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Ex-Blackwater contractor sentenced to life for Iraq shootings

Ashraf Khalil
PBS News Hour
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 19:22 UTC
nicolas slatten
© Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Blackwater Worldwide security guard Nick Slatten (center) leaves the federal courthouse after being arraigned with 4 fellow Blackwater guards on manslaughter charges for allegedly killing 14 unarmed civilians and wounding 20 others in a 2007 shooting in Baghdad, in Washington, January 6, 2009.
A federal judge has sentenced a former Blackwater security contractor to life in prison for his role in the 2007 shooting of unarmed civilians in Iraq.

Judge Royce Lamberth issued the sentence Wednesday after friends and relatives requested leniency for Nicholas Slatten, who was found guilty of first-degree murder by a jury in December.

Prosecutors charged that Slatten was the first to fire shots in the September 2007 massacre of Iraqi civilians at a crowded traffic circle in Baghdad. In all, 10 men, two women and two boys, ages 9 and 11, were killed.

The defense had argued that Slatten and other Blackwater contractors opened fire only after they saw what they mistakenly thought was a potential suicide car bomber moving quickly toward their convoy.

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Crimea After 5 Years Of 'Evil' Russian 'Occupation'

Drago Bosnic
Fort Russ News
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 19:15 UTC
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In the five years of being a part of Russia, Crimea has made a breakthrough. This is how Sergey Aksyonov, the head of the region, assessed the social and economic development of Crimea at the meeting with Vladimir Putin. In many areas of agriculture, the Russian autonomous republic has reached self-sufficiency, which never happened when it was a part of the Ukraine.

Thanks to the new power plants, the peninsula is provided with its own power and what's more, it has also started exporting energy, given the fact that, now, it produces almost double the energy than it really needs. Recently built Crimean Bridge and other major infrastructural projects resulted in a colossal inflow of tourists, including a lot of foreigners, despite the US and EU sanctions. However, there are also some problems. Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed them today in detail with the heads of Crimea and Sevastopol, Sergey Aksyonov and Mikhail Razvozhaev.


Comment: This is what happens when Russia annexes you!

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Shooting at ICE office being investigated by FBI as 'targeted attack'

Louis Casiano
Fox News
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 18:24 UTC
San Antonio ICE office
The FBI is investigating a "targeted attack" in which shots were fired into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office and another facility associated with the agency in San Antonio, Texas early Tuesday.

The shooting occurred around 3 a.m. at an ICE building where two floors that housed administrative and executive offices were targeted, according to the San Antonio Express-News. The outlet reported another shooting occurred at a separate facility where an ICE contractor was located.

FBI Special Agent in Charge Chris Combs said those responsible knew what they were shooting at.
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Roughly 150 Americans show up to Koch Foods job fair in Mississippi after ICE raid removes hundreds of illegal immigrants

Neil Munro
Breitbart
Tue, 13 Aug 2019 18:20 UTC
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Roughly 150 locals attended an August 12 job fair to apply for jobs at the Koch Foods' plants in Mississippi.

The fair was run after the August 7 removal of 243 alleged illegal migrants in two of the company's chicken processing plants, according to local authorities.

The local Jackson Clarion-Ledger newspaper reported 25 to 30 people went to the job fair in Forest, Mississippi. The report said:
Kamerio Whitley, a resident of the nearby town of Morton, spoke to reporters after he left the building. He said there were several positions available at the plant, including forklift operators.

Whitley said he applied for a job working at the plant's rehang table, where workers hang frozen chickens.

The job starts at $12 an hour, which is decent pay for the area, Whitley said. "That's not bad to start, and it can always go up," he said.
The company is also trying to hire workers with online ads. Local officials made sure the hiring process complied with federal hiring regulations, according to WAPT 16.
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How hundreds of campus #MeToo punishments could get dismissed

Olivia Messer
The Daily Beast
Tue, 13 Aug 2019 09:49 UTC
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Accused men everywhere are suing over due process. "If you're found responsible for sexual misconduct at a university in America, your future is arguably over," said one attorney.

A Michigan State undergrad accused of sexual assault. A Cal grad student who says he was denied due process. The Maryland baseball players accused of rape.

And as of Friday, a Baylor professor who says he was falsely accused of raping a student.

They're all suing to clear their names — and, in some cases, get monetary damages — and turn back what had been a wave of Title IX complaints that swept U.S. college campuses during the peak of the #MeToo and "believe all women" movements.

On Friday, John Doe, a pseudonym for an assistant professor in Baylor's Department of Economics, filed a 35-page federal lawsuit in Waco, Texas, that alleges he engaged in a consensual relationship with a female student who, in July 2018, accused him of rape, sexual exploitation, intimate-partner violence, and more.

A campus Title IX investigation last October found in the student's favor, concluding that Doe was "responsible" for those three allegations, but cleared him of others.
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Jeffrey Epstein accuser sues Ghislaine Maxwell, 3 others; says Epstein 'forcefully raped' her at 15

Nicole Darrah
Fox News
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 17:40 UTC
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© Getty Images
Ghislaine Maxwell, pictured, here in 2005 with Jeffrey Epstein
A woman who says accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein "forcefully raped" her when she was 15 years old filed a lawsuit Wednesday morning against Manhattan socialite and alleged Epstein "madam" Ghislaine Maxwell — along with three other unidentified individuals — claiming the group conspired to make her assault possible.

Jennifer Araoz, now 32, alleges Maxwell and three other associates of Epstein, who died in a New York federal lockup Saturday morning from an apparent suicide, conspired to facilitate the rape, according to the lawsuit obtained by Fox News.

The suit's defendants include Epstein's estate, Maxwell and Jane Does 1, 2 and 3, a trio later described as a "recruiter," a "secretary" and a "maid."
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Epstein lived in a netherworld where normal rules didn't apply. How many more Epsteins are there?

Igor Ogorodnev
RT
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 17:05 UTC
epstein island
© REUTERS/Marco Bello; REUTERS / Handout / New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services
Forget how he died, the real mystery is how Jeffrey Epstein lived; committing acts that would get a normal person jailed, all while next to the world's most-watched men. How did he create a protective bubble around himself?

Take, for example, Epstein's financial career, the foundation for so much of his other criminal activity.

While doubts about his methods for obtaining wealth for his clients had been circulating on Wall Street for years, throughout that time he had been described, at face value, as a financier and a billionaire.

In the past several months we have discovered that he likely was no billionaire, and no one is sure whether he ever did conduct any legitimate business activities, or even where any of his money came from.

Yet, there was definitely big money involved, as is evidenced by superficially inexplicable multi-million dollar transactions percolating through a network of offshore accounts, and the very real luxury assets that he had accumulated.
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Bitter unrest in Hong Kong prompts city's ultra rich to look into relocating their families to the US

Xie Yu and Darryl Coote
South China Morning Post
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:47 UTC
Central Park
© Alamy
Hong Kong's super rich are increasingly looking to buy homes in the United States and relocate there, having grown tired of local protests, moderating growth in the region, and escalating US-China tensions, according to Edward Mermelstein, a wealth management consultant based in New York.

His firm, One & Only Realty, handles relocation and related business including luxury property investment starting at US$10 million.

Over the past two weeks, his company has received four inquiries from Hong Kong clients about relocating their families to the US, with the intention of investing between US$10 million to US$100 million, he said.

Mermelstein said it was "an extremely unusual situation".

"Hong Kong residents were typically just investors and had no interest in becoming US residents. But today, the conversations are definitely about relocating families and businesses," he said.
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CNN anchor Chris Cuomo ridiculed for comparing 'Fredo' to N-word in confrontation

Mike Brest
Washington Examiner
Tue, 13 Aug 2019 16:24 UTC
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CNN anchor Chris Cuomo is facing backlash after suggesting that calling an Italian "Fredo" is equivalent to the N-word.

Cuomo, 49, made the comparison after someone called him "Fredo," a reference to the weak character from The Godfather.

"No, punk-ass b--ches from the Right call me 'Fredo.' My name is Chris Cuomo. I'm an anchor on CNN," the newsman said. "'Fredo' was from The Godfather. He was a weak brother and they use that as an Italian slur — are any of you Italian?"

"It's a f---ing insult to your people. It's an insult to your f---ing people. It's like the N-word for us," He added.

Comment: Yes the man who went up to Cuomo and his family was being a jackass and Cuomo rightfully got upset. But clearly Cuomo doesn't have too much of a problem with people using Fredo to describe him or others. He even referred to himself as Fredo in a radio interview from 2010.

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Comedian Terrence K. Williams says Facebook 'coming after him' after Trump retweeted #ClintonBodyCount


RT
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:13 UTC
Terrence K. Williams social media comedian Trump
© Terrence K. Williams/Facebook
Comedian, actor and conservative commentator Terrence Williams
Black conservative comedian and pundit Terrence K. Williams has said that Facebook has been flagging his posts as 'fake news' after his take on Jeffery Epstein's death went viral thanks to US President Donald Trump,

Williams issued a frantic call to his followers to "protect" him saying that since Trump retweeted his post he has been bombarded with death threats. He also accused Facebook of trying to police his opinion by telling his followers that his page and content are "fake news." Williams points out the absurdity of trying to fact-check comedy.
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