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Quick on pledges, slow on cash: France's mega rich in no hurry with promised donations to Notre Dame


RT
Mon, 08 Jul 2019 13:24 UTC
Notre Dame Cathedral
© Reuters / Benoit Tessier
Only €38 million of the promised €850 million have been received so far for the reconstruction of the fire-damaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the city's Catholic archbishop of Michel Aupetit has said.

This is less than five percent of the amount promised.

Aupetit told Radio France Internationale he remains confident that more money will be forthcoming. "It always takes time to get money from the big contributors," he said.

It's been nearly three months since a fire devastated the iconic 800-year-old cathedral, with France's richest families having promised to donate hundreds of millions of euros to reconstruct the landmark.
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Bullseye

American couple's jet ski recovered after going missing in Barbados

Karma Allen
ABC News
Mon, 08 Jul 2019 12:13 UTC
Jet ski
© Barbados Coast Guard
The French Navy alerted the Barbados Coast Guard on Saturday, July 7, 2019, they had located the jet ski used by two Americans when they went missing last month.
Authorities recovered a jet ski over the weekend bearing the same registration number as the one an American couple was riding before they went missing in Barbados last month.

French Navy officers found the missing jet ski hundreds of miles away in Guadeloupe on Saturday, nearly two weeks after Magdalena Devil and Oscar Suarez, of New Jersey, vanished at sea, authorities said.

There were no signs of the missing couple.

The pair disappeared on June 24 after renting after a jet ski at Holetown Beach on the western coast of Barbados, authorities said.
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Hammer

Out for blood: Partisan media rushes to link political enemies with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein


RT
Mon, 08 Jul 2019 09:25 UTC
Epstein, Clinton, Trump
© REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson; Florida Department of Law Enforcement/Handout; Jonathan Ernst
A rich and connected man, Epstein rubbed shoulders with presidents, business moguls, Hollywood stars, and even British royalty. In the wake of his arrest, partisan media outlets jumped at the chance to tie their opponents to the disgraced billionaire.
Billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein's arrest on fresh sex trafficking charges has ignited a media war, with outlets on each side of the spectrum rushing to tie their political opponents to the notorious pedophile.

Having already served 13 months in an 'open-door' prison for abusing scores of underage girls after striking a non-prosecution agreement in 2007, Epstein was arrested in New York on Saturday evening. Facing one count of sex trafficking of minors and another of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors, the 66-year-old could serve up to 45 years behind bars if convicted.

The sealed indictment reportedly details a litany of molestation, abuse, and trafficking of dozens of girls, some as young as 14.

A rich and connected man, Epstein rubbed shoulders with presidents, business moguls, Hollywood stars, and even British royalty. In the wake of his arrest, partisan media outlets jumped at the chance to tie their opponents to the disgraced billionaire.

Comment: Knowing the elite's proclivities for pedophilia, it's surprising that Epstein is even facing new charges. Whether he sees more prison time and/or his network is finally brought down is anybody's guess. See:

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Red Flag

Former chiropractor ordered to pay $100K fine for anti-vaccine posts on social media

Michael Gorman
CBC
Thu, 04 Jul 2019 15:13 UTC
Dena Churchill chiropracter
© Facebook
The decision released Thursday by the Nova Scotia College of Chiropractors notes Dena Churchill did not comply with multiple requests from the registrar to remove offending posts from a variety of social media accounts.
Dena Churchill admitted to professional misconduct after N.S. College of Chiropractors investigation launched.

A former Halifax-based chiropractor has been ordered to pay her regulator $100,000 as part of a settlement agreement on charges of professional misconduct related to her sharing anti-vaccination views online.

In a decision released publicly Thursday, a hearing committee of the Nova Scotia College of Chiropractors took into consideration Dena Churchill's "dire financial circumstances" and gave her 10 years to pay the money. But it also said if she has not paid at least $30,000 by Jan. 2, 2022, the full amount becomes due immediately.

"Dr. Churchill's conduct brought the profession of chiropractic into disrepute," the hearing committee writes in its decision.

Comment: Chiropractic has always been on shaky ground, accused of being a pseudo-modality, so it's unsurprising that they would want to crack down on 'anti-vaxxer' views so as to disassociate themselves from 'quackery'. However, this is completely beyond the pale. Losing one's license and getting a $100,000 fine for posting anti-vaccine articles on social media?! It's illustrative of how, in today's climate, holding the 'wrong' views is dangerous. Freedom of speech, and all that.

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Info

Silly AOC wants women's soccer players to get paid twice as much as men


RT
Mon, 08 Jul 2019 12:24 UTC
women's soccer team
© Reuters / Bernadett Szabo
The victorious US women's team
Outspoken Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez congratulated the US women's football team on their World Cup victory by calling for the players to be paid double the men's rate.

A penalty from Megan Rapinoe followed by a goal from Rose Lavelle saw the US women's team beat the Netherlands on Sunday to take home their fourth Women's World Cup trophy.

No sooner had the match ended than USA Today journalist Nancy Armour reported fans chanting "Equal pay!," a reference to the ongoing gender discrimination lawsuit filed by the team against the US Soccer Federation, claiming they are paid 38 cents for every dollar their male counterparts earn.

"At this point we shouldn't even be asking for equal pay," Ocasio-Cortez chimed in, possibly joking. "We should demand they be paid at least twice as much."

Comment: Once you impose the 'ceteris paribus' condition, the alleged 23% gender pay gap evaporates

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USA

Snowflake America: Police officers asked to leave Starbucks because customer "did not feel safe"

Blake Alsup
New York Daily News
Sun, 07 Jul 2019 12:17 UTC
Starbucks
© AP Photo/Charles Krupa
Six Arizona police officers were asked by a barista to leave a Starbucks on the 4th of July because a customer "did not feel safe."

The Tempe police officers stopped by the store for coffee, had already paid for their drinks and were standing around together when a barista approached.

She said they were making a customer feel unsafe and asked them to move out of the customer's sight or leave. The officers were disappointed but chose to leave, according to the Tempe Officers Association.

"While the barista was polite, making such a request at all was offensive," the association wrote in a Facebook post. "Unfortunately, such treatment has become all too common in 2019.

The association also made another post with an image of a hand pouring out a coffee cup along with the words "Dump Starbucks," which later became a trending hashtag on social media.
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Heart - Black

7-year-old Russian girl reports being 'tortured' for months by aunt


RT
Mon, 08 Jul 2019 09:45 UTC
child abuse kid little girl
© gettyimages / Fairfax Media
Even doctors couldn't hold back tears after a seven-year-old girl with countless bruises, burns and bites all over her body, was delivered to them. The child had been allegedly tortured for months by her own aunt.

Footage from a medical examination at a hospital in the southern Republic of Ingushetia has shocked Russia after being uploaded online earlier this week. "This is a phlycten [internal abscess]; look, this is a bite and those are scars - old and new ones. This hand is cold, it could be amputated," one of the doctors says in the clip. "It's like a horror movie," his colleague added off-screen, commenting on the terrible state of their young patient.

Aisha was brought to hospital by her aunt, who claimed that the child was injured after falling into a cesspit a week before that. She also explained that the girl had also sustained burns earlier on, from accidentally sitting on a hot pot cooking soup.
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Bad Guys

Three Florida officers charged with battery and falsifying records after brutal arrest of a 15-year-old boy

Karma Allen
ABC News
Wed, 03 Jul 2019 10:25 UTC
Florida police abuse teenager
© Rockstarplaygirl via Storyful
Three deputies from Broward Sheriff's Office, Fla., have been charged in connection with a rough arrest in April, 2019.
Three Florida deputies were charged on Wednesday after video showed a teenager being punched and slammed to the ground during a brutal arrest outside of a McDonald's.

Officers Gregory LaCerra, 51, and Christopher Krickovich, 29, with the Broward County Sheriff's Office were charged for allegedly beating and pepper spraying a 15-year-old boy during an arrest in April and falsifying documents in the aftermath, according to a charging affidavit.

Both officers were charged with battery, falsifying records and conspiracy to falsify records when describing the circumstances of the teen's arrest, the affidavit said.

A third officer, 49-year-old Ralph Mackey, was also charged with falsifying records and conspiracy, according to the affidavit. They were each suspended without pay in the wake of the incident.
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Eye 1

Police drop "crime prediction" software for now, but not because it's Orwellian

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com
Sun, 07 Jul 2019 07:05 UTC
big brother watching
Several California police departments have stopped using "predictive policing" software but not because they want to protect your basic human rights and dignity. The reason the software won't be used is that it isn't effective enough...yet.

Several police departments were disappointed that they won't be able to punish thought crimes. Palo Alto police spokeswoman Janine De la Vega told the Los Angeles Times: "We didn't get any value out of it," after using the software for three years. As for Mountain View, California's police department, which spent over $60,000 of taxpayer money on the software that was designed to violate the rights of the taxpayers stolen from to fund it, it was dubbed a "disappointment." The police department used the software for over five years before dropping the program last June. Rio Rancho, New Mexico Police Captain Andrew Rodriguez said: "It wasn't telling us anything we didn't know."

The software is a bold violation of the basic human right to free thought and those who use it are nothing more than freedom-trampling tyrants. The Los Angeles Police Department took an authoritarian leap in 2010 when it became one of the first to employ data technology and information about past crimes to predict future unlawful activity. The software is called PredPol, and is known as the "predictive policing tool" developed by a University of California at Los Angeles professor and the Los Angeles Police Department.

Comment: See also:

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Heart - Black

Assam, India: Police arrest a School Teacher who tried to sacrifice 3-Year-old with a Sword


NDTV
Sun, 07 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC
Some people in Ganakpara village in the district called the police after noticing smoke coming from a house. When they took a closer look of the house, they saw a few members of the family, including women, disrobing themselves while chanting prayers and placing a girl on an altar, the police said
sacrificial murder knife
© istockphoto.com/chinatp
The priest threatened to attack the locals with a machete and an axe. (Representational)
A school teacher and his family allegedly tried to sacrifice a three-year-old in their house in Udalguri district of Assam on Saturday, but locals intervened and immediately informed the police and the media.

Some people in Ganakpara village in the district called the police after noticing smoke coming from a house. When they took a closer look of the house, they saw a few members of the family, including women, disrobing themselves while chanting prayers and placing a girl on an altar, the police said.
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