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-Lurid Crime Tales-
14 arrested in sex-trafficking sting at San Diego's Comic-Con, 10 victims rescued
[NYPOST] More than a dozen people were busted for alleged sex trafficking at Comic-Con in San Diego last weekend in a sting operation that also rescued 10 victims, including a teen.

Undercover agents posing as sex buyers spent three days at the star-studded bash making contact with victims and working to identify their traffickers, California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office said.

The operatives also posted advertisements soliciting sex to identify buyers.


Posted by: Fred || 08/01/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  DOJ releases a decade of data on human trafficking, drug offenses

"from 2013 to 2022"
Guess the FBI stopped collating in 2023.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/01/2024 8:44 Comments || Top||

#2  I bet they dont arrest any prostitutes at the Demo-Con in Chicsgo
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 08/01/2024 11:11 Comments || Top||

#3  yeah, the ones inside the convention hall get a pass.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/01/2024 11:27 Comments || Top||

#4  And with such a strong Disney presence. I'm shocked.

Not kidding. It was a huge advertising hype blitz in both media and flooding the floor to resurrect Robert Downy, Jr. back into the comic book movies. Big Disney presence. I don't remember anything like this last year when the big movie makers didn't attend.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/01/2024 11:31 Comments || Top||

#5  You mean Sailor Moon was a...Shocked, I tell you! I'm shocked!!!
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/01/2024 12:19 Comments || Top||

#6  So if you are poor and buy tail, that's sex trafficking.
If you are rich and buy tail, that's an escort.
And if you are an Olympian and buy tail, that's human trafficking - sexual exploitation.

Am I getting it right? Does hooking and prostitution and pimping still exist? I like those simpler times.

Posted by: mossomo || 08/01/2024 12:57 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ Simpler and more specific. Sex trafficking makes me think of people, including children, being sold as sex slaves. Kinda like what's happening on our southern border with the approval of our elites.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/01/2024 13:56 Comments || Top||


Gym teacher at Oak Hills School District was arrested after FBI agents found him in a hotel room with a nude, pre-pubescent child
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
… years old.

There is a p*dat*r epidemic in our schools. This is beyond disturbing.
He’s teaching at Delshire Elementary in Cincinnati, Ohio, dammit. The second pedophile teacher in our area that I’m aware of — the first was a popular fifth grade teacher in the trailing daughters’ school, discovered some years after they’d moved on.
Posted by: Fred || 08/01/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11135 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Question: Since the FBI knew what 44-year-old Mark Altherr was, followed him, knowing he had a young child with him in a hotel room.

Doesn't waiting, until he stripped the child naked seems strange?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/01/2024 7:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Doesn't waiting, until he stripped the child naked seems strange?

They needed fresh content for their hoard.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/01/2024 11:13 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
South Carolina Supreme Court says death penalty by firing squad or electrocution is legal
[JustTheNews] Executions are expected to begin again soon, now that the state Supreme Court ruling has come in. There are currently 32 inmates on death row, and no execution has been carried out in South Carolina since 2011.

The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the death penalty by firing squad or electrocution is not considered cruel and unusual punishment if the death row inmate requests it.

The state passed a law that allowed the methods in 2021, after there was a shortage in South Carolina of lethal injection drugs, along with lethal injection. It is now one of five states that allow execution by firing squad, and one of eight to allow electrocution, The Hill reported.

The 2021 law was temporarily halted after death row inmates sued the state over the change, but death by electrocution became the default form of execution when the state could not find a reliable source for the lethal injection drugs.

"[The 2021 law was a] sincere effort to make the death penalty less inhumane while enabling the state to carry out its laws," Justice John Few wrote in the majority decision. “The inescapable reality that an execution by any method may not go as planned — that it will be ‘botched’ — does not render the method ‘cruel’ under the constitution."
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/01/2024 08:32 || Comments || Link || [11137 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Firing squad please. 5 308 rounds to the heart is an immediate lights out as it gets. The nervous system shock alone makes you black out instantly.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/01/2024 16:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Tie them to the front of a black powder cannon, good family fun there.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/01/2024 19:14 Comments || Top||


Britain
King Chuck starting to fear Prince Harry's bankruptcy
[GEO.TV] King Chuck
...King of England, Scotland, Ireland -- at least part of it -- Wales, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, and places like that. The first King Chuck had his head chopped off, the second one was Good Time Charlie. The third once wanted to be a tampon and thinks we'll all be extinct within the next seven years...
is reportedly starting to grow petrified about what Prince Harry
will be forced into, once his money runs dry.
Prince Andrew no doubt would have happily hired out as a gigolo, were he in need of funds, but Prince Harry has a status-conscious wife, poor man.
Royal news hound Robert Jobson made this revelation public in his upcoming book Catherine: The Princess of Wales.

According to an extract of it, by the Daily Mail, "What worries His Majesty, and his top team,’ says a Palace official, ’is what is going to happen when all the money runs out’," given how much of a plague Prince Harry is being.

In regards to this the expert also went as far as to suggest possible avenues that the Sussexes are looking into and they reportedly involve "trying to find an income stream [...] that doesn’t involve dishing dirt on the Royal Family" because "the public have wearied of their constant complaints."
Posted by: Fred || 08/01/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11135 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Oh, the entitlement.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/01/2024 8:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Give him the King Edward treatment.
Posted by: IS || 08/01/2024 8:03 Comments || Top||

#4  i like harry. 2 tours in afghanistan.doing what the olden kings of england used to do. read his book 'spare'.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 08/01/2024 9:57 Comments || Top||

#5  He should be.

If he runs out of money, Kate is going to divorce his ass, sue him for accustomed living standard alimony, grab a younger guy of dubious sexuality and wear him like a purse for her tell-all fact and fiction speaking tour.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/01/2024 10:44 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ You mean Me-Again Meghan?
Posted by: Frank G || 08/01/2024 11:35 Comments || Top||

#7  Yes. Her.
Thank you.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/01/2024 11:46 Comments || Top||

#8  "...He's going to ask for his allowance again..."
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/01/2024 14:57 Comments || Top||

#9  There is always Only Fans. Working title “ A Prick of a Prince”
Posted by: Ululating Platypus || 08/01/2024 22:15 Comments || Top||


[RT] British public warned of $28bn financial black hole

Posted by: Skidmark || 08/01/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11125 views] Top|| File under:


Caribbean-Latin America
Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters throws a fit over Elon Musk’s support for the democratic opposition in Venezuela
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Oh. Well, then. In that case I should change my mind, I guess. (The things they keep under rocks!)
Under what rocks? The man literally lets his freak pig fly.

Related: Venezuelans Topple Statues of Hugo Chavez in Nationwide Anti-Socialist Protests
Posted by: Fred || 08/01/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  He has always been a socialist nutball except when making gobs of money.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/01/2024 10:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Speaking of which, probably ought to do a wellness check on Sean Penn as well.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/01/2024 10:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Roger, you should have just stuck to playing music. At one time you were fairly good at it. Now you sound like some spoiled child having a temper tantrum.

Supposedly, Water's dad was killed in WWII and he has issues because of that. Sorry. That was a horrible war but would he have like it better if the Nazis conquered Britain?

It's disturbing to hear from all these has-been celebrities who I once thought were cool speaking out as if their opinion matters, as if they have some influence with their former fans. No. You guys went off the rails and you lost all but a handful of your most gullible fans.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/01/2024 11:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Shine on, you crazy diamond. Just like your old friend Syd Barrett, you've gone stark raving mad.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/01/2024 11:44 Comments || Top||

#5  Rog, you had a thought. Let it go. Just let it go.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/01/2024 15:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Mr. Waters, attempting to think,
Created his usual stink.
Please don't mention the war,
Just enjoy your cigar
And remind us... har har... which one's Pink?
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 08/01/2024 22:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Trick question?
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 08/01/2024 22:57 Comments || Top||


Maduro and his thugs are arresting election observers again
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/01/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under: Commies


#2  Kamala Harris: "The United States stands with the people of Venezuela who expressed their voice in today’s historic presidential election. The will of the Venezuelan people must be respected."
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/01/2024 10:19 Comments || Top||

#3  So much for Roger's investigation.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/01/2024 12:22 Comments || Top||

#4  January 6 in August...
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/01/2024 16:25 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
American Dunn, convicted of murder, acquitted after 34 years in prison
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Christopher Dunn, a resident of the American state of Missouri, convicted of murder 34 years ago, was acquitted and released from prison. This was reported by the human rights organization Midwest Innocence Project.

"We are thrilled that Chris will finally be reunited with his family after 34 years in prison for a crime he did not commit," the statement said.

The Missouri Supreme Court ordered Dunn's release on July 30. A St. Louis Circuit judge had overturned the conviction on July 22, but the state attorney general insisted that Dunn remain in custody.

Dunn became the second inmate in recent weeks to be exonerated after serving many years in prison. Sandra Hemme, who spent 43 years in prison, was released on July 19 in the western part of the state. The woman was convicted of murder, but now a judge has found her “virtual innocence” proven, CNN notes.

Dunn was convicted of the murder of 15-year-old Rick Rogers on May 18, 1990. Rogers was 18 at the time. Two teenagers who were with Rogers claimed that Dunn shot him, although Rogers' mother and sister said that the boy was in the house with them.

There was no physical evidence against Dunn, but he was sentenced to life in prison without parole for first-degree murder. Witnesses later recanted their testimony and said they were pressured by prosecutors and police, the TV channel notes.
Posted by: badanov || 08/01/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
"Witnesses later recanted their testimony and said they were pressured by prosecutors and police...,"

That's 1 way to look at it.

Then there is the possibility they recanted under pressure from the convict's family members and community. And/Or we have Liberal Judges up for re-election.

For a sec. let's say that it was the prosecutors and police.

Those involved, IF still alive at 60+ now, should put on trial and if convicted have their properties sold to cover their part of the likely $$ Millions lawsuits coming.

Why should the TAXPAYERS have to pay for the whole amount of the lawsuit for the possible abuse of the law by certain persons acting outside of it?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/01/2024 6:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Dunn was convicted of the murder of 15-year-old Rick Rogers on May 18, 1990. Rogers was 18 at the time.

That's some good Jourolisming
Posted by: Frank G || 08/01/2024 7:17 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Dem Socialists of America Congratulate Maduro then Retract
[Breitbart] The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) — an organization that counts prominent Democrats and leftists such as Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Cori Bush (D-MO) as members — congratulated brutal left-wing Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro for his stolen election "win" on Tuesday.

Facing a fast-growing storm of condemnation online, the DSA deleted its post and scrubbed all references to it from social media within a matter of hours.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 08/01/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11138 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  What everyone needs to know - no ONE NEEDS Venezuela = nor any other "OPEC STYLE" nation - WHY = as before this Socialist/Communist Regime was IMPLANTED in The USA - We Were The Leading Producers of Petroleum in THE WORLD -- UNTIL the communist regime , known as the BIDEN Administration was installed in the USA. Think, Know & Vote these IDIOTS -OUT -
Posted by: Oscar B. Hayes6202 || 08/01/2024 0:31 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ You nailed it Oscar.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/01/2024 2:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Better include Harris, she was quick to give Maduro a high-five and has not, as far as I know, condemned his approved violence.

The 'but it is gangsters' doesn't work; if you remember a couple weeks ago he literally threatened to arrest and murder if he isn't allowed to continue. He knew, two weeks ago, he would lose a legitimate election.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/01/2024 10:29 Comments || Top||



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Wed 2024-07-31
  Haniyeh rubbed out in Iran
Tue 2024-07-30
  Lebanese officials now confirm that US envoy and NSC official Amos Hochstein passed information on Israeli strikes
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  Israel launches devastating raids on Lebanon's south
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  Pro-Hamas protesters burn the American Flag in our Nation’s Capitol
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  Lefty mob floods U.S. Capitol ahead of planned ''Day of Temper Tantrum Rage'' against Netanyahu's visit to Congress
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  Secret Service Director Cheatle resigns
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  Biden campaign officially rebrands with the FEC as 'Harris for President'
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  Biden drops out. Endorses Kamala
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