Chrystul Kizer confessed to shooting Randy Volar in the head twice and burning his body at his home in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in June 2018
Authorities say she was one of about a dozen victims Volar sexually abused and filmed without their consent
Volar had been arrested for child sex crimes four months before his murder but was inexplicably released
Chrystul was charged with first-degree intentional homicide and arson by the same district attorney who conducted the Volar investigation
The prosecutor says Chrystul, then 17, had planned the murder in advance
Chrystul says she acted in self defense after he drugged her and tried to have sex with her after she told him she didn't want to
The teen's lawyers sought to apply an 'affirmative defense' under a state law which shields victims of sex trafficking
The law allows victims to be acquitted of certain charges if they can prove they committed the crime because they were being trafficked
A judge ruled on December 9 that the defense did not apply to Chrystul's case
Her lawyer is now preparing to appeal that ruling as Chrystul remains in jail
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Volar had been arrested for child sex crimes four months before his murder but was inexplicably released
Chrystul was charged with first-degree intentional homicide and arson by the same district attorney who conducted the Volar investigation
Ask the governor for a pardon.
The state failed to provide justice. It forfeits its claim to such authority. Maybe there will be more concern about the integrity of the system than worrying about crossing t's and dotting i's.
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Now if we could just apply the same procedure to many MSM figures they may be able to improve their situation so they could walk around like this guy before he had surgery.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved SpaceX’s request to increase the number of lanes its Starlink satellites can orbit, a modification the company said would accelerate service rollout across the United States.
The FCC said SpaceX can field satellites in 72 rings around the Earth at 550 kilometers — three times as many as the commission approved in April.
SpaceX has launched 120 of a planned 12,000 small broadband satellites into low Earth orbit. The company is placing its first 1,584 satellites in a 550-kilometer orbit, with later satellites planned for higher and lower altitudes.
In August, SpaceX told the FCC that by tripling the number of lanes for those first Starlink satellites, it could build out enough coverage to offer internet access in southern states by the 2020 hurricane season.
Satellite internet is often used in emergency response after natural disasters damage fibers and cell towers. SpaceX is building out Starlink from the poles, with coverage expanding towards the equator as more satellites get launched.
“Grant of this application will allow SpaceX to accelerate the deployment of its satellite constellation to deliver broadband service throughout the United States, especially to those who live in areas underserved or unserved by terrestrial systems,” the FCC said Dec. 19.
SpaceX said the Starlink orbit modifications could cut the number of Starlink launches necessary by up to 50%. Under the revised plans, each of the 72 orbital rings will have 22 satellites instead of 66, meaning a single Falcon 9 launch can now populate approximately three rings. The company has been launching 60 satellites at a time on its Falcon 9 rockets. The next Starlink mission, and SpaceX’s last launch of the year, is planned for late December.
[ARYNEWS.TV] The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said it removed the fictional country of Wakanda from an online list of nations that have free trade agreements with the United States on Thursday. Impeachment yesterday, Wakanda today?
The Kingdom of Wakanda is the home of Black Panther, the Marvel superhero, and is portrayed in comic books and the 2018 blockbuster movie as an isolated African nation with the most powerful technology on the planet. Typical African nation, in fact.
"While we removed the Kingdom of Wakanda from our list of US free trade partners, our relationship will always be strong #WakandaForever," the USDA tweeted from its official account. My mind just boggled.
The agency did not immediately respond to questions. "Are you people crazy or just stoopid?"
"Ummm..."
A front man told The Washington Post that inclusion of the mythical African nation from the universe of Marvel superheroes was a mistake made as part of a test officials were running. "Yeah! Yeah, dat's it. It wuz some kinda test. You caught it, so dat means youse passed!"
Francis Tseng, a New York-based software engineer who was looking for data on U.S. agricultural tariffs for a fellowship he is pursuing, first noticed the reference to Wakanda on the U.S. tariff list and called it out on Twitter. If he was pursuing a fellowship from USDA, he just lost it.
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This kind of goof happens fairly often. Programmers put all kinds of weird "funny" data into systems for testing and then forget to take it all out before the go-live.
Back when I worked for DEC about 40 years ago there was a legendary incident where a customer got the error PPACB in his new operating system and called the help desk to say WTF? When looked up it turned out to be "pull plug and call Bob".
That wasn't supposed to make it into the release version, needless to say.
[NYPOST] Fifteen horses ‐ some of them pregnant or very young ‐ appear to have been rubbed out at a Kentucky strip mine in a "very large act of evil," according to a new report.
The carcasses were discovered on a site along US Route 23 near the Floyd-Pike County line. Some of the horses were 1-year-old or younger, and others were pregnant, according to local outlet WYMT.
"This is very inhumane and it’s a very cruel act of somebody who just apparently had nothing else to do ... just to go back on a strip job and shoot down horses who were, one of them obviously was feeding, had grass in its mouth," Floyd County Sheriff John Hunt told the station. "It looked like a battlefield for just horses, we counted 15 that we found dead."
Rescue groups on the site told the outlet it appeared the horses were hunted ‐ and law enforcement added that it appeared a low-caliber rifle was used.
"Seeing them bumped off is ... it’s beyond horrific," Tonya Conn, with local group Dumas Rescue, told the outlet. "These horses were scattered in various, various places, distances from each other, so they had been shot, and they’d scattered, then hunted and shot down."
Megan Goble, who lives near the site and whose family owns part of the land where the horses roamed, told NPR that at least two of the slain horses were pregnant.
"I’ve done rescue for a long time. I’ve seen some pretty bad things," Goble told the network. "This was different. This was a very large act of evil, for lack of a better term. I mean, there’s no other way that I can describe it. Somebody went out of their way to go up there and kill these horses, and not even quickly, for no reason. No reason whatsoever."
The animals lived in two main herds, she said ‐ some brought to the wooded, secluded area by their owners and others who were born there.
Since reports emerged about the slaughter, more than 30 people have called in to pledge money toward a reward for information about the shooting, WYMT reported.
The reward, which was originally $500, is now estimated to be around $5,000.
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[MSN] An Ames man was sentenced Wednesday to about 16 years in prison after he set fire to a church's LGBTQ flag in June.
Adolfo Martinez, 30, of Ames, was found guilty last month of third-degree arson in violation of individual rights ‐ hate crime, third-degree harassment, and reckless use of fire as a habitual offender.
He was arrested after stealing a pride banner hanging at Ames United Church of Christ, 217 6th St., and burning it early June 11 outside Dangerous Curves Gentleman’s Club, 111 5th St., police said.
Martinez admitted to police that he lit the banner on fire with lighter fluid and a lighter after stealing it from the church, according to court documents.
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The President should just keep pardoning anybody the crazy Leftist judges imprison or fine or trifles like this. This and self defense cases like that trafficked girl. Gain some traction with the delinquent and fringe crowd too. You need loyal delinquents right now.
Apparently Britain's Labour Party at its conferences has adopted the habit of banning displays of the Union Jack and singing of "Rule Britannia" - but encourages display of Palestinian patriotism. Coming soon to a neighborhood Shitshow Thester near you.
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I agree with all of you about the freedom of speech argument but if you look at the list of charges, Habitual offender of reckless use of fire is more than likely why the sentence is so hard. This isn't someone protesting he's a firebug.
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Perhaps, but this is being presented as a chilling display to curb public protest of the gay agenda of superior rights and special privilege that makes any anti-gay act a hate crime, of free speech. For the left the new tool to limit speech is to assert that “hate” negates protected freedom of expression. And they get to define what is “hate”.
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not if you're considered a habitual violator. I'm not saying the judge was right about the hate crime but I've been through the system and know what a habitual violator status brings.
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[Law Enforcement Today] Things are getting really bad in Virginia. But this group isn’t going down without a fight.
Virginia ‐ Earlier in the week, we reported on how lawmakers over in Virginia were threatening to use the National Guard if members of local law enforcement refused to enforce laws passed in the state that they felt violated the second amendment.
Well, looks like Tazewell County isn’t going down without a fight. On top of calling themselves a second amendment sanctuary county, they’re also crafting a militia as well. The Virginia county has taken the movement that has swept across the state and added an element that is sure to trigger pro gun-grabbing politicians in the state.
Just this past Tuesday, on December 10th, the Board of Supervisors from Tazewell County passed two different resolutions in light of controversy circling those who are pro-gun. The first resolution declared the county to be a second amendment sanctuary. This is not at all surprising to see, as 76 out of 95 counties, 9 out of 38 independent cities, and 13 towns have adopted second amendment sanctuary resolutions.
The second item on the agenda was the proposition of establishing a militia in the county. When both of the resolutions passed, the crowd cheered loudly in support of the decisions. Also, the resolutions didn’t exactly pass by a small margin; the votes were unanimous, with more than 200 citizens standing by in support.
The motion of the creation of the militia had already succeeded in an unofficial way based on the results of a survey conducted earlier in the month by county officials. But Board Chairman Travis Hackworth said people have persisted to press for the district to declare itself a second amendment sanctuary.
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...This is what happens when politicians forget that a couple of counties and cities do not represent the entire state. Get away from the DC area and Richmond, and VA is as red as it gets.
Mike
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I think an excellent lesson could be delivered by the VA Guard or the Militia arresting the Governor and all of the Legislators that voted for these unconstitutional laws.
Arrest them, hold a drum head court martial , then shoot them.
[ARYNEWS.TV] A six-year-old boy who was left fighting for his life after being thrown from the viewing gallery of the Tate Modern art gallery has begun to speak for the first time, his family said on Thursday.
The boy was visiting London from La Belle France when he was thrown 100 ft by a stranger in August, leaving him in intensive care with broken arms and legs and a fractured spine.
Jonty Bravery, 18, of Ealing, west London, later admitted a charge of attempted murder for the assault.
In an update posted on his GoFundMe page, the boy’s family said: "our little knight begins to speak! He pronounces one syllable after another, not all of them, and most of the time we have to guess what he means, but it’s better and better."
Almost $190,000 has been raised by thousands of donors towards the boy’s medical fees which have included two operations. His family also say that his physical abilities have begun to improve, despite still causing him pain.
"He still has lots of splints but he is starting to move his four limbs now," they said.
His attacker, who has autism spectrum disorder, said in court he carried out the assault because he wanted to appear on the news. He will be sentenced at the Old Bailey court on Feb. 17.
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Eye for an eye. "Let go of the railing!...off you go!"
The UK will begin trade negotiations with non-EU economies and introduce a new immigration system, as part of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s new agenda for the country.https://t.co/ifuwYET1k0
[TheTimes] United Nations peacekeepers fathered hundreds of babies in Haiti then abandoned young mothers to lives of single parenthood and poverty, the academic leading a research study has told The Times.
Many of those impregnated were underage girls who traded sex for food or "for a few coins" as they struggled to survive in wake of political upheaval and natural disaster.
An extensive study into the impact of one of the UN’s longest peacekeeping deployments, published today on The Conversation academic website says "girls as young as 11 were sexually abused and impregnated by peacekeepers and . . . ’left in misery’ to raise their children alone".
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So is born with a blue helmet anything like being born with a caul?
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more of the UNs good work
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Anybody notice anything in the article text about the Nationality of the blue helmet fathers.?
Or has anyone noted the Publisher of the Nativity "news" or their political affiliation for possible motives? In other words, WHY are we being "informed " of this and what are the motives of this new "news".?
And Haiti is no surprise as to sexual habits, surely. We also know Blue helmet past records as to sexual morality. You don't need to be a Prophet to realize this was inevitable as an outcome as soon as the UN got off the boat and could get its pants down..And the Haitian underage girls were waiting on the dock most likely.. No surprise, no prophecy needed.No news for the astounded either.It spelled Haiti.And its human Nature. And the text doesn't mention the nationality OR the motive for the "news".
Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russia is not planning to create a military alliance with China, despite Moscow helping Beijing build a missile attack warning system.https://t.co/XR2PnRNB7u
[Jpost] The list of users may very well be in use of telemarketers and the like.
A security researcher found a database containing information of Facebook users' names and phone numbers for 267 million users of the famous social media platform, according to Forbes magazine.
Bob Diachenko was the security researcher who discovered the breach, which may allow leaked information to be used by telemarketers and the like.
The list was completely public, according to the report.
Facebook has been criticized repeatedly in recent years for its regularly compromised security systems.
"We are looking into this issue, but believe this is likely information obtained before changes we made in the past few years to better protect people's information," Facebook said in a statement, according to Android Central.
On Tuesday, seven Facebook accounts belonging to StandWithUs
The Ebola virus, which causes haemorrhagic fever and spreads from person to person through direct contact with body fluids, has killed more than 2,100 people in Congo since the middle of the year, making it the second-largest Ebola outbreak in history.
The vaccine, which is administered as a single-dose injection, will help to prevent EVD caused by Zaire ebolavirus in patients aged 18 years and older, the regulator said in a statement.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday he has asked the United States to hold off on any final trade agreement with China until two Canadians detained in China have been released.
Beijing detained former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor last December in an apparent attempt to pressure Canada to release Meng Wanzhou, a top executive at Chinese tech giant Huawei. The daughter of Huawei’s founder was arrested last December at the request of US authorities who want her on fraud charges.
In an interview with the French-language TV network TVA that aired on Thursday, Trudeau said Canada has asked the Trump administration to use ongoing trade talks with China as leverage in securing the release of the two Canadians.
"We’ve said that the United States should not sign a final and complete agreement with China that does not settle the question of Meng Wanzhou and the two Canadians," Trudeau said in translated remarks.
No evidence has been provided in the Kovrig and Spavor cases and they have not been allowed access to family members or lawyers while in Chinese custody.
China and the US are embroiled in a trade war that has at times roiled global financial markets. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said Meng is not a bargaining chip in US-China trade talks.
Meng is accused of lying to banks about the company’s dealing with Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... in violation of US trade sanctions. She is out on bail in Vancouver and living in her multimillion-dollar mansion awaiting extradition proceedings.
Meng’s detention severely damaged Beijing’s relations with Ottawa. China has stopped importing certain Canadian products like canola, and it also re-sentenced a convicted Canadian drug smuggler to death after the Meng arrest as part of an apparent campaign of intimidation and retribution against Canada.
China has often retaliated against foreign governments and corporations in diplomatic disputes.
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Why should Trump care what Trudeau wants, thinks or does? Trudeau has thoroughly "muddied the waters" in the bilateral US-Canada relationship where he could.
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Why should Trump care what Trudeau wants, thinks or does? Trudeau has thoroughly "muddied the waters" in the bilateral US-Canada relationship where he could.
Trudeau is presumably threatening to release the Huawei heiress.
[ARYNEWS.TV] A train headed from Sindh to Lahore came close to a devastating crash on Friday after the fishplates of the train tracks came undone, ARY News reported.
The train had passed a railway crossing near the area of Muradshah where the fishplates of the track detached forcing the train to break into two partitions separating a few bogies from the engine.
The train driver showing presence of mind hit the emergency brakes in a timely manner saving it from disaster.
The train track is currently closed for commute as the crash site is being cordoned off for repair works and further probes to deduce reasons that lead to the fishplate detachment.
Sources privy to the railways revealed that due to the incident Sindh Express and Rehman Baba Express, both have been made to wait at Rohri junction till the track is cleared for operation.
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i guess India will have to get with the program and start welding the rail ends together like USA does nowadays.
An 18-year-old woman who was set on fire by a man she accused of rape dies at a hospital in a north Indian state, echoing a similar attack in the state earlier this month. https://t.co/5MShuaRvfM
[JP] In Alon Gur Arye’s new comedy, Mossad, which is opening throughout Israel on June 27 and is inspired by gag-filled American movies such as Airplane and Top Secret, all hell breaks loose – about every 30 seconds.
The chord bridge at the entrance to Jerusalem collapses on top of a man drinking coffee on the light rail. People are told that security has been breached at a reception but that they are under the protection of Israeli forces, and the guests all scream and run for cover, as the string quartet plays the theme from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho – one of the many movie references in the film.
The evil organization that kidnaps an American tech billionaire is called RBG, which stands for “really bad guys” – or could it be US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg? And when RBG kidnaps the befuddled, disgraced Mossad operative at the center of the story, Guy Moran (Tsahi Halevi, who is so handsome he looks like a special effect, but believably dim), along with a CIA agent, Linda Harris (Efrat Dor), the evil masterminds live-stream themselves to Mossad headquarters, threatening to behead their captives.
But after a moment, they’re shaking their heads in disbelief when the elderly Mossad head (Ilan Dar) demands to be sent a very 20th century videotape of the hostages holding newspapers. “Who can even find videotape anymore? Nobody reads a newspaper!” yell the bad guys.
These are just a tiny fraction of the jokes in Mossad and this broad, slapstick comedy is a dream come true for Gur Arye. He’s a quiet, sweet guy who everyone in the Tel Aviv cafe where we meet would probably guess is an engineer or a computer programmer, and not the director the film which is advertised on every bus and billboard all over Israel. They certainly wouldn’t guess that the soft-spoken Gur Arye would have managed to get two great directors – David Zucker (Airplane, the Naked Gun franchise) and Avi Nesher, the veteran Israeli director whose films all feature a great deal of humor – to be his mentors on the project.
“Everyone in Israel wants to do dramas,” said Gur Arye. “So I wanted to do spoofs, parodies. And I wanted to spoof something very Israeli.” Movie trailer at this link.
VATICAN CITY (AP) ‐ The Vatican office responsible for processing clergy sex abuse complaints has seen a record 1,000 cases reported from around the world this year, including from countries it had not heard from before ‐ suggesting that the worst may be yet to come in a crisis that has plagued the Catholic Church.
Nearly two decades after the Vatican assumed responsibility for reviewing all cases of abuse, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is today overwhelmed, struggling with a skeleton staff that hasn’t grown at pace to meet the four-fold increase in the number of cases arriving in 2019 compared to a decade ago.
"I know cloning is against Catholic teaching, but if I could actually clone my officials and have them work three shifts a day or work seven days a week," they might make the necessary headway, said Monsignor John Kennedy, the head of the congregation’s discipline section, which processes the cases.
"We’re effectively seeing a tsunami of cases at the moment, particularly from countries where we never heard from (before)," Kennedy said, referring to allegations of abuse that occurred for the most part years or decades ago. Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Italy and Poland have joined the U.S. among the countries with the most cases arriving at the congregation, known as the CDF.
Kennedy spoke to The Associated Press and allowed an AP photographer and video journalists into the CDF’s inner chambers -- the first time in the tribunal’s history that visual news media have been given access. Even the Vatican’s most secretive institution now feels the need to show some transparency as the church hierarchy seeks to rebuild trust with rank-and-file Catholics who have grown disillusioned with decades of clergy abuse and cover-up.
Pope Francis took a step towards showing greater transparency with his decision this week to abolish the so-called "pontifical secret" that governs the processing of abuse cases to increase cooperation with civil law enforcement.
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[UPI] Australian researchers are sounding the alarm over cases of a highly infectious intestinal illness that appear to be resistant to all forms of standard oral antibiotic treatment.
The disease is called shigellosis, a form of dysentery. So far, most cases have involved gay and bisexual men in the Australian state of Victoria, the researchers said.
[SpaceNews] Rhea Space Activity and Lunar Resources pitched to the Air Force a concept to deploy two spacecraft to manufacture a large mirror in space.
Rhea Space Activity (RSA) and its partner Lunar Resources pitched to the Air Force a concept to deploy two spacecraft to manufacture a large mirror in space. The mirror would be installed, in orbit, into a telescope that would be used to detect hypersonic vehicles.
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[CBS] Law enforcement officials have arrested a Virginia lawyer involved in litigation over the health risks of Monsanto's Roundup weed killer product, with prosecutors accusing him of trying to extort an unnamed company into a $200 million consulting fee with his legal firm.
Timothy Litzenburg, 37, was charged with interstate intentions to extort, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Tuesday. Litzenburg represented a former school groundskeeper win a $289 million lawsuit last year against agribusiness giant Monsanto over Roundup, which has been linked to cancer (The settlement was later reduced to $78 million.)
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.
[NYPOST] Fifteen horses ‐ some of them pregnant or very young ‐ appear to have been 
[MSN] An Ames man was sentenced Wednesday to about 16 years in prison after he set fire to a church's LGBTQ flag in June. 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
[JP] In Alon Gur Arye’s new comedy, Mossad, which is opening throughout Israel on June 27 and is inspired by gag-filled American movies such as Airplane and Top Secret, all hell breaks loose – about every 30 seconds.
