Trained Dogs bring cheers to the gloom struck families of Newtown, Connecticut who are yet to come to terms with the loss of children in the Connecticut shooting.
Love knows no bounds especially if it is not vocalized.
Dog ComfortsDog Comforts.
‘Seeing the dogs led to some of the town’s children smiling for the first time since Friday’s murderous rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School, said Tim Hetzner of the Lutheran Church Charities
The dogs, mostly golden retrievers, “bring some relief” to children, and put “a smile on their face, kind of like a teddy bear, but a live one,” Hetzner told ABC News.
Hetzner, who has taken dogs to New York and New Jersey after superstorm Sandy hit in October and to Joplin, Mo., following a devastating tornado, said the animals are “like a counselor” meting out ”trusting unconditional love.”
Hetzner says his organization begins training dogs as puppies when they are about five and half weeks old. It takes a year to train the dogs, making them calm enough to work with the public in post-disaster situations.
Some of the dogs were stationed outside an interfaith memorial service on Sunday night, at which President Obama spoke, eulogizing the 20 children and seven adults killed in a massacre executed by Adam Lanza, 20 last Friday.
Connecting Shooting which killed children among others is now rumored to be linked to the Libor Scandal by The Banks.
There is a hearing in the US Senate and the father of the killer of the innocent is reportedly linked to the Libor Scandal and the Testimony.
Robert Holmes ,father of the killer James Holmes, is a high level executive of the Financial Rating Company Figo
The Father of another killer is an executive of a Bank.’GE Financial‘
There are the other theories such as Drug Addiction and broken homes.
Most importantly Gun Control issue in the United States.
Either the Libor scandal or the Anti Gun Control Lobby might have been the main reason.
Truth is yet to emerge.
If it is proved that Libor is the root cause, rest assured that nothing may come out of the investigation
Financial Institutions, of late are found to have been indulging in skullduggery, from manipulation of markets to laundering Drug money.
One remembers Goldman Sachs and HSBC, the latter has been filed heavily for laundering drug money and curiously no executive was arrested(please read my blogs on Goldman Sachs and HSBC money laundering, its escape, filed under Banks.
At times like these I am tempted to believe the presence of a killer Cartel that is manipulating the World Governments(my blogs on this subject will give some inputs)
What is The Libor Scandal?
Bank Of America
‘The Libor scandal is a series of fraudulent actions connected to the Libor (London Interbank Offered Rate) and the resulting investigation and reaction. The Libor is an average interest rate calculated through submissions of interest rates by major banks in London. The scandal arose when it was discovered that banks were falsely inflating or deflating their rates so as to profit from trades, or to give the impression that they were more creditworthy than they were.[3] Libor underpins approximately $350 trillion in derivatives. It is controlled by the British Bankers’ Association (BBA).[4]..
The Wall Street Journal reported in March 2011 that regulators were focusing on Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc. and UBS AG in their probe of Libor rate manipulation.[33] A year later, it was reported in February 2012 that the U.S. Department of Justice was conducting a criminal investigation into Libor abuse.[34] Among the abuses being investigated were the possibility that traders were in direct communication with bankers before the rates were set, thus allowing them an unprecedented amount of insider knowledge into global instruments.[35] In court documents, a trader from the Royal Bank of Scotland claimed that it was common practice among senior employees at his bank to make requests to the bank’s rate setters as to the appropriate Libor rate, and that the bank also made on occasions rate requests for some hedge funds.[36] One trader’s messages from Barclays Bank indicated that for each basis point (0.01%) that Libor was moved, those involved could net “about a couple of million dollars”.[35
Barclays manipulated rates for at least two reasons. Routinely, from at least as early as 2005, traders sought particular rate submissions to benefit their financial positions. Later, during the 2007–2012 global financial crisis, they artificially lowered rate submissions to make their bank seem healthy.[6]…..
By 4 July 2012 the breadth of the scandal was evident and became the topic of analysis on news and financial programs that attempted to explain the importance of the scandal.[47] Two days later, it was announced that the U.K. Serious Fraud Office had also opened a criminal investigation into manipulation of interest rates. The investigation was not limited to Barclays.[48][49] It has been reported since then that regulators in at least seven countries are investigating the rigging of the Libor and other interest rates.[50] Around 20 major banks have been named in investigations and court cases.[51]…
Early estimates are that the rate manipulation scandal cost U.S. states, counties, and local governments at least $6 billion in fraudulent interest payments, above $4 billion that state and local governments have already had to spend to unwind their positions exposed to rate manipulation.[52] An increasingly smaller set of banks are participating in setting the LIBOR, calling into question its future as a benchmark standard, but without any viable alternative to replace it.[53]9Wiki)
List of Banks involved in the Libor Scandal.
The American banks included in the panel surveyed by the BBA for U.S. dollar fixing are:
The Bank of America
JP Morgan Chase
Citibank, NA
There are 16 non-U.S. banks surveyed for U.S. dollar fixing in London. These banks are:
The gory shooting that killed 28 people including 20 children is proving to be a tough one to crack.
The Killer reported to be 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed his mother ,Nancy Lanza at their home in Yogananda Street in Newtown and proceeded to kill these people in the School.
It is still not clear why Lanza killed his mother, who had divorced Lanza’s father Peter in 2009.
A parent told AP that Nancy Lanza was a substitute teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School, but this is not confirmed. A search of Connecticut’s educator certification system revealed no-one by that name, and school employees have said Mrs Lanza did not work there.
After killing his mother, Lanza drove her car to the school, which has about 700 pupils aged between 5 and 10.
He was armed with at least three weapons and dressed in black fatigues.
It is unclear what sort of weapons the gunman carried with him and whether any were left in his car.
Visitors to the school have to be buzzed in by a member of staff. But at about 09:30, Lanza forced his way into the school, police now say, contrary to earlier reports that he had been let in.
Newtown police were notified of shooting at the school over their radios at 09:36.
“Caller is indicating she thinks someone’s shooting in the building,” a police dispatcher said.
A school employee ran through the halls, warning of a gunman on the loose, and someone switched on the intercom, alerting people in the building to the attack by letting them hear the mayhem in the school office, a teacher told AP.
One young survivor said the gunshots sounded like pots and pans falling to the floor.
Teachers locked their doors and ordered children to huddle in a corner or hide in cupboards as shots echoed through the building.
The victims were all shot by a high-powered rifle, medical examiner H Wayne Carver said on Saturday.
The seven dead children he personally examined had been shot between three and 11 times each, and two of those were shot at close range.
“The bullets are designed in such a fashion that the energy is deposited in the tissue and so the bullet stays in,” Dr Carver told reporters.(BBC)
Winds of up to 115 miles per hour whipped across the Eastern Seaboard, ripping power lines from poles and snapping trees in half.
More than one million of the homes and businesses are without power in Virginia and North Carolina, which bore the brunt of Irene’s initial march. There are also at least 1 million customers without electricity in New Jersey and New York.
Maryland, Pennsylvania and Connecticut also have hundreds of thousands of outages.
The core of Irene is skirting the coast of New Jersey and is speeding toward New York and Connecticut.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP‘s earlier story is below.
About three million homes and businesses were without power at dawn Sunday as Hurricane Irene continued to roar up the East Coast and bored down on the New York City area and New England.
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