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US: Baby Stabbed to Death by Teenage Father After Child Abduction in Palmdale


KTLA News
Tue, 01 Mar 2011 08:53 UTC
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Child Abduction Suspect Crashes While Being Pursued by Police
A 5-month old boy stabbed by his teenage father during a child abduction in Palmdale has died, authorities say.

Palmdale Sheriff's Station deputies responded to a report of a child abduction in Palmdale at about 11:00AM, Tuesday.

An Amber Alert was issued for the child and his father, 17-year old Christopher Earl Glass, around 2:00 Tuesday afternoon.

According to the alert, Glass picked up his 5-month-old son from a relative's home earlier today and drove to the child's mother's home.

The two argued, and Glass drove off with the boy still inside his white SUV.

Glass then allegedly sent a text message to the mother, threatening to stab the boy.
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Australia: Cyberbullying an epidemic

Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
Adelaide Now
Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:18 UTC
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Cyber bullying is becoming a serious problem
One in four school children is being bullied using modern technology, and that frightening ratio could go even higher as more children get access to computers and phones.

Traditional schoolyard bullying is now taking place over the internet and via phone messages.

A 2008 Galaxy Research poll found one-quarter of schoolchildren suffer from cyberbullying, but Alannah and Madeline Foundation cybersafety general manager Jackie Van Vugt said that figure could be higher.

"We have research showing 1 in 10 students is being cyberbullied every few weeks," she says. "The latest research we have was done a few years ago now, and evidence from overseas shows it's at much higher rates in the US and the UK now."
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Large majority of Americans back public employee union rights: poll

Sahil Kapur
The Raw Story
Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:27 UTC
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Washington - Americans want to maintain the collective bargaining rights of public employee unions by a nearly two-to-one margin, according to a new New York Times/CBS poll.

Sixty percent said they oppose attempts in states like Wisconsin to curtail those rights, while only 33 percent said they support those efforts. Seven percent had no opinion.

The results may reflect a growing backlash against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R), who has for weeks been involved in a high-profile standoff with state Democrats and union supporters over his budget plan, which would curtail union bargaining rights.
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Plot to spy on Chamber critics prompts Democratic call for congressional probe

Stephen C. Webster
The Raw Story
Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:15 UTC
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Will congressional Republicans investigate their allies at the Chamber of Commerce over an alleged plot to spy on and discredit their most effective critics in the media?

Probably not, but that won't stop at least one group of House Democrats from mounting a very public call for inquiry.

In a letter provided in advance to The Washington Post, a group of Democratic lawmakers expressed concern that anti-terror tactics had been adopted for use against Americans by the private sector. The letter was authored by Rep. Hank Johnson and more than a dozen others, the Post noted.
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Dollar

Ex-Goldman director charged in insider case

Jonathan Stempel
Reuters
Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:15 UTC
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Former Goldman Sachs board member Rajat Gupta, shown here in a file photo, has been accused of insider trading related to the Galleon hedge fund scandal.
New York - A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. director was charged by U.S. securities regulators with leaking inside information about the investment bank's results to Galleon Group hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accused Rajat Gupta of illegally disclosing information about quarterly earnings at Goldman and Procter & Gamble Co, where he has also been a director.

It also said Gupta, a longtime executive at the consultant McKinsey & Co, tipped Rajaratnam in September 2008 about a pending $5 billion investment by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc in Goldman.

That investment was widely seen as helping ensure stability for Goldman at the height of the global financial crisis.

Rajaratnam used the leaked tips from Gupta, a "friend and business associate," to trade for Galleon funds, generating more than $18 million of illegal gains, the SEC said.

"Gupta was honored with the highest trust of leading public companies, and he betrayed that trust by disclosing their most sensitive and valuable secrets," SEC enforcement chief Robert Khuzami said in a statement.

The 62-year-old Gupta is one of the highest-ranking officials implicated in the government's wide-ranging insider trading probe, which has resulted in criminal or civil charges against dozens of individuals.

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Black Cat

End this human rights insanity: PM's fury as judges rule paedophiles and rapists should have chance to get off sex offenders' register

Tim Shipman and Jack Doyle
The Daily Mail
Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:25 UTC
David Cameron declared war on unelected judges yesterday after they put the human rights of paedophiles and rapists before public safety.

The Prime Minister said he was 'appalled' that Britain's 50,000 sex offenders can appeal against being kept on a police register for life.

In a highly-charged intervention, Mr Cameron called for an overhaul of the 'completely offensive' rulings from the European Court of Human Rights which have influenced our own judges.

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Anger: David Cameron during Prime Minister's Question Time. He described a ruling over sex offenders' rights to apply to have their name removed from the register as 'completely offensive'
'It's about time we started making sure decisions are made in this Parliament rather than in the courts,' Mr Cameron said.

And he announced plans to ensure MPs make laws rather than the judiciary.

He told MPs that a commission to draw up a British Bill of Rights to replace the Human Rights Act will be set up 'imminently'.
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Sherlock

'Madeleine McCann in America' claim is probed

Tim Moynihan
The Independent
Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:49 UTC
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The parents of missing Madeleine McCann today welcomed new information which suggests their daughter may be in America
The parents of missing Madeleine McCann today welcomed new information which suggests their daughter may be in America.

A spokesman for Kate and Gerry McCann said an investigator had done "absolutely the right thing" by going to police with his suspicions.

Today's Sun newspaper quoted amateur sleuth Marcelino Italiano as saying Madeleine had been snatched by an Algarve-based paedophile ring which had taken a dozen other children.

The Angolan-born nightclub bouncer said: "I know these people were involved and I have been told that Madeleine may now be in America."

He has handed a dossier including the names of two prominent Portuguese businessmen to police in Huelva, south-west Spain, the newspaper said.
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Libyan rebels celebrate win in battle near Tripoli

Maggie Michael
Associated Press
Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:00 UTC
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A pro-Gadhafi Libyan soldier in an armoured vehicle next to a mosque in Qasr Banashir, southeast of the capital Tripoli.
Tripoli, Libya - Residents of the rebel-held city closest to Libya's capital passed out sweets and cold drinks to fighters Tuesday and celebrated with a victory march after they managed to repel an overnight attack by forces loyal to longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi.

Pro-Gadhafi forces also were repelled as they tried to retake two other opposition-held cities: Misrata, Libya's third-largest city 125 miles (200 kilometers) east of Tripoli, and Zintan, 75 miles (120 kilometers) south of the Libyan capital.

The rebels have been fighting to consolidate their gains as the international community weighs new moves to isolate the longtime Libyan leader, including the possibility of creating a no-fly zone over Libya. But Gadhafi loyalists have made several advances to try to reclaim areas close to his main stronghold of Tripoli.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned that Libya is at risk of collapsing into a "protracted civil war" amid increasingly violent clashes between the two sides.
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Dollar

Wisconsin governor to announce $1 billion in budget cuts

Jerry White
World Socialist Web Site
Tue, 01 Mar 2011 08:32 UTC
Governor Scott Walker of the US state of Wisconsin will announce $1 billion dollars in budget cuts over the next two years in a speech before a joint session of the state legislature at 4 p.m. this afternoon.

The draconian cuts to state, local and municipal services will hit public education the hardest, eliminating $900 million for kindergarten through 12th grade instruction. Walker will also impose severe cuts on Medicaid, the health care program for the poor.

The budget cuts are galvanizing popular opposition to the Republican governor, who is also seeking the destruction of the living standards and workplace rights of the state's 175,000 teachers, nurses and other public employees. Over the last two weeks, nearly 300,000 public and private sector workers and youth have been engaged in daily protests at the state capitol in Madison against Walker's "budget repair" bill.

Walker told a Madison television station, "Overall there will be over a billion dollars cut when it comes to schools, local governments across the board."
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Handcuffs

Pirate: Captive Danes will die if rescue attempted

Jan M. Olsen & Malkhadir M. Muhumed
Associated Press
Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:40 UTC
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Map shows last known location of family
Copenhagen, Denmark - Any attempt to rescue a Danish family captured by pirates in the Indian Ocean will result their deaths - just like the four American sailors slain by their captors last week, a Somali pirate warned Tuesday.

Maritime experts said the Danes - a couple with three teenage children aged 12 to 16 - placed themselves in grave danger by sailing into pirate-infested waters off Somalia's lawless coast despite warnings from naval forces struggling to police the area.

The family was captured Thursday by pirates along with two Danish adult crew members after sending a distress signal from their sailboat, the Danish government said, adding it was doing "everything in our power" to help them.

Abdullahi Mohamed, a pirate who told The Associated Press he has ties to the gang holding the Danish family, said they will be killed if any rescue operation was carried out. He specifically referred to the killings last week of four American hostages captured by pirates on their yacht.
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