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SPRINGFIELD - A Hampden Superior Court judge Friday denied a defense lawyer's request to move the trial of Jason D. Strickland out of this county because of the intense publicity regarding his case.
Strickland, formerly of Westfield, faces a series of assault and battery charges in connection with injuries sustained by his stepdaughter Haleigh Poutre, 14. After Haleigh was brought to Noble Hospital Sept. 11, 2005, in Westfield with a severe head injury, her adoptive mother and stepfather were charged with abuse.
Judge Judd J. Carhart said that in the age of the Internet, publicity spreads to a wider area. He also said that most of the publicity seemed to have been "a long time ago."...
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Nothing makes a Malthusian's heart beat faster than a good famine and so these are feast days for good Malthusian hearts. Parts of the world are now awash in water shortages and in food riots.
Thomas Malthus was the 18th century preacher/mathematician who first postulated that overpopulation would inevitably lead to widespread starvation, galloping disease, war and other grisly large-scale die-offs.
Using Malthusian arguments the eugenicists and the population controllers waged a 20th century campaign to lower fertility rates and were successful beyond their wildest dreams. So successful were they that the UN predicts that every country in the world, with the exception of a tiny few in sub-Sahara Africa, will reach below replacement fertility by 2025.....
Parson Malthus Makes a Comeback as Overpopulation Zealots Destroy World
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