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Parents file lawsuit after school strip searches 22 pre-teen girls

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 13:12 UTC
police in school
What started with an alleged missing $50 in a middle school choir class ended in 22 depraved and disgusting strip-searches of innocent children on behalf of the state. Now, after a ridiculous back and forth in the court system, the taxpayers are being held liable.

According to the court documents, the incident began when $50 allegedly went missing during a 6th grade choir class at Houston's public Lanier Middle School. The assistant principal was brought in to investigate and no money turned up. That's when the school's resource officer made the suggestion "that girls like to hide things in their bras and panties."

Assistant Principal Verlinda Higgins then brought all twenty-two girls in the choir class to the school nurse who, according to the lawsuit,
"strip-searched them, taking them one at a time into a bathroom, where she "check[ed] around the waistband of [their] panties," loosened their bras, and checked "under their shirts." The girls "were made to lift their shirts so they were exposed from the shoulder to the waist." No parents were notified, despite the girls' requests."
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Bizarro Earth

William Shatner defended Laura Ingalls Wilder on Twitter. He's now being accused of racism.


Intellectual Takeout
Sat, 07 Jul 2018 13:00 UTC
William Shatner
On June 30, actor William Shatner tweeted his displeasure with the renaming of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award. By Independence Day, all hell had broken loose.

Wilder (1867-1957), a children's author best known for her Little House on the Prairie series, had her name stripped from an award issued by the Association for Library Service to Children because some passages in her work expressed "stereotypical attitudes inconsistent with ALSC's core values of inclusiveness."

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Fire

'All an accident': French officer who killed black man changes his story


RT
Sat, 07 Jul 2018 12:13 UTC
Nantes riots
© Esther DELORD / AFP
A burning vehicle on a street in Nantes early July 6, 2018
The French officer who shot and killed a black man, triggering three days of riots, has changed his story. He now claims he didn't fire out of self-defense, but says it was an accident.

The officer, who fired at a 22-year-old male, identified as Aboubakar F., on Tuesday initially said he acted out of self-defense, while trying to arrest the suspect. But he changed his account three days later, telling the investigators that "it was an accidental shot," AFP reported.

"He recognizes he made a statement that did not conform with the truth," officer's attorney, Laurent-Franck Lienard, said of the unexpected change of heart by his client.

Comment: Racially-charged rioting has now entered its 4th day. The Telegraph reports:
Rioting over the killing of a young black man by police erupted for the fourth consecutive night in the western French city of Nantes early Saturday despite an officer being charged with manslaughter.

Groups of youths from poor housing estates torched vehicles and hurled petrol bombs at police, who responded with tear gas.

A building was set on fire, but firefighters quickly brought the blaze under control. The clashes, which broke out after midnight, ended around dawn.

The unrest exposed tensions in deprived urban areas of France, where minorities complain of heavy-handed policing, and raised fears that clashes could spread.
Further reading: Riot police flood Nantes, France after violent clashes

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Arrow Down

RT's Boom Bust: Is America's 'crumbling' infrastructure not ready for the future?


RT
Sat, 07 Jul 2018 12:13 UTC
wall street
© Eric Thayer / Reuters
RT's Boom Bust show is looking into problems with infrastructure upgrades in the United States. The show is going to investigate America's infrastructure from roads and rails to gas pipelines and the electrical grid.

US President Donald Trump was seeking $1 trillion to rebuild what he called a 'crumbling' infrastructure. "The problem the states have and local leaders have with funding the infrastructure is horrendous," Trump said at the White House in February. Now, he goes for much less.

The show will air several episodes called 'US: Infrastructure Deficit,' analyzing the situation in the country.

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No Entry

Man loses job & spot on homeowner's association for 'racial profiling' at pool


RT
Sat, 07 Jul 2018 12:13 UTC
swimming pool
© Zoubeir Souissi / Reuters
File photo
The holiday spirit was in short supply at a community swimming pool in North Carolina on July 4, where a black woman claims she was racially profiled by a neighbor who called the police after she questioned his request for ID.

Jasmine Edwards filmed the bizarre incident at a private pool in Winston-Salem. She says she was reported to the police by a neighbor despite owning an access card for the private leisure area.

"This is a classic case of racial profiling in my half a million neighborhood pool," Edwards posted on Facebook. "This happened to me and my baby... what a shame."
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2 + 2 = 4

Glenn Greenwald: I came to Russia to combat US' toxic view on the country


RT
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 22:09 UTC
Glenn Greenwald
© Associated Press/Vincent Yu
Glenn Greenwald speaks to reporters at his hotel in Hong Kong Monday, June 10, 2013. ()
Too many people in the US consider any contact with Russia suspicious, or worse, journalist Glenn Greenwald told RT. Combating this toxic attitude is one of the reasons he decided to come to Russia this week.

RT caught up with Greenwald, who is best known for his exposés of US electronic surveillance programs based on documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, after he took part in an expert panel on the phenomenon of fake news. Here is the full interview transcript.
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Dollars

Israeli students to get $2,000 to spread state propaganda on social media

Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada
Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:41 UTC
hasbara troll
The National Union of Israeli Students (NUIS) has become a full-time partner in the Israeli government's efforts to spread its propaganda online and on college campuses around the world.

NUIS has launched a program to pay Israeli university students $2,000 to spread pro-Israel propaganda online for 5 hours per week from the "comfort of home."

The union is also partnering with Israel's Jewish Agency to send Israeli students as missionaries to spread propaganda in other countries, for which they will also receive a stipend.

This active recruitment of Israeli students is part of Israel's orchestrated effort to suppress the Palestinian solidarity movement under the guise of combating "delegitimization" of Israel and anti-Semitism.

The involvement of the official Israeli student union as well as Haifa University, Tel Aviv University, Ben-Gurion University and Sapir College in these state propaganda programs will likely bolster Palestinian calls for the international boycott of Israeli academic institutions.

Comment: See also: How Israel and its minions work to flood the internet with pro-Israeli propaganda and censor any and all criticism

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Eye 1

Mom's secret recording catches kindergarten teacher calling her 5-year-old son a 'loser'

Colleen Wright
Miami Herald
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 21:22 UTC
Banyan Elementary School
By the second week of school last fall, Kandy Escotto knew something was amiss with her 5-year-old.

Her son, Aaron, complained about going to school. He brought home poor grades. Then, while they were working on homework together, Aaron told his mother that he was a bad boy.

"I said, 'Why do you say something like that?' " Escotto said. "He said, 'That's what the teacher tells me when I don't do my work.' "

Escotto said she complained to Banyan Elementary School Principal Cheri Davis about Rosalba Suarez, a 33-year veteran teacher who was named teacher of the year this year at the school in Westchester. She said the principal told her she needed proof that Suarez was bullying her son.
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Beaker

The Amesbury poisoning mystery - magical, morphing 'novichuk'

Craig Murray
craigmurray.org.uk
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 18:27 UTC
amesbury poisoning sturgess rowley

Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley
We are continually presented with experts by the mainstream media who will validate whatever miraculous property of "novichok" is needed to fit in with the government's latest wild anti-Russian story. Tonight Newsnight wheeled out a chemical weapons expert to tell us that "novichok" is "extremely persistent" and therefore that used to attack the Skripals could still be lurking potent on a bush in a park.

Yet only three months ago we had this example of scores from the MSM giving the same message which was the government line at that time:

"Professor Robert Stockman, of the University of Nottingham, said traces of nerve agents did not linger. He added: 'These agents react with water to degrade, including moisture in the air, and so in the UK they would have a very limited lifetime. This is presumably why the street in Salisbury was being hosed down as a precaution - it would effectively destroy the agent.'"

In fact, rain affecting the "novichok" on the door handle was given as the reason that the Skripals were not killed. But now the properties of the agent have to fit a new narrative, so they transmute again.

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Black Magic

Gay 'parents' bought boy from surrogate mother, raped him daily, then brought him around the world to be raped by other pedophiles


RT
Mon, 01 Jul 2013 21:20 UTC
gay parents child abuse

Mark J. Newton and Peter Truong with their 'son'
An American pedophile has been convicted to 40 years in prison for years of sexual abuse of an adopted Russian boy. His boyfriend from New Zealand who allegedly assisted in meticulously recording acts of sexual offence is going on trial at home.

Two members of the pedophile porn exchange ring Boy Lovers network, Mark J. Newton, 42 and his long-term partner Peter Truong, 36, were busted in 2011 on suspicion that they were sexually molesting their son, born to a Russian mother in 2005.

A US judge in Indianapolis has imposed maximum sentence on American-born Mark J. Newton, 42, for sexual exploitation of a minor and conspiracy to possess child pornography. Newton is also obliged to pay $400,000 in compensation to the boy's account.

Newton's boyfriend Peter Truong, 36, awaits court in New Zealand.

US District Judge Sarah Evans Barker explained that Mark Newton was tried at district court level to save a jury from seeing the images produced by the defendants.
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