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Brother of JonBenét Ramsey sues CBS for $750 million over docuseries that suggested he killed JonBenét

Chris Harris
People
Thu, 29 Dec 2016 16:52 UTC

Burke Ramsey on Dr. Phil

Burke Ramsey has filed a second defamation lawsuit over a recent CBS docuseries that advanced the theory he killed his younger sister, JonBenét, more than two decades ago, PEOPLE confirms.

After suing forensic pathologist Dr. Werner Spitz in October for $150 million in damages, lawyers for Burke on Wednesday filed another civil suit — this one, naming CBS as well as Critical Content LLC, the production company behind The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey, and seven experts and consultants featured in the special, which aired over two nights in mid-September.

PEOPLE obtained a copy of the second suit, which seeks $250 million in compensatory damages and $500 million in punitive damages.

In addition to listing Spitz as a defendant, the suit filed Wednesday names retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent and criminal profiler Jim Clemente; criminal behaviorist Laura Richards; Jim Kolar, a former lead investigator in the JonBenét Ramsey murder investigation; forensic linguistics expert James Fitzgerald; statement analyst Stanley Burke; and forensic scientist Dr. Henry Lee.

Stanley Burke and Fitzgerald declined to comment on the suit. Clemente, Kolar, Lee, Richards and Spitz could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday. An attorney who has previously represented Critical Content said he was unable to comment and would forward a message, which did not immediately receive a response.

German food minister speaks out against labeling vegan foods with meat-based names

RT
Thu, 29 Dec 2016 21:10 UTC

Germany is known for its hearty cuisine, and its food minister wants to ensure that carnivores aren't confused by plant-based dishes such as "vegetarian schnitzel." He has called on manufacturers to stop pretending that such imitations are actually meat.

Speaking to Bild newspaper on Wednesday, Germany's minister for food and agriculture, Christian Schmidt, said that foods such as "vegetarian schnitzel" and "vegan currywurst" are "completely misleading" and "unsettling" to consumers.

"I don't want anyone to pretend that these pseudo-meat dishes are actual meat dishes," he said, adding that he is in favor of "clear identification" of plant-based foods.

It's not the first time that Schmidt has spoken out against the labeling of imitation meat products. The minister has made similar remarks under the slogan, "What's on it must also be in it."

Texas parents told they will be charged & arrested if they walk their children on school property

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 29 Dec 2016 16:27 UTC

Walking your child to and from school in Magnolia, Texas can now end in your extortion through fines and even jail time thanks to a new policy implemented by the school's principal. Bear Branch Elementary School parents have done some hard learning since the year began about the relationship between schools and the American police state after they were told they will be charged with trespassing for walking their own children onto school grounds.

"She's threatening to arrest people," said Wendy Jarman to FOX 26 about principal, Holly Ray — and she's correct. Since the beginning of the year, multiple parents have been cited, threatened with charges, and threatened with arrest for the entirely ordinary act of dropping off their kids at school.

Parents at the school have even started a petition and garnered hundreds of signatures to reverse what they are calling bully tactics. However, it has all been in vain.

Principal Ray is getting plenty of negative publicity for her policy, but she has no plans of changing it and has cops to back her up. The newly enacted policy is enforced by Montgomery County Constables.

"This has happened to many parents," Jarman says. "They have been cited. They have been threatened, if they step one foot on school property, they will be arrested and charged with who knows what."

50 feared trapped under debris after mine in India collapses

RT
Fri, 30 Dec 2016 16:22 UTC

coal field, eastern Indian state of Jharkhand.

As many as 50 people are feared trapped after a coal mine collapsed in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Up to 10 people have reportedly died, while four others have been taken to a nearby hospital.

The collapse of the mine, which is located in the Lal Matia area of Godda district, took place when a heap of mud caved in at an entry point on Thursday night, according to the Economic Times.

Loitering hysteria! Childless adults could face ban from Los Angeles park playgrounds

RT
Fri, 30 Dec 2016 16:03 UTC

A controversial proposal to ban adults without children from the vicinity of playgrounds in Los Angeles city parks has been met with outrage after it was submitted by a local council member.

Council member Mitch O'Farrell proposed that adults who are not accompanying children should be banned from the perimeter of playgrounds in the parks and ticketed for violating the regulation, according to KTLA5.

DAPL war rages on: 'Water protectors' arrested

RT
Fri, 30 Dec 2016 14:35 UTC

© Stephen Yang / Reuters
Activists march in protest with veterans outside the Oceti Sakowin camp where "water protectors" continue to demonstrate against plans to pass the Dakota Access pipeline adjacent to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S., December 5, 2016.

The Dakota Access Pipeline may be on hold, but the battles over it are far from over. Diehard protesters continue to clash with local police while an out-of-state city shows its solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux's opposition to the pipeline.

Following months of protests and fights to prevent construction of the Dakotas Access Pipeline (DAPL) on sacred Native American land and through Lake Oahe, the primary source of drinking water for the Standing Rock Sioux nation in North Dakota, a tenuous peace had been reached between law enforcement and protesters. It did not last long, however, as on Tuesday, the Morton County Sheriff's Department arrested five protesters for criminal trespass.

In a statement from the department, officers on the scene claim that protesters violated an agreement made between tribal leaders and law enforcement over where protesters were allowed. Per the terms of the agreement, protesters were to stay to the south side of the Cannonball River.

Uber driver saves teen from sex trafficking

RT
Fri, 30 Dec 2016 14:17 UTC

A 16-year-old girl has been rescued from a sex trafficking ring after an astute Uber driver recognized warning signs. Keith Avila had been driving with Uber for barely a month when he picked up three women and immediately realized something was wrong.

Avila earned less than $8 from an Uber ride Monday, but saved one young woman from being forced into prostitution. He picked up three women in Elk Grove, California, and noticed that one of the passengers appeared at be around 12 years old but dressed oddly for her age.

"She had a really short skirt," Avila told KCRA. "So, you could see all her legs, and it struck me as odd because she was so young and she was dressing like that."

But it wasn't until he decided to eavesdrop on what the other two women were telling her that he figured out what was going on.

Comment: It's good to see someone doing the right thing in today's troubled world.

Texas cop arrested and charged for sexual assault of 13yo girl

RT
Fri, 30 Dec 2016 10:27 UTC

A Texas law enforcement officer has been arrested for the repeated sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl over a period of several months.

Jesus Gonzalez, 42, is accused of having sexual relations with his girlfriend's 13-year-old daughter. He was arrested Tuesday and charged with a first-degree felony of continuous sexual abuse of a child.

According to an arrest warrant cited by KENS, the girl told investigators that Gonzalez had engaged in sexual intercourse with her over 20 times between September and mid-December. Gonzalez even told the girl that he wanted to marry her, despite being in a relationship with her mother for more than a year and a half.

According to the affidavit, the mother first found out about the sexual abuse when she saw a lewd picture on her daughter's cell phone. She soon discovered her daughter had been texting these photos with Gonzalez at his request.

Gonzalez was reportedly armed and in his police uniform when he was arrested.

Filmmaker who witnessed Aleppo liberation speaks to RT, saying 'no one shot at evacuees'

RT
Fri, 30 Dec 2016 09:29 UTC

Residents in a liberated neighborhood of eastern Aleppo in Syria

The Syrian army did not shoot at militants leaving Aleppo under the evacuation deal and it was even distributing food among them, Carla Ortiz, a Bolivian documentary filmmaker who spent eight months in Syria, told RT as she disputed some MSM narratives.

Ortiz was filming a documentary about the people caught in the Syrian conflict and had an opportunity to witness the liberation of eastern Aleppo firsthand, including the evacuation of militants and their families from the city.

She has published a video from her upcoming documentary showing the process of evacuation to contest western media claims that Syrian government forces fired on the evacuees as proof that the evacuation, which took place under the deal brokered by Russia and Turkey, was peaceful.

"Many have asked me to show proof that people and children were not shot at on the streets while the evacuation took place as some media reported. So, this is what I saw: civilians evacuated on foot from the east, then transported in buses to the shelters. I am sorry, but there was absolutely no mass shooting on the evacuation," Ortiz wrote in a Facebook post, commenting on the video.

She added that "what the Syrian army and civilians were doing was throwing food through the windows" of the buses that transported the evacuees out of the city.

Comment: See also: Journalist who sent 'last message from Aleppo' alive and well with a suicide bomber

Revenue generation: U.S. Police departments are devising ever-expanding methods to extort funds from citizens

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 28 Dec 2016 00:00 UTC

As if getting arrested and taken to jail isn't painful enough, residents in Ramsey County, MN are forced to pay "booking fees" whether or not they're eventually found guilty of the crime for which they're charged. One example of the latest, and some have said "outrageous," revenue streams comes from the case involving Ramsey resident Corey Stratham.

Arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, Stratham had in his possession a total of $46 dollars in cash. Released two days later, after having the charges dismissed, he attempted to reclaim his possessions, only to learn the jail had charged him $25 for "booking fees." In place of the cash, which the cops took from him upon his arrest, the authorities returned to him a gift card for $21 — the remainder after the booking fees were withheld. Worse yet, the gift card came with a myriad of fees which made getting the $21 quite impossible.

First, there was the $7.25 to withdraw the funds from an ATM, then there was the $1.50 maintenance fee per week, and a per occurrence of $2.50 to withdraw the funds at an ATM where Stratham didn't have an account. All of which made it nearly impossible to get the $21 cash in hand. Stratham sued the county

Comment: The purpose of the police has always been to serve the elites, while extracting money from people to keep them impoverished and under control:

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Society's Child

Brother of JonBenét Ramsey sues CBS for $750 million over docuseries that suggested he killed JonBenét

German food minister speaks out against labeling vegan foods with meat-based names

Texas parents told they will be charged & arrested if they walk their children on school property

50 feared trapped under debris after mine in India collapses

Loitering hysteria! Childless adults could face ban from Los Angeles park playgrounds

DAPL war rages on: 'Water protectors' arrested

Uber driver saves teen from sex trafficking

Texas cop arrested and charged for sexual assault of 13yo girl

Filmmaker who witnessed Aleppo liberation speaks to RT, saying 'no one shot at evacuees'

Revenue generation: U.S. Police departments are devising ever-expanding methods to extort funds from citizens

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