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Justina Pelletier's family promises to sue Massachusetts for abducting their daughter

Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com
Thu, 19 Jun 2014 04:40 UTC
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“I am still very angry at the psychiatrists, Boston Children’s Hospital, and the Department of Families and Children for putting Justina through this. My daughter was used as a lab rat, a cruel experiment. They tried to gag me, to prevent me from telling what was going on. Can you imagine what would have happened to Justina if I hadn’t gone public?” Lou Pellitier
The family of Justina Pelletier, the teenage girl at the center of a national parental rights dispute, vows to pursue legal action against the state of Massachusetts for what they say was essentially an abduction of their daughter.

Earlier this week, Massachusetts Juvenile Court Judge Joseph Johnston signed the order for Justina to go home following a 16-month dispute between her family and state officials. Lou Pelletier said in a text message, "This battle has been finally won. The WAR will not be won until we stop this from happening to ALL CHILDREN!!"

Pelletier, said, "It's an unbelievably emotional day... I'm still shellshocked. It has been 16 months of torture, but finally justice is being done."

The first order of business for the family is to get Justina well and evaluate her after her treatment, or lack therof, by state officials. In her sixteen months under the "care" of the state, Justina Pelletier's health deteriorated from being a vibrant figure skater to being confined to a wheelchair, unable to walk on her own. Pelletier says his daughter has "no feeling at all below her hips" and is now confined to a wheelchair.

In a picture, right, her father is shown having to carry her into their home.

Comment: Justina's case is representative of the new era of medical blackmail where some are finding the hard way how few rights they have and how fascist their medical "care" system really is. See also:

'Shocking note' apparently written by Justina Pelletier to her parents

Justina Pelletier faces continual abuse after more than a year of being locked away by DCF

Justina Pelletier: Mitochondrial disease or medical child abuse?

Head of Mass. Social Services agency at center of Pelletier case resigns

Boston Psychiatric Unit's imprisonment of teenager Justina Pelletier needs State investigation into reckless endangerment of psychiatric diagnosing

Parents lose custody of teen after seeking 2nd medical opinion; girl indefinitely detained in psych ward

Boston Children's Hospital accused of 'psychological experiment'

Social services and psychiatry: The case of Justina Pelletier

Justice must be done!

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Cow Skull

A quarter of India's land is turning into desert: Indian minister


Economic Times
Wed, 18 Jun 2014 00:00 UTC
prakash javadekar
© TOI photo by Jignesh MistryEnvironment and forest minister Prakash Javadekar
About a quarter of India's land is turning to desert and degradation of agricultural areas is becoming a severe problem, the environment minister said, potentially threatening food security in the world's second most populous country.

India occupies just 2 percent of the world's territory but is home to 17 percent of its population, leading to over-use of land and excessive grazing. Along with changing rainfall patterns, these are the main causes of desertification.

"Land is becoming barren, degradation is happening," said Prakash Javadekar, minister for environment, forests and climate change. "A lot of areas are on the verge of becoming deserts but it can be stopped."

Land degradation - largely defined as loss of productivity - is estimated at 105 million hectares, constituting 32 percent of the total land.
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Cardboard Box

Britons living in poverty more than doubled in past 30 years, as wealth gap soared


RT.com
Thu, 19 Jun 2014 10:47 UTC
UK poverty
© Reuters / Toby Melville
The number of Britons living in poverty has more than doubled over the past 30 years, a report has revealed. About one in three UK families now live below the breadline, despite the British economy doubling in size over the same period.

The UK's largest ever study into poverty in the country has urged the government to take measures to tackle growing levels of poverty. The Poverty and Social Exclusion in the United Kingdom (PSE) project, led by the University of Bristol, has revealed the wealth gap between the haves and the have-nots in the UK is widening still further.

Almost 18 million people are unable to afford adequate housing, while one in three do not have the money to heat their homes in winter.

Comment: Wealth inequality is the main reason that the impoverished are in this dire situation. Children are suffering needlessly when the wealthiest Britons could alleviate the misery if they had any consciousness at all, but clearly they have no concern for the next generation.

Benefits and child credits squeeze pushes 200,000 children into poverty
Inequality reaches inhuman proportions as UK's richest pathocrats own one third of country's wealth
$240 billion amassed by 100 richest people enough to end extreme poverty four times over: Oxfam
UK most unequal country in the West

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Bad Guys

Waking up? Americans' confidence in Congress at historic low

Rebecca Rifkin
Gallup.com
Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00 UTC
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© Gallup
Americans' confidence in Congress has sunk to a new low. Seven percent of Americans say they have "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in Congress as an American institution, down from the previous low of 10% in 2013. This confidence is starkly different from the 42% in 1973, the first year Gallup began asking the question.

These results come from a June 5-8 Gallup poll that updated Americans' confidence in 17 U.S. institutions that Americans either read about or interact with in government, business, and society.

Americans' current confidence in Congress is not only the lowest on record, but also the lowest Gallup has recorded for any institution in the 41-year trend. This is also the first time Gallup has ever measured confidence in a major U.S. institution in the single digits. Currently, 4% of Americans say they have a great deal of confidence in Congress, and 3% have quite a lot of confidence. About one-third of Americans report having "some" confidence, while half have "very little," and another 7% volunteer that they have "none."

Confidence in Congress has varied over the years, with the highest levels in the low 40% range recorded in the 1970s and again in the mid-1980s. Confidence rose in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but has declined since 2004, culminating in this year's historic low.

Comment: Not at all surprising that Americans are unhappy with the psychopaths running the country considering that more and more hard working people are falling into poverty, the country's infrastructure is crumbling and the economy shows no sign of recovery for those who are jobless. The most important thing for those in power is to continue funding the worldwide war of terror, while keeping the fear factor ramped up to control the populace. What is surprising is that so many people still have confidence in the US military when the Pentagon and CIA have done nothing but create destruction and chaos in every country they 'democratize'!

US poverty Levels: 49.7 million are poor, and 80% of the total population is near poverty
US infrastructure rotting away while billions go to surveillance, killing, and foreign bribery
US economy is a fraudulent house of cards
Record high in U.S. long-term joblessness while unemployment benefits have been cut
Global war of terror: entire world is a battlefield for Pentagon

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Sun

Happy homecoming: Justina Pelletier finally released after 16 month ordeal with Massachusetts government


RT.com
Thu, 19 Jun 2014 01:20 UTC
Justina Pelletier
© www.facebook.com/justina.pelletierJustina Pelletier
Justina Pelletier, the Connecticut teenager kept from her family by the Massachusetts government for 16 months as a custody battle raged over her medical care, is finally back at home.

"She wants a hamburger on the grill, and she wants to sit down and lie on the couch and watch a movie with the family," Linda Pelletier, her mother, said to the Boston Globe on Wednesday before Justina's return.

On Wednesday, Justina left the Thompson, Conn. therapeutic education center where she had been living since mid-May and returned to her family home in West Hartford, bringing to an end the prolonged battle between her parents and the commonwealth of Massachusetts. The homecoming came one day after a Baystate juvenile judge ruled that the 16-year-old's parents could regain full custody of her.

Comment: Justina's parents fought a long and difficult battle against the state of Massachusetts. Hopefully other parents will reap the benefit of their efforts as the psychiatric mafia along with the 'children's protective services' are becoming more aggressive in their attempts to wrest control of children from their parents, often to their detriment.

A new era of medical blackmail
Social services and psychiatry: The case of Justina Pelletier
Boston Children's Hospital accused of 'psychological experiment'
Boston Psychiatric Unit's imprisonment of teenager Justina Pelletier needs State investigation into reckless endangerment of psychiatric diagnosing

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Shoe

Iraq blowback: Major oil companies evacuating personnel over fears ISIS targeting oilfields


RT.com
Thu, 19 Jun 2014 13:26 UTC
oil refinery Baiji
© Reuters / Sabah al-BazeeA U.S. helicopter lands at the oil refinery in Baiji, 180 km (112 miles) north of Baghdad February 25, 2009
BP and ExxonMobil have both ordered staff to leave Iraq, and China is considering pulling some of its 10,000 workers from projects following the turmoil caused by jihadist rebel group ISIS, which has rocked the country and threatened security.

Exxon is plucking 20 percent of its staff, mostly foreigners, from Iraq fearing the Sunni rebel group ISIS, a breakaway Al-Qaeda group, could target oilfields and refineries in their terror sweep. An official from Iraq's state-run South Oil Company confirmed this on Wednesday.

BP has shipped out all non-essential employees from the Rumaila field in the south and Exxon has been evacuating staff from the West Qurna 1, also in the south.
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Arrow Down

The agonizing death of the rust belt

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse Blog
Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:06 UTC
abandoned house
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Their names are familiar to all of us: Cleveland, Flint, Youngstown, Saginaw, Gary, Toledo, Reading, Akron, Flint and Buffalo were all once booming manufacturing cities that were absolutely packed with thriving middle class families. But now most of the manufacturing jobs are gone and all of those cities are just shadows of their former selves. When you drive through many of these communities, you will notice that a lot of people have a really hollow look in their eyes. Decades of slow, steady economic decline have really taken a toll, and even the architecture in these cities looks depressed. But despite all of the decay, there is still evidence that there was once something truly great about these communities. Will we be able to recapture that greatness before it is too late?
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Nuke

Ongoing catastrophe: Japan's plan to freeze Fukushima is melting away

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge.com
Thu, 19 Jun 2014 02:32 UTC
Who could have possibly foreseen this?

A year ago we wished TEPCO the best of luck with the construction of the "Game of Thrones"-esque 1.4km giant wall of ice that was designed to surround the exploded Fukushima power plant and slow the movement of irradiated water below the damaged reactors, preventing it from flowing over into the ocean and surrounding land. A plan so idiotic we were at a loss for words trying to list the ways it could go wrong (we didn't bother with how it could go right because it clearly couldn't).
Fukushima ground freezing plan
And, as it turns out, making a project overly complicated and ridiculous doesn't assure it will be a success. Quite the contrary. As Japan JIJI reports, Tepco said the project, which remains in its early stages, is experiencing a problem with an inner ice wall designed to contain highly radioactive water that is draining from the basements of the wrecked reactors.

A Tepco spokesman added that "We have yet to form an ice plug because we can't get the temperature low enough to freeze the water."
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2 + 2 = 4

Lying by omission: Children can tell when a teacher commits "sins of omission"

Anne Trafton
MIT News Office
Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:07 UTC
Laura Schultz
© M. Scott BrauerLaura Schulz, a primary investigator in the Early Childhood Cognition Lab in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT
Children learn a great deal about the world from their own exploration, but they also rely on what adults tell them. Studies have shown that children can figure out when someone is lying to them, but cognitive scientists from MIT recently tackled a subtler question: Can children tell when adults are telling them the truth, but not the whole truth?

Led by Laura Schulz, the Class of 1943 Career Development Associate Professor of Cognitive Science, the researchers found that not only can children make this distinction, but they can also compensate for incomplete information by exploring more on their own.

Determining whom to trust is an important skill to learn at an early age because so much of our knowledge about the world comes from other people, says Hyowon Gweon, an MIT postdoc and lead author of a paper describing the findings in the journal Cognition.
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USA

Huh? Glenn Beck admits "Liberals, you were right" on Iraq - updated w/Pat Robertson TOO

Reinvented Daddy
Daily Kos
Wed, 18 Jun 2014 20:37 UTC
glenn beck
© UnknownIt soooo sucks to be soooo wrong
(HuffPo)"From the beginning, most people on the left were against going into Iraq. I wasn't.... Liberals, you were right. We shouldn't have."

Beck made this surprising declaration on his radio show on Tuesday while discussing the widening rift between Republicans and Democrats. He urged both parties to come together to oppose another war in Iraq.

"Not one more life. Not one more life. Not one more dollar, not one more airplane, not one more bullet, not one more Marine, not one more arm or leg or eye. Not one more," he said. "This must end now. Now can't we come together on that?"
I really, really hate to give Beck credit but credit I doth give. Tony Blair can SYFPH, Bill Kristol can SYFPH, Paul Wolfowitz can SYFPH! We shouldn't be there and I am very glad our Democratic President of the USA has stated that we won't be sending US men and women into this Heart Of Darkness.

I am hopeful that the White House's current stance, that the USA will not use ground forces in Iraq regardless and air support unless the current regime restructures into an inclusive Shia/Sunni/Kurd structure. Preferably with al-Maliki resigning. I do not expect any buy-in from Republicans but this is an indication libertarians and tea partiers may not be seduced by neocon dreams.

I can hope.

BTW, this is not snark. I couldn't figure out how to embed the video but the Huff Post link has it.
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