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Man who kidnapped and held teenaged girl captive will not serve prison time

Adrianne Haney
KHOU 11
Thu, 02 May 2019 14:58 UTC
Michael Wysolovski
© Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office
Michael Wysolovski
A man accused of kidnapping a North Carolina teen and holding her captive in a Duluth, Georgia home will not serve any more jail time, according to the Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office.

As part of a negotiated plea, Michael Wysolovski received credit for jail time already served, the D.A.'s office confirmed.

Prosecutors said Wysolovski drove near the then-16-year-old's Charlotte-area home in June 2016 and took her to Georgia. Family told 11Alive's sister-station NBC Charlotte that the teen had Asperger Syndrome and left her home without her medication. Officials said the two met on an internet chat site for people with eating disorders - but the communications allegedly turned to be a sexual nature.

According to the district attorney's office, the Gwinnett County Police Department received a report that the victim had revealed her true identity online to a person in Romania and said she was living with Wysolovski.
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French Yellow Vests join and speak out about Assange extradition during protest in London


wsws.org
Fri, 03 May 2019 00:00 UTC
Assange protestors

Protesters block the main road outside the court
WSWS reporters spoke to demonstrators outside Westminster Magistrates Court protesting plans to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Dozens of protesters from the Yellow Vest movement in France, which has been opposing "president of the rich" Macron for months, attended.

Vivien travelled from Paris to support Assange. She said: "For us, he is the first Yellow Vest. A person that was willing to fight against the government for peace and freedom. Today he is in court and there is a high risk that he will be sent to the US. On the 5th of April we started protests outside the Australian embassy in France and we have gone to the UK Embassy and the Foreign Minister's Office.
"Over seven years, little by little, the media has misled people, introducing 'fake news' lies about Assange. Plenty of lawyers and journalists in France will claim they support him, but when it comes to actually protesting, they stay at home.

"Today's protest is a symbol of the fight for freedom. We are talking about human rights. We are talking about justice. We are talking about how we can live in a better society. Assange has brought to light information that can stop wars. He is nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for a reason. His journalism has received so many awards around the world. But it's not reported. He's like a ghost in the mainstream press. So we have to protest."
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Shopping Bag

Try telling me the economy is "booming" after reading this list of highly negative indicators

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Thu, 02 May 2019 00:00 UTC
economic indicators
After taking an honest look at the facts, I don't know how anyone can possibly claim that the U.S. economy is "booming". I really don't. We hear this sort of rhetoric from the mainstream media all the time, but it doesn't make any sense. As I discussed yesterday, nobody should be using the term "booming" to describe the state of the U.S. economy until we have a full year when GDP growth is 3 percent or better, and at this point we haven't had that since the middle of the Bush administration. And as you will see below, the latest numbers are clearly telling us that the U.S. economy is not even moving in the right direction. Economic conditions are getting worse, and they weren't that great to begin with. According to the calculations that John Williams has made over at shadowstats.com, the U.S. economy is already in a recession, but of course the Federal Reserve will continue to tell us that everything is just fine for as long as they possibly can. Unfortunately for them, they can't hide the depressingly bad numbers that are coming in from all over the economy, and those numbers are all telling us the same thing.

The following are 19 facts about our current economic performance that should deeply disturb all of us...

#1 In April, U.S. auto sales were down 6.1 percent. That was the worst decline in 8 years.

#2 The number of mortgage applications has fallen for four weeks in a row.

#3 We just witnessed the largest crash in luxury home sales in about 9 years.
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Crusader

Ukraine: Ultra right wingers stage torchlight march on day that Odessa residents mourn victims of 2014 massacre


RT
Thu, 02 May 2019 23:52 UTC
rally 4
© Ruptly
While people in the Ukrainian city of Odessa were marking the fifth anniversary of a tragedy that rocked the city in 2014, local ultra-nationalists staged a torchlight procession they called the "March of the Ukrainian Order."

On Thursday, many Ukrainians were laying wreaths at the steps of the House of the Trade Unions in Odessa, carrying placards with photos of 43 people who burned alive or died from smoke inhalation in the building in May 2014. The victims were opponents of the Maidan coup and had attempted to hide inside the building, after clashes with nationalists from the notorious far-right group Right Sector, who are suspected of then setting the building on fire.

However, the ultra-nationalists from the Ukrainian National Corps Party and its militant wing -called the National Brigades- decided the day of that tragedy's fifth anniversary was the appropriate occasion for staging a Nazi-like torchlight procession, which they tellingly called "the March of Ukrainian Order."


Comment: See: Anniversary of Odessa tragedy: Kiev makes no progress to investigate it

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Propaganda

Shifting Numbers: US Jobs surge in April, unemployment rate falls after .6 million move out of labor force

Jeff Cox
CNBC
Fri, 03 May 2019 00:00 UTC
unemployment rate
The U.S. jobs machine kept humming along in April, adding a robust 263,000 new hires while the unemployment rate fell to 3.6%, the lowest in a generation, the Labor Department reported Friday.

Nonfarm payroll growth easily beat Wall Street expectations of 190,000 and a 3.8% jobless rate.

Average hourly earnings growth held at 3.2% over the past year, a notch below Dow Jones estimates of 3.3%. The monthly gain was 0.2%, below the expected 0.3% increase, bringing the average to $27.77. The average work week also dropped 0.1 hours to 34.4 hours.

Comment: If the US economy is doing so great, why are so many workers miserable?

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Airplane

Commercial plane carrying 136 passengers skids off runway into river in Jacksonville, Florida


RT
Sat, 04 May 2019 02:48 UTC
plane river jacksonville
© @JSOPIO
A chartered commercial plane from Guantanamo Bay, reportedly carrying over 130 people, has landed in St. Johns River after sliding off a runway in Jacksonville, Florida. At least two minor injuries were reported.

The plane, a Boeing 737 chartered by the Department of Defense, reportedly skidded off the runway and into the river after landing at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville. The flight originated at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. According to local media, it was carrying 136 passengers and 7 crew members. The plane was not submerged, and there were no fatalities.

Fire and Rescue services are on the scene, working to control jet fuel escaping into the water. All passengers have been accounted for, according to Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry, who said President Donald Trump contacted him after the accident to offer help.

Comment: See also:

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Rocket

IDF claims at least 50 rockets launched from Gaza Strip to southern Israel - after launching airstrikes on Gaza


South Front
Sat, 04 May 2019 10:41 UTC
Gaza Israel


UPDATED: According to pro-IDF sources, a total of 90 rockets were launched.

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At least 50 rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip at Israeli targets in the morning of May 4, according to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). According to pro-IDF sources, "tens" rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system.

Especially intense explosions were reported in the area of Ashkelon.

Comment: Another video from RT:


Robert Inlakesh reported right before the rockets that the Gaza Strip was being under attack, 60 demonstrators had been shot and at least 2 killed, and Israel launched airstrikes on Gaza:


But do expect to hear all about the rockets and nothing about the Israeli aggression.

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Eye 2

Woman sues doctor who allegedly operated on wrong eye, fixed mistake without anesthesia

Karma Allen
ABC News
Fri, 03 May 2019 04:42 UTC
Eye surgery
A Chicago woman filed a lawsuit against a doctor who allegedly performed surgery on the wrong eye and tired to fix the mistake without anesthesia.

Sutton Dryfhout, 21, filed a medical negligence lawsuit against Benjamin Ticho, an ophthalmologist at The Eye Specialists Center near Chicago, after a 2017 surgery that allegedly left her screaming with "bloody tears" in her eyes, according to a lawsuit filed this week.

Dryfhout, who was 19 at the time, said she went in to have the doctor remove a cyst from her left eye. Ticho allegedly operated on her right eye instead and intentionally inflicted pain on her during a corrective surgery later that day.

Ticho noticed his mistake while in the middle of another surgery when a recovery room nurse asked him why Dryfhout's right eye was bleeding when she was supposed to have surgery on her left eye, the woman's attorneys said Thursday.
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Airplane

Passenger claims man kissed, spit on her during evening flight

Janine Puhak
Fox News
Thu, 02 May 2019 18:01 UTC
Reginald Hatcher
© Indianapolis Airport Police
Reginald Hatcher, 61.
One woman traveling on a Republic Airlines flight under American Airlines has claimed that one of her fellow passengers got a little too close for comfort on a recent trip from Miami to Indianapolis, reportedly making inappropriate verbal comments, kissing her cheek and spitting on her chest.

Shauna Smith alleges that passenger Reginald Hatcher made her feel uncomfortable soon after boarding the April 26 evening flight, Fox 59 reports.

Smith said that the 61-year-old man was "talking incessantly" in a nearby seat, and moved to sit next to her when her own seat mate got up and moved. Immediately, explicit remarks began to fly.
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Eagle

Authorities struggle to solve 'systemic' poisoning of bald eagles in Maryland

Scott Dance
Baltimore Sun
Wed, 01 May 2019 16:30 UTC
Bald eagles at the Conowingo Dam
© Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun (file photo)
State and federal wildlife officials are investigating the deaths of at least seven bald eagles and a great horned owl on the Eastern Shore this spring, saying they signal a "systemic" problem with use of an illegal poison on the Delmarva Peninsula.

The birds died under similar circumstances as 13 eagles found dead near Federalsburg in 2016.

Authorities believe they were killed by carbofuran, a banned chemical used to kill farm pests such as foxes and raccoons that is highly toxic to birds.

A U.S. Fish and Wildlife investigator urged anyone with information about what authorities are calling "reckless" use of the poison to come forward. In the years since the eagles died near Federalsburg, the agency has interviewed "numerous" landowners, farmers and hunters, but none provided any insights into the poisonings.

"It is hard to believe that not one person has information of persons placing a toxic poison that has killed no fewer than twenty eagles in these areas," Agent in Charge Jay Pilgrim said in a statement. "The only way this stops is if the local communities come forward with information."
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