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The CASE OF BELL and ADAMS

On March 23, 2011  Brooklyn District Attorney Charles B. Hynes charged two former staff members of the Administration for Children's Services with criminally negligent homicide, in the death of little Marchella Pierce who died  tragically on Sept 2, 2010 at the hands of her Mother, Carlotta Brett- Pierce   (1)   .  The child's grandmother  Loretta Brett was  arraigned on charges of manslaughter the same day the ACS workers were charged, 23 March 2011.  The District Attorney alleges that the caseworker did not make required home visits in the weeks leading up to the death and that required paperwork was not produced in a timely fashion. The case was open and active at the time of the death, which was caused by the parent. The case was languishing in a protective unit because the Administration for Children's Services has done away with the centralized units where preventive cases were managed. ((PR))   This family has been servic...
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OLD PIECE FROM MWC News May 16 2005 ECUADOR GETS CHAVEZ'D By Greg Palast By Greg PalastImage [Quito] George Bush has someone new to hate. Only twenty-four hours after Ecuador's new president took his oath of office, he was hit by a diplomatic cruise missile fired all the way from Lithuania by Condeleeza Rice, and then wandering about Eastern Europe spreading "democracy." Condi called for? a constitutional process to get to elections? this came as a bit of a shock to the man who'd already been constitutionally elected, Alfredo Palacio. What had Palacio done to get our Secretary of State's political knickers in a twist? It's the oil--and the bonds. This nation of only 13 million souls at the world's belly button is rich, sitting on at least 4.4 billion barrels of oil in known reserves, and probably much more. Yet 60 percent of its citizens live in brutal poverty; a lucky minority earns the "minimum" wage of $153 a month. The obvious soluti...
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Radio Birdman

whew !! Just saw a great show the other day, courtesy of WFMU , and Terre T., who has that excellent show on saturdays. (Some of the theatre staff acted like they never heard of this legendary local station, which was amusing in itself) but man those guys cooked. classic Austalian late 70s punk, admittedly of the commercial variety but not like pop-punk.
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