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Mass Blanket Surveillance - Obama is NOT the "Change" We Believed In

Driver Killed After Ramming White House Gates Believed Obama Was Electronically Monitoring Her

The tragic death of a young woman struggling with mental health issues apparently was inspired by a chilling, very contemporary schizophrenic delusion: that she was trapped in a reality television show under the surveillance of Barack Obama. ABC News writes:

The woman who led police on a high-speed chase near the U.S. Capitol before being shot dead had a history of mental illness and believed President Obama was electronically monitoring her Connecticut home in order to broadcast her life on television, sources said.

Miriam Carey, a dental hygienist from Stamford, Conn., was killed by police [a week ago] after trying to ram a White House gate and leading cops on a chase down Pennsylvania Avenue with her 1-year-old daughter in the car.

According to sources Carey believed she was capable of communicating with Obama. According to sources, Carey had a family history of schizophrenia and was taking medication for a mental illness.

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3 Dead, Scores Believed Missing From Australia-Bound Migrant Boat

SYDNEY, Australia — At least three people have died and scores were still believed missing Wednesday after a boat packed with migrants sank overnight off Indonesia, in the latest maritime tragedy for asylum seekers from the Middle East and Asia trying to reach Australia by sea.

An official from the Indonesian search-and-rescue authority, Basarnas, said his agency was still trying to gather accurate information about the fate of the people from the boat, which was reported to have capsized overnight Tuesday in heavy seas west of the main Indonesian island of Java, dumping at least 160 people into the frigid water.

Didi Hamzar, the spokesman, said that although 157 people had been rescued, the search was still continuing and that an unknown number of people remained unaccounted for.

“We hope to get more information about how many people were actually on board,” Mr. Didi said in an interview.

The incident is one of the first major tests of a tough new policy announced last week by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd of Australia aimed at discouraging the thousands of asylum seekers who set out every year in often unsafe, crowded vessels for Christmas Island, a remote territory in the Indian Ocean that is Australia’s closest point to Indonesia. Australia has struggled for more than a decade to deter the asylum seekers from trying the dangerous journey.

Under the policy announced Friday by Mr. Rudd, all asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat are to be sent to refugee-processing centers in Papua New Guinea. If they are found to be entitled to refugee status under the United Nations convention on refugees, they will be resettled in Papua New Guinea, but they forfeit any right to seek asylum in Australia. The issue of asylum seekers is among the most contentious in Australian politics, and Mr. Rudd is facing a tough road to re-election in a national vote to be held within weeks.

Mr. Rudd said that the latest tragedy validated his new policy, which has come under increasing fire on humanitarian grounds in Australia. He argued that the new system was the best way to stop asylum seekers from risking their lives at sea.

“This underlines the need for policy changes in Australia on asylum seekers policy to send a very clear message to people smugglers to stop sending people by boat to Australia,” he told reporters during a campaign stop in Melbourne on Wednesday.

But a damning report aired on Tuesday night by Australian broadcaster SBS about abuse at the Australian-run detention center on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea has greatly increased pressure on the prime minister to defend the policy. A former employee at the detention center, who resigned in April, detailed to SBS’s Dateline program what he described as the rape and torture of detainees at the facility.

“I’ve never seen human beings so destitute, so helpless and so hopeless before,” Rod St George, a former employee of the security contractor G4S, told SBS. “In Australia, the facility couldn’t even serve as a dog kennel. The owners would be jailed.”

A decade ago, under Prime Minister John Howard, asylum seekers were transported to nearby island nations for a lengthy processing intended to remove the incentive for claiming asylum on Australia’s shores. Mr. Rudd abandoned the policy when he became prime minister for the first time in 2007, which led to an explosion in the number of arrivals.

In 2012, Prime Minister Julia Gillard opened new offshore detention centers in Nauru and on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, but they lacked the capacity to handle the deluge of arrivals and did little to discourage them.

Joe Cochrane contributed reporting from Jakarta, Indonesia.

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3 Dead, Scores Believed Missing From Australia-Bound Migrant Boat