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Twelve indicted in alleged pill mill at HOPE Clinic locations

Lacie Pierson
Gazette-Mail
Tue, 20 Feb 2018 12:51 UTC
HOPE Clinic
© CHRIS DORST | Gazette-Mail
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of W.Va. Mike Stuart announces indictments Tuesday against several people accused of running a “pill mill.”
After a four-year investigation, 12 people involved in a pain clinic in Southern West Virginia were indicted for their roles in an alleged "pill mill," U.S. Attorney Michael Stuart announced Tuesday.

The owners, managers and physicians of HOPE Clinic were among those who were charged in the 69-count indictment that was unsealed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, in Beckley.

HOPE Clinic operated as a pain management clinic in Charleston, Beckley and Beaver, West Virginia, and in Wytheville, Virginia. The indictment alleges that those involved distributed oxycodone and other Schedule II controlled substances outside of their legitimate and intended medical purposes between November 2010 and June 2015.

"Homegrown drug dealers behind the veil of a doctor's lab coat, a medical degree and prescription pad are every bit as bad as a drug dealer or heroin trafficker from Detroit or elsewhere," Stuart said.
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Real life 'Westworld' to feature soon in Texas

Andrew LaSane
Outer Places
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 11:57 UTC
Westworld
© HBO/Fair Use
"These violent delights have violent ends."

The phrase is borrowed from William Shakespeare and echoes throughout the HBO series Westworld, but hopefully it's not one you'll see on the front gate of the real-life park that, according to Entertainment Weekly, HBO building in Austin, Texas, for this year's South By Southwest (SXSW) festival.

HBO is reconstructing the town of Sweetwater on two acres of rented land as a "Live Without Limits Weekend" experience for festival-goers who want to visit and be a part of Westworld (presumably without the racier themes and activities shown in the series). Between March 9-11, visitors who pre-register for the experience will be picked up by a Delos Shuttle in Austin and transported into the theme park, where they will then be put into groups and given the opportunity to interact with hosts, see the Coronado Hotel and Mariposa Saloon, and sample park-appropriate fare.
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Protests spread through Germany against Merkel and her immigration policies


Voice of Europe
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
Protest in Kandel
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Protest in Kandel
Germans are not planning to stop protesting against Angela Merkel and her migration policy. Several demonstrations have already taken place and the next one will be on 24 February.

Most of Germany's protests started after the shocking murder of the 15-year-old Mia, by an Afghan refugee. The girl was attacked and murdered with a knife in a drug store in the town of Kandel.

A few courageous women started protesting in the city after it appeared the mayor was more concerned about xenophobia than about the safety of the citizens. The protest went bigger and later resulted in a march for Mia under the motto: "Kandel is everywhere".

Later there were protests in Cottbus, Hamburg, Dresden and Kandel again. Most protesters are concerned about how Germany is changing under Merkel and about migrant violence against women and girls.


Comment: See also:



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New York Times writer calls for banks and credit cards to block gun sales

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Thu, 22 Feb 2018 00:01 UTC
gun control


What Sorkin is suggesting is more of the same, although perhaps with worse consequences. If banks take action where policymakers do not or cannot, they are essentially putting themselves above the law. And if banks start playing that role, where does it end?

What if, for example, banks and credit card companies decided to stop processing payments for any retail purchase of cigarettes? After all, cigarettes are demonstrably bad for all consumers, and secondhand smoke can harm innocent people. Should banks step in to help protect society at large?

Or what if banks decided to stop processing payments for abortion clinics because they believed the practice was immoral? Is it fair for financial institutions to make abortion effectively illegal? What if President Trump called on financial firms to cut off access to environmental groups he believed were delaying projects that could bring jobs to local economies? Maybe banks should freeze Colin Kaepernick's checking account until he stops kneeling during the national anthem?

Many of these examples are extreme, but you get my point. Just because banks can be used to have a dramatic impact on our society doesn't mean they should be.

- From the American Banker piece: Call for Bank Crackdown on Gun Sales Is Deeply Misguided

Comment: For anyone of good conscience to call on financial firms to shadow legislate for any cause is the height of irresponsibility. That anyone could be so blinded by their own agenda to call for corrupt institutions to step in and end personal freedom is simply astonishing. See also:

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Delaware Prop 225 to allow kindergartners to choose own race and gender without parental consent

Scott Osborn
Joe For America
Thu, 22 Feb 2018 00:01 UTC
Delaware Prop 225 protest
Children as young as 5 years old will be allowed to choose their own race and gender identity without approval from their parents under new legislation proposed in Delaware.

The proposed anti-discrimination policy for Delaware public schools has both parents and state legislators up in arms.

Last summer, Gov. John Carney had instructed DOE to deliver clear identity guidance to school districts and charter schools. His focus was to "prohibit unlawful discrimination in educational programs and activities for students, on the basis of any legally protected characteristic." It was to include: Race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity. It was in response to pressure from transgender students and their parents.

Comment: Identity politics insanity is continuing to increase at a rate that is truly alarming. To not take the parent's wishes into consideration, and indeed to even legislate keeping information from parents, is totalitarian in the extreme. How much more insanity can the public take before a tipping point is reached? See also:

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German government using chartered flights costing 100K euros per flight to deport rejected asylum seekers


Voice of Europe
Thu, 22 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
German deportation asylum seekers

Looking at Germany’s total number of rejected asylum seekers, the country needs thousands of planes to deport all 226,000 of them.


On Tuesday evening 14 Afghans were deported to their homeland with a chartered plane from Munich Airport.

The rejected asylum seekers were flown back to their homeland with a plane chartered by the Federal Government, Germany's Ministry of the Interior reported.

But Germany's return flights are pretty unsuccessful: On this flight around 58 rejected asylum seekers should have been on board.

Comment: Germany is reaping the fruits of participation in US-led wars as well as its failed open-door immigration policy. The majority of these refugees would not have been seeking asylum in Europe if their countries had not been made completely uninhabitable by the West.

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Deputy who stayed outside the building during Parkland school shooting resigns


RT
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 21:04 UTC
Trump sheriff meeting
© Eric Thayer / Reuters
FILE PHOTO: US Sen. Marco Rubio, Officer Mike Leonard, First Lady Melania Trump, and US President Donald Trump at the Broward County Sheriff's Office. February 16, 2018.
The Broward County deputy who was on the Parkland, Florida school campus during the fatal shooting has resigned, after it emerged that he stood outside the building and did not confront the attacker.

Nikolas Cruz, 19, confessed to the police that he opened fire with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, killing 17 and wounding 15 people at the the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school last Wednesday. The former student then discarded the weapon and blended in with the students fleeing the building, the authorities said.

Cruz was eventually arrested by an officer from the neighboring town, some hours after the incident. Multiple news outlets questioned why he was never confronted by the armed school resource deputy who was on campus at the time.

Comment: Armed school officer at Stoneman Douglas High School stayed outside and 'did nothing' during shooting

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Fake-News-week: Once-respected magazine retracts story about 'alt-right bots' and Sen. Franken


RT
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 18:44 UTC
Senator Al Franken
© Aaron P. Bernstein / Reuters
Senator Al Franken (D-Minnesota) departs the US Senate with his wife Franni, December 7, 2017.
A once-respected news magazine has been forced to retract a story claiming that 'alt-right bots' and 'Russian spies' were behind a campaign last year to unseat Senator Al Franken (D-Minnesota).

It was a natural 'bombshell' story: "Alt-right" botnets and even Russians themselves had targeted the Minnesota Democrat after a radio broadcaster - described as a "Hooters pinup girl and lad-mag model" - accused him of groping her on a comedy tour years ago. "Franken was framed!" exclaimed the #Resistance Twitter, calling for the senator's reinstatement, following a story published on Monday by Newsweek.

According to the piece, accusations by broadcaster Leanne Tweeden were unreasonably amplified by a pair of fake news websites based in Japan and created before she came forward, while a "swarm of related Twitter bots" made the accusations go viral in tandem with "prominent real, live members of the far right" such as Mike Cernovich. This supposedly drowned out testimonies by female Democrat staffers defending Franken.
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Armed school officer at Stoneman Douglas High School stayed outside and 'did nothing' during shooting

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 20:32 UTC
broward county sheriff
Video evidence reveals that an armed Broward County resource deputy stationed at Stoneman Douglas High School during the Valentine's day massacre did "nothing" during the shooting - instead waiting outside as a gunman opened fire on students and teachers, killing 17.

Speaking at a press conference, Broward Sheriff Scott Israel said the on duty officer at Stoneman "never went in." Israel said he was "devastated" after watching the video showing the deputy taking a position outside the Western side of Building 12 while shots rang out, "and he never went in" despite having a clear view of the entrance.

"I think he remained outside upwards of four minutes," Israel said.

Comment: So much for having armed guards at schools...

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Former German priest sentenced to 8-yr prison term for sexual abuse of children


RT
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 09:14 UTC
Catholic priest sex abuse Deggendorf Germany
© Armin Weigel / DPA / AFP
The accused former priest sits in the court room of the state court in Deggendorf, southern Germany, on February 22, 2018
A former German Catholic priest, who gained the trust of his congregation as "Father Thomas," has been sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for at least 108 counts of child sex abuse and possession of child pornography.

The 53-year old will undergo years of therapy in a closed psychiatric institution before starting his prison term, a court in the southeastern city of Deggendorf ruled on Thursday, Die Welt reported.

Treatment for the man, a native of Wuppertal, a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, will take "many, many" years, Chief Justice Thomas Trautwein said, casting doubt on whether it would be successful, adding that "pedophilia is not curable." The judge spoke of a "terrible calamity" that the defendant had caused by "destroying children's souls."

Comment: It's encouraging to see that German authorities have taken a decisive stand against pedophilia, rather than allowing the Vatican to attempt to coverup or deflect from the seriousness of the charges. 'Destroying children's souls' is an apt description for what these monsters inflict on vulnerable youth.

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