department spokesperson Officer Ana Pacheco said that Hays is accused of molesting the boy from February 2003 to February of 2009, beginning when the boy was eight. Hays' accuser, now 19, filed charges against the minister in May.

The victim was reportedly a friend of Hays' family and a congregant at his church. He told authorities that Hays repeatedly molested him in the minister's residence, which is located down the street from where the boy grew up.

Comment: Pedophilia is a rampant epidemic in religious organizations. From Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders, Who They Are, How They Operate, and How We Can Protect Ourselves and Our Children by Dr. Anna Salter:
"One molester, who himself was a minister, said: 'I considered church people easy to fool ... they have the trust that comes from being Christians ... They tend to be better folks all around. And they seem to want to believe in the good that exists in all people. And because of that, you can easily convince, with or without convincing words.'

In interviewing victims in the growing number of cases involving priests, I have been surprised - although I should not have been - by how deeply religious many of the victims' families were. I have never before grasped that it was the most religious families who were thrilled to have a priest take an interest in their children, who wanted their children to be altar boys, who could not believe that a priest would do anything so wrong.

The growing crisis in the Catholic Church just underlines the fact that offenders can recognize ideal settings for child molesters even if the rest of us can't. In truth, a deeply religious and trusting group of people, plus the requirement of celibacy (an ideal cover for any man who has no sexual interest in adults), plus a hierarchy that doesn't report complaints to the police and simply moves the offender on to new and fresh territory with new potential victims, is the ideal setting for pedophiles."
See also: SOTT Talk Radio: Predators Among Us - Interview With Dr. Anna Salter

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Sabotage? Power plant failure knocks out electricity across Venezuela


Voice of Russia
Sat, 28 Jun 2014 01:50 UTC
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A power plant failure knocked out electricity across a big swath of Venezuela on Friday, darkening the lights at a nationally televised presidential ceremony and forcing a suspension of subway and train services around the country. The outage affected at least 14 of the South American country's 23 states and caused several hours of traffic snarls and darkened homes and offices in the capital, Caracas.

A power outage hit a wide area of eastern Caracas and several cities in the interior of Venezuela for at least two hours Friday.

The outage started at 3:00 pm (07:00 pm GMT) and service began being restored about two hours later.
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Hospital confiscates healthy baby, calls police because mother gave birth at home

Daniel Jennings
Healthy Debates
Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:00 UTC
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A Pennsylvania woman claims doctors took her seven-day-old healthy baby and called police and social workers simply because she gave birth at home. She also says that doctors at St. Joseph's Hospital transferred her baby to another hospital without her permission.

"[The doctor] came in the room with a stern look and said if you refuse to transfer her, we WILL CONTACT DHS (Department of Human Services) AND THE POLICE," said the woman, Fatima Doumbouya.

Doumbouya and her husband refused permission, but they didn't realize that the doctors had already decided to move their daughter to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

The mother and her husband, Bilal Smith, only learned of the transfer when a nurse told them the baby was being moved. They had never given permission nor signed any paperwork authorizing the action. Doctors informed her that the baby would have to be transferred to Children's because St. Joseph's lacked the proper instruments to examine her.

Comment: It seems that doctors and hospitals are becoming ever more aggressive in their abductions of children, and are particularly targeting those parents who disagree with AMA based medical protocols which insist on the vaccination of infants with multiple dangerous vaccines.

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Businessmen up in arms over Russian sanctions, claiming huge risk to American jobs


Voice of Russia
Wed, 25 Jun 2014 02:54 UTC
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US sanctions on Russia are putting a huge risk on American businesses and jobs, according to a recent article from Bloomberg. In fact, two top US business-related lobbies are getting ready to break with President Barack Obama over the idea of even more sanctions against Russia after several months of giving their disapproval to the White House.

On Thursday. June 26 the US Chamber of Commerce along with the National Association of Manufacturers are planning on running newspapers ads in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post - giving a stern warning that even more Russia sanctions risks ruining US workers jobs as well as businesses, claims an anonymous person who knows very well of these plans, cited by Bloomberg.

Leaders from both the US and European Union have made it clear to Russia that it risks a new set of sanctions on its economy sector unless that is it takes the necessary actions to de-escalate the crisis that has been on-going in Ukraine. Yesterday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel informed members of her party that sanctions created to affect Russia's $2 trillion economy have been put on the agenda for a meeting of EU leaders to be held June 26-27.

Comment: Putin must be laughing and saying "I told you so"!

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Predictive policing is not like 'Minority Report' - It's worse

Natasha Lennard
Vice
Thu, 26 Jun 2014 15:53 UTC
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The defenders and promulgators of data-driven, predictive policing - which is meant to anticipate crimes before they happen - face a PR problem: reassuring the public against fears that such methods are ushering in a totalitarian future reminiscent of the science-fiction film Minority Report.

Concerns about preemptive crime fighting through data hoarding and analysis are hard to assuage, however, because they are perfectly valid.

A lengthy feature published in the Guardian on Wednesday looked at the permeation of data-driven analysis in the LAPD and other municipal police forces. "As the ability to collect, store and analyze data becomes cheaper and easier, law enforcement agencies all over the world are adopting techniques that harness the potential of technology to provide more and better information," it noted. "But while these new tools have been welcomed by law enforcement agencies, they're raising concerns about privacy, surveillance and how much power should be given over to computer algorithms."

The Guardian's report describes an LAPD war room full of video screens. They show incidents of crime in real time; multiple newscasts; the seismic effects of earthquakes; and sections of the city as small as 500 square feet where algorithmic data-crunching indicates that crimes are most likely to take place.

At first glance, such systems seem benignly empirical. Why wait for a robbery or a shooting when algorithms working beyond the capabilities of human intuition can help prevent these incidents in advance? But such an understanding wrongly assumes the neutrality of information. The picture of crime to come is based on pre-existing police data, which we know to be biased and flawed.
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Caged bear bites off 5-year-old girl's hand in Rostov, Russia


RT
Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:21 UTC
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© RIA Novosti / Vladimir Astapkovich
A bear kept in captivity in a recreation center in the Rostov Region attacked a five-year-old girl, biting off her hand. The girl is being treated in hospital, while her mother blames the center's owner for not having fed the animal.

On June 24, the girl was helping her mother, who worked at the recreation center in the Rostov Region in southern Russia as a cleaner. The child went up to the bear, which was kept in a cage surrounded by a mesh wire. It had an opening large enough to approach the animal's cage, the regional investigative committee reported.

The mother heard the girl screaming and rushed to help. She literally had to tear off her daughter's hand which was caught in the bear's chops. She then applied a tourniquet and with the help of one of the center's visitors took the child to hospital, she told the LifeNews channel.

The woman believes the bear was hungry. "When full, an animal would never touch a child," she said.

The recreation center owner blames the girl's mother.

Comment: Symbolic? The Russian media and public are pushing for military intervention to protect Russians living in SE Ukraine. Regardless, these animals should not be kept in captivity for the entertainment of humans; they should be in the wild. See: Zoos drive animals crazy

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Ohio man collapses, dies outside courtroom after judge issues sentence for molesting 14-year old

Brandon Blackwell
Cleveland.com
Thu, 26 Jun 2014 16:55 UTC
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The 51-year-old man who died outside a Cleveland courtroom Wednesday told a judge that the 14-year-old girl he victimized had feelings for him.

Miguel Aybar's remark outraged Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Michelle Denise Earley who issued a sharp rebuke in the form of a 60-day jail sentence. Aybar pleaded no contest to unlawful restraint and was found guilty, a court spokesman said

Earley ordered Aybar out of court. He collapsed outside the courtroom and died.

The West Side resident was accused of restraining his teen victim and of "kissing her in the mouth with his tongue," according to a court document.

Courtroom video shows Aybar apologize to his victim and to the girl's mother minutes before his death.
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Grandson charged after body of grandma found in minivan outside Florida nudist home

Nina Golgowski
NY Daily News
Tue, 24 Jun 2014 12:57 UTC
Sylvia Rosalie Schmitt's 18-year-old grandson, Brandon Machetto, was charged Monday with her murder after authorities say he was found driving her body away from her nudist community home in Lutz, Florida.

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© Pasco County Sheriff's OfficeHours after 74-year-old Sylvia Rosalie Schmitt, left, was reported missing from her nudist community home in Florida on Monday, her grandson, Brandon Machetto, 18, right, was arrested and charged with her murder.
A silver alert for a missing 74-year-old woman ended in tragedy Monday when her body was allegedly found in the back of her minivan outside her nudist home in Florida.

Sylvia Rosalie Schmitt's 18-year-old grandson, Brandon Machetto, has been charged with her murder after he was found driving her body away from her home in Lutz, Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco said at a press conference.
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Supreme Court rules abortion clinic 'buffer zones' infringe on protesters' free speech

Karen McVeigh
The Guardian
Thu, 26 Jun 2014 13:30 UTC
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Justices side with seven Massachusetts anti-abortion protesters who said 35-foot buffer zone infringed on free speech

The US supreme court struck down a Massachusetts law ensuring a 35-foot protective "buffer zone" outside abortion clinics, ruling that it violated the first amendment by preventing the free speech of anti-abortion protesters.

In a unanimous decision, the court said the zone was too sweeping, intruding onto public sidewalks where free debate and leafletting traditionally take place.

The decision, which was relatively narrow, allows the state an opportunity to enact a new, less restrictive law. It did not overturn a previous supreme court decision in 2000, which upheld a buffer zone in Colorado.

The 2007 law was aimed at keeping protesters at least 35 feet from the entrance to prevent clashes between opponents and advocates of abortion rights that were occurring outside healthcare clinics.
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