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Parents protest against Common Core urge Donald Trump: Return 'control over education of children' to us

Dr. Susan Berry
Breitbart
Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:16 UTC

An organization of parent activists, retired teachers, and other professionals from around the nation has released an open letter to President-elect Donald Trump, urging him to do all within his power to return control of education to parents.

Parents Against Common Core, which consists mainly of the heads of state groups that have been fighting for repeal of the controversial standards, writes:

Though primarily parents and not policy experts ourselves, there is no escaping the fact that our individual and group research, writing and lobbying efforts have caused Common Core to be either repealed or modified via law and/or policy all across the nation. It is also an inescapable fact that the majority of our success in opposition grew spontaneously and fully from the interactions with our own children and schools and therefore hold specific and direct experience no mere "policy expert" could possess.

Policing for profit: Illinois residents forced to cough up nearly $725mn in civil asset forfeitures

RT
Sat, 19 Nov 2016 13:48 UTC

Over the course of a decade, Illinois and federal law enforcement took in more than $319 million and $404 million, respectively, from state residents who were merely suspected of having committed a crime, a new report has found.

"[E]very year, Illinois law enforcement agencies take tens of millions of dollars in cash, vehicles, land and other assets from state residents - in some cases without bringing criminal charges, let alone obtaining convictions, against property owners," the Illinois chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU-IL) and the Illinois Policy Institute (IPI) jointly wrote in the introduction to a report outlining how much money law enforcement has made off of civil asset forfeitures since 2005.

Illinois law enforcement averaged approximately $31 million in confiscation a year on the state level between 2005 and 2014. Some asset seizures were never reported, the report found. The federal government averaged more than $36 million in asset forfeiture.

Mexican churchgoers claim to have seen Virgin Mary statue crying blood

Mark Hodge
The Sun
Sat, 19 Nov 2016 16:23 UTC

The statue, with ‘blood’ covering its, has astounded churchgoers in Mexico

The 'miracle' happened in the same Mexican town where the preserved body of a child saint supposedly opened her eyes in September

Churchgoers in Mexico claim to have seen blood pouring from the eyes of a statue of the Virgin Mary.

Pictures show dry blood covering the face of the figurine which is considered a 'sign from god' by devout Catholics.

Comment: Virgin Mary Statue 'Bleeding' in Louisiana

Williamsburg bargoer detained for hours by NYPD and Secret Service over vaguely threatening joke

Rebecca Fishbein
Gothamist
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 22:43 UTC

Though it's apparently acceptable enough for a presidential candidate to intimate that people should shoot his opponent, it is apparently not a good idea to casually joke about killing Donald Trump, even in the comfy liberal confines of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Such was the lesson learned by one local bargoer, who was carted off by the cops after making one such joke to a friend last weekend.

Greg Chang, 28, was at Roebling Sporting Club on North 8th Street near Roebling Street this past Saturday afternoon with a friend when the incident happened. He says the two were chatting and trading jokes, and Chang, a U.S. History teacher at a public school in the neighborhood, made one about Trump: "The offending joke, I believe, was 'If Donald Trump becomes president, I would pursue an early retirement—life in federal prison. Lucky for me I know the two parts of the country a President Trump would spend most of his time in: the Beltway and the City."

Chang and his friend continued to chat, but unbeknownst to them, someone had overheard his joke and called the cops. "The cops showed up, they actually physically came into the bar and asked me to step outside," Chang said, noting at least one sergeant and one officer were on the scene at around 5 p.m. "I stepped outside, and literally the first question out of the sergeant's mouth is, 'Did you make any comments about Donald Trump today?"

Comment: It appears our culture of tattle-tailing to authorities when our safe-spaces are violated by microaggressions disguised as jokes has caught up with us.

Standing Rock Report: Planes, helicopters spraying chemical weapons on tribal land

Erin Elizabeth
HealthNutNews
Fri, 18 Nov 2016 22:32 UTC

Please watch the video. This is frightening. They had crop dusters and were allegedly spraying them with pesticides on their private tribal land.

California: Carcinogenic white foam floods streets due to airport hangar malfunction

ABC 7
Fri, 18 Nov 2016 22:29 UTC

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A malfunction at the San Jose International Airport resulted in foam flooding the streets of Santa Clara, Calif. on Friday, Nov. 18, 2016.

San Jose fire department says a malfunction at the San Jose airport in a new hangar has caused a malfunction which has resulted in a foam flooding the 300 block of Martin Avenue in Santa Clara.

San Jose fire says the foam stemmed from an alarm malfunction inside an airplane hangar near the San Jose International Airport.

Foam stopped flowing out of the vents of the hangar around 1:30 p.m. Friday.

If you are near the substance, San Jose fire department warns that you should not go in it as it is a known carcinogen. The fire retardant can cause an irritation to the skin.

The foam has flooded the hangar at San Jose airport and is blowing into surrounding surface streets. San Jose fire says the hangar deals with jet planes. San Jose fire says that a fire alarm malfunctioned releasing the foam.

Myanmar: Exorcist 'possessed by a dark spirit' kills three children

Yahoo News
Fri, 18 Nov 2016 22:08 UTC

A self-proclaimed sorcerer who allegedly beat three children to death in an exorcism ritual appeared in a Yangon court on Friday, telling reporters he was possessed by a "dark spirit" at the time of the killings.

Police say the black magic practitioner, Tun Naing, punched and kicked two toddlers and an eight-month-old baby to death last month in a tiny village outside Myanmar's commercial capital.

According to witnesses he told villagers the children were possessed by evil sprits and then killed them over two days as their families watched.

Speaking as police led him away from the court hearing, Tun Naing told reporters he had been possessed when he attacked the children.

"I did it because I lost control of my mind at that time as the dark spirit took over me," he said.

The uncle of the dead boy, also named Tun Naing, said the villagers lost their senses after he fed them "blessed" water and made them stand in a circle as he recited incantations.

Comment: More exorcisms gone terribly, horribly wrong:

Mexican ex-mayor arrested in connection with horrific drug cartel massacre

RT
Fri, 18 Nov 2016 21:58 UTC

The former mayor of a Mexican town was arrested for his alleged role in one of the worst massacres by the notorious Zetas drug cartel in the border state of Coahuila. Hundreds of victims were reportedly tortured, executed and remains were incinerated.

Sergio Alfonso Lozano Rodriguez, who served as a mayor of Allende, Coahuila, back in 2011, was arrested on Thursday, the state attorney general's office said, as cited by Mexican media.

The state attorney said Rodriguez was arrested on kidnapping charges, but did not specify his alleged role in the massacre.

Reuters cited the government report, saying that the murders were ordered by Los Zetas cartel, a Mexican criminal syndicate.

Zetas is considered "the most technologically-advanced, sophisticated, and dangerous cartel operating in Mexico" by US authorities.

The cartel's bosses, Miguel 'Z-40' Trevino Morales and his brother, Omar 'Z-42' Trevino Morales were arrested by Mexican authorities in 2013 and 2015 respectively.

Yellowstone visitor suffers fatal fall into scorching-hot acidic geyser

RT
Fri, 18 Nov 2016 15:41 UTC

A man who was dissolved in a scorching-hot acidic geyser while visiting Yellowstone National Park during the summer had been trying to find a place to bathe when he accidentally fell into the spring.

In June, Colin Nathaniel Scott lost his footing and fell into a Norris Geyser Basin spring, one of the oldest and hottest in the Wyoming nature reserve with temperatures around 93 degrees celsius (199 Fahrenheit).

Comment: See also: Yellowstone National Park visitor presumed dead after falling into hot spring

Colorado cops assault and arrest diabetic man having low blood sugar episode without first asking questions

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:00 UTC

Carl Leadholm was in medical distress and needed help when he was targeted by five Commerce City Police officers. However, his innocence and the fact that he needed help was of no consequence to the officers who mistook low blood sugar for a criminal act. This week, Leadholm filed a federal civil lawsuit against the department for the abuse during that stop that left him beaten and in the hospital.

In November 2014, Leadholm's blood sugar began to drop causing him to swerve while driving. This swerving caught the attention of five of Commerce City's finest who pulled Leadholm over. However, instead of simply talking to the man and asking him what was going on, they yanked him from the car and began assaulting the innocent diabetic.

"It would have taken a simple conversation and this never would have happened," said David Fisher, Leadholm's attorney to CBS Denver. "They admit, we just went up there knocked on the window, pulled him out of the car to the ground, boom- start hitting him in the leg."

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Society's Child

Parents protest against Common Core urge Donald Trump: Return 'control over education of children' to us

Policing for profit: Illinois residents forced to cough up nearly $725mn in civil asset forfeitures

Mexican churchgoers claim to have seen Virgin Mary statue crying blood

Williamsburg bargoer detained for hours by NYPD and Secret Service over vaguely threatening joke

Standing Rock Report: Planes, helicopters spraying chemical weapons on tribal land

California: Carcinogenic white foam floods streets due to airport hangar malfunction

Myanmar: Exorcist 'possessed by a dark spirit' kills three children

Mexican ex-mayor arrested in connection with horrific drug cartel massacre

Yellowstone visitor suffers fatal fall into scorching-hot acidic geyser

Colorado cops assault and arrest diabetic man having low blood sugar episode without first asking questions

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