South Africa cannibals become a serious threat.
Since then five men have been arrested for possessing human body parts, which these "healers" told their clients had magic properties if consumed.
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South Africa cannibals become a serious threat.
Since then five men have been arrested for possessing human body parts, which these "healers" told their clients had magic properties if consumed.
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Trump is currently in Beijing on his visit to China as president, and the first visit of a foreign head of state to China since October's Communist Party Congress, in which President Xi Jinping greatly consolidated his power over the country.
As China is a communist dictatorship, there is no guarantee that the opinions issued to the South China Morning Post are earnest. They echo the nation's government-run media significantly.
"He's an interesting person, more honest than Obama," said Fei Danyang, a 42-year-old financial analyst, according to the newspaper. "He is no politician and has big ego ... so his honesty is, in a disrespectful way, a bit self-righteous and ignorant of other people's feelings."
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Meghan Downey of Chatham, New Jersey protests as U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announces changes in federal policy on rules for investigating sexual assault reports on college campuses in Arlington, Virginia, on September 7, 2017.
Meghan Downey of Chatham, New Jersey protests as U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announces changes in federal policy on rules for investigating sexual assault reports on college campuses in Arlington, Virginia, on September 7, 2017.
Both parties in the case had credibility issues; he had violated a no-contact order, she had withheld from the university the bulk of their text messages. But the accused student possessed strong exculpatory evidence. He produced the full record of their communications, which included texts from the accuser to him discussing the encounter in a highly positive fashion and referencing a "plan" to have sex again. Further, a friend of the accuser, who saw her shortly after the incident, recalled her raving about her "really hot" experience.
Nonetheless, Brown's disciplinary panel returned a guilty finding by 2-to-1. The decisive vote came from Besenia Rodriguez, the university's associate dean for curriculum.
In subsequent court testimony after the accused sued Brown, Rodriguez admitted that she had not considered the accuser's text messages or other post-incident behavior as having any bearing on the case. The reason, she said, was the hours of training that Brown had provided to prepare her to adjudicate the complaint-training required by the federal government. Rodriguez was specifically told that the impact of trauma on sexual-assault victims often causes them to behave in counterintuitive ways, such as not being able to recount a consistent set of facts or choosing to communicate with (rather than to avoid) the alleged assailant. "I felt like it couldn't - I couldn't really put myself in her shoes to understand why she was representing it that way," explained Rodriguez, "so best not to attempt to judge her behavior."
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Pastor Frank Pomeroy told leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention earlier this week that it would be too painful to continue using First Baptist Church as a place of worship.
Pomeroy discussed the state of the building with the denomination's top executives, who traveled to the rural community in a show of support, a national Southern Baptist spokesman said.
The pastor described the church as "too stark of a reminder" of the massacre, spokesman Sing Oldham said.
No final decisions can be made without consulting congregants, but Pomeroy discussed turning the site into a memorial for the dead and putting up a new building on property the church owns, Oldham said.
Member of the Jordan Valley municipal council Mahdi Daraghmeh told Ma'an on Friday that Israeli forces delivered demolition and evacuation notices to 30 Palestinian families in the Ein al-Hilweh and Umm al-Jamal villages in the northern Jordan Valley on Thursday, Nov. 9th.
The notices, which Daraghmeh said were dated Nov. 1st, gave the residents eight days -- until Nov. 9th -- to evacuate some 60 homes and structures voluntarily.
Comment: Imagine living somewhere your whole life, where perhaps your parents lived before you - and their parents before them. Then imagine that you are being told to just leave - simply because another neighboring country is demanding that you do so - and you'll have some idea of what the Palestinians have had to contend with (and worse) for the last 70 years.
See also:
- Here's what I think about Israeli settlements - from a 90-year-old woman who has lived in Israel for 50 years
- Bibi promises to continue breaking the law: Construction of illegal settlements in West Bank will go on
- State Department's annual report: Settlements and 'lack of hope' spur Palestinian violence
- Israel targets the UN's illegal settlements database - fears companies involved in constructing, supporting occupation will be targeted for boycotts
- Israel pushing to legalize West Bank settlements as Trump arrives in Tel Aviv
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Nicki Minaj's brother Jelani Maraj faces 15 years to life in prison on the sexual assault conviction
Nicki Minaj's brother Jelani Maraj faces 15 years to life in prison on the sexual assault conviction
The verdict in the trial of Jelani Maraj capped a sordid three-week Nassau County Court prosecution rife with horrific testimony from the shaken accuser about the unrelenting abuse.
The jury deliberated over two days before returning its verdicts. A stoic Maraj showed zero emotion as he was convicted of predatory sexual assault against a child and endangering the welfare of a child.
He faces 15 years to life in prison on the sexual assault conviction.
The accuser, now 14, testified that Maraj, 38, anally raped her at one point, slapped her in the face and ordered her to remain mute about his actions.
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The incident, which targeted Malmö's Mix Megapol, occurred at around 8:30am on Friday. Following the hack, the station began playing the propaganda song of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) instead of its usual mix of hits and oldies.
The song includes lyrics which aim to lure Westerners into joining IS, and speaks of temptations including maidens waiting in paradise for fighters. Although the song is three minutes long, the hacked station played it on a loop for around 30 minutes.
Comment: Maybe this has something to do with Sweden's ridiculous policy of welcoming jihadis into their society?!
- Sweden welcomes returning Islamic State terrorists by giving them protected identities
- Swedish police: 3000 violent extremists in Sweden, 2000 Islamists
This country has been having a nationwide nervous breakdown since 9/11. A nation of people suddenly broke, the market economy goes to shit, and they're threatened on every side by an unknown, sinister enemy. But I don't think fear is a very effective way of dealing with things-of responding to reality. Fear is just another word for ignorance.Another shooting, another day in America. Or so it seems.
-Hunter S. Thompson, gonzo journalist
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The lawsuit brought forward by the Central Council of Muslims (ZMD) and the Islamic Council could change the face of Islamic education in the NRW region after a ruling expected on Thursday, Die Welt reports.
Should the court decide in favour of the two associations, which are already on the regional schools advisory board until 2019, it could mean that the NRW government will not have as much input on the subject as it currently does with the advisory board model.
Court spokesman Gudrun Dahme said: "If the plaintiffs win, then, at the end of the day, some other Islamic religious education would emerge rather than the one we have now."
But as someone who has experienced what many would perceive to be a sexual assault, the momentum of the #MeToo movement makes me uneasy. Before I explain why, I should tell my story and the lessons I learned along the way. Those lessons were painful and the price I paid was steep, but I emerged from the experience stronger and wiser than before.
Comment: Not only are college campuses turning into dens of the ideologically possessed; they are also instituting totalitarian "justice". They must be proud of how far they've come. See also: