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Plan to Deny Pardon Makes Ex-inmate Cry

Barbour's Plan to Deny Pardon Makes Ex-inmate Cry

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Barbour's Plan to Deny Pardon Makes Ex-inmate Cry

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A woman released from prison on condition that she donate a kidney to her sister said Friday she was upset when she heard Gov. Haley Barbour intends to deny their request for pardons.

"I got down on my knees and cried," Gladys Scott told about 350 people who rallied Friday outside the Mississippi Capitol to support pardons for her and her sister, Jamie Scott.

Republican Barbour, a potential 2012 presidential candidate, released the sisters from prison in January on the condition that Gladys give a kidney to Jamie. Supporters had hoped Barbour's presidential ambitions might make him more inclined to grant the pardons to boost his image.

During the rally Friday, three men played African drums and protesters stood between rows of bright pink azaleas that line a Capitol sidewalk. Black college students leaned against a massive monument to Confederate women. In the mostly black crowd, a white man carried a poster with the slogan: "Barbour needs a soul transplant."

The Scott sisters served 16 years for armed robbery but say they're innocent. Barbour suspended their life sentences and released them.

Jamie Scott suffers from kidney failure, and Gladys Scott offered to donate the organ before Barbour made it a condition of their release. Surgery hasn't been scheduled because doctors have told them to lose weight.

Barbour told The Associated Press on Thursday that he doesn't plan to clear the sisters.

Jamie Scott said at the rally that she thanks Barbour for the release, but "Mississippi took 16 years and 32 days of my life."

She said that without pardons, she and her sister won't be free.

"Slavery is not dead in the South," Jamie Scott said. "Let me tell you what it's called. It's called the law."

The women's attorney, Chokwe Lumumba, vowed to make the pardon an issue if Barbour runs for higher office.

"Everywhere that Haley Barbour looks in this country, if he's looking for an independent or a moderate or whatever else they call those people that they're supposed to be getting the votes for, he's going to see us there waving the banner of the Scott sisters," Lumumba said Friday.

AP asked Barbour on Thursday if he plans to pardon the Scott sisters. He said: "Tell 'em don't save any space in the newspaper for that to be announced."

Barbour has a second-floor office that overlooks the rally site, but he was not at the Capitol when protesters were there.

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Pa. air test: slight radiation elevation

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Pa. air test shows slight radiation elevation

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HARRISBURG, Pa.—Tests of air in Pennsylvania show an elevated level of radiation, but a state spokeswoman says it is far below levels of concern and is not considered a threat to public health or safety.

Department of Environmental Protection spokeswoman Katy Gresh said the air sampling was collected in Harrisburg over the eight days that ended Monday. The radiation is apparently from the damaged nuclear plant in Japan.

Gresh could not immediately provide the amount of radioactivity detected in the air. Officials are also awaiting lab results from the latest tests of rain water.

Pennsylvania government officials learned last week that tests of rain water registered elevated concentrations of radiation, but not at levels of concern. Gov. Tom Corbett says follow-up testing showed normal levels of radioactivity in public drinking water.





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Shawn Arndt sexually violent predator

Shawn Arndt, former local dirt track racer, sentenced for sex abuse

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Shawn Arndt, former local dirt track racer, sentenced for sex abuse

Judge also finds convicted child abuser is a sexually violent predator.
By RICK LEE
Daily Record/Sunday News
York, PA -
Former local dirt track racer Shawn Arndt was sentenced to seven to 14 years in state prison Friay and found to be a sexually violent predator for repeatedly molesting a teenage boy.


"I'm very satisfied with the sentence and pleased the judge found him to be a sexually violent predator," deputy attorney general Jonelle Eshbach said.


Arndt, 37, formerly of the 1300 block of Saddleback Road in West Manchester Township, was convicted in August of eight felonies including involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and unlawful contact with a minor. He has been in York County Prison since that conviction.


According to statements in court Friday, Arndt molested the boy on a weekly basis over an 18-month period beginning in October 2007.


The victim's mother told Judge Michael E. Bortner, who presided at trial, that Arndt's actions left her son with permanent emotional damage and scarred him forever.


"These were supposed to be the best years of his life," she said.


The teen's grandmother spoke tearfully and quietly to the judge. When she returned to her seat in the gallery, she hugged the woman next to her and cried, "I hate him."


Testifying in his own defense at trial, Arndt had maintained his innocence and contended police intimidated him into writing a confession.


That statement included the sentence, "I'm truly sorry for what I did. I hope that God can forgive me."


Two psychologists testified at Friday's hearing, one for the commonwealth and one for the defense.


They agreed in much of their findings, including that Arndt was predatory and in need of counseling. They disagreed on whether he was a sexually violent predator.


After hearing from both experts and reviewing their reports, Bortner determined that Arndt is a sexually violent predator "under the law."


Arndt now must register with the Pennsylvania State Police for the remainder of his life after he is released from custody.


Arndt has 30 days to appeal his conviction and sentence to the state Superior Court.

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Man in prison for molesting teen boy

Man sent to prison for molesting teenage boy

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Man sent to prison for molesting teenage boy

A former West Manchester Township man must spend at least seven years in state prison for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy for nearly two years.

Shawn Anthony Arndt, 37, formerly of Saddleback Road, was sentenced Friday to seven to 14 years in state prison, according to Joshua Neiderhiser, his defense attorney.

Also at Friday's hearing, Common Pleas Judge Michael E. Bortner determined Arndt to be a sexually violent predator, Neiderhiser said. That means that after being released from prison he will have to register as a Megan's Law sex offender for the rest of his life.

A jury in August found Arndt guilty of nine charges, including involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, indecent assault, promoting prostitution and unlawful contact with a minor.

The boy told his mother he'd had sexual contact with Arndt on numerous occasions, including Arndt performing oral sex on the teen and paying the teen $20, according to West Manchester Township Police.

The teen told police the sexual encounters began in October 2007 when Arndt discovered emails the boy had sent to a young girl. Arndt threatened to tell the teen's mother about the emails if he did not agree to sexual activity with Arndt, police said.

Police said the sexual conduct went on for a year and a half, at least once a week. The boy told investigators he felt threatened and controlled by Arndt, police said.

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Lutheran Catholics Ecumenical Ceremony

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The president of the Vatican’s Christian unity council joined with a Lutheran delegation in a ceremony at St. Paul’s which showed “that the dialogue between the two communities has become a reality of life and that the ecumenical commitment of the Catholic Church… is irrevocable and irreversible.” Cardinal Kurt Koch, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity participated in the event, which took place during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

United Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Germany, led by Bishop Dr. Johannes Friedrich also participated in the event. The group planted and blessed an olive tree as a sign of the ecumenical communion between Catholics and Lutherans.

The tree planting ceremony is part of the “Luther’s Garden” project in Wittenberg, Germany. The garden was opened in 2008, and according to the Lutheran World Federation, is designed to symbolize the “global magnitude of the Reformation,” as well as the “interconnectedness, interaction, and reconciliation between Christian churches.” Different ecclesial groups around the world are being invited to sponsor the 500 trees projected to be planted in the garden, a fitting symbol to the advancement of the ecumenical agenda.

During the event, the Evangelical-Lutheran delegation was received in private audience by Benedict XVI. The Lutheran delegation visited the Vatican for the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s visit to Rome in the year 1510.

Significant of this time, Luther was climbing up Pilate’s staircase on his knees in penance for his sins when he heard a voice say to him: “the just shall live by faith,” a clear indication to him that salvation and forgiveness of sins was through the merits of Christ alone and not the works or deeds of man. (See Romans 1:17). Also at this time the papal indulgences began, the proceeds of which contributed to the construction of St. Peter’s cathedral in Rome. However today, the Lutheran church in homage to the papacy is doing contrary to the teaching of Martin Luther and the Word of God, and is uniting with the apostate Roman Catholic Church.

It seems evident that the road to full, sacramental and ecumenical unity between the Lutheran and the Catholic Churches could be soon.

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‘US Orders Media Silence Over Bahrain’

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‘US Orders Media Silence Over Bahrain’

Press TV

April 1st, 2011

President of Bahrain’s Center for Human Rights Nabeel Rajab says the US media have been ordered not to cover news on the government’s brutal crackdown on Bahraini people.

Reports from the Center’s colleagues in the United States say “In the US some news agencies and TV stations were asked not to report on Bahrain and not to embarrass [President Barack Obama’s administration,” Rajab told Press TV.

He went on to say that the US and the Western governments have chosen to keep silent over ongoing atrocities in Bahrain due to their support for the country’s authoritarian regime.

According to unconfirmed reports, over 420 people have been arrested during ongoing protests in the kingdom, Rajab pointed out.

The Bahraini protesters continue to demand the ouster of the 200-year-old-plus monarchy as well as constitutional reforms.

At least 25 people have been killed and about 1,000 others injured during the government-sanctioned crackdowns on peaceful demonstrators.

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Flashing Blue Light Seen At Fukushima

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Flashing Blue Light Seen Above Exploded Nuclear Reactor - Nuclear Chain Reaction


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Kevin Annett: Riding the Groundswell

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Kevin Annett: Riding the Groundswell: A Report On My Recent Speaking Tour

By Kevin Annett – Eagle Strong Voice

ITCCS.org

April 1st, 2011

For five weeks starting in late February, I visited fifteen cities across Europe and Canada, and spoke at twenty four public gatherings: in bookstores, community centers, among indigenous people on their traditional lands, and even to a packed Opera House in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

The tour was scheduled as a book launch for my just-released “Unrepentant: Disrobing the Emperor”, but it quickly became much more than that: as I helped survivors of church torture picket Catholic churches as far away as Copenhagen and Toronto, and served a Public Summons on Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper in Ottawa, and received new endorsements for our International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS) from indigenous groups here in “Canada”.

What was common, however, was that everywhere, I encountered the same courage and determination in people who I met, and a growing groundswell of support for our campaign to end the reign of terror against our children, our rights, and our planet.

Frankly, my head is still spinning from my tour, so I hope I capture the essentials of what I experienced, and the enormous change that is shifting our world, symbolized perhaps by the earthquakes that rock our planet daily.

Since the tour, I am more hopeful than ever about the future of our work. For one thing, the crowds at our events keep getting bigger: at venues where I had previously spoken, the attendance was twice the size than previously. I was interviewed on national media in Slovenia and Denmark, and local media all over England and Canada. But most important, many more people stepped forward at these events to sign up with our campaign.

As is expected, the attempts to undermine and sabotage our work also increased, primarily in Canada, where gatherings in Brantford and Hamilton were the target of misinformation and smear campaigns aimed at me. This was undoubtedly due to the fact that the area is a center of native activism and support for my work. Fortunately, the organizers at these events spotted the signs and helped diffuse the lies and keep our events on track.

In this regard, one of the more amusing incidents happened in Hamilton, during the waning days of my tour, when the local police informed the organizers of my talk at Mohawk College that an “undercover” cop from their “hate crimes” division would be present at my lecture to monitor what I said. In response, many of you wrote to the Hamilton police challenging this obvious intimidation tactic, and I myself asked the head cop in question whether his department was also investigating the churches that murdered local native children with the same interest.

He hasn’t replied to me.

During that same week, I was delighted to speak to a wonderful class of Catholic high school students near Toronto, many of whom want to sign up with our work to hold their own church accountable for its ongoing crimes against children. Their support, like that of traditional Catholic college students in Cork, Ireland where I won a public debate with a Vatican official last year, indicates how much the church is a trembling house of cards, behind its image of solidity.

It was also a high point on my tour when I was presented with the Two Row Wampum Belt by elders of the Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk) Nation near Montreal, and, as part of their endorsement of our ITCCS, was authorized by them to bring the message of the Two Row Wampum to my people. This Belt was the original treaty of equality between Europeans and the Mohawks which was abrogated and violated by the English Crown. Undoing the genocide of residential schools involves, I believe, the re-establishment of the Two Row Wampum, and the dis-establishment of the Crown of England and its false jurisdiction.

I am resuming the next phase of my tour in mid April – hey, two weeks is plenty of rest for me! – when I return to Ontario, and then back to London, England on May 7. I will be based in London throughout the summer and into the fall months, and will travel from there all over Europe and North America.

During those months, I will be helping organize our September Tribunal in London and building up the networks that will sustain our campaign, especially among groups of survivors all over Europe. We have a promise of support from politicians in Italy and Ireland, and from the same German-based media group that has broadcast our film Unrepentant to over 10 million viewers since August. We also recently received a generous financial offer from a donor to sustain our campaign and pay for travel costs.

We now have five local groups in Canada, two in Ireland, five in England, one in Australia, and two each in Denmark and Slovenia, that endorse our ITCCS hearings in the fall, and most of which will be holding forums of their own to coincide with the Tribunal. In these gatherings we will be composing the indictments by which we will bring to common law trial and sentencing those persons and institutions that planned and continue crimes against children, the earth and indigenous people.

We have a growing legal advisory team that will be guiding this aspect of our campaign, but we also look to indigenous elders and survivors of genocide in many countries to help determine the course of our work. We are part of an enormous work in progress, the future of which is in your hands.

In that regard, I have reprinted below recent you tube postings of events related to my tour, including the endorsement from the Mohawk Nation at Kahnawake near Montreal.

I want to end by thanking all of you for your tireless efforts at hosting me and making the recent tour possible, and for preparing for the months ahead. More news and details are forthcoming.

As a survivor of the first residential school in Canada near Brantford said to me at my last public talk this week, as she embraced me,

“I didn’t want to trust you because you’re a white man. But after listening to you I don’t think that anymore. I’ve been waiting for what you’re doing my whole life and I ain’t gonna be silent anymore about they done to us.”

We are overcoming. Thanks my friends.

Kevin Eagle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWAfrth9RmE.

Kevin Annett serves Public Summons on Canadian Prime Minister for Crimes against Humanity

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Indiana Prepares For Major Seismic Event

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Indiana Prepares For Major Seismic Event

Homeland Security Newswire

March 31st, 2011

Two of Indiana’s earthquake preparedness drills, the Great Central U.S. Shake Out scheduled for 19 April, and a training program in May for emergency management and response agencies are receiving increased interest following the devastating quake in Japan

Two of Indiana’s earthquake preparedness drills, the Great Central U.S. ShakeOut scheduled for 19 April, and a training program in May for emergency management and response agencies are receiving increased interest following the devastating quake in Japan.

Hoosiers do have good reason to be prepared. Experts say it is only a matter of when, not if, Indiana will be rocked by a major earthquake emanating from the New Madrid or Wabash Valley seismic zone.

The Central United States Earthquake Consortium (CUSEC) stated: “The probability for an earthquake of magnitude 6.0 or greater in the central U.S. is fairly significant in the near future, with a 25 to 40 percent chance of occurring in any 50-year time period.” A quake with a magnitude of 7 to 8, the consortium warned, “could result in great loss of life and property damage in the billions of dollars.”

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