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Depraved pedophile cop convicted of producing and accessing child porn while on duty and using department equipment

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 13 Dec 2017 21:22 UTC
kyle kirby
A former Florida police sergeant is facing up to 120 years in prison after he was found guilty of producing, possessing and accessing child pornography-all while he was on duty, using equipment provided by his department.

Kyle A. Kirby, 37, was charged after an investigation into his patrol car computer in October 2015 revealed images showing young children involved in sex acts. The investigation concluded that Kirby had been using the computer to "download and store child pornography" since at least December 2014. A report from News4Jax noted:
"According to court documents, FBI agents and other law enforcement officers searched Kirby's residence as the result of an online child pornography investigation. That same morning, the Live Oak police chief authorized the agents to inspect and search the computer located inside Kirby's patrol car.

A forensic examination of the patrol car computer used by Kirby revealed that it contained at least 87 thumbnail images that either depicted minor children engaged in sexually explicit conduct, including one involving a toddler, or that had titles indicative of child pornography. In addition, the Internet browser history on the computer contained search terms commonly used by individuals who search for child pornography online."
A statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office, published by the Bradenton Herlad, noted that evidence of child porn was also found on Kirby's police desktop computer, where investigators "found images of children naked or partially undressed after using a concealed camera to film unsuspecting children."
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Mexico's ruling class preps for mass uprisings: New Interior Security Law

Alex González
World Socialist Web Site
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 00:00 UTC
Mexpolice
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The Mexican Senate is set to approve a new law that would mark a qualitative step in the militarization of Mexican society. The law would put the military in charge of "internal security" and give the armed forces the authority to conduct massive spying operations under the guise of fighting against organized crime. The Interior Security Law was passed by the Chamber of Deputies on November 30, will soon be voted on by the Senate, and is expected to be signed by President Enrique Peña Nieto in the coming months.

The Interior Security Law (Ley de Seguridad Interior) would authorize the president to deploy the Armed Forces in cases of "grave danger to the collective integrity of people and/or the functionality of institutions," or even in situations that could "potentially become threats to internal security." Any such operation would supposedly last up to one year. However, the bill specifies that the president can, without any congressional or judicial approval, extend this period if he or she considers that a "threat" is still present. Under current conditions of deep social and political crisis, the law opens the door to establishing what would amount to a military dictatorship. Small but substantial protests have taken place throughout the country against the law.

Comment: No political or civil advocacy group is opposing this new security law? Do we not learn from other countries' civil rights negligence and the irreversible authoritarian consequences of non-action?

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Chain immigration has brought 140K Bangladeshi nationals to U.S. in last 12 years

John Binder
Breitbart
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 20:15 UTC
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© AP/Lai Seng Sin
More than 140,000 Bangladeshi nationals - larger than the population of Dayton, Ohio - have entered the United States since 2005 for no other reason than to reunite with extended family members, newly released data reveals.

Previously unreleased Department of Homeland Security (DHS) information shows the large-scale mass immigration that has occurred where foreign relatives can enter the U.S. simply because their family member is an immigrant. This process is known as "chain migration."

Since 2005, the U.S. has admitted and resettled 141,501 Bangladeshi nationals who entered because their foreign relatives were already living in the country.

A chart released to Breitbart News reveals the increasing flow of foreign nationals under the process of chain migration, where on average every two new immigrants bring seven foreign relatives with them to the U.S.

Comment: See also: NYC terror suspect Akayed Ullah entered US as relative of 'visa lottery' immigrant

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The murder of Kate Steinle versus the 'Twinkie Defense'

Abraham H. Miller
Washington Times
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 20:06 UTC
Zarate
© Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington TimesZarate and the ‘Twinkie Defense’
In the 1960s, San Francisco's cultural and political life was defined by the "politics of tolerance."

Tolerance was certainly a good thing at a time when gays were still bashed and blacks were the object of discrimination and derision. San Francisco decided to be an open and compassionate community.

Of course, not all of San Francisco, a heavily Catholic, working-class city back then, shared those values.

Even before the hippies had taken over the city's Haight-Ashbury District, San Francisco had a radical tinge. It was the home of the militant International Longshoremen's Association that had stood up to police vigilantism during the brutal and still-memorialized strike of 1934.
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Flirting or sexual harassment? Swiss lawmakers get the 'good conduct' guide to spot the difference


RT
Wed, 13 Dec 2017 17:15 UTC
Lawmakers
© Denis Balibouse / ReutersA general view shows a session at the Swiss parliament in Bern, Switzerland.
When does chatting without any hidden agenda become flirting, and flirting become sexual harassment? Lawmakers in Switzerland will know - all MPs have received a 'manual of manners' that focuses on dos and don'ts for flirting at work.

Spoiler Alert: According to the 'good conduct' guide, sexual harassment has no place in the parliament.

The guide specifically outlines the difference between "flirting" and "sexual harassment," Le Matin reported on Wednesday.

Flirting, according to the booklet, evolves in a "reciprocal" manner and is "mutually desired." It "respects personal boundaries, boosts self-esteem," and is a real "source of joy."

Sexual harassment, in contrast, involves a "one-sided approach, and is unwanted by the other side." It is "degrading, offensive, undermines one's self-esteem and violates personal boundaries."
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Tunisian soldier killed, six injured by terror mine blast

Al Munji Al Saaidan
Asharq Al-Awsat
Wed, 13 Dec 2017 20:17 UTC
Tunisian soldiers
© REUTERS/Stringer/File photo of Tunisian soldiers standing guard at the border crossing at Ras Jdir Ben Guerdane, in this picture taken December 5, 2014
A Tunisian soldier was killed and six others injured when a landmine exploded on Monday followed by a fire exchange with a terror group in the central region of western Tunisia, Colonel Belhassen al-Waslati, spokesman for the Tunisian Ministry of Defense, said.

Injured soldiers were transferred to the regional hospital in Kasserine to receive the necessary treatment.

He said that a mine exploded during a military patrol combing Kasserine Mountains in pursuit of terrorists that attacked the local population during the past few days and seized food supplies to families living close to military zone.
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Scientist faces criminal charges because his results didn't confirm environmentalists beliefs

Chris Enloe
The Blaze
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 16:55 UTC
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© Mario Tama/Getty ImagesAn Argentinean scientist is facing criminal charges for a 2011 glacial survey that angered environmentalists.
An Argentinean scientist is facing criminal charges after he released a glacier report with results and methods that angered environmental activists.

What happened?

Geo-scientist Ricardo Villalba, who heads the South American country's Institute of Snow, Ice and Environmental Research, has been charged with "abusing his authority and violating his duty as a civil servant," Nature.com reported.

The charges stem from a complaint from environmentalists who allege Villalba doctored a 2011 glacier survey to protect gold-mining interests. In that survey, Villalba included only glaciers one hectare or larger. The environmentalists were angry because Villalba didn't include smaller glaciers. But as Nature.com noted, the international norm for scientific glacial surveys is to only include glaciers one hectare or larger.

Villalba appealed his charges on Dec. 4. If the indictment isn't overturned, his case will go to trial. In the meantime, the court has ordered the seizure of Villalba's assets up to 5 million pesos, or about $300,000.
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Top trauma surgeon found dead with knife in chest; police are treating it as a suicide (Update)


Daily Mail
Sun, 10 Dec 2017 21:42 UTC
Dean and Deborah Lorich
Police said the death was being treated as a suicide, though no note was found, and that the body was discovered by Lorich's daughter. His wife, Deborah, left, was out playing tennis,
A surgeon to the stars has been found dead with a knife in his chest at his New York apartment while his 11-year-old daughter was at home.

The death of Dr. Dean Lorich, 54, is being treated as a suicide after his body was found in the bathroom of the Park Avenue apartment he shared with his family.

The father-of-three doctor's wife was playing tennis at the time.

The NYPD said that there were no signs of forced entry at the apartment, and have hinted he had been 'under some personal stress'.

The surgeon had a storied career, saving the lives of celebrities and members of both the NYPD and FDNY.

He treated Bono when was involved in a serious cycling accident in Central Park.

His daughter alerted the doorman of the apartment building after she found her father's lifeless body on Sunday. He then called 911.

Comment: More details here:
Investigators are looking into the possibility of Lorich taking his own life since there are no signs of forced entry in his apartment. Authorities have not found a suicide note so far.

Lorich lived in an Upper East Side apartment on Park Avenue with his wife and three daughters. At the time, Lorich's wife was not present inside the house. She was out playing tennis.

Although the police did not go into the details, they did reveal that Lorich was going through some kind of "personal stress" in recent times.
Update: In an odd 'coincidence', Dr. Lorich worked in Haiti where he discovered an almost non-existent medical effort backed by the Clinton Foundation:
In fact, in January of 2010, Dr. Lorich sent a detailed email to a confidant which ended up getting forwarded to Cheryl Mills who was Counselor and Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the time before being forwarded on again to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The doctor's correspondence, provided by Wikileaks, was critical of how the situation in Haiti was being handled.

"Disaster management on the ground was nonexistent," the doctor wrote. " Cheerios on the tarmac are not getting it done on these patients which clearly would be savable if good care could urgently be provided."

However, the email was only a precursor to the bombshell the doctor dropped publically just days later on Jan. 25, 2010, in a piece for CNN titled "Doctors: Haiti medical situation shameful" which detailed the conditions overseas and again the doctor took veiled shots at the Clinton Foundation.

"Once we arrived, we saw a severely damaged hospital with no running water and only limited electrical power, supplied by a generator. Surgeries were being performed in the equivalent of a large storage closet, where amputations were performed with hacksaws," the doctor wrote. "This facility could not nearly accommodate our equipment nor our expertise to treat the volume of injuries we saw."
See also:
'Fostered'? - Haiti official, expected to expose The Clinton Foundation, found dead in Miami
Another mystery Clinton acquaintance death: Close friend of Hillary planning to "step away from politics" found dead in apparent suicide
The Untold Story of Killary's Corrupt Haitian Earthquake Recovery Project

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Ethereum beats bitcoin this year with 8,000% surge


RT
Wed, 13 Dec 2017 19:03 UTC
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© Jaap Arriens / Global Look Press
Despite all the hype surrounding bitcoin, there are virtual currencies that have seen an even more astounding rise in value. Rival cryptocurrency ethereum has just reached an all-time high, and is now up 8,000 percent this year.

The second-most valuable digital currency broke through the $500 and $600 price milestones before setting a new record of $707 at 17:20 GMT on Wednesday. It has been an amazing ride for ethereum, which began the year trading at $8.34.

Launched in 2015 by Canadian computer programmer Vitalik Buterin, ethereum's market value is currently above $68 billion, according to Coinmarketcap.com.

The rise in value was reportedly triggered by the news that Swiss financial giant UBS is going to lead an ethereum-based blockchain platform, along with such companies as Credit Suisse, Barclays, KBC, Swiss stock exchange SIX and Thomson Reuters. The network is aimed to help the firms to comply with the European Union's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II - an overhaul of EU rules to improve financial-market transparency.
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Water

90% of plastic polluting our oceans comes from just 10 rivers

Verity Burns
The Sun
Tue, 12 Dec 2017 11:40 UTC
Turtle plastic ocean pollution
© AlamyPlastic pollution in the sea is having a devastating effect on wildlife and their habitats
The report, conducted by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany, was based on dozens of reports, as well as the debris collected at 79 sampling sites along 57 rivers.

The worst offenders are some of the longest and largest waterways in the world, and are in countries with poor waste management, when it comes to collection, dumping and recycling.

They're also the rivers with the largest population of people living alongside them, with rivers from inland areas particularly affected.
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