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Police: Madison teen may have been starved, locked in basement


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Madison, WI (WMTV) - Madison, Wisconsin police released gut wrenching details about a 15-year-old girl was allegedly held captive and tortured in her family's basement.

Chad Chritton and his wife Melinda Drabek-Chritton were emotional when they appeared in front of a Dane County judge. They have not been charged, but are accused by Madison police of keeping Chad's 15-year-old daughter in the basement with no bathroom and very little food. They are also accused of having an alarm that would go off if she went upstairs.

"The child has been diagnosed by Dr Barbara Knox with 'serial child torture, with prolonged exposure to definite starvation,'" said Dane County Assistant District Attorney Matthew Moeser.

Police said they executed a search warrant on the family's home and only property records show Melinda Drabek owns the home in the 4600 block of Treichel Street.

Police said they began investigating the case when a passerby found the 15-year-old gir walking along the side of the road near the family's home Monday. She was barefoot and wearing only pajamas.

"Stated that the primary reason why she had fled the house that day was a fear for this defendant was going to throw her down the stairs," said Moeser.

The girl weighed only 70 pounds at the time and her father said it was because of medical reasons.................

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RAW VIDEO: Angry riders blast DDOT route changes


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DETROIT (WXYZ) - A series of meetings by the Detroit Department of Transportation to address cuts in bus service are provoking an angry response from riders.............

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White House conference in Detroit focuses on homelessness in the LGBT community

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When she was 15, Krystina Edwards said she was kicked out of her grandfather’s Detroit apartment building because she was transgender. She was attending an all-boys school and was beginning the transition from male to female.

“The building management said they didn’t like the way I was living my life,” she said.

Edwards -- now 18 and studying for her GED while working at the Ruth Ellis Center for homeless and runaway LGBT teens -- was subject to the kind of discrimination a new federal rule is trying to fight.

Enacted earlier this week, the U.S. Housing and Urban Development rule on Equal Access intends to stop discrimination in federally-funded housing based on gender identity or sexual orientation. It was a hot topic of conversation at the morning sessions of the White House LGBT Conference on Housing & Homelessness, held Friday at Wayne State University.

“It is absolutely historic,” Laura Hughes, executive director of the Ruth Ellis Center in Highland Park, said of the new rule.

Hughes said the safety of LGBT youth is of utmost concern in the light of the recent killing of Shelley Hilliard, a transgender teen who was found dismembered near I-94 on Detroit's east side in late October. The rest of her remains were found last week.

During his keynote address, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan said 40% of homeless youth identify as LGBT. Of those, about half said they were forced to leave home after coming out.

Rather than wait for Congress to amend the Fair Housing Act to include anti-discrimination measures against gays and lesbians, Donovan said, the agency pushed through the rule as part of the White House’s commitment to lesbian and gay equality. The rule follows changes to the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy and the Shepard-Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act........



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..........Edwards said she had been homeless and hadn’t eaten for two days when someone she knew took her to the Ruth Ellis Center. It was a cloudy day in October 2010, and when she arrived, the clouds parted and the sun came out.

“It was a sigh of relief,” she said, “that someone cared about me and that someone was worried about me.”....

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Very nice. I like how it apears the President was willing to fight the big fight on DADT and then assume victor's rights from that one to extend into other similar territory. And on a children's issue. Double plus.

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That was a really nice video find Plodder. :)



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Why do the leaders of these things always wear white smocks? WTF is up with that, but I digress.. Once again I am dismayed with both stories but look at the 2nd one where people pay $50.00 to hear the ramblings of a madman. But then again who's the crazy one, the guy with balls enough to book theaters hoping he will fill them or the losers who fill those theaters? I say the payers...............





Queue here for rescue aboard alien spaceship



A grizzled man wearing a white linen smock, who calls himself Jean, set up a yurt in the forest a couple of years ago to prepare for the earth's demise


A mountain looming over a French commune with a population of just 200 is being touted as a modern Noah's Ark when doomsday arrives – supposedly less than nine months from now.

A rapidly increasing stream of New Age believers – or esoterics, as locals call them – have descended in their camper van-loads on the usually picturesque and tranquil Pyrenean village of Bugarach. They believe that when apocalypse strikes on 21 December this year, the aliens waiting in their spacecraft inside Pic de Bugarach will save all the humans near by and beam them off to the next age.

As the cataclysmic date – which, according to eschatological beliefs and predicted astrological alignments, concludes a 5,125-year cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar – nears, the goings-on around the peak have become more bizarre and ritualistic.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 84492.html



The audience at the theatre in Times Square, New York, sat in reverential silence as David Icke took the stage and made his great revelation.


Our planet, he declared, is secretly ruled by a race of reptile-like aliens.

These reptiles, malevolent in nature, sometimes ‘shape-shift’ into human form. The Queen, for example, is a reptilian, President Barack Obama another.

Bonkers, yes. But Icke’s show in November, with tickets costing $50 a head, was a sell-out, as have been most of the other dates on his world tour, which ends in Britain later this year.

Wherever he goes, thousands flock to see him.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... z1qA4rCBFE

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Step away from my Jesus God From Above Gave us love to Please Us So if you Hate the Love to tout and tease those Who Love the most that isn't coming from any Holy Ghost its just folks that want to get the most out of the disorganized fear fest that they bless.

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Man with hockey mask goes on machete-wielding rampage

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HOUSTON (KPRC/NBC) - Police are investigating a bizarre crime that played out like something straight out of a horror movie.

A man wearing a hockey mask and armed with a machete went on a rampage, slashing two sleeping homeless men.

Based on their statements to police, the attacker looked similar "Jason" from the popular "Friday the 13th" horror movies.

A neighbor who saw police and the two men after the attack had no idea the situation was so serious.

"Nobody picks on them but I didn't know what they were doing," he said.

The attack was described as brutal and disturbing, with both men suffered severe cuts.

Virtually everything the two men had with them at their makeshift homeless camp had blood on it............

.....The two men never got a look at the suspect's face because of the mask, but police believe he's about 6 feet tall and weights around 200 pounds.

The attacker remains on the loose.
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Secret human testing at Pruitt Igoe posed no health risk, Army says



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ST. LOUIS (AP) - A top Army official says that an investigation into secret chemical testing in impoverished areas of St. Louis during the Cold War era found no health risk for those who lived in the testing area.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the Army sprayed zinc cadmium sulfide into the St. Louis air as part of a biological weapons program. St. Louis was chosen because it bore some resemblance to Russian cities..............

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Here's something that reminds me of what's great about the human condition.

N.Y. hospital staff carry sick babies down 9 flights of stairs during evacuation
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/30/health/sa ... index.html

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Four newborns were on respirators that were breathing for them, and when the power went out, each baby was carried down nine flights of stairs while a nurse manually squeezed a bag to deliver air to the baby's lungs.

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