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Easter Bunny is real: Foster parents lose children after refusing to 'lie'

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Two Canadian foster parents had their foster children removed from their home because they refused to say the Easter Bunny is real. The Christian couple has taken court action, saying their rights have been violated.

Derek and Frances Baars filed court papers against Hamilton Children's Aid Society after the agency said they must tell their foster children that the Easter Bunny is a "real entity."

"We were committed to not lying to children," Derek Baars said, adding "they could expect the truth from us and we expected the truth from them."

The couple, who are devout Christians, told the agency that they "do not endorse Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny as they do not wish to lie to children." They had noted that they don't celebrate Halloween before they were approved as foster parents.

Comment: To adapt an infamous Bushism: the practice of propagandizing children must be catapulted as soon as possible. No ifs, ands, or buts.


Sheriff

Sick cop assaults two women with a sex toy during traffic stop

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In the latest blight on the already tarnished reputation of the Cleveland Police Department, a 16-year-veteran of the force has been arrested and charged with multiple misdemeanor and felony offenses.

Kenneth Bolton Jr. was fired from the PD after he admitted to crimes against two young women he pulled over for a traffic stop in February. A subsequent investigation led to his firing on March 3rd.

And late breaking news this week revealed a grand jury has indicted Bolton for crimes against the two young women he pulled over. Cleveland.com reported Bolton has been charged with "gross sexual imposition, abduction and interfering with civil rights charges tied to the Feb. 23 traffic stop."

Bolton allegedly pulled over the two women ages (22) and (23) after learning from a fellow officer they'd recently been ticketed. (Although the news reports do not reveal the practice, officers often share information about traffic stops between each other, such as how beautiful they believe the women to be, which sports cars are going where, etc.).

Arrow Down

What's the buzz? Over 1mn bees worth €15,000 stolen in Ebreichsdorf, Austria

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© Dominic Ebenbichler / Reuters
Unknown thieves have stolen more than one million bees from beehives in the small Austrian town of Ebreichsdorf. A €1,000 reward has been offered for information regarding the heist.

More than one million bees contained in beehives at Schlosspark in Ebreichsdorf have disappeared without a trace, police reported on Wednesday, April 12, according to Austrian media.

Horst Preissl, 79, who has been breeding bees in Ebreichsdorf with the help of his nephew for many years, believes the bee bandits were "professionals."

"There must have been at least two perpetrators and it must have taken them about three to four hours [to steal the bees]," Preissl's nephew, Johannes Neuburger, said, adding that he also thinks that this was a planned theft.

Airplane

Exodus: Russian Israelis are leaving promised land for Putin's Russia

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An interesting phenomenon is taking place in Israel. Russian Jews are leaving, often to go back to Russia.

Not all of them of course. Mainly it is the most recent arrivals. They are different from the typical arrivals from Russia in the late 1980s and the early 1990s in that they tend to be more affluent. In some cases their migration has been motivated more by politics (opposition to Putin's third term) than search of economic opportunities.

Airplane

United Airlines fallout: Delta to offer up to $10,000 incentive to give up your seat on overbooked flights

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© Joshua Roberts / Reuters
Delta Airlines will now offer passengers up to $10,000 to relinquish their seats on overbooked flights in the future as the airline industry reacts amid the public outcry against United Airlines for violently removing a passenger from an over-allocated flight.

Delta has reviewed its incentive policy to persuade passengers to give up their seats. Agents at the boarding gate can now offer up to $2,000 (up from $800) and supervisors up to $9,950 (up from $1,350) for passengers to give up their seats, according to an internal memo obtained by the AP.

United Airlines, currently experiencing a public relations disaster following a viral video that showed a passenger being violently removed from one of its flights, is reviewing its own procedures with an announcement of proposed changes expected before April 30.

"We need to use this regrettable event as a defining moment and pivot off it to craft friendly policies," United Chairman Robert Milton said in a note to employees.

US competitor American Airlines has also changed its policy to reflect the current sentiment in the airline industry, vowing that no passenger who has boarded a flight may be removed, reports the AP.

Comment: See also: Disturbing footage: United Airlines have police drag doctor off overbooked flight (Update)


Arrow Down

'Completely immoral': UK-based professor banned from visiting family in Palestine because he supports an anti-Israeli campaign


A UK citizen of Palestinian origin who wanted to visit his family in the Occupied Territories has been denied entry to Israel ... because he supports an anti-Israeli campaign.

"I was traveling to Palestine, specifically east Jerusalem, with my wife and son. We arrived in Tel Aviv last Friday afternoon. Within an hour, I'd been interrogated. My wife and son were allowed to go through, but I was told that I'd be denied entry on the basis of my support of the BDS [Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions] movement, and because I'm a member of the Palestine solidarity campaign," Professor Kamel Hawwash told RT.

He had to wait for a flight to Brussels and then to Birmingham, where he lives.

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He was denied entry based on legislation passed by Israeli authorities last month aimed at preventing "illegal immigration," according to a document Professor Hawwash was handed.

Dig

At least 16 killed in colossal Sri Lankan garbage dump landslide

A damaged house is seen during a rescue mission after a garbage dump collapsed and buried dozens of houses in Colombo, Sri Lanka
© Dinuka Liyanawatte / ReutersA damaged house is seen during a rescue mission after a garbage dump collapsed and buried dozens of houses in Colombo, Sri Lanka April 15, 2017.
A garbage dump collapse killed at least 16 people in Sri Lanka, while hundreds lost their homes, Reuters reports, citing local military and healthcare officials.

The devastating garbage dump landslide in a suburb of the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, occurred late on Friday, amid traditional local new year's celebrations. The landfill reportedly caught fire and pile of trash estimated at 91 meters (300 feet) tall, promptly collapsed, damaging over 140 houses, according to local police.

More than 100 houses were buried under the trash, Reuters reported, citing eyewitnesses. The officials did not comment on the number of people reportedly missing, however.

Whistle

Banking whistleblower tells committee he is relying on friends for food

Jonathan Sugarman
Jonathan Sugarman
A former high-flying bank executive who exposed alleged law-breaking in the industry a year before the crash is relying on friends for food, he has told a parliamentary watchdog.

Jonathan Sugarman said his life had been "utterly destroyed" because he did "the right thing" in trying to uphold the law in his role as a risk manager for Unicredit Ireland, the Irish arm of Italy's biggest lender.

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Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai: Pakistan to blame for its own 'bad name'

Malala Yousafzai
© Darren Ornitz / ReutersYousafzai made the comments in a Facebook video.
Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai hit out at Pakistan following the lynching of a university student accused of blasphemy. Mashal Khan was stripped naked and beaten to death with planks on a campus in the city of Mardin after a reported religious debate.

"No one is maligning the name of your country or religion...we ourselves are bringing a bad name to our country and religion," Yousafzai said in a video posted to Facebook following a conversation with Khan's father.


Stop

Arkansas judge halts eight state executions after drug supplier protests use of lethal drug for executions

Arizona Department of Corrections
© ReutersArizona Department of Corrections
As many as eight state executions scheduled to begin next week in rapid succession may not go ahead as planned, as Arkansas has been blocked from using a drug obtained from McKesson Corporation for lethal use.

Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen issued a temporary restraining order Friday preventing Arkansas from using the drug vecuronium bromide "until ordered otherwise by this Court,"according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, after the supplier told the court it was not sold to the state for executions.

The retail pharmaceutical distributor McKesson said in a statement Thursday night that it complained to the state about the plans to lethally inject the drug, and that Arkansas said it would return the drug. McKesson claims it issued a refund but never received its drug back, the Democrat-Gazette reported.