From your leaf neighbour.

!chuds did you really think he was going to prison?

ARLINGTON, Va.—Sam Brinton is a free man. The disgraced former Department of Energy official pleaded guilty to petit larceny as part of a sweetheart deal that will see him serve no jail time after facing felony charges that carried a sentence of up to 20 years.

State prosecutors quietly announced the plea deal during a hearing last week in Arlington General District Court, which is just an eight-minute drive from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport where Brinton stole a Tanzanian female fashion designer's luggage containing her custom designs six years ago.

According to prosecutors, Brinton entered into an adult diversion program, which requires him to undergo mental health treatment, write a letter of apology, and complete 50 hours of community service helping the elderly. As part of the deal, the charges against Brinton were amended from grand larceny, a felony offense, to petit larceny, a misdemeanor.

The agreement allows Brinton—who made headlines in June 2022 as one of the first-ever nonbinary gender-fluid federal appointees—to escape jail time in a case that could have resulted in as many as 20 years imprisonment, according to Virginia sentencing guidelines for grand larceny. The agreement marks the third time Brinton has been able to escape serving any jail time for stealing women's luggage from airports.

While the agreement was finalized last week, the case remains open. A follow-up hearing in the case is slated for June 2025 to review Brinton's progress. The case may then, at that point, be closed.

"The resolution we came to is supported by the facts and circumstances of the case as a whole," Jessika Thomas, a spokeswoman for Arlington County commonwealth's attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti, said in a statement. "Unfortunately, since this case remains pending, we are prohibited from commenting further."

Brinton and his legal representation declined when asked for comment on the case following the hearing last week. Brinton's husband Kevin Rieck told a Washington Free Beacon reporter to "go away."

In a related civil case filed in Montgomery County, Md., Brinton reached a settlement this week with plaintiff Asya Khamsin, the Tanzanian designer whose luggage he stole at the Washington, D.C.-area airport, the Free Beacon has learned. A stipulated dismissal of the suit is expected to be filed later this week.

Under the settlement, Brinton agreed to pay Khamsin an undisclosed dollar amount and wrote the designer an apology letter.

"Mr. Brinton has apologized to Asya Khamsin, and Asya Khamsin has forgiven Mr. Brinton," legal counsel for Khamsin said in a statement. "Asya Khamsin has decided not to publish Mr. Brinton's letter of apology, as she considers the letter to be quite personal, sensitive, sincere, and heartfelt."

"Asya Khamsin hopes that the example of reconciliation that she and Mr. Brinton have set will encourage tolerance and coexistence in America, especially at this time of unfortunate public tension," the statement continued. "Asya Khamsin wishes Mr. Brinton all the best."

The case dates back to March 2018 when Brinton stole Khamsin's luggage from a baggage carousel at Reagan Airport. Early last year, Khamsin publicly accused Brinton of the theft after she came across photographs online of him at events wearing clothes similar to the designs contained in her stolen luggage.

On one such occasion, the high-end fashion magazine Vanity Fair published an article praising Brinton's style at a public event. Brinton's clothes featured in that February 2022 article were actually designed by Khamsin and stolen from her luggage four years earlier.

Then, in May 2023, police executed a search warrant of Brinton's Maryland residence in connection with the case. They confiscated clothes designed by Khamsin during the search. Felony charges were formally filed against Brinton one month later.

Khamsin filed her civil suit against Brinton in September 2023.

With the case settled, Khamsin's attorneys said she would like to focus on her work designing clothing and jewelry

Brinton, meanwhile, is now three-for-three in escaping jail time.

In October 2022, prosecutors in Minnesota charged Brinton with stealing a luggage worth $2,325 at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport in September 2022. Then, following extensive media coverage of those charges, Nevada prosecutors soon charged him with the July 2022 theft of luggage worth $3,670 at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas.

In the Minnesota case, Brinton entered an adult diversion program in April 2023, similar to the one finalized last week in Virginia. That same month, Brinton was handed a suspended jail sentence of 180 days, which he was not required to serve, in the Nevada case.

DOE announced in late 2022 that Brinton departed the agency, but declined to comment any further on the situation. During his short stint at DOE, he led the agency's Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition.

Another W for imperial powers. Communist Cuba peaked and is now sinking.

China couldn't save its communist ally.

Capitalism is a better system than communism any day.

That is how you know Russia will lose the war. They did not embrace capitalism well enough.

Under Schwab's oversight of the forum, "an atmosphere hostile to women and black people" in the workplace was "allowed to fester," the media outlet said, quoting internal complaints, email exchanges and interviews with staff members and people aware of the practices.

At least six female employees were reportedly sacked or saw their career paths negatively affected after getting pregnant or returning from maternity leave, while another half dozen were allegedly sexually harassed by senior managers, some of whom still remain at the organization. Two women told the outlet that they were sexually harassed years ago by VIP guests at forum gatherings.

Forum managers used the N-word around black employees, according to internal complaints obtained by the journal. Black people had been reportedly passed over for promotions or "left out of Davos."

Schwab had reportedly attempted to introduce an age limit for staff members, people familiar with the issue said, adding that the former executive "singled out a group of employees over 50 years old and instructed his human resources chief to get rid of them all."

Three female staff members, who used to work closely with Schwab, said that he made suggestive comments to them that made them uncomfortable over the course of several decades. Several other co-workers confirmed the allegations.

What did the reptilians mean by this?

!goyslopenjoyers !fat

Experts say that the West is currently at a "greater risk than previously expected" of falling after this concerning news from McDonald's Australia. Goyslop Enjoyers everywhere at risk of being affected by this news

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/30/europe/acid-attack-german-cafe-intl-latam/index.html

(CNN) — Several people have been injured by an acid attack in a cafe in the west German city of Bochum.

"A man entered the cafe at around 3.25 p.m. and poured an acidic liquid over a guest sitting at a table in the outdoor area" leaving the victim "seriously injured," local police said in press release.

A woman sitting at the table with him and a waitress were also injured.

During the operation, four police officers and two firefighters who came into contact with the liquid also sustained injuries, police said.

The perpetrator initially fled but was arrested shortly afterward in the vicinity.

The motive for the incident is still unclear. A police investigation is ongoing.

This is a developing story. More to come.

Remember: if you are German and you say something bad about the people involved, you will be jailed for longer than the perpetrators.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/middle-eastern-men-beat-lesbian-celebrating-birthday-canada/

Emma MacLean, left, and her girlfriend Tori, right, were assaulted by a group of men in downtown Halifax. Picture: Facebook

Terrifying video footage shows the moment a mob brutally beat a lesbian couple who were out celebrating one of their birthdays.

Emma MacLean was walking with her girlfriend Tori in Halifax, Canada when a group of about ten 'middle eastern men, believed to be from Syria' came towards them.

As the women passed, one of the men allegedly made a rude comment about Emma, prompting her girlfriend tori to stand up for her.

Tori said: "Hey that's my girlfriend," MacLean told Canadian news outlet CTVNews.

Emma MacLean was walking with her girlfriend Tori in Halifax, Canada. Picture: Facebook

Tori followed them and told them "that is not OK" - before the group set upon Tori.

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Emma said: "I see Tori being pushed on the stairs right in front of the BMO Centre, and they are cement stairs, and she's on her back - that's when all the men started punching and kicking them."

Emma said she was attacked after one of the men made a 'sexually degrading comment' towards her. Picture: Facebook

A bystander managed to alert police but by the time they arrived the fight had stopped.

Emma said police spoke to the men involved and that they blamed the fight on the women.

The rest refused to cooperate or give their IDs, Emma said.

Police have said the incident is under investigation and no charges have yet been brought.

Is it fricked up that I'm not even remotely surprised that this happened, but actually a lot more surprised that beating is as far as it went? These women are actually very lucky that they weren't r*ped and/or killed.

At this point, I'm wondering why these men who clearly never plan on assimilating are coming into western countries to begin with. If you want to live in a violent, misogynistic hellhole where you're allowed to form mobs and r*pe women for not wearing a burqa and beat them for being gay, then just stay in your own country.