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Wisconsin school shooter killed by police after injuring two students at prom

Jonathan Anderson and Nathan Vine
USA Today
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 16:27 UTC
antigo high school
© Jacob Byk/USA Today
Police tape cordons off an area outside Antigo High School, the site of a shooting that left the perpetrator dead and two others injured, April 24, 2016.
The man who shot two students at Antigo High School's prom late Saturday had been bullied since at least middle school and had expressed an interest in guns, according to a former classmate.

Jakob Wagner, 18, fired a rifle at the two students outside the school around 11 p.m. Saturday before police shot him. He later died at a hospital, while the victims survived with non-life-threatening injuries, according to authorities.

While investigators on Sunday were trying to piece together what prompted the shootings, a former classmate of Wagner's said that the man seemed like a nice, but socially awkward and troubled student when in school.
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How young women are helping to rebuild Nepal: This community will not crumble

Chris Sowton
Reuters
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 17:22 UTC
Dil Kumari.
© PHOTO/Global Action Nepal
Dil Kumari, 12, ran away and worked as a cleaner in a restaurant in town, but is now back in her village of Lamjung and attending school, thanks to a mentoring programme.
The story in Lamjung, a district in Nepal's middle hills, where the landscape begins to yield to the high Himalayas, is an all too familiar one.

Rather than go to school, girls are often expected to help with the household chores or look after younger siblings, and even if they are able to attend, face more challenges in completing a full cycle and thence gaining meaningful employment.

These challenges were hard enough prior to April 25, 2015 - the day the first major earthquake hit Lamjung and many other districts - and since then, the situation has only got harder.

Comment: See also: Nepal quake survivors face threat from human traffickers supplying sex trade

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Connecticut man arrested for Trump rally bomb tweet


RT
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 16:01 UTC
Sean Taylor Morkys
© Connecticut State Police / Facebook
Sean Taylor Morkys
A 20-year-old man was arrested by Connecticut cops after allegedly tweeting that, if no one else was up to the task, he would have to bomb a Donald Trump campaign rally on Saturday. A follow up tweet warned his family to leave the Waterbury event.

Connecticut State Police were acting on information from the US Secret Service, who spotted the tweets and contacted the counter-terrorism office.

According to police, the first tweet, read: "Is someone going to bomb the Trump rally or am I going to have to?"

The tweet, later deleted from the account, was followed by a second that apparently warned the suspect's family to leave the campaign event in Waterbury to avoid harm.
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Deputy police chief and his family beaten to death in Southern Russia, 7yo girl in coma


RT
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 11:20 UTC
Andrey Gosht
© RT
Andrey Gosht
A deputy chief of the Samara Region police in southern Russia has been found murdered alongside with five of his relatives in their village house. They were reportedly beaten to death. The only survivor of the attack, a 7-year-old girl, is in a coma.

The incident took place in the Ivashovka village in Samara Region on Sunday. Forty-nine year-old Andrey Gosht and members of his family died of multiple injuries.

According to the local media, the victims were beaten to deaths by clubs. The killed family members were identified as Gosht's parents, his brother, the brother's wife and their daughter.

The only survivor of the attack is a 7-year-old girl. She was taken to hospital with injuries to her head and other parts of the body. She is now in a coma, officials said.

Gosht was deputy head of police of Samara region. Before that he had served as police chief of Syzran, the third largest city in Samara region.

Russia's Investigative Committee has started investigating the murder.
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Why the U.S. will not likely survive the next century

Alvin Conway
The Extinction Protocol
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 13:08 UTC
fall of the republic
America is in the advanced stages of a moral and cultural rot. The country is $19 trillion dollars in debt and is ruthlessly spending and printing its own way to financial oblivion. It is suffering from hegemony and military overreach with its 662 military bases, scattered across some 38 different countries. If the U.S. is not inciting revolution and anarchy across the globe in the name of democracy, it is deployed directly in conflicts or has military advisers on the ground to puppeteer the conflict towards its own favorable ends. 43% of all U.S. citizens are obese. Its borders are unsecured - with a 40% increase seen in illegal immigration since 2014 along.

While the debates continue on exactly what to do about the immigration problem or should fences be built along the US-Mexican border, ISIS continues to exploit the situation to potentially transport foreign Islamic terrorists unto American soil. According to Covenant Eyes, an internet search group, 1 out of 5 mobile searches on the internet involves pornography.

Illegal drugs continue to be both manufactured and transported into the U.S. with no apparent way of halting or stopping the flow. In the US alone, more than 15 million people abuse prescription drugs, more than the combined number of people who reportedly abuse cocaine, hallucinogens, inhalants and heroin. If the war against drugs can't be won, what luck will we ever have winning the war on terror? Does anyone remember who won Lyndon B. Johnson's famed war on poverty? Regardless, let's throw some more taxpayers' money at an issues that money alone can't fix.
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Family of police shooting victim, Tamir Rice, will receive $6 million from the city of Cleveland


RT
Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:38 UTC
Justice for Tamir Rice
© Ken Blaze/Reuters
The city of Cleveland will pay $6 million to the family of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy fatally shot by police in 2014, based on a settlement agreement that allows the city to avoid a high-profile federal civil rights trial.

Lawyers for Rice's family said Monday that " no amount of money can adequately compensate" for the boy's loss.

"In a situation like this, there's no such thing as closure or justice," attorneys Jonathan S. Abady and Earl S. Ward in a said statement, according to the New York Times. "Nothing will bring Tamir back. His unnecessary and premature death leaves a gaping hole for those who knew and loved him that can never be filled."

The agreement, which must still be approved by a probate court, was announced early Monday. The city of Cleveland - including officers and police dispatchers involved in the incident - does not admit any wrongdoing based on the terms of the settlement, according to reports.
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Apparent arson attack in Sweden burns down future home for refugee kids


RT
Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:14 UTC
sweeden refugee home arson
© Adnan Abidi / Reuters (file photo)
A building that was to be repurposed into a home for refugee children has been set ablaze in a second apparent arson attack in the east of Sweden. Firefighters managed to contain the fire, but not before it devoured the former school building.

Firefighters were still at the scene Monday morning in the city of Haernoesand, according to Aftonbladet daily, after receiving a call at 4am. No one was injured in the incident, though the building was totally destroyed. An investigation has been launched, while the incident was classified as an arson, according to local media.

Sweden is refurbishing old buildings to house arriving refugees, 163,000 of whom came to the country in 2015, making it the European Union's most active asylum host, with most arrivals per capita.

The former school was to be made into accommodation for children unaccompanied by parents. But apparently not everyone agrees with the policy on welcoming refugees: the same building was targeted in a failed arson attempt on April 9.

Comment: The inmates are taking over the asylum. What kind of heartless "people" deny children a safe place from strife and war?

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White House economists admit that prison time for victimless crimes devastates the economy

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:11 UTC
prison vs school
On Saturday, economists in U.S. President Barack Obama's administration released a report detailing the adverse effects on the economy derived from locking non-violent drug offenders and criminals behind bars.

For decades, a guiding philosophy of authoritarians was that locking more people up would result in less crime. This has created a prison state in the U.S., which represents 4.4% of the world's population yet houses 22% of the world's prisoners.

Since 1980 alone, the US prison population has skyrocketed by nearly 5 times.

However, the negative effects of such a totalitarian approach to drug crimes and other victimless offenses is having a staggering economic impact on the United States.

Comment: There is only one beneficiary of the War on Drugs: The Prison Industrial Complex.

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Real unemployment numbers: In 1 out of every 5 American families, nobody has a job

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse Blog
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 14:57 UTC
unemployment
If nobody is working in one out of every five U.S. families, then how in the world can the unemployment rate be close to 5 percent as the Obama administration keeps insisting? The truth, of course, is that the U.S. economy is in far worse condition than we are being told. Last week, I discussed the fact that the Federal Reserve has found that 47 percent of all Americans would not be able to come up with $400 for an unexpected visit to the emergency room without borrowing it or selling something. But Barack Obama and his minions never bring up that number. Nor do they ever bring up the fact that 20 percent of all families in America are completely unemployed. The following comes directly from the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
In 2015, the share of families with an employed member was 80.3 percent, up by 0.2 percentage point from 2014. The likelihood of having an employed family member rose in 2015 for Black families (from 76.4 percent to 77.7 percent) and for Hispanic families (from 85.9 percent to 86.4 percent). The likelihood for White and Asian families showed little or no change (80.1 percent and 88.6 percent, respectively).
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'People should be terrified': Australian MP sets fire to river to highlight the dangers of fracking


RT
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 14:40 UTC
MP Jeremy Buckingham
© youtube
Fire on the water--Jeremy Buckingham explaining about the problems of fracking right after he sparked a lighter and set the methane-infused river water on fire.
Fracking should be banned as a "global threat" as it causes methane leaks contaminating water in the communities near gas wells, says an Australian MP who literally set a river ablaze to draw attention to the adverse effects of the practice.

The companies that extract coal seam gas via fracking are duping people into believing that their technology is safe, while in reality it has contributed greatly to the pollution of sites like Condamine river located in the Australian state of Queensland just near the fracking site, Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham said in an interview to RT.

"This gas is leaking out of the ground because of the fracking. They have thousands of gas wells around this river, around this site. They drill, they frack, but the gas isn't just flowing up their gas wells, it's coming through the ground," he said, stressing that Origin Energy company, that operate the wells, "should be condemned for polluting one of our most important rivers."

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