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A woman has been convicted of murder after killing her son in an "act of mercy". The Old Bailey, a London court, heard that Frances Inglis, 57, injected Tom, 22, with heroin and gave her a life sentence.

Tom had been injured in a street fight in July 2007 and was put in an ambulance depite his desire not to be hospitalised. The ambulance door was opened three times; the third time Tom jumped out and sustained injuries that left him in a coma. He became mute and dependant on 24-hour care. His only method of communication was to squeeze a hand.

Frances was told that if she wanted Tom to die legally then she could ask the High Court to allow his food and water to be withdrawn, so that he would starve to death. Frances told the court "I know Tom – no way would he have wanted to live totally dependent. I can remember saying I felt I would rather he go to heaven than to hell on earth. I know Tom would not want to live. He had lost his life."

"I couldn't bear the thought of Tom dying of thirst or hunger," she said of the idea of food and water withdrawal. "To me that would be so cruel, so cruel. To die slowly like that would be horrible." Instead she used the Internet to research Tom's condition and concluded that a heroin overdose would be the most painless method available. A learning disabilities worker with no convictions, she concluded two grams was sufficient to kill and began spending time in areas she believed drugs were on sale – outside the local station, job centre and needle exchanges.

Frances was determined to release Tom from his "living hell" and said she had "no choice" in the matter. "I asked myself what I would want," she said. "I would want someone to love me enough to help me die. That's why I thought heroin – a painless, peaceful death." She obtained her two grams and stole syringes from Tom's hospital before injecting him, but he was revived by nurses and she was charged with attempted murder. She was bailed but barred from contacting her son.

Fourteen months later she obtained access to Tom by posing as his aunt and placed superglue in the lock of his door, further barricading it with an oxygen cylinder and a wheelchair. It took staff thirty minutes to break in, by which time Frances had injected one of Tom's arms and both his thighs with heroin. This time he died.

Frances had left a letter to her family in which she talked of her concerns for her other two sons and dog, as well as the running of the house, expecting a murder arrest. On one bed she left a photograph of Tom as well as a prayer written by his girlfriend. Police also found older letter by Frances, one of which read "People keep saying Tom is not suffering. How can they know how he feels?"

She was asked if guilty of murder and attempted murder, to which she responded "I don't see it as killing or murder. The definition of murder is to take someone's life with malice in your heart. I did it with love in my heart, for Tom, so I don't see it as murder. I knew what I was doing was against the law. I don't know what name they would call it but I knew that the law would say it was wrong. I believed it would have been Tom's choice to have been allowed to die rather than have the intervention to keep him alive."

The jury "could not have had a more difficult case," according to Judge Brian Barker, but he told them nobody was allowed to override the law. Ten members of the jury agreed, but two sided with Frances, leaving a conviction by majority verdict. The jury foreman was greeted by cries of "shame on you" from France's relatives, for which they were ejected from the building. "We can all understand the emotion and the unhappiness that you were experiencing," Barker told Frances, later adding "You knew you were breaking society's conventions, you knew you were breaking the law, and you knew the consequences." He ordered her to serve a minimum of nine years.

"What this case and a number of others have exposed," said France's eldest son, Alex, "is a need for a complete rethink of existing laws in regard to people that have been, and will be, in the same position as Tom. How can it be legal to withhold food and water, which means a slow and painful death, yet illegal to end all suffering in a quick, calm and loving way? It's cruel, inhumane and illogical... We have a duty of care to them and we should not allow this situation to continue. It should not be left to a wife, husband, mother, father, sister or brother to have to end their suffering, and be convicted for murder." Detective Chief Inspector Steve Collin, who was in charge of the case, flatly disagreed. "There's no such thing as a mercy killing in law."

"I want to say that all of the family and Tom's girlfriend support my mum 100%. All those who loved and were close to Tom have never seen this as murder, but as a loving and courageous act," said Alex.


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Politics, Politics, Politics. Always wasting so much time and effort to contravene what must be done. 164.116.47.180 (talk) 15:34, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Your private opinion about "what must be done" is no less political or politically charged than anyone else's, you self-righteous twit.

So how's that "hope" and "change" working out, oh wait. :D --KDP3 (talk) 18:12, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

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January 22, 2010 A six-year-old boy from the county of in England, United Kingdom, who fell through a frozen pond on January 5, has died. The pond is near to the location of his house where he was playing with one of his friends. Thomas Hudson — or Tommy as he was also known — was trapped underneath the garden pond in, which was six feet in depth, for 30 minutes. It is not clear what exactly caused Thomas to fall into the pond.

After calls for help from Tommy's playmate, a woman went into the water and searched for Thomas. It is believed that the woman was related to Tommy. A fire crew managed to take Thomas out of the water. After ambulance workers found themselves unable to restart his heart, Tommy was taken by aircraft to in,. There, an emergency operation was carried out on him before Thomas was placed on a life support machine. He died on January 21 after he failed to regain consciousness.

It has been reported that are launching an investigation into the death. However, the police has said that there are no suspicious circumstances as far as they are concerned.

Hugh Whitaker was one of the people assisting in the search for Thomas on January 5. "We worked as a team with the fire service to locate the boy in the water and he was pulled out," Whitaker stated. "It was thought he had been in there for around half an hour. Once he was located he was taken to the air ambulance and on to the John Radcliffe Hospital after being treated by a doctor.  He was in cardiac arrest at the scene.  A woman who went into the water was examined by paramedics at the scene but she did not require hospital treatment.  The lake was between 15 and 20 metres by 15 and 20 metres in size.  From where he was recovered from he would have had to have walked out onto the water — he was not far from the centre of the frozen lake."

A statement released from the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust that said: "We are very sorry to confirm that Tommy Hudson died peacefully at our hospital this [Thursday] morning. Tommy's parents ask that their privacy be respected at this very difficult time."


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Bomb scare aboard plane caused by harmless prayer box

January 22, 2010

A US Airways Express plane en route from LaGuardia Airport in New York to was diverted to  on Thursday morning after a harmless Jewish prayer box was mistaken for an explosive device.

According to Philadelphia police, a 17-year-old Orthodox Jewish boy on Flight 3079 was using tefillin, a set of black boxes attached to leather straps containing biblical passages. When used in morning prayers, one box is strapped to the left arm while the other is placed on the forehead. "It's something that the average person is not going to see very often, if ever," FBI spokesman J.J. Klaver told the Associated Press.

When questioned about the object by crew members, the teen tried to explain the ritual. However, the plane's captain still thought it best to land in Philadelphia as a precaution. Once it landed, the plane was searched, passengers were questioned, and the tefillin was examined by the bomb squad and proven to be harmless.

"The boy, who is from White Plains, and was traveling with his 16-year-old sister, was very cooperative," Philadelphia police Lieutenant Frank Vanore told local media. He went on to say, if anything, the two teens were "more alarmed than we were."

Authorities said that because the whole incident was just a misunderstanding and neither of the teens had a criminal record, they both have since been released and cleared to continue their travels.


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TV host Conan O'Brien accepts US$45 million settlement with NBC

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After a long night of negotiations, United States television personality and seven-month host of The Tonight Show Conan O'Brien and his network, NBC, have reached a deal that would buy out the contracts of O'Brien and his staff for US$45 million and reinstate Jay Leno as the show's host starting March 1, O'Brien's manager told media on Thursday. In this agreement, O'Brien will walk away with more than $33 million. The rest will be distributed to his staff of over 200 people as severance payments.

His manager went on to say that Friday will be O'Brien's last night serving as host. O'Brien reportedly plans to have an official farewell show with American actors Tom Hanks and Will Ferrell as guests, and with Canadian rock singer Neil Young as the closing musical performance.

As pertains to O'Brien's next move, ABC has said that it is not interested in hiring him. Fox, on the other hand, which lacks a late-night talk show, expressed "appreciation" for O'Brien's abilities—but for now nothing more. Comedy Central has also been mentioned as a possible new network home for O'Brien.

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Should the law be changed?
I think law should not be flexible, but in this case as the mother presents it, it should indeed be considered as an act of mercy. There should be an alternative to spending time in prison IF she is not a person with previous criminal records.

I don't want to weigh in on whether or not I think what she did was acceptable; but I do want to say that, for sticking with her convictions and facing judgement, despite being so sure of the consequences, I think that's admirable. A more selfish person would have lied or tried to cover up their actions. It's rare to see someone who truly believes in what they're doing. --67.174.131.145 (talk) 23:28, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Laws are law(l)s. Simple as that. You go in prison for killing someone out of mercy in a fast, humane and painless way, but it's completely legal to let that person die slowly of thirst. You go in prison for having a plant of cannabis in your house, but it's completely legal to get drunk, so drunk that you don't know you're too drunk to drive, then drive 2 tons of steel into innocent pedestrians. Current laws are fucked up and unfair. I don't know if they should be flexible or whatever, all I know is that they should be FAIR.
 * Laws have never been about justice or fairness. They simply serve to maintain order. Justice is a side product that is preferred but not necessary, and it is a shame that current societies have not found a system other than the inflexible and often exploitable laws to maintain social integrity. 99.247.82.251 (talk) 03:47, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

 * My opinion is laws need to be rewritten to apply to today's society and its culture. The right to live is something one can choose to use as the right to die as well. -- The New  Mikemoral  ♪♫ 03:54, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Should the law be changed?
I believe that the law should be changed. Medical science still does not understand the mind completely and therefore cannot possibly tell us if a person in a vegetative state is suffering or not. I think once someone has lost all control of their body they must be suffering and rather than they become a burden on someone else, whether that be the hospital or their next of kin, they must be allowed to end their lives in a humane and peaceful manner. - PranoyG

Should the law be changed?
Yes I Think what Toms mom did was right. Mercy killing should be legalized in every manner. Instaed of seeing Your loved ones suffer and be helpless.

Syed Kashif Raza

 * Every manner? What if some lunatic wants to spare the world of its suffering? I can understand giving the choice of euthenasia, but only
 * to the next of kin,
 * when the patient
 * has no hope of recovery,
 * has no living will, and
 * cannot communicate.
 * It's not so simple, Syed.

One more case for anarchy. How many will it take?

Law is absolutism and only works for dishonest people willing to abuse it. We keep inventing more and more beaurocracy and more and more complex laws, to the point that lawyers dedicate half their lives to learning just a section of it. Still the common person is told that "ignorance of the law is no excuse" and still we have those who, by no fault of ignorance, fall through the cracks because their situations, like all human beings, are unique. We can dedicate the entire biomass of the planet to putting infinitely detailed laws in writing, and people will still fall through the cracks because every life is unique and the potential range of human context and action is infinite.

So what do we consider these people who are victimized by the law? Sacrificed at the altar of order in society? Maybe we should go back to spilling blood to be sure the sun rises tomorrow.

I agree 100% with Alex. Let a person starve to death is not right but is the legal way. laws must be changed so that a person can die in a humane way.

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Thoughts about NBC? Cirt (talk) 23:46, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

 * I'm with Coco--KDP3 (talk) 01:12, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

 * Eh, they really fucked up! These contracts they made (years ago) with O'Brien and Leno are crazy. --SVTCobra 01:30, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

the totally right thing
conan is so talented and fun to watch, he can go do the next thing anyway AND walks away with all that cash. no worries, he could get another job anywhere, we will still love him. LOOKS LIKE A BIG WIN FOR HIM. Orchid (talk) 07:12, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Conan to Fox?
It would be a welcome change compared to the drivel Fox broadcasts right now. 77.250.25.84 (talk) 12:44, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Howard Stern
Howard would have probably been on this show, Conan made an offer to Howard last week to come on but he declined citing that they would likely not air the broadcast, not let him in and he is too lazy to go to L.A.

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US President Obama proposes financial reform

January 22, 2010

Speaking Thursday in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, United States President Barack Obama presented new proposals for financial reform.

"While the financial system is far stronger today than it was a year one year ago, it is still operating under the exact same rules that led to its near collapse," said President Barack Obama. "My resolve to reform the system is only strengthened when I see a return to old practices at some of the very firms fighting reform; and when I see record profits at some of the very firms claiming that they cannot lend more to small business, cannot keep credit card rates low, and cannot refund taxpayers for the bailout. It is exactly this kind of irresponsibility that makes clear reform is necessary."

Obama's two key proposals were to limit the types of operations that a bank may undertake and to limit the size of the largest financial firms.

Under the proposals banks would be prevented from owning or investing in hedge fund or a private equity fund. Nor would they be allowed to sponsor such funds. To limit size of financial institutions, further consolidation of the financial sector by restricting growth in the market share of their liabilities.

Obama called the restrictions on banking operations the "Volcker Rule" in reference to Paul Volcker, the chair of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. These activities are "unrelated to serving their customers," Obama said.

According to Obama, the current "economic crisis began as a financial crisis, when banks and financial institutions took huge, reckless risks in pursuit of quick profits and massive bonuses. When the dust settled, and this binge of irresponsibility was over, several of the world's oldest and largest financial institutions had collapsed, or were on the verge of doing so.  Markets plummeted, credit dried up, and jobs were vanishing by the hundreds of thousands each month. We were on the precipice of a second Great Depression."

The President said his administration is seeking to protect consumers and close loopholes that allowed financial products such as credit default swaps without oversight. The goal would be to strengthen capital and liquidity requirements to make the financial system more stable. Another goal of Obama's reforms would be to ensure that the failure of one firm could not take the entire economy.

"We've come through a terrible crisis. The American people have paid a very high price.  We simply cannot return to business as usual.  That's why we're going to ensure that Wall Street pays back the American people for the bailout.  That's why we're going to rein in the excess and abuse that nearly brought down our financial system," Obama said in closing.

Before any of the proposals can go into effect, they will have to be passed into law by both houses of the United States Congress.


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As far as original reporting, I took great care in making sure that I did not read any news reports about this written by other people. I wrote this article only from the White House video and accompanying transcripts. So in that sense, this report is written as if I was actually among the gathered press at the White House when Obama delivered these proposals. Cheers, --SVTCobra 01:15, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
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Can you create a video file a based on the source and then add it to the article? -- Rayboy8 ( my talk ) ( my contributions ) 17:34, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I'd be willing to do that. I'm assuming its the video http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/volcker-rule-financial-institutions ? Bawolff ☺☻ 17:43, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * File:Barack Obama Speech "Volcker Rule" 2010-01-21.ogv. I'm not sure if its uploaded properly. mplayer is claiming its the wrong length. just a moment. Bawolff ☺☻ 19:16, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
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On criminal records
"Authorities said that because [...] neither of the teens had a criminal record, they both have since been released and cleared to continue their travels." This sentence implies that "authorities" believe it is justified to continue detaining persons with criminal records even after they have been shown to be innocent of any wrongdoing in the event prompting their apprehension. One would think it sufficient to say "Once we discovered that we were mistaken in our suspicion about these individuals, we released them." or such like. Since they conciously included this additional language, one is led to conclude that in fact they intended this implied meaning. One wonders why we bother releasing convicts from jail if they're subject to indefinite periods of future detention with no remaining justfication whatsoever. 209.30.94.79 (talk) 04:21, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

 * It's also perhaps notable that the incident is characterized as a "misunderstanding" rather than a "mistake," implying mutual rather than unilateral origin of error. 209.30.94.79 (talk) 04:26, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Hysteria
They used to try to treat hysteria as a disease. How much do we have to wait till the american "authorities" are given electro-shocks? I mean this joke has gone far enough. There should be a free hospitalisation ticket for each imbecil who sniffs a bomb.

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Comments:IPCC claims about Himalayan glaciers were not based on science

Because things liked this is the reason why I have a hard time believing in climate change.--KDP3 (talk) 07:36, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Shame on the IPCC; it's idiot alarmism like this that gives environmental concerns and the fight against climate change a bad name. Saying the world will end in a half-century is not the only way to get people to pay attention, and certainly not the best, considering that all evidence says otherwise.  They're exaggerating the problem, and becase everyone can see through these exaggerations, a lot of people tend to think there IS no problem and that everything must be an exaggeration.  This does more harm to the climate than it helps.

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Gosh! we are living in a modern world ?!? Hippocracy of communism.............

The article is biased, it makes it sound like the poor drunk/violent offender was beaten up by an evil police officer just because. He broke the law, damaged property, assaulted people and was thrown in the cell where he got his comeuppance. This should be a case of "dont get drunk stupid and beat up your wives", not "look how evil your govt is, oh and feel free to assault other people, we'll make sure that you get treated with respect". 195.22.51.135 (talk) 12:08, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

 * Seriously? I'm not even going to dignify that with a proper reply. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 12:58, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I was just about to reply myself... So were did you get that information, Mr. Anonymous IP? --Patrick M (TUFKAAP) (talk) 13:03, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

So this is like the 400th journalist killed in Russia or something? --KDP3 (talk) 17:11, 22 January 2010 (UTC)


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Comments:Eight killed in Virginia shooting, suspect surrenders

Im glad i dont live in the USA. I wish the USA would look at other democratic countries before they start spouting inane arguments like "WE NEED GUNS, OTHERWISE WE HAVE NOTHING TO DEFEND OURSELVES WITH IF THE GOVERNMENT TURNS EVIL AND DECIDES TO KILL US ALL".

An Idealised world would have no guns
But it also wouldnt have crime. At this point, its so far gone that restricting guns does more harm than good. Your asking a -criminal-, who by definition is already breaking a law, to comply with another law? Sounds like a bit of idealisim tbh. 164.116.47.180 (talk) 16:21, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * If the War on Drugs is any indication, bans aren't going to work without a radical new approach, one that might actually get (drugs/guns) out of criminal hands. An oppressive government is the least of my worries; it's probably quite the opposite that motivates people: those who feel a need for guns don't believe the government can protect them. --67.174.131.145 (talk) 03:19, 25 January 2010 (UTC)


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Comments:US President Obama proposes financial reform

Obama announces new attack on the free market
First there were the odious bailouts that took money collected through taxation for the advancement of public purposes and bestowed it on private parties who are not constrained in any way to serve the public. Now, as if that were not bad enough, we need new intrusion into the market to counteract the perverted incentive structure that the prior folly created. Is it any wonder that financial institutions are returning to their old practices when they were in fact insulated from the negative market outcome of those practices? They took bad risks, but the government prevented those risks from turning against them to the extent necessary to deter them from replicating their past conduct. In effect the government took bad risks and made them good risks by truncating the downside.

The solution, apparently, is to legally curtail any repetition of the newly incentivized practices by imposing new regulations without regard to whether the subject institutions actually took taxpayer money. Now all banks will be forced to do something else besides pursue their own market interest because somehow small businesses are entitled to receive loans and individuals to receive credit cards with interest rates that do not justify the level of default risk those entities create. How this is related to curing the causes of the financial correction we're left to wonder, but Obama doesn't stop there with entitlement, revealing that banks may be prevented from doing something on the justification that it's "unrelated to serving their customers." Since when do private parties have to act in service of other private parties by legal mandate? That would be akin to forcible subjugation.

I'd say on the whole this announcement is par for the course considering that Obama has shown himself to be ever the font of bad, liberty destroying and unprincipled policy imposed, as always, in the name of the public interest. 209.30.94.79 (talk) 18:12, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * At this point, most of these private parties owe the public. Those that don't should not be caught up in this, and I don't see any of them worrying about it. And I'm sure they'd be watching this much more closely than us. In fact, watching the video, Obama addresses this directly: firms are free to continue to operate such investments/funds, but they can't mix that accounting up with federally-insured banking; this is an exploitation of taxpayers and a misuse of a system designed to protect consumers. --67.174.131.145 (talk) 02:48, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * "[...] I don't see any of them worrying about it." Have you been following the market lately? As soon as Obama made this announcement there was a precipitous downturn in the stocks due entirely to practically everybody "worrying about it." Even the pundits are saying the downturn was a response by market forces to the implications of this new policy. On the whole, your comments could hardly be more detached from reality. 209.30.94.79 (talk) 05:42, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Why is this being done, you ask? They proved themselves irresponsible with the power they were given. Given that it is an institution that holds thousands if not millions of jobs in its hands, It should be obliged to act responsobley. And, tbh, Without feeling the pain of a mistake, you dont learn from it. 164.116.47.180 (talk) 21:37, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Well you see, I believe in capitalism, a quaint old system in which participants in the economy are not obliged to do this or that but free to make investments as they please so long as they respect the rights of others (including contractual obligations freely entered, such as charters obliging corporations to pursue profit foremost). Making bad investment decisions is not a breach of anybody's rights or reserved privileges, arguments ad misericordium notwithstanding. I am also at a loss to understand why the government should make them "feel the pain of [their] mistake" when a financial mistake, by its very nature, is any action leading to a bad financial outcome. Isn't this outcome "pain" enough for the "mistake?" At least it would be if the government didn't step in to mitigate it. 209.30.94.79 (talk) 05:42, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * The people who made the mistakes are not the ones who suffers from it. A corporation or a company does not know "pain". It is the executives who made the mistakes but they are not getting punished accordingly. Without regulations these people would keep running their own banks into bankruptcy by taking excessive risks that can generate maximum short-term profit, the only thing that matters towards their large bonuses. -Funicode (talk) 12:59, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * That sounds like a bad deal all around for the shareholders. If what you say is true, they can respond by not investing in a venture where the incentives are so misaligned or by changing the incentives to avoid this principal-agent problem. Once again I don't see why the government has to step in to prevent people (in this case shareholders) from making bad financial decisions inimical to their own interest. As for the "pain" language, obviously it's not meant as literal pain, but in fact I did not introduce that language. It's not fair argumentation to dispute against me for responding in kind to somebody else's analogy. 209.30.94.79 (talk) 20:57, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * You are assuming the shareholders are not speculators and that they are perfectly rational. If that was the case the financial crisis would never have happened. When all other banks are making huge quarterly profits from sub-primes the shareholders would be angry if their bank refuses to take part. The overall bad decisions may be beneficial in the short term, and the shareholders may decide to take risk and bet on withdrawing their money right before things get ugly. Free market does not offer a inherent personal interest in maintaining a sustainable environment; people can always jump onto another sinking boat to scrap more wood. -Funicode (talk) 22:05, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * No, actually I didn't assume any of that. Speculators are also disincentivized from putting their money in with companies whose structure is such that the corporate agents are encouraged to and engaged in running them into the ground. This creates risk (to put it mildly) that could mature at any time, including while the speculator has an ownership interest. Clearly, speculators would prefer to avoid the exposure even if certain short-term factors may overwhelm that preference. Even then, their valuation will be depressed by the inherent risk. I don't even know where you get my "assumption" that people are perfectly rational. All I said is that if people are irrational, or if they make a decision which turns out in retrospect to have been bad (this does not entail irrationality under imperfect information), those people just lose. I don't see where the government's intervention is necessary to prevent people from making decisions that could lose them money. You're probably right that if everyone acted rationally this financial crisis wouldn't have happened, but that's not always true of financial crises. If billions of people bet $1000 dollars each on a fair coin toss with a payoff of $10,000 should the coin come up heads, but it comes up tails instead, that could precipitate a crisis even though it was rational for each person to make the bet. That's of course a contrived example, but more subtle real ones certainly exist. In the second part of your post, you invert your previous scenario by having it be shareholders rather than management destroying value. This inversion makes even less sense. Lets say the shareholders select a strategy that dooms the corporation to failure. The shares they own represent a stake in corporate success with an infinite time-horizon. The corporation may realize some short-term paper profits, but other prospective shareholders (who we have no reason to assume are less clever than scheme's perpetrators) will realize this strategy entails infintely bad growth prospects and they'll value the shares much lower. The shareholders have just succeded in devaluing their own shares. Even if our hapless shareholders manage to turn a profit at this, I don't see where the government comes in. Where have anybody's rights been violated? 209.30.94.79 (talk) 08:50, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I observe that people tend to think they can extrapolate growth. If a corporation has sustained 10% growth year over year for 6 years, most people think it should be able to keep growing like that forever. Certainly the stock price is influenced by the risks (as perceived by the shareholders), but it is also influenced by the current growth rate of the corporation and, the worst in my opinion, by the current rising rate of the price of the stock. I do not see why most shareholders would worry about how well the corporation is truly faring if their stock price has not started dropping. You do not need to violate other people's right to do bad things. Consider a river with only one bridge on it. You buy the bridge and charge a toll on it, and everyone can cross the river. And then you neglected maintenance on the bridge and it collapsed; since the bridge is entirely yours, you have not violated anyone's right and you have suffered the consequence of losing the bridge, but now no one will be able to cross the river. Maybe you have already made a profit from the past tolls you have collected, maybe it was cheaper for you to lose the bridge than to maintain it, and at the end you are not liable to rebuild the bridge anyways. You may argue that the entity to whom you have paid the original price can build another bridge, but the problem is that the collapse of the bridge came as a total surprise, thus hampering all travels while another bridge is being built. I would like to stress that I am arguing that free market is not flawless, not that this government intervention would work. My prediction is that they are going to pass this law, scrap it a few years later and we all go through this all over again. I feel these temporary measures are more there to appeal to people than to fix problems. -Funicode (talk) 13:03, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Stick it to them Mr. President.
 * Get your facts straight Mr IP address. The grinning chimp (Bush) started the no-strings-attached bailouts of his banking buddies. --Brian McNeil / talk 09:36, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the unneeded clarification, but I never said Obama started the bailouts. Unfortunately, we have no choice but to consider them a loss for the taxpayer and for liberty. There's no way to undo the mistake, and certainly not with more policy enlarging the power of government. You said yourself that the bailouts were "no-strings-attached" and indeed the government attached far too few conditions on the recipt of taxpayer aid (even apart from the problem of allowing wealth transfer from taxpayers to private corporations in the first place), but adding post-hoc conditions that did not exist at the outset, as well as punishing banks that did not accept taxpayer money (who have already been punished with implicit taxation by the government intervening on behalf of their competitors), is unjust. Governing is about doing the right thing, not getting even in petty political vendettas. 209.30.94.79 (talk) 20:28, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

How Did You Get This From That?
Regarding the titles: "US President Obama proposes financial reform" turned into "Obama launches new attach on the free market."

Just a little spin, maybe?

A little history, which explains something about how things work, when they work, how they otherwise do not work. ..

The laws and regulations of the US are based on the Constitution. An unfinished document, it was nonetheless adopted as the foundation of our representative form of government.

The federal government was empowered, or required, to fulfill the need for a national monetary system. That article was no more complete than the rest of the document, generally. The argument that was avoided in the interest of getting the Constitution adopted by a democratic body, was then taken up in earnest, and never resolved.

Our, and your, discussion of the issue still looks a lot like an argument.

Too bad, that our founding fathers didn't persist in an effort to design a technically sound financial system based in law. Too bad, that we've let our leaders mess with a poorly conceived system throughout the history of the country. Always because we are incapable of reaching a workable agreement.

If the Constitution said that the people's federal government should be responsible for the money, who does the money belong to? Who has the right and responsibility to "control" it?

And, how much do you think the public should be obligated to pay for a "free" market?

Paul BC (talk) 15:45, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

True that. "free trade" Generally only makes the rich, richer. The country as a whole exeperiences economic growth, but nary a penny "trickles down" (Another weakness of the Bush Economic policy). TBH, politics stopped working when bussiness concerns interfered. 164.116.47.180 (talk) 15:58, 25 January 2010 (UTC)


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English policeman accused of being serial rapist

January 22, 2010

PC Stephen Mitchell, a policeman with northern England's Northumbria Police, has been remanded into custody after going before a court accused of being a serial rapist. Mitchell was arrested in Scotland on Monday and appeared before court yesterday.

Northumbria police made the arrest in Glasgow in connection with a string of attacks between 1999 and 2007 with nineteen alleged victims. He was taken to Northumbria, where officers on Wednesday charged him with seven rapes, seventeen sexual assaults, and nineteen instances of misconduct in a public office, totalling 43 offences.

41-year-old Mitchell, who has served covering the Newcastle and Northumberland areas, was denied bail at Newcastle Magistrates' Court by a district judge and will remain in prison until his next court appearance, before the Crown Court on February 4. He had initially appeared the day he was charged, but the case was adjourned one day to allow time for a bail request to be prepared.

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Tornado touches down in Huntsville, Alabama

January 22, 2010 A tornado struck Huntsville, Alabama on Thursday, causing widespread damage and injuring around six people. Packing winds estimated at 150 miles per hour, the twister ranked as EF2 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.

The tornado occurred at 5:30 P.M., amidst a flurry of severe weather reports in northern Alabama and Tennessee, bringing down trees and power lines.

As many as 10,000 people were left without power, and debris was strewn throughout the hardest-hit areas. "I'm shocked. I lived in this neighborhood all my life. I have never seen this kind of damage," said Amanda Nelson, a resident of Huntsville.

David McCullough was at his home home when the tornado hit. He said, "I could not hear the train, but could hear my house shake. I also hear[sic] my neighbor's roof pounding against my house."

Although tornadoes in January are rare, they can strike at any time of the year. According to Governor Bob Riley, "The tornado that hit Huntsville last night is a reminder that severe weather can strike anywhere and at anytime."


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Comments:Oxford University anti-peer-to-peer policy hits legal music service Spotify

Have they never heard of traffic shaping? If they're OK with the content but feel the data is of a low priority then it should be given low priority on the network, not scrubbed entirely. That is something you'd expect from a technologically ignorant parent, and is rather a sad response from such a lauded establishment. 86.160.196.67 (talk) 21:38, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Nothing surprises me anymore. TBH, Its the authoritarian solution, and theya re fine with it. 164.116.47.180 (talk) 21:50, 22 January 2010 (UTC)


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Somali pirates threaten to kill British hostages in days

January 23, 2010

A middle-aged British couple who have been held hostage by Somali pirates for more than three months said on Friday, in a telephone interview with ITN, that their captors have threatened to kill one or both of them if a government ransom is not received "within four or five days."

Paul and Rachel Chandler disappeared on October 23, 2009, while in the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia while en route from the Seychelles to Tanzania. Their 38-foot yacht, the Lynn Rival, was later found abandoned. Days later, pirates confirmed they were in fact holding the couple hostage within Somalia's borders.

A spokeswoman for the British Foreign Office told media in a statement on Friday that the government's policy was to not "make or facilitate concessions to hostage-takers." She added, the Office is, however, still closely "monitoring the situation" and "doing everything it can" to secure the couple's safe release.

The Chandlers' captors have demanded a ransom payment of US$7 million (£4.3 million), but the British government has refused to pay it, in line with their policy.

On Friday, the pirates granted the Chandlers separate telephone interviews with UK-based media outlet ITN. According to the interviews, the couple pleaded for help and alleged that they have been "physically attacked," separated and "treated as a captive animal" in solitary confinement at the hands of their captors.

Rachel Chandler told ITN that "dying would actually be an easy way out" and how she wanted to see her husband "at least once before we die."

The validity of these threats are not known. According to The Hindu, pirates often make empty threats of execution, but rarely harm the captives.

Piracy is especially rife in the waters near Somalia, a nation, due to an ongoing civil war, that has not had a functioning government in place since 1991. Islamic extremist groups, such as al-Shabaab, as well as various warlords and pirate gangs control most of the nation. The only exception is the besieged capital of Mogadishu, which is protected primarily by UN peace-keepers and other foreign troops.

According to the International Maritime Bureau, there were 406 reported pirate attacks worldwide in 2009, compared to approximately 290 the year before. During both years, more than 50% of these incidents occurred off the coast of the Horn of Africa.


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World Bank President to make eight-day African tour

January 23, 2010 , the president of the World Bank, is to begin an eight-day, three-nation tour of Africa starting next Tuesday. He will take part in the African Union summit scheduled to be held in, Ethiopia.

The World Bank boss would first travel to Sierra Leone, then Cote d'Ivoire, and finally heading to Ethiopia for the AU summit. According to a statement from the World Bank, Zoellick is to meet with leaders, donors, investors, and representatives of the civil society, to discuss the ongoing food crisis on the continent and possibilities for economic growth.

"I am visiting Africa to learn about how its people have coped with the global economic crisis and to see how the World Bank Group can work with them to improve prospects for economic growth and expanded opportunity. Much of Africa has a solid record of economic growth, including in some of Africa's fragile states, and it has the potential to be another pole of growth for the world economy," Zoellick said, as quoted by the institution's statement.


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Swiss court rules in favor of American account holder

January 23, 2010

An American client of Switzerland-based bank,, has won an appeal in Swiss court on Friday against providing the of the United States with relevant information about his offshore accounts. The Swiss court ruled that the man's failure to complete an IRS tax form, no matter how much money it pertained to, was not in itself fraudulent behavior. The case calls into question an agreement made between Switzerland and the United States last year in which Swiss tax authorities would supply the IRS with information on nearly 4,500 suspected and their respective accounts.

A further twenty-five similar cases are still pending; the verdicts of which may be influenced by this precedent-setting case.

The will meet next Wednesday to discuss  how to better implement last year's Swiss-US banking accord. As it pertains to the case at hand, if they so choose, Swiss tax officials can file a further appeal petitioning the court's decision.

UBS and the both have yet to comment on the matter.

According to the, UBS is "hiding" over US$15 billion in assets on behalf of American account holders.


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UK raises terrorism alert level to "severe"

January 23, 2010 The UK's Home Secretary said today that Britain has raised its terrorism alert level to "severe", the second-highest level, which indicates that an attack is "highly likely". The highest level, "critical", means that an attack is believed to be "imminent". "The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre has raised the threat [...] from 'substantial' to 'severe'. This means that a terrorist attack is highly likely," Home Secretary Alan Johnson said. "But I should stress that there is no intelligence to suggest that an attack is imminent [...] We still face a real and serious threat to the UK from international terrorism, so I would urge the public to remain vigilant and carry on reporting suspicious events to the appropriate authorities and to support the police and security services in their continuing efforts to discover, track and disrupt terrorist activity."

"We never say what the intelligence is and it would be pretty daft of us to do that [...] It shouldn't be thought to be linked to Detroit or anywhere else for that matter," he added, referring to the alleged failed attempt to blow up a passenger airliner headed for the US from Amsterdam on December 25.

"The appraisal centre keeps the threat level under constant review and makes its judgments based on a broad range of factors, including the intent and capabilities of international terrorist groups in the UK and overseas," read a statement by the Home Secretary.

The United States Department of Homeland Security responded to the Home Office's move saying in a statement, "The UK is raising their measures to effectively where we are with the airport security measures that we have taken and announced over the last few weeks. We have enhanced our security measures and communicated specific information to industry, law enforcement and the American people."

The UK has a five-level terrorism alert system, with the individual levels being "Low", "Moderate", "Substantial", "Severe", "Critical".


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Talk:Cricket: 'Politicians and Pals' defeat Buderim XI in Australia Day Twenty20 match

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Politicians team
 * 1) D. Mengel
 * 2) S. Thompson
 * 3) S. Dickson (Stat Parliament Member for Buderim)
 * 4) B. Street
 * 5) C. Thompson (Sunshine Coast Councillor)
 * 6) C. Dickson
 * 7) T. Hungerford (Sunshine Coast Councillor)
 * 8) M. Mikins
 * 9) K. Grimsman
 * 10) I. Street
 * 11) T. Clementson
 * 12) H. Bez

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 * 1) D. Lukk
 * 2) M. Goopy
 * 3) P. Grimsey
 * 4) P. Dawes
 * 5) M. Poole
 * 6) R. Kramer
 * 7) S. Vensaraya
 * 8) C. Wolwok
 * 9) P. Ross
 * 10) P. Gillett
 * 11) D. Mansfeld

Local (Sunshine Coast) Politicians
''distances quoted are distances from electorate office to buderim state school. google maps was used as a rough guide''
 * 1) Federal Parliament
 * 2) Peter Slipper (Fisher) aprox 6 KM
 * 3) Alex Somlyay (Fairfax) aprox 4 KM
 * 4) State Parliament
 * 5) Mark McArdle (Caloundra) - 10+ KM
 * 6) Jarrod Bleijie (Kawana) - approx 6 KM
 * 7) Steve Dixon (Buderim) - < 1 KM
 * 8) Fiona Simpson (Maroochydore) - aprox 4 KM
 * 9) Glen Elms (Noosa) - 10+ KM
 * 10) Peter Wellington (Nicklin) - approx 9 KM
 * 11) Andrew Powell (Glass House) - 10+ KM

Buderim teams in Sunshine Coast Competition
--RockerballAustralia (talk) 07:42, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 3rds - multi-innings
 * 4ths - two teams - multi-innings
 * 5ths - limited overs

Scores
Cricket Club XI - 9/211 Politicians and Pals - 9/220 --RockerballAustralia (talk) 11:36, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Teams ans scires were transcribed directly from the scorebook--RockerballAustralia (talk) 14:38, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Clean-up
I've made some changes, but I don't think that it's ready to be published yet. Some questions / suggestions:

 * 1) Please check that I'm right in changing it to the text to "Steve Dickson" from "Steve Dixon" (to match the WP article and the image caption)
 * 2) Paragraph 3 - which team is this?
 * 3) Paragraph 4 - same question.
 * 4) If paras 3 and 4 are the same team, what can be said about the other team's innings?
 * 5) Who is "Merv"? If we don't know a full name, or both umpires, best left out?
 * 6) "Politicians and Friends", or "Politicians and Pals"?
 * 7) Do we need a file photo of an unrelated game?

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All done. The name is "Steve Dickson". Paragraphs three and four should be clearer now. I was going to let the video and audio do the talking but I've added a small blurb before it. And the file photo is or background info--RockerballAustralia (talk) 00:05, 27 January 2010 (UTC)


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How could it be possible that he has done it to so many people and no action is taken for so many years?
 * Victims may have remained quiet, afraid of either letting others know what happened or afraid of the accused. It might take just one of them to come forward, or some other catalyst, to help the others stand up too. Everyone has "friends," but few people actually have someone they would really trust, especially to help them after something like this. Every situation is different, of course, but from what I know, that's what I think. --67.174.131.145 (talk) 06:09, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

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Is it really necessary to call the failed Christmas bombing "alleged?" It's pretty obvious it was no accident, with him confessing, his links to terrorist organizations, and al-qaeda explaining in detail their responsibility of the attack. This is comparable to calling the 9/11 attacks "allegedly by al-qaeda."


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I would recommend removing the African Press Agency source as I can't seem to get onto it. -- Rayboy8 ( my talk ) ( my contributions ) 11:37, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * It appears to be a subscription source that only allows public viewing of articles within the last day. I seem to have inadvertently used it not knowing that it was subscription. But, there is some information that was extracted from that website, I don't think it should be removed. Tempodivalse [talk]  15:44, 4 February 2010 (UTC)


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UK military deaths in Afghanistan reach 250

January 23, 2010

The Ministry of Defence has made the announcement of the death of a soldier in Afghanistan. The soldier came from A Company 4 Rifles.

The man, whose service was as a part of 3 Rifles Battle Group, has currently not been identified as his next of kin have requested waiting for a time period of 24 hours before releasing any more information. He was on foot patrol near the town of Sangin in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan when he was killed as the result of an explosion in the area on the afternoon of January 22. The total number of military personnel that has been killed in Afghanistan since 2001 has now increased to 250.

Lieutenant Colonel David Wakefield, who is the spokesperson for Task Force Helmand, said: "It is my sad duty to inform you that a British soldier from A Company 4 Rifles, serving as part of 3 Rifles Battle Group, was killed by an explosion near Sangin in Helmand Province earlier. He was on a foot patrol, part of a larger operation to provide security for the local population in Sangin, when the explosion happened. His courage and the sacrifice he has made will not be forgotten."


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Haiti rescue effort abandoned

January 23, 2010 The United Nations has announced that the government of Haiti has put an end to its efforts to find and rescue buried survivors of the earthquake that hit the region eleven days ago. The announcement comes just a day after two people were found alive.

According to Elizabeth Byrs, the UN spokeswoman, 132 people have been rescued since the earthquake hit. The death toll, as of Friday, is estimated to be 110,000. It is thought that the chances of survival are so slim that it is not worth the resources required for a successful rescue operation. Byrs called the decision to end the rescue effort "heartbreaking", but added that it had been advised by experts.

Only yesterday, an 84-year-old woman was found—severely injured and dehydrated—in the rubble of her home, and Emmannuel Buso, aged 21, was rescued by an Israeli search team. He said that he was coming out of the shower when the earthquake hit, and survived ten days by drinking his own urine. There is currently no information on whether the Israeli team will also stop their rescue efforts.

Shortly after the announcement, a French rescue team reported that it was trying to save a man who is trapped under the ruins of a hotel and supermarket. They cannot yet see the man, who said that he saw the team's light, and that as many as five other people are trapped with him. The rescue team said that it could take two hours to rescue the man.

It is hoped that removing focus from the rescue operation will allow more money and effort to be diverted to the logistically difficult relief effort, which has already seen planes arriving at the now operational Port-au-Prince airport at a rate of 150 per day and a United States Navy hospital ship, the USNS Comfort, moored outside the partly-operational seaport.

At least 130,000 people have been relocated out of Port-au-Prince, say the UN, whose World Food Program has provided approximately 2 million meals to starving people and calls the current operation "the most complex operation WFP has ever launched".

The magnitude 7 earthquake is estimated to have made 1.5 million people homeless, and some estimations of the death toll rise as high as 200,000. More than 75,000 bodies have been recovered and buried in mass graves, while more remain in the streets waiting to be collected.

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Sad, very sad.
Sad reading indeed. Where are we heading to in this world!(ME - Zambia)

I really do not have much sympathy for these people. It might sound a bit heartless, but did they not know there is a piracy problem in the region? It is a bit hard to miss. Their situation is a direct result of their own actions.


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User talk:Anonymous007~enwikinews

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Anonymous007. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Anonymous007~enwikinews that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:11, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:28, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:69.211.57.85

Thanks!
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Comments:UK raises terrorism alert level to "severe"

Do you agree with this move?
I doubt that anyone has specific intelligence into any planning that may or may not be occuring, it seems like the threat level only exists to scare people and isn't that the terrorist's job?

-Chance Carter Hartford, CT USA

That's the idea, really. In the eyes of the politicians, it may help by alerting people, but in basis threat levels tell you when to be afraid. It's interesting that they don't do a very good job. I guess the media would need to scream about it more. —174.88.171.238 (talk) 08:29, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Do you agree with this move?
More of "1984." Just a few years late.

Don't you believe it
As I commented as soon as the level was changed, and again in irc, I'll believe it when something explodes and not before. Yes, I do believe that if there was a real threat they'd raise the level, but I consider it far more likely to be something to scare the nation with. Perhaps they have a new antiterror kneejerk policy coming out. Blood Red Sandman (Talk)   (Contribs) 12:25, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Ah, the favorite " STATE OF EMERGENCY AH NED MOAR POWAH" Excuse. I really dont see why the U.K needs it, they already can wiretap and spy on people as they please. This all stinks of a patriot act MK2: UK edition or something. 164.116.47.180 (talk) 16:03, 25 January 2010 (UTC)


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User talk:213.17.22.115

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User talk:69.183.236.215

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User talk:122.106.65.56

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User talk:121.243.72.102

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