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Civil Rights Violation by Local Police in Coral Gables, Florida USA
For the record, I was warned that I may become a target of harassment if I make a lot of noise about this, but I am writing this anyway. Civil Rights Violation by Local Police in Coral Gables, Florida USA
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"A doctor named John Drew Laurusonis and two of his assistants in Georgia have been accused of locking a woman in an examination room "when concerns arose about her ability to pay the bill." The three were indicted last week on charges of false imprisonment for the October 4th, 2007 incident. For several hours, the staff refused to allow her to leave, locking her in for periods of time, [her attorney Joseph] Fried said. They had her log into her bank records from a computer while she was there, he said.
"They said, 'Don't you have anyone who loves you who can come and help you? Because you're not leaving until this bill is paid,'" Fried said. "They made her feel like she was a criminal. She was made to feel like she couldn't leave without something bad to happen to her."
One reason the patient couldn't pay was that she was charged nearly eight times more for the visit than she was initially told by clinic employees, from $98 to $755. The patient, Frances Bales, was described as "less assertive than other people" — by her attorney, no less.
We hope Bales remembers to bring a Taser or pepper spray to her next appointment. In fact, maybe all patients of Dr. Laurusonis should make sure friends and family know where they're going and how long they expect to be gone, just in case there are any billing problems."
Thanks to Deborah!"A doctor named John Drew Laurusonis and two of his assistants in Georgia have... more
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U.S. TROOP LEVELS:
October 2007: 170,000 at peak of troop buildup.
_May 2008: 155,000
CASUALTIES:
_Confirmed U.S. military deaths as of May 2008: at least 4,085.
_Confirmed U.S. military wounded (hostile) as of May 30, 2008: 30,143.
_Confirmed U.S. military wounded (non-hostile, using medical air transport) as of May 3, 2008: 32,248
_U.S. military deaths for May 2008: 19.
_Deaths of civilian employees of U.S. government contractors as of March 31, 2008, the most recent figure available: 1,181.
_Iraqi deaths in May from war-related violence:
The Iraqi civilian casualty count so far for the month of May is at its lowest level since December 2005. According to Associated Press reporting through May 30, at least 528 Iraqis (excluding insurgents) have been killed in war-related violence. This is an average of 17 deaths per day, and is less than half of the 1,080 reported killed during April.
_Assassinated Iraqi academics: 371.
_Journalists killed on assignment as of June 2, 2008: 127.
COST:
_Nearly $525 billion so far, according to the National Priorities Project.
OIL PRODUCTION:
_Prewar: 2.58 million barrels per day.
_May 25, 2008: 2.52 million barrels per day.
ELECTRICITY:
_Prewar nationwide: 3,958 megawatts. Hours per day (estimated): 4-8.
_May 26, 2008 nationwide: 4,110 megawatts. Hours per day: 9.9.
_Prewar Baghdad: 2,500 megawatts. Hours per day (estimated): 16-24.
_May 26, 2008 Baghdad: Megawatts not available. Hours per day: 7.3.
_Note: Current Baghdad megawatt figures are no longer reported by the U.S. State Department's Iraq Weekly Status Report.
TELEPHONES:
_Prewar land lines: 833,000.
_April 4, 2008: 1,360,000.
_Prewar cell phones: 80,000.
_April 30, 2008: More than 12 million.
WATER:
_Prewar: 12.9 million people had potable water.
_April 30, 2008: 20.9 million people have potable water.
SEWERAGE:
_Prewar: 6.2 million people served.
_April 30, 2008: 11.3 million people served.
(Note: The number for sewerage has not changed in the newest SIGIR report.)
INTERNAL REFUGEES:
_June 1, 2008: At least 2.7 million people are currently displaced inside Iraq.
EMIGRANTS:
_Prewar: 500,000 Iraqis living abroad.
_April 29, 2008: Some 2 million, mainly Syria and Jordan.
All figures are the most recent available.
Sources: The Associated Press, State Department, Defense Department, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, The Brookings Institution, Iraq Body Count, U.N. High Commission for Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Working Group, International Organization for Migration, Committee to Protect Journalists, National Priorities Project, The Brussels Tribunal, Department of Labor.
AP researchers Julie Reed and Rhonda Shafner in New York compiled this reportU.S. TROOP LEVELS:
October 2007: 170,000 at peak of troop buildup.
_May 2008:... more
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A mother was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday for keeping her 17-year-old adopted son caged in her home.
Brenda Sullivan pleaded guilty in January to three counts of aggravated child abuse. Prosecutors agreed to drop lesser child neglect charges.
The teen weighed 49 pounds when child welfare workers found him in 2005 in what appeared to be a cage. Sullivan told a judge at the time that Ohio authorities told her to keep the boy, who had severe medical and emotional problems, in a crib.
"There's only one conclusion when you look at the medical evidence in this case, and that is that she literally starved him," prosecutor Julie Schlax said.
Two other children, 13-year-old twins the Sullivans adopted as infants, both testified they were kept in similar cages.
Sullivan's husband was also arrested, but died in January 2007 while awaiting trial.
Sullivan's lawyer, Charles Fletcher, said he didn't think prison was the right option because she does not pose a threat to society. He said they would appeal the sentence.A mother was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday for keeping her 17-year-old... more
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A man from Muncie, IN was arrested for abusing a dead squirrel. The charge? Illegal possession of a fox squirrel out of season...
What? Is that even possible? Click the link to find out more about this nutty story.A man from Muncie, IN was arrested for abusing a dead squirrel. The charge? Illegal... more
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Los Angeles, CA - Just a week after a disturbing video of six teenagers beating up a former friend Victoria Lindsay began to circulate on the Internet, another violent teen video has surfaced. In Prescott, Arizona a fourteen-year-old girl was arrested after bashing a rival schoolmate unconscious with a folding chair. The incident was video taped by a fellow student.
According to Prescott Valley Police Commander P.J. Janik, the girls had been throwing sunflower seeds at each other in the school cafeteria when things escalated and the attacker picked up a chair and beat the 13-year-old victim in the head.
"This was an unfortunate event, but juveniles confronting and assaulting juveniles is occurs daily in school yards across the country," Janik told the Daily Courier. "This one just happened to be digitally taped and put on the Internet.
The victim, Taylor Hedlund, explained to ABC15 that she was eating her lunch when the attack occurred and was instantly knocked unconscious.
Authorities say that the attack had been planned, and the assailant had told another friend to record the incident on her cell phone. The video was later posted on myspace and youtube.
The 14-year-old is in custody at the Yavapai County Juvenile Detention Center on charges of aggravated assault, disorderly conduct and interference with an educational institution.
Hedlund recovered from the violent incident with only a few bruises to her head.
School officials at Achieve Academy have refused to comment on the incident saying only that authorities were handling the matter.
Los Angeles, CA - Just a week after a disturbing video of six teenagers beating up a... more
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PATASKALA, Ohio -- A camcorder sold at a pawn shop in one Ohio town had a disturbing video left inside -- it showed a toddler being given marijuana.
Police in Pataskala, Ohio arrested an 18-year-old man and a 16-year-old girl.
They are accused of holding up a lit marijuana cigarette to the child's mouth.
On the video, the 2-year-old coughs and turns her head away.
The video was discovered when the camcorder was sold at a pawn shop and the shop owner contacted police.
Police said the 16-year-old girl was the one holding the baby.
The 18-year-old also faces charges in a separate case --- a drug bust that involved one ton of marijuana. PATASKALA, Ohio -- A camcorder sold at a pawn shop in one Ohio town had a disturbing... more
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Spending 26 years in prison, Alton Logan has been kept unjustly inprisoned for a crime he did not commit. The two lawyers representing Andrew Wilson have come foward after Wilson's death saying that Wilson had confessed to the crime years ago, that Logan is still serving time for. Spending 26 years in prison, Alton Logan has been kept unjustly inprisoned for a crime... more
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A deadly trade is occurring along the U.S. border with Mexico, federal officials say -- a flood of guns, heading south, used by drug thugs to kill Mexican cops.
In Mexico, guns are difficult to purchase legally. So, officials say, weapons easily purchased in the United States are turning up there.
"The same routes that are being used to traffic drugs north -- and the same organizations that have control over those routes -- are the same organizations that bring the money and the cash proceeds south as well as the guns and the ammunition," says Bill Newell, a special agent with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
A deadly trade is occurring along the U.S. border with Mexico, federal officials say... more
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It has been reported that there has been a bizarre wave of mob emo-bashings sweeping across Mexico.
The movement is being generated on internet message boards and social networking sites by non-emo youth who highly dislike like the emo look and attitude.
According to Daniel Hernanadez's blog, in which he has been keeping up to date with the emo-bashing Mexican antics, it begun about three weeks ago when "an estimated 800 young people poured into the city's Centro Historico hunting for emos to beat the crap out of." He goes onto state, "They found some."
Over the last few weeks the violence has spread across Mexico, with reported attacks sighted in Mexico City, Durango, Colima as well as others.
Check out some of these links and see if you can come up with an explanation as to why there has been such an increase in the amount of 'emo-bashings'.
Hernanndez's blog:
http://danielhernandez.typepad.com/daniel_hernandez/2008/03/violence-agains.html
It has been reported that there has been a bizarre wave of mob emo-bashings sweeping... more
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Authorities revealed Tuesday that a man carrying a loaded shotgun was arrested in January near the U.S. Capitol, and explosives left in his truck nearby went undetected for three weeks.
According to an indictment filed in District of Columbia Superior Court, Michael Gorbey, 38, of Rapidan, Virginia, faces charges of planning to set off a bomb. He also is accused of making or transporting an explosive device with the intent of using it against people or property and multiple firearms charges.
Gorbey allegedly tried to manufacture a "weapon of mass destruction, that is, an explosive device capable of causing multiple deaths or serious bodily injuries to multiple persons, or massive destruction of property," according to the indictment.Authorities revealed Tuesday that a man carrying a loaded shotgun was arrested in... more
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Meet "Bum-bot" aka 'Robocop.' He patrols the mean streets of Atlanta, GA, with his trusty sidekick and inventor Rufus Terrill, scaring off drugs dealers and no-good-doers.
Some love "Bum-bot": "He's a neighborhood vigilante," says Meredith (local day care operator) , "and when he came up with this -- you know, I call it Robocop -- I said, 'Praise God.' "
Some are skeptical of "Bum-bot" they say spraying water on evil doers could lead to assault charges, and even one homeless person followed the crime fighting duo saying, "I know about you. I can sue you for assault."
That doesn't stop "Bum-bot", or Terrill: they keep shining their spot light on people, speaking through "Bum-bot's" loud speaker, spraying water, and fighting crime.
Meet "Bum-bot" aka 'Robocop.' He patrols the mean streets of... more
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YouTube is facing criticism for making it too easy for people to upload violent or sexually explicit content to the internet after a 25-year-old mother was filmed while being raped.
A three-minute film showing the mother sexually assaulted by three boys after her drink had been spiked was uploaded soon after the incident, which took place in November. YouTube is facing criticism for making it too easy for people to upload violent or... more
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Rep. Rick Renzi, an Arizona Republican was indited on 35 counts of mostly fraud. He allegedly had shady deals with his busy partner, deals his father may haver profited from. It is unclear if he used his office for personal gain. Rep. Rick Renzi, an Arizona Republican was indited on 35 counts of mostly fraud. He... more
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Well-dressed men are being targeted by a ring of flirty women at "posh" Dallas hotels and bars. The women may be drugging them before taking their watches and other expensive items.
One man may have been beaten with at high heeled shoe.
This sounds like something out of a movie. Well-dressed men are being targeted by a ring of flirty women at "posh"... more
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Several teenage gang members have been arrested on suspicion of forcing girls as young as 12 into a prostitution ring, police said Tuesday.
The gang members allegedly targeted runaways and other girls with unstable homes for the prostitution ring, then after befriending the girls and getting them high, Varrio Central gang members took them to some regular customers and then sought other men by trolling apartment complexes, offering the girls' services for $50, Fort Worth police Lt. Ken Dean said.
The gang apparently targeted runaways and other girls with unstable homes, and if the girls refused to have sex for money the members beat and sexually assaulted them and threatened their families, Dean said.
It always amazes me that stuff like this goes on; what do you think their punishment should be? Several teenage gang members have been arrested on suspicion of forcing girls as young... more
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This has to be the strangest, yet most justifiable form of vengeance ever. A father sodomized his 18-year-old stepson to avenge the teenager's alleged rape of the man's 8-year-old daughter.
Seriously, America, WTF?This has to be the strangest, yet most justifiable form of vengeance ever. A father... more
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Washingtonians - and others with big egos - have a portrait fetish that is obscene especially when it involves taxpayers money.
Even half that nealry 50 grand could have been significant funding for the non-profit Native American and environment projects I volunteer for in northern Michigan.
More comment after a few sentences of the article and a look at this portrait:
Portrait Cost Indian Museum $48,500: Senators, Trustees Question Spending By Former Director
By James V. Grimaldi
Washington Post Staff Writer
W. Richard West Jr., the founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, spent $48,500 in museum funds to commission a portrait of himself.
The portrait of West by New York artist Burton Silverman hangs in the patrons' lounge on the fourth floor of the flagship museum, which is dedicated to the arts and culture of American Indians.
Silverman said West picked him after he saw a portrait Silverman had done of former Smithsonian secretary Robert McCormick Adams.
The Adams portrait, completed about a decade earlier, was smaller and cost about half as much.
Rest of the Washington Post story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/03/AR2008010304163.html
Portrait:
http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2008/01/04/PH2008010400031.jpg
[IMG]http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee225/YOOPERNEWSMAN/RichardWestcrookedSmithsonian.jpg[/IMG]
Native American on Native American crime - much like black on black crime - is especially insidious because so much good could have been done for First Nations peoples heritage with this wasted and misappropriated money.
It's also a crime against taxpayers and common decency.
Spending $48,500 on a self portrait is among the disgraceful financial crimes of W. Richard West Jr., the founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.
For this crime to occur in the hallowed halls of the Smithsonian shows again thievery knows no class boundaries - and should be treated just as severely as the poor man who sticks a gun into the face of a 7-11 clerk.
The Smithsonian needs to be thoroughly audited from top to bottom as this is at least the second huge scandal to tarnish its once respected reputation.
No doubt it's only the tip of the fiduciary iceberg that's tearing through the Smithsonian's highbrow richly-protected hull.
I do volunteer work for several Native American related non-profits whose budgets are much smaller than even the cost of that disgraceful portrait.
And the suggestion that it could not have been painted by an American Indian artist is as laughable as it is sickening with a hint of racism against one's own culture.
Even the portrait stance is borrowed and unoriginal, as a buttoned-down Mr. West gazes thoughtfully off to the east, his coat hanging on a crooked forefinger and tossed over suspenders with his soft thumb and the remaining fingers forming the "OK" sign.
The Washington ego commands that a portrait much be painted to prove one's importance.
No doubt many law offices, banking institutions and the halls of officialdom are plastered with the self-aggrandizing crafty art.
Prior to the Polaroid, a self-portrait may have been necessary to preserve one's historic legacy but in today's world it's merely a measure of one's self-importance that is more often scoffed at than admired by those it's meant to impress. Perhaps, a modern definition of irony.
Maybe the next exhibit at the Smithsonian will be portraits of former executives doing the proverbial "perp walk" - cuffed and stuffed for perp-etuity. Washingtonians - and others with big egos - have a portrait fetish that is obscene... more
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This is the ONLY such museum in the COUNTRY!
That, alone, is very telling!
Those that sit idly by and feel as though YOU YOURSELF are not benefitting from the actions (and non-actions) of your ancestors, I say
SHAME ON YOU! Open your eyes and see the African Americans and YOURSELVES for what/who you are!
Start at the link above...This is the ONLY such museum in the COUNTRY!
That, alone, is very telling!... more
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Lawrence Hoo talks about the lack of positive education he received as a child about his ancestry and cultural background. We visit his primary school and at the gallery where he is exhibiting photographs and poetry illustrating a personal journey of African History and identity.Lawrence Hoo talks about the lack of positive education he received as a child about... more
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