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Texas teacher filmed punching female teen student repeatedly then stomping on her head

Brendan Cole
Newsweek
Sat, 09 Nov 2019 09:07 UTC

A substitute teacher in Texas, who had taught classes for less than two months, has been fired after footage emerged of her allegedly assaulting a pupil.

The violent incident recorded on a cell phone and shared on social media shows other students at Lehman High School in Hays County looking on stunned as Tiffani Shadell Lankford, 32, approaches the teenaged sophomore during a language lesson and throws punches at her on Friday.

The teenager is dragged to the floor and Lankford then stomps on her head before walking away, the footage shows. The victim was taken to hospital for assessment. The school district reported her age as 16, while police stated the victim was 15 years old.

Lankford had only worked in the classroom 18 times since she started employment on August 30, according to the Hays Consolidated Independent School District (CISD). Her tenure started with orientation training and she taught her first class on September 13.

Comment: Footage that shows the moments leading up to the incident:

All remaining belugas from Russian 'whale jail' released into wild

Sputnik
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 14:30 UTC

The operation to release hundreds of marine animals from the so-called Russian whale jail, which began in the summer, is completed as environmental experts have released the last belugas into the wild in Russia's Far East, the Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography press service said on Sunday.

"The operation to release marine mammals into the natural habitat has been completed. All remaining Beluga whales were released in the Bay of Uspeniya Lazovsky district of Primorsky Territory on Sunday November 10," the statement read.

Eighteen belugas were released from the Professor Kaganovsky vessel and 13 from the Zodiac research ship earlier on Sunday.

The spokesman for VNIRO, Alexey Smorodov, told Sputnik that despite the complexity of organizing the operation, everything went well thanks to the professionalism, colossal efforts and responsible attitude of all participants of the mission.

So much for sanctions: Iran finds massive new oil reserve - boosts proven supply by a third

FarsNews Agency
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 17:32 UTC

Iranian oil installation

The National Iranian Oil Company Exploration Directorate (NIOCEXP) has discovered a huge oil reserve with more than 50 billion barrels of crude, said President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday.

The workers of the National Iranian Oil Company Exploration Directorate, after years of efforts, particularly since 3 years ago, have managed to discover a giant oil field, President Rouhani said this morning, while addressing people who welcomed his visit to the desert city of Yazd in central Iran.

"I inform the White House that, in the days that you have imposed sanctions on Iran's oil exports, workers and engineers of the country have discovered 53 billion barrels of in-place oil reserves," Rouhani added.

The only thing clear about the new internet Transparency Act is that digital giants will continue manipulating their users

Michael Rectenwald
RT
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 06:06 UTC

The new 'transparency' act leaves control of what users see in the hands of Google and other digital giants.

In June, whistleblower Zach Vorhies dumped internal Google documents exposing the company's shady practices and political agenda. Rather than investigate, US lawmakers are offering Big Tech political cover and a legislative decoy.

Internal documents and secret recordings continue to make abundantly clear what many already knew and others strongly suspected about Google and other digital goliaths; that Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and others manipulate their content and their users.

Stepping into the fray, Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) has boasted that his new bill - the Filter Bubble Transparency Act - is the silver bullet for bursting user information filter bubbles, the predictable information dead ends that reinforce users' pre-existing perspectives. He would have us believe that the use of personal user data by search engine algorithms is the real problem with the internet.

But this issue is the least of the problems that users face online. The bill's co-sponsors hope we've forgotten - or never knew - that Google and the rest are not the unbiased, politically neutral information sources or social media platforms that they (so poorly) pretend to be. Far from it.

Comment: The 'powers that be' in the US want to maintain control over social media to shape public perception, and as tech giants are part of the US government hydra they will be given free rein to continue their mission. The bill is more likely a ruse to placate the sheeple while nothing of substance changes.

Packed Boeing 737-800's landing gear bursts into ball of flame after touching ground in Egypt

RT
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 16:26 UTC

Airport maintenance staff rushed to put out a fire on a passenger plane's landing gear shortly after it arrived in Egypt.

The aircraft, belonging to Ukrainian low-cost SkyUp Airlines, had some trouble while landing in Sharm El Sheikh, a popular Red Sea resort.

Just as the plane finished taxiing on the tarmac, the landing gear on its left side suddenly burst into flames. The bright fire raged for about a minute before airport staff put it out with fire extinguishers.

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150kg of 'diamond' cocaine washes up on French beaches, locals urged against 'treasure hunting'

RT
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 09:55 UTC

© Global Look Press / Bildverlag Bahnmüller
Beach and coast at Plage des Chênes Lièges, Département Landes, Atlantic Coast, Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, France, Europe

Dozens of cocaine-containing packets labelled 'diamante' have washed ashore on beaches along France's Atlantic coastline, and more are likely to come, with police now warning residents against helping themselves.

Small one-pound packages wrapped in several layers of black plastic and cellophane have become a regular sight on the French Atlantic coast since late October. The 'bricks' sport 'diamante' or 'brilliante' labels, but while their contents are precious, they are not filled with gemstones - rather, with 80-90 percent pure cocaine, as several tests have shown.

The first package was discovered in Saint-Jean-de-Monts on October 18. Since then, things have escalated, with Le Parisien reporting Saturday, citing police sources, that new packages with the drug are now being discovered almost every hour.

In total, nearly 150kg (330 pounds) worth millions of dollars have been recovered on the beaches so far, including 36kg found scattered on a stretch of 10km in just one day, a find with an estimated street value of €3mn.

TV viewer prompts host to check her thyroid over suspect lump and 'saves' her career

RT.com
Fri, 08 Nov 2019 07:19 UTC

The journalist, Antoinette Lattouf, discovered that she had a huge cyst that needed urgent surgery after a viewer spotted a lump on her neck during a TV appearance and emailed the station

An Australian reporter is full of praise for a viewer whose message of concern prompted her to seek medical attention, after the journalist appeared on TV with what looked like a large lump protruding from her throat.

"Has Antoinette Lattouf had her thyroid checked? I am not being smart or trolling just concerned with what I saw on TV today," a viewer called Wendy McCoy wrote on Facebook to the 10 daily show.

Lattouf said she was initially taken aback when her editor passed on the message, particularly when it transpired McCoy isn't a doctor but was simply reminded of something a friend had suffered when she saw Lattouf on-screen. However, the journalist decided to err on the side of caution and watch back over the clip - and what she saw left her "shocked."

Groupthink and Safe Spaces hinder the growth of consciousness.

Suzanne Venker
Washington Examiner
Mon, 04 Nov 2019 15:08 UTC

"No Safe Spaces" exposes the madness of Groupthink.

In 2015, I was invited by a student-led organization at Williams College to speak on behalf of its "Uncomfortable Learning" program. I remember thinking at the time what a perfect fit it seemed. If there's one thing my work could be described as in the 21st century, it's "uncomfortable."

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Assange's father faces bitter truth that his son may die in jail for revealing the truth

James Gant
Daily Mail
Sat, 09 Nov 2019 15:04 UTC

John Shipton: "Julian may die in jail over a nine-year persecution for revealing the truth of war crimes. It is beyond obscene."

The father of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said he is worried his son will die in prison after nine years of 'persecution' for daring to reveal US 'war crimes'.

John Shipton told reporters in Geneva he visited his son in a British prison two days ago and needed to 'face the bitter truth' that he 'may die in jail'.

He said: 'This is not the bitter disappointment of a father, this is simply fact.'

Assange used WikiLeaks to publish classified military and diplomatic files in 2010 about US bombing campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq that proved embarrassing to the US government.

Since then, he has been entangled in a web of judicial proceeding and is currently fighting a US bid to extradite him from Britain on charges filed under the Espionage Act that could land him a sentence of up to 175 years in a US prison.

The 48-year-old whistleblower is being held at a top-security British prison, after police dragged him out of the Ecuadoran embassy in London in April.

He had been holed up in the embassy since 2012 to avoid an extradition order to Sweden - where he was wanted for questioning over accusations of sexual assault, which he has denied.

Mr Shipton said: 'Julian may die in jail over a nine-year persecution for revealing the truth of war crimes.

'It is beyond obscene.'

Comment: John Shipton has been warning the entire world about his son's dire condition since September:

Is anyone listening?

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Sott.net
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 03:11 UTC

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Society's Child

Texas teacher filmed punching female teen student repeatedly then stomping on her head

All remaining belugas from Russian 'whale jail' released into wild

So much for sanctions: Iran finds massive new oil reserve - boosts proven supply by a third

The only thing clear about the new internet Transparency Act is that digital giants will continue manipulating their users

Packed Boeing 737-800's landing gear bursts into ball of flame after touching ground in Egypt

150kg of 'diamond' cocaine washes up on French beaches, locals urged against 'treasure hunting'

TV viewer prompts host to check her thyroid over suspect lump and 'saves' her career

Groupthink and Safe Spaces hinder the growth of consciousness.

Assange's father faces bitter truth that his son may die in jail for revealing the truth

Paul Joseph Watson: I'm NOT eating bugs

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