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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Police say protester drones interfere with surveillance operations at DAPL protest site
Authorities say two drones interfered with surveillance operation Sunday morning at a Dakota Access Pipeline protest site.

Police say they encountered two instances of drones flying at helicopters in a threatening manner. A sheriff on board repots [sic] people on board were "in fear of their lives."

Around 11 a.m., a release from the Morton County Sheriff's Office says a drone was flying directly above officers. Police say that's in violation of FCC rules.

Officers then fired less-lethal ammunition at the drone. The release says the drone operator then landed it.

Police say two drone operators have been charged during the protests. Myron Dewey was charged with stalking. Aaron Turgeon has been charged with reckless endangerment, a Class C felony. Police say Turgeon flew a drone at a Highway Patrol plane.

Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 10/24/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


-Obits-
Tom Hayden, 1960s anti-war activist, dies at 76
[Guardian] The 1960s anti-war activist Tom Hayden, whose name became forever linked with the celebrated Chicago seven trial, Vietnam war protests and his ex-wife, actor Jane Fonda, has died aged 76.

Hayden died on Sunday after a long illness, said his wife, Barbara Williams. He had a stroke in 2015.

Once denounced as a traitor by his detractors, he won election to the California assembly and senate where he served for almost two decades as a progressive force on issues such as education and the environment. He was the only one of the radical Chicago seven defendants to win such distinction in the mainstream political world.

He was an enduring voice against war and spent his later years as a prolific writer and lecturer advocating for reform of US political institutions.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/24/2016 06:30 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why I read the obits.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/24/2016 6:33 Comments || Top||

#2  he won election to the California assembly and senate. Is it too late to ask for a re-count? The Dems are notorious ya know.

his ex-wife, actor Jane Fonda, has died aged 76. For some reason my vision narrowed to this part of the sentence. Call it tunnel-vision.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/24/2016 7:15 Comments || Top||

#3  I celebrate his demise and hope he died in great pain. Sepsis would be nice, but just dead is okay too. Jayne next I hope.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 10/24/2016 10:38 Comments || Top||

#4  GPS co-ordinates of the grave, please.
Posted by: Grunter || 10/24/2016 11:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Only the good die young
Posted by: One Eyed Guelph8102 || 10/24/2016 12:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Hope it was painful
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/24/2016 13:30 Comments || Top||

#7  Whiskey Mike - Amen, brother. The next time I visit the toilet, I will "remembrance" a few sheets in recollection of this shitstain of a hominid.
Posted by: Lone Ranger || 10/24/2016 13:31 Comments || Top||

#8  In typical journalist lie Tom Hayden was not anti war was just pro-Communist enemy.
Posted by: Crolunter Wittlesbach4284 || 10/24/2016 19:44 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Beelzebub: "I can't control this thermostat, boss!"
Radio Call: Cubs clinch NLCS 10/22/16
Posted by: Korora || 10/24/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  At this rate the Bills or Vikings will win the Super Bowl
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 10/24/2016 5:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Cleveland Browns
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/24/2016 12:26 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Janet Jackson, Now a Muslim, in Islamic Burka
Singer Janet Jackson was this week spotted in public for the first time since announcing her pregnancy - wear full Islamic dress.

The star is believed to have become a Muslim after marrying Qatari billionaire Wissam Al Manna, 41, in 2012.

Our exclusive pictures show the couple looking relaxed and happy as they shopped in London earlier this week.

The pair strolled hand in hand as Janet - who will become a mum for the first time later this year at the age of 50 - stroked her growing bump.

They were spotted browsing for children’s clothes at an upmarket boutique before stopping for lunch at a health food restaurant.
Posted by: Huperese Platypus6497 || 10/24/2016 04:34 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I thought it was an ill-fitting moo moo.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/24/2016 7:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Burka for Billions. Yeah, Islam was soooo appealing. Love to read the prenup.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/24/2016 10:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Someone should notify Mr. and Mrs. Jackson their daughter is a bloomin idiot.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/24/2016 11:26 Comments || Top||

#4  The Jackson's don't seem to understand that some affectations are a terminal in nature.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 10/24/2016 12:16 Comments || Top||

#5  The Jackson's don't seem to understand that some affectations are a terminal in nature.

No sense interfering or bothering them. Perhaps we'll just keep those 'affectations' to ourselves, shall we ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/24/2016 12:24 Comments || Top||

#6  Has the happy couple had time to blow up a CD shop or behead anyone who had music stored on their phone, or are they too busy trying to arrange a marriage for their unborn child?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/24/2016 12:33 Comments || Top||

#7  At least we may not have to endure any more 'Wardrobe Malfunctions' from her that will dominate the press.

Although a burqa is a societal malfunction in my book.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 10/24/2016 13:40 Comments || Top||

#8  40 year old dude dressed like Justin Bieber, and she looks like a tile display at a hardware store.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/24/2016 19:52 Comments || Top||

#9  Hopefully he will do an honor killing soon
Posted by: chris || 10/24/2016 21:35 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Mullah Arrested For Selling Kidnapped Girls
[Tolo News] The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said on Sunday they have tossed in the clink
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
a Mullah in Kabul
...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
who is suspected of helping another Mullah in the kidnapping of two maidens of tender years.

The two girls were kidnapped two weeks, but security forces managed to rescue them.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Kinnison began his slow infiltration of the sewer system...
the families of the kidnapped girls have called on government to arrest and prosecute the kidnappers.

Mullah Gulbuddin, the suspected kidnapper who was arrested, has reportedly confessed that he kidnapped five girls in the past and moved them to Khost district in Baghlan province.

He reportedly claims to have married two of them and gave three others to relatives in exchange for money. Three of his relatives allegedly each married a girl.

According to the families of the victims, the Mullah had been teaching the girls the Koran.

Mullah Gulbuddin was busy selling the girls each for 200,000 Afs when arrested by security forces.
There are 70 Afghan Afghani to one US dollar, according to the internet, so that's $2,857. A reasonable sum for a wife, one assumes...except for the kidnapping, of course.
Posted by: Fred || 10/24/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Caribbean-Latin America
Opposition-led Venezuela congress plans to bring Pres. Maduro to trial
[Iran Press TV] Venezuela's National Assembly has vowed to prosecute Nicolas Maduro for what it described as "violating democracy" after electoral officials suspended a recall referendum campaign that opposition parties had mounted against the South American country’s leader.

"It is a political and legal trial against President Nicolas Maduro to see what responsibility he has in the constitutional rupture that has broken democracy, human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
, and the future of the country," opposition politician Julio Borges said during a special congressional session on Sunday.

The National Electoral Council announced in a statement late on October 20 that it was putting a stop to the opposition-driven plebiscite against 53-year-old Maduro after four state courts called the signature-gathering process fraudulent.

The measure put an end to the opposition movement’s bid to end 17 years of socialist rule in Venezuela.

The government’s adversaries argue that the suspension of their effort to stage a plebiscite against Maduro shows that Venezuela has abandoned democracy.

Last week, the electoral council stated that a recall vote against Maduro could not take place this year, and that "the event could be held in the middle of the first quarter of 2017."
Posted by: Fred || 10/24/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  They and whose army?
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 10/24/2016 10:00 Comments || Top||

#2  I suppose it would be in poor taste to insist that this graphic be moved the.... 'Clinton Ally Aided Campaign of FBI Official’s Wife' story.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/24/2016 10:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Either way, this won't end well.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 10/24/2016 19:39 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
The latest numbers: over 35,000 people arrested in Turkey’s post-coup purge
[IsraelTimes] Justice minister says 3,907 suspects are still being sought, 26,000 released to ’judicial control
That sounds like it means either house arrest or probation.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
has locked away
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
more than 35,000 people over alleged links to the group run by the US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
, who is blamed for the failed July coup, local media reported Sunday.

Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said the suspects had been placed under arrest since the attempted putsch that fell apart within hours, quoted by NTV broadcaster.

Another 3,907 suspects were still being sought while nearly 26,000 people had been released into "judicial control," he said.

Some 82,000 individuals had been investigated in total since the coup bid, he told the audience on Saturday at a ruling Justice and Development Party conference in Afyonkarahisar, western Turkey.

Tens of thousands of people have been suspended, sacked or detained in the military, judiciary, police, education sector and media in connection with the July 15 attempted putsch blamed on Gulen and his Hizmet (Service) movement.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/24/2016 02:40 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


India-Pakistan
No reason to shutdown Islamabad after Panama issue in SC: Fazl
[GEO.TV] Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam
...the political wing of the Pak Taliban...
Fazl leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman
Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ...
on Sunday said that the matter of Panama Leaks is in Supreme Court and coming to streets for protest is pointless.

The JUI-F leader was addressing a presser at Lahore, where he said that the current situation is not similar to October 12, 1999.

He said that when the matter of Panama leaks is in court then coming to streets to protest is similar to putting pressure on the apex court.

Fazlur Rehman also said that it's not a crime to save an elected prime minister.

When asked by a news hound if ’the umpire’s finger would be raised,’ the JUI-F chief replied that the talk of umpire’s finger should not be done, as this points to something dangerous.

He said that no one could derail a democratic government, adding that Islamabad would not be shut down.

The Supreme Court is to hear the matter related to Panama leaks on November 1.

The apex court had issued notices to all parties including the Prime Minister, as it began hearing five petitions regarding the Panama Papers which have overshadowed political landscape of the country for the last several months.

Posted by: Fred || 10/24/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Imran invested charity funds in offshore companies in Muscat, France: Khawaja Asif
[GEO.TV] Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Sunday again accused Imran Khan
... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems...
of using charity money in his offshore companies and said that those calling others thieves are also involved in thievery.
I thought I'd never say this, but in comparison to American corruption the Paks are looking trivial.
The PML-N leader was talking to Geo News and said that Imran Khan is answerable for investing charity funds into off shore companies in Muscat and La Belle France.

Imran Khan is fighting a war for personal gains, said the defence minister.

He said that he demands the details of 70 crore rupees fund of Shaukat Khanum.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard...
PML-N’s Hamza Shahbaz said that no one is afraid of sit-ins and nothing would come out of it.

Hamza Shahbaz also called protests a move against the CPEC project and financial prosperity.

He in an apparent jibe at Imra Khan said that if the PTI chief wants to become a PM so badly he will send him a sherwani (traditional kind of formal dress) at Bani Gala.
Posted by: Fred || 10/24/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Southeast Asia
Duterte now says Philippines won’t cut ties with US
[Gulf Today] Philippine president Duterte appears to have changed his tune and clarified his controversial statement that "separation" did not mean that he was "severing" the nation's relations with the United States.

Duterte admitted it would not be in the best interest of the Philippines if he completely cut off ties with the U.S. in a statement late Friday night in his home town of Davao City following his four-day state visit to China.

Duterte said, "When you say severance of ties, you cut diplomatic relations," explaining that "separation" meant pursuing a major foreign policy shift in its relations with the U.S. and aimed at closer ties with other countries. He said, "I cannot do that. Why? It’s to the best interest of my country to maintain that relationship (with the US)."

For one thing, Duterte said, many Filipinos who have acquired American citizenship would surely protest if he severed ties with the U.S., adding, "Besides Filipinos are not ready to support such an option."

While in Beijing on Thursday, Duterte told an economic forum, "In this venue, I announce my separation from the United States both in the military...not social, but economics also."

Former secretary Albert del Rosario of the Department of Foreign Affairs called Duterte's statement "unwise and incomprehensible."

“What is unfolding before us must be considered a national tragedy which does not need to happen," Del Rosario said in a statement.
Posted by: ryuge || 10/24/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  TRANSLATION: "Hey, I'm flexible. Add a few more zeroes to the check and we'll work something out."

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 10/24/2016 19:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Sounds like he's hedging his bets to see how the election goes.

Trump will probably fulfill the treaty obligations.

Hillary will 'Benghazi' the Philippines for sure.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/24/2016 23:32 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Sixers, Heat Anthem Singer Kneels, Wears ‘Black Lives Matter' Shirt While Singing
MIAMI (AP) -- A woman performing the national anthem before an NBA preseason game in Miami on Friday night did so while kneeling at midcourt, and opening her jacket to show a shirt with the phrase "Black Lives Matter."

The singer was identified by the Heat as Denasia Lawrence. It was unclear if she remained in the arena after the performance, and messages left for her were not immediately returned.

Heat players and coaches stood side-by-side for the anthem, all with their arms linked as has been their custom during the preseason. Many had their heads down as Lawrence sang, and the team released a statement saying it had no advance knowledge that she planned to kneel.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/24/2016 01:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Don't be alarmed, this is only step #1. Step #2 will be the singing of an entirely new national anthem. Step #3 will be the new flag.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/24/2016 1:09 Comments || Top||

#2  BLM? Not so much if you look at Chicago shooting gallery statistics. I thought the shootings were localized to certain areas of Chicago but it looks like to be city-wide. Chicago shooting stats.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/24/2016 7:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Why didn't she just hold her nose when singing the anthem? Probably would have sounded better.
Posted by: regular joe || 10/24/2016 10:45 Comments || Top||

#4  For the most in-depth view of gun violence in Chicago (a gun free zone) see: www.heyjackass.com.
Posted by: Whuns Fillmore2485 || 10/24/2016 12:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Thanx Whuns Fillmore2485. Brought to Chicago by decades of Dem mayors who allow crises, chaos, corruption and crime.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/24/2016 20:07 Comments || Top||


Government
Map of US Sanctuary Domiciles - Updated 8/31/16
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 10/24/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wow. A couple of states also have counties and even a few cities within that are also sanctuaries.

I'm glad those places have enough housing, jobs, infrastructure, police and fire protection, and - yes - tax revenues to support their noble, progressive goal. Good for them!
Posted by: Bobby || 10/24/2016 7:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Sanctuary policies are abhorred by the people in a Catch 22. The county sheriff refuses to bear the costs associated with detention of illegals when they have declining tax revenues & can't support very real needs of the local taxpayers. It's the Feds that cause the problem and why Trump is striking a nerve with "everyday People".
Posted by: One Eyed Speaking for Boskone7919 || 10/24/2016 9:25 Comments || Top||

#3  The county sheriff refuses to bear the costs associated with detention of illegals when they have declining tax revenues & can't support very real needs of the local taxpayers.

Poor states and poor counties, this is very much the case. They also face population ceilings dictated by federal judges in many cases. So, who do you incarcerate and who do you not? The feds create the problem by not securing the border and then expect the states and locals to pick up the tab of the consequences.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/24/2016 9:36 Comments || Top||



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Mon 2016-10-24
  Egyptian air force hammers Sinai jihadists, 70 said killed
Sun 2016-10-23
  Senior Egypt military officer shot dead near Cairo
Sat 2016-10-22
  Bangladesh Says Head of Group Blamed for Cafe Siege Dead
Fri 2016-10-21
  Christian Refugees Facing Persecution in Germany
Thu 2016-10-20
  Militias fighting among each other in Tripoli
Wed 2016-10-19
  Drone strike kills 8 Qaeda suspects in Yemen
Tue 2016-10-18
  Battle for Mosul On
Mon 2016-10-17
  Three Attackers Killed in Myanmar as Violence Persists
Sun 2016-10-16
  Dozens Killed and Injured in Explosion at Major Shadady’s Funeral
Sat 2016-10-15
  Egyptian army kills over 100 ISIS militants in response to deadly terror attack
Fri 2016-10-14
  Dozens dead after Turkish border bombing attack
Thu 2016-10-13
  Negotiations to surrender east Aleppo under way
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  Deadly small plane crash near Connecticut aerospace factory may have been was intentional
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  German Police Arrest Syrian Refugee Suspected of Plotting Attack
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