Apparently it is a matter of sorting out which transfers were legal. Then info and funds can be released to the public.
Comments »FLASH: FITCH DOWNGRADES FIVE MAJOR EUROPEAN BANKS
Brazil Asks Chevron to Cease All Business Activity and Pay $10 Billion for Oil Spill
SHOCK: Nearly 1 in 5 Women Report Being Raped or Attempt
An exhaustive government survey of rape and domestic violence released on Wednesday affirmed that sexual violence against women remains endemic in the United States and in some instances may be far more common than previously thought.
Nearly one in five women surveyed said they had been raped or had experienced an attempted rape at some point, and one in four reported being beaten by an intimate partner. One in six women have been stalked, according to the report.
“That almost one in five women have been raped in their lifetime is very striking and, I think, will be surprising to a lot of people,” said Linda C. Degutis, director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which conducted the survey. “I don’t think we’ve really known that it was this prevalent in the population.”
The study, called the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, was begun in 2010 by the C.D.C. with the support of the National Institute of Justice and the Department of Defense. The study, a continuing telephone survey of a nationally representative sample of 16,507 adults, defines intimate partner and sexual violence broadly.
The surveyors elicited information on types of aggression not previously studied in national surveys, including sexual violence other than rape, psychological aggression, coercion and control of reproductive and sexual health.
They also gathered information about the physical and mental health of violence survivors.
Sexual violence affects women disproportionately, the researchers found. One-third of women said they had been victims of a rape, beating or stalking, or a combination of assaults.
The researchers defined rape as completed forced penetration, forced penetration facilitated by drugs or alcohol, or attempted forced penetration. By that definition, 1 percent of women surveyed reported being raped in the previous year, a figure that suggests 1.3 million American women annually may be victims of rape or attempted rape.
That figure is significantly higher than previous estimates. The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network last year estimated that 272,350 Americans were victims of sexual violence. And only 84,767 assaults defined as forcible rapes were reported in 2010, according to national statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
But men also reported being victimized in surprising numbers.
One in seven men have experienced severe violence at the hands of an intimate partner, the survey found, and one in 71 men — between 1 and 2 percent — have been raped, many when they were younger than 11.
A vast majority of women who said they had been victims of sexual violence, rape or stalking reported symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, as did about one-third of the men.
Women who had experienced such violence were also more likely than women who had not to report having asthma, diabetes or irritable bowel syndrome. Both men and women who had been assaulted were more likely than those who had not to report frequent headaches, chronic pain, difficulty sleeping, limitations on activity, and poor physical and mental health.
“We’ve seen this association with chronic health conditions in smaller studies before,” said Lisa James, director of health for Futures Without Violence, a national nonprofit group based in San Francisco that advocates for programs to end violence against women and girls. “People who grow up with violence adopt coping strategies that can lead to poor health outcomes. We know that women in abusive relationships are at increased risk for smoking, for example.”
The survey found that youth itself was an important risk factor for sexual violence and assault. Some 28 percent of male victims of rape reported that they were first assaulted when they were no older than 10.
Only 12 percent of female rape victims were assaulted when they were 10 or younger, but almost half of female victims said they were raped before they turned 18. About 80 percent of rape victims reported that they were raped before age 25.
Rape at a young age was associated with another, later rape; about 35 percent of women who had been raped as minors were also raped as adults, the survey found.
More than half of female rape victims had been raped by an intimate partner, according to the study, and 40 percent had been raped by an acquaintance; more than half of men who had been raped said the assailant was an acquaintance.
The public release of the report was postponed twice, most recently on Nov. 28. The findings are based on completed interviews lasting about 25 minutes each; they were conducted in 2010 with 9,086 women and 7,421 men.
Comments »President Obama Doubles Down Rhetoric on Acting Unilaterally in D.C.
In an interview with KOAA-TV, a local news channel from Colorado Springs, Colorado, President Obama says if Congress is not willing to pass legislation he wants, he will do it himself in order to win another term. Read the transcript below.
Rob Quirk, KOAA-TV: “And one year from today we will know if this a one-term or two-term president. So, I asked the president what will it take from now until then to not only win Colorado again, but reelection as well.”
President Obama: “Well, what we’re going to have to do is continue to make progress on the economy over the next several months. And where Congress is not willing to act, we’re going to go ahead and do it ourselves. But it would be nice if we could get a little bit of help from Capitol Hill.”
Comments »Hilarious: Dubai royals were held up for euro2 million in London
Comments »Members of an armed gang are on trial after they’ve been charged with stealing millions from the Dubai royal family. The £2million heist ($3,099,000) was the royal family’s “holiday spending money” set aside for its visit to London on June 24.
Royal aide Abdullah Shakeri, who testified from behind a protective screen, said he thought members of the gang were only joking when they first approached him outside the Emirates Bank in Knightsbridge, West London with the demand to “put the cases down or I’ll shoot you in the face.” The Daily Mail reports that the robbers then repeated their threat and told Shakeri he would be shot if he did not flee the scene.
Prosecutor Alexandra Felix said the money was divided into £50 notes, held in two suitcases. “The royal family were in the UK and required money for their stay here,” Felix said. “Mr Shakeri had made arrangements to collect the money. He and the manager went into a room to count the money. The cash was in £50 note bundles which was placed in suitcases.”
Shakeri described the man who held him at gunpoint as a young Middle Eastern man with short dark gelled hair and a leather jacket. “He had a gun. I think it was a black automatic handgun. He pointed it at me,” Shakeri said. The man then shouted for an accomplice, whom Shakeri described as a black man wearing a white hard hat and a “high visibility jacket.” The accomplice reportedly told Shakeri and the other royal family staff to run into a nearby shop. “We did as we were asked so we went into a H&M just next to the bank,” Shakeri said.
After the robbers fled, the royal family staff radioed the diplomatic protection group, who pursued the suspects. A man fitting the description of the first suspect was spotted just 300 feet from the crime scene but escaped and has yet to be found.
An officer spotted the suspect throwing a metallic object under a car, which he thought was a gun but turned out to be two mobile phones.
However, police were able to apprehend getaway driver Johnathon Haynes, 36, along with the royal family’s stolen cash. They also found the hard hat, the high-visibility jacket and a passport for Trevor Mair, 46, inside the car.
When Haynes was handcuffed, he reportedly told the arresting officers, “Yes, OK, fair enough. Are you going to take me to the police station now because I’m a bit cold.”
Is Express Scripts Giving You a Buy Signal ?
Investors are reacting to news of contract dispute….perhaps a chance to buy some shares on the cheap. Please do your homework as i have not done any for you.
Comments »Oil Takes a Dip on OPEC Leaving Production Unchanged
The Cavemen in Saudi Arabia Execute Women for Sorcery
They were beheaded for witchcraft. This is not a republished story from the year 900.
Full article
JPM Gets Hammered After Liquidator States The Lender, JPM, Will Be Subject to Investigation in the MF Global Case
Facebook Makes a Move For Mobile Advertising
Murdoch May Care to Revise His Statements After E-Mails Show Contradiction
MBIA Settles With Morgan Stanley for $1.8 Billion
Morgan Stanley will accept some coin and get out of litigation over insurance claims.
Comments »Corzine Comments on the Missing Money
NTSP WANTS FULL BAN ON CELL PHONE USE WHILE DRIVING
Federal accident investigators Tuesday called for a nationwide ban on the use of cell phones and text messaging devices while driving.
The recommendation is the most far-reaching yet by the National Transportation Safety Board, which in the past 10 years has increasingly sought to limit the use of portable electronic devices. It has recommended such bans for novice drivers, school bus drivers and commercial truckers.
The new recommendation, if adopted by states, would outlaw non-emergency phone calls and texting by operators of every vehicle on the road.
It would not apply to hand-free devices or to passengers.
Comments »FLASH: Federal Reserve Repeats Pledge to Keep Interest Rates Low, Sees Economy Expanding Slowly
from CNBC.com
Comments »JIVE, Social Business Software, Pops 36% for its IPO Debut
State of the Nation: Financial Problems Cause Municipalities to Fire Police Departments
McDonald’s and KFC Benefit From Delivery in Asia
WaMu May Be Exiting Bankruptcy Soon As They Have Struck an Equitable Settlement With Shareholders
It seems shareholder and bondholders are satisfied with a settlement struck recently
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