Society's Child
On Nov. 30, around 11 p.m., Montgomery County Police were dispatched to the Wheaton Metro bus turnaround along Georgia Avenue. Upon stepping out of their cruisers, officers saw a man with stab wounds and bloody slashes to his neck, face and stomach.
That victim, plus an uninjured eyewitness, pointed officers toward Salvador Gomez-Lopez, 46, who was allegedly drunk and belligerent. The two men explained that Gomez-Lopez was relieving himself in plain view of fellow bus passengers. When the victim questioned his actions, Gomez-Lopez reportedly reached into his backpack and grabbed hold of a razor-sharp box cutter.
The runner-up was ousted 40 times from 2001 to 2015. No. 3, 4 and 5 on the list were deported 35, 34 and 31 times, respectively, according to data provided to The Washington Times by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
While those are the most extreme cases, repeat-illegal immigrants were back in the news this week after police said a twice-deported man was driving drunk in Indiana on Sunday morning when he plowed into pro football player Edwin Jackson and his Uber driver, killing them both.
By now, you know the score: A couple of weeks have passed, so there's a new deadline looming for a budget agreement to keep the federal government open until the next continuing resolution can be hammered out, maybe after a brief government shutdown, during which members of Congress might even have to bring their own towels to the House gym (the horror, the horror).
The deadline is Thursday, so lots of luck, fellas. You've been getting along so well lately, this shouldn't be a problem at all. Oh wait.
Since the late 1970s, when new budgeting rules were passed, the government has only passed a budget four times before the fiscal year covered by said budget begins. This time around, there's a debt limit looming, too, with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin saying that the government's credit line will be exhausted by February 28. That's sooner than originally expected, due to the not-at-all-surprising result of the tax cuts passed in December. Lower taxes generally result in lower revenue, after all.
Shocking information on Stephen Paddock was recently reported which has gone completely unnoticed by the mainstream media. The report entails testimony from one of Paddock's high-priced escorts who is blowing the whistle on how a prostitute who met with the deranged shooter just before the massacre has since gone missing and noted how Paddock thought he was under the control of the government.
The escort was reported missing by her boyfriend just after the shooting and now, a former escort who once dated Paddock is speaking out about the sheer insanity involved in this case.
"She was telling girls after work that she was scared something would happen to her," claimed former escort Mikaela, whose full name is being withheld to protect her identity according to Radar Online. "She was booked the day before or the day of the shooting before she disappeared."
Comment: By now it is clear to most who have looked closely at the Las Vegas massacre that much of what we've been told through the mainstream media is a lie:
- Three months on, Las Vegas police still won't release basic information about Route 91 Festival massacre
- Authorities finally admit there are multiple suspects in Vegas massacre
- Las Vegas Terror Attack: Clear Evidence of Multiple Shooters at Multiple Hotels
- Serious Problems With Official Las Vegas Massacre Narrative
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In the third wreck in just one week - and the fourth in two months - several cars of an Acela Express heading from Washington, DC, to the Big Apple decoupled at about 6:30 a.m. and were left held together only by their air hoses.
Sparks flew from dragging cables and the train jerked wildly, but none of the 52 terrified passengers aboard were injured, according to reports.
A spate of fatal Amtrak accidents in recent months is focusing renewed attention on the passenger railroad and its safety record. The latest deadly incident occurred Sunday in South Carolina.
The crashes appear to stem from different causes, and federal investigators are sifting through each to find out what happened.
Comment: Even though in this instance, according to the article, safety incidents are actually steadily decreasing, America's infrastructure is failing, so it appears that the publicity these accidents receive is a factor in the public's concern. Travelling by rail can be a relatively pain-free experience when compared to the invasive and unjust security checks one has to suffer when flying, and if we look to how other countries are managing their rail network, it seems the west has a lot to learn:
- Russia's hi-speed rail boom: Manufactured locally and set to traverse the world (VIDEO)
- Russia installs Crimea bridge railway arch in unique operation
- 'One Belt, One Road': China builds infrastructure with speed unprecedented in history
- UK's abysmal rail companies hike fares again, meanwhile customer horrified over sexist name
- China plans to connect regions with 400kph bullet trains by 2020
- Amtrak train breaks apart at 125 mph
If the #MeToo movement only reduces sexual predation in the workplace, it will have been a force for good. Its most likely result, however, will be to unleash a torrent of new gender and race quotas throughout the economy and culture, on the theory that disparities in representation and employment are due to harassment and bias.
The terrifying ordeal - a child realising she had not been taken home but discarded in a place where she knew no one - is hard to contemplate for any parent.
And yet for Israel's gargantuan bureaucratic structure that has ruled over Palestinians for five decades, this was just another routine error. One mishap among many that day.
A single, abstract noun - "occupation" - obscures a multitude of crimes.
What crushes Palestinian spirits is not just the calculated malevolence of Israel's occupation authorities, as they kill and imprison Palestinians, seal them into ghettoes, steal lands and demolish homes. It is also the system's casual indifference to their fate.
This is a bureaucracy - of respectable men and women - that controls the smallest details of Palestinians' lives. With the flick of a pen, everything can be turned upside down. Palestinians are viewed as numbers and bodies rather than human beings.
Comment: Israel sees Palestinians and Africans as things, not people. It is as simple as that. It is the "banality of evil", as Arendt wrote.
A child slave trafficked into the UK at the age of 10 and forced to work in a cannabis factory will on Tuesday plead to stay in the country with the backing of over 116,000 people.
The 19-year-old, known as Stephen to protect his real identity, was rescued by a vicar and his wife three years ago in County Durham, taught to read, and has become a pillar of the parish church community. But in a decision that has been described as "grotesque", the home secretary, Amber Rudd, informed the teenager late last year that his plea for asylum had been refused.
Last night, thousands of impassioned citizens took to the streets of Philadelphia to take a stand for what they believe in. Ten of thousands gathered - many of whom clashed with police to stand up for their cause - NFL Football.
To celebrate their team winning, the "joyous football fans" mercilessly laid waste to everything around them. They were seen stomping on the awning of the Ritz Carlton until it collapsed.















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