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25 mongrel dogs burn alive in dog shelter fire

trueversy — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:31:39 +0000

This morning in the town of Solyakamsk in the Perm region a fire broke out in a dogs’ shelter. 25 mongrels died in the blaze

Hockey club official falls out of hospital window while smoking

trueversy — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:31:39 +0000

Vice President of Hockey Club Ak Bars and a deputy of the Municipal Duma of the city of Kazan (Tatarstan Republic), Ravil Shavaleyev, fell out of the window on the third storey of the Republican Hospital

Debris of Sukhoi Superjet-100 found. No sign of survivors reported

trueversy — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:31:38 +0000

The debris of Russia’s Sukhoi Superjet-100 has been found in Indonesia. The state-of-the-art airplane went off radar screens yesterday

How Growing Numbers of API Voters Will Help Change Politics

trueversy — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:31:01 +0000

S.F. Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting
A new study just confirms what most of us in the API community already suspected, Asian and Pacific Islander voters are both highly motivated to vote and gaining greater significance in national American politics.
With the Asian and Pacific Islander community one of the fastest growing voting constituencies – and a key voting block in many swing states – our concerns will be closely examined by both Democratic and Republican candidates in the coming election.
The Broader Immigrant Vote
The national poll commissioned by the Asian American Justice Center, the Asian American Institute, members of the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice, and APIAVote is designed to help focus attention on the rising political power of Asian Americans.
As we look more closely at these numbers, they show not just the growing political power of the API vote, but how this growing community of voters will help focus policy discussions as well.
The poll of 1,100 Asian American voters found 54% of API voters in California were immigrants and 69% of those born in the U.S. were the sons and daughters of immigrants.
For those of us who want to see our government more focused on solutions rather than partisan bickering, this growing power of immigrant communities is a very good thing.
The very practical challenges facing immigrants help drive our politics towards a more solutions-oriented approach. Immigrant communities need great public schools, an economy that creates high-wage jobs and access to affordable colleges and universities. And these are not just issues faced by Asian Americans, but by all immigrant communities and, in fact, by almost all Americans.
But perhaps because these basic educational and economic challenges tend to be faced most acutely in immigrant communities – as immigrant voting power grows, so too does focus on these fundamental concerns.
Immigrant Communities Will Help Drive Policy Discussions
When my folks came to America – they came for a country where they could educate their children in great public schools and affordable colleges and universities. They were proud that they were able to send me to UC Berkeley and then to Harvard.
My parents are some of the hardest working people I have ever met, and they demanded their children work hard too. But in the 25 years since I went to Cal, the world has changed – no matter how hard you work, it is almost impossible to send children to college on middle class incomes. The cost of public education in California has skyrocketed even as access has become more limited and, as hard as it is to fathom, it is now less expensive for a middle-class family to send a child to an Ivy League school than it is to send them to a state college or university.
The main reason is that the Ivy League offers scholarships to middle-class families, and the UC system and California State Universities are so financially hard-pressed that they are unable to help middle-class students afford rising tuition rates.
Back to my point about the shared values of immigrant families – one son of immigrants I met while at UC Berkeley is now working on a solution to this challenge faced by middle-class families. His name is John Pérez, and he his now the Speaker of the State Assembly, giving him a pretty good position to advocate for a Middle Class Scholarship Act that is coming before the State Assembly this week.
It is very important to recognize the growing political power of Asian Americans and other immigrant groups, which this new poll does very well.
But what is even more important is to use this power to make our lives, and our nation, that much better. That’s why I am such a strong supporter of the Middle Class Scholarship Act – just one of the many quality of life changes we all have the responsibility to drive.
Phil Ting is the Assessor Recorder of San Francisco. He is the founder of a group called Reset San Francisco designed to drive practical solutions in government, and he is a candidate for State Assembly in the 19th Assembly District.

Alina Powell Shows Home Video of Presumed Murdered Susan Powell

trueversy — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:31:00 +0000

[Demons and Saints: Murder of Susan Cox Powell Family]
I’ve created a book-on-a-blog website on the Susan Powell case here at the link above. It has the most detailed biographies and timelines of events that I’ve seen, and the closest thing to a comprehensive reference book on the case. I believe it fills in just about every hole in explaining what happened and why.
This Asian dad (who has a soft spot for Mormon religion and culture, along with Jews as friendly rivals to Asians) is still horrified by the still unraveling story of the now presumed murder, not just disappearance of Susan Cox Powell and her family. For those still catching up, in 2009 Susan’s husband Josh gave the world’s worst cover story in the world that she ran off instead of being murdered and her body hidden during a midnight snowstorm camping trip with the kids in 2009. America didn’t pay attention again until Josh snatched his two boys from a social worker, put an ax to them and blew up himself and his house with gasoline, making it obvious that Josh was at least the murderer of his two boys and almost certainly his wife. There is an almost endless list of red flags and evidence and plausible timelines that provide just about everything but the body, including finding Susan’s blood on the floor, fans pointed at a recently cleaned sofa, lying about a phone, Susan leaving a note that she expected to be murdered by Josh, Josh and Steven obviously lying about absolutely impossible scenarios of Susan leaving without her phone, keys or purse or going to Brazil, refusing to tell police anything that really happened, and basically behaving exactly as a guilty man would be expected to behave up to murdering his boys. I believe that the fact that the local police decided to hide the evidence under seal from the public rather than even name Josh as a suspect leads me to believe that somebody in the city government going as high as the Mayor made a decision to give Josh a pass unless a 100% perfect case was handed to them with a bow on it.
It now turns out the Josh’s father Steven is the one who started a pattern of hating Mormons and controlling his family as posessions. He fell into porn soon after marriage and fell out of the LDS church, eventually being arrested in 2011 for taking photos and videos of his neighbor’s small girls doing things girls do in the bathroom, and found with inappropriate stalking pictures (really, really inappropriate, like naked fantasy inappropriate) of Susan as well who had to leave Washington to get away from Steve’s advances.
The Cox family and most netizen observers are convinced that Steve helped Josh plan the murder as they were on the phone up until the day of the disappearance. Steve was seen with Josh in the desert dressed in street clothes evidently looking for a good place to hide a body in the fall of 2009. A co-worker says that Steve took a vacation trip about the time Susan vanished, and Steve took sick days shortly after Susan was murdered about the same time Josh rented a car and drove it 800 miles, enough to meet Steve somewhere halfway on the path to Seattle through Idaho from Salt Lake.
The fact that Steven wove an incredibly over-detailed conspiracy theory of how Susan probably ran off to Brazil with another man says to me that such tales are only created lead you away from an obvious truth, and even more evidence of guilt, just as the 9/11 conspiracy theories is actually evidence that people who are against Israel and the US war against terrorists were behind the 9-11 attacks. I doubt Steve would come up with such a story just to protect Josh if he were not also involved. Yet Steven is only being charged for voyeurism for now, which only has a penalty of a few years in jail or less.
Home videos:
Alina Powell is still creeping us all out by covering up the crimes of her brother Josh and her father who all but certainly were involved together in the murder of Susan Powell. The Powell family needs to come clean and stop fighting a psychological disinformation war to paint Josh and Steven as victims of unjust persecution. Nearly all of the pro-Josh posts that sprinkle the Seattle and Utah / Mormon press story comments are obviously coming from Josh’s immediate siblings as they are his only supporters, whether public or otherwise. They should instead of defending Josh as an innocent victim, they should own up crimes of Josh and Steven and plead for forgiveness and mercy if they have any decency whatever.

Law enforcement needs to focus on Steve as the only remaining person who likely knows what happened to Susan, and who evidence points to being a co-conspirator who should be charged and treated as a co-conspiritor in murder. The remaining Powell family needs to stop spreading lies and disinformation to cover up for Steve and Josh, or they should be treated as co-conspiritors as well for trying to mislead the public and authorities even if the law does not consider it a crime to do so.

The whole case seems to be a textbook example of how the justice system is rigged to protect the obviously guilty, as in the case of OJ Simpson, Murder of Robert Eric Wone, and Air India 182. The system systemically refuses to discrminate between good and evil. The case of Susan should have been treated as a murder from day one, yet West Valley still refuses to call Josh Powell a suspect or declare Susan to be presumed dead or a murder case.

This is the website with the new video: False Claims about Susan and Steve The videos seem to have been done by someone with more than a basic knowledge of how to edit and title video. Josh’s previous disinformation site susanpowell.org did not look like this site, and had no video on it. If police removed all computers and video from Steve’s house, then this video is offsite, and my guess is that backups were kept by Michael who is in Minnesota.

I took at look at the website, though I wonder who is doing the website work since Josh and Steven are obviously unable to put up a website, which leaves Michael as the mostly likely family member who knows how to do websites.

As an observer who is becoming increasingly familiar with the tragic characters and events, it was only when the e-mails were released that we heard Susan’s voice in just released e-mails which read eerily like the Diary of Anne Frank, another doomed woman. It is only now that Alina has released home video where we can see Susan while she was alive, speaking in her own voice, and for that I am thankful to her. Yes, it is in moments when she is not terrified of her father in law, and also in song as we have known that Steve enlisted Susan in some of his recording sessions, though evidently songs with Susan have not been previously released.

” Susan and Steve made beautiful music together; here are a couple of audio segments in which the two worked together on love songs written by Steve. Susan’s voice can be heard singing along with Steve in these songs.”

My Lydia.mp3

I Only Feel Love.mp3

Here are some of the videos posted by Alina, prefaced with propoganda to try to show it proves her father is a wonderful guy when he’s not into porn, stalking or plotting to murder and hide the body of his daughter in law.

Alina attacks the one sister Jennifer Graves who is not a puppet of father Steven, and the only one in the family that will admit publically Josh probably killed Susan.

At the Park.mp4

She attacks Kiirsi Hellewell, says Josh said her husband was a good programmer, but still insists the search must go on for Susan who Alina still won’t admit was murdered, and talks about anti-Josh sentiment like a terrorist propagandist complaining about anti-Arab sentiment.

By the Water.mp4

This one was aimed at Chuck and Judy Cox, they are boarding the Washington State Ferry at the Seattle ferry dock. Susan is evidently riding shotgun, Steven is driving, Josh in back on camcorder.

Driving and Riding the Ferry.mp4

This one shows Steven on left, Susan on right with boys on shoulders under the viaduct on the Seattle waterfront, and in front of the Ivar’s statue. We have only seen Susan’s face in family photos, and we’ve never heard her voice before.

Kids on their Shoulders.mp4

Such a horrible tragedy. This story needs to be written up in a book and a made-for-tv movie so that everybody knows how to spot evil, and know what it looks like, and so we can all avoid our own worst-husband-in-the world moments long before it reaches such a dim ending. It is not too late for Steven’s family to see the light and jump of the boat of darkness. I’m no great fan of Mormonism, but seems to me these folks jumped out from a relatively harmless religion straight into the hands of Satan.

$1 Billion Club Gets Crowded

trueversy — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:48:16 +0000

At least 20 closely held U.S. start-ups backed by venture capital are now valued at $1 billion or more, Pinterest and Evernote among them. During the frothy days of the 1990s dot-com bubble, there were just 18 such start-ups valued at $1 billion or more.

How Gay-Friendly is Hong Kong? It Depends.

trueversy — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:26:02 +0000

Hong Kong’s LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community may have received a boost from local pop star Anthony Wong’s very public coming-out last month, but a new survey shows that hostility continues in the workplace.

Cloudy Skies for Asian Airlines

trueversy — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:22:50 +0000

The era of Asia’s aviation supremacy is struggling before it has even taken off.