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Jaw dropping: Mother accused of taping toddler's mouth, hands and feet


AJC
Sun, 15 Nov 2015 01:54 UTC
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© Hall County Sheriff’s OfficeGrace An, 18, was arrested after allegedly using cellophane and packing tape to bind her child’s mouth, hands and feet.
A Hall County mother was arrested after her 16-month-old was found in her car's backseat bound with cellophane and packing tape, the sheriff's office said Thursday.

Grace Love An, 18, called a locksmith Wednesday night to unlock her car on Ahaluna Drive, near Gainesville. The locksmith called police after seeing the child, who was lying in the backseat with cellophane and packing tape wrapped around the child's mouth, hands and feet, the sheriff's office said.

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Sun

Muslim people around the world condemn Paris attacks in unison

Adam Johnson
AlterNet
Sat, 14 Nov 2015 00:00 UTC
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Outpouring of grief shared by people of all faiths and no faith.

One CIA estimate puts ISIS' total manpower at 31,500, about one-third the capacity of Rose Bowl stadium, or roughly, 0.0019% of the world's total Muslim population when rounding down to 1.6 billion. The idea that the remaining 1,599,965,000 Muslims ought to jump on Twitter and condemn ISIS isn't just silly, it's a definition of prejudice. But here we are. Another attack, another round of people calling on moderate Muslims to condemn something they had nothing to do with. Or as Mohamed Ghilan tweeted last year:

Comment: How awful that not only scores of people died a horrible, tragic and senseless death in Paris yesterday, but that an entire group of people will now be further demonized and lumped in with the maniacs who commit the crimes we are now compelled to face.

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Bizarro Earth

Sickening! Married Oakland County couple accused of producing and distributing child pornography


WXYZ
Thu, 12 Nov 2015 01:40 UTC
Feds believe couple used own children to produce porn


An Oakland County couple is facing child pornography charges involving images and video of children as young a 1 years old.

According to an affidavit filed in federal court, Colin Matthew Boyle is facing charges he produced, distributed, received and possessed child pornography. Anngela Boyle is facing charges she distributed, received and possessed child pornography.
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Fire

Huge fire devastates city hall in Paris suburbs


RT
Sun, 15 Nov 2015 01:23 UTC
Paris city hall fire
© lau.laux / Instagram
A huge fire has damaged the city hall in the Villejuif commune in the southern suburbs of Paris. It is unknown what caused the blaze, which comes a day after a series of deadly attacks struck France's capital.

Fire brigades were deployed to the scene and reportedly managed to contain the fire, witnesses wrote. There have been no reports of injuries or casualties. Those in the vicinity of the blaze were quick to post images of the inferno on social networks.
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Fire

Huge fire rips through Bedford-Stuyvesant building

Thomas Tracy
New York Daily News
Sat, 14 Nov 2015 22:58 UTC
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© Theodore Parisienne/for New York Daily NewsA two-alarm fire broke out behind the Monroe Bus Company at 60 Nostrand Ave. in Brooklyn.
A massive Saturday afternoon blaze ripped through a Brooklyn building and threatened to tear down the entire structure, officials said.

The fire erupted inside the Nostrand Ave. building near Flushing Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant about 12:10 p.m., officials said.

More than 100 firefighters were dispatched to put out the fire, which was whipped up into a frenzy by strong winds, officials said.

Comment: Another huge blaze in Manhattan's East side as fire rips through residential building

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Bomb

Student from Southern California among those killed in Paris


Press TV
Sat, 14 Nov 2015 09:48 UTC
Nohemi
© sundial.csun.eduAmerican Nohemi Gonzalez, a victim in the Paris attacks, November 13, 2015
An American student from the state of California was also killed in the Paris terror attacks, her university has announced.

Twenty-three-year-old Nohemi Gonzalez, a junior studying design at California State University, Long Beach, was one of the at least 129 killed in a series of bombings and shootings in Paris on Friday night. Some reports said she was 20 years old.

The university said in a in a statement on its Facebook page on Saturday that Gonzalez was studying at the Strate College of Design in Paris as part of a study abroad program this autumn.

"I'm deeply saddened by the news of the passing of Long Beach State University student Nohemi Gonzalez. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends during this sad time," university President Jane Close Conoley said in the statement. "Our university stands with our nearly eighty foreign exchange students from France as they struggle with this tragedy. We will extend all support necessary to comfort them. We will also extend support to all students, faculty and staff who are in need."

In a separate statement, the US State Department said that some US citizens were wounded in the terrorist attacks but it did not say how many. "We are aware there are Americans among the injured, and are offering them the full range of consular assistance. The US government is working closely with French authorities to identify American victims," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said.

Comment: Tragedy that need not happen to anyone, anywhere. A sad and horrifying day in Paris.
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Heart - Black

Pathetic! US child refugee program has helped absolutely zero children since its inception

Nadia Prupis
Mint Press News
Sat, 14 Nov 2015 20:59 UTC
south american immigrants
In this June 25, 2014 file photo, a group of immigrants from Honduras and El Salvador who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally are stopped in Granjeno, Texas. Many of the immigrants recently flooding the nation’s southern border say they’re fleeing violent gangs in Central America. These gangs were a byproduct of U.S. immigration and Cold War policies, specifically growing from the increase in deportations in the 1990s. With weak dysfunctional governments at home, U.S. street gang culture easily took hold and flourished in these countries.
A year after President Barack Obama launched a program to grant asylum to Central American children fleeing violence or seeking to reunite with family members, the statistics are in: not one child has made it to the U.S. through that initiative.

New analysis by the New York Times published Thursday reveals that the Central American Minors Program, established last December, received asylum applications from more than 5,400 children in countries like El Salvador and Honduras, most of whom are seeking to escape street gangs or sexual assault—but none of them have been accepted.

In fact, only 90 children total were even interviewed by the Department of Homeland Security, and only 85 qualified for any sort of refugee status and even they remain languishing because their paperwork has not been filed.
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London's Gatwick airport evacuated for French national carrying two firearms


Sputnik
Sat, 14 Nov 2015 23:15 UTC
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© Via twitter@brightonargusPassengers evacuated from Gatwick's north terminal.
The airport's North Terminal was evacuated after a man carrying a firearm approached a check-in desk, police said.

A French national carrying firearms was arrested at London's Gatwick airport, police said Saturday. According to the Metro newspaper, the man approached a check-in desk carrying two guns. Police and airport staff pursued the man and he was found to have another gun strapped to his body when arrested a short time after.


Earlier in the day Sussex Police said the terminal was being evacuated "for the protection at the public."


At 6:10 PM London time the Gatwick airport said on Twitter the North Terminal was re-opened.
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Attention

Update: 10 reported dead, many injured, after high-speed train derails in northeast France


Sputnik
Sat, 14 Nov 2015 15:32 UTC
France train derailment
© REUTERS/ Vincent Kessler
At least 10 people have been killed and 32 injured as a train derailed and caught fire in Eckwersheim near Strasbourg in France, according to officials.

A high-speed TGV train derailed in Eckwersheim in the Bas-Rhin department of Alsace in northeastern France mid-afternoon on Saturday.


Officials said that out of the injured, 12 are in serious condition.

Several people have been airlifted from the scene on a helicopter, RTL reports. The train was carrying 49 people, all of whom were employees of SNCF national railways.

Local officials told AFP that the accident was apparently caused by "excessive speed."

The train derailed while on a bridge and the cars fell into the Marne-Rhine canal, according to witness reports. Photos from the scene show smoke coming from the carriages.


Comment: Coincidence or...?

Curiously, the worst terror attack in France until the atrocities committed in Paris on Friday 13th was a train bombing on the Paris-Strasbourg railway line in 1961.

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Attention

Guards taunt asylum seekers and immigrants engaged in hunger strikes to protest conditions

Al Jazeera
Mint Press News
Sat, 14 Nov 2015 20:46 UTC
detention center protest
© APCongress has set a national quota mandating that ICE hold at least 34,000 immigrants in detention centres each day.
A series of mass hunger strikes have rocked for-profit detention centers across the US, as rights groups call for asylum seekers to be released while their cases are pending.

Hundreds of immigrants, including asylum seekers, have participated in the hunger strikes in California, Texas and Louisiana.

At least 26 asylum seekers are on hunger strike in the Adelanto facility, a for-profit detention center in southern California.

They are all that remain of an original 90 hunger strikers who launched the collective fast on November 4.

According to CIVIC, a US-based advocacy group that campaigns for immigrant detainee rights, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has taken punitive measures in a bid to break the hunger strike.

"There has been a lot of intimidation and threats against the hunger strikers to reduce [their] numbers," Victoria Mena, a monitor at CIVIC, told Al Jazeera, adding that guards have "threatened expedited deportation" in some cases.

Comment: The destructiveness of US policy in South America comes home to roost. It's unfortunate that those seeking relief from horrific conditions in their home countries make it to the US only to be victimized again.

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