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Texas woman sentenced to 40 years in prison for trying to prostitute her 2 year old daughter


RT
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 23:05 UTC
Lost in Texas / Facebook
© FacebookLost in Texas
A 25-year-old woman from Texas has been sentenced to 40 years behind bars for attempting to sell her two-year-old daughter for a sex act, for $1,200, to an undercover police officer who impersonated a willing pedophile.

In a carefully devised sting operation targeting child exploitation and abuse, led by Detective Serratt of the Montgomery County Precinct 1 Constable's Office, officers managed to track down and arrest 25-year-old Sarah Peters, who in February this year planned to sell her two-year-old daughter online to someone desiring to "engage in sex acts with the child for a fee of $1,200.00."

Once Peters arranged to pimp out her daughter, she took the child to the drop off point in Conroe, Texas, north of Houston. When she and the toddler arrived at the Greyhound bus station she was immediately arrested by the Internet Crimes Against Children's Task Force and Department of Homeland Security officers.

Comment: This pure evil was stopped by law enforcement, but how many parents - doing the same thing - go unstopped??

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Australia will start fining parents every two weeks if they don't vaccinate their children

Emma Fiala
MintPressNews.com
Sat, 07 Jul 2018 22:50 UTC
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Australia's "No Jab, No Pay" policy just got a little stronger, or at least more insistent. Under the previous policy, parents who did not keep their children up to date on vaccinations would miss out on a one-time, end-of-the-year tax benefit called Family Tax Benefit Part A, valued at AU$737. Under the updated policy, those same parents will instead lose AU$28 every two weeks while their child is not up to date.

Australia's Minister for Social Services, Dan Tehan, said in a statement:
Immunization is the safest way to protect children from vaccine-preventable diseases. Parents who don't immunize their children are putting their own kids at risk as well as the children of other people."
The expanded No Jab, No Pay policy went into effect on July 1, 2018.
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Eva Bartlett discusses Syria, Israeli violence in Gaza and MSM lies

Eva Bartlett
In Gaza and Beyond
Tue, 10 Jul 2018 00:16 UTC
Eva Barlett
© Global Research
Recently, Global Research TV had me on to discuss Syria, Palestine, and MSM lies:
In this special July 2 edition of GRTV, we interview Canadian award-winning journalist Eva Bartlett about her most recent trip to Syria.

In this 26 minute feature Bartlett talks about residents in Douma who refute the accusations of chemical weapons attacks there, she talks about the kidnapping of civilians and the hoarding of food by terrorist factions, Western governments reprisals in April which affected cancer care facilities, an the toll sanctions were taking on the country.

Eva also recounts her experiences in Gaza and how they inform her understanding of Israel's most recent attacks on protesters at the Israel-Gaza border wall.

Videography by Paul S Graham.
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The American Jews have abandoned Gaza and the Truth

Peter Beinart
Forward
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
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© Mosaic Magazine
"In our time," wrote George Orwell in 1946, "political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible." British colonialism, the Soviet gulag and America's dropping of an atomic bomb, he argued, "can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face." So how do people defend the indefensible? Through "euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness." By obscuring the truth.

So it is, more than 70 years later, with Israeli policy toward the Gaza Strip. The truth is too brutal to honestly defend. Why are thousands of Palestinians risking their lives by running toward the Israeli snipers who guard the fence that encloses Gaza? Because Gaza is becoming uninhabitable. That's not hyperbole. The United Nations says that Gaza will be "unlivable" by 2020, maybe sooner.

Hamas bears some of the blame for that: Its refusal to recognize Israel, its decades of terrorist attacks and its authoritarianism have all worsened Gaza's plight. Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority bears some of the blame too. So does Egypt.

But the actor with the greatest power over Gaza is Israel. Israeli policies are instrumental in denying Gaza's people the water, electricity, education and food they need to live decent lives.

How do kind, respectable, well-meaning American Jews defend this? How do they endorse the strangulation of 2 million human beings? Orwell provided the answer. They do so because Jewish leaders, in both Israel and the United States, encase Israel's actions in a fog of euphemism and lies.

The fog consists, above all, of three words - "withdrew," "security" and "Hamas" - which appear to absolve Israel of responsibility for the horror it oversees.

Comment: Whether Israel lives in such hostile conditions that condone the genocide of another population is a big part of the debate - swayed to its benefit with messaging and persuasion techniques that hamstring (sorry not kosher) the thinking of those who have fealty, or lineage, or sympathy, or religious beliefs concerning Israel. Israel has created 'sides' and American Jews are forced to choose or be ostracized from their American Jewish communities. Those who have the capacity to allow independent thinking without prejudice see a different construct in Israel than is popularly projected.

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Trump demands NATO allies to spend more, meanwhile Pentagon buys $1.2K mugs, $10K toilet seats


RT
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 00:31 UTC
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© Shizuo Kambayashi/Reuters
Toilet seat covers that cost $10,000? Coffee mugs for $1,200 apiece? No wonder NATO countries aren't too keen to follow US military spending benchmarks. Even the Pentagon is looking for better deals and 3D printing for savings.

While President Donald Trump browbeats NATO allies into increasing their military spending, the US Department of Defense is spending untold amounts of taxpayer money on common items it could buy off the shelf or even make in-house, were the military actually allowed to do so.


In one recently reported example, crews of the air tankers and cargo planes based at the Travis Air Force Base in southern California live in dread of dropping the special cups designed to reheat coffee or tea on long flights. The metal cup's fragile plastic handle is prone to breaking, and there are no replacements to be found, requiring the Air Force to spend up to $1,220 for an entirely new mug.

Comment: $10K for a replacement toilet seat lid is a crappy deal.

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The world is running out of gold with no substitute, says experts


RT
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 09:42 UTC
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© Leonhard Foeger/Reuters
People responsible for supplying the world with gold are sounding the alarm, saying discoveries of the precious metal are shrinking and there's no reasonable substitute.

Mining companies are no longer finding new deposits of gold to replace their aging mines. South Africa's 140-year-old gold industry - which was once the world's largest - is currently facing a major crisis. The country's mineral council says 75 percent of gold mines are unprofitable or barely making money.

"We were all talking about how production was going to increase every year. I think those days are probably gone," said Nick Holland, CEO of South Africa's largest gold producer Gold Fields.

He was echoed by Rudy Fronk, chairman and CEO of Seabridge Gold, who noted that "Peak gold is the new reality in the gold business with reserves now being mined much faster than they are being replaced."

According to Kevin Dushnisky, president of mining giant Barrick Gold, "Falling grades and production levels, a lack of new discoveries, and extended project development timelines are bullish for the medium and long-term gold price outlook."

Comment: 'Goldzinger!' Run out of nuggets and up goes gold's valuation and prices. Is it truly tapping out?

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China cracks down after research papers investigation finds massive peer-review fraud

Dennis Normile
Science
Mon, 31 Jul 2017 02:30 UTC
Retracted articles
© Emily Petersen
A massive peer-review fraud has triggered a tough response from the Chinese government. Officials last week announced that more than 400 researchers listed as authors on some 100 now-retracted papers will face disciplinary action because their misconduct has seriously damaged China's scientific reputation.

Some institutions have barred the scientists linked to the fraud from pursuing their research - at least temporarily. And they have imposed other penalties, including canceling promotions, honors, and grants. Government ministries have also announced new "zero tolerance" policies aimed at stamping out research fraud. "We should eradicate the problem from its roots," said He Defang, director of the Ministry of Science and Technology's (MOST's) regulatory division in Beijing.

Although China has previously cracked down on scientific misconduct - a chronic problem - these penalties "are the harshest ever," says Chen Bikun, an information scientist at the Nanjing University of Science and Technology in China who tracks trends in scientific publishing.
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With meat consumption soaring, small butcher shops in a 'renaissance' as people seek healthier meats sans antibiotics and hormones

Dylan Jackson
Miami Herald
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 19:25 UTC
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© C.M. GUERREROVinnie 'The Butcher' Covillo displays the fresh cut steaks from Laurenzo's Italian Market in North Miami Beach on Friday, June 22, 2018.
Even when it falls on a Wednesday, the Fourth of July is a cause for rejoicing. And in spite of the onslaught of plant-based cuisine, burgers, ribs, steaks and bratwurst are standards on nearly every grill.

In fact, meat consumption is soaring to record levels - even though 12 percent of Americans ages 18 to 49 are partially vegan or vegetarian, according to a 2016 Pew Research Poll. This year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is expecting each American to consume a record amount of red meat and poultry - an average of 222 pounds per person. That's 20 pounds more meat per person, per year, than in 2014.

Another change: where Americans are buying their meat. While many still drop into the nearest Publix or Walmart to snag their burgers and hotdogs, an increasing number of conscious eaters are going old school by shopping at carnicerias and specialty butcher shops.

Miami-Dade County is home to 34 butcher shops with a total of 279 employees, according to Census data for 2016. That's down from 45 in 2013 and 47 in 2010. (By comparison, there are 39 Publix markets in Miami-Dade alone.) Nationally, 10 percent of all butcher shops have closed since 2010.
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SOTT Focus: Trump's Supreme Court Nominee and the 'War on Gay Rights'

Corey Schink
Sott.net
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 18:30 UTC
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© ReutersRepublican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds up a rainbow flag with “LGBTs for TRUMP” written on it at a campaign rally in Greeley, Colorado, U.S. October 30, 2016
For all the hullabaloo regarding Trump's nomination for the Supreme Court, one would be forgiven for thinking that Dems actually care about law and order

While Lisa Page dodges a House-issued subpoena to testify before Congress, US media is up in arms over Trump's -shock- Congressional Supreme Court nominee. If we're to believe CNN, Trump's pick for the Supreme Court will, if confirmed, upend life as we know it. As that failing fake news garbage reported, "Women's rights, gay rights, voting rights, the right to use contraceptives -- so much of modern life -- could be upended."

Hyperbole aside, they're right about one thing: much of what passes for 'values' and 'culture' in modern life - better termed postmodern life - is taking a good, wholesome beating. The appointment of yet one more conservative on the Supreme Court is just the latest punch in the culture wars.
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Employee with concealed carry permit pulls gun on violent patron, ends situation immediately

Timothy Meads
Townhall
Sat, 07 Jul 2018 18:27 UTC
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Another day another thug with a penchant for picking the wrong woman to mess with comes face-to-face with a loaded gun. This time it occurred in Wisconsin at a restaurant when an employee utilized her second amendment rights and deterred an attacker from continuing to hurt her co-worker.

In a video that is circulating across Twitter, a man can be seen venturing back into the kitchen of a George Webb restaurant. The woman at the grill is clearly confused, when all of a sudden the man punches the worker in the face.

That is when her co-worker whips out a gun and points it at the attacker. The man moves towards the armed woman, but she holds her ground. He then leaves. The employee has a concealed carry permit and is allowed to carry the gun at work, according to local media.
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