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Chlorine gas leak hospitalizing 19 at Chicago hotel deemed intentional

Alexandra Chachkevitch
Chicago Tribune
Sun, 07 Dec 2014 17:55 UTC
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Midwest FurFest.
Several thousand people were evacuated from a Hyatt hotel in suburban Rosemont when an "intentional" chlorine gas leak at a convention led to 19 people being hospitalized early Sunday morning.

The incident happened around 12:40 a.m. at the Hyatt, at 9300 West Bryn Mawr Avenue in Rosemont, according to a statement from the Rosemont Public Safety Department. First responders were called to investigate a noxious odor that was spreading across the ninth floor of the hotel, where a high level of chlorine gas was discovered in the air, the statement said.

Nineteen people were transported to nearby hospitals after complaining of nausea, dizziness and other medical problems, according to the statement. All people inside the building were temporarily evacuated and sheltered at nearby facilities, including the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center.

Comment: Interesting that someone had tweeted the day before that "The security here is pretty strict!" . Apparently, not strict enough, and one wonders why a convention of art, literature, and performance based around anthropomorphic animals would warrant such security measures unless police or hotel staff had received previous threats?

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Amtrak stabbings: Man charged with 4 counts of attempted murder

Christopher Behnan
Lansing State Journal
Sat, 06 Dec 2014 03:14 UTC
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© www.usatoday.comOne person in custody in connection with multiple stabbing incidents onboard an Amtrak train.
A man has been charged with four counts of attempted murder after a stabbing aboard an Amtrak train in Niles, Mich., police said Saturday. Police identified the man as Michael Williams, 44, of Saginaw, Mich. He is being held in the Berrien County Jail in lieu of $1 million bail.

Officers confronted Williams, who was carrying a knife, on board the train Friday evening, subduing him with a stun gun before his arrest. Police have yet to disclose a possible motive in the attack.

The multiple stabbings occurred on a Chicago-to-Port Huron Amtrak passenger train carrying 172 passengers Friday night in Niles, Mich., west of Battle Creek.

Four stabbing victims were taken to area hospitals - Lakeland-Niles Hospital and to the larger Memorial Hospital in South Bend, Ind., about 10 minutes away, a police dispatcher said.

The victims - whose identities were not immediately known - included the train's conductor, a female passenger and two male passengers, said Niles Mayor Michael McCauslin. All four victims were in stable condition Saturday, according to Niles Police Chief Jim Millen.


Comment: This seems to be another tragic example in a long line of recent "bizarre and suddenly violent incidents" surfacing without apparent provocation. Perhaps an investigation will reveal a motive, but logic says a trigger, such as a derogatory remark or argument, would involve only one victim, not four random people. Is there something else underlying the cause of violent attacks to which certain types of people are susceptible? If so, it is a wake-up call to stay alert and be aware of the circumstances and persons around you.

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Team America - Two hostages dead due to botched 'hostage rescue' operation

Mohammed Ghobari and Mohammed Mukhashaf
Reuters
Sun, 07 Dec 2014 12:32 UTC
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© Reuters via Reuters TVA man, who identified himself as Luke Somers, speaks in this still image taken from video purportedly published by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

Comment: Prepare your sick bag. John Kerry and Obama shed crocodile tears for the loss of American and African hostages who were almost guaranteed to be killed in the worst "hostage rescue" operation ever.


U.S. special forces stormed a walled compound in a remote Yemeni village early on Saturday in an attempt to free Western hostages held by an al Qaeda unit, but an American journalist and a South African teacher were killed by their captors, officials said.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and a Yemeni intelligence official said Luke Somers, 33, and South African Pierre Korkie, 56, were shot by their kidnappers shortly after the raid began in the arid Wadi Abadan district of Shabwa, a province long seen as one of al Qaeda's most formidable strongholds.

It was the second U.S. attempt to free Somers in 10 days and Kerry said it had been approved because of information that Somers' life was in imminent danger. "It was our assessment that that clock would run out on Saturday," one U.S. official said.
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Roses

12-year old California boy commits suicide after being bullied for being a cheerleader

Derek Shore
CBS News - Sacramento
Thu, 04 Dec 2014 22:40 UTC
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A 12-year-old boy took his own life. And tonight, that boy's family and friends, including the staff and students at Folsom Middle School, are searching for answers.

Those close to Ronin Shimizu say he could not take the bullying anymore.

The district confirms they did get a number of complaints from the parents of the boy. They say they followed protocol, but friends say it just wouldn't stop. Shimizu had a bright smile, but apparently there was a lot of pain.

"He was a really great friend," said a friend.

It was an unimaginable loss, as friends and family gathered around the Shimizu home Thursday night for a quiet candle light vigil.

Shimizu had previously attended Folsom Middle School, but was only recently being home schooled. He killed himself yesterday.

"I didn't see why people would tease him because he was so nice," said a fellow cheerleader.

Those who knew Shimizu say he was the only male cheerleader with the Vista Junior Eagles Cheer Team.

"I heard that people called him gay because he was a cheerleader," said.

"It's a shocking and saddening incident," said.

Comment: Violence and brutality have become the new normal and are epidemic. The disease starts with our leaders and infects the rest of society.

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Video shows cop sarcastically waving to cameraman after choking Eric Garner

Moreh B.D.K.
Counter Current News
Sat, 06 Dec 2014 17:39 UTC
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Nearly everyone knows about the infamous video of a New York City police officer choking Eric Garner. But there is a second video, in the aftermath of the more well-known Eric Garner video.

The second video shows the choking while one officer grabbed Garner around his neck, and threw him to the ground. It also, however, shows the seven minute long aftermath, where a disgusted bystander films the lifeless body of Eric Garner left on the sidewalk with police officers shuffling around him and seeming relatively undisturbed by the fact that they had just killed an unarmed man for not paying a few pennies of tax on cigarettes.

Watch video below of NYPD officers and EMT standing around, and failing to give aid to Eric Garner, who was lifeless on the ground, but technically did not die until he was on the way to the hospital.

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U.S. plane from Tel Aviv makes emergency stop in Italy - crew and passengers suffer vomiting, red eyes


Yahoo! News
Sat, 06 Dec 2014 13:30 UTC
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© AFP /Faisal al-TamimiA US Airways plane makes an emergency landing in Rome after two passengers and 11 members of the crew are taken ill, Italian media report.
A US Airways plane made an emergency landing in Rome on Saturday after two passengers and 11 members of the crew were taken ill, Italian media reported.

The plane, which set off from Tel Aviv in Israel for Philadelphia in the United States, landed at the Fiumicino airport in the Italian capital and requested medical assistance for 13 people suffering from red eyes and vomiting.

The passengers and crew affected were checked by airport emergency doctors before being taken to the G.B Grassi di Ostia hospital near Rome.

A malfunction in the Airbus A330's ventilation system could be to blame, the reports said.

Comment: Carbon monoxide poisoning?

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Quenelle - Golden

French authorities backtrack on scheme forcing homeless to wear yellow triangles revealing their illnesses


Sputnik
Fri, 05 Dec 2014 17:16 UTC
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French authorities in Marseille have abandoned requiring homeless people to wear yellow triangle ID cards that identify their suspected illnesses, The Local reported on Friday.

The original intention of the initiative, a procedural streamlining for health workers in emergency situations, was slammed by human rights groups and government ministers, equating it to the Nazi-era Star of David, which the Jewish people had to wear.

"It's finished. There won't be any more cards," Rene Giancarli, head of local medical emergency services said to the Local, adding that the cards had been stopped. "We just wanted good to come out of this, but I made a mistake. I admit that and I can accept when I'm wrong."

Authorities and human rights groups alike were outraged, with Social Affairs Minister Marisol Touraine saying to Le Parisien "Forcing homeless people to carry a yellow triangle indicating illnesses they might have is outrageous. You don't point the finger at the poorest."
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Arrow Down

Military grade weapons now being used on civilians: NY police use sonic device on Garner protesters

Aaron Cantú
The Raw Story
Sat, 06 Dec 2014 16:00 UTC
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Long range acoustic devices (LRADs) have been previously implemented by police at protests throughout the world.

Thursday night at about 1am, at the intersection of 57 East and Madison Avenue in Manhattan - a populated area about four blocks from Columbus Circle - the NYPD used a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) to disperse about 100 protesters who were on the streets.

Footage captured by YouTube user James C shows the weapon in use beginning at the 1:58 mark. Protesters scattered in response to the sound, and either a live officer over a PA system or an automated voice intermittently told protesters between sound blasts that they could not interfere with "vehicular traffic" without risking arrest. The LRAD is deployed multiple times throughout the 5:00 minute video clip.

Comment: The Pentagon has been supplying police forces, cities and schools systems throughout the US with military grade weapons, so of course the police have been anxious to use their 'toys'. The police in the US now regard us as the enemy, and will use any amount of force to corral citizens, knowing that in all likelihood they will get away with their crimes.

Police State: To terrify and occupy

Too late: Homeland Security wants to stem use of military weapons during protests by forcing police agencies to repay federal grants

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Doctor killed himself after mother asked him to seek 'gay cure'

Matt Watts
The Independent
Fri, 05 Dec 2014 23:00 UTC
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© www.medindia.net'He always wanted to help other people, always put other people first'
A Harley Street doctor killed himself by jumping from his luxury penthouse apartment after his mother asked him to seek "a cure" for being gay, an inquest heard.

Dr Nazim Mahmood, fell four storeys to his death from the balcony of his £700,000 flat in a mansion block in West Hampstead, London, in July.

An inquest at St Pancras Coroners' Court heard Dr Mahmood had told his mother he was gay and was in a 13-year relationship with his fiancée, Matthew Ogston, just days before his death.

The court heard Dr Mahmood had kept his sexuality secret from his Muslim family in Birmingham, fearing they would refuse to accept it on religious and cultural grounds.

But having returned to the family home to celebrate Eid, the 34-year-old revealed his sexuality after his mother asked him if he was gay, the court heard.

Mr Ogston, who lived at the penthouse flat with Dr Mahmood, told the inquest yesterday: "She had suggested to him he needed to see a psychiatrist to see if he could be cured. Together I think they agreed they would get through it.

"Telling someone they needed to be cured would not be the easiest thing to take."

The court heard that Dr Mahmood, who had never suffered from depression or any other mental illness, had taken drugs mephedrone and ketamine shortly before his death.
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Mentally disturbed Milwaukee man chases cops with a butcher knife and lives!

Jonathan Constante
Opposing Views
Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:53 UTC
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A Milwaukee man has been arrested after allegedly chasing two police officers with a large butcher knife and threatening to kill them.

Alfonso Martinez, 26, was charged with two counts of recklessly endangering safety by using a weapon on Thursday.

Authorities said the incident occurred Monday when two police officers were investigating a double homicide. The officers discovered two dead bodies when they entered a home on the 3200 block of N. Richards Street. Once they encountered Martinez, the officers said he threatened to kill them and began chasing them around parked cars while wielding a large butcher knife. The officers eventually arrested him after Martinez dropped his weapon.

Comment: This is exactly how it should be done. Police officers should be doing anything and everything, including running around in circles and getting tired, to avoid a senseless killing. No one is dead, Martinez's mom isn't in mourning and the cops aren't facing charges...oh wait. Scratch that. They wouldn't be charged with killing him anyway. But you all get the point.

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