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Attention

Decaying public schools are making students & teachers sick

Detroit schools
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Broken toilet seats in student bathrooms, mushrooms on their classroom walls, leaking ceilings — all tied to a lack of funding.

A picture's worth a thousand words they say, and that was certainly the case earlier this year when public school teachers in Detroit started tweeting out pictures of the crumbling schools they work in.

After months of attempting to grab legislators attention, the teachers called in sick, en masse earlier this year, causing almost all city schools to close, and while they withdrew their labor, they flooded the social media with images of just what they were so sick of:

Broken toilet seats in the student's bathrooms, mushrooms on their classroom walls, leaking ceilings, moldy food.

Airplane

Russian transport minister unaware of any technical malfunctions in FlyDubai plane crash in Rostov-on-Don

russian plane taxiing Rostov-on-Don crash
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Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said Saturday he did not have information about possible technical faults aboard FlyDubai's passenger jet prior to its crash in Rostov-on-Don.

Earlier in the day, FlyDubai Boeing 737-800 plane coming from Dubai crashed while attempting a landing amid poor weather conditions at the Rostov-on-Don Airport (ROV), leaving no survivors from those 62 people aboard.

"I do not have such information," the minister said during a televised interview with Russia 1 channel's Vesti Nedeli.

Mail

Trump's son receives threatening letter containing a 'granular substance'; multiple agencies now investigating

Trump and son
© Jonathan Drake / ReutersEric Trump, son of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, speaks at a campaign rally for his father in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Eric Trump, son of the Republican presidential front-runner, received a threatening letter containing a "granular" substance, and now a multi-agency investigation is underway, led by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York and the Secret Service.

While a preliminary field test found the suspicious white material to be harmless, how it was allowed to be sent to Eric Trump's luxury Trump Parc East apartment just south of Central Park in New York City is part of the investigation, the Trump Organization told ABC News.

The Postal Inspector and New York Police Department are assisting the FBI and Secret Service in their probe of the Thursday delivery.

Book

Trump's latest purchase? Hitler's personal 'Mein Kampf' sells for $20k at US auction

hitler's personal mein kampf
© AFP 2016/ Frederic J. BROWN
More than a dozen people were determined to obtain the desired lot during an auction in the United States, media reported.

The exclusive edition owned by Adolf Hitler and discovered in his apartment was ultimately sold for $20,655 on Friday in Chesapeake City, Maryland. The book was apparently kept by the Nazi leader for personal purposes.

The book had been found by American soldiers during an inspection of Hitler's apartment in 1945. To confirm its authenticity, eleven US servicemen put their signatures on its flyleaf and since then the book has been kept by the daughter of one of the soldiers.

Heart - Black

'I'm not sorry': Texas pedophile sentenced to life for infecting 2 y.o. baby and 14 y.o. girl with multiple STD's

crime scene
© Nancy Wiechec / Reuters
A registered sex offender has been sentenced to life in prison for the super aggravated sexual assault of his nearly two-year-old niece and a 14-year-old, infecting both with HIV, chlamydia and herpes. The teenager also appears to be pregnant with his baby.

David Wilson repeatedly raped his 23-month-old niece and a teenage girl, with whom he reportedly claimed to be in love.

"I am not sorry we were together, no, I am sorry the HIV came into the situation," Wilson, 34, said in court, according to KAGS.

The girl admitted to investigators that she and Wilson, who she knew through a family member, had sex multiple times. According to a court affidavit, she said that they "would park on a cul-de-sac near her school and have sex in his car. The last time, they had unprotected sex."

USA

The Amerikan way: A study in psychopathy

Amerika

Just look at everything Amerika stands for as a whole. Corruption, greed, violence, military aggression, social degradation, scientific insanity and on and on. Its footprint on the world is nothing but horrific, if you view it in the overall context.

Sure, there are good people living there and those unwittingly caught up in the mass hysteria, but they're participating nonetheless. That accountability won't go away. Unless they stand up to it and fully withdraw their consent and work to reverse the madness, they're clearly part of the problem.

That's not an easy spot to be in when the very fabric of the sociopolitical and economic support structure is an every day fact of psychopathic-driven existence. It breeds acquiescence, apathy and hence continued participation. A pathetic state of affairs.

Comment: Read more by Dr. Robert Hare: Psychopaths Among Us


2 + 2 = 4

Teacher freaks out her students by showing them an ISIS beheading video

Alexiss Nazario and ISIS video
© Tomas E. Gaston The city unsuccessfully tried to fire Bronx middle-school teacher Alexiss Nazario (left) after she scared students with a video of an ISIS execution (like this one of journalist James Foley).
A Bronx middle-school teacher rattled her students — including one who was near tears — by showing an ISIS video of a terrorist beheading a journalist, documents show.

South Bronx Academy for Applied Media veteran Alexiss Nazario faced termination, but was let off with a $300 fine last summer after acknowledging she made a mistake by not previewing the clip or getting the principal's permission.

Investigators spoke to three eighth-graders who were freaked out by the macabre clip, which showed a masked man holding a knife to the neck of a kneeling ­victim clad in orange.

The students testified that the video blacked out the actual beheading but showed its gruesome aftermath: the man's severed head placed on top of his own chest.

Airplane

Lufthansa jet and unmanned drone nearly collide at LAX

LAX control tower
The pilot of a commercial jetliner said his plane nearly collided with a drone while approaching Los Angeles International Airport on Friday afternoon, sparking a search by L.A. police and sheriff's officials for the owner of the unmanned aircraft.

The near-miss was reported before 2 p.m. about 14 miles east of the airport at an elevation of 5,000 feet and involved a Lufthansa Airbus A380, said Los Angeles police Lt. Robert Binder. The drone flew 200 feet over the aircraft, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

L.A. County Sheriff's Department and police helicopters were headed to the area to try and locate the drone pilot, Binder said, adding that it would be a long-shot search.

Document

More PCB contamination: Portland becomes 7th city to sue Monsanto

PCBs Portland
© flickerDowntown Portland and the Steel Bridge from the east side of the Willamette. The city has spent more than $1 billion cleaning up pollution in the river.
Portland, Oregon is suing Monsanto over contaminating the city's waterways with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), a highly toxic group of chemicals that endangers human health and the environment.

Portland City Council unanimously passed a resolution Wednesday authorizing city attorney Tracy Reeve to sue the biotech giant.

"Portland's elected officials are committed to holding Monsanto accountable for its apparent decision to favor profits over ecological and human health," Reeve said in a statement. "Monsanto profited from selling PCBs for decades and needs to take responsibility for cleaning up after the mess it created."

Comment: Monsanto's dirty dealings — chemical reform bill could grant the evil empire legal immunity for PCB pollution
Pay no mind to research that demonstrates PCBs are exceptionally toxic to humans, wildlife and the environment. Also turn a blind eye to the fact that Monsanto knew for decades the chemical was extremely poisonous. And ignore that the corporation not only continued to manufacture the chemical after recognizing its toxicity, but decided it was a good idea to dump tonnes of raw PCBs into a creek adjacent to the chemical plant, essentially poisoning an entire community over the course of 40 years. For the grand finale, lets add a provision into a chemical reform bill, which protects Monsanto from lawsuits concerning said PCB contamination.

As noted by The Environmental Working Group: "Slipped at the last minute into the House version, H.R. 2576, of a bill to update the broken Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 is a provision that could shield the company from liability for decades of pollution with a family of chemicals made only by Monsanto: polychlorinated biphenyls, better known as PCBs. While the insertion was so subtle many lawmakers probably did not even notice it, the implications of the Monsanto bailout clause are huge. The implications of the provision — added at the last minute — are significant enough that perhaps it should be called the "Monsanto bailout clause."



Easter Egg

Crimea celebrates second anniversary of Russian reunification with massive rallies and fireworks

crimea anniversary celebration
© Reuters Children take part in a celebration of the anniversary of Russia's annexation of Crimea
President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Crimea on the second anniversary of the peninsula's reunification with Russia. The day saw massive celebrations across the country as well as a gorgeous fireworks display in Simferopol.

"This historical justice had been long awaited and dreamed of without any exaggeration by millions of people," Putin said as he congratulated the people on the Day of Sevastopol and Crimea's Reunification with Russia, stressing that it only became possible after "the residents of Crimea and Sevastopol freely voiced their preferences in a referendum two years ago."

On Friday, the Russian president visited Tuzla Island in the Crimea region, where he held a meeting dedicated to the development of the peninsula.

Comment: Crimea chose wisely: Growth fastest in 20 yrs thanks to Russia, sanctions