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The 35-minute audio recording, as described in a Maryland courtroom Thursday, was horrifying.

“Hold her down,” a young man said.

The voice belonged to Cecil Burrows, 23, who was sentenced to 18 months in jail for his role in what prosecutors described as a gang rape of a nearly comatose woman in a townhouse in the Montgomery County community of Olney. Burrows not only recorded the rape, he called out instructions.

“Cecil, he like a coach,” one of the attackers could be heard saying.

Authorities have said the victim was probably drunk or drugged during the assault.

The sentencing of Burrows concludes a case that stretched over four years. It involved a once-menacing gang named Little R and at least two members who turned on each other. On Thursday, the backstory of Burrows’s life also emerged. He was born in Mumbai. When he was 4, his mother emigrated for the United States, leaving Burrows in India. He moved in with his grandparents, then with relatives who lived in a slum, according to his attorney. He came to Montgomery County when he was 12 and joined a gang.

“I felt a sense of love, connection and belonging in a way I never felt before,” Burrows said in court Thursday. “I also knew that to challenge them was to risk getting kicked out violently.”

In handing down the 18-month sentence, Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Sharon Burrell was effectively imposing a term of three years and two months. That’s because Burrows had been in jail for 617 days since his arrest and agreed to forego being credited for that time at sentencing.

At slightly more than three years, though, the sentence for a second-degree sex offense was less than prosecutors sought. Assistant State’s Attorney Patrick Mays asked for closer to 13 years, which was the maximum under an earlier plea deal he’d reached with Burrows’s attorney.

Mays said Burrows seemed to enjoy recording and coaching the assault. “Make no mistake about it, it was funny for him,” he said. “It was fun for him.”

Arguing for the longer sentence, Mays said, “This is about punishment. This is about incapacitation, taking a dangerous person out of circulation for as much time as possible.”

The judge had previous experience with Burrows, sparing him jail time in a 2011 theft case. On Thursday, before issuing the new sentence, Burrell indicated she wanted to make it in line with the punishments handed to others in the case.

The 2012 sexual assault case may never have come to light were it not for one of the Little R gang members showing a co-worker a “funny” video on his cellphone. The video appeared to show three men having sex with a woman who was “out of it,” the co-worker later told authorities.

Detectives obtained the phone and found the graphic video on it. Their investigation concluded a sexual assault had taken place in the townhouse where Burrows lived. Burrows told them he was out getting beer and not home during the assault, according to court records.

Burrows later testified at the trial of Andres Cortez, saying Cortez had been at his home on the night of the assault. Cortez was convicted in the assault. On July 3, 2014, a Montgomery County detective visited Cortez in Maryland state prison.

“Let me tell you about Mr. Burrows,” Cortez told the detective, according to a description of the conversation by prosecutors.

Cortez specifically said Burrows was home during the assault and recorded it.

That left police investigating their witness.

They searched Burrows’s home, seized a computer and found the recording. There was no video — only audio — apparently because participants thought that would be less risky to them.

The words alone, though, were incriminating.

“On the recording,” detectives wrote in court papers, “a female can be heard crying out and asking for them to stop. . . . About six minutes into the recording, a male voice can be heard remarking that she is sitting there like she is dead, then one subject asks in a louder voice, ‘Are you alive? Hello?’ ”

As the recording continued, court files show, Burrows could be heard giving instructions, at one point asking, “Who’s next?”

The victim could be heard screaming and saying in a slurred speech to stop, according to court records.

The attack devastated the woman, Mays said in court. “She got a life sentence,” he said. “She’ll never be the same.”

The prosecutor said to spare her going through another trial, he agreed to make a plea deal with Burrows that capped his longest possible sentence at 13 years.

Paolo Gnocchi, the attorney for Burrows, said in court that it was important to understand how his client grew up, how he became part of gang life and his recent strides.

Burrows was born Oct. 21, 1992, in Mumbai, and his father moved out when he was 2, according to a six-page report on Burrows’s background that Gnocchi submitted to the court. His mother left for the United States, leaving Burrows and his younger sister with grandparents, then other relatives in a home with no toilet on a dirt road until he and his sister came to Maryland as children.

“I just stayed quiet and didn’t know how to share anything with anyone,” Burrows told a private investigator hired by Gnocchi, according to the report. “It was very lonely and isolating.” A group of gang members “took him under their wing,” the report said.

Burrows got more involved in crime, and more and more connected to the gang. On the night he recorded the assault, Gnocchi said, Burrows was going along with events with his only friends.

Before his most recent arrest, however, Burrows’s attorney told the judge, “I think he truly had begun to turn his life around.” He had found work as a busboy and moved up to bartender at a restaurant, Gnocchi said.

Western Media Blames Russia, Syria For Attack On UN Convoy; Video And Photos Tell Different Story

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

By Brandon Turbeville

Throughout the entirety of the Syrian crisis, Western media outlets have misrepresented facts and presented outright lies to their audiences regarding virtually every aspect of the war. Particularly when it comes to specific occurrences used to gin up support for greater Western intervention in Syria, these outlets kick it up a notch, launching flurries of disinformation and misinformation designed to leave imprints of false narratives in the minds of half attentive audiences. Incidents such as the Ghouta chemical weapons attack, little Omran, and, now the alleged attack on a U.N. convoy are now parts of a larger narrative. No matter how much they are debunked, confusion and distortion leave behind traces of the narrative embedded in the mind of the consumer.

Still, it is important to point out the false narratives where they do exist in order to deconstruct them as much as possible.

For instance, the recent hysteria over an alleged attack on a U.N. convoy by “either Syrian or Russian jets” (because it couldn’t have been the U.S. of course) has been used as an attempt to paint Russia and Syria as violators of a ceasefire and states so evil that they would dare attack the sacred U.N. who only ever provides food to hungry people and candy to children. Yet the entire incident, which the West is attempting to use as a political hammer, exists only through the channels and pages of Western media. In reality, however, not so much.

The story being peddled to the American people is that, even as the ceasefire was still in effect (from the point of view of the United States despite the fact that its terrorists never abided by one principle or obligation of the ceasefire from the very beginning), either Russia or Syria bombed a U.N. aid convoy on its way to deliver supplies to civilians.

However, further investigation reveals that the aid convoy that was destroyed and the U.N. aid convoy being presented to the American public as being the victim of the attack are two different convoys and two different incidents.

The convoy that was actually attacked, a Syrian Red Crescent aid operation, was attacked outside a warehouse in Urm al-Kubra just west of Aleppo. Twenty to thirty trucks were said to be destroyed in this attack which took place shortly after the ceasefire officially ended on September, 19. However, there is no evidence to suggest that the attackers were the Syrian or Russian militaries. Instead, it is most likely America’s rebels who attacked the convoy.

Still, the United States claims that, although it doesn’t know which military, it is confident that the UN aid convoy was bombed by either Syria or Russia. As the Washington Post reports,

“We know it was an airstrike and not one from the coalition. We don’t know if it was Russia or the regime,” the only others flying over Syria, a senior administration official said. “In either case, the Russians have a responsibility certainly to avoid doing it themselves, but also to keep restraint on the regime.”

But, per the usual method of accusation, the United States never explained exactly how they knew this. Where is the intelligence coming from? Are there satellite images? Anything?

Russia, however, denied that its planes, or Syrian jets for that matter, were involved in the attack. In addition, the Russian defense ministry pointed out some anomalies suggesting that the convoy was not bombed from the air at all.

“We have studied video footage from the scene from so-called ‘activists’ in detail and did not find any evidence that the convoy had been struck by ordnance,” said Igor Konashenkov of the Russian Defense Ministry. “There are no craters and the exterior of the vehicles do not have the kind of damage consistent with blasts caused by bombs dropped from the air.”

Indeed, photographs of the convoy do not line up with the damage that one would expect to see if the trucks had been attacked from the air. As Tom Miles and Angus McDowall reported for the Asia Times,

He [Igor Konashenkov] said the damage to the convoy visible in footage was caused by its cargo catching fire. It had occurred at the same time as militants from the group formerly called the Nusra Front had started a big offensive in nearby Aleppo, he said, appearing to point the finger at rescue workers from a group called the “White Helmets” who filmed the aftermath.
“Only representatives of the ‘White Helmets’ organization close to the Nusra Front who, as always, found themselves at the right time in the right place by chance with their video cameras can answer who did this and why.”
Hussein Badawi, head of the White Helmets in the town, said he was 100 meters (yards) from the aid depot when the attack took place and was injured by shrapnel in the hand.
“There were fires, martyrs, wounded people. We were able to pull out four survivors and five dead bodies at first,” Badawi said. “The bombardment was continuous. The rescue teams weren’t even able to work. Those who arrived in ambulances couldn’t come in.”

Despite having immediately claimed that the attacks were the result of airstrikes, the United Nations was forced to walk back its assertions after the Russian response and explanation. Now, the U.N. statement has replaced the word “airstrikes” with the word “attacks.” U.N Humanitarian Spokesman Jens Laerke stated that the references were the result of a “clerical error.”

“We are not in a position to determine whether these were in fact air strikes. We are in a position to say that the convoy was attacked,” he said.

The Russian explanation, photographic evidence, and the intentional confusion that has come as a result of a propaganda push on the part of the Western media apparatus as well as the fact that the White Helmets, a notorious terrorist support group were first on the scene and that al-Nusra fighters were themselves launching an attack in the general area at the same time as the convoy was attacked, all point to the possibility that it was the terrorists who attacked the convoy and not a traditional state actor.

Furthermore, video evidence has been posted appearing to show a jihadist vehicle armed with an artillery/mortar launcher riding beside the convoy.

Still, the Western media is intentionally confusing two different convoys – one that never entered Syria and was waiting on the Turkish side of the Turkey-Syria border and one that was traveling from the government held area in West Aleppo into terrorist held areas. The former was a U.N. aid convoy, the latter a Syrian Red Crescent convoy.

It should be noted that the U.N. convoys sitting idle at the border were not allowed in by the Syrian government because the U.N. would not allow the Syrian government to inspect the trucks. The fear on the part of the Syrian government was that the NATO powers were smuggling in more weaponry and supplies for terrorists under the guise of U.N. aid trucks, a fear that has already been realized in the past.

We now have a full on propaganda onslaught in the West attempting to blame Russia and/or Syria for bombing a U.N. aid convoy that was never bombed to begin with while at the same time hiding evidence of terrorists having attacked the one that was. As a result of deceptive reporting and propaganda coming out of official State Department mouths, the American public is fooled into believing that Russia and Syria have committed a tragic war crime despite the evidence showing that the attack on the actual convoy may very well have been committed by America’s proxy terrorists. The United States and the West are obviously driving the final few nails into what little credibility they have left.

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Chelsea Manning Receives 14 Days In Solitary Confinement For Suicide Attempt

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

By Derrick Broze

Whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been sentenced to 14 days in solitary confinement after a suicide attempt.

On Thursday, a prison disciplinary board decided to punish imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning with 14 days of solitary confinement for charges related to her suicide attempt in July, and possession of an unmarked book in her cell. Fight For The Future, a digital rights group that has supported Manning since incarceration, called the decision “the latest example of the U.S. government’s campaign of harassment and mistreatment of Chelsea, who has been incarcerated in all male military facilities for 6 years.”

“The term for this status is ‘disciplinary segregation’,” said Manning, in a statement released by Fight for the Future. “There is no set date set for this to start. After I receive the formal board results in writing, I have 15 days to appeal. I expect to get them in the next few days.

Manning was found guilty of a “conduct which threatens” charge which comes in response to the suicide attempt. Manning was also punished for “interfering with the good order, safety, and running of the facility” due to being hospitalized from the attempt. Additionally, she was found guilty of contraband be possessing a copy of Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy by Gabriella Coleman.

Manning is serving 35 years in Fort Leavenworth prison in Kansas for leaking massive amounts of secret U.S. government documents about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2009, Manning was a military analyst fighting in the War in Iraq. Manning uncovered evidence of human rights violations being committed by the U.S. and allied soldiers.

In response to the violence, Manning collected 750,000 files and sent them to WikiLeaks. The leak included the infamous Collateral Murder video, which showed a U.S. Apache helicopter gunning down twoReuters journalists in Baghdad. The helicopter also fired upon children and adults who came to render aid to the victims. The U.S. originally denied any knowledge of the deaths.

On July 25, 2010, WikiLeaks, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel began publishing the documents that became known as the Afghan War logs, These were followed by the October 22nd release of 391,832 classified military reports known as the Iraq War logs. In February 2013, Manning would plead guilty to the leaks and on August 21 she was sentenced to 35 years by a military tribunal. Manning is appealing the decision hoping for a reduction to 10 years.

Since being sentenced Manning has fought for treatment of gender dysphoria disorder, but the U.S. military has refused. However, Manning won a victory recently when the military relented and announced that would allow Manning to receive gender transition surgery. The continued abuse and mistreatment of Manning is another reminder that the War on Whistleblowers continues under the Obama Administration and will likely continue no matter what puppet is selected come November 8.

(Derrick Broze interviews Chelsea Manning’s lawyer immediately following the 35 year sentence)

Statement from Chelsea Manning following solitary confinement ruling:

“I presented evidence and was allowed to question witnesses through the board president. The hearing lasted four hours. There was a break for lunch.

I waited nervously for the board to vote. I received the decision after 30 minutes.

I was acquitted of the “Resisting The Force Cell Move Team” charge.

I was found guilty of the “Conduct Which Threatens” charge. This charge was for the suicide attempt.

I was found guilty of the “Prohibited Property” charge, which was for an unmarked copy of “Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy,” by Gabriella Coleman.

My punishment is 14 days in solitary confinement. 7 of those days are “suspended.” If I get in trouble in the next six months, those seven days will come back.

The term for this status is “disciplinary segregation.”

There is no set date set for this to start. After I receive the formal board results in writing, I have 15 days to appeal. I expect to get them in the next few days.

I am feeling hurt. I am feeling lonely. I am embarrassed by the decision. I don’t know how to explain it.

I am touched by your warm messages of love and support. This comforts me in my time of need.”

Derrick Broze is an investigative journalist and liberty activist. He is the Lead Investigative Reporter for ActivistPost.com and the founder of the TheConsciousResistance.com. Follow him onTwitter. Derrick is the author of three books: The Conscious Resistance: Reflections on Anarchy and Spirituality and Finding Freedom in an Age of Confusion, Vol. 1 and Finding Freedom in an Age of Confusion, Vol. 2

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The Destruction Of Libya And The Lies Of Obama And Clinton

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

By Kurt Nimmo

The following summary is from the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee report, “Libya: Examination of intervention and collapse and the UK’s future policy options.”

In March 2011, the United Kingdom and France, with the support of the United States, led the international community to support an intervention in Libya to protect civilians from attacks by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. This policy was not informed by accurate intelligence. In particular, the Government failed to identify that the threat to civilians was overstated and that the rebels included a significant Islamist element. By the summer of 2011, the limited intervention to protect civilians had drifted into an opportunist policy of regime change. That policy was not underpinned by a strategy to support and shape post-Gaddafi Libya. The result was political and economic collapse, inter-militia and inter-tribal warfare, humanitarian and migrant crises, widespread human rights violations, the spread of Gaddafi regime weapons across the region and the growth of ISIL in North Africa. Through his decision making in the National Security Council, former Prime Minister David Cameron was ultimately responsible for the failure to develop a coherent Libya strategy.

Sound familiar?

It’s the same rationale the neocons used prior to invading Iraq.

“Evidence is now in that President Barack Obama grossly exaggerated the humanitarian threat to justify military action in Libya. The president claimed that intervention was necessary to prevent a ‘bloodbath’ in Benghazi, Libya’s second-largest city and last rebel stronghold,” the Boston Globereported on April 14, 2011.

“Human Rights Watch has released data on Misurata, the next-biggest city in Libya and scene of protracted fighting, revealing that Moammar Khadafy is not deliberately massacring civilians but rather narrowly targeting the armed rebels who fight against his government.”

Khadafy’s acts were a far cry from Rwanda, Darfur, Congo, Bosnia, and other killing fields. Libya’s air force, prior to imposition of a UN-authorized no-fly zone, targeted rebel positions, not civilian concentrations. Despite ubiquitous cellphones equipped with cameras and video, there is no graphic evidence of deliberate massacre. Images abound of victims killed or wounded in crossfire — each one a tragedy — but that is urban warfare, not genocide.
Nor did Khadafy ever threaten civilian massacre in Benghazi, as Obama alleged. The “no mercy’’ warning, of March 17, targeted rebels only, as reported by The New York Times, which noted that Libya’s leader promised amnesty for those “who throw their weapons away.’’ Khadafy even offered the rebels an escape route and open border to Egypt, to avoid a fight “to the bitter end.’’

Hillary Clinton was “one of the main instruments in spreading chaos and extremism in Libya when the U.S. secretary of state personally pushed for the ousting of late Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi,” teleSUR reported in March. Declassified emails released in January and February “reveal that she and her staff were aware that civilians they claimed to be protecting were not actually in danger from government forces.”

Clinton and her top advisor, Sidney Blumenthal, who was not employed by the state department but by the private Clinton Foundation, collaborated on the invasion of Libya despite knowing there was not a humanitarian crisis unfolding.

Blumenthal played politics with the lives of the Libyan people—30,000 would ultimately perish—and urged an invasion in order to boost Obama’s sagging approval ratings.

Ousting the Libyan strongman, argued Blumenthal, would further establish “security in North Africa, securing democracy in Egypt and Tunisia, economic development, effect throughout Arab world and Africa, extending U.S. influence, counter-balancing Iran, etc.”
Further highlighting his complete and utter disregard for the human cost of the intervention, in the same email Blumenthal informed Clinton about the horrors committed by U.S.-backed forces in Libya, which included members of al-Qaida.
“Speaking in strict confidence, one rebel commander stated that his troops continue to summarily execute all foreign mercenaries in the fighting.” Such actions are considered war crimes and in violation of international resolutions and conventions.
The emails also reveal that the Obama administration and Clinton were aware of the threat of al-Qaida in the eastern part of the country, which had for years been suppressed by the Libyan leader.
The emails also show that claims made by NATO at the time, including alleged atrocities committed by Gadhafi’s forces such as rape and mass killings, were rumors used by Clinton and the Obama administration to help sell the intervention to the world.

The declassified emails reveal Blumenthal’s financial interest in the attack.

It is clear the NATO intervention was not intended for humanitarian purposes. So what were the intentions of Clinton and the Obama administration? The same as most U.S. interventions: financial interest.
The emails reveal that most of the intelligence Clinton received on Libya was from Blumenthal, who was preparing to make substantial financial gains from the fall of the Libyan leader.
According to Vice News, the intel briefs on Libya were “prepared by Blumenthal’s business partner and former CIA operative Tyler Drumheller, a consultant with plans to take advantage of economic opportunities in a post-war Libya.”
Both men worked with the U.S.-based security company Osprey, a start-up that hoped to profit from medical and military contracts with Libyan rebels amid the chaos of the conflict, according to Vice News.

In other words, Sidney Blumenthal is a war profiteer and Clinton a war criminal.

If Clinton is elected in November, we can expect more wars, more criminal opportunism, and more mass murder.

Kurt Nimmo is the editor of Another Day in the Empire, where this article first appeared. He is the former lead editor and writer of Infowars.com.

(activistpost.com)

Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 9/25/2016 10:21:14 AM
	City 'changed forever' as authorities hunt mall gunman September 24, 2016 BURLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — A gunman police said killed five people in a Washington state mall remained at large Saturday as authorities appealed for help in identifying the suspect but said there were no indications the slayings north of Seattle were a terrorist act. People fled, customers hid in dressing rooms and employees locked the doors of nearby stores after gunshots rang out just after 7 p.m. Friday at the Cascade Mall. A helicopter, search teams and K-9 units scoured the area for a rifle-carrying man in a police response that included more than 200 officers. “There are people waking up this morning and their world has changed forever,” Burlington Mayor Steve Sexton said Saturday at a news conference. “The city of Burlington has probably changed forever.” Authorities said four females, ranging in age from teens to seniors, died after the gunman opened fire in the makeup department of a Macy’s store. An adult male who was wounded in the shooting died early Saturday, officials said. His age was not given and no identifications of the victims were released Slideshow: Mall shooting north of Seattle >>> Police said they were looking for a man dressed in black and last seen walking toward Interstate 5. The description, including that he appeared to be Hispanic, was based on statements from witnesses, said Given Kutz, a spokesman for the Skagit County Emergency Operations Center. “We do not have an identity on the individual yet,” said Mount Vernon Police Lt. Chris Cammock. “We could certainly use the community’s help.” Authorities said the motive was unknown for the shooting about 60 miles (97 kilometers) north of Seattle. The FBI was assisting local authorities, but Michael Knutson, assistant special agent in charge of the Seattle FBI, said there was no evidence to point to terrorism. Stephanie Bose, an assistant general manager at Johnny Carino’s Italian restaurant near the Macy’s store at the mall, said she immediately locked the doors after hearing about the shooting from an employee’s boyfriend. “He was trying to go to the mall and people were screaming,” she told The Associated Press. “It was frantic.” She said he could see police at the doors with assault rifles. It took hours for teams to search the 434,000-square-foot (40,000-square-meter) mall late Friday night. They escorted shoppers and workers who had sheltered in place outside. “It took several hundred to do that…clearing every room, to make sure the suspect wasn’t still on the scene,” Cammock said. The parking lot was closed and emergency management officials told people they would be able to retrieve vehicles Saturday, though the mall said it would be closed for the day. Gov. Jay Inslee said tragedy had struck the state. “We urge residents to heed all safety and detour warnings. Stay close to your friends and loved ones as we await more information and, hopefully, news of the suspect’s capture,” Inslee said in a statement. The Cascade Mall is an enclosed shopping mall that opened in 1990. It features J.C. Penney, TJ Maxx, and Macy’s stores, among other stores, restaurants and a movie theater. On Sept. 17, a man stabbed 10 people at a Minnesota mall before being shot and killed by an off-duty police officer. Authorities say Dahir Ahmed Adan, 20, stabbed the people at the Crossroads Center in St. Cloud, Minnesota. ___ Baumann reported from Seattle. ___ This story has been corrected to show the first name of the Skagit County official is Given, not Givan. (Yahoo News)
	"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 9/25/2016 10:39:31 AM
	Maryland man instructed others ‘like a coach’ during recorded gang rape Cecil Burrows was sentenced at the Montgomery County Circuit Courthouse on Sept. 22 for his role in a 2012 gang rape. (Dan Morse/The Washington Post) By Dan Morse September 23 at 9:38 AM The 35-minute audio recording, as described in a Maryland courtroom Thursday, was horrifying. “Hold her down,” a young man said. The voice belonged to Cecil Burrows, 23, who was sentenced to 18 months in jail for his role in what prosecutors described as a gang rape of a nearly comatose woman in a townhouse in the Montgomery County community of Olney. Burrows not only recorded the rape, he called out instructions. “Cecil, he like a coach,” one of the attackers could be heard saying. Authorities have said the victim was probably drunk or drugged during the assault. Cecil Burrows was sentenced to 18 months and will be deported after serving his time. (Montgomery County Police Department) The sentencing of Burrows concludes a case that stretched over four years. It involved a once-menacing gang named Little R and at least two members who turned on each other. On Thursday, the backstory of Burrows’s life also emerged. He was born in Mumbai. When he was 4, his mother emigrated for the United States, leaving Burrows in India. He moved in with his grandparents, then with relatives who lived in a slum, according to his attorney. He came to Montgomery County when he was 12 and joined a gang. “I felt a sense of love, connection and belonging in a way I never felt before,” Burrows said in court Thursday. “I also knew that to challenge them was to risk getting kicked out violently.” In handing down the 18-month sentence, Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Sharon Burrell was effectively imposing a term of three years and two months. That’s because Burrows had been in jail for 617 days since his arrest and agreed to forego being credited for that time at sentencing. At slightly more than three years, though, the sentence for a second-degree sex offense was less than prosecutors sought. Assistant State’s Attorney Patrick Mays asked for closer to 13 years, which was the maximum under an earlier plea deal he’d reached with Burrows’s attorney. Mays said Burrows seemed to enjoy recording and coaching the assault. “Make no mistake about it, it was funny for him,” he said. “It was fun for him.” Arguing for the longer sentence, Mays said, “This is about punishment. This is about incapacitation, taking a dangerous person out of circulation for as much time as possible.” The judge had previous experience with Burrows, sparing him jail time in a 2011 theft case. On Thursday, before issuing the new sentence, Burrell indicated she wanted to make it in line with the punishments handed to others in the case. 11 shocking crime stories from 2016 View Photos A beloved mayor in Fairfax faced allegations of a meth-for-sex scheme, and a man (successfully) used a “the-stop-smoking-pill-made-me-do-it” defense after shooting his wife. The 2012 sexual assault case may never have come to light were it not for one of the Little R gang members showing a co-worker a “funny” video on his cellphone. The video appeared to show three men having sex with a woman who was “out of it,” the co-worker later told authorities. Detectives obtained the phone and found the graphic video on it. Their investigation concluded a sexual assault had taken place in the townhouse where Burrows lived. Burrows told them he was out getting beer and not home during the assault, according to court records. Burrows later testified at the trial of Andres Cortez, saying Cortez had been at his home on the night of the assault. Cortez was convicted in the assault. On July 3, 2014, a Montgomery County detective visited Cortez in Maryland state prison. “Let me tell you about Mr. Burrows,” Cortez told the detective, according to a description of the conversation by prosecutors. Cortez specifically said Burrows was home during the assault and recorded it. That left police investigating their witness. They searched Burrows’s home, seized a computer and found the recording. There was no video — only audio — apparently because participants thought that would be less risky to them. The words alone, though, were incriminating. “On the recording,” detectives wrote in court papers, “a female can be heard crying out and asking for them to stop. . . . About six minutes into the recording, a male voice can be heard remarking that she is sitting there like she is dead, then one subject asks in a louder voice, ‘Are you alive? Hello?’ ” As the recording continued, court files show, Burrows could be heard giving instructions, at one point asking, “Who’s next?” The victim could be heard screaming and saying in a slurred speech to stop, according to court records. The attack devastated the woman, Mays said in court. “She got a life sentence,” he said. “She’ll never be the same.” The prosecutor said to spare her going through another trial, he agreed to make a plea deal with Burrows that capped his longest possible sentence at 13 years. Paolo Gnocchi, the attorney for Burrows, said in court that it was important to understand how his client grew up, how he became part of gang life and his recent strides. Burrows was born Oct. 21, 1992, in Mumbai, and his father moved out when he was 2, according to a six-page report on Burrows’s background that Gnocchi submitted to the court. His mother left for the United States, leaving Burrows and his younger sister with grandparents, then other relatives in a home with no toilet on a dirt road until he and his sister came to Maryland as children. “I just stayed quiet and didn’t know how to share anything with anyone,” Burrows told a private investigator hired by Gnocchi, according to the report. “It was very lonely and isolating.” A group of gang members “took him under their wing,” the report said. Burrows got more involved in crime, and more and more connected to the gang. On the night he recorded the assault, Gnocchi said, Burrows was going along with events with his only friends. Before his most recent arrest, however, Burrows’s attorney told the judge, “I think he truly had begun to turn his life around.” He had found work as a busboy and moved up to bartender at a restaurant, Gnocchi said. Burrows is a lawful permanent resident but not a U.S. citizen, according to Gnocchi, who stressed to the judge that no matter what sentence she handed down, Burrows would be deported after serving his time. (The Washington Post)
	"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 9/25/2016 11:00:55 AM
	Western Media Blames Russia, Syria For Attack On UN Convoy; Video And Photos Tell Different Story SEPTEMBER 24, 2016 By Brandon Turbeville Throughout the entirety of the Syrian crisis, Western media outlets have misrepresented facts and presented outright lies to their audiences regarding virtually every aspect of the war. Particularly when it comes to specific occurrences used to gin up support for greater Western intervention in Syria, these outlets kick it up a notch, launching flurries of disinformation and misinformation designed to leave imprints of false narratives in the minds of half attentive audiences. Incidents such as the Ghouta chemical weapons attack, little Omran, and, now the alleged attack on a U.N. convoy are now parts of a larger narrative. No matter how much they are debunked, confusion and distortion leave behind traces of the narrative embedded in the mind of the consumer. Still, it is important to point out the false narratives where they do exist in order to deconstruct them as much as possible. For instance, the recent hysteria over an alleged attack on a U.N. convoy by “either Syrian or Russian jets” (because it couldn’t have been the U.S. of course) has been used as an attempt to paint Russia and Syria as violators of a ceasefire and states so evil that they would dare attack the sacred U.N. who only ever provides food to hungry people and candy to children. Yet the entire incident, which the West is attempting to use as a political hammer, exists only through the channels and pages of Western media. In reality, however, not so much. The story being peddled to the American people is that, even as the ceasefire was still in effect (from the point of view of the United States despite the fact that its terrorists never abided by one principle or obligation of the ceasefire from the very beginning), either Russia or Syria bombed a U.N. aid convoy on its way to deliver supplies to civilians. However, further investigation reveals that the aid convoy that was destroyed and the U.N. aid convoy being presented to the American public as being the victim of the attack are two different convoys and two different incidents. The convoy that was actually attacked, a Syrian Red Crescent aid operation, was attacked outside a warehouse in Urm al-Kubra just west of Aleppo. Twenty to thirty trucks were said to be destroyed in this attack which took place shortly after the ceasefire officially ended on September, 19. However, there is no evidence to suggest that the attackers were the Syrian or Russian militaries. Instead, it is most likely America’s rebels who attacked the convoy. Still, the United States claims that, although it doesn’t know which military, it is confident that the UN aid convoy was bombed by either Syria or Russia. As the Washington Post reports, “We know it was an airstrike and not one from the coalition. We don’t know if it was Russia or the regime,” the only others flying over Syria, a senior administration official said. “In either case, the Russians have a responsibility certainly to avoid doing it themselves, but also to keep restraint on the regime.” But, per the usual method of accusation, the United States never explained exactly how they knew this. Where is the intelligence coming from? Are there satellite images? Anything? Russia, however, denied that its planes, or Syrian jets for that matter, were involved in the attack. In addition, the Russian defense ministry pointed out some anomalies suggesting that the convoy was not bombed from the air at all. “We have studied video footage from the scene from so-called ‘activists’ in detail and did not find any evidence that the convoy had been struck by ordnance,” said Igor Konashenkov of the Russian Defense Ministry. “There are no craters and the exterior of the vehicles do not have the kind of damage consistent with blasts caused by bombs dropped from the air.” Indeed, photographs of the convoy do not line up with the damage that one would expect to see if the trucks had been attacked from the air. As Tom Miles and Angus McDowall reported for the Asia Times, He [Igor Konashenkov] said the damage to the convoy visible in footage was caused by its cargo catching fire. It had occurred at the same time as militants from the group formerly called the Nusra Front had started a big offensive in nearby Aleppo, he said, appearing to point the finger at rescue workers from a group called the “White Helmets” who filmed the aftermath. “Only representatives of the ‘White Helmets’ organization close to the Nusra Front who, as always, found themselves at the right time in the right place by chance with their video cameras can answer who did this and why.” Hussein Badawi, head of the White Helmets in the town, said he was 100 meters (yards) from the aid depot when the attack took place and was injured by shrapnel in the hand. “There were fires, martyrs, wounded people. We were able to pull out four survivors and five dead bodies at first,” Badawi said. “The bombardment was continuous. The rescue teams weren’t even able to work. Those who arrived in ambulances couldn’t come in.” Despite having immediately claimed that the attacks were the result of airstrikes, the United Nations was forced to walk back its assertions after the Russian response and explanation. Now, the U.N. statement has replaced the word “airstrikes” with the word “attacks.” U.N Humanitarian Spokesman Jens Laerke stated that the references were the result of a “clerical error.” “We are not in a position to determine whether these were in fact air strikes. We are in a position to say that the convoy was attacked,” he said. The Russian explanation, photographic evidence, and the intentional confusion that has come as a result of a propaganda push on the part of the Western media apparatus as well as the fact that the White Helmets, a notorious terrorist support group were first on the scene and that al-Nusra fighters were themselves launching an attack in the general area at the same time as the convoy was attacked, all point to the possibility that it was the terrorists who attacked the convoy and not a traditional state actor. Furthermore, video evidence has been posted appearing to show a jihadist vehicle armed with an artillery/mortar launcher riding beside the convoy. Still, the Western media is intentionally confusing two different convoys – one that never entered Syria and was waiting on the Turkish side of the Turkey-Syria border and one that was traveling from the government held area in West Aleppo into terrorist held areas. The former was a U.N. aid convoy, the latter a Syrian Red Crescent convoy. It should be noted that the U.N. convoys sitting idle at the border were not allowed in by the Syrian government because the U.N. would not allow the Syrian government to inspect the trucks. The fear on the part of the Syrian government was that the NATO powers were smuggling in more weaponry and supplies for terrorists under the guise of U.N. aid trucks, a fear that has already been realized in the past. We now have a full on propaganda onslaught in the West attempting to blame Russia and/or Syria for bombing a U.N. aid convoy that was never bombed to begin with while at the same time hiding evidence of terrorists having attacked the one that was. As a result of deceptive reporting and propaganda coming out of official State Department mouths, the American public is fooled into believing that Russia and Syria have committed a tragic war crime despite the evidence showing that the attack on the actual convoy may very well have been committed by America’s proxy terrorists. The United States and the West are obviously driving the final few nails into what little credibility they have left. This article may be freely shared in part or in full with author attribution and source link. Image Credit: Reuters, sourced from Alarabiya.net (activistpost.com)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 9/25/2016 4:50:49 PM
	The Destruction Of Libya And The Lies Of Obama And Clinton SEPTEMBER 23, 2016 By Kurt Nimmo The following summary is from the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee report, “Libya: Examination of intervention and collapse and the UK’s future policy options.” In March 2011, the United Kingdom and France, with the support of the United States, led the international community to support an intervention in Libya to protect civilians from attacks by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. This policy was not informed by accurate intelligence. In particular, the Government failed to identify that the threat to civilians was overstated and that the rebels included a significant Islamist element. By the summer of 2011, the limited intervention to protect civilians had drifted into an opportunist policy of regime change. That policy was not underpinned by a strategy to support and shape post-Gaddafi Libya. The result was political and economic collapse, inter-militia and inter-tribal warfare, humanitarian and migrant crises, widespread human rights violations, the spread of Gaddafi regime weapons across the region and the growth of ISIL in North Africa. Through his decision making in the National Security Council, former Prime Minister David Cameron was ultimately responsible for the failure to develop a coherent Libya strategy. Sound familiar? It’s the same rationale the neocons used prior to invading Iraq. “Evidence is now in that President Barack Obama grossly exaggerated the humanitarian threat to justify military action in Libya. The president claimed that intervention was necessary to prevent a ‘bloodbath’ in Benghazi, Libya’s second-largest city and last rebel stronghold,” the Boston Globereported on April 14, 2011. “Human Rights Watch has released data on Misurata, the next-biggest city in Libya and scene of protracted fighting, revealing that Moammar Khadafy is not deliberately massacring civilians but rather narrowly targeting the armed rebels who fight against his government.” Khadafy’s acts were a far cry from Rwanda, Darfur, Congo, Bosnia, and other killing fields. Libya’s air force, prior to imposition of a UN-authorized no-fly zone, targeted rebel positions, not civilian concentrations. Despite ubiquitous cellphones equipped with cameras and video, there is no graphic evidence of deliberate massacre. Images abound of victims killed or wounded in crossfire — each one a tragedy — but that is urban warfare, not genocide. Nor did Khadafy ever threaten civilian massacre in Benghazi, as Obama alleged. The “no mercy’’ warning, of March 17, targeted rebels only, as reported by The New York Times, which noted that Libya’s leader promised amnesty for those “who throw their weapons away.’’ Khadafy even offered the rebels an escape route and open border to Egypt, to avoid a fight “to the bitter end.’’ Hillary Clinton was “one of the main instruments in spreading chaos and extremism in Libya when the U.S. secretary of state personally pushed for the ousting of late Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi,” teleSUR reported in March. Declassified emails released in January and February “reveal that she and her staff were aware that civilians they claimed to be protecting were not actually in danger from government forces.” Clinton and her top advisor, Sidney Blumenthal, who was not employed by the state department but by the private Clinton Foundation, collaborated on the invasion of Libya despite knowing there was not a humanitarian crisis unfolding. Blumenthal played politics with the lives of the Libyan people—30,000 would ultimately perish—and urged an invasion in order to boost Obama’s sagging approval ratings. Ousting the Libyan strongman, argued Blumenthal, would further establish “security in North Africa, securing democracy in Egypt and Tunisia, economic development, effect throughout Arab world and Africa, extending U.S. influence, counter-balancing Iran, etc.” Further highlighting his complete and utter disregard for the human cost of the intervention, in the same email Blumenthal informed Clinton about the horrors committed by U.S.-backed forces in Libya, which included members of al-Qaida. “Speaking in strict confidence, one rebel commander stated that his troops continue to summarily execute all foreign mercenaries in the fighting.” Such actions are considered war crimes and in violation of international resolutions and conventions. The emails also reveal that the Obama administration and Clinton were aware of the threat of al-Qaida in the eastern part of the country, which had for years been suppressed by the Libyan leader. The emails also show that claims made by NATO at the time, including alleged atrocities committed by Gadhafi’s forces such as rape and mass killings, were rumors used by Clinton and the Obama administration to help sell the intervention to the world. The declassified emails reveal Blumenthal’s financial interest in the attack. It is clear the NATO intervention was not intended for humanitarian purposes. So what were the intentions of Clinton and the Obama administration? The same as most U.S. interventions: financial interest. The emails reveal that most of the intelligence Clinton received on Libya was from Blumenthal, who was preparing to make substantial financial gains from the fall of the Libyan leader. According to Vice News, the intel briefs on Libya were “prepared by Blumenthal’s business partner and former CIA operative Tyler Drumheller, a consultant with plans to take advantage of economic opportunities in a post-war Libya.” Both men worked with the U.S.-based security company Osprey, a start-up that hoped to profit from medical and military contracts with Libyan rebels amid the chaos of the conflict, according to Vice News. In other words, Sidney Blumenthal is a war profiteer and Clinton a war criminal. If Clinton is elected in November, we can expect more wars, more criminal opportunism, and more mass murder. Kurt Nimmo is the editor of Another Day in the Empire, where this article first appeared. He is the former lead editor and writer of Infowars.com. (activistpost.com)
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