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Facing Lawsuits For Sandy Hook “Hoax” Theory, InfoWars’ Alex Jones Deposed; Claims He Suffers “Psychosis”

Bill Gnade

After the tragic and deadly Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, CT in 2012 that claimed the lives of 26 children and adults, Alex Jones, the well-known provocateur who founded the "alt-right" InfoWars website and radio program, averred that the entire event was a hoax perpetrated by the government. The so-called "false flag" operation included the government lying about the deaths by a lone gunman, Adam Lanza, and, according to Jones, involved child actors pretending to be victims in the "alleged" fraud.

For peddling his hoax theory, Jones, facing lawsuits filed by grieving parents who lost loved ones in the massacre, now claims he suffers from a "psychosis" that makes him not believe the things others claim to be true, the Hartford Courant reports.

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Report: 800 Million Gallons Of Sewage Flowed Into Merrimack River in 2018

Bill Gnade

The Lawrence Eagle-Tribune is reporting that failing sewer pipes dumped more than 800 million gallons of sewage into the Merrimack River in 2018. The paper also reports that statewide, Massachusetts rivers and streams, according to data collected by environmental groups, were depositories for over 3.5 billion gallons of sewage.

According to the Eagle-Tribune's article, 50 out-dated "overflow pipes" within 5 separate sewer systems dumped the sewage into the Merrimack River along its 117-mile course from Franklin, NH and through the commonwealth. The Merrimack's mouth is in Newburyport, where it spills into the Atlantic Ocean.

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