bishopshodan Posted September 24, 2019 Share Posted September 24, 2019 Didn't know where to post this... haven't seen a pipeline thread in a while. Anyhoots, Alberta can't turn off the taps.. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/turn-off-the-taps-legislation-bc-suspended-1.5295354 B.C. wins injunction blocking Alberta's turn-off-the-taps legislation over oil Social Sharing Alberta loses power to pinch oil exports to other provinces after Federal Court suspends Bill 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBH1926 Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 This is what happens when habitual criminal on parole doesn’t get sent back to prison after violating his parole. https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-officer-dies-cold-blooded-manner-traffic-stop/story?id=65914013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canada Hockey Place Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 So South Korea bought some F-35 fighter jets - https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/south-korea-displays-f-35-stealth-jets-seen-by-the-north-as-a-threat-11958078 North Korea saw that as a threat. Then hours after agreeing with the US to talk Friday, they fired 2 missiles. One may have been from a submarine. - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49902182 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted October 7, 2019 Author Share Posted October 7, 2019 Remember when Donald Trump said he could walk down a street in New York, shoot someone in the face and not lose votes? Well, it appears that you can cause someone's death through your own negligence in the UK and get away with it.... ....as long as you're the wife of a US diplomat: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/identity-revealed-of-us-diplomats-wife-who-fatally-hit-british-teen/ar-AAIo3Ac?li=AAggNb9 Quote The wife of a US diplomat who fatally hit a British teenager and left the country is Anne Sacoolas, Sky News can reveal. Mrs Sacoolas, 42, has claimed diplomatic immunity and left the UK for America after 19-year-old Harry Dunn was killed in a head-on collision while riding his motorbike. Police believe Mrs Sacoolas was on the wrong side of the road as she emerged from Northamptonshire's RAF Croughton on 27 August. Sky News is naming her after earlier revealing a deal gives diplomats and their families at the US spy base diplomatic immunity. Immunity usually only covers those diplomats and their dependants based in London. However, Sky News has been told a special arrangement has been in place as early as 1994 for this particular base. Government ministers have called for the American woman to return to the UK to answer questions about the incident. Harry's father, Tim Dunn, told Sky News: "It's appalling, you can't have this precedence where you can have this immunity. "It's basically saying you can do what you like and you'll be okay - it's wrong. That can't be right." Harry's mother, Charlotte Charles, called it "inhumane". Police told Sky News that initial findings showed Harry was on the correct side of the road, but that a woman who pulled out of the base onto the wrong side hit him head-on. Sky News first revealed on Friday that the driver was believed to be the wife of a US diplomat. Harry's family have launched a crowdfunding campaign to fight for justice, with one woman alone already pledging £5,000. Ms Charles told Sky News: "If we don't get justice we'll try and use money to get the law changed so people can't kill and go away." Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom, the family's local MP, has made an appeal for the woman to offer "closure" to the family. She told Sky News: "I met with Harry's family on Friday and they're totally devastated. "It's just the most appalling tragedy and my heart goes out to them. Anybody who met them would realise this is just heartbreaking. "Obviously I'm going to do everything I can to make sure they get justice for Harry." The US embassy has confirmed to Sky News that the woman has left the UK. It is understood that someone on the American side told the family to go back to the US. A spokesperson said: "This kind of case receives intense attention at senior levels and every case is considered carefully given the global impact such decisions carry.' Cabinet minister Robert Jenrick told Sky News that Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab had spoken to the US ambassador and "made clear our disappointment that the woman involved in this incident has left the UK using diplomatic immunity". Sky News has tried to contact Mrs Sacoolas for comment but was unable to do so as she has not returned to her original address in the US. First of all, RIP, Harry. Second, stop hiding behind your diplomatic immunity and give these folks some closure, you dizzy b*tch. And BTW, lose that driver's license. You don't deserve to keep it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canada Hockey Place Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 A list of Russian arms sales in the news from July-Oct 2019. July - Turkey buys S400 missiles. Sept 9 - U.S. eyeing sanctions over Turkey's S-400 buy https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-turkey-sanctions/u-s-eyeing-sanctions-over-turkeys-s-400-buy-mnuchin-idUSKCN1VU1DF Sept 9 - India to receive delivery of S-400 missiles within 18-19 months https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/s400-missiles-delivery-india-within-18-19-months-1597023-2019-09-09 Sept 16 - Russia has offered to sell Saudi Arabia the same missile defense it sold Iran and Turkey after U.S. systems failed to detect or intercept a recent attack on key oil sites in the kingdom. https://www.newsweek.com/russia-saudi-missiles-same-iran-1459510 Oct. 4 - Speaking at an international affairs conference in Moscow on Thursday, Putin said Russia had been helping China develop such a system. He added that “this is a very serious thing that will radically enhance China’s defence capability”. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/04/russia-is-helping-china-build-a-missile-defence-system-putin-says Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishopshodan Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Syria Update: Turkey Is Blowing the Hell Out of It and the Russians Are Cheering https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a29415614/turkey-invade-syria-kurds-russia-donald-trump/ Everything you knew was going to happen is happening in northern Syria. Everything the president* should have known was going to happen—or, at the very least, vaguely care about happening, had he a shred of either intellect or humanity—is happening. Turkey is blowing the hell out of it. The Russians are cheering. The Iranians are thrilled. And the Kurds, sold out by another American president, are running for cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tre Mac Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 On 10/7/2019 at 6:39 AM, RUPERTKBD said: Remember when Donald Trump said he could walk down a street in New York, shoot someone in the face and not lose votes? Well, it appears that you can cause someone's death through your own negligence in the UK and get away with it.... ....as long as you're the wife of a US diplomat: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/identity-revealed-of-us-diplomats-wife-who-fatally-hit-british-teen/ar-AAIo3Ac?li=AAggNb9 First of all, RIP, Harry. Second, stop hiding behind your diplomatic immunity and give these folks some closure, you dizzy b*tch. And BTW, lose that driver's license. You don't deserve to keep it. I hope she rots in hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted October 9, 2019 Author Share Posted October 9, 2019 1 hour ago, Tre Mac said: I hope she rots in hell. It's infuriating.... ....honestly, what adult doesn't realize that Brits drive on the other side of the road....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted October 10, 2019 Author Share Posted October 10, 2019 19 hours ago, Tre Mac said: I hope she rots in hell. Sooner or later all things American eventually come back to Donald Trump.... Trumps says she won't be returning to the UK and that "accidents happen". He also explains how "they drive on the other side of the road" and that it's "confusing"... https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/harry-dunn-death-diplomats-wife-will-not-return-to-uk-trump-notes-say/ar-AAIyPCB?li=AAggNb9 (Click the link for the full story. Trump's comments are in an embedded video) Quote The wife of a US diplomat suspected of involvement in the death of a British teenage motorcyclist will not be returned to the UK for trial, according to briefing notes provided to Donald Trump. Briefing notes for a press conference on Wednesday, pictured by a Washington Post photographer, tell the president to say: “(If raised) note, as Secretary Pompeo told [foreign secretary] Raab, that the spouse of the US Government employee will not return to the United Kingdom.” Harry Dunn, 19, died when his motorcycle collided on 27 August with a car being driven by the US diplomat’s wife, who was then flown out of the UK, in a case that has driven a wedge between Washington and London. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted October 17, 2019 Author Share Posted October 17, 2019 Stay classy, China.....(I can say that because I don't have any relatives living there) https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/think-of-your-family-china-threatens-european-citizens-over-xinjiang-protests/ar-AAIWcvq?li=AAggNb9 Quote Two days after Abdujelil Emet sat in the public gallery of Germany’s parliament during a hearing on human rights, he received a phone call from his sister for the first time in three years. But the call from Xinjiang, in western China, was anything but a joyous family chat. It was made at the direction of Chinese security officers, part of a campaign by Beijing to silence criticism of policies that have seen more than a million Uighurs and other Muslim minorities detained in internment camps. Emet’s sister began by praising the Communist party and making claims of a much improved life under its guidance before delivering a shock: his brother had died a year earlier. But Emet, 54, was suspicious from the start; he had never given his family his phone number. Amid the heartbreaking news and sloganeering, he could hear a flurry of whispers in the background, and he demanded to speak to the unknown voice. Moments later the phone was handed to a Chinese official who refused to identify himself. By the end of the conversation, the façade constructed by the Chinese security agent was broken and Emet’s sister wept as she begged him to stop his activism. Then the Chinese official took the phone again with a final warning. “You’re living overseas, but you need to think of your family while you’re running around doing your activism work in Germany,” he said. “You need to think of their safety.” In interviews with more than two dozen Uighurs living across Europe and the United States, tales of threats across the world are the rule, not the exception. Uighurs living in Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, and France all complained of similar threats against family members back in Xinjiang, and some were asked to spy for China. More than a million Uighurs, a Muslim Turkic ethnic group, and other minorities are being held in extrajudicial internment camps, according to the UN, with some estimates saying the number is “closer to 3 million”. Emet, originally from Aksu in Xinjiang, has lived in Germany for over two decades and is a naturalised citizen. He does volunteer work for the World Uyghur Congress and is a part-time imam in his community. He has never told his family about his activism, hoping the omission would protect them. “I will not keep my silence and the Chinese government should not use my family to threaten me,” Emet said. “I was clear with them on the phone: if they harm my family, I will speak out louder and become a bigger problem for the government.” Most Uighurs remain silent, and have found little help from European authorities. But Margarete Bause, a member of the German parliament representing Munich, said Chinese interference was unacceptable and urged Uighurs to contact their MPs. “We need to protect visitors to the Bundestag. Observing parliament is a fundamental right in any democracy,” she said. “It’s also important for the German public to know how China is trying to exert influence here. The Chinese government threatening people in Germany should never become normalised.” Bause has been interested in Uighur issues for over a decade, after she was admonished by Chinese diplomats in 2006 for attending an event hosted by the World Uyghur Congress. In August she was denied a visa as part of a parliamentary visit to China and the trip was eventually cancelled in response. Beyond discouraging activism, Chinese officials have also tried to recruit Uighurs living abroad to spy on others in their community, asking for photos of private gatherings, names, phone numbers, addresses and licence plate numbers. Some are recruited when they go to Chinese diplomatic missions in Europe to request documents, and others are contacted by security agents over WeChat, a popular Chinese messaging app. Emet’s number is likely to have been leaked to Chinese security agents this way, he said, with his number well known in the Uighur community in Munich. Chinese agents offer cash, the promise of visas to visit Xinjiang or better treatment for family members as a reward, but also dangle the threat of harsh consequences for those same family members if their offers are refused. Uighurs described having crucial documents withheld from Chinese embassies and consulates unless they agreed. One Uighur living in Germany who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation said a Chinese agent asked for photos of Eid and other celebrations, and specifically asked for information on Uighurs who had recently arrived in Europe. The recent surge in activism among Uighurs overseas is mostly a direct response to the increasingly repressive policies in Xinjiang, and as more people speak out China has doubled efforts to silence them and control the narrative over what it calls “re-education camps”. There are some signs China’s campaign to silence Uighurs in Europe is working. Gulhumar Haitiwaji became an outspoken critic of policies after her mother disappeared into one of the camps in Xinjiang, appearing on French television and starting a petition addressed to French president Emmanuel Macron that garnered nearly half a million signatures. But after threats from Chinese officials targeting her mother, Haitiwaji cancelled a planned appearance in March at a human rights summit in Geneva, according to two sources familiar with her plans. Haitiwaji and the organisers of the meeting did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Adrian Zenz, an independent researcher who focuses on Xinjiang, said European governments needed to do more to protect their citizens from Chinese intimidation. “The biggest mistake European Union countries make is that once they allow China to get away with something, that emboldens Beijing,” he said. “China has systematic strategies in place and the threats to Uighurs in exile show that. Europe needs its own unified strategy to stand up to China and respond to these threats.” The Chinese embassy in Berlin did not respond to requests for comment. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
189lb enforcers? Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-10-03/ancient-city-hasankeyf-underwater Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted October 18, 2019 Author Share Posted October 18, 2019 8 hours ago, 189lb enforcers? said: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-10-03/ancient-city-hasankeyf-underwater It's just like Three Gorges in China...millions of acres are flooded, thousands, if not millions of (mostly poor) people are displaced and the government calls it a huge success.... I'm generally in favor of Hydroelectric projects because they're a cleaner source of electricity, but the people that are displaced need to be compensated properly. Unfortunately, that doesn't always happen.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
189lb enforcers? Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 29 minutes ago, RUPERTKBD said: It's just like Three Gorges in China...millions of acres are flooded, thousands, if not millions of (mostly poor) people are displaced and the government calls it a huge success.... I'm generally in favor of Hydroelectric projects because they're a cleaner source of electricity, but the people that are displaced need to be compensated properly. Unfortunately, that doesn't always happen.... Greta has a lot to learn about the reality of which her puppet strings are tied to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted October 18, 2019 Author Share Posted October 18, 2019 https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/18/business/bud-light-secret-recipe-stolen/index.html Quote Anheuser-Busch InBev has accused rival brewer Miller Coors of obtaining the secret recipes for Bud Light and Michelob Ultra, the latest shot in a long running legal dispute. The world's largest brewer claimed Thursday in US court documents that Miller Coors, a subsidiary of Molson Coors (TAP), has obtained the "precise recipes" for some of its most popular beers, which it considers trade secrets. Not sure how you can "steal" the recipe for water, but whatevs.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishopshodan Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 3 hours ago, 189lb enforcers? said: Greta has a lot to learn about the reality of which her puppet strings are tied to. how dare you! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted October 18, 2019 Author Share Posted October 18, 2019 4 minutes ago, 6of1_halfdozenofother said: Can't read this article because it's behind a registration wall. Could someone provide us with a summary of what the article is about please? The most I can gather is that it's perhaps peripherally related to 3Gorges and damned dams damning the dammed damners, thanks to @RUPERTKBD's comment. HASANKEYF, Turkey — Ask shepherd Ramazan Agalday how long his family has lived in the ancient city of Hasankeyf in southeastern Turkey, and his rheumy eyes cloud over. “I am 80 years old and I was born here. So were all my ancestors before me and their ancestors before them; it’s been a long time,” he says, tapping his walking stick while catching his breath after the steep climb to the man-made caves in the limestone cliffs where he keeps his flock. For up to 12,000 years, the Tigris River has sustained the people of Hasankeyf, one of the oldest known human settlements. Now time is running out for the ancient town. Soon a controversial dam project will swell the Tigris until its waters swallow the city whole. Then, this historic crossroads of empires and cultures and one of the cradles of human civilization will disappear. Today, after decades in limbo battling to save Hasankeyf, residents have been told they must leave by Tuesday, when the dam will close and the water begins to rise. Agalday says he has no idea where he will go. Like many here, he cannot afford one of the 700 new homes built in the parallel city of New Hasankeyf, built on higher ground on the other side of the Tigris. Besides, he has been told he cannot take his sheep and goats. “I will have to sell them. What else can I do?” he says, tapping his stick harder. The $1.3-billion Ilisu dam spanning the Tigris 46 miles downriver toward the Iraq and Syrian borders is a massive structure — 453 feet high and nearly 6,000 feet wide. It’d been planned for more than 60 years and was finally completed last year. The Turkish government says it is part of an ambitious hydropower and irrigation project to boost electricity supplies in the region and, with luck, usher in an economic boom. Yet residents are skeptical they will reap any benefit, and scientists believe the human, historical and ecological toll is too high. The dam’s reservoir will cover 121 square miles, displacing about 15,000 people in the region and consigning 300 archaeological sites and settlements to the depths. In Hasankeyf, where the water will rise by roughly 200 feet, 80% of the city will vanish. Appeals to the United Nations to declare Hasankeyf a World Heritage Site and spare it from the floodwaters have failed. The ancient city ticks nine of the 10 required criteria boxes, but the Turkish government must first apply for conservation listing, something it has declined to do. A separate appeal to the European Court of Human Rights to stop the dam also failed. Over the millenniums, more than 20 different cultures have left their mark on Hasankeyf, which sits in the Fertile Crescent in a land once known as Mesopotamia, making it a living record of human evolution. Its treasures include roughly 4,000 cave dwellings carved out by Neolithic settlers, a 12th century Byzantine palace, a 15th century tomb tower decorated with glazed blue and turquoise tiles, the remnants of a 12th century bridge thought to have been used by Marco Polo on his way along the Silk Road to China, and the traces of a Roman fortress. Today the postcard-perfect view of Hasankeyf from the east bank of the Tigris has largely been erased. The great palace is encased in concrete, ready to be submerged, and seven of the city’s most impressive buildings have been moved to the new town, either dismantled and rebuilt or lifted onto wheeled trolleys and dragged across the bridge. Zeynep Ahunbay, professor of architectural history at Istanbul Technical University, believes at least one-third of Hasankeyf’s historical treasures — many of them excavated — will be flooded. In a 2006 report to the International Council on Monuments and Sites, which works for the conservation and protection of the world’s cultural heritage, Ahunbay insisted that the survival of Hasankeyf should take precedence over “short-term economic prosperity.” “Public opinion and scholarly concerns back up the view that short-lived dams should not be permitted to devastate culturally abundant lands,” she wrote. “Hasankeyf should not be ‘Doomed by the Dam.’ ” At a cafe on the eastern bank of the Tigris, tourist buses disgorge visitors who take photographs and sip sweet tea or bitter Turkish coffee while dangling their feet in the Tigris. Tourists used to wander into the city; nowadays, more often than not, they jump back into their buses and disappear. Over the bridge, the old city’s bazaar — lined with shops selling souvenirs, trinkets, kebabs and goatskin and kilim rugs — is deserted. Shopkeeper Arif Ayhan’s eyes brim with tears as he sits outside his rug store and talks about leaving Hasankeyf. He received two official letters ordering him to go, but says he sent both back. “I don’t want to leave here. I will protest, but what can we do? We cannot stay when the water comes. This is our home and it will be destroyed along with our history, heritage and culture,” he says. “My parents used to live in the caves. It was a hard life, but they look back on those days and say we were poor but we were happy.” Mehmet Ali, another bazaar shopkeeper, wonders why the coming flood hasn’t attracted global outrage. “I have lived here all my life and my grandparents and their grandparents who used to live in the caves. Why has the global media remained silent, why doesn’t it do something?” he said. “Hasankeyf is like an open-air museum. It’s a place of historical heritage. It’s unique. And it’s not just my heritage or the people of Hasankeyf’s but a world heritage.” Deniz Tas, 38, a kebab chef in a Hasankeyf restaurant, sits amid his family’s worldly goods in the back of a green flatbed truck, ready to head over the bridge to the new town. “My family has lived in Hasankeyf for more than 500 years,” Tas says. “We used to live in the caves. Of course I am sad to leave, but my wife and I are lucky to have a house in the new town to go to.” Most of the 3,000 people who live in the ancient city have already left for the cookie-cutter, sand-colored single-story homes on the unfinished rubble-strewn streets in New Hasankeyf. The new shopping mall there is empty and deserted, as are most of the homes. The requirements for buying one of the new homes have been complex and shifting. Single people, for instance, are not eligible, and for many the government simply didn’t give them enough for their old homes to afford a house in New Hasankeyf. Hasankeyf is in a predominantly Kurdish region and until 2015 was a stronghold of the Kurdistan Workers Party, known as the PKK, which was engaged in a struggle with the Turkish government that had declared it a terrorist organization. Cetin Bato, 38, of the Keep Hasankeyf Alive lobby group, is one of a few brave enough to voice the widespread local belief that the Turkish government has an ulterior, political motive for the flooding: to disperse the opposition Kurdish population and thwart any hope that the Kurds in southeastern Turkey, northern Syria and northwestern Iraq can form an independent Kurdistan. “Our protests have forced backers to pull out and forced constructors to stop constructing, but the president has said, ‘I will build this dam.’ He is determined, and the main reason is to crush the Kurds,” Bato said. “They are deleting our history. Civilizations are based on their history, and if you destroy that, you destroy them,” he said. “And that’s the aim.” John Crofoot, an Arkansas resident and expert on Arabic and Turkish literature and culture, lives part time in Hasankeyf. Turkey is destroying a “unique artifice of medieval Islamic civilization,” he says, as well as the biodiversity of the region. “It’s just wrong,” Crofoot says. “It’s not just that it’s home for the people of Hasankeyf who don’t want to leave; this is a huge cultural and historical loss of a site of universal culture and heritage.” The mayor’s office in Hasankeyf and other government authorities did not respond to efforts to contact them. The Turkish authorities began filling the reservoir last year but stopped after drought-plagued Iraq requested it keep the Tigris flowing. In this arid part of the world, locals fear the dam will spark “water wars” with Turkey’s neighbors who depend on the Tigris. Hasankeyf tourist guide Mazlum Yildirimer said he feared the dam will become a source of “endless problems.” “For the last 100 years, there have been problems with our neighbors because of a lack of water,” he said. “Changing the course of rivers changes the world.” 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted October 18, 2019 Author Share Posted October 18, 2019 There are some profoundly evil people in this world..... https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/18/us/alabama-missing-girl-a-week-later/index.html Quote An Alabama 3-year-old has been missing for nearly a week and -- though there have been moments of hope and anticipation -- no arrests have been made and there is still no sign of the toddler. Kamille "Cupcake" McKinney vanished Saturday night from a birthday party in the Birmingham housing complex where her family lives. Birmingham Police released surveillance video Friday of two men seen outside the housing complex. Kamille and another 3-year-old child are also seen in the video, recorded the night she disappeared, according to police Chief Patrick Smith. One of the men, who was not publicly identified by police, is considered a suspect, according to Smith. The other man may have information about the girl's disappearance, he said. The video shows one man first walking past the two children. Later, another man stops and appears to talk to them. The video ends just after the two children follow the second man out of view of the camera. The toddler, who is 3 feet tall and weighs 60 pounds, was last seen wearing a pink T-shirt with a Minnie Mouse leopard print design, according to the Amber Alert. Police and her family are calling out for her safe return. "Drop her off anywhere and let her out. Somebody will see her. Everybody knows what's going on," her father Dominic McKinney told CNN affiliate WBMA. "That will be the end of that. We just want the baby back." The search began after a party Saturday night. Four days later and seven miles from where she was last seen, police initiated a Wednesday morning search on an apartment complex in southwestern Birmingham. A crowd gathered around the complex and police posted video of their vehicles parked nearby, some blocking roads leading to the complex. Video from CNN affiliate WBRC showed several well-armed officers leave one building, and some areas blocked off with yellow police tape. Birmingham Police Chief Patrick Smith spoke at a press conference Wednesday evening. He did not say what prompted the search on that complex, but he did say it did not reveal any new information. Wednesday's search fueled rumors that Kamille had been found. Smith shut the rumors down, urging the community to be skeptical of rumors and information posted on social media and bring information directly to police. The chief also announced an increase in the reward for information that helps police solve the case to $20,000. The reward is offered by Crime Stoppers of Metro Alabama and is separate from a $5,000 reward offered by Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, which is contingent on providing information that leads to an arrest and conviction in the case. The members of the Jefferson County Commission then each gave $1,600 from their discretionary funds to add an additional $8,000 to Crime Stoppers' reward, bringing the total offering to $33,000. "So, you could literally call with your tip today, pick up your money in cash next week and you're totally anonymous," said Frank Barefield, chairman of Crime Stoppers of Metro Alabama. "There's no better deal in town than that." A vehicle matching the description of the SUV Kamille was allegedly taken in led to a man and a woman being taken into police custody Sunday night for questioning, authorities said. Patrick Devone Stallworth, 39, and Derick Irisha Brown, 29, were questioned on Wednesday, police Sgt. Johnny Williams said, but investigators did not immediately get information on Kamille's whereabouts Neither have been charged in her disappearance, but both have been charged in unrelated cases, police said. Smith said child pornography was found on Stallworth's phone and he was charged with four counts of possession of child pornography and three counts of possession of child pornography with intent to distribute. Brown was held on probation revocation with no bond for an unrelated kidnapping, Smith said. Stallworth was released from an Alabama jail Thursday morning after posting bond, set at $500,000. CNN has been in contact with Stallworth's assigned attorney, who had not spoken with his client since his release. Investigators are waiting for DNA evidence to determine whether Kamille was ever in the vehicle, and police have not found any connection between the two and Kamille's family, Smith said. That poor child.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckster19 Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 (edited) 8 hours ago, RUPERTKBD said: There are some profoundly evil people in this world..... https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/18/us/alabama-missing-girl-a-week-later/index.html That poor child.... No kidding, a 3 year old that weighs 60 pounds, obviously a product of negligent parents, hopefully child services steps in if she is found. Edited October 19, 2019 by canuckster19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurn Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 1 hour ago, canuckster19 said: obviously a product of negligent parents, hopefully child services steps in if she is found. nice assumption, have you talked to the child's doctor to confirm there is no medical condition involved? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted October 23, 2019 Author Share Posted October 23, 2019 https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/22/us/alabama-3-year-old-remains-found/index.html Quote The remains of a 3-year-old child found in a Birmingham, Alabama, landfill are believed to belong to Kamille "Cupcake" McKinney, a child who had been missing for a little more than a week, police said. Authorities will now work to secure warrants for capital murder and kidnapping on two people who were previously named persons of interest in the missing girl's case, Birmingham Police Chief Patrick Smith said in a news conference Tuesday. Patrick Stallworth, 39, and Derick Brown, 29, were taken into custody and questioned by police last week after video evidence and witnesses connected them to a vehicle seen during the night of October 12, when Kamille went missing. The dumpster where the child's body was placed, Smith said, wasn't far from the apartment complex she was last seen in. Stallworth's attorney, Emory Anthony, said he didn't know "anything about what's going on." Anthony said he doesn't know anything about the circumstances, the evidence, or the reasoning behind his arrest and added he hasn't spoken to Stallworth yet. CNN is trying to reach an attorney for Brown. Police believe the kidnapping was something Stallworth and Brown thought about and acted upon and they found an opportunity to take the young child, Smith said Tuesday. Investigation will reveal what happened after that, he said. "It only takes a split second," Smith said in the news conference. "We can no longer assume that everyone is a part of the village that is trying to raise the child." The toddler was at a birthday party in the apartment complex her family lived in. A multi-state Amber Alert issued after her disappearance said she may have been abducted by a man and a woman in a dark-colored SUV. Police didn't get any information on the child's location when they first interviewed Stallworth and Brown -- but were able to secure warrants on unrelated charges. Stallworth, who was back in police custody Tuesday, was previously charged with four counts of possession of child pornography and three counts of possession of child pornography with intent to distribute. Brown remains in custody for an unrelated kidnapping. Smith said Tuesday there is no connection between the two and Kamille's family. "This young child has touched a nation," the chief said. "This young child has definitely sent a message across that nation that we all must be diligent to protect them all." On Friday, police released surveillance video they hoped would help find the child, of two men seen outside the housing complex. Kamille and another 3-year-old child are also seen in the video, recorded the night she disappeared, according to police Chief Patrick Smith. The video shows one man first walking past the two children. Later, another man stops and appears to talk to them. The video ends just after the two children follow the second man out of view of the camera. One man was a suspect and the other may have had information about the girl's disappearance, police had said. Kamille, 3 feet tall and 60 pounds, was last seen waring a pink T-shirt with a Minnie Mouse leopard print design, the Amber Alert had said. For days, the state and country tuned into to the search as police remained hopeful to find the young girl alive. "In my heart, I believe that she is alive, and we are going to press forward in hopes that she is. It is my hope and prayer that we are able to bring her back home to her family safely," Smith said last week. He asked residents of the apartment complex Kamille was taken from to come forward with any cell phone video that may be helpful. Crime Stoppers of Metro Alabama offered a $20,000 reward to anyone with information which would help police solve the crime. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in the kidnapping. A private individual put up another $1,000. Her father begged for the girl's return. "Drop her off anywhere and let her out. Somebody will see her. Everybody knows what's going on," Dominic McKinney told CNN affiliate WBMA. "That will be the end of that. We just want the baby back." I know there are religious people on CDC and I respect your beliefs. However, the story above is an example of why I don't share them. Imagine the last hours of this poor, innocent child's life and ask yourself, "What kind of God would allow this"? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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