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Maine teachers caught on tape playing game in which they say which of their students they would 'f***, marry, kill'

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© Jennifer Prentice / YouTube
A group of teachers and school officials from Bangor, Michigan were secretly filmed making off-color comments about students. One educator has already resigned after an emergency meeting with school officials.

Seven staffers at Bangor Public School were caught making inflammatory comments about students in a 6-minute video posted on YouTube Tuesday. The video will not be included because it mentions the names of students.


Comment: We've found a portion of it that censors their names; see below.


The secretary to the superintendent resigned Tuesday night while two teachers have been suspended and the other four received verbal reprimands, according to WZZM.

Many parents at the district are furious over the topics the teachers were loudly discussing at the Bangor Tavern and Grill. The comments ranged from calling one student "beautiful" to another claiming that teachers were having inappropriate relations with students, which also included an allegedly special needs child.


Comment: Have a listen to the teachers' 'game'. It doesn't sound like they would actually act on their words. Having said that, inappropriate teacher-student relationships are commonplace in American schools today.

What is most instructive about their conversation is that it was 'normal' for them to speak like that. And notice how child-like they themselves sound. Their mannerisms, expressions, vocal tones, etc are indistinguishable from the teenagers they teach!

With honorable exceptions of course, the US has become a nation of infantalized 'people' - neither innocent and child-like, nor properly-developed adults. This is why the country is falling apart.


Info

Monster oil and gas deposits discovered in Iran

Iran flag at gas plant
© Raheb Homavandi / Reuters
Iran has found a dozen new oil fields that could produce 30 billion barrels of crude and 128 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, according to Press TV quoting officials in Tehran.

"We have to say goodbye to (finding) such big fields as Yadavaran and Azadegan and get used to discovering smaller fields," said Seyyed Saleh Hendi, an official from the National Iranian Oil Company.

According to Hendi, while new gas discoveries are possible, new oil findings are unlikely to be large. Iran has 157 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, the world's third largest.

Tehran claims to have the largest gas deposits, but the US Energy Information Administration says the world's biggest gas deposits are in Russia.

Eye 2

Jerry Sandusky's son arrested, charged with sexual abuse of a minor and child pornography

Jeffrey Sandusky
© Centre County Correctional Facility
Jeffrey Sandusky
Jeffrey Sandusky, son of convicted child sexual abuser and former university football coach Jerry Sandusky, has been charged with multiple child sex offenses ranging from sexual assault to child pornography.

Jeffrey Sandusky was arrested and charged with 14 counts related to the sexual abuse of a minor on Monday. Sandusky, 41, is accused of trying to coerce the teenage daughter of a girlfriend into sending sexually explicit images in 2013, according to KDKA. Sandusky is also facing charges of sexual assault of a child older than 11, sexual assault of a child less than 16 and other sexual abuse and child pornography charges.

The charges may ring familiar to those who remember when his father, Jerry Sandusky, 73, was charged with sexually abusing 10 boys in 2012. Jerry, a former Penn State assistant football coach, was found guilty of 45 out of 48 counts against him and sentenced to 60 years in prison.

Sandusky is one of Jerry's six adopted children but is not the only one whose life may have been directly impacted by Jerry's actions. Matthew Sandusky publicly accused Jerry of molesting him and testified against him during his trial. He even spoke about the abuse on Oprah.

However, Jeffrey denied that his brother was abused. Following Matthew's Oprah appearance, he signed a letter with his other four siblings claiming to have never seen any inappropriate behavior from his father.

"We saw no abuse ever take place and never saw or heard of any indication that anything inappropriate was ever occurring," the letter read.

In 2015, Jeffrey told the Bleacher Report that "Matt is a good person," but "this is bull. My dad is innocent. I can guarantee you that. He's innocent."

Comment: Food for thought:




Heart - Black

TSA & airport staff face life in prison after shipping 20 tons of cocaine in 18 years

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© Mario Anzuoni / Reuters
Twelve current and former TSA officers and airport staff are facing possible life sentences after being indicted on an alleged drug trafficking operation that smuggled 20 tons of cocaine into the US through Puerto Rico over an 18-year period.

The US Department of Justice announced the charges on Monday, following a federal grand jury's indictment in Puerto Rico last Wednesday.

From 1988 to 2016, about 40,000 pounds, or two tons, of cocaine went through Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, according to the DOJ.

Handcuffs

Slain Missouri KKK leader's wife, stepson charged

Paul Edward Jinkerson Jr. and Malissa Ancona

Paul Edward Jinkerson Jr. and Malissa Ancona
The wife and stepson of a Ku Klux Klan leader found fatally shot next to a river in eastern Missouri were charged in his death Monday.

Malissa Ann Ancona, 44, and her 24-year-old son, Paul Edward Jinkerson Jr., were charged with first-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence and abandonment of a corpse in the death of Frank Ancona. Both are jailed without bond.

Comment: See also: Mysterious: Self-proclaimed KKK 'imperial wizard' found dead near Missouri river after employer reports him as missing


Light Sabers

Constitutional law professor warns about rampant corruption within America's police departments

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Courts and other forces have weakened Constitutional protections against police misconduct, and those guarantees meant to protect citizens from their government are likely to erode more over the next four years, predicted a noted Constitutional scholar.

"I am more afraid for my country and for the things that I believe in than at any other time of my life," said University of California Irvine School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, considered one of the country's top legal scholars.

Chemerinsky is also one of the lawyers who filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump recently, alleging Trump is in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits government officials from accepting titles, gifts, salaries and the like from foreign governments without the consent of Congress.

Chemerinsky was the keynote speaker at Friday's 21st Century Policing symposium sponsored by the University of Georgia School of Law and the Georgia Law Review.

In the late 1960s, the Kerner Commission, appointed by President Lyndon Johnson, linked harsh, racially biased police tactics to the riots of the time. And 50 years later, police abuse remains rampant, with the victims disproportionately African Americans and other people of color, according to Chemerinsky.

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Jerry Sandusky's son charged with child sexual assault

jeffrey sandusky
© Centre County Prison
One of Jerry Sandusky's children is accused of sex crimes involving two teenage girls.

Jeffrey Sandusky, 41, is facing 14 counts including: statutory sexual assault, solicitation sexual abuse of children, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and unlawful contact with a minor.

According to a criminal complaint from Pennsylvania State Police, the accused had been dating the mother of one of the alleged victims and lived in her home for about five years.

The investigation was initiated on Nov. 21, 2016.

Sheriff

Jay-walking cop throws hot coffee at biker, caught on video

Cop throws coffee
© Elijah Bling/Facebook
Uniformed officer throws hot coffee at a motorcyclist as he drives by.
A jaywalking Chicago cop became upset at a group of motorcyclists speeding through city streets, so he tossed a hot cup of coffee at one of the bikers. Apparently, the cop was unaware the biker was recording him, capturing the incident on video.

"I got you on camera, bro," said the man who goes by Elijah Bling on Facebook. "Yeah, I got you."

The man then speeds away with the other bikers as the video cuts out.

The video was posted to Facebook on Sunday and shows a group of bikers speeding through the area of what appears to be near E. Hubbard Street and N. State Street. The coffee cup appears to be an extra large sized coffee cup from a nearby 7-11 or maybe a Starbucks, both who are known to give free coffee to cops.

In fact, it's an open secret that many restaurants and franchises provide free food and coffee to cops to thank them for keeping them safe. The equivalent of protection money.


Comment: #BluePrivilege, let's not hold our breath until they discipline this officer. In all likelihood he'll get a slap on the wrist, if anything. If a normal citizen threw hot coffee on people that they passed on the street, there'd be jail time and civil lawsuit.


Comment: We'll have to wait and see what comes of this investigation.


Roses

Father of slain Palestinian dies 'of shock' in Umm al-Hiran

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Father of Yacoub Abu al-Qee'an reportedly died Thursday morning, after succumbing to shock over the death of his son, who was killed while defending his village of Umm al-Hiran.

According to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency, a sword has hung over the heads of Umm al-Hiran's 1,000 inhabitants for many months, now, as the Israeli government has advanced plans to raze the Palestinian Bedouin village of 150 homes and replace it with a town exclusive to Israeli Jews.

Raed Abu al-Qee'an, Yacoub's 40-year-old nephew, said that not only did the police kill him in cold blood, "but now they are holding his body hostage to try to make more convincing their ridiculous story that he is a terrorist." Al-Qee'an's body was laid to rest Thursday afternoon, alas without a chance to bid farewell to his son

Video link via the Alternative Information Center interview: Akram Abu al-Qiyan, Umm al Hiran

Sheriff

Ex-Livermore cop charged with purchasing sex from a teenager will have his charges dismissed

justice, trials, Nancy O'Malley
© Noah Berger, Special To The Chronicle
Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley attends a news conference where she announced that her office plans to charge seven current or former police officers for crimes related to a sexually exploited teenager who goes by Celeste Guap on Friday, Sept. 9, 2016, in Oakland, Cali
On the eve of trial, a former Livermore police officer accused in an expansive sexual misconduct scandal reached a plea bargain Thursday that may erase all the allegations against him.

Daniel Black agreed to plead no contest to one misdemeanor count of lewd conduct in public. Prosecutors said that while off duty as a police officer in April, Black and a teenager engaged in sexual acts in his motor home on two occasions and that he paid for her dinners and gave her alcohol in exchange.

Five other misdemeanor charges against Black — including lewd conduct, engaging in prostitution and giving alcohol to a minor — were dismissed with the deal.

The 19-year-old woman, whose mother is an Oakland police dispatcher, has said officers and sheriff's deputies from around the Bay Area had sex with her in the past two years. She told The Chronicle that some of the officers paid her, while others tipped her off about prostitution stings or ran the names of people she knew through law enforcement databases.

Comment: An unfortunately timed medical emergency, we hope the young woman is okay.

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