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911 Dispatcher Tells Woman About To Be Sexually Assaulted There Are No Cops To Help Her Due To Budget Cuts


JOSEPHINE COUNTY, Ore. (CBS Seattle) — An Oregon woman was told by a 911 dispatcher that authorities wouldn’t be able be able to help her as her ex-boyfriend broke into her place because of budget cuts.

Oregon Public Radio reports that an unidentified woman called 911 during a weekend in August 2012 while Michael Bellah was breaking into her place. Her call was forwarded to Oregon State Police because of lay-offs at the Josephine County Sheriff’s Office only allows the department to be open Monday through Friday.

“Uh, I don’t have anybody to send out there,” the 911 dispatcher told the woman. “You know, obviously, if he comes inside the residence and assaults you, can you ask him to go away? Do you know if he’s intoxicated or anything?”

The woman told the dispatcher that Bellah previously attacked her and left her hospitalized a few weeks prior to the latest incident. The dispatcher stayed on the phone with the woman for more than 10 minutes before the sexual assault took place.

“Once again it’s unfortunate you guys don’t have any law enforcement out there,” the dispatcher said, according to Oregon Public Radio.

The woman responded: “Yeah, it doesn’t matter, if he gets in the house I’m done.”

Police say Bellah choked the woman and sexually assaulted her. He was arrested by Oregon State Police following the incident.

“There isn’t a day that goes by that we don’t have another victim,” Josephine County Sheriff Gil Gilberson told Oregon Public Radio. “If you don’t pay the bill, you don’t get the service.”

The sheriff’s department had to cut 23 deputies and the entire major crimes unit after it lost a multi-million dollar federal subsidy, according to Oregon Public Radio. There are now only six deputies left.

The sheriff’s department even put out a press release warning domestic violence victims to “consider relocating to an area with adequate law enforcement services.”

Bellah pleaded guilty to kidnapping, sex abuse and assault.

SCRIPTURES

ISAIAH 13: 12I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

ISAIAH 4: 1And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
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Woman Allegedly Stabs and Kills Fiance On Her Wedding Day


A woman in eastern Pennsylvania has been found guilty of harming her husband-to-be in a horrible way, right after expressing her love for him.  The woman was tried and convicted of first degree murder for stabbing her fiance just hours before the two were planning to wed.


Na Cola Franklin stabbed her fiance, Billy Brewster, several times in the middle of the night.



According to NBC Philadelphia, Franklin was upset when Billy came home drunk from a bachelor party.   She stabbed him, but didn’t realize he was dead until the next day.   She was arraigned that night.

Franklin was apparently stunned to find out that her man was deceased after the incident.  When the judge told her that he was dead, she told him “you better check again.”

Franklin’s defense attorney, John Waldron, says that Brewster attacked her and threatened to take away their 9-month old baby.   The death scene was unearthed by the pastor who was set to marry the couple that morning.   Wedding guests arrived to the home, prepared for the ceremony, only to find that the area had become the subject of a police investigation.

Prosecutors successfully proved that the child was not in danger, leading to the first-degree murder conviction.  Franklin’s lawyer had been seeking a verdict of manslaughter, which would have led to a lighter sentence.


SCRIPTURES

TOBIT 3: 7 It came to pass the same day, that in Ecbatane a city of Media Sara the daughter of Raguel was also reproached by her father's maids;
8 Because that she had been married to seven husbands, whom Asmodeus the evil spirit had killed, before they had lain with her. Dost thou not know, said they, that thou hast strangled thine husbands? thou hast had already seven husbands, neither wast thou named after any of them.
9 Wherefore dost thou beat us for them? if they be dead, go thy ways after them, let us never see of thee either son or daughter.
10 Whe she heard these things, she was very sorrowful, so that she thought to have strangled herself; and she said, I am the only daughter of my father, and if I do this, it shall be a reproach unto him, and I shall bring his old age with sorrow unto the grave.
11 Then she prayed toward the window, and said, Blessed art thou, O Lord my God, and thine holy and glorious name is blessed and honourable for ever: let all thy works praise thee for ever.

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Georgia Shoplifting Mom Runs Over 4-Year-Old Son, Child In Critical Condition



Arkebia Albury, 25,  of Macon, Georgia, faces two counts of cruelty to children, reckless conduct and theft by shoplifting, after she ran over her 4-year-old son in a desperate attempt to avoid getting busted for shoplifting, reports the Macon Telegraph.

The child is in critical condition with injuries to his head and vital organs.

“The child is in bad shape,” Centerville Police Chief Sidney Andrews said. “It wasn’t looking too good.”
According to the Telegraph, a security officer followed Albury and her two children, the other being a 2-year-old, to her vehicle after leaving the department store, Belk.

Once she realized that she was about to be busted, she jumped into her, not realizing that only her 2-year-old child had made it inside before pulling off. 
According to police, Albury got out of the car, picked the child up, threw him into the vehicle and drove away. Police stopped the car on a near-by street and medical workers were called to care for the child.


I believe [she was stealing] a couple of T-shirts. I do know it was clothing. It was a misdemeanor amount,” Andrews said. “This certainly was not worth it.”

In addition to the charges brought by the police department, the Georgia State Patrol charged Albury with “serious injury by motor vehicle, failing to stop at an accident with injuries, driving with a suspended license and two counts of child seat belt violation.”

SCRIPTURES

DEUTERONOMY 28: . 56The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 57And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates. 58If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD; 59Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

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Paula Deen Loves Nigger's

Shalam Israel, We are the original Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge, out of 1 West 125th st. Harlem, NYC, since 1969. The HOME OF THE TRUTH! In the Spirit of the Most High, in the name of Christ under Commanding General Yahanna, we have dedicated and hazarded our lives to bringing the 12 Tribes of the nation of Israel back to the Father in spirit and truth.  The people of Negro, and Indian descent, scattered throughout North, South, Central America and the West Indian Islands are the Lost 12 Tribes of Israel.  Wherever we are; in the ghettos, the barrios, the reservations or shanty towns; on the web, and in our everyday lives we strive to wake up our people.
Paula Deen is a 67 year old, white woman from Georgia, whose great Grandfather fought and died for the South's right to keep black slaves during the civil war. This week records from a grand jury deposition, revealed that she admitted using the word nigger, in reference to a black person over 20 years ago. As a result of this, Paula Deen has been publicly demonized as a racist, and a bigot; the Food Network has canceled her show, and many of her endorsers have dropped Deen as the celebrity who promotes their product. All because she used the word nigger?
It's 2013, are black people really that sensitive over the word nigger? Are we really as naive as we pretend to be, about how white people use the word? When will we stop taking the role of the adolescent teenage girl, who cries in the bathroom stall during lunch because someone called us fat in class? When the hell are niggers going to grow up?
Deuteronomy 28:37 - And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.
One of the curses that the Most High put on the children of Israel was for us to be a people recognized with bywords, proverbs, and to be an astonishment to all the nations where we have been scattered.
Niggers, negro, colored, African-American, coons, boy, wet backs, Injuns, are all epithets, proverbs and bywords used to identify the children of Israel today. None of these titles, all of which we accepted or used at one point or another, is who the Most High called us. How can we represent ourselves as African-Americans, two continents named after Italian General (Leo Africanus) and Explorer (Amerigo Vespucci); but be mad at being called a nigger?
What is truly astonishing is that so called blacks will get upset at Paula Deen using the word nigger, but say nothing about all the murders of black men going on in Chicago, and around the country. We mad about Paula Deen, but saying nothing about all the  homosexuals prancing around Atlanta, Georgia? Why wouldn't the devil call you a nigger?
Isaiah 56:10 - His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
The so called leaders of blacks, Hispanics, and native American Indians are our watchmen, and the Most High said they are blind. They are ignorant, and like a dumb dog, they can't bark, they are asleep, lying down, loving to do nothing.
Included in the court case against Paula Deen, are the details of a birthday party she planned with a pre-civil war theme. At this party, Deen wanted to hire black waiter's to dress up as slaves, and serve the guests as their master's. It is dumb to be mad at Paula Deen saying nigger, while no one says anything about Georgia still waving a Confederate flag outside it's state house. The devil's in Georgia aren't shy, or bashful about how they feel about us.

So called black leaders are ignorant. While we have some who support Paula Deen and say that she shouldn't be held accountable for something she did 20 years ago, others want to see her lose everything and end up in the poor house. But none of them have even dealt with the real reason no one should be upset at Paula Deen.
Webster's Dictionary Definition:
Nigger - 1. A black person
              2. A member of any dark-skin race
              3. A member of a socially disadvantaged class of persons.
              Origin: from Spanish or Portuguese negro, from negro black, from Latin niger.
The Latin word Niger, which is where the English word nigger comes from, just means Black. Israelites have been called nigger, or black, for over 2,000 years.


Acts 13:1 - Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
In the school that was set up in Antioch, there were prophets and teachers; like Barnabas, and Simeon, that were called NIGER.
Today, in the school in Philadelphia, there are prophets such as Tazawar Ya ahla, and Mawaqad, that are called nigger. The two words Nigger and Niger have the same meaning, black. If our so called leaders today weren't so ignorant, our people would be able to mature, and not allow a devil like Paula Deen saying nigger, outrage them.
Jeremiah 4:30 - And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
The Most High asked Israel, what we would do in the time of our destruction. Even though we put on the appearance of wealth, wearing designer clothes; and riches, with extravagant jewelry; and paint our faces to cover who we are; in the end it all amounts to nothing. No matter how hard we try to fit in, and mask ourselves with the white man’s culture, the other nations that we love still will despise us, and seek our lives.
While most of us are destroyed in the ghetto, unemployed, uneducated, and poor; those that are rich attempt to appease the so called white man by trying to fit in. The only way for them to be accepted by the white man, is to help destroy our people. These are the ones that have painted their faces, or changed their appearance to fit in with White society. While they have abandoned their people, and forgotten about the suffering and poverty in the ghetto, it takes Paula Deen to remind them that they are still a nigger.
Negros like Jay-Z, Oprah Winfrey, and Al Sharpton have all come out in support of Paula Deen. Saying that she shouldn't be judged for her past, and that we need to take power away from the N-word. Meanwhile they all say nothing while the white man pushes drugs, homosexuality, and all manner of evil on our people. How does the word nigger or someone calling you out of your name make a difference when you accept a man abusing another man in the rear?
The men of the Most High and Christ, have no problem with Paula Deen saying the word nigger. 20 years ago or today, she's the devil and it's better that she say nigger publicly, so that those of us who are asleep, can see how the white man feels about them. We're concerned about more important issues like 7,000 Israelites dying each year by the hands of another brother, 500,000 babies being aborted by their mothers, while the are over 2 million Israelites in prison.
The so called white man is the devil that the Bible speaks of. He will never love black, Latino, Native American Indian, and West Indian people, and in his eyes we will always be nothing more than niggers. If we turn back to the Most High and Christ, then the white man will only be able to addresses us by the name the Most High gave us, which is Israel.
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Bronx 'ghetto' tours stop amid residents' outraged


NEW YORK (AP) — A company that promised sightseer tours to the Bronx that included a New York City "ghetto" has stopped the bus rides under protest from an outraged neighborhood.

Real Bronx Tours, which took mostly European tourists from Manhattan to see life in the South Bronx "from a safe distance," issued a statement this week saying it would immediately cease all tours there.

Three times a week, the $45 ride took visitors past food-pantry lines, a housing project and a park a guide described as a pickpocket hangout.



Tourists were told they'd get a look at the Bronx that reflects one of the darkest chapters of the city's history, the 1970s and '80s, when the tour website said "this borough was notorious for drugs, gangs, crime and murders."

The Bronx lost hundreds of buildings to fires intentionally set by landlords to collect insurance money, hence the phrase, "the Bronx is burning."
But residents say the tours are a misrepresentation of the area where former Secretary of State Colin Powell and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor lived in as children.

"Those days are over, the Bronx is being rebuilt, it's rising again," said Bronx resident and Grammy-nominated musician Bobby Sanabria.

On Monday, Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and City Councilwoman Melissa Mark-Viverito sent an open letter to the company owner, Michael Myers, saying they were "sickened by the despicable way" the borough was being portrayed to outsiders.

"We strongly urge you to stop profiting off of a tour that misrepresents the Bronx as a haven for poverty and crime, while mocking everything from our landmarks to the less fortunate members of our community who are availing themselves of food assistance programs."



The tour company did not respond to calls and emails requesting comment. It was not clear whether they would resume any of their tours. And by Thursday, the website of the company was no longer accessible.
Other companies in the city still offer regular guided trips to the Bronx.

Three weeks ago, NYC & Company, the city's tourism bureau, launched a promotion of the South Bronx as "one of our safest, most exciting boroughs," with highlights including Art Deco architecture and the Yankees.

Real Bronx Tours has been booted from the bureau's membership list as a result of the language they've been using, NYC & Company spokeswoman Kimberly Spell said.

Elena Martinez, an anthropologist and Bronx resident, offers visitors walks through the same neighborhood that was on Real Bronx Tours' itinerary.

The human struggles on these still gritty streets have produced urban styles and sounds copied around the world, from hip hop music and outdoor murals to clothing.

"Many young Europeans come here as a pilgrimage," Martinez said. "This was the incubator for hip-hop, salsa, jazz, Afro-Cuban music, R&B."
She points to theaters, lavish dance halls and clubs where salsa came alive, along with some of the biggest names in music. Sanabria, a famed drummer, says he comes from a borough "that has an incredible, majestic music culture."

And although many of the buildings now house stores and offices, or were demolished or burned down, new ones mingle with restored historic ones "and people are helping to bring the neighborhood back," Martinez said.

"We've had enough of the gawkers who come to ghettoize us," says Al Quinones, caretaker of a community park that features a garden with fruit trees and a stone outdoor amphitheater. "Their timing was bad. The Bronx is not burning, not now! Now, it's resurgence."

On the door to his shack on the grounds is a sign that reads: "Don't dump on the Bronx."

Sanabria, Martinez and other Bronx residents are meeting Friday to kick-start a counter-campaign to what they call the Bronx's "negative image."
They've calling their action "Bronx Rising."

SCRIPTURES

DEUTERONOMY 4:5Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. 6Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. 7For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for? 8And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

DEUTERONOMY 28: 45Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee: 46And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.
47Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; 48Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
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Stockholm restaurant torched as riots spread


A fourth night of unprecedented riots in Stockholm has seen unrest spread, with a restaurant and up to 40 cars burnt, police told the BBC.

Three police officers were hurt as rioters threw stones and directed laser pointers at emergency services.
The unrest began on Sunday in the deprived, largely immigrant suburb of Husby, to the north-west of the city.

Days earlier the police had shot dead an elderly man who had allegedly threatened to kill them with a machete.
        
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    We have never had this kind of riots before in Stockholm, not this amount of riots and not this number of hot areas”

Kjell Lindgren Stockholm police spokesman
The worst of the latest rioting has been in the south of the city.

Stockholm police spokesman Kjell Lindgren said the rioters were a "mixture of every kind of people".

Activists in the Husby area have accused police of racist behaviour - an accusation greeted with scepticism by the police themselves.

Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has said everybody must take responsibility for restoring calm in Stockholm.

"It's important to remember that burning your neighbour's car is not an example of freedom of speech, it's hooliganism," he said on Wednesday.

Laser pointers
It is unclear how many cars have been burnt since Sunday as a result of the rioting, Mr Lindgren told the BBC.

But on Wednesday night 10 attacks were reported in the north-western suburbs while between 20 and 30 were burnt in southern parts of Stockholm.

Firefighters struggled to contain the fire at the restaurant in the southern suburb of Skogas, where young people pelted them with stones, the spokesman said.

Groups of rioters, as small as five people and as large as 100, have been seen this week, Mr Lindgren said.
They have typically waited for emergency services to attend a fire before attacking them.

Green laser pointers have also been shone in the eyes of the emergency services, according to Mr Lindgren.
No arrests were made on Wednesday night because the police's priority was to disperse mobs and ensure access to fires for the fire brigade, he said. Overall, five people have been arrested since Sunday.

'Very young people'
The Stockholm police spokesman said rioting had occurred in both deprived parts of the city and parts that would be considered "normal".
"My colleagues say the people on the streets are a mixture of every kind of people you can think of," he added.

"We have got Swedes, we have got very young people, we have got people aged 30 to 35. You can't define them as a group.

"We don't know why they are doing this. There is no answer to it."

In Husby, more than 80% of the 12,000 or so inhabitants are from an immigrant background, and most are from Turkey, the Middle East and Somalia.

Rami al-Khamisi, a law student and founder of the youth organisation Megafonen, told the Swedish edition of online newspaper The Local this week that he had been insulted racially by police. Teenagers, he said, had been called "monkeys", fuelling resentment.

The Stockholm police spokesman said he was aware that prosecutors were investigating complaints, and the behaviour of one police officer in particular.
But he added that he could "hardly believe" all the complaints being made were true.

"We have never had this kind of riots before in Stockholm, not this amount of riots and not this number of hot areas," said Mr Lindgren.

SCRIPTURES

MATTHEW 24: 3And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
4And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 6And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8All these are the beginning of sorrows.
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AEG exec called Michael Jackson 'freak' before signing concert contract



Los Angeles (CNN) -- A top AEG executive referred to Michael Jackson as "the freak" and another called him "creepy" just hours before their company signed the pop icon to a huge concert deal.

The revelation brought an audible gasp in the Los Angeles courtroom at the wrongful death trial Wednesday and left fans crying.

Jackson's mother and children are suing AEG Live for what they say was the negligent hiring, retention or supervision of Dr. Conrad Murray, the physician convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the singer's death.

Katherine Jackson watched from the front row as her lawyer questioned AEG Live Senior Vice President and General Counsel Shawn Trell about an e-mail exchange with his boss at parent company AEG.
The Jackson family matriarch began weeping when Trell returned to the witness stand Thursday morning. She left the courtroom and did not return.

Sweet controversy at death trial

"Is it the policy of AEG to talk in derogatory terms about the artist you're going to do business with?" Jackson lawyer Brian Panish asked."No," Trell answered.

Panish then showed jurors an e-mail Trell sent on January 28, 2009, to Ted Fikre, AEG's chief legal officer, letting him know he was about to go to Jackson's home for the signing of the contract for his "This Is It" concert tour.

"Does that mean you get to meet the freak?" Fikre replied.

Trell responded: "Apparently. Not sure how I feel about that. Interesting for sure, but kind of creepy."
The e-mail exchange happened less than four hours before Trell and other AEG executives visited Jackson's Los Angeles home.

AEG execs face questions about Jackson's death
"This is a man you hoped to make millions and millions of dollars from?" Panish asked Trell. "Didn't your mom ever say if you don't have anything good to to say about someone, don't say anything?"

Trell earlier testified that he was excited to meet Jackson for the first time and was impressed with his "good, firm handshake."

"I may not have necessarily agreed with some of the life choices Michael Jackson made, but I certainly had enormous respect for him as an entertainer."

Manager's e-mails found, could be key
A dry review

Most of Wednesday's session was a dry review of Jackson and Murray's contracts as AEG Live's defense team worked to convince jurors that Murray was not hired by the concert promoter. Jackson chose, hired and supervised the doctor, they contend. 

Murray signed his contract the day before Jackson's June 25, 2009, death, but AEG executives and Jackson never put their signatures on it. Jackson lawyers, however, argue he had been already working for two months based on an oral contract.

The Jackson lawsuit contends that AEG Live executives ignored red flags that should have warned them that Jackson was in danger from Murray's treatment.

The coroner ruled that Jackson died from an overdose of the surgical anesthetic propofol, which Murray told police he was using to treat the singer's insomnia.

Panish -- the Jackson family's lead lawyer -- questioned Trell Thursday about his previous testimony that there were no "red flags" to alert AEG executives about Jackson's declining health.

He showed jurors an e-mail sent to AEG Live President Randy Phillips and Co-CEO Paul Gongaware by "This Is It" stage manager John "Bugzee" Houghdahl on June 19, 2009 -- six days before Jackson died.

"I have watched him deteriorate in front of my eyes over the last 8 weeks," Houghdahl wrote. "He was able to do multiple 360 spins back in April. He'd fall on his ass if he tried now."

Another Prince

The name of Prince Rogers Nelson -- the artist commonly known as Prince -- came up when Trell acknowledged that while AEG Live had promoted about 100 tours, it had produced only one other concert tour the size of Jackson's shows.

When Panish suggested Prince had not had "a very favorable experience" with AEG, Trell said he'd not spoken to him about it.

Panish: "Did you ever try to get a doctor for $150,000 a month for Prince?"
Trell: "No."
Panish: "And is Mr. Nelson is still alive today?"
Trell: "Yes."

SCRIPTURES

JEREMIAH 2:33Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.

1 JOHN 2: 15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

DEUTERONOMY 28: 33The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway: 34So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 35The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head. 36The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone. 37And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Has No Money For Schools, But Wants Residents to Finance Stadium



On Monday Chicago teachers ended a three day march throughout the city to protest the closure of over 50 public schools Mayor Rahm Emanuel says the city can’t afford. But while Emanuel says there’s no money in the budget for schools, he does expect residents to foot the bill for a new stadium.


Even though Mayor Emanuel won’t allot more public funds for public schools, he has a plan to use public dollars to help fund a stadium at DePaul University, a private, Catholic university.
Emanuel’s plan entails having the university pay $100 million towards development  of a new  DePaul Blue Devils arena, while the city would add an additional $70 million.

The city would pay its portion of the bill through the general tax fund and tax incremented financing, which assumes that new construction projects will increase real estate values, and raises property taxes to the levels of projected future values.
As one might imagine, not everyone is on board with Emanuel’s plan.

“Our biggest concern is killing the neighborhood with a venue that sits vacant for most of its useful life and, the only time it is used, it’ll be largely an alcohol-focussed sporting venue that will bring unwanted rowdiness, security and parking issues,” said Tina Feldstein, president of the Prairie District Neighborhood Alliance.

An independent board issued a report opposing the closing of 13 of Chicago’s schools, but Mayor Rahm Emanuel has expressed that he will not follow the report’s recommendation.

“The board will take what they’ve said [and] work through it, but do what we need to do as a city because this…has been deferred through the years…We haven’t addressed it in the past — both on the academic side and on the financial side,” Emanuel said last week.


SCRIPTURES

ISAIAH 31: 1Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!

ISAIAH 30: 1Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
2That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
3Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

Man kills himself inside Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris


A man has killed himself inside the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in the French capital, causing its evacuation.

The man pulled out a shotgun and shot himself through the mouth beside the main altar shortly after 16:00 (14:00 GMT) - in front of some 1,500 people.
He was later named by police as 78-year-old Dominique Venner, an award-winning far-right historian.

(Dominique Venner)

Mr Venner had recently been involved in the campaign against the government's decision to legalise gay marriage.

On Saturday, President Francois Hollande signed the bill into law.


'Political gesture'
The police said Mr Venner had made no statement before killing himself, although a note was found next to his body. They did not disclose its contents.
Earlier on Tuesday, he had written on his blog a critique of the same-sex marriage bill.

"New spectacular and symbolic actions are needed to wake up the sleepwalkers and shake the anaesthetised consciousness," he wrote.
"We are entering a time when acts must follow words."


Mr Venner is also a former member of the Secret Army Organisation (OAS), which opposed Algerian independence in the early 1960s and tried to assassinate Charles De Gaulle.

Marine Le Pen, the far-right National Front leader, paid tribute to Mr Venner, describing his suicide as a political gesture aimed at "waking up the people of France".

The BBC's Christian Fraser in Paris says Notre-Dame is the most visited landmark in France, attracting more than 13 million visitors each year, but security is relatively relaxed.

It would not be difficult to conceal a weapon in a shoulder bag, he says.
The cathedral is celebrating its 850th year, and at the time of Mr Venner's death.

Police said the evacuation began immediately, that there were no further problems, and that the cathedral for the moment remained closed.

"It's unfortunate, it's dramatic, it's shocking," the rector of Notre-Dame, Monsignor Patrick Jacquin, told the Associated Press news agency.

This was the first suicide in decades at the cathedral, he said. A few people had jumped to their deaths from Notre-Dame's twin towers, but no-one was thought to have killed themselves at the altar before, he added.
"We will pray for this man, as for so many others at their end."

Last Thursday, a 50-year-old man with a history of mental problems killed himself with a sawn-off shotgun in front of a dozen children at a private Catholic school next to the Eiffel Tower.


SCRIPTURES

REVELATION 18: 4And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 5For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.