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Former District Court Judge and school board member Tim Nolan plead guilty to 21 counts of human trafficking in February and this week, he was sentenced to 20 years behind bars.
In court it was revealed that the judge threatened young women and girls under the age of 18 with arrest to force them into sex. On one occasion a victim was living on his property and he forced to evict her if she did not have sex with him. He also gave numerous victims heroin.
During the sentencing, Prosecutor Barbara Whaley read statements from some of the women in court. Whaley noted that seven of the 19 victims were under 16 years old.
"Tim Nolan, I want to say, you ruined my life," one teenage victim wrote in her letter. "You ruined my childhood teenage years and made me lose hope. I hate you."
© Paul Zinken / ReutersUrsula Haverbeck
Dubbed the "Nazi Grandma" by German media, prolific Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck was sentenced to two years behind bars in August 2017 after losing her appeal to reverse a 10-month sentence she received earlier that year. She was initially charged with sedition and incitement after publishing several articles denying the Holocaust in a right-wing newspaper, Stimme des Reiches ('Voices of the Reich').
Haverbeck was supposed to start her prison sentence on Wednesday in the town of Bielefeld.
Local media reported that Haverbeck's home in central Germany appeared to be empty, with uncollected mail piling up at the front door. Haverbeck has been prosecuted numerous times for her unorthodox beliefs, including that notorious concentration camp Auschwitz was a labor camp that had no gas chambers.
Dr. Brandon Porter made Jennifer Kobelt watch gruesome videos for a "fright study" he was conducting
The action comes eight months after the state Health Department refused to act on a complaint from a former cult member who alleged that Dr. Brandon Porter, 44, forced her to watch disturbing rape and dismemberment videos for a "fright study" he was conducting.
Jennifer Kobelt, the former member of the notorious cult whose leaders are accused of brainwashing and blackmailing women into becoming sex slaves, said in her August 2017 complaint that Porter may have performed his "fright study" on as many as 100 people.
"He continued to film my reaction for at least 10 minutes as I just sat there, dry heaving like I was going to puke and crying very hard," Kobelt, a Canadian actress, said in the complaint to the Health Department, adding that Porter began showing her the violent images without warning.
© Pascal Rossignol/ReutersFrench police evict thousands of migrants living on sidewalks near the reception center for migrants and refugees at porte de la Chapelle, north of Paris, France.
Robert Menard, mayor of the southern town of Béziers and an ally of Marine Le Pen's anti-immigration and Euroskeptic National Front party, said on Friday that a government initiative aimed at alleviating France's urban poverty failed to identify the roots of the problem. A video with a part of his appearance on a show, on France's LCI channel, has been published online.
Menard said that projects designed to revitalize the country's suffering suburbs have largely focused on cosmetic changes. Menard noted that even after a troubled neighborhood in his town had received 130 million euros for a new housing project, the situation did not improve.
"It has never been as much a ghetto and apartheid as now!" Menard insisted.
Comment: Menard - a guy without brains or heart who sees Muslims as clutter in his city.
© The Free Thought Project
The former inmate and whistleblower who has openly shared his account of his horrific experiences during the time he served in Florida's Charlotte County Jail, has made a mini-documentary in an attempt to further expose patterns of rampant corruption within the jail, and the dangers it poses for inmates.
Rob Tigro and Rodney McGee initially spoke out in an exclusive interview with The Free Thought Project in June 2017 after they began documenting the ongoing misconduct in the jail's medical wing.
Perverse, conflicted ethical systems
Radical environmentalists put people last, and destroy habitats and wildlife to end fossil fuels
Guest opinion by Paul Driessen
Third Reich Forest Minister Hermann Goering was an avid hiker and ecologist who once sent a man to a concentration camp for cutting up a frog for fish bait. In 1933 he and other Nazi Party leaders enacted anti-vivisection laws to stop what he called "unbearable torture and suffering in animal experiments."
Comment: While the author makes some good points - especially how radical left values seem to be askew, even in environmentalism - the devil's in the details too. That is, there are reasons to bring attention to the detrimental effects as such things as GMO crops, pollution, poisonous pesticide, etc. However, how this is addressed should speak to the values of preserving health and quality of life and should not take on an ends justify the means activist approach that would be willing to injure someone in the pursuit of 'justice'.
© Postmedia News
An "unemployment rate (was achieved) below the 4 percent threshold," the Times calling it a "milestone," claiming it indicates a "tight...labor market..."
Reality is polar opposite. Trump crowed about the phony Friday Labor Department (BLS) report tweeting: "JUST OUT: 3.9% Unemployment. 4% is Broken!"
America's privileged class never had things better. Unreported is continuation of protracted main street depression conditions.
Economist John Williams reverse engineers monthly employment numbers based on how calculated in 1980.
© The Bell / east2west newsRussian scientist Vladimir Uglev said 100 grams of Novichok would have killed everyone in Salisbury
Reports surfaced overnight that 100g of the deadly substance had been used when ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in the Wiltshire city.
Since then the the head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has conceded 'it probably should be milligrams'.
Russian scientist Leonid Rink, who helped develop the lethal poison, today said: "The whole of Salisbury would have died from this amount.
"This is an insane amount, this is a combat amount."
The remark came after Ahmet Uzumcu, the head of the OPCW told the New York Times that Novichok could have been applied as a liquid or aerosol.
He said: "For research activities or protection you would need, for instance, five to 10 grams or so, but even in Salisbury it looks like they may have used more than that, without knowing the exact quantity, I am told it may be 50, 100 grams or so, which goes beyond research activities for protection."
Comment: As for Douma: US weapons inspector: 'Western claims that Assad used chemical weapons totally bogus'
© Diane's Blog - WordPress.comCalifornia on the market
Say goodbye to Hollywood, Billy Joel sang in 1976. Now, in the midst of a deepening housing crisis, thousands of people are following that advice. Over a million more people moved out of California from 2006 to 2016 than moved in, according to a new report, due mainly to the high cost of housing that hits lower-income people the hardest.
"A strong economy can also be dysfunctional," noted the report, a project of Next 10 and Beacon Economics. Housing costs are much higher in California than in other states, yet wages for workers in the lower income brackets aren't. And the state attracts more highly-educated high-earners who can afford pricey homes.
There are many reasons for the housing crunch, but the lack of new construction may be the most significant. According to the report, from 2008 to 2017, an average of 24.7 new housing permits were filed for every 100 new residents in California. That's well below the national average of 43.1 permits per 100 people.
If this trend persists, the researchers argued, analysts forecast the state will be about 3 million homes short by 2025.
© Census Bureau/Next 10/Beacon Economics.
Comment: Increasing numbers of fires statewide and multiple seasons of drought have also contributed to the lack of housing and the California exodus.
Comment: The stories about what this pathological group has been doing continue to trickle out. We can probably expect to see more as people realize and investigate just what this group was up to. See also: