Report: Pair of Ohio State football players charged with rape, kidnapping

A pair of Ohio State football players were charged with first-degree rape and kidnapping after an alleged incident at their apartment last week, according to the Columbus Dispatch.

Cornerback Amir Riep, 21, and safety Jahsen Wint, 21, were charged on Tuesday in Franklin County Municipal Court in Ohio. Warrants have been issued for their arrests. An Ohio State spokesman confirmed that they are aware of the charges and arrests, and said that the two have been suspended from all team activities.

Per the report, the victim was hanging out at Riep’s apartment that he shares with Wint on Feb. 4 when they began having consensual sex. The woman then reportedly stopped and told Riep that she wanted to be done, which is when Wint allegedly walked into the room and asked if he could join.

Wint then allegedly “grabbed the woman by the neck and forced her onto her hands and knees and then raped her,” while Riep allegedly “held her in place by the hips and with his body while Wint forced oral sex,” per the Columbus Dispatch.

Several minutes later, Riep allegedly filmed the victim and told her that she needed to say the sex was consensual on camera and was “laughing at her” while he did it. He then drove her home.

Riep recorded 20 total tackles and had two interceptions last season, his third with the program. The Cincinnati native has appeared in 37 games in his career. Wint recorded nine tackles and one sack in six games. The Brooklyn, New York, native has appeared in 35 total games.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/ohio-state-football-amir-riep-jahsen-wint-arrested-charged-rape-kidnapping-050902302.html

Ex-Soldier Convinced Lover to Kill His Wife, and Killer Asked Victim for Forgiveness During Stabbing

A 40-year-old former Army medic who convinced his lover to stab his wife to death will serve 35 years in prison for his role in the 2014 killing.

Local news outlets report that Michael Walker was sentenced Monday — nearly five months after pleading guilty to the second-degree murder of his wife, Catherine Walker, 38.

Also on Monday, Ailsa Jackson, 29, Walker’s lover and his wife’s killer, was sentenced to 30 years in prison, reports KHQ-TV.

According to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Walker and Jackson were having an affair in 2014. Investigators said Walker talked Jackson into stabbing his wife to death, and made sure the killing occurred while he was working at the emergency room at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu.

In 2015, after being apprehended in Indiana, Jackson pleaded guilty to murder.

She told police she stabbed Catherine Walker in the couple’s home, and then waited 30 minutes, making sure she was dead before leaving the crime scene.

Jackson avoided a mandatory life sentence by helping prosecutors secure an indictment against Walker, according to West Hawaii Today.

On Monday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Brady said that, during the murder, Jackson asked the victim for forgiveness. As the stabbing was unfolding, Walker told Jackson she did forgive her.

U.S. District Judge Susan Oki Mollway said Monday she sentenced Walker to a longer prison term than Jackson because he was behind the planning of the murder.

“Ms. Jackson wielded the knife that killed your wife,” Mollway said, KHQ-TV reports. “And that was a terrible, terrible deed. But it does appear to me that you were in control. That she did what she did because you wanted her to. And you knew she had mental health problems.”

Authorities alleged that Walker told Jackson he was financially unable to divorce his wife, and that he would receive $400,000 in life insurance payouts if he died.

Walker and Jackson, according to authorities, used special text-messaged codes to communicate during the killing.

On Monday, Walker apologized to his wife’s family in court.

“I love Cathy very much and I would do anything if it could bring her back,” he said.

A military court found Walker guilty of child pornography charges in 2016. Investigators uncovered the child pornography during the murder investigation.

Then, in 2017, Walker was convicted of sexually abusing, physically assaulting and wrongfully communicating a threat to a young boy.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ex-soldier-convinced-lover-kill-164840104.html

Ex-Labor Secretary Exposes The Truth Behind One Of Donald Trump’s ‘Biggest Whoppers’

Robert Reich in a new video breaks down how President Donald Trump has failed to deliver on one of his big 2016 campaign promises — to “drain the swamp” by eliminating government corruption.

It “seems like forever ago” that Trump made the vow, the former labor secretary in President Bill Clinton’s administration says in the four-minute explainer that he posted online Tuesday.

“It turns out that was one of the biggest whoppers in modern American politics,” continues Reich, who has become a fierce critic of the Trump administration.

He then notes five ways Trump has “made the swamp even swampier” — from packing his administration with former lobbyists and corporate executives to catering to megadonors and industry titans instead of the American people.

(Link has video) https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/robert-reich-donald-trump-swamp-090959901.html

>>8112129

For those following "DOG" messages, Late Spartacus actors DIL proudly posts "New Puppy"

Catherine Zeta-Jones Introduces New Puppy Named Taylor After Father-in-Law's Passing

There’s a new addition to Catherine Zeta-Jones‘ family!

The actress, 50, announced on Monday that she has welcomed a new puppy into her home, sharing the dog’s name along with a video montage of the pooch on Instagram.

“Introducing Taylor Douglas to the world,” she captioned the clip, which features the cute canine doing various activities — including sleeping in his bed and playing fetch — set to the tune of “The Teddy Bear’s Picnic.”

In a separate comment, the Oscar winner confirmed that Taylor is a maltipoo — a crossbreed between a maltese and a toy poodle.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/catherine-zeta-jones-introduces-puppy-010910891.html

US claims Huawei can secretly access carrier backdoors

The US has been trying to persuade its allies to ditch Huawei for a while, but it has been curiously shy about providing evidence to support its case. However, some of that evidence appears to be coming to light – although it's still not certain there's a real threat. Officials talking to the Wall Street Journal have claimed that Huawei can "covertly" access phone networks worldwide using backdoors meant for law enforcement. While manufacturers are often required to design their gear in a way that prevents them from gaining access without a carrier's permission, Huawei supposedly maintains that access without the carriers being any the wiser.

Huawei is unique in having this kind of access and doesn't tell national security agencies, one unnamed official said. The US apparently didn't start sharing these claims until late 2019, having changed its mind after previously insisting that it didn't need to provide tangible evidence. It partly declassified some of those assertions, but those weren't public knowledge until now.

Unsurprisingly, Huawei has rejected these latest claims. In a response to the WSJ, it said it "has never and will never do" anything to jeopardize its customers. One official added that law enforcement backdoors were "strictly regulated" and could only be used by certified carrier staff. Huawei workers need "explicit approval," the official said, further asserting that any attempts to use those backdoors would easily be caught.

While this sheds more light on just why the US has been pressuring countries into abandoning Huawei, this won't necessarily convince everyone. There doesn't appear to be evidence that Huawei has used this capability, including on the networks of wireless giants like Vodafone. There are also questions as to whether or not this is as nefarious as the US has implied. Vodafone found vulnerabilities in Huawei routers in 2009, but it rejected Bloomberg claims that these were backdoors meant to enable spying – they were just commonplace telnet functions that weren't closed properly. Without more evidence, it's hard to know if the US is presenting definitive proof or exaggerating the threat.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/2020-02-11-us-claims-huawei-can-access-carrier-backdoors.html

Funny how Corona is unleashed as the closer we get to Huawei tech being exposed.

The White House will reportedly dismiss another official over role in impeachment investigation

The New York Post reported Tuesday that Elaine McCusker, the acting Pentagon comptroller, will have her nomination for the permanent position rescinded by the White House. And, surprise, it has to do with Ukraine.

In January, emails sent from McCusker questioning President Trump's directive to freeze about $250 million in Ukrainian military aid were leaked just before the president's Senate impeachment trial. Those communications clearly didn't sit well with the administration. "This administration needs people who are committed to implementing the president's agenda, specifically on foreign policy, and not trying to thwart it," a White House official told the Post.

It's not clear when the nomination will be officially withdrawn, or if the decision will affect her acting role in the meantime, but it looks as if McCusker will eventually join Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who had served on the National Security Council, and former Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, both of whom were removed from their posts after they provided some of the more damaging testimony during the House impeachment inquiry. The White House said their ousters weren't related to their testimonies.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-reportedly-dismiss-another-190700921.html

China is a threat to democratic values, not just an important business partner, George Soros writes

MUNICH, Germany (Project Syndicate) — Neither the European public nor European political and business leaders fully understand the threat presented by Xi Jinping’s China.

Although Xi is a dictator who is using cutting-edge technology in an effort to impose total control on Chinese society, Europeans regard China primarily as an important business partner. They fail to appreciate that since Xi became president and general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), he has established a regime whose guiding principles are diametrically opposed to the values on which the European Union was founded.

The rush to embrace Xi is greater in Britain, which is in the process of separating itself from the EU, than in the EU itself. Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to distance the United Kingdom from the EU as much as possible and to build a free-market economy that is unconstrained by EU regulations. He is unlikely to succeed, because the EU is prepared to take countermeasures against the type of deregulation that Johnson’s government seems to have in mind.

But in the meantime, Britain is eyeing China as a potential partner, in the hope of re-establishing the partnership that former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne was building between 2010 and 2016.

U.S. knows better

The Trump administration, as distinct from President Donald Trump personally, has done much better in managing its ties with China. It developed a bipartisan U.S. policy that declared China to be a strategic rival and put tech giant Huawei and several other Chinese companies on the so-called Entity List, which forbids U.S. companies to trade with them without government permission.

Only one person can violate this rule with impunity: Trump himself. Unfortunately, he appears to be doing just that by putting Huawei on the bargaining table with Xi.

Read More https://www.marketwatch.com/story/europe-must-recognize-china-for-what-it-is-2020-02-11

>>8112444

Lets revisit the Pence Ryan email chain.

https://steemit.com/treason/@artistiquejewels/the-paul-ryan-mike-pence-assassination-coup-email-chain-says-it-all-why-would-they-risk-hijacking-a-national-presidential