A van driver has been fined £200 for failing to display a no smoking sticker in his own vehicle - despite not being a smoker.

Trevor, 70, was travelling to a job in Canterbury, Kent, when he was slapped with the penalty by a city council warden.

Trevor Emery and his son Lee, who also does not smoke, were fined four times more than if they had actually been caught smoking in the van, because it is used for Trevor's appliance repair business.

The washing machine repairer was left bewildered by the law, which makes it compulsory to display a no smoking sticker in a work van.

Trevor, 70, was travelling to a job in Canterbury, Kent, when he was slapped with the penalty by a city council warden.

Pipeline demonstrators injured by rubber bullets, tear gas canisters, and water cannons during a wintry nighttime standoff with police last week filed a class-action lawsuit Monday against the sheriff of the North Dakota county involved. The suit describes in new detail the evening of November 20, when more than 200 people protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline were injured by "less-than-lethal" weapons.

The lawsuit alleges that sheriff's deputies and police officers used excessive force when they deployed impact munitions, like rubber bullets, as well as explosive tear gas grenades and water cannons against protesters. It argues that the tactics were retaliatory, punishing those involved for exercising free speech rights. It also argues that officers were inadequately trained to handle the situation, naming Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier, Mandan Police Chief Jason Ziegler, and Stutsman County Sheriff Chad Keiser as defendants.

Salafist radicals have launched a campaign to distribute free biographies of the Prophet Muhammad in several German cities, but a similar group has already been banned by security services nationwide for encouraging Muslims to join Islamic State.

The distribution drive began last weekend in large Germany cities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, including Cologne, Munster and Iserlohn, Die Zeit reported on Tuesday.

Members of the Salafist radical group 'We Love Muhammad' were seen distributing free copies of the Islamic prophet's biography in pedestrian zones in those cities.

"A free gift for you," read the Islamists' posters, according to Die Zeit.

The German Interior Ministry has already banned the radical Islamist group 'Die wahre Religion' ('The True Religion') group from evangelizing Salafist ideology, subjecting it to a large-scale police investigation in 60 German cities on November 15, in which some 190 mosques, offices, and apartments associated with The True Religion were reportedly searched in 10 federal states.

Former deputy Robert Retford, with the Johnson County Sheriff's Department was arrested Monday on charges of sexual assault. His alleged victim was apparently seeking help from the deputy when she said he beat her, raped her and defecated on her, and made her drink his urine.

On Tuesday, the now-former deputy was released on a $5,000 bond and was told to surrender his passport.

Police had enough evidence to bring the deputy into custody on Monday after his alleged victim came forward in September.

The local news company stated they do not give out the names of alleged victims. However, this case was different. According to 40/29 News, in this case, the woman asked to be identified and wants everyone to know what she says the deputy did to her.

In their report on the incident, 40/29 refers to the victim as Shanna. "This man raped me," Shanna said.

Obamacare premiums are skyrocketing out of sight. A jump of a mere 30% looks like a good deal compared to jumps of over 50% in six states, and 93% in New Mexico.

Congratulations are in order for those living in a handful of states whose premiums only rose 20%.

Pablo Escobar took his own life to save his family from being taken hostage, his son has claimed. Sebastian Marroquin, 39, has rejected claims his infamous drug lord dad was shot by police in Colombia. He has sensationally accused coroners of faking the autopsy report.

Mr Marroquin, who changed his name from Juan Pablo Escobar , revealed his father always planned to shoot himself in the head to avoid being captured.

He claimed it was also to stop his family from being taken hostages by enemies — including the 'vigilante' group Los Pepes - People Persecuted by Pablo Escobar . The architect said: "I have the absolute certainty that my father committed suicide. Coroners who did the autopsy were threatened and forced to change the official report. My father always told me the shot that would take his life would stick."

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Noam Chomsky, who in a 2005 global poll was voted as the "world's top public intellectual", told Qatar's Al Jazeera television, in a November 24th interview, that Hillary Clinton's "positions are much better than Trump's on every issue that I can think of", so that Americans who didn't vote for her to become the next President were "making a bad mistake."

One of those issues (on which he preferred her "position") was whether to go to war against Russia — an issue on which her statements were remarkably consistent (unlike her positions on most other issues) — namely, that we should engage in a hot war against Russia, and that as the U.S. President she would do so. Trump was opposed to her position that supported each one of the three ways in which she argued for hot war between Russia and the United States (1: establishing a no-fly zone in Syria; 2: responding by physical warfare means — including bombs — against any Russian espionage that entails 'cyber' elements which harm U.S. interests or affect a U.S. federal election; and, 3: forcing Russia to restore Crimea to Ukraine). Trump opposed her on each of those three "issues": he stood against her on each one of those three pathways toward a war against Russia; he opposed each one of the three paths. This was one of the clearest differences between him and her.

Dutch MPs on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to ban the Islamic full-face burqa from some public places such as schools and hospitals, the latest such move in a European country.

"The law is adopted," said the speaker of the lower house of parliament, Khadija Arib, referring to legislation which will also ban burqas, and face coverings just with eye-slits, from public transport.

The motion "to ban all clothing which completely covers the face" from government buildings was approved by 132 members in the 150-seat house, including Prime Minister Mark Rutte's ruling Liberal-Labour coalition.

The legislation must now go before the Senate for approval before becoming law. It follows similar bans imposed in France and Belgium, and comes amid rising tensions in Europe with Islamic communities.

The Dutch cabinet had approved the plan in mid-2015, but decided not to go as far as banning wearing burqas on the streets.

If you ask the average American how they feel about the times in which we live chances are they are sensing something is wrong. Depending on who you ask, of course, you'll get different reasons but most people are probably aware of the demonstrations and riots against Donald Trump, a tension and unrest that is promising to get more intense as we get closer to Inauguration on January 20, 2017. This tension, anger and unrest manifesting itself across the country is not only engineered as I've been saying for a long time now, but those who are obeying the will of George Soros and those funded by him, (Moveon.org, Michael Moore etc), who are carrying out the agenda at play are the manifestation of what I consider to be the children of the new world order. I was reluctant at first to put this information out because many of the youth involved in the recent protests have no idea what's really happening and they wouldn't intentionally cooperate with the ruling elite's plan but I'm now compelled to say it how I see it. But before I discuss why I feel these protesters are a new brand and breed of minds which are the direct offspring of the ruling elites mass mind control and future world order, let's first take a good look at the actual election results that led to the justification for the recent chaos.

Since the Donald Trump victory over Hillary Clinton seen here where Trump defeated Clinton with 290 electoral votes to Hillary's 232, anger and mayhem on the part of the Hillary supporting left has ensued. But why? As indicated by the map, this vote count doesn't include the final 16 electoral votes that Trump will gain in Michigan barring a reversal of the current count. That will officially make the final voting results Trump 306 Hillary 232. And while we're at it, here's the election result from 2008 when Obama won the election because of his 365 electoral votes to John McCain's 173. And here's the election results from 2012 where again, Obama defeated Mitt Romney with 332 electoral votes to Romney's 206.

So what do all three of these election results have in common? They all follow the same rules. In all three, the candidate that won, won because (not in spite of) that candidate received more electoral votes (270 or more to be exact) than his opponent. And so again I'm left wondering why are these Hillary supporting "anti-Trump" demonstrators so angry? And, what agenda is at play?

A Texas Republican announced over the weekend that he plans to resign his post as a member of the Electoral College rather than cast a ballot for US President-elect Donald Trump, a man he deems "not biblically qualified for office."

Citing his Christian religion and his understanding of representative democracy, Art Sisneros wrote in a blog post that he could neither vote for Mr. Trump nor break his promise to do so by voting for anyone else. Texas does not require its 38 electors to vote in accordance with the state's presidential election results, but Mr. Sisneros says he made a pledge to the Texas GOP that his vote next month in Austin would follow the will of the general public.

"The reality is Trump will be our President, no matter what my decision is," Sisneros wrote. "Since I can't in good conscience vote for Donald Trump, and yet have sinfully made a pledge that I would, the best option I see at this time is to resign my position as an Elector."