They often appear hunched and contorted after a lifetime of being crushed beneath the weight of the dominant psyches, and can sport wicked claws, overlong limbs, cracked flesh, severed but still present body parts, and other nightmarish deformities reflecting the fears their living selves harbored about the dark corners of their own minds. Any gear or items the creature had appear rotted, cracked, and torn in spectral form, though it may carry ghostly versions of the weapons it used in life, deadly implements still capable of harming the living. Most often, animus shades linger near the sites of their deaths or wander without any specific purpose.
As many psychic contests occur in mindscapes or on far-flung esoteric planes, animus shades are frequently found roaming such realms, endlessly raging over the sometimes centuries-old defeats that resulted in their demises. Even when not consumed by such losses, animus shades commonly target those they happen across who remind them of the dominant selves that repressed them in life—whether because of similarities in physical appearance, personality, or activity.
However, some rare animus shades have greater clarity of focus and are gripped with the need to undo the accomplishments they achieved in life, taking pleasure in destroying those things they once loved or took pride in. Among such races, these undead prove far more common within cultures and groups that cultivate psychic prowess.
Fortunately, in lands that value physical strength over mental prowess and in strictly martial cultures, animus shades are almost unknown. Members of races such as hobgoblins , kobolds , and orcs , which seldom give rise to psychically talented individuals, almost never return as animus shades. Poisoned by the psychic violence that spawned them, animus shades rarely, if ever, cooperate. In death, even animus shades created from former allies slain by the same foe viciously strike out at each other. The mental trauma that fills them and holds them to the world scars these undead deeply, but ultimately makes them most resentful of themselves—they know it was their own weaknesses or distraction that resulted in their deaths.
Much of their rage is thus pointed inward, and they take particular satisfaction in viciously unleashing their hatred on those who resemble them, especially if the resulting conflicts remind them of the battles in which they died. It gains the incorporeal subtype. The man, now disfigured to the point of no recognition, wandered the underworld, still remembering to keep the souls of dark and light at bay. Another man, hearing of the tales of the dungeon, ventured to its entrance.
He saw a broken tablet there. Peering into the tablet, he saw the very spirit of something, ghastly, and it ate at his mind, nesting like some diseased thing. Slowly, his mind and skull became its own creature, and the old man tried its best to contain the skeleton within, wandering the dungeon's entrance in agony. A group of insane humans supported the celestial creatures who laid waste to the land. They worshiped these creatures, operating in the utmost secrecy.
Now, the world grows restless. You, a young adventurer, may be the key to releasing the spirit of Terraria, and restoring the world to its former Harmony. The Spirit senses your presence, but in his confused state, sends enemies to attack you, with an ulterior goal of making you stronger. New bosses, enemies, and biomes, with dark, murky pasts, are appearing.
The many factions of the world have seen you as well, and are thirsting for blood, sensing that a final battle is approaching You must fight, young Terrarian! Use the new weapons the Spirit of Terraria has gifted to you, and make your way to the end. Protect this world from the Celestial Invaders! They sense you as well, and it will only be a matter of time until their master strikes Old Leather - Drops from Zombies occasionally. Increases ranged damage, movement speed and critical strike chance!
Rogue Armor - Sold by the Rogue! Increases throwing damage and critical strike chance! Increases Throwing Velocity and movement speed! Increases minion damage and maximum number of minions. Increases minion damage and knockback. Stone Armor - Crafted with Stone at an anvil! Increases melee damage, but lowers movement speed. Increases magic damage and maximum mana. Magic stats are increased during the day Bismite Gear Bismite Crystal: Drops from Diseased Slimes and Bats.
Bismite Weapons occasionally poison hit foes. Bismite Sword - Crafted with Bismite Crystals at an anvil. Shoots out a bismite projectile when swung. Bismite Staff- Crafted with Bismite Crystals at an anvil. Shoots a bolt of bismite energy that stops in midair. Bismite Bow - Crafted with Bismite Crystals at an anvil. Shoots out two, low velocity arrows. Bismite Wrath- Crafted with Bismite Crystals at an anvil. Shoots out 2 or 3 Bismite Wrath Shards in a spread.
Bismite Dagger- 50 crafted with Bismite Crystals at an anvil. Bismite Cutter - Crafted with Bismite Crystals at an anvil. A chakram type weapon. Bismite Pike- Crafted with Bismite Crystals at an anvil. Bismite Armor - Increases damage and critical strike chance! Attacks occasionally inflict the 'Diseased' debuff, which reduce enemy damage!
Bismite Hamaxe - Crafted with Bismite Crystals at an anvil! Bismite Pickaxe - Crafted with Bismite Crystals at an anvil! Frigid Gear Frigid Fragment- Drops from certain snow enemies. Frigid Gear occasionally frostburns foes. Frigid Boomerang- Crafted with Frigid Fragments at an anvil. Frigid Spine- Crafted with Frigid Fragments at an anvil. Occasionally shoots out a frostburning spine. Frigid Bite- Crafted with Frigid Fragments at an anvil. Frigid Knife- Crafted with Frigid Fragments at an anvil. Frigid Scepter- Crafted with Frigid Fragments at an anvil.
Shoots out a large bolt of Frigid energy. Frigid Spear- Crafted with Frigid Fragments at an anvil. All Reach weapons inflict Withering Leaf, lowering enemy defense and damage. Sanctified Stabber- Drops from Reach Guards occasionally. Shoots out three leaves in a spread. Arrows shot inflict Withering Leaf. Clatterbone weapons occasionally pierce through enemies, lowering their defense.
Clatter Sword - Crafted with Hardened Carapaces at an anvil. It's a shortsword that can be swung in any direction. Clatterbone Broadsword- Crafted with Hardened Carapaces at an anvil. A powerful, but slow broadsword. Clatterbone Spear- Crafted with Hardened Carapaces at an anvil. Cleft Horn- Crafted with Hardened Carapaces at an anvil.
Increases melee damage and melee speed! Clapdated Staff - Crafted with Hardened Carapaces at an anvil. Shoots out a quickly disappearing ball of dust! Clatter Bow - Crafted with Hardened Carapaces at an anvil. Shoots out a powerful arrow. Clatterbone Axe - Crafted with Hardened Carapaces at an anvil. Clatterbone Pickaxe - Crafted with Hardened Carapaces at an anvil. Clatterbone Hammer - Crafted with Hardened Carapaces at an anvil. Clatterbone Armor - Increases melee damage and melee speed. Taking Fatal damage will instead grant you with the 'Sturdy' buff, leaving you at 1 HP for a few seconds.
THe effect has a 10 minute cooldown. Involved in the crafting of Floran items. Flowerang - Crafted with Floran Bars at an anvil. A fast moving chakram! Floran Saber - Crafted with Floran Bars at an anvil. Floran Bow - Crafted with Floran Bars at an anvil. Shoots a spore that eventually stops in place. Floran Staff - Crafted with Floran Bars at an anvil. Shoots a bolt of Floran energy that swirls around the player!
Only six bolts can exist at once. Floran Hamaxe- Crafted with Floran Bars at an anvil. Floran Pickaxe - Crafted with Floran Bars at an anvil. Increases critical strike chance! Floran Dagger - 50 Crafted with 2 Floran Bars at an anvil! Floran Armor - Increases magic damage, crit chance, and maximum mana. All Bloodfire weapons occasionally inflict Blood Corruption on foes. Butcher - Crafted with 12 Bloodfire at an anvil! Inflicts Blood Corruption when swung.
Bloodshot - Crafted with 12 Bloodfire at an anvil! Shoots out slow moving, but powerful arrows. Arrows shot inflict Blood Corruption. Bloodfire Staff- Crafted with 12 Bloodfire at an anvil! Bloodfire Axe- Crafted with 12 Bloodfire at an anvil! Bloodfire Pickaxe- Crafted with 14 Bloodfire at an anvil! Bloodfire Hammer- Crafted with 12 Bloodfire at an anvil!
This set does not have armor as of now. All Granite Weapons inflict Energy Flux, causing enemies to move randomly. Occasionally shoots out granite shards. Shoots out a bolt of Granite Energy that splits into multiple tiny bolts. All Marble Weapons have a right-click effect. Shoots out rapid bolts of ancient energy. Right-click to shoot a portal at the cursor position. Right click to shoot out more powerful, piercing arrows. Right click to parry. All Coil Weapons occasionally burn foes. Coil Knife - Crafted with Tech Drives at an anvil. Shoots out randomly arcing knives!
Coil Spear - 75 Crafted with Tech Drives at an anvil. Shoots out powerful, slow moving spears. Shoots a coil mine that lingers on the ground until an enemy steps on it. Only two mines can exist at once! Coil Blade - Crafted with Tech Drives at an anvil. Coil Pistol- Crafted with Tech Drives at an anvil. Shoots out two weak, quick coiled bullets! Coil Blaster- Crafted with Tech Drives at an anvil. Shoots out a powerful, piercing coil bullet. Coil Armor - Increases throwing damage, critical strike chance, and throwing velocity.
When under HP, you go into Overdrive, increasing movement speed and throwing velocity! All Fiery Weapons burn foes. Fiery Shuriken- Crafted with Infernal Rocks at an anvil. A shuriken that pauses in midair multiple times! Fiery Flail - Crafted with Infernal Rocks at an anvil. Always burns nearby enemies. Fiery Bow - Crafted with Infernal Rocks at an anvil. Shoots out two flaming arrows. Fiery Sword - Crafted with Infernal Rocks at an anvil. Shoots out a bouncing, fiery blaze. Fiery Staff- Crafted with Infernal Rocks at an anvil. Shoots out a powerful, fiery bouncing blaze.
Fiery Armor - Increases throwing damage, throwing velocity, ranged damage, and critical strike chance. Ranged and throwing attacks can burn foes. Ranged and Throwing attacks also shoot out fireballs! You emit a fiery dust. Summons The Tide if used near an ocean Black Tide- Shoots out a spread of kelp clumps that linger when touching the ground, inflicting Brine a slowing debuff and dealing constant damage! Drops from Murky Terrors rarely. Miniflayer Staff- Summons a mini Mind Flayer to zap foes with brine-coated energy!
Drops from Mind Flayers rarely. Baby Clamper- An accessory that increases defense by 2. Getting hurt by enemies spawns a clamping projectile around you, which reduces your damage taken! Dropped by Clampers rarely. Ocean's Gale Javelin- Left-click the Javelin to use it like a powerful, melee spear.
Upon right click, you can constantly throw a javelin at foes! Dropped by Greenfin Trappers rarely. All Tidal Weapons inflict Tidal Ebb, lowering enemy damage and dealing damage over time. Turns bullets into tidal energy. Occasionally shoots out a bolt of tidal energy. Shoots out a sphere of water that occasionally splits into a star of water.
A powerful grenade that explodes into multiple bolts of tidal energy. Ocean Armor - A summon based armor that increases max minions and damage! A mini Clamper follows you and attacks foes! If some items are displayed twice on the banner, I apologize Animation Stone- Increases movement speed, but decreases jump height. Crafted with Stone Blocks and Demonite Bars at an anvil! Drops from Demon eyes occasionally. Plaguebearer Microbe- Increases defense at the cost of 10 life.
Cleft Horn - Increases melee damage and knockback. Crafted with Hardened Carapces at an anvil. Briarhunt Charm - Increases all critical strike chances by varying percentages, increases max life, as well as melee damage and speed. Wood Yoyos - Multiple types of earlygame yoyos crafted with different types of wood at an anvil. The Fireball - A yoyo that shoots out three bouncing fireballs!
Drops from Fiery Imps rarely. Sweet Throw- A yoyo that occasionally shoots out friendly bees. Drops from Queen Bees occasionally. Bone Charm - Increases maximum mana by 40 when under half health. Crafted with Bones and Mana Crystals at an anvil. Constellation Kunai- Shoots out multiple Kunai that ignore gravity.
Crafted with Kunai and Starplate Fragments at an anvil. Orion's Pistol- Converts bullets into Orion Bullets, which leave behind lingering energy to damage foes. Crafted with a Flintlock Pistol and Starplate Fragments at an anvil. Drops from Blood Zombies rarely. Harpy Blade- Shoots a Harpy Feather from the sky at the cursor position. Drops from Harpies rarely.
Starblade - Shoots out a giant star every seventh swing that explodes into multiple homing wisps. The Earthblade- Melee strikes ensnare enemies in vines, reducing their movement speed. Melee critical hits grant you 'Earthwrought,' increasing life regeneration. Occasionally shoots out multiple leaves. Overgrowth Staff- Summons a Leaf Spirit to shoot leaves at foes! Crafted with Wood and Acorns at an anvil. Thornwild Staff- Summons a Briar Spirit to charge at foes! Eater Staff - Summons a mini Eater of Souls to latch onto foes! Drops from Eaters of Souls rarely. Creeper Staff- Summons a mini Creeper to latch onto foes!
Drops from Face Monsters rarely. Ball of Flesh- Drops from the Wall of Flesh rarely. Shoots out a bouncing, fleshy chakram! Thrower Emblem- Drops from the Wall of Flesh occasionally. Summons a Hungry that is latched to your body. The Chaos Ball- Shoots out a fast moving chaos ball. Drops from Goblin Sorcerers occasionally. Imp Fireball- Shoots out a burning fireball. Drops from Fiery Imps occasionally. The Blazing Wheel- Shoots out a bouncing blazing wheel. Drops from Angry Bones rarely. Magic Conch - Summons a whirplool at the cursor position.
Drops from Snappers rarely. Briarheart Boomerang- Shoots out two boomerangs at once. Roseslime Staff - Shoots out a bouncing pink ball of gel! Crafted with Pink Gel and Gel at an anvil. Cactus Staff- Shoots out a rolling cactus spike. Crafted with Cacti at an anvil. Hellstone Chakram- A fast moving, less damaging counterpart to the Flamarang. Crafted with Hellstone Bars at an anvil. Cralwerock Staff - Summons a mini Cavern Crawler to fight for you!
Drops from Cavern Crawlers rarely. Breath of the Zephyr- Shoots a cloud that pierces infinitely. Flesh Render - A homing flail that inflicts Blood Corruption. Drops from Flesh Golems. Antlion Digging Claws- The fastest prehardmode pickaxe that cannot mine any ores. Eyeshot- Converts arrows into high velocity Eye Arrows.
Drops from the Eye of Chthulu rarely. Mime Mask - Boosts minion damage and defense. Always drops from Lost Mimes. Orbiter Staff- Summons a mini Mineroid to charge at foes! Drop from Mineroids rarely. The Tenderizer - A powerful, slow, life stealing sword. Drops from Crimson Brutalists rarely. The Slugger - A quick sword that shoots out a returning sword on swing. Drops from Shadow Sluggers rarely. Inflicts the Energy Flux Debuff, reducing enemy defense.
It occasionally leaves behind a Creeper afterimage to deal damage to foes! Tektite - Crafted with Meteorite Bars at an Anvil. Occasionally shoots out a fire trail! Plague- Drops from certain Blood Moon Monsters. Occasionally breaks off and latches onto enemies, provided you hold down your mouse! Sunleaf - Sold by the Dryad. Attacks inflict the Dryad's Blessing Debuff on foes! Peeper - Drops from the Wall of Flesh.
Summons a hungry to guard you! The yoyo occasionally breaks off and homes in on enemies! Bonesaw - A guaranteed drop from Skeletron! Sends out a Skeletron Head that randomly shoots out bones! Serpent Spine- A flail that retracts immediately upon hitting enemies or tiles. Drops from Bone Serpents rarely. Eel Tail - Shoots out two electrifying bolts that pause in midair before continuing their path! Drops from Electric Eels rarely. Kunai - Shoots out three Kunai in an arc. Crafted with Iron Bars and Silk at an anvil.
Arrows shot occasionally inflict the 'Poisoned! Star Spray - Drops from Harpies occasionally. Converts arrows into stars that rain from the sky. Longbowne - Crafted with Gold Bars and Bones at an anvil. Arrows shot have high velocity and knockback! Shoots out powerful, damaging stars. Quasar- Crafted with a Night Sky and 12 Ectoplasm at an anvil! Converts arrows into homing spectre bolts.
Bloodletter- A Staff crafted with Crimtane Bars at an anvil! It shoots out a clump of blood that causes more blood to rain from the sky on hitting an enemy. It shoots out a bolt of putrid energy that spawns another homing bolt upon hitting enemy. Thornball Staff - Crafted with Jungle Spores and Stingers, this staff shoots out a poisonous, bouncing spore. It shoots out a bolt of water that slowly decreases in velocity, and then splits into two similar projectiles.
It shoots a small flame that shatters into flametrails on hitting an enemy. It shoots out a bloody projectile that spawns two other projectiles soon after. All these projectiles have a chance to steal life. It opens a portal from the edge of the Horizon to shoot homing projectiles at foes. Those bolt inflict a damaging debuff.
It shoots out three enchanted swords in quick succession that lower enemy defense. Shoots inaccurate Crimson bullets that occasionally steal life. Shoots out a spread of homing Corrupt bullets. Possessed Blade- Drops from Possessed Armors occasionally. An autoswinging blade that's great for early Hardmode. Possessed Warhammer- Drops from Possessed Armors occasionally.
Possessed Armor- Increases melee damage, melee speed, and movement speed! Become the shadow on reaching half health, doubling your melee and movement speed!
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Inflicts a multitude of debuffs rarely. Shoots out a rotating Geode that occasionally inflicts a multitude of debuffs. Geode Armor - Increasing throwing damage and throwing critical strike chance! Press a hotkey to allow your throwing weapons to inflict 'Crystallize,' a highly damaging debuff, for a short amount of time. Involved in the crafting of Acid Gear All Acid weapons inflict 'Acid Burn,' which gets stronger every time an enemy is hit. Gastro Glaive- Crafted with Corrosive Acid at a hardmode anvil.
Acid Globs - Crafted with Corrorsive Acid at a hardmode anvil. Throws out multiple globs of acid that are affected by gravity. Throwing attacks may inflict Acid Burn.
Increases throwing damage, throwing velocity, and movement speed. Getting hurt may cause an explosion of Acid to appear around the player, inflicting Acid Burn. Throwing hits have an extremely low chance to instantly kill non boss enemies. Inflicts the Ichor debuff. Shoots out two Ichor Arrows.
Shoots a cluster of blood that splits into multiple bolts of Ichor. Summons a portal that shoots Ichor at foes! Shoots high velocity knives. Ichor Shuriken - crafted with 4 Flesh Clumps at a Hardmode anvil. Goreligator - Crafted with 12 Flesh Clumps at a Hardmode anvil! Shoots spreads of bullets. Gore Armor - With Mask Increases melee damage, melee knockback, and melee crit chance. Updated sprites - Press the 'Ichor Wrath' to damage all nearby enemies and bathe them in ichor. Updated sprites - Press the 'Ichor Guard' hotkey to release three life stealing, homing bolts of blood that return up to 45 life.
Inflicts Blighted Flames, a counterpart to Cursed Inferno. Converts arrows into Blighted Arrows. Shoots out Putrid chunks. Shoots out a Cursed Trident that inflicts Blighted Flames. Shoots a Putrid Flame that slowly increases in velocity. Shoots out 3 Blighted Bullets in a row. Is unaffected by gravity.
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Shoots out bouncing shurikens that inflict Blighted Flames. Pestilent Armor With Guard - Increases arrow damage, critical strike chance, movement speed, and reduces ammo consumption chance. Leave a trail of Blighted Flames where you walk. Pestilent Armor With Visor - Increases bullet damage, critical strike chance, movement speed, and reduces ammo consumption chance. Every fourth hit with a Pestilent weapon causes an explosion of Blighted Flames to appear. Each drops from their respective Mech Boss in Quantities of , and craft some cool Mech Boss items!
They can also be placed, for some aesthetic variety. From left to right: When thrown out, The Probe shoots lasers in random directions. This bow converts arrows into Death Lasers. It deals high amounts of damage and is very fast at chopping down trees. It consumes low amounts of mana and shoots out damaging lasers! All Depth weapons have a chance to explode into seawater on hitting foes. Depth Spiral- Crafted with Depth Shards at a hardmode anvil. Shoots out two depth bolts that revolve around each other!
Depth Star- Crafted with Depth Shards at a hardmode anvil. A powerful throwing weapon! Depth Charm- Crafted with Depth Shards at a hardmode anvil. A magic weapon that summons bouncing depth energy to rain down at your cursor position. Depth Blaster- Crafted with Depth Shards at a hardmode anvil. Converts bullets into Depth Rounds. Compass Rose- Crafted with Depth Shards at a hardmode anvil. A Chakram-type weapon that can be used infinitely. The Mesopelagic- Crafted with Depth Shards at a hardmode anvil.
Focuses around melee and summon buffs! Press a hotkey to release multiple homing Mech Sharks. Also, it's a donator set dedicated to powpowitsme! Entbehrung- Crafted with Gore Magala Scales at a hardmode anvil. A bow that converts arrows into Magala Arrows. Schattenscholz- Crafted with Gore Magala Scales at a hardmode anvil. A powerful, large sword. Elendskraft - Crafted with Gore Magala Scales at a hardmode anvil. Right-click to make the sword disappear and have a shield appear in its place, dealing damage to enemies in an aura. Increases max life, maximum number of minions, and more.
More nefariously, recent reports But [another] kind of stop — an investigatory or pretext stop — uses the traffic laws to uncover more serious crime. Such stops and subsequent searches exploded in popularity in the s. Pretext stops are responsible for most of the racial disparity in traffic stops in the US. Political scientist Charles Epp found that when the police are actually enforcing traffic safety laws, they tend to do so without regard to race. But when they are carrying out investigatory or pretext stops, they are much more likely to stop black and other minority drivers: Most of the pieces — the aggressive prosecutions and policing, longer sentences, prison-building, collateral consequences of convictions such as losing the right to vote or the chance to live in public housing — had been put in place.
The years since [have] been primarily dedicated to maintaining For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on corruption in policing and in the judicial system. Marsha Appling-Nunez was showing the college students she teaches how to check online if they're registered to vote when she made a troubling discovery. Despite being an active Georgia voter who had cast ballots in recent elections, she was no longer registered.
She tried re-registering, but with about one month left before a November election Appling-Nunez's application is one of over 53, sitting on hold with Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp's office. Kemp, who's also the Republican candidate for governor, is in charge of elections and voter registration in Georgia. His Democratic opponent, former state Rep. Stacey Abrams, and voting rights advocacy groups charge that Kemp is systematically using his office to suppress votes and tilt the election, and that his policies disproportionately affect black and minority voters.
Through a process that Kemp calls voter roll maintenance and his opponents call voter roll purges, Kemp's office has cancelled over 1. Nearly , registrations were cancelled in alone. According to records obtained from Kemp's office through a public records request, Appling-Nunez's application - like many of the 53, registrations on hold with Kemp's office - was flagged because it ran afoul of the state's "exact match" verification process.
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An analysis of the records obtained by The Associated Press reveals racial disparity in the process. Georgia's population is approximately 32 percent black, according to the U. Census, but the list of voter registrations on hold with Kemp's office is nearly 70 percent black.
Iraq invaded Kuwait in August of The Kuwait government had to find a way to "sell the war" to the American public. It's wasn't an easy sell. They took the babies out of the incubators, took the incubators and left the babies on the cold floor to die. The babies in incubator stories became a lead item in newspapers, and on radio and TV. Seven witnesses used false names. On January 12, , Congress authorized the use of force.
The story was later discredited. The Federal Bureau of Investigation acknowledged today that its agents plotted in to besmirch the reputation of Jean Seberg, the actress who committed suicide last week, by planting a rumor with news organizations that she was pregnant by [a] high-ranking member of the Black Panther Party. The action against Miss Seberg, part of the F. According to a document dated April 27, , the Los Angeles office of the F.
However, the bureau's animus toward the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. As with all documents released by the F. But in a warning published Thursday in the journal Science , a group of independent scientists and lawyers objected. They argue that the endeavor is not so different from designing biological weapons - banned under international law since - that could swarm and destroy acres of crops.
Crystal Mason, the woman who became the poster child for voter suppression when she was sentenced to five years for casting a ballot in Texas, has gone into federal prison. An African American woman, she had been encouraged by her mother to do her civic duty and vote. When she turned up to the polling station her name was not on the register, so she cast a provisional ballot that was never counted.
She did not read the small print of the form that said that anyone who has been convicted of a felony — as she had, having previously been convicted of tax fraud — was prohibited from voting under Texas law. For casting a vote that was not counted, she will now serve 10 months in the federal system. While locked up it is likely that her final appeals in state court will be exhausted, which means she could be passed at the end of the 10 months directly to state custody for a further five years.
Her lawyer, Alison Grinter, said she was dismayed to see Mason ripped from her family. Ortega, 37, who had permanent resident status in the US having come to the country as an infant, was sentenced to eight years in prison to be followed by deportation. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on corruption in elections and in the judicial system.
The Department of Justice said it is filing a lawsuit against the state of California over its new net neutrality protections, hours after Gov. Jerry Brown signed the bill into law on Sunday. The California law would be the strictest net neutrality protections in the country, and could serve as a blueprint for other states. Under the law, internet service providers will not be allowed to block or slow specific types of content or applications, or charge apps or companies fees for faster access to customers.
The Department of Justice says the California law is illegal and that the state is "attempting to subvert the Federal Government's deregulatory approach" to the internet. Barbara van Schewick, a professor at Stanford Law School, says the California bill is on solid legal ground and that California is within its legal rights.
California is the third state to pass its own net neutrality regulations, following Washington and Oregon. However, it is the first to match the thorough level of protections that had been provided by the Obama-era federal net neutrality regulations repealed by the Federal Communications Commission in June. At least some other states are expected to model future net neutrality laws on California's. The original FCC rules included a two page summary and more than additional pages with additional protections and clarifications on how they worked.
While other states mostly replicated the two-page summary, California took longer crafting its law in order to match the details in the hundreds of supporting pages. Read how the Federal Communications Commission's net-neutrality policymaking process was heavily manipulated. There were dozens of witnesses when a gunfight broke out on a street corner in Buffalo on Aug. Torriano Jackson, 17, was killed. Valentino Dixon, then 21, was at the scene. Hours later, he was arrested.
And in , he was convicted of murder and sentenced to almost 40 years to life in prison. Dixon fought that conviction from behind bars, insisting on his innocence. No physical evidence had ever connected him to the murder, and another man had confessed to it more than once. His murder conviction was vacated on Wednesday, and Mr. Dixon, 48, walked free. As he struggled to get his conviction overturned, Mr. Dixon got help from Martin Tankleff, who was imprisoned for 17 years after being wrongly convicted of murdering his parents. In prison, [Dixon] liked to draw detailed landscapes in colored pencil.
Golf courses were a frequent subject. That caught the interest of journalists at Golf Digest , and the magazine profiled Mr. In , a new district attorney, John Flynn, took office in Erie County. And in , a course called the Prison Reform Project was offered for the first time at Georgetown University Tankleff [serving] as an adjunct professor.
Three students chose Mr. Their work helped Donald M. Thompson, a lawyer for Mr. Flynn, the district attorney, said the newly discovered evidence from various witnesses attesting to Mr. Read the Golf Digest profile featuring Mr. Dixon's artwork which brought much-needed attention to his wrongful incarceration. As the elections approach, the American intelligence community is issuing increasingly dire warnings about potential interference from Russia and other countries.
And they ignore the fact that many voting machines that elections officials insist are disconnected from the internet — and therefore beyond the reach of hackers — are in fact accessible by way of the modems they use to transmit vote totals on election night. The answer, ultimately, comes down to politics and money: The voting machines are made by well-connected private companies that wield immense control over their proprietary software, often fighting vigorously in court to prevent anyone from examining it when things go awry. The stakes are high. But the focus on Russia, or any would-be election manipulators, ignores the underlying issue — the myriad vulnerabilities that riddle the system and the ill-considered decisions that got us here.
The major media have severely neglected reporting on elections manipulations that have been going on for many decades. For undeniable evidence of this, see our Elections Information Center. A little-known, billionaire-funded organization, called Americans for Prosperity AFP , has tilted American politics to the right. AFP has quietly pushed behind the scenes for many of the most important conservative victories across the nation, including the anti-union bills that passed in former union strongholds such as Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio.
AFP has recognized that to make lasting change in US politics, the Koch network would need to permanently weaken the organizations that support liberal candidates and causes — and above all, the labor movement. In constructing AFP , the Kochs have created a vehicle that is perfectly positioned to reshape American politics. AFP focuses on both elections and policy battles at all levels of government. Its activities are mostly centrally directed.
And even though grassroots participants do not have much say in the direction of the group, AFP has nearly 3 million citizen activists signed up to mobilize for candidates and policy causes. By providing resources to support GOP candidates and officials, and exerting leverage on them once elected, AFP has been able to pull the Republican party to the far right on economic, tax and regulatory issues. Along with opposing organized labor, this empire has been killing public transit projects across the country. Prior to the release of these documents, little was known about the use of FISA court orders against journalists.
Previous attention had been focused on the use of National Security Letters against members of the press; the letters are administrative orders with which the FBI can obtain certain FISA court orders can authorize much more invasive searches and collection, including the content of communications, and do so through hearings conducted in secret and outside the sort of The rules apply to media entities or journalists who are thought to be agents of a foreign government, or For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on judicial system corruption and the erosion of civil liberties.
In every state, patient protection is supposed to be the prime directive when it comes to licensing and disciplining doctors. But a state examination by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found that only a few states have anything close to a comprehensive set of laws that put patients first.
Kimberly Williams, a member of the Delaware General Assembly, who sponsored a patient-protection bill last year that was blocked with a veto. The AJC studied five categories of laws in every state in the nation to determine which states are the best - and the worst - at shielding patients from sexually abusive doctors. The statutes examined covered everything from the duty to report bad doctors and the power to revoke the licenses of the worst, to the laws that decide who gets to serve on medical licensing boards and how much information consumers can know about doctors who have gotten into trouble.
Not a single state met the highest bar in every category. It often takes a horrific case or a public expose to get pro-patient legislation passed. See a list of powerful articles revealing egregious and rampant sexual abuse by doctors around the US. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on sexual abuse scandals and health.
Barry Davis stood before a judge and admitted to a horrific crime: Davis served two years in prison and eight on probation, and his name was to live forever on an ignominious list: But suddenly last year, all was forgiven. It announces no justification for its decisions. Without oversight or transparency, the board quietly restored the firearms rights of more than 1, felons in six years. Some progress has been made in years since this article was published, but there are still serious problems. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on sexual abuse scandals and judicial system corruption.
Angeline Cheek is preparing for disaster. The indigenous organizer from the Fort Peck reservation in Montana fears that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline could break and spill. But environmental catastrophe is not the most immediate threat. Recently released records [suggest] that police were organizing to launch an aggressive response to possible Keystone protests, echoing the actions against the Standing Rock movement in North Dakota.
There, officers engaged in intense surveillance and faced widespread accusations of excessive force. Documents obtained by the ACLU Georgia and four other states do not use paper ballots as a backup for electronic voting machines. In Washington, a group of bi-partisan lawmakers are banding to mandate the extra security measure across the nation.
But right now, the Secretary of State, Brian Kemp is facing a federal lawsuit because he's reluctant to make the change before the upcoming November 6 election. In , an investigation into the current system which uses 15 year old voting kiosks, was determined in serious jeopardy. But nothing was done. Instead, several databases with vital information was missing that could've assisted in the remedy. Democrat candidate Lisa Ring says voters are complaining they've been expunged from the rolls, that their designated and confirmed polling place was closed when they arrived for the Primary election, even worse, some saw their vote changing in front of their eyes.
And, sometimes, if people don't catch it, we don't know if the vote is being recorded accurately. There is controversy over the boundary line drawn for at least one voting district, several polls were almost closed in a majority black district and the lawsuit looming in federal court. Georgia voters head to the polls November 6 to elect a new governor. On Saturday, September 13th, , the world was about to end. The New York Federal Reserve was a zoo. In the twin collapses of top-five investment bank Lehman Brothers and insurance giant AIG, Wall Street saw a civilization-imperiling ball of debt hurtling its way.
The legend of that meeting The plan included a federal bailout of incompetent AIG, along with key mergers — Bank of America buying Merrill, Barclays swallowing the sinking hull of Lehman, etc. The legend is bull. Accurate chronicles of the crisis period [include] the just-released Financial Exposure by Elise Bean of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The crisis response dramatically accelerated two huge problems. First, we made Too Big To Fail worse by making the companies even bigger and more dangerous through In the next crisis, letting losers lose will be even more unimaginable.
Secondly, an already-serious economic inequality issue became formalized. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on financial industry corruption and income inequality. By the time Lehman Brothers filed for the largest bankruptcy in American history on Sept. Throughout the mess, the Federal Reserve and the U. They transformed it into an unaccountable criminal syndicate.
Since the crash, the biggest Wall Street banks have been caught laundering drug money , violating U. Not a single human being has served a day in jail for any of it. The top 1 percent of U. The result has been a predictable and terrifying resurgence of authoritarian politics unseen since the Second World War. He enlisted a foreign politician who was secretly on his payroll to deliver a message to President Barack Obama in the Oval Office.
And he gleefully fueled allegations that an Obama Cabinet member who had spoken out against his Ukrainian client was an anti-Semite. With his guilty plea Friday, Manafort admitted the lengths to which he went to manipulate the American political system and the media for massive profit, exposing how he thrived in the Washington swamp that Trump railed against during his campaign.
By pleading guilty, Manafort agreed that he knew he was required by law to publicly report that a pro-Russia Ukrainian political party was paying him and his stable of lobbyists, which included former leaders of Austria, Poland and Italy. Instead, he operated in the dark, working diligently to keep his lobbying for Ukrainian politician Viktor Yanukovych a secret and pocketing millions routed through offshore bank accounts to hide his work and avoid paying taxes.
Paul Miller, who runs the Institute for Lobbying and Ethics But Manafort went far beyond that, Miller said. One of the Venezuelan military commanders involved in the secret talks He and other members of the Venezuelan security apparatus have been accused by Washington of a wide range of serious crimes, including torturing critics, jailing hundreds of political prisoners, wounding thousands of civilians, trafficking drugs and collaborating with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, which is considered a terrorist organization by the United States.
In a series of covert meetings The officers asked the United States to supply them with encrypted radios, citing the need to communicate securely, as they developed a plan to install a transitional government. American officials did not provide material support, and the plans unraveled after a recent crackdown that led to the arrest of dozens of the plotters. Tillerson raised the potential for a military coup. The US has a long history of supporting coups and human rights abuses in Latin America.
The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly known as the School of the Americas, graduated more than human rights abusers. A dossier compiled by an MP detailing allegations of a s Westminster paedophile ring is one of more than potentially relevant Home Office files destroyed, lost or missing, it has emerged. The government faced fresh calls for an overarching inquiry into historical cases of paedophilia as it was revealed that a total of Home Office files relevant to allegations of a child abuse network have disappeared from government records.
David Cameron has already ordered the Home Office permanent secretary to look into what happened to a lost dossier given earlier in the s to Leon Brittan, then home secretary, by the campaigning Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens. The revelation that further relevant documents have disappeared will raise fresh fears of an establishment cover-up.
Dickens, who died in , had told his family that the information he handed to the home secretary in and would "blow the lid off" the lives of powerful and famous child abusers, including eight well-known figures. In a letter to Dickens at the time, Brittan suggested his information would be passed to the police, but Scotland Yard says it has no record of any investigation into the allegations.
On Saturday the Home Office made public a letter to Keith Vaz, chairman of the home affairs select committee, in which the department confirmed that correspondence from Dickens had not been retained and it had found "no record of specific allegations by Mr Dickens of child sex abuse by prominent public figures".
For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on sexual abuse scandals and government corruption. During the Cold War, the CIA funded a series of secret brainwashing experiments at a prestigious psychiatric clinic. No method was too bizarre, including using LSD, hypnosis, prolonged periods of induced sleep, and electrical shocks to the brain. Patients were given the treatment without explanation or consent, and even decades later complained that they had never completely recovered.
Bob Logie was admitted to Allen Memorial hospital at age 18 to treat psychosomatic leg pain. He was repeatedly given LSD as a test subject without his consent, [and was] exposed to massive doses of electroshock therapy and kept asleep for up to a month at a time. Tape messages were played repeatedly while he slept. Logie said the effect of the treatments stayed with him. No one knows how many patients were exposed to the program of chemical and electro-shock treatments. But documents and testimony have revealed that the Montreal experiments were part of a series of psychological projects given code names such as MK Ultra and run by the CIA in a quest to understand how to brainwash people.
Many years passed before there was any public or official acknowledgment of what patients at Allen Memorial had been through. It emerged that during that time Ottawa helped suppress evidence that CIA officials had apologized to the Canadian government when the CIA experiments were first revealed. Watch the complete Fifth Estate report at the link above. The Canadian government has been actively attempting to silence victims of this program for over forty years. Read also an excellent summary on the involvement of doctors in the CIA's brainwashing experiments. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing mind control news articles from reliable major media sources.
John Mormando was in the best shape of his life — a marathon runner and triathlete training for an Ironman competition — when he noticed a small bump on his chest. Mormando, 51, was at a loss to explain his rare diagnosis. Tens of thousands of people who lived or worked in the neighborhood at the time found themselves breathing in air thick with toxic fumes and particles.
Many have since become sick, many have died and new cases are still occurring. The latest example is a cluster of men who have developed breast cancer, including Mormando. The new cluster of male breast cancer diagnoses is just one face of a health crisis that is only getting worse 17 years after the terrorist attacks. New York is nearing a grim milestone: Last week, FBI director Christopher Wray said he had lost three colleagues who responded to the attacks in the last six months alone.
There were 9, members of the World Trade Center Health Program certified as having a related cancer as of the end of June. An additional members who had cancer have died. The head of the EPA at the time has admitted she was wrong to assure the public that the air around Ground Zero was safe. In his first major policy address since joining the White House in April, national security adviser John Bolton offered a particularly aggressive demonstration of President Trump's "America First" agenda.
He threatened the International Criminal Court, a U. He warned that the United States would ban ICC judges and prosecutors from entering the country, sanction their funds in the U. The ICC's chief prosecutor announced last November that she had "reasonable evidence" to investigate allegations regarding the abuse, torture and even rape of at least 88 Afghan detainees, allegedly carried out by U. The ICC is far from a perfect institution.
But it still represents a key cog in the international system, and one that could yet provide justice for the hideous crimes of those like Instead, it may yet become another casualty of Trump's wider war on liberal internationalism. And there is a strong possibility they will succeed.
As part of his ongoing crusade targeting black athletes, President Donald Trump shared a tweet. Army Ranger who was killed in Afghanistan in the spring of Trump was co-signing a suggestion that Tillman was a true patriot, unlike those who have chosen to kneel during the national anthem. Tillman was 25 years old when he joined the Army Instead, he was sent to Iraq.
Tillman loathed the Iraq War. His memorial service was broadcast on national television. It described how Tillman charged up a ridgeline, braving enemy fire, and died defending his fellow soldiers. The military knew Tillman was killed by his fellow soldiers, brought down by three bullets to the head let loose during spasms of wildly irresponsible but deliberate shooting. The US government does not represent the interests of the majority of the country's citizens, but is instead ruled by those of the rich and powerful, a new study from Princeton and Northwestern Universities has concluded.
Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the US political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favour policy change, they generally do not get it. This is merely a coincidence, the report says. The theory of "biased pluralism" that the Princeton and Northwestern researchers believe the US system fits holds that policy outcomes "tend to tilt towards the wishes of corporations and business and professional associations. Watch an excellent six minute video showing how corruption in the US is legal.
For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing income inequality news articles from reliable major media sources. Most everyone remembers Cyril Smith. The member of Parliament had a personal touch. He also, according to hundreds of allegations since his death, was a pedophile of historic proportions.
Why have we heard nothing further on this case? The page report , which the Justice Department has tried to keep secret for four years, provides new evidence about more than two dozen of the most notorious Nazi cases of the last three decades. Scholars and previous government reports had acknowledged the C. But this report goes further in documenting the level of American complicity and deception in such operations.
The Justice Department has resisted making the report public since Under the threat of a lawsuit, it turned over a heavily redacted version last month. US agencies used at least 1, ex-Nazis as spies and informants during the Cold War. Nazi doctors were also used used to teach the CIA mind control methods it perfected. See the astounding declassified CIA documents on this program. The US should put more emphasis on directed-energy weapons, including concentrating on developing a doctrine for their use, said Brig.
The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense approved its version of the Fiscal funding bill More emphasis also must be placed on doctrine. Read more on the exotic weapons being developed for the US military. And even more here. China was recently reported to be working on a new handheld laser weapon designed to set people on fire from half a mile away.
For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing non-lethal weapons news articles from reliable major media sources. Bugs were found in major cities in the U. These included the abuse of flood warnings, radiation alarms and, yes, traffic networks. The experts were inspired by the recent incident in Hawaii in which an alert warned citizens that a ballistic missile was inbound. The blaring island alarms, made in error, caused mass panic.
In another example, he said: This New York Times article calls 'smart' devices, "a train wreck in privacy and security. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on corruption in government and the disappearance of privacy. New smart energy meters that the Government wants to be installed in millions of homes will leave householders vulnerable to cyber attacks.
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The intelligence agency GCHQ Cyber security experts say that making the meters universal will make them more attractive to hackers because the potential returns are so much greater if they can hack every meter using the same software. In some foreign countries hackers have already attacked smart meter networks to defraud customers. Criminals are able to artificially inflate meter readings, making bills higher. They then try to intercept payments, and if they simply skim off the difference between the real reading and the false reading, energy companies will think the bill has been paid normally.
That would potentially give hackers the ability to steal personal information that could be sold on to other criminals. This New York Times article calls 'smart' devices like these meters, "a train wreck in privacy and security. Watch an excellent documentary uncovering the serious dangers of smart meters. In , [he] stopped a charging bull in its tracks by sending a radio signal to a device implanted in its brain. With the push of a button, he could evoke smiles, snarls, bliss, terror, hunger, garrulousness, lust, and other responses.
In , Delgado co-authored Over the next two decades, he implanted electrodes in some 25 subjects. The sponsorship of his experiments by the Office of Naval Research and the Air Force Aeromedical Research Laboratory as well as several civilian agencies raised eyebrows. He invented a halo-like device and a helmet that could deliver electromagnetic pulses to specific neural regions. Testing the gadgets on animals and human volunteers, including himself and his daughter, Delgado discovered that he could induce drowsiness, alertness, and other states. Read a New York Times article on Delgado's disturbing research.
Imagine how far the military has gone with this microchip technology in the over 50 years since Delgado invented it. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on microchip implants and mind control. Four days before the congressional primary in her Northern California district, Erin Schrode woke up to tens of thousands of messages.
It has been two years since Ms. The election cycle has brought a surge of female candidates. A record number of women ran or are running for the Senate, the House and governorships. And in the process, they are finding that harassment and threats, already common for women, can be amplified in political races - especially if the candidate is a member of a minority group.
The neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer published an article When she withdrew from the race, Mr. King suggested she had made up the threats. No independent organization appears to formally track incidents of harassment. The boy was the fastest of 35 children who were able to hack into replicas of the websites of six swing states during the three-day Def Con security convention. The results of those efforts to test the strength of US election infrastructure will be passed onto the states, and the National Association of Secretaries of State - the officials responsible for tallying and confirming vote totals - said that they welcome the efforts.
The convention indicated that the hackers were able to change party names in the systems, and added as many as 12 billion votes to candidates. The winning hacker was identified as Emmett Brewer, a boy whose Twitter account says he lives in Austin, Texas. Then explore the excellent, reliable resources provided in our Elections Information Center. Many critical election systems in the United States are poorly secured and protected against malicious attacks. In the 15 years since electronic voting machines were first adopted by many states, numerous reports by computer scientists have shown nearly every make and model to be vulnerable to hacking.
The systems were not initially designed with robust security in mind, and even where security features were included, experts have found them to be poorly implemented with glaring holes. But for as long as experts have warned about security problems, voting machine makers and election officials have denied that the machines can be remotely hacked.
Election officials also assert that routine procedures they perform would detect if someone altered transmitted votes or machine software. Was it coincidence that a mass raid on two Memphis homes occurred on the first day of a trial in which police face claims of illegal surveillance of Black Lives Matter campaigners?