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https://boingboing.net/2022/08/05/wounded-veteran-gets-first-dod-approved-penis-transplant.html/

Wounded veteran gets first DOD-approved penis transplant
Thom Dunn

Photo: White House / Pete DeSouza (public domain)

The MIT Technology Review has a surprisingly fascinating piece about a US Navy veteran who lost his everything below the waist when he stopped on a landmine during a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan in 2010. Over the years, he'd gotten used to his shiny new prosthetic legs, and even came to display them proudly for the everyone to see. But the loss of his penis was a shame that haunted him for eight years — until he became the fourth-known person in the world to undergo a fully functioning penis transplant, and the first military veteran to do so.

A total of 1,367 American infantrymen sustained significant genital injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2001 and 2013. Such hidden wounds of war represent a relatively new problem. Bombs from below used to be a death sentence, but better body armor and modern casualty care ensure that more wounded soldiers survive—and more of them with devastating genital-urinary trauma. In a report last year, military urologists wrote that groin injuries have increased "to a level never before reported in the history of war."

The US Department of Defense recognized the problem as long ago as 2008, when it set up an institute to research various reconstructive transplants. Eventually, the TOUGH Project—Trauma Outcomes and Urogenital Health—placed a figure on it: among infantrymen with genital urinary injuries from Iraq and Afghanistan, 502 were injured so severely that a penis transplant might be their only recourse.

Quantifying the number of such injuries is easy. Outlining the psychological toll they take on guys in their 20s and 30s is much harder.


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https://www.fox5vegas.com/2022/08/07/human-remains-discovered-lake-mead-saturday-morning/

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - More human remains have been located at Lake Mead National Recreation Area as water levels continue to drop.

The National Park Service said rangers received a call reporting the human skeletal remains at Swim Beach at about 11:15 a.m. Aug. 6

Rangers responded and recovered the remains with help from Las Vegas Metropolitan Police’s dive team. The Clark County Coroner also responded and will determine the cause of death.

NPS said the investigation is ongoing.

It’s the fourth set of remains found at Lake Mead in the past couple months. Human remains were found in a barrel at Hemenway Harbor on May 1. A second set of remains were found at Calville Bay on May 7. A human torso was also found at Swim Beach on July 25.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/07/30/roger-stone-matt-gaetz-pardon-mueller/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/matt-gaetz-caught-on-hot-mic-assuring-roger-stone-of-pardon-by-donald-trump
https://nypost.com/2022/07/31/rep-matt-gaetz-told-roger-stone-that-trump-would-pardon-him/


As Roger Stone prepared to stand trial in 2019, complaining he was under pressure from federal prosecutors to incriminate Donald Trump, a close ally of the president repeatedly assured Stone that “the boss” would likely grant him clemency if he were convicted, a recording shows.

At an event at a Trump property that October, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) predicted that Stone would be found guilty at his trial in Washington the following month but would not “do a day” in prison. Gaetz was apparently unaware they were being recorded by documentary filmmakers following Stone, whom special counsel Robert S. Mueller III had charged with obstruction of a congressional investigation.

“The boss still has a very favorable view of you,” said Gaetz, stressing that the president had “said it directly.” He also said, “I don’t think the big guy can let you go down for this.”

Gaetz at one point told Stone he was working on getting him a pardon but was hesitant to say more backstage at the event, in which speakers were being filmed for online broadcast. “Since there are many, many recording devices around right now, I do not feel in a position to speak freely about the work I’ve already done on that subject,” Gaetz said.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/04/fbi-thibault-cover-up-hunter-biden-information-00049922

FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Thursday that allegations of an FBI agent’s partisan social media posts and efforts to suppress information in the investigation into Hunter Biden’s business activities were “deeply troubling.”

Speaking at a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing, Wray appeared to condemn the alleged actions of Timothy Thibault, who he said was an FBI assistant special agent in charge at the Washington field office until “relatively recently.”

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), who pursued the line of questioning with Wray, said that Thibault — who had been at the FBI for more than 25 years — is now on leave.

Kennedy grilled Wray on Thibault’s alleged partisan actions on social media over the past few years, such as “liking” a Washington Post article titled “William Barr has gone rogue” and tweeting to Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) that her father — former Vice President Dick Cheney — was a “disgrace.” Kennedy also mentioned Thibault’s retweet of a Lincoln Project post saying that “Donald Trump is a psychologically broken, embittered, and deeply unhappy man.”

Kennedy then pressed Wray on allegations that Thibault — who Kennedy said worked on both the investigation of links between Trump and Russia and the ongoing Hunter Biden probe — had “covered up derogatory info about Mr. Biden while working at the FBI.”

Wray gave similar answers to Kennedy’s questioning on both the social media posts and covering up of information, saying that he’d seen “descriptions to that effect” but wanted to be “careful” of not interfering with any ongoing personnel matters. But he did concede to finding the allegations about the social media posts “troubling.”

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04.08.2022 - 22:20
A text about the deplorable state of affairs in the Armed Forces of Ukraine got on the Internet, it is claimed that these are excerpts from the report of the Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny to President Zelensky.

It is indicated that the report was made on July 29 and allegedly angered the president. In particular, it was about the low staffing of the ranks of the Armed Forces and the losses of almost 200 thousand people.

The theses from Zaluzhny's report were published by the Ukrainian Telegram channel, noting that "we understood that everything was not going well, but so much...".

Here is the text published on the Web:

"— The staffing of the Armed Forces remains at the level of 43-48%, despite the mobilization;
— Losses among military personnel — more than 191 thousand killed and wounded;
— More than 80% of reservists from the fifth wave of mobilization have already been killed, wounded or deserted;
— Medicine is working at the limit, the seriously injured are being taken through Poland to Germany, France, Italy and other countries for treatment;
— Statistics on missing persons are not kept;
— Stocks of small arms and bulletproof vests are sorely lacking, one out of three servicemen is equipped and ready for combat, the rest have to fight with whatever they have to;

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FBI Director Christopher Wray said whistleblower allegations claiming FBI agents falsely labeled derogatory information on Hunter Biden as disinformation are "deeply troubling," but Republicans are calling on him to further acknowledge broader "politicization" within the bureau.

During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday, Wray was asked by Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., about allegations "highly credible whistleblowers" at the Justice Department and FBI shared with Sen. Chuck Grassley’s office last week. Grassley, R-Iowa, in a letter to Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland last week, detailed the allegations and indicated that the whistleblowers said there was "a scheme in place among certain FBI officials to undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation."

The whistleblowers also alleged a "pattern of active public partisanship" at the agencies pertaining to investigations into the Trump campaign and suppression of information on the Hunter Biden probe.
"When I read the letter that describes the kinds of things that you’re talking about, I found it deeply troubling," Wray testified Thursday.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/wray-says-fbi-downplaying-hunter-biden-information-deeply-troubling-republicans-demand-answers

They are biased (I am too, I love porn) and I assume some of you agree with the anti-porn stance for whatever asinine reason but this isn't the road you want to take. More micromanaging of our private activity by self-proclaimed "holier-than-thou" prudes who always bs reasons why we aren't allowed to see their criminal sex acts is unacceptable.

First: a california judge dismisses Visa's demand to not be included in the charges against mindgeek/pornhub for seemingly profiting off CP.

https://www.xbiz.com/news/267931/california-judge-rules-visa-can-be-tried-as-mindgeeks-co-conspirator

Next: asshole billionaire bill ackman takes the above news to cnbc and social media to pressure visa to drop mindgeek now not later which the visa CEO ended up doing. After that ackman is now targeting Discover for continuing to do business with mindgeek and wants them to bend the knee too, inviting the public through twitter to join a class action lawsuit that a trump lawyer started ("based" trump, sure he is).

https://www.xbiz.com/news/267958/billionaire-investor-bill-ackman-anti-porn-activist-laila-mickelwait-target-visa-pornhub-on-cnbc

https://www.xbiz.com/news/267998/visa-bows-to-media-pressure-suspends-mindgeeks-trafficjunky

https://www.xbiz.com/news/268037/investor-bill-ackman-continues-campaign-against-mindgeek-now-targets-discover

And right after that the conservative new york times wants to severely fuck the internet up by pushing congress to change their pending change to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) to make it so you have to be 18 to basically do anything online and must verify identity which would be against how 4chan operates and has been in the crosshairs of various politicians recently.

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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/former-us-congressman-charged-with-insider-trading-2022-07-25/

NEW YORK, July 25 (Reuters) - Former U.S. Congressman Stephen Buyer has been charged with insider trading over purchases of shares in telecommunications company Sprint before it merged with T-Mobile US Inc (TMUS.O), prosecutors said on Monday.

Buyer, a Republican who represented Indiana in Congress between 1993 and 2011, was working as a consultant to T-Mobile ahead of the 2018 merger, according to an indictment filed by federal prosecutors in Manhattan.

"It's always troubling whenever there's someone who has had a position of public authority... engaged in this conduct," Damian Williams, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, told reporters.

Andrew Goldstein, a lawyer for Buyer, said the former congressman is innocent and that his stock trades were lawful.

"He looks forward to being quickly vindicated," Goldstein said in a statement.

Prosecutors said Buyer used non-public information he learned through his consulting work to buy 112,675 Sprint shares in four brokerage accounts ahead of the April 29 merger announcement, earning a profit of about $126,000.

The next year, Buyer allegedly generated $223,000 in profit by trading in professional services firm Navigant Consulting Inc after learning non-public information it would soon be acquired by Guidehouse, his consulting company, prosecutors said.

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Diplomatic crisis over Pelosi’s Taiwan trip widens as White House summons China’s ambassador

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/05/us-summons-china-ambassador/?itid=hp-top-table-main-t-2

Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. Qin Gang has been called to the White House following a strong reaction from the Chinese government to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) trip to Taiwan.

“After China’s actions overnight, we summoned Ambassador Qin Gang to the White House to démarche him about the PRC’s provocative actions,” White House national security spokesman John Kirby told The Washington Post, referring to the People’s Republic of China.

Kirby said that the White House “condemned” the military drills China began conducting in the waters surrounding Taiwan following Pelosi’s visit to Taipei.

“We condemned the PRC’s military actions, which are irresponsible and at odds with our long-standing goal of maintaining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait,” he said.

Pelosi visited Taiwan as part of a trip to multiple countries across the Indo-Pacific region to discuss security issues in southeast Asia.

The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the visit violated the “One China” policy and that it “gravely undermines peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait, and sends a seriously wrong signal to the separatist forces for ‘Taiwan independence.’”

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Former student testifies during sentencing of Tomball teacher who abused him: ‘It ruined me’

A 17-year-old boy testified that he was half the weight and nearly half the height of his former Tomball teacher amid years of inappropriate behavior – misconduct that on Tuesday led to a judge sentencing the defendant to 10 years deferred adjudication probation.

During one sex act, the Tomball Intermediate School teacher sat the teen on a chair and he recalled that his feet could not touch the ground.

The 32-year-old teacher, Marka Bodine, will also report to the Harris County Jail in a year to serve a 60-day sentence as part of that punishment, a delay intended to avoid separating the defendant from her 3-month-old child, the judge ordered.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-deleted-references-prosecuting-jan-6-rioters-remarks-testimony-2022-07-25/

WASHINGTON, July 25 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump crossed out sentences that distanced him from the rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and refused to call for their prosecution in a draft of a speech he delivered the next day, congressional testimony showed on Monday.

The former Republican president deleted lines that said, "I want to be very clear: You do not represent me. You do not represent our movement," according to an image of the script posted on Twitter by a member of the Jan. 6 committee investigating the attack, U.S. Representative Elaine Luria.

He also deleted a reference to directing the "Department of Justice to ensure all lawbreakers are prosecuted to the full extent of the law. We must send a clear message — not with mercy but with JUSTICE. Legal consequences must be swift and firm."

In a primetime hearing last week, the congressional committee probing the attack played video outtakes from the Jan. 7 speech that showed Trump refusing to admit the election was over and he had lost. "I don't want to say the election is over," Trump said in footage recorded as he rehearsed the speech. read more

In the attack, thousands of Trump supporters breached the Capitol in an attempt to stop Congress from certifying Democrat Joe Biden's November 2020 presidential victory.

Video clips that Luria posted, not previously made public, included testimony from the former president's daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, and White House lawyers and aides who described Trump as reluctant to give a reconciliatory address after the Capitol attack.

https://sacupdate.com/sex-offender-arrested-again-for-child-porn/

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A local man who pled guilty to possessing a sprawling collection of child pornography in 2009 has again been arrested for possessing explicit imagery.

Federal prosecutors yesterday unsealed one child pornography charge against John Kalani Hatchie of Curtis Park, who can face up to 20 years in prison if convicted. Prosecutors also seek to seize a MicroSD card he allegedly used to store the content.

Hatchie admitted, in a separate federal case in 2009, to purchasing access to two Australian child porn websites for around $100 each. When investigators raided his house several days later, they discovered a briefcase filled with a collage of nude children.

“I am busted!” Hatchie exclaimed as the briefcase was opened.

Analysis of his computer revealed over 1,000 images and 100 videos depicting infants being raped by adults. Around 217 of those images and three videos were identified by NCMEC as real children forced to perform sex acts in 39 different “series” filmed across foreign countries and other states.

The charge unsealed on Friday appears to stem from a recently filed violation of his supervised release in the prior case. Authorities say they were tipped off by the Queensland Police Service in Australia that someone using the name “Kidfinders” shared several images and videos of child sexual abuse to a law enforcement source of information.

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https://cyclingmagazine.ca/sections/news/victor-lafay-quits-tour-cites-mystery-illness-which-hampers-respiration/

Vaxxtards sportmen can't even do their sports anymore because of the clotshot, kek

It's always darkest before the dawn.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/07/27/manchin-says-he-has-reached-deal-with-democrats-economy-climate-bill/

Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) on Wednesday reached a deal with Democratic leaders on a spending package that aims to lower health-care costs, combat climate change and reduce the federal deficit, marking a massive potential breakthrough for President Biden’s long-stalled economic agenda.

The new agreement, brokered between Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), opens the door for party lawmakers to try to advance the measure in the coming weeks. It caps off months of fierce debate, delay and acrimony, a level of infighting that some Democrats saw as detrimental to their political fate ahead of this fall’s critical elections.

Under the deal, Schumer secured Manchin’s support for roughly $433 billion in new spending, most of which is focused on climate change and clean energy production — the largest such investment in U.S. history. The Democrats coupled the spending with provisions that aim to lower health-care costs for Americans, chiefly by allowing Medicare to begin negotiating the price of select prescription drugs on behalf of seniors.

To pay for the package, Manchin and Schumer also settled on a flurry of changes to tax law that would raise $739 billion over the next decade — enough to offset the cost of the bill while securing more than $300 billion for cutting the deficit, a priority for Manchin. Democrats sourced the funds from a series of changes to tax law, including a new minimum tax on corporations and fresh investments in the Internal Revenue Service that will help it pursue tax cheats.

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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-says-russia-using-nuclear-shield-ukraine-risks-terrible-accident-2022-08-02/

ISTANBUL/LONDON, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Russia on Tuesday accused the United States of direct involvement in the Ukraine war while the first ship carrying Ukrainian grain to world markets since Moscow's invasion headed towards Lebanon without problems.

Russia said it was responding to comments by Vadym Skibitsky, Ukraine's deputy head of military intelligence, about the way Kyiv used U.S.-supplied long-range HIMARs rocket-launch systems based on what he called excellent satellite imagery and real-time information.

Skibitsky told Britain's Telegraph newspaper there was consultation between U.S. and Ukrainian intelligence officials before strikes and that Washington had an effective veto on intended targets, though he said U.S. officials were not providing direct targeting information.

Russia's defence ministry, headed by a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, said the interview showed that Washington was entangled in the conflict despite repeated assertions that it was limiting its role to arms supplies because it did not want a direct confrontation with Moscow.

"All this undeniably proves that Washington, contrary to White House and Pentagon claims, is directly involved in the conflict in Ukraine," the Russian defence ministry said in a statement.

"It is the Biden administration that is directly responsible for all Kyiv-approved rocket attacks on residential areas and civilian infrastructure in populated areas of Donbas and other regions, which have resulted in mass deaths of civilians."

There was no immediate reaction to the ministry's allegations from the White House or Pentagon.

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