A man was withdrawing money from an ATM at a Wells Fargo bank branch in Cocoa, Fla., in late November when the machine started spitting out more cash than he’d withdrawn, police said. But the man’s reaction wasn’t exactly ecstatic, Florida Today reports.

Investigators are searching for a man they believe has sexually assaulted at least a dozen female sex workers at gunpoint in the Los Angeles area since 2014, police said Friday.

Outside denver, a talented 12-year-old is getting national attention. It's not for her music, it's for Gitanjali Rao's contribution to science.
"If my mom asked me what do you want for Christmas, I'd be like, lead," Gitanjali said.

The problem isn’t Donald Trump – it’s the Donald Trump in all of us...
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Perhaps in a democracy the distinctive feature of decadence is not debauchery but terminal self-absorption - the loss of the capacity for collective action, the belief in common purpose, even the acceptance of a common form of reasoning. We listen to necromancers who prophesy great things while they lead us into disaster. We sneer at the idea of a “public” and hold our fellow citizens in contempt. We think anyone who doesn’t pursue self-interest is a fool.

We cannot blame everything on Donald Trump, much though we might want to. In the decadent stage of the Roman Empire, or of Louis XVI’s France, or the dying days of the Habsburg Empire so brilliantly captured in Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities, decadence seeped downward from the rulers to the ruled. But in a democracy, the process operates reciprocally. A decadent elite licenses degraded behavior, and a debased public chooses its worst leaders. Then our Nero panders to our worst attributes — and we reward him for doing so.

“Decadence,” in short, describes a cultural, moral, and spiritual disorder — the Donald Trump in us.>>>

‘TAKING NAMES’: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, above, yesterday hailed the decision to slash the U.N. budget by $285 million days after the U.N. General Assembly voted in favor of a nonbinding resolution declaring President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital ‘null and void.’

Alas, all you suckers out there are , like this writer, a few paychecks away from financial uncertainty. The less than one thousand dollars extra per year that this bill will throw you is nothing compared to the mega millions the super rich and the large corporations will see added to their spreadsheets. Some of you still hold steady to the hogwash that the Trump team and the mainstream whore media are selling: The more the super rich save in taxes the more that will be reinvested in our economy. Remember the two phony Wall Street bailouts, one under stooge # 1 Junior Bush, and the second under stooge # 2 Obama? All it did was allow these predators to give each other bonuses and more stock buybacks.

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(*$1,000 ÷ 52 = $24.32 should cover the weekly differential of a higher priced tank of petroleum , after taxes deducted for next year)

Prices for a cancer drug called lomustine have skyrocketed nearly 1,400 percent since 2013, putting a potentially life-saving treatment out of reach for patients suffering from brain tumors and Hodgkin's lymphoma. Though the 40-year-old medication is no longer protected by patents, no generic version is available.

The world is full of good news, suitable for Yuletide.

Merry Christmas to you, dear readers! It is a beautiful and serene time of hope, when the darkest time of the year is already behind us. Though the light is still not perceptible, but we know and feel that the change is coming.

The recent vote in the United Nations has been such a glimpse of light, a harbinger of Sun.

Erie County government offices, including the Erie County Courthouse, the Erie County Department of Health and the Erie County Public Library, will open at 10 a.m. on Wednesday. Any 24/7 operations of Erie County government, including the Erie County Prison, will operate on regular schedules. The Erie County Public Library at the Millcreek Mall will be closed on Wednesday, as will the Millcreek Mall. The Erie County Public Library’s Bookmobile also will not be operating on Wednesday. All other branches will follow the county’s 10 a.m. opening.

Prices for a cancer drug called lomustine have skyrocketed nearly 1,400 percent since 2013, putting a potentially life-saving treatment out of reach for patients suffering from brain tumors and Hodgkin's lymphoma. Though the 40-year-old medication is no longer protected by patents, no generic version is available.

The richest people on earth became $1 trillion richer in 2017, more than four times last year’s gain, as stock markets shrugged off economic, social and political divisions to reach record highs.

A sheriff's officer who threw off his gear and dived into a frozen pond to save an 8-year-old Utah boy on Christmas Day refused to be labeled a hero on Tuesday.

U.S. reconnaissance satellites have spotted Chinese ships selling oil to North Korean vessels on the West Sea around 30 times since October.

People living in the Scottish cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Fife, and North Ayrshire may soon receive an unconditional monthly sum as part of a series of universal basic income pilots currently being explored with support from the local government.

California water regulators told Nestlé that the company doesn’t appear to have valid water rights for much of the water it’s been piping out of the San Bernardino National Forest and selling as bottled water.

the before and after photos of this formerly healthy 34-year-old woman are stunning.

A psychologist who works for Los Angeles county says he's the one who sent a gift-wrapped box of manure to Mnuchin.

(*Wow! What a great , cordial show of gratitude for The American President ! )

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Mike I understand if this one doesn't get promoted to the main page . The literary equivelent to a football player taking a knee . Off limits , taboo is off limits taboo .
Again; I totally apologize for this grotesque submission and it's unfair allocations .)

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The magazine, which is aimed at children aged from five to eight, includes trivia card games. On one of the cards, Israel is put on a par with North Korea, both of which are apparently not “real countries.”

"197: We call these 197 countries states, like France, Germany or Algeria. There are others, too, but not all the world’s countries agree that all of them are real countries (for example the State of Israel or North Korea),” reads the card, which has sparked a fierce backlash.

“Shocked by this lie taught to children. Such rhetoric can only encourage anti-Zionism, inseparable from anti-Semitism,” Aliza Bin Noun, the ambassador of Israel to France, said on Twitter, while tagging French President Emmanuel

Francis Kalifat, the president of CRIF (the Federation of Jewish Communities and Organizations of France) condemned the cards, calling them a “factual lie and a flagrant one at that.”

Following the backlash, the magazine was removed from kiosk sales in France and Belgium.

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ISRAELI TRANSPORT MINISTER: FUTURE WESTERN WALL TRAIN STATION TO BE NAMED AFTER TRUMP

Israeli Transport Minister Yisrael Katz: "The Western Wall is the holiest place for the Jewish people, and I have decided to name the train station that leads to it after US President Donald Trump, following his brave and historic decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel."

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The State Department reportedly refused the request.>>>

(*Because; An Occupation By Any Other Name Is Still An Occupation !)

Ronaldo took to Instagram to respond to a tax boss who said he should be in jail
The 32-year-old could face prosecution for more than £13m of tax fraud
The Real Madrid star insists that he has done nothing wrong

Prague's Karlovy Lazne Music Club has employed a specially adaptive robot to DJ
The DJ robot is shaped like a giant arm capped with a pincer, to grab discs
It shares deck duties at the club with its human programmer in an hourly rotation

Aaron Barker, 26, inflicted devastating injuries on kittens Panther and Baby as they desperately tried to escape last January
The mental health care worker was found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to the pets after a two-day trial at Nottingham Crown Court
Barker, from Basford in Nottingham, previously killed two hamsters and a cat called Milo, according to the

Almost half of the UK adult population are expected to hit the high street today for Boxing Day sale shopping
Tourists are believed to be among the biggest spenders, with some visitors from China splashing out £1,000
Yesterday bargain hunters spent £895million online with £105million spent in garages & convenience stores

Today we will ponder America, a country, even a civilization, that existed long ago where the United States is today, but bore little resemblance to it. It will be like studying cave drawings, or Sargon of Akkad. Pay attention. The is original source material of historical importance.

I was there, in America: Athens, Alabama, at age twelve.

A grand total of 782 people won £50,000 or more in lottery draws this year
Year's biggest winner was anonymous EuroMillions player who banked £87M
Another lucky player could win a £23.5M prize in Wednesday's Lotto draw

Well played. Morning Mika won't be happy.

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Laura Plummer, 33, has been sentenced to three years in jail and a £4,205 fine
Yesterday she 'accidentally confessed' to the crime, her legal team has claimed
Her distraught mother said she feels 'sick' and is 'so frightened' for her daughter
The case revolves around 290 Tramadol tablets she took to Egypt for her lover

A mother gave birth to her baby boy at a Florida highway rest stop over the weekend and left him in a bathroom stall, according to reports.

Authorities are trying to find out if an unhappy customer shot and killed an auto mechanic after a heated argument, according to CBS San Francisco.
Earlier this month, Jimmy Martinez credited his dog, Chata, for saving his life.

Rosie O'Donnell responded to a video House Speaker Paul Ryan posted on Saturday to celebrate Christmas, telling him to 'go straight to hell'
'paul ryan - don't talk about Jesus after what u just did to our nation - u will go straight to hell u screwed up fake altar boy #JUDASmuch,' she said, Monday
Ryan posted a video of himself giving a speech in Washington DC in hopes of showing his pride in the holiday
'At the end of each year, no matter how short—or long—it may feel, there is always Christmas,' he said on Saturday
Last week, Rosie O'Donnell had tried to bribe Republican Senators Jeff Flake and Susan Collins for $2million so that they would vote against the tax reform bill
Late Sunday night, Conservative media personality Ben Shapiro shared Twitter removed tweets from the actrss, telling him to 'Suck my d**k Ben'

The victims of the Florida plane crash included Victoria Shannon Worthington, 26, and her husband, Peter Worthington Jr., 27.

Five people were killed, including family members, on Sunday morning after a small plane crashed after taking off from a Central Florida airport in heavy fog, officials said.

Good news, the government can’t deny legal counsel to an American citizen who’s being imprisoned indefinitely on no charges.

A 14-year-old Muslim teen is recovering after receiving a savage beating at the hands of her peers. Video of the encounter is going viral.

Traveling during the holidays can be a worrying experience, with delays, mishaps, and extra layers of security to get through. But one woman is sharing a particularly bad experience: She says a member of Congress got her kicked out of her seat in first class.

In an effort to continue paving the way for President Trump‘s “Buy American, Hire American” executive order, the Trump administration is proposing to end work authorization for people with H-4 dependent visas. This means that the spouses of highly-skilled legal immigrants would be unable to legally work in the country. Between this new proposal and the goals surrounding the RAISE (Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment) act, the overarching question is: Does reducing immigration actually save American jobs?

The allegations pile up against Mueller's witch hunters.

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Fears of a bomb outside Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's Los Angeles home turned out to be a waste -- literally.
A box of gift-wrapped horse manure was to blame for a bomb scare in a driveway near Mnuchin's Bel Air, California, home Saturday evening, according to Los Angeles ABC station KABC

Donald Trump in 2017 moved from being a chaos candidate to a chaos president. He shoots for the moon (literally), routinely says things that aren’t true, and often makes pledges that generate enormous attention but very little follow-through. Many of his signature policy efforts have been tied up in or blocked by the courts, his campaign is under investigation by the FBI, and his approval rating is at historic lows for a first-year president.

A terminally ill man had an out-of-this-world wish — and his local community came through to grant it.
Ron Villemaire, a 69-year-old hard-core "Star Wars" fan, got to see “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” with the help of local New Hampshire fire departments whose medics transported him to the theater.

An Oahu family got a life-changing surprise just in time for the holidays.
A man searching for his father ended up finding out that his best friend since grade school was actually his brother.
The men are 15 months apart in age and have known each other for decades.
They tell KHON2 they learned they were related through a family history and DNA website.
Alan Robinson and Walter Macfarlane have been the best of friends for 60 years.

Police said DeShaune Stewart, 24, of Columbus, was charged with killing his supervisor at a post office in Dublin, Ohio, and then killing the Dublin postmaster outside the Columbus apartment complex where she lived.

Relatives and friends of two Ohio postal workers slain by an enraged, naked coworker were at a loss to explain the violence that occurred Saturday morning.

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Investigators are searching for a man they believe has sexually assaulted at least a dozen female sex workers at gunpoint in the Los Angeles area since 2014, police said Friday.

An Arkansas man admitted over Facebook to raping a girl for nearly a decade, and he told her to “get over it,” according to authorities.

A Chinese murder suspect has been apprehended after evading police for 12 years partly by pretending to be mute - leading to the genuine loss of his ability to speak .
The man, identified by his surname Zeng, has been charged with murdering his wife's uncle, identified as Mr Chai,in 2005, after a dispute over a 500 yuan (£57) rent payment.

In the US, only a handful of media companies control what children and adults watch and read. Now that number could get even smaller. The proposed $52.4 billion merger of Disney and 21st Century Fox would combine the first and third largest film companies in the world, creating a media monopoly that could be as powerful as a state actor on the world stage.

The latest round of UN sanctions against North Korea, imposed last week, see a substantial limitation on processed oil products, like diesel fuel, and a 24 month order for all North Koreans working overseas to return to the country.

The sanctions were unanimous among the UN Security Council, including rare support from China and Russia. North Korea was harshly critical all the same, terming it an “act of war.”

Still, experts say the new sanctions, like so many UN sanctions, are going to do a lot more harm to the average civilian in the destitute country than they will the government itself. The limitations on fuel, for instance, mean what fuel they can import will be given to priority consumers like the military, while more civilian uses will be termed “non-essential.”

This has been a long-standing problem with international sanctions worldwide.small>>>>

Meghan Markle has become the first fiancée to join the Royal Family at Sandringham for Christmas
She walked side-by-side with future sister-in-law Kate and performed a curtsy for The Queen
Meghan stepped out in eye-catching brown beret and wrapped up warm against chilly winter temperatures
The Queen arrived at the service later by car wearing an eye-popping orange jacket with a matching floral hat

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Jewish separation from Palestinians is a delusion. It is like whites separating from blacks in the U.S. Israel is 20 percent non-Jewish; and it rules territories containing 5 million Palestinians; and though the world has resolved to “extricate” the Jews from the Arabs for 70 years now, the communities are intertwined more than ever, as Israeli Jews flood the West Bank and build more and more Jewish-only colonies.

These Jewish colonies and their military escort have inflicted endless trauma on the subject population.>>>

Having taken a shot at The FBI on Christmas Eve Eve…

"How can FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, the man in charge, along with leakin’ James Comey, of the Phony Hillary Clinton investigation (including her 33,000 illegally deleted emails) be given $700,000 for wife’s campaign by Clinton Puppets during investigation?"

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Chabad is nothing more than a manifestation of the Jewish racism that fuels the NWO agenda. Israel’s founder and former Prime Minister David Ben Gurion’s envisioned the Jews as being at the center of the One World Government dream. This will be the fulfillment of the promises of the Bible where the Jews will be the controllers and rulers of all the nations of the world in the time to come.
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Henry Makow: Michael Berg demonstrated that Trump’s family (Kushners) belongs to Chabad, a racist, criminal Jewish supremacist doomsday cult. Trump commuted the 27-year prison sentence of Chabad kosher butcher, Rabbi Sholom Rabashkin, 57, a GOP donor. He had served only eight years
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The man who actually persuaded Trump to pardon Sholom Rubashkin was none other than Alan Dershowitz,[19] the very person who got caught plagiarizing and then got away with it.[20] Dershowitz—get this—brought up the issue of “anti-Semitism” in Rubashkin’s case!>>>

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An Arkansas man admitted over Facebook to raping a girl for nearly a decade, and he told her to “get over it,” according to authorities.
Ronnie Lynn Gipson, 45, lived with the victim in Atkins, Ark., northwest of Little Rock. He allegedly initiated sexual contact with the victim from ages 4 to 12, the local River Valley Leader reported. He used a code — “Do you want to play?” — before initiating contact.

Marina Ginestà became famous due to the photo taken by Juan Guzmán on the rooftop of Hotel Colón, Barcelona during the July 1936 military uprising in Barcelona. As she was a reporter, it was the only time Ginestà was carrying a gun. The rifle she is carrying is M1916 Spanish Mauser, manufactured at famous Oviedo factory in Spain for the Spanish Army.

Samuel Reshevsky learned chess when he was 4 years old. He became known as a child chess prodigy and was playing simultaneous games of chess against adults when he was 6 years of age. At age 8 he was playing chess against strong players. Following the events of World War 1, Reshevsky immigrated to the United States (1920). As a 9-year old, his first American simultaneous exhibition was with 20 officers and cadets at the Military Academy at West Point. He won 19 games and drew one. He toured the country and played over 1,500 games as a 9-year old in simultaneous exhibitions and only lost 8 games. In his early years he did not go to school and his parents ended up in Manhattan Children’s Court on charges of improper guardianship.

nine reigning kings, who were photographed together in what very well may be the only photograph of nine reigning kings ever taken. Of the nine sovereigns pictured, four would be deposed and one assassinated. Within five years, Britain and Belgium would be at war with Germany and Bulgaria. Only five of the nine monarchies represented in the photo still exist today.

A psychologist who works for the County of Los Angeles says he's the one who sent Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin a box of horse shit in protest of the new tax bill.

2017 is verging on becoming Britain's hottest year ever – as tropical air makes Christmas Day hotter than the Mediterranean as it nudges the 15C (59F) record warmest December 25 ever.