[DAWN] A Vatican court on Saturday incarcerated Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! for five years an Italian priest who worked as a diplomat for the Holy See’s Washington embassy, for possessing and sharing child pornography.
Monsignor Carlo Alberto Capella pleaded guilty on Friday, the opening day of the court hearing, saying he had gone through a "personal crisis" and felt "useless" as a counsellor at the embassy.
The 51-year-old told the three lay Italian judges at the tiny courtroom in the Vatican City that he had started looking at child pornography online on Tumblr in July 2016 and exchanged pictures with other users.
The Vatican gendarmerie said more than 40 pornographic photos and videos, some showing sexual contact between adults and pre-pubescent children, were found on the priest’s mobile phone.
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The vatican has a prison. That was not on the tour.
[NYPOST] Cops have tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! five people in the mistaken-identity slaying of a Bronx teen, police sources said Sunday.
Police took two suspects into custody in The Bronx and tracked down three more in Paterson, NJ, sources said.
Five members of the deadly Dominican gang Trinitarios allegedly hacked 15-year-old Lesandro Guzman-Feliz with knives and a machete outside a Bronx deli Wednesday night, leaving him on the sidewalk to die.
Investigators believe it was a case of mistaken identity, according to sources. The victim was enrolled in the NYPD Explorers youth program and dreamed of being an NYPD detective, according to his family.
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[ABC] Richard Benjamin Harrison -- known to millions of "Pawn Stars" fans as "The Old Man" -- has died, according to a post on the official Facebook page for Las Vegas' Gold and Silver Pawn shop, the setting for the hit reality show. He was 77 years old.
"The Old Man" is the father to Rick Harrison, who is the main star of the show and the current leader of the shop, often teaching viewers about the ins and outs of the pawn business.
"It is with heavy hearts that we acknowledge the passing of Richard Benjamin Harrison...this morning," the post began Monday. "He was surrounded by loving family this past weekend and went peacefully."
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He built a thriving business with his sons and family, Skid.
What have you done better?
(No need to respond, better to reflect)
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In other news... proprietor of jewelry shop beneath no-name Kolkata brothel still thriving! Don't mind me, I'm just envious -- green to the gills -- of anyone who'd think the phrase "Vegas pawn shop," hear the inherent magic, have the guts to act, make a success of it, and finally transmute it into a hugely popular mass media sermon on thrift and consequences and stuff? Holy crap. Put up a statue!
[NATION.PK] At least eight people including a baby were killed Saturday when pro-government forces clashed with opponents in Nicaragua, according to a rights group.
Seven people were killed in the capital Managua and one in Masaya and a baby was among the dead, said Georgina Ruiz, an activist with the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CENIDH).
The rights group says more than 200 people have been killed in protests that started just over two months ago demanding President Daniel Ortega step down.
Starting after midnight, police and paramilitary forces flooded six neighborhoods in the east of Managua, as well as the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN) where scores of students are holed up. Among the dead were two students killed in the university area and two minors who died in Managua - a 17-year-old and a baby who was shot in the head.
The baby was killed when his mother was taking him to a babysitter. "He was killed by a police gunshot. I saw them. They were police," the mother Kenia Navarrete told news channel Cien por Cien Noticias.
The government denied the charge, saying criminals in the university area were to blame.
UNAN is one of several student protest camps in Managua. About 450 students have been living there under plastic tarp tents and in class buildings, surrounded by empty bottles, old food and used rounds from their homemade mortars.
"Ortega's government continues to repress and kill young people," CENIDH said on Twitter.
According to Alvaro Leiva, secretary of the Nicaraguan Pro-Human Rights Association, the attack against the university was intended "to plant terror in the population" ahead of a march planned for Saturday afternoon in memory of victims of the violence.
Later Saturday organizers cancelled the march due to what they branded "indiscriminate" attacks by government forces. The organizing Civil Alliance opposition called for a 48-hour strike among social sectors and trade unions to press for Ortega's departure.
The Nicaraguan Episcopal Conference urged Ortega's government and the opposition to return to the negotiating table on Monday to discuss a proposal to bring elections forward from 2021 to March 2019, in a bid to end the crisis.
Ortega, 72, has not responded to the Catholic bishops' initiative, but has previously expressed his willingness to work toward democratization.
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The North Korean government is erasing much of its anti-U.S. propaganda following dictator Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... ’s forays onto the world stage.
Gone are the posters depicting the U.S. as a "rotten, diseased, pirate nation" and promising "merciless Dire Revenge" on American forces for an imagined attack on the totalitarian country.
In their place are cheery messages touting praising the prospects for Korean reunification and the declaration Kim signed in April with South Korean President Moon Jae-in promising "lasting peace," according to reports.
Still the most isolated country in the world, very few North Koreans have access to news and information from the outside world. So state propaganda plays a huge role in shaping their views.
Murals, banners and posters displayed throughout the capital, Pyongyang, have for decades depicted the U.S. as a brutal, imperialist aggressor hell-bent on destroying the North Korean regime. South Korea and Japan were also frequently targeted as willing allies of the U.S.
But things started to take an Orwellian turn in the run-up to Kim’s June 12 summit with President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , with the old posters vanishing since then.
"All the anti-American posters I usually see around Kim Il-sung Square and at shops, they’ve all just gone," Rowan Beard, a tour manager at Young Pioneer Tours, told Rooters. "In five years working in North Korea, I’ve never seen them completely disappear before."
Infamous posters and postcards showing North Korean missiles on their way to Washington are a thing of the past. Also removed are the anti-American trinkets that used to be sold to tourists as souvenirs. In their place are items showing themes of Korean reunification.
The change extends to the country’s government-controlled media. News reports that once depicted the U.S. as hostile, and its involvement in places like Syria as proof of imperialism, are no longer critical. The Financial Times said the main newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, hasn’t featured a direct attack on Trump since March, when he agreed to meet with Kim.
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..unlike the Legacy Infotainment Enterprises in America.
[DAWN] The Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz on Sunday announced to field its candidates against the disgruntled PML-N leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Former Interior Minister of Pakistain under Nawaz Sharif. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that, since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... , who is contesting the upcoming general elections as an independent candidate, DawnNewsTV reported.
The party fielded Mumtaz Khan and Raja Qamar Islam from NA-63 and NA-59, respectively. Both candidates will be contesting against the former interior minister.
PML-N had at first said that Nisar would be awarded a ticket from the party if he chooses to appear before the party's board. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... Nisar refused to do so, saying that as a "candidate who won eight consecutive elections and who never had to ask for a ticket in the past", he would not ask for his place in the election.
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South Fulton, Georgia (CNN) When LaDawn "LBJ" Jones walked into a meeting at work a couple of months ago, she was hit with a serious case of "black girl magic."
Jones, the city solicitor in South Fulton, Georgia, was meeting for the first time with the city's municipal court staff. As she entered the room, she realized she was looking at something she'd never before seen in her legal career. Everyone in the room looked like her.
"I walked into a very small conference room, and I noticed that it was all black women," Jones told CNN. "I kind of got that feeling of 'this is nice -- this is exciting.'"
South Fulton, an Atlanta suburb and one of Georgia's newest cities, has the distinction of being perhaps the first city in the nation to have its criminal justice system led entirely by black women:
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the mayor is a dude who wants the place run like a business (he actually said like Chick Fil A in an interview.
population about 90% black
median household income is about $50k
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No smile and a fractional millisecond away from an attitude.
On about 10% of my calls to the IRS, I can tell right away if the phone rep sounds like one of these fat broads (pidgin English, simmering attitude, etc.). I just hang up on them and call back to get someone I can work with.
h/t Instapundit
The New York Times is reporting that its reporter Ali Watkins, who was dating James Wolfe, a "former Senate Intelligence Committee staffer charged with lying to the FBI about his contacts with journalists," had "multiple" relationships with sources she covered:
...By August, Ms. Watkins told friends that she and Mr. Wolfe had broken up. He had been spooked by her meeting with Mr. Rambo, and was refusing to disclose their relationship to his own employers in the Senate
In the fall, Ms. Watkins started dating a different staff member from the committee. She told others that she had informed a Politico editor who did not object. But Mr. Dayspring, the Politico spokesman, said: "Politico editors were not made aware of this relationship."
...And she even shared chocolates from a different source with the newsroom! And all this after 2 generations of "female empowerment"
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And all this after 2 generations of "female empowerment"
...I would suggest that it worked - she felt utterly and completely empowered to throw what little remains of her profession's integrity and ethics down the toilet in order to get a story and advance herself professionally. And quite honestly, it looks like she never had a moments' doubt about what she was doing.
Boink whoever and whenever you want, Sugarplum. But when you start mixing business and pleasure, it NEVER ends well.*
Mike
*The Gods of The Copybook Headings may have to add one.
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I take IT that is NOT her typewriter she is using to take her story to PRINT???
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Dunno. Pols say about lobbyists that if you cant't take their money, scr*w their women, drink their booze and still vote against them, you're in the wrong business. Maybe same logic applies to the MSM these days?
I don't know. I can easily see old Ali offering it to Chief Grunt for a better piece of the mammoth - back in the hunter-gatherer days before agriculture. :)
But I'm not a historian or anthropoligist (can't even spell it...).
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[ABC] Richard Benjamin Harrison -- known to millions of "Pawn Stars" fans as "The Old Man" -- has died, according to a post on the official Facebook page for Las Vegas' Gold and Silver Pawn shop, the setting for the hit reality show. He was 77 years old.
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Former Interior Minister of Pakistain under Nawaz Sharif. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to 
