A polar bear attacked a woman at Berlin Zoo Friday afternoon after she climbed a fence and jumped into its habitat during feeding time, police said Saturday.
The bear attacks the woman during feeding time at the zoo.

The bear attacks the woman during feeding time at the zoo.

One adult polar bit her several times after she plunged into the moat, police said.

Zoo workers tossed rescue rings toward the woman to hoist her out and distract polar bears swimming nearby, said Goerg Gebhard, a Berlin police officer.

“They saved her life,” Gebhard told CNN.

The woman was severely injured and was being treated at a hospital, police said.

It’s unclear why the woman entered the bear habitat, but police issued her a citation for trespassing. – Source

But before we get too excited about the reemergence of our economies maybe we should consider this:

Led by Germany’s Peer Steinbruck, they are concerned about all the billions being added to governments’ debt, and have said it would be best to see if the current stimulus schemes start to work before more money is dedicated.

They are some European finance ministers. They make sense. The UK and US financial types think pouring more money on the problem is the solution. They are ID10Ts of the highest magnitude. Period.

Idiots

Of course we can argue night and day about his motives, but from the sounds of it they aren’t half bad. Now the question is will anyone else follow his example?

For those who care here’s the official statement on the Crook County Sheriff’s website concerning this decision.

This will prove very popular with the people facing eviction but I fear the cronies in the mortgage companies will come gunning for this guy’s political head at the first opportunity.

• Log in ID of users
• IP addresses of users computers
• Details of the video clips uploaded and viewed

Viacom is the parent company of Paramount pictures and MTV. They accuse YouTube of “massive copyright infringement”. A few other international companies are looking to join in on the lawsuit as part of a possible class-action against Google. One such company is The UK’s Premier League association which contends that Youtube has allowed the viewing of football (soccer) match highlights.

Clearly the lawsuit isn’t something new as it has been in litigation for over a year now, but these developments are troubling to say the least. This order opens a wide path not to just go after Google as a company, but also individual users of the YouTube service. I wonder if a person views copyrighted material, knowing it is copyrighted have they violated the law as well as those who supply it?

What are your thoughts on this? Do you feel violated? Does it concern you that by embedding copyrighted material on a website or blog via YouTube that could possibly be considered an issue of copyright infringement?

Additional information:

• EFF thoughts on the matter
• Google has been ordered to turn over all the REMOVED videos as well. Google had argued that Viacom should have to specify the individual videos, but the judge disagreed
• Google responded by saying:
  

  “We are pleased the court put some limits on discovery,” Google said in the statement, “including refusing to allow Viacom to access users’ private videos and our search technology. We are disappointed the court granted Viacom’s overreaching demand for viewing history. We are asking Viacom to respect users’ privacy and allow us to anonymize the logs before producing them under the court’s order.”

A prisoner killed in a Maryland county jail on Sunday was a victim of “vigilante justice,” Prince George’s County Chief Executive Jack Johnson said.

Ronnie White, 19, was in custody in connection with the death of a police officer.

Ronnie White, 19, died of strangulation and asphyxiation and had two broken bones in his neck, an autopsy showed.

An attorney for White’s family said that because White was being held in solitary confinement at the Prince George’s County Correctional Center, a corrections officer would have had to let whoever killed the prisoner into his cell. Link to rest of the article

This is a man who hadn’t seen his day in court nor had a chance to address the charges against him and some assholes decided to take it upon themselves to execute a summary judgment on him. Hell, even the worst dictators in the world have a greater sense of right and wrong than this. But what can “we” do about it?

To start with we can demand justice. Someone must hang for this. It is as simple as that. Probably multiple people if the truth were known. I don’t mean legally hang I mean literally hang. Like they did to people in the old days. You know, wild west style. Except they’ll get a fair trial before they hang.

Or am I wrong?