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Police hunt for Trump supporter who sucker-punched 69-year-old woman outside NC rally

Tom Boggioni
Raw Story
Tue, 13 Sep 2016 20:47 UTC
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© WLOS
Police in Asheville, North Carolina have issued a warrant for a South Carolina man after he allegedly sucker-punched a 69-year-old woman outside GOP nominee Donald Trump's rally Monday night, reports WLOS.

Police state that they arrested five people outside of the rally, and have issued a warrant for Richard Campbell of Edisto Island, South Carolina for assault on the woman.

In an interview, Shirley Teter said she was outside the rally and was responding "Dump, dump, dump," as fans of the GOP presidential candidate chanted "Trump, Trump, Trump," stating " It was kind of comical."

Teter said she became involved in protesting against Trump because, "I ran into another situation that was sickening my heart."

Confronting Campbell, she claims she said, "You better learn to speak Russian, and I said the first two words are going to be, ha ha. He stopped in his tracks, and he turned around and just cold-cocked me."
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Book 2

Israeli education minister: Jewish studies more important than science & math


RT
Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:30 UTC
jewish education
Israel's Education Minister Naftali Bennett says that learning about the Jewish faith is more important than studying mathematics and science. He made the statement after the government dropped demands for ultra-Orthodox schools to teach core subjects.

"Learning about Judaism and excellence in the subject is more important in my eyes than mathematics and the sciences," said Bennett, "and it is hard for me to say that," he added, as cited by the Times of Israel.

Bennett's comments come as the Israeli government dropped its demand that ultra-Orthodox schools should teach core subjects like math and science in order to receive extra funding from the state.

"Even though [Israel] is a high-tech superpower, an exporter of knowledge and innovation to the world, we must [also] be a spiritual superpower and export spiritual knowledge to the world."
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Bug

Lunch lady poisons child's food in San Saba, TX high school

Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
lunch lady poisoned food
SAN SABA, Texas - Parents of a Texas high schooler claim a school employee poisoned their son's lunch after an altercation with the child's mother.

Serena and Gary Spivey filed a lawsuit against Mullin Independent School District this week after they claim their son became seriously sick last Friday after eating his school lunch, KXXV reports.

Serena Spivey said the incident was the latest in a series of altercations with the school's lunch lady, Ms. Day, who had repeatedly threatened to poison her son's food.
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US Census Bureau finds median income is up, but women and minorities are still the poorest


RT
Tue, 13 Sep 2016 21:05 UTC
dollar bills
© Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters
The median household income in the US was $56,500 in 2015, in increase of 5.2 percent from 2014, according to the US Census Bureau. Additionally, the US poverty rate dropped 1.2 percent, while the percentage of people without health insurance also fell.

The boost in median household income (in real terms) from 2014's $53,718 is the first annual increase of that figure since 2007, the Census Bureau announced Tuesday as part of its release of two reports, Income and Poverty in the United States: 2015 and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2015.

Real median income for family households in 2015 was $72,165, while non-family households was $33,805, increases from 2014 of 5.3 percent and 5.4 percent, respectively. Real median income in 2015 was 1.6 percent lower than 2007 and 2.4 percent lower than in 1999, the peak year for that figure.

Real median income of Hispanic households increased by 6.1 percent, while non-Hispanic white and black household incomes increased by 4.4 percent and 4.1 percent, respectively. Asian households registered the highest median income in 2015, but the percentage change from 2014 was not statistically significant.


Comment: When compared to the standard of living increases, raising the median income by percentage points probably does little to make life easier for the average American.

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Scumbag hacks neighbor's unsecured wi-fi connection to download, distribute child pornography

Trang Do
CBS Philly
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 11:05 UTC
wifi hacked
Investigators with the Camden County Prosecutor's Office said a Clementon man used his neighbor's open network to download and distribute thousands of images of child pornography.

On September 1, at 5:30 a.m., officers jolted a couple out of bed in their Windmill Drive home, seeking the person responsible for downloading and sharing tens of thousands of images of child pornography.

Comment: See also: Virginia federal court rules that government can access personal computers with no warrant or probable cause

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Dollar Gold

Oxfam says staggering class divide between rich and poor contributed to Brexit


RT
Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:06 UTC
homeless man
© Paul Hackett / Reuters
Britain's staggering social inequality - where the richest 1 percent possess more than 20 times the wealth of the poorest fifth - contributed to Brexit, a damning report by Oxfam claims.

The anti-poverty charity has called on Prime Minister Theresa May to take action to close the gap between rich and poor in Britain, one of the most unequal countries in the developed world.

Research indicates around 634,000 Britons are worth 20 times as much as the poorest 13 million.

Rising property prices over the past 20 years, combined with golden handshakes for retiring corporate directors, have helped distribute wealth upwards, while the majority of people who rent and have no pension have seen their wealth remain static or decrease.

Comment: Inequality is part of the 'natural order of things' for the psychopathic elites who profit from exploiting ordinary people and playing with their lives like a game of chess. For the average person, the struggle to get through daily life is no game.

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Sheriff

Nanny state: 8-year-old Missouri boy served restraining order, pulled from school for threatening neighbor children

Victor Skinner
EAG News
Tue, 13 Sep 2016 18:32 UTC
Peyton Whitehead
© KMOVPeyton Whitehead
Jefferson County third grader Peyton Whitehead was served at school Thursday. The 8-year-old Hillsboro Elementary student was in class as normal Thursday when a county sheriff's deputy paid him a visit to serve an ex-parte order of protection, which essentially forces him to remain in his home until his Sept. 20 court date, his mother told KMOV.

"The cop told me that my son is not allowed to attend school now," Danielle Whitehead said as she broke into tears. "He cannot go to school. ... "I don't know what to do," she said. "I have to wait till the court date."

The personal protection order issued through the 23rd Judicial Circuit Court is the latest development in a long running dispute with the Whitehead's neighbors, andit alleges Peyton made threats against the neighbor's children, according to the news site.

The order requires Peyton to remain at least 1,000 feet from the neighbors, who live on his block just outside of Hillsboro. Danielle Whitehead said the police officer she spoke with "explained that if he did ever have any contact with them as he's riding his bicycle or anything like that they would have to come and put handcuffs on him and put him in juvenile" detention.

"My 8-year-old son they would arrest," she said. The mother told the news site that the threats her son made against the neighbor kids were already handled by the elementary school, and she also punished him for it.
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Bad Guys

Staggering figures show 10 biggest corporations make more money than most of world combined


RT
Tue, 13 Sep 2016 14:00 UTC
Corporations
© Rick Wilking / Reuters
The world's top ten corporations, including Apple, Shell and Walmart, have a combined revenue that is greater than the combined income of the 180 "poorest" countries out of the world's total 195 sovereign states.

The figures, which reveal that Walmart, Apple and Shell alone are now richer than Russia, Belgium and Sweden, were released by the campaign group Global Justice Now.

Sixty-nine of the world's 100 top economic entities are now corporations instead of countries - a rise from last year's staggering figure of 63. Out of the top 200 entities in the world, a whopping 153 were found to be corporations.

The US, China, Germany, Japan, France and the UK comprise the top six economic entities followed by Italy, Brazil and Canada.
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Black Magic

Creepy: Mystery heart found in Ziploc bag in Ohio field

Jen Picciano
Cleveland19 News
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 18:04 UTC
Police line tape
© Shannon Stapleton / Reuters
A bizarre case out of Huron County has detectives looking for the person who belonged to a heart discovered in a field on Milan Avenue in Norwalk.

All the Norwalk police department has right now is a heart in a Ziploc bag. They're hoping to determine if it's human, and where it came from.

"This is pretty unusual. We have no idea where it came from," said Sgt. Jim Fulton, with Norwalk Police Department.

In late August, a North Central EMS crew idling at the Friendship Store on Milan Avenue came across the heart. Fulton said the heart was in good condition and had only just started to decompose. He says there's no indication it was part of a violent crime.

"I talked to the Lucas County Coroner and she seemed to think that it hadn't been in that field very long. It could have possibly been frozen prior to that," said Fulton.
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Bizarro Earth

River in arctic Russian city mysteriously turns blood red: Update nickel plant at fault

Patrick Reevell
ABC News
Wed, 07 Sep 2016 18:28 UTC
blood red river russia
© via ABC NewsThe Daldykan River near the Russian city of Norilsk flowing crimson.
Startled residents of a Russian city inside the Arctic Circle have been posting photos of a local river that has mysteriously turned blood red.

Photos published on Russian social media appear to the show the Daldykan River near the city of Norilsk flowing crimson. Russian authorities have yet to establish a reason for the river's unusual appearance, but local people quickly linked it to a giant metals plant upstream. Russia's Environment Ministry said it was investigating the plant as the likely cause.

Norilsk is known as one of the most polluted cities on earth, built around factories mostly belonging to the vast metals company Norilsk Nickel. Some Norilsk residents wrote in a local social media group that they believe the river's biblical shade is linked to runoff from a nearby smelting plant.

Some suggested the color was being produced by wastewater mixed with mineral ore leaking into the river from the Hope Metals Plant.

Comment: The Norilsk nickel plant has admitted to be the cause:
Russian metals giant Norilsk Nickel has admitted that a spillage at one of its plants was responsible for a local river turning blood red.

Despite initially denying that it was responsible, Norilsk Nickel admitted on September 12 that heavy rains on September 5 had resulted in water flooding over a "filtration dam" at the plant and into the river.

"Despite the short-term discoloration of the water...this incident does not present a danger for people or fauna in the river," said a statement from Norilsk Nickel, the world's largest producer of nickel and other major industrial metals.

But activists said it was too early to evaluate the environmental impact of the spillage as the official investigation was still ongoing.


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