Social Issues

An Eton college student whose elite family lived near the Houses of Parliament has been spared jail after sharing horrific images and videos of baby rape with his peers.  Andrew Picard owned almost 2,000 indecent images of children as well a videos of babies and toddlers being sexually abused. Picard, whose family are connected to British royalty, was spared jail by a UK judge and instead given an 18-month suspended sentence for possessing child pornography, due to his ties to the elite.

A former Pentagon contractor, who is currently serving 10 years in prison on an espionage conviction, has been found guilty of underage sex trafficking and child exploitation while employed as a computer expert for the US Department of Defense. Christopher Glenn was convicted by a federal judge on Wednesday for exploiting local teenage girls for sex, while he was working at a Pentagon’s air base in Honduras between 2010 and  2014.

Anthony Weiner is ready to “sing like a bird” and provide damning information about Bill and Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation in return for the FBI dropping child pornography charges against him, according to sources at the agency. A Federal Court hearing on March 7 was postponed after FBI agents requested more time to work with Weiner on tying the Clintons and associates to a criminal network involving money laundering, sex crimes with children, child exploitation, pay-to-play through the Clinton Foundation, obstruction of justice, and other felony crimes.

A few weeks ago we wrote about how the controversial decision of Starbucks' CEO Howard Schultz to hire 10,000 refugees, a clear shot at the Trump administration's immigration policies, seemingly backfired as his "brand perception" took a sudden and massive hit, a clear signal once again that coffee drinkers would prefer to not have a side of political propaganda with their $5 morning java (see "Starbucks' 'Brand Perception' Takes A Massive Hit After Announcing Plans To Hire 10,000 Refugees").

Via MauldinEconomics.com,

I’ve written about this before, but there are 10 million American males between the age of 24 and 64 who have literally dropped out of the workforce. It means that they have given up on finding a job or are simply not looking.

But, focusing on just one subset among those who are 24–64, we see that white working-class males’ labor force participation rate has dropped to 59%.