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We live a deeply problematic era in American history. As I type this, the nation is reeling from yet another mass shooting in which 26 people were shot and killed in a rural Texas church. Federal prosecutors are currently investigating and indicting members of Donald Trump's campaign team for various levels of corruption. And while all of this, and so much more, goes on, police brutality, prosecutorial misconduct, and other problems within America's criminal justice system continue with less and less scrutiny.

Here, we cover many incidents of injustice from the past week that you likely have not heard about, but deserve our time and attention.

A Washington D.C. Police Lieutenant Arrested for Child Abuse

Lieutenant David Hutchinson, 55, a longtime veteran of the Washington D.C. Police Department, was arrested and charged with cruelty to a child. According to the Washington Post,

"Police said Hutchinson's abuse on Oct. 30 left the child's face, ears, eyes, neck and mouth bruised and swollen. Hutchinson told police he didn't assault the child and didn't know how the child was injured, according to the charging document. The child initially reported being injured from falling down the stairs but later said it was from Hutchinson, according to the charging documents."

This should come as no surprise. Police officers have a rate of domestic violence 400% higher than the average American.

This Georgia officer was also just charged with cruelty to children.

A Bakersfield, California Police Officer Caught with Stolen Guns and Steroids

Officer Kevin Schindler, of the troubled Bakersfield Police Department, was caught with injectable steroids and guns he had stolen from the police department. How were these things discovered? Police were called to his house for a domestic disturbance. That makes sense - because, as we established above, police officers have a disturbing rate of domestic violence. Not only that, but steroid abuse is regularly linked to police officers and domestic violence. I bet he keeps his job.

Cop Suddenly Retires after News Investigation Reveals His History of Sexual Harassment

Lieutenant Jimmy Cunningham had been an officer in Middletown, Ohio for 28 years. As it turns out, throughout his tenure, seven different fellow officers, both men and women, regularly took the brave step of reporting him for sexual harassment, but the city and his supervisors went out of their way to sweep it under the rug. This is clearly a trend that cuts across all industries.

According to the local investigation, "The Middletown officers claimed they were regularly the target of Cunningham's crude sexual comments. Male officers were praised for their size of their penises. Female officers were invited to wear a bikini to an upcoming training class or send Cunningham a picture of their breasts."

While investigating these claims, it was also revealed that Cunningham had previously been cited for slapping a homeless woman across the face.

Minnesota Police Officer Under Investigation Abruptly Resigns Due to "Work Related Injury"

Mike Shephard, a veteran police officer in Mendota Heights, Minnesota has been disciplined for misconduct at least five times since 2010. This last time, though, was particularly troubling. Shephard was illegally using police department databases to get personal information on at least a dozen different people including his girlfriend, a local female firefighter, local city council members, and other members of local law enforcement and their families. He was suspended this past March for 30 days after it was discovered that he was using the databases. Then, this past August, he was placed on leave again for yet another internal investigation.

All of this gets to one essential challenge in American policing - bad apples are rarely fired - even when investigations determine, over and over again, that they have poor character or have broken the law.

Then, when a bad police officer is finally fired, like Charles Foley in Tucson, who committed a felony when he forged his ex-wife's signature on a large check that did not belong to him, he finds a way to win an appeal to miraculously get his job back. People are in jail for this right now.

New Jersey Police Officer Indicted on Multiple Sexual Assault Charges

Wilfredo Guzman, a 40 year old veteran police officer in Rockaway Township in New Jersey was just indicted on over a dozen felony charges of sexual assault against several different teenage girls as young as 15 years old. According to the report,

"The first indictment charges Guzman with two counts of Sexual Assault, four counts of Endangering the Welfare of a Child, and eight counts of Official Misconduct. The second indictment charges Guzman with two counts of Official Misconduct and Possession of Child Pornography.

The Sexual Assault and Endangering the Welfare of a Child charges relate to alleged conduct between Guzman and two minor females, one of whom was between the ages of 16-17, and another who was 15 years-old during the time in question.

It is alleged that Mr. Guzman engaged in acts of sexual penetration with the two females on various dates in 2014 and 2015, and that Mr. Guzman provided both females alcohol and prescription medication during the same time frame."

This incident is not unique. A Wisconsin officer was just arrested for sending sexually explicit text messages to a 15 year old girl.

Two NYPD cops are facing charges for raping a teenage girl they had in police custody.

A Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy has now been charged with sexually assaulting at least three different women in custody.

La Niña is here, so 2017 won’t be the warmest year on record.

The cool phase of the planet’s most important weather pattern began during October, say scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, with a tell-tale cooling of the waters of the tropical Pacific Ocean.

Without the El Niño/La Niña cycle, 2017 likely would have been the warmest year ever measured. With it, 2017 will probably fall all the way to … second place, a close runner up to 2016, which was was superheated by a record-strength El Niño.

Every two to four years, global temperatures typically dip as La Niña takes hold. This time around, recent overall planetary warming has become so strong that human influence now seems to be blunting La Niña’s effect on global temperatures.

Over the past 67 years since NOAA has been tracking La Niñas, their effect has waned noticeably. But with cooling expected to linger into 2018, global temperatures will remain high but probably not record-breaking.

While thermometers might not be bursting, this year’s La Niña should be strong enough to alter weather patterns worldwide, boosting the chances of drought in California and the southeast U.S., heavy snows in the Pacific Northwest, torrential rains in Indonesia, and hurricanes in the Caribbean.

ANTARCTICA: 260 MILLION-YEAR-OLD FOREST THAT EXISTED BEFORE THE DINOSAURS DISCOVERED

ON 11/13/17 AT 6:50 AM

Scientists exploring a remote region of Antarctica have discovered evidence of a 260 million-year-old forest, recovering fossilized tree fragments from the frozen ground of the Transantarctic Mountains.

The forest would have existed before the Great Dying Mass Extinction Event 252 million years ago—an event that saw around 95 percent of life on Earth wiped out. This mass extinction—the worst in Earth's history—is thought to have been caused by huge, prolonged volcanic eruptions in Siberia, which caused global temperatures to skyrocket. Around 20 million years later, the first dinosaurs started to emerge.

To better understand this extinction event, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee headed to a mountain range in Antarctica to look for samples of vegetation from when the continent was far warmer and was covered in lush vegetation.

View of the Transantarctic Mountains. NASA/MICHAEL STUDINGER

At the end of the Permian period, 250 million years ago, Antarctica was joined onto the supercontinent Gondwana. This landmass also included Africa, Australia, India and South America. It would have been far warmer and more humid, with plants like mosses and ferns covering the landscape.

Researchers were searching for these plants in order to understand how the climate changed during this period. Understanding shifts in global temperatures will allow scientists to build a better picture of what happened to make the mass extinction so catastrophic.

During their expedition, the team found 13 pieces of fossilized tree. Dating showed the trees were over 260 million years old. “This forest is a glimpse of life before the extinction, which can help us understand what caused the event,” geologist Erik Gulbranson, who was part of the expedition team, said in a statement.

Map showing the supercontinents Gondwana and Laurasia.LENNYWIKIDATA/CC

The prehistoric forest, he said, would have had a fairly low diversity of species compared to forests we see today. “This plant group must have been capable of surviving and thriving in a variety of environments,” Gulbranson said. Even in the warmer climate at this time, the plants would have experienced months of darkness due to Antarctica’s latitude.

These plants did not survive the Great Dying mass extinction. Gulbranson will return to the site at the end of November and he plans to stay there until January 2018. During this time he plans to study the plants further to work out exactly how the plants responded to the sudden environmental changes “The geologic record shows us the beginning, middle and end of climate change events,” he said. “With further study, we can better understand how greenhouse gases and climate change affect life on Earth.”

(newsweek)

Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 11/13/2017 2:49:05 PM
	Post-9/11 War Debt Will Cost US $8 Trillion in Interest Alone: Report November 13, 2017 at 5:51 am Written by Jason Ditz (ANTIWAR.COM) — The cost of America’s global war on terror has yet to be reckoned with, and there’s a very good reason for that. By and large, the US has not been paying for all of these wars, but rather has been borrowing to pay for the conflict. In the long run that’s going to be expensive. Paying off the war is going to mean not only paying the prices of the conflict but the massive interest accrued in borrowing the cost of those wars. A new report suggests that just the interest on all that debt will, over the course of decades of servicing it, cost an estimated $8 trillion. So far, they say, the US has paid $534 billion in overseas contingency operations interest. And that’s just the debt already accrued. America’s assorted wars show no sign of ending, and indeed the Pentagon has been pretty clear about the US deployment in Iraq being a permanent thing. When the government talks about the “cost” of the terror war, they generally limit their reckoning to specific costs of overseas operations. Yet decades of veteran costs will doubtless dwarf that, and the interest on top of it will swell final costs to even higher levels. The question of whether America can afford all of this, of course, was never addressed in the first place. Indeed, with so little of the cost being paid at all, the expectation seems to be that they’ll just keep borrowing. By Jason Ditz / Republished with permission / ANTIWAR.COM / Report a typo This article was chosen for republication based on the interest of our readers. Anti-Media republishes stories from a number of other independent news sources. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not reflect Anti-Media editorial policy.
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 11/13/2017 3:34:54 PM
	A mother married her son and then her daughter, who just pleaded guilty to incest, officials say By Kristine Phillips November 11 at 6:01 PM (iStock) Patricia and Misty Spann were married on March 26, 2016. Court records say Patricia Spann had convinced Misty Spann that their marriage was legal — even though they’re biologically related. Patricia, 44, is Misty’s mother. Both women were arrested and charged with incest in September 2016, six months after they got married. On Tuesday, Misty Spann, 26, pleaded guilty to incest. Patricia Spann’s complicated relationship with her children drew scrutiny in August 2016, after a child welfare investigator found that she and Misty Spann, who were living in Duncan, Okla., may have been having an incestuous relationship. Misty Spann. (Oklahoma Department of Corrections) Patricia Spann told the child welfare investigator with the state’s Department of Human Services that she had three children from a previous marriage: daughter Misty and two sons, according to an affidavit. Spann had long since lost custody of her children, who were adopted by their paternal grandmother. She had no contact with any of her children until a few years ago, when she and Misty Spann reunited and “hit it off,” she told the investigator, the affidavit said. Patricia Spann also said she “had looked into” the laws and concluded that marrying her daughter is not illegal because her name is no longer listed on the birth certificate. A police investigator found that Misty Spann’s birth record with the state’s Office of the Inspector General lists her paternal grandmother as her birth mother. Police believe the record was changed after Spann’s children were adopted. However, Misty Spann’s original birth certificate from the hospital where she was born lists Patricia Spann as her birth mother, according to the affidavit. [Oklahoma lawmaker defends pregnancy from rape and incest as ‘beauty from ashes’] Patricia Spann also was not using the same last name as her daughter. She was identified as Patricia Ann Clayton on the marriage license, which the two obtained from a neighboring county. It’s unclear why Spann lost custody of her children or when they were adopted by their grandmother. But police found that Misty Spann is not the only biological child Patricia Spann had married. In December 2008, she married one of her sons, who was 18 at that time. Court records show that he filed for an annulment in March 2010. He listed incest as the reason, the affidavit said. It does not appear that incest charges were filed at that time. [Mom, boyfriend plotted a ‘rape-murder fantasy’ that left her teen daughter dead, prosecutor says] Misty Spann filed for an annulment in September, citing fraud and incest as the reasons. The petition says Patricia Spann told her daughter that she had consulted with three lawyers who each advised her that there would be no problems with their marriage. In a ruling that voided the marriage last month, a district court judge found that Patricia Spann “induced” her daughter “by fraud to enter the marriage.”. Incest is punishable by up to 10 years in prison in Oklahoma. Misty Spann received a 10-year deferred sentence in a plea deal, the Tulsa World reported. This means a judge has postponed imposing a sentence for 10 years, after which Misty Spann will have to go back to court and the case against her will be dismissed. She also will be placed under supervision for two years. The charge against Patricia Spann remains pending. She is scheduled back in court in January. The Washington Post was unable to reach the women’s attorneys on Saturday. (The Washington Post)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 11/13/2017 4:11:36 PM
	Cops can slap homeless women, rape prisoners, assault children, and still keep their jobs Shaun King In Justice Today Mon, 13 Nov 2017 09:32 UTC We live a deeply problematic era in American history. As I type this, the nation is reeling from yet another mass shooting in which 26 people were shot and killed in a rural Texas church. Federal prosecutors are currently investigating and indicting members of Donald Trump's campaign team for various levels of corruption. And while all of this, and so much more, goes on, police brutality, prosecutorial misconduct, and other problems within America's criminal justice system continue with less and less scrutiny. Here, we cover many incidents of injustice from the past week that you likely have not heard about, but deserve our time and attention. A Washington D.C. Police Lieutenant Arrested for Child Abuse Lieutenant David Hutchinson, 55, a longtime veteran of the Washington D.C. Police Department, was arrested and charged with cruelty to a child. According to the Washington Post, "Police said Hutchinson's abuse on Oct. 30 left the child's face, ears, eyes, neck and mouth bruised and swollen. Hutchinson told police he didn't assault the child and didn't know how the child was injured, according to the charging document. The child initially reported being injured from falling down the stairs but later said it was from Hutchinson, according to the charging documents." This should come as no surprise. Police officers have a rate of domestic violence 400% higher than the average American. This Georgia officer was also just charged with cruelty to children. A Bakersfield, California Police Officer Caught with Stolen Guns and Steroids Officer Kevin Schindler, of the troubled Bakersfield Police Department, was caught with injectable steroids and guns he had stolen from the police department. How were these things discovered? Police were called to his house for a domestic disturbance. That makes sense - because, as we established above, police officers have a disturbing rate of domestic violence. Not only that, but steroid abuse is regularly linked to police officers and domestic violence. I bet he keeps his job. Cop Suddenly Retires after News Investigation Reveals His History of Sexual Harassment Lieutenant Jimmy Cunningham had been an officer in Middletown, Ohio for 28 years. As it turns out, throughout his tenure, seven different fellow officers, both men and women, regularly took the brave step of reporting him for sexual harassment, but the city and his supervisors went out of their way to sweep it under the rug. This is clearly a trend that cuts across all industries. According to the local investigation, "The Middletown officers claimed they were regularly the target of Cunningham's crude sexual comments. Male officers were praised for their size of their penises. Female officers were invited to wear a bikini to an upcoming training class or send Cunningham a picture of their breasts." While investigating these claims, it was also revealed that Cunningham had previously been cited for slapping a homeless woman across the face. Minnesota Police Officer Under Investigation Abruptly Resigns Due to "Work Related Injury" Mike Shephard, a veteran police officer in Mendota Heights, Minnesota has been disciplined for misconduct at least five times since 2010. This last time, though, was particularly troubling. Shephard was illegally using police department databases to get personal information on at least a dozen different people including his girlfriend, a local female firefighter, local city council members, and other members of local law enforcement and their families. He was suspended this past March for 30 days after it was discovered that he was using the databases. Then, this past August, he was placed on leave again for yet another internal investigation. All of this gets to one essential challenge in American policing - bad apples are rarely fired - even when investigations determine, over and over again, that they have poor character or have broken the law. Then, when a bad police officer is finally fired, like Charles Foley in Tucson, who committed a felony when he forged his ex-wife's signature on a large check that did not belong to him, he finds a way to win an appeal to miraculously get his job back. People are in jail for this right now. New Jersey Police Officer Indicted on Multiple Sexual Assault Charges Wilfredo Guzman, a 40 year old veteran police officer in Rockaway Township in New Jersey was just indicted on over a dozen felony charges of sexual assault against several different teenage girls as young as 15 years old. According to the report, "The first indictment charges Guzman with two counts of Sexual Assault, four counts of Endangering the Welfare of a Child, and eight counts of Official Misconduct. The second indictment charges Guzman with two counts of Official Misconduct and Possession of Child Pornography. The Sexual Assault and Endangering the Welfare of a Child charges relate to alleged conduct between Guzman and two minor females, one of whom was between the ages of 16-17, and another who was 15 years-old during the time in question. It is alleged that Mr. Guzman engaged in acts of sexual penetration with the two females on various dates in 2014 and 2015, and that Mr. Guzman provided both females alcohol and prescription medication during the same time frame." This incident is not unique. A Wisconsin officer was just arrested for sending sexually explicit text messages to a 15 year old girl. Two NYPD cops are facing charges for raping a teenage girl they had in police custody. A Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy has now been charged with sexually assaulting at least three different women in custody. Comment: Is it any wonder why police in the United States have such a tarnished reputation when such flagrant violations of the law and common decency go unpunished or justice is served lukewarm? (sott.net)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 11/13/2017 11:26:45 PM
	BRIEFLY Stuff that matters SECOND IS THE BEST Stephen Ehlers / Contributor / Getty Images La Niña is here, so 2017 won’t be the warmest year on record. The cool phase of the planet’s most important weather pattern began during October, say scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, with a tell-tale cooling of the waters of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Without the El Niño/La Niña cycle, 2017 likely would have been the warmest year ever measured. With it, 2017 will probably fall all the way to … second place, a close runner up to 2016, which was was superheated by a record-strength El Niño. Every two to four years, global temperatures typically dip as La Niña takes hold. This time around, recent overall planetary warming has become so strong that human influence now seems to be blunting La Niña’s effect on global temperatures. Over the past 67 years since NOAA has been tracking La Niñas, their effect has waned noticeably. But with cooling expected to linger into 2018, global temperatures will remain high but probably not record-breaking. While thermometers might not be bursting, this year’s La Niña should be strong enough to alter weather patterns worldwide, boosting the chances of drought in California and the southeast U.S., heavy snows in the Pacific Northwest, torrential rains in Indonesia, and hurricanes in the Caribbean. Eric Holthaus Nov 10, 2017 (GRIST)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 11/13/2017 11:57:11 PM
	ANTARCTICA: 260 MILLION-YEAR-OLD FOREST THAT EXISTED BEFORE THE DINOSAURS DISCOVERED BY HANNAH OSBORNE ON 11/13/17 AT 6:50 AM Scientists exploring a remote region of Antarctica have discovered evidence of a 260 million-year-old forest, recovering fossilized tree fragments from the frozen ground of the Transantarctic Mountains. The forest would have existed before the Great Dying Mass Extinction Event 252 million years ago—an event that saw around 95 percent of life on Earth wiped out. This mass extinction—the worst in Earth's history—is thought to have been caused by huge, prolonged volcanic eruptions in Siberia, which caused global temperatures to skyrocket. Around 20 million years later, the first dinosaurs started to emerge. To better understand this extinction event, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee headed to a mountain range in Antarctica to look for samples of vegetation from when the continent was far warmer and was covered in lush vegetation. View of the Transantarctic Mountains. NASA/MICHAEL STUDINGER At the end of the Permian period, 250 million years ago, Antarctica was joined onto the supercontinent Gondwana. This landmass also included Africa, Australia, India and South America. It would have been far warmer and more humid, with plants like mosses and ferns covering the landscape. Researchers were searching for these plants in order to understand how the climate changed during this period. Understanding shifts in global temperatures will allow scientists to build a better picture of what happened to make the mass extinction so catastrophic. During their expedition, the team found 13 pieces of fossilized tree. Dating showed the trees were over 260 million years old. “This forest is a glimpse of life before the extinction, which can help us understand what caused the event,” geologist Erik Gulbranson, who was part of the expedition team, said in a statement. Map showing the supercontinents Gondwana and Laurasia.LENNYWIKIDATA/CC The prehistoric forest, he said, would have had a fairly low diversity of species compared to forests we see today. “This plant group must have been capable of surviving and thriving in a variety of environments,” Gulbranson said. Even in the warmer climate at this time, the plants would have experienced months of darkness due to Antarctica’s latitude. These plants did not survive the Great Dying mass extinction. Gulbranson will return to the site at the end of November and he plans to stay there until January 2018. During this time he plans to study the plants further to work out exactly how the plants responded to the sudden environmental changes “The geologic record shows us the beginning, middle and end of climate change events,” he said. “With further study, we can better understand how greenhouse gases and climate change affect life on Earth.” (newsweek)
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