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Bus driver pleads guilty to raping 15-year old girl, state prosecutors allow him to walk free


RT
Sat, 23 Jul 2016 14:45 UTC
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A Tennessee school bus driver who admitted to raping a 15-year-old student has dodged a jail term. Despite pleading guilty to aggravated statutory rape, he was sentenced to 10 years' probation and registered as a sex offender.

In March 2015, a female student at Sale Creek High School was reported missing by her family. The same evening, the girl arrived home and shared horrifying details with her parents and the police.

The girl said that she boarded the bus that Alexander Rodriquez was driving in the afternoon. He took her to a loading station where the buses are kept and then ordered her to get into his car.

Rodriquez drove them to a Super 8 motel, where he later forced her to perform oral sex before raping her. The girl said that she repeatedly said, "no." She also told Rodriquez that his actions hurt, to which he allegedly said that he was "trying to make it hurt."

The student said that they remained at the motel until Rodriquez got a phone call, presumably from police asking if he knew anything about the missing teen's whereabouts.

Comment: What a sick world we live in that allows a sexual predator to walk free after admitting the rape of a child.

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Billion-dollar Medicare scam exposed by the Feds in Miami


RT
Sat, 23 Jul 2016 14:51 UTC
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Federal agents have broken up a billion-dollar Medicare scam. Philip Esformes and two other defendants are accused of running the biggest Medicare fraud in the nation's history. Esformes was arrested at his Miami Beach waterfront estate.

Esformes, 47, is the owner of a network of about 20 assisted-living facilities in the Miami-Dade area, the Miami Herald reported. He is accused of using the facilities to exploit Medicare, by filing false claims for unnecessary services for the past 14 years. In some cases, the services he billed Medicare for were not even provided.

He did not work alone on this. The US Attorney's office also charged Arnaldo Carmouze, 56, and Odette Barcha, 49. It is believed that they conspired to use their connections in healthcare to refer patients to Esformes. Physicians and healthcare professionals at one unnamed hospital were found to have received kickbacks in exchange for referring thousands of Medicare patients to Esformes' network.
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Half of all TSA employees accused of misconduct, 1/4 are repeat offenders

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:49 UTC
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© Scott Olson/Getty ImagesAirport security at Chicago's O'Hare Airport.
Earlier this month, a special needs teenager returning home from a brain tumor treatment at St. Jude Hospital was left battered, bloodied and in jail after an encounter with Transportation Security Administration agents at a security checkpoint.

Seventy-two TSA agents are on the DHS terrorist watch list. The blue-gloved bandits have been caught in every crime from smuggling cocaine to sexually assaulting passengers in the bathroom to groping children — yet the American public is forced to keep funding them.

Aside from being a criminal gang of sexual predators and thieves, the TSA is entirely incompetent in their ostensible position of keeping airlines safe. Multiple reports and incidents have pointed out the sheer inability of the TSA to protect anyone.

Comment: The U.S. would be a much better place if the TSA were entirely eliminated. Not only is it useless; it is staffed by criminals. TSA must go. The latest: TSA agent films upskirt video and is arrested on voyeurism charge

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Parole for Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten denied by California Governer


Daily Mail
Sat, 23 Jul 2016 14:18 UTC
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California Gov. Jerry Brown denied parole for the youngest follower of murderous cult leader Charles Manson who is serving a life sentence for killing a wealthy grocer and his wife more than 40 years ago.

Brown overturned the recommendation of a parole board on Friday that found Leslie Van Houten was no-longer the violent young woman who committed a gruesome murder and was now fit for release.

She has completed college degrees and been a model inmate.

The Democratic governor acknowledged her success in prison and her youth at the time of the murders.

However, he wrote in his decision that she failed to explain how she transformed from an upstanding teen to a killer.
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UN: Venezuelans fleeing economic crisis flood into Colombia


Yahoo News
Fri, 22 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC
Venezuelan crises
© AFP Photo/George CastellanosVenezuelans carrying groceries cross the Simon Bolivar bridge from Cucuta in Colombia back to San Antonio de Tachira in Venezuela, on July 17, 2016
Bogota (AFP) - Venezuela's economic crisis has sent a huge but largely ignored wave of people into Colombia, and many more could be on the way, a senior UN refugee official said.

"It's a silent arrival of a lot of people who are crossing the border and staying illegally on the Colombian side," said Martin Gottwald, the United Nations Refugee Agency's representative in Colombia.

No exact figures are available, but the number of Venezuelans fleeing to Colombia is already "quite large," and Colombia should prepare itself for more, Gottwald told AFP in an interview.

"The avalanche is probably going to increase, with or without the reopening of the border," he said.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro closed the countries' border in August 2015 after an attack on an army patrol. He blamed right-wing paramilitaries from Colombia.

The leftist leader briefly reopened it last weekend to allow Venezuelans to stock up on food, medicine and other basic supplies amid severe shortages in Venezuela.

Comment: Like the U.S. proxy war against Syria and all the ensuing migration to Europe, the U.S. is largely - through covert and overt economic and hybrid warfare - responsible for what we are now seeing in Venezuela.

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'Come and save me': Syrians harness the power of Pokemon Go to bring their plight to the world


Middle East Eye
Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:11 UTC
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© AFPA montage made by a Syrian artist imagines a Pokemon Go player surrounded by destruction in war-torn Syria.
A sad-eyed Pikachu Pokemon Go character sits amidst the rubble on a Syrian street, while a Charizard dragon from the smash hit game is perched alongside gun-toting militants.

The striking montages are the work of Syrian Khaled Akil, who is one of several activists and artists using the international frenzy over Pokemon Go to draw new attention to the plight of their battle-scarred country.

In the images posted on Akil's website, characters from the wildly popular smartphone app are placed into news photographs of scenes from the conflict in Syria, which is now in its sixth year and has killed more than 280,000 people.

One image appears to show the aftermath of bombardment, with the facades sheared from buildings and smoke rising from the blackened carcass of a car.

Comment: It's shameful that people are so selfish and narcissistic that they show more interest in a make-believe game than they do for others' suffering.

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Indian Air Force plane with 29 on board missing over Bay of Bengal

Gladwin Emmanuel
PuneMirror
Sat, 23 Jul 2016 12:45 UTC
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Massive search op on to track the An-32 plane that had taken off from Chennai

An Indian Air Force An-32 with 29 on board, including 6 crew members, went missing on Friday when it was on its way Chennai to Port Blair, home to the tri-service command. Nine of the men onboard are from Visakhapatnam. A massive search operation has been launched in the Bay of Bengal.

The aircraft took off from Tambaram air base in Chennai around 8 am and was reported "overdue" when it didn't reach Port Blair at the scheduled arrival of 11.30 am. The plane went off the radar soon after take-off, sources said. "As of now, we'll term it as overdue," a navy officer said.

It is a routine transport aircraft which ferries logistics from Tambaram base, where an An-32 transport squadron is stationed, to Port Blair base.

The reason for the flight's disappearance has not been ascertained.

However, retired defence personnel presumed that turbulent weather might have caused the disappearance of the aircraft. "According to me there are only two possibilities, either the flight got into cumulonimbus clouds or lightning struck it," K Parthasarathy, veteran Wg Cdr, said.

"He has flown for 40 minutes covering 280 km without any problem. The altitude the aircraft would have been flying might be over 23,000 ft. In the two above said possibilities, the pilot will have no time to communicate and no nearby location to land," he added.
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Fresh night of violence in Paris suburbs after death of black man in police custody


RT
Sat, 23 Jul 2016 12:24 UTC
French police officers in Paris
© Thomas Samson / AFP
At least 10 people have been arrested in a new night of violence over the death of a 24-year-old black man in police custody. Clashes between police and demonstrators left four officers injured and several vehicles ablaze.

The rallies took place in the Persan, Bruyeres-sur-Oise and Beaumont-sur-Oise communes in Val-d'Oise department, in the north of the capital.

The protesters were throwing handmade projectiles and shells at police, according to AFP. Four police officers were slightly injured during the confrontation.
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Over 20 killed and 140 injured in Kabul mass demonstration attack


RT
Sat, 23 Jul 2016 12:17 UTC
Kabul protests
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At least 29 people have been killed and 142 injured as a huge blast rocked a mass demonstration in the Afghan capital, Kabul, health officials said, as cited by Reuters. The attack was claimed by terrorist group Islamic State.

The number of casualties was confirmed by Mohammad Ismail Kawousi, a spokesman for the Ministry of Public Health, Reuters reports.

Interior Ministry officials told Reuters that the blast was caused by a suicide bomber. TOLOnews also reported that the suicide bomber detonated explosives right among demonstrators at Saturday's rally.

Officials have confirmed to TOLOnews that at least three suicide bombers were present at the rally. The first detonated an explosives vest, the second was killed by police, while the third had a defective explosives vest. The fate of the third attacker is unknown.

Comment: Footage of what appears to be the immediate aftermath of the blast was caught on video:


Update: At least 61 people were killed and 207 injured when a huge blast rocked a mass demonstration by members of the mainly Shia Hazara minority in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Saturday. The attack was claimed by terrorist group Islamic State: "Two fighters from Islamic State detonated explosive belts at a gathering of Shi'ites in the city of Kabul in Afghanistan," said a brief statement on the group's Amaq news agency.

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Munich shooting spree: Facts known so far


RT
Sat, 23 Jul 2016 03:01 UTC
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© Reuters TV / ReutersA screen grab taken from video footage shows police officers near the Olympia shopping mall following a shooting rampage in Munich, Germany July 22, 2016.
Police are still trying to reconstruct the course of events as new information keeps emerging after a shooting spree at a busy mall left ten people dead and injured almost two dozen others. Here is what we know so far.
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