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Chicago PD wants $130K from Jussie Smollett to cover hate crime probe

Gabrielle Fonrouge and Aaron Feis
Page Six
Thu, 28 Mar 2019 13:59 UTC

The City of Chicago has sent Jussie Smollett's legal team a letter demanding $130,000 to defray the cost of cops' probe into the "Empire" actor's allegedly bogus hate-crime attack, officials said Thursday.

"The city feels that is a reasonable and legally justifiable amount to collect to help offset the cost of the investigation," said Bill McCaffrey, a spokesman for the city's Department of Law. "The next step is for Mr. Smollett to immediately make arrangements to reimburse the city and taxpayers for the cost."

"The City of Chicago and the Chicago Police Department take seriously those who make false statements to the police, thereby diverting resources from other investigations and undermining the criminal justice system," reads the letter, which was obtained by The Post.

Comment: Previous articles on the Smollett case:

High school indoctrination: History class teaches that electoral college 'must be abolished'

Jennifer Kabbany
The College Fix
Fri, 29 Mar 2019 10:57 UTC

During my son's junior year of high school, he was taught by his U.S. history teacher that the electoral college is unfair and should be abolished.

How do I know? My husband and I had made a habit out of asking him what he learned in school each day over dinner.

And so over a plate of chicken enchiladas, our then-16-year-old son told us about how his public school teacher had bemoaned and decried the electoral college as an outdated and unjust system that subverts the will of the people.

Independent sleuth reveals new facts about MH370's Satcom prior to fatal turn

Sputnik
Fri, 29 Mar 2019 10:57 UTC

Five years after Flight MH370's disappearance, plane hunters continue to come up with new theories about what could have happened to the missing Boeing, while Malaysian officials have already abandoned attempts to locate the plane.

Jeff Wise, a plane detective and author of the book The Plane That Wasn't There, has revealed in an interview with the Express newspaper that MH370's satellite communication system (Satcom) was switched off when it went off the radars, but was 30 minutes later switched back on again.

According to him, the satellite that had unsuccessfully been trying to reach the plane for 30 minutes suddenly received a log-on request from it at 18:35, meaning that someone on board had switched the system back on. At the same time, it's unclear for what reason this was done, as the plane hadn't been using its Satcom during the flight.

IDF teargases civilians, enters border area to bulldoze land

Palestine Information Center
Fri, 29 Mar 2019 10:57 UTC

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Thursday morning fired tear gas grenades at Palestinian workmen in the southeast of the besieged Gaza Strip as military bulldozers infiltrated into the area.

According to local sources, six armored bulldozers came from a military post behind the border fence in the east of Rafah and entered a border area inside Gaza to level raised plots of land.

During the incursion, Israeli soldiers launched a teargas attack on Gazan workmen collecting aggregate in the east of Rafah, particularly near the Israeli military post of Sofa.

The way white people eat is killing the environment, according to study

Hannah Sparks
New York Post
Thu, 28 Mar 2019 10:52 UTC

White people are already accused of hogging the majority of jobs, film roles, and housing - and now they're getting blamed for eating up Earth's natural resources, too.

Caucasian populations are disproportionately contributing to climate change through their eating habits, which uses up more food - and emits more greenhouse gases - than the typical diets of black and Latinx communities, according to a new report published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology.

Researchers tracked information from multiple databases to identify foods considered "environmentally intense" by requiring more precious resources such as water, land and energy to produce - and, as a result, releasing more greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide through production and distribution.

Potatoes, beef, apples and milk are some of the worst offenders.

Comment: Note that in the study they only used estimates to determine food consumption. Those estimates come from "two non-consecutive days of 24-hour dietary recall data." Food consumption surveys are notorious for being inaccurate (people often don't remember everything they ate or lie to make it look like they are eating better than they are) and don't necessarily reflect how people are really eating. See also:

Brunei's law mandating stoning to death of gays & adulterers to come into force next week

RT
Thu, 28 Mar 2019 20:01 UTC

A harsher version of penal code, which includes sharia-based punishments for things like adultery and same-sex relations, is to come into force next week in Brunei. The 'human rights defenders' in Washington, however, are silent.

Brunei, a tiny Muslim-majority absolute monarchy located in Southeastern Asia is about to put into force the last amendment to its criminal code as part of a reform initiated back in 2014. The renewed code, which is aimed at reflecting Islam's tenets of morality and punishment for those who break them, will include caning and even stoning to death of Muslims, who are found guilty of adultery, sodomy and rape.

The government wanted to roll in the new laws in stages, but put the process on pause after international public outcry over the milder phase one, which included fines and jail terms for offenders, but not corporal punishment. Last week a rights group reported that Brunei quietly announced earlier this year the date, when the harsher version of the code would come into force: April 3.

Comment: While the US and UK are notorious for their unwavering support of brutal and backward regimes (especially when there's something in it for them), are there any countries that have spoken out out in condemnation of Brunei's new laws? Because none are listed in the article. And it should be noted that Russia and China are also doing business deals with Saudi Arabia:

Saudi coalition airstrike hits Yemeni hospital, 7 killed including 4 children

Save the Children
Tue, 26 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC

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An airstrike in Yemen destroyed buildings, including a pharmacy, next to the Kitaf Hospital in Yemen on March 26, 2019.

Four children were among seven people killed today when a hospital supported by Save the Children in Yemen was hit by an airstrike. Two other adults are unaccounted for.

A missile struck a gas station near the entrance to Kitaf rural hospital, about 60 miles from the city of Saada in the northwest of the country, at 9:30am local time. The hospital had been open for only half an hour and many patients and staff were arriving on a busy morning. They included a health worker who died along with their two children.

Also among the dead were two other children and a security guard. In addition to those killed and missing, an additional eight people were wounded in the attack. The missile was said to have landed less than 50 yards from the facility's main building on the fourth anniversary of the escalation of conflict in Yemen.

Save the Children, which reported earlier this week that 37 children a month had been killed or injured by foreign bombs in the last year, demanded an urgent investigation into the latest atrocity.

NXIVM sex-cult trial getting more and more surreal: Michael Avenatti, pedophilia and a fainting heiress

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Thu, 28 Mar 2019 18:51 UTC

Avenatti clare bronfman NXIVM sex scandal

Seagram heiress Clare Bronfman had a dramatic day in court Wednesday where the accused NXIVM sex-cult financier fainted in response to being asked if she'd secretly retained lawyer Michael Avenatti.

The 39-year-old daughter of late Seagram CEO Edgar Bronfman (whose funeral Hillary Clinton spoke at) pleaded not guilty last July to charges of racketeering, money laundering and identity theft for NXIVM - a secretive multi-level marketing company founded by Keith Raniere, who was arrested last March along with Smallville actress Allison Mack on federal charges which include sex trafficking, forced labor, wire fraud conspiracy, human trafficking and other counts.

Rapper Zuby on men being allowed to compete in women's sports: Consequences are 'potential death' and serious injury

RT
Thu, 28 Mar 2019 18:54 UTC

UK rapper Zuby, who caused ructions online by identifying as female to break the British women's deadlift record, says trans athletes competing in women's sports may result in "potential death" and could "crush" women in sport.

In February, the artist took to Twitter to give a visual presentation of the biological strength advantages men possess over women, regardless of the gender with which they believe they correlate, smashing the women's deadlift record with ease. To dispel any doubts the lift couldn't be considered legitimate, he claimed he identified as female while doing so.

Through the feat, Zuby highlighted what he called the "delusion" of those who believe a biologically male athlete should be given an instant and incontrovertible right to compete alongside biological women by simply declaring to identify as female, with any argument that their physical prowess poses an unfair advantage dismissed as "transphobia."

Holy Russia: Jesus statue as big as Rio's planned in Vladivostok - On site previously reserved for Lenin

J-P Mauro
aleteia.org
Mon, 18 Mar 2019 18:04 UTC

The plans await approval from the Russian Orthodox Church before ground can be broken.

The city of Vladivostok, the largest city in far eastern Russia, would like to erect an enormous statue of Jesus Christ atop a hill that was once set aside for a monument to the Soviet communist leader, Vladimir Lenin. Although the construction has not yet been authorized by the Russian Orthodox Church, the prospect of a large statue of Christ overlooking the Pacific Ocean has many of the Russian faithful excited.

In 1972, Soviet officials ordered the construction of a 98-ft-tall bronze statue of Lenin to be placed on the site, with a second statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin planned for a neighboring hill. Difficulties with the planning, however, caused the projects to be postponed repeatedly until they were ultimately scrapped around 1990. Since then the hills have been left bare.

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Society's Child

Chicago PD wants $130K from Jussie Smollett to cover hate crime probe

High school indoctrination: History class teaches that electoral college 'must be abolished'

Independent sleuth reveals new facts about MH370's Satcom prior to fatal turn

IDF teargases civilians, enters border area to bulldoze land

The way white people eat is killing the environment, according to study

Brunei's law mandating stoning to death of gays & adulterers to come into force next week

Saudi coalition airstrike hits Yemeni hospital, 7 killed including 4 children

NXIVM sex-cult trial getting more and more surreal: Michael Avenatti, pedophilia and a fainting heiress

Rapper Zuby on men being allowed to compete in women's sports: Consequences are 'potential death' and serious injury

Holy Russia: Jesus statue as big as Rio's planned in Vladivostok - On site previously reserved for Lenin

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