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US: Occupy Wall Street protesters locked in legal battle with New York's Michael Bloomberg

Jon Swaine
The Telegraph, UK
Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:08 UTC
Anti-capitalist protesters are locked in a legal battle with Mayor Michael Bloomberg, after Occupy Wall Street, their New York protest camp, was demolished and demonstrators were evicted.

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© Getty ImagesWorkers clean-up Zuccotti Park after New York City police in riot gear removed Occupy Wall Street protesters

Lawyers for the protesters, who have inspired dozens of demonstrations around the world, were arguing in New York supreme court that a police raid on the camp early Tuesday morning was illegal.

Hundreds of NYPD officers wearing riot gear burst into Manhattan's Zuccotti Park at 1am, arresting more than 140 people inside the two-month-old camp and about 60 outside in chaotic scenes.

As they tore down tents, seized tonnes of equipment and binned the 5,000 books in the camp's library, police blocked photographers from observing the raid and physically removed reporters from the site.

Mr Bloomberg said he had ordered the eviction because "health and safety conditions became intolerable" in the park and protesters were encroaching on the rights of others.

"New York City is the city where you can come and express yourself," he told a press conference. But he added: "No right is absolute and with every right comes responsibilities".
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Attention

Canada: Occupy Toronto Protesters Get Eviction Notices


CBC News
Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:50 UTC
'The time has come to remove your tents,' eviction notices read

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© Colin Butler/CBCAn Occupy Toronto protester remains defiant in the face of eviction notices issued by the city on Tuesday morning.
The City of Toronto issued eviction notices Tuesday calling on Occupy Toronto protesters who have been camping in a downtown park for more than a month to leave immediately.

Toronto bylaw officers began handing out the notices about 10 a.m. ET.

The notices order occupiers to "remove your tents, structures, equipment and personal belongings from the park.

"The city recognizes the rights of Canadians to gather and protest. However the city has determined that it cannot allow the current use of St. James Park to continue," they say.

"In particular, the city can no longer sanction the appropriation of St. James Park by a relatively small group of people to the exclusion of all others wishing to use the park and to the detriment of those in the vicinity of the park."
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Vader

US: New York Mayor 1% Bloomberg Defends Clearing of Occupy Wall Street


Los Angeles Times
Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:50 UTC
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© unknownNew York City Mayor 1% Bloomberg
New York's mayor on Tuesday defended the pre-dawn clearing of the Occupy Wall Street encampment, saying "inaction was not an option" as the nearly 2-month-old set-up became packed with tents and concerns grew that fires and other hazards could erupt.

Police in riot gear moved into Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan shortly after officers handed out notices to protesters at about 1 a.m. warning them the park was about to be cleared. It said residents could return after a cleanup but that they would no longer be permitted to set up tents, bring in sleeping bags or camp in the park 24/7.

"Protesters have had two months to occupy the park with tents and sleeping bags. Now they will have to occupy the space with the power of their arguments," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a statement, promising that the privately owned park would reopen later Tuesday. Police said they had cleared it by about 4:30 a.m.
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Che Guevara

US, New York: Occupy Wall Street, Angry Over Eviction, Occupies a New Corner


Los Angeles Times
Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:10 UTC
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Hundreds of supporters of Occupy Wall Street vowed Tuesday to keep up their protests, convening at a busy corner for a meeting to discuss their next move; the city, meanwhile, appeared headed for a legal showdown over its eviction of protesters from the group's encampment.

A hearing was scheduled later on protesters' quest for an order to prohibit the city from banning tents, sleeping bags and campers from Zuccotti Park, a privately owned park that was cleared of protesters in a surprise early morning raid.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he had hoped to reopen the park to the public at 8 a.m., but at a news conference early Tuesday he said he wanted the issue of the restraining order to be settled before his next move.
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Nuke

Fukushima Fallout: Scientist Marco Kaltofen Presents Data Confirming Hot Particles In Tokyo

Arnie Gundersen
Fairewinds Associates
Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:19 UTC
Washington, DC - Today Scientist Marco Kaltofen of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) presented his analysis of radioactive isotopic releases from the Fukushima accidents at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA). Mr. Kaltofen's analysis confirms the detection of hot particles in the US and the extensive airborne and ground contamination in northern Japan due to the four nuclear power plant accidents at TEPCO's Fukushima reactors. Fairewinds believes that this is a personal health issue in Japan and a public health issue in the United States and Canada.


Scientist Marco Kaltofen Presents Data Confirming Hot Particles from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
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Syringe

13-Year-Old Girl Left in "Waking Coma" and Sleeps for 23 Hours a Day After "Severe Reaction" to Cervical Cancer Jabs

Paul Sims
DailyMail.co.uk
Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:16 UTC
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© Caters News AgencyBad reaction: Lucy Hinks, 13, began to experience extreme exhaustion soon after having the cervical cancer vaccine alongside classmates
They were told the vaccine had few side-effects and would protect their daughter from cervical cancer.

But Steve and Pauline Hinks are convinced the controversial HPV jab is behind their daughter Lucy's mystery illness which is making her sleep up to 23 hours a day.

Tests have so far ruled out a brain tumour and glandular fever and the 13-year-old's paediatric consultant is investigating potential links with the vaccine Cervarix.

The jab was used in a national vaccination programme which started in September 2008. But it has already been linked to several cases of girls displaying severe side-effects.

Before she received the vaccine, Lucy was perfectly healthy, had an excellent school attendance record and was among the top students in her year.

Comment: The article above does not mention 'the jab' by name that Lucy was given, but it is apparent that she was given the Gardasil or the HPV vaccine. Read the following articles below for more information on the documented adverse side effects associated with this 'jab':

Time for the Truth about Gardasil
New Worries About Gardasil Safety
Gardasil Researcher Speaks Out
Study Reveals Serious HPV Vaccine Problems: Fainting, Blood Clots, Death Among Risks
Deaths Associated with HPV Vaccine Start Rolling In, Over 3500 Adverse Affects Reported
Uncovered FDA Documents Reveal 26 More Gardasil Deaths
8 more deaths connected to HPV vaccine: Adverse reactions from Gardasil number in thousands

Read the stories of other mothers whose daughters received the Gardasil shot and suffered deaths as a result:

Grieving Mother Blames Gardasil
Mother Keeping Up Her Campaign Against Gardasil
"We cannot prove it, but it seems that there are way too many girls who have been injured or died after getting this vaccine."


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Heart - Black

US: '4 going on 40': Day care owner, 72, convicted of sexually abusing toddler says he did it because she was 'promiscuous'

Michael Zennie
DailyMail.co.uk
Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:05 UTC
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© Montana Department of Correction'Low risk': Albert Gaub appealed a state ruling that classified him as having a 'moderate risk' of abusing children again
The 72-year-old owner of a day care center in Missoula, Montana, told police he sexually abused a 1-year-old girl he was looking after because she was 'promiscuous.'

After he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting the girl for a year and a half, Albert Gaub was sentenced to 15 years in prison and classified as a moderate risk to abuse children again.

But Gaub's lawyer appealed the classification and said his client is a low-risk sex offender. He argued the state's designation was a 'substantial injustice' to Gaub.

The Montana Supreme Court disagreed and unanimously struck down the legal challenge last week.

When he was arrested in 2010, Gaub - who owned Cuddles and More day care - told police his victim was '4 going on 40,' the Attorney General's Office said.
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Stormtrooper

US: New York police evict anti-Wall Street protesters

Michelle Nichols
Reuters
Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00 UTC
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© The Associated Press/Mary Alaffer A demonstrator yells at police officers as they order Occupy Wall Street protesters to leave Zuccotti Park, their longtime encampment in New York, early Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011.
Police wearing helmets and carrying shields moved to evict protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement early on Tuesday from the park in New York City's financial district where they have camped since September.

Authorities declared that the continued occupation of Zuccotti Park -- which had become a sea of tents, tarps and protest signs with hundreds of demonstrators sleeping there -- posed a health and safety threat.

Scores of police barricaded streets around the park, which had been lit up with spotlights, and were keeping people about a block away. More people were arriving at the scene to support Occupy Wall Street after the protesters sent out a mass text message alerting followers to the raid.

"They gave us about 20 minutes to get our things together," protester Sam Wood said. "It's a painful process to watch, they are sweeping through the park."

The protesters had set up camp in Zuccotti Park on September 17 to protest a financial system they say mostly benefits corporations and the wealthy. Their movement has inspired similar protests against economic inequality in other cities, and in some cases have led to violent clashes with police.

The office of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the protesters should "temporarily leave" the park and remove their tents and tarps.
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Crusader

US: Bishops Say Government Eroding Religious Liberty

Rachel Zoll
The Associated Press
Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:34 UTC
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© The Associated Press / Patrick SemanskyBishop Robert Finn, of Kansas City, Mo., chats after a meeting at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' annual fall assembly in Baltimore, Monday, Nov. 14, 2011. Finn was indicted in October for waiting five months to tell police about hundreds of images of alleged child pornography that were found on a priest's computer. He is the highest-ranking church member in the sex abuse scandal to face criminal charges.
U.S. Roman Catholic bishops vowed Monday to defend their religious liberty in the face of growing acceptance of gay marriage and what they called attempts by secularists to marginalize faith.

Bishop William Lori, leader of a new national religious liberty committee, condemned federal and state policies that he said interfered with the church's ability to provide social services, from health care to immigrant support to international aid.

In Illinois, government officials stopped working with Catholic Charities on adoptions and foster-care placements after 40 years because the agency refused to recognize a new civil union law. Illinois bishops had sued the state but on Monday said they would stop the legal fight and no longer provide state-funded services.

In New York, the bishops, along with Orthodox Jewish leaders and others, have complained that the religious exception in this year's law allowing gay marriage is too weak to be effective.
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Heart - Black

US, California: Social networking pioneer who took on Facebook commits suicide at age 22

Jessica Satherley and Michael Zennie
The Daily Mail, UK
Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:54 UTC
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© New York TimesPioneer: llya Zhitomirskiy believed he could change the world by giving users more privacy and more control in social networking
  • One of four friends from NYU who launched Diaspora* site, meant to protect users' privacy
  • Group raised more than $200,000 in donations
  • Mark Zuckerberg praised his project
    • A 22-year-old social networking pioneer and Internet privacy advocate who dared to challenge Facebook and Google is dead.

    Ilya Zhitomirskiy died Saturday after San Francisco police were summoned for a reported suicide, police spokesman Officer Albie Esparza said.

    Mr Zhitomirskiy was one of the founders Diaspora*, a new social networking service meant to give users more control of their information online, and sought to lure people away from bigger sites like Facebook, Google and Twitter.

    Police would not release other details of his death and a medical examiner's report could take weeks before it becomes public.

    Mr Zhitomirskiy and three friends, Daniel Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg, and Raphael Sofaer, launched a trial run of Diaspora* last year that attracted the attention of The New York Times and National Public Radio and left the tech world buzzing.
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