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Vigilante group Soldiers of Odin announce hunt for rapists, paedophiles amid Finland sex attacks


Sputnik
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 20:04 UTC
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Finnish vigilante group Soldiers of Odin
The vigilantes' recent video, in which they claimed Finland to be overrun by "sex tourists" has arrived amidst a grooming gang scandal which has implicated immigrants and asylum-seekers from the Middle East.

The Finnish police and the National Prosecutor General's Office are investigating whether the new Soldiers of Odin video, in which they declare a hunt for rapists and paedophiles, constitutes hate speech and instigation to violence, the Finnish daily newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet reported.

In the video, which is provided with English and Arabic subtitles, the group claims that it has made false profiles in social media, posing as young girls. With the help of the profiles, the group seeks to reveal men in search of sexual contact with young girls on the web.
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Pregnant ISIS teen wants to return home to UK, warned her actions will have consequences


RT
Thu, 14 Feb 2019 20:13 UTC
ISIS teen recruits
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(L to R) British teenagers Kadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum at Gatwick Airport, UK
A British teenage ISIS recruit who left home to fight for the self-styled caliphate has called on her government to bring her home from Syria, but the UK security minister has warned that "actions have consequences."

Shamima Begum was one of three schoolgirls from Bethnal Green in East London who traveled to Syria four years ago to join Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS). She has pleaded to be allowed back into the UK in an interview with the Times.

However, government minister Ben Wallace told BBC Radio 4's Today program that he would not risk the lives of British officials "to go looking for terrorists or former terrorists in a failed state." He warned Begum that she had the right to return, but could face prosecution at the very least.

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13 dead, more than 30 injured in bus accident in North Macedonia


France24
Thu, 14 Feb 2019 00:17 UTC
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The deadly accident took place when a tour bus crossed a barrier onto the other side of the Skopje-Tetovo highway, then veered off the road and overturned near the village of Laskarci, a North Macedonian official said AFP
At least 13 people were killed and more than 30 others injured when a passenger bus overturned on a highway in North Macedonia on Wednesday, health minister said.

Speaking to AFP, Minister Venko Filipce added that "the number of dead may increase because there are people in surgery and in critical condition" following the accident which happened around 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the capital Skopje. Around 50 people were on the bus.

"Thirteen people were killed," Filipce told reporters. "There are more than 30 injured."

Ilir Asani, head of the emergency centre at Skopje's main hospital, told local media that at least "five people were severely injured, including a pregnant woman".

Comment: Other crashes from the last month or so:

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Failed London Garden Bridge project cost £53m - overseen by London Mayor Boris Johnson then Sadiq Khan


BBC
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 12:00 UTC
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A review of the project said £43m of taxpayers' money had been spent
A failed plan to build a bridge covered with trees and flowers over the River Thames in central London cost a total of £53m, it has been revealed.

A Transport for London (TfL) inquiry showed the Garden Bridge Trust spent £161,000 on a website and £417,000 on a gala for the abandoned project.


Comment: 'Gala' aka a party - nearly £500,000 on a party for a project that had barely started.


The design of the bridge cost more than £9m and the charity paid its executives £1.7m.

Around £43m came from the public's pocket, TfL added.

Doubts began to surround the project, overseen by Boris Johnson, after it lost the support of London Mayor Sadiq Khan in April 2017.

It was officially abandoned in August of that year after a review recommended it be scrapped.

Comment: This is just one of a vast number of ridiculously expensive and seriously unnecessary, failed projects in London, from the millennium dome to an overhaul of its buses (which, ominously, burst into flames on a number of occasions). These failed schemes tell us a lot about those running things:

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Sorry AOC, public support for capitalism is growing in America - new poll

Michael Snyder
End of the American Dream
Thu, 14 Feb 2019 18:06 UTC
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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (center) speaks on the Green New Deal with Senator Ed Markey (right) in front of the Capitol Building in February 2019
The meteoric rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other young progressive politicians has led many to believe that the American public must be warming up to socialism. But what if that isn't true at all? Certainly there is a certain segment of the population that absolutely embraces the message that AOC, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and other socialists are preaching, but could it be possible that the American people as a whole are actually moving in the opposite direction? According to a shocking Fox News poll that just came out, the percentage of Americans that want the government to leave them alone is going up, and the percentage of Americans that want the government to lend them a hand is going down...
The 34 percent saying "lend me a hand" is down from 41 percent last year and 39 percent in 2016. The 55 percent who would tell the government "leave me alone" is up from 51 percent in 2018 and 54 percent in 2016.
You would think that these numbers should be very encouraging for President Trump and the Republican Party, because traditionally the idea of "limited government" has been central to the conservative message in this country.
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Family sues Lakemore, Springfield Township police - who were cleared in unjustified shooting that seriously injured unarmed man

Robin Goist
cleveland.com
Tue, 12 Feb 2019 00:00 UTC
Four bullets struck the passenger door
© Courtesy of Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh
Four bullets struck the passenger door, and shattered the front passenger window, of a Ford Econoline van where passenger Matthew Burghardt and driver Christian Beard were shot by police Feb. 13, 2018, in Lakemore.
The family of a man left permanently injured after a Feb. 2018 police shooting in Lakemore filed a lawsuit Tuesday in federal court against the two police officers involved.

Lakemore officer Ezekial Ryan and Springfield Township officer Kristofer London shot 31-year-old Matthew Burghardt while he sat unarmed in a van Feb. 13, 2018, according to court documents.

Gunshot wounds rendered Burghardt blind and permanently cognitively incapacitated, according to the lawsuit. Burghardt's family, who filed suit on the eve of the anniversary of the incident, are seeking accountability in what his lawyers say was an unjustified shooting.

Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh in August wrote letters to the Lakemore and Springfield Township police chiefs in which she ruled the officers' use of deadly force was legally justified and appropriate "in light of the circumstances and risk posed" by Burghardt and the other man in the vehicle.
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Delusional rapist Bill Cosby thinks he's in jail for trying to 'humanize all races'

Justin Heinze
Patch
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 17:29 UTC
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Speaking from behind bars, Bill Cosby alleged recently that he's a political prisoner victimized by a corrupt legal system because of work he said he did to "humanize all races."

The former comedian, 81, now serving out a three to 10 year prison sentence for sexual assault in SCI Phoenix in Montgomery County, passed on the statement to the public through his spokesperson, Andrew Wyatt.

"My political beliefs, my actions of trying to humanize all races, genders and religions landed me in this place surrounded by barb wire fencing, a room made of steel and iron," he said, referring to his career as a comedian. He went on to compare his imprisonment to that of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela.
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Sound money: Tennessee Legal Tender Law would treat gold and silver as money and form the foundation to undermine the Fed

Mike Maharrey
Tenth Amendment Center
Mon, 11 Feb 2019 00:00 UTC
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Bills introduced in the Tennessee legislature would define gold and silver specie as legal tender and eliminate sales taxes levied on it. Passage of these bills would pave the way for Tennessee residents to use gold and silver in everyday transactions, a foundational step for the people to undermine the Federal Reserve's monopoly on money.

Sen. Steve Southerland (R-Morristown) introduced Senate Bill 978 (SB978) on Feb. 6. Rep. Rick Eldridge (R-Morristown) introduced the House companion bill (HB1323) the same day. Titled the Tennessee Legal Tender Act, the legislation would make gold and silver legal tender in the state, meaning it would be recognized as a medium of exchange for the payment of debts and taxes. Practically speaking, gold and silver specie would be treated as money, putting it on par with Federal Reserve notes in Tennessee.

Comment: There are other reasons to purchase silver and gold coins: Hyperinflation, Nails in the Coffin and Silver Bullets

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Investigation finds no proof of 'racist or offensive statements' by Covington Catholic students

Brett Samuels
The Hill
Thu, 14 Feb 2019 11:11 UTC
Covington confrontation
© Kaya Taitano/Social Media/via REUTERS
A student from Covington Catholic High School stands in front of Native American Nathan Phillips in Washington, U.S., in this still image from a Jan. 18, 2019.
An investigation into the viral encounter between students from Covington Catholic High School and a Native American man found the students' accounts to be largely accurate, according to findings released Wednesday.

Greater Cincinnati Investigations issued a report dated Feb. 11 that found no evidence that students from Covington Catholic made "offensive or racist" statements to either Black Hebrew Israelites or Native American tribe members gathered on the National Mall.

"The statements we obtained from students and chaperones are remarkably consistent," the investigators said. "And, the statements are consistent with the videos we reviewed."

Comment: The Sandmann family attorney Todd McMurty summed up the hysteria in an interview:
"By ignoring the truth that was immediately available to nearly everyone, they made false statements against my client that have damaged his reputation," McCurtry argued.

He invited Starnes' audience to put themselves in Nick Sandmann's shoes and imagine what it would be like to have to endure what the boy has been going through.

"Imagine being the person subject to all of this hatred at age 16 and imagine when you apply to college, grad school.... Imagine when you go to a party. Imagine when you seek a new job or want to move to a new city. People are going to know who you are. I don't think people are going to forget this for years to come," he said, adding that the people who pushed the false narrative should "pay a high price."

"What they did to him is completely inexcusable. It's a travesty and they all need to be punished and they need to pay a high price for what they did," he declared.
Also see: Nick Sandmann's lawyer: 'Nathan Phillips will be sued' for defamation

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Wall Street

Lawsuit alleges that CBS executives engineered stock dump prior to damning disclosures

Aaron Katersky
ABC News
Thu, 14 Feb 2019 11:11 UTC
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© Chris Goodney/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Leslie "Les" Moonves, president and chief executive officer of CBS Corp., listens during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York City, Oct. 14, 2015.
Former CBS chief Les Moonves tried to profit before his ouster by selling CBS stock before the company publicly disclosed the sexual harassment allegations he faces, a new lawsuit alleged.

The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court, also named several other current and former CBS executives who, collectively, are alleged to have sold more than $200 million dollars' worth of CBS stock "before the disclosures about the company's sexual harassment and hostile work environment problems were revealed to the market," the lawsuit said.

Yet in a statement, a CBS spokeswoman said that the "vast majority" of stock sales outlined in the complaint were "part of pre-planned selling arrangements designed to comply with applicable securities law."
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