Blog Entry #9 - Monday October 21st, 2013

Blog Entry #9 Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela was a large part of how our world has been made to this day. He has been an inspiration worldwide or everyone. He wanted change in the world because he felt that the world was unfair to certain races. He believed in equality and dedicated his life to it. Nelson Mandela started to make peaceful protests in South Africa. He started to have people backing him up because they also wanted change. These peaceful protests started to become violent and since Nelson was the leader he was sentenced to jail for 27 years. Upon release he did become violent as he could've because of the amount of people that were with him. He decided to be a true man and keep with the peace. He later became the President of South Africa. Unfortunately the world had a large loss because Nelson Passed away in 2013.

In my opinion Nelson Mandela is one of the most important people to have lived on this earth. He has caused so much change for the better and no one knows what it would be like if he did not step up. What really stood out to me is that he spent so much time in jail which he didn't deserve but upon his release he did not seek for revenge, only change. it is a shame and the world continues to mourn the death of such a great person.

Blog Entry #10 - Thursday October 31st 2013

Rob Ford video showing alleged crack use in police hands

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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford appears in a video recovered by police during the Project Traveller investigation. Police Chief Bill Blair said today after Ford's driver and friend was starred on an extortion charge. A video taken during an investigation has images of Mayor Rob ford that reference the alleged video of Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine. Blair says that they have recovered a video which is consistent with what had been described in various media reports. Blair believes that it is Mayor Rob Ford in the video but he is not going to go into details about the activity depicted in the video. Since new evidence has been found against Rob Ford search warrants have been obtained for Rob Ford's friend Alexander Lisi on drug charges. Blair confirmed the video does exist but it does not have enough evidence to press charges against Rob Ford. 

Rob Ford is now taken as a joke by everyone in the GTA so I dont think that it will help his case. I am not sure if this is reliable but I have heard that Rob Ford said that it was his twin brother in the video who took a different life path than Rob Ford. If he did actualy say this he sounds like a complete moron and it seems he's trying to think of some excuse but obviously not a very good one. 

Blog Entry #12 - Monday November 4th 2013

LA Airport shooting suspect charged with murder

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On Saturday US prosecuters filed a murder charge agaisnt the suspected gunman in the shooting inside the Los Angeles International Airport. The suspected gunman could face the death penalty. Police arrested a 23 year old named Paul Ciancia in Friday's attack which wounded five people including two federal security officers and killed a Security officer named Gerado Hernadez. Paul Cianca was also charged with commission of violence at an international airport. Paul Cianca's goal was to go after the TSA and he said he wanted to kill at least one TSA officer and didn't care which one he killed . Nobody knows why Cianca targeted the TSA but the note found in his bag said the he was willing to kill almost any airport security officer he could confront with his AR-15 semi automatic rifle. "Black, white, yellow, brown I don't discriminate," the note read. The Terminal which the shooting occurred was reopened on Saturday. The TSA planned to review the security policies but John Pistole did not say whether or not this included arming the officers.  Paul Cianca was a person who did everything on his own. People who attended his high school said that in four years they never heard him say a word and that he would always eat lunch alone. Paul Cianca was shot four times by airport police and wounded him and he was hospitalized till Saturday and there was no word on his condition. On friday Paul Cianca's father called the police because Paul was sending texts to his family suggesting he was in trouble. The call came to late as ten minutes earlier Paul walked into the airport with his rifle and started firing. 

I think that this is and horrible event and it makes me wonder why someone would ever do this. Hurt innocent people when it is not necessary. We do not know why he targeted the TSA but no matter what it was never a good enough reason to start shooting up random TSA workers that have done nothing wrong to him. He said that he didn't care which one he killed he just wanted to kill any and as much of the workers as he could. I'm not sure how a person could just kill innocent people but I hope that something will be learned from this event, mostly about gun laws. 

Paul Cianca the shooter at the airport

Blog Entry #7 - Monday, October 7th, 2013

 Dementia home fight leaves 91 year old women dead

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Jack Little

  Halifax police are investigating  a death of a 91 year old women after a fight broke out in a dementia home. The 91 year old was fighting a 74 year old women when the 91 year old fell and was seriously injured. She was taken to the hospital but later died. They are investigating like any other suspicious death but this death is complicated because the women had signs of dementia. It brings a twist to the investigation because some individuals might not remember what happened. One of the staff said the fight broke out in a common area and that staff intervened quickly but obviously it was too late. The residents of the house either have dementia or Al timers disease but are physically well. The facility is unlicensed but it is said that it runs the same as other nursing homes that has nurses and licensed staff.  The major crime unit is investigating and an autopsy is set to be done sometime today. Hopefully we will get some answers on what occurred but until then it is upsetting to hear about another life being lost when it didn't have to happen.

The home where the fight occured

Blog Entry #8 - Tuesday October 15 2013

Philippines Earthquake Death Toll Continues to Rise

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The amount of deaths from the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that hit the central Philippine island of Bohol on Tuesday rose to 93. A hospital collapsed hospital claimed the lives of many victims as rescuers struggled to reach the patients in the collapsed hospital. Large areas were left without power. A police chief said that 77 of the deaths happened withing the province with at least 15 died in the nearby province Cebu and another on Siquijor Island. The earthquake hit at 8:12 am and was centered about 33 kilometers below Carmen city where many small buildings collapsed. Rescue operations were made difficult due to roads and bridges being damaged. Some historic churches suffered heavy damage along with the country's oldest the 16th century Basicalica of the Holy Child in Cebu which lost its bell tower. Half of the 17th century limestone churches were reduced to rubble. The most amount of deaths occurred due to a hospital collapse in the municipality of Loon. Windy weather and rain made it impossible for the rescue helicopters to come. Some people moved in with their relatives but authorities set up tents for people that were unable to do so. Some people died from stampedes that actually ended up killing at least five people. Overall this earthquake was brutal and it saddens me to hear that peoples life were lost when they didn't need to be. Those people on the bridge that were killed in the stampede did not have to die.

The aftermath of the earthquake

Blog entry #6 - Tuesday October 1st 2013

Migrant boat sinking kills 82

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82 people have died so far after the boat carrying migrants from Africa sank off the Sicilian island. So far 82 bodies have been recovered the death toll was rising as they laid the bodies out on the harbor. The coast guard said that it seemed there were between 400 and 500 migrant on the boat when it sank and 150 people have been rescued so far. Thousands of migrants from Africa arrive in Italy unsafe in overcrowded vessels each year. Most of them go to Lampedusa a small island 113 kilometers from the coast on Tunisia. Number have grown a lot this year due to the civil war in Syria. Most Syrians have arrived on the eastern coast of Sicily from Egypt. The submerged vessel was about 20 meters on length and had been identified in the water after it caught fire and sank. Coastguard official Floriana Segreto said that rescue operations were still continuing. A fishing boat set the alarm around 7:20 am local time and began pulling people out of the water before coast guard vessels arrived to the scene. A total of 117 migrants were recovered, including 20 women and four children. I think that more needs to be done about unsafe vessels. You can only fit so many people on a vessel and trying to do more than what it's made to is a disaster waiting to happen. 

Rescue workers carrying the body of a drowned migrant.

Blog Entry #5 - September 27th 2013

NYC Road Rage biker injured SUV driver beaten 

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A driver was assaulted by a group of bikers. It is unclear to as why all of this started but what we can see on a video is that a biker slows down on purpose so that the car hits him. This group of biker consisted of dozens of them and when the range rover hit the biker everyone stopped and surrounded him. Inside the car was Alexium Lein with his wife and daughter. During this time the biker start to dent his car and slash his tires. In fear of his life Alexium speeds of knocking over multiple biker breaking one of their legs. He continues to speed off but the bikers begin pursuit. During a red light one of the bikers try to open his door but Alexium speeds off again in fear. Alexium later gets caught in traffic and one biker takes his helmet and smashes through Alexium's window. They open the door and drag him to the ground. He gets punched and kicked multiple times hospitalizing him. I assume that the wife and kids were not injured as the article did not say. In my opinion the bikers had no right to do any of this as it seems they started it. If I were put in Alexium's position I would speed off too instead of getting my family injured  or killed. The bikers in the video looked very upset and aggressive so he acted on what he thought was the best thing he could do.

The SUV driver being pulled out of his car and beaten