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[DW] Police said Thursday they had taken two people into custody for allegedly selling infants from a shelter for unwed mothers in eastern India.
The facility in Jharkhand state is operated by Missionaries of Charity, a religious order founded by Mother Teresa in 1950.
"They have said that at least five to six babies have been sold to childless couples," police officer Aman Kumar told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
"We are investigating to see how the operation was run and how many more children have been given away in the last few years."
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[PJ] Update 10:33 p.m. EST: The San Antonio Police have tracked down and arrested the suspect:
This evening detectives assigned to the Robbery Task Force were able to locate the suspect in the "Whataburger" incident.
Warrant #1653732 was issued for the suspect Kino Jimenez 30 years (Sid# 905396). The aforementioned warrant is for Theft of Person.
Kino Jimenez was located in Universal City, Texas. Universal City police officers took Mr Jimenez into custody without incident.
He was transported to the Robbery Unit to be interviewed by detectives assigned to the case. Mr Jimenez is being transported to the City Magistrate for booking.
Anyone interested in a booking photo is urged to contact the Bexar County Jail for a mugshot.
[Breitbart] Two buildings at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland are under evacuation Thursday amid a hazmat situation prompted by possible broken vials of tuberculosis.
Hospital officials say they believe an unspecified number of individuals were exposed to tuberculosis at the health facility at around 12:20 pm EST. The Baltimore City Fire Department is currently on-scene at 1500 block of Jefferson Street. Caroline Street is presently closed off.
Kim Hoppe, a spokeswoman with Johns Hopkins Medicine, said Thursday that a small sample of frozen tuberculosis was "inadvertently released" in an internal bridge between two cancer research buildings that don't connect to the hospital.
[Todd Starnes] An Alaska law firm has been accused of violating a city’s non-discrimination ordinance after they provided legal representation to a Christian women’s shelter accused of violating the same ordinance.
The Anchorage Equal Rights Commission filed a formal complaint against Brena, Bell & Clarkson, charging the law firm with committing “unlawful discriminatory acts or practices” in violation of a city ordinance regarding sex and gender identity.
Their alleged crime is punishable fines and possible jail time.
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*Accuse Group A of 'discrimination'
*Then accuse Group B of the same offense because they're providing Group A with their Constitutional right to a legal defense.
How...Stalinist.
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The Anchorage Equal Rights Commission filed a formal complaint against Brena, Bell & Clarkson, charging the law firm with committing “unlawful discriminatory acts or practices” in violation of a city ordinance regarding sex and gender identity.
Mind-boggling. An ordinance against discriminating against Sex and gender? It a woman's homeless shelter for God's sake.
Time to dump or rewrite the ordinance and dissolve another useless Commission.
In February the shelter turned away a biological male who identifies as a female. Shelter leadership said the individual was intoxicated.
However, as a religious organization, they do not house biological men in its abused women’s shelter because doing so would traumatize abused and battered women.
The transgender person filed a complaint against the shelter citing the policy over sexual orientation and gender identity.
I thought Alaska was supposed to be where sensible people live.
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I’m afraid I haven’t seen much of this country at all, Sleaque Hatfield3418. But Alaska Paul is eminently sensible, and in the Jack London tales silly people die, so not being sensible in Alaska seems an unwise choice in Darwin’s playground.
[Guardian] At least two rhino poachers were eaten by lions on a South African game farm, according to the reserve’s owner.
A ranger taking guests on a safari drive at the Sibuya game reserve in the Eastern Cape on Tuesday afternoon discovered human remains near a pride of lions.
"We suspect two were killed, possibly three," Sibuya’s owner, Nick Fox, said.
An axe and three pairs of shoes and gloves were found later when police and an anti-poaching unit arrived. The lions had been heard making a commotion in the early hours of Monday.
"We thought they must have been rhino poachers but the axe confirmed it," Fox said. "They use the rifle to shoot the animal and the axe to remove the horn."
South Africa is home to more than 80% of the world’s rhinos, whose population has been depleted by poaching for buyers in Vietnam and China, where rhino horn is coveted as an ingredient in traditional medicine.
More than 1,000 rhinos were killed in South Africa last year.
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A ranger taking guests on a safari drive at the Sibuya game reserve in the Eastern Cape on Tuesday afternoon discovered human remains near a pride of lions.
"We suspect two were killed, possibly three," Sibuya’s owner, Nick Fox, said.
LONDON (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of protesters are expected to turn out against Donald Trump when he visits Britain next week but some believe the protests are an embarrassment and that the U.S. president deserves a warm welcome.
Trump will arrive in Britain on July 12 for a "working visit", a more sober affair than the original plan for a state visit with its customary pomp and pageantry after it drew threats of mass protests. But anti-Trump demonstrators are still planning to show up, to the dismay - and glee - of his UK supporters.
"He’s coming into the lion’s den and it is going to be really fun to watch," said Londoner Jack Smith, 28, at a party to celebrate U.S. independence from Britain on July 4.
"I’m looking forward to the protest quite frankly, who isn’t? It’s going to be really fun seeing all of these liberals whose world view was shattered back when he was elected in November 2016."
London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who has had a number of social media spats with the president, on Thursday gave permission for a blimp portraying Donald Trump as an orange, snarling baby to be flown over parliament.
[BBC] The nerve agent that poisoned a couple near Salisbury was unlikely to have been left in the open before they touched it, a government scientist has told BBC News.
The Novichok was so toxic it was able to pass through the skin and did not need to be ingested, he added.
Police have said the couple from Amesbury were exposed to the substance after handling a contaminated item.
Charlie Rowley, 45, and Dawn Sturgess, 44, remain critically ill.
Amesbury poisoning: What we know so far
Speaking to BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner, the source said Novichok could be degraded by rainwater and sunlight over time - meaning it was probably discovered by the couple in a contained space.
The source added that Mr Rowley and Ms Sturgess's symptoms were the same as those shown by Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.
They were both poisoned with Novichok in nearby Salisbury in March.
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The SUN: What is the latest on their condition?
Doctors determined the pair had been poisoned by toxins and are showing very similar symptoms to the former Russian military intelligence colonel and his daughter Julia.
A pal said the pair were feeling ill and preparing to go to hospital after touching an item in Queen Elizabeth Gardens in Salisbury when they "went into a zombie-like state" and "slumped against the wall".
Defence sources say the couple - who have no connections with Russia or security services - were poisoned and samples have been sent to the Porton Down research facility for urgent testing.
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They are reportedly both known drug users, the female having lived in a rehabilitation center for drug addicts. Appears they may have stumbled onto some very bad stuff.
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the source said Novichok could be degraded by rainwater and sunlight over time - meaning it was probably discovered by the couple in a contained space.
Or that it was fresh. Ya know, I'm starting to warm to the disgruntled employee theory.
[Evening Standard] A London pub is being renamed The Trump Arms to celebrate the US president’s visit to the UK next week.
The Jameson pub in Hammersmith will host a welcome party serving Donald Trump’s favourite food and drink. A banner bearing the pub’s temporary new name will be hoisted onto the roof in time for Trump’s arrival and will remain there until he leaves.
Guests will be treated to a BBQ with hot dogs and cheeseburgers, reported to be served up at the White House for the President. These will be washed down with Trump-themed cocktails. Costumes, music and banners will help create the atmosphere of a Trump campaign rally.
Landlord Damien Smyth said the two-day welcome party was a chance to show POTUS that he had a big fan club in London, despite threats of mass protests. Tickets cost £32.
SHANGHAI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China's state media lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday, accusing the White House of behaving like a "gang of hoodlums" as the world's two biggest economies careened toward the start of an outright trade war.
The United States is set to impose tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese imports from 0401 GMT on Friday and has warned it may ultimately target over $500 billion worth of Chinese goods, or roughly the total amount that the United States imported from China last year.
Beijing has vowed to immediately respond with an equal amount of tariffs of its own against U.S. autos, agricultural and other products, though it is unclear how swiftly the actions could escalate into an all-out trade war.
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[OANN] The former leader of Aum, the Japanese doomsday cult that carried out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, was executed on Friday, public broadcaster NHK reported.
Chizuo Matsumoto, who went by the name Shoko Asahara, was the first of 13 scheduled to be hanged for the attacks. Announcements of the other hangings followed through the morning. The justice ministry confirmed the execution of the seven.
The Aum Shinri Kyo, or Aum Supreme Truth cult, which mixed Buddhist and Hindu meditation with apocalyptic teachings, staged a series of crimes including simultaneous sarin gas attacks on Tokyo subway trains during rush hour in March 1995. Sarin, a nerve gas, was originally developed by the Nazis.
The attacks left 13 dead and injured more than 6,000.
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Sure took them long enough; then again, like our system's any more expeditious...
First of all, as with these prisoners, they are allowed to cool their heels in a cell following the final disposition of the death penalty verdict. They are allowed months of time to contemplate their crimes and to know that death awaits, but with no idea at all when it will come.
Second, they await the opening of their cell doors in the wee hours of the morning, during the time that sleep normally is deepest, and a swift trip to the gallows as they rub sleep from their eyes. Every night, as sleep overtakes their consciousness, they are aware that their deepest sleep may be interrupted by the hangman
Bottom line (from the article): Ms. Iwata's (mum of one of the victims) peace of mind means more to me than Amnesty International's.
Also a reminder that you don't need to be a nation state *cough*russia*cough* to make organo-phosphate nerve agents.
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The Japanese sure have an interesting way of carrying out capital punishment. But 20+ years later? I'm sure Fatso Matsumoto had more than enough time to reflect.
LANGHORNE, Pa. (AP) ‐ A Pennsylvania township with more money than it anticipated from increased property tax collection has decided to give the dividends to residents.
Middletown Township in Langhorne sent 14,361 checks for $68 each to all owners of properties with structures on them.
Efforts to keep town expenses down while increasing delinquent-tax collection led to more money than anticipated in the general fund. The township board of supervisors decided to divide a $1 million portion of the surplus evenly among property owners.
Board of Supervisors Chairwoman Amy Strouse tells the Bucks County Courier Times it’s irresponsible for a township to hang on to that level of funding when it has "the opportunity to help people out a little bit."
Strouse says residents feel as though they pay too much in taxes.
[PRESSTV] The US dollar fell to three-week lows on Thursday, as the euro gained on strong German industrial orders, while data showing jobs rose less than expected in June plus nagging concerns about global trade also reined in the greenback's recent rally.
Mazen Issa, senior FX strategist, at TD Securities in New York said US economic prospects remain upbeat compared with the rest of the world, but that advantage could be running its course.
"Early flow data has corroborated a return to US dollar assets, but this could be challenging in the coming months if growth abroad stabilizes and twin deficits becomes topical again," Issa said.
"For now, euro/dollar looks poised to test key resistance."
The euro climbed after German industrial orders had a higher-than-expected jump in May following four consecutive monthly drops, as demand from domestic customers and the rest of the euro zone picked up.
At the same time, there has been a softening in US trade rhetoric towards European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... carmakers, also helping the euro.
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Not so fast, our Iranian misinformation friends: On Friday, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics said the economy added 213,000 jobs in June, a strong number; the number of employed Americans, 155,576,000, set its tenth record of the Trump presidency
How's the protests in Tehran?
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Weaker dollar also means that American exports are cheaper than Euro exports.
"Our economic policy can be summed up in three very simple but beautiful but beautiful words," President Donald Trump told a rally in Montana Thursday evening: "Jobs, jobs, jobs," he said.
On Friday, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics said the economy added 213,000 jobs in June, a strong number; the number of employed Americans, 155,576,000, set its tenth record of the Trump presidency; but the number of unemployed Americans (which includes people who are actively looking for jobs) increased by almost half-a-million. The unemployment rate increased two tenths of a point to 4.0 percent.
In June, the nation's civilian noninstitutionalized population, consisting of all people age 16 or older who were not in the military or an institution, reached 257,642,000. Of those, 162,140,000 participated in the labor force by either holding a job or actively seeking one.
The 162,140,000 who participated in the labor force equaled 62.9 percent of the 257,642,000 civilian noninstitutionalized population, a slight increase from last month's 62.7 percent.
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"The June #JobsReport shows what is at stake from the brewing storm of rising health costs, spiraling trade uncertainty & an economy being hollowed out to enrich big corporations & the wealthiest 1 percent. Americans deserve better than the GOP’s raw deal."
Which translates as: "Hummina. Hummina, hummina."
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Here, in Middle East, we've a saying "The dogs keep barking, and the caravan keeps going".
[DAWN] A sessions court on Thursday convicted Axact chief executive officer Shoaib Sheikh and 22 others in the fake degrees scam case, awarding them a total of 20 years imprisonment each.
District and Sessions Judge Islamabad Chaudhry Mumtaz Hussain, however, acquitted three co-accused in the case namely retired Lt Col Younas, retired Col Jamil and the wife of Shoaib Sheikh, Ayesha Shoaib, for want of evidence.
The judge also imposed a fine of Rs1.3 million on each of the convicts.
The accused were handed down sentences under various charges, amounting to a collective punishment of 20 years each. However, since all the sentences will run concurrently, the maximum time each convict would have to spend in jail is seven years.
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[Evening Standard] A former navy SEAL has died during a major operation to rescue a young football team and their coach trapped in cave in Thailand, officials said.
The man has been working as a volunteer as part of a mission to free the 12 boys and 25-year-old coach from flooded Tham Luang Nang Non.
SEAL commander Arpakorn Yookongkaew told a news conference Friday morning that he had died during an overnight mission to place oxygen tanks in the cave where the group have been trapped since June 23.
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They are the Non-White Party, even though it's still run by whites. Any time someone complains about White People, you know they're not looking out for the interests of the 76 percent.
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The only thing on me that needs fixin' is my knees.
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What profiteth God if They calls
To the cloth them that love holding balls
In clerical raiment
To show their attainment
In dancing and fashion and falls?
some examples from the WaPo article of people giving tweets in the pretense of a second civil war.. it is unknown whether the tweeters are leftists satirizing themselves or conservatives satirizing leftists//
My Darling,
War is hell. The Battle of Trader Joe's lasted many days. We lost half our battalion, some to enemy fire, some to the dreaded Covfefe virus. I still live, but for how much longer I do not know.
Pray for us.
.............
Dearest mother,
After the Prius batteries died we have sought shelter in Chipotle where morale is low, as we are forced to wait days for the avocados to ripen. There is word that they are coming for us with their gluten. Pray for me.
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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.
[Breitbart] Two buildings at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland are under evacuation Thursday amid a hazmat situation prompted by possible broken vials of tuberculosis.
[Todd Starnes] An Alaska law firm has been accused of violating a city’s non-discrimination ordinance after they provided legal representation to a Christian women’s shelter accused of violating the same ordinance.
Mazen Issa, senior FX strategist, at TD Securities in New York said US economic prospects remain upbeat compared with the rest of the world, but that advantage could be running its course.
"Our economic policy can be summed up in three very simple but beautiful but beautiful words," President Donald Trump told a rally in Montana Thursday evening: "Jobs, jobs, jobs," he said.
[DAWN] A sessions court on Thursday convicted Axact chief executive officer Shoaib Sheikh and 22 others in the fake degrees scam case, awarding them a total of 20 years imprisonment each.
