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Twitter users attack Melania Trump after she tweets message encouraging women to support each other

RT
Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:16 UTC

US First Lady Melania Trump was trolled on Twitter after her official FLOTUS account encouraged women to "speak up, stand up and support other women".

Melania's tweet was in response to model and actress Emily Ratajkowski, an advocate for women who chose to express their sexuality with their bodies, after she defended the first lady amid claims she worked as an escort.

On Monday, Ratajkowski called out a New York Times journalist on Twitter for allegedly repeating the claims, denouncing the journalist's comments as "slut shaming" and "sexist".

1 in 3 Russians polled think Putin era is best the country's had in 100 years

RT
Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:13 UTC

Thirty-two percent of Russians think the period beginning with Vladimir Putin's first presidency is the best their country has enjoyed in a century, according to a poll conducted to mark the centenary of the Bourgeois-Democratic Revolution of 1917.

The study, conducted by the independent Levada research center, also showed that 29 percent of respondents think life was best during the 1970s and '80s - the peak of Soviet development under Communist leader Leonid Brezhnev.

Only 6 percent of respondents said that they saw the period between the February revolution and the Bolshevik Revolution that took place in October 1917 as the best in the history of their country. The same proportion of Russians - 6 percent - see the period of Stalin's dictatorship as the best for life in Russia.

Two percent said they saw Perestroika as the period when Russia reached the greatest prosperity and only 1 percent said the best period in the last century was that of Boris Yeltsin and his pro-market reforms.

Fascist slogans & swastika found in Exeter University student halls

RT
Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:37 UTC

A leading British university has been forced to launch an investigation after white supremacist slogans and a swastika were found in one of its halls of residence.

In a statement about the incident, the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) said: "Universities ought to be safe and welcoming for all students, but this vandalism undermines that principle and indicates instead that some students do not welcome their minority peers.

"Incidents like the one in Exeter undoubtedly make Jewish students uncomfortable and some may feel unwelcome on campus, and even one single incident is one too many."

Syrian Ambassador to China reports some 5,000 Chinese militants fight in Syria

Sputnik
Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:33 UTC

Approximately 5,000 fighters from the restive northwest Chinese region of Xinjiang are fighting alongside militants in Syria, Syria's Ambassador to China Imad Moustapha told Sputnik.

"First, the number of terrorists originating from China has increased significantly with the course of the conflict. At present we can talk about 5,000 fighters," Moustapha said.

The diplomat noted that, because many of them travel with families, "we now have Chinese children in Syria who publish their videos on YouTube with swords and Kalashnikovs in their hands and talking about jihad in Syria."

Comment: Read also: New Great Game: China ups Security Role in Central Asia

Maine teachers caught on tape playing game in which they say which of their students they would 'f***, marry, kill'

RT
Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:04 UTC

A group of teachers and school officials from Bangor, Michigan were secretly filmed making off-color comments about students. One educator has already resigned after an emergency meeting with school officials.

Seven staffers at Bangor Public School were caught making inflammatory comments about students in a 6-minute video posted on YouTube Tuesday. The video will not be included because it mentions the names of students.

Comment: We've found a portion of it that censors their names; see below.

The secretary to the superintendent resigned Tuesday night while two teachers have been suspended and the other four received verbal reprimands, according to WZZM.

Many parents at the district are furious over the topics the teachers were loudly discussing at the Bangor Tavern and Grill. The comments ranged from calling one student "beautiful" to another claiming that teachers were having inappropriate relations with students, which also included an allegedly special needs child.

Comment: Have a listen to the teachers' 'game'. It doesn't sound like they would actually act on their words. Having said that, inappropriate teacher-student relationships are commonplace in American schools today.

What is most instructive about their conversation is that it was 'normal' for them to speak like that. And notice how child-like they themselves sound. Their mannerisms, expressions, vocal tones, etc are indistinguishable from the teenagers they teach!

With honorable exceptions of course, the US has become a nation of infantalized 'people' - neither innocent and child-like, nor properly-developed adults. This is why the country is falling apart.

Monster oil and gas deposits discovered in Iran

RT
Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:06 UTC

Iran has found a dozen new oil fields that could produce 30 billion barrels of crude and 128 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, according to Press TV quoting officials in Tehran.

"We have to say goodbye to (finding) such big fields as Yadavaran and Azadegan and get used to discovering smaller fields," said Seyyed Saleh Hendi, an official from the National Iranian Oil Company.

According to Hendi, while new gas discoveries are possible, new oil findings are unlikely to be large. Iran has 157 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, the world's third largest.

Tehran claims to have the largest gas deposits, but the US Energy Information Administration says the world's biggest gas deposits are in Russia.

Jerry Sandusky's son arrested, charged with sexual abuse of a minor and child pornography

RT
Tue, 14 Feb 2017 13:44 UTC

Jeffrey Sandusky, son of convicted child sexual abuser and former university football coach Jerry Sandusky, has been charged with multiple child sex offenses ranging from sexual assault to child pornography.

Jeffrey Sandusky was arrested and charged with 14 counts related to the sexual abuse of a minor on Monday. Sandusky, 41, is accused of trying to coerce the teenage daughter of a girlfriend into sending sexually explicit images in 2013, according to KDKA. Sandusky is also facing charges of sexual assault of a child older than 11, sexual assault of a child less than 16 and other sexual abuse and child pornography charges.

The charges may ring familiar to those who remember when his father, Jerry Sandusky, 73, was charged with sexually abusing 10 boys in 2012. Jerry, a former Penn State assistant football coach, was found guilty of 45 out of 48 counts against him and sentenced to 60 years in prison.

Sandusky is one of Jerry's six adopted children but is not the only one whose life may have been directly impacted by Jerry's actions. Matthew Sandusky publicly accused Jerry of molesting him and testified against him during his trial. He even spoke about the abuse on Oprah.

However, Jeffrey denied that his brother was abused. Following Matthew's Oprah appearance, he signed a letter with his other four siblings claiming to have never seen any inappropriate behavior from his father.

"We saw no abuse ever take place and never saw or heard of any indication that anything inappropriate was ever occurring," the letter read.

In 2015, Jeffrey told the Bleacher Report that "Matt is a good person," but "this is bull. My dad is innocent. I can guarantee you that. He's innocent."

Comment: Food for thought:

TSA & airport staff face life in prison after shipping 20 tons of cocaine in 18 years

RT
Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:30 UTC

Twelve current and former TSA officers and airport staff are facing possible life sentences after being indicted on an alleged drug trafficking operation that smuggled 20 tons of cocaine into the US through Puerto Rico over an 18-year period.

The US Department of Justice announced the charges on Monday, following a federal grand jury's indictment in Puerto Rico last Wednesday.

From 1988 to 2016, about 40,000 pounds, or two tons, of cocaine went through Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, according to the DOJ.

Slain Missouri KKK leader's wife, stepson charged

Chicago Tribune
Mon, 13 Feb 2017 23:36 UTC

Paul Edward Jinkerson Jr. and Malissa Ancona

The wife and stepson of a Ku Klux Klan leader found fatally shot next to a river in eastern Missouri were charged in his death Monday.

Malissa Ann Ancona, 44, and her 24-year-old son, Paul Edward Jinkerson Jr., were charged with first-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence and abandonment of a corpse in the death of Frank Ancona. Both are jailed without bond.

Constitutional law professor warns about rampant corruption within America's police departments

Lee Shearer
Online Athens
Sat, 28 Jan 2017 22:28 UTC

Courts and other forces have weakened Constitutional protections against police misconduct, and those guarantees meant to protect citizens from their government are likely to erode more over the next four years, predicted a noted Constitutional scholar.

"I am more afraid for my country and for the things that I believe in than at any other time of my life," said University of California Irvine School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, considered one of the country's top legal scholars.

Chemerinsky is also one of the lawyers who filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump recently, alleging Trump is in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits government officials from accepting titles, gifts, salaries and the like from foreign governments without the consent of Congress.

Chemerinsky was the keynote speaker at Friday's 21st Century Policing symposium sponsored by the University of Georgia School of Law and the Georgia Law Review.

In the late 1960s, the Kerner Commission, appointed by President Lyndon Johnson, linked harsh, racially biased police tactics to the riots of the time. And 50 years later, police abuse remains rampant, with the victims disproportionately African Americans and other people of color, according to Chemerinsky.

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Society's Child

Twitter users attack Melania Trump after she tweets message encouraging women to support each other

1 in 3 Russians polled think Putin era is best the country's had in 100 years

Fascist slogans & swastika found in Exeter University student halls

Syrian Ambassador to China reports some 5,000 Chinese militants fight in Syria

Maine teachers caught on tape playing game in which they say which of their students they would 'f***, marry, kill'

Monster oil and gas deposits discovered in Iran

Jerry Sandusky's son arrested, charged with sexual abuse of a minor and child pornography

TSA & airport staff face life in prison after shipping 20 tons of cocaine in 18 years

Slain Missouri KKK leader's wife, stepson charged

Constitutional law professor warns about rampant corruption within America's police departments

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