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Substitute teacher in Maryland tapes student to a chair when he wouldn't return to his seat


CBS News - Baltimore
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 22:38 UTC
Teacher tapes student to chair
A long-term substitute teacher at an Anne Arundel County Public School is no longer at the school after she was reported by a parent for taping a student to a chair.

The substitute teacher was reportedly in the classroom when she remarked to a student that if he did not return to his seat, she would tape him. When the student found the remark funny, the teacher did just that.

After the school learned of the incident from a parent Wednesday night, police were notified. The teacher was also not in school Thursday and will not be placed in any school at this time.

Anne Arundel County Public Schools chief communications officer Bob Mosier confirmed the incident occurred this Wednesday.
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'Corpse smuggler' arrested in India with 50 human skeletons in his luggage

Saptarshi Ray
The Telegraph, UK
Fri, 30 Nov 2018 13:30 UTC
Corpse smuggler arrested in India
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Indian police are investigating a skeleton smuggling gang after a man was caught with skulls and bones of 50 different people on a train.

Government Railway Police arrested the suspected "corpse smuggler" at Chapra railway station in India's eastern state of Bihar.

The arrested man, identified as Sanjay Prasad, was carrying 16 human skulls and 34 skeletal remains in his luggage and was travelling on the Balia-Sealdah Express to Kolkata, from where police said he was heading for the border to Bhutan.

Police suspect that the skeletons, which according to the suspect were brought from Balia in Uttar Pradesh, were then meant to be smuggled to China via Bhutan, reported the Times of India.

Mr Prasad was part of a gang who supplied human skeletons to "tantrics and occultists" in the Himalayan Kingdom, police said. They also claimed there was "huge demand for skeletons among medical students in China".
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London mayor under pressure to stop armed police patrols amid rising crime

Vikram Dodd
The Guardian
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 18:34 UTC
armed police
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The Metropolitan police have discussed using additional armed officers.
Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, has come under pressure to order Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan police commissioner, to stop plans for officers to patrol residential areas of the city with their guns on show.

The plans being considered by the Met are aimed at boosting community confidence and public safety, but triggered swingeing criticism on Thursday night.

An email sent to a number of community figures by the Met outlining the proposal said it was in response to knife crime and rising violent crime.

The Met email, seen by the Guardian, said: "We are sure you and your communities are all as troubled as we are by the unsettling number of young people being seriously and fatally stabbed in recent times."

It continues: "There has been recent internal discussion around using additional armed support to patrol on foot amongst local communities, with their weapons visible and accessible. The purpose of any such initiative must be to enhance public and unarmed officer safety, and to improve not hinder community confidence."
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Conservative activist, Laura Loomer, chains herself to Twitter's office door in protest of social media censorship


RT
Fri, 30 Nov 2018 18:12 UTC
Laura Loomer
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A week after being suspended from Twitter, conservative firebrand Laura Loomer has handcuffed herself to the door of Twitter's New York offices in a protest against social media censorship of right-wing voices.

Calling out Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for "the double standards that exist here at Twitter," Loomer read out a list of offensive tweets that had been permitted to stay on Twitter while her own post criticizing Congresswoman-elect Ilhan Omar for her alleged support of Sharia law had gotten her banned for "hate speech."

Loomer seemed almost disappointed when police declined to arrest her, opting instead to set up barricades to keep crowds away from the building entrance and allowing her to continue addressing onlookers through a miniature bullhorn. A spokesperson from the NYPD said she was cut free two hours after starting the protest and that Twitter did not want to press charges.

Comment: Twitter bans outspoken conservative activist Laura Loomer

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'I almost died': Young French woman disfigured by an allergic reaction to hair dye


The Local
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 11:35 UTC
Disfigured woman
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A young woman from Paris has shared photos showing the shocking disfigurement caused to her face by an allergic reaction to a common hair dye product.

Nineteen-year-old Estelle stunned social media users in France after she posted on Facebook a sequence of alarming photos in which her face looks increasingly swollen and intoxicated.

The English undergrad student almost died as a result of the allergic reaction she suffered to PPD - the abbreviation for paraphenylenediamine- a common compound found in 90 percent of hair dyes despite its known allergic risks.

"Look, here I could still see; here I was struggling to breathe, " she told French daily Le Parisien in an interview as she scrolled through the photos on her phone.
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Convict confesses to murder of 90 people over 40-year span. The FBI believes him.

Eric Levenson and Chuck Johnston
CNN
Fri, 30 Nov 2018 17:27 UTC
Samuel Little serial killer

Samuel Little has confessed to 90 murders, according to authorities.
Samuel Little was hoping to move prisons this past spring.

The 78-year-old was spending the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of killing three people. But his name had popped up in the FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program, known as ViCAP, in connection with a series of unsolved murders across the country.

One killing in Odessa, Texas, appeared to be particularly relevant, so two FBI crime analysts and James Holland of the Texas Rangers went out to see Little to try to get him to talk.

He was more than willing, according to the FBI.
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Moscow railroad tests facial recognition payment to identify and charge passengers


RT
Fri, 30 Nov 2018 11:47 UTC
Moscow's Kievsky terminal.
© Sputnik / Evgeny Samarin
Moscow's Kievsky terminal.
The operator of Moscow's passenger railroad service is testing a system, which would use facial recognition to identify and charge passengers. Similar pilot projects are underway or planned in other areas in the Russian capital.

As computational power and broadband communications become more accessible, using biometrics identification for screening of people gets cheaper and faster. So it's natural that the technology, initially meant for security and law enforcement, is finding its ways to new applications.

The company responsible for most railroad passenger traffic in the Russian capital is the latest player trying to use facial recognition as payment method. The TsPPK has introduced a system for this as a pilot project, its head Maksim Dyakonov said at a recent panel on the development of public transport in Moscow.

"We are testing a prototype on a couple of stations and want to see if it makes sense or not," he said as cited by TASS. "Anyway, the transit system moves towards a unified ticked, that would hopefully minimize time to check in."

Comment: See also: Swedish microchipping photos flood social media and it's insane

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Hollywood gives Christian film an 'R' rating - No nudity, sex, bad language, gore or drugs

J.P. Johnston
The Western Journal
Wed, 31 Oct 2018 14:47 UTC
The Reliant movie
The Motion Picture Association of America adds its name to a list of increasingly brazen leftist media powerhouses who discriminate against conservative voices in the public square.

Facebook: Graphic images of a woman smashing and eating a baby do not violate "community standards" but quoting a Bible verse on homosexuality does.

Twitter: Conservative voices and alternative news sources frequently find themselves muzzled while profane rants against them are celebrated.

Google: Discriminatory algorithms ensure that articles praising the Second Amendment, President Trump, traditional marriage, and lashing out against illegal immigration are suppressed while the "fake news media" gets free rein.

It's called censorship.


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Airbnb hit with Israeli class-action lawsuit for delisting illegal settlements after agreeing with BDS campaign - UPDATE

Ori Lewis
Reuters
Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:43 UTC
Airbnb
Lawyers launched a class action lawsuit in Israel on Thursday against Airbnb, accusing the company of "outrageous discrimination" and demanding monetary damages after it withdrew listings of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

The San Francisco-based company said this week it was removing listings of around 200 homes in settlements after hearing criticism from people who "believe companies should not profit on lands where people have been displaced".

Through her attorneys, Ma'anit Rabinovich from the West Bank settlement of Kida, who offers guest room rentals, said the move "represents especially grave, offensive and outrageous discrimination".

Comment: Update: A group of Americans who "own property" in Israel has filed their own lawsuit against Airbnb:
A group of 18 Americans sued Airbnb on Wednesday over the company's decision to ban home rentals in the illegally occupied West Bank on November 19.

Fair Housing Act by discriminating against the plaintiffs on the basis of religion. The plaintiffs are mostly dual US-Israeli citizens that own property in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and have hosted on Airbnb; some others are American citizens who want to rent a home there or have already.

Airbnb continues to allow home rentals in Israel, as well as in East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, which like the West Bank the UN considers to be illegally occupied by Israel.

Currently, Airbnb has over 20,000 hosts in "places like Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other parts of Israel," the company says.

The lawsuit "was organized by Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center," the Jerusalem Post reported.

Shurat HaDin founder and director Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, who represents plaintiffs in the case, said, "Airbnb's new discriminatory policy has made it the poster child for the racist BDS movement," referring to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement which seeks to pressure companies and governments into boycotting Israeli companies and institutions until the country complies with international law.


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Dozens of Fort Dodge, Iowa prisoners sue state over pornography ban

Chris Gothner
KCCI
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 09:21 UTC
Corrections facility
Some Iowa prisoners say they want their porn back and are challenging a new regulation banning pornographic magazines from state prisons.

In the 26-page federal lawsuit, inmates at the Fort Dodge Correctional Institution make references to Nazism, tyranny and the Bible. They also say if female guards can't handle seeing pornographic images, "they should find employment elsewhere."

The suit argues that new state regulations, spurred by a law requiring state prisons to ban porn and shut down so-called pornographic reading rooms, is unconstitutional.

Frequent prison litigator Allen Curtis Miles, who is serving a life sentence for stabbing a Des Moines woman to death in 1982, was joined by 57 other Fort Dodge inmates, asking to end the ban and requesting $25,000 each.
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