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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Teen Hauled to Jail For Overdue Library DVD
What started as a routine traffic stop ended with a Colorado teen doing hard time. The offense? Not returning a “House of Flying Daggers” DVD to his local library. Come on, Colorado. You’re better than that.
Treasury Plans to Take Social Security from Elderly for Unpaid Loans
A little–noticed law could soon result in smaller Social Security checks for hundreds of thousands of the elderly and disabled who owe the U.S. money from defaulted loans and other debts more than a decade old.
Department of Education Posts Order for Police Shotguns
Decade Of The Drone: America’s Aerial Assassins
2010 is the tenth and deadliest year in Washington’s use of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) for targeted assassinations and untargeted “collateral damage.”
Britian: Fake Storefronts Soothe Consumers During Recession
Fake businesses are to be used to lessen the impact of the recession on high streets in North Tyneside.
U.S. Monthly Budget Deficit Balloons to a Record $651.60 billion
The U.S. government ran its largest ever monthly budget deficit in February as the country’s fiscal year-to-date deficit ballooned more than 10% to a record of $651.60 billion.
Parents Angry Over CCTV In School Toilets
Outraged parents have hit out at a school in Birmingham after pupils discovered CCTV cameras in the school’s toilets.
U.S. Taxpayers on Hook for $5 Trillion of Fannie, Freddie Debt … No Matter What Barney Frank Says
House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank caused a bit of an uproar Friday when he suggested the U.S. government does not guarantee the debts of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
UK Patients’ medical records go online without consent
Patients’ confidential medical records are being placed on a controversial NHS database without their knowledge, doctors’ leaders have warned.
Pelosi on health care: ‘We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it…’
This comes from Speaker Pelosi’s speech today before the Legislative Conference for National Association of Counties. The boldface is mine
N. Korea Says It Is Ready to ‘Blow Up’ U.S.
North Korea’s army said Monday it is ready to "blow up" South Korea and the U.S., hours after the allies kicked off annual military drills that Pyongyang has slammed as a rehearsal for attack.
Pacific North American Regional Integration and Control
U.S.-Canadian state and provincial integration is being achieved in areas of transportation, the economy, energy and the environment. With some national, trilateral and global initiatives being discredited, stalled or ineffective, it appears as if the strategy has further shifted to a regional and local level in an effort to lay the groundwork for new agreements.
Apple’s Secret iPhone Developer Agreement Goes Public
The first rule of the iPhone developer program is: You do not talk about the iPhone developer program.
Abu Dhabi is future base for News Corp: Murdoch
News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch announced on Tuesday that the Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi is to become the headquarters of his global media empire in the Middle East.
Citibank exposes 600,000 customers’ Social Security numbers
Ralph Remakel received a Citibank letter postmarked Feb. 16 that notified him of a recent Citibank error. It turns out he wasn’t the only one.
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Brooklyn Rabbi Baruch Lebovits convicted in sex assault on boy, faces decades behind bars
BY Scott Shifrel
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, March 9th 2010, 4:00 AM
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Rabbi Baruch Lebovits is facing a long prison term after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage boy.
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A Brooklyn rabbi faces decades behind bars – and sentencing on the eve of Passover – after a jury quickly convicted him of sexually assaulting a teenage boy.
Rabbi Baruch Lebovits showed no reaction as Brooklyn Supreme Court jurors found him guilty on eight of 10 counts after three hours of deliberations.
"Thank God, justice is served," the victim’s father said in the packed courtroom as Lebovits family members wiped tears from their eyes.
"This makes a statement to the Jewish community," said Beth Kaplan of the group Sacred Lives, one of several advocates who sat through the week-long trial.
"There is denial. The majority of the Orthodox community doesn’t believe this can happen. Here we see it can happen."
Prosecutor Miss Gregory had told jurors that Lebovits, 59, lured his son’s friend, who was 16 at the time, into a car with a promise of driving lessons in 2004 and 2005. The young man testified that Lebovits would have him pull over and then perform a sex act on him.
There was no physical evidence, and the accuser was a recovering drug addict and a thief – points defense lawyer Arthur Aidala hammered home.
He claimed the victim was trying to shake down Lebovits, who owned a Borough Park travel agency – and said a detective withheld a document showing the victim had talked about being paid off.
Lebovits, who still faces charges he molested two other minors, could get up to four years on each count.
Brooklyn Rabbi Baruch Lebovits convicted in sex assault on boy, faces decades behind bars
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Best of the Web: Calling All Rebels
Chris Hedges
Truthdig
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:53 EST
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Student Natalia Garcia protests last week on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley during a day of nationwide demonstrations against cuts in education funding.
There are no constraints left to halt America’s slide into a totalitarian capitalism. Electoral politics are a sham. The media have been debased and defanged by corporate owners. The working class has been impoverished and is now being plunged into profound despair. The legal system has been corrupted to serve corporate interests. Popular institutions, from labor unions to political parties, have been destroyed or emasculated by corporate power. And any form of protest, no matter how tepid, is blocked by an internal security apparatus that is starting to rival that of the East German secret police. The mounting anger and hatred, coursing through the bloodstream of the body politic, make violence and counter-violence inevitable. Brace yourself. The American empire is over. And the descent is going to be horrifying.
Those singled out as internal enemies will include people of color, immigrants, gays, intellectuals, feminists, Jews, Muslims, union leaders and those defined as "liberals." They will be condemned as anti-American and blamed for our decline. The economic collapse, which remains mysterious and enigmatic to most Americans, will be pinned by demagogues and hatemongers on these hapless scapegoats. And the random acts of violence, which are already leaping up around the fringes of American society, will justify harsh measures of internal control that will snuff out the final vestiges of our democracy. The corporate forces that destroyed the country will use the information systems they control to mask their culpability. The old game of blaming the weak and the marginal, a staple of despotic regimes, will empower the dark undercurrents of sadism and violence within American society and deflect attention from the corporate vampires that have drained the blood of the country.
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Best of the Web: Target Iran: US Neocons in bed with Iranian terrorist groups
Russia Today
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Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:30 EST
The Rigi brothers who were captured by Iran may have connections or ties to the Shah of Iran. Wayne Madsen says that the Rigi brothers cousin is a member of the royal court. There are also new claims that United States conservatives may have ties to the two brothers.
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Best of the Web: 9/11 Truth is going mainstream
Russia Today
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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:59 EST
There is a growing number of Americans who believe 9/11 was an inside job. 9/11 truthers, as they are known, attended a two day conference that was called Treason in America, in the hopes of bringing awareness to their cause. Is this a signal that the movement is gaining traction?
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Best of the Web: The Anti-Empire Report
William Blum
www.killinghope.org
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:12 EST
© Unknown
Informed consent
About half the states in the US require that a woman seeking an abortion be told certain things before she can obtain the medical procedure. In South Dakota, for example, until a few months ago, staff was required to tell women: "The abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being"; the pregnant woman has "an existing relationship with that unborn human being," a relationship protected by the U.S. Constitution and the laws of South Dakota; and a "known medical risk" of abortion is an "increased risk of suicide ideation and suicide." A federal judge has now eliminated the second and third required assertions, calling them "untruthful and misleading."1
I personally would question even the first assertion about a fetus or an embryo being a human being, but that’s not the point I wish to make here. I’d like to suggest that before a young American man or woman can enlist in the armed forces s/he must be told the following by the staff of the military recruitment office:
"The United States is at war [this statement is always factually correct]. You will likely be sent to a battlefield where you will be expected to do your best to terminate the lives of whole, separate, unique, living human beings you know nothing about and who have never done you or your country any harm. You may in the process lose an arm or a leg. Or your life. If you come home alive and with all your body parts intact there’s a good chance you will be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Do not expect the government to provide you particularly good care for that, or any care at all. In any case, you may wind up physically abusing your spouse and children and/or others, killing various individuals, abusing drugs and/or alcohol, and having an increased risk of suicide ideation and suicide. No matter how bad a condition you may be in, the Pentagon may send you back to the battlefield for another tour of duty.
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Best of the Web: In Denial: The Meltdown of the Climate Campaign
Steven F. Hayward
The Weekly Standard
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:23 EST
© The Weekly Standard
Exposed! The global warming campaign enters its emperor’s-new-clothes phase
It is increasingly clear that the leak of the internal emails and documents of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in November has done for the climate change debate what the Pentagon Papers did for the Vietnam war debate 40 years ago – changed the narrative decisively. Additional revelations of unethical behavior, errors, and serial exaggeration in climate science are rolling out on an almost daily basis, and there is good reason to expect more.
The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), hitherto the gold standard in climate science, is under fire for shoddy work and facing calls for a serious shakeup. The U.S. Climate Action Partnership, the self-serving coalition of environmentalists and big business hoping to create a carbon cartel, is falling apart in the wake of the collapse of any prospect of enacting cap and trade in Congress. Meanwhile, the climate campaign’s fallback plan to have the EPA regulate greenhouse gas emissions through the cumbersome Clean Air Act is generating bipartisan opposition. The British media – even the left-leaning, climate alarmists of the Guardian and BBC – are turning on the climate campaign with a vengeance. The somnolent American media, which have done as poor a job reporting about climate change as they did on John Edwards, have largely averted their gaze from the inconvenient meltdown of the climate campaign, but the rock solid edifice in the newsrooms is cracking. Al Gore was conspicuously missing in action before surfacing with a long article in the New York Times on February 28, reiterating his familiar parade of horribles: The sea level will rise! Monster storms! Climate refugees in the hundreds of millions! Political chaos the world over! It was the rhetorical equivalent of stamping his feet and saying "It is too so!" In a sign of how dramatic the reversal of fortune has been for the climate campaign, it is now James Inhofe, the leading climate skeptic in the Senate, who is eager to have Gore testify before Congress.
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
HOUSTON (Dow Jones)–An AGL Resources Inc. (AGL) executive who has been missing since Friday likely fell into the Mississippi River by accident after leaving a bar in the French Quarter, the New Orleans Police Department said Tuesday.
Foul play is no longer suspected in the disappearance of Douglas Schantz, president of Sequent Energy Management, a subsidiary of AGL, said Assistant Superintendent Marlon Defillo of the New Orleans Police Department.
"We surmise at this point …
Atlanta Business News 1:48 p.m. Tuesday, March 9, 2010
By Staff
For the AJC
NEW ORLEANS — A Texas-based nonprofit group that has been searching for a missing oil executive in New Orleans has found a body.
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Tim Miller, president and founder of Texas Equusearch, said the unidentified body was found Tuesday in the Mississippi River, "very, very near" the spot where 54-year-old Douglas Schantz, president of Houston-based Sequent Energy Management, was last spotted on a security video Friday morning. Sequent Energy is a division of Atlanta-based AGL Management.
It was not known if the body was that of Schantz. Miller said Schantz’s brother was to help with the identification.
Police said they believe Schantz may have fallen into the Mississippi River about a half-hour after leaving a Bourbon Street bar.
A camera captured an image of Schantz on a 2- to 3-foot wide gangplank near a riverboat at 2:40 a.m., said Police Chief Warren Riley. Then Schantz disappeared from view.
"We know he had been drinking and appeared disoriented," Riley said, according to the New Orleans Times Picayune.
Schantz, 54, had traveled New Orleans to make a donation to Tulane University on Thursday night.
His company on Monday increased the reward for information leading to Schantz to $25,000, according to the Times-Picayune.
Schantz didn’t make his scheduled flight back to Houston, and hasn’t called or e-mailed colleagues or his family, company spokeswoman Tami Gerke said Monday.
Houston police say he also never made it back to his hotel, which is within walking distance of where he was last seen on Bourbon Street. Video cameras show him leaving Razzoo Bar and Patio at 2 a.m.
Police say his credit cards and ATM card have not been used.
Sequent manages pipeline capacity for AGL and for Georgia gas marketers.
AJC staff writer Margaret Newkirk and the Associated Press contributed to this article.
AGL Resources Exec Likely Fell In Mississippi River-Police – WSJ.com
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
by: John Cory, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: HeyThereSpaceman., unforth, D Sharon Pruitt)
I am angry. I’m tired of pundits and know-nothing, media gasbags. I’m tired of snarky "inside politics" programming. I am sick of the bigotry and hatred of "birthers" and faux patriotic cranks and their GOP puppet masters. And I’m really pissed at the Democratic Party that confuses having a plate of limp noodles with having a spine. I’m going to vomit if I hear the word "bipartisanship" one more time. »
by: Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t | Investigative Report
The crowd at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC, gathered to hear their candidate outline his grand strategy for a new way forward and Barack Obama delivered.
"I will reject a legal framework that does not work," Obama said, his words slightly drowned out by the loud applause that erupted. "There has been only one conviction at Guantanamo. It was for a guilty plea on material support for terrorism. The sentence was nine months. There has not been one conviction of a terrorist act. I have faith in America’s courts, and I have faith in our [Judge Advocate Generals]."
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by: Mickey Z., t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
Al Gore penned a lengthy New York Times op-ed entitled, "We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change," on February 28, 2010. As expected, Gore was wordy, made no effort to discuss the planet’s top polluter (US Department of Defense), and, most of all, the former vice president once again opted to ignore the No. 1 cause of climate change: the meat-based diet. In fact, I ran a search on the nearly 2,000 words, but none of the following terms were found: meat, cow, livestock, methane, farm, diet or vegan.
Accepting the (unfortunate) reality that Al Gore is the planet’s best-known climate change spokesperson, he has yet again squandered an ideal opportunity to educate, inform and provoke real change. »
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