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84yo Korean War vet who sleeps with gun under pillow kills home intruder 'with single shot', 2nd man gets away


RT
Sat, 09 Dec 2017 13:19 UTC
Man firing gun
© Andy Clark / Reuters
An 84-year-old Pennsylvania man turned out to be a challenge for burglars after he fought two intruders who broke into his house. The Korean War veteran, who sleeps with a loaded gun under his pillow, killed one of the attackers with a single shot.

Don Lutz, who lives in Ellport borough some 50 km from Pittsburgh, was awakened by the sound of glass shattering early Friday and saw two men breaking into his house, local media reported citing police. The 84-year-old man (some media report that he is actually 85) got out of bed, and was confronted by one of the intruders.

"I was in bed sleeping, they woke me up," Lutz later told KDKA TV, a CBS-affiliate. "Woken up to them busting in on my front door, and I went out in the hallway in the dark, and I met this one guy, and he went to grab me and that's when I shot him."
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Snakes in Suits

Veteran Disney executive arrested on child sex abuse charges

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 09 Dec 2017 20:08 UTC
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In the latest case of Hollywood's spiralling sexual abuse scandal, Variety reports that a veteran 58-year-old Disney executive has been charged with three felony counts of child sexual abuse. Jon Heely, the longtime director of music publishing at Disney, was arrested nearly a month ago and charged with three counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a child. One of the reported victims was 15. The other was abused for four years starting at the age of 11, according to the charges.

His attorney Robert Helfend said Heely "vehemently denies these allegations."

Heely, who oversees the licensing of music from Disney films, pleaded not guilty on Thursday. If convicted, he faces up to nine years and three months in prison according to The Daily News.
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Cult

SOTT Focus: Something, something ... Tax Cuts For The Rich

J. Martin
Sott.net
Sat, 09 Dec 2017 20:22 UTC
Croesus and Solon
© FineArtAmerica.comCroesus and Solon by Johann Georg Platzer. A story worth reading.
Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie. - Miyamoto Musashi
Writing about taxes is slightly less fun than being spit roasted by someone with cerebral palsy. Reading what someone wrote about taxes is probably akin to being tied to a chair with toothpicks holding your eyelids open and being forced to watch.

People used to like money. We all talk about the death of capitalism. Capitalism is dying, but not from flaws in its ideological substrata, but of fiscal ennui - no matter what the left says, greed is just too vital for modern capitalism. What we really have is the lethargic gluttony of crass consumerism. Can you blame the West? All those ratios and percentages, and progressive pass-through limited partnerships and blah blah blah. Greed used to be sexy, now whining about the 1% while twirling your dreadlocks in between puffs of medical marijuana is sexy.

Greed is dead.
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Info

Algerian customs authorities seize ship with cargo of Israeli made clothes


Middle East Monitor
Sat, 09 Dec 2017 19:42 UTC
The port of Algiers, Algeria
© US Army Africa/FlickrShips unload their goods in the port in Algiers, Algeria
Algerian customs authorities have seized a ship in the port of Algiers carrying three large containers loaded with Israeli made clothes and imported through a private company in Algiers from China, Echourouk newspaper reported.

The paper quoted customs sources as saying that they searched the containers after receiving information that a private importer had brought large quantities of Israeli made clothes for children, men and women.

According to the sources, the customs inspectors found clothes for children, men and women which had "Made in Israel" written on them in all the containers.
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Question

Dylan Farrow: Why has the #MeToo revolution spared Woody Allen?

Dylan Farrow
Los Angeles Times
Sat, 09 Dec 2017 17:58 UTC
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Editor's Note: Woody Allen, who declined to comment prior to publication, has long denied the allegations described in this Op-Ed. Dylan Farrow's allegations against Allen were investigated by sex-abuse experts at Yale-New Haven Hospital, who found no evidence of abuse.Some questioned their methodology. A state's attorney in Connecticut said he had "probable cause" to prosecute in 1993 but did not file charges.

We are in the midst of a revolution. From allegations against studio heads and journalists, to hotel maids recounting abuses on the job, women are exposing the truth and men are losing their jobs. But the revolution has been selective.

I have long maintained that when I was 7 years old, Woody Allen led me into an attic, away from the babysitters who had been instructed never to leave me alone with him. He then sexually assaulted me. I told the truth to the authorities then, and I have been telling it, unaltered, for more than 20 years. Why is it that Harvey Weinstein and other accused celebrities have been cast out by Hollywood, while Allen recently secured a multimillion-dollar distribution deal with Amazon, greenlit by former Amazon Studios executive Roy Price before he was suspended over sexual misconduct allegations? Allen's latest feature, Wonder Wheel, was released theatrically on Dec. 1.

Allen denies my allegations. But this is not a "he said, child said" situation. Allen's pattern of inappropriate behavior - putting his thumb in my mouth, climbing into bed with me in his underwear, constant grooming and touching - was witnessed by friends and family members. At the time of the alleged assault, he was in therapy for his conduct towards me. Three eyewitnesses substantiated my account, including a babysitter who saw Allen with his head buried in my lap after he had taken off my underwear. Allen refused to take a polygraph administered by the Connecticut state police.
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People

Common ties between Russian and US Orthodox Churches may benefit bilateral relations


Sputnik
Sat, 09 Dec 2017 18:03 UTC
Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow
© Sputnik/ Evgenya NovozheninaCathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow
Head of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, said at a meeting with the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) leader Metropolitan Tikhon of America and Canada on Wednesday that bilateral relations between the Russian and American Orthodox Churches remain at a high level and continue to develop.

Contacts between representatives of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Orthodox Church in America could "promote reconciliation and the establishment of good cooperation" between Russia and the United States, Patriarch Kirill said at a meeting with Tikhon of America and Canada.

"Given the complicated relations between Russia and the United States, the contacts of our churches are gaining special significance, because these contacts connect people who share a common faith, who have a common history, common spiritual values, and can, I am sure, serve as a link between our peoples, promote reconciliation and the establishment of good cooperation," Patriarch Kirill said at a meeting in his residence.

Metropolitan Tikhon, together with the heads of other local Orthodox churches, arrived in Moscow to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the restoration of the patriarchate in the Russian Church and the election of Holy Hierarch Tikhon as the Patriarch in 1917.
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Stop

Racism or legitimate concern for safety? Florida Pizza Hut bans nighttime deliveries to black neighborhood


Sputnik
Sat, 09 Dec 2017 17:52 UTC
Pizza Hut
© AP Photo/ Alan Diaz
Walking into a Fort Lauderdale Pizza Hut, writer Adam Weinstein wasn't exactly looking to be a food industry whistleblower when he chose to pick up some grub that fateful day last Friday.

Written, all caps, and in red and black ink, Weinstein found himself before a sign that read, "We don't deliver to northwest (D-4) after 7 p.m., but any order taken before 7 p.m. must be delivered."


​Perhaps it's no coincidence that the ink chosen was red, of all colors: alongside the display is a map, which, incidentally, boldly outlines a predominantly African-American neighborhood with red lines.

"You can't tell in the photo, but Pizza Hut's redlined neighborhood is literally centered on Ft. Lauderdale's African American Research Library and Cultural Center," Weinstein wrote in a tweet.

Comment: Pizza Hut would come off better if they produced some crime statistics to support their decision. However, people are so touchy about race and crime they may face backlash no matter what they do.

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Road Cone

Russia's Economic Development Minister says lack of infrastructure is country's biggest weakness


RussiaFeed
Fri, 08 Dec 2017 17:51 UTC
Russian roads
Bad roads and other problems with infrastructure are the main reasons why the Russian economy doesn't grow as fast as it could, according to Economic Development Minister Maksim Oreshkin.

"I am convinced that infrastructure is one of the key problems of the Russian economy. We are underinvested here, the quality of infrastructure does not correspond to the level of Russia's development and is a serious obstacle on the way of economic growth," he said during a Q&A session on the Gazeta.ru news website.
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Dollars

Taxpayers paid $220K to settle sexual harassment case involving Rep. Alcee Hastings

Stephanie Akin
Roll Call
Fri, 08 Dec 2017 15:07 UTC
Alcee L. Hastings
© Al Drago/CQ Roll Call file photoFlorida Rep. Alcee L. Hastings was accused of sexual misconduct by a former staff member of the Helsinki Commission.
The Treasury Department paid $220,000 in a previously undisclosed agreement to settle a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment that involved Florida Democrat Alcee L. Hastings, according to documents obtained by Roll Call.

Winsome Packer, a former staff member of a congressional commission that promotes international human rights, said in documents that the congressman touched her, made unwanted sexual advances, and threatened her job. At the time, Hastings was the chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, where Packer worked.

Hastings has called Packer's charges "ludicrous" and in documents said he never sexually harassed her.

"Until this evening, I had not seen the settlement agreement between the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) and Ms. Packer," the congressman said in a statement Friday night. "This matter was handled solely by the Senate Chief Counsel for Employment. At no time was I consulted, nor did I know until after the fact that such a settlement was made."

Hastings said that the lawsuit that Packer filed against him and an investigation by the House Ethics Committee were ultimately dismissed.

Comment: The other half of this problem, that no one is discussing, is the incredible number of women who are getting lush payoffs for hugs, hotel invitations, and questions about their thong. Wow, victimhood is not what it used to be. Your tax dollars at work people.

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Attention

Mired in Poland: US Army truck gets stuck in the mud, asks locals for help


RT
Fri, 08 Dec 2017 17:13 UTC
Army tank
© SooldierPL / YouTube
A US army convoy got stuck in the mud on a road in western Poland. Their colleagues who came to help then saw their own vehicle turning over, prompting the 'gallant' soldiers to eventually ask the locals for help.

The small US army convoy, consisting of what appears to be two heavy combat engineer support vehicles, experienced trouble on a road near the western Polish town of Lubin, when one of the trucks suddenly experienced problems with the brakes. The convoy pulled to the side of the road to examine the fault, only to find themselves stuck in a ditch.

It soon turned out that it was only the beginning of their troubles. The soldiers tried to get the trapped vehicles out with a military wrecker. Video taken at the scene shows that the towing truck managed to pull one vehicle out of the mud. However, the tow vehicle itself ended up flipping over on the other side of the road, as it fell into another ditch in a futile attempt to replicate its success with the second vehicle.

Comment: If these are signs from the universe that the US should stay out of Eastern Europe and stop trying to incite Russia, they certainly aren't being heeded:

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