Society's Child
As TFTP reported earlier this month, Howell police Sgt. Richard Conte, the head of Monmouth County's emergency response team, was arrested and charged with attempting to lure a child into a motor vehicle. The veteran cop, in a supervisory position, has since been suspended without pay and the state Attorney General has since released the disturbing details of the case.
Conte was busted earlier this month in a state-wide sting operation setup to catch child predators. This pillar of the community and "protector of the innocent" - whose base salary tops $140,000 - was caught attempting to lure who he thought was a young female child for sex.
Conte, 47, has since been locked up and charged with second-degree attempted luring or enticing of a child and is being held in the Ocean County jail in Toms River.
On Tuesday, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal gave the details to the public during a press conference. They are nothing short of disgusting.
In contrast, Swedish students outperformed their U.S. peers across the entire distribution in 1995. A similar negative development can be observed in Swedish students' performance in the PISA. Swedish 9th graders performed above the international average in the first cycle of PISA in 2000, but then Sweden's results steadily deteriorated in each of the three PISA core areas-reading, mathematics, and science - until a low point was reached in 2012. Another PISA assessment conducted in 2012 revealed shortcomings in creativity, critical thinking, curiosity, and perseverance, and ranked Sweden 20th out of 28 countries. The findings in the TIMSS and PISA assessments suggest that there has been a significant decline in knowledge among Swedish students in recent years.
Fyssas, a left-wing activist and hip-hop singer, was stabbed to death in 2013, sparking public outrage and casting a spotlight on Golden Dawn. Five years on, thousands of fellow members of the Antifa movement gathered in the capital Athens and other Greek cities to commemorate his life.
The study is "very much under wraps and it's coming into its fifth and final year," said Dr. Quentin Van Meter, an Atlanta pediatric endocrinologist who trained at Johns Hopkins University when "transsexualism" was first studied. He added that the study is:
affirming gender change with family and environmental support in children as young as five years, and using puberty blockers and cross sex hormone treatment in children at the initial onset of puberty which could be as young age 8-9 years, and then following them for only five years.The study is titled The Impact of Early Medical Treatment in Transgender Youth.
Van Meter maintained those claiming to be transgender have significant underlying mental health issues that activists are desperately trying to bury.
Reuters reports that a 39-page application for a search warrant finally solved the mystery, quelling the numerous conspiracy theories that have popped up on social media.
According to local news station KRQE, federal agents found child porn linked to an IP address at the Sunspot observatory in July. In August, they spoke to the chief observer at the facility, who said he found a laptop running in empty offices over the past months. He told the FBI that what he found on the computer was "not good" and that it looked like child pornography.
The city that has gained a reputation for the egregious civil asset forfeiture practices committed by its police department, will now be forced to dismantle the program altogether, as a result of a lawsuit filed by a family who had their home seized by police after their son was accused of a minor drug crime.
Residents who have been harmed by the Philadelphia Police department's civil asset forfeiture practices could also receive part of $3 million in compensation. Markela and Chris Sourovelis initially filed a lawsuit in 2014 after their son was caught trying to sell $40 in heroin on the street.
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In what is being hailed as a major win for Muslim women's rights, the government cleared an ordinance banning the triple talaq practice on Wednesday. The Union Cabinet issued the executive order as the practice had continued "unabated"despite it being ruled unlawful in August last year by the Supreme Court. The five-judge bench decided the practice is un-Islamic. Addressing the media after the Cabinet meeting, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said there was a "compelling necessity and an overpowering urgency" to approve the ordinance.
The snap sparked fury on social media after it was handed over to a left-wing Instagram account, @agirlhasnopresident, which claims it contacted the school in question - Moody High School (MHS) in Alabama - to report the incident. According to the whistleblower's post, "every Friday during football season the students dress up." On the day the photo was taken, the whistleblower alleged that students were dressed up for 'Redneck Day.'
The Greenway Station Mall in the area is also on lockdown due to incident, according to reports. Schools in the area are also reportedly on lockdown.
One local reporter from WISC-TV has said that several ambulances were loaded up and driven away from the scene. The status of the shooter is not yet known.
Comment: More details from FOX News:
Three people were wounded -- none fatally -- during a shooting at an office building in a suburb of Madison, Wisconsin on Wednesday.
The suspect died after being shot by police, a city official told The Associated Press.
The incident occurred at WTS Paradigm, a software company, in Middleton. The building where the shooting was reported also houses Esker Software.
City Administrator Mike Davis initially said four people were injured during the shooting, but he and Middleton Police Chief Chuck Foulke said the correct number is three, not including the suspect.
The extent of the injuries weren't immediately known, but those wounded had been transported to a hospital.
"It appears the situation is stable now," Davis said.
Others who evacuated from the scene of the shooting were being transported to a nearby hotel. At least 40 people were gathered in the hotel's parking lot, waiting to be interviewed by police.
Judy Lahmers, a business analyst at WTS Paradigm, said she was working at her desk when she heard shots at around 10 a.m. She said it sounded "like somebody was dropping boards on the ground, really loud."
Lahmers told The Associated Press she ran out of the building and hid behind a car. She said the building's glass entrance door shattered.© Steve Apps/Wisconsin State Journal via AP
A women is escorted from the scene of a shooting at a software company in Middleton, Wis., Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018.
"I'm not looking back, I'm running as fast as I can. You just wonder: 'Do you hide or do you run?"' she said.
Lahmers said she knew one co-worker had been grazed by a bullet but was otherwise OK. She said the shooting was "totally unexpected. We're all software people. We have a good group."
The Wisconsin State Journal reported one woman, being held up by another person, was taken out of the building screaming about the "devastating loss."
Andrew King, an employee at TrafficCast, told the Wisconsin State Journal he saw a person with a gun.
"I saw a dude walking with a gun inside the building," King said. "He was just walking with it, and I didn't see any shooting."
The shopping center next to the building, Greenway Station, was locked down at the direction of police, according to the center's general manager, Corey Kautzky. There are 34 stores and restaurants in the center that were temporarily closed, Kautzky said.
Multiple police cruisers and ambulances were sent to the scene and the Wisconsin State Journal reported FBI agents had also arrived. The Dane County Sheriff's Office confirmed they were assisting Middleton police. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives of St. Paul tweeted it was responding to the scene, too.
WTS Paradigm makes software for the building products industry. A Wisconsin State Journal profile from 2014 listed company employment at about 145 employees, and noted the company was looking to move to a larger location at the time. The company's website was down Wednesday.
"Sexuality, sex, is a gift of God. Not taboo," Pope Francis told a group of young people from the Diocese of Grenoble-Vienne in France on Monday. That particular comment was in response to a 16-year-old who asked how to navigate in a world that "desecrates" the human body.
"Love between a man and a woman, when it is passionate, it leads you to give your life forever. Forever. And to give it with your body and soul," the pontiff explained, as quoted by the Catholic news website Crux.
















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