[Daily Caller] The Department of Justice inspector general has made a criminal referral for former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
A spokesman for the DOJ IG declined The Daily Caller’s request for comment on the matter.
"It may be referral is mandated but in my experience many OIG investigative conclusions are referred to US Attny’s Ofc as matter of course for review. This type of referral very uncommon for prosecution & usually would be left up to agency for admin action, of which could be none," national security attorney Mark Zaid said of the report.
[ICE] SAN JOSE ‐ Robert Krietzman was sentenced today to five years in prison and ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution for possession of child pornography following an investigation by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Beth L. Freeman, U.S. District Court Judge.
Krietzman, 53, of Watsonville, Calif., pleaded guilty today to possession of child pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4). According to the plea agreement, Krietzman admitted to possessing over 600 images and videos depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Many of the images depicted prepubescent female children engaged in masturbation, sexual intercourse with adult males, or in bondage. The images were discovered in May of 2016 by Santa Cruz Police detectives executing a search warrant at Krietzman’s home in Watsonville. The case was later referred for federal prosecution. Krietzman was a credentialed first grade teacher in Watsonville at the time the images were located on electronic devices in his home.
Krietzman was charged by information on September 6, 2017, with one count of possession of child pornography. Pursuant to his plea agreement, he pleaded guilty to the count.
In addition to the prison term and restitution, Judge Freeman also sentenced the defendant to a five-year period of supervised release and required him to pay a $5,100 special assessment fee. The Court also imposed forfeiture of all devices recovered from Krietzman’s home containing child pornography. Judge Freeman also ordered Krietzman to register as a sex offender and participate in sex offender treatment and counseling. The defendant was immediately remanded into custody to begin serving his sentence.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Marissa Harris is prosecuting the case with the assistance of Susan Kreider. The prosecution is the result of an investigation by the HSI and the Santa Cruz Police Department.
[WashingtonExaminer] The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee says Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., is poised to subpoena the Justice Department for former FBI Director James Comey’s memos, which the agency so far has failed to produce.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., warned such a move puts Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in jeopardy of being placed in contempt of Congress and the special counsel investigation of being shut down premature. From author's lips to God's ears.
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Do you think the Sergeant at Arms would need to call the USMC Barracks at "8th & I" after the Capitol Police refused to arrest Rosenstein? Or does he call the Federal Marshals first?
I'm hoping something will come of this, but I'm certainly not holding my breath. The fact that the Congress of the United States had to pen such a request is indeed telling.
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Comey, Clinton, Lynch, McCabe, Strzok, and Page? Tip of the iceberg. Obama and many other are not listed.
The ball is in the corner of the DOJ. We will now see what they are made of. If they do not do their jobs, Trump has to fire them and replace them with someone who will.
• Finland's basic income experiment made headlines around the world when it launched in 2017, and is now in its second and final year.
• The project involves 2000 unemployed Finns, who receive roughly $690 every month - no strings attached. No official findings have yet been published, but some participants reported lower stress levels at an early stage.
• While the experiment is still attracting attention internationally, Finnish decision-makers have already made a silent U-turn, scrapping plans to extend the project.
• The Finnish government is now eyeing different social welfare solutions.
Since the beginning of last year, 2000 Finns are getting money from the government each month - and they are not expected to do anything in return. The participants, aged 25-58, are all unemployed, and were selected at random by Kela, Finland's social-security institution.
Instead of unemployment benefits, the participants now receive €560, or $690, per month, tax free. Should they find a job during the two-year trial, they still get to keep the money.
While the project is praised internationally for being at the cutting edge of social welfare, back in Finland, decision makers are quietly pulling the brakes, making a U-turn that is taking the project in a whole new direction.
"Right now, the government is making changes that are taking the system further away from a basic income," Kela researcher Miska Simanainen told the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet.
The initial plan was for the experiment to be expanded in early 2018 to include workers as well as non-workers early in 2018, but that did not happen - to the disappointment of researchers at Kela. Without workers in the project, researchers are unable to study whether basic income would allow people to make new career moves, or enter training or education.
"Two years is too short a timeframe to be able to draw extensive conclusions from such a vast experiment. We ought to have been given additional time and more money to achieve reliable results," professor Olli Kangas, one of the experts behind the basic-income trial, told Finland's public-service broadcaster YLE. Seems to me that two years was more than enough time for the decision-makers to make a decision.
In recent years, a growing number of tech entrepreneurs have endorsed universal basic income (UBI), a system system in which every individual receives a standard amount of money, simply for being alive.
Entrepreneurs who have expressed support for UBI include Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, and Google's futurist and engineering director Ray Kurzweil. Support, but not money. Got it.
These tech moguls recognize that UBI, as well as combatting poverty, could also help solve the problem of increased robotization in the workforce, a problem they are very much part of creating.
At the 2018 TED conference, Kurzweil made a bold prediction about the future of "free" money, predicting that by the 2030s, UBI will have spread worldwide - and that we'll be able to "live very well on that."
Contrary to universal basic income, however, which advocates say should apply to all citizens regardless of background, Finland's trial is only targeting people in long-term unemployment.
The existing unemployment benefits were so high, the Finnish government argued, and the system so rigid, an unemployed person might choose not to take a job as they would risk losing money by doing so - the higher your earnings, the lower your social benefits. The basic income was meant as an incentive for people to start working. That's why you ramp them down, not chop them off.
But in December last year, the Finnish parliament passed a bill that is taking the country's welfare system in quite the opposite direction. The new 'activation model' law requires jobseekers to work a minimum of 18 hours for three months - if you don't manage to find such a job, you lose some of your benefits. And Finance Minister Petteri Orpo already has plans for a new project once the basic income pilot concludes in December 2018.
"When the basic income experiment ends this year, we should launch a universal credit trial," Orpo told Finnish newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet, referring to a system similar to that currently in use in the United Kingdom, which collects a number of different benefits and tax credits into one account.
No official results of Finland's basic income experiment will be published until 2019, after the pilot has come to an end.
What? Don't like that? I guess it's good to be king.
In a story straight out of Spy vs Spy, unusual cellular activity has been detected around Capitol Hill, and now four U.S. Senators want some answers.
A bipartisan group of senators sent a letter to Homeland Security asking for details about the cellular activity. The surveillance activity is akin to so-called stingrays that are used by law enforcement agencies to trick suspects’ cellphones into revealing their locations, according to Reuters.
Last month, the Department of Homeland Security revealed that it had "observed anomalous activity in the National Capital Region that appears to be consistent with International Mobile Subscriber Identity catchers." It claimed not to know who was behind the use of the surveillance devices.
In the letter, the senators asked the Trump administration to release details about the possible surveillance. "The American people have a legitimate interest in understanding the extent to which U.S. telephone networks are vulnerable to surveillance and are being actively exploited by hostile actors," the senators wrote in the letter reviewed by Reuters.
Stingray devices mimic cellphone towers in order to force cellphones in the area to transmit "pings" back to the devices, enabling law enforcement to track a suspect’s phone and pinpoint its location. FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel said at a commission meeting on Tuesday that the issue was serious and surveillance tools could potentially be in use "by foreign or criminal actors." Or, you know, the show-runners for Homeland.
He’s not laughing now. Looks like he learned some maffs.
A teen who snickered and told a judge he didn’t "have time for this" ‐ before being sentenced to 65 years behind bars for felony murder ‐ now wants a new trial, according to a report. Now he has time. Some of his appointments must have canceled.
LaKeith Smith’s dimwitted remarks came during his April 5 sentencing for felony murder, armed burglary and theft related to the shooting death of an armed accomplice who charged a police officer in Alabama, WSFA 12 reported.
Jennifer Holton, who represents the 19-year-old, said if a new trial isn’t granted, the judge should at least reconsider the hefty sentence, which was meted out in consecutive ‐ not concurrent ‐ terms.
Judge Sibley Reynolds blasted Smith after catching the teen muttering, "I don’t have time for this" while waiting for his case to be called.
"You got plenty of time for this," Reynolds shot back. "When I called the case earlier, you said you ain’t got time for this, so I didn’t know if you had time for this now?"
That’s when Smith laughed, saying he didn’t realize the judge had heard him.
"You just don’t get it, do you?" the judge said.
Prosecutor CJ Robinson said Smith also laughed after a jury found him guilty.
"I have yet to understand what was so funny," Robinson said.
Smith and four others were charged with felony murder under Alabama’s accomplice liability law because a fifth suspect, A’Donte Washington, was shot and killed by police during the commission of a felony.
The five men, from Montgomery, traveled to Elmore County in a stolen car and broke into two homes in 2015, prosecutors said.
In her bid for a new trial, Holton argued that Smith didn’t commit felony murder because police were the ones who killed Washington. Looks like Holton isn't much smarter than her client.
Smith previously turned down a plea deal that would’ve landed him 25 years behind bars. Smith seems to have a sense of humor. Maybe they can schedule his parole hearing on that day and everyone can get a laugh out of it. Hopefully by then he'll understand why you call the judge "Your Honor".
PHILADELPHIA (AP) ‐ U.S. airline regulators have ordered inspections on engine fan blades like the one that snapped off a Southwest Airlines plane, leading to the death of a woman who was partially blown out a window.
The Federal Aviation Administration’s announcement late Wednesday comes nearly a year after the engine’s manufacturer recommended the additional inspections, and a month after European regulators ordered their airlines to do the work.
Pressure for the FAA to act grew after an engine on a Southwest plane blew apart on Tuesday, showering the aircraft with debris and shattering a window. A woman sitting next to the window was partially blown out and died of her injuries. The plane, which was headed from New York to Dallas, made an emergency landing in Philadelphia.
Investigators said a blade that broke off mid-flight and triggered the fatal accident was showing signs of metal fatigue ‐ microscopic cracks that can splinter open under the kind of stress placed on jetliners and their engines.
The National Transportation Safety Board also blamed metal fatigue for an engine failure on a Southwest plane in Florida in 2016.
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I am suprised the inbred rent a dork police from the TSA did not take the woman into custody for breaking the window and terroristic threats! She had to have said God or Jesus help or save me!
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Southwest has their own maintenance crews. The 737 is the only make/model flown by them to realize economies of said maintenance (training, parts inventories, bookkeeping, etc.).
Fan blades can "go" at any time. Sometimes it can be caught (Dye Penetrant Inspection), but not always (the defect must be evident on the surface of the tested/examined part).
In this case, it appears the blade departed the engine, went through the a/c window and hit the unfortunate passenger. At that point, she was seriously injured. The rapid and violent a/c decompression adjacent to the injured passenger "sucked" her upper torso partially through a shard-riddled window. Note the aircraft was probably at cruise, depending upon model, between 430 and 450 knots. Thence the passengers pulled her back through the shard-riddled window and began CPR.
I suspect the ultimate cause of death was, owing to trauma and stress, a heart attack, this exacerbated by injury caused by the flying part, and neck trauma caused by the immediate violence of a 0-to-430-ish knot stress to the neck/spinal cord. Throw in blood loss and shock, and she had no chance.
Some years back, something similar happened when an a/c structure was compromised and an occupied passenger seat departed the aircraft and then went through the engine.
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Pilot's in trouble now. By landing the plane safely there is no difficulty determining the cause of the failure - and the liability of Southwest for being late on inspections; if the plane had crashed in a fireball a broken fan blade could be claimed to be incidental damage, and the crash pilot error.
[PRESSTV] The foreign minister of Sudan has revealed that his country is unable to pay many of its diplomats abroad while some diplomatic missions across the world could be closed over rent problems.
Ibrahim Ghandour said Wednesday that several Sudanese foreign diplomats were seeking to return home as a result of the government’s inability to pay them for months.
"Some ambassadors and diplomats want to return to Khartoum now... because of the difficulties faced by them and their families," Ghandour said in a speech to politicians.
The top diplomat said his ministry was also unable to pay the rent for several diplomatic missions across the world.
"For months Sudanese diplomats have not received salaries and there is also a delay in paying rent for diplomatic missions," Ghandour said, without specifying which missions were affected.
The minister accused some government officials of neglecting the diplomatic missions, saying they had a feeling that paying wages to diplomats and rent for diplomatic missions were not a priority.
"The situation has now turned dangerous, which is why I am talking about it publicly," said Ghandour.
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[BBC] Arous was an idyllic holiday resort in the Sudanese desert, on the banks of the Red Sea. But this glamorous destination was a base for Israeli agents with a secret mission.
"Arous on the Red Sea, a wonderful world apart," the glossy brochure says, pronouncing it "the diving and desert recreation centre of Sudan"
Illustrated with pictures of putty-coloured chalets on a Sun-drenched beach, a smiling couple in scuba gear, and varieties of exotic fish, the advertisement boasts of "some of the best, clearest water in the world". As night falls - "after the landscape colours have paled" - there are, it says, "breathtaking views of the heavens, aflame with millions of stars".
Arous Village, on the fringe of spectacular coral reefs and the odd shipwreck, appears to be a diving enthusiast's dream.
The pamphlets were printed in their thousands and distributed in specialist travel agents across Europe. Reservations were booked through an office in Geneva. And over time hundreds of guests went on holiday there.
It was a long trek. But once at the desert oasis, they enjoyed first-rate facilities, water sports, deep-sea dives and an abundance of fresh food and wine. The visitors' book was a catalogue of glowing comments.
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Israelis built the Egyptian resort destination of Sharm al Sheikh first, so they had plenty of experience building and running a destination dive resort. It's true they built it for themselves after conquering the Sinai peninsula in the Six Day War, then only gave it Egypt to buy peace, but even so.
[PRESSTV] Zim-bob-we has fired all nurses who went on strike to demand higher salaries, in a hardline response by the country's new leadership to growing labor arrest.
Several thousand nurses were sacked in a terse statement issued on Tuesday evening by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, who accused the strikers of being "politically motivated."
Patients were turned away from major hospitals after the nurses began their industrial action on Monday, shortly after doctors ended their own weeks-long strike earlier in the month.
"Government has decided in the interest of patients and of saving lives to discharge all the striking nurses with immediate effect," Chiwenga said in a statement.
He said unemployed and retired nurses would be hired to replace those fired.
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Isn't it about time for the spring epidemic crises?
[Iraq Sun] In a moment set to go down in history, a public cinema will open in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... on Wednesday evening, for the first time in 35 years.
On April 18, 2018, at about 9 pm in Riyadh, around 600 guests will sit down in a refitted conference hall in the King Abdullah Financial District as the big screens showcase the major cultural landmark, the Marvel superhero blockbuster - Black Panther.
After 40 seconds of the film was cut by local censors, Black Panther will become the first movie to open in the Kingdom’s first theatre to open there in 35 years.
In December, Saudi Arabia lifted its decades-long cinema ban, a move announced by Awwad Alawwad, Saudi's minister of culture and information.
Alawwad will be attending the event alongside Adam Aron, CEO of AMC Entertainment.
AMC Entertainment, which is the largest theatrical exhibitor in the world with approximately 1,000 theaters and 11,000 screens across the globe, won the first licence to operate movie theaters in the kingdom and runs the Riyadh cinema.
Aron said that the opening of the theater was historic day for the movie industry and Saudi Arabia.
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Prime Minister Theresa May will today unveil the new rules in a dramatic bid to help clean up the world’s oceans.
The prime minister said plastic waste was "one of the greatest environmental challenges facing the world"
Around 8.5billion plastic straws are thrown away in the UK each year.
Mrs May dubbed the single use plastic items one of "the greatest environmental challenges facing the world" last night.
The PM today urged 52 other leaders at the Commonwealth Heads of Government summit in London ‐ whose countries span six continents ‐ to take tough moves as well.
But Downing Street would not rule out inflicting extra costs on consumers with the ban, as makers are forced to come up with more expensive wood or paper alternatives. Maybe they should've stayed in EU?
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I, for one, am fine with this. Needless f'in plastic gummin' up the works. Worth paying a little extra to eliminate. Please include plastic grocery bags in the ban. Can't be recycled. That needs to happen here in the US.
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If I can't get plastic bags where will I put my garbage? I could use paper sacks but that would kill more trees. Oh, no! I have a conundrum!
More on the RE deposits found around around Japan. Seems like they're about to be everyone's friend pretty soon. Well, almost everyone's.
The discovery of vast reserves of rare-earth elements on a tiny Japanese island, that can be used in everything from iPhones to missile systems to electric vehicles, has been described as a "game changer."
Minami-Torishima Island, also known as Marcus Island, is described as having "tremendous potential" for rare-earth elements and yttrium (REY), according to a study published in Scientific Reports.
"This REY-rich mud has great potential as a rare-earth metal resource because of the enormous amount available and its advantageous mineralogical features," the study reads. The study shows that more than 16 million tons of rare-earth elements could be "exploited in the near future."
Including ytrrium (Y), which is used in products like camera lenses and mobile phone screens, the rare-earth elements found are: Europium (EU), Terbium (Tb) and Dysprosium (Dy).
"The research area was estimated to be able to supply Y, Eu, Tb, and Dy for 780, 620, 420, and 730 years, respectively, and has the potential to supply these metals on a semi-infinite basis to the world," the report adds.
The metals are expensive, making the find extremely valuable, with some estimates putting the value of the island's rare earth oxide alone at approximately $500 billion.
Yttrium is currently worth $3,400 per pound, Europium costs $20,000 per 100 grams and Terbium sells for $1,800 per 100 grams. Dysprosium, the cheapest of the rare-earth elements discovered, only costs $450 per 100 grams.
The sample size was estimated to contain 1.2 million tons of "rare-earth oxide." The study was conducted jointly by researchers with Waseda University Yutaro Takaya, and Yasuhiro Kato of the University of Tokyo and others.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Technology Metals Research LLC founding principal Jack Lifton said, "this is a game-changer for Japan," adding, "The race to develop these resources is well under way."
Though it would likely be expensive to remove the rare-earth materials from the island, it would give Japan and the world, more control over these elements, which are used in products such as rechargeable batteries, wind turbines, and many medical and military technologies.
China held approximately 95 percent of the rare-earth production as of 2015, according to CNN.
The country severely restricts exports of these elements at times of diplomatic tension, including a shortage in 2010 for Japanese manufacturers, news.com.au reported.
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An article in the Harvard Environmental Law Review in April 2018 argued that "the 'new global gold rush' of deep sea mining shares many features with past resource scrambles – including a general disregard for environmental and social impacts, and the marginalisation of indigenous peoples and their rights".[12][13] --Deep Sea Mining, Wikipedia
Ambulance chasing Lawyers, Start Your Engines! NGOs and QUANGOs, Spruce up your resumes -- its Showtime!
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Geez fellas I thought that was what all the shooting was about in Angola
Next you'll try to tell me those were not Cubans I was shooting
Or all those stories about manganese nodules on the ocean floor weren't cover for the Golmar Explorer
Or do the Russians have another missing sub?
[Iraq Sun] The German federal police managed to bust a huge crime gang, that was suspected of trafficking hundreds of women and transsexuals from Thailand for prostitution.
According to the country federal police, it was the biggest raids in their history and was carried out on Wednesday, against an alleged organised crime ring.
In a statement post the raid, the federal police force said that a record 1,500 officers swooped on more than 60 brothels and flats in 12 of Germany's 16 states.
According to prosecutors, 56 suspects are in their sights, with 41 of them being women.
Further, authorities noted that a "core group" of 17 suspects "smuggled Thai women and transsexuals into Germany with fraudulent" visas for the passport-free Schengen zone.
According to Sherlocks, the core group brought to Germany "had to hand over 100 percent of their wages to the operators of the respective 'massage parlours' to pay off their smuggling fee," an extortionate sum of between 16,000 and 36,000 euros ($20,000-45,000).
Further, officials revealed that seven of the accused, including a 59-year-old Thai woman and her 62-year-old German partner, were taken into custody on outstanding arrest warrants.
Alexander Badle, a front man for the Frankfurt prosecutor's office addressed news hounds after the raid and said that beyond human trafficking, forced prostitution, procurement and embezzlement of wages, the ringleaders also face charges of tax evasion.
He added that some of the suspects could face up to 15 years in prison.
Badle pointed out that the ring had "specialized" in a niche for transsexual hookers in Germany's vast sex industry.
He said that while the Thai victims were aware that they were being taken to German brothels, they were duped about the "conditions, including the fact that they would receive virtually no remuneration."
He said that they were brought to Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... on tourist visas that explicitly prohibited work, and spoke no German, leaving them particularly vulnerable to exploitation.
Badle noted that immigration authorities would now examine the victims' legal status to determine how long they could stay in Germany.
They are there illegally, are involved in what one assumes is an illegal trade, they cannot speak the language, and they have no saleable skills other then their current trade plied on their backs. Send them home post haste, where at least they’ll be able to keep some portion of their earnings, eat familiar foods, and converse with their neighbours.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk.
Jack! Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things?
Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles.
No, he said. Do you?... prosecutors in Frankfurt, who have been working with police on the case since February 2017, estimate that the ring drew more than one million euros in income.
Thais are exotic in Europe, as are transexuals. So are Nigerians — and we’ve read reports about the thriving trade in girls for prostitution from that part of the world, not all of whom were aware of what they were getting into. One hopes that ring will be the next one busted.
Following the operation, the German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer praised the operation as an "unprecedented strike against a national organised crime network."
International, actually. Well done, guys.
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Like the Russian women pimped out in Bangkok by the Russian mafia. So, its an East-West Trade balance thingy. Need to speed up those Westworld sexbots the UK press keeps covering. And then wonder why populations keep dropping in the first world.
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Spare a thought for those knights of social justice, the student protesters. Motivated by the yearning for a better world, they sacrifice their time and energy in service to their ideals. They display courage, stamina, determination, and creativity in coming up with rhymes in their chants.
Except if you tell them they’re jeopardizing their financial aid or their housing. Then they fold immediately.
The extent of student fortitude was mapped out in a natural experiment conducted at New York University last week, when students vowed to occupy a student center around the clock (it normally closes at 11 p.m.) until their demands for a meeting with the board of trustees were met. A photo in the Village Voice showed seated students blocking access by taking up most of the space on a stairway. The underlying ideals appeared to be the usual dog’s breakfast of progressive fancies ‐ something about divesting from fossil fuels, and also allegations of unfair labor practices.
NYU administrators showed little patience for the activists disrupting the proceedings at the Kimmel Center for University Life. But how to dissolve the protest? It turned out that there was no need to bring in the police. Ringing up the students’ parents was all it took. The phone calls advised parents that students who interfered with campus functions could be suspended, and that suspensions can carry penalties of revoked financial aid or housing. The students "initially planned to stay indefinitely," notes the Voice’s report. "Instead, the students departed within forty hours."
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Something like this:
"Hi, Dad. Yeah. yeah. But we're fighting the oppression and microaggressions! What? m-i-c-r-o-a-g-g-r-e-s-s-ions. No, really. Oh, man. Do I have to? OK"
"Hey, I gotta go, you keep up the fight"
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[Entertainment Weekly, via Drudge] - David Hogg and Lauren Hogg, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and survivors of February’s deadly mass shooting in Parkland, Florida have signed a deal with Random House for a book to be published in June, EW has confirmed.
The siblings have been leaders in the gun control movement that took shape among students, in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting. Their book, #NeverAgain, is described as "a statement of generational purpose, and a moving portrait of the birth of a new movement." The book will explore their efforts taking on some of the most powerful forces in Washington and beyond, and will detail their commitment to new legislation aiming to prevent future tragedies.
"In times of struggle and tragedy, we can come together in love and compassion for each other," David Hogg said in a statement. "We can see each other not as political symbols, but as human beings. And then, of course, there will be times when we simply must fight for what is right." What codswallop - this brat was yelling, criticizing, screaming & scowling every single time he was in front of a camera.
Normally, the salutation of Mister is applied, but as the young male has not earned that accomplishment as of yet, we will work with the prepubescent honor of Davy.
Davy does spend some time letting you get to know him; his inner thoughts which do not show through his television personality.
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Cindy didn't look at me today. In fact, I think she looks around me. Even the camera only adds 2 pounds. I mean, I try to gain weight but I can only meditate so much. That is OK, because if angst were an animal, I'd be a butterfly.
Later on, he intimately teaches the finer points of education, and shows his grasp on both the humanities and debate. This is a family site, so inappropriate words will be substituted with $.
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I then I told the $ $ mother $ loser of a $ $ (lady) that I don't like ice cream anymore. Only $ NRA $ fascists put $ sprinkles on anyways. I $ grew out of that after $ leaving California. I $ hate you mom and dad. $ loved the beach.
Davy goes on to explain why today's educational system has failed to keep up with their generation.
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I mean, its so totaly ovious that collages just dont understand how advanced me and my classmates our. Who does gym anyways, and my grade point suffers for not making baskets? Total $ $.
All in all, a real page turner. Interesting reinterpretation of the reference section, instead substituting a very clever paper doll presentation. Also, the fifteen pages of hashtags are helpful. Grab your favorite gallon and a half of cheap vodka, a pitcher of kool-aid, and two days of sick leave bracketing the week end; you will have a time you will never forget. As I say, Moar Hogg!
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
• Finland's basic income experiment made headlines around the world when it launched in 2017, and is now in its second and final year.
He’s not laughing now.
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[Iraq Sun] The German federal police managed to bust a huge crime gang, that was suspected of trafficking hundreds of women and transsexuals from Thailand for prostitution.
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