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Hostage taking during bank robbery ends with five senseless deaths in Sebring, Florida

Doug Stanglin
USA Today
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 19:02 UTC
sheriff's department armored vehicle
© APA sheriff's department armored vehicle arrives at a SunTrust Bank branch on Jan. 23, 2019, in Sebring, Fla.
Five people were "senselessly murdered" Wednesday after a gunman took hostages in a Florida bank, forced them to the floor and began shooting, authorities said.

Sebring Police Chief Karl Hoglund and Highlands County Sheriff Paul Blackman briefed reporters but declined to elaborate on the motive for the shooting, which took place around noon at the SunTrust bank in Sebring, about 94 miles southeast of Tampa.

The suspect was identified by Hoglund as Zephen Xaver, 21, a Sebring resident. A photo published by the Highlands News-Sun shows police taking a handcuffed white male, wearing a T-shirt and khaki shorts, from the scene.

"It's been a tragic day in our community," Hoglund said. "We have suffered a significant loss at the hands of a senseless criminal doing a senseless crime."
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Software magnate John McAfee will run for president 'in exile' using thousands of masked doppelgangers

Claire Reilly
CNET
Tue, 22 Jan 2019 21:13 UTC
John McAfee
© Getty ImagesThe software tycoon's presidential run has taken on a "Being John McAfee" vibe.
The crypto-enthusiast has donned a wig, jumped on a boat and is now on the run from the IRS. But that won't stop his 2020 presidential campaign.

John McAfee's presidential bid has just taken a turn.

Last year, the former antivirus software magnate announced his intention to run as a candidate in the 2020 US presidential election. But in a series of videos posted to Twitter on Tuesday, McAfee claimed he will now have to run his campaign "in exile" because he's fleeing felony charges brought by the IRS.

How do you run for president when you're on the run? Using thousands of surrogate "road warriors" dressed up in John McAfee masks.

Comment: Though McAfee's intentions appear to be good, we'd do well to remember that there is sometimes a fine line between genius and insanity. See also:

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Teen girl seriously injured in Germany after drunk Afghan refugee drags her off bus by her hair


RT
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 20:01 UTC
Bus in Minden, Germany
A 17-year-old girl was seriously injured in Minden, Germany after a drunk Afghan refugee dragged her off a bus by her hair, causing her to be run over by the bus while trying to escape the man.

According to a police statement, the girl was repeatedly harassed by the 22-year-old man while she waited at a bus terminal in Minden, near Hanover, with her 14-year-old friend just before 9pm local time on Saturday.

The girl and her friend sought safety from the man, and his 21-year-old friend, by running to a nearby bus, where the bus driver, 41, let them on. However, the persistent pair also got onboard and the 22-year-old dragged the girl from the bus by her hair - after it had started to move.
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Propaganda

Retired SEAL: Nathan Phillips not a Vietnam vet - he was a mechanic who went AWOL three times

Cristina Laila
Gateway Pundit
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 19:46 UTC
Nathan Phillips Don Shipley
The media piled on the Covington Catholic teens for 'disrespecting' and 'mobbing' the poor Vietnam Vet - how dare these boys be so disrespectful to a man who served in one of America's nastiest wars!

Except he didn't.

Nathan Phillips served in the United States Marines from 1972-1976.

He claimed he was a Recon Ranger - there is no such thing as a Marine Recon Ranger, Rangers are in the Army.

Retired US Navy SEAL Don Shipley, who is known for publicly outing people for 'stolen valor,' obtained Nathan Phillips' DD-214 form and exposed the truth.

Comment: For more on Nathan Phillips and this recent incident:

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Phoenix, AZ police arrest nurse Nathan Sutherland in Hacienda HealthCare rape case

Bree Burkitt, Mackenzie Shuman and Craig Harris
Arizona Central
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 09:52 UTC
Hacienda Health Care facility
Phoenix police have arrested Nathan Sutherland, a 36-year-old nurse at Hacienda HealthCare facility, alleging he raped and impregnated an incapacitated woman at the center.

The woman gave birth to a boy Dec. 29. Staff members told a 911 operator that they had not known she was pregnant.

"From the minute we first became aware of the crime, we have virtually worked non stop seven days a week to resolve this case," Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams said in announcing the arrest Wednesday morning.

Williams joined Mayor Thelda Williams at Phoenix police headquarters to provide an "important" update on the investigation into the rape.
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Attention

Man mauled to death by lions after climbing over 25-feet wall at zoo in Chandigarh, India


India Today
Sun, 20 Jan 2019 18:44 UTC
Zoo officials said a lion
© ReutersZoo officials said a lion and a lioness were in the enclosure and the lioness attacked the man first.

A man was mauled to death by lions on Sunday at Chhatbir Zoo in Zirakpur, around 20 km from Chandigarh.

According to zoo officials, the man entered the enclosure by scaling an over-25-feet wall and as soon as he crossed over, he was attacked by two lions.

Officials said the incident happened at 2.20 pm and the man, who is in his early 30s, was yet to be identified.

"The injury on his neck was deep. He was taken to civil hospital in a critical condition where he died," said the zoo's field director M Sudhagarb.

A lion and a lioness were in the enclosure, he said, adding the female lion attacked the man first.
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Eye 1

North China's Hebei court system unveils program to expose deadbeat debtors

Zhang Yu
China Daily
Wed, 16 Jan 2019 17:37 UTC
deadbeat debtor app china
Screenshot shows the mini-program.
Deadbeat debtors in North China's Hebei province will find it more difficult to abscond as the Higher People's Court of Hebei on Monday introduced a mini-program on WeChat targeting them.

Called "a map of deadbeat debtors", the program allows users to find out whether there are any debtors within 500 meters.

The debtor's information is available to check in the program, making it easier for people to whistle-blow on debtors capable of paying their debts.

"It's a part of our measures to enforce our rulings and create a socially credible environment," said a spokesman of the court.

Comment: The app discussed is a further extension of the "social credit" system being implemented in China. A two-edged sword, as it is meant to encourage pro-social behaviour, helping to govern the world's most populous country, but also a means of punishing those who step out of line. Who determines the line?

China's building a digital dictatorship through "social credit" to exert control over its 1.4 billion citizens
[M]most don't seem to comprehend the all-encompassing control social credit is likely to have, and there's been no public debate about implementing the system inside China. In private, there's been some disquiet in the educated middle classes about the citizen score being the only criterion for character assessment.


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Undercover St. Louis cop says colleagues beat him 'like Rodney King' - describes attack as 'free for all'

Robert Patrick
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:04 UTC
st louis cops
© St. Louis Post Dispatch
An undercover St. Louis police officer who was beaten by colleagues during protests in 2017 later described the attack as a "free for all" and told someone at police headquarters that he was beaten "like Rodney King," according to recently released court documents.

Detective Luther Hall's statements about the night he was attacked were used by the FBI to justify searches of four officers' cellphones and associated accounts as agents investigated both Hall's attack and the arrest or detention of other protesters following the Sept. 15, 2017, acquittal of former St. Louis police Officer Jason Stockley.

They provide the most detailed retelling of Hall's version of the attack and new information about the resulting FBI investigation.

That investigation resulted in charges in November against four police officers. Officers Dustin Boone, Randy Hays and Christopher Myers were accused of the physical assault and charged with depriving Hall of his constitutional rights and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Myers also is charged with destruction of evidence, accused of destroying Hall's cellphone. Officer Bailey Colletta was accused of lying to a federal grand jury investigating the attack. All have pleaded not guilty. Hays' lawyer, Brian Millikan, declined to comment. The other lawyers did not respond to requests for comment Monday.
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Red Flag

Political commentator Ben Stein: Ocasio-Cortez is promising the same kinds of things as Hitler

Ed Mazza
Huffington Post
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 16:26 UTC
Ben Stein
© Unknown
Ben Stein on Tuesday claimed policies advocated by freshman lawmaker Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) "invariably lead to bad things," including genocide.

The actor, former speechwriter to President Richard M. Nixon, and political commentator even made comparisons to Adolf Hitler.

Ocasio-Cortez has made headlines for advocating higher marginal tax rates of up to 70 percent on earnings past $10 million in income as well as a "Green New Deal" to tackle the climate crisis.
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Four arrested in plot to bomb Muslim community of Islamberg, NY

Georgie Silvarole and Meaghan M. McDermott
USAToday
Tue, 22 Jan 2019 16:12 UTC
Andrew Crysel, Vincent Vetromile, Brian Colaneri
© Greece Police DepartmentAndrew Crysel, Vincent Vetromile, Brian Colaneri
An offhand remark by a Greece Odyssey Academy student during lunchtime on Friday sparked a police investigation that led to the arrest of four people in connection with an alleged plot to attack a Muslim community in New York.

Greece Police Chief Patrick Phelan said the probe kicked off after a 16-year-old student showed a picture of another person on his phone to friends in the cafeteria and "made a comment to the effect 'he looks like the next school shooter, doesn't he?'"

Other students alarmed by that student's remarks reported them to school officials.

Through a series of subsequent interviews, police were eventually led to what Phelan said was a "serious plot" to attack the community of Islamberg in Delaware County, near the Catskills.

During the investigation, police recovered 23 firearms and three homemade bombs, Phelan said.
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