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How did breast cancer survivor Lisa Lindsay end up behind bars? She didn't pay a medical bill -- one the Herrin, Ill., teaching assistant was told she didn't owe.
Jailed for $280: The Return of Debtors' Prisons
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A bill already passed by the Senate and set to be rubber stamped by the House would make it mandatory for all new cars in the United States to be fitted with black box data recorders from 2015 onwards. Section 31406 of Senate Bill 1813 (known as MAP-21), calls for “Mandatory Event Data Recorders” to be installed in all new automobiles and legislates for civil penalties to be imposed against individuals for failing to do so.
The day after TODAY reported on the baffling case of 12 teenage girls at one school who mysteriously fell ill with Tourette's-like symptoms of tics and verbal outbursts, a doctor who is treating some of the girls has come forward to offer an explanation. Dr. Laszlo Mechtler, a neurologist in Amherst, N.Y., says the diagnosis is "conversion disorder," or mass hysteria.
TODAY Health - Teen girls' mystery illness now has a diagnosis: mass hysteria
The video of American marines urinating on the corpses of Afghan civilians has prompted worldwide outrage, condemnation from the White House and the opening of a federal investigation. CNN's Dana Loesch thinks the whole thing is pretty cool, though. Loesch, the 33-year-old CNN contributor hired last year to offer political analysis for the coming election, is already giving the network their money's worth.
CNN contributor salutes Marines for urinating on dead Afghans (AUDIO) — RT
Given recent bizarre cases or birds and other animals dying in mass all over the world, many theories have been formed, from polar shifts to poisons. Colleen Thomas, a former homemaker and now Pleiadian alien expert explained the deaths are due to toxic chemicals that are coating the Earth.
Alien contact: Bird deaths due to CIA, UN targeting human life — RT
Are Psychiatrists Inventing Mental Illnesses to Feed Americans More Pills? | | AlterNet
Anyone who’s ever tried to get reimbursed by a health insurance company after seeing a psychiatrist or psychotherapist, or taking a child or teenager to one, has no doubt noticed the incomprehensible numbers that appear on the clinician’s statement, perhaps preceding some slightly less imponderable phrase.
Two weeks ago, smack-dab in the middle of the CarrierIQ saga, Senator Al Franken pounded his fist on the table and demanded answers.
Senator Al Franken asks about Carrier IQ, the companies answer: the complete breakdown -- Engadget
Are You Being Tracked? 8 Ways Your Privacy Is Being Eroded Online and Off | Media | AlterNet
In a recent hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen.
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The Private Global Power Elite embedded in major governments is dead set on imposing World Government on us sooner rather than later. Let’s look at 12 mega-processes – veritable “Triggers” – that we infer they are using to achieve their goals. All roads lead to World Government.
2012: Year of the World Government — RT
Obama's new tax on the poor: Internet gambling by states - CSMonitor.com
A campaign by powerful gaming interests to legalize online gambling in America has won a crucial victory from the Obama administration . On Friday, the Justice Department issued a legal opinion that allows states to authorize Web-based, nonsports gambling within their borders.Reporting from Charlotte, N.C. — Rick Vetter was rushing to board the Amtrak train in Charlotte, N.C., on a recent Sunday afternoon when a canine officer suddenly blocked the way. Three federal air marshals in bulletproof vests and two officers trained to spot suspicious behavior watched closely as Seiko, a German shepherd, nosed Vetter's trousers for chemical traces of a bomb.
TSA screenings aren't just for airports anymore - latimes.com
SEATTLE — Scuffles broke out and police were brought in to quell unrest that nearly turned into riots across the nation Friday following the release of Nike's new Air Jordan basketball shoes – a retro model of one of the most popular Air Jordans ever made.