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Tonight on AC360: What does new evidence mean for Trayvon Martin case?

Sun, 20 May 2012 03:19:11 +0000

New documents, video and images have emerged in the Trayvon Martin shooting case. The evidence has sparked renewed interest in the circumstances surrounding the night neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman shot the 17-year-old, killing him with a single bullet to his chest. Tonight Anderson will look at competing theories about who was acting in self-defense. He'll [...]

Source: http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/18/tonight-on-ac360-what-does-new-evidence-mean-for-trayvon-martin-case/

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Love At First Punch: Still Going Strong After 75 Years

Sun, 20 May 2012 01:19:04 +0000

Van Harris and his wife, Shirley, grew up in the same Brooklyn neighborhood, about a block from each other. During a visit to StoryCorps, Van recalled the day he first noticed Shirley: “She was about 10 years old, and she was beating up a couple of guys. … I said, ‘Geez, I’d like to meet a girl like that.’ “

Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/18/152923780/love-at-first-punch-still-going-strong-after-75-years?ft=1&f=1057

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EPA report outlines potential Pebble mine risks

Sun, 20 May 2012 00:19:11 +0000

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – Large stretches of salmon-spawning streams and thousands of acres of wetlands would be wiped out if a large-scale mining project were to be built in southwestern Alaska’s copper-rich Bristol Bay region, according to a report issued Friday by the Environmental Protection Agency. The report, while not directly addressing it, is a potential blow to the massive Pebble copper and gold mine operation proposed by an international alliance of mining interests, and opposed by environmentalists and local native groups. …

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/epa-report-outlines-potential-pebble-mine-risks-001435678–finance.html

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From the disclosure logs

Sat, 19 May 2012 23:19:04 +0000

This might be the start of an occasional series of snippets from Freedom of Information logs. None of the questions are mine.

Information Request
Please provide me with sick leave details ref your FOI officers whom have been on sick leave as a direct cause of my FOI requests since June 05 to now.

Devon County Council’s response
Devon County Council records staff sickness by type. It does not record additional information regarding the cause of the sickness. Therefore the Council does not hold the information you have requested.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/grahamsmith/2012/05/from_the_disclosure_logs.html

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Yemen clashes kill 34 militants, soldiers: officials

Sat, 19 May 2012 22:19:08 +0000

ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) – At least 22 al Qaeda-linked militants and 12 Yemeni soldiers were killed in clashes and air strikes overnight during a U.S.-backed offensive against insurgents in the south of the country, officials said on Saturday. Fighting erupted late on Friday and carried on into Saturday on the outskirts of the southern city of Jaar, held by Islamist militants who have stepped up their campaign during months of political turmoil. Government troops, backed by U.S. …

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/yemen-says-air-strikes-troops-kills-seven-militants-130358433.html

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Obama and the Arc of the Rainbow

Sat, 19 May 2012 20:19:05 +0000

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/05/19/obama_and_the_arc_of_the_rainbow_280312.html

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Obama 2013 Budget Goes Down in Senate, 99-0

Sat, 19 May 2012 19:19:17 +0000

President Obama’s 2013 budget just went down to defeat by a 99-0 vote in the Senate. In March, the measure went before the House for a vote – and went down to flaming defeat, 414-0. The Obama budget had been held up in the Senate by Democrats for fear of complete failure; that fear, it appears, was justified.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Senate Budget Committee ranking member, brought forward Obama’s budget as a resolution. The White House had already attempted to distinguish its budget from Sessions’ budget resolution by claiming that there were minor policy differences between the two, a weak attempt by the White House to provide an excuse for why Democrats would vote it down.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BigGovernment/~3/1_CiYuquzdA/Obama-2013-budget-goes-down

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KTH: What Trayvon Martin’s girlfriend heard

Sat, 19 May 2012 18:19:05 +0000

Newly released evidence includes audio of police interviewing Trayvon Martin's girlfriend about their call that night.

Source: http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/18/kth-what-trayvon-martins-girlfriend-heard/

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Anti-Gay Lawmaker Won’t Apologize

Sat, 19 May 2012 17:19:25 +0000

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/19/andy-gipson-gays-mississippi-facebook-apology_n_1529677.html

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Occupy NATO Protesters Arrested On Terrorism Charges

Sat, 19 May 2012 16:19:04 +0000

Early Saturday morning Occupy Chicago began tweeting that three protesters have been on charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism, providing material support for terrorism and possession of an explosive or incendiary or explosive devices. The Examiner is reporting that the arrests happened after a raid on an apartment in a Bridgeport neighborhood:

According to National Lawyers Guild (NLG) attorneys working for three men in police custody they have been charged with three serious charges each. All have been held since a raid on an apartment in the 1000 block of West 32nd in the Bridgeport neighborhood late Wednesday night.

Apparently, the arrestees are accused of making or having supplies to manufacture Molotov cocktails to be used during protests. Bottles, phones, and computers were seized by police in their raid. William Vassilakis, who lives in the raided apartment said that he is a home brew beer hobbyist and that all the police confiscated was his beer making supplies.

Eight were arrested in the initial raid and now three are facing serious felony charges.

Sarah Gelsomino, a National Lawyer’s Guild attorney, spoke to a few supporters early Saturday morning telling them that the charges were “trumped up.” From the Chicago Tribune:

Gelsomino, speaking to about 15 supporters who remained outside the police station at 2 a.m. Saturday, said the charges were filed “clearly in an attempt to continue this intimidation campaign on activists. Charging these people who are here to peacefully protest against NATO for terrorism, when in reality the police have been terrorizing activists in Chicago, is absolutely outrageous.”

You can watch Gelsomino discuss the charges below.

The three men charged, Bryan Church, Jarred Chase, and Brent Betterly are scheduled to appear in bond court at 26th Street and California Saturday afternoon. Occupy Chicago is calling for protesters to “flood the courtrooms” in “solidarity” with their fellow protesters who are not from the Chicago area but from “out of town.”

Occupy Chicago is claiming that the charges are in retaliation for the activists releasing a video showing Chicago police taunting them last week. The video, which you can watch below, shows police telling the protesters that they are on private property and searching their car. The police make several jokes and say “we’ll be looking for you” after the activists admit they are in town for the NATO protests. Gelsomino confirmed that the activists being charged are the same people involved in the traffic stop in the video.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BigGovernment/~3/bo9CWUrpS3A/Occupy-NATO-Protesters-Arrested-On-Terrorism-Charges

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