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Young Cancer Patient Victimized in Hoax

Valley Center, California - A 19-year old with a rare form of bone cancer is the victim of a hoax after a mysterious woman offered to pay his medical bills.

"She's a very sick person who did a very sick thing to a young man fighting for his life," said Tiffany Doty, whose son, Thomas, has osteosarcosis. Thomas has not responded to surgery or chemotherapy.

Tiffany Doty brought her son to Valley Center for a holistic approach to his care at the pH Miracle Center, but because of money troubles, the family has only enough money to pay for two weeks of treatment.

Doty said her son needs eight weeks of treatment.

The family thought Thomas' treatment was being paid for by a woman who called herself Jonnica Ellis. Ellis saw an online video featuring Captain Johnathan Hillstrand of the reality TV show The Deadliest Catch. In that video, the reality star asks people to help pay for Thomas' cancer treatments.

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'Mystery Shopper' Scam Shut Down; Duped Victims into Wiring Money Overseas

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Two websites that conned people by recruiting them as "mystery shoppers," only to trick them out of their money have been shut down by the state of New York.

The sites, Idealcorp.net and Survsonl.com, promised the chance to work from home, helping a market research company gauge customer service at Western Union.

Mystery shoppers were issued $2,000 checks, told they could cash them and keep $300 for themselves and wire the rest to someone overseas, according to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. They would then report on the quality of Western Union's customer service.

But the $2,000 check turned out to be counterfeit, and once the bank where the con victims deposited it learned it was worthless, the victim had already sent off the $1,700 balance - using his or her own funds. The banks held the victims accountable to pay back the money.

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County Faith Healer Rapped Over Advert

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A county Londonderry faith healer has been rapped by the Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland (ASAI) for claiming he could treat "serious or prolonged ailments or conditions requiring the attention of a registered medical or other qualified practitioner."

Danny Gallagher, a self-styled 'Seventh Son of a Seventh Son' faith healer from Maghera, regularly visits healing centres in Letterkenny and throughout the island offering to heal people using "strange powers."

Such are his alleged powers that back in 2002 when Deportivo La Coruna defender Aldo Duscher broke David Beckham's foot, Mr Gallagher offered to help heal the former Manchester United winger.

Dr MJ Stone, the club's doctor at the time, wrote and thanked Mr Gallagher, vowing to keep his details on file and if "we need to get in touch, contact will be made with you."

Then in the aftermath of the Iraq war, Mr Gallagher visited the Walter Reed Army Medical Centre in Washington, the largest field hospital in the US, and tended to soldiers who had been horrifically injured in gun and bomb attacks.

But now the Irish advertising watchdog has upheld a complaint against an advertisement of Mr Gallagher's which one individual "considered to be unfounded and false."

According to the ASAI the complainant said that "Danny Gallagher had no medical qualifications and while no form of medical treatment was on offer, the advertiser nevertheless appeared to be making healing claims for serious illnesses."

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Ex-professor gets life in prison for meeting rampage

Amy Bishop
© The Associated Press /The Huntsville Times / Eric SchultzAmy Bishop
Huntsville, Alabama - A Harvard-educated biologist was sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday after being convicted of going on a shooting rampage during a faculty meeting at an Alabama university, killing three colleagues and wounding three others in 2010.

The jury deliberated for about 20 minutes before convicting Amy Bishop. The former professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville showed no reaction as the verdict was read. She did not speak in court, but her attorney said she has often expressed great remorse for the victims and their families.

"She is shattered beyond belief," attorney Roy Miller said.

Bishop avoided a death sentence by pleading guilty earlier this month to the shootings on Feb. 12, 2010. Before the guilty plea - which she signed with a barely legible scrawl - her attorneys had said they planned to use an insanity defense.

However, she was still required to have a brief trial because she admitted to a capital murder charge.

And she still could face a trial in Massachusetts, where she is charged in the 1986 killing of her 18-year-old brother. Seth Bishop's death had been ruled an accident after Amy Bishop told investigators she shot him in the family's Braintree home as she tried to unload her father's gun. But the Alabama shootings prompted a new investigation and charges. David Traub, a spokesman for Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey in Massachusetts, said Monday evening that Morrissey expects to make an announcement by the end of the week.

Bishop killed her boss, biology department chairman Gopi Padila, plus professors Maria Ragland Davis and Adriel Johnson. Associate professor Joseph Leahy, staff aide Stephanie Monticciolo and assistant professor Luis Cruz-Vera were shot and wounded.

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel Unveils Plan for Wi-Fi in Parks, Gigabit Network for Businesses

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© Aude Guerrucci/POOL/EPAFormer White House chief of staff and now Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Way back in 2006, even before the iPad, then-Mayor Richard Daley proposed blanketing Chicago with Wi-Fi. That ambitious plan for wireless Internet access for computers never came to fruition.

Now, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who speaks often of making Chicago into a high-tech hub, is pushing a new broadband initiative that includes installing Wi-Fi in many city parks and outfitting 15 commercial corridors with a superhigh-speed "gigabit" network for business users. The plan also contemplates expanding Internet access in underserved areas.

The city believes the availability of broadband networks will give commercial users a much-needed technological boost and attract business while burnishing Chicago's tech image.

"The technological landscape has changed to the point where it's not a nice-to-have," said John Tolva, the city's chief technology officer, who recalled at least three previous attempts since 1998 to bring a next-generation network to Chicago. "This is as vital as clean drinking water, at least to the economic life of a city."

But apparently it will be up to private-sector players, universities and other groups to do the work and foot much of the bill.

The Chicago Broadband Challenge, announced Monday, is big on ideas but short on details. The city, which issued a Request for Information -- in effect, an invitation to partners -- didn't provide figures on what kind of total investment would be needed to carry out Emanuel's vision or how much it plans to spend. Officials were also mum on whether the city envisions collecting revenue from the project, but it painted a general picture of a public-private partnership, with the city providing infrastructure.

At a Monday news conference, when asked what kind of financial arrangements the city might make with private companies for freeing up municipal assets, Emanuel said he wanted to first study the responses from the RFI.

Comment: Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to turn Chicago into a "high-tech hub". But at what cost?

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Texas Schoolgirl Gets Spanked By Male Vice Principal For Cheating

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© WFAATaylor Santos
A Texas schoolgirl is nursing a bruised and 'blistered' behind after she was spanked by her male vice principal.

Springtown High School sophomore Taylor Santos was walloped by the teacher after allegedly letting another student copy her work.

But her mother, Anna Jorgensen, has complained to the school, furious that they allowed her daughter to be brutally paddled by a man.

Taylor was given two days in-school suspension for cheating, though she claims she didn't know the student copied her assignment, according to WFAA.

After day one Taylor, a top student, opted to get a paddling rather than miss a second day's classes, but the decision left her in searing pain.


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Scandalous Misconduct by EPA: Lawsuit Filed for Exposing Subjects to Diesel Exhaust

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Exclusive to WUWT by David W. Schnare

Statement of ATI's Lead Counsel

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American Tradition Institute v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

(US District Court, Easter District of Virginia No. 1:12-cv-1066)

There are few occasions in life that emerge directly from the core of an individual and almost never are those memorialized in a law suit. On Friday, September 21, 2012, I took five copies of a complaint to the Albert V. Bryan U.S. Courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia, filing one of them with the court and having each of the rest stamped and then sent to four senior government officials, Attorney General Eric Holder, U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride, EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson and EPA General Counsel Scott Fulton. I sent them summons to appear and defend themselves in part because of my first name.

I was named after David Steiner, a man who died of starvation in Buchenwald concentration camp on May 3, 1945. Tattooed on his body was the number 59059. He was witness to horrors that, today, we have a hard time even contemplating, something that I thought would never exist on this planet again - the abhorrent practice of giving human subjects poisons in order to determine what subsequently happens to them.

I have always been deeply affected by the circumstances of my great-uncle's death. It is a heavy burden to carry the name of such a victim. As I matured, I committed my life to giving to our civilization that which David Steiner was never able to give himself. I have given 37 years of service to the United States, most of that in an effort to protect human health and the environment as a professional at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

I was able to secure a position of responsibility and trust at EPA in large part because the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offered me the opportunity to obtain graduate degrees and prepare myself for a career in public service. Until a few weeks ago, I had been a strong supporter of each. Then Steven Milloy asked me to represent him and other members of the American Tradition Institute who have stories much like mine, or otherwise cannot countenance such human experimentation.

Steve's story is worse than death. His uncle, Zoran Galkanovic, was incarcerated at the Mauthausen concentration camp. Upon threat of death, Mr. Galkanovic was forced to rise each morning and identify those individuals at the concentration camp too ill to work, knowing they would subsequently be executed that very day. Because of the inhumanity forced on Mr. Galkanovic, Mr. Milloy has accepted as a family responsibility the fight against any government who subjects its citizens to inhumane treatment. Who knew it would be our government? Who knew it would be the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency? Who knew that human experimentation would be done on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill? Who knew it would be an official body of that University that approved this research?

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Pathetic: Ground Zero pastor 'funneled cash from $4.8million 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina donations to pay his mortgage, credit card bill and son's private college fees'

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© APAccused: Rev. Carl Keyes allegedly spent donations intended for 9/11 victims and Hurricane Katrina relief efforts on unrelated things
A pastor is accused of using cash from a $4.8m fund he started to help victims of 9/11 and hurricane Katrina to pay off his mortgage, credit card bills and his son's tuition fees, it was revealed on Monday.

As New Yorkers grieved in the aftermath of horrific terrorist attacks on the twin towers, Rev. Carl Keyes was plotting his rise to wealth.

Donors poured $2.5 million into the minister's charities, Urban Life Ministries and Aid for the World, but much of the fund never made it past his pocket, it has been claimed.

Far from helping the needy, Keyes' alleged new-found fortune went on treating himself and his family, and pouring money into his crumbling church.

He is accused of taking credit for the work of others at ground zero, embellishing his involvement and fabricating phoney demonstrations of his efforts as a good Samaritan.

Keyes' pot of wealth seemed ever increasing with generous donors contributing to what they believed to be a genuine cause, with more opportunities to raise relief money coming four years later.

At least another $2.3 million was collected for efforts along the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast, in the poorest corners of West Virginia and Tennessee, and even in remote African villages.

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How Do You Take Your Poison?

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We will all swallow our cup of corporate poison. We can take it from nurse Romney, who will tell us not to whine and play the victim, or we can take it from nurse Obama, who will assure us that this hurts him even more than it hurts us, but one way or another the corporate hemlock will be shoved down our throats. The choice before us is how it will be administered. Corporate power, no matter who is running the ward after January 2013, is poised to carry out U.S. history's most savage assault against the poor and the working class, not to mention the Earth's ecosystem. And no one in power, no matter what the bedside manner, has any intention or ability to stop it.

If you insist on participating in the cash-drenched charade of a two-party democratic election at least be clear about what you are doing. You are, by playing your assigned role as the Democratic or Republican voter in this political theater, giving legitimacy to a corporate agenda that means your own impoverishment and disempowerment. All the things that stand between us and utter destitution - Medicaid, food stamps, Pell grants, Head Start, Social Security, public education, federal grants-in-aid to America's states and cities, the Women, Infants, and Children nutrition program (WIC), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and home-delivered meals for seniors - are about to be shredded by the corporate state. Our corporate oligarchs are harvesting the nation, grabbing as much as they can, as fast as they can, in the inevitable descent.

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Flight Attendant Attempts to Sneak Revolver Past Airport Security


A Republic Airlines flight attendant was detained and then charged with disorderly conduct after she attempted to pass through security at the Philadelphia International Airport with a loaded .38 revolver in her purse, triggering an incident in which police accidentally discharged the weapon while securing it, authorities said.

According to officials, at 6:33 a.m. today, the flight attendant entered a Terminal C security checkpoint lane with a loaded .38 caliber Smith and Wesson Airweight revolver in her purse.