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R. Kelly arrested in Chicago on federal child pornography charges, faces NYC indictment also

Jonathan Dienst
NBC New York
Thu, 11 Jul 2019 11:14 UTC
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A 13-count indictment was handed down earlier Thursday in federal court for the Northern District of Illinois and includes charges of child pornography, enticement of a minor and obstruction of justice

Singer R. Kelly was arrested on federal sex charges in Chicago Thursday night and he's expected to appear in court Friday before being transported to New York to answer for charges in Brooklyn. Tracie Strahan reports.

The 52-year-old was arrested in Chicago by Homeland Security Investigations agents and NYPD Public Safety Task Force, officials told News 4. R. Kelly had stepped out for a smoke and to walk his dog when he was taken into custody around 7 p.m. local time, a law enforcement source familiar with the case said.

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Britons are becoming less tolerant of gay sex and it's not because of conservative Christians

Igor Ogorodnev
RT
Thu, 11 Jul 2019 20:02 UTC
Gay pride muslim
© REUTERS/HENRY NICHOLLS; REUTERS/Peter Nicholls
Gay pride in London and Muslim worshippers in Baitul Futuh mosque in the same city.
Acceptance of gay sex and pre-marital relationships has fallen for the first time in decades in the UK, but the media is insistent on blaming the wrong people for intolerance.

The annual British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey has found that 74 percent believe that sex before marriage is "not wrong at all," a percentage point less than last year, and 66 percent of adults say the same about same-sex relationships. While the declines are marginal and the numbers remain near historic peaks, the last time Britain grew less tolerant of homosexuals was during the AIDS panic of the late 1980s, and researchers state that openness has "plateaued" after years of rapid growth.

If in doubt, blame Brexit

The left-of-center media took no time to identify the reasons: the Guardian's article on the subject features "Ukip, the Brexit party and the European Research Group (ERG) of Conservative MPs," Arlene Foster of Northern Ireland's DUP, "senior Conservative politicians including Andrea Leadsom and Esther McVey" and singles out Jacob Rees-Mogg, even though he doesn't actually oppose same-sex relationships. In any case, one is left wondering why millions of Britons are suddenly taking their social cues from a Catholic father-of-six raised in a stately home by his devoted nanny. The Independent goes through much of the same list, throwing Theresa May and Boris Johnson into the mix, while on Sky News an LGBT activist said that Brexit had "emboldened" social conservatives.

Comment: Here the leftist media hits an impasse. They can't actually mention that immigration might have something to do with this and instead blame it on 'intolerant right-wingers'. This is just another of the many effects of lax policies that ultimately work against their ideas for a 'utopian' society. See also:

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Ex-Tesla employee admits uploading top secret autopilot data before move to Chinese rival


RT
Thu, 11 Jul 2019 16:53 UTC
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A former high-ranking Tesla employee, who left to join a Chinese competitor, has admitted to uploading a trove of confidential data pertaining to the tech company's autopilot feature to his personal iCloud.

Guangzhi Cao was one of only 40 Tesla employees, out of 45,000, with access to the source code for the autopilot system. Last year Cao admitted to uploading copies of the code to a personal account, as well as moving more than 300,000 files and directories related to the autopilot system.

Tesla sued Cao in March, alleging that he stole trade secrets from them and brought the information to their Chinese rival, Xiaopeng Motors (also known as XPeng).

Cao's defense lawyers responded to the filing this week, by saying their client admits to uploading the material, but maintains that he "made extensive efforts to delete and/or remove any such Tesla files prior to his separation from Tesla."

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No surprise: Harvard poll finds voters now tough on illegal immigration

Jennifer Harper
Washington Times
Thu, 11 Jul 2019 20:15 UTC
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Drama on the U.S.-Mexico border continues. Drama also continues in polls gauging voter reaction to illegal immigration challenges in the region.

Two-thirds of all voters now frown on accepting people with "questionable" asylum claims while 52% agree with President Trump's decision to declare a national emergency over "illegal crossings." Another 47% would approve a "mass action by the federal government to round up and remove thousands of illegal immigrants from the U.S."

So says a Harvard University Center for American Political Studies/Harris poll of 2,182 registered U.S. voters conducted June 26-29.
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Ex-F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone: 'I would take a bullet for Vladimir Putin'


Sky News
Thu, 11 Jul 2019 20:01 UTC
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Bernie Ecclestone believes Vladimir Putin should be put in charge of Europe
The controversial ex-F1 boss says the Russian president should be "running Europe" and that he is not a supporter of democracy.

The former boss of Formula One Group {F-1), which manages Formula One car racing and controls the commercial rights to the sport, Bernie Ecclestone, says he would stand in front of any gunman who tried to shoot Vladimir Putin because he is a "good guy" who had nothing to do with the novichok attack in Salisbury.

According to the billionaire, Mr Putin would have been "too busy" to have been involved in the attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, who were poisoned with the nerve agent in March last year.

Mr Ecclestone, 88, told The Times: "If someone had a machine gun and was prepared to shoot Putin, I would stand in front of him.

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Jackson County, FLA: Fired deputy arrested in drug planting probe, other felonies amounting to 52 counts


Source
Thu, 11 Jul 2019 18:33 UTC
Officer Zach Wester
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Officer Zach Wester
Fired Jackson County Deputy Zach Wester was arrested Wednesday on racketeering and numerous other charges for allegedly planting meth and other street drugs on unsuspecting motorists before hauling them off to jail.

Agents with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, who have been investigating Wester for more than nine months, arrested him in Crawfordville and took him to the Wakulla County Jail, where he is being held without bail. Wester, expected to make his first court appearance on Thursday, invoked his right to remain silent and declined to speak with investigators.

He was arrested on 52 counts in all. Aside from the racketeering count, he was charged with a number of other felonies, including official misconduct, false imprisonment, fabricating evidence and possession of a controlled substance. He was also charged with misdemeanor charges of perjury, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia, FDLE said.

Jackson County Sheriff Lou Roberts, State Attorney William "Bill" Eddins of the 1st Judicial Circuit and Chris Williams, special agent in charge of the FDLE's Pensacola office, discussed the case in an afternoon news conference. One of Wester's alleged victims, Teresa Odom, wept as they discussed details of the case.

"I'm overwhelmed," she said afterward, adding she was proud of one of the FDLE agents who worked with her during the investigation.

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Study shows Indians are high-earners in UK, second to Chinese ethnicity group


Economic Times
Tue, 09 Jul 2019 10:30 UTC
Indian workers
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Workers belonging to the Indian ethnic group in Britain tend to have higher average earnings than their white British counterparts, a new study based on official statistics revealed on Tuesday.

The UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) found in its 'Ethnicity Pay Gaps in Great Britain: 2018' analysis that while on average ethnic minorities earn 3.8 per cent less than white ethnic groups, Indians and Chinese tend to buck the trend by having higher average earnings. Workers in the Bangladeshi and Pakistani ethnic groups tend to have the lowest average pay compared to their white British counterparts. Hugh Stickland, senior ONS analyst remarked:
"Overall, employees from certain ethnic groups such as Indian and Chinese, have higher average earnings than their white British counterparts. However, all other ethnic groups have average wages lower than for white British employees, with employees from the Bangladeshi ethnic group having the largest pay gap. However, once characteristics such as education and occupation are taken into account, the pay gap between white British and most other ethnic groups becomes narrower, though significant differences still remain."
The data, based on median gross hourly earnings between 2012 and 2018, shows that the Chinese ethnicity group is the highest paid, receiving 15.75 pounds an hour in 2018, followed by the Indian ethic group, which earns 13.47 pounds an hour.
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Western 'begpackers' spark outrage across Asia begging locals to fund their tropical adventures

Jon Rogers
The Sun
Fri, 05 Jul 2019 23:22 UTC
BACKPACKER BEGGING
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There is a backlash growing across Asia against Western 'begpackers' who want the locals to fund their travels around the world.

People across the continent are growing tired of the sight of seeing relatively affluent Westerns begging on the streets in the hope that locals help pay for their journey to the next destination.

Bali has now officially cracked down on the growing issue of problematic "tourists".

Comment: Reportedly the trend has caused outrage among locals, who say that tourists are depriving the needy in order to finance luxury lifestyles.
Maisarah Abu Samah, who is from Singapore, posted two images of people begging on Twitter - one couple selling postcards and another playing music. Expressing her fury, she told France24 : 'It was the first time I've seen something like that and it stopped me in my tracks.

'We find it extremely strange to ask other people for money to help you travel. Selling things in the street or begging isn't considered respectable.

'People who do so are really in need: they beg in order to buy food, pay their children's school fees or pay off debts.

'But not in order to do something seen as a luxury.'
Good on Bali for cracking down on the practice, maybe it will encourage the "young and free" to take some responsibility for their lives and engage in some hard work to fund their tropical adventures, rather than free-loading from their host country.

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Eye 1

New leak to Project Veritas: Googlers internally petitioned "to end Google's business with Breitbart"


Project Veritas
Wed, 10 Jul 2019 17:04 UTC
internal google petition breitbart
© Project Veritas
One thousand employees co-signed Project Veritas has received and published documents from an insider at Google. The documents show Google employees discussing a letter asking Google leadership "to end Google's business relationship with Breitbart." This is the fifth release in a series of document releases from insiders at Google.

According to the documents, the letter was co-signed by over one thousand Google employees. Breitbart News has published similar materials which reportedly show a group at Google "sought to strike at Breitbart News' revenue by kicking the site off Google's market-dominating ad services."

Comment: Project Veritas has been having a field day with Google. Kudos to the brave employee who exposed Google's algorithmic shenanigans and its toxic SJW culture.

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Why are we tolerating Megan Rapinoe's endless spew of self-righteous SJW drivel?

Igor Ogorodnev
RT
Thu, 11 Jul 2019 16:40 UTC
Megan Rapinoe
© Reuters/Brad Penner
Megan Rapinoe, captain, US Women's Soccer Team
Powered by nothing more than wokeness and self-regard Megan Rapinoe threatens to go on an intergalactic ego trip - but we are forced to earnestly listen to every pronouncement of this "shero."

One could forgive a soccer player for losing their head after leading their team to a World Cup, but Rapinoe had evidently decided to turn the past month into her personal political pulpit from which to issue her reference-free assertions before a ball had been kicked in France.

From the intellectually dishonest and self-serving demands for "equal" pay, to the claim that "you can't win without gays" ("that's science, right there" she assured, vaguely) to boasts that she wouldn't "f**king go to the White House" if invited after winning.

Comment: Expect to see Rapinoe go the way of Kaepernick. A stellar career sunk by identity politics.

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