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Familiar refrain: Annapolis police investigated Capital Gazette shooting suspect years ago, but concluded he wasn't a threat

Stephanie K. Baer
Buzzfeed News
Tue, 03 Jul 2018 18:54 UTC

When staff at a Maryland newspaper contacted police five years ago about a series of online threats they had received from a man who was suing them for defamation, they hoped some sort of recourse would be available to them.

Tom Marquardt, a former editor and publisher of the Capital Gazette, told BuzzFeed News that in 2013 Jarrod Ramos's musings on social media had shifted from general complaints about the paper to comments about wishing its employees were dead.

"That's when it crossed the threshold of being a nuisance to being a threat," Marquardt said by phone Friday.

But officials concluded that Ramos, who sued the newspaper for defamation in 2012 after it published a column about his guilty plea to criminal harassment, did not pose a threat to staff, and so the newspaper didn't pursue charges, according to an Anne Arundel County Police Department police report.

On Thursday, Ramos allegedly opened fire inside the Capital Gazette's newsroom in Annapolis, killing five employees and injuring two others.

Officials said the 38-year-old Maryland man intended to kill as many people as possible and had barricaded a back entrance to the building so people couldn't escape.

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Enthusiasm for Democratic Party waning: Poll shows massive shift as millennial voters lean toward conservatism

Katrina Pierson
katrinapierson.com
Sun, 01 Jul 2018 00:00 UTC

Although establishment Democrats made several fatal miscalculations during the 2016 election cycle, one error that hurt them tremendously was their assumption that millennial voters would overwhelmingly vote liberal.

Now, a recent Reuters poll has further proven this, after polling 16,000 registered voters, and determining that millennial voters are beginning to lean towards conservatism, with a 23% change in support for Republicans among millennial males.

The poll indicated that support for Democrats among millennial voters has dropped around 9% since the 2016 election, with many stating their belief that the Republican Party is better for the American economy.

For Democrats, the inability to hold the attention of millennial voters adds to the growing number of problems headed into midterm elections, further highlighting the party's "identity crisis" as a new generation of far-left liberals battle establishment elites for control of the Democratic Party.

Comment: Considering the increasingly unhinged behavior of high-profile Democrats and the obvious corruption within its ranks, it's hardly surprising that people are fed up:

Crew member on Norwegian Cruise Line found alive 22hrs after going overboard

RT
Tue, 03 Jul 2018 08:01 UTC

A crewmember on a Norwegian Cruise Line has been found 22 hours after going overboard while sailing near Cuba. The man was found by another vessel in a discovery that's being described as "nothing short of miraculous."

While 28 miles northwest of Pinar del Rio, Norwegian Getaway notified the US Coast Guard at about 3:20pm on Saturday that a 33-year-old male crew member had been seen going overboard. It's not clear if that was the time the crew member went overboard, or just the time the coast guard was notified. There has been some speculation online that the member went overboard in the early hours of that morning.

Just 10 minutes later a HC-144 Ocean Sentry plane out of Miami was reportedly searching the 1,500 square mile area, but that yielded no result. The Getaway also reportedly conducted a search for the man.

The next day, at around 1pm, a hotel steward aboard the Carnival Cruise Line ship, 'Glory,' noticed the crew member in the water alive, and in a stable condition, some 21 miles north of Cuba.

"We are so happy to know that the individual is safe and will soon be reunited with friends and family. We are also extremely grateful to Carnival Cruise Line and send our deepest thanks to the crew of Carnival Glory," said a spokesperson for Norwegian Cruise Line in a statement

The Norwegian Getaway is staffed with more than 1,500 crew members and can accommodate nearly 4,000 guests. There have already been 13 reported incidents of people going overboard on various cruise lines since the beginning of the year.

Syrian Army poised to retake strategic Jordanian crossing in southern Syria

Leith Aboufadel
Al-Masdar News
Tue, 03 Jul 2018 17:36 UTC

The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) is approaching the strategic Nassib Crossing in southern Daraa, a source told Al-Masdar News this morning.

Led by their elite Tiger Forces, the Syrian Arab Army is quickly approaching the Nassib Crossing from both its eastern and northern axes, following another big push.

According to a field report from Daraa, the Syrian Arab Army has reached the eastern axis of Umm Mayadhin, leaving only 3.5 kilometers until they reach the Nassib Crossing.

Iran official: Obama administration granted citizenship to 2,500 Iranians during nuclear deal

Chris Irvine
Fox News
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 20:23 UTC

Hojjat al-Islam Mojtaba Zolnour claims that the Obama administration granted citizenship to 2,500 Iranians while negotiating the Iran nuclear deal.

The Obama administration granted citizenship to 2,500 Iranians, including family members of government officials, while negotiating the Iran nuclear deal, a senior cleric and member of parliament has claimed.

Hojjat al-Islam Mojtaba Zolnour, who is chairman of Iran's parliamentary nuclear committee and a member of its national security and foreign affairs committee, made the allegations during an interview with the country's Etemad newspaper, cited by the country's Fars News agency.

He claimed it was done as a favor to senior Iranian officials linked to President Hassan Rouhani, and he alleged the move sparked a competition among Iranian officials over whose children would benefit from the scheme.

Syrian military source says drones shot down near Russian base in Syria were Western-made

Sputnik
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 19:18 UTC

The drones used to attack Russian military facilities in Syria

A group of unidentified drones that approached the military facilities near the Hmeymim airbase in Syria on June 30 has been destroyed by Russian air defenses.

A source in the Syrian army told Sputnik that more than five unidentified unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which were earlier eliminated near the Russian Hmeymim airbase in Syria, were "most likely on a reconnaissance mission."

The source also said that "on closer examination it became clear that the UAVs' parts were made in Western countries."

Australian Archbishop becomes highest ranking Catholic official to be sentenced for covering-up child sex abuse by pedophile priest

RT
Tue, 03 Jul 2018 17:02 UTC

Archbiship Philip Wilson pedophile coverup

The highest ranking Catholic official to ever be convicted of concealing sexual crimes against children has been sentenced to 12 months in Australia for covering up abuse by a pedophile priest.

Adelaide's Archbishop Philip Wilson was sentenced to a year in detention, after he was found guilty in May of failing to report the sexual abuse of two altar boys by a pedophile priest, Jim Fletcher, in the 1970s. Fletcher, who was found guilty of nine counts of child sexual abuse, died of a stroke in prison in 2016 while he was serving a near eight-year sentence.

On Tuesday Robert Stone, the Newcastle magistrate, denounced "the decades of abuse and its concealment" and said Wilson, who is 67 years old, must serve at least six months before he is eligible for parole.

Comment: A drop in the bucket? Many more high-profile clerics within the Vatican hierarchy will need to face justice before people begin to believe that the Catholic Church is genuinely interested in routing the corruption and depravity within.

Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen says family & country come before POTUS - 'Not a punching bag for defense strategy'

RT
Tue, 03 Jul 2018 16:48 UTC

The disgraced former lawyer to US President Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, has indicated he will trade the remains of his loyalty to Trump for his family and country's interests, pledging full cooperation with the Russia probe.

Cohen, who had been the longtime personal lawyer and confidante of President Trump, has distanced himself from the quagmires of his former boss, telling ABC in an interview that first and foremost he cares about his family and country.

While this statement may seem nothing out of the ordinary if uttered by another former Trump associate after a falling-out with the president, Cohen stands out, since it was him who in an interview with Vanity Fair last September said that he was "the guy who would take a bullet for the president.""I'd never walk away," he stressed at the time.

Comment: Is Mr. Cohen under the same sort of pressure that caused General Flynn to plead guilty to 'lying' to the FBI?

Foreign Ministry: Russia will launch 'alternative internet' only in worst-case scenario

RT
Tue, 03 Jul 2018 16:29 UTC

A senior Russian diplomat has told reporters that the country has everything to launch its own independent internet, but added that this would be done only if things go completely sour due to the efforts of "Western partners".

"There are technical, financial, intellectual and all the rest necessary resources for this, but I don't think that anyone really wants this," the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Department for New Challenges and Threats, Ilya Rogachev, said in comments with TASS.

"The primary thing that could lead to such outcome is the policy of our Western partners, in particular the imposing of double standards. If they continue to impose double standards then we can start talking about creating a parallel internet in Russia, as a sort of a worst-case scenario," the diplomat added.

Comment:

Russia is prudently securing itself in other ways too:

The Left's hidden war on school choice

Terry Schilling
Townhall
Sun, 01 Jul 2018 16:05 UTC

Last December, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Senate Republicans scored what appeared to be a major victory for school choice by including the Student Opportunity Amendment in Congress's tax cut package. The amendment expanded tax-advantaged 529 college savings plans to include K-12 education, giving families the ability to save up to $10,000 per child per year for private schools or religious schools. And although Democrats at the time shamefully discriminated against homeschoolers and children with disabilities by successfully working to remove those groups from the amendment, Cruz has now introduced standalone legislation that would restore both groups' access to the 529 educational savings plans.

Sen. Cruz has proven himself to be perhaps Congress' strongest school choice advocate. He deserves serious credit for his efforts. But unfortunately, his 529 educational savings plan initiative is not enough on its own, and without seriously curtailing government control over education, could even unintentionally play into the Left's hands.

The Left has been waging war on two separate fronts in the battle over school choice. While they continue to work relentlessly to defeat new legislation which would give parents further educational choice, they also have been equally hard at work behind the scenes fighting school choice by bending existing government education programs to serve their ends.

Comment: It might be already too late for that. The leftist agenda has infiltrated the education system to the point where their ideology can be found in all facets of policy and instruction. See also:

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Society's Child

Familiar refrain: Annapolis police investigated Capital Gazette shooting suspect years ago, but concluded he wasn't a threat

Enthusiasm for Democratic Party waning: Poll shows massive shift as millennial voters lean toward conservatism

Crew member on Norwegian Cruise Line found alive 22hrs after going overboard

Syrian Army poised to retake strategic Jordanian crossing in southern Syria

Iran official: Obama administration granted citizenship to 2,500 Iranians during nuclear deal

Syrian military source says drones shot down near Russian base in Syria were Western-made

Australian Archbishop becomes highest ranking Catholic official to be sentenced for covering-up child sex abuse by pedophile priest

Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen says family & country come before POTUS - 'Not a punching bag for defense strategy'

Foreign Ministry: Russia will launch 'alternative internet' only in worst-case scenario

The Left's hidden war on school choice

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