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Romeo Ranoco
A number of male Catholic devotees in San Fernando City performed a bloody reenactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Friday.
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A number of male Catholic devotees in San Fernando City performed a bloody reenactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Friday.
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The 48-page report named 12 adults who worked at Choate and engaged in sexual misconduct with students between 1963 and 2010. In a letter to the school's community and alumni, administrators noted that the report described "numerous instances of adult sexual misconduct in Choate's history," including "the deeply disturbing experiences of 24 survivors."
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Commuters packed into Penn Station on Good Friday for the Easter holiday weekend rush when mass hysteria broke out.
Rumors of a shooter spread quickly, causing the Macy's across the street to evacuate.
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The group's latest release, dubbed 'Lost in Translation,' lists Qatar First Investment Bank, Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange and Tadhamon International Islamic Bank as allegedly compromised.
It's now feared that one of the world's most secure methods of making payment orders has been irrevocably compromised with the NSA's sophisticated arsenal of hacking tools now freely available online.
Radio host Joyce Kaufman had Ann Coulter on her show to discuss Trump's recent interest to remove Assad from power in Syria.
Coulter said that she does not believe Assad used chemical weapons, and suspects that "moderate rebels" (aka ISIS and Al Qaeda) were behind the incident, which has yet to be independently investigated.
Coulter noted that even if Assad did use chemical weapons, it is no excuse to start another "pointless war"...
"I don't care if it was Assad who used these chemical weapons. I'm tired of regime change. I'm tired of war."
"When have we ever turned a Third World dictatorship into a paradise?"
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The Drottninggatan Street in central Stockholm, Sweden, April 7, 2017
The Drottninggatan Street in central Stockholm, Sweden, April 7, 2017
The statement said Rakhmad Akilov, 39, who is now in Swedish police custody, was flagged as a potential threat. Uzbekistan had given information about the man to a western security service partnered with Sweden, it added.
IS recruited Akilov himself after he left Uzbekistan in 2014, Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov told reporters on Friday.
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Martine Gestime 32, wipes her tears during an interview in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Gestime said she was raped by a Brazilian peacekeeper in 2008 and became pregnant with her son, Ashford.
Martine Gestime 32, wipes her tears during an interview in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Gestime said she was raped by a Brazilian peacekeeper in 2008 and became pregnant with her son, Ashford.
In the ruins of a tropical hideaway where jetsetters once sipped rum under the Caribbean sun, the abandoned children tried to make a life for themselves. They begged and scavenged for food, but they never could scrape together enough to beat back the hunger, until the UN peacekeepers moved in a few blocks away.
The men who came from a faraway place and spoke a strange language offered the Haitian children cookies and other snacks. Sometimes they gave them a few dollars. But the price was high: The Sri Lankan peacekeepers wanted sex from girls and boys as young as 12.
"I did not even have breasts," said a girl, known as V01 — Victim No. 1. She told UN investigators that over the next three years, from ages 12 to 15, she had sex with nearly 50 peacekeepers, including a "Commandant" who gave her 75 cents. Sometimes she slept in UN trucks on the base next to the decaying resort, whose once-glamorous buildings were being overtaken by jungle.
Justice for victims like V01 is rare. An Associated Press investigation of U.N. missions during the past 12 years found nearly 2,000 allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation by peacekeepers and other personnel around the world — signalling the crisis is much larger than previously known. More than 300 of the allegations involved children, the AP found, but only a fraction of the alleged perpetrators served jail time.
Legally, the UN is in a bind. It has no jurisdiction over peacekeepers, leaving punishment to the countries that contribute the troops.
Comment: Haiti is only one of many countries where these predators have been allowed free rein to abuse the populations they were tasked with protecting. The fact that the UN systematically covers up the abuses suggests these armies are being protected by the world's elites who condone and engage in the same deviant practices.
- United Nations has a history of covering up abuse by 'peacekeeping' forces
- Predators given a free pass: UN peacekeepers won't be charged despite rape accusations by over 100 children
- Activist: UN fosters 'culture of impunity' that enables horrible sexual assaults by peacekeepers
- U.N. Peacekeepers go on rape spree in 21 countries, no prosecutions are made
- 'A cancer in our system': More child sex abuse allegations aimed at UN Peacekeepers
- UN Peacekeepers and 42 NGOs Under Investigation for Sexual Abuse of Children at Refugee Camps
Abdullah Rashid, 22, a Georgia native who moved to Cedar-Riverside last year, says his group, General Presidency of the Religious Affairs and Welfare of the Ummah, is trying to enforce what he calls "the civil part of the sharia law" in the area.
Abdullah Rashid, 22, a Georgia native who moved to Cedar-Riverside last year, has been making the rounds in the Somali-dominated neighborhood, telling people not to drink, use drugs or interact with the opposite sex. If he sees Muslim women he believes are dressed inappropriately, he approaches them and suggests they should wear a jilbab, a long, flowing garment. And he says he's recruiting others to join the effort.
But local Muslim leaders are sounding the alarm. They are working to stop Rashid's group, General Presidency of the Religious Affairs and Welfare of the Ummah, and have notified Minneapolis police, who say he's being banned from a Cedar-Riverside property. Some say the group is preying on vulnerable young Muslims in a community that has dealt with national scrutiny around radicalization and terrorism.
"What he's doing is wrong and doesn't reflect the community at all," said Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Comment: Sounds like a psychopath.
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“Calculated misery” sounds like a movie featuring a slow-boil revenge plot — one that involves social media and tears of frustration. Instead, it’s the concept that there’s money to be made by making an experience so awful that a customer will want to avoid it.
“Calculated misery” sounds like a movie featuring a slow-boil revenge plot — one that involves social media and tears of frustration. Instead, it’s the concept that there’s money to be made by making an experience so awful that a customer will want to avoid it.
"Calculated misery" sounds like a movie featuring a slow-boil revenge plot — one that involves social media and tears of frustration. Instead, it's the concept that there's money to be made by making an experience so awful that a customer will want to avoid it.
And not only is it sinister, it's profitable — at least when it comes to air travel.
It's common to pay extra for higher-quality products or services. And it's natural to want to pay the lowest possible price for whatever you want or need to buy. That's why many Americans are always looking for the best deal, regardless of what they're shopping for.
That mindset allows airlines to use "calculated misery" to make their baseline products and services so low-quality and unpleasant that lots of people will be willing to pay more to avoid them.
The GEO Group said that its 1,000-bed detention facility will be in Conroe, north of Houston, and will open by the end of next year. The facility coincides with President Donald Trump's promised expansion of immigration detention, part of a larger crackdown on immigrants in the country illegally that includes detaining people seeking asylum while they go through immigration proceedings.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement already has a record of more than 41,000 detainees.
The agency has also identified an additional 21,000 unused beds that it plans to use for detention, according to a memo reported Wednesday by the Washington Post. That memo notes that "ICE will be unable to secure additional detention capacity until funding has been identified."
GEO, ICE's second-largest private prison contractor, has approximately 3,000 empty beds nationwide, according to a February investor call.
Comment: Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov said on April 14 that Akilov had been recruited by the Islamic State (IS) militant group after he left Uzbekistan in 2014 and settled in Sweden.