[HOUSTON.CBSLOCAL] A 10-year-old girl is facing rape charges from playing an alleged game of "doctor" with a group of children from her housing complex. Quick, Ethel! My pills!
The girl, who is only identified as "Ashley," was charged by police for aggravated sexual assault. Oh, the depravity!
In April, Ashley was among a group of children who were playing doctor, KRIV-TV reports. A neighbor saw the children and called the mother of a 4-year-old boy who was also playing in the group. Houston police say that Ashley was inappropriately touching the 4-year-old boy. "She wuz touchin' his pee-pee!"
"I've never dealt with a child this young being accused of a crime," Quanell X, who is working with Ashley's family, told KRIV. Playing doctor! The brazen hussy!
"In fact this was nothing more than inappropriate horseplay that has now led to a child that is 10-years-old being charged with aggravated rape." Ummm... "Rape" involved penetration. What was she touching the child with?
Ashely was held for four days in the Harris County Juvenile Detention Center in June. "Into the slammer wit' yez!"
"Can I bring my dolly?"
Ashley's mother calls the situation a "nightmare." Another tiny episode in our long, sad national nightmare. We can't spank them for being naughty anymore, so we incarcerate them.
"It's a nightmare even having to go through something like this because that's my baby, that's my baby and just the thought of her going through something like this it hurts me," the mom, who wanted to remain anonymous, told KRIV. The thought of living in a society that couldn't handle something like this with a bit of grace and humor triggers my gag reflex.
She went on to state that she was not allowed to sit-in on the 45-minute questioning of her daughter. "We don't want her coachin' the little pervert. We got a string of unsolved "doctor" cases, and she's a prime suspect!
Ashley's hearing will be in October for sexual assault charges. How many of us would have remained sexually uneducated had we not met The Doctor?
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This should not have made it out the front door of the house, let alone all the way to the police station. Is there no common sense anymore? Honestly. Sticking a ten year old with a felony. Great. As if this kind of behavior is any kind indicator of how they will turn out when they grow up.
Laws have become the religion of this country. Some clown writes a law with his blinders on, and everybody tries to follow it to the letter because, as we all know, words are perfect. And this is how we end up.
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Sheriff Joe: Provide a liaison officer, give them radios and a operational reporting regime. The indig are your friends, an economic force multiplier.
[MYFOXNY] Trenton has tied its record for most homicides in a year. Authorities say 26-year-old city resident Jafar Lewis was shot and killed Friday night during a confrontation on a city street, making him the 31st person killed in Trenton this year. That ties the record set in 2005. "Jafar Lewis, come on down!... Oh. Sorry. I mean, 'we feel your family's pain.'"
It's not yet clear what sparked the dispute that led to Lewis' death.
Authorities say he was in a car with some other people and the assailant's vehicle was alongside that car when the dispute got heated. Both men then exited their vehicles, and the shooting occurred around 9:20 p.m. on Middle Rose Street.
Lewis was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead early Saturday. The assailant fled the scene and remained at large Saturday.
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Pikers. In the early 1990's, the city of Dallas (TX) finished the year with nearly 1,000 murders. Not quite three per day.
Trenton is on the way to 48 for the year. Of course, it's probably nowhere near the million or so that Dallas was.
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D.C. beat that hollow in the late 80s. The local news used to report the body count for the year on a daily basis, then stopped. Something about making it look like a competition.
[Dawn] Floods and heavy monsoon rains have now killed 178 people and affected 1.5 million across Pakistain in the last three weeks, disaster management officials said on Sunday in updated figures.
"At least 178 people have died and 1,503,492 others affected by recent monsoon rains and floods across Pakistain," a senior National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) official told AFP.
He said that the rains had maimed 855 people, affected 5,615 villages and destroyed 20,312 houses all over the country.
On Wednesday the figures stood at nearly one million people affected and 139 dead.
Nearly 350 relief camps have been set up to help people, mostly in the central province of Punjab, the southern province of Sindh and the southwestern province of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , the official said.
Further heavy monsoon rains are expected in Pakistain next month, but the NDMA is fully prepared, he said.
Pakistain, which has suffered from monsoon floods for the last three years, has been criticised for not doing more to mitigate against the dangers posed by seasonal rains washing away homes and farmland.
Streets in all major cities including Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , Lahore and Islamabad suffer intermittent flooding due to downpours, damaging roads and homes.
In 2010, the worst floods in the country's history killed almost 1,800 people and affected 21 million.
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Allen's Will for $300 Alex:
Q - Why aren't these deaths interpreted as a sign that Allen rejects their way of life?
A - Obviously, the floaters weren't Islamic enough.
Buroa, Somalia -- At least six people were reportedly killed and eleven others were wounded in a fighting erupted between two fraternal clans in Somaliland's Oog village, Garowe Online reports.
The militiamen which belong to the two clans began to fight last Wednesday, after claims over pastureland ownership degenerated into the killing of a man near water borehole situating some 8 KMs north of Oog.
If it's good pastureland, it's gotta be Oog...
Following the killing, armed confrontations lasted for two days and the wounded persons were taken to nearby Buroa town of Togdheer region for medical treatment.
According to the officials of Somalia's separatist administration of Somaliland, truckloads of government soldiers reached the vicinity to arrange ceasefire and efforts to defuse the tensions are underway.
On the other hand, clan militias belong to one of the opposing sides opened fire on trucks carrying Somaliland forces on Saturday but security officials declined to comment on the incident.
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[Libya Herald] The Chief of Staff has insisted that those involved in the killings that triggered Friday's deadly festivities between Zawia and the Warshefana had to be handed over to the authorities as soon as possible, Chief of Staff front man Colonel Ali Sheikhi told the Libya Herald. Otherwise Congress would be forced to send in troops to seize them and others in areas which are still a refuge for wanted people.
"These bloody acts block Libya's progress and the Chief of Staff (Brigadier-General Abdulsalam Al-Obaidi) demands the two sides to show restraint to stop bloodshed," Sheikhi said.
Condemning the festivities and expressing regret for the victims who died as a result, the presidency of the General Staff had said that the two sides had to show restraint in future and to give greater priority to the interests of Libya than to than to their "narrow self-interest".
Sheikhi added that troops from the military police and Brigade No. 10 Special Forces had been ordered to separate the two side and secure roads in the area. They would take their positions as soon as the fighting fully stopped.
There is a long history of rivalry between Zawia and the Warshefana but it was exacerbated during the revolution when Zawia rose up against Qadaffy while the Warshefana were generally seen as supporting him.
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[An Nahar] The United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... said Sunday it has opened a probe after residents accused U.N. peacekeepers of killing two people who tried to storm its base in the restive eastern city of Goma.
Martin Kobler, head of the U.N.'s MONUSCO mission, said in a statement he "deplored" the deaths and had "asked for an investigation jointly led by DR Congo police and the MONUSCO to be opened."
Witnesses said two peacekeepers from Uruguay rubbed out two people Saturday who were part of a crowd attempting to storm the mission's base near the airport during a protest decrying the U.N.'s inaction in the strife-torn region.
"It was the Uruguayans who opened fire on our group. Two people were killed instantly and four others were maimed and rushed to hospital," Augustin Matendo, one of the protesters, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
A military source who spoke on condition of anonymity said that "the Uruguayan troops were overcome by the crowd which was trying to enter their camp and shot to disperse people."
MONUSCO was not immediately available to comment on the claim.
But Uruguayan President Jose Mujica told local radio that the peacekeepers from his country were not to blame, and "have acted appropriately, complying with all protocols in place in these cases."
Mujica pointed the finger of blame at DR Congo police, saying they were responsible for the deadly fire.
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[CNN] The Colombian military lost 13 members Saturday to an attack by FARC rebels, the country's army said in a statement. Two sergeants and 11 soldiers were killed.
Another soldier was injured in the "terrorist" attack and is receiving medical treatment, the military said.
This is the second incident in two months, reigniting tensions between the two sides, which have been in peace talks that started late last year.
Last month, FARC admitted to capturing U.S. soldier Kevin Scott Sutay after he entered Colombia.
Colombian Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon criticized the apparent kidnapping and called for his immediate release.
Pinzon said the apparent kidnapping showed the rebel group's promises have been disingenuous in the past.
"This organization had promised not to kidnap and they kidnapped an ordinary citizen," he said. "It is absurd that they continue abusing with promises that, it seems, continue to be false."
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[An Nahar] North Korea's top military official said Pyongyang did not want war and valued peace above all, as the two Koreas forge ahead with plans for their first family reunions in three years.
Friday's agreement to hold the reunion event next month has deepened signs of rapprochement after months of tension, with Pyongyang also offering to revive a joint industrial project with Seoul.
"Peace is dearer to us than anything else as our general goal is to build an economic power and improve the standard of people's living," Choe Ryong-Hae, vice marshal of the Korean People's Army, said at a political meeting in Pyongyang on Saturday.
The comment was relayed by the North's news wire KCNA, which said the meeting was an annual event to celebrate the Songun (army-first) policy set by late leader Kim Dear Leader Jong-Il ... hereditary dictator of North Korea. His definition of reunification isn't the same as the definition in Seoul... .
"The Korean people do not war but hope for averting a fratricidal war and reunifying the country... peacefully at any cost," Choe said.
The communist state would make "every possible effort to prevent a new war" on the Korean peninsula and to boost "friendly and cooperative relations" with the rest of the world, he added.
Choe, the director of the army's powerful political bureau, is a close aide to leader Kim Jong-Un. He visited China in May as Kim's special envoy in a move apparently aimed at mending ties soured by North Korea's nuclear test in February.
The North, after issuing threats of nuclear war against Seoul and Washington in the months after the widely condemned atomic test, has recently change tack with a flurry of conciliatory gestures.
It agreed to a proposal by South Korean President Park Geun-Hye to hold the reunions for families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, and accepted some preconditions set by Seoul for reopening the joint industrial complex at Kaesong.
South Korea's Red Thingy on Saturday announced a list of 500 potential candidates for the reunions to be held September 25-30 at the North's Mount Kumgang resort. The list was generated by a computer taking age and family background into account.
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An Islamic preacher in Adelaide who called for the death of all Buddhists and Hindus should be kicked out of the country, says the head of Australia's Buddhist community.
Australian Buddhist Councils Federation president Kim Hollow said that comments in a video sermon by Sheikh Sharif Hussein urging Allah to kill Buddhists and Hindus "to the very last one" were deplorable and incited hatred and retribution. Hollow said most Muslims in Australia were "peace-loving people" - but urged officials to apply the maximum penalty if the sheikh was charged for the statements.
He said, "Whatever remedies are available through the law should be applied. People who cannot peacefully coexist in this country . . . should be deported. We condemn it, it's totally unacceptable . . . these comments are just as hurtful to the community as physical crimes. We encourage peace-loving Muslims to deal with these people seriously and try to shut them down."
The South Australian Islamic Society has repeatedly condemned the comments and tried to distance itself from the sheikh. The society's treasurer, Waleed Alkhazrajy, said, "The virtue of tolerance and acceptance of people from different religious and political affiliations will always guide the efforts of the Muslim community in their endeavour to continue to contribute to and be an essential part of the wider Australian community." .
This week by the Middle East Media Research Institute published footage showing the Tunisian-born preacher calling Australian soldiers "Crusader pigs" and attacking Jews, former prime minister John Howard and US President Barack Obama.
Police are investigating a video of his sermon for potential "hate crimes". Friends claim it was a heavily edited recording taken from several sermons and "grossly" misrepresented him.
Hmm. Where have I heard that before?
Police visited the sheikh on Thursday and told him they have concerns for his safety. The father-of-six used to preach at the Park Holme Mosque, which in 2007 the Australian government blocked from receiving $250,000 in Saudi Arabian funding.
The Islamic Da'wah Centre was critical of coverage of the issue. A statement on its website said, "We . . . do not condone or support any form of violence or hatred against any group of people whether in Australia or abroad. We condemn any form of sensational fearmongering which is passed off as journalism in the mainstream media."
The Sunday Mail will pay for a one-way ticket back to Tunisia for the sheikh if he calls us on 8206 2000.
[An Nahar] Mumbai police Sunday locked away Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! the fifth and final member of a gang suspected of raping a photographer, a crime that reignited anger about women's safety in India following a similar attack last year.
The latest arrest came as the victim's family urged the nation, including the media, to continue to fight for justice "for all those victims and their families" who have gone through "the same hell as we have."
The family said it was "optimistic" their daughter's case would be fast -tracked and the "severest of punishments" handed down to those responsible, because of ongoing campaigns and a tougher sex crime law introduced earlier this year.
"This will ensure that even the most sick-minded think twice before they act in such an inhuman and insensitive way," it said in a statement.
The group allegedly trapped and repeatedly raped the woman, said to be in her early 20s, on Thursday in an abandoned mill in an upmarket district of central Mumbai, where she was on assignment for a magazine.
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Castration. And a big red "R" on their foreheads.
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And after reading all that, my dearly departed Intruders cost $34 million ( in 1998 bucks) had a payload of >15,000 and range of 3245 miles and could fly in all weather. yeah stealthy as a brick, and needed some air to air support, but having 30 500 pound bombs rain down on you could really screw up your to do list. and they were already paid for.
[Rooters] The U.S. National Security Agency has bugged the United Nations' New York headquarters, Germany's Der Grün Spiegel weekly said on Sunday in a report on U.S. spying that could further strain relations between Washington and its allies. Brings to mind bears and their woodland toiletry habits, that sort of thing.
Citing secret U.S. documents obtained by fugitive former intelligence contractor Edward Snowdenski, Der Spiegel said the files showed how the United States systematically spied on other states and institutions. Hopefully we'll soon be evicted and banned forever. Der Spiegel said the European Union and the U.N.'s Vienna-based nuclear Chihuahua watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), were among those targeted by U.S. intelligence agents. Valid enemy targets ek se.
In the summer of 2012, NSA experts succeeded in getting into the U.N. video conferencing system and cracking its coding system, according one of the documents cited by Der Spiegel.
"The data traffic gives us internal video teleconferences of the United Nations (yay!)," Der Spiegel quoted one document as saying, adding that within three weeks the number of decoded communications rose to 458 from 12.
Internal files also show the NSA spied on the EU legation in New York after it moved to new rooms in autumn 2012. Among the documents copied by Snowden from NSA computers are plans of the EU mission, its IT infrastructure and servers. According to the documents, the NSA runs a bugging program in more than 80 embassies and consulates worldwide called "Special Collection Service". "The surveillance is intensive and well organized and has little or nothing to do with warding off terrorists," wrote Der Spiegel. Very likely "little to do with terrorists" anywhere I'd wager.
Snowden's leaks have embarrassed the United States by exposing the global extent of its surveillance programs. Washington has said its spies operate within the law and that the leaks have damaged national security. Domestic espionage 'within the law'. An intriguing concept.
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What intelligence is of any value in the UN, anyway?
Is the NSA doing it just to do it?
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Paris has the Gare de Lyon and six other major train stations. New York City has only one major intelligence station. Been that way since the ribbon was cut.
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What intelligence is of any value in the UN, anyway?
While the UN itself is one giant useless force, fully half the participant states are card-carrying members of the Villains, Thieves and Scoundrels Union.
Is the NSA doing it just to do it?
It does sound kinda like a summer intern training project.
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When it comes to networking, subnetworks separated by routers and switches hopefully prevent intruders from passing into the subnets, unless a program can be installed on the inside that allows for pass through. The beauty about the computer age is programs can be written to do anything. That is also a danger of the computer age.
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I agree OS. The UN should be a very high priority target and I'm sure it is. The senior foreign service folks who work there are not former Sunday school superintendents or business accountants, they are in the intelligence business at one level or another.
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[HOUSTON.CBSLOCAL] A 10-year-old girl is facing rape charges from playing an alleged game of "doctor" with a group of children from her housing complex.
[Dawn] Floods and heavy monsoon rains have now killed 178 people and affected 1.5 million across Pakistain in the last three weeks, disaster management officials said on Sunday in updated figures.
Buroa, Somalia -- At least six people were reportedly killed and eleven others were wounded in a fighting erupted between two fraternal clans in Somaliland's Oog village, Garowe Online reports.
[Libya Herald] The Chief of Staff has insisted that those involved in the killings that triggered Friday's deadly 
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