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10 suspects arrested in murder of Maltese investigative journalist

Matthew Xuereb, with Angus MacKinnon
Yahoo News / AFP
Mon, 04 Dec 2017 18:01 UTC
Daphne Caruana Galizia
© AFP Photo/Matthew MirabelliMaltese journalist and blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed in a car bomb attack in October
Maltese authorities on Monday arrested 10 people in connection with the killing of a whistle-blowing journalist that turned an international spotlight onto crime and corruption on the Mediterranean island.

Daphne Caruana Galizia, who died when her car was blown up on October 16, was one of Malta's most prominent public figures, thanks to a widely read blog she used to expose the murky underbelly of the economically booming island nation.

Her most explosive reports included allegations that members of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat's inner circle benefited from kickbacks from major business deals and a controversial passports-for-investment scheme.

But the 53-year-old also focused on alleged dubious behaviour by prominent opposition and business figures, fuelling speculation she could have been the victim of mobsters as easily as a political vendetta.

Muscat said all the suspects were Maltese and some were known to the police. The Times of Malta identified two of those arrested as brothers Alfred and George Degiorgio, describing them as members of a criminal gang.

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What is Amazon doing to its workers? Customer finds disturbing 'help me' note inside package

Holly Christodoulou
The Sun, UK
Sun, 03 Dec 2017 17:27 UTC
Amazon note
© FacebookA teen girl claims she found this note hidden inside an Amazon package.
A mum has claimed her 13-year-old daughter discovered a "help me" note hidden inside an Amazon delivery branding bosses "evil".

Kim Dorsett said her daughter April found the words scribbled on an invoice inside a £30 make up advent calendar her dad had ordered for her.

The note said: "Help me please, PMP staff are evil."

PMP are a recruitment agency used by Amazon to fill jobs at distribution centres, the Mirror reports.

Kim, from Bolton, Greater Manchester, said: "I want to know if it's a prank or if they have people in sweatshops.

"My other half ordered the calendar as a present. He ordered a note in it saying 'love from mum and dad'.
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Maine's new transgender policy strips away parental rights

Timothy Meads
Townhall
Sat, 02 Dec 2017 18:40 UTC
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This week, the Portland, Maine School District adopted a comprehensive transgender policy for their students. But in an attempt to welcome and create a safe haven for all, the left-leaning city has ended up crafting an overreaching debacle that tramples upon parental rights.

On Tuesday, November 28, 2017, the Portland Board of Education unanimously approved a motion that requires all Portland, ME schools implement annual staff training on gender issues, "use a student's preferred name and personal pronoun, and take the student's side at school if there is disagreement with a parent's wishes."

The intent is to create a space welcoming for transgender individuals and pupils questioning their identity. The main purpose is so teachers and students now respect whatever their peers choose to identify as. The policy is consistent with state law, which since 2014 has allowed boys and and girls to use whatever bathroom they please based on their identity.

In theory, it sounds noble. Who doesn't want a student to feel welcomed at school? The problem is that it strips away parental control and allows children to make serious, life altering decisions about their identity.

Under the Portland School District's new policy, if a 7-year-old wanted to be called King Tut after learning about Egypt in first grade world history, the teachers would have to abide. They would even have to call him "your majesty" if he chose that as his new personal pro-noun. If the parents said, "This is absurd, he's an imaginative young boy, let's not feed his fancy by calling him King Tut anymore," the teachers would have to ignore their requests.


Comment: As an adult, it's already silly enough but to accommodate the whims of young children when they are supposed to be learning to become productive members of society is two steps backward. Sadly, schools don't serve that purpose anymore and these types of policies only make a mockery of the education system.


Comment: We should all be wary of the left's attempts to do away with the rights of all. They're turning the ideas of equality and inclusion into a caricature of what they stand for resulting in the very opposite of what they say they're trying to achieve. So what happens if a teacher makes a mistake? Will they now be suspended like this person? Perhaps the larger issue at hand here is that transgender zealots are trying to destroy truth itself.

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Body of missing North Carolina child found, mother's boyfriend arrested

Julia Jacobo and Christopher Donato
ABC News
Sat, 02 Dec 2017 00:00 UTC
Girl missing, mariah woods, Earl Kimrey,
A day after North Carolina deputies arrested the mother's boyfriend in connection with a missing 3-year-old, they have found the toddler's corpse.

The Onslow County Sheriff's Office and FBI revealed on Saturday evening that Mariah Woods' body was recovered by a Fayetteville Police dive team in Shelter Creek in Pender County, ABC News has confirmed.

The news comes after the mother's live-in boyfriend, Earl Kimrey, 32, was arrested by investigators with the Onslow County Sheriff's Office on Friday in connection with the disappearance of Woods.

The 3-year-old went missing from her home in North Carolina last Sunday, according to officials.

Comment: Mom's boyfriend arrested as authorities say missing 3-year-old believed to be dead

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'I'll destroy all Russian Olympic sports for next 5 years' - shocking statements of a runaway WADA informant


RT
Mon, 04 Dec 2017 16:09 UTC
Grigory Rodchenkov
© Netflix / Global Look PressGrigory Rodchenkov
The WADA informant who accused Russia of state-sanctioned athletic doping said that he "does not care about the fight against doping" in a video released by a Russian TV channel. The fate of Team Russia's participation in the 2018 Olympics is to be decided on Tuesday.

On December 2, Russia's NTV aired extracts from three different videos purportedly showing the former Moscow anti-doping lab chief, Grigory Rodchenkov , making a series of shocking statements. In one video, a man who strongly resembles Rodchenkov admits that he "does not care about the fight against doping."

In another clip, the same man says that he's a "terrible person" who has "sold his soul" - although he was quick to point out that his "price had risen." He goes on to boast that his "expensive" apartment in Los Angeles and latest-model Infiniti "are paid for" in full.

"I'll make sure you have one positive sample of 20,000. I'll make sure I have 100 samples, and I will destroy all Olympic sports of Russia for the next five years!" the person believed to be Rodchenkov declares in one of the videos obtained by NTV. The channel did not elaborate on the details of the videos' origins.

Comment: See also: US imperial puppet Richard McLaren threatens Russia with more sanctions for denying nonexistent state-sponsored doping allegations
Rodchenkov faces charges of abuse of authority in his home country and will be arrested if returns to Russia. On Tuesday, Russian businessman and owner of the NBA team Brooklyn Nets Mikhail Prokhorov stated his intention to initiate legal proceedings in the US against Rodchenkov.


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In contrast to Roy Moore, Alabama Democrat Doug Jones wants detested Common Core national standards

Dr. Susan Berry
Breitbart
Sat, 02 Dec 2017 15:20 UTC
doug jones
© Associated Press
Alabama Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones says the federal government should set national education standards - such as Common Core - that would enforce states' accountability for any federal taxpayer education dollars received.

During an interview in July with Alabama Political Reporter (APR), Jones was asked:
Should the federal government be ordering the states to adopt national education standards, such as No Child Left Behind, Common Core, or Every Student Succeeds Act or should the states be given the freedom to run their own education systems without Federal interference?
Jones responded that while states have some freedom in education, he thinks that "there is a role for the federal government in many ways."

Using the same argument Common Core proponents have put forward for years, Jones claims Americans are a "mobile people," and that children should receive the same curriculum in public schools as they move around the country.
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Snakes in Suits

DOJ to Martin Shkreli: Hand over the Wu-Tang Clan album

Christine Rousselle
Townhall
Fri, 01 Dec 2017 17:30 UTC
Martin Shkreli
Martin Shkreli, the "pharma bro" who faces up to 20 years in prison for securities fraud, may be forced to turn over his copy of the Wu-Tang Clan album "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin." Shkreli won the album after he bid $2 million in an auction, and owns the only copy of the album in existence. He has released a portion of the album via a YouTube livestream.

Now, the Department of Justice wants Shkreli to forfeit the album, along with his shares to Turing Pharmaceuticals, an Enigma machine, a Picasso painting, and the copy of the unreleased Lil Wayne album "The Carter V," which Shkreli claims to own as well.



Comment: This must come as good news to all the Wu-Tang fans out there! The better news is that this sleaze bag will be spending the rest of his time in prison - hopefully the full 20 years.

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It's high time to lay to rest Time magazine's 'Person of the Year'

Thomas Vinciguerra
The Daily Beast
Sun, 03 Dec 2017 12:00 UTC
Person of the year
© SARAH ROGERS/THE DAILY BEAST
The most recent dustup between the White House and the press has offered some unexpected fun-namely, an excuse to lay bare Time magazine's "Person of the Year" tradition as the long-running piece of bunkum that it is.

On Nov. 24, President Trump tweeted that Time called to say he would "PROBABLY" [sic] be their Person of the Year for 2017-but that the magazine would need an interview and a "major" photo shoot. "I said probably is no good and took a pass," the president ostensibly responded. "Thanks anyway!" The magazine in turn called Trump a liar: "The President is incorrect... Time does not comment on our choice until publication, which is December 6."

Oh, let's face it. The real story here isn't who's telling the truth. Rather, it's that Person of the Year, once a portentous signifier of national and even international import, is now little more than a running joke. The speciousness of Time's threadbare ritual is properly spotlighted on the occasion of its 90th anniversary.

"Man of the Year," as this Timeenterprise (a term coined by Wolcott Gibbs) was originally called, began as an embarrassed afterthought. In 1927, the editors settled on Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic, as their inaugural candidate "because they regretted that Time had not printed more on the man and his feat at the time." So wrote Robert T. Elson in his official Time Inc. corporate history.
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Elephant has its leg broken as inhuman workers tame it for use in India's tourist trade

Gareth Davies
Mail Online
Mon, 04 Dec 2017 14:54 UTC
elephant india animal abuse
© Facebook / Funny and crazy worldThree Indian thugs can be seen stood over the collapsed elephant after they broke its leg
  • Horrendous footage emerged of an elephant being savagely beaten by captors
  • Docile mammal can be seen with one of its front legs tied to a tree as it's beaten
  • The elephant collapses to the ground in pain after the three thugs break its leg
  • Type of torture is to let the animals know who is in charge after mating season
Shocking footage has emerged of an elephant being savagely beaten by its Indian captors who work in the tourism trade.

The docile mammal can be seen with one of its front legs tied to a tree as three men take it in turns to beat it with canes, breaking one of its hind legs.

Having taken a pounding, the elephant collapses to the ground, but it does not deter its tormentors who continue to lash the animal until their weapons snap.

The beating is a regular occurrence in India, with elephant keepers caning animals coming out of the mating season to remind them who is in charge.

Comment: No wonder elephants are mad at people lately.

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Scraping the bottom of the barrel: The VA's history of hiring providers with malpractice claims & criminal histories


RT
Mon, 04 Dec 2017 15:00 UTC
military man
© Reuters
The US Department of Veterans Affairs has a history of hiring doctors with dodgy pasts and malpractice claims - even when those appointments are deemed illegal by federal law, according to an investigation by USA Today.

It centers on neurosurgeon John Henry Schneider, who had accumulated more than a dozen malpractice claims and settlements in two states, including serious cases alleging he made surgical mistakes that left patients dead, paralyzed or maimed.

The neurosurgeon's medical license was revoked by the state of Wyoming after one of his patients died. After that, Schneider applied for a job at a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. The hospital didn't seem to blink at Schneider's past, despite the neurosurgeon disclosing his license revocation and malpractice claims against him.

Schneider was hired at the hospital in April on a salary of $385,000, with the VA stating that he disclosed "all the issues" on his application and was hired after a "group of his medical peers thoroughly reviewed" his file and "approved his competency." However, it wasn't long before his patients in Iowa City also began suffering complications.

Comment: This isn't just a case of a few bad apples. The entire VA system is a shockingly bad healthcare joke:

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