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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Email timeline suggests second server may exist
[Wash Examiner] Conflicting accounts of when data was removed from Hillary Clinton's private server indicate copies of emails known to contain classified information may reside on a device other than the one presently in FBI custody.

She may have printed 55,000 pages of emails for submission to the State Department from a different device than the one presently in FBI custody.

Platte River Networks, the company that managed Clinton's email network after she stepped down from her post as secretary of state, indicated it transferred data off the original server in mid-2013.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2015 07:17 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Spoliation of evidence. Conspiracy to obstruct justice. And thats just the start. When will Clinton be held accountable by the press instead of them ignoring this or making excuses.?
Posted by: OldSpook || 08/23/2015 14:28 Comments || Top||

#2  OldSpook, when the press switches to the Republican party en masse.

In other words, never..
Posted by: AlanC || 08/23/2015 15:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Hillary’s e-mail defense is ‘total BS’: former State Dept. officials [LINK]
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 08/23/2015 17:37 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Anthony Weiner 'lands job' with top PR firm Specialising in Crisis Management
[The Mail - 23 July 2015] Disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner has landed a job with a top PR firm that specializes in 'crisis management' - despite his political career being twice brought down by disastrous 'sexting' scandals.

MWW, which has close ties to Hillary Clinton, has confirmed it is welcoming Weiner to its board of advisors, according to the New York Post.

The PR firm's CEO is Michael Kempner, a well-known New Jersey fundraiser for the Democratic Party. He has raised more than $100,000 for Clinton's presidential campaign in the last four months - making him a so-called 'Hillblazer'.
Email, why does it hate us ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2015 02:35 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "A PR crisis? Send in Carlos Danger!"
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/23/2015 8:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Weiner is not so disgraced that these Donk leftists can't find a slot for him. Just keep him away from the computers or jerk his email account.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/23/2015 8:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Be advised: Replacing the 'Circle the Wagons' graphic with a photo of a sunken chested Anthony Weiner is a punishable offense under the Rantburg UCMJ.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2015 8:32 Comments || Top||

#4  ...What would be perfection itself is if the FBI finds an email from Carlos Danger on one of those servers....

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 08/23/2015 8:58 Comments || Top||

#5  I think the idea is they have him as a distraction. When they need to bury a scandal, they just give Weiner a camera phone and plop him down in front of a class of HS girls and let nature take it's course. I'm sure he'll be well paid to take one for the team.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/23/2015 9:24 Comments || Top||

#6  Anthony Weiner raped by whom.......?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2015 9:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Reminds me of floaters in a sewage treatment plant.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 08/23/2015 12:07 Comments || Top||

#8  jerk his [Weiner's] email account.

I think jerking anything belonging to Anthony Weiner is not a good idea.
Posted by: frozen al || 08/23/2015 13:09 Comments || Top||

#9  ^wear rubber gloves....like Huma does
Posted by: Frank G || 08/23/2015 13:13 Comments || Top||

#10  *rinses mind's eye with bleach*
Posted by: Pappy || 08/23/2015 15:48 Comments || Top||


Eight-hundred pound woman is rescued from her NYC apartment with a massive net
[The Mail] An obese woman in need of medical attention was rescued from her second-story apartment in East Harlem by New York City firefighters who had a net that could hold her nearly 800lb body.

City paramedics arrived at the woman's apartment on 111th Street around 1.15pm and quickly realized that she was too large to fit through the front door of the dwelling.

The emergency workers were able to treat the woman but they called in the firefighters so she could be removed from the apartment and taken to St Luke's Hospital.
Disassembly would have required less heavy equipment and might have been more advantageous to tax payers in the long-term.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Does the net-mender take SNAP?
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 08/23/2015 2:06 Comments || Top||

#2  "Disassembly" of the apartment door and wall of course. Why do you ask ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2015 2:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Just who fed her and wiped her butt.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 08/23/2015 2:13 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: || 08/23/2015 2:28 Comments || Top||

#5  Ring dings - why do they hate us?
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 08/23/2015 3:26 Comments || Top||

#6  she's just "big boned"
Posted by: Frank G || 08/23/2015 9:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Reminds me of a song...
Posted by: Raj || 08/23/2015 10:26 Comments || Top||

#8  Thank goodness for the fat acceptance movement.

Posted by: charger || 08/23/2015 14:42 Comments || Top||

#9  She's so massive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp6CG8YoBv4
Posted by: Hupesh Ebbusomp5266 || 08/23/2015 15:27 Comments || Top||

#10  ...she has her own gravity.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/23/2015 17:22 Comments || Top||

#11  "All units respond! Supersizing
In progress! A Harlem uprising!"
Now, thanks to my menu
And slight shift in venue,
Manhattan is saved from capsizing!
Posted by: Bill de Blasio || 08/23/2015 17:42 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russian PM visits disputed Kuril islands, triggering Japan protest
[Hurriyet Daily News] Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev landed Aug. 22 in the Kuril islands, prompting a swift rebuke from Tokyo, which claims illusory sovereignty over the northwest Pacific archipelago in a long-running dispute.

Medvedev visited Iturup, one of four islands in the chain that lies off Russia's far eastern coast and just north of Japan, Russian media reports said.

"Everything is perfectly modern here," Medvedev was quoted as saying on his arrival. "This is the result of our development programme for the Kuril islands."

Hajime Hayashi, the head of the Japanese foreign ministry's European division, phoned the Russian ambassador in Tokyo over the visit to the islands, which Japan calls the Northern Territories. The trip "contradicts Japan's position over the Northern Territories and hurts the feelings of the Japanese people... It is extremely regrettable", Hayashi said, quoted by a Japanese foreign ministry official.

Soviet troops seized the islands just after Japan surrendered in World War II.

The seven-decade-old dispute has hampered trade and prevented Moscow and Tokyo from signing a formal post-war peace treaty.
I have to side with the Russians here: if you don't want to lose land, don't start a war...
Someone should explain that to the Palestinians and their friends.
Both the Kremlin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had hoped to start mending relations in order to revive trade, with Japan seeking broader access to Russia's plentiful oil and natural gas supplies.

According to the government's website, Medvedev visited the island's new airport, sea port, a fish processing factory, and a youth forum where he met with young scientists and teachers.
Posted by: Fred || 08/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Russia = Vladvedev knows CHINA has designs to recover SAKHALIN, wid or widout its on-going competition wid Japan to be Asia's or East Asia's #1 - Mama Russia needs the ex-Nippon Kuriles now more than ever to secure Sakhalin's flank, + by extension the Russian Far East, from its SCO BFF + strategic partner China.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 08/23/2015 19:29 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Japan US Military Base Explosion: Multiple Blasts Reported At United States Army Facility In Sagamihara
Multiple explosions were seen and heard at an American military base in Japan, local media outlets reported Sunday. Early reports indicate that a warehouse on the base remained burning as emergency vehicles responded to the blasts.
The explosions occurred at the Sagami General Depot, a U.S. Army base in the city of Sagamihara, about 25 miles from Tokyo. Petroleum products and ammunition are stored at the Sagami General Depot, Fox News reported.

Posted by: OldSpook || 08/23/2015 14:12 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well the video link worked in preview.

Here's Twitchy' feed
Posted by: OldSpook || 08/23/2015 14:17 Comments || Top||

#2  FYI, 3 attacks on that base in April from "leftist" groups.
Posted by: OldSpook || 08/23/2015 14:20 Comments || Top||

#3  ...And if anything were to happen in, say, Korea, those POLs and munitions would be sorely missed...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 08/23/2015 14:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Convenient, hmm?
Posted by: OldSpook || 08/23/2015 14:21 Comments || Top||

#5  OS,

It gets worse.

'Unusual' Troop and Naval Movements Noted in NK

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 08/23/2015 16:11 Comments || Top||

#6  An official from Seoul's Defense Ministry said that about 70 percent of the North's more than 70 submarines and undersea vehicles had left their bases and were undetectable by the South Korean military as of Saturday.

I hope that's a mistranslation. If not, ROK sucks ass in Sub Warfare
Posted by: Frank G || 08/23/2015 16:34 Comments || Top||

#7  If not a mistranslation then a deliberate attempt to mislead the Norks.............or ROK sucks.
Posted by: AlanC || 08/23/2015 17:00 Comments || Top||

#8  We are living in interesting times:

S. Korea, US fly 8 fighter jets ‘to show off force’ amid escalating crisis with Pyongyang [LINK]
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 08/23/2015 17:57 Comments || Top||

#9  Perts + Blobbers are suspecting a newly reformed, newly resurgent JAPAN RED ARMY???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 08/23/2015 19:31 Comments || Top||

#10  So now we have china building forces on the Norks border. All hell breaks loose and China moves in, Korean war revisited. Here we go again, MacArthur was right. We should have nuked them.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 08/23/2015 20:26 Comments || Top||

#11  Cleanup, aisle 10.
Posted by: OldSpook || 08/23/2015 21:46 Comments || Top||


Europe
The War Against the Swedish Flag
In 2007, a 13-year-old student was thrown out of classroom in Råneå elementary school in the municipality of Luleå because he had a shirt with the Swedish flag. The teacher who threw out the student had asked the student to take off the shirt or wear it inside out. When the student refused, he was thrown out of the classroom. The school's headmaster said that the Swedish flag may be perceived as a symbol for Nazism and it was school policy that students may not wear shirts with the Swedish flag. Råneå elementary school is not a special school with a special focus, but a conventional public elementary school in Sweden.

In July 2015, Söndrum elementary school in Halmstad detailed in an internal memo rules on when and how the Swedish flag would be displayed or not displayed:

"In Söndrum school, the Swedish flag is used for flag days according to the Swedish calendar. The school management is responsible for the flagging. Other use of Swedish or other flag is made in connection with international exchanges. No other use of the Swedish flag is allowed. The traditions at the school is something most students look forward to. When we have days with elements of masquerade and music, the goal is that these days should be perceived as positive by all. The Swedish flag may not be included in the masquerade costume. Masquerade and the performances must also be free of elements of weapon. It is positive and bright emotions that must be highlighted. If we can also with this rule help someone not to offend another person, not commit the crime called hate speech or not to break the rules for the use of the Swedish flag, the happiness doubles."

Much more at the link, with footnotes.
Posted by: Thraling Hupoluns2819 || 08/23/2015 10:29 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Italy rescues 1,200 migrants, hundreds more in danger
[ARABNEWS] Italia's coasties and navy rescued more than 1,200 migrants in the Mediterranean on Saturday after responding to multiple distress calls from 18 overcrowded vessels carrying an estimated total of 2,000-3,000 people.

Two navy patrol ships, the Cigala Fulgosi and the Vega, picked up respective totals of 507 and 432 migrants from two boats in danger of sinking just off Libya while coasties vessels had safely boarded just under 300 people from three different inflatable dinghies.

Operations to rescue those stranded on the other drifting vessels were continuing in what was one of the largest single-day rescue missions seen since the numbers of people making the risky crossing to Europe from conflict-torn Libya went kaboom! last year.

Some 170,000 migrants from Africa, the Middle East and South Asia landed at Italia's southern ports in 2014 after being rescued in the Mediterranean, while the total for 2015 has already topped 104,000.

A further 135,000-plus have landed in Greece since January and more than 2,300 people have died at sea while trying to make it to Europe with the help of traffickers.
Posted by: Fred || 08/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking


Thousands of migrants rush past police across border to Macedonia from Greece
THEGLOBEANDMAIL] Thousands of rain-soaked migrants on Saturday rushed past Macedonian riot police who were attempting to block them from entering Macedonia from Greece. Police fired stun grenades and dozens of people were maimed in the border festivities.

The tumult started when police allowed a small group of migrants with young children to cross the frontier, and crowds in the back squeezed the migrants toward the shielded police wall. Many women, at least one pregnant, and children fell to the ground apparently fainting after squeezing past the cordon.

Then thousands of others, including women with babies and men carrying small children, grabbed their chance to run across a field not protected by barbed wire to enter Macedonia.

Police stun grenades did not to stop the rush.

At least 25 injured people were brought to a railway station in the Macedonian town of Gevgelija by fellow migrants. Many children lost contact with their parents in the chaos and desperately called for "mama, baba!"

Several hundred migrants, mostly elderly and children, remained on the Greek side of the border when police restored order.

It was the second day of festivities between the migrants and baton-wielding Macedonian police who are attempting to block them from heading north toward the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
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Posted by: Fred || 08/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  were the migrants subsaharan africans, north africans or middle eastern?

Were they christians, muslims or a persecuted minority such as druze?
Posted by: anon1 || 08/23/2015 6:11 Comments || Top||



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