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Irma aftermath: St. Martin residents are now struggling just to survive

Jim Wyss
Miami Herald
Sat, 16 Sep 2017 03:56 UTC
French side of St. Martin
© Jim WyssAn apartment complex lies in ruin on the French side of St. Martin. The Caribbean island relies on places like this to support its critical tourism industry.
Ten days after Hurricane Irma turned St. Martin into a jigsaw of ripped metal and shattered wood, residents were still struggling with an existential question: Should they cling to an island that can barely support life or start over elsewhere?

Irma hit the shared Dutch and French Caribbean island as a Category 5 hurricane with winds in excess of 200 miles an hour, turning the picturesque tourist haven into a sweltering trash heap without power, water or communications. What the hurricane didn't steal, looters often did.

On Friday night, Yvanna and Theodore DeWeever - a young married couple - had collapsed onto the deck chairs of Royal Caribbean's Majesty of the Seas that has been running missions of mercy, helping evacuate people from hard-hit Caribbean islands to Puerto Rico.

Comment: St. Martin wasn't the only island devastated by Irma, see also:

'Barbuda is literally rubble': Shocked PM says Hurricane Irma destroyed 90% of homes on tiny Caribbean island

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Georgia Tech: Pride Alliance student president shot and killed by campus police

Remy Smidt
BuzzFeed News
Sun, 17 Sep 2017 16:07 UTC
Scout Shultz
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A 21-year-old Georgia Tech student, who was the president of the campus Pride Alliance, was shot and killed by a Georgia Tech police officer, according to a statement released by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

The university, in a statement to BuzzFeed News, identified the victim as a fourth-year student named Scout Schultz:
The Georgia Tech community was notified Sunday morning of the tragic death of Scout Schultz, fourth year computer engineering student from Lilburn, Georgia. Schultz died on Sunday, Sept. 17 as a result of an incident in the West Campus residential community. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating the incident and reviewing the circumstances surrounding the death.
At 11:17 p.m. on Saturday night, the Georgia Tech Police Department received a call "of a person with a knife and a gun," the GBI said. What followed took place outside of a Georgia Tech dormitory, the GBI said, when the student, allegedly carrying a knife, "would not comply with the officers' commands."
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Bureaucratic backlog: Americans wait an average of two years for a hearing on disability benefits - longer than some will live

Stephen Ohlemacher
Associated Press
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 07:27 UTC
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More than 1 million Americans are awaiting a hearing to see whether they qualify for disability benefits from Social Security, with the average wait of nearly two years - longer than some of them will live.

All have been denied benefits at least once, as most applications are initially rejected. But in a system where the outcome of a case often depends on who decides it, most people who complete the appeals process will eventually win benefits. The numbers come from data compiled by the Social Security Administration.

About 10.5 million people get disability benefits from Social Security. An additional 8 million get disability benefits from Supplemental Security Income, the disability program for poor people who don't qualify for Social Security. The disability programs are much smaller than Social Security's giant retirement program. Still, the agency paid out $197 billion in disability payments last year.

Recipients won't get rich as the average benefit is $1,037 a month - too small to lift a family of two out of poverty.

For some, the benefits come too late.
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Bad Guys

Repugnant New York Times exploits child rape case in attempt to smear RT and Sputnik

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:59 UTC
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This is unethical beyond being poor journalism.

The New York Times recently released a heavily promoted (by the New York Times itself) piece which amounts to an emotional attack on the news outlets RT and Sputnik.

Russia Feed recently explained that on pure journalistic terms, the New York Times (NYT) piece amount to little more than a very long winded way of the the NYT saying 'RT and Sputnik have a different editorial line to us and a more successful, more modern business model and therefore, they are wicked, rather than just a different kind of news source with a different editorial line'.

But what is even more sinister, is that the NYT exploited the actual rape of a child in order to promote a vendetta against RT and Sputnik. Again, one does not have to like RT or Sputnik to understand that exploiting the rape of a 13 year old girl is totally unethical, but this is what the NYT has done.

Comment: Is it even possible for the New York Times to sink any lower than this?

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More than 80 arrests as riots grip St. Louis for 3rd day after ex-cop's acquittal in fatal shooting


RT
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 07:40 UTC
St Louis riots
© Lawrence Bryant / Reuters
Riot police in St. Louis have made more than 80 arrests after a third consecutive day of protests that started peacefully but erupted into riots, clashes, and vandalism. It comes after an ex-cop was acquitted in the fatal shooting of a black man.

St. Louis police were forced to deploy reinforcements after initial reports of "significant property damage" and "agitators breaking multiple windows" surfaced in downtown St. Louis at around 8pm.

Protesters also attempted to block a ramp onto an interstate highway, according to police and witnesses cited by Reuters.

Comment: See also: St. Louis: Protests erupt following not-guilty verdict in police murder case

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Palestinian woman convicted of terrorism and turned activist to be deported from U.S.

Tzvi Lev
Arutz Sheva 7
Sun, 17 Sep 2017 12:06 UTC
Rasmea Odeh
© ReutersRasmea Odeh
Rasmea Odeh was convicted of killing two Israelis in a supermarket bombing.

Convicted terrorist Rasmea Odeh will be deported from the US to Jordan this Tuesday, after being found guilty of immigration fraud.

Odeh, 48, was convicted in 2013 for concealing her arrest, conviction, and imprisonment in her application for United States citizenship in 1995. Odeh had killed 2 Israelis in a 1969 supermarket bombing she carried out for Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).


Comment: Odeh could not possibly be only 48 years old. What else about this story might Israeli news outlet Arutz Sheva be incorrect about?

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Chelsea Clinton gets destroyed on Twitter again over fake news story about anti-gay Michigan bill

Cristina Laila
Gateway Pundit
Sat, 16 Sep 2017 14:41 UTC
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DUMB AS A BRICK. Chelsea Clinton tweeted out a fake news story on Friday that claimed the Michigan House of Representatives passed a bill giving EMT's an option to deny treatment to gay patients.

The internet responded.

Below is a screenshot of Chelsea's original tweet because she has since deleted it. She said, "Absolutely appalling: Michigan House Passed Bill Allowing EMTs To Refuse Treatment To Gay People."

At first Chelsea got trolled because the New Now Next article she cited was from 2014, prompting her to delete her tweet.

Comment: More tweet fails from the Spawn of Killary:

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Gold Coins

"Artificial work": John McAfee accidentally just revealed why Bitcoin is a complete fraud

Mike Adams
Natural News
Sun, 17 Sep 2017 13:51 UTC
John McAfee
© Nullsession/FlickrJohn McAfee at DefCon 2014.
In a recent CNBC interview that's being widely touted by self-deluded Bitcoin promoters as some kind of "smack down" of JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, Bitcoin advocate John McAfee accidentally admitted why Bitcoin is a total fraud that's doomed to fail.

In answering Jamie Dimon's recent declaration that Bitcoin is a fraud, McAfee replied: (see the video at The Daily Sheeple)

However, sir... you called Bitcoin 'a fraud.' I'm a Bitcoin miner. We create Bitcoins. It costs over one thousand dollars per coin to create a Bitcoin. What does it cost to create a U.S. dollar? Which one is the fraud? Because [the dollar] costs whatever the paper costs, but it costs me and other miners over a thousand dollars per coin - it's called 'proof of work.'

Behold the logic of artificial work: How John McAfee just embraced Paul Krugman's ditch digging fable

The problem with John McAfee's explanation, of course, is that it admits Bitcoins can only be created through the practice of computational wheel spinning operations where the difficulty and duration of such wheel spinning is artificially made needlessly complex by the Bitcoin algorithm. In a world where Bitcoins used to be created for less than one penny's worth of computational work, a single Bitcoin now requires over US$1,000 worth of "artificial work" to be achieved. A rational person must ask McAfee, "Why did Bitcoins used to cost just a penny to create, and now they cost a thousand dollars?" The 100,000 X increase in complexity for generating a Bitcoin, it turns out, is an artificial work algorithm known as "computational difficulty" in mining.

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Paris: Unnamed 'direct security threat' prompts evacuation of British Airways flight


The Sun
Sun, 17 Sep 2017 13:49 UTC
BA flight evacuation
© JSA VIA STORYFULA British Airways plane has been evacuated on the runway of Charles de Gaulle Airport.
A British Airways flight was evacuated in Paris this morning after the pilot warned a "direct security threat" had been made against the plane.

Passengers were escorted onto the tarmac of Charles de Gualle airport by armed cops where they were rigorously searched and their luggage checked by sniffer dogs.

Passenger James Anderson, 20, told how he was initially told flight BA0303 was facing delays over technical issues ahead of its departure to London Heathrow.

But security officers and emergency services soon surrounded the plane as they were ordered off the plane at around 7.45am.

Travellers were twice sent through body scanners and x-rays, while sniffer dogs zoned in on the luggage.
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Health

San Diego makes efforts to deal with an outbreak of Hepatitis A

Soumya Karlamangla
Los Angeles Times
Sat, 16 Sep 2017 13:37 UTC
sanitation worker
© Eduardo Contreras / San Diego Union-TribuneEdwin Gonzalez from United Site Services delivers a two-station sink to the Neil Good Day Center on 17th Street in downtown San Diego.
Health officials in San Diego have scrambled for months to contain an outbreak of hepatitis A - vaccinating more than 19,000 people, putting up posters at bus stations and distributing hand sanitizer and cleansing wipes.

Despite those efforts, 16 people have died of the highly contagious virus in San Diego County and hundreds have become ill in what officials say is the nation's second-largest outbreak of hepatitis A in decades.

Earlier this month, San Diego officials declared a public health emergency.

Though Los Angeles has so far escaped an outbreak, public health officials are hoping to head off a similar emergency. They say the virus could easily spread to Los Angeles because of its proximity to San Diego and the region's large homeless population.

"We know it's getting worse in San Diego, so we're really ramping up," said Cristin Mondy, the county's area health officer for a region that includes downtown Los Angeles.
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