James Lewis Spencer admitted to shooting dead Sean Connery Showers, 37
Pair talked on Kik, a social media app popular with teenagers, with Spencer posing as a child, agreeing to meet for sex
Instead he ambushed Showers and gunned him down from his car
He was arrested without incident on Wednesday and charged with first-degree murder, facing the Harris County District Court on Thursday
Showers was sent to federal prison for 30 months for child porn possession in 2009, and jailed again for two years in 2019 for not registering as a sex offender.
Detectives spoke to Spencer's girlfriend, who told them he was frustrated police weren't doing more to keep pedophiles locked up.
Spencer was given a $250,000 bail ahead of his next court appearance on Monday, but was yet to post the bond as was still behind bars.
After prosecutors pointed out he was already out on bail on drug charges, he was ordered on 24-hour house arrest with GPS monitoring, and having no access to firearms, ammunition, or weapons.
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The guy in Harris County who shot the guy robbing a Taqueria was "no billed" by a Grand Jury. That was even though he appeared to go up to the robber and shoot him in the head after he was already on the ground.
If Spencer didn't have a prior record, he'd likely walk on this.
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So many questions: Is the boy known to be “troubled” or from a broken home, is anyone involved illegal, in a gang, wants to be in a gang, did the people know each other, did anyone of them have a beef with any of the others, etc.
[Breitbart] Police have arrested a 13-year-old boy in connection with a deadly shooting on an RTD bus on January 27 in Denver, Colorado.
The shooting incident occurred near South Federal Boulevard and West Mississippi Avenue, 9 News reported Friday, noting there were two victims, one of whom died.
A man identified as Richard Sanchez, 60, was transported to a hospital suffering from gunshot wounds and eventually died. Another individual suffered a minor injury and was cleared at the scene and released.
The outlet continued:
Investigators believe the incident began as an argument between the suspect and Sanchez about Sanchez’s leg blocking the aisle, which ended with the suspect shooting Sanchez, according to police.
The suspect was taken into custody Thursday night on suspicion of first-degree murder. The Denver District Attorney’s Office will make the final determination on the potential filing of any charges.
An image shows the deceased man who is described as being a grandfather, per the New York Post:
The suspect’s identity has not been released because he is a juvenile, the 9 News article said.
In addition, video footage shows the bus parked in the middle of an intersection with officials gathered at the scene.
In December, Breitbart News reported Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s (D) car was stolen a second time but it was eventually recovered.
The outlet noted the incident happened as crime plagued the city.
“According to NIBRS crime data, there have been 6,110 instances of violent crime — 607 sexual assaults, 1,099 robberies, 76 murders, and 4,328 aggravated assaults — in the city year-to-date. That represents a 5.58 percent increase from the three-year average of violent crime alone,” the outlet said.
“There have also been 36,580 instances of property crime in the city, including 11,015 instances of auto theft year-to-date,” it added.
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Long past those 50s when juvie crimes where largely minor. Now they're full scale adult felonies and the Karens are far more concerned about the perps than any justice for the real victims.
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A Google Earth map of the immediate area shows A Denver Housing Authority office, a Halfway-House, Hispanic surnamed Day-Care and a large number of Vietnamese and Hispanic named businesses. So by inference it may be a minority on minority event, and thus quickly disappears. News that doesn't fit the MSNBC copy-book, race-based narrative has a very short shelf-life.
Glassbrook Elementary in Hayward spent $250,000 on a ' Woke Kindergarten' program only to see its student's literacy and numeracy rates plunge
The program states its mission as an 'abolitionist early learning ecosystem' that trains teachers to uproot white supremacy, disrupt racism and oppression
The for-profit company was founded by non-binary early educator Akiea 'Ki' Gross who previously hit headlines when their audiobook for children suggested kids should not feel safe around police
James Madison High School, in the Houston Independent School District, descended into chaos on Friday after pupils revolted over a change of policy will see them be unable to use their phones
School said the new policy was due to cell phones being at the center of fights on campus
Students who bring a phone in to school will have to turn it in to the front office when they arrive and can pick it back up at dismissal
Several states are moving to ban cell phones in schools, claiming the devices have greatly contributed to cyberbullying, poor mental health and a lack of learning.
Florida, Ohio, Colorado, Maryland, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Virginia and California have prohibited use during school hours or are working on such restrictions.
One Minnesota school has completely banned smartphones from 8am to 3pm, claiming the move has led to more socializing, fewer distractions and overall happiness for children.
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There needs to be a carve-out in the FCC regs for cell phone jammers in specific defined zones. It's currently illegal to block any licensed freq.
BTW, HISD Madison has a long history of chaos.
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Whatever happened to that good ole hickory stick?
[GEO.TV] Princess Meghan Markle ...unlikable American former starlet married to the formerly likable Prince Harry. Chock full of lefty political opinions, Markle's most important characteristic is that she is Black, even though she doesn't look it. Her mother, y'see, is half black and her father is white, which would make her a quarter Black. Her half brother described her (to her husband, before their marriage) as a jaded, shallow, conceited woman that will make a joke of you and the royal family heritage. Once married, she was too good for the Royals and she and Harry decamped to Beverly Hills, kind of like the Clampetts did, thus making a joke of Harry and the royal family heritage... and Prince Harry are aiming to bag worthy projects in fear of their finances running out.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who have failed to produce impressive work in the light of their multi-million dollar partnerships with Netflix and Spotify, are now worried about their spending.
Royal expert Matt Wilkinson tells True Royalty TV's The Royal Beat: "They've got huge outgoings, security, mortgage, everything. When I've spoken to people out there, they've said they are obsessed with security, [and] they don't want to live in a smaller house, they absolutely love the house.
"I think they had a $9 million dollar mortgage when they took it out that they still had to pay, and [Harry’s] had his money from Spotify, he’s had his money from Netflix.
"There is a worry behind the walls of Buckingham Palace of what happens when the money runs out ... [and whether] he will at some stage have to find more money from other outlets."
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Wait til all the azzholes in Hollyweird who have sucked up to them stop taking thier calls. It will be new tell-all book time.
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Unless he can shoot a ball through a hoop really well, there are few real jobs outside of the Biden family that will make enough to cover their house payment. She needs to run for Congress. It is the only grift big enough.
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Try to imagine how little I care.
You could try, you know, working.
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I don't think we've cared about the British royal family (or ex-royal family) since 1776.
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royal family doesn't bother me, these 2 assholes though
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But it's still early. We haven't heard about Harry's "two tours" yet.
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At some point they’ll probably hit the house party circuit, like the abdicated English king and his divorcée did. There’s a certain type of moneyed hostess who thinks adding such people to the guest list adds cachet to a gathering.
Not comfortable for young Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, but by then they’ll be at boarding school most of the time anyway.
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"On your own" and "all about you" are not the same things...
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Her last shot at the TV talk show/Oprah circuit will be when she dumps his stupid ass and manufactures race=based boo-hoo stories for the MSM grist-mill. After that, she has the little royals for day=care money from Chuck or Wils indefinitely. Harry, he will slink back and take lessons from Prince Andrew on being invisible.
[Blaze] The quest for Big Government and even bigger Big Tech entities to erode what little privacy we have continues unabated. Yesterday, some of the most powerful Silicon Valley CEOs convened before Congress to explain why Americans must show ID to surf the web. Per usual, these schemes to rob our online sovereignty are cowardly and pushed in a vague call to protect children.
U.S. lawmakers' motivation for online ID and age verification and tech CEOs' support for these measures signals a significant shift in the approach to online privacy and anonymity.
The proposal for far-reaching online age verification standards, particularly the suggestion by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to impose age verification at the app store level, has profound implications. Enforcing such measures could dramatically alter the landscape of online interaction, making it difficult to engage in online activities without linking them to one's official identity. While intended to safeguard minors, these measures also pose risks of even more totalitarian surveillance and potential censorship and could hinder whistleblowing efforts by attaching a real-world identity to every online action.
These nanny-state policies will infringe upon constitutional rights related to free speech and privacy. The First Amendment protects the right to speak anonymously, which has been a cornerstone of democratic discourse since the founding of the Republic. Remember how many Founding Fathers wrote essays attacking their British overlords under pen names? Moreover, there are concerns about the technical and practical challenges of implementing secure age verification processes that do not compromise user privacy or expose sensitive personal information to potential misuse. Spoiler alert: this is impossible.
The support expressed by X CEO Linda Yaccarino and Snap CEO Evan Spiegel for legislation aimed at increasing online safety for children, including the Kids Online Safety Act and the Cooper Davis Act, underscores the tech industry's cynical push for regulatory efforts to protect minors online. However, these legislative proposals also signal a potential sea change in how privacy, encryption, and anonymity are treated online.
The Kids Online Safety Act seeks to expand online age verification requirements, which could significantly affect how children interact with online content. While the idea of protecting kids from porn or ISIS videos is not a terrible impulse, destroying the rights of adults to post their thoughts anonymously is a horrible idea.
The Cooper Davis Act, which targets private messaging apps and could ban end-to-end encryption, represents a direct challenge to secure and private communication. End-to-end encryption is a cornerstone of digital privacy, ensuring that messages can only be read by the sender and recipient, with no possibility of interception by third parties, including the service providers. Undermining this technology will expose users to increased surveillance, data breaches, and malicious actors while hindering journalists, activists, and whistleblowers who rely on encrypted communication to protect their sources and themselves.
This is the backdoor to Chinese-esque surveillance.
Anyone closely following the tech world will instantly recognize the Chinese-style security barrier this will create. In China, you must have a digital ID to access its censored web. It makes identifying dissidents and stifling enemies of the regime rather easy. Just to reiterate, these are a few of the intensely negative ramifications of asking for your (digital) papers:
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The £3.5billion aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth was set to launch in European waters to take part in the largest NATO wargame since the Cold War as fears grow for a wider conflict breaking out with Russia.
Engineers found a 'significant issue with her starboard propeller shaft', meaning the British warship could be docked for 'a couple of months' while it is fixed, according to naval experts.
This morning the huge aircraft carrier was seen sailing into Portsmouth - hundreds of miles away from the NATO exercise.
HMS Prince of Wales will now be readied to replace the faulty ship - a move viewed by some as ironic given the aircraft carrier only went back into service last July after also undergoing repairs that took nearly a year.
Announcing the latest problem, the Royal Navy posted on X: 'Routine pre-sailing checks yesterday identified an issue with a coupling on HMS Queen Elizabeth starboard propeller shaft. As such, the ship will not sail on Sunday.
BREAKING: The Argentina Chamber of Deputies has passed Javier Milei's historic reforms that will undo socialism in the country. The reforms include over 300 articles of laws being repealed, regulations being revoked, & state-owned entities being sold to the private sector
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BUENOS AIRES (CN) — Argentina’s lower house of Congress approved an amended version of President Javier Milei’s controversial reform package Friday afternoon, ending a lengthy tense debate that lasted three days and sparked clashes between protesters and police. The 144-109 vote was an important test of Milei’s ability to govern in the face of an opposition-controlled Congress. Milei’s nascent political party, La Libertad Avanza, holds just 38 of the 257 seats in the lower chamber, so they relied on allies in more established parties to get the bill through.
China's President Xi's only daughter Xi Mingze, married an American and lives here in the United States.
She's a Harvard Grad who earned a bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Harvard University. She graduated in 2014 after studying psychology and English.
Of course... she and her mom split with Xi over Hong Kong a few years ago.
Her profession is "Researcher" but there are no known topics or categories available of any of her research.
Older Info — New Zealand Herald article from 2020:
She's the only child of the world's second most powerful leader – but unlike Ivanka Trump or Malia and Sasha Obama, few people even know Xi Mingze's name.
Aside from a few basic biographical details, very little is known about the cherished daughter of Chinese President Xi Jinping and his second wife, famous folk singer Peng Liyuan.
The 27-year-old was born on June 27, 1992, and studied French at her high school, Hangzhou Foreign Languages School.
According to the China Times, she was nicknamed "Xiao Muzi" by her grandfather, Communist revolutionary and former state official Xi Zhongxun, "designating her as an innocent and decent person who is useful to society".
She is "reputed to be a low-key and easygoing girl, who counts reading and fashion among her hobbies", according to the brief 2012 profile in the Taiwanese newspaper.
In 2008, after the devastating Sichuan earthquake, the then 16-year-old asked her school for a leave of absence to spend a week assisting in disaster relief efforts and care for injured survivors, her mother told local media at the time.
Asked whether she was worried about her daughter's safety, Peng said: "As the earthquake claimed so many lives and triggered such a big disaster, my daughter should go to the frontline to help. During seven days as a volunteer, she worked hard and never complained. She learned a lot and also made lots of local friends. She said people in Sichuan are nice, strong and kind."
Said to be surrounded 24 hours a day by Chinese bodyguards, Xi Mingze's privacy is jealously guarded by her father.
Like Vladimir Putin with his "secret" daughters, the Chinese leader fiercely protects her from the prying eyes of the outside world – often using the Communist dictatorship's vast internet censorship powers.
She travelled to the US in 2010 to study at Harvard University in Massachusetts under a pseudonym, but it wasn't until 2012 that many people had even heard of her.
The Washington Post first reported in May that year that she was an undergraduate at the prestigious Ivy League school, but included few other details save that her presence was "low-key" and that "fellow students describe [her] as studious and discreet".
The story noted that she had attended a discussion about the "political tumult convulsing China's ruling Communist Party", where the "demure female undergraduate with a direct stake in the outcome" sat "listening intently from the top row of the lecture hall".
British Royal Navy's HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier to miss NATO drills.
During last-minute checks ahead of sailing for NATO exercise Steadfast Defender, it has been discovered that HMS Queen Elizabeth has a significant issue with her starboard propeller shaft.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Militant farmers are poised to descend on Rome with their tractors today after German workers blocked Frankfurt airport as part of the anti-Brussels protests sweeping across the EU.
Farmers have expressed anger at what they say are excessively restrictive regulations on agriculture and unfair competition, among other grievances.
The movement erupted in France last month and there have also been protests in Germany, Belgium, Poland, Romania, Greece and the Netherlands. Farmers have blocked motorways and disrupted traffic in key cities with convoys of tractors.
In Italy around 150 tractors massed in Orte, about an hour north of Rome, on Saturday. Protesters there called for better pay and conditions and announced their imminent arrival in the Italian capital, a reporter nearby saw.
'Italian agriculture has woken up,' said protester Felice Antonio Monfeli. 'It's historic and the people here are proving it. For the first time in their history, farmers are united under the same flag, that of Italy.'
[Washington Insider] A watchdog group is escalating its battle with the Justice Department over the FBI’s refusal to turn over files on Ashli Babbitt, the United States Air Force veteran shot and killed during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot over the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory over former President Donald Trump.
Judicial Watch, claiming a "cover-up," on Friday filed a suit in federal court claiming that the FBI has twice refused to comply with Freedom of Information Act demands for any files it has on Babbitt and her husband Aaron.
The FOIA lawsuit was filed with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.
Judicial Watch is working with Aaron Babbitt, who is the executor of his wife’s estate, to get all the information the government has on the duo and its reports of her shooting death by then-U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd as she attempted to enter the House Speaker’s Lobby unarmed.
They recently joined in filing a $30 million wrongful death suit against the government in the death of the 35-year-old, the only one associated with the riots who died on Jan. 6.
"Judicial Watch and our supporters are honored to represent Ashli’s steadfast widower Aaron Babbitt and her estate in this legal action. Ashli was shot in cold blood, and the rule of law requires justice for her," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in filing the suit on Jan. 4.
[AP] A South Dakota tribe has banned Republican Gov. Kristi Noem from the Pine Ridge Reservation after she spoke this week about wanting to send razor wire and security personnel to Texas to help deter immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border and also said cartels are infiltrating the state’s reservations.
"Due to the safety of the Oyate, effective immediately, you are hereby Banished from the homelands of the Oglala Sioux Tribe!" Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out said in a Friday statement addressed to Noem. "Oyate" is a word for people or nation. Give the venison and whiskey a break Frank. You should begin to see some improvement with your soggy flatulence problem.
Star Comes Out accused Noem of trying to use the border issue to help get former U.S. President Donald Trump re-elected and boost her chances of becoming his running mate.
Many of those arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border are Indigenous people from places like El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico who come "in search of jobs and a better life," the tribal leader added.
[The Freedom Corner with PeterSweden] I recently discovered something very weird.
Did you know that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation just so happened to invest a whopping $55 MILLION in BioNTech?
You know, the company that partnered with Pfizer to make their mRNA covid vaccine and drove Pfizer's revenue to a record $100 billion in 2022.
Well, I had a look and found something very interesting indeed. When did Bill Gates invest this large sum of money?
Turns out that it was on the 4th of September 2019,.
Covid was discovered just two months later in November 2019 (at least the first time we got to hear about it).
This turned out to be very profitable for Bill Gates, his investment increased by 10 times! Just a few years later, the original $55 million was worth over $550 million.
"the collaboration will fund the identification of potential HIV and tuberculosis vaccine and immunotherapy candidates and their pre-clinical development. It will further enable BioNTech to build out its infectious disease infrastructure, including platform development" - it says in the press release from BioNTech.
Guess what?
Bill Gates has also donated some $20 million to the BBC.
Now it is being reported that the BBC misrepresented the risk of covid in order to boost public support for lockdown.
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I guess the author of that article has been living in a cave or under a rock for the past 2-3 years. That is old news...so old that I wouldn't call it news. It's like saying his Foundation is a huge contributor to the WHO is "news".
But, getting the word out can't hurt, I suppose, but unfortunately, nobody will do anything about it. Even RFK, Jr., has called for pretty much an amnesty for Branch Covidians.
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The money isn't invested to make more money, it's a way of buying a say in what the company does.
Yup.
What's not talked about so much, is the number of Hollywood/Sports Stars who do this. I wonder how many Board of Director spots Kelce has received recently.
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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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...unlikable American former starlet married to the formerly likable Prince Harry. Chock full of lefty political opinions, Markle's most important characteristic is that she is Black, even though she doesn't look it. Her mother, y'see, is half black and her father is white, which would make her a quarter Black. Her half brother described her (to her husband, before their marriage) as a 
[AP] A South Dakota tribe has banned Republican Gov. Kristi Noem from the Pine Ridge Reservation after she spoke this week about wanting to send razor wire and security personnel to Texas to help deter immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border and also said cartels are infiltrating the state’s reservations.
