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Phoenix, AZ police arrest nurse Nathan Sutherland in Hacienda HealthCare rape case

Bree Burkitt, Mackenzie Shuman and Craig Harris
Arizona Central
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 09:52 UTC
Hacienda Health Care facility
Phoenix police have arrested Nathan Sutherland, a 36-year-old nurse at Hacienda HealthCare facility, alleging he raped and impregnated an incapacitated woman at the center.

The woman gave birth to a boy Dec. 29. Staff members told a 911 operator that they had not known she was pregnant.

"From the minute we first became aware of the crime, we have virtually worked non stop seven days a week to resolve this case," Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams said in announcing the arrest Wednesday morning.

Williams joined Mayor Thelda Williams at Phoenix police headquarters to provide an "important" update on the investigation into the rape.
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Man mauled to death by lions after climbing over 25-feet wall at zoo in Chandigarh, India


India Today
Sun, 20 Jan 2019 18:44 UTC
Zoo officials said a lion
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Zoo officials said a lion and a lioness were in the enclosure and the lioness attacked the man first.

A man was mauled to death by lions on Sunday at Chhatbir Zoo in Zirakpur, around 20 km from Chandigarh.

According to zoo officials, the man entered the enclosure by scaling an over-25-feet wall and as soon as he crossed over, he was attacked by two lions.

Officials said the incident happened at 2.20 pm and the man, who is in his early 30s, was yet to be identified.

"The injury on his neck was deep. He was taken to civil hospital in a critical condition where he died," said the zoo's field director M Sudhagarb.

A lion and a lioness were in the enclosure, he said, adding the female lion attacked the man first.
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North China's Hebei court system unveils program to expose deadbeat debtors

Zhang Yu
China Daily
Wed, 16 Jan 2019 17:37 UTC
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Screenshot shows the mini-program.
Deadbeat debtors in North China's Hebei province will find it more difficult to abscond as the Higher People's Court of Hebei on Monday introduced a mini-program on WeChat targeting them.

Called "a map of deadbeat debtors", the program allows users to find out whether there are any debtors within 500 meters.

The debtor's information is available to check in the program, making it easier for people to whistle-blow on debtors capable of paying their debts.

"It's a part of our measures to enforce our rulings and create a socially credible environment," said a spokesman of the court.

Comment: The app discussed is a further extension of the "social credit" system being implemented in China. A two-edged sword, as it is meant to encourage pro-social behaviour, helping to govern the world's most populous country, but also a means of punishing those who step out of line. Who determines the line?

China's building a digital dictatorship through "social credit" to exert control over its 1.4 billion citizens
[M]most don't seem to comprehend the all-encompassing control social credit is likely to have, and there's been no public debate about implementing the system inside China. In private, there's been some disquiet in the educated middle classes about the citizen score being the only criterion for character assessment.


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Undercover St. Louis cop says colleagues beat him 'like Rodney King' - describes attack as 'free for all'

Robert Patrick
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:04 UTC
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© St. Louis Post Dispatch
An undercover St. Louis police officer who was beaten by colleagues during protests in 2017 later described the attack as a "free for all" and told someone at police headquarters that he was beaten "like Rodney King," according to recently released court documents.

Detective Luther Hall's statements about the night he was attacked were used by the FBI to justify searches of four officers' cellphones and associated accounts as agents investigated both Hall's attack and the arrest or detention of other protesters following the Sept. 15, 2017, acquittal of former St. Louis police Officer Jason Stockley.

They provide the most detailed retelling of Hall's version of the attack and new information about the resulting FBI investigation.

That investigation resulted in charges in November against four police officers. Officers Dustin Boone, Randy Hays and Christopher Myers were accused of the physical assault and charged with depriving Hall of his constitutional rights and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Myers also is charged with destruction of evidence, accused of destroying Hall's cellphone. Officer Bailey Colletta was accused of lying to a federal grand jury investigating the attack. All have pleaded not guilty. Hays' lawyer, Brian Millikan, declined to comment. The other lawyers did not respond to requests for comment Monday.
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Political commentator Ben Stein: Ocasio-Cortez is promising the same kinds of things as Hitler

Ed Mazza
Huffington Post
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 16:26 UTC
Ben Stein
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Ben Stein on Tuesday claimed policies advocated by freshman lawmaker Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) "invariably lead to bad things," including genocide.

The actor, former speechwriter to President Richard M. Nixon, and political commentator even made comparisons to Adolf Hitler.

Ocasio-Cortez has made headlines for advocating higher marginal tax rates of up to 70 percent on earnings past $10 million in income as well as a "Green New Deal" to tackle the climate crisis.
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Four arrested in plot to bomb Muslim community of Islamberg, NY

Georgie Silvarole and Meaghan M. McDermott
USAToday
Tue, 22 Jan 2019 16:12 UTC
Andrew Crysel, Vincent Vetromile, Brian Colaneri
© Greece Police Department
Andrew Crysel, Vincent Vetromile, Brian Colaneri
An offhand remark by a Greece Odyssey Academy student during lunchtime on Friday sparked a police investigation that led to the arrest of four people in connection with an alleged plot to attack a Muslim community in New York.

Greece Police Chief Patrick Phelan said the probe kicked off after a 16-year-old student showed a picture of another person on his phone to friends in the cafeteria and "made a comment to the effect 'he looks like the next school shooter, doesn't he?'"

Other students alarmed by that student's remarks reported them to school officials.

Through a series of subsequent interviews, police were eventually led to what Phelan said was a "serious plot" to attack the community of Islamberg in Delaware County, near the Catskills.

During the investigation, police recovered 23 firearms and three homemade bombs, Phelan said.
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'Dog gulag' owner arrested for abandoning 70 animals to resort to cannibalism to survive while he went on vacation


RT
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 14:55 UTC
Dog in shelter
© Sputnik / Valery Melnikov
A stray dog in a shelter.
The owner of a private shelter for stray dogs in Russia is accused of abandoning almost 70 of his animals, leaving them to resort to cannibalism to survive. He was arrested after returning from a trip to Thailand.

The horrible case of alleged gross negligence and animal cruelty happened in the far-eastern Amursk Region. The shelter is located in Chigiry, a satellite village of the provincial capital Blagoveshchensk. Until recently, it had a contract with the authorities to house stray dogs after they are caught by animal control services.

The contract expired in December, however, and the owner, Vyacheslav Zolotarev, apparently decided that caring for the animals was no longer his job. Instead, he and his wife went on a trip to Thailand, according to reports in the local media, but apparently made no effort to ensure that the animals were cared for in their absence.
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Fraud: Native 'activist' Nathan Phillips never served in Vietnam, but raised money claiming he did

Cassandra Fairbanks
The Gateway Pundit
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 12:03 UTC
Nathan Phillips Covington Catholic
The Washington Post has had to issue yet another retraction after falsely claiming that far-left Native American activist Nathan Phillips served in the Vietnam War. He didn't - but this lie was previously used to help raise money for a documentary about his life.

On Monday, the Washington Post quietly issued a correction to their story about the activist, saying that while he served in the Marines, he was never deployed to Vietnam.

"Correction: Earlier versions of this story incorrectly said that Native American activist Nathan Phillips fought in the Vietnam War. Phillips served in the U.S. Marines from 1972 to 1976 but was never deployed to Vietnam," the update reads.
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Brazilian Jews sue cartoonist over 'Nazi hug' drawing of Netanyahu & Bolsonaro

Marcus M. Gilban
Times of Israel
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 12:03 UTC
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro cartoon
© Facebook via JTA
A cartoon by Brazilian artist Aroeira published in January 2019 in the O Dia newspaper, featuring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, in a hug with their arms held in the shape of a swastika.
Brazilian Jews have filed a lawsuit against an iconic cartoonist over a drawing that was considered anti-Semitic.

The Rio Jewish federation sued cartoonist Aroeira for his image featuring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Brazil's new president, Jair Bolsonaro, in a hug with their arms held in the shape of a swastika. The cartoon was published by O Dia newspaper and circulated on social media.

"Art can never be used to offend the memory of millions of people who died in World War II. The issue will be viewed with severity. We can't tolerate the offense to Jews and other minorities," Jewish federation president Arnon Velmovitsky told the weekly television show Comunidade na TV on Sunday.
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Supreme Court allows military to implement transgender restrictions

Jessica Gresko
ABC News
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 12:03 UTC
SupremeCourt
© Raw Story
The Trump administration can go ahead with its plan to restrict military service by transgender men and women while court challenges continue, the Supreme Court said Tuesday.

The high court split 5-4 in allowing the plan to take effect, with the court's five conservatives greenlighting it and its four liberal members saying they would not have. The order from the court was brief and procedural, with no elaboration from the justices.

The court's decision clears the way for the Pentagon to bar enlistment by people who have undergone a gender transition. It will also allow the administration to require that military personnel serve as members of their biological gender unless they began a gender transition under less restrictive Obama administration rules.
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