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8671
« on: September 01, 2014, 10:08:37 PM »
Let me use that run-down building over there as a small outpost for our Mojave location
*points to Silver Rush*
And in return we'll serve as your clean-up crew and secret police of sorts. We'll terrorize anybody who crosses you and can aid in keeping the Families (especially those Omertas) in good boundaries. I'll also throw in a 100,000 cap deal and a 65% discount on all energy weapons
You're not going to get much use out of that building and it's secluded up in the bad part of town. It's a win-win situation
The Great Khans demand that this plan be denied, or we will cease any production of chems.
8672
« on: September 01, 2014, 10:05:16 PM »
Great Khan soldiers expand south in search of new land.
8673
« on: September 01, 2014, 09:59:24 PM »
NV offers RRC the basement of the Robco factory to produce chem recipes in secret.
The Khans accept and send two permanent members to work in the factory.
8674
« on: September 01, 2014, 09:56:03 PM »
A steady supply of energy weapons and access to the strip for free.
Talon Company has the chem recipes. If you would like, the Great Khans will develop more if given a space within the strip to do so.
8675
« on: September 01, 2014, 09:53:49 PM »
NV accepts as long as the chem recipes go to us and not Talon.
Talon Company has receieved the chem recipes. Take it up with them.
8676
« on: September 01, 2014, 09:51:33 PM »
The Talon Company offers a fully-functional auto-doc in exchange for the chem recipes.
The Great Khan's accept.
8677
« on: September 01, 2014, 09:49:33 PM »
Khans discover lone box of energy pistols near Sloan. Taken back to RRC
8678
« on: September 01, 2014, 09:47:49 PM »
NV offers a supply of energy weapons in exchange for a steady supply of meds, chems and alchohol for the strip.
The Khan's can offer meds and alcohol, but will only offer the remaining batches of chems made before the push to eradicate them from the clan.
8679
« on: September 01, 2014, 09:47:02 PM »
The Talon Company sends a courier to Red Rock to discuss selling the old chem recipes to Talon.
The Khan Chieftain requests to know what the Khan's will get in return.
8680
« on: September 01, 2014, 09:46:13 PM »
*leads Great Khan coup*
Get out Kinder.
8681
« on: September 01, 2014, 09:43:56 PM »
NV sends a securitron ambassador to Red Rock Canyon.
The Great Khans welcome the Securitron with caution.
8682
« on: September 01, 2014, 09:37:32 PM »
The Great Khans send Ambassador Acai to the Mojave Outpost to discuss a potential treaty between the two sides. New Khan leader begins a push to outlaw all chems within the Red Rock Canyon, except for medical purposes.
8683
« on: September 01, 2014, 05:00:16 PM »
I'm going to have to make some alliances, and quick.
What time do we start?
8684
« on: September 01, 2014, 04:53:33 PM »
I shall claim the Great Khan's, I suppose.
8685
« on: September 01, 2014, 04:47:21 PM »
Someone pick a role for me.
8686
« on: September 01, 2014, 02:00:09 PM »
It does not matter what other people think. You are great, I enjoy your posts here.
8687
« on: September 01, 2014, 01:50:45 PM »
My response is required in this thread because of reasons.
8688
« on: September 01, 2014, 01:47:02 PM »
Ahh, always knew they were both benders.
Should've seen me on my date Friday night ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
8689
« on: September 01, 2014, 01:45:28 PM »
Why not? Some users think I'm incredibly annoying, and I don't want that.
So? You're an awesome poster, and if people can't have fun with it, they can just ignore you.
8690
« on: September 01, 2014, 01:42:48 PM »
tblocks and icywind

Which brooding, hormonal teenage firebender am I?
8691
« on: September 01, 2014, 01:15:46 PM »
8692
« on: September 01, 2014, 01:07:38 PM »
Damn, college has killed my posting time here.
8693
« on: September 01, 2014, 01:02:45 PM »
Not registered yet, though I can at any time. I'll likely register prior to the 2016 elections as a Democrat.
Though, it's New York. Pretty guaranteed how we'll go.
8694
« on: August 28, 2014, 03:01:26 PM »
I feel like this story needs a gay lovestory involving me.
8695
« on: August 28, 2014, 10:46:07 AM »
Is this the same incident that's in that other thread where the cops didn't want to act out of fear of being racist?
Never even noticed that thread. Ah well. Let this die.
8696
« on: August 28, 2014, 10:39:59 AM »
This is honestly fucking disgusting(CNN) -- Hundreds of children have been systematically raped, beaten and sex trafficked in a northern English town for more than 12 years. And it is still going on, a government commissioned report says.
The "appalling" revelations also expose cultural tensions and lack of communication between authorities and the town's ethnic minorities that may have helped stop it.
Social counselors saw evidence of sexual exploitation early on, but turned a blind eye, according to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Rotherham.
The city's government recently made the inquiry's report available on its website.
And so the abuses amassed, which included gang rape and death threats at gunpoint.
At least 1,400 cases of abuse went on between 1997 and 2013 -- a conservative estimate, the report says. This year, specialist investigators are handling 51 cases. Other teams are looking at additional cases.
Torturous sexual abuse
The exploitation has reached a level tantamount to torture, according to the report.
"There were examples of children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone," the report says.
Some victims were not even in their teens.
"Girls as young as 11 were raped by large numbers of male perpetrators," the inquiry says.
The report accuses politicians, social services and police of "blatant" failure to stop them, citing an inability to traverse cultural barriers with Rotherham's small Muslim community.
Fear of label of racism
The perpetrators often worked together and were mostly of Pakistani heritage; the victims were mostly white girls, the report says.
An earlier report said that "Asian" gangs originally were exploiting women and girls "for their personal gratification" but later turned to making money with it, passing girls around.
Social counselors often took a hands-off approach to the cases for fear of being branded as racists or stoking a right-wing backlash in the city.
"Several (counselors) interviewed believed that by opening up these issues they could be 'giving oxygen' to racist perspectives that might in turn attract extremist political groups and threaten community cohesion. To some extent this concern was valid, with the apparent targeting of the town by groups such as the English Defence League," the report says.
Though known victims were mostly white, the report delved into an underbelly of alleged systematic abuse by select groups of Asian men against women in their own ethnic groups.
These often go unreported, because the victims fear vengeance or public shame in their communities, the report says. Perpetrators may be using that fear to blackmail these victims into continued sexual servitude.
Community left out
Cultural differences also hindered effective involvement with concerned members of Rotherham's Pakistani community.
Authorities turned to male community leaders and imams and greatly left out women. Many ethnic Pakistani women told the Inquiry that it made them feel disenfranchised and prevented people from speaking openly about abuse.
Members of both genders said they missed any direct engagement on the topic by officials. "This needed to be addressed urgently, rather than 'tiptoeing' around the issue," the report said.
Under the rug
Some social counselors also hoped cases they were seeing were one-off occurrences and hoped they would go away. That may have been bolstered by the fact that the vast majority of child sexual abusers in Britain are white males.
Research reports on the problem began appearing a few years ago, but they had little effect.
"The first of these reports was effectively suppressed, because some senior officers disbelieved the data it contained," the report said.
Social services managers downplayed the problem. Officials thought reports were exaggerated. Law enforcement gave it little importance.
"Police gave no priority to (child sexual abuse), regarding many child victims with contempt and failing to act on their abuse as a crime," the report said.
Improvement but frustration
By the time awareness of the problem increased by 2009, thinly staffed social service workers were overwhelmed by the number of potential victims.
There has been a marked improvement in training police to recognize sexual abuse and work together with social services, the inquiry says.
"But the team struggles to keep pace with the demands of its workload," according to the report. And finances are running low.
And still, few cases even make it to court.
8697
« on: August 27, 2014, 05:27:03 PM »
Well. I have an iPhone and Macbook.
So. Yeah.
8698
« on: August 27, 2014, 07:53:50 AM »
[citation needed]
[It's PSU]
8699
« on: August 22, 2014, 12:49:30 AM »
 This thread is now about this gif.
8700
« on: August 21, 2014, 12:29:00 PM »
I refuse to let it die. Whenever it falls a couple pages behind I bump it to the top again. 
Let this die, Canadian.
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