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US: 3 students die after being hypnotized by principal

David Ferguson
Raw Story / ABC
Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:26 UTC
3 students die after being hypnotized by principal

Three Florida high school students are dead after being hypnotized by their school principal in Sarasota County, one in a car accident and two by suicide. Principal George Kenney is believed to have hypnotized up to 75 people, including students, members of the school staff and their children. Sarasota County School District officials repeatedly warned Kenney to stop the practice, which the principal insists was only done in the interest of helping students to be motivated and focused on school work and sports.

Watch the video, from ABC news, below:
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Bachmann fans float Wikipedia edits to cover candidate's recent gaffes

Stephen C. Webster
Raw Story
Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:08 UTC
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Several strange edits have shown up on Wikipedia entries pertaining to famed Americans referenced by Republican presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann -- specifically, it appears that her fans have attempted to rewrite the lives of actor John Wayne and President John Quincy Adams to fit her woefully inaccurate retellings of history.

Bachmann, who officially launched her campaign yesterday in Waterloo, Iowa, told a Fox News reporter that she was proud to be in the town where John Wayne was from, because she embodies his ideals. Unfortunately for her, it turns out that the actor John Wayne was not from Waterloo, but serial killer John Wayne Gacy was.

Shortly after the gaffe, the Wikipedia page for actor John Wayne was altered to change his birthplace from Winterset, Iowa to Waterloo, apparently as an effort to cover for the misguided politician.
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Cult

Pat Robertson warns God will destroy America over same sex marriage

David Edwards
Raw Story
Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:00 UTC
Television evangelist Pat Robertson responded to New York's decision to legalize same sex marriage by warning Monday that the result would be America's destruction.

"I think we need to remember the term sodomy came from a town known as Sodom and Sodom was destroyed by God Almighty and the thing that they practiced was homosexual activity and even they tried to rape angels who came down there, so that's the kind of people they were," Robertson said. God "sent an angel down there and He said to Lot and his family, 'get out now because I'm gonna destroy this whole area.'"

"We're heading that way as a nation. In history there's never been a civilization ever in history that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity, traditional marriage, traditional child-rearing, and has survived. There isn't one single civilization that has survived that openly embraced homosexuality. So you say, 'what's going to happen to America?" Well if history is any guide, the same thing's going to happen to us,'" he predicted.
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UK: "Bizarre" Bail Ruling Stuns Police


The Independent, UK
Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00 UTC
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Tens of thousands of murderers, rapists and violent criminals could escape prosecution following a "bizarre" legal ruling.

The ruling, made by a district judge at Salford Magistrates' Court and backed by the High Court, means an end to the practice of releasing people on bail and calling them back for further questioning later - a common practice in most major inquiries.

Police forces can no longer put anyone out on bail for more than 96 hours without either being in a position to charge or release them.

After the four days is up, officers can no longer question suspects and can only re-arrest them if they have new evidence, the ruling says.

Police chiefs have been left baffled by the "bizarre" ruling and both the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) are currently considering the ramifications for forces across England and Wales.

Home Secretary Theresa May said: "I think this is a matter of great concern.
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US: Copwatch and Infoshop on Missouri's bizarre threat watch list

Brenda Norrell
The Narcosphere
Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:28 UTC
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Copwatch, Infoshop and Christian vegetarians are all under police surveillance because they pose a "significant domestic terrorist" threat.

Why? Because they are anarchists, according to the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) of the Division of Drug and Crime Control.

Well, actually, due to a misspelled word, it says they all pose a "significant domestic terrorist 'treat' at this time."
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US: Plea Deal For TSA Agent Charged With Assaulting Coworker Over Body Scanner Genital Jokes


The Huffington Post
Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:37 UTC
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The TSA agent charged with assaulting a coworker who teased him about the size of his penis after it was exposed by a full-body scanner reached a plea agreement, reports The Smoking Gun.

Rolando Negrin, who was accused of striking fellow Transportation Security Administration employee Hugo Osorno with a police baton while demanding an apology, has agreed to attend anger management classes and write a letter of apology to Osorno.

The 46-year-old Miami resident must also perform 50 hours of community service and make a $100 charitable donation to Do The Right Thing of Miami in order to comply with the terms of a pre-trial program, which if completed, will dismiss the felony battery case, reports TSG.

According to the police report from the incident in May, Negrin told investigators that he "could not take the jokes anymore and lost his mind."
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Cult

US: Rapture teasing fueled shooter, victim's mom says


CBS
Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:24 UTC
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© DreamstimeOn the day of "rapture," Christian tradition has it that believers will ascend to heaven.

Eugene, Oregon - The motive in a workplace shooting in Eugene is reportedly the ribbing one employee took from a co-worker after the predicted May 21 rapture failed to occur.

The mother of the victim told The Register Guard that her son said Dale O'Callaghan took it personally when he was needled about his belief that he would be taken to heaven by the return of Jesus Christ.

O'Callaghan is accused of shooting Jerry Andrews on Friday at LHM Hydraulics, where they worked. Andrews suffered a fractured shoulder.
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Wolf

US: New York rape suspect Adam Croote was high-profile missing boy in 1990s

Casey Glynn
CBS/AP
Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:17 UTC
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Albany, New York - Upstate N.Y. man Adam Croote, now accused of raping a 10-year-old girl, was the subject of a missing child case that received national attention in the 1990s, including getting his photograph taken with President Bill Clinton at the White House, authorities said Thursday.

Croote has a troubled past that includes his father killing his mother, his abduction by his grandmother and a sex crime conviction in Massachusetts.

The 23-year-old was charged last Monday with attacking a young girl he was babysitting at a home in Berne, near Albany, police said. He pleaded not guilty Monday to attempted murder, rape and other counts.
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US: Feds tweak airport screening rules for kids


CBS/AP
Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:55 UTC
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© YouTube/CBSA photo taken from the YouTube video of a 6-year-old girl getting a patdown.

Washington - The government has made a change in its policy for patting down young children at airport checkpoints, and more are promised.

Airport security workers are now told to make repeated attempts to screen young children without resorting to invasive pat-downs, the head of the Transportation Security Administration said Wednesday.

There was public outrage in April over a video of a 6-year-old girl getting a pat-down in the New Orleans airport, even after she said, "I don't want to do this." She was patted down, Pistole said, because she moved during the electronic screening, causing a blurry image.
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Newsweek's "Diana's Ghost" Issue in Poor Taste?


CBS/Associated Press
Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:55 UTC
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© AP PhotoPrincess Diana and Kate Middleton on the cover of the July 4, 2011, issue of Newsweek magazine.
On the cover of Newsweek this week, Princess Diana is alive, well and walking with her daughter-in-law, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. It's an interesting idea but the computer-generated image is being called "creepy" and "cheap."

The accompanying article is written by Diana biographer and longtime provocateur Tina Brown. She's also Newsweek's editor-in-chief, having taken over after her online publication, the Daily Beast, merged late last year with the decades-old publication.

"What would she have been like?" Brown writes of Diana, who would have turned 50 on Friday, nearly 14 years after her death in a Paris car crash. "Still great-looking: that's a given."
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