Daily Mail

French prosecutors have ruled that an 11-year-old girl ‘consented’ to sexual relations with a 28-year-old man as she did not verbally and physically protest.

The young girl had been lured to the man’s home in the Paris suburb of Montmagny in April this year, where he sexually assaulted her.

However, prosecutors said they could not justify charging the man with rape as there was no ‘violence, constraint, threat or surprise’.   Continue reading “French prosecutors rule 11-year-old girl ‘consented’ to sex with 28-year-old and will not charge him with rape”

RT

Unlike Russia, the US is not observing its own pledge to dispose of its chemical weapons arsenal, the President Vladimir Putin said ahead of the destruction of the last batch of Russian chemical weapons on Wednesday.

“Russia strictly complies with its international obligations, including those related to non-proliferation and reductions of weapons of mass destruction,” Putin said.  Continue reading “US long overdue destroying its chemical weapons, Putin says as Russia completes disposal”

Mail.com

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The Kurdish referendum on independence from Iraq was approved by more than 92 percent of voters, officials said Wednesday, as Iraq’s prime minister vowed to keep his country united without resorting to the use of force.

Even with the strong support, the non-binding vote is unlikely to lead to formal independence, but it has escalated long-running tensions with Baghdad, which has moved to block flights in and out of the Kurds’ autonomous region. Iraq and its neighbors, along with virtually the entire international community, are opposed to any redrawing of the map.   Continue reading “Iraq’s Kurds say 92% voted in favor of independence”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are proposing a far-reaching, $5 trillion plan Wednesday that would cut taxes for corporations and potentially for individuals, simplify the tax system and nearly double the standard deduction used by most Americans.

The plan is sweeping in scope but omits critical, controversial details that are likely to take months to work out in a bitterly divided, GOP-led Congress. The political stakes are high for Republicans and for Trump, whose agenda has largely stalled as the GOP abandoned efforts to repeal the Obama-era health law. Republicans see tax overhaul as a once-in-a-generation opportunity that could produce a large political payoff, though some polls show the public is skeptical that average Americans will benefit much.   Continue reading “Trump, GOP tax plan would cut rates for many Americans”

Mail.com

CINCINNATI (AP) — A coroner’s report gives a cause of death for a young Ohioan detained for more than a year by North Korea, but couldn’t determine what led to the fatal injury. Otto Warmbier’s (WARM’-beer) parents told a Fox News show Tuesday that North Korea tortured the 22-year-old University of Virginia student. President Donald Trump tweeted after their TV appearance: “Otto was tortured beyond belief by North Korea.”   Continue reading “Coroner’s report sheds little light on Ohio youth’s death”

Speaking at a press conference in the Armenian capital Yerevan, a deputy of Syrian parliament, Zhirayr Reisyan, said recently that the liberated city of Deir ez-Zorr is a large and significant victory of the Syrian army.

Zhirayr Reisyan compared the liberated Deir-ez-Zorr with the war-torn Aleppo. Particularly the deputy draw the people’s attention to the fact that in peacetime a large number of Armenians lived both in Aleppo and in Deir ez-Zorr. However, most of them were forced to leave their homeland because of Islamists.   Continue reading “Syria Urges Citizens To Return To The Country”

The Organic Prepper

It looks like preppers aren’t that crazy after all. FEMA’s new director, Brock Long, has repeatedly said that Americans do not have a “culture of preparedness,” something that is much-needed with the startling uptick in natural disasters. Long has only been the director of FEMA since June 20 of this year and already has had to deal with a historic number of disasters in this short period of time.

It appears that Mr. Long has a mindset of self-reliance based on a couple of recent statements he has made to the media, but the MSM doesn’t seem too interested in his ideas about fostering a culture of preparedness, despite the practicality and essential nature of his suggestions.   Continue reading “FEMA Director Urges Americans to Develop “a true culture of preparedness” But No One Is Listening”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: Nearly one year ago we posted an article titled, “STDs Surge To 20-Year High“.

Today, the United States has record high rates. I wonder why…

Could it have anything to do with our lack of morality?

No, of course not.
Continue reading “U.S.: Sexually Transmitted Diseases Surge To Record High”

Hartford Courant – by Vinny Vella

Two Hartford police officers who were disciplined earlier this year in connection with an excessive-force investigation have been promoted.

Officer Steven Barone and Detective Christopher Mastroianni were promoted to sergeant Thursday by police Chief James Rovella. The promotions are effective Sunday, according to police officials.
Continue reading “Hartford Cops Disciplined In West Hartford Arrest Probe Promoted”

Washington Post – by Joe Davidson

“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”

Mail carriers do their best in all kinds of weather, no question.

But the unofficial Postal Service motto promise of “swift completion” can be derailed by in-house human factors. And in some cases, those delays have been covered up, an investigation found, by intentional employee manipulation.   Continue reading “Probes estimate billions of delayed mail to facilities and point to Postal Service ‘manipulation’ by a few employees”

Washington Post – by  Cleve R. Wootson Jr.

Investigators believe that a Russian couple knocked their victims out with sedatives, then skinned them alive. Afterward, police say, they ate parts of their victims, froze the remains or packed them in jars filled with saline solution.

At times, the couple tried to turn soldiers at the military academy where they worked into unwitting cannibals, slipping “canned human meat” into their food.

And people in the city of Krasnodar may never have known about any of it if not for a cellphone lying on a city street, authorities say.   Continue reading “Russian ‘cannibal couple’ may have drugged, killed and eaten as many as 30 people, police say”

Yahoo News – by Timothy Gardner

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration on Tuesday denied a request to waive shipping restrictions to help get fuel and supplies to storm-ravaged Puerto Rico, saying it would do nothing to address the island’s main impediment to shipping, damaged ports.

The Jones Act limits shipping between coasts to U.S. flagged vessels. However, in the wake of brutal storms, the government has occasionally issued temporary waivers to allow the use of cheaper, tax free or more readily available foreign-flagged ships.   Continue reading “U.S. denies request for Puerto Rico shipping waiver”

The Newspaper

Arizona residents wondering whether it is safe to ignore their speed camera tickets might take inspiration from the new executive team at American Traffic Solutions (ATS). Court records show that high-ranking employees of the Arizona-based speed camera and red light camera provider have dodged process servers and ignored their own photo radar tickets.

For example, Liz Caracciolo, senior vice president of ATS Safety Solutions, was busted in 2012 for running a stop sign. In July 2014, she received a photo radar ticket in Scottsdale and promptly ignored it. After she successfully dodged the process servers that came to her door to personally deliver the citation, a judge ordered alternate service in October. She cleared up the ticket in December, the same month she was hired by ATS — the same company that issued the ticket.   Continue reading “Speed Camera Executives Still Ignore Own Photo Radar Tickets”

Free Thought Project – by Jay Syrmopoulos

President Trump’s condemnation of NFL players that choose to kneel, rather than stand for the national anthem, reignited a national debate that began with Colin Kaepernick’s decision not to stand for the anthem last season as a protest against police brutality.

Over the weekend a plethora of players and even entire teams chose to either kneel or stay in the locker room during the playing of the national anthem – while many NFL owners released statements eliciting support for players who choose not to stand.   Continue reading “NFL Teams Stayed in Locker Rooms For Anthem Until 2009—Then DoD Began ‘Paying for Patriotism’”

Mint Press News – by Whitney Webb

About three-quarters of the world’s dictatorships currently receive military assistance from the United States. This is a strange record for a nation that consistently justifies its sweeping foreign interventions as aimed at “promoting democracy” and “thwarting evil dictatorships.”

In the Cold War it was “He may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch.” Current analysis shows the U.S. militarily assisting dictators the world over, calling it “promoting democracy,” and disingenuously wondering why it’s all going so badly.   Continue reading “US Provides Military Aid To More Than 70 Percent Of World’s Dictatorships”

Free Thought Project – by Rachel Blevins

Before the Gulf of Tonkin incident was used as an excuse to incite major U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, the United States was already deploying thousands of troops to Vietnam—and a recently recovered audio recording reveals that the deployments were occurring against the wishes of the president in office.

Former President John F. Kennedy was planning for a full withdrawal from Vietnam during his last months in office. His exit strategy is featured on the Ken Burns/Lynn Novick documentary series on Vietnam, in an episode that looks at U.S. involvement in Vietnam from when Kennedy took office in January 1961, to when he was assassinated in November 1963.   Continue reading “Weeks Before His Assassination, JFK Ordered Full Withdrawal from Vietnam”

Activist Post – by Aaron Kesel

As former White House chief of staff and current Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has said: “You never let a serious crisis go to waste.” While everyone was worried about the hurricanes, U.S. President Donald Trump signed away the Fourth Amendment buried in a new bill. He set a precedent by empowering the police state to allow warrantless searches in parts of VA, MD and D.C. near the Metro train system.

The government can now openly enter and search private property without a warrant in parts of Virginia, Maryland and D.C.   Continue reading “U.S. President Donald Trump Quietly Signs Law To Allow Warrantless Searches In Parts Of VA, DC And MD”

Breitbart – by John Binder

Roughly 40,000 illegal aliens who were previously shielded by a temporary amnesty program have obtained permanent amnesty by getting Green Cards through an immigration loophole, new federal data confirms.

The latest data from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency confirms previous reports by Breitbart News, revealing that about 40,000 illegal aliens are now able to remain in the U.S. permanently.   Continue reading “Feds Confirm 40K Illegal Aliens Shielded by DACA Already Given Amnesty”

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URGENT NOTICE!

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 27TH IS DEADLINE TO SIGN & SEND COMMENTS ON BLM’S INTEGRATED INVASIVE PLANT MANAGEMENT Environmental Assessment:   Continue reading “BLM wants to apply 15 kinds of Herbicides over ~1,500 acres over the next 20 years”