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Bizarro Earth

Picture of full-figured retail store mannequins goes viral


Fox News
Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:51 UTC
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Retail store mannequins have long been criticized for being too thin, not accurately reflecting the average female body.

Now, new mannequins in Sweden are getting buzz online for showcasing more womanly figures, Examiner.com reported. A blogger for Women's Rights News posted a photo of fuller-figured mannequins from a clothing store in Sweden, and the photo has since gone viral.
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Heart - Black

Prosecutor says father intended to torture, starve his teenage daughter

Todd Richmond
Huffington Post
Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:44 UTC
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A Wisconsin man hid his teenage daughter away in his basement for years as he slowly starved her, prosecutors told jurors Thursday, even as defense attorneys countered the girl is a liar and chose not to eat on her own.

A passing motorist found the girl wandering around her neighborhood on the outskirts of Madison in February 2012. She was barefoot, freezing and weighed just 68 pounds, prosecutors said. The now 16-year-old girl told investigators her father and stepmother had locked her in the basement, forced her to scrounge for food and punished her if they caught her eating without permission.

She finally decided to run away after her stepmother threatened to throw her down the stairs or slit her throat, she said.

Her father has been charged with five felony counts, including child abuse and false imprisonment, as well as a misdemeanor charge of child neglect. Attorneys delivered their closing arguments in his three-week trial Thursday and handed the case to the jury.

Deliberations were still ongoing late Thursday evening. The man faces up to 43 years in prison and nine months in jail if he's convicted on all counts.
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Bulb

Canadian woman sells husband's belongings after he allegedly leaves 'with his floozie'

Victoria Taylor
NY Daily News
Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:28 UTC
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© NICK PROCAYLO/THE PROVINCEA woman held a “lying cheating sale” in which she sold off her husband’s stuff, and bargain hunters showed up to check out the goods.
She said her husband left her for a "piece of trash," so she kicked his stuff to the curb and put it all up for sale.

A Canadian woman got revenge on her husband of 10 years, while he was gallivanting about with his mistress, by cleaning house.

The scorned woman posted a colorful ad on Craigslist inviting bargain hunters and potential homebuyers to her "lying cheating sale."

"Husband left us for a piece of trash. Selling everything while he is gone this weekend with his floozie," the woman wrote in the ad.
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No Entry

Greek footballer Giorgos Katidis banned for Nazi salute


BBC
Sun, 17 Mar 2013 11:43 UTC
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Katidis insists he did not know what the gesture meant
A Greek footballer has been banned for life from playing for the national team after making a Nazi salute.

AEK Athens midfielder Giorgos Katidis, 20, made the gesture to celebrate his winning goal during a Saturday match.

The Greek football federation called it "a severe provocation" that insulted "all the victims of Nazi bestiality".

Katidis denied he gave a Nazi salute. "I am not a fascist and would not have done it if I had known what it meant," Katidis said on his Twitter account.
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Alarm Clock

Sex as a drug in American culture

Dr. Keith Ablow
Fox News
Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:03 UTC
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© ReutersAshely Benson
Ashley Benson, 23, knows what sells to America's 12-year-old girls: sex, including threesomes. Together with Seventeen magazine, the actress is promoting her new movie "Spring Breakers" on the magazine's cover, despite the fact that the movie is being hyped elsewhere for its steamy sex scene between Benson, actress Vanessa Hudgens, 24, and actor James Franco. The movie is rated R for strong sexual content, language, nudity, drug use and violence. Seventeen targets an audience of females, aged 12 to 19.


Comment: Interesting that the James Franco mentioned above recently premiered a documentary that some describe as torture porn. Exactly what message is Seventeen trying to send to it's readership?


There is a psychological sea change occurring in American culture, wherein girls shy of their teenage years are now exposed to erotic imagery and storylines, routinely.

The sexualization of children is a runaway train - and they are being brought aboard.

Comment: For more information about the sexualization of children and pathology in the media, see these Sott links:

Programming Complete: Why 6-Year-Old Girls Want to Be Sexy

Pedophile networks coming out in the open? US TV show promotes child abuse

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Sheriff

NYPD sued over 'stop-and-frisk' policy


Press TV
Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00 UTC
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The controversial ‘stop-and-frisk’ policy of the New York Police Department specifically targets Blacks and Latinos.
The New York Police Department has been taken to court over its controversial 'stop-and-frisk' policy, which rights groups say specifically targets minorities.

A civil case is to begin on Monday in Manhattan, where more than a hundred witnesses are expected to testify regarding the NYPD practice of stopping, questioning and frisking people. Blacks and Hispanic men are the main targets."When we say stop, question and frisk, we're not talking about a brief inconvenience on the way to work or school," said lead attorney Darius Charney of the Center for Constitutional Rights. "We're talking about a frightening, humiliating experience that has happened to many folks."
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Red Flag

New Jersey student sues two schools for failing to stop bullying

Lillian Shupe
Raw Story
Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:22 UTC
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A teenager who was allegedly subjected to years of bullying is now suing the Hunterdon Central Board of Education and Flemington-Raritan Board of Education.

The suit, filed in late February in Superior Court in Flemington by attorney Brian Cige, claims the now-teenager was bullied not only by other children but by some school employees as well, from fourth grade onward.

The boy and his parents - as well as the students who did the bullying - are identified only by initials in the suit, which makes the following claims:

The bullying started in the fourth grade and continued into high school.

The years of alleged taunting, name calling and derogatory comments took its toll - as the young man eventually developed serious and debilitating health issues. He missed significant periods of school for hospitalization, according to the suit. Although the direct bullying has subsided, the suit claims the high school district is now doing very little to accommodate his disability.

The suit details many incidents over an eight-year period starting in grade school in the Flemington-Raritan district and continuing into high school at Hunterdon Central.
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Heart - Black

Fox News airs name of 16-year-old Steubenville rape victim

David Edwards
Raw Story
Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:18 UTC
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Fox News on Monday aired the name of a underage victim of a disturbing rape in Steubenville, Ohio.

During correspondent Mike Tobin's report about the guilty verdicts in the Steubenville rape case on Fox News' America's Newsroom, the girl's first name was broadcast without being censored.

"We have not known, really, how the victim is doing, Mike," host Martha MacCallum told Tobin. "Is there any information on that today?"

"Well, a relative tells me that she spends a lot of time in her room," Tobin explained. "She has been back out playing sports, and through it all - you'll be surprised to learn - she made the honor roll one more time."

"A family representative says the remorse coming from the football players came too late," the correspondent added. "We saw their reaction yesterday."
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Airplane

United Airlines mistakenly sends Phoenix-bound dog from Newark to Ireland


CBS New York
Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:09 UTC
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6-Year-Old 'Hendrix' Ended Up On 3 Flights In 24 Hours; His Owner Isn't Pleased

Right ticket, wrong destination - by 5,000 miles!

A dog that was supposed to fly from Newark Liberty International Airport to Arizona ended up in Ireland.

But why?

Six-year-old Springer Spaniel "Hendrix," who was named after the jet-setting rock star, endured a long journey. Like his legendary namesake Jimi, the dog is now an international traveler, but was not supposed to be.

"I was not happy," the dog's owner, Edith Alback, told CBS 2′s Dave Carlin.
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Eye 2

Pennsylvania pastor sentenced to life in prison for killing 2nd wife, awaits trial in 1st wife's death


Associated Press
Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:56 UTC
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© AP/POCONO RECORDFeb. 7, 2012: In this file photo, retired Pennsylvania pastor Arthur Schirmer leaves court after a pretrial hearing in his murder case in Stroudsburg, Pa. Schirmer, awaiting trial in the 1999 death of his first wife was convicted Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013 in the 2008 death of his second wife.
A former Pennsylvania pastor was sentenced Monday to life in prison without parole in the fatal bludgeoning of his second wife in 2008.

Arthur "A.B." Schirmer, 64, was sentenced in Monroe County Court nearly two months after a jury convicted him of first-degree murder in the death of Betty Schirmer. The conviction brought an automatic life sentence.

Schirmer is charged separately with killing his first wife, Jewel Schirmer, in 1999. He awaits trial in that case.
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