[NEWS.SKY] A transgender prisoner who admitted sexually assaulting two women while on remand has been incarcerated I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! for life.
Karen White, who was born male but now identifies as a woman and is transitioning, also admitted the previous rapes of two other women.
She already had convictions for indecent assault, indecent exposure and gross indecency involving children, violence and dishonesty.
The judge at Leeds Crown Court described her as a "highly manipulative predator", while the prosecution said she used her transgender persona to "put herself in contact with vulnerable persons she can then abuse".
It is believed she will serve her sentence at a male prison.
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and is transitioning
Should have finished the transition before putting it in the prison population.
[RT] New York prosecutors have dropped one of the sex crime charges against disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein, according to news agencies. Weinstein appeared before New York Judge James Burke as his lawyers tried to have some or all of the charges he faces dismissed. The basis for the motion filed by Ben Brafman said prosecutors withheld evidence when presenting the case to the grand jury, such as friendly emails that one of Weinstein accusers sent to him. The case includes rape and sexual assault charges.
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Not to say I feel sympathy for Harvey, but anything, anything, that reduces feminazi power to destroy lives is welcome.
[OUTLINE] Roughly 40 percent of the Gulf of Mexico’s oil production and 28 percent of its natural gas production was shut down as of Tuesday, as the region braced for a powerful hurricane to make landfall.
At least 75 platforms were evacuated, according to Rooters, including those operated by Anadarko Petroleum, BHP Billiton, BP, Chevron and ExxonMobil. Hurricane Michael strengthened to a Category 4 storm as it approached the Florida Panhandle, threatening catastrophic damage to Florida’s Gulf Coast. "Some additional strengthening is possible before landfall," the National Hurricane Center said in a public advisory. The storm had maximum sustained winds of 140 miles per hour as of Wednesday morning.
An estimated 670,800 barrels per day of oil production and around 726 million cubic feet per day of natural gas production shut down. At least three drilling rigs were evacuated and eight more were moved out of the range of the storm, according to BSEE.
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But inventories are very strong. Won't stop the usual suspects from ginning up the price.
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Already back in service. The platform operation are further west.
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They have to do this when a hurricane is near. Prepping for storm takes time and if rigs have to run, many don't run fast. The last rig I was on offshore for a long time had a top speed of 3 knots. So if we had to run, we had to start a week before the storm hit.
🚨🚨🚨HUGE news: Washington Supreme Court declares death penalty unlawful under the state constitution, converts ALL death sentences to life imprisonment. Capital punishment is over in Washington. https://t.co/Wv70eeVfQa
The unanimous ruling, which makes Washington the latest state to throw out the capital punishment, said that the death penalty was "unequally applied ‐sometimes by where the crime took place, or the county of residence, or the available budgetary resources at any given point in time, or the race of the defendant."
The ruling came in the case of Allen Eugene Gregory, who was convicted of the rape, robbery and murder of 43-year-old Geneine Harshfield in 1996. Lawyers for Gregory said the death penalty was arbitrarily applied in contravention of the constitution.
Washington’s Democratic governor Jay Inslee, who was a former supporter of the death penalty, had placed a moratorium on capital punishment in 2014, saying that executions would not take place while he was in office.
Following the supreme court ruling, Inslee released a statement calling the ruling a "hugely important moment" in the pursuit of "equal and fair application of justice".
"The court makes it perfectly clear that capital punishment in our state has been imposed in an ’arbitrary and racially biased manner,’ is ’unequally applied’ and serves no criminal justice goal," the statement said.
As it stands, 31 US states still have the death penalty, while 19 states do not. There are also four states where a governor-imposed moratorium on capital punishment has been put in place.
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Anyone ever did stats on the correlation between death penalty and serious crimes?
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"unequally applied ‐sometimes by where the crime took place, or the county of residence, or the available budgetary resources at any given point in time, or the race of the defendant."
The disparate impact fiction created by the judiciary. Never mind that the stats for male vs female deaths on the job are horrendously out of proportion or that military cemeteries across the country suffer from similar disparate representation. It's a tool created to garner more power to the rulers and steal it from the ruled.
Meanwhile, the death penalty will still be carried out in your streets, your neighborhoods, and businesses. There's a reason blocks upon blocks of Chicago belong to the gangs and not the 'authorities'. One has an effective death penalty, the other really doesn't.
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There are definitely people who deserve to be executed. The system just isn't anywhere near up to snuff on applying it correctly and in a timely fashion.
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Going for a mandatory life sentence for capital crimes does save states a lot of money on legal fees with the huge number of endless procedural challenges that defense attorneys crank up for their clients.
I have come to the point that the only way capital punishment works is if it is implemented immediately and in public. back in the day, when Wildcat Willie was sentenced to be hanged, the gallows had already been build. AND the towns people treated it like free entertainment...some may comment on that but given the mob mentality of human nature and the blood lust that inhabits therein, it is understandable.
If you don't want to pay millions in legal fees, you should be willing to hang them immediately after the verdict.
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Just arm the prisoners and let them have at each other. Airdrop food periodically (but not enough to feed them all) and put it on pay-per-view. Throw a liberal lawyer (or three) in each week, pour encourager les autres
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I don't believe that prison is a punishment. Not currently. It was originally simply where you were held.
Some people do deserve death. And it should be done in such a way to make an impact on people. Executing people quietly in the dark the way we currently do is sucked dry of any deterrent value.
Make it public and make it gruesome. Put them in glass jars in the public square and let people watch them die slowly, baking in the sun. There is always the option of using them as organ donors as well, which can be said to possibly save more lives than they took.
People should be terrified of breaking the law. It should have very real, permanent consequences.
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I agree that prisons should be a deterrent to criminal behavior.
My favorite story is that John Wesley Hardin begged the Judge to hang him when the Federal Judge sentenced him to 20 years hard labor at Yuma...hard labor being literally busting rocks with a sledge hammer.
yes, the ability to immediate remove jurist who demonstrate the inability to read the Constitution.
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
[The Hill] An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus is on the rise in a regional trading hub in Congo as terrified residents, including those who have been infected, avoid health care workers.
Public health officials have watched with mounting concern in the last week as the number of cases of Ebola in the heavily populated North Kivu and Ituri Provinces have grown, more than two months after the outbreak was identified.
The Congolese Health Ministry said Wednesday that 194 cases of hemorrhagic fever have been reported in the two provinces in eastern Congo, along the border with Uganda.
That's an increase of 32 cases in just a single week, a startling number for a virus that usually dies down soon after public health officials begin treating the outbreak.
One hundred twenty-two people have died so far. Another 53 people have been discharged from Ebola treatment centers after having survived the disease.
[TransportEnvironment.org] One day after the world’s leading climate scientists urged global leaders to drastically cut emissions to avoid catastrophic climate change, EU governments agreed to reduce carbon emissions from new cars by just 35% in 2030, compared to 2021 levels. Although slightly better than the Commission’s proposal, European NGO federation Transport & Environment (T&E) says this position falls well short of what is needed to meet the EU’s 2030 climate law and avoid dangerous climate change as highlighted in yesterday’s IPCC’s report. VW is so strongly tied to German car manufacturing it's dangerous. Germany should be pushing for EVs but VW underestimated EVs and was the last one with EV development.
Seventeen countries representing over half of Europe’s population originally called for a 2030 CO2 reduction target of at least 40%. Germany and the Visegrad countries fiercely lobbied for no more than a 30% cut proposed by the European Commission; aided behind the scenes by Commissioner Cañete. Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Sweden stated their disappointment with the position agreed and said they would call for higher ambition in negotiations with Parliament. Typical Europeans. They have nothing but hate for America for its perceived protectionism, but when it comes time to harm their own industries in the service of the global ideals they speak so highly of, it's crickets.
Hypocritical assholes.
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Automobiles are EVIL! Bicycles, leather cadillacs, and foto monitored gov't transportation are the future.
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In the 1990's the Europeans got specific exemptions to Kyoto for the concrete and steel industries because they were "Vital to National Local Politician's Interests"... Same old song, just not as amusing as the first time.
[DAWN] Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... Fazal (JUI-F) Senator Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri ...Central Secretary General of JUI-F, member of the Pak senate, formerly provincial minister of Balochistan. He has a master's degree in Islam and runs a madrassah... on Wednesday announced that he will boycott meetings of the Senate Standing Committee on Information Technology if in camera meetings are held to discuss a proposed law seeking equal punishments for those convicted of blasphemy and those who make false accusations of blasphemy.
The Prevention of Electronic Crimes (Amendment) Bill 2018 was moved on the directions of Islamabad High Court after Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui ordered last year during a case that those who make false accusations of blasphemy should be given the same punishment as those convicted of blasphemy.
The bill was later prepared by the government and was referred by the upper house to the committee for discussion.
Chaired by Senator Rubina Khalid, the committee decided not to discuss the bill in the absence of Information Technology Minister Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, who tabled the bill in Senate but Senator Haideri still started discussing the issue.
"The matter is being discussed in the religious circles and we are of the view that such kinds of bills should not be passed. Many people register baseless cases of theft, robberies and other crimes and people are killed in the main markets but the aggrieved families cannot prove murder because witnesses refuse to record their statements in the court," Mr Haideri said.
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Idolatry you know.
[DAWN] The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday acquitted PML-N MNA Chaudhry Abid Raza and three others in a murder case, DawnNewsTV reported.
A two-member LHC division bench comprising Justice Sardar Shamim Ahmad and Justice Shehbaz Rizvi was hearing the case.
A trial court had sentenced Raza in 1999 under Section 302 of the Pakistain Penal Code and Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) for murdering six people. The conviction was challenged before the LHC but was dismissed when both parties reached a compromise. The death sentence was revoked in 2003 by a division bench.
In 2016, the Supreme Court suspended the 2003 judgement and remanded the case to the LHC.
Last month, the LHC bench that was hearing the case, had appointed a criminal law expert as amicus curiae (friend of court) to decide whether an offence under Section 7 of the ATA was compoundable (reconcilable).
During today's hearing, the MNA's lawyer had argued that Raza was acquitted after an agreement with the complainant. The state lawyer, however, said that a compromise deed did not hold in a terrorism case and urged the court to reinstate the trial court's verdict that was issued in 1999.
Previously, the counsel for MNA and other convicts had claimed that Section 7 of the ATA was not added in the case. They argued that the high court would have to hear the appeal against the conviction on merits if it maintained death penalty under the special law.
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[DAWN] President Arif Alvi has removed Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui as a judge of the Islamabad High Court (IHC), a notification issued by the law ministry said on Thursday.
The president took the decision after the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) recommended his removal, the statement added.
A letter written by the SJC had emerged earlier in the day, in which the council, comprising five Supreme Court judges, had said it found Justice Siddiqui guilty of misconduct over a speech he delivered in July earlier this year before the Rawalpindi District Bar Association.
"The council is unanimously of the opinion that in the matter of making his speech before the District Bar Association, Rawalpindi on [July 21] Mr. Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui [...] had displayed conduct unbecoming of a judge of a high court and was, thus, guilty of misconduct and he is, therefore, liable to be removed from his office under Article 209(6) of the Constitution," the communication read.
The SJC is a constitutional forum that examines the conduct of superior court judges and then recommends their removal from the top post.
While addressing an audience at the Rawalpindi bar, Justice Siddiqui had claimed that personnel of the Inter-Services Intelligence ...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir... (ISI) were manipulating judicial proceedings.
He had further claimed that the spy agency had approached IHC Chief Justice Muhammad Anwar Khan Kasi and said: "'We do not want to let Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... and his daughter come out [of the prison] until elections, do not include Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui on the bench [hearing Sharifs' appeals]'."
Justice Siddiqui had offered no evidence to support the claims he made.
The IHC judge was facing a reference over his controversial speech, the third reference filed against him.
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[YouTube] Atlas does parkour. The control software uses the whole body including legs, arms and torso, to marshal the energy and strength for jumping over the log and leaping up the steps without breaking its pace. (Step height 40 cm.) Atlas uses computer vision to locate itself with respect to visible markers on the approach to hit the terrain accurately.
Some of the comments:
WE ARE DEAD - christ thats scary - Ok, enough. Time to hit the ’abort’ button on this project. - I'm freaking out, now we cant escape. - Ну всё, нам хана! :(
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Pretty soon "Ironman" capabilities without the "man". A walking/jumping/running/swimming/flying drone capable of being hacked numbering in the 1000's. Better look for the Chinese mini-chip in the BD servers.
[Al Ahram] Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said on Thursday he hoped the United States would be understanding about a malfunction that occurred during a launch of the "Soyuz" spacecraft.
He was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency that manned space flights would be suspended until an investigation into the causes of the malfunction is completed.
"Soyuz" made an emergency landing near the city of Zhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan after its booster rockets failed in mid-air en route to the International Space Station. It had a Russian cosmonaut and a US astronaut on board.
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How long will it take to get another Logistics run aside the Crew? May we run two loads? but I need one up there right now. I need resupply.
Let's get food rotated now and crew when you can unless you can make another run together like this one was supposed to be.
I'm losing lots of Cargo, but By GOD, I have not lost an Astronaut yet.
[RT] NASA officials have said that the International Space Station (ISS) could be left unmanned after a Russian Soyuz spacecraft was forced to make an emergency landing when its rocket booster malfunctioned.
The Soyuz rocket launched on Thursday was due to deliver cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and astronaut Nick Hague to the station. The current ISS crew of three people is due to return to earth before January 4, when the Soyuz docked at the space station reaches the end of its safe return lifespan.
SpaceX current has at the cape: 1) Three FULLY TESTED and READY TO FLY First Stages, 2) A unknown number > 1 Second Stages and 3)The SpaceX manned flight test capsule ready to go since August. Suggest 1) Shoot up empty now and dock it for emergency egress if the Soyuz fails or 2) Load it with the Paper Work Managers of NASA's for Dragon 2 and launch it to ISS. If it fails the managers can die knowing they were right.
If they don't die then it passes.
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Remember how the ISS was supposed to improve relations between the US and Russia? How's that working out these days?
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[DAWN] Malaysia's cabinet has agreed to abolish the death penalty , a senior minister said on Thursday, with more than 1,200 people on death row set to win a reprieve following a groundswell of opposition to capital punishment.
Capital punishment is currently mandatory for murder, kidnapping, possession of firearms and drug trafficking, among other crimes, and is carried out by hanging ‐ a legacy of British colonial rule.
Communications and multimedia minister Gobind Singh Deo confirmed the cabinet had resolved to end the death penalty.
"I hope the law will be amended soon," he told AFP.
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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.
[NEWS.SKY] A transgender prisoner who admitted sexually assaulting two women while on remand has been 
[RT] New York prosecutors have dropped one of the sex crime charges against disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein, according to news agencies. Weinstein appeared before New York Judge James Burke as his lawyers tried to have some or all of the charges he faces dismissed. The basis for the motion filed by Ben Brafman said prosecutors withheld evidence when presenting the case to the grand jury, such as friendly emails that one of Weinstein accusers sent to him. The case includes rape and sexual assault charges.
[OUTLINE] Roughly 40 percent of the Gulf of Mexico’s oil production and 28 percent of its natural gas production was shut down as of Tuesday, as the region braced for a powerful hurricane to make landfall.
[The Hill] An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus is on the rise in a regional trading hub in Congo as terrified residents, including those who have been infected, avoid health care workers.
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
[RT] NASA officials have said that the International Space Station (ISS) could be left unmanned after a Russian Soyuz spacecraft was forced to make an emergency landing when its rocket booster malfunctioned.
