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Pennsylvania school district threatens to kidnap children unless school lunch debts paid; county officials push back

Jessica Campisis
The Hill
Fri, 19 Jul 2019 20:16 UTC
PA School threatens parents school lunch
A Pennsylvania school district reportedly plans to send out another letter to parents after facing backlash for a message warning parents that their children could be recommended to be put in foster care if they didn't pay their school lunch debt.

One copy of the initial letter, which has since been reposted on social media, shows the Wyoming Valley West School District informing parents of their student's school lunch account balance of $75.25, adding that "multiple letters have been sent home with your child and no payments have been made to their account," NBC affiliate WBRE reported.

"Your child has been sent to school every day without money and without a breakfast and/or lunch," the July 9 letter reads. "This is a failure to provide your child with proper nutrition and you can be sent to Dependency Court for neglecting your child's right to food."

"If you are taken to Dependency court, the result may be your child being removed from your home and placed in foster care," the letter continues. "Please remit payment as soon as possible to avoid being reported to the proper authorities."

Comment: WXPI reports that city officials have forced the school district to recant and apologize:
Luzerne County officials insisted the district "cease and desist from making the representations" about placing their children in foster care, according to The Citizens Voice.

The district will send letters apologizing to parents, the newspaper reported, and future letters will [ not???] threaten to send their kids to foster care. [..]

Legal experts said the letter was legal, but the chances of a child being taken away are slim.


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Protesters gather in Moscow to demand disqualified opposition politicians be allowed to run for city council


RT
Sat, 20 Jul 2019 13:53 UTC
Moscow city council election protests
© Sputnik / Evgeny Odinokov
People gathered in central Moscow to demand that a number of opposition politicians be allowed to run for seats in the city legislature despite being disqualified by the election commission.

The protest rally on Saturday is meant to support a dozen opposition politicians who want to run for the Moscow Duma, the city legislative assembly, in September. The city election commission has since last week disqualified a number of candidates due to paperwork irregularities, and some of them say they were barred from the race illegally under false pretexts.

Police blocked traffic through several streets during the rally and deployed several dozen officers to monitor the situation. Around 12,000 people showed up, according to the Interior Ministry press service.
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Lawyers reveal Jeffrey Epstein used fake Saudi passport to travel to Spain and UK

Chris Spargo
Daily Mail
Thu, 18 Jul 2019 00:22 UTC
Epstein
© New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services | Handout | ReutersU.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services’ sex offender registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters July 10, 2019. New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services
The four lawyers from the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York filed a the legal equivalent of a clapback in court on Wednesday.

In a two paragraph letter sent to presiding Judge Richard Berman, US Attorney Geoffrey Berman responded to a claim made on Tuesday by accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his defense team regarding his falsified passport.

In its filing after a bail hearing in the case, the defense team stated: '[A]s for the Austrian passport the government trumpets, it expired 32 years ago. And the government offers nothing to suggest — and certainly no evidence — that Epstein ever used it.'

That very strong comment was very swiftly shot down though on Wednesday, when prosecutors fired off a letter to the judge stating: 'In fact, the passport contains numerous ingress and egress stamps, including stamps that reflect use of the passport to enter France, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Saudi Arabia in the 1980s.'
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Palm Beach County launches investigation into its monitoring of Jeffrey Epstein on work release

Aaron Katersky and Alexander Svokos
ABC News
Fri, 19 Jul 2019 11:50 UTC
Sheriff Ric Bradshaw
© Taylor Jones/TNS/NewscomPalm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw speaks to members of the press, Nov 29, 2018.
Palm Beach County launched an internal investigation into its sheriff's deputies monitoring of Jeffrey Epstein, following allegations he had "improper sexual conduct" while on work release from jail.

Epstein served a 13-month jail sentence in 2008 after he pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution in a deal with federal prosecutors. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office allowed Epstein to participate in a work-release program wherein he could spend up to 12 hours a day, six days a week, at his office in West Palm Beach, despite being registered as a sex offender.

This week, Epstein was accused of having "improper sexual contact" with young women while on that work release by attorney Brad Edwards, who is representing several alleged victims in a new federal sex trafficking case against Epstein.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office announced Friday that Sheriff Ric Bradshaw "ordered an Internal Affairs investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein matter," according to a statement.
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Colorado State: Students should avoid saying 'Americans', 'male', 'female', 'normal person' among other 'non-inclusive' words

Ethan Cai
Campus Reform
Fri, 19 Jul 2019 20:51 UTC
American flag
Colorado State University claims that "American" is a non-inclusive word that should be avoided.

CSU's online Inclusive Language Guide, compiled by the school's Inclusive Communications Task Force, lists certain words and phrases to avoid while providing replacements in an effort to help "communicators practice inclusive language and [help] everyone on [its] campus feel welcomed, respected, and valued." The school's Women and Gender Collaborative website directly links to the document.

CSU lists both "American" and "America" as non-inclusive words "to avoid," due to the fact that America encompasses more than just the U.S. By referring to the U.S. as America, the guide claims that one "erases other cultures and depicts the United States as the dominant American country." The school suggests using "U.S. citizen" or "person from the U.S." as substitutes.

Comment: Notice how the list of words deemed offensive by the thought police is getting longer and longer. This is because there is no limit to the amount of control these fanatics seek to have over others.

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'German fascists'! Conservative Polish newspaper announces inclusion of 'LGBT-free zone' stickers in future issue; SJW outrage ensues


RT
Fri, 19 Jul 2019 18:39 UTC
Poland protests against LGBT
© (L) Reuters / Kacper Pempel; (R) Reuters / Peter Andrews
A conservative Polish newspaper has kicked off heated controversy after announcing it would include 'LGBT-free zone' stickers in a future issue, prompting comparisons to anti-Jewish signs and slogans used by the Nazis.

A preview of the contentious sticker was shared to Twitter on Wednesday by Gazeta Polska, a right-of-center publication with a readership of around 110,000. The paper said the sticker would be included in its next edition as an insert.


It wasn't long before an outpouring of criticism enveloped the outlet on social media and elsewhere, including from Polish officials and citizens, and even Washington's ambassador to the country, Georgette Mosbacher, a known supporter of the LGBT cause.

Comment: Perhaps 'socially conservative' Poles are simply fed up with the incessant and aggressive propagandizing of LGBT activists (and they aren't the only ones):

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Israeli 'justice': Court approves demolition of 100 East Jerusalem homes under Palestinian control


The Times of Israel
Fri, 19 Jul 2019 20:14 UTC
Israel demolition Palestinian homes
© Kobi Gideon / FLASH90Illustrative: Israeli police stand near an excavator as it demolishes a Palestinian home in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sur Baher on April 7, 2009.
The High Court of Justice has approved demolition orders for 16 East Jerusalem buildings that contain a total of some 100 apartments under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority, sparking fears the unprecedented move could drive Israeli home demolitions deeper in the West Bank.

The court last week struck down an appeal against the demolition of 16 apartment buildings in the Wadi al-Hummus neighborhood of the Sur Baher neighborhood, according to a report in the Haaretz daily.

Demolition of unauthorized Palestinian-owned structures in East Jerusalem is not unusual. However, the homes slated for demolition in Sur Baher — a neighborhood that straddles the Green Line — are located in the PA-controlled Area A of the West Bank.

The majority of Sur Baher is in Israel, but the Wadi al-Hummus part of the neighborhood lies beyond Jerusalem municipal boundaries, making it part of the West Bank. Though Wadi al-Hummus is on the Israeli side of the security fence, the Palestinian Authority takes responsibility for the residents there.

Comment: Israel never lets international laws or protocols get in the way of its aggressive expansion:

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Boeing to take $4.9 billion hit due to 737 MAX grounding; Executives could face lengthy prison terms over crashes

Leslie Josephs, Phil LeBeau
CNBC
Thu, 18 Jul 2019 22:36 UTC
Boeing 737 Max grounding
© David Ryder | Getty ImagesWorkers stand near Boeing 737 MAX airplanes as they sit parked at a Boeing facility adjacent to King County International Airport, known as Boeing Field, on May 31, 2019 in Seattle, Washington.
Boeing on Thursday said it will take a $4.9 billion charge in the second quarter due to the worldwide grounding of its 737 Max planes after two fatal crashes that killed 346 people.

The charge, which comes to $8.74 a share, is set to wipe out profits. Analysts expected the company to book a per-share profit of $1.80 for the second quarter, according to average estimates compiled by Refinitiv. The charge would reduce revenue and pre-tax earnings by $5.6 billion in the quarter, Boeing said.

The 737 Max jets have been grounded since mid-March and regulators have not said when they expect to allow the planes to fly again.

Boeing shares rose 2% in postmarket trading after the manufacturer disclosed the charge.

Comment: RT reports that attorneys in the Boeing crash cases will be looking for a smoking gun to claim negligence on the part of Boeing executives:
Hearings on aviation safety in the aftermath of two deadly Boeing 737 MAX crashes were held this week by the US House of Representatives panel. They included testimonies from families of the victims.

International Regulatory Attorney Myles Edwards joins RT's Boom Bust to talk about the latest developments in the Boeing crashes case.

"I look at this as a negligence case," he says, adding that attorneys will be looking at it as if there is a 'smoking gun.'

"And what I mean by that is - did Boeing executives know that there is a problem with 737 MAX and they covered it up?"

According to Edwards, "If it can be proven that not only they were negligent but they covered it up, then it opens up fraud, civil and criminal penalties against the company, possibly other vendors involved in the manufacture. But for the officers and directors, they can absolutely be held criminally liable and face prison terms."
See also: More than 400 pilots file class action suit against Boeing over 737 MAX's 'unprecedented cover-up'

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Bollywood actor arrested for uploading 'objectionable' content on social media

Damini Solanki
The Hindu
Fri, 19 Jul 2019 19:37 UTC
Ajaz Khan
The actor has been charged with promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion

The Cyber police on Thursday arrested actor Ajaz Khan for allegedly uploading a communally sensitive video on popular video sharing platform TikTok.

According to police officials, Ramesh Solanki, a Shiv Sena worker, submitted a written complaint regarding two videos that the actor uploaded recently, on July 9.
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Former IT contractor for Epstein says he quit over concerns of 'topless minor girls', nude pictures

Kaitlyn Folmer
ABC News
Fri, 19 Jul 2019 18:45 UTC
Jeffrey Epstein court hearing
© Palm Beach Post/TNS/Sipa USA/PAJuly 30, 2008 photo of Jeffrey Epstein (center) in court in West Palm Beach. He would plead guilty to a single charge of soliciting prostitution.
A former IT contractor for Jeffrey Epstein who said that he ended their business relationship over personal concerns about gaggles of apparently unsupervised young women on the embattled financier's private island told ABC News that his reluctance to continue working there was underscored by what he said was an extensive collection of photos of topless women displayed throughout the island's compounds.

"There were photos of topless women everywhere," said contractor Steve Scully, who said he worked for Epstein for six years beginning in 1999. "On his desk, in his office, in his bedroom," Scully, a 69-year-old father of three girls, said of the private island dubbed "Little St. James."

Scully told ABC News that he was the chief owner and operator of a telecommunications business on the island of St Thomas when he was contracted by Epstein to set up a communications network on Little St. James. During his employment, he estimated that he visited the exclusive island more than 100 times.
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