Society's ChildS


Ambulance

Spain coach crash near Barcelona kills 14

Freginals coach crash
The accident occurred near the small town of Freginals
At least 14 people have been killed after a bus carrying foreign students crashed on a Spanish motorway between the cities of Barcelona and Valencia.

Most of the 57 people on board the bus were students on the Erasmus programme who were returning to Barcelona after a trip to a fireworks festival.

Photographs from the scene show a white roofed coach lying on its side, surrounded by emergency vehicles.

The accident occurred near Freginals, 150km (93 miles) south of Barcelona.

Wall Street

Mystery of New York Fed robbery has central banks scratching their heads

New York Federal eserve building
Bangladesh has learned a valuable lesson over the past two months: Do. Not. Trust. The. New. York. Fed.

On a quiet Friday morning in early February, a series of instructions using authenticated SWIFT codes was sent to 33 Liberty allegedly from the Bangladesh central bank requesting the transfer of nearly $1 billion from the country's FX reserves.

Now, the first thing that should jump out at you there is that Friday is a weekend in Bangladesh, a fact which probably should have set off alarm bells. But alas, it didn't and by the time the hackers who sent the transfer instructions screwed the pooch by spelling "foundation" wrong in one of the requests, more than $80 million was sent to the Philippines where it landed in four accounts and eventually ended up transferred to at least two casinos and one unidentified man "of Chinese origin" who has since been named as a Weikang Xu. For those who might have missed the story, here are our three previous accounts of what is truly a Hollywood-esque plot line:

Rocket

Feel safer? Nuclear missile guards under investigation for cocaine and ecstasy use

cocaine and pills
Tasked with guarding 150 nuclear missiles at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming, fourteen airmen are under investigation for allegedly using cocaine. Last year, three launch officers, known as missileers, pleaded guilty to using ecstasy after an investigation into illegal drug possession uncovered roughly 100 officers involved in a cheating scandal.

According to Gen. Robin Rand, commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, the 14 suspects are airmen, airmen first class, or senior airmen (E-2 to E-4) from the 90th Security Forces Group at F.E. Warren AFB outside Cheyenne, Wyoming. Responsible for protecting 150 Minuteman 3 nuclear missiles, the 14 airmen have been suspended from their security duties while the investigation continues. Although Gen. Rand refused to specify which drug the airmen were caught using, the Associated Press has reported that they were high on cocaine.

"It came to light because one airman who had suspicion of drug activity by another reported that to his chain of command," stated Rand. "The drug allegations involving these 14 airmen are credible."

Attention

Decaying public schools are making students & teachers sick

Detroit schools
© onpoint.wbur.org
Broken toilet seats in student bathrooms, mushrooms on their classroom walls, leaking ceilings — all tied to a lack of funding.

A picture's worth a thousand words they say, and that was certainly the case earlier this year when public school teachers in Detroit started tweeting out pictures of the crumbling schools they work in.

After months of attempting to grab legislators attention, the teachers called in sick, en masse earlier this year, causing almost all city schools to close, and while they withdrew their labor, they flooded the social media with images of just what they were so sick of:

Broken toilet seats in the student's bathrooms, mushrooms on their classroom walls, leaking ceilings, moldy food.

Airplane

Russian transport minister unaware of any technical malfunctions in FlyDubai plane crash in Rostov-on-Don

russian plane taxiing Rostov-on-Don crash
© REUTERS/ Sergei Pivovarov
Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said Saturday he did not have information about possible technical faults aboard FlyDubai's passenger jet prior to its crash in Rostov-on-Don.

Earlier in the day, FlyDubai Boeing 737-800 plane coming from Dubai crashed while attempting a landing amid poor weather conditions at the Rostov-on-Don Airport (ROV), leaving no survivors from those 62 people aboard.

"I do not have such information," the minister said during a televised interview with Russia 1 channel's Vesti Nedeli.

Mail

Trump's son receives threatening letter containing a 'granular substance'; multiple agencies now investigating

Trump and son
© Jonathan Drake / ReutersEric Trump, son of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, speaks at a campaign rally for his father in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Eric Trump, son of the Republican presidential front-runner, received a threatening letter containing a "granular" substance, and now a multi-agency investigation is underway, led by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York and the Secret Service.

While a preliminary field test found the suspicious white material to be harmless, how it was allowed to be sent to Eric Trump's luxury Trump Parc East apartment just south of Central Park in New York City is part of the investigation, the Trump Organization told ABC News.

The Postal Inspector and New York Police Department are assisting the FBI and Secret Service in their probe of the Thursday delivery.

Book

Trump's latest purchase? Hitler's personal 'Mein Kampf' sells for $20k at US auction

hitler's personal mein kampf
© AFP 2016/ Frederic J. BROWN
More than a dozen people were determined to obtain the desired lot during an auction in the United States, media reported.

The exclusive edition owned by Adolf Hitler and discovered in his apartment was ultimately sold for $20,655 on Friday in Chesapeake City, Maryland. The book was apparently kept by the Nazi leader for personal purposes.

The book had been found by American soldiers during an inspection of Hitler's apartment in 1945. To confirm its authenticity, eleven US servicemen put their signatures on its flyleaf and since then the book has been kept by the daughter of one of the soldiers.

Heart - Black

'I'm not sorry': Texas pedophile sentenced to life for infecting 2 y.o. baby and 14 y.o. girl with multiple STD's

crime scene
© Nancy Wiechec / Reuters
A registered sex offender has been sentenced to life in prison for the super aggravated sexual assault of his nearly two-year-old niece and a 14-year-old, infecting both with HIV, chlamydia and herpes. The teenager also appears to be pregnant with his baby.

David Wilson repeatedly raped his 23-month-old niece and a teenage girl, with whom he reportedly claimed to be in love.

"I am not sorry we were together, no, I am sorry the HIV came into the situation," Wilson, 34, said in court, according to KAGS.

The girl admitted to investigators that she and Wilson, who she knew through a family member, had sex multiple times. According to a court affidavit, she said that they "would park on a cul-de-sac near her school and have sex in his car. The last time, they had unprotected sex."

USA

The Amerikan way: A study in psychopathy

Amerika

Just look at everything Amerika stands for as a whole. Corruption, greed, violence, military aggression, social degradation, scientific insanity and on and on. Its footprint on the world is nothing but horrific, if you view it in the overall context.

Sure, there are good people living there and those unwittingly caught up in the mass hysteria, but they're participating nonetheless. That accountability won't go away. Unless they stand up to it and fully withdraw their consent and work to reverse the madness, they're clearly part of the problem.

That's not an easy spot to be in when the very fabric of the sociopolitical and economic support structure is an every day fact of psychopathic-driven existence. It breeds acquiescence, apathy and hence continued participation. A pathetic state of affairs.

Comment: Read more by Dr. Robert Hare: Psychopaths Among Us


2 + 2 = 4

Teacher freaks out her students by showing them an ISIS beheading video

Alexiss Nazario and ISIS video
© Tomas E. Gaston The city unsuccessfully tried to fire Bronx middle-school teacher Alexiss Nazario (left) after she scared students with a video of an ISIS execution (like this one of journalist James Foley).
A Bronx middle-school teacher rattled her students — including one who was near tears — by showing an ISIS video of a terrorist beheading a journalist, documents show.

South Bronx Academy for Applied Media veteran Alexiss Nazario faced termination, but was let off with a $300 fine last summer after acknowledging she made a mistake by not previewing the clip or getting the principal's permission.

Investigators spoke to three eighth-graders who were freaked out by the macabre clip, which showed a masked man holding a knife to the neck of a kneeling ­victim clad in orange.

The students testified that the video blacked out the actual beheading but showed its gruesome aftermath: the man's severed head placed on top of his own chest.