A hearty "well done!" to the men and women in the simple black suits.
[Ynet] US authorities rescued 105 children who were forced into prostitution and nabbed Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! 150 pimps and others in a three-day sweep in 76 American cities, the FBI said Monday. The victims, almost all girls, range in age from 13 to 17.
The largest numbers of children rescued were in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... , bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... , Milwaukee, Denver and New Orleans."Child prostitution remains a persistent threat to children across the country," Ron Hosko, assistant director of the bureau's criminal investigative division, told a presser. The FBI said the campaign has resulted in rescuing 2,700 children since 2003.
[An Nahar] Italia's financial police said Saturday they had nabbed Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! a leading figure of a mafia clan wanted for international drug trafficking after surprising the runaway in his bolt hole dressed in pyjamas.
"During an anti-mafia investigation in Naples, police had a tip-off that dangerous runaway Adriano Manca... was probably taking refuge in a bar in Torre del Greco," a city in southern Italia, a police statement said.
Manca, "a leading figure in a renowned Camorra clan", had been on the run from the police since they issued an arrest warrant for him this month "for international drug trafficking".
A raid on the bar uncovered "a man in pyjamas hiding in a storage room behind the bar, which had been kitted out with mod cons to allow him to stay there in comfort and keep a low profile", the police said.
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[An Nahar] A 12-year-old girl in the southern French city of Bordeaux has been caught by police after using stolen cheques to buy 2,600 euros ($3,440) worth of candies and pastries.
Local police said Thursday that the girl had stolen a chequebook in March from a neighbour and used it over several months to buy the sweets from local bakeries.
Her criminal sweet tooth was uncovered when a local bakery tried to deposit 23 of the cheques and they bounced. She was quickly apprehended, questioned by police and released after her parents agreed to pay the bakery back.
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[DETROITNEWS] A photograph snapped by a citizen and distributed to the media led to the arrest of two coppers who allegedly robbed and assaulted two citizens last week, bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... Police Chief James Craig said Monday.
The two men -- one a sergeant and 20-year veteran of the Detroit Police Department; the other holding the same rank in St. Clair Shores -- allegedly wore their badges around their necks and drew their department-issued pistols on July 21, when police say they robbed two men at an east-side gas station. One of the victims was assaulted, Craig said.
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...and drew their department-issued pistols
Which is why probably so many gun-control Chiefs believe only the cops should have guns. Can't have the vics firing back.
[VARIETY] [VARIETY] Teresa Giudice, 41, and her husband Giuseppe "Joe" Giudice, 43, stars of the Real Housewives of New Jersey were indicted Monday on federal fraud charges. I knew she wasn't a real housewife all along.
They have been accused of exaggerating their income while applying for loans before their TV show debuted in 2009, then hiding their improving fortunes in a bankruptcy filing after their first season aired. I'm not even convinced she's from Noo Joisey...
The couple, of Montville Township, were charged in a 39-count indictment with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, bank fraud, making false statements on loan applications and bankruptcy fraud.
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They have been accused of exaggerating their income while applying for loans before their TV show debuted in 2009, then hiding their improving fortunes in a bankruptcy filing after their first season aired.
The bank never asked for their tax returns? If that's the case I find it hard to see fraud on the applicant's part as opposed to complete lack of due diligence on the bank's part.
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FTFA - fake W-2's, etc. are alleged to have been given to the bank. I still find it amazing the bank never asked for their tax returns and / sent the IRS this form to verify same.
[NYDAILYNEWS] Frustrated EMTs are sometimes stuck waiting for hours watching over dead bodies -- lengthy delays that make city ambulances unavailable for emergencies for long stretches of time, the Daily News has learned. "Lieutanant Doyle! You've come to take over on these dead guys?"
"No! Stick 'em up! That looks like about a 40-ounce soda!"
EMTs are required to stay with deceased patients -- even if they're dead of natural causes -- until the NYPD gets on the scene. But if cops aren't available, then the ambulance crews have to sit there -- unable to respond to the heavy volume of calls.
[BREITBART] A woman was jugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! Monday after green paint was found splattered inside two chapels at the Washington National Cathedral, and police were investigating her in connection with two similar incidents on the National Mall, authorities said.
The woman was arrested in the area of the cathedral shortly after the paint was found, Assistant D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham said. Investigators were hoping to question her about the vandalism on the Mall, including at the Lincoln Memorial, but a language barrier delayed the interrogation, Newsham said.
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but a language barrier delayed the interrogation,
Muslim?
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Muslim?
Spanish? Schizophrenia? The possibilities are endless, so let's wait for more information. In fact, since no explosives were involved, I would vote against Muslim for this one.
[AZCENTRAL] A Thai couple who were struck and killed by lightning had gone to the Grand Canyon as part of their honeymoon, according to the cousin of the man who died.
Aram Kawewong and Ratchaya Tantranon had traveled to the United States from Thailand and were killed July 23 by a single bolt of lightning at a LeFevre Scenic Overlook in northern Arizona.
Jeralynn Kozak, from Green Acres, Fla., said she is the cousin of Kawewong. She said the couple were married July 10 and were near the Grand Canyon as part of a West Coast tour for their honeymoon.
The couple was from Chiang-Mai, Thailand, according to a statement from Coconino County Sheriff's Office. They were both 20 years old. I've always wondered where people from Chiang Mai went on their honeymoons.
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Obviously Kozak is not a "professional journalist" -- otherwise she would have said she was decimated.
[An Nahar] A Canadian looking to prove his swimming skills, and drunk, provoked an international rescue when he jumped into the bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... River and swam to the United States, police said Wednesday.
John Morillo, 47, told the Windsor Star after being released from custody on Tuesday the stunt was "very stupid" but he relishes now being able to boast to friends about his exploit.
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Its Traditional.
Its always been traditional. There has never been a war anywhere at any time in history that it wasn't traditional.
T.R.A.D.I.T.I.O.N.A.L.
Its even in the Koran. Comes under Kuffirs and Concubine. Go look it up. The KhaKhan of the Mongols even had a government Ministry to handle the herds being driven north to the Gobi.
I believe the German even have their own word for it. And the Huns...don't get me started on the Huns....
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Strange, isn't it. It's the Western Powers, Western Civ that actually attempts to prosecute those who do engage in the act. The same Western Powers, Western Civ that championed the end of slavery. The same Western Powers, Western Civ routinely denounced by the Left for failure to be perfect in an imperfect world.
[Dawn] Former Pakistain captain and match-fixing whistleblower Rashid Latif said Monday that cricket as a whole remains far from clean and his country should not be singled out. Why not? They've been caught at it.
Latif, who lifted the lid on match-fixing within his own team in 1994, was reacting after The Mail on Sunday said the recently concluded one-day series between Pakistain and the West Indies was being probed by the International Cricket Council (ICC). I wondered how they got it to the International Criminal Court.
"These are serious allegations that need to be investigated and the newspaper will have to provide the evidence in this case," said Latif, who played 37 Tests and 166 one-dayers for Pakistain.
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I don't care what you do, release more GITMO detainees, delay the fighter jets, pull the CIA out of Afghanistan, offer an income tax break, I'll even have lunch with Clinton........just do something to make this CAIR and MB thing go away !
[An Nahar] At least 15 people were killed on Monday night in a brawl between Cairo street vendors over space, including 13 who were burned to death, a security source told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The source said two people died of gunshot and stab wounds in an initial brawl in central Cairo, and 13 more were killed after the shop they took refuge in was set on fire.
"Fifteen people were killed, including 13 who were burned to death, in a brawl between a number of vendors from two families... over an old disagreement on vendor spaces," the source said.
The source said the fight broke out between street vendors and shopowners in the Moski area in Old Cairo.
Security forces and firefighters moved into the area in the wake of the fight and put out the fire started during the brawl.
They discovered the 13 bodies of people killed in the blaze and nabbed Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! several people, the source added.
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Too many people, not enough economy. Either the excess emigrates, or this kind of thing happens. Tragically, as there is no place for most of the population to go -- no skills, no money, no connections, and except for Israel the neighbors are in the same situation -- there will be more of this. As Spengler/David Goldman and others have predicted...
[An Nahar] Tunisian Prime Minister Ali Larayedh Monday called a general election for December 17 after an emergency meeting aimed at easing political tensions and as protests demanded the Islamist government's ouster.
"This government will stay in office: we are not clinging to power, but we have a duty and a responsibility that we will exercise to the end," he told state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
, proposing December 17 as the date for a general election.
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[An Nahar] Togo's main opposition on Monday rejected provisional electoral results showing the ruling party winning two-thirds of parliamentary seats, allowing the president's family to maintain its decades-long grip on power.
The main opposition coalition, Let's Save Togo, had alleged irregularities even before full results in Togo's parliamentary elections were announced by the electoral commission on Sunday night.
Agbeyome Kodjo, a key figure in Let's Save Togo, on Monday called the vote and results a "sham".
"It's an electoral sham amid massive corruption and proven electoral fraud"
"It's an electoral sham amid massive corruption and proven electoral fraud," Kodjo, a former prime minister whose OBUTS party joined with Let's Save Togo for the elections, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The West African nation's constitutional court must still approve the results from Thursday's election before they become final.
According to results released Sunday night by the electoral commission, President Faure Gnassingbe's UNIR party won 62 of 91 seats, giving it a two-thirds majority in parliament.
If the results stand, the president's party will control an even greater percentage of seats than it does currently. It won 50 of 81 seats in the last legislative elections in 2007.
The closest opposition party was Let's Save Togo with 19 seats.
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[An Nahar] U.S. runaway Edward Snowden's leaks regarding intelligence surveillance programs in the world showed Russia "nothing new", but hastened its drive to ensure cyber-security, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Monday.
"Our technology experts didn't hear anything unexpected, it's just the naked truth that we already knew from other sources," Rogozin told journalists regarding the leaks made by the ex-National Security Agency contractor, who is awaiting the result of his Russian asylum application in a Moscow airport.
The leaked information however "pushes us to act and hastens the creation of our own base of electronic components which we cannot do without," Rogozin added.
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Oh. Well I guess that's that then. To the lumberyard!
[Dawn] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... chief Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... has confirmed speculations doing the rounds in the country in the run-up to the May 11 elections that there was a plot to assassinate him and that the fall off a forklift at a Lahore rally on May 7 that nearly killed him "had quite possibly saved my life".
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[Dawn] Prime Minister 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... Monday said no political party had boycotted the May 11 general elections and the Tuesday's presidential election should not have been boycotted by the Pakistain People's Party (PPP) on 'flimsy grounds.' I've got a pretty good idea who's not gonna win.
Presiding over a parliamentary party meeting of Pakistain Mohammedan League-Nawaz (PML-N) at the Parliament House, he said the May 11 elections were held on time in spite of extremely dismal security situation prevailing in the country at the time.
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[BBC.CO.UK] Pope Francis has said gay people should not be marginalised but integrated into society. Speaking to reporters on a flight back from Brazil, he reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church's position that homosexual acts were sinful, but homosexual orientation was not. You can't control your orientation, but there's lots you can do about what goes where and in whom.
He was responding to questions about whether there was a "gay lobby" in the Vatican. "If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge them?" Ummm... You're the Pope. You're supposed to ponder questions like that.
He also said he wanted a greater role for women in the Church, but insisted they could not be priests. Priests take a vow of chastity. That's supposed to mean they don't have congress with anyone, so they could occasionally fantasize over women, men, aardvarks, or even blow-up dolls. Lay persons take no vows of chastity. In most cases having a little unmarried whoopee isn't mortally sinful for them, I believe. That means the Church disapproves, but isn't of the opinion that you'll go to Hell for it.
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"Pope Francis: Who am I to judge gay people?"
The Pope, ferchrissakes - that's who.
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Actually, IIRC (I'm not Catholic), adultery and fornication _are_ mortal sins; the kind you can go to Hell for.
I saw the big splashy headlines yesterday and just knew there'd be breathless commentary about "changes." As I expected, the reporters, from ignorance about Christianity, misinterpret what he said, which was unexceptional.
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[BBC.CO.UK] Pope Francis has said gay people should not be marginalised but integrated into society. Speaking to reporters on a flight back from Brazil, he reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church's position that homosexual acts were sinful, but homosexual orientation was not.
