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Bug

Florida cop arrested for raping child repeatedly, gets administrative leave until investigation is complete

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A Florida highway patrolman was accused of sexually abusing a little girl with sex toys and sex devices while she cowered in fear.

More details are emerging following the arrest of a Florida highway patrolman this week. Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Chad Corriveau was arrested, according to the Lake County Sheriff's Office, for sexual battery of a child between the months of November and December of 2016.

As reported by CBS12.com:
Authorities were alerted to the incident when a relative of Corriveau's said she was told by the child that he kissed and had sex with her using a sex swing and sex devices.

USA

High school footballers face suspension for 'taking a knee' during anthem

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The ACLU has condemned several Louisiana school boards for threatening to punish student players who mirror the wave of protests taking place in the NFL by taking a knee during the national anthem.

"Bossier Parish is threatening to punish students for peacefully protesting racial injustice and taking a principled position for freedom and equality. This is antithetical to our values as Americans and a threat to students' constitutional rights,"ACLU of Louisiana Executive Director, Marjorie Esman, said in an online statement, condemning both Bossier Parish School District and Parkway High School.

"Nearly 75 years ago, the Supreme Court rightly held that state schools have no business forcing students to stand for patriotic rituals," Esman added. "Schools have no valid interest in turning their students into mouthpieces of government speech, full stop."

Black Magic

Murder of autistic UK teenager by necrophiliac was preventable, case review finds

Necrophiliac murder
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The murder of an 18-year-old woman at a Bristol care home could have been prevented, according to a case review. The attacker had exhibited "aggressive and sexualized behavior" since childhood, and his victim had told staff she was afraid of him.

Melissa Mathieson, who had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism, lived at the Alexandra House residential home, which looks after people with autism spectrum disorders including Asperger's syndrome.

In October 2014, she was strangled by one of her fellow residents. Jason Conroy, also 18, had a necrophilia fetish and dreamed of having sex with a dead woman.

However, her death could have been prevented, according to a serious case review by Bristol Safeguarding Adults Board (BSAB), which found that she had complained to staff about Conroy mere hours before she met her tragic fate.

Arrow Down

Pandering to the gender propagandists: University cancels speaker who criticized transgender hormone treatment for children

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The University of Connecticut has canceled an event featuring comedian Owen Benjamin after he criticized the practice of giving hormone replacement treatment to young children.

Comedian Owen Benjamin was scheduled to perform at the University of Connecticut on October 25. On Wednesday, the student group that invited him and administrators pulled the plug on the event, citing concerns over remarks made by Benjamin on giving transgender hormone replacement therapy to young children.


Red Flag

4.7 million North Koreans volunteer for military following Kim's vows to 'tame' Trump with 'fire'

Pyongyang city mass rally
© KCNA / ReutersPeople participate in a Pyongyang city mass rally held at Kim Il Sung Square on August 9, 2017
Nearly five million young people have volunteered to join or re-enlist in the North Korean military to fight Washington, KCNA state news agency reports. It says the volunteers want to send "millions" of nuclear bombs to wipe out the US.

Earlier, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un vowed to "tame" US President Donald Trump "with fire."

The volunteers have gathered and said: "Let's send 5 million nuclear bombs to blow the evil empire [apparently the US] from Earth without a trace!" KCNA reported.

Some 1.22 million women also reportedly promised to volunteer. However, it's not yet clear if this number is already included in the 4.7 million figure.

Quenelle

Militant normals: The replacement for Conservative, Inc.

Mitt Romney
© Associated PressMitt Romney
I guess now we're not supposed to be fighting culture wars anymore - man, it's so hard to keep up with these ever-changing new rules! I'm old enough to remember way back to 2016, before Trump got nominated, and I could have sworn Conservative Inc., was gung-ho for the whole culture war thing. But then Trump actually fought it, taking on the big, soft target that is the spoiled, semi-literate athletes who like to rub their contempt for the flag we love in our faces in the guise of woke wokedness. Now we suddenly discover that fighting back is horribly uncouth and déclassé and "Oh, well I never!"

Gosh, I would have thought from all those cruise panels about how our crumbling culture is slouching toward Babylon and the need to resist the liberal onslaught that maybe we ought to actually resist the liberal onslaught, but see, that was my mistake. I took it seriously when Conservative, Inc., promised to fight the leftist blitzkrieg against normal Americans. It was all a scam, a lie, a pose for us rubes. The Tru Cons didn't actually mean it.

Megaphone

Trump takes tax reform agenda straight to the people, urges voters to demand congressional support

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Speaking from the Indiana State Fairgrounds Wednesday afternoon, President Trump officially rolled out his plan to overhaul the American tax system and urged voters to call their congressmen in support.

Speaking from the Indiana State Fairgrounds Wednesday afternoon, President Trump officially rolled out his plan to overhaul the American tax system and urged voters to call their congressmen in support.

"If you demand it, the politicians will listen. They will answer and they will act," he continued. "Tax reform has not historically been a partisan issue and it doesn't have to be a partisan issue today."

Comment: Trump plans to slash taxes for some businesses, wealthy estates


Nuke

TEPCO admits Fukushima nuclear plant may have been leaking radioactive water since April

Fukushima
© Reuters
The Fukushima nuclear power plant may have been leaking radioactive water since April, its owner has admitted.

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said on Thursday that a problem with monitoring equipment means it can't be sure if radiation-contaminated water leaked from the reactor buildings damaged in the 2011 nuclear disaster which was sparked by an earthquake and tsunami, the Japan Times reports.

The company said there were errors on the settings of six indicators monitoring groundwater levels of wells around reactor buildings 1-4 at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear power station.

The indicators weren't showing accurate water levels, and the actual levels were about 70 centimeters lower than that which the equipment showed.

Comment: Fukushima radiation has contaminated the entire Pacific Ocean - and it's only getting worse


Health

UN humanitarian convoy delivers medical supplies and food to Syria via Palmyra-Deir ez-Zor route for 1st time

Deir ez-Zor residents
© Sputnik/ Mikhail AlaeddinDeir ez-Zor residents welcome a truck convoy of medicines and food
A humanitarian convoy of the United Nations and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent has for the first time reached Syria via strategically important Homs-Palmyra and Palmyra-Deir ez-Zor motorways, the Russian Center for reconciliation of opposing sides in the Syrian Arab Republic said Thursday.

"A humanitarian convoy of the United Nations and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent has been formed as soon as possible and was sent to liberated Deir ez-Zor on September 27. The deliveries of humanitarian aid have for the first time been supplied via strategically important motorways M3 (Homs-Palmyra) and M20 (Palmyra-Deir ez-Zor)," the reconciliation center said.

The humanitarian convoy has delivered food products, medical supplies, and basic necessities to the Et-Tayiba settlement in the Syrian province of Daraa, the reconciliation center specified.

Airplane

Toronto's Pearson airport in Inuit 'ill-omen' art row

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A veteran politician says an installation of traditional Inuit art outside Toronto airport resembles a symbol of ill-omen.

Piita Irniq says one of three inuksuks - stone cairns that are sometimes built in a human shape - outside Terminal One of Pearson International Airport was "put together wrong". He says its clearly defined legs and raised arms mean an "area where someone was killed or died by suicide," the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports.

He says they should be rebuilt under Inuit guidance or taken down. Mr Irniq's opinion carries weight, as he has been active in the political and cultural life of what is now the Nunavut territory of Canada's far north since the 1970s, and is himself a noted builder of inuksuks.