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Not just the Parkland police and FBI: Florida school also ignored 'multiple' warnings about gunman Cruz

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© Mike Stocker / Reuters
A former friend of teenage Florida gunman Nikolaz Cruz repeatedly warned their school of his disturbing behavior. Ariana Lopez claimed Cruz had sold knives at school and sympathized with terrorists in Syria.

The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Lopez told ABC's Good Morning America she had warned school officials "multiple" times in 2016 and 2017 that Cruz had been selling weapons in school, beating his girlfriend and supporting Syrian terrorists.

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Syringe

Turkey considers chemical castration to combat rise in pedophilic abuse

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© Sputnik/ Nikolay Hiznyak
The Turkish authorities have decided to toughen the punishment for pedophile child abusers in view of the crime's fourfold rise over the last decade.

Turkey's government will submit a law to parliament that would allow the court to order the chemical castration of child abusers, the country's Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul said Tuesday, as quoted by Turkey's Anadolu news agency.

According to the official, the measure was proposed "to reduce or eliminate" the sex drives of people convicted of sexually assaulting minors, while the law itself would be presented "within a few days."

Data provided by the Justice Ministry showed a fourfold increase in child sexual abuse over the last decade, with some 21,189 cases in 2016 compared to 3,778 in 2006, while more than 60 percent of suspects were convicted.

Comment: He's right about that. The acceptance and normalization of sexual licentiousness is a culture's death knell.


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Jewish settlers who kill Palestinians receive government stipends

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The PLO's Committee for Prisoners and Freed Prisoners revealed on Monday that the Israeli authorities pay stipends to Jewish settlers indicted of crimes against Palestinians, Quds Press has reported. Israel has complained frequently about payments to the families of Palestinian prisoners by the Palestinian Authority, claiming that they "encourage terrorism".

As an example of the Israeli payments, the rights group mentioned the case of Israeli settler Yoram Skolnik, who shot dead Musa Abu Sabha while he was lying with his face on the ground and his hands tied behind his back in March 1993. The killing took place near the illegal settlement of Susia in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, and the killer has been receiving a monthly salary in addition to his national insurance payments.

Comment: It's not surprising that Israel rewards its citizens for killing Palestinians.


Pills

Is the Netherlands a 'narco-state'? Police union sends warning on overstretched resources

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© Yves Herman / Reuters
The Netherlands has started to resemble "a narco-state," with criminals running a parallel economy, and law enforcement is struggling with resource shortages and poor facilities, the Dutch police union has warned.

In the eyes of many Dutch investigators, "the country already has a lot of features of a narco-state," according to the national police association's report, which was published on Tuesday. "In the last 25 years, I've seen small dealers grow into large entrepreneurs with good contacts in politics and into so-called respected investors," said one of 400 detectives quoted in the report on condition of anonymity.

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Opioid crisis: How to kill 300,000 Americans

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If someone wanted to kill 300,000 Americans and get away with it, they could not have accomplished it more effectively than our government has accomplished it with the opioid epidemic.

If someone- let's say good old Uncle Sam-wanted to kill 300,000 Americans, they would go about it as detailed in this step-by-step guide. This also just so happens to be precisely how our government did go about it.

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Russian hunter skis for 10 hours through taiga at night to get help for injured comrade

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© Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters
A man taking aim during a winter hunt.
A hunt in taiga forest turned into a quest for survival for two Russian hunters after one was badly injured in a snowmobile accident. To get help for the man, his friend skied for 10 hours to reach the nearest village.

After setting out to hunt in a remote forest in the Perm region of Central Russia, the two hunters eventually found themselves struggling for their own lives. One of the men crashed his snowmobile, sustaining serious injuries to his head and legs, leaving him unable to move.

With no mobile-phone signal and no provisions, the other man had no choice but to travel through the taiga at night to seek help for his friend. After carrying the injured party inside an abandoned house for shelter, the hunter set off on a dangerous journey through thick forest in darkness. It took him 10 hours to reach the village of Lel on skis.

Gem

Russian Communist Party seek property confiscation as punishment for serious crime

Items seized from criminals arrested
© Oleg Lastochkin / Sputnik
Items seized from criminals arrested by the Russian Interior Ministry's Drug Enforcement Unit.
Russian Communist Party MPs are seeking the reintroduction of Soviet-era laws under which personal property can be confiscated as a separate punishment and not as a way to compensate damages inflicted by convicts.

In the explanatory note attached with the bill drafted by Communist MPs, the lawmakers said that confiscation of property was applied as a separate punishment under the Soviet Criminal Code and also under the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation until late 2003. After this, confiscation was removed from the law and in 2006 it was brought back, not as a punishment, but as "another measure under criminal law" that can be applied on a limited scale, usually to seize the property acquired by convicts through illegal means and use it to compensate the damages to the aggrieved party.

The new bill allows the confiscation of any personal property of convicts, including items that are not related to crimes that caused the convictions. At the same time, the draft specifies that all norms ordering confiscation of property received through criminal methods must remain in place.

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Internationally influential evangelist Billy Graham, dies at 99

Billy Graham
© Gerry Broome, Associated Press
In this May 31, 2007 file photo, Billy Graham speaks as his son Franklin Graham, right, listens during a dedication ceremony for the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, N.C..
The Rev. Billy Graham, who transformed American religious life through his preaching and activism, becoming a counselor to presidents and the most widely heard Christian evangelist in history, died Wednesday. He was 99.

Graham, who long suffered from cancer, pneumonia and other ailments, died at his home in North Carolina, spokesman Mark DeMoss told The Associated Press.

More than anyone else, Graham built evangelicalism into a force that rivaled liberal Protestantism and Roman Catholicism in the United States. His leadership summits and crusades in more than 185 countries and territories forged powerful global links among conservative Christians, and threw a lifeline to believers in the communist-controlled Eastern bloc. Dubbed "America's pastor," he was a confidant to U.S. presidents from Gen. Dwight Eisenhower to George W. Bush.

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Will Russians be allowed to fly the national flag at PyeongChang Games closing ceremony?

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© Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
Russian hopes of marching under the national flag at the PyeongChang Games closing ceremony have been revived after International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach met with a senior representative from the country.

The vice-president of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), Igor Levitin, paid a courtesy visit to Bach, with whom he discussed the possibility of reinstating the country's Olympic body which had been suspended by the IOC for alleged systematic manipulations with doping, Inside The Games reports.

Following the IOC's ruling to disqualify Russia as a team from the 2018 Games, national athletes with clean doping records were allowed to participate as neutrals under the name Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR).

Comment: See also: There's no way Alex Krushelnitsky willingly took Meldonium to enhance his curling game


Mr. Potato

The irony: How CNN and MSNBC 'colluded' with Russian trolls (VIDEO)

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Here's another angle of a story that's slowly becoming more outlandish and bizarre by the day, and I am referring to the Democrat lapdog left wing establishment media's talking point, which has been beaten to death over the last year: Trump colluded with Russia, even if one year into Mueller's probe there's not a scintilla of evidence in this regard. Well, according to the indictments issued by Robert Mueller via the last batch of the 13 Russian nationals and 3 Russian "entities" (media companies) that is, the claim is that there was a factory of basically internet trolls who allegedly spent 2 million bucks (a drop in the bucket compared to what both Hillary and Trump campaign spent) to allegedly meddle in our elections. Mueller in particular in his indictment stated that the goals of those pesky Russians were to sow distrust and discord against the American political system.

In other words, to make Americans to view their leaders as illegitimate, as this would create chaos, division, and a civil war like atmosphere in America. This was the main goal of the Russian disinformation campaign, again, according to Mueller's own words: to destabilize the US. He further had to admit that Russians were bankrolling not only pro Trump rallies, but also anti Trump rallies. This fact already blows the whole Trump-Russia collusion narrative to smithereens, but let that go, as it's now clear the Russians played both sides. We also learned that almost nobody participated in Russian-organized/sponsored rallies, as they had little to no attendance, but listen to this: there was one rally that actually did get a lot of attendance and attention, but, oh, the irony, it was an anti Trump rally, which took place after the Donald won the election.

Comment: This latest episode of Russiagate has resulted in much absurdity because the indictments are absurd in the first place.