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19 Feb. 2010 | | Johnny Summerton

Local News

French baker fined for sounding his horn gets his day in court

Paulo Païs appeared in a French court on Monday to appeal a 1,000 euros fine imposed on him for breaking the highway code and "misusing his van horn" while making his early morning rounds. Païs runs a bakery in Nesles-la-Vallée, a village 40 (...)

17 Feb. 2010 | 2 comments | Johnny Summerton

Travel

"Mile high" thief nabs thousands of euros on Air France flight

Anyone knows that when you’re in a busy place it’s always sound advice to look after your personal possessions. As in many a city worldwide, public transport operators in Paris make regular announcements warning passengers that pickpockets (...)

11 Jan. 2010 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

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Activists Celebrate 2009’s Many Wins Against Scientology Crime-Cult

The Scientology organization suffered many crippling blows in 2009, as the Anonymous human rights activist network turned up the pressure, journalists and judges stopped pulling their punches, and cult members continued to bail out in droves. As 2009 (...)

31 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Lilly von Marcab

Arts & Entertainment

Immigrant = guilty until (or even if) proven innocent

Immigration Procedures: The USA is becoming a police state (if it has not yet turned into one). Immigrants are snatched from their homes and sent to jails (same place they keep hardened criminals) for mere violation of immigration status. In other (...)

29 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Bakoh

Society

A French man called for jury selection for his own trial

The French judicial system is a notoriously cumbersome creature and of course, as in many other countries, has been is prone to making mistakes, or at least taking a heck of a long time in admitting to, and then correcting them. Take the case of Loïc (...)

16 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

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Fort Hood Massacre - Terrorist Attack or Act of War ?

Major Nidal Malik Hasan shot, killed and wounded fellow military personnel at Ft. Hood, Texas, Friday. Many are making excuses for Hasan because he is Muslim, many are being careful not to jump to conclusions about his motives, his religion and any (...)

10 nov. 2009 | 1 comment | Liberally Conservative

People

Fort Hood Tragedy: The Enemy from Within

A Muslim soldier kills fellow soldiers in a violent rampage at Fort Hood, Texas. Fort Hood, Texas, USA- US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan stands accused of brutally killing up to at least 13 fellow soldiers and wounding at least more than 30 others at FT (...)

9 Nov. 2009 | 6 comments | Manzer Munir

Society

Massive Shooting at Fort Hood,Tx., If you live in Area they need Blood,Please Contact Red Cross

4PM :::CNN is updating site on regular basis, 11 Dead, and On shooter dead, 2 More Shooters in custody, more than 31 wounded. Please click title for updates.Shooting occurred at the Readiness Center. Scott&White Hospital near Temple ( 20 minutes from (...)

6 Nov. 2009 | | Enigma4ever

Society

A Killer Amoung Us, and How it Happened. Meet Cleveland’s Serial Killer, and pray it gets better News Coverage.

Anyone looking at this house in a East Side lower middle class neighborhood would never know that it was a house of horrors.....Last Friday that all changed...forever. Here in Cleveland we have some problems,joblessness,poverty,foreclosured homes rampant (...)

5 Nov. 2009 | | Enigma4ever

Society

Police suspect admits he was behind Sarkozy death threats

A 51-year-old man taken in for questioning at the weekend has reportedly admitted that he alone was behind a series of letters and death threats sent to a number of leading politicians, including the French president Nicolas Sarkozy. The suspect, Thierry (...)

23 Sep. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Society

Police step up investigations in Sarkozy death threat case

There has been a development in the case of "le corbeau" (the crow) - or perhaps that should be put in the plural. On Thursday, police swooped on around 20 homes in the southern French département of l’Hérault and took 11 people in for (...)

22 Sep. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

International

Human Rights Activists Outraged that Scientology Cult Founder Compared to MLK, Gandhi, Mother Teresa

Human rights activists worldwide were outraged this week to learn that in a new Scientology cult fundraising video, cult founder L. Ron Hubbard is described as a humanitarian and inspirational world leader on a par with Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, (...)

14 Aug. 2009 | 1 comment | Lilly von Marcab

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Who died?

Erik Prince runs an outfit (Blackwater, aka Xe) that I wish didn’t exist. His style of politically connected war profiteering is a danger to democratic values and to military success. The evidence seems to show that the operating procedures of (...)

6 Aug. 2009 | | Mark Kleiman

Local News

The Creeping Homegrown Threat

The arrest of seven North Carolinians on conspiracy charges shows, says Steve Emerson, how the U.S. is becoming like Europe, where homegrown terror plots get stopped-or not-seemingly every week. By Steven Emerson. This week’s arrest of seven North (...)

3 Aug. 2009 | | The Investigative Project on Terrorism

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Teenager should be given adult sentence

When Toronto teenager Stefanie Rengel was stabbed to death in front of her house, the city was in shock. This feeling was further aggravated once people learned the horrific facts behind this gruesome murder : another girl at Stefanie’s school, only (...)

28 jui. 2009 | | Werner Patels

Local News

Jihad in Jersey City ?

The shooting of five police officers in Jersey City, leading to the death of one, appeared in a new light to me after I read a gently worded NY Times article yesterday that, typical of the Times, buried the lead. The article focused on Amanda Anderson, (...)

28 jui. 2009 | | Kesher Talk

Media

P2P file sharing : helping to defeat crime

Two ploys used ad nauseum by the vested-interest entertainment cartels in their continuing efforts to dominate the internet and turn it into an exclusive corporate pipeline are » » » P2P file sharing is responsible for “massive devastation” (...)

27 jui. 2009 | | Jon Newton

Society

Girl kills herself after online teasing

On Friday night, Chanelle Rae became the fourth student of the same Australian high school to commit suicide this year, “raising serious concerns about cyber-bullying and copycat suicides”. That’s the stark intro to an Australian IT (...)

23 jui. 2009 | | Jon Newton

International

Natalya Estemirova : kidnapped and murdered

On 15 July the body of human rights activist Natalya Estremirova was dumped in a wood in Ingushetia. This obituary appeared today on www.polit.ru. Natalya Estemirova, one of the leading activists of the human rights centre ‘Memorial’ in the (...)

17 jui. 2009 | 1 comment | openDemocracy

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Sloshed in the Suburbs : A Report From Westport Vice

Crime round-ups in newpapers are usually dreary, paragraphs on urban mayhem that lack the Dickensian details that make for compelling reading. So imagine my twisted pleasure today when I picked up a copy of the Westport Minuteman, a weekly covering the (...)

13 jui. 2009 | | Kesher Talk

Society

Punk Arrested For Peeping With A Hidden Camera

Ladies, a punk was picked up secretly recording video of at least 10 women while in public. Thank goodness a loss prevention officer from the store noticed the pervert acting strangely, and ended up finding a hidden camera in his briefcase. He would set (...)

10 Jul. 2009 | | Christopher Winkler

Society

Ponzi scammer Madoff gets 150 years

For anyone who’s been following the Madoff trial, he’s been sentenced to 150 years in the slammer. And with that kind of sentence imposed, he’s unlikely to end up in a federal holiday camp, the destination of all too many so-called (...)

30 jui. 2009 | | Jon Newton

Local News

Alleged Cu Robber Jams 405

Aside from the usual, heavy, morning southbound traffic on Interstate 405 on Tuesday, there was a bit more of chaos added to that. A suspected thief decided to hide out in a storm drain on early Tuesday morning. The storm drain runs beneath one of Los (...)

17 Jun. 2009 | | -MC-

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Victims, and public, victimized over and over again

If there’s one duty government has, it’s keeping its citizens safe. In the case of Vince Li, the “Greyhound Bus Killer”, it has clearly failed in its duty. Last year, Chinese immigrant Li killed, beheaded and ate parts of his seat (...)

3 jui. 2009 | | Werner Patels

Society

Stop The Presses!!! Bad Black Men Abduct Beautiful White Woman!!!

The alleged abduction of a 38-year-old white mother and her nine-year-old daughter by two black men in suburban Philadelphia this week stunk on ice from the start. It took only 24 hours for that scenario to come crashing down on a local news media that (...)

2 Jun. 2009 | | Shaun Mullen

Society

’Pro Life’ Murderers

George Tiller was murdered on Sunday. Just outside the church where he served as an usher, in Wichita, KS. Back in the nineties, this physician already survided one bombing and one shooting. The murderer* will probably get a life sentence for this (...)

2 jui. 2009 | | Stephanemot

International

Scientology’s Hubbard Convicted of Fraud in France, 1978

News articles about L. Ron Hubbard’s conviction

As yet another fraud trial opens for Scientology in France this week, it seems an appropriate time to to review the cult’s legal problems in that country over the years. Few people know that its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, was conviced of fraud there (...)

25 May. 2009 | 1 comment | Lilly von Marcab

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