Monthly Archives: June 2013

Police sued after charging girl with making up rape claim about serial rapist

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“A woman has sued several police and city officials after she was accused of lying about being raped. Marc Patrick O’Leary was later sentenced to more than 300 years in prison in 2011. In 2008, when the woman was 18, she reported that O’Leary had tied her up and assaulted her. Police found physical evidence that supported her story, and doctors documented abrasions on her wrists and vagina. However, the detectives accused her of fabricating the incident and charged her with filing a false police report. Three years later, O’Leary was arrested and federal agents uncovered hundreds of photos of his victims, including the woman.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/10/lawsuit-police-accused-girl-of-making-up-rape-claim-about-serial-rapist/

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Missouri Appeals Court Strikes Down St. Louis Red Light Camera Ordinance

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“Missouri’s second-highest court on Tuesday ruled the St. Louis municipal ordinance authorizing the use of red light cameras is invalid. St. Louis adopted the photo ticketing ordinance in 2005, without the permission of the state legislature. American Traffic Solutions (ATS), the private company in charge of the program, began issuing $100 red light camera tickets in 2007.  The measure presumes the owner of the vehicle is always the person driving it, which allows the city to prosecute the owner through the mail with penalties of up to $500 and ninety days in jail.”

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/41/4124.asp

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David Galland: Scenarios

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“No one can predict the future – the world is too complex, and a big part of that complexity comes from the human species in which all traits, good and bad, are present. (Is there such a thing as an armadillo with bad character?  A bunny rabbit?) When people with bad character, or even good character but suffering from delusions, backed by the full power of the state make it their business to protect you against an unforeseeable future, and approach their task with the idea that individual rights should play a distant second fiddle to the greater good, it’s time to be cautious.”

http://www.caseyresearch.com/cdd/scenarios

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Organic growers lose decision in suit versus Monsanto over seeds

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“Monsanto Co. on Monday won another round in a legal battle with U.S. organic growers as an appeals court threw out the growers’ efforts to stop the company from suing farmers if traces of its patented biotech genes are found in crops.  Organic farmers and others have worried for years that they will be sued by Monsanto for patent infringement if their crops get contaminated with Monsanto biotech crops.  In its ruling Monday, the appellate court said the organic growers must rely on Monsanto assurances on the company’s website that it will not sue them so long as the mix is very slight.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/11/organic-growers-lose-decision-in-suit-versus-monsanto-over-seeds/

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Connecticut becomes first state to pass legislation requiring genetically modified (GM) food labeling

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“The small US state of Connecticut became the first to pass legislation requiring food products with genetically modified ingredients to be labeled as such.  The legislation was strongly supported in a 134-3 vote in the state House, making Connecticut the first of some two dozen states mulling GM foods labeling to pass a measure.  The bill said that the labeling rules will only take effect when at least four other states, including at least one of them an immediate neighbor of Connecticut such as New York, enact similar legislation, and also only when states in the northeastern region of the country with a combined population of 20 million or more do the same.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/04/connecticut-becomes-first-state-to-pass-legislation-requiring-genetically-modified-gm-food-labeling/

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Study links genetically modified grain to stomach inflammation in pigs

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“Pigs fed a diet of only genetically modified grain showed markedly higher stomach inflammation than pigs who dined on conventional feed, according to a new study by a team of Australian scientists and U.S. researchers.  those pigs that ate the GM diet had a higher rate of severe stomach inflammation – 32 percent of GM-fed pigs compared to 12 percent of non-GM-fed pigs. The inflammation was worse in GM-fed males compared to non-GM fed males by a factor of 4.0.  Critics have argued for years that the DNA changes made to the transgenic plants engineer novel proteins that can be causing the digestive problems in animals and possibly in humans.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/11/study-links-genetically-modified-grain-to-stomach-inflammation-in-pigs/

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Will the FDA Harm Compounding Pharmacies?

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“The FDA knew, as early as 2002, that ONE compounding pharmacy was doing risky things. But the FDA took no action until 2012. By that point, 700 people were sick and 53 had died. The FDA Commissioner then went on 60 Minutes and lied to the American people. She claimed this tragedy happened because the FDA lacked regulatory authority. But a House investigation showed the opposite. The FDA simply failed to do its job. Now the FDA wants to use its incompetence as an excuse to grab more power. The opposite should happen. This is like the SEC’s failure to investigate Bernie Madoff, despite numerous tips.”

http://www.downsizedc.org/blog/urgent-will-the-fda-harm-compounding-pharmacies

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Supreme Court revokes right to protest on court grounds

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“Just two days after a judge struck down a decades-old law banning protests on Supreme Court grounds, the nation’s highest court has in effect restored it with a new rule governing conduct on its premises. The ban, first passed by Congress in 1949, was struck down Tuesday with extreme prejudice by Obama-appointed Judge Beryl A. Howell, who called it ‘repugnant’ and a clear violation of the First Amendment.  According to The Associated Press, a rule the court issued Thursday bans ‘picketing, speech-making, marching or vigils’ on the Supreme Court’s plaza, while explicitly making way for ‘casual use’ by visitors.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/13/scotus-swiftly-revokes-right-to-protest-on-court-grounds/

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Thousands march through Moscow against Putin

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“Several thousand people marched through Moscow on Wednesday to support detained or jailed anti-Kremlin protesters, a day after President Vladimir Putin accused Washington of supporting a protest movement against him.  Some 7,000 to 10,000 people participated in the march, according to AFP correspondents, while police put the turnout at 5,000 people.  The march, timed to coincide with the Day of Russia, a national holiday, comes after Putin on Tuesday evening accused Washington of supporting the opposition against him.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/12/thousands-march-through-moscow-against-putin/

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Interrogation Rooms in the Post Office?

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“We have received documents from a military source indicating that U.S. Postal Service facilities across the country are expanding the construction of secretive criminal investigation rooms, which some fear will be used to detain American citizens in the event of a national emergency, bioterror attack or pandemic.  The documents show architectural floor plans for criminal investigation rooms that would be housed within existing U.S. Postal Service buildings. The blueprints show ‘secret rooms’ within post offices where, the source claims, ‘families will be separated’ in the event of martial law being declared.”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/06/interrogation-rooms-in-post-office.html

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