The profits of PORN (video)

Editors, Wisdom Quarterly; Rory Carroll (theguardian.com) in Los Angeles 

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The number of permits issued for "adult" films plunges in the Valley and North Hollywood (both areas of greater L.A.) as the sex industry says producers have moved to Las Vegas and Eastern Europe.

The  number of permits issued for adult films fell 90% last year to just 40  permits compared with 2012, when the law was introduced, the Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday.

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“We’ve  seen a dramatic drop in permits,” Paul Audley, president of FilmLA,  told the paper. “It is a cause for concern that people who are manning  the cameras, lights and other things on those sets are not working  anymore.”

Voters in LA County backed the ban after the Aids Healthcare Foundation, an advocacy group, argued that unsafe sex on sets  spread HIV and other diseases.

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The industry protested in vain that it conducted regular health screenings and that audiences and performers tended to prefer porn without condoms.

The state senate is due to vote this month on whether to widen the ban to all of California.
 

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Most porn production takes place without permits -- a film can be shot in a  few days in a private house -- so it was unclear to what extent the 90%  fall in permits represented a wider flight.

Several porn producers said they had moved production to other parts of southern California, as well as Nevada, Florida, and Eastern Europe, where there is less  regulation. More 

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"Super Miranda," teen Craigslist Killer (video)

CC Liu, Amber Larson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; Daily Mail Reporters (Feb. 17, 2014)

"Super Miranda" murderous alter-ego

How many has she killed? Real-life "Dexter" confesses to murdering close to 100 "bad people" across the US while possessed by her Satanic alter-ego "Super Miranda."

• Miranda Barbour made the sensational claim in a newspaper interview over the weekend that she is a prolific female serial killer.

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  Regular mild-mannered Miranda

  The 19-year-old said that she stopped counting her victims after the 22nd victim.
• She told the reporter from jail during her interview that she could have killed dozens more.
• When pushed she said she had killed "less than 100" possessed by her Satanic alter-ego "Super Miranda."
• She is currently charged with the murder of [bad man] Troy LaFerrara, 42, in November, whom she met with her new husband, Elytte Barbour, using Craigslist.
• The teen mother has a son by a man who is now deceased, and his death is now part of the investigation.
• She claims she killed La Ferrara with a knife that has a notch on it for every victim.



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• Police in Pennsylvania told The Daily Item that they're working with investigators from other states and the FBI to probe possible connections to unsolved murders throughout the U.S.
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• "Super Miranda" has been compared to a "real life Dexter" -- after saying she only killed people who had done bad things.

Mother Miranda with her son

The Satan worshiping Pennsylvania teenager dubbed the "Craigslist Killer" and "the real life Dexter," who confessed to more than 22 murders in a sensational newspaper interview over the weekend, states that she could have killed dozens more.

When pushed on the total number of victims she claims to have killed, Miranda Barbour, 19, blurted out a staggering figure of, "less than 100."

Explaining that she adopted a murderous alter ego she dubbed "Super Miranda" when she killed, Barbour said that she kept a favorite knife that had notches on it -- one for each of her victims. More

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