Video of police abuse stokes anger in Egypt

CAIRO (AP) ? Egypt's Interior Minister vowed Saturday to investigate the beating of a naked man by riot police that threatened to further inflame popular anger against security forces, but suggested that initial results absolve the police of direct abuse.

The beating was caught on camera by The Associated Press and the video was broadcast live on Egyptian television late Friday as protests raged in the streets outside the presidential palace. The AP video showed police trying to bundle the naked man into a police van after beating him.

Less than 24 hours after the incident, several thousand anti-government demonstrators marched again on the palace Saturday denouncing the police and Islamist President Mohammed Morsi after a week of violent protests that claimed more than 60 lives nationwide.

Speaking to reporters after Friday's assault, Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim said that initial results from the public prosecutor's investigation show that 48-year-old Hamada Saber was undressed by "rioters" during skirmishes between police and protesters. He was then hit in the foot by a bird shot, the interior minister said, stopping short of saying if the injury was a result of police firing into the crowds.

"The central security forces then found him lying on the ground and tried to put him in an armored vehicle, though the way in which they did that was excessive," said Ibrahim.

In the AP footage from Friday, at least seven black-clad riot police beat Saber, whose pants are down around his ankles, with sticks before dragging him along the muddy pavement and tossing him into a police van.

The beating happened as thousands of protesters chanted against Morsi, throwing firebombs and firing flares at the presidential palace as police pumped volleys of tear gas and bird shot into the crowd, killing one protester and wounding more than 90.

The Interior Ministry said in a rare statement that it "regrets" the beating, and that it too is investigating the incident. But it also sought to distance itself ? and the police in general ? from the abuse, saying that "what took place was carried out by individuals that do not represent in any way the doctrine of all policemen who direct their efforts to protecting the security and stability of the nation and sacrifice their lives to protect civilians."

A statement by Morsi's office called the incident "shocking", but stressed that violence and vandalism of government property is unacceptable.

Ibrahim said nearly 400 policemen have been wounded this past week, warning that the disintegration of police will lead to even wider-spread chaos in the Arab world's most populous nation.

"The collapse of police will affect Egypt and transform it into a militia state like some neighboring nations," Ibrahim said, eluding to Libya where militias comprise the bulk of security after that nation's uprising.

Already some Islamists have warned they could set up militias to protect their interests, while a group calling itself "Black Bloc" whose followers wear black masks claim to defend protesters opposed to the Islamist president's rule.

Ibrahim is the fifth interior minister to head the security force in the past two years. Distraught police officers heckled him earlier in the week when he showed up for the funeral of two officers killed last weekend, angry over attacks against them and investigations into their use of power after decades of near impunity under ousted leader Hosni Mubarak.

Rights groups have accused Morsi of not taking steps to reform the Interior Ministry, which was long the backbone of Mubarak's regime. Police under Mubarak were notorious for using excessive force against protesters and beating those in custody. The uprising against his rule erupted in early 2011 in large part out of anger against widespread police powers and impunity.

In a defining image of post-Mubarak violence against protesters, Egyptians were outraged last year when military police were caught on camera dragging a veiled woman through the streets during a protest, pulling her conservative black robe over her head and revealing her blue bra.

Protesters and rights groups have most recently accused police of using excessive force this past week during a wave of mass demonstrations in cities around the country called by opposition politicians, trying to wrest concessions from Morsi.

But many protesters go further, saying Morsi must be removed from office, accusing his Muslim Brotherhood of monopolizing power and failing to deal with the country's mounting woes. Many have been further angered by Morsi's praise of the security forces after the high death toll.

The chaos prompted Morsi to order a limited curfew in three provinces and the deployment of the military to the streets.

The main opposition National Salvation Front said Saturday that the "gruesome images" of Saber's beating requires the dismissal of the newly-appointed interior minister. The statement said that Ibrahim was sworn-in in early January, police have been using "excessive force" more frequently against protesters.

In an attempt to heap more political pressure on Morsi, the opposition said the assault comes as little surprise since the president called on the police to deal firmly with protesters, among them rioters.

Prime Minister Hisham Kandil said he visited Cairo's Tahrir Square and the area of the presidential palace Saturday, which were largely quiet after Friday's protests. He said those who are camped out there are neither protesters nor revolutionaries.

"Protesters do not torch, attack hotels, rape women, steal shops, they do not burn the presidential palace. These are not revolutionaries," he said.

In an impassioned speech Saturday carried live on Egyptian state TV, Kandil said the street violence and political unrest that has engulfed the country for more than a week is threatening the nation's already ailing economy.

"The Egyptian economy is bleeding," he said. "It is holding itself, but if this situation persists it will be dangerous, extremely dangerous. No government can govern a nation with this chaotic situation."

Foreign currency earners such as tourism and foreign investment have dried up in the past two years of political unrest. Foreign reserves currently estimate at around $15 billion, less than half of where it stood before the 2011 uprising that ousted Mubarak. The Egyptian pound has also lost around four percent of its value due to the turmoil and planned austerity measures threaten to curb subsidies relied on by millions of poor Egyptians.

Kandil called on the opposition to back away from any more protests or marches.

"The world is watching to see how we will deal," he said. "It is upon all political parties to pull their peaceful protesters from the streets now."

Also Saturday, Mubarak's former interior minister, Habib al-Adly, was found guilty of abusing his position to force police conscripts to work on his mansion and land on the outskirts of Cairo. Both he and former riot police chief, Hassan Abdel-Hamid, were sentenced to three years in prison and fined around $340,000. The verdict can be appealed.

Al-Adly is already serving time for corruption and was sentenced to life in prison with Mubarak for failing to prevent the killing of nearly 900 protesters during the 2011 revolt that ousted the longtime leader. Both men appealed, and will be given a retrial.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/video-police-abuse-stokes-anger-egypt-163116984.html

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Disgraced Mother Casey Anthony Files for Personal Bankruptcy

By John Clark

Casey Anthony, the Orlando, Florida, resident who was recently acquitted of killing her young daughter, is reportedly filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times.

Sources say the 26-year-old woman, whose whereabouts are currently being protected thanks to a judicial order, is more than $790,000 in debt, and only has $1,000 worth of assets to her name.

Casey Anthony Files for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy

This Friday, the same day she learned that a Florida appellate court had overturned two of her four misdemeanor convictions for lying to investigators, Casey Anthony filed for bankruptcy in a Florida court.

Sources note that Anthony?s finances have been in dire straits since her prolonged criminal trial, which was a result of allegations that Anthony had killed her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.

In December 2008, state officials found Caylee?s body inside a trash bag near Anthony?s home. After a lengthy and very public trial, Anthony was eventually acquitted, but she was convicted on four counts of lying to investigators.

After her acquittal, Anthony immediately turned to media outlets to earn back the money that had been depleted by her criminal defense.

According to sources, ABC News paid Anthony $200,000 for a series of personal photographs, but this money went quickly as Anthony attempted to repay debts to state officials and her own defense team.

Unfortunately for Anthony, she also owes a significant amount of money to the Internal Revenue Service and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

To make matters worse, Anthony has been unemployed for four years, has no current income, and only owns a small collection of relatively inexpensive jewelry, sources say.

Anthony Faces Multiple Lawsuits and Assorted Debts

The laundry list of debts was reason enough for Anthony to call a bankruptcy attorney, but sources note that the reluctant celebrity is also facing a horde of lawsuits.

For example, a Texas horseback search group has sued Anthony for her allegedly false claims that her daughter was still alive. In addition, a woman who shares the same as the fake babysitter Anthony invented during the criminal investigation has also filed a lawsuit for defamation.

During one portion of the investigation, Anthony created a fake babysitter and claimed she had kidnapped her daughter.

This allegation, however, was denied at her trial, and Anthony instead claimed that her daughter had accidentally drowned in the family pool, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Source: http://www.clearbankruptcy.com/blog/disgraced-mother-casey-anthony-files-for-personal-bankruptcy/

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Rite-Aid, ex-worker settle disability lawsuit for $250K ? Business ...

The Camp Hill-based Rite-Aid drug store chain will pay $250,000 to settle a disability discrimination and retaliation complaint filed by an epileptic former worker at one of its Maryland facilities.

Christopher worked as a pharmacy order picker at Rite-Aid?s Mid-Atlantic Customer Service Center in Perryman, Md. The EEOC sued the chain on Christopher?s behalf in 2008 after he claimed the company denied him a promotion because of his epilepsy.

After investigating, the EEOC concluded discrimination most likely occurred. According to a subsequent filing, Rite-Aid then retaliated against Christopher by requiring him to submit to a fitness-for-duty examination before he could return to his position. The doctor?whom Christopher alleges had never before treated anyone with epilepsy?recommended termination and the company agreed.

In court, Rite-Aid asserted that epilepsy was not a disability under the ADA, and that the company did not ?regard? Christopher as disabled.

The company also argued that Christopher was a direct threat to himself and others. In one case, the company claimed he had a seizure while driving a forklift and narrowly missed hitting another employee before crashing into some pallets. During another seizure, he allegedly grabbed a co-worker?s hair and wouldn?t let go even as she was screaming. Another time, Christopher allegedly pinched a co-worker?s breast during a seizure. Twice he had seizures at work that required trips to the hospital via ambulance.

Rite-Aid claimed it tried to accommodate Christopher, allowing him to continue working even though he could not perform essential elements of his job?driving a forklift and walking up to the second floor in the building where he worked.

In November 2010, a federal judge ordered a trial, noting it was not clear whether Rite-Aid regarded Christopher as disabled when it placed him on administrative leave, and that co-workers did not regard him as dangerous.

The case went to trial this year, but just before a jury was to begin deliberations, Rite-Aid and Christopher struck a settlement deal. In addition to paying Christopher, the company agreed to revise its ADA policies and provide ADA training for managers.

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Is Paul Heyman creating a new Dangerous Alliance?

Imagine, for a moment, a world in which Paul Heyman is an evil mastermind with a crew of blue-chip competitors under his guidance (a shocking notion, we know). Think The Nexus as run by a cult leader instead of a general; a many-armed entity of destruction with a silver-tongued devil and master strategist as its leader.

Of course, wrestling historians will know that this is no mere fever dream or wild speculation, but instead a history lesson in the ways of the Dangerous Alliance. For years Heyman operated with a crew of feverish acolytes that carried out the mastermind?s bidding, capturing championship gold through intimidation and trickery and blazing a trail across sports-entertainment history. The Alliance (so named after Heyman?s original nickname, Paul E. Dangerously) existed in several incarnations and organizations throughout the ?80s and ?90s ? permutations of the group peppered the AWA, WCW and ECW ? but always seemed to burn out just as fast as they ascended to dominance, with some kind of internal dispute typically tearing the group asunder (for example: The WCW version disbanded when Heyman departed the company; the ECW incarnation fell by the wayside thanks to Tazz sustaining injury and Sabu?s dismissal from The Land of Extreme). Frankly, these dissolutions were a blessing in disguise, as the only thing more ominous to a locker room than the notion of the old Dangerous Alliance is the possibility of its resurrection.

Oddly enough, the idea isn?t such a far-fetched notion anymore.

The possibility exists that Heyman is (or was, anyway) seeking to reform his signature stable with a new crop of talent. First, Heyman did, in fact, collaborate with Brad Maddox and The Shield to keep the WWE Championship fastened around CM Punk?s waist. Plus, Brock Lesnar sent Mr. McMahon into surgery in defense of his former mouthpiece moments before Heyman was to be fired.

The implications are ? in a word ? formidable. Punk (a Heyman guy from the get-go) has already shown himself to be a capable leader of men with The Straight Edge Society and New Nexus, two groups that terrorized WWE in years past. Lesnar (another Heyman disciple) is the wrecking ball who could be dispatched to destroy anything in his path. The Shield have perfected the art of hiding in plain sight, and their value as seek-and-destroy mercenaries would be literally immeasurable. Maddox, if he and Heyman can make amends, would be the ace in the hole, a crooked ref who could singlehandedly alter the course of a contest without ever laying a finger on a Superstar.

Lesnar may have inadvertently blown the lid off the whole thing by showing up unannounced, but since when has that stopped Heyman? Assuming he can finagle a way to re-sign the former WWE and UFC Champion to a contract (and assuming he can lock down The Shield full-time), the mad scientist has all the ingredients necessary to bring his experiment to WWE for the first time.

The only question remaining is, to what end would Heyman create a new Dangerous Alliance? Taking out The Rock and restoring Punk or installing Lesnar as WWE Champion? Attempting to dismantle McMahon?s legacy and place WWE in Heyman?s control? How does a stable of followers play into what appeared to be a relatively narrow game plan by Heyman ? keep Punk as WWE Champion ? as recently as this past Sunday?

Then again, maybe this is the wrong question. Why would a man like Paul Heyman reform the Dangerous Alliance, if that is indeed what he?s trying to do? Given his proclivities, schemes and general desire to watch the world the McMahons built burn around him, perhaps the better question is: Why wouldn?t he?

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'Girls' Star Zosia Mamet Taps Into 'Darkness' of 20-Somethings in 'Really Really'

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Zosia Mamet could have spent her hiatus from "Girls," shooting a movie, racking up guest spots on TV or doing commercials. Something lucrative that would have helped push her rising star farther into the stratosphere.

But Mamet, whose father David Mamet lobbed lit sticks of dynamite at American theater more than three decades ago with his profane portraits of battered male egos in dramas like "American Buffalo" and "Glengarry Glen Ross," decided that the time was right to make her own mark on stage. Theatergoers will find out next Thursday if another Mamet is ready to take her place in the theatrical firmament next week when 24-year-old Zosia debuts as a member of the cast of "Really Really."

"It's something I grew up loving out of the womb," Mamet told TheWrap. "I think a theater is one of the most magical places on earth."

Mamet was in one of those magical places recently, albeit one that has been made to look like a tattered dorm room replete with empty beer bottles, discussing gluten-free diets with the rest of the play's cast of twenty-somethings. Yes, the press was on hand, so all of the actors were necessarily on good behavior. But Mamet's body language, the way she patted a castmember on the arm or draped herself on a piece of furniture made her appear perfectly at ease with blending into the youthful ensemble.

Hers is the biggest name in the play, which will run at the 200-seat Lucille Lortel Theatre in Greenwich Village until early March and co-stars Matt Lauria of "Friday Night Lights" and "Parenthood." However, her work as the virginal and bubbly Shoshanna Shapiro on Lena Dunham's much buzzed about HBO show didn't guarantee her a spot in "Really Really." Mamet had to fight for the role of a college student who exploits sexual politics after a boozy party.

David Cromer, who oversaw a critically acclaimed off-Broadway revival of "Our Town" in 2009, confessed that he was not certain Mamet was right for the part until he witnessed her determination to persuade him otherwise.

"She wanted the part, she worked really really hard to get it and she earned it," Cromer said. "I think she's exciting on ?Girls,' but I didn't watch her and immediately think, ?Oh she should play this.'"

Yet after she read for the role, he became convinced that there was a brutal and calculating underside underneath Mamet's wide-eyed exterior on the show.

"She is completely idiosyncratic," Cromer said. "She seems like a lost, beautiful, sad wounded little girl, and she also can turn on a dime into this very steely, very confidant, very fierce, very tough, very together person. We've got to be able to watch her in scenes and think that poor little girl and then watch her in other scenes and go wow, wow, who is that?"

The character may be more duplicitous than the one Mamet is currently playing on television, but the play is also steeped in generational drift and the diminished opportunities that have greeted recent college graduates in the wake of the economic collapse.

Playwright Paul Downs Colaizzo, who is 27, said he was very eager to capture how his contemporaries were promised everything and offered nothing.

"It was very much write what you know," he said. "It was very much the fear that I had for my friends and myself after we were suddenly deemed the lost generation and the idea that some people will not take that lying down. I wanted to examine the lengths they will go to protect their future."

For her part, Mamet welcomes the opportunity to once again dramatize the experience of twenty-somethings, particularly as "Really Really" is hitting many of the same notes as her TV show but in a different key. After all, the stakes for Mamet's character this time are much higher than whether or not Shoshanna will go all the way with a guy.

"I feel lucky to make something about that period of someone's life that is so unabashedly real," Mamet said. "The lighthearted moments of ?Girls' are really not speckled throughout and that to me is just super exciting, to be able to delve into the darkness that you are greeted with in your early 20s and the fear and what that makes you do, the places that you can potentially go with that."

It is also a play written, performed and speaking to a demographic that is different from typical theater audiences, which often skew older. Colaizzo and Mamet, however, argue that could change if there are more plays like "Really Really" that try to capture the often painful transition into full-blown adulthood.

"I think every artistic realm needs to take a look at itself right now and the way that it's doing things," Mamet said, "because I think the times are a changing, and we have to change with them."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/girls-star-zosia-mamet-taps-darkness-20-somethings-235837022.html

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