Scot Peterson, a former deputy with the Broward
County Sheriff's Office, has reportedly started to receive a hefty
pension — three months after he retired amid the aftermath of the mass
shooting in Parkland, Florida.
Peterson, a 33-year law enforcement
veteran, was the resource deputy stationed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas
High School on Feb. 14 when 17 people were killed by gunfire.
As one of the largest mass shootings in modern U.S.
history unfolded, Peterson never entered the building where alleged
gunman Nikolas Cruz was opening fire and instead took up a position
outside the building that was under attack.
Tomorrow, Wednesday, May 16, teachers in North Carolina
will be marching in Raleigh to protest education funding. The links
below give the real story of how the Republican legislature has funded
the public schools. Thanks to several of our readers who have helped to
provide this information.
Here are two sites also with facts and figures about the
raises that teachers have gotten over the last 5 budget years (including
this one):
www.ncteacherraise.com/
(At this site, a teacher can type in how many years they have been a
teacher and it will show what their pay is now vs what it would have
been before Republican pay increases)
From inside Gaza, the reality of the so called "peaceful
demonstrations". Watch Hamas hate speeches. See how they build their
propaganda at the expense of brainwashed, deceived and manipulated
unfortunate people. Understand why Israel has no choice but to protect
itself using lethal force.
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A quote from an 1899 book by Winston Churchill, "The River War," in which he describes Muslims he apparently observed during Kitchener's campaign in the Sudan:
"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries.
Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities.
Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.
It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."
A man identified as the president of the Timmonsville NAACP chapter said
in a Facebook post that he was racially profiled by a Timmonsville
police officer. A body cam video provided by the Timmonsville Police
Department contradicts his claims.
U.S. military
equipment and ammunition, sent to Syria as part of a failed Obama
administration plan to find and arm moderate forces to defeat ISIS, were
instead simply handed over to an Al Qaeda group, according to the man
who said he himself brokered the deal.
“I communicated with Al Qaeda’s
branch, Al Nusra, to protect and safely escort me and my soldiers for
two hours from North Aleppo to West Aleppo,” Maj. Anas Ibrahim Obaid,
better known on the battlefield as Abu Zayd, told Fox News from his home
in the western Aleppo area. “In exchange, I gave them five pickup
trucks and ammunition.”
Pre-Christian
paganism is on the rise across Scandinavia, as more Swedes choose to
rejoin the traditional faith of Thor and Odin, despite being habitually
accused of nationalism and their symbols being "expropriated" by
neo-Nazis.
Ancient
pagan beliefs appear to be making a comeback in Scandinavia. The Nordic
Asa-Community alone has grown to over 800 members over just a few
years, whereas older communities are picking up in numbers as well, the
newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported. The name of the faith, Asatro, translates as allegiance to the Æsir, a set of deities in Norse mythology.
America's political experts got it wrong in 2016, not because they
took too few polls but because they made the false assumption that
American elections are immune to societal change.
The experts are,
in large part, still getting things wrong, not only by failing to
understand a new group of voters who put President Donald Trump in the
White House but also by ignoring why the group voted the way it did.
When
explaining the Trump voter, the media usually offer portraits of
isolated, uneducated, working-class rubes who are driven by anger, race
and nationalism. It's hard for the experts and those who didn't support
Trump to see it any other way.
