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Three arrested, including teen, in Wisconsin over death of 7yo boy

Brandon M Reid
Manitowoc Herald Times
Fri, 01 Feb 2019 20:29 UTC
Damian Hauschultz, Timothy Hauschultz and Tina McKeever-Hauschultz
© WLUK/Gabrielle Mays
This composite photo shows, from left, Damian Hauschultz, Timothy Hauschultz and Tina McKeever-Hauschultz appearing in Manitowoc County court Feb. 4, 2019
Three people were arrested Friday in connection with the April 20, 2018, death of 7-year-old Ethan Hauschultz of Newton.

Ethan Hauschultz's court-appointed guardians, Timothy Hauschultz and Tina McKeever-Hauschultz, and Timothy's 15-year-old son were all arrested Friday, Manitowoc County Sheriff's Office said in a press release.

According to the release, the sheriff's office's investigation of the death determined that earlier in the day on April 20, 2018, "Ethan had been performing punishment ordered by Timothy which required Ethan to carry a heavy wooden log, weighing approximately two-thirds his body weight, while being monitored by Timothy's 15-year-old son. Over the course of 1-1.5 hours, the 15-year-old hit, kicked, struck and poked Ethan numerous times.

He repeatedly shoved Ethan to the ground and rolled the heavy log across Ethan's chest. He stood on his body and head while Ethan was face-down in a puddle. He ultimately buried Ethan completely in snow. Timothy and Tina eventually transported Ethan to the hospital where he was pronounced dead."
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Performance gap: Migrants' children in Swedish schools are increasingly segregated - survey


RT
Mon, 04 Feb 2019 17:45 UTC
Lindblom school
© Reuters / Reuters Staff
Lindblom school in Hultsfred, Sweden
Some Swedish schools have almost exclusively either foreign-born or Swedish children, according to a recent study. The increasing segregation leads to lower education levels and missed opportunities for the kids, officials warn.

Thousands of migrants' children in Sweden are less and less likely to meet their Swedish classmates at school, according to a survey from the state-funded SVT TV channel. The study of 3,641 Swedish schools published last week shows four out of 10 schools have an imbalance in the ratio of migrant and Swedish children compared to the overall proportion in the given municipality.

Officials say segregation is real and that it directly affects students' performance.

"We get an increased concentration of students based on social background and thus differences in terms of school performance," Peter Fredriksson, chief of the Swedish National Agency for Education, said, commenting on the study. "You should have the same opportunities to succeed regardless of which school you go to. But it is not the case today."
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Is the Venezuelan "opposition" starting to break down?

Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard
The Stalker Zone
Mon, 04 Feb 2019 17:30 UTC
rally maduro
© Agence France-Presse
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (L) and his wife Cilia Flores wave at the crowd during a gathering to mark the 20th anniversary of the rise of power of the late Hugo Chavez, in Caracas on February 2, 2019.

Comment: Two geopolitical analysts from Vesti offer their views on the attempted US-backed coup in Venezuela.


Dmitry Kiselev:

In Venezuela there is the most severe crisis. The lawful president of the country Nicolás Maduro controls the army, the courts, and the intelligence agencies, but the US, their allies following in their footsteps, recognised someone else as the head of state - the leader of the oppositional parliament Juan Guaido, encouraging a coup d'etat.

Guaido is an impostor. He is the speaker of the local parliament, but proclaimed himself the president. Without any elections. Recently we spoke about the arisen diarchy in the country, but now this definition isn't absolutely exact any more. Guaido has no real control levers. He has only the support of the West and some of the countries of the region. Thus, supporters of a coup d'etat lost speed and started to lose traction.
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Totalitarian Left eats its own, this time it's young adult fiction authors

Cathy Young
Quillette
Mon, 04 Feb 2019 17:51 UTC
book handcuffs
In the late 1930s, more than 40 years before my family emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States, my maternal grandmother had a chance to become a published children's author. She had been writing short stories for her two children, and my grandfather encouraged her to send them to a publisher. To her surprise, she heard from an editor. When she came to see him, he told her he liked the stories very much, except for one problem: they lacked a Soviet spirit. But that, he reassured her, could be easily fixed: for instance, in the story where a young girl who befriends a hedgehog in the woods and promises she'll always be his friend, she could just say that she gives her word as a Young Pioneer. (The Pioneers were the Soviet mass organization for middle-school-age children.)

My grandma was not a closet anti-Soviet rebel, but she did quietly rebel at being told how and what to write. She thanked the editor, picked up her stories, went home, and never tried to get published again.

In recent years, with the rapidly advancing progressive politicization of American and more generally Western culture, I have often thought of that episode from my family lore. The ideological battles in the Young Adult fiction community, first chronicled a year and a half ago by Kat Rosenfield on New York magazine's Vulture site, are a particularly obvious parallel.

The latest skirmish in that battle is playing itself out right now, and it's an ugly one. A Chinese-American immigrant, Amélie Wen Zhao, has been bullied and shamed into withdrawing her debut novel, Blood Heir, due for release in June, after a Twitter mob denounced it as "racist" based on snippets from advance review copies. Zhao, who had a three-book deal and had been hailed as an exciting new voice in Young Adult literature, posted an apology for the "pain" her book had caused:

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Nurse reportedly investigated in Kelsey Berreth case may have struck plea deal, fiance charged with murder


Inside Edition
Mon, 04 Feb 2019 05:56 UTC
Death of Kelsey Berreth
The nurse being investigated in connection to missing Colorado mom Kelsey Berreth's disappearance will reportedly plead guilty to at least one count this week.

It's not clear what Krystal Lee, 32, will possibly plead guilty to, according to ABC News, but the plea reportedly comes as part of a deal with prosecutors in the case. Lee is set to appear in court on Friday.

It's been rumored that Lee reportedly helped dispose of a cellphone belonging to Berreth, who was last seen arriving at a Colorado Safeway supermarket with her 1-year-old daughter, Kaylee, about 12:30 p.m. on Thanksgiving. Though authorities strongly believe she is dead, her body has not yet been found.

Berreth's fiance, Patrick Frazee, is charged in her murder.
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Intelligence firms and informants help police gear up for protests against the Line 3 oil pipeline

Will Parrish & Alleen Brown
The Intercept
Wed, 30 Jan 2019 16:22 UTC
pipeline protest
© Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune/AP
Activists protest the approval of Enbridge’s proposal to replace its aging Line 3 pipeline on June 28, 2018, in St. Paul, Minn.
Minnesota police have spent 18 months preparing for a major standoff over Enbridge Line 3, a tar sands oil pipeline that has yet to receive the green light to build in the state. Records obtained by The Intercept show that law enforcement has engaged in a coordinated effort to identify potential anti-pipeline camps and monitor individual protesters, repeatedly turning for guidance to the North Dakota officials responsible for the militarized response at Standing Rock in 2016.

Enbridge, a Canada-based energy company that claims to own the world's longest fossil fuel transportation network, has labeled Line 3 the largest project in its history. If completed, it would replace 1,031 miles of a corroded existing pipeline that spans from Alberta's tar sands region to refineries and a major shipping terminal in Wisconsin, expanding the pipeline's capacity by hundreds of thousands of barrels per day.

The expanded Line 3 would pass through the territories of several Ojibwe bands in northern Minnesota, home to sensitive wild rice lakes central to the Native communities' spiritual and physical sustenance. Given that tar sands are among the world's most carbon-intensive fuel sources, Line 3 opponents underline that the pipeline is exactly the kind of infrastructure that must be rapidly phased out to meet scientists' prescriptions for mitigating climate disasters.

The Line 3 documents, which were obtained via freedom of information requests, illustrate law enforcement's anxiety that pipeline opponents could galvanize support on a scale similar to the Dakota Access pipeline struggle, which drew thousands of protesters to the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in southern North Dakota.
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Stunning cultural center to open in Russia's Black Sea city of Sevastopol


RT
Mon, 04 Feb 2019 14:51 UTC
Cultural Center
© Coop Himmelb(l)au
The concept of Opera and Ballet Theatre in Sevastopol, Crimea
A new education and leisure center is expected to open in Crimea's largest city, Sevastopol by 2023. It will cover a territory of 18.3 hectares on Cape Crystal between Karantinnaya and Artillery bays.

Planning includes an opera and ballet theater, an arts academy, a residential complex for employees, a cinema and concert hall, as well as a park and museum devoted to the defenders of Sevastopol during World War II.

Traditionally, Sevastopol had significant intellectual and cultural potential, according to the deputy chairwoman of the Russian government, Olga Golodets.
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NewsReal #26: Globalization vs Nationalism - The Hidden Causes of The Yellow Vest Protests in France


Sott.net
Mon, 04 Feb 2019 12:19 UTC
newsreal yellow vests pierre
Now into its FOURTH month, the Yellow Vest protest movement in France shows no signs of going away. Despite some financial concessions from Macron's government to French workers, the popular cry remains On ne lache rien! ("We're not letting go"). This weekend, French security forces were again directed by the government to violently suppress the protests in Paris and other major cities.

On this episode of NewsReal, French SOTT editor Pierre Lescaudron joins us to discuss the deeper historical, economic and cultural reasons behind the persistence of this movement, and why the French establishment is so vehemently opposed to it.


Running Time: 01:17:05

Download: MP3

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5 dead after small plane crashes into California neighborhood


RT
Sun, 03 Feb 2019 21:21 UTC
firefighter
© REUTERS / Mario Anzuoni
FILE PHOTO. A firefighter in California.
A Cessna two-engine plane crashed in the Yorba Linda area in California's Orange County, setting a house on fire. Five people were killed in the incident, local fire authorities reported.

Footage from the scene showed a blaze engulfing one of the houses in the suburban area with people shouting to keep away from the building.

The aircraft involved was a Cessna 414A Chancellor, an 8-seat twin-engine plane. According to records, it is owned by a private individual from Oregon.

Comment: Aircraft accidents and crashes are in the news with an increasing frequency these days, and one wonders whether there's any connection:

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Illegal immigrant sentenced to 60 Years for impregnating 11-year-old girl

Bob Price
Breitbart
Mon, 04 Feb 2019 10:44 UTC
Roli Lopez-Sanchez
© Collin County Sheriff's Office
A North Texas court sentenced an illegal alien to 60 years in prison without the possibility of parole following his conviction for continuous sexual abuse of a child under the age of 14. The man impregnated an 11-year-old girl.

The victim of the crimes faced her abuser in a Collin County, Texas, court during the trial, officials stated. The case began when hospital officials treated the 11-year-old girl as she was 19-weeks pregnant, Star Local Media reported.

"This innocent child showed remarkable courage by naming the monster who assaulted her; he will never harm another child again," Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis told the local news outlet.
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