Society's ChildS


Fire

Another home-delivered package explosion


Sacramento Bee
Tue, 28 Nov 2017 11:00 UTC
package delivery
© Uknown
There are now two cases where packages delivered to Bay Area homes in the past two months have exploded, according to news reports. The explosions have triggered an investigation by the United States Postal Service.

One package was sent to a house in Bay Farm Island in Alameda on Sunday, USPS Inspector Jeff Fitch told The Sacramento Bee. It was delivered in the mid-to-late afternoon, and "it did detonate," Fitch said. Someone was injured, but law enforcement agencies would not reveal information on who was hurt or the extent of the injuries.

KPIX 5 reported that the explosive device was hand-delivered to a Bay Area police officer's front door. His wife discovered the bomb and was hurt when it blew up.

The second package, confirmed Monday, exploded in East Palo Alto in October, according to news sources.

Veronica Maldonado's father Ricardo suffered injuries when a suspicious package exploded on Oct. 19, according to ABC7. "He fidgeted with it a little bit and when he did so, he held it at a distance and that's when it really exploded," Maldonado told the Bay Area television station. The East Palo Alto residents said they don't know why their family was targeted.

The crime is a federal offense, Fitch told The Bee.
Read More...
Info

Twitter employee who deactivated Trump account says it was a mistake, now he feels "like Pablo Escobar"

Mark Osborne
ABC News
Thu, 30 Nov 2017 20:37 UTC
Twitter censorship
The Twitter employee who set in motion the deactivation of President Donald Trump's account in early November has emerged from anonymity to say the whole incident was a "mistake" and he never thought it would actually be carried out.

Bahtiyar Duysak spoke to TechCrunch to clear the air over the 11-minute deactivation heard 'round the world.

Duysak, a German citizen, was working for Twitter's Trust and Safety division on a work and study visa and is now back in his native country. On his last day at Twitter, he says he received a random user report against Trump's account and out of instinct "put the wheels in motion to deactivate it," according to TechCrunch. He then closed his computer and left the company for good.

Read More...
Bomb

Nail bomb found and defused at Christmas market in Potsdam, Germany


RT
Fri, 01 Dec 2017 20:27 UTC
Potsdam, Germany
© Fabrizio Bensch / ReutersPotsdam, Germany, December 1, 2017.
The German police have evacuated a Christmas market in the city of Potsdam following a report about an "explosive device" allegedly planted nearby. Later, a wired device "filled with nails" was found and defused.

Police were "deployed to central Potsdam because a suspicious package [was found there]," the local police department said in a Twitter post. Local officers also cordoned off the area around the suspicious object and requested assistance of specialist officers, the statement added.

A bomb disposal unit examined the suspicious package reported to be 50 centimeters long and 40 centimeters wide. "The USBV's [the German police bomb disposal unit's] suspicions have been confirmed," police said in a Twitter post, referring to the device, after initial reports suggested that an explosive device was allegedly planted in the area. However, it later emerged that the unit just confirmed that the device posed some danger and could potentially be explosive.

Police also expanded the cordoned-off area. Officers urged people to clear the area using loud-speakers. In the meantime, the city authorities urged people to avoid the Christmas market.
Read More...
Black Magic

Inhuman! 11 year old Argentine boy was kidnapped and raped before being dismembered as part of Satanic ritual

Ashitha Nagesh
Metro.co.uk
Thu, 30 Nov 2017 16:02 UTC
Mario Agustin Salto
© CENMarito, 11, had gone out fishing – but his body was found two days later
An 11-year-old boy was brutally raped and murdered, before reportedly being dismembered in a Satanic ritual.

Mario Agustin Salto, known by his nickname Marito, went missing in June 2016 after telling his family he was going on a fishing trip.

His body was found just 48 hours later in the small town of Quimili, in the northern Argentine province of Santiago del Estero.

Three men and a school headmistress have now been charged with the horrific killing, following the arrest of three other men last June.

A postmortem conducted last year concluded that Marito was raped before being hung with a wire. He was then dismembered as he died.
Read More...
Pistol

Philadelphia legislation may force convenience stores to remove bulletproof safety glass

Beth Baumann
Townhall
Thu, 30 Nov 2017 19:18 UTC
legislation convenience stores bulletproof glass
© Fox News29
Philadelphia City Councilwoman Cindy Bass is pushing a controversial bill which would force business owners within the city to take down plexiglass from their establishments, Fox 29 reported. The bill is specifically designed to target convenient stores.

Bass said this bill is about giving her constituents "dignity."

According to Rich Kim, whose family has owned a deli in the area for the last 20 years, the plexiglass is about safety.

"The most important thing is safety and the public's safety," Kim told Fox 29. "If the glass comes down, the crime rate will rise and there will be lots of dead bodies."

The bulletproof glass was put up in Kim's store after a shooting. He says it saved his mother-in-law's life after she was almost attacked with a knife. If Bass' bill becomes a reality, his family would be forced to remove the barrier.

Bass sees things much differently.
Read More...
Stock Down

Chief U.K. regulator for financial stability is more stressed about derivatives than U.K. banks

Marcus Ashworth
Bloomberg Gadfly
Fri, 01 Dec 2017 19:12 UTC
derivatives
The Bank of England's Financial Stability Report released Tuesday crowed that U.K. officials are on top of the domestic banking risks they can control, but sent out a loud warning on what they can't -- Brexit.

That alarm bell is intended not just for the U.K. government, but also to European Union negotiators.

The BOE highlighted two obvious financial contract risks from Brexit. The first concerns the need for U.K. and EU legislation to ensure effective cover will stay in place for holders of 40 billion pounds ($53.2 billion) of insurance.

Comment: See also:

Read More...
Heart - Black

Jury acquits repeat felon and illegal immigrant who was deported five times in trial over killing of Kate Steinle


RT
Fri, 01 Dec 2017 17:09 UTC
Jose Ines Garcia Zarate Kate Steinle
© Reuters
A Mexican man on trial for the murder of a San Francisco woman has been found not guilty. The death of Kate Steinle figured prominently in the debate on immigration, with President Donald Trump referencing it as an argument for a crackdown.

On Thursday afternoon, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, 45, was found not guilty of murdering Steinle, 32. Zarate, previously identified as Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, admitted to firing a single shot from a .40 caliber Sig Sauer at Steinle as she walked with her father on a San Francisco pier on July 1, 2015. He claimed he fired accidentally.

President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday evening that the verdict was "disgraceful."

Comment: Here's some additional background from The Washington Post:
Prosecutors showed video of Garcia Zarate's police interrogation, in which he gave varying stories about whether he was actually present on Pier 14 that night. He said that he shot the gun at "seals" but also that it went off accidentally when he stepped on it, ABC 7 reported.

Defense lawyers elicited an admission from police that they lied to Garcia Zarate in order "to get a truthful response," telling him they had recovered the weapon when they had not, and that there was a DNA match that implicated him, which there wasn't at the time.

Defense lawyers had an alternative version of events.

They said Garcia Zarate found the gun wrapped in a cloth on the pier and that it discharged accidentally as he held it, with the bullet ricocheting off the concrete before striking Steinle.

He hurled it into San Francisco Bay not to hide his crime, as prosecutors contended, but because he was scared by the noise of the weapon.

During deliberations, according to the Chronicle, jurors asked if they could test the trigger of the pistol, presumably to see if it could fire accidentally. The judge denied the request.


Read More...
Magnify

Five facts showing NBC enabled and covered up Matt Lauer's rampant sexual misconduct

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 01 Dec 2017 18:56 UTC
matt lauer
When NBC announced that it was firing Matt Lauer, the network claimed it was acting on "the first complaint about his behavior in the over 20 years he's been at NBC News." However, as more evidence emerges, it has become clear that Lauer was a sexual predator and NBC both enabled and covered up his rampant sexual misconduct.

Here are five glaring facts showing that NBC knew about and allowed Lauer's sexual misconduct:

1. Multiple women claimed they reported Lauer to NBC executives who were only interested in keeping him happy, in order to maintain ratings

While the initial statement from NBC claimed that only one woman had come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct, multiple women have since come forward with stories about their encounters with Lauer-and their attempts to report him.

A report from Variety citing more than 10 current and former employees, details accounts from women who described Lauer as a sexual predator in the workplace, using his power to intimidate and take advantage of female employees.

Comment: It's increasingly clear now why Lauer victim-shamed Corey Feldman last month when Feldman came forward with accusations of pedophilia against Hollywood insiders, and why NBC spiked Ronan Farrow's Harvey Weinstein story; they didn't want to start something that could come back against them. Well the horse has left the barn and now NBC will likely be facing some serious backlash for allowing Lauer's behavior to continue unchecked.

Read More...
No Entry

Ten years too late: Facebook boasts of progress in removing extremist content

Julia Fioretti
Investing.com
Tue, 28 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
Facebook
Facebook FB.O said on Wednesday that it was removing 99 percent of content related to militant groups Islamic State and al Qaeda before being told of it, as it prepared for a meeting with European authorities on tackling extremist content online.

Eighty-three percent of "terror content" is removed within one hour of being uploaded, Monika Bickert, head of global policy management, and Brian Fishman, head of counter-terrorism policy at Facebook, wrote in a blog post.

The world's largest social media network, with 2.1 billion users, has faced pressure both in the United States and Europe to tackle extremist content on its platform more effectively.

In June, Facebook said it had ramped up use of artificial intelligence, such as image matching and language understanding, to identify and remove content quickly is still early, but the results are promising, and we are hopeful that AI (artificial intelligence) will become a more important tool in the arsenal of protection and safety on the internet and on Facebook," Bickert and Fishman wrote.

Comment: Facebook has had no problem censoring content that is objectionable to the Deep State, but removing pornography and jihadi propaganda? Not so much...

Read More...
Heart - Black

Israeli settlers kill Palestinian farmer, IDF locks down and raids village soon after


Middle East Monitor
Thu, 30 Nov 2017 19:49 UTC
Palestinians
© Nedal Eshtayah /Anadolu AgencyPalestinians react to Israeli soldiers after a Palestinian farmer shot dead by Jewish settlers, at the Khusra village of Nablus in West Bank on November 30, 2017. After that, Palestinians detained Jewish settlers in a cave and Israeli soldiers arrived at the scene and received these detained Jewish settlers.
48-year-old Mahmoud Ahmad Zaal Odeh was tending to his crops in a village near occupied Nablus

A Palestinian farmer was shot dead by Israeli settlers today while he was working on his land near the village of Qusra, to the south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, according to local sources.

An official who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank told Ma'an that Israeli settlers from the illegal Yash Kod settlement outpost raided Palestinian land near Qusra and attacked a farmer, Mahmoud Ahmad Zaal Odeh, 48, as he was working the land.

According to locals, Odeh attempted to prevent the settlers from entering his land, at which point the settlers opened fire on him, shooting him in the chest. He succumbed to his wounds a short time after.
Read More...