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Florida man charged with threatening to kill President-elect Trump at his inauguration on Twitter was a close family friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton

Jose Lambiet
Daily Mail
Thu, 19 Jan 2017 02:48 UTC
Dominic Puopolo
The man arrested by Miami Beach police Tuesday for allegedly threatening President-elect Donald Trump online is a member of a prominent northeast family close to Bill and Hillary Clinton.

He once gave $20,000 to the Democratic National Committee, DailyMail.com has learned.

Suspect Dominic Puopolo Jr., 51, sat near Hillary Clinton when she delivered the eulogy at the funeral of Puopolo's mother, Sonia, who died in one of the jets that flew into the World Trade Center on 9-11.
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Gold Seal

'In Trump We Trust' commemorative coin issued by Russian arms foundry


Tass
Thu, 19 Jan 2017 01:56 UTC
1Kg Silver Trump Coin
© Art-Grani The coin’s obverse features Trump’s profile image as well as an inscription: "Donald John Trump, the 45th President of the United States of America" and the country’s flag.
Metal workers from a Russian weapons foundry, known as Art-Grani located in the Urals city of Zlatoust have minted a silver coin weighing one kilogram containing the profile of US President-elect Donald J. Trump, the manufacturers' press service said on Wednesday.

"We have produced the first coin of the Donald Trump collection. This is a limited edition dedicated to Trump's inauguration and will consist of 25 silver coins, 15 silver and gold coins and five gold coins," the Art-Grani foundry's press service said.

Each coin weighs about one kilogram and is 12 centimeters in diameter. The coin's obverse features Trump's profile image as well as an inscription "Donald John Trump, the 45th President of the United States of America" and the country's flag. The reverse bears the image of the Statue of Liberty with the US flag on the backdrop and the inscriptions "In Trump We Trust" and "The United States of America."

The press service said one of the coins will be sent to Trump who is set to take office on January 20.
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Alarm Clock

Depressed 15-year-old shoots four, kills self at school in northern Mexico

David Alire Garcia
Reuters
Wed, 18 Jan 2017 15:00 UTC
Colegio Americano del Noreste
© Reuters/Daniel BecerrilPolice officers stand outside the Colegio Americano del Noreste after a student opened fire at the American school in Monterrey, Mexico January 18, 2017.
A teenage student suffering from depression shot three students and a teacher at a private school in northern Mexico on Wednesday before killing himself in what state officials called an unprecedented attack that was caught on security video.

The 15-year-old student pulled out a handgun inside a classroom at the bilingual Colegio Americano del Noreste and began shooting, the officials said, critically wounding three of his victims before turning the pistol on himself.

Hours after the shootings, Nuevo Leon state governor Jaime Rodriguez named the gunman as Federico Guevara and said he had died. His motive was being investigated, Rodriguez told a news conference.

Security camera footage showed the teenager quickly and calmly firing what appeared to be seven shots at seated students and a female teacher, some at point-blank range. At least two victims immediately slumped over after being hit.

Looking dazed, Guevara aimed at his own temple and pulled the trigger twice, but he had apparently ran out of bullets. He walked back to where he had been sitting, reloaded, and shot himself in the chin. He keeled over.
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Blue Planet

Best of the Web: The west was built on racism. It's time we faced that

Kehinde Andrews
The Guardian
Wed, 18 Jan 2017 21:52 UTC
Slave Trade
Dead white men are revered by many as responsible for the advancement of civilization, says sociology professor Kehinde Andrews.

But, he argues, this so-called progress came at the expense of millions of people of colour. Global inequality is not an accident, he argues - it is designed to keep the hierarchy of race intact.

Comment: Do our readers agree?

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Bullseye

Chinese tourists are avoiding Paris due to rising violence and crime

Virginia Hale
Breitbart
Wed, 18 Jan 2017 21:05 UTC
chinese tourists
© Julien Chatelin/Rex FeaturesBig spenders … Chinese tourists carrying boutique shopping bags are easy prey for thieves, especially in the suburban hotels where they tend to stay
Tourists from China are avoiding France amid surging violence and crime, a Chinese tourism expert has said, reporting that customers are turning to Russia as a safer destination.

President of the Chinese Association of Travel Agencies in France, Jean-François Zhou, said "increasingly violent" thefts and assaults are turning France into "one of the worst destinations for foreign tourists".

Mr. Zhou, a representative for major Chinese travel agency Utour in France, reported a steep decline in visitor numbers from Asia, and said many tourists are now looking to Russia as a less dangerous holiday destination.

"In 2016, there were 1.6 million Chinese tourists compared to 2.2 million in 2015. The number of Japanese tourists dropped 39 per cent, and Koreans 27 per cent. Our tourists have turned to Russia, which is less attractive but at least it is a safe country. For Putin, it is an economic windfall", he told Le Parisien.

Rising violence and aggression account for the drop, according to Mr. Zhou, who said: "For a number of Chinese tourists, the dream of visiting France and Paris has turned into a nightmare.
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Heart - Black

College president fired for allowing homeless student to sleep in school library for the night

Lily Dane
The Daily Sheeple
Wed, 18 Jan 2017 19:10 UTC
Statue of Liberty
© politistick.com
File this one under "No good deed goes unpunished"...

Brian Carroll, campus president at Vatterott College in Kansas City, committed the unthinkable: He dared to help a student who is homeless and schizophrenic find a warm place to sleep.

Carroll, who was president of the trade school for five years, says one of his students had no place to go.

On Friday, January 6th, he allowed that student to sleep overnight in the school's library.

His reward for that kind deed? On Monday, January 9th, he was fired.

Carroll said he knew the student was homeless, off medications he needed, lacked transportation, and would be sleeping outside in near-zero temperatures. The student had been sleeping in a wooded area near the school.

"I was thinking this is a life-threatening situation for the student," Carroll told The Kansas City Star.
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Footprints

'Ice cream killer' is so dangerous, she's headed to an all-male penitentiary

Lia Eustachewich and Jamie Schram
New York Post
Tue, 17 Jan 2017 11:52 UTC
Estibaliz Carranza
© Getty ImagesEstibaliz Carranza Getty Images
Watch out, guys!

An Austrian femme fatale known as the "Ice Cream Killer" will have plenty of new men to choose from at her new lockdown.

Estibaliz Carranza, 38, will be transferred to an all-male prison because she's too dangerous to be locked up at a women's facility, but authorities might be playing right into her hands.

The maniacal murderess has a history of luring men into her web and then killing and slicing up their bodies with a chainsaw.

In 2012, she was sentenced to life behind bars for the dismemberment murders of her ex-husband and her onetime lover on separate occasions. She shot them both in the head, carved up their bodies, stored their parts in a freezer and buried their remains under the concrete floor of her sweet shop. She then hung air fresheners to hide the smell of their rotting corpses.

Comment: State-of-the-art facility for killing 2 men?

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Brick Wall

DAPL company aims to block environmental study


CBS Minnesota
Tue, 17 Jan 2017 01:22 UTC
tribe flags
© New York TimesFlags from dozens of tribes offering support to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe line the entrance to the encampment.
The company building the Dakota Access oil pipeline wants a federal judge to block the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from launching a full environmental study of the $3.8 billion pipeline's disputed crossing of a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota.

Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners asked U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Tuesday to stop the Corps from publishing a notice in the Federal Register on Wednesday announcing the study. ETP wants any further study put on hold until Boasberg, in Washington, D.C., rules on whether ETP already has the necessary permission to lay pipe under Lake Oahe — the reservoir that's the water source for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.

ETP wants to block further study so that the decision on the permitting, which is likely weeks away, will be "free from the risk that its ruling will be frustrated or thwarted by new governmental actions." The Corps did not immediately respond to ETP's request.

For more on this article go here.

Comment: An environmental impact study and statement is estimated to take up to two years to complete, according the US Dept. of Energy.

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Bomb

Jewish Community Centers in cities across the U.S. receive bomb threats


RT
Wed, 18 Jan 2017 17:59 UTC
Jewish Community Center in Connecticut
© NBC NewsThe scene at a reported bomb threat at a Jewish Community Center in Connecticut.
Bomb threats have been reported at 16 Jewish centers in nine US states. Several Jewish Community Centers (JCC) have been evacuated after receiving near-simultaneous bomb threats, according to local reports.

Around 200 preschool children were in the middle of a swimming program at Mandell JCC in West Hartford, Connecticut when the threat was made on Wednesday morning, leading to an evacuation.
Police allowed people back into the building after conducting a search and determining the threat was not credible.

A similar threat was made at the JCC of Greater New Haven made by a woman caller, who said a bomb was in the building, a senior staff member told WNBC.

Nashville's JCC was also evacuated and later given the all clear, according the Tennessean.

Threats have also been reported at Jewish centers in Florida, including in Palm Beach and Miami. The Alper JCC in Miami was evacuated due to an unsubstantiated bomb threat on January 9, along with eight other centers in six states the same day.
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Dollars

Anti-corruption campaigners slam Britain for 'failure to tackle tax havens'


RT
Wed, 18 Jan 2017 19:43 UTC
Corruption
© Inconnu
Anti-corruption campaigners have accused the British government of falling short on its longstanding commitment to fight corruption, voicing concerns over the government's "rejection of the need to stop the UK tax havens selling secrecy."

Responding to recommendations by the International Development Committee (IDC) in its October 2016 report 'Tackling corruption overseas', officials once again asserted on Monday the UK is a "leader in the fight against corruption and promoting transparency."

The government has rejected the IDC's allegation it had "failed to persuade the UK's Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies to create central public registers of beneficial ownership" designed to end tax secrecy.
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