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Satanic Mass…says the Pope?

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Pope Francis meets the Devil in Jerusalem

Well, Pope Francis seems to think so since he said as much to both the BBC in England and Der Spiegel in Germany. The quote from today’s BBC World:

Pope
Francis has announced he will meet a group of sex abuse victims next
month after comparing the “ugly crime” to performing “a satanic Mass”.

The
Common Law Court trial under way in Brussels, which has named this Pope
as one accused in the use and murder via Satanic ritual of countless
children states that this statement or reference given by Francis to
“satanic mass” in relation to catholic child rape constitutes “his tacit
knowledge” of such a crime.

It
seems to me that, even if one questions everything else about the trial
(which I personally do not, having a decent understanding of Natural or
Common Law as well as having zero emotional or ancestral stake in the
Roman Catholic Church), this coupled with the announcement of impending
resignation of Jesuit Superior General Adolfo Nicolas Pachon, a mere
seven days ago, should at the very least cause the readership to wonder,
“Has this Common Law trial forced the Catholic Church to deal with this
age-old and blatant atrocity in some way other than a beatific
half-grin and a pat on our collective dumb-but-oh-so-cute heads?” Pachon
is also one of the accused.

Apparently, there are also rumours in
Rome regarding a possible resignation of Francis, himself. This trial
has been a revelation and the power of Common Law and fearless
alternative media together have , it seems, forced a great crime up into
the light such that some sort of healing can take place. The following
are the two news bulletins issued by the Court in Brussels over the
weekend:

A holocaust ceremony for the you know who…but not one for the Palestinians … You just can’t make this stuff up !

ITCCS Breaking News – May 25, 2014 (GMT, Brussels)

Accused Child Killer resigns from top Vatican office:

Jesuit head Adolfo Pachon makes startling announcement as he stands trial in absentia for Crimes against Humanity

Rome:

Amidst
rumours that Pope Francis, Jorge Bergoglio, may step down from his
office because of his public prosecution for child trafficking and
murder, one of his fellow defendants has just done so.

Jesuit
Superior General Adolfo Nicolas Pachon announced suddenly this week
that he will resign from his office at the next General Congress of the
Jesuits.

Along
with Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, Bergoglio and Pachon are
primary defendants in an historic criminal lawsuit being conducted by
the International Common Law Court of Justice in Brussels that commenced
on April 7, 2014.

Several
eyewitnesses who have given their deposition to the Court claim they
witnessed Welby, Bergoglio and Pachon participate in child rape and
sacrifice rituals connected to the notorious Jesuit-run Ninth Circle
cult, during 2009 and 2010.

In
a statement generally unreported by the world media, Pachon announced
on May 20 that he was stepping down from his office without giving a
reason.

The Italian TV news agency Rome Reports called Pachon’s resignation “unusual … for one of the leading prelates in the church”.

Pachon
is the third top Vatican official to resign while in office after being
prosecuted by the ICLCJ for crimes against humanity. Former Pope
Benedict, Joseph Ratzinger, abdicated on February 11, 2013, barely two
weeks before the ICLCJ jury found him guilty of complicity in child
trafficking and murder. Another primary defendant in the same case,
Vatican Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone, also resigned after the
verdict.

ITCCS Field Secretary Kevin Annett commented today from Canada,

“This
is yet another huge admission of guilt by some of the most powerful men
in the papacy. Obviously they are not untouchable, and their whole
corrupt criminal syndicate is coming down. We should all take hope from
this, and see that the law in the hands of the people can topple the
worst tyrants.”

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Issued by The ICLCJ Directorate, 25 May, 2014 (GMT)

An ITCCS Special Breaking Communique – Tuesday, May 27, 2014

News
Item: The BBC World News reported today that Jorge Bergoglio (“aka
“Pope Francis”) compared the rape of children by catholic priests to the
performing of a “satanic mass”

Pope’s
reference to “satanic mass” in relation to catholic child rape
constitutes “his tacit knowledge” of such a crime: Common Law Court

Outraged Survivors demand Pope’s immediate resignation for “sadistic insensitivity”

Brussels:

After
being publicly accused and indicted for participating in child
trafficking and murder involving apparent satanic rituals, Jorge
Bergoglio today indicated that he has a “tacit knowledge” of such
satanic practices in his church by associating them with the rape of
children by catholic priests, according to the Court now prosecuting
him.

The Citizen Prosecutor of the International Common Law Court of Justice said today from Brussels,

“Our
position is that Jorge Bergoglio’s bizarre remarks are not
coincidental, but reveal that he understands that the rape of children
within his church are linked to satanic rituals in which he himself
participates. We consider the Pope’s remarks a tacit admission of guilt
and more evidence of his involvement in this monstrous crime.”

Ruth
Leopold, a 51 year old American survivor of Catholic ritual torture and
rape who heads a survivors’ delegation to the Court, said today in a
statement to other members of her network Against Church Terror,

“Any
idiot knows that even mentioning trigger words like ‘satanic mass’ will
re-traumatize victims of satanic torture. So we consider the Pope’s
remarks the lowest kind of sadistic insensitivity. Maybe his words were
deliberately designed to make more of us kill ourselves, now that we are
accusing him of taking part in Ninth Circle ritual killings. It’s time
he stepped down.”

The
Common Law Court of Justice is in the midst of its third closed session
in which numerous eyewitnesses and archival documentation clearly link
Pope Francis, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Jesuit head
Adolfo Pachon to the ritual rape and killing of children as recently as
2010. Pachon announced his resignation this past week, and the Pope has
also mentioned that he is considering “early retirement”.

Bergoglio’s
remarks about satanic practices have been included in the Prosecutor’s
case against him, along with new evidence from Vatican sources detailing
the Pope’s recent efforts to cover up Ninth Circle activities and
disrupt the Court through covert means. This evidence will be described
in upcoming Public Information Bulletins from the Prosecutor’s Office.

Issued by ITCCS Central and the Court’s Directorate

27 May, 2014

Brussels

BBC News - Deal reached on release of 'gist' of Blair-Bush Iraq talks

Deal reached on release of 'gist' of Blair-Bush Iraq talks

Tony Blair with President George W. Bush in 2003

Discussions are taking place over the publication of confidential correspondence between Mr Bush and Mr Blair

Details
of the "gist" of talks between Tony Blair and George Bush ahead of the
Iraq war are to be published, the UK's Chilcot inquiry says.

But transcripts and full notes of conversations will remain secret at the request of the government.

The agreement between the inquiry and Cabinet Secretary Sir
Jeremy Heywood could clear the way for the report to be published later
this year.

It is thought to have been delayed by wrangling over what could be released.

The inquiry has been given access to full records of talks
between the two leaders in the run-up to war but is being prevented by
the government from publishing them in its final report, even after
offering to block-out sensitive parts.

The UK government's grounds for refusing the request to
publish the full documents and transcripts is that it could prejudice
future relations between the two countries.

The inquiry has instead been granted permission to "disclose
quotes or gists of the content" to help explain its conclusions, inquiry
chairman Sir John Chilcot explained in a letter to Sir Jeremy.

The documents include 25 notes from Mr Blair to Mr Bush and
more than 130 records of conversations between the former prime minister
and then US president in the run-up to war.

In his letter, Sir John said "detailed consideration" of what to release was taking place.

"Considerations will be based on the principle that use of
this material should not reflect President Bush's views. We have also
agreed that the use of direct quotation from the documents should be the
minimum necessary to enable the inquiry to articulate its conclusions,"
he writes.

Sir John says the inquiry has reached agreement on the
"principles that will underpin disclosure" of communications between
former US President George Bush and former Prime Minister Tony Blair.

The inquiry, which is examining the UK's participation in
military action against Saddam Hussein and its aftermath, began in 2009
and its last public hearings took place in 2011. It has cost more than
£7m so far.

Although the inquiry team, led by Sir John Chilcot, has never
set a target date or deadline for publication, it is generally accepted
that the timetable for publication has slipped on several occasions.

Before publication can happen, letters must be sent out to
individuals facing criticism in the report, under what is known as the
"Maxwellisation" process, to give them an opportunity to respond.

The 2003 invasion of Iraq by British and US forces, on the
pretext that it had "weapons of mass destruction," has already been the
subject of several inquiries in the UK, including the Butler report into
intelligence failings.

'Critical'
Tony Blair has said he wants the Chilcot report to be
published as soon as possible and said this week he "resented" claims he
was to blame for its slow progress.

There are concerns the report will not be released before the 2015 election.

But the ex-Labour prime minister said he was not blocking any
documents and publication would allow him "restate" the case for the
2003 invasion.

"It is certainly not me who is holding it up," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

"The sooner it is published the better, from my perspective, as it allows me to make the arguments."

Brown's document pledge

When then prime minister Gordon Brown announced the setting
up of an inquiry to "learn the lessons" of the Iraq conflict in June
2009, he wanted witnesses to be questioned behind closed doors to
protect national security and so they could speak more freely. He
swiftly backtracked after pressure from the opposition and former
government officials who wanted public hearings. But he was clear about
the need for openness when it came to secret papers, saying: "No British
document and no British witness will be beyond the scope of the
inquiry. I have asked the members of the committee to ensure that the
final report will be able to disclose all but the most sensitive
information - that is, all information except that which is essential to
our national security."

David Cameron has said he hopes the report will be released before the end of the year.

Mr Blair, who appeared in person twice before the inquiry to
justify his decision to take the UK to war, said he had an interest in
the report being published as quickly as possible.

The inquiry got agreement earlier this year on the release of
more than 200 Cabinet and Cabinet committee meetings, which would not
normally be published until 30 years after the events, if at all.

A small number of full extracts from the minutes of Cabinet
meetings judged by the inquiry to be "most critical" will be published
alongside its final report.

'Sensitive issues'
A Cabinet Office spokesman said: "The government is pleased
that agreement on a way forward on both Cabinet papers and UK/US
exchanges has now been reached with the Inquiry.

"This allows for the declassification and publication of the material the Inquiry believes it needs to explain its conclusions.

"Resolving this issue has taken longer than originally hoped but these are sensitive issues.

"The UK/US Head of Government channel is very important and must be handled sensitively.

"The government and the Inquiry are working to ensure the
Inquiry's report is published as soon as possible and the government is
doing everything it can to facilitate that."

Fracking Sucks Money From Wind While China Eclipses U.S.

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Fracking Sucks Money From Wind While China Eclipses U.S.

By Isaac Arnsdorf - May 29, 2014

U.S. President Barack Obama says natural gas can be a bridge from coal to a cleaner energy future.
Investors are showing it’s more likely a bridge to nowhere.
The country’s embrace of natural gas means less love for wind and solar. New investments in renewable energy sources declined 5 percent in North America last year to $56 billion, the lowest since 2010, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. By comparison, North American oil and gas companies spent $168.2 billion on exploration and production last year, more than double 2009, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Fracking -- the process of blasting water, sand and chemicals into miles-deep shale rock to extract fuels -- has helped push U.S. natural gas production to new highs in each of the past seven years, according to the Energy Information Administration. It’s also more expensive than traditional drilling and contributes to global warming, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Renewables, which are getting cheaper, have lost support even as the United Nations warns that time is running out to stem climate change and China forges ahead with sustainable power.
“Everyone in Washington thinks gas is a savior, so Washington has been oblivious to the renewables revolution, but China hasn’t been oblivious,” said Hal Harvey, the chief executive officer of San Francisco-based Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology LLC who has been appointed to energy panels by presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

Money Tap

The shale revolution has brought the country closer to energy self-sufficiency than at any time in the last three decades, according to the EIA. It’s also changed the way Americans invest, said James McDermott, managing director of the U.S. Renewables Group. He said his Los Angeles-based investment firm, which manages more than $750 million, is currently raising money only overseas.
Hydraulic fracturing, the technical name for fracking, has helped open the money tap for gas and oil. Since 2012, investors added more than $2.3 billion to the Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund, which tracks oil and gas companies. In the same period, investors withdrew $32.5 million from the Powershares Wilderhill Clean Energy Portfolio, the biggest exchange-traded fund tied to renewable-energy equities, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
“There’s absolutely no question that investors’ dollars have moved from one to the other,” said Bruce Jenkyn-Jones, a managing director at London-based Impax Asset Management Group Plc, which oversees about $4.2 billion.

White House

Even as investors have embraced fracking, more Americans tell pollsters they oppose the practice than support it, according to a September survey by the Washington-based Pew Research Center. It’s true that windmills as tall as 40-story buildings are still sprouting in the Great Plains, and more solar panels are appearing on Americans’ roofs, including at the White House. The U.S. is generating more power from these sources than ever before.
Yet the pace is slowing. Combined capacity for solar and wind power expanded 9 percent to 76,326 megawatts in 2013, down from a 30 percent increase in 2012, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
And the use of fossil fuels still dwarfs that of renewables. Half of new power-plant capacity in the U.S. last year was natural gas -- 6,861 megawatts, according to the Energy Department. That’s enough to provide electricity to the state of Massachusetts. It’s also 25 percent more than the combined capacity additions for solar, wind, biomass and water power.

Solar Capacity

In China, it’s a different story. Though the country burns more coal than any other, darkening the sky over its biggest cities, wind capacity expanded 21 percent to 91,412.9 megawatts in 2013, on top of 21 percent growth the year before, according to the Global Wind Energy Council. The country’s solar capacity more than doubled in each of the past five years, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Its capacity overtook the U.S. in 2013 and is now second in the world only to Germany, data show.
China is also turning to shale gas to lessen its dependency on coal. The country holds the world’s largest potential reserves yet its technology is a decade behind the U.S., BNEF said in a report today. So China is spending as much as four times more than the U.S. to develop shale gas fields, according to the report.

Clean Energy

Chinese clean-energy companies already raised $1 billion in equity so far this year, 46 percent more than last year and 2 percent more than their U.S. rivals, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
U.S. clean-energy companies did raise an unprecedented $2.9 billion in equity last year. Yet fossil-fuels companies sold shares valued at more than 14 times as much, also a record, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
The country’s oil and gas output are rebounding after decades of decline. Hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling helped the U.S. overtake Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world’s biggest combined producer of oil and gas last year, according to the Energy Department.
“Today, America is closer to energy independence than we’ve been in decades,” Obama said in his State of the Union address in January. “One of the reasons why is natural gas -- if extracted safely, it’s the bridge fuel that can power our economy with less of the carbon pollution that causes climate change.”

Shale Supporters

Shale has its enthusiastic supporters in the oil patch, on Wall Street and in Washington.
The shale revolution is part of the never-ending American revolution, according to James Volker, the chairman and chief executive officer of Denver-based Whiting Petroleum Corp. That revolution is “here to stay,” Ed Morse, Citigroup Inc.’s head of commodities research, wrote in the May issue of Foreign Affairs. And Senator Mary Landrieu, a Democrat from Louisiana, home of the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale formation, said at a March hearing that new discoveries in oil and gas, such as the one in the state where she faces a re-election battle this fall, rescued the country from an even deeper economic downturn and “fortified our national economy.”

‘Incredibly Competitive’

Renewables had their own, less widely celebrated breakthrough. The cost of photovoltaic solar energy dropped 56 percent in the past four years, according to calculations by Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
“Renewables got incredibly competitive,” said Ted Brandt, chief executive officer of Marathon Capital LLC, a Chicago-based energy and infrastructure investment bank. “What the oil and gas business has done is pretty spectacular. It’s not a well-told story but the renewables business is pretty amazing as well.”
The success of shale drilling undermined political support for tax credits for renewable energy, Brandt said. Federal incentives expired in 2013, and wind farm construction plunged 92 percent, according to data from the Global Wind Energy Council.
Dwindling investment isn’t the only obstacle to wind and solar power. The Audubon Society wants stronger rules to reduce wind farms’ dangers to birds. States such as California regulate large-scale solar parks’ effects on wildlife habitats.
And even as the gap narrows, wind and solar are still more expensive than natural gas. A megawatt-hour of solar power cost $139.25 last quarter, compared with $84.81 for wind energy and $84.21 for gas, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

More Expensive

Cheap gas blunted the appeal of renewable energy, yet shale resources haven’t stayed as inexpensive as they were. Natural gas fell to a 10-year low in 2012 because drillers looking for oil came up with gas, too, and created a glut. Since then, gas futures have risen 140 percent to $4.588 per million British thermal units; traders anticipate even higher prices next winter. In January, frigid weather and a temporary shortage caused spot prices in New York to spike as high as $99.66 per million British thermal units, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Fracking is more expensive than traditional extraction methods. Shale gas costs between $3 and $10 per million British thermal units to get out of the ground, compared with as little as 20 cents to extract some conventional supplies outside the U.S., according to the International Energy Agency. One shale well, which bores horizontally through rock, can cost as much as $13 million, compared with as little as $1.5 million for traditional vertical drilling, according to data from Goodrich Petroleum Corp. and Hart Energy LLC.

Declines Faster

Shale production also declines faster than conventional supplies. When new drilling stops, gas output drops by about 50 percent in about three years, according to the IEA. That means production only grows by constantly drilling new wells.
There have been “several cases” of water contamination from faulty wells or improper disposal, the National Ground Water Association said in April. And leaks of methane, which traps 21 times more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, while extracting and transporting gas are as much as 75 percent higher than the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates, according to a February study in the journal Science.
“There’s a not very appealing scenario where we in the next decade feel very content with what is happening with shale gas in North America, while other countries, particularly the Chinese, are building up leading technology in renewables,” said Wal van Lierop, CEO of Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital in Vancouver. “And suddenly, in the early 2020s, we in North America may realize that they own the technologies of the future.”
To contact the reporter on this story: Isaac Arnsdorf in New York at iarnsdorf@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Bob Ivry at bivry@bloomberg.net Bill Banker

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William Rivers Pitt: Tip Your Server and Save the World

(Photo: Brian Blanco / The New York Times)
It's your fourth shift in a row at the restaurant, all doubles because you only make $2.65 an hour and need to pay for rent and heat and electricity, and your section is a set of booths and tables - six four-tops, four two-tops, one eight-top - that seat forty-four customers total, and it's been packed from start to finish across your whole rip with couples and clusters of workers from the accounting firm next door and families with children and foreigners who can't read the menu and have never heard of tipping, and twenty different people in your last two shifts have sent their meal back because the cook is new and in the weeds and can't handle the volume and keeps screwing up the orders, and that's not your fault, but the customers take it out on you because you're there.
And your feet are throbbing and your back is a bag of iron rods and your arm is knotted with aching muscles from carrying huge trays of food and drinks as you weave around and through the small sliver of space available after table three joined with table four and their chairs are sprayed out into the lane, and you move through them like smoke balancing six dinners and seven drinks on one hand without spilling a drop or disturbing a soul.
And your biggest table empties out, so you swing into action and police up the plates with half-chewed food and the glasses smeared with lipstick and the pile of napkins filled with snot because one of your customers had a cold and kept blowing his nose and leaving his snot-saturated napkins on the table in an untidy pile, you grab it all up and clear it all out and wipe the table down and hit the register and give the boss his money and pocket the 4% gratuity they left you, and you wince because you know you're not making enough to pay that rent and those bills, and you wonder where you're going to live next week after they evict you, and then the door opens again.
And eight people come barreling in and get shown to your table, and you approach them on your aching feet with your back in agony and your arm trembling, and you smile the biggest smile that has ever been smiled by anyone in the history of smiling, and you hand out the menus, and you say, "Hi, my name is, and I'll be your server, can I get you some drinks?"
And it's a Coke, and a Diet Coke, and a Coke with no ice, and a water with extra ice, and a cranberry juice, and a gin and tonic with Bombay Sapphire and three olives because every group has a boozehound in tow, and an orange juice with ice, and a Diet Coke again, and you smile and say you'll be right back and go to the bartender and give them the order, and you do a pass through your other tables to see if anyone needs anything, and of course everyone does, and when you get back to the bar for the drinks, they are there and waiting in a cluster on the rubber mat by the box of sliced fruit, and you have to make sure the people who ordered Cokes get Cokes and not Diet Cokes and vice versa and everyone's ice level is where they wanted it to be, and you heft the tray filled with drinks under your trembling right arm and weave through the narrow passageways left by the other customers and bring the drinks to the table, and everyone gets exactly what they ordered, because they expect and demand nothing less.
And you put your biggest smile on again and say, "Are you folks ready to order?" like you've never been more excited about anything than feeding the faces in front of you, and they look at each other and nod, and someone decides to go first, and down the line it's I'll have a Fiesta Chicken Chopped Salad with no onions and dressing on the side and I'll have the Classic Clubhouse Grille sandwich with fries and I'll have a hamburger medium well with cheddar cheese and no pickles and onion rings and I'll have the Lemon Shrimp Fettuccine but easy on the sauce and I'll have the Blackened Tilapia how fresh is that oh very fresh and I'm not that hungry so I'll just have the Tomato Basil Soup but can I get extra croutons with that of course you can and I'll have the Riblets with a side salad and fries and can I get my drink filled again me too me too me too me too of course you can, I'll be right back.
And you didn't write any of that down because you've been doing this for years, you are the varsity of the service industry, because writing things down makes you look incompetent, and forces you to break eye contact with your customers, and takes too much time, and disrupts your megawatt smile, but you've been doing this long enough that your mind is a sponge and you don't miss a single detail, and you deliver these eight orders to the cook verbatim, and you pray he's on his game today, and you refill their drinks while checking on your other active tables and start taking orders from the two smaller groups who came into your section in the last five minutes.
And twenty minutes later the cook rings the bell and eight steaming plates are waiting for you and praise Jesus Allah Buddha Yahweh Zeus Ba-al and anyone else who answers prayers because all eight orders are letter perfect for a refreshing change of pace, so you array them on a round tray that's wider than a truck tire and lift that tray to your shoulder, and your arm trembles and your back groans and your feet scream as you navigate the treacherous landscape between the kitchen and your table of eight, place the tray down on the little fold-out holder, smile your megawatt smile, and deliver to your customers exactly what they wanted prepared exactly how they wanted it, and can I refill any drinks, sure, I'll be right back.
And twenty minutes later your biggest table burps and heaves and stands up to leave, and you thank them for coming and say you hope they come back and smile your megawatt smile as they pile out the door chattering happily like chickadees in a tree, and you feel a pulse of warmth in your core because you nailed that table, you did everything right, you gave them the good time they were looking for, and it feels amazing for a minute to know that you're good at what you do.
And then you start clearing the table of all the plates and side plates and glasses and napkins and silverware, and underneath it all is the check with your tip waiting on the line above the total, except that line is empty, and in the white space on the check to the side of the list of food that was ordered is a hastily-written note telling you that you don't deserve a tip for just doing your job.
And you pause for a moment, just a moment, because that's all you have, because another gang of eight just came through the door and are waiting impatiently for you to clear the last group's filth in anticipation of their group's filth, you pause as that warm pulse in your core burns out, and your arm trembles, and your back throbs, and your feet scream.
You pause, you pause, you breathe, you stow the panic about the rent and the bills that is in your throat like acid, you breathe, and then you get back to work because the hostess is showing that new group to your table even though you haven't had a chance to clean it yet, and seating people at a dirty table is a dead-bang guaranteed excuse for customers to short you on the tip, because the best way to save money when you go out these days is to screw the server, and any excuse will do.
So unless you get the table cleared in the time it takes for eight people to cross a room, that ready-made excuse will be in play, so you lift and clear and wipe and get it done, and flash your megawatt smile when they seat themselves, and hand out the menus, and say "Hi, my name is, and I'll be your server, can I get you some drinks?"
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Something exactly like this happened today, and yesterday, and the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that, all over the country, everywhere.
There are two types of people in America: those who have worked in the service industry, and those who have not. Those who have know this story like the back of their hand, because they have lived it. Those who haven't are, virtually without exception, the reason stories like this exist.
By now, you've certainly heard the story of the nasty note given to an Applebee's waitress, who lost her job because she posted the note online. The waitress, one Chelsea Welch of St. Louis, penned an explanation of the incident, and a manifesto for everyone who works service and deals with this kind of galloping obnoxiousness for less than minimum wage every single day.

After sharing my tips with hosts, bussers, and bartenders, I make less than $9 an hour on average, before taxes. I am expected to skip bathroom breaks if we are busy. I go hungry all day if I have several busy tables to work. I am expected to work until 1:30am and then come in again at 10:30am to open the restaurant.
I have worked 12-hour double shifts without a chance to even sit down. I am expected to portray a canned personality that has been found to be least offensive to the greatest amount of people. And I am expected to do all of this, every day, and receive change, or even nothing, in return. After all that, I can be fired for "embarrassing" someone, who directly insults his or her server on religious grounds.
I posted a picture to make people laugh, but now I want to make a serious point: Things like this happen to servers all the time. People seem to think that the easiest way to save money on a night out is to skip the tip.

A slice of Americana, in an age when service industry jobs are the best many can hope for, in a country where Right To Work laws make service employees as expendable as toilet paper. This is happening where you live every day.
So.
Worry about drones, about lawyers for the president arguing they can kill Americans anywhere and for basically any reason, worry about all of that and everything else besides...but real change comes in small doses, and actual kindness happens within reach of your arm.
Want to help the workers? The economy? The whole country?
Tip your server, don't be a jackass about it, and worry about the rest of the world after you do what is right within reach of your arm. Maybe, if you're really interested in helping your community, work towards establishing higher wages for the people who bring you food when you go out to eat; there are thousands of them right where you live. First things first; if you shaft the person making slave wages who feeds you and then go home to whine on Facebook about the poor, poor people from somewhere else, you're as much a part of the problem as the people in Washington dropping bombs and deploying drones.
All politics is local.

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William Rivers Pitt: Tip Your Server and Save the World

Thursday, 07 February 2013 09:11 By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed

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After sharing my tips with hosts, bussers, and bartenders, I make less than $9 an hour on average, before taxes. I am expected to skip bathroom breaks if we are busy. I go hungry all day if I have several busy tables to work. I am expected to work until 1:30am and then come in again at 10:30am to open the restaurant.
I have worked 12-hour double shifts without a chance to even sit down. I am expected to portray a canned personality that has been found to be least offensive to the greatest amount of people. And I am expected to do all of this, every day, and receive change, or even nothing, in return. After all that, I can be fired for "embarrassing" someone, who directly insults his or her server on religious grounds.
I posted a picture to make people laugh, but now I want to make a serious point: Things like this happen to servers all the time. People seem to think that the easiest way to save money on a night out is to skip the tip.

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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Cleveland girls' kidnapping and escape among a trickle of similar sensational cases worldwide | cleveland.com

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Cleveland girls' kidnapping and escape among a trickle of similar sensational cases worldwide

By Plain Dealer staff
on May 07, 2013 at 8:40 AM, updated May 07, 2013 at 2:32 PM

Decade of Captivity

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Elizabeth Smart has grown up to a career as a spokeswoman for victims. She was abducted in 2002 and held for nine months.Associated Press

The disappearances of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight and their escape yesterday are the latest in a thread that dates back decades and probably includes cases that never became sensational. One thing most websites that cover the stories generally note: These cases are very rare. ABC News says they represent just 0.04 percent of kidnapping cases. From Jaycee Dugard to Elizabeth Smart: How Ohio girls' kidnap ordeal is only the latest captivity case to shock America
Daily Mail of London cites the cases of Jaycee Lee Dugard, 11, kidnapped in Lake Tahoe, Calif., in 1991 and held 18 years; Elizabeth Smart, 14, kidnapped from her Utah home in 2002 and held for nine months; Danielle Cramer, who disappeared at 15 in West Bloomfield, Conn., in 2007 and was found a year later; Shawn Hornbeck of Richwoods, Mo., abducted at 11 in 2002 and found after four years; Steven Stayner, a 7-year-old abducted in 1972 and held until 1980.
From ABC News comes the case of Jeannette Tamayo, abducted at 9 in 2003 and Midsi Sanchez, abducted in 2000. It says just 0.04 percent of such kidnapping cases end in the victim's release or escape.
Cellar victim Kampusch raped, starved in film of ordeal:A Reuters story retells the case of Natascha Kampusch in Vienna, Austria, where she was held in a cellar for 8-1/2 years starting when she was 10. She escaped in 2006.
Another Austrian girl, Elisabeth Fritzl, was made a captive by her father in 1984. He held her 24 years, according to the German paper Der Spiegel and "sired seven children with her."
And in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, an attempt that failed, the case of Sarah Maynard, 13, who was kidnapped from her home by a man who killed the rest of her family.

Jaycee Dugard lived in a suburban back yard in a complex of tents and tarpaulins that neighbors wondered about but which was invisible to official visitors at the house.Associated Press

Jaycee Lee Dugard
Dugard wrote a memoir, "A Stolen Life," in 2011. She was taken from a bus stop near her home in South Lake Tahoe and kept in the back yard of a suburban house in in Antioch, about 170 miles away. Repeatedly raped, she had two children by her captor, Phillip Garrido. Neighbors wondered about the tents and tarps in the yard, but didn't probe, according to this AP story, but "a parole agent who visited 58-year-old Phillip Garrido's home didn't have an inkling about the hidden compound." Here, the New York Times follows the story.

A website called Knoji rounded up other cases worldwide: Jaycee Dugard is Not Alone: Other Kidnap Victims Held for Years of Abuse - We Must Stop It!: An additional case it reported: "Colleen Stan's story is probably the most bizarre case of long-term abduction to date. Kidnapped at age 20 while hitchhiking, by Cameron Hooker and his wife Janice, Colleen lived as a six slave to Cameron for 7 years."
It also asks the question on a lot of people's minds; "How do these kidnappers repeatedly keep victims in their own homes and backyards without someone noticing that something is amiss?"
ABC News covers Jeannette Tamayo:
Jeannette Tamayo: How Did She Escape Her Kidnapper? By keeping herself calm, winning her kidnapper's trust and persuading him she needed regular doses of medicine. Subsequently caught, he was sentenced to more than 100 years prison.
Elizabeth Smart
The girl kidnapped for nine months from her Salt Lake City bedroom in 2002 reappears in the headlines from time to time. This MSNBC story is from Monday:
Elizabeth Smart: Abstinence-only education can make rape survivors feel 'dirty,' 'filthy'
Her story is succinctly told in this Wikipedia article.
Danielle Cramer
From the Hartford Courant's 2007 story about her recovery: During a June 6 search of Gault's West Hartford home, West Hartford and Bloomfield police found Danielle Cramer, 15, in a small, locked storage closet that was hidden behind a dresser in Gault's bedroom.
At the time, ABC News said the people arrested at the house where she was found claimed Danielle had fled abuse at her home. "Cell phone records showed she had frequent contact with 41-year-old Adam Gault, a dog trainer from West Hartford who had worked for the girl's family, before her disappearance."
Eventually, Gault pleaded guilty and was given a 25-year sentence, USA Today reported.
Shawn Hornbeck
His name is on a foundation for missing children. On his website, he sums up his story: "On Sunday, October 6, 2002, while out riding my bike my life changed forever. I vanished without a trace not far from my rural Richwoods, Missouri home. On Friday, January 12, 2007, my life changed forever once again. Our prayers were answered when I and another missing child were found by authorities in an apartment in Kirkwood, Missouri."
Newsweek explores questions that came up afterward, such as why he didn't flee his captor when he was eventually taken to public spaces.
Recovery can be a challenge for victims
The New York Times explores the psychological effects and recovery for victims:
For Longtime Captives, a Complex Road Home
The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine summarizes a longer report here.

An earlier version of this story incorrectly characterized the ABC News report about the frequency similar kidnappings.Cleveland girls' kidnapping and escape among a trickle of similar sensational cases worldwide | cleveland.com

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Cleveland girls' kidnapping and escape among a trickle of similar sensational cases worldwide

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