[Guardian] A resident of a retirement community made the deadly toxin ricin and tested it on her neighbours by putting it on their food or in drinks, investigators said.
Betty Miller told an FBI agent she wanted to "injure herself" and was testing the effectiveness of the poison on other residents at the Wake Robin senior living facility, according to a criminal complaint.
Miller, 70, made her first appearance in federal court on Friday. Judge John Conroy noted that she had a "lengthy mental health history" but did not elaborate. She was placed in custody and was scheduled to be in court again on Wednesday. Miller said she was working on getting a lawyer.
Police were called to the senior community in Shelburne on Tuesday after Miller told heathcare providers she had manufactured the ricin and placed it on other residents’ food and beverages, the agent said in the complaint.
The state health department said on Friday it became aware of one person who probably became ill with ricin poisoning but said no one was currently ill.
Miller said she harvested 30 to 40 castor beans from plants growing on Wake Robin’s property and made two to three tablespoons of ricin twice in her kitchen, the complaint said. She exposed other residents to the ricin on at least three occasions, the complaint said.
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No one in Vermont voted for Trump, and the name doesn't sound particularly Jewish. A "lengthy mental health history" may indicate she's a life-long democrat. Whom can we possibly blame ?
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Reminds me a bit of a paranoid old lady I once knew who devised a method to protect herself from her next door neighbor lady, who happened to have an implanted pacemaker. She bought a microwave oven & kept it plugged in near her front door, so she could "nuke" her imagined enemy should that ever have become necessary.
[HERALD.CO.ZW] Zim-bob-we National Army (ZNA) Commander Lieutenant-General Philip Valerio Sibanda says corrupt Government officials are partly to blame for the socio-economic problems facing the country.
Speaking at a passing out parade for 590 recruits at 53 Infantry Battalion in Kwekwe yesterday, Lt-Gen Sibanda said the recent military action that ushered in a new political dispensation was meant to weed out corrupt elements who had captured the State.
He said while Zim-bob-we had endured the impact of illegal sanctions imposed by the West and America, corruption had worsened the situation.
"Some corrupt members of our Government had digressed from their core mandate of serving the people to robbing the people through corruption and fiscal indiscipline, taking advantage of their proximity to the former Head of State, Cde Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case. Dumped in November 2017 when the Missus decided she wanted to be president, and opposed heer might against Crocodile Mnangawa Important safety tip: If your opponent goes by the name Crocodile andf your title is Shopper in Chief let him win.... ," said Lt-Gen Sibanda.
"These acts of indiscipline aimed at enriching individuals were causing a lot of social and economic problems in the country and the defence forces had to intervene in order to restore normality in the country," Lt-Gen Sibanda said.
As a result of the ZDF intervention, he said, the country was going through a political transition following the resignation of the former President.
The new President, Cde Emmerson Mnangagwa, was sworn-in as Head of State and and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zim-bob-we Defence Forces last week.
President Mnangagwa has already declared zero tolerance on corruption and warned that tough measures will be taken on those who indulge in the vice.
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[HERALD.CO.ZW] President Emmerson Mnangagwa says his Government is preparing for a massive industrialisation and modernisation of the economy underpinned by a new thinking in wealth creation.
The Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zim-bob-we Defence Forces said this in an acceptance speech at his installation as Second Chancellor of Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) in Chinhoyi yesterday.
He said Zim-bob-we, with an empowered young population armed with critical skills in innovation, entrepreneurship and creativity, should compete in the global village.
The market, he said, yearned for finished products as technological advancement now anchors economic development.
"Globalisation has increased competition in the world and Zim-bob-we has to continue to produce quality graduates in the education sector if we are to keep pace and remain relevant in the economic development race," said President Mnangagwa.
"The need to provide the market with finished products cannot be overemphasised as the world has grown fiercely competitive since technological advancement has become synonymous with economic development."
Cde Mnangagwa said there was need to keep up with global developments and prepare young people to face the challenges and jealously guard natural resources.
"Chinhoyi University of Technology indeed is a young and vibrant institution favoured with a special mandate to lead industrial development and the nurturing of entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity," he said.
"These objectives are in tandem with our new thrust as Government to empower our young people with critical skills that will drive industrialisation and modernisation of the economy and inculcate a new thinking in wealth creation, innovation and entrepreneurship."
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critical skills in innovation, entrepreneurship and creativity
Have they learned not to poop in the water supply?
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Feed well the parents of the next generation, and their children might be able to absorb the education needed to become tech savvy. The current generation has been busy hunting beetles and grubs to feed their families, and will not be able to make the transition. But the odds are that their children, harmed as their development has been by malnutrition and outright starvation in the critical early stages of brain development, will be considerably less than their genetic potential, as demonstrated by the North Koreans. So we are talking the granchild generation.
On the other hand, feed the current generation well while teaching them to farm and herd, providing them with land, tools, fertilizers, pesticides, seeds, and breeding stock... and by harvest time it will all have been eaten by a population that has learnt the hardest way not to trust the government.
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa says his Government is preparing for a massive industrialisation and modernisation of the economy underpinned by a new thinking in wealth creation.
Only two countries have ever capitalized their own industrialization - England and the Soviet Union. I'm sure you'll find capital investors, like those who are still holding Venezuelan bonds.
[HERALD.CO.ZW] Former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko who returned to Zim-bob-we from Botswana yesterday caused a dramatic 45-minute spectacle at the Plumtree Border Post as he tried to evade the media.
Mr Mphoko had been holed up in Botswana since the Zim-bob-we Defence Forces (ZDF) launched Operation Restore Legacy targeting criminal elements around former President Cde Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case. Dumped in November 2017 when the Missus decided she wanted to be president, and opposed heer might against Crocodile Mnangawa Important safety tip: If your opponent goes by the name Crocodile andf your title is Shopper in Chief let him win.... , who are largely accused of causing instability in both Government and ZANU-PF.
A key member of the G40 cabal, Mr Mphoko left Zim-bob-we on an official visit to Japan on November 14, a day before the army launched the operation.
He did not return to Zim-bob-we but instead flew to Botswana, where he has been a guest of the government.
Highly placed sources said the Botswana government had given him up to December 1 to leave their country and return to Zim-bob-we, but the former VP had been reluctant to do so fearing arrest for corruption-related crimes.
The former VP had been living in a State residence in Gaborone and returned home after reaching out to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and getting the necessary assurances that he was free to come back to Zim-bob-we.
Clad in a white shirt, Mr Mphoko and his family arrived at the Zim-bob-wean side of the border at 1:15pm aboard a Zim-bob-we Department of Immigration minibus accompanied by Botswana immigration officials.
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Yes, but President Trump has a grat great many more nuclear bombs with which to wage it, and a great many more non-nuclear bombs as well. That has implications for winners and losers.
[PRESSTV] North Korea says US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... and his administration are "begging for nuclear war" as Washington and Seoul prepare for a massive air-force drill, in a show of force aimed at Pyongyang.
Trump is "staging an extremely dangerous nuclear gamble on the Korean Peninsula," a North Korean Foreign Ministry front man said in a statement on Saturday.
The statement called Trump a "nuclear demon" and a "disruptor of global peace."
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You know it's almost as if North Korea is in Collusion with the DNC and Deep State...
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Was impressed with South Korean soldiers at the DMZ, the way they handled the defector incident as it unfolded. There is potential for collusion between our stealth assets and their Special ops behind enemy lines.
[CNN] An intercontinental ballistic missile that North Korea said could reach the "whole" mainland of the United States likely broke up upon re-entry into the earth's atmosphere, a US official said Saturday.
North Korea on Tuesday broke a two-month lull in weapons testing. It launched an advanced intercontinental ballistic missile, the Hwasong-15, that state-controlled media described as the "most powerful ICBM" carrying a "super-large heavy warhead" to unprecedented heights of almost 4,500 kilometers (2,800 miles).
Technical analysis of the missile flight is still ongoing but the US official said "the North Koreans had problems with re-entry. "
Coupled with the rogue regime's need to master missile guidance and targeting, the re-entry failure underscores the challenges facing the country's weapons program, according to the official.
Still, the ability of the new missile to fly higher and longer than others in the past signals the program's intent to develop weapons capable of attacking the US.
While some US military officials have referred to the missile launched Tuesday as a "KN 22" -- a designation signaling the launch involves a new type of ICBM -- other officials urge caution in categorizing the missile.
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1) Call it a rumor, but someone* said the Nork missiles contained explosives designed to break them up to keep the Japanese from recovering them.
2) An EMP weapon doesn't need to do much in the way of re-entry and is less fussy about guidance.
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An intercontinental ballistic missile that North Korea said could reach the "whole" mainland of the United States likely broke up upon re-entry into the earth's atmosphere
[EXPRESS.CO.UK] The micro-quake occurred about 1.7 miles northeast of the Punggye-ri nuclear site in the country's northeastern province of North Hamgyong, the Korea Meteorological Administration said on its website.
"The quake is a natural one and it is believed to have occurred in the aftermath of the sixth nuclear test", it said.
Minor tremors have been detected at the site since the North carried out its sixth and most powerful nuclear test underground in September, damaging geological structures in the area.
An official of the Korea Meteorological Administration said: "Kilju is a rocky area where natural earthquakes normally do not occur.
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Okay, how many times has that mountain collapsed ?
[DAWN] A teenager was set ablaze in Lahore on Friday night for allegedly stealing a cellphone in the Nawab Town area.
Locals in the area had to rescue the 19-year-old suspect after the person he allegedly stole a cellphone from doused him in petrol and set him on fire.
The teenager was taken to Jinnah Hospital where doctors treated him for burns on one side of his face and arms, police told DawnNews. Shortly after, he was released from the hospital.
The Nawab Town police took the man who allegedly set him on fire into custody after a search operation.
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[CNN] The United States notified the United Nations that it will no longer take part in the global compact on migration, saying it undermines the nation's sovereignty.
The US has been a part of the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants since it was formed last year. The declaration aims to ensure the rights of migrants, help them resettle and provide them with access to education and jobs.
It calls for the negotiation of a global compact on migration, which is expected to be adopted next year. Yeah...NO
In explaining its withdrawal Saturday, the US said the pact contains provisions that are inconsistent with the nation's immigration policies. While the US is proud of its leadership on migration and refugee issues, the global approach is not compatible with the nation's sovereignty, according to Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN.
Haley said Trump made the decision, and emphasized that Americans should determine their own policies on immigration.
"Our decisions on immigration policies must always be made by Americans and Americans alone," she said. "We will decide how best to control our borders and who will be allowed to enter our country."
The UN General Assembly president expressed regret at the US decision, saying no one nation can manage international migration alone. We want manage our own, We are not subject to your rules
"The role of the United States in this process is critical as it has historically and generously welcomed people from all across the globe and remains home to the largest number of international migrants in the world," UN General Assembly president Miroslav Lajčák said in a statement.
"As such, it has the experience and expertise to help ensure that this process leads to a successful outcome."
The US participation in the process started last year "following the Obama Administration's decision to join the UN's New York Declaration on Migration," according to the United States Mission to the UN.
The withdrawal comes days before a global conference on migration that starts Monday in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
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Sovereign nations governing themselves. What a concept!
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A good first step. Next: separate ourselves from the Useless Nations entirely.
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Dave D. — I think that President Trump is gradually taking apart the pieces of our UN relationship with the poisonous ones first. Like slowly cooling the pot of water with the frog in it until it freezes. This avoids a bunch of hue and cry.
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President Trump is gradually taking apart the pieces of our UN relationship with the poisonous ones first.
And I’ve noticed that each UN organization he pulls us out of, we also stop paying for. I look forward to discovering how much he will have reduced spending this fiscal year.
MILWAUKEE (AP) ‐ Charter schools are among the nation’s most segregated, an Associated Press analysis finds ‐ an outcome at odds, critics say, with their goal of offering a better alternative to failing traditional public schools.
National enrollment data shows that charters are vastly over-represented among schools where minorities study in the most extreme racial isolation. As of school year 2014-2015, more than 1,000 of the nation’s 6,747 charter schools had minority enrollment of at least 99 percent, and the number has been rising steadily.
The problem: Those levels of segregation correspond with low achievement levels at schools of all kinds.
In the AP analysis of student achievement in the 42 states that have enacted charter school laws, along with the District of Columbia, the performance of students in charter schools varies widely. But schools that enroll 99 percent minorities ‐ both charters and traditional public schools ‐ on average have fewer students reaching state standards for proficiency in reading and math.
"Desegregation works. Nothing else does," said Daniel Shulman, a Minnesota civil rights attorney. "There is no amount of money you can put into a segregated school that is going to make it equal."
Shulman singled out charter schools for blame in a lawsuit that accuses the state of Minnesota of allowing racially segregated schools to proliferate, along with achievement gaps for minority students. Minority-owned charters have been allowed wrongly to recruit only minorities, he said, as others wrongly have focused on attracting whites.
Even some charter school officials acknowledge this is a concern. Nearly all the students at Milwaukee’s Bruce-Guadalupe Community School are Hispanic, and most speak little or no English when they begin elementary school. The school set out to serve Latinos, but it also decided against adding a high school in hopes that its students will go on to schools with more diversity.
"The beauty of our school is we’re 97 percent Latino," said Pascual Rodriguez, the school’s principal. "The drawback is we’re 97 percent Latino ... Well, what happens when they go off into the real world where you may be part of an institution that’s not 97 percent Latino?"
The charter school movement born a quarter of a century ago has thrived in large urban areas, where advocates say they often aim to serve students ‐ by and large, minorities ‐ who have been let down by their district schools. And on average, children in hyper-segregated charters do at least marginally better on tests than those in comparably segregated traditional schools.
Skipping down to the.... bottom line:
Howard Fuller, who was superintendent of Milwaukee schools from 1991 to 1995, rejects criticism of racially isolated charters. He says the imbalances reflect deep-rooted segregation, and it is unfair to put the burden on charters to pursue integration.
In a city where many black students live in poverty, and some reach high school not knowing how to read, he said there are other, more pressing problems.
“It’s a waste of time to talk about integration,” he said. “How do these kids get the best education possible?”
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He [Milwaukee Supt. Howard Fuller] says the imbalances reflect deep-rooted segregation, and it is unfair to put the burden on charters to pursue integration.
So additional 'segregation' is the answer? Just asking.
I know it sounds antiquated, but let us suppose for a moment that everyone regardless of race or ethnic background, performs to a single standard and sinks or swims accordingly.
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...The real problem is that the way we run public school systems here has been badly broken for about sixty years now and that most systems now are welfare programs for 'administrators' that happen to run vaguely educational programs.
I mean, seriously - how does the constantly increasing cost of educating a constantly decreasing number of students make any possible sense?
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“How do these kids get the best education possible?”
Ask the successful community - like the Asians? Starts at home which places high value on education (and immutable standards) rather than a day care center operations.
NPR dances around the DC racial tribalism and bigotry of low expectations, but it's a shocking article
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Ask the successful community - like the Asians? I know very few Asians, except for the youngish women from mainland China teaching Mandarin in college. Watching them react to their own flubs in grammar or pronunciation, or when they weren't able to immediately & clearly answer a reasonable question on the language or literature, was priceless. They truly showed they have a scary work ethic & personal standard of job performance.
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Yes, charter school kids get much less exposure to disruptive individuals who are not there to learn. More's the pity. /sarc
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And on average, children in hyper-segregated charters do at least marginally better on tests than those in comparably segregated traditional schools.
That sentence matters. Those children are in charter schools because their parents are trying to get them a better education than the local public school provides — and more of them than not are getting it.
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Teachers will tell you what is wrong. There is a complete lack of support from the parent(s) for those kids that don't do well and it goes right along racial lines. You can put all the black/brown minority kids in the best schools and they won't do shit because there is no support at home and no one gives a shit. Why try to work hard when sugar daddy government pays your way?
Cut welfare off and force people to work for a living and this might change.
I been earning a living as a substitute teacher/private tutor for the last three years Darth (and spent the preceding 35 in various academic institutions), and I'll tell you that is wrong - the fact that most of the professional teachers have the competence of cockroaches. I've met biology teachers who don't understand evolution*, Science teachers who are fervent believers in AGW. Math teachers who can't solve textbook problems. Hell, I even met one cunt delitfull young lady - Grom Jr. math teacher - who thinks distributive law can apply to a situation where there is only multiplication (I think she confuses distributive law with having brackets).
*To be fair I know one genetics university professor who doesn't understand sexual selection.
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#4 “How do these kids get the best education possible?”
Don't have a culture which dismisses studying and working hard as "inauthentic" or "acting white".
Charter schools are among the nation’s most segregated, an Associated Press analysis finds ‐ an outcome at odds, critics say, with their goal of offering a better alternative to failing traditional public schools.
Fox Butterfield lives!
"Desegregation works. Nothing else does," said Daniel Shulman, a Minnesota civil rights attorney
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If you were truly a Racist White Supremacist™, there's nothing that could please you more than what black culture, black self-segregation, and black racial agitation is doing right now.
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Incidentally, why is racial segregation is bad for K-12 but good for colleges?
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g(r)omgoru, here it is the minorities that have the major issues. PC culture allows this to continue, but you can see the racial division very clearly.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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North Korea
It would be a shame if successful 'reentry' were found to have been somehow, interfered with. 
[EXPRESS.CO.UK] The micro-quake occurred about 1.7 miles northeast of the Punggye-ri nuclear site in the country's northeastern province of North Hamgyong, the Korea Meteorological Administration said on its website.
[DAWN] A teenager was set ablaze in Lahore on Friday night for allegedly stealing a cellphone in the Nawab Town area.
MILWAUKEE (AP) ‐ Charter schools are among the nation’s most segregated, an Associated Press analysis finds ‐ an outcome at odds, critics say, with their goal of offering a better alternative to failing traditional public schools.
