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Local liberal censorship: Missouri DOT pleads 'error in judgement, apologizes for editing photo of boy wearing 'Trump 2020' shirt, hat

Nicole Sanders
KMOV4
Fri, 25 Oct 2019 20:01 UTC

The Missouri Department of Transportation's Northeast District is issuing an apology after posting an edited photo of an Illinois boy on social media.

On Oct. 18, MoDOT crews demolished the old Champ Clark Bridge, which spanned across the Mississippi River for 90 years. In honor of the implosion, 13-year-old Mitchell Lemons, of Nebo, Illinois, won the opportunity to press the button that would bring the bridge down. Lemons' name was drawn in a raffle after he bought a ticket benefiting local EMS.

The 13-year-old wore a "Trump 2020" t-shirt and matching hat to the event. However, the picture that was posted on MoDOT's Facebook page had Lemon's hat slightly blacked out and the photo was cropped.

Sanctuary politicians could be sued if proposed bill is adopted

Charlotte Cuthbertson
The Epoch Times
Wed, 23 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC

© Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
Angel parents comfort each other while holding pictures of their loved ones, who were killed by illegal aliens, at an event outside the Capitol building in Washington on Sept. 25, 2019.

Under sanctuary policies, many jails release illegal immigrants who have been convicted or charged with a crime, despite a request from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hold the person for transfer of custody.

A bill sponsored by Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) aims to allow any subsequent victims of crimes committed by that illegal alien to sue the politicians who created the sanctuary policies.

The bill, Justice for Victims of Sanctuary Cities Act of 2019, was introduced in July to the Senate Judiciary Committee and a hearing was held Oct. 22.

"These reckless sanctuary policies are putting our brave law enforcement officers at risk and the general public in harm's way," Tillis said. "In many cases, I believe these serious crimes could have been avoided if local agencies simply complied with U.S. law and cooperated with ICE."

Is a stock market crash imminent? Nobel Laureate sees trouble 'bubbles everywhere'

Matt Krantz
Investor's Business Daily
Fri, 25 Oct 2019 08:00 UTC

When Nobel Laureate and Irrational Exuberance author Robert Shiller says he sees bubbles in the financial markets — you'd better listen up. He literally wrote the book on stock market crashes and bubbles after all.

"I see bubbles everywhere," Shiller, economics professor at Yale University and author of just-published Narrative Economics told investors gathered in Los Angeles Wednesday. "There's no place to go. You just have to ride it out. You invest even though you expect the price to decline." Shiller famously predicted the 2000 stock market crash and the 2007 crash of the housing market.

The timing of Shiller's ominous warning comes at a scary time. This is the month of the 90th anniversary of Black Monday. That day on Oct. 28, 1929, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 13%. That still stands as the second-worst drop in history and, combined with the pounding the stock market took in early days of the depression, took 25 years for investors to recover from.

Shiller sees bubbles in the stock market, bond market and the housing market. "You get ... in a situation where you know it's going to decline, but you still saved enough to hold you over; you have no choice."

Unrest in Chile continues as reform proposal is rejected, protesters deterred by water canon and tear gas

RT
Thu, 24 Oct 2019 23:03 UTC

Smoke and tear gas filled the air in Santiago as demonstrators clashed with riot police on the city's seventh day of protests - sparked by ballooning public transportation fees - after a promise of reform failed to end the unrest.

Tens of thousands gathered in the streets of Chile's capital on Thursday to join the chaotic demonstrations, in which some 200 have been injured and at least 18 killed, facing police water cannon, rubber bullets and tear gas. In addition to the police presence, around 20,000 soldiers have been deployed to quell the protests, carrying out over 5,000 arrests in the country since last Friday.

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Russian gun activist Maria Butina released from prison, to return to Moscow

RT
Fri, 25 Oct 2019 00:13 UTC

Maria Butina is finally coming back home, after spending over a year behind bars in a bizarre case of anti-Russian hysteria that saw the gun rights activist libeled in the media and locked up as an "unregistered foreign agent."

She is expected to leave a federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida and transfer to a migrant center in Miami on Friday, Russian ambassador in Washington, Anatoly Antonov confirmed. The same day Butina would board a plane to Moscow set to touch down in the Russian capital on Saturday morning.

Butina was sentenced by a US federal judge for 18 months in April after pleading guilty to conspiring to act as a foreign agent without registration. Antonov said that he hopes Butina's belated homecoming would "put an end to the most difficult period in her life," and wished the 30-year-old reunite with her family and loved ones as soon as possible.

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Ex-Trump admin. student loan official says system is 'fundamentally broken', calls for debt forgiveness

RT
Thu, 24 Oct 2019 21:17 UTC

A Trump administration student loan official has left his post, blasting a "broken" loan system and calling for college debt forgiveness. Though it's is a popular progressive view, he's planning to run for office as Republican.

A. Wayne Johnson stepped down from his post at the Office of Federal Student Aid on Thursday, offering a blistering critique of a system that has saddled the average borrower with tens of thousands of dollars in debt that cannot be canceled or, increasingly, repaid. Americans owe $1.5 trillion in student loan debt, and 40 percent of them are expected to default on it by 2023. Johnson told the Wall Street Journal:

"When ... somebody has $40,000 in student loan debt and, because of forbearances or deferments and the accrual of interest, they wind up with $120,000, you have to step back and say this is fundamentally broken. The time has come for us to end and stop this insanity."

Johnson wants to replace the existing system with a $50,000 credit for students looking to attend college, a credit that does not require repayment. For those already encumbered by debt, he'd forgive $50,000 of it, which would cancel out the balances of some 37 million borrowers. Those who've already repaid the money would receive a $50,000 tax credit. If that sounds like a campaign promise, Johnson is running for the Georgia Senate seat that will be left vacant at the end of the year when Republican Johnny Isakson retires.

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Police commander and his wife arrested, ran a child sex ring

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 24 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC

A high level Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office deputy — who commanded the SWAT team — has been arrested this week for unspeakable crimes against children. Dennis Perkins, 44, and and his wife Cynthia Perkins, 34, are accused of multiple counts of child rape and the production of child pornography, among other disturbing charges.

On Wednesday, the couple was arrested after a months-long criminal probe headed up by the Louisiana Attorney General's Office. After the arrest, footage of the alleged child rapist was posted to Twitter, showing him being led into prison in shackles.

Punishing Assange sends 'we will get you' warning to other journalists, Roger Waters tells RT

RT
Fri, 25 Oct 2019 17:01 UTC

© Hannah Mckay / Reuters
A protester wears a Julian Assange mask outside Westminster Magistrates Court in London, June 14, 2019.

British rock legend and Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters told RT that by going after WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange governments want to scare off journalists and whistleblowers from exposing the truth.

Those persecuting Assange are "applying the heaviest possible penalty they can on him for stepping out of line and doing his job as a journalist," Waters told RT's Afshin Rattansi on his show Going Underground.

They're clearly trying as hard as they can to kill him... Julian Assange is becoming a warning to other journalists that if you tell the truth - particularly to power - 'we will get you.'

Comment: See also: Don't railroad Assange to Virginia

Chinese team disqualified for 'extensive cheating' at Military World Games

Ben Westcott
CNN
Fri, 25 Oct 2019 17:42 UTC

A Chinese team has been kicked out of its own Military World Games after other countries alerted judges to "extensive cheating" by the hosts.

Originally the Chinese athletes had taken the first, second and fourth places in the women's middle-distance orienteering competition, as well as second place in the men's, during the race on Sunday, according to a statement by the International Orienteering Federation (IOF).

But after a complaint by six European countries, including Russia and France, judges discovered that Chinese runners had been assisted by local spectators. This included onlookers placing markings and preparing special paths in the terrain for Chinese athletes, which only those competitors were aware of.

US charges six investment bankers over insider trading scheme

Chris Prentice
Reuters
Fri, 25 Oct 2019 17:33 UTC

U.S. prosecutors said on Tuesday they had charged six members of an insider trading ring who worked for firms including Goldman Sachs Group (GS.N), Moelis and Centerview Partners and allegedly booked tens of millions of dollars in illicit profits.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York has arrested three members of the international ring and unsealed four separate indictments in recent days.

The bankers and others all booked trading profits off nonpublic information related to deals including acquisitions, the prosecutors said in a statement.

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Society's Child

Local liberal censorship: Missouri DOT pleads 'error in judgement, apologizes for editing photo of boy wearing 'Trump 2020' shirt, hat

Sanctuary politicians could be sued if proposed bill is adopted

Is a stock market crash imminent? Nobel Laureate sees trouble 'bubbles everywhere'

Unrest in Chile continues as reform proposal is rejected, protesters deterred by water canon and tear gas

Russian gun activist Maria Butina released from prison, to return to Moscow

Ex-Trump admin. student loan official says system is 'fundamentally broken', calls for debt forgiveness

Police commander and his wife arrested, ran a child sex ring

Punishing Assange sends 'we will get you' warning to other journalists, Roger Waters tells RT

Chinese team disqualified for 'extensive cheating' at Military World Games

US charges six investment bankers over insider trading scheme

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