[ABCNEWS.GO] A Kentucky judge has dropped a child pornography charge against a man who ordered sex dolls resembling an infant and a 6- to 8-year-old girl.
WCPO-TV reported Wednesday that Judge Douglas Grothaus dismissed the charge of having an item portraying a sexual performance by a minor, saying there was no actual child involved. Kenton Commonwealth Attorney Rob Sanders says he may appeal the case, which he says is a first for his office.
Citing court records, WXIX-TV reports police tracked a package from China to 41-year-old Scott L. Phillips' home, where they served a search warrant and found the anatomically correct female dolls. He also was charged with marijuana possession.
Federal legislation called the Curbing Realistic Exploitative Electronic Pedophilic Robots Act would ban child sex dolls and is being considered. It's yucky, but it seems to me it would be better to have him/them using inanimate dollies than real kiddies.
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It's yucky, but it seems to me it would be better to have him/them using inanimate dollies than real kiddies.
And serial killers start by setting fire to kittens. Ban the Chinese manufacture and cut off the guy's doller.
[HOTAIR] While the years-long tale of the Chevron Shakedown has mostly drawn to a close (with Chevron as the clear winner and the would-be conspirators being the losers), there was another interesting development in the story last month. You likely recall the New York attorney who helped criminal mastermind the entire scheme, working in concert with corrupt judges and government officials in Ecuador. His name is Steven Donziger. He assembled the army of environmental activists who joined in on the assault, as well as the herd of "investors" who put up money to cover the costs of bringing the suit with the expectation of receiving a cut of the haul when Chevron paid them off.
As you read here if you were following our coverage, things went badly for Donziger at every turn, losing one challenge after another. Then, a court in New York declared him to have been guilty of racketeering as a result of the scheme. It turns out that such actions have professional consequences, and now Donziger has had his license to practice law suspended in both New York and the District of Columbia. (
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[TheGuardian] Authorities in Canada’s Arctic north are scrambling to transport critical supplies to three isolated communities after the early arrival of sea ice prevented delivery barges from reaching in the region.
Paulatuk, Kugluktuk and Cambridge Bay, which have a combined population of nearly 3,000 people, have been unable to receive shipments of food, fuel and lumber after ice moving from the high Arctic sealed off the Amundsen Gulf. Early this year. Usually they don't get cut off until early November.
The government of the Northwest Territories now plans to airlift nearly 600,000 litres of diesel fuel to ensure residents have sufficient reserves to weather the bitterly cold winters. The operation is expected to involved 50 to 60 flights.
"This is absolute ridiculous," said Joh Holland, a municipal representative from Paulatuk. "We’ve got people waiting for food. We’ve got hunters waiting for vehicles."
Crucial water treatment supplies and municipal vehicles ‐ including a new bus ‐ are also among the stranded items. Residents are already making payments on vehicles that likely won’t arrive until next year while some small businesses awaiting buildings supplies expressed fears they might not survive without the deliveries.
The ice has been described by officials as "extreme" and even the Canadian coast guard’s largest icebreaker in the region ‐ the Louis St Laurent ‐ was unable to help break open a channel for the barges. The government has rejected attempting to move the barge without an escort ship. Ok, where is Al Gore? He has got to be in Canada somewhere.
"The ice can be like the pinchers of a giant pair of pliers," assistant deputy minister John Vandenberg in the department of infrastructure, told the CBC. "You don't survive that."
Northern communities in the Arctic are sparsely populated and few have deep water ports, so container ships take advantage of summer months (when the Amundsen Gulf is largely ice-free), anchoring in deep water and making deliveries with barges. If this becomes a regular occurrence, I think we can thank the Sun in a bad minimum cycle.
Maybe ice skating on the Thames is next.
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I went through those three villages in July 1990 in my plane when I went from my home in NW Alaska to Resolute. Paulatuk is 60 mi east of the SMOKING HILLS near Cape Bathurst on the Arctic coast. The Smoking Hills are composed of sulfur rich lignite, which autoignites and leaves a pall of smoke covering the hills. Craziest thing to fly over. Nearby water bodies are pH 2, very acidic. Better call Environment Canada.
Kugluktuk used to be known as Coppermine on the mouth of the Coppermine River. It is east of Paulatuk.
Cambridge Bay is at the western edge of Coronation Gulf.
You have not started throwing down money until you start flying 50 to 60 Hercs. That's oil patch quantities. Global Warming me arse.
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Sorry, Commodore Frank, no more dogsledding freight for me.
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I was being rhetorical :-)
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I always wonder if air cushioned vehicles would work. The navy has some large ones
[AnNahar] The United States hinted Thursday it might withdraw from a landmark Cold War nuclear arms reduction treaty if Russia does not stop "violating" the accord.
Washington has complained for nearly two years that a ground-launched missile system deployed by Russia breaches the 1987 Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF).
"This situation is untenable, and we have to take measures to deal with this continued violation of this very important treaty," U.S. ambassador on disarmament Robert Wood told news hounds in Geneva.
He said that pushing Russia to "come back into compliance" with the INF would be a top U.S. priority at disarmament meetings at the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... in New York next week.
But he added: "I just don't know how much longer we can continue to live up to our obligations under this treaty with Russia violating this treaty so blatantly and openly."
Russia has repeatedly insisted its 9M729 missile system does not breach the treaty, but Wood said Moscow had long denied the weapon even existed.
"The Russians continue to obfuscate, deny, because this is what they do best," he said.
His comments came after the U.S. ambassador to NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... , Kay Bailey Hutchison, said Tuesday that Washington was looking to "take out the missiles that are in development by Russia."
She later clarified that she was not suggesting the United States would launch pre-emptive strikes on Russia, but underlining the need for Western allies to find ways to counter any escalation.
NATO leaders have also raised concerns about the 9M729 system, and have urged Moscow to engage in dialogue to ensure the future of the INF treaty.
On Wednesday, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg demanded that Moscow prove it is complying with the treaty, which was signed by U.S. president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987.
It abolished a whole class of missiles with a range of between 500 and 5,500 kilometers, and put an end to a mini-arms race in the 1980s triggered by the Soviet Union's deployment of SS-20 nuclear missiles targeting Western European capitals.
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We're snickering, but given the trajectory of large swaths of Africa, not making it worse is a big improvement.
Most wannabe strongman dictators campaign on a platform of redistribution, power to the people, and revenge, not roads and electricity. Time will tell.
[All Africa] Efforts to combat the Ebola outbreak in the DR Congo are being hampered by rebel fighting, say UN agencies. Rooters reports that three volunteers from the International Committee of the Red Thingy who were helping bury an Ebola victim were maimed in an attack by villagers, prompting the ICRC to suspend burials in the area.
World Health Organization chief, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has tweeted that: "The deteriorating security situation & some community mistrust are extending the long tail of the #Ebola outbreak in #DRC . WHO has increased its risk assessment of regional spread to very high."
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perhaps a bit simplistic, but if the enola was left unchecked would that also stop or at least limit the fighting?
[Ynet] The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions against a Ottoman Turkish-based company and a North Korean diplomat based in Mongolia, accusing them of trading in weapons and luxury goods with Pyongyang in violation of international sanctions.
[AnNahar] The United States will make its cyber warfare capabilities available to NATO, Defense Secretary James Mattis said Thursday, as allies denounced an alleged Russian bid to hack the international chemical weapons watchdog.
Mattis said the attempted attack on the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) showed how cyber attacks were becoming "more frequent, more complex and... more destructive."
"This is why the United States, like the United Kingdom, Denmark, the Netherlands, Estonia will provide national cyber contributions to help NATO fight in this important domain," Mattis told reporters at a meeting of NATO defense ministers.
The Netherlands revealed extraordinary details of the plot by Russia's GRU military intelligence agency against the OPCW in The Hague, including photos of the alleged agents and their equipment.
Mattis refused to be drawn on what kind of response the OPCW plot should be met with, saying "tit for tat on cyber" was not necessarily appropriate, but he insisted the Kremlin must face consequences.
"Basically the Russians got caught with their equipment, with their people who were doing it and they have got to pay the piper. They are are going to have to be held to account," Mattis said.
"We have a wide variety among our nations of responses available to us."
At the time of the attack, the OPCW was investigating the nerve agent poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, England. Dutch officials said it was not clear if the cyber operation was linked to that.
Mattis said the U.S. would offer cyber support to NATO allies immediately, but refused to go into detail about the kind of capabilities it would make available.
NATO says its forces have successfully used offensive cyber techniques to disrupt Islamic State and al-Qaida operations in Iraq.
The alliance has recognized cyber as a full conflict domain alongside air, land, sea and space and said that a cyber attack could trigger its Article 5 mutual defense pact.
NATO's Baltic members -- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia -- say they come under near-daily cyber assault, with government departments, banking systems and the power grid coming in for attack, and point the finger at former Soviet ruler Russia.
[IsraelTimes] Justice Department accuses GRU officers of breaching anti-doping agencies, Pennsylvania nuclear energy company, and chemical weapons investigator.
The US Justice Department on Thursday charged seven Russian intelligence officers with hacking anti-doping agencies and other organizations hours after Western officials leveled new accusations against Moscow’s secretive GRU military spy agency.
Hours before the US indictment was announced, Western nations accused the GRU of new cybercrimes, with Dutch and British officials labeling the intelligence agency "brazen" for allegedly targeting the international chemical weapons watchdog and the investigation into the 2014 downing of a Malaysian Airlines flight over eastern Ukraine.
The US indictment said that the GRU targeted its victims because they had publicly supported a ban on Russian athletes in international sports competitions and because they had condemned Russia’s state-sponsored athlete doping program.
Prosecutors said that the Russians also targeted a Pennsylvania-based nuclear energy company and an international organization that was investigating chemical weapons in Syria and the poisoning of a former GRU officer.
The indictment says the hacking was often conducted remotely. If that wasn’t successful, the hackers would conduct "on-site" or "close access" hacking operations with trained GRU members traveling with sophisticated equipment to target their victims through Wi-Fi networks
The GRU’s alleged hacking attempts on the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons took place in April and were disrupted by authorities, Dutch Defense Minister Ank Bijleveld said. Four Russian intelligence officers were immediately expelled from the Netherlands, she said.
The cascade of condemnation ‐ from the Australian, British and Dutch governments ‐ does more than just point the finger at Moscow. It also ties together a series of norm-shattering spy operations that have straddled the physical world and the digital sphere.
The British ambassador to the Netherlands said that the men caught with spy gear outside The Hague-based OPCW, for example, were from the very same GRU section (Unit 26165) accused by American Sherlocks of having broken into the Democratic National Committee’s email and sowing havoc during the 2016 US presidential election.
The OPCW, in turn, was investigating the poisoning of GRU defector Sergei Skripal in which the nerve agent Novichok was used, a bold operation that British authorities dissected in a minute-by-minute surveillance camera montage last month.
At the same time, Australian and British spies have now endorsed the American intelligence community’s reported attribution of the catastrophic June 2017 cyberattack on Ukraine to the GRU. The malicious software outbreak briefly knocked out cash machines, gas stations, pharmacies and hospitals and, according to a secret White House assessment recently cited by Wired, dealt $10 billion worth of damage worldwide.
Moscow has issued the latest in a series of denials, but the allegations leveled by Western intelligence agencies, supported by a wealth of surveillance footage and overwhelmingly confirmed by independent reporting, paint a picture of the GRU as an agency that routinely crosses red lines ‐ and is increasingly being caught red-handed.
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[Townhall] While the U.S. manufacturing industry expands at a robust clip, GE Appliances, a Haier company, continues to place big bets on‐and make major investments in‐manufacturing operations in the United States. So far in 2018, GE Appliances has made a series of investments in the U.S. totaling $275 million. The company invested $150 million to open four new distribution centers across the United States, which will support 220 new jobs...On Monday, GE Appliances unveiled their biggest move yet, announcing a...new $200 million investment in its Kentucky dishwasher and laundry manufacturing operations that will support up to 400 new manufacturing jobs and help the company meet increasing consumer demand. "The changes in rates and favorable tax treatment of investments in machinery and equipment play a big role in our expansion plans," Kevin Nolan, president and chief executive officer for GE Appliances, said Monday morning in the announcement of the investment.
[DAWN] Notorious Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... gangster Ghaffar Zikri and one of his accomplices ‐ Chhota Zahid ‐ were killed in a shootout with a police party on Thursday morning.
According to Deputy Inspector General (DIG) South Javed Odho, the police operation took place in Lyari's Ali Mohammad Mohalla, within the jurisdiction of Baghdadi cop shoppe.
Zikri's three-year-old son was killed and two coppers injured in the crossfire. One of the coppers is at death's door, the DIG said.
Police and law enforcement agencies had launched a joint operation ‐ which lasted more than an hour ‐ after receiving intelligence on Ghaffar's hideout. A firefight erupted when the police party reached the place, with Ghaffar and Zahid also attacking police with hand grenades.
Contingents of police and Rangers had locked down the area following the shootout. Search operations were launched in nearby areas.
According to the post-mortem examination of the bodies, which were sent to the Civil Hospital, Ghaffar rwas shot six times while his son and accomplice received one bullet wound each, which proved to be fatal.
Soon after the operation, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Sindh Syed Kaleem Imam announced Rs500,000 as a reward for the police party that conducted the operation.
He commended the SSP City and his team and announced that they would be awarded with appreciation certificates along with the monetary reward.
IGP Imam added that his department will keep in constant touch with the hospital administration to ensure that the injured coppers receive the best medical treatment.
Speaking to the media after the operation, DIG South said that police had also recovered several weapons, including rockets, two SMGs, a hand grenade and more than 200 rounds of ammunition during a search conducted after the shootout.
He added that the gangsters had used some of the weapons against the police during the operation.
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... police chief Amir Ahmed Sheikh admitted during a brief talk that crime in the metropolis had increased. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... he was quick to assure that police were conducting operations and arresting criminals in order to improve the law and order situation.
"You should look at police performance as well," he urged. "In the past one and a half month, multiple people have been tossed in the slammer Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! . We are trying to repair the system so that they receive punishments as well."
He said that the police were "preparing lists" of people who were allegedly "staging dramas" in order to disturb the peace of the city and give the impression that the security situation was worsening.
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I just go on, but this thing is (IMO) connected to Kavanaugh story. So
Skid I tried to reply to your posts on the linked article but my posts just disappeared. So briefly (I'm familiar with the subject because I used to write students' term papers for a living - one of these papers was on pedophilia):
(1) The whole subject of pedophilia & child abuse involves a lot of hysterics and overly ambitious prosecutors.
cf. Henning, P. J. (1999). Prosecutorial Misconduct in Grand Jury Investigations. South Carolina Law Review, 51(1).
(2) Like most porn watchers, pedophile porn users are not active in "real world"
cf. Lee, A. F. et al., (2012). Predicting hands-on child sexual offenses among possessors of Internet child pornography. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 18(4), 644.
Possessors of child porn are persecuted over harm to child "actors", not because they're dangerous to children. If materials do not involve actual children, IMO, no crime.
(3) Wanna bet the next Dem attack on pub candidates will involve charges of pedophilia?
h/t Instapundit
Michael J. and Alecia Flood of Zelienople, Butler County, the parents of a teenage boy identified in the lawsuit as T.F., seek unspecified civil damages against the girls’ parents, the school district and Butler County District Attorney Richard Goldinger’s office. The lawsuit, which includes the term "mean girls," alleges they "conspired in person and via electronic communication devices to falsely accuse T.F. of sexual assault on two occasions."
Neither Goldinger nor Seneca Valley school officials returned calls seeking comment.
The 26-page lawsuit ‐ filed in Pittsburgh on the eve of Mean Girls Day ‐ alleges that T.F. "was forced to endure multiple court appearances, detention in a juvenile facility, detention at home, the loss of his liberty and other damages until several of the girls reluctantly admitted that their accusations were false" this summer. Tell me again that it's just Dem pols.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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[ABCNEWS.GO] A Kentucky judge has dropped a child pornography charge against a man who ordered sex dolls resembling an infant and a 6- to 8-year-old girl.
[TheGuardian] Authorities in Canada’s Arctic north are scrambling to transport critical supplies to three isolated communities after the early arrival of sea ice prevented delivery barges from reaching in the region.
[All Africa] Efforts to combat the Ebola outbreak in the DR Congo are being hampered by rebel fighting, say UN agencies. 
North Korea
[IsraelTimes] Justice Department accuses GRU officers of breaching anti-doping agencies, Pennsylvania nuclear energy company, and chemical weapons investigator.
