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Disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner was designated a level one sex offender Friday by a judge in the Bronx, where Weiner is living in a halfway house following a stint in federal prison.
Level one is the lowest level designation.
Weiner was convicted in 2017 of sending lewd texts to an underage teen in North Carolina.
Norwegian Sigurd Vedal, 47, whose website Rich Meet Beautiful claimed to offer a "Fifty Shades of Grey" experience to young women, is being prosecuted following a complaint by the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Trucks bearing large posters promoting the website, described as a "sugar daddy and sugar baby dating site", appeared on the outskirts of campuses in Brussels last year. The advertisement invited students to "improve your style of life [by getting] a sugar daddy".
After success in Scandinavia, the Norwegian company behind the website said it aimed to recruit 300,000 Belgian registrations by the end of 2018, but it was forced to end its marketing campaign after an outcry. Similar sites have emerged in the UK targeting female students. The US-based SeekingArrangement.com was found in 2015 to be offering premium membership to users with a university email address.
Commons deputy speaker Lindsay Hoyle halted proceedings on Thursday afternoon to allow the leak to be looked at. Around 25 minutes later the deputy speaker returned to the House to adjourn the sitting for the rest of the day.
Comment: For those looking for symbolism, notice it was in the press gallery's gathering room that was the source of the water. The press has been instrumental in whipping up division over Brexit.
Railway services operator TrainOSE has also temporarily halted the issuing of tickets while Friday's protest is ongoing. A police riot squad has been deployed to the scene and are monitoring the situation. Some protesters have reportedly begun walking along the tracks towards Thessaloniki.
The roughly 100 to 150 migrants and refugees are demanding to be transported to Diavata in northern Greece, near the Greek border, with a view to reopening a migration route towards northern Europe that opened in 2016.
The Tarantul-III-class corvette Ivanovets and her sister ship R-60 took part in a naval exercise, which included a successful missile attack on a target some 55km away, according to a report by Zvezda TV, the official news channel of the Russian Defense Ministry.
The 500-ton, 56 meter-long ships are part of the legacy corvette fleet that remains in service in three of the four Russian fleets.
The P-270 Moskit ("mosquito" in Russian) ramjet supersonic missile is the primary armament of the model, meant to destroy enemy warships up to 90km away. The projectile flies close to the surface to avoid early radar detection and relies on its high speed and rapid maneuvers during the final phase to beat the target's anti-missile defenses.
A Tarantul-class corvette carries four such missiles, each of which has 150kg of explosives in its warhead - enough to sink a 20,000 ton ship on a good hit. During exercises a dummy is commonly used, so that the accuracy of the attack can be assessed.
In light of new evidence brought against Snyder, Levy released an opinion effectively allowing residents of Flint, Michigan, to include Snyder in a class action lawsuit against a number of former state and local officials as well as private water supply consultants. Last August, Levy took Snyder out of the lawsuit.
According to Michael Pitt, an attorney for the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit,
"[Snyder] was receiving significant information that the contamination was causing harm to people, notwithstanding that he basically ignored it, and, according to the judge, actually engaged in a cover up by indicating that the water was safe when he had ample reason to say the opposite."In her recent statement, Levy emphasized that Snyder was knowingly unsympathetic to the health and safety of Flint residents.
Comment: See also:
- Super Lead Me: Michigan governor vows to drink (filtered) Flintwater for 30 days
- Obama drinks Flint water during speech, brands crisis as "a man-made disaster"
- American way: Flint's emergency manager prioritized cost savings over public safety
- Michigan governor withholding critical documents from investigators in Flint water crisis
- Professor who exposed Flint water crisis says academic research and scientists no longer deserve public trust
- Unbelievably corrupt: Michigan officials still refuse to test water for disease despite major outbreak of Legionnaires
- 10 things they won't tell you about the Flint poisoned water tragedy, but I will
The airport operator SEA said Monday that the airport was closed for about a half hour after the drone was sighted around midday. Three flights landed at Milan's Linate airport and a fourth in Turin.
Malpensa underwent a similar closure last month when a drone was spotted from the control tower several kilometers (at least two miles) away. Police were investigating both incidents.
Comment: Drones have apparently become a regular hazard at international airports.
- Drone seen flying above Dublin Airport brings flights to temporary standstill
- Reports of drone disrupts flights at New Jersey airport, US
- Drone sighting halts departures at London Heathrow Airport
- Some Gatwick Airport drone sightings may have been of police equipment, chief constable admits
And these stranded passengers were pretty sure they weren't seeing a drone either:
Had such a statement been made by someone wearing a MAGA hat, it would have been frontpage news. Similarly, when someone who identifies with the right does something terrible, it is regurgitated and remembered for years, whereas Islamic terrorist attacks are routinely ignored.
When Justice Kavanaugh was accused of sexual assault that allegedly occurred nearly 40 years ago, the media was filled with stories about how all women should be believed. When Joe Biden is accused by Bernie supporters and other leftists for having touched them inappropriately, the same media sympathetically reports him as being merely "tactile."
Comment:
- Tucker Carlson beats CNN's entire prime time line up combined. CNN isn't taking it well
- CNN June viewership plummets after string of fake news stories, Project Veritas video exposes and Trump attacks
- CNN's May ratings have already plummeted by more than 20 percent
- Fake news flops: CNN's February ratings down 19 percent
Those statements are included in new records the state House of Representatives released Wednesday from its ethics investigation into complaints against Stringer, who resigned last week over accusations that he raped children in the 1980s.
Among the new records are notes about a conversation Stringer had with an activist during a 2018 Republican Women of Prescott meeting, where he disputed that child sex trafficking is a problem.
According to investigators' notes of the exchange, Stringer and Merissa Hamilton, an activist who works to protect child victims of trafficking, were seated next to each other watching a speech from a Border Patrol agent at the event.















Comment: See also: Pervert Anthony Weiner released from prison, will remain under house arrest until May