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US judge: Flint residents may sue former state governor Rick Snyder over water crisis

Sputnik
Thu, 04 Apr 2019 23:55 UTC

US District Court Judge Judith Levy released a 128-page opinion on Monday reversing a previous decision to protect former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder from the consolidated class action lawsuits filed over the state's 2014 to 2016 water crisis.

In light of new evidence brought against Snyder, Levy released an opinion effectively allowing residents of Flint, Michigan, to include Snyder in a class action lawsuit against a number of former state and local officials as well as private water supply consultants. Last August, Levy took Snyder out of the lawsuit.

According to Michael Pitt, an attorney for the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit,

"[Snyder] was receiving significant information that the contamination was causing harm to people, notwithstanding that he basically ignored it, and, according to the judge, actually engaged in a cover up by indicating that the water was safe when he had ample reason to say the opposite."

In her recent statement, Levy emphasized that Snyder was knowingly unsympathetic to the health and safety of Flint residents.

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Milan's Malpensa Airport temporarily shut down by drone sighting

Fox News
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 23:46 UTC

Milan's Malpensa Airport was temporarily closed by a drone flying near a terminal, forcing four planes to be redirected to nearby airports.

The airport operator SEA said Monday that the airport was closed for about a half hour after the drone was sighted around midday. Three flights landed at Milan's Linate airport and a fourth in Turin.

Malpensa underwent a similar closure last month when a drone was spotted from the control tower several kilometers (at least two miles) away. Police were investigating both incidents.

Comment: Drones have apparently become a regular hazard at international airports.

But what sort of "drone activity" closes an airport for three days? In this first video watch the upper right corner starting at the 0:38 mark:

And these stranded passengers were pretty sure they weren't seeing a drone either:

Years of 'progressive' proselytizing is finally taking a toll on leftist media ratings

Onar Åm
Liberty Nation
Thu, 04 Apr 2019 22:05 UTC

After the Christchurch massacre, the legacy media were quick to label anyone who harbored ideas of limiting mass immigration as "far right," "white supremacists," and "enablers." However, when the leader at one of the targeted mosques in New Zealand, Ahmed Bhamji, claimed that the murderer was in league with Mossad and local "Zionist businesses," it went largely unreported.

Had such a statement been made by someone wearing a MAGA hat, it would have been frontpage news. Similarly, when someone who identifies with the right does something terrible, it is regurgitated and remembered for years, whereas Islamic terrorist attacks are routinely ignored.

When Justice Kavanaugh was accused of sexual assault that allegedly occurred nearly 40 years ago, the media was filled with stories about how all women should be believed. When Joe Biden is accused by Bernie supporters and other leftists for having touched them inappropriately, the same media sympathetically reports him as being merely "tactile."

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Former Arizona Rep. David Stringer on child sex trafficking: 'I don't like to demonize it'

Dustin Gardiner
azcentral.com
Wed, 03 Apr 2019 17:31 UTC

David Stringer

Former Arizona Rep. David Stringer made disturbing comments about child sex trafficking and his interactions with children within the past few years, two Prescott women told ethics investigators.

Those statements are included in new records the state House of Representatives released Wednesday from its ethics investigation into complaints against Stringer, who resigned last week over accusations that he raped children in the 1980s.

Among the new records are notes about a conversation Stringer had with an activist during a 2018 Republican Women of Prescott meeting, where he disputed that child sex trafficking is a problem.

According to investigators' notes of the exchange, Stringer and Merissa Hamilton, an activist who works to protect child victims of trafficking, were seated next to each other watching a speech from a Border Patrol agent at the event.

Reconfiguration of food production: The fight for life versus Monsanto/Bayer agriculture

rt.com
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 10:23 UTC

This week Monsanto/Bayer AG was ordered by a California federal court to pay $80 million to Edwin Hardeman after a jury found its weed killer, Roundup, caused his cancer. The case is just one of thousands of lawsuits filed against the company over plaintiffs' use of the glyphosate-based herbicide. In 2015, the World Health Organization classified glyphosate as probably carcinogenic to humans. The Food and Drug Administration has concluded the herbicide is not likely carcinogenic to humans. In August 2018, a jury in California state court awarded a school's groundskeeper, Dewayne Johnson, nearly $289 million in damages. The verdict was later reduced to $78 million and is on appeal. In this conversation with Chris Hedges, environmental activist and author, Vandana Shiva, talks about Monsanto/Bayer AG and other big AG players' interests in India and her fight to protect life forms, seed varieties and farmers.

The myth of American meritocracy

Rajan Menon
The Nation
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 11:10 UTC

© Reuters / Jonathan Drake
Students walk through the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on September 20, 2018.

Despair about the state of our politics pervades the political spectrum, from left to right. One source of it, the narrative of fairness offered in basic civics textbooks - we all have an equal opportunity to succeed if we work hard and play by the rules; citizens can truly shape our politics - no longer rings true to most Americans. Recent surveys indicate that substantial numbers of them believe that the economy and political system are both rigged. They also think that money has an outsize influence on politics. Ninety percent of Democrats hold this view, but so do 80 percent of Republicans. And careful studies confirm what the public believes.

None of this should be surprising given the stark economic inequality that now marks our society. The richest 1 percent of American households currently account for 40 percent of the country's wealth, more than the bottom 90 percent of families possess. Worse yet, the top 0.1 percent has cornered about 20 percent of it, up from 7 percent in the mid-1970s. By contrast, the share of the bottom 90 percent has since then fallen from 35 percent to 25 percent. To put such figures in a personal light, in 2017, three men- Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Bill Gates - possessed more wealth ($248.5 billion) than the bottom 50 percent of Americans.

Over the last four decades, economic disparities in the United States increased substantially and are now greater than those in other wealthy democracies. The political consequence has been that a tiny minority of extremely wealthy Americans wields disproportionate influence, leaving so many others feeling disempowered.

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University of Kansas chastised for offering course on the 'Angry White Male"

AP
Fri, 05 Apr 2019 11:00 UTC

University of Kansas

A congressman is chastising the University of Kansas for offering a course titled "Angry White Male Studies."

Kansas Republican Rep. Ron Estes was among those turning to social media, lamenting in a tweet that the university has "decided to offer a class that divides the student population."

The school's academic catalog says the course will chart "the rise of the 'angry white male' in America and Britain since the 1950s, exploring the deeper sources of this emotional state."

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Officials find additional software problem in Boeing 737 Max flight control system

Aaron C. Davis, Luz Lazo & Paul Schemm
San Francisco Chronicle
Fri, 05 Apr 2019 10:54 UTC

© Ted S. Warren, AP
In this March 14, 2019, file photo, workers walk next to a Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplane parked at Boeing Field, in Seattle. A published report says pilots of an Ethiopian airliner that crashed followed Boeing’s emergency steps for dealing with a sudden nose-down turn but couldn’t regain control.

Federal aviation regulators have ordered Boeing to fix a second problem with the flight-control system of its grounded 737 Max, the company acknowledged Thursday, as new details emerged that pilots of two planes could not counteract a malfunction of the system using the company's recommended procedures.

The pilots of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 performed all the procedures recommended by Boeing to save their 737 Max 8 aircraft but could not pull it out of a flight-system-induced dive, a preliminary report into the crash concluded Thursday.

In a brief summary of the much-anticipated preliminary report on the March 10 crash, Ethiopian Transport Minister Dagmawit Moges told reporters that the "aircraft flight-control system" contributed to the plane's difficulty in gaining altitude after it left Addis Ababa airport. It crashed six minutes later, killing all 157 on board.

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Senator Blumenthal: US figure skating needs 'immediate change'

Christine Brennan
USA Today
Fri, 05 Apr 2019 10:28 UTC

© KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP/Getty Images
Sexual assault allegations against John Coughlin led to SafeSport's finding of a larger culture in U.S. Figure Skating.

U.S. Figure Skating must make ''immediate change'' in the wake of the U.S. Center for SafeSport's chilling assessment that the national governing body has a culture of sexual abuse that has gone "unchecked for too long," Senator Richard Blumenthal told USA TODAY Sports in an email Tuesday evening.

"I am appalled that no one in authority appears to understand the lessons of the horrific failures that enabled Larry Nassar's abuse of young gymnasts for almost 30 years," wrote Blumenthal, D-Conn., the ranking member of the Senate subcommittee investigating the Olympic sexual abuse scandal.

On March 4, SafeSport announced that in the course of its work on sexual misconduct allegations against the late national pairs champion John Coughlin - who took his own life Jan. 18, one day after he received an interim suspension from SafeSport - it discovered "a culture in figure skating that allowed grooming and abuse to go unchecked for too long."

Person who claimed to be child missing for eight years is really Ohio convict

Reuters
Fri, 05 Apr 2019 01:33 UTC

Timmothy Pitzen, age 5 (L) - age-progressed (R)

The person who claimed to be Illinois teen Timmothy Pitzen, who went missing eight years ago, is a grown man with a criminal record, according to the FBI and state records.

Brian Michael Rini, 23, told police in the Kentucky town of Newport that he had escaped kidnappers and was Timmothy, who would now be 14 years old, briefly raising hope the long-lost boy had been found, FBI spokesman Todd Lindgren said.

Timmothy was last seen after his mother pulled him out of school in Aurora, Illinois, a far-west suburb of Chicago, and then committed suicide.

Lindgren, of the agency's Cincinnati bureau, said on Thursday that DNA tests conducted at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital showed that the person who claimed to be Timmothy was in fact Rini.

Got a lot of banning to do now if songs have to only contain official, literal, "truths" I reckon.

Neizvestno

We must believe lies as truth or face the consequences. I am not sure if I can assimilate into the Brave New World.

nuggatron

This figure is such an obvious parody and insult of the voters, I don't know why the whole deepfake administration was not court-martialled and...

codis

Only space aliens or pedojewzskies would abuse a child at school: [Link]

Jibrish

Good luck to them, to us all.

Demore

Society's Child

US judge: Flint residents may sue former state governor Rick Snyder over water crisis

Milan's Malpensa Airport temporarily shut down by drone sighting

Years of 'progressive' proselytizing is finally taking a toll on leftist media ratings

Former Arizona Rep. David Stringer on child sex trafficking: 'I don't like to demonize it'

Reconfiguration of food production: The fight for life versus Monsanto/Bayer agriculture

The myth of American meritocracy

University of Kansas chastised for offering course on the 'Angry White Male"

Officials find additional software problem in Boeing 737 Max flight control system

Senator Blumenthal: US figure skating needs 'immediate change'

Person who claimed to be child missing for eight years is really Ohio convict

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