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Bumble Bee worker cooked to death with tuna batch


RT
Wed, 29 Apr 2015 02:37 UTC
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Los Angeles prosecutors charged Bumble Bee Foods and two managers on Monday with violating safety regulations when a worker was cooked to death in an industrial oven with 12,000 pounds of tuna.

Both managers could face serve jail sentences and the company could be charged with a maximum fine of $1.5 million.

Jose Melena, 62, was performing maintenance work in 35-foot-long industrial oven at Bumble Bee's Santa Fe Springs plant in October 2012 when a co-worker, thinking Melena was on a bathroom break, filled the pressure cooker with thousands of pounds of canned tuna and turned it on.

According to a report by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA), Melena's supervisor then noticed he was missing. A search was conducted in the plant and parking lot before his body was found two hours later - after the oven reached a temperature of 270 degrees Fahrenheit.

Prosecutors charged the company and two managers each with three counts of violating OSHA rules: The violation of a safety plan, the violation of rules for workers entering confined spaces and the violation of safety procedures that ensure machinery and equipment are turned off when a worker is conducting cleaning or maintenance

The two managers could face up to three years in prison and fines of up to $250,000 if convicted of all charges. The company faces a maximum fine of $1.5 million.
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Cloud Precipitation

Prepping is just common sense!


Natural Blaze
Sun, 26 Apr 2015 00:00 UTC
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Just how much damage can result from one severed wire? One crashed circuit board? A few errant keystrokes or transposed digits? It might surprise you to learn the magnitude of the impact of such a seemingly minor glitch.

With the incredible reliance we have on electronic communications, we are very vulnerable to system failures that could erupt in the event of a catastrophic interruption in telephone, data, or wireless communications. While much of the information moving in these networks is recreational, a huge proportion of it pertains directly to the distribution of food and other critical needs.

As simple as it seems to walk into a store and purchase items, the fact is that there are thousands of electronic components that must function without interruption in order to make those goods appear on a shelf.

After decades of this lifestyle, we take it for granted. We should not. Instead, we should all equip ourselves to survive for an extended period with no expectation of being able to buy anything--or even having money to buy it. In an article entitled "20 Facts that Prove the US Retail Sector is About to Collapse", theantimedia.org explains why.

So the logic behind hedging against such a disaster is sound, and the event isn't as unlikely as many would have you believe. Many of your neighbors may be well ahead of you on it.

Comment: Many people tend to dismiss 'preppers' as being too catastrophically minded. However, if one takes even a brief glimpse at the bizarre weather patterns that have been increasing globally and considers how quickly grocery stores might be emptied during even a short supply disruption, then those who are prepared seem much more grounded in reality. And, this does not even consider the potential for chaos that could ensue if the global financial system actually collapses, which is something that is highly likely to happen in the near future. Taking some precautions to insure your family will not suffer unnecessarily, is always wise.

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Light Saber

Bullied Michigan teen defies school officials, reposts video about struggle with bullying, lack of support from administration

Tom Boggioni
Raw Story
Mon, 27 Apr 2015 20:26 UTC
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© Screen captureDana Hamrick on You Tube
A Michigan teen who posted a video to Facebook complaining about lack of support from administrators at her high school who had failed to protect her from bullying, has reposted the video to YouTube after being told to take it down.

According to MyFoxDetroit, 16-year-old Dana Hamrick originally posted the video - where she tearfully explained that she is bullied on a daily basis at Harry Truman High School - only to be told later in the day to take it down by school officials.

In the video, an emotional Hamrick says, "One of the vice principals, he would threaten to suspend me for three days because I wasn't in the cafeteria getting bullied," adding, "I am sitting here, bawling my eyes out and you tell me to get out of your sight."

Two days later she reposted the video which had been seen by tens of thousands.

"I posted the video because I want people to know that bullying hurts," she explained. "It does, words hurt."


According to school officials, the morning Hamrick posted the video, her parents were contacted and a meeting was scheduled. Administrators said that they had offered support and an intervention for the teen months ago, but she had refused, saying she was afraid to name her attackers out of fear of retaliation.

Comment: Words do hurt - they actually damage the brain. See:

Sticks and Stones--Hurtful Words Damage the Brain

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Syringe

While everyone watches California debate, Vermont sneaks bill eliminating vaccine exemptions into law

Jeffery Jaxen
Jefferey Jaxen Blog
Mon, 27 Apr 2015 22:34 UTC
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With the public focused on the lobbyist-driven California Senate Bill 277 (SB-277), the Vermont Senate quietly eliminated vaccine exemptions Thursday with an 18-11 vote. Missing the starting gun, communities across America are now facing the political push to remove the barrier between their bodies and a private company's medical product. Attempting to squeeze every last drop of credibility from the "safe and effective" argument, senators across the U.S. appear to be ignoring the voices of their people in addition to over $3 billion of payouts in the U.S. alone from The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

Recently, the population of Vermont, and the rest of the country, is swooning over the state's political representatives for enacting the nation's first mandatory GMO labeling law. After a short legal hang-up forced by corporate influence, the law will begin on July 1st, 2016. What better state to remove vaccine exemptions than one in which its politicians can do no wrong. As first reported by AgeofAutism:
"Friday, April 10th, Jennifer Stella, head of the Vermont Coalition for Vaccine Choice learned that Sen. Kevin Mullin, R-Rutland, and Sen. John Campbell, D-Windsor, had tried to tack the exemption removal language onto another bill. The move was ruled to be non-germane and was disallowed.

The following Tuesday evening Stella learned that another attempt was coming, this time to tack the bill onto a vaccination registry expansion bill that had already passed the house, and would be debated the following morning. By the time the bill (H98) hit the senate floor on Wednesday, a barrage of phone calls had been made to concerned parents, who showed up in the Senate Chamber ready to fight the measure. The bill surfaced as an amendment introduced, again by Senators Mullin and Campbell, and this time joined by Senator Sears, D-Windsor."

Comment: Let nothing get in the way of Big Pharma's profits.

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Muslim girl banned from school for wearing long skirt in France


Agence France-Presse
Tue, 28 Apr 2015 21:56 UTC
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The case of a 15-year-old Muslim girl who was banned from class twice for wearing a long black skirt seen as too openly religious for secular France has sparked an outcry.

The girl was stopped from going to class earlier this month by the head teacher who reportedly felt the long skirt -- popular among some Muslim women who cover their whole body -- "conspicuously" showed religious affiliation, which is banned in schools by France's strict secularity laws.

"The girl was not excluded, she was asked to come back with a neutral outfit and it seems her father did not want the student to come back to school," local education official Patrice Dutot told AFP on Tuesday.

He added that the student always removed her veil before entering school premises in the northeastern town of Charleville-Mezieres, as is specifically stipulated by law.

According to the 2004 law that governs secularity in schools, veils, the Jewish kippa or large Christian crosses are all banned in educational establishments, but "discreet religious signs" are allowed.
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82-year old South Carolina woman dies of neglect; left to sit in chair for 6-months by 'care-giver' relatives

Jeffrey Collins
Yahoo! News
Fri, 24 Apr 2015 15:55 UTC
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© WYFF4.comBarbara Beam's home
The caregivers of an 82-year-old woman allowed her to sit in the same chair, not moving for six months, until she died earlier this year in a home that smelled so bad that some of the first firefighters on the scene set up a fan by the door, authorities said.

Prosecutors are deciding whether to charge Barbara Beam's caregivers in her Jan. 2 death at her house in Greenville after the coroner's office ruled her death was homicide by neglect. She lived with her sister and nephew.

The officer called to Barbara Beam's home on Jan. 2 noted indentions on the back of her legs near her knees and body fluids staining the sunken seat of her chair, according to the police report.

The officer asked the sister about Beam's condition, and the sister said Beam "stays in the chair located in the bedroom and that she had not moved out of the chair for approximately six months," according to the report.

The sister told police that Beam refused to eat a few hours before her death and they watched a soap opera together in her bedroom before she went to the kitchen. When she returned, Beam was slumped in her chair and the sister and nephew could find no pulse, police said.

Comment: Elder abuse and neglect: Warning signs, risk factors, prevention, and reporting abuse

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Man refused medical care, left in Arkansas jail with his 'colon hanging out' for four days


RT
Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:14 UTC
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An Arkansas man is suing officials in Saline County after he said he was refused medical care while in their custody for four days, despite having a prolapsed colon "literally hanging outside of his body," according to court documents.

The suit, filed last week in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, alleges that law enforcement officials in Saline knowingly and purposely violated the constitutional and civil rights of former detention center detainee Steven David Cook.

Cook was arrested on June 29, 2012, according to the lawsuit, and that same day experienced a prolapsed colon.

"Approximately a foot of Cook's colon had inverted and was protruding out of his rectum," the suit alleges, causing extreme physical pain and emotional distress

Because Cook was refused medical care, his attorneys claim, he was left "languishing in jail, lying in feces and blood in a dirty cell, exposed to germs and bacteria of all sorts, with his colon hanging out" until four days later on July 2.

Archived news reports suggest he was arrested on counts of theft and trespassing.

Comment: See also:

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USA

It is a crime to be poor in America - punishable by further impoverishment

Terrell Jermaine Starr
Alternet
Wed, 22 Apr 2015 18:49 UTC
New report details perverse policies that are driving more people into hopeless, inescapable poverty.
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The criminalization of America's poor has been quietly gaining steam for years, but a recent study, "The Poor Get Prison," co-authored by Karen Dolan and Jodi L. Carr, reveals the startling extent to which American municipalities are fining and jailing the country's most vulnerable people, not just punishing them for being poor, but driving them deeper into poverty.

"In the last ten years," Barbara Ehrenreich writes in the introduction, "it has become apparent that being poor is in itself a crime in many cities and counties, and that it is a crime punished by further impoverishment."

A few months ago, the Department of Justice's Ferguson report revealed how that city has disproportionately targeted its majority minority population with traffic and other minor infractions that heavily support the municipality's coffers. But Ferguson is far from alone. Municipalities like New York City have greatly increased the number of minor offenses that are considered criminal (like putting your feet up in the subway) or sitting on the sidewalk. Wealthy white people in business attire are rarely targeted for such summonses, and if they are, they can quickly pay the fine or hire counsel to get out of it. The over-punishment of minor offenses is just another way the rich get richer, and as the report says, the "poor get prison." They also get poorer and more numerous. In one striking statistic, the Southern Educational Foundation reports that 51 percent of America's public schoolchildren are living in poverty.

Perversely, it is the poor who, according to Dolan and Carr, are subsidizing municipalities' budgets and becoming reliable sources of enrichment for the private companies contracted by local governments to carry out what used to be government duties.

Comment: Americans should be outraged! People have been deluded into thinking the U.S. is an 'exceptional' democracy that protects the right of its citizens, when the truth is that the weakest and most vulnerable people in our society are dehumanized and criminalized for existing. Our failure to defend the most vulnerable people and demonize others whose skin color is different, will become our own fate.

The psychopathic police state: War on Black America

'Exceptionalism' in America

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Magic Wand

Enlightenment? Over 2,000 wizards and witches gather to hold ritual in Kiev


Sputnik
Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:47 UTC
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Over 2,000 adherents of Esotericism, who call themselves psychics, wizards, healers and even witches, are set to gather at St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Kiev on April 30, the Ukrainian news website Vesti reported on Tuesday.

The square that stretches between the Monastery and another of Kiev's most well-recognized buildings, Saint Sophia's Cathedral, will then serve a ground for a mass moleben for peace and harmony, based on the "tried-and-true rituals of the civilizations of the world".

Comment: What an enlightening moment this will be.

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Nuke

The legacy of Agent Orange & Monsanto - Have things changed?

Arjun Walia
collective-evolution.com
Mon, 27 Apr 2015 01:20 UTC
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The Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA) recently told Reuters that more than 4.8 million people in Vietnam have been exposed to the herbicide and over 3 million of them have been suffering from deadly diseases. Agent Orange was one of many herbicides used by the U.S. military as a weapon during the Vietnam war, and Monsanto was contracted by the government to manufacture it for the Department of Defence. According to Monsanto:
"The use of Agent Orange as a military herbicide in Vietnam continues to be an emotional subject for many people. Asian Affairs Specialist Michael Martin notes, '[a]t the time the herbicides were used, there was little consideration within the U.S. military about potential long-term environmental and health effects of the widespread use of Agent Orange in Vietnam.'" (source)

Comment: Read more about evil Agent Orange and how it continues to poison Vietnam:

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