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		<title>Human Life Is Worth $20 To Corporate America</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 00:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah dear reader, so in case you still don&#8217;t believe me about the state of our country and our little known servitude to the machine of corporate America and the wealthy, here is a story where even the Government holds a second tier status to a vast Corporate Giant. Now, before you say, well, yeah the Government shouldn&#8217;t be in a superior position to anyone, our rights are more important. This was about the public welfare and the search for a distressed man. According to The Times-Reporter on May 20, 2009 Ohio&#8217;s Carroll County sheriff organized a search party for a 62-year-old Carrollton area man man after deputies responded to a domestic call Wednesday at 2:21 p.m. The sheriff said the caller said the man was destroying the house and breaking windows and other items. But when deputies arrived they were told the man had fled and had taken several bottles of pills. So the sheriff&#8217;s department initiated an intense search overnight by Carroll County sheriff deputies, an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper and the patrol’s airplane. Two K-9 units, several fire departments and 100 individuals on foot also were involved in the search for the man. Sheriff Sgt. Ron Clapper and firefighters found the man about 1 a.m. the morning of May 21st after 11 hours of searching. Now, you may be saying at this point, &#8220;So what? It&#8217;s terrible that some man in Ohio had a bit of a breakdown, but what does this have to do with the Tyranny of American Greed?&#8221; Well, the reason it took more than a hundred people 11 hours to find the man is that Verizon Wireless refused to add in locating him. Here&#8217;s what happend, Sheriff Dale Williams said he attempted to use the man’s cell phone signal to locate him, but the man was behind on his phone bill so the phone had been turned off. Williams contacted Verizon Wireless to request that they turn the phone on for a couple of minutes so they could get a fix on his location. The Verizon operator politely refused to connect the signal unless the sheriff’s department agreed to pay the overdue bill. After some haggling, Williams agreed to pay $20 toward the phone bill in order to find the man. Deputies discovered the man just as Williams was preparing to make arrangements for the payment. “I was more concerned for the person’s life,” Williams said. “It would have been nice if Verizon would have turned on his phone for five or 10 minutes, just long enough to try and find the guy. But they would only turn it on if we agreed to pay $20 of the unpaid bill. Ridiculous.” Williams said he doesn’t know how close the situation was to becoming a tragedy because he’s not a doctor, but he thinks the man’s condition was very serious. So, from Verizon&#8217;s perspective, a human life is worth $20. Now my friends do you realize your place in society?]]></description>
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		<title>Live Dogs Used as Shark Bait</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when I think humanity has sunk as low as it can possibly go, I get a stinging, shocking, reminder that we have further that we can sink.  This article in National Geographic, which admittedly is a few years old, was the latest thing to re-awaken me to how violent, sick, and depraved the human race can truly be.  The article, and there were several other articles from around the world as well, states that some fishermen on the French-controlled island of Réunion us both live and dead dogs and cats as bait for catching sharks. Now there have been some sites on the Internet claiming this is a hoax.  I find it hard to believe that so many reputable reporting organizations would be caught by a hoax.  If it was just one tabloid paper that reported it then I would file it in the same place as the &#34;Two Headed Dog&#34; and &#34;My Husband Is An Alien&#34; stories but, National Georgraphic?  And, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is offering a reward of 1,000 euros to any police officer on Réunion who successfully enforces the law prohibiting the use of dogs and cats as bait for the catching of sharks. The reward will be paid upon the successful conviction of any person found guilty of using dogs or cats as bait in shark fishing as defined by the laws of France that specifically outlaw this practice. When this article was published in National Geographic, earlier that month the first court case was held involving a person charged with using live dogs as bait.  Authorities found a seven-month-old puppy with three fishing hooks in its paws and snout.  The person that was keeping the puppy was found guilty of animal cruelty and fined 5,000 euros (U.S. $5,982), according to Clicanoo, a Réunion newspaper. The amateur fisherman said he did not use the puppy as bait. Instead, he claimed, the dog had been injured by a trap he had set to protect his hens, the paper reported. A story that the French court obviously found bogus. That case isn&#8217;t an isolated one, said Fabienne Jouve of GRAAL (Groupement de Réflexion et d&#8217;Action pour l&#8217;Animal, or the Grouping of Reflection and Action for Animals), an animal rights organization based in Charenton-le-Pont, France.  &#34;Lately, almost every week, one dog has been found with hooks on the island, not counting the cats found on the beaches partially eaten by the sharks,&#34; Jouve said. Once fishermen capture the animals, she said, the dogs and cats are hooked &#34;the day before, so they can bleed sufficiently.&#34; Some escape before being tossed into the ocean. Others aren&#8217;t so lucky. After hooks are plunged into their paws and/or snouts, the animals are attached to inflatable tubes with fishing line and dumped into the ocean, Clicanoo, the newspaper, reports. If this does not help prove how degraded the human race has become I don&#8217;t know what does.]]></description>
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