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DJ Mona-Lisa features the lives of legendary performers whose stories are often untold even when curtains are close. Lights..cameras..action-later on reactions...long after rape and child molestation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65wLkIbGyh0DJ Mona-Lisa features the lives of legendary performers whose stories are often untold... more
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The addresses for more than 1,000 foster homes and group homes in California matched addresses on the state sex offender registry, according to a newly released audit.
State Auditor Elaine M. Howle said child welfare officials failed to check the sex offender registry even after her office advised them to do so in 2008.
The auditor informed state regulators and local child welfare agencies of the 1,000 sex offender hits in July. So far, eight licenses have been revoked or suspended and regulators issued 36 orders barring individuals from licensed facilities.
The audit was ordered earlier this year at the request of state Assemblyman Henry Perea (D-Fresno). The audit was also intended to compile data on deaths of children who were under the oversight of child protective services.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors balked at subpoenas for information and hired outside lawyers to fight the inquiry. The auditor's office has vowed to continue to press the county for records and to issue a second report in the coming months.The addresses for more than 1,000 foster homes and group homes in California matched... more
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Linda Wall, a conservative independent Virginia candidate for the House of Delegates, admitted on Wednesday that she had an affair with a female student as a junior high gym teacher in the early 1970s, but said she has changed.
"I've never tried to hide that I was in homosexuality," she said in an interview with the AP. "If anybody Googles me, they would find that out there," she said. "Forty years ago I was a different person. I was a heavy pot smoker with ... impaired judgment and made some bad choices," she added. The student was a minor at the time, meaning Wall could still be prosecuted if she comes forward.
In a 2006 deposition as part of a defamation lawsuit former Republican candidate Paul Jost filed against her and state Sen. Thomas K. Norment Jr., Wall confirmed that she had sexual relations with a minor. She said resigned her position after the superintendent of the unspecified Prince George County, Va. school confronted her about the allegation.http://tinyurl.com/3c23cgfLinda Wall, a conservative independent Virginia candidate for the House of Delegates,... more
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Every five hours a child dies from abuse or neglect in the US. The latest government figures show an estimated 1,770 children were killed as a result of maltreatment in 2009.Every five hours a child dies from abuse or neglect in the US. The latest government... more
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Plan for sex offender ‘village’ misunderstood Barbara Farris says she wants to protect kids, not endanger themBy Stephen Hudak, Orlando Sentinel September 27, 2011Plan for sex offender ‘village’ misunderstood Barbara Farris says she... more
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Okay, I confess. I confess to watching two segments of the exclusive interview of Cindy and George Anthony on the Dr. Phil show.
I’ve come to the conclusion that if the good Doc had been the prosecuting attorney during the Casey Anthony trial, she wouldn’t have walked. Dr. Phil is a doctor (he reminds of us that at least once a week) but, he would have made a great Prosecutor.Okay, I confess. I confess to watching two segments of the exclusive interview of... more
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The Blood and Sweat Behind Labor Day
By Kenneth Davis, Special to CNN
updated 10:56 AM EST, Fri September 2, 2011
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Scores of boys worked at the Breaker Pennsylvania Co. coal mine before child labor was finally outlawed in 1938.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Ken Davis: Today, labor under fire. But war for workers' rights was long, deadly struggle
There was child labor, 12-hour days, 6-day weeks, low wages, no sick days, holidays
Soldiers, militias, private armies used deadly force to break 19th-century strikes
Labor Day born in 1894, he says, but reform didn't come till FDR's fair labor laws
Editor's note: Kenneth C. Davis is the author of "Don't Know Much About History: Anniversary Edition" and "A Nation Rising." His website is www.dontknowmuch.com.
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(CNN) -- A small boy, perched on an open catwalk in a candy factory, falls to his death. No, it is not a macabre moment out of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." It is a true story told by social reformer Jane Addams, who founded Chicago's Hull House in 1889.
Addams also described little girls who refused sweets as Christmas gifts that year. "They could not bear the sight of it," Addams wrote. "We discovered that that they had worked from 7 in the morning until 9 at night, and they were exhausted."
These Dickensian scenes lasted in America from the late 19th century until 1938, when child labor was outlawed under the Fair Labor Standards Act. They are a sobering reminder of why the nation marks Labor Day.
To most Americans, the first Monday in September means a three-day weekend and the last hurrah of summer, a final outing at the shore before school begins, a family picnic.
But Labor Day was born in a time when work was no picnic. As America was moving from farms to factories in the Industrial Age, there was a long, violent, often-deadly struggle for fundamental workers' rights, a struggle that in many ways was America's "other civil war."
It was a war fought when 12-hour days and six-day weeks were routine. Wages were low; there were no sick days, pensions or holidays. There was certainly no unemployment insurance. Any attempts at organizing were met by the combined wrath of business and government. The business of America was business.
That conflict, a period in which thousands of workers died in America's unsafe and unsanitary factories and mines, and hundreds more died in riots and pitched battles over workers' rights, is the little-noted history behind this holiday.
The first American Labor Day is dated to a parade organized by unions in New York on September 5, 1882, as a celebration of "the strength and spirit of the American worker." Their goals were simple: decent wages, an eight-hour workday and the right to organize. The September date was selected to provide a respite for workers and their families midway between July Fourth and Thanksgiving Day. By all accounts, the first Labor Day was a peaceful affair that drew tens of thousands of workers and their families to the city's Union Square Park.
But the path to a national Labor Day holiday was no walk in the park. The federal Labor Day was created 12 years later, signed into law by President Grover Cleveland during his second term in 1894. It's not that Cleveland was a great friend of labor. In fact, he had just sent out troops to break a strike.
During the economic depression known as the Panic of 1893, workers for the Pullman Car Co., one of the country's largest manufacturers, walked off their jobs when Pullman tried to cut wages, fire workers and evict them from their company-owned homes. They were joined by hundreds of thousands of workers in a nationwide walkout. Facing a strike that would shut down America's railroads, Cleveland dispatched 12,000 federal troops on the premise that the strike interfered with the U.S. Mail. In the ensuing violence, at least 13 strikers were killed.
This was not the first time troops had been used against American workers. Federal soldiers, state militias and private armies, often from the Pinkerton Detective Agency, had used deadly force to break many 19th-century strikes. Some of these strikes had become pitched battles, like the Homestead strike of 1892 in Pennsylvania. There, men on both sides armed with rifles and cannons died fighting over keeping a union at a steel mill, a union that owner Andrew Carnegie and manager Henry Frick were determined to break.
After crushing the Pullman strike, Cleveland thought that granting workers a Labor Day holiday was a sop that would appease them as he sought a third term. (It didn't work; he was denied the Democratic nomination in 1896.) Politicians and labor leaders were content to keep the holiday in September, far from the growing popularity of May Day as a commemoration of the "Martyrs of Haymarket Square," a group of union leaders executed -- unjustly, it was later proved -- after Chicago's deadly Haymarket Square Riots in May 1884.
For unions, Labor Day proved a hollow victory. Most of the reforms they sought did not come about for nearly half a century. The Depression-era fair labor laws that were passed under Franklin D. Roosevelt finally set standards like the eight-hour day and an end to child labor.
This history is worth remembering on Labor Day. But at a moment when American workers are battered by high unemployment, the Great Recession, a technology revolution in the workplace and globalization, there seems to be little to celebrate.
And these economic forces are only part of the relentless pressures faced by America's work force. There is also a renewed war over labor in this country. It is being fought in battleground states including, most notably, Wisconsin, Ohio, New Jersey and Florida, where mostly Republican governors are wrangling with public employees over pay, pensions and more fundamental issues including the right of collective bargaining.
Their sharp anti-union rhetoric has increasingly found receptive listeners who have been convinced that "spoiled" unions and public employees -- the people who fight our fires, teach our children and pick up our garbage -- are at fault for our budgetary woes and the sorry state of the economy. The fight has been vitriolic but well short of the violence of America's "other civil war."
With that in mind, it is worth recalling President Abraham Lincoln's words during the dark early days of the real Civil War. "Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed," he told Congress in December 1861. "Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration,"
Today, the first Republican president's words would count as heresy in the GOP. But they are a sharp reminder that working men and women built this country and fought its wars. And their labors are worth more than a Monday holiday or the mean-spirited contempt they now face. They deserve, as Lincoln said, "the higher consideration."
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There is an overabundance of gloomy news in the world these days and because of this, we have all gotten a bit desensitized. You open news links and you get lingering deadly effects of two US wars that go on and on with no end in sight or even WTF the true objective of these wars were to begin with. Then another headline will read “Drought and Famine in Somalia Have Killed More Than 29000 Children Under the Age of 5” with pictures of emaciated little bodies that hardly resemble human forms. Another click advances you to captions like: “The World Is Watching the Carnage In Syria… Click for video” and back home we get: “Wall Street Banks Still Gouging U.S. Citizens After Bailouts", with no mention on how they can be stopped or if they will ever receive punishment for their crimes of greed.
National Dept, Debt Ceilings and Fed Budgets, OH MY… were the Blue Plate Specials of the Day, media kept shoveling down our throats. (I almost heard a collective ho-hum; what else is new?) But with all the ongoing bleak headlines of disparity, depredation and blatant nasty behavior perpetrated by human beings upon humanity and life itself. There once in awhile will come a headline that fast bounces you back to sensibility and with it an enormous feeling of shame that you happen to belong to the human race. (A startling bounce back to a reality that some of us are capable of ignorance beyond comprehension). Today one such headline jumped out at me: 10-Year-Old Dies Of Dehydration After His Parents Deny Him 5-Days Of Water.
Just one little boy but his death raises a question that we all should ask. WHY DID IT HAPPEN? What is the reason for such ignorance from a Mom and Dad and such apathy from those who had contact with this tortured child (FOR FIVE UNBEARABLE DAYS)?
Healthy normal parents try to protect their young not deliberately perpetrate torture upon them. It’s indescribably sad that this child had no one looking out for his welfare. It took 5 days and in all that time no one noticed his suffering. It seems that we homo sapiens still have a long, long evolutionary path yet to travel for when a species stops nurturing and protecting its young it is most likely doomed to extinction. It’s as simple as that! thinkingblue
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10-Year-Old Dies Of Dehydration After His Parents Deny Him 5-Days Of Water
Written by Michael Lambarde on Aug 28, 2011 // Category: National
Police say that a Texas boy died of dehydration after his parents denied him of drinking water as punishment after he had accidentally wet the bed. The 10-year-old Dallas boy, Jonathan James, died on July 25, according to police, after his parents prohibited him from drinking water in the five days leading up to his death. Temperatures in Dallas soared to 100 degrees or more on each of those days, police say.
Michael Ray James, his father, and Tina Alberson, his stepmother, were both charged on Thursday, August 25th and were jailed for injury to a child due to serious bodily injury. His twin brother, Joseph James, and his 12-year-old stepbrother were not injured; the two are currently staying with other family members.
According to Jonathan’s grandmother Sue Shotwell, her grandson had contacted her in June and told her that he was afraid of living with his parents during the month-long, court-ordered custody visit.
“[Jonathan] called me and said, ‘Can I come to your house instead? I know I’m going to be in trouble while I’m there because I always am,’” Shotwell said in an interview with the Dallas News on Friday. “That’s the first time we ever heard that from him. The boy, because of a court ordered custody arrangement, were spending the summer with their biological father, but they were not willing to stay with their father,” Shotwell said.
Shotwell also revealed to FOX News that Jonathan’s twin brother knew about the punishment, and she had told him that he didn’t need to feel guilty because there was nothing that he could have done. She notes that Joseph later confessed to his grandmother that he had wished that he had “snuck him some water.”
Police documents show that the 10-year-old collapsed and hit his head on the floor after 5-days of going without water. Joseph later told police that his brother was put in a room without air conditioning and was told to stand near the window with the scorching sun beating down on him. He also notes that his brother had peanut butter stuck in his throat on the day he died, but his parents still didn’t allow him to drink any water.
After his parents had realized that the boy’s body was shutting down, they put him in a cold bathtub before they called paramedics, police said. He shortly died after he was rushed to the hospital. MORE HERE
Last post: Doctors' Favorite Phrase: You're Gonna Die! http://www.thethinkingblue.com/doctorsno.htmlThere is an overabundance of gloomy news in the world these days and because of this,... more
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A child and adolescent psychiatrist suspended from Billings Clinic who reported to investigators that he had a collection of child pornography is facing federal charges.
An information filed Monday in U.S. District Court charges Dr. James H. Peak with one count of possessing child porn. The crime carries a penalty of maximum of 10 years in prison, a maximum $250,000 fine and from five years to a lifetime of supervised release.
After talking with authorities, Peak voluntarily surrendered his medical license, notified his employer and entered and successfully completed a 90-day inpatient treatment program in Texas, Hurd said.
Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/article_10a66d01-4088-5992-bd16-8cba5fc399b6.html#ixzz1VQZpeG4rA child and adolescent psychiatrist suspended from Billings Clinic who reported to... more
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This from Pravda - so take with a grain of salt......
Norway offers residence permits in exchange for children. 45117.jpegIn accordance with the laws of Norway, any child, who lives in the country, is protected by the state. It is the state that can decide whether a child shall live with biological or foster parents. The decisions taken by local child protection services are more relevant that judges' decisions.
Another Russian citizen, who lives in Norway, has addressed to Pravda.Ru for help. The woman's name is Maya Kasayeva. One may say that her story is typical. The Norwegian authorities took the woman's child - a boy born in 2002. Originally, the authorities offered the woman an alternative.
"During the court hearings, the judge told me: 'We give you residence permit, and you give us your son.' I refused, and then the repressions started," Maya said.
The woman with her three other kids was accommodated in a refugee camp. She lost the right for work, and her children lost the right for education. Since Maya continued to fight for her son, the authorities simply decided to deport the woman from the country to get rid of the problem.
"I learned about it incidentally. The Russian immigration service contacted me to find out the place of my latest registration. When I asked them why they needed that information, they told me that they had the documents for my deportation from Norway," Maya said.
The woman asked how many of her children were listed in the documents. It turned out there were three. When the officers of the Russian immigration services were told that there were four children in Maya's family, they submitted a protest against the woman's deportation
More at: http://english.pravda.ru/society/stories/12-08-2011/118735-norway-0/This from Pravda - so take with a grain of salt......
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Breast ironing tradition targeted in Cameroon
From Nkepile Mabuse, CNN
July 27, 2011 8:53 p.m. EDT
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Activists fight breast ironing tradition
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Every morning before school, nine-year-old Terisia Techu would undergo a painful procedure. Her mother would take a burning hot pestle straight out of a fire and use it to press her breasts.
With tears in her eyes as she recalls what it was like, Terisia tells CNN that one day the pestle was so hot, it burned her, leaving a mark. Now 18, she is still traumatized.
Her mother, Grace, denies the incident. But she proudly demonstrates the method she used on her daughter for several weeks, saying the goal was to make her less desirable to boys -- and stave off pregnancy.
A study found that one in four girls in Cameroon have been affected by the practice.
The U.S. State Department, in its 2010 human rights report on Cameroon, cited news reports and said breast ironing "victimized numerous girls in the country" and in some cases "resulted in burns, deformities, and psychological problems."
There are more than 200 ethnic groups in Cameroon with different norms and customs. Breast ironing is practiced by all of them.
Some mothers use hot stones or coconut shells to flatten their daughters' breasts.
Doctors believe improved diets have resulted in young Cameroonian girls going through puberty early. Many of them are also becoming pregnant early.
Terisia became pregnant at 15. Her child died at birth.
She told CNN that breast ironing doesn't work. She hates the practice and wishes her mother had instead talked to her about sex and preventing pregnancy.
Grace Techu argues that if it weren't for the breast ironing, Terisia would have become pregnant at an even younger age.
Techu has four daughters, and she used the procedure on the first two. The third avoided it because her breasts are growing at an acceptable rate, Techu says, and the fourth girl is still too young.
Mothers who want their children to finish school before becoming parents have resorted to this drastic measure, and many see nothing wrong with it.
In 2006, a German nongovernmental organization exposed the practice, which at the time was done mainly in secret.
Now, charities have embarked on campaigns to educate mothers in Cameroon that sex education -- not breast ironing -- is the solution to ending teenage pregnancy.
Dr Sinou Tchana, a gynecologist in Cameroon, has seen breast glands that were destroyed. She also saw one case of cancer, though she says it couldn't be established whether the ironing caused or only exacerbated the cancer.
"One mother came with secondary burns because the stone she was using to do this breast ironing burned her," Tchana says.
One of Tchana's patients is a 23-year-old whose scars are still painful 14 years after her breasts were ironed. She has joined the effort to confront mothers about the effects of their actions.
The challenge for all those trying to stop the practice is reaching parents like Techu in villages before a ritual that they say is motivated by love shatters more lives.
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U.S. skier Jeret Peterson shot himself to death, police say
July 26th, 2011
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Aerial skier and Olympic silver medalist Jeret "Speedy" Peterson died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a spokesman for the Utah Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake said.
Police responded to a 911 call Monday night from Peterson, who said he was going to commit suicide and gave them his location in Lambs Canyon, Lt. Justin Hoyal said.
He was already dead by the time officers arrived at 11:30 p.m. ET, Hoyal said.
"This is a sad day for Boise and for all of us who admired Speedy Peterson's accomplishments, both on the slopes and in his life," said, Boise Mayor Mayor David H. Bieter, who presented Peterson with the Key to the City last year after he medaled in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
"The hundreds of kids who came to City Hall to shake Speedy's hand after he medaled in Vancouver last year are a living testament to his power to inspire and motivate. It is truly tragic that, in the end, there was one hill he wasn't able to conquer. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends."
Peterson won a silver medal in the 2010 Olympic Winter Games for freestyle skiing after pulling off his signature move, the Hurricane.
Peterson picked up the nickname "Speedy" at a summer ski camp in Lake Placid, New York, in the mid-1990s because coaches thought he resembled the cartoon character "Speed Racer" with a big helmet, according to the United States Ski and Snowboard Association website. He won the 1999 U.S. Junior Championship and took bronze at two straight World Junior Championships in 2000 and 2001.
His life was not without tragedy. He reportedly considered suicide after losing $550,000 in blackjack earnings, according to The New York Times. His half-sister died in a drunken driving accident when he was 5. A friend committed suicide at his house, in front of him.
"The personal challenges Speedy has battled are familiar to all of us, and on behalf of the U.S. Olympic Committee, I'd like to offer my sympathy to Speedy's family and friends. Today is a sad day," U.S. Olympic Committee CEO Scott Blackmun said in a statement.
"I know Speedy's friends and family were incredibly proud of his effort in Vancouver, and his achievements were an inspiration to people all over the world."
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http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/images/07/27/c1main.oly.gi.jpgU.S. skier Jeret Peterson shot himself to death, police say
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t in the gaggle of passengers gathered around this airport’s television monitors. Like millions of Americans, they are following every twist and turn as this painful but compelling case careens to its dramatic conclusion.t in the gaggle of passengers gathered around this airport’s television... more
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Austin, Texas. June 30, 2011
Proceedings against Attorney Mack Ray Hernandez under pending proceedings for child abuse, exploitation, murder and,
Proceedings have began against Mack Ray Hernandez an Austin Texas Attorney for illegal acts he engaged on 2007 including but not limited to aiding kidnapping, child abuse and child exploitation.
Mack Ray Hernandez aka Mark Ray Hernandez, Ray Hernandez, Mack Ray Austin Texas Attorney is been sued including for extortion and barratry.
Proceedings have began…
Mack Ray Hernandez has an extensive history of criminal acts acting by fraud and deception for gains, and abuse against his clients to deprive them of property and assets through long bills but without any type of action.
Mack Ray Hernandez acted in conspiracy with Joe D Milner another Austin Texas attorney whom under the same case has pending proceedings for murder, fraud, child abuse and other matters further described on the lawsuit
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Follow this case as it exposes the true colors of the “legal” system the modus operandi of unethical attorneys who acts in criminal conspiracy to a level and in violation of criminal organizations at http://hernandezsimpson.comAustin, Texas. June 30, 2011
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Alicia's Law, a law to help protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation has been passed. A group of Texans banded together to help pass the law and raise funds for the ICAC (Internet Crimes Against Children) to do a better job.
Yay for Texas!Alicia's Law, a law to help protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation... more
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A Horrific Eye-opening Article, about ARAB child sex Slavery that is going on, under our very EYES!!A Horrific Eye-opening Article, about ARAB child sex Slavery that is going on, under... more
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US embassy cables, revealed via Wikileaks, show that children who have gone missing from Irish state care over the last three years have ended up working as sex slaves in brothelsUS embassy cables, revealed via Wikileaks, show that children who have gone missing... more
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TSA had to feel inside a six year old girl's waistband to make sure she wasn't with Al Qaeda. Constitutional scholar and president, Mr. Obama and his administration are strangely quiet about this constitutional outrage.TSA had to feel inside a six year old girl's waistband to make sure she... more
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story of Hamza is unfortunately one of many. There are many men, women, children, elderly who have yet to be returned to their families. One cannot fathom the amount of torture inflicted upon these unarmed civilians by the hateful and barbaric Syrian regime.story of Hamza is unfortunately one of many. There are many men, women, children,... more
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