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Psychopath on the loose: University of Montevallo cat deaths 'creepy and cruel'

Martin J. Reed
Al.com
Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:41 UTC
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The "Becoming" statue at the University of Montevallo, shown in this picture on Friday, Oct. 26, 2012, is the site of one of the three dead cats discovered earlier this month that had been killed in a potentially horrific way.
The several stray cats are noticeably absent that once roamed the University of Montevallo campus among the brick buildings and tall trees that are shedding their fall leaves.

"They're gone," sophomore Taylor Fritts, 19, said while walking to class this afternoon. She remembered seeing six of seven cats, "like distinct ones you could recognize."

"The others, I know some students have been capturing them and taking them home so nothing will happen to them," Fritts said.

Whether their disappearance involves this month's discovery of three cats on campus that had been killed in a potentially disturbing manner is unknown, but some students and staff worry about the animal deaths happening so close to where they live, learn and work.

"Somebody on this campus has a problem and they need to be checked out," said Andronikia Ward, a sophomore.
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Eye 1

Chinese man sues wife over ugly child - and wins $120,000


RT
Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:51 UTC
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Before and after: Feng's wife spent over $100,000 in plastic surgery to modify her appearance
Many people are used to returning merchandise if they find that it doesn't match their needs. But one Chinese man went a step further, and returned his wife - getting $120,000 in a court settlement.

­Jian Feng, living in Northern China, has filed for divorce from his wife after he found their newborn child to be "incredibly ugly," arguing that his wife tricked him into the union by appearing to be a beautiful woman when she was instead ugly.

"I married my wife out of love, but as soon as we had our first daughter, we began having marital issues. Our daughter was incredibly ugly, to the point where it horrified me," reports gossipwelove.com
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Bad Guys

Shocking documentary lifts the lid on how Ku Klux Klan is still strong in Mississippi


Daily Mail, UK
Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:20 UTC
A series of documentaries has laid bare the shocking truth about the Ku Klux Klan which remains very much in existence.

In them members of the Klan shed light on their rituals and beliefs and their frightening pledge to achieve racial segregation at any cost.

Shrouded in secrecy, the Klan rarely opens its doors to outsiders, enacting centuries-old rituals in remote rural locations.

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Members of the Mississippi Klan engage in the burning of a giant cross.
The KKK and its racist ways is often considered to be a relic of the civil-war era, one better off forgotten at that.

But the short films, aired on Abc's Nightline, tell otherwise, featuring groups in Mississippi and Virginia.

Many members hid their faces and withheld their names for fear of retribution in mainstream society.

'You don't know who I am,' one man said. 'You could think the world of me, and yet if you see me in this hood and knew who I was, your whole thoughts could change.'

The latest group to be featured is the Mississippi White Nights of the Ku Klux Klan, the klavern made famous by the film Mississippi Burning.
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Dollars

Greedy U.S. billionaire spends record $31M in ballot fight to block new bridge to Canada


Detroit Free Press
Fri, 26 Oct 2012 06:26 UTC
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85-year-old billionaire, Matty Moroun has run an aggressive campaign urging Detroit voters to reject a new bridge linking them to Windsor, Ontario. Moroun owns the would-be bridge's main competition: the Ambassador Bridge.
Ambassador Bridge owner Manuel (Matty) Moroun has spent more than $31 million on his ballot proposal to force a referendum on a new publicly owned bridge to Canada, setting a record for the most money spent on one side of a ballot proposal in Michigan, according to campaign finance reports filed today.

Moroun's ballot committee, the People Should Decide, reported today that Moroun's companies have contributed $26.7 million to the ballot initiative since July 20. Before that, he and his companies had poured $4.7 million into the effort. As of today, the reports filed document only about $20.4 million of what the committee has spent, mostly on TV ads.

"It's pretty stunning," said Rich Robinson, executive director of the Michigan Campaign Finance Network. "This has been a pretty expensive project."
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Black Cat 2

Walmart labor abuses come back to haunt as Black Friday walkout looms

Schuyler Velasco,
The Christian Science Monitor
Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:00 UTC
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Walmart workers on strike walk a picket line during a protest over unsafe working conditions and poor wages outside a Walmart store in Pico Rivera, Calif., earlier this month. Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, is facing a class action lawsuit alleging violation of laws regulating payment and scheduling of temporary workers. The allegations come just as the company is facing a potential walkout on Black Friday, the busy shopping day after Thanksgiving.
Walmart has been hit with a class action lawsuit in the midst of a threatened employee walkout on Black Friday, one of the busiest, most profitable shopping days of the year. Will worker troubles have an impact, or is this old hat for Walmart?

Editor's note: This story has been updated to include a response from Wal-Mart Stores.

Walmart workers aren't happy, and they're letting their employer know it.

In the midst of worker strikes in several cities and the looming threat of a mass employee walkout on Black Friday (one of the busiest shopping days of the year), the world's largest retailer has been hit with a class action lawsuit affecting temporary workers in the Chicago area.

The filing accuses Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and two temporary staffing agencies in the region - Labor Ready Midwest Inc. and QPS Employment Group, Inc. - of breaking minimum wage and overtime laws for temp workers by making them show up early and work through lunch breaks. The lawsuit also alleges that Walmart failed to pay contracted workers the requisite four hours minimum in wages.
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Arrow Down

Bullying victim kills self in front of classmates

Crazy Days and Nights
Opposing Views
Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00 UTC
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Felicia Garcia was just 15 years old when she killed herself on Wednesday. Her final tweet? "I can't, im [sic] done, I give up." On Saturday night last week, the high school freshman went to a party. At the party she ended up having sex with four members of the varsity football team.

Since Saturday she had been bullied nonstop about what she had done and also learned that someone had recorded a video of what happened. So, after her final Tweet, Felicia threw herself in front of a train while 200 of her classmates watched in horror.

To their credit, the school did hear about the bullying and on Wednesday set up a meeting with Felicia and one of the boys. He denied ever bullying anyone.
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Camcorder

Celebrating pathology! Disgraced cheerleader gets reality TV show

Crazy Days and Nights
Opposing Views
Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00 UTC
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It turns out that you don't have to follow the Kim Kardashian model to become famous anymore or be a 16 year old and get pregnant. Nope.

You can also be a teacher and break the law and have sex with your students and you will be rewarded with a reality show.

The producers of Jersey Shore have signed her up and are shopping the show which will be about Sarah Jones and her teen boyfriend. Yes, the one she cheated on her husband with and broke the law with and got her mother arrested for.
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Handcuffs

Mississippi town sued for sending children to prison for wearing wrong color socks


RT
Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:26 UTC
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© Reuters / Lucy Nicholson
A Mississippi town is facing a lawsuit for operating schools that handcuff and send children to prison for minor classroom infractions like violating the dress code or talking back to teachers.

Students in the town of Meridian sometimes spent days in a prison 80 miles away from their school without a probable cause hearing. They were not read their Miranda rights and sometimes spent more than 48 hours waiting for a hearing, which violates their constitutional rights.

Meridian police routinely arrested students without determining whether there is probable cause of an infraction or whether the school wants to press charges. Handcuffed, the students were sent to Rankin County youth detention center, which is about an hour and a half away by car.

Students were jailed for "dress code infractions such as wearing the wrong color socks or undershirt, or for having shirts untucked; tardies; flatulence in class; using vulgar language; yelling at teachers; and going to the bathroom or leaving the classroom without permission."
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Cloud Lightning

Remembering Russell Means

Stephen Lendman
Veterans Today
Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:18 UTC
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Over a year ago, he knew he had inoperable esophageal cancer. It spread to his tongue, lymph nodes and lungs. It was just a matter of time. On October 22, it took him. His journey to the spirit world began.

In August 2011, he said:
"I'm not going to argue with the Great Mystery. Lakota belief is that death is a change of worlds. And I believe like my dad believed."

"When it's my time to go, it's my time to go. I've told people after I die, I'm coming back as lightning. When it zaps the White House, they'll know it's me."
Earlier he said:
"The Universe which controls all life, has a female and male balance that is prevalent throughout our Sacred Grandmother, the Earth."

"This balance has to be acknowledged and become the determining factor in all of one's decisions, be they spiritual, social, healthful, educational or economical."
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Bad Guys

"Sweeney Todd" Brazilian cannibal gang killed, stuffed and baked victims into pies

Christine Hsu
Medical Daily
Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:00 UTC
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A gang of Sweeney Todd cannibals murdered their victims and stuffed and baked their remains into pies to sell on the streets, a Brazilian court has heard.

Trio Jorge Negromonte, 50, his wife Isabel Pires, 51, and his mistress Bruna da Silva, 25, are believed to have lured at least three women to their house with the promise of employing them as nannies before beheading, dismembering, quartering and stuffing their parts into pastries.

The cannibal ring is said that have used their victims' flesh to make stuffed pastries, known as empanadas, which they ate themselves or sold to neighbors for 50 cents, according to police.

The gang appeared at court for the first time yesterday in their home town of Pernambuco, north-east Brazil. They were accused of murdering Jessica da Silva, 17, Alexandra Falcao, 20, and Gisele da Silva, 31, but did not enter pleas, according to the Daily Mail.

However, authorities said that the alleged cannibals have previously confessed to killing another six unidentified people.
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