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hue's JournalIndia Women beat up attackers on bus in Haryana
Published on Nov 30, 2014
Two sisters have beaten up three men, who were allegedly sexually harassing them on a moving bus in the north Indian state of Haryana.
The men have been arrested and charged with assault, police said.
Friday's incident, recorded by a passenger on a mobile phone, went viral on social media over the weekend.
The fatal attack on a student in a bus in the capital Delhi in December 2012 had caused outrage and prompted India to introduce stringent anti-rape laws.
The latest incident happened in Haryana's Rohtak district, when the two students, aged 22 and 19, were on their way home in a passenger bus when three young men allegedly misbehaved with them.
Video of Women Fighting off Harassers Shocks India
Source: abcNEWS
A video showing two sisters in northern India hitting back at men who allegedly harassed them on a crowded bus has drawn huge attention in a country where hundreds of thousands of women silently endure sexual harassment daily.
The video, filmed by a passenger and aired on several television channels Monday, shows the two young women hitting, punching and beating their harassers with a belt, as other passengers silently look on. The women, identified only by their first names, Arati and Pooja, said they lashed out at the men after enduring lewd comments and pawing from them.
"One of the boys started touching my sister and making kissing gestures," Arati told reporters. "I told him to go away or I would teach him a lesson. Then he called another boy saying that we have to beat up two girls. And then the other boy got on the bus."
The sisters said that no one on the bus tried to help them. Instead, other passengers told them to not provoke the men, because they might later attack them or throw acid on them.
Press Trust of India reported that the video was shot Friday as the sisters were on their way to college.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/video-women-fighting-off-harassers-shocks-india-27273768
Cyber ring stole secrets for gaming U.S. stock market: FireEye
Source: REUTERS
(Reuters) - Security researchers say they have uncovered a cyber espionage ring focused on stealing corporate secrets for the purpose of gaming the stock market, in an operation that has compromised sensitive data about dozens of publicly held companies.
Cybersecurity firm FireEye Inc, which disclosed the operation on Monday, said that since the middle of last year, the group has attacked email accounts at more than 100 firms, most of them pharmaceutical and healthcare companies.
Victims also include firms in other sectors, as well as corporate advisors including investment bankers, attorneys and investor relations firms, according to FireEye.
The cybersecurity firm declined to identify the victims. It said it did not know whether any trades were actually made based on the stolen data.
Still, FireEye Threat Intelligence Manager Jen Weedon said the hackers only targeted people with access to highly insider data that could be used to profit on trades before that data was made public.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/01/us-cybersecurity-wall-street-idUSKCN0JF29420141201
Justice Scalia Explains What Was Wrong With The Ferguson Grand Jury
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/11/26/3597322/justice-scalia-explains-what-was-wrong-with-the-ferguson-grand-jury/On Monday, Prosecutor Bob McCulloch announced that a grand jury had decided not to indict Darren Wilson, the officer who killed Michael Brown. But that decision was the result of a process that turned the purpose of a grand jury on its head.
Justice Antonin Scalia, in the 1992 Supreme Court case of United States v. Williams, explained what the role of a grand jury has been for hundreds of years.
This passage was first highlighted by attorney Ian Samuel, a former clerk to Justice Scalia.
In contrast, McCulloch allowed Wilson to testify for hours before the grand jury and presented them with every scrap of exculpatory evidence available. In his press conference, McCulloch said that the grand jury did not indict because eyewitness testimony that established Wilson was acting in self-defense was contradicted by other exculpatory evidence. What McCulloch didn’t say is that he was under no obligation to present such evidence to the grand jury. The only reason one would present such evidence is to reduce the chances that the grand jury would indict Darren Wilson.
Compare Justice Scalia’s description of the role of the grand jury to what the prosecutors told the Ferguson grand jury before they started their deliberations:
'Phantom' Ballots in Maine State Senate Recount Reverse Result From Democratic to Republican
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=1095911-vote edge given to GOPer after 21 unexplained ballots - all for her - mysteriously appear in tiny Town of Long Island...
An election fraud mystery has emerged in Maine's tiny Town of Long Island. The strange case has not only changed the previously announced "winner" of the election, but the contested results affect the entire state Senate and are now the subject of an investigation demanded by the Maine Democratic Party.
On Election Night this year, Democrat Catherine Breen reportedly won the race for state Senate by a very slim 32 votes in Maine's Senate District 25, according to the then-unofficial tally. However, during a hand recount of the votes last week, 21 previously unaccounted-for ballots were discovered to be in the locked Long Island ballot box. All of the "new" ballots included votes for Cathleen Manchester, the Republican candidate who had requested the recount.
Those 21 "new" ballots were above and beyond the 171 votes counted by hand on Election Night (which proved to be an otherwise perfect count) and the 171 voters listed as having voted on the "voter manifest" at Long Island's only precinct.
The "new" votes, combined with a few other adjustments to the tallies in the 25th District's six other towns, were enough to reverse the results, giving an 11-vote victory to the Republican candidate after the recount, even as neither party is able to explain the appearance of the "phantom ballots" in Long Island...
U.S. third-quarter growth revised higher on consumer, business spending
Source: REUTERS
(Reuters) - U.S. economic growth was far stronger than initially thought in the third quarter, pointing to strengthening fundamentals that should support the economy for the rest of the year.
The Commerce Department on Tuesday raised its estimate of gross domestic product to a 3.9 percent annual pace from the 3.5 percent rate reported last month, reflecting upward revisions to business and consumer spending, as well as restocking.
Spending on residential construction also was raised, helping to offset downward revisions to export growth and government spending.
Economists had expected growth would be trimmed to a 3.3 percent pace.
"This report will go some way in providing further confirmation about the sustainability of the current economic recovery," said Millan Mulraine, deputy chief economist at TD Securities in New York.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/25/us-economy-gdp-idUSKCN0J91EP20141125
Yet where's an ounce of gratitude for the Obama administration for pulling us out of economic tanking from G W Bush et al?
New drug may help with heart failure
http://wgntv.com/2014/11/21/new-drug-may-help-with-heart-failure/It’s a chronic, pervasive problem; Heart failure impacts millions of Americans, shortening their lives and reducing the quality of their daily lives. It’s been a decade since doctors and patients have had renewed hope. But a new drug is infusing a sense of excitement.
“The holy grail of heart failure is to reverse what is going on in the heart and try to get some regeneration and make the heart stronger. Sometimes, by letting the heart work less it will become stronger,” said Dr Nir Uriel, University of Chicago cardiologist.
And that’s the job of conventional medications. The current cocktail helps ease the heart’s workload. But there have been no new drugs in 10 years.
“Since 2004 we didn’t have any new medications for heart failure. So we’re very excited,” said Dr Uriel.
It’s this drug University of Chicago medicine cardiologist Dr Uriel is so excited about – for now it’s called LCZ696 – and it works at the hormonal level to dilate vessels and help patients remove more fluid.
“This medication was studied in almost 10,000 patients and was shown to be superior to the current therapy that we were using. The investigational drug was shown to reduce mortality and hospital readmissions by 20 percent. “
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The results are unusually positive!
St. Louis prosecutor McCulloch roasted online for indicting everybody but Darren Wilson
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/st-louis-prosecutor-mcculloch-roasted-online-for-indicting-everybody-but-darren-wilson/#.VHQCRIsd75U.facebookSt. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch (D) was criticized as much on Monday night for the decision not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson as for his 20-minute statement leading up to it.
Instead of immediately announcing that Wilson would not be prosecuted for shooting and killing 18-year-old Michael Brown this past August, McCulloch opened by blaming social media and the media in general for supposedly pushing a distorted narrative of the shooting.
The Huffington Post called McCulloch’s statement “bizarre,” while CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin described it as an “extended whine” that was “completely inappropriate.”
Five Thirty Eight reported that the grand jury’s decision was a statistical rarity; out of 162,000 federal cases in 2010, grand juries opted not to indict in just 11 instances.
McCulloch was also blasted online even before he finished his remarks:
John Nichols: When networks snub president, democracy is ‘The Biggest Loser’
http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/column/john_nichols/john-nichols-when-networks-snub-president-democracy-is-the-biggest/article_7eae7274-52ed-54ec-8b61-67bc346f416c.htmlOnly 36 percent of Americans participated in the Nov. 4 elections, which determined the political makeup of the legislative branch of the federal government. That’s a dismal measure of political engagement in the United States, a nation where voter turnout rates have in recent years fallen far below the levels seen in Germany and other European countries.
The Economist’s 2012 “Democracy Index” dropped the U.S. ranking on the list of the most democratic countries to No. 21 — with particularly low marks for popular participation in the political process.
How has the American circumstance so decayed in a nation that once so well understood the wisdom of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s observation that “democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men’s (and women’s) enlightened will”?
There’s plenty of blame to go around. But let’s start with broadcast media that are so indefensibly irresponsible that television networks cannot take time away from their relentless profiteering to present a short address by the president of the United States on an issue that is universally recognized as consequential and controversial.
ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox all declined to interrupt prime-time programming to air President Obama’s Thursday evening address on immigration policy...
John Doe probe: Nearly 70,000 more pages of Walker documents to be released
http://fox6now.com/2014/11/25/john-doe-probe-70000-more-pages-of-walker-documents-to-be-released/MADISON (AP) — Nearly 70,000 pages of emails and attachments collected during the first John Doe investigation into former aides and associates of Gov. Scott Walker during his time as Milwaukee County executive are being released.
The information being made public Tuesday is the fourth such release of emails and other documents prosecutors seized from county and personal computers during the investigation that ended in 2013.
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