PEDO BUN 5 October 22

Anti-human trafficking unit in McLennan County arrests 12 during latest sting

Some of the suspects were reportedly looking to pay for sex, including three who allegedly solicited from a minor. Five other individuals were allegedly in possession of child pornography.

https://www.kwtx.com/2022/10/05/anti-human-trafficking-unit-mclennan-county-arrests-12-during-latest-sting/

Pittsburgh Man Pleads Guilty to Child Sexual Exploitation Charges

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdpa/pr/pittsburgh-man-pleads-guilty-child-sexual-exploitation-charges-2

Federal jury convicts man for production of child pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nm/pr/federal-jury-convicts-man-production-child-pornography

Las Vegas Resident Sentenced To Over Seven Years In Prison For Attempting To Solicit Child For Sex

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/las-vegas-resident-sentenced-over-seven-years-prison-attempting-solicit-child-sex

Steinhatchee Church Deacon Convicted Of Production Of Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndfl/pr/steinhatchee-church-deacon-convicted-production-child-pornography

Freedom, PA Man Charged with Attempted Sex Trafficking of a Child and Receiving Images of a Minor Engaging Sexually Explicit Conduct

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdpa/pr/freedom-pa-man-charged-attempted-sex-trafficking-child-and-receiving-images-minor

Zionsville Firefighter Paramedic Sentenced to 8 Years in Federal Prison for Distributing and Possessing Child Sex Abuse Material

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdin/pr/zionsville-firefighter-paramedic-sentenced-8-years-federal-prison-distributing-and

Duo charged in Bristol, Va. child sex crime investigation

https://www.wjhl.com/news/crime/duo-charged-in-bristol-va-child-sex-crime-investigation/

Shreveport Attorney Re-Arrested for Child Sex Abuse Images

https://710keel.com/shreveport-child-abuse-images-3/

LSU Foundation employee arrested after disturbing online messages led to child porn bust

https://www.wbrz.com/news/lsu-foundation-staff-member-arrested-in-child-porn-bust/

Pensacola sex offender arrested for child porn found at Spanish Trail Road home

https://www.pnj.com/story/news/crime/2022/10/05/fdle-arrests-gary-alan-grimm-child-pornography-charges/8187610001/

Man busted trying to smuggle girls into Texas from Mexico

https://www.cbsnews.com/dfw/news/human-smuggler-busted-texas-mexico-border/

Middle Georgia Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Producing Child Sexual Assault Material

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdga/pr/middle-georgia-man-sentenced-30-years-prison-producing-child-sexual-assault-material

White Earth Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Assaulting a Child

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/white-earth-man-sentenced-10-years-prison-assaulting-child

HSI McAllen, federal partner investigation results in the 15 year sentencing of a repeat child sex offender

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/hsi-mcallen-federal-partner-investigation-results-15-year-sentencing-repeat-child-sex

They didn’t know, really? Pursue top brass over alleged war crimes in Afghanistan, says veteran

“The ‘we didn’t know’ narrative has always been ridiculous.” The Army’s top brass must be held accountable for Afghan war crimes rather than soldiers way down the chain of command, writes army veteran and retired officer, Stuart McCarthy.

Given this government’s decision not to prosecute anyone more senior than patrol commander, the most appropriate judicial authority for command responsibility proceedings is now the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

During Langford’s tenure as commanding officer, Australian special forces were tasked to track down rogue Afghan army soldier Hekmatullah, who murdered three Australian soldiers in an insider attack in Uruzgan province on 29 August 2012.

Enter Defence Minister Stephen Smith

The results of a raid at Sola village two days later were publicly announced by then Defence Minister Stephen Smith. As many as 140 Australian and Afghan troops participated in the mission, which detained 12 Afghan suspects. While 11 of these were soon released, the remaining detainee was, according to Smith, “regarded not just as a leader of the insurgency in Uruzgan province but a person who has also sought to or actually assisted Hekmatullah in his escape.”

Within days, Afghan President Hamid Karzai publicly criticised the unilateral nature of the raid and the killings of Afghan civilians Abdul Jalil and Haji Raz Mohammad. Smith responded that Karzai was “wrong,” claiming the mission was authorised by Uruzgan provincial officials under an agreement between the two national governments. A spokesman for Karzai challenged Smith to produce documentary evidence of the provincial level approval, to no avail.

Six months earlier, several coalition nations had made published agreements with the Karzai government regarding the conduct of special operations. Intended to reduce the risk of civilian casualties, these emphasised the primacy of Afghan law and mandated prior Afghan authorisation for any special forces raid. Neither the Australian-Afghan bilateral agreement nor the specific approval for the Sola raid are publicly available.

Another raid proceeded two weeks later at Darwan village, where intelligence reports suggested Hekmatullah was in hiding. The alleged murder of Afghan civilian Ali Jan during this mission has also been the subject of intense public scrutiny for years.

Hekmatullah was ultimately apprehended in Pakistan, then found guilty of murder in the Afghan criminal courts. Questions over the lawfulness of the orders and rules of engagement made by Australian officials senior to Langford can only be properly answered in criminal proceedings.

Given this government’s decision not to prosecute anyone more senior than patrol commander, the most appropriate judicial authority for command responsibility proceedings is now the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

No accountability for high command

The Brereton administrative inquiry’s finding that accountability for these alleged crimes does not extend to higher Australian commanders “because they did not have a sufficient degree of command and control” is laughable. Rules of engagement, government-to-government agreements and other directions governing these raids were formulated by senior Australian officials and deliberated in Cabinet.

Australian and international laws pertaining to command responsibility apply where commanders should have known, failed to take preventative measures, or failed to exercise proper control over their subordinates.

The Sola and Darwan incidents, among others, were the direct result of demonstrable recklessness or negligence by senior defence officials, who cannot be exonerated from criminal liability by the findings of a farcical administrative inquiry. If the government remains unwilling to prosecute these cases under Australian criminal law, then the only remaining course of action will be to send them to The Hague.

https://michaelwest.com.au/they-didnt-know-really-pursue-top-brass-over-alleged-war-crimes-in-afghanistan-says-veteran/

The federal government has released planned changes to telecommunications laws following the Optus data breach, which affected nearly 10 million customers and former customers.

Key points:

The government will change regulations to allow Optus to temporarily share sensitive data

Optus will be able to share affected passport, driver licence and Medicare data with banks and other agencies

The changes will help banks and agencies to detect and prevent fraud

Changes to telecommunications regulations will allow drivers licences and Medicare and passport numbers to be temporarily shared with financial services so they can implement enhanced monitoring for people affected by the Optus breach.

Optus will also be able to share that information with Commonwealth and state and territory agencies to assist in fraud detection.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the changes would help make customers affected by the breach safer.

"Financial institutions can play an important role in targeting their efforts towards protecting customers at greatest risk of fraudulent activity and scams in the wake of the recent Optus breach," Mr Chalmers said.

"These new measures will assist in protecting customers from scams, and in system-wide fraud detection."

Financial institutions will have to make several undertakings in order to receive the data, including to destroy the information when it is no longer required and to honour privacy obligations.

Institutions will only be able to use the data to help protect consumers from fraud as a consequence of the hack.

How to replace your passport after the Optus breach

Did you get a message from Optus about your identification documents being exposed in the cyber attack? Here's what you need to know about replacing them.

IMG_4968

Read more

The government has also asked the Council of Financial Regulators to examine and report on options to further strengthen the ability for banks and other institutions to identify at-risk customers.

Mr Chalmers and Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said financial institutions had been proactive in the breach — though the government has previously criticised elements of the Optus response, including a delay in notifying that Medicare numbers had also been caught up in the hack.

Ms Rowland said the changes were designed to maintain the privacy and security of sensitive data.

"The proposed regulations have been carefully designed with strong privacy and security safeguards to ensure that only limited information can be made available for designated purposes," she said.

The new regulations will be in place for 12 months.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-06/optus-given-power-to-share-data-with-banks-following-breach/101507396

>>17635880

>https://toresays.com/2022/10/05/op-ed-chinese-company-konnech-funded-by-dod/

>>17635880

>>17635917

Would create a strong argument for that

>>17635927

spot on

Brazil: Socialist Lula Disavows Support from Satanic Sorcerers, Says He’s Never Made a Deal with the Devil

Socialist ex-president of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s team has launched a campaign insisting that the presidential frontrunner is a Christian and has not made any deals with Satan following the widespread sharing of social media videos appearing to show Satanists casting spells to win him this month’s election.

Lula’s team reportedly asked the nation’s top court, the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), on Tuesday to censor any content linking the candidate to Satan.

Simultaneously, current Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a conservative Christian whose family is both Evangelical and Catholic, is denying his own accusations of devil worship following the resurgence of a video in which, in 2017, Bolsonaro addressed a Masonic lodge.

Bolsonaro and Lula are caught in a tight race for the presidency, to be decided in an election on October 30. In the first round of voting on Sunday, Lula, who served as president between 2003 and 2011, received 48 percent of the vote, the most of any candidate. In Brazil, to win the presidency with one round of voting, a candidate must receive over 50 percent of the vote. Since Lula did not meet that requirement, he will appear on a ballot with only one other candidate: Bolsonaro, who received 43 percent of the vote.

The results of Sunday’s election shocked the Brazilian left, which expected Lula to defeat Bolsonaro by as many as 14 points. Polls published days before voting suggested that Lula could receive 51 percent of the vote, ending the election and becoming president again. In reality, the five-percent difference between the two candidates leaves the next round of voting open for either candidate to win, as the third and fourth place candidates received seven percent of the votes combined.

According to CNN Brasil, videos began circulating on the Chinese platform Tiktok this week in which an individual who identified as a satanist expressed support for Lula da Silva’s presidential campaign. That initial video followed the publication of other social media posts and chatter shared by Bolsonaro supporters and those close to his campaign. Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, the president’s son, shared one video on Twitter that appeared to show a witchcraft ritual to aid Lula, whose original poster shared with the caption, “satanists are in desperation mode.”

According to CNN, attorneys associated with the coalition supporting Lula’s Workers’ Party (PT) have formally requested the STF censor publications associating Lula with Satan worship, claiming they are “fake news.” The attorneys are particularly contesting a video in which an alleged satanist appears to support Lula on the grounds that, in a separate video on Tiktok, the same individual appears to criticize the candidate.

The STF has been highly favorable to Lula, who appointed three of the 11 sitting justices, in the months and years preceding the election. The STF’s intervention is the only reason Lula is allowed to legally run for president, as he was convicted of using taxpayers’ dollars to buy a luxury property during his presidency in 2017. Last year, the STF overturned the conviction on the grounds that the judge presiding over the case, Sergio Moro, was biased. Moro won a congressional seat for his state, Paraná, on Sunday and has since endorsed Bolsonaro.

In yet another religious controversy, conservatives online condemned Lula for remarks in 2016 in which he compared himself to Jesus.

“I am speaking as an outraged citizen. I have a known public history. Only Jesus Christ can beat me in Brazil,” Lula said at the time, vowing to run for president again despite being charged with criminal corrupt behavior.

Brazilian outlets have defended Lula by claiming that detractors are now saying that Lula claimed he could defeat Jesus in a Brazilian election, when in reality he claimed Jesus is the only candidate that may stand a chance.

The Lula campaign has separately flooded social media with a barrage of content affirming the former president’s Christianity.

“Lula believes in God and is Christian. Lula does not have a pact and has never had a conversation with the devil,” a post on Instagram by the account “Lula for Truth,” run by the campaign, asserted.

https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2022/10/05/brazil-socialist-lula-disavows-support-from-satanic-sorcerers-says-hes-never-made-a-deal-with-the-devil/

Did The Fbi Raid Trump To Find Paperwork Exposing Who Did 911?

https://youtu.be/GkoyTb_4Q20

Urgent tornado warning is issued for Victoria and NSW - plus massive hailstones and heavy rains - as Australia's east coast is smashed by an 'enormous' rain bomb

A tornadic supercell is forecast to hit northwest Victoria on Thursday afternoon

The wild weather is expected to bring massive hailstones and dangerous winds

Three separate heavy rain weather systems will focus over NSW and Victoria

People living near at-capacity catchments were warned to monitor for flooding

Residents of Victoria and New South Wales have been warned to brace for a potential tornado threat - as Australia's east coast is swamped by rain.

Sky News meteorologist Alison Osborne said towns in the northwest of Victoria are at risk of a 'tornadic supercell' system on Thursday afternoon.

Echuca, Swan Hill and Mildura are at risk and the dangerous weather system could also extend into southern NSW.

'There is the risk of tornadic supercells, that means large hailstones, damaging wind gusts and isolated heavy rainfall,' Ms Osborne said.

'That storm threat will rapidly ease into the early hours of (Friday) morning. It becomes less intense but more broad.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11285585/Urgent-tornado-warning-issued-Victoria-New-South-Wales.html

California lawyer: Grassroots effort nixed bill to allow teens to get COVID shot without parents' OK

The Democrat state senator who sponsored the bill pulled it from getting a final vote when it became clear he was 41 votes short.

California civil rights attorney Nicole Pearson says the effort to defeat a Democrat-sponsored state bill that if passed would have allowed teens to get a COVID-19 vaccine without parental permission was a sprawling, grassroots effort that included everyone from parents to teacher to local government officials.

"This was a statewide effort," Pearson said Tuesday on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "It took a coalition of many organizations, not just lawyers. We're talking about grassroots, activists, educational leaders, and working with representatives and local governments."

The measure, formally known as Senate Bill 866, was sponsored by Sen. Scott Weiner, whose district includes San Francisco and parts of San Mateo County.

Weiner pulled the pull from getting a final vote last month, in the closing days of the state's most recent legislative session, when it became clear he didn't have enough votes for passage.

“While the votes are very close, we are several votes short of 41, and we don’t see a viable path for those final few votes," he said. "Months of harassment and misinformation – including death threats against me and teen advocates – by a small but highly vocal and organized minority of anti-vaxxers have taken their toll."

A California resident last month was found guilty of threatening Weiner's life apparently over the bill.

If the bill had passed, residents as young as 15 would have been allowed to get vaccinated, including against COVID-19, without parent permission. The measure originally called for those as young as 12 to get vaccinated without permission but was changed in the face of strong opposition

Democrats who opposed the bill were concerned about excluding parents from making medical decisions for their children.

Pearson on Tuesday also offered advice on citizen on how to defeat such bills.

"You need to start looking at your local governments, your local communities and those boards of supervisors," she said.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/nicole-pearson-becomes-one-woman-watchdog-california-gov-newsom