[All Africa] The Ondo State Police Command yesterday confirmed that a final year student of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Miss Adenike Khadijat Oluboyo, was found dead in a house at Okearo area of Akure, the Ondo State capital.
The dear departed was a daughter of the immediate past Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Mr. Lasisi Oluboyo.
Though, the police said some arrests had been made on the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the Ondo State Command, Mr. Femi Joseph, did not give further details of the incident.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... it was gathered that the dear departed was reportedly found dead under the bed in the home of her boyfriend in Akure.
A source said Khadijat who had left school for the past six days, was found under the bed of her boyfriend, under suspicious circumstances.
A family source said a herbalist that prepared the money ritual for her boyfriend who is currently on the lam, instructed him to keep the corpse for seven days but luck ran out of the Abuja-based boyfriend when his younger brother entered the room and met the decomposing body of the late Khadijat.
The boyfriend's brother was said to have reported the matter to the police.
The PPRO said the command's officers discovered the dead body of the undergraduate at a house at Oke-Aro area of Akure, following a report.
He disclosed that some arrests had been made in connection with the death of the former deputy governor's daughter.
He said the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Gbenga Adeyanju, would brief journalists on the incident very soon.
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[FOX] Always remember: Just because you’re drinking in a car that’s not moving doesn’t mean you’re not a drunk driver.
A Florida man found that out the hard way when police responded to a disturbance at a McDonald’s drive-thru in Vero Beach, TCPalm reported.
According to the police report on the incident posted to TMZ, the responding officer was told by the driver who called that the car behind her kept bumping into her vehicle "over and over."
When he approached the allegedly offending vehicle, he found Earle Gustavas Stevens, 69, behind the wheel with an open bottle of Jim Beam bourbon in a bag on the passenger seat.
Stevens was reported to have alcohol on his breath and "red and glossy" eyes. He told the officer that he was drinking, but not in the vehicle. When asked where, Stevens clarified that he only took a sip when the vehicle was stationary at stop signs and traffic signals during a trip from Port St. Lucie, about 30 miles away.
He was also found to be under the influence of painkillers and failed a field sobriety test.
Regardless of a driver’s level of intoxication, having an open container in a vehicle is against Florida law. In this case, Stevens was arrested and taken to jail, where he was administered a breathalyzer test and registered a .157 blood alcohol content, which is nearly twice the legal limit in the state.
Stevens also didn’t have a driver’s license and was found to have two DUI priors in Missouri. He is now facing multiple charges stemming from the Florida incident.
(Reuters) - Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser who pleaded guilty in a case related to the Russian election collusion investigation, is eager to move to the sentencing phase and put his legal ordeal behind him, Flynn’s lawyer said at a hearing on Tuesday.
Robert Kelner confirmed at the hearing that his client continues to cooperate with U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of any links between Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia. Kelner also indicated the evidence the judge had ordered Mueller provide to Flynn’s legal team had not altered his case.
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Once the Sentencing starts then the Mueller Team will have to "Fish or Cut Bait" -- so the weasels are putting it off as long as possible. This a poster child that showcases the rot in our current judicial system's addiction to the Plea-Bargain Process. Sweet Heart Deals. Arbitrary Enforcement.
[FoxNews] Nonsmokers say secondhand smoke is a quality-of-life issue, while smokers defend what they see as their right to light up. (.)
They say that good fences make good neighbors, but even the best fences can't block cigarette smoke.
Increasingly in the U.S., disputes between neighbors are becoming matters of smokers versus non-smokers.
One recent example: Smoking was banned in a Minnesota condo building last year -- until smokers took control of the board earlier this year and voted to overturn the ban.
The issue has pitted neighbor against neighbor in the Gallery Tower, a 40-year-old condo in St. Paul, the Star Tribune of Minneapolis reported.
"We’re divided into parties now, and it’s so emotional," said Bianca Fazio, a nonsmoker who has lived in the building since 2000, told the newspaper.
"We’re divided into parties now, and it’s so emotional."
- Bianca Fazio, nonsmoker
"At the crux of this is basically a homeowners’ rights issue," countered smoker Marge Romero, who’s lived at Gallery Tower for 19 years.
"You ought to be able to live your life in the confines of your own home," said Romero, who was elected to the building's board in January.
"At the crux of this is basically a homeowners’ rights issue. You ought to be able to live your life in the confines of your own home."
- Marge Romero, smoker elected to board of condo building
Nonsmokers say secondhand smoke is destroying their quality of life, while smokers see their home as the "last place they’re allowed to puff," the report said.
Last summer, the Gallery Tower board voted for a smoking ban to take effect in April of this year. But those opposing the ban were elected in January and voted to rescind it in February.
"It’s stunning to me that there’s a public vote to go smoking, in this day and age," condo resident Jeff Tentinger told the Star Tribune.
Other board members did not immediately respond to requests for comment, or declined to comment.
Kara Skahen is program director of Live Smoke Free, an organization that advocates for smoke-free housing. She told the Star Tribune that more multifamily buildings in Minnesota are going smoke-free.
In 2010, her program found 50 nonsmoking apartment buildings in Minnesota, but the number has since grown to more than 3,200, she told the paper.
Other cities in the U.S. are also going smoke-free.
In Baton Rouge, La., a smoking ban took effect July 1 for the city's public housing buildings, Fox 44 reported.
"In these apartments, the walls are so thin, if my neighbors are smoking cigarettes I can smell it into my apartment," building resident Marjorie Mackson, who supports the ban, told the station.
"In these apartments, the walls are so thin, if my neighbors are smoking cigarettes I can smell it into my apartment."
- Marjorie Mackson, Baton Rouge, La.
In Canton, Ga., the city council voted in June to make smoking illegal on any city property, sidewalk or street, WGCL-TV reported.
When Iowa passed its controversial Smokefree Air Act in 2008, it saw an immediate payoff as the state's percentage of smokers fell from 19 percent to 14 percent a year later, KWWL-TV reported.
But by 2016, the percentage of Iowans who smoke was up to 20 percent, the report said.
Some anti-smoking efforts outside the U.S. may be even more agressive, according to reports.
Singapore, for example, plans to deploy surveillance cameras that can detect illegal smoking and capture images of the offender, the Straits Times reported Tuesday, citing the country’s National Environment Agency.
In Sweden, smoke detectors inside a billboard prompt a man in a video ad to begin coughing loudly whenever a smoker walks by, the report said.
Amy Lieu is a news editor and reporter for Fox News Marijuana smoking supposedly make one stupid, while tobacco smoking supposedly sharpen ones cohesive skills. But smoke from either is still bad. Marijuana smoke is said to have a higher concentrate of tar than tobacco smoke. So where's the outrage over 'secondhand' marijuana smoke?
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[JoshBlackman] The Department of Justice and Second Amendment Foundation have reached a settlement in SAF’s lawsuit on behalf of Cody Wilson and Defense Distributed over free speech issues related to 3-D files and other information that may be used to manufacture lawful firearms.
SAF and Defense Distributed had filed suit against the State Department under the Obama administration, challenging a May 2013 attempt to control public speech as an export under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), a Cold War-era law intended to control exports of military articles.
Under terms of the settlement, the government has agreed to waive its prior restraint against the plaintiffs, allowing them to freely publish the 3-D files and other information at issue. The government has also agreed to pay a significant portion of the plaintiffs’ attorney’s fees, and to return $10,000 in State Department registration dues paid by Defense Distributed as a result of the prior restraint.
Significantly, the government expressly acknowledges that non-automatic firearms up to .50-caliber ‐ including modern semi-auto sporting rifles such as the popular AR-15 and similar firearms ‐ are not inherently military. AR-15 a weapon of war? HA!!! Fuck you gun control assholes!!!
"Not only is this a First Amendment victory for free speech, it also is a devastating blow to the gun prohibition lobby," noted SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. "For years, anti-gunners have contended that modern semi-automatic sport-utility rifles are so-called ’weapons of war,’ and with this settlement, the government has acknowledged they are nothing of the sort.
"Under this settlement," he continued, "the government will draft and pursue regulatory amendments that eliminate ITAR control over the technical information at the center of this case. They will transfer export jurisdiction to the Commerce Department, which does not impose prior restraint on public speech. That will allow Defense Distributed and SAF to publish information about 3-D technology."
The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 600,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control. The winning. Still not tired of it.
[BBC] Horrific accounts of gang rape, throats being slit and mass shootings in South Sudan are described in the latest United Nations report on the country.
It blames the violence in Unity state on government and allied forces.
One woman, who said she lost everything told investigators that "it would have been better if they had killed me".
Leaders signed a ceasefire deal in June aimed at ending the five-year civil war. Millions have been forced to flee as a result of the fighting.
[All Africa] The Zim-bob-we Electoral Commission (ZEC) says it is investigating skirmishes that broke out during President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Bindura rally weekend resulting in scores beaten up and injured by police.
The embarrassing incident happened in the middle of Mnangagwa's rally address when some party followers started trooping out of Chipadze Stadium, inviting the wrath of the police, army and some Border Gezi youths who could not stomach seeing scores walk out on the President.
The stampede was reportedly triggered by a Zanu PF supporter who had shouted that buses that brought them to the venue were about to leave Chipadze stadium, according to state media.
Some independent media reports however, pointed to disturbances caused by people who had had enough of Mnangagwa's long address under chilly weather conditions.
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[All Africa] Gays and Lesbians Association (GALZ) director Chester Samba has showered praises on President Emmerson Mnangagwa whom he said understood them better than his predecessor and the opposition.
"We started talking to Mnangagwa when he was Justice Minister and he is a reasonable man and is not new to LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, intersex and queer) issues compared to the hostile reception of the former president Mugabe," he said at a media briefing by community groups on Monday.
"We have also seen a decline in abuse in campaigning by Zanu PF of our members and harassment just in the recent past and this may see our members voting."
Under former President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case. Dumped in November 2017 when the Missus decided she wanted to be president, and opposed heer might against Crocodile Mnangawa Important safety tip: If your opponent goes by the name Crocodile andf your title is Shopper in Chief let him win.... 's regime, gays were subjected to insults and victimisation by the country's security establishments.
Mugabe described them as "worse than dogs and pigs".
Galvanised by Mugabe's ouster and his replacement by Mnangagwa November last year, gays and lesbians have moved to gauge the new rulers' position on their situation.
This culminated in a surprise meeting with Zanu PF officials which was later described as successful by the group.
Samba said they also attempted to engage the opposition MDC-T led by Nelson Chamisa but were ignored.
"Yes we met Zanu PF officials and we had a fruitful meeting after writing a letter to them but we did not even get a response from other political parties that have a chance of forming the next government," said Samba.
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oh I thought ED in the title was Erectile Dysfunction and was having problems with parsing the title.....
[BBC] A distillery that released a 75% ABV vodka range named after the toxic nerve agent Novichok has been heavily criticised for its "tasteless" timing.
One person has died and another remains critically ill in hospital after being exposed to the substance in Wiltshire.
Bristol Dry Gin said the release timing of its 75% alcohol by volume (ABV) product "may have lacked sensitivity", the Bristol Post reported.
Members of the public have criticised the company on its Facebook page. David Gilroy wrote: "Sorry, I think that is in very poor taste naming a gin after something that is still a very serious situation."
And Peter Hooper said: "Pretty poor taste, an innocent woman has died and a man is critically ill, I think you need to rethink your sales strategy."
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In other news, makers of Novichok are reported to be "horrified" by BBC article associating their product with megadeadly alcohol and disreputable media organisations.
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Lawn darts (not the ones Boeing makes) have killed more people than Novichok...
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Lawn darts
And just in the past month, probably, along with, probably, anesthesia, bad curries, bees, Ben Nevis, cherries, childbirth, cricket bats, double-decker buses, electric scooters, "Frenchmen," glue, horses, icecubes, um... gin...
[PRESSTV] Two other Tory MPs have resigned from their posts, joining a growing list of ruling Conservative Party members defying British Prime Minister Theresa May's plans for leaving the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Conservative Party vice-chairs Ben Bradley and Maria Caulfield announced their resignation on Tuesday afternoon, warning the premier that her strategy for a close trading relationship with the bloc in post-Brexit era would not capitalize on the opportunities that Brexit could provide.
"I admit that I voted to Remain in that ballot. What has swayed me over the last two years to fully back the Brexit vision is the immense opportunities that are available from global trade, and for the ability for Britannia to be an outward looking nation in control of our own destiny once again," Bradley wrote in his resignation letter.
"I fear that this agreement at Chequers damages those opportunities; that being tied to EU regulations, and the EU tying our hands when seeking to make new trade agreements, will be the worst of all worlds if we do not deliver Brexit in spirit as well as in name, then we are handing Jeremy Corbyn the keys to Number 10," he added.
On July 6, the Brutish prime minister won initial support from her cabinet for the 12-point Brexit plan, which came about following an emergency meeting at her Chequers country residence.
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[The Hill] The U.S. Embassy in London released an alert on Tuesday urging Americans to "keep a low profile" during President Trump's scheduled visit to the United Kingdom later this week.
The notice asks for Americans in Britain to stay aware of their surroundings and to "exercise caution if unexpectedly in the vicinity of large gatherings that may become violent."
The request comes as Trump is expected to meet multiple protests during his first visit to the United Kingdom since taking office. Thousands of people are expected to turn out. Among the planned demonstrations is a large "Trump baby" blimp which was approved by London city officials to fly over Parliament.
"It's just been announced: Donald Trump is coming to Britain on a state visit later this year," reads a Facebook event description for a protest planned July 13-14 that has about 60,000 saying they will attend. "We don't know when. But let's be ready ‐ and be prepared to take to the streets in the most incredible protest in our history."
Another round incoming. China is running out of tit/tat options. If Beijing matches this new batch any additional US action will force China to sanction something other than trade. Link to The Street story
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China has few options in a trade war against the US. They have a massive debt/real estate bubble that is popping and they blew a trillion dollars worth of their hoarded currency to prop up the Yen and were hoping the dollar would fall.
The opposite happened. The US economy took off, dollar strengthened and the Chinese are looking at needing imports to keep their loans afloat or the remaining 3 trillion in foreign currency they have in reserve will disappear, rapidly. Trump knows this and is trying to force them to give more than they want to keep their economy from collapsing.
The real risk is if they think they have everything to lose and move to seize the south sea trading lanes and natural resources in the area it means war. Stringing them along and hopefully gauging when they are about to collapse and offering them a safety line seems to be Trump's strategy.
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hopefully gauging when they are about to collapse and offering them a safety line seems to be Trump's strategy.
Darth, this was the one attribute that I thought Trump might have before he was elected that made me not be too concerned. We haven't seen a president with real skills in wheeling and dealing since I don't know when.
Other than his toying with the press I suspect that there's a lot of deep thinking going on to accomplish his objectives. The toying is mostly just for fun.
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Germany is following the Russian lead in its relationship with Iran. America's conflict with Germany will reach a boiling point if Germany allows Lufthansa (and its subsidiary in Austria) to continue its flights to Iran.
Sorry, that's total BS and not backed up by any numbers.
Current energy imports from Russia (natural gas, oil and coal) is 25% of Germany's total energy consumption. Coal and oil can easily be bough elsewhere if Russia acts up.
Germany imports 38% of its natural gas from Russia. The new pipeline isn't going to add much as Germany actually seeks to diversify its gas imports.
According to a simulation by the Energy Economics Institute at the University of Cologne, Germany could survive a total Russian gas embargo for at least five months without supply bottlenecks thanks to many storage facilities and improved intra-European connections.
So it would be difficult for the Russians to take Germany hostage. And of course they have zero reasons to try.
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Thanks EC, your perspective is reassuring. All we have to go on here are previous regional alliances, Frau Merkel's performance and a continuous stream of what appears to be, negative reporting. Please keep us posted.
For Russia, Germany is more important as a trading partner than the other way around. Of all German imports, only three percent came from Russia in 2017 - and only two percent of exports go to Russia. For Russia, Germany in 2017 was the second most important partner after China, accounting for 8.6 percent of their total foreign trade. And more than two thirds of Russian exports to Germany were natural gas, oil and coal.
So frankly, no Russian control. And say what you will about Merkel, she has no illusions about Putin.
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Again, and as always, thanks for your regional expertise and perspectives. I have not had the pleasure of visiting Germany in many years, so the updates are appreciated.
[Politico] Pretty much no one in the Western alliance is looking forward to the next few days.
NATO heads of state are due to meet Wednesday in Brussels beneath the disinterested gaze of President Donald Trump before he jets off to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. In between, British Prime Minister Theresa May‐who faces a pending collision with the brick wall of Brexit‐meets first with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and then with Trump. It’s a rapid-fire series of what would usually be staid diplomatic photo-ops that could, in this iteration, seriously disrupt the international order that has made the United States a global superpower since the end of World War II.
While the president and other Republican envoys make reassuring entreaties to the Kremlin, Trump continues to view himself as the disruptor of NATO. In the weeks leading up to the NATO summit, the president again berated America’s allies for their defense spending. To push back, supporters of the trans-Atlantic framework that is the architecture of American power in the world are on an information blitz, heralding increased defense spending across the alliance.
All this has been accompanied by the usual cycle of pre-summit reports about NATO’s defensive vulnerabilities‐including the choke point of the Suwalki Gap between Poland and Lithuania. And, as usual, it’s the allies to the north of that gap that are trying to stay focused on what matters most: the fundamental transformation of the alliance that is needed.
Almost 10 years after the Russian invasion of Georgia in August 2008, it’s clear NATO still needs to learn more quickly from our partners with a deeper history of fighting Russian aggression in all its various forms. Foremost of those partners is Estonia, which, unlike Georgia, is a full NATO member and has been since 2004.
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If Russians want to take Estonia, they'll take Estonia. And nobody will interfere anymore than anybody will interfere when USA, finally, loses patience with Mexico.
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Tallinn is a wonderful town with a great history...not all of it related to their bear neighbor.
If you are into intrigue, google the sinking of the ferry Estonia, in which the entire Swedish investigatory team was lost. Tale full of conspiracies not resolved even until this day.
[DAWN] A viral picture shows former prime minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... ’s son-in-law retired captain Mohammad Safdar hiding Saturday night in a Mansehra ...a city and an eponymous district in eastern Khyber-Pakthunwa, nestled snug up against Pak Kashmir, with Kohistan and Diamir to the north and Abbottabad to the south... cave along with friends ahead of his surrender in Rawalpindi over conviction in the Avenfield flats corruption case.
The accountability court of Islamabad had awarded Mr Safdar one-year imprisonment in the case.
The undated picture reportedly released by the aides of Mr Safdar on the social media claimed that the cave was located in the mountainous Tanawal area. It also showed the former premier’s son-in-law with a small suitcase.
After the court announced his conviction in the Avenfield case on Friday, Mr Safdar had announced that he was ready to surrender.
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[DAWN] A man stabbed a woman to death in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal area of Rahim Yar Khan on Monday night before fleeing the scene of the crime.
The accused, identified as Muneeb, had reportedly picked up his cousin, Shamim, from the hospital where she worked as a midwife under the pretense of dropping her home, but instead took her to a different house where he was employed as a chauffeur.
The assailant, according to the first information report, purportedly tried to drag his cousin into his employer's empty house but was met with resistance.
When his cousin cried for help and resisted the assault, he chased her down and stabbed her repeatedly.
The victim, a single mother of one, went titzup.
CCTV footage of the incident shows that several passers-by were in the vicinity of the incident. The FIR, filed by the victim's brother, states that the passers-by wanted to intervene but were warned to not come near by the alleged murderer, who discouraged any rescue attempts by brandishing his knife.
The assailant, after committing the crime, escaped on his cycle of violence.
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[DAWN] Iranians on social media mocked holy manal rulers on Monday after the hardline judiciary placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! a teenage girl for posting on Instagram videos of herself dancing in her room.
Critics of the arrest of gymnast Maedeh Hojabri, 18, used the hashtag #Dancingisnotacrime and Iranian women posted videos of themselves dancing in public.
"You will be laughed at if you tell people anywhere in the world that 17 and 18-year-old girls are arrested for their dance, happiness and beauty on charges of spreading indecency, while child rapists and others are free," wrote Iranian blogger and political dissident Hossein Ronaghi-Maleki.
Iranian state TV aired a video in which she apologized for "breaking moral norms" but said any breach was not her intention. Some Iranian news websites reported three other people had been arrested on similar charges in the past weeks. The reports said they were released on bail.
"I had no bad intentions ... I did not want to encourage others to do the same ... I did not work with a network," a crying Hojabri told TV on Friday.
Before her account was blocked by Iranian authorities, Hojabri had posted around 300 videos on her Instagram account in which she appeared without wearing the compulsory Islamic headscarf.
Under Iran’s Islamic Sharia law, women are required to wear headscarves and modest clothing in public and are banned from dancing in public.
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[Ynet] Senior officials of Open Society Foundations (OSF), the international grantmaking network founded by the Jewish Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros, admitted that the organization, categorized as a non-profit NGO, worked to promote his business interests.
The admission comes in the wake of a report by Politico that the Israeli corporate spy agency Black Cube was involved in the defamation campaign against Soros in the period leading up to the Hungarian elections.
Black Cube’s involvement was allegedly intended to influence the elections. Company officials deny the allegations and new details indicate that they were hired for financial motives, as part of a feud with another billionaire.
Ynet has obtained testimony from Prof. Yevhen Bystrytsky, a Soros associate and chairman of the International Renaissance Foundation, the Ukrainian division of OSF, for the last 19 years. He describes how the foundation worked to influence Ukrainian political events in order to advance Soros’s business interests. Destroying civilization to make a buck - well, that's what Leftism is all about.
[Daily Caller] The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is blistering at a proposed regulation that would prevent the union from siphoning fees from American workers’ Medicaid payments.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced a proposed rule Tuesday that would require Medicaid payments to go directly to healthcare workers, ending a 2014 Obama-era rule that let third parties, such as unions and insurance companies, skim off a share of the paycheck before the worker saw any of it. (RELATED: CMS Rule Strikes Obama-Era Regulation That Pays For Third-Party Fringe Benefits Instead Of Health Care)
The SEIU, one of the largest public-sector unions in the U.S., referred to the proposed rule "as part of the [Trump] administration’s broad, coordinated attack against working people."
"The proposed rule targets these home care workers and is designed to stop them from contributing their own wages to support their union in the same way that teachers, police and firefighters do," the SEIU said in a statement. "This proposal is a transparent attempt to interfere with workers’ freedom to choose to join together in a union and advocate for higher wages, better training, and basic benefits like affordable healthcare and paid sick time that are crucial to ensure quality home care for our parents, grandparents and children."
Though the Obama rule legalizing the practice went into effect in 2014, unions have been skimming money from Medicaid payments for nearly two decades, according to Freedom Foundation director for labor policy Maxford Nelson.
[The College Fix] Cal Poly San Luis Obispo works on massive diversity and inclusion effort
In keeping with the diversity and inclusion movement sweeping campuses across the country, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo recently released a 30-page report outlining plans to "improve diversity" via a series of initiatives.
One goal is to increase the number of people of color on campus beyond the increases that have already occurred over the past few years, as "applications from underrepresented minority students doubled between 2008 and 2018."
"In 2011, the campus was 63 percent Caucasian," the May 2 report informs readers, "in fall of 2017, it was less than 55 percent ... but there is still much work to do."
The public research institution states it wishes to get those numbers more in line with the state’s percentage of white people, which recent polls hold at 39.7 percent of the population.
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"In 2011, the campus was 63 percent Caucasian," the May 2 report informs readers, "in fall of 2017, it was less than 55 percent ... but there is still much work to do."
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we have been visiting schools lately for my kid, he's a 4.5 GPA pre engineering student and ALL the California schools, while seemingly excellent are in a period of massive decline coupled with massive expense, consequently we are bypassing all of them for other State schools that are better funded and better run
[Twitchy] As if there were any question as to whether there’s any difference left between the major newspapers and lefty blogs, compare the opinion piece in today’s Washington Post to yesterday’s piece in Vox making the case for packing the Supreme Court by adding a few progressive judges, an idea tried by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Now David Faris, author of "It’s Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics," is arguing that court-packing is the only way to save democracy: Don't worry. The Donald is all over it... oh, that isn't what they were talking about. More from the Department of Truth then.
Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement from the Supreme Court, and President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to succeed him, is the doomsday scenario liberals feared when Senate Republicans thwarted the appointment of Merrick Garland in 2016: The GOP’s brazen act of democratic sabotage will almost certainly deliver the high court to the far right for a generation. In the years ahead, the court will probably further erode reproductive rights, gay rights and voting rights, ushering in the darkest era in American history since the post-Reconstruction period.
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Should Democrats gain unified control of government in 2021, they ought to consider this more complete story of court-packing. Before contemplating such unprecedented action, Democrats should offer Republicans a truce in the decades-long judicial wars: the illegitimate Neil Gorsuch resigns, and both parties support a constitutional amendment eliminating lifetime tenure on the Supreme Court, capping service at 18 years.
They have locked people up for lesser delusions than this...
That's funny: Vox founder Ezra Klein also began only recently to float the idea that justices should be appointed for 18-year terms. Also funny: We don't remember anyone talking about needed to "fix" the Supreme Court during the Obama years.
Funniest of all: the idea that President Trump might take their advice and pack the court with conservatives before midterms. I have an idea. Expand the SCOTUS to 50 judges and let each state appoint their own judge for a span of one year. They can choose another one or keep the same the next year. Vice-President is the tie breaker vote if needed. That way no one can pack the court.
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...Thought experiment: Reserve one seat on the SCOTUS for former Presidents (they could not be Chief Justice). When a President leaves office, they must serve for a minimum of six years.
If nothing else, imagine the fun of watching some people defend what they did while in the White House.
Mike
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Term limits. A republic does not need 'princes' that sit for life and are unaccountable to the people after they have evolved their office into an arbiter of power, as in living breathing Constitution, rather than the guardians of the written Constitution.
[Hot Air] Every time the military changes their fitness requirements lately it leads to controversy. This is mostly because so many of the recent changes created at least the suggestion that accommodations were being made for female recruits, or perhaps even males who couldn’t meet the traditional standards. This latest set of changes may sound similar on the surface, but let’s not be too quick to judge. Rather than doing two minutes of push-ups and two minutes of sit-ups, new exercises are being added which supposedly better simulate physical demands encountered on the battlefield.
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My older brother, since retired, watched this coming in the US Navy: "So we don't need to see if a single sailor is strong enough to drag a casualty up a ladder and out of a flooding compartment? Two sailors is enough ... right!?! What if that unconscious sailor was Me!"
MOSCOW — Russia’s premier rocket engine manufacturer, Energomash, has raised the alarm on the looming cut-off of U.S. purchases of RD-180 and RD-181 engines: the end of the company’s most lucrative revenue stream is coming, Energomash wrote in its annual report last week, and it is coming far sooner than anyone anticipated.
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.
[FOX] Always remember: Just because you’re drinking in a car that’s not moving doesn’t mean you’re not a drunk driver.
FBI interviewers found no fault with Flynn's testimony. Comey and others however...... 
[FoxNews] Nonsmokers say secondhand smoke is a quality-of-life issue, while smokers defend what they see as their right to light up. (.)
[BBC] A distillery that released a 75% ABV vodka range named after the toxic nerve agent Novichok has been heavily criticised for its "tasteless" timing.
[The Hill] The U.S. Embassy in London released an alert on Tuesday urging Americans to "keep a low profile" during President Trump's scheduled visit to the United Kingdom later this week. 
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
a city and an eponymous district in eastern Khyber-Pakthunwa, nestled snug up against Pak Kashmir, with Kohistan and Diamir to the north and Abbottabad to the south...
[Ynet] Senior officials of Open Society Foundations (OSF), the international grantmaking network founded by the Jewish Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros, admitted that the organization, categorized as a non-profit NGO, worked to promote his business interests.
[Daily Caller] The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is blistering at a proposed regulation that would prevent the union from siphoning fees from American workers’ Medicaid payments.
[Twitchy] As if there were any question as to whether there’s any difference left between the major newspapers and lefty blogs, compare the opinion piece in today’s Washington Post to yesterday’s piece in Vox making the case for packing the Supreme Court by adding a few progressive judges, an idea tried by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
