Society's Child
Introduced to US Navy service before the Vietnam era in 1956, the A-4 was retired in 2003. Florida-based Draken International, a private contractor providing training jets for the US military, acquired several of the aircraft from the Royal New Zealand Air Force Scott Poteet, a Draken representative, told reporters the pilot was the only person in the plane and is being treated at Nellis hospital. He was described as being "one of the most experienced in the squad," with more than 20 years experience.
Ben-Artzi was one of the three whistleblowers to report an improper accounting at Deutsche in 2010 and 2011. The bank was fined $55 million in total, of which Ben-Artzi was due a 15 percent share of the fine - or half of the 30 percent allocated to the whistleblowers - which he is refusing to take.
"While our work is not done, today we are announcing that we have suspended an additional 235,000 accounts for violating our policies related to promotion of terrorism in the six months since our February 2016 post," a statement by Twitter reads.
The is the latest move by the tech giant since it started cracking down on social media abuse by terrorist members and sympathizers last year.
The overall number of accounts shut down since June 2015 by the service now stands at 360,000.
Twitter has been prompted to react to an increased use of its service by those sharing terrorist propaganda in the wake of numerous terror attacks that shook Europe, Middle East and the US.
On Tuesday, two men charged with gang assault, punishable by up to 25 years in prison, walked away with a sentence of community service and three-year probation for an attack that left 24-year-old Taj Patterson blind in his left eye.
Pinchas Braver, 22, and Abraham Winkler, 42, were two of five men that assaulted Patterson.
Whether Patterson was attacked for being gay or black or a combination, he'll never know.
One of the big culprits, of course, is student loan debt. According to CNN, approximately 70 percent of all college graduates will have student loan debt to pay off once they leave school, and the average loan balance for those graduates is about $28,950.
But there are many that run up $50,000 or $100,000 in debt at high end schools. We encourage our young people to apply to the "best schools" that they possibly can, and we tell them that they shouldn't worry about how much it will cost. We assure them that they will be able to easily pay back any debts once they leave college because of the "good jobs" that they will get upon graduation. Unfortunately, millions upon millions of our young people have discovered that the good jobs that they were promised simply do not exist.
Comment: Through the millennia, families have been multi-generational. From this perspective, Americans are returning to societal parameters that protected all family members from need and desperation. From an educational and financial point of view, there are most definitely flaws in the system and a manipulation of circumstances to reward the rich and penalize the poor.
Unconfirmed reports on social media suggested the package had 'tested positive' for a device.
The item was believed to be a bag that had been left for a long time in the drop-off area outside the airport.
The terminal was duly evacuated and cordoned off as a precaution.
Airport officials asked people to leave the area and keep away from windows and glass constructions.
There were no delays in plane departures or arrivals, according to the airport's timetable.
Nearly 20 minutes into the poor child's testimony, David Wright, 54, pleaded guilty. Last year, the Free Thought Project reported on Wright's arrest, noting that in spite of being arrested, he was still being paid. In 2015, Wright was charged with 33 felonies that carried a minimum prison sentence of 143 years and a maximum of 648 years.
"Quite frankly, I think 500 years sounds reasonable," Kane County Circuit Judge D.J. Tegeler told Wright. However, thanks to the fact that Wright was an upstanding member of the police department for 24 years, he was given a sweet plea deal and will be out of jail in less than 20 years.
According to the Daily Herald, during opening statements Monday, prosecutors recalled the first time Wright raped the girl — when she was 7 and in a bathroom at a birthday party — he warned her by saying, "This is gonna hurt."
Instead of having the girl's parents testify as to what their daughter went through, which is standard in incidents such as this one, Wright forced his victim to recall what he did to her.
During her horrific recount of Wright's repeated attacks, after this monster made her relive the nightmare in an apparent attempt to force her to suffer more, Wright changed his plea.
Comment: Listen to our interview with Dr. Anna Salter, author of Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders. Knowing how these predators think and operate are our best protection.
Police were after the victim's son, who they say refused to stop for a traffic stop and ran into her home instead. When officers showed up, according [Geneva] Smith, they kicked in her door and as she got up to see who was there — she was met with a face full of chemical agent.
According to Smith, after police pepper sprayed her for no reason, they arrested her, dragged her to the police car and brought her to jail. Clearly stressed over being kidnapped and thrown in a cell, this 84-year-old woman began to have a panic attack. She was then rushed to the hospital.
When FOX 23 contacted the Muskogee police department, they couldn't comment on the case citing an internal investigation.
It was unclear as to what police charged the woman with. However, it is likely the standard 'resisting, interfering, or obstructing.'
Smith now plans to take legal action against the department for her assault.
Antonio Stagliano, the bishop of the southern town of Noto in Sicily, was quoted by several newspapers as saying he was ready to go to court to get the wildly popular app banned.
The augmented-reality game, which allows players to catch virtual monsters using GPS mapping on their phones, has become a global craze since its launch on July 6 but has also prompted a wave of criticism and controversy.
Stagliano had already lashed out at the game in recent days, declaring it "a totalitarian system close to Nazism" and saying it had "alienated thousands and thousands of young people" by getting them hooked on monster-hunting.
The bishop is well known in the Italian press, particularly for his mid-mass renditions of rock hits by popular singers Noemi and Marco Mengoni.
Comment: Interesting connection made by the bishop between a totalitarian system component of monster-hunting, facilitated by the Pokemon Go mechanism. It is a subtle seduction with wide-spread popularity...a most effective means and method by which to entrap the next generation.
The girl was brought to Cooper-Anthony Mercy Child Advocacy Center in Hot Springs, Arkansas to be examined for multiple injuries. Staff at the center and workers from the Arkansas Department of Human Services quickly called the Hot Springs Police Department, suspecting abuse.
She had "deep purple bruising on her buttocks, lower back, and legs, a blackened eye, a swollen right cheek, a bruise on her forehead, healing scars across her back, and dried blood in the corner of her mouth," the police report said, according to KATV. The young girl was malnourished and had ligature marks on her wrists, implying she had been restrained. When officers asked the child her name, she replied, "Idiot," the Hot Springs Sentinel-Record reported.
The girl's mother, Jennifer Diane Denen, 30, and her live-in boyfriend, Clarence Eugene Reed, 47, were both at the advocacy center when police arrived and were taken in for questioning. Denen told police she had seen Reed spank her daughter with a plastic bat, and that another child had told her that Reed had zip-tied the 4-year-old to a chair. The boyfriend called the girl "Idiot" on a "regular basis," she said. Denen admitted to not seeking medical attention for her daughter's injuries.















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