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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."

 

[SigSauer]

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https://jasonkessler.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/cvillecomplaintFINAL.pdf

Him and Matt Parrot filed the lawsuit.

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Who’s suing whom In advance of the two-year statute of limitations, a flurry of lawsuits have been filed stemming from the events of August 12, 2017, adding to several that are ongoing. Having a hard time keeping up with who’s a defendant and who’s a plaintiff? Here’s a primer: Sines v. Kessler...

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**Kessler v. City of Charlottesville**

>Kessler and David Parrott are suing City Manager Tarron Richardson, former police chief Al Thomas, Virginia State Police Lieutenant Becky Crannis-Curl, and former city manager Maurice Jones, claiming their First Amendment rights were violated. [kessler v. charlottesville](http://www.c-ville.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/kessler-v.-charlottesville.pdf)

Charlottesville Named in Lawsuit for Violating First Amendment

Two years post-Charlottesville, two leading organizers of the Unite the Right rally have filed suit against the city of Charlottesville and Virginia State Police. By John Friend Jason Kessler, a c…

americanfreepress.net

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

>that face
>suing over Charlottesville

This situation is going to get really autistic really fast.

 

[Clop]

Someone please straighten that man's tie, it's making my eye twitch.

 

[mindlessobserver]

>that face
>suing over Charlottesville

This situation is going to get really autistic really fast.

True, but he is not wrong, the whole thing was botched.. He is suing the wrong people though. Much of the fuck up was at the State level, and in particular, with the State Police that refused to deploy for crowd control early on and were instead kept in reserve so the Lietenant Governor could declare an emergency and then you have the State Police clear the park. Which they did by pushing the people in the park into the ANTIFA line, with the result being the two sides started fighting. There was no effort to seperate them. What they should have done was gotten both sides to disperse in opposite directions.

 

[Hux]

>that face
>suing over Charlottesville

This situation is going to get really autistic really fast.

This is Charlottesville we're talking about. That place is basically the Silent Hill for autistic tards as opposed to guilt ridden criminally deranged people

 

[neverendingmidi]

Instagram thot and her fuck buddy arrested in Iran after traveling there to:

"Our biggest motivation... is to hopefully inspire anyone wanting to travel, and also try to break the stigma around travelling to countries which get a bad wrap [sic] in the media," the pair wrote online.

 

[Smug Chuckler]

I dunno, he seems like a fed to me.

 

[QI 541]

True, but he is not wrong, the whole thing was botched.. He is suing the wrong people though. Much of the fuck up was at the State level, and in particular, with the State Police that refused to deploy for crowd control early on and were instead kept in reserve so the Lietenant Governor could declare an emergency and then you have the State Police clear the park. Which they did by pushing the people in the park into the ANTIFA line, with the result being the two sides started fighting. There was no effort to seperate them. What they should have done was gotten both sides to disperse in opposite directions.

To be fair getting ANTIFA and the neo-nazis to kill each other would have been a net positive for society.

 

[MuuMuu Bunnylips]

To be fair getting ANTIFA and the neo-nazis to kill each other would have been a net positive for society.

Yeah, but figuring out which was which would take forever.

 

[Hux]

Yeah, but figuring out which was which would take forever.

It wouldn't matter. Whoever would be left standing, you just go up and bash their brains out while they're still tuckered out from their tard fight and call it a day

 

[Unog]

I hope he wins, it's pretty fucked what they did to the people who showed up for UtR.

To be fair getting ANTIFA and the neo-nazis to kill each other would have been a net positive for society.

Yes, because it was totally a neo-nazi rally.

 

[Dynastier]

I hope he wins, it's pretty fucked what they did to the people who showed up for UtR.



Yes, because it was totally a neo-nazi rally.

Yeah, it was a neo nazi rally, with uniforms, seig-heiling, the whole kit'n'kaboodle. The brave antifa were outnumbered 70000 to 1. Then one nazi drove his tank over the line of protestors, and the rest of the nazis cheered. Trump went on TV and said "Goddamn do I love nazis! Kill some more, fellas!"
Also there was something about a flag? I dunno, probably not important, the big part was the nazis and tanks and the trump dropping bombs on the antifas to help the nazis.

 

[Rancid Flid]

This is what the NGO's are facilitating

Italian police arrest three men accused of torturing and raping migrants in hellish Libya camp

Three men who allegedly raped, tortured and murdered migrants in a hellish camp in Libya were arrested by the Italian authorities on Monday.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Italian police arrest three men accused of torturing and raping migrants in hellish Libya camp



16 SEPTEMBER 2019 • 4:17PM
Three men who allegedly raped, tortured and murdered migrants in a hellish camp in Libya were arrested by the Italian authorities on Monday.
The men – one from Guinea and two from Egypt – were reportedly recognised by other migrants in a reception centre in Messina in Sicily, having arrived in Italy on a migrant boat at the end of June.
The three, aged between 24 and 27, have been charged with several counts of murder and sexual violence and, for the first time under Italian law, the newly-introduced charge of torture.
They are accused of conducting a reign of terror in a detention centre in Zawiyah on the Libyan coast, where migrants were tortured to put pressure on their families back home to send more money to the traffickers, and women were routinely raped.
Hundreds of migrants and refugees were held in the centre, a former military base, from where they hoped to reach Italy or Malta by boat.
They were “subjected to systematic atrocities, including repeated and constant physical violence,” Italian police said in a statement.
The violence included being beaten with rifle butts, wooden poles, rubber hoses and whips and having electric shocks applied to body parts.

The camp was run by a Libyan man called Ossama, who was always armed with a pistol, migrants told investigators.

Migrants who could not raise enough cash for the onward journey to Europe were treated as sexual slaves or sold as labourers to other gangs, the Italian police said. Others were murdered.

“All the women who were among us, once we were locked up in the shed where they kept us, were systematically and repeatedly raped by two Libyans and three Nigerians who managed the place,” one migrant told police.
“You could not escape. We were locked inside. The Libyans and one of the Nigerians were armed with automatic weapons while the other two Nigerians had sticks.”
The migrants said they were given seawater to drink and stale bread to eat.
One migrant said he witnessed two others shot dead after they tried to escape. At least one migrant had died of hunger, witnesses said.
“We were all subjected to continual violence and torture until our families could send enough money for our liberation,” one survivor said.
The price of being allowed to leave the detention centre was 10,000 Libyan dinars – £5,700, a fortune to migrants fleeing poverty and unrest in sub-Saharan Africa and the Horn of Africa.

Luigi Patronaggio, a prosecutor in Sicily, said the abuses perpetrated in the camp amounted to “crimes against humanity.”
The investigation had “confirmed the inhumane conditions” endured by many migrants and “the need to act, at an international level, to protect their most basic human rights.”
Italy and the EU have collaborated with the Libyan coast guard to reduce the number of migrant boats trying to reach Europe.

As interior minister, Matteo Salvini declared Italy’s ports to be closed to NGO rescue boats, but the 14-month coalition of which he was a part collapsed last month.
It was replaced by a new coalition, an alliance between the centre-Left Democratic Party and the Five Star Movement, which human rights activists hope will be more sympathetic to the plight of asylum seekers.
Mr Salvini has warned there will be an angry backlash among Italians if the country starts letting in too many asylum seekers.

 

[break these cuffs]

This is what the NGO's are facilitating

It is Obama and Hillary's legacy.

 

[Rancid Flid]

It is Obama and Hillary's legacy.

And Tony Blair's, David Cameron's, the EU & Merkel's. Everybody who's interfered in the Middle East & North Africa really.

 

[break these cuffs]

Pittsburgh Doctor Claims Antonio Brown Repeatedly Farted In His Face, Owes Him $11,500

https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/201...repeatedly-farted-in-his-face-owes-him-11500/

Video linked in the article.

A Pittsburgh area doctor is the latest to file a lawsuit against former Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown.

Monroeville’s Dr. Victor Prisk has filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania claiming that Brown owes him $11,500 in unpaid fees.

Not only that, according to the NY Post, Dr. Prisk claims Brown repeatedly farted in his face and laughed about it during a consultation where he showed up three hours late.

Dr. Prisk said he was wary of signing Brown because of his “flighty” reputation for not paying his bills, Sports Illustrated reported.

TMZ even obtained video of the appointment in August of 2018 where Brown can be heard farting and laughing about it as Prisk tests his body fat.

“It seemed just childish to me,” Prisk told Sports Illustrated. “I’m a doctor and this man is farting in my face.”

Prisk runs Prisk Orthopaedics and Wellness in Monroeville, he filed the suit earlier this month.

The new allegations are part of a Sports Illustrated report in which another woman accused Brown of sexual misconduct in 2017 in Pittsburgh.

The first accusation came days after the wide receiver was released from the Oakland Raiders and signed with the New England Patriots hours later.

His former trainer filed a federal lawsuit against Brown, accusing him of three separate accounts of sexual assault and rape.

Now, the Sports Illustrated report details the story of an anonymous woman who claims she was hired by Brown to paint a mural of him in his Pittsburgh home.

According to the report, Brown flirted with her and made her uncomfortable before the atmosphere “curdled.”

The woman told Sports Illustrated that she was kneeling and painting when she turned to find Brown standing behind her “naked, holding a small hand towel over his genitals.”

 

[ES 195]

I was going to make a thread on this but after reading up what a "RCMP Civilian Officer" I'm a little underwhelmed.

Basically he was a civilian who worked on cyber security and other computer related things for the RCMP.

Who is Cameron Ortis and what has the RCMP accused him of? A guide to…

archived 16 Sep 2019 17:20:33 UTC

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ortis-rcmp-drugs-security-phantom-se…

archived 18 Sep 2019 01:01:13 UTC

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The investigation into top RCMP civilian official Cameron Ortis began with a shadowy, multimillion-dollar Vancouver-based company run by Canadians that sold encrypted cellphones to drug traffickers and money launderers around the world.
The key figures behind Phantom Secure Communications even used modified versions of Canada's iconic Blackberry devices to help their international criminal clientele evade police.

Security documents seen by CBC News say an FBI investigation in 2018 found Ortis had emailed Ramos. It is alleged that Ortis contacted Ramos to offer him "valuable" information.

The RCMP’s allegations centre on Mr. Ortis’s activities from 2015 to 2019. According to a senior government official who spoke with The Globe, the Mounties suspected a security breach last March after one of their internal documents was found on a laptop belonging to Vincent Ramos, a Vancouver businessman arrested and convicted in the United States for his company’s sale of encrypted phones to organized criminal groups. The laptop discovery triggered an internal RCMP probe, dubbed “Project Ace,” that turned its attention to Mr. Ortis in May of 2019 and was authorized to search his home a few months later, the official said.

Ramos pleaded guilty in an American court to racketeering conspiracy and was sentenced in May to nine years in prison.
Four of his associates, Canadians Younes Nasri, Michael Gamboa and Christopher Poquiz, and Kim Rodd, who has joint Australian-Thai citizenship, are still being sought by American authorities.
The conviction followed a joint investigation by the FBI, the Australian Federal Police and the RCMP that carried out 25 searches in the United States, Australia and Canada.
Police estimate the group made more than $80 million providing international criminals with secure communications systems between 2008 and 2018.

Here are the specific laws the RCMP has used to charge Mr. Ortis:

• Security of Information Act, Section 14(1): This makes it a crime for people bound to secrecy to share “special operational information.” As defined in the law, that can mean details about anything from military plans to the identity of confidential intelligence sources or Canadian encryption and cyberespionage methods. Punishment: Up to 14 years in prison.
• Security of Information Act, Sections 22(1)(b) and 22(1)(e): These sections relate to things the accused may have done to prepare to do something illegal under the act. Subsection (b) is about “obtaining, retaining or gaining access” to information; subsection (e) is about “possessing any device, apparatus or software” that could hide ill-gotten information or communicate it surreptitiously. Punishment: Up to two years in prison.
• Criminal Code, Section 122: This makes it illegal for officials to commit fraud or a breach of trust in connection with their duties. Punishment: Up to five years in prison.
• Criminal Code, Section 342.1(1): This is the part of the Criminal Code dealing with unauthorized use of computers, including the illicit sharing of data or passwords. Punishment: Up to 10 years in prison.

On the election campaign trail, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau tried to reassure allied nations that their secrets are still safe with Canada. “We are in direct communications with our allies on security, not only the Five Eyes group,” Mr. Trudeau said on a Sept. 17 visit to St. John’s. “We are also working with them to reassure them, but we want to ensure that everyone understands that we are taking this situation very seriously.”

So some guy who was really in-the-know of RCMP matters decides to get in contact with a shady-as-fuck CEO and sell classified information to help said shady businessman sneak around Canadian cyber-security with his his illegal Blackberry app.

 

[AnOminous]

So some guy who was really in-the-know of RCMP matters decides to get in contact with a shady-as-fuck CEO and sell classified information to help said shady businessman sneak around Canadian cyber-security with his his illegal Blackberry app.

If you're a Canadian organized criminal, isn't it kind of embarrassing if you're talking to your criminal contacts in other international crime bodies? Like if you're talking to some bunch of Zetas and they have these cool Nextels connected to their own awesome Zeta-owned cell phone network built by kidnapped phone techs they murder after they install the towers, and you have some gay Blackberry from the 2000s?

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

A Florida couple was arrested on DUI charges. Then they had sex in the back of a police car

A Florida couple was arrested on DUI charges. Then they had sex in the back of a police car
A Florida couple is facing multiple charges after they started having sex in the back of a police car — after they were already under arrest on DUI charges.
A Nassau County Sheriff's Office deputy saw Megan Mondanaro, 35, and Aaron Seth Thomas, 31, riding bikes without lights on around 11:30 p.m. Friday in Fernandina Beach, according to arrest reports obtained by USA TODAY.
Both riders cut into the middle of the road and were nearly hit by a car, which led the deputy to conduct a traffic stop, according to the report.

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In the report, the deputy said he "detected a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage emitting from both of them." The deputy also noted Mondanaro and Thomas both had bloodshot and watery eyes and were slurring their words.
Things got strange after both Thomas and Mondanaro were arrested on DUI charges and placed in the back of the deputy's patrol car.
(From left) Megan Mondanaro, 35, and Aaron Thomas, 31.
Police: Man accused of trying to steal a pedal boat shaped like a dragon
"While I was outside my patrol vehicle, Megan and Aaron took their clothes off and started to have sex," the arresting deputy said in the arrest report.
"When I opened up the door to stop them, Aaron was naked and Megan had her pants down where her vaginal area was visible. I also observed her bra was halfway off and her breasts were fully visible."
Thomas was removed from the patrol car and managed to get away from another deputy at the scene before he was apprehended behind a Cold Stone Creamery, according to the report. He was taken to a hospital for treatment before being sent to the Nassau County Detention Center.
'Chaos and commotion': Man started rumor of mass shooting to avoid going to county fair with parents, police say
A search of Thomas' backpack turned up seven full cans of the alcoholic malt beverage Four Loko and one empty can, according to the report.
Mondanaro "became violent and started kicking at" another deputy while being moved to another car, according to the report, which added Mondanaro was "placed on the ground" to stop her from hurting anyone.

Like Thomas, she was taken to the hospital for treatment before going to the Nassau County Detention Center.
Both Thomas and Mondanaro were given breathalyzers while at the jail. Mondanaro blew a .062 and a .066; Thomas blew a .145 and a .146.
"It should be noted that the time delay from the stop to the breath test was three hours and 21 minutes," the deputy wrote.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Florida man, woman caught having sex in police car after DUI arrests

A Florida couple was arrested on DUI charges. Then they had sex in the back of a police car

Aaron Thomas, 31, and Megan Mondanaro, 35, were arrested in Florida after they had sex in the back of a patrol car, according to police.

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A Florida couple was arrested on DUI charges. Then they had sex in th…

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Great, now we’re going to have Florida Jr..

 

[MechanicusAdmin]

UFO videos are real, says US military but public never meant to see them

The US Navy has officially admitted that UFOs are real and have penetrated American skies.
The acknowledgement by navy chiefs comes after The New York Times reported how pilots noticed mysterious objects during training exercises over the US between 2004 and 2015.
Now the US Navy has officially stated that three UFO videos made public are images of real "unknown" objects flying over the US.
In a statement given to The Black Vault intelligence website, Josephy Gradisher, a spokesperson for the deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare, said that "the Navy considers the phenomena contained/depicted in those 3 videos as unidentified".
The mysterious objects were shown in footage taken from US Navy jets in 2004 and 2015 over restricted military training airspaces.
Gradisher also said the videos were never cleared for public release.
In vision of one incident recorded by pilots flying fly F/A-18 Super Hornet fighters while performing training manoeuvres between Virginia and Florida, the silhouette of a strangely-elongated object was caught in one of the jets' cameras.
The pilots recorded the shapes flying over the ocean at high speed, suddenly stopping and rotating mid-air.
"These things would be out there all day," US Navy pilot Lieutenant Ryan Graves told The New York Times.
The US Navy's statement acknowledges that the grainy images are real. The airborne objects have yet to be identified as any known type of aircraft.
It marks a dramatic shift by the US military. Never before has a branch of the armed services declared a picture or video of an object is a true unknown or unidentified aerial object.
But UFO fans shouldn't get too excited. While the US Navy has now acknowledge the images were real, it said nothing about whether they were alien.

By Richard Wood
12:28pm Sep 18, 2019
© Nine Digital Pty Ltd 2019

https://www.9news.com.au/world/us-n...are-real/c9ffaa46-ba1a-466f-bced-27707c4d5d58

Old video linked in article.

Thought this was old news but it popped up again today.