Most people would be grateful to experience any one of the occupations listed above‐French Foreign Legionnaire, wartime spy, US Marine, or Hollywood heartthrob‐but because Pierre (Peter) Julien Ortiz was not "most people," he chose to immerse himself in all four.
In which the New York Times presents today's panic, but really it's an easily treated Third World problem.
Madagascar has been struck by a fast-spreading outbreak of plague, creating panic and prompting the World Health Organization to send 1.2 million doses of antibiotics to the island nation.
Since August, the country has reported over 200 infections and 33 deaths.
The outbreak is beginning to resemble the early stages of the West African Ebola crisis in 2014: a lethal disease normally confined to sparsely populated rural areas has reached crowded cities and is spreading in a highly transmissible form.
Schools, universities and other public buildings have closed so they can be sprayed to kill fleas, which may carry the infection. The government has forbidden large public gatherings, including sporting events and concerts.
Fears that the outbreak could spread to other countries are rising.
Madagascar typically has about 400 cases of plague each year between September and April, but they are usually focused in the nation’s central highlands and spread by fleas living on rats in rice-growing areas. This outbreak is unusually worrying because most new cases are in cities and are pneumonic plague, the form transmitted by coughing.
The W.H.O. calculated that the antibiotics it has shipped, and another 244,000 doses on the way, will be enough to treat 5,000 patients and protect another 100,000 people who might have been exposed.
The W.H.O. has released $1.5 million from its emergency fund and has appealed for $5.5 million more from donors.
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The outbreak is beginning to resemble the early stages of the West African Ebola crisis in 2014: a lethal disease normally confined to sparsely populated rural areas has reached crowded cities and is spreading in a highly transmissible form.
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“Today California took a major step toward treating HIV as a public health issue, instead of treating people living with HIV as criminals,” Sen. Scott Wiener, D.-
Soda tax, criminalizing pronoun use, and now decriminalizing infecting partners with HIV? What is it about politicians named Wiener?
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Moonbeam is termed out after this one
He has a way of coming back though, doesn't he? And then there's Newsome, Viaragosa, Garcetti and a whole other cast of donkey clowns who all want to take Moonbeam's place and could be even worse.
[Al Jazeera] Liberians have voted to elect a new president and politicians in an election that will see the country's first transfer of power from one democratically elected leader to another in more than 70 years.
Provincial results were expected within 48 hours, but the electoral body has until October 25 to issue its final confirmation of the results and to announce a runoff if necessary for the presidency.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the continent's first female president, is leaving power after serving 12 years in office - the maximum allowed under the West African country's constitution.
Polls closed at 6pm local time (18:00 GMT) on Tuesday. Twenty candidates, including the current vice president, former world footballer of the year and a model, are running for the country's top seat - with 2.2 million voters registered in the small country of 4.6 million people.
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[NYPOST] A woman was raped, whipped and beheaded before a cheering mob in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... ‐ as punishment for dishing up "forbidden fish" to a group of rebels who then drank her blood.
The atrocity in the main square of Luebo, in the province of Kasaï-Occidental, occurred on April 8 and captured in stomach-churning video that only emerged this week, La Belle France 24 reported.
The naked woman is seen being dragged in front of a crowd by members of an gang claiming allegiance to the Kamuina Nsapu rebel movement.
"They said she gave them beans that contained pieces of a small, local fish," a Luebo resident told La Belle France 24 about the eatery owner.
"Convinced that she had broken their protection charms, the council of rebels sentenced both the woman and the son of her husband’s second wife to commit incest in public," the resident said.
In the footage, rebel leader Kalamba Kambangoma holds the victim by her hair and explains in the local Tshiluba language that "she must die" for committing high treason.
He then turns her over to another woman, who is wearing a pink T-shirt and a red bandanna that marks members of the rebel movement.
The woman in pink then takes the victim over to a platform, where she and the young man are forced to have sex in front of the crowd while being whipped for several minutes.
The depraved thugs then executed the woman and the young man by hacking them to death with machetes. Some of the rebels drank their blood, according to witnesses interviewed by La Belle France 24.
One resident sent the news outlet a photograph showing several rebels posing with the severed head of the man, who was about 20 years old.
The victims’ mutilated corpses were left out in the open for two days before finally being buried on the spot. After the village was liberated, the Red Thingy helped move the bodies to a cemetery.
The group seized the town of 40,000 on March 31 and maintained a reign of terror for several weeks before they were kicked out by the Congolese army on April 19.
Many people reacted in horror to the video.
"The first time, I had so many tears and so much anger that I couldn’t watch the full video," Louise Ngandu told La Belle France 24. "In the entire crowd, not a single person opposed the act. No one said, ’No!’"
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Eight years ago, a Saudi man filed a lawsuit against a resident who "stepped on an ant on purpose."
According to the plaintiff, his actions were "not an exemplary of Islam’s teachings."
The man said that "an ant is one of one God’s living creatures and has a right [to live]." He demanded that "Islamic law rules" are enforced on defendant.
Judge Mohammed al-Fayez accepted the case.
Speaking to the plaintiff, Fayez said: "Your claim was accepted and as the ant’s attorney, it is clear to me that when you filed the case, you did not provide a legitimate attorney contract from the parents of the ant that was killed by the defendant.
"As such, the case cannot proceed unless the concerned individual is present or has a legitimate attorney."
The judge then continued to ask the plaintiff to bring a legitimate attorney contract from the ant’s parents. Once he does, the court will then "ask the defendant to come to court."
The man was shocked by the judge’s reply and had no response but to leave the court.
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As a good Muslim, the plaintiff should pay for the ant's attorney in the absence of its relatives. The ant must be given a voice!
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The man said that "an ant is one of one God’s living creatures and has a right [to live]." He demanded that "Islamic law rules" are enforced on defendant.
"Now a Jooooo? I'm cool with that" he added
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The fool forgot that all happens because Allah has so willed it. He seeks to forbid Allah His will through His chosen agent --- BLASPHEMER!!
Backgrounder: North Korea - PDF
We at the Jamestown Foundation are pleased to introduce this backgrounder on North Korea. Drawing
on an array of sources including Korean-language media, satellite imagery analysis and NGO
databases, we have compiled what we believe are a number of core facts about the country: its political
system, military, economy, agricultural system, demographics and geography. Our goal is not to comprehensively
cover North Korea, but rather to highlight important facts in a way that allows both
experienced analysts and those less familiar with the country to quickly find information essential for
decision making or analytic judgments. In particular, we focus on what is described in analytic communities
as "normative factors"‐baselines for analysis like geography, times for planting and harvest,
politically important dates‐or other characteristics that shape behavior, and regulate how a state
behaves. Such factors are frequently overlooked in discussions of state behavior. In the case of North
Korea, where there is a tendency to ascribe behavior not to a rational nation-state but to the actions
of an unstable dictator, attention to such factors is even more important, as they provide a baseline
for judging if actions, be they rocket launches, military parades or harsh rhetoric are in fact noteworthy.
Glen E. Howard
President of Jamestown
Peter Wood
Editor-in-Chief,
China Brief
[LI] The North African country of Tunisia is turning into a "springboard" for illegal immigrants trying to get to Europe, according to the German newspaper Die Welt. The Muslim-majority country, destabilized in the wake of the "Arab Spring", was becoming a serious security threat to Europe since the Tunisian government was encouraging its Islamized or otherwise troublesome young men to emigrate to Europe.
Italy, with islands just 70 miles off the coast of Tunisia, is the preferred destination for Tunisians and North African migrants trying to get to Europe. Last year, more than 160,000 migrants landed on Italy’s southernmost Island of Lampedusa alone. In May 2017, German media reports cited leaked government documents claiming that as many as 6.6 million people were waiting in North African countries ‐ such as Tunisia, Libya, and Morocco ‐ to cross into Europe.
In the 1990s, many Tunisians fought in Jihadist campaign overseas. The vacuum created by the fall of the country’s long-time dictator Ben Ali in 2011 has been filled by various Islamic terrorist outfits, including Al Qaeda and Islamic State. German newspaper Die Welt reported the developing situation in Tunisia:
[DAWN] KASUR: Ganda Singhwala police on Monday started the paperwork but haven't done much else against three men for allegedly raping a boy in Hussain Khanwala village.
The village had attracted worldwide attention in 2015 when hundreds of young boys were alleged to have been sexually abused.
According to police, three suspects, under the influence, kidnapped a 14-year-old boy of the same village and allegedly abused him sexually on Sunday night. The suspects disappeared, while the boy was shifted to DHQ hospital.
Police started the paperwork but haven't done much else under sections 377 and 367-A of the PPC. According to Station House Officer Muhammad Waheed Arif, police were conducting raids to arrest the suspects. They were also waiting for a medical report of the boy to ascertain whether it was rape or an attempt.
One of the suspects was among those alleged to have been abused in 2015, and had withdrawn his case later.
Earlier this year, 10 minors, including three girls, had been killed after rape in Kasur and its adjoining villages with no arrests so far.
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[DAWN] Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's wife, Kulsoom Nawaz, is "being prepared" to undergo her first chemotherapy session in the United Kingdom, her daughter announced on Twitter on Tuesday. Maryam Nawaz tweeted a picture of Kulsoom in the hospital, with Nawaz by her side, and thanked her followers for their "valuable prayers".
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A video of psychiatric consultant Tarek al-Habib advising women during a television show "to use men to produce children" and noting that men should "use women for pleasure" recently went viral and sparked outrage among social media users.
Speaking to al-Arabiya.net, Habib explained that the video was taken out of context as he was speaking to a 37-year-old woman who was still single and upset about it, so in order to make her feel better, he advised her to lower her expectations and "marry to produce children before it’s too late."
It’s worth noting that the video is in fact two years old but was only recently shared online. Many social media users were outraged by the content but some defended Habib saying it was his personal opinion or a "lapse."
Habib also said that he still adheres to his advice to women who have not married yet and who would like to have children.
"Even a man’s marriage to a woman for pleasure is okay. These are needs which one can achieve with the help of the other. By making marriage complicated, we are hindering it and paving the way for men and women to commit prohibited acts," Habib said.
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I watched this game on one of the Spanish channels. As soon as I saw Alvin Jones beat our formerly world class goaltender, Tim Howard, on a forty-four yard shot, I knew we were in trouble. It's the first time we're missing the World Cup since 1986.
[ESPNFC] COUVA, Trinidad -- With World Cup qualification seemingly in their grasp, the Americans lost 2-1 to Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday night. Coupled with Honduras' 3-2 victory over Mexico and Panama's 2-1 victory over Costa Rica, the U.S. finished fifth in CONCACAF's Hexagonal round, out of the running to qualify for Russia 2018.
Here are three thoughts on a humiliating night in Trinidad.
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who cares?
soccer is the duck-billed platypus of the sports world; thier field, er pitch is a cross between real football and basketball, the teams, though highly sponsored cannot buy enough uniforms for everybody, so they make the odd guy out ( probably last selection in a pick up game) has to bring his own clothes and they really stand out. then to further humiliate him makes him stand in a 3 sided jail cell with Pillsbury Dough boy gloves on (looking like a cast-off from a Disney cartoon). then they play for 90 minutes, no offside calls for negative yardage or bench clering brawls. just referees running around handing out cards: "got any 6's?" no? here's a yellow card.
then at the end they add on whatever time they deem necessary to give the favored team time to win. not unlike democrats stuffing the ballot boxes.
and the final score is a tie sometimes, so everybody gets a participant award.
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Isn't soccer a girl's game? US women's team did well in the Olympics. Bend it Like Beckham is about girl's soccer. They don't have real fights, just dramatic flailing on the ground pretending injuries to get a yellow card. Silly stuff most boys give up in middle school.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
No worries, it's a seasonal thing. 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Eight years ago, a Saudi man filed a lawsuit against a resident who "stepped on an ant on purpose."
[LI] The North African country of Tunisia is turning into a "springboard" for illegal immigrants trying to get to Europe, according to the German newspaper Die Welt. The Muslim-majority country, destabilized in the wake of the "Arab Spring", was becoming a serious security threat to Europe since the Tunisian government was encouraging its Islamized or otherwise troublesome young men to emigrate to Europe.
