Society's Child
When Candice Payne heard that people would be out in the cold during Chicago's record-breaking temperatures, she impulsively charged the first 20-30 hotel rooms to her American Express card and made a post about it on social media, inspiring dozens of financial and food donations.
"It don't take much to be a blessing to someone else! It's freezing cold and deadly temperatures outside! For the people who has no where to go, no money, no food, family disowned them... need help it's not much but to get them out the cold, feed them, and provide them with warm clean clothes is a start," Candice posted on Instagram.
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Attorney General Letitia James said the now-defunct Devumi LLC and other companies owned by German Calas generated about $15 million of revenue from 2015 to 2017 through roughly 250,000 sales of fake endorsements and engagement for platforms such as LinkedIn, Pinterest, SoundCloud, Twitter, Vimeo and YouTube.
Family Tree DNA has tested samples for the FBI and uploaded the profiles to its database on a case-by-case basis since last fall, the company admitted in a statement to BuzzFeed. The "new development" - which the company's customers were never consulted about - "started with one case last year and morphed," according to a company spokesperson.
While it has only cooperated with law enforcement on 10 cases so far, Family Tree appears to be quite proud of the relationship, boasting that founder Bennett Greenspan "had inadvertently created a platform that, nearly two decades later, would help law enforcement agencies solve violent crimes faster than ever."
Comment: This is likely just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. With the NSA's monolithic data processing center in Utah, among other facilities, it is likely they already have information enough information on every man woman and child in the US to make even the most authoritarian follower squirm, never mind what the FBI is now doing.
The attack occurred in the city of Nik Shahr in the southeastern part of the country, military officials said. The members of a "terrorist group" targeted servicemen on a base belonging to the 'Mobilization Resistance Force', known as Basij, one of the wings of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The base "came under... fire this morning and several from the Revolutionary Guards communications personnel who were wiring the base were hit," Mohammad Hadi Marashi, deputy governor for security affairs, stated.
One serviceman was killed and five wounded. Photos showing the aftermath of the incident were published by the Iranian media on Twitter. The images show the blood-stained ground with military caps lying nearby, as well as empty carriages.

Controversial HBO host Bill Maher, right, asked ex-CIA GOP congressman Will Hurd if he was collecting intelligence at 4am outside a Popeyes Chicken on his show Friday night
During the interview on his weekly HBO show, Bill Maher was questioning why Hurd, who is African-American, decided to be a Republican.
"What's in it for you? What is in the Republican party for you? You were in the CIA!" asks the host, who had earlier accused Hurd of serving "traitor" Donald Trump.

Protesters stand behind a banner with images showing people who were injured in clashes with police, at a demonstration in Paris
An estimated 13,800 people gathered between Daumesnil and Republic avenues, according to a count by Occurrence cited by Liberation. Live coverage of the protests show clashes, with police firing tear gas into the crowds of demonstrators on the smoke-choked streets in Paris.
Lines of riot police are facing off against protesters.
Some of those marching through the French capital bear the scars of their injuries, with prominent protester Jerome Rodrigues covering his wounded eye with a patch.
Comment:
- French PM says new, tougher laws on unauthorized protests coming in wake of Yellow Vest clashes
- Upping the ante: France deploys police with semi-automatic weapons to Yellow Vest protests
- Yellow Vest protestor shot in the back of the head by French police
- RT France reporter shot in the face during police crackdown on Yellow Vest protesters in Paris
- Serious injuries inflicted on Yellow Vest protestors are unprecedented, say French ER doctors
- Yellow Vest leader declares 'state of emergency of the people' - calls for 'uprising' after main organizer is shot by police
"It's really clear that Virginians want and need a fierce champion like Dr. Northam to stand up for them and to stand up for women's health," Jennifer Allen, chief executive of Planned Parenthood Virginia PAC and Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia, said as she announced that abortion supporters would spend up to $3 million to elect Northam, The Washington Post reported at the time.
Planned Parenthood also praised Northam for taking "bold actions" to support abortion.
In the end, Planned Parenthood invested $1.99 million into Northam's campaign, according to The Virginia Public Access Project.
The men, believed to be in their 30s were shot at O'Casey Court and Corrib Court shortly after 8pm.
Local residents say shots rang out from an alleyway at Corrib Court and from an embankment in O'Casey court.
The men were each believed to have been shot in one leg, with one man being shot in the hands.
They were both treated at the scene by paramedics and have been taken to Altnagelvin Hospital. Their injuries are not thought to be life threatening.
Comment: More from RT:
Police labelled the incidents "paramilitary style attacks" and the assailants themselves "criminal thugs."
The shooting has been condemned by local legislators, with Mark H Durkan, a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Foyle, saying that violence only leads "to more victims and create more violence." No arrests have been made and no information has been released regarding the motive for the crimes.
The shootings came just two weeks after a car bomb rocked downtown Londonderry. The explosives were planted in a stolen pizza delivery van parked outside a local courthouse. No one was injured, and police suspected the 'New IRA' - one of the IRA splinter groups - to be behind the attack. Two men were arrested in hot pursuit.

Former policeman Adrian Moore pleaded guilty to 180 charges of using the police database to access the information on the women.
Adrian Trevor Moore was a 28-year veteran of WA Police and was nominated as police officer of the year in 2011.
The former senior constable pleaded guilty to 180 charges of using a secure police database to access the information of 92 women he had met, or interacted with, on dating websites including Tinder and Plenty of Fish.
A third of the women were checked by Moore multiple times over several years.
One victim's details were accessed 13 times over six years.












Comment: If the above information doesn't get one's blood pressure raised, one's ire up and one's will focused on how the TSA (and other societal controls) are squelching the life force out of humanity, little else will. Please spread the word and - as and Philip Zimbardo says at the end of the video - be the model for compassionate and constructive behavior for a world being sucked into the virus of ponerogenesis.