[Emirates 24/7] An Afghan woman cut off her father-in-law's penis with a knife after he tried to have sex with her, a doctor in eastern Afghanistan's Ghazni province said on Saturday.
"One day when the husband was away from home he attempted to have sex with his daughter-in-law and she cut off his penis with a knife," the doctor from a private hospital in Ghazni said on condition of anonymity.
The man went for treatment at the private hospital but was sent on to the capital Kabul for specialist treatment, he added. The incident took place two weeks ago but has only just come to light.
According to figures in an Oxfam report in October, 87 percent of Afghan women report having experienced physical, sexual or psychological violence or forced marriage.
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Not-so Mis'id. Not-so Mis'id.
See how he runs. See how he runs.
His son left him home, alone with his wife,
Who cut off his dick with a carving knife!
Did you ever hear such a scream in your life,
As not-so Mis'id?
Note: It might help to know that the name Mis'id means lucky in Arabic ... ;-)
I wonder if the woman will be arrested and given a harsh punishment? If not, there could be a whole lot more of this going on, which would be jolly good.
As 2011 concluded, problems with unpaid bills continued to pile up for copyright lawsuit filer Righthaven LLC of Las Vegas. We may never get our money back, but we can cheer as the bastards go down.
Records Saturday showed Righthaven has been sued by its own process server and also faces a request by defense attorneys that it be found in contempt of court.
Righthaven is the copyright enforcement partner of the Las Vegas Review-Journal and formerly of the Denver Post.
Righthaven is half owned by the family of billionaire Arkansas investment banker Warren Stephens, who owns the Las Vegas Review-Journal through his Stephens Media LLC company. Stephens made headlines this week when his majority-owned Halifax Media Holdings LLC agreed to buy 16 newspapers around the country from the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... Co. for about $143 million.
While Stephens continues to invest in the newspaper industry, his family's half-owned Righthaven copyright protection company has been floundering.
After filing 275 no-warning lawsuits since March 2010 alleging online copyright infringements of material from the Review-Journal and the Post, which provided copyrights to Righthaven for lawsuit purposes, Righthaven has suffered a series of defeats in court.
Judges found Righthaven lacked standing to sue as the newspapers maintained control of the material at issue, or the defendants were protected by fair use, or both. These losses have prompted judges to order Righthaven to pay $216,355 in prevailing defendants' legal fees.
Righthaven can't -- or won't -- pay the fees. It's appealing the legal setbacks as well as the fee awards.
Righthaven's failure to pay the fees of prevailing defendant Wayne Hoehn led to Hoehn gaining a court order requiring Righthaven to turn its copyrights, trademark and website domain name over to a receiver so they could be auctioned.
Righthaven didn't turn these assets over to the receiver, but the receiver seized the righthaven.com domain name anyway and is auctioning it.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Johnston in Las Vegas, in the meantime, on Dec. 12 ordered Righthaven CEO Steven Gibson and his wife Raisha "Drizzle" Gibson to appear in court on Jan. 5 for a judgment debtor examination. Johnston also ordered that by Thursday -- a week before the examination -- Righthaven turn over to Hoehn's attorneys information about Righthaven assets that may be used to satisfy Hoehn's judgment and documentation about Righthaven's "purchases, transfers of funds or other dissipation of assets" in recent months.
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Big deal, the owner will ditch Righthaven the company and just start a new one. Corporate personhood FTW!
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This is not going to be proper revenge until Warren Stephens gets pulled into it big time, and starts looking at tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in punishment.
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Big deal, the owner will ditch Righthaven the company and just start a new one
Perhaps not, or at least not one based on the Righthaven model. The intellectual property legal industry, and thus the legal industry in general, has been angered with RH's undercutting and will be a tad more aggressive in stomping the interloper.
Corporate personhood FTW!
We can't all be Communist China (tho some here would like that).
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I won't be satisfied til RH is done and Stephens gets hit hard, the attorneys all lose their licenses to practice, and end up eating from c@sino dumpsters.
Too much? F*ck em
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Minimum bid on their domain name is now $1,950. That won't pay off many of their bills! Ha ha.
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They grabbed $7,000 plus fees from one dirt poor blogger, who had a real good defense of good faith. Unfortunately, the LOCAL courts pay no attention to good defenses, and judgments can be registered in any other State court. If I was a lawyer I would jump into this Pro Bono.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Guinea-Bissau's government has admitted that its security forces executed a police officer earlier this week as he turned himself in over his alleged role in what the regime describes as a coup bid.
Jaime Jose Nhate, Chief of Staff for the Interior Ministry, said late Thursday that civil society organizations had informed the minister of Major Yaya Dabo's intent to turn himself in.
"Measures were taken to guarantee Dabo's safety. Two unarmed security agents were even sent to ensure the security of the vehicle which drove Dabo to the cop shoppe," he said.
"Security agents learned that he (Dabo) was responsible for the shooting of one of their comrades the night before as police, soldiers and paramilitary police combed the capital for suspects.
As he arrived at the cop shoppe agents on duty encircled his vehicle. He was shot at and killed."
On December 26, soldiers overran the armed forces headquarters in the troubled west African country's capital in what the authorities later described as a failed coup attempt led by the navy chief, who is now under arrest.
Deadly festivities erupted the following night as loyalist forces hunted suspected coup plotters.
Dabo was the brother of former territorial administration minister Baciro Dabo who was killed in 2009, three months after the liquidation of his close ally, President Joao Bernardo Vieira.
Baciro Dabo was also seen as a strong contender in presidential elections following Vieira's death in an apparent Dire Revenge™ attack by soldiers angered by their army chief's killing.
The impoverished former Portuguese colony is notoriously unstable, with a history of coups and army mutinies which has made it a stomping ground for narco mobs who use it as a hub to traffic drugs to Europe.
In its latest crisis, a group of renegade soldiers on Monday attacked army headquarters and seized a large quantity of arms, which Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior branded an attempted coup.
Twenty-five renegade soldiers involved in an apparent coup plot in Guinea-Bissau are being jugged in the capital and at an air base north of Bissau, an AFP news hound said. The arms were seized at the homes of two soldiers set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock for taking part in Monday's attack on army headquarters.
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[Al Ahram] "Employing women in shops selling female accessories is a crime and disrespectful," Al-Hayat newspaper reported, citing Saudi Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al-Sheikh.
Al-Sheikh's remarks came at a sermon yesterday at a mosque in Riyadh, the newspaper reported.
Soddy Arabia's Labour Ministry issued a directive in July demanding that lingerie and cosmetics stores replace salesmen with women.
Saudi senior assistant at the Labour Ministry, Fahd Suleiman Altekhefi, stated that more than 28,000 Saudi women have applied for work in the women's accessories sector, which reached 7353 stores across the Saudi Kingdom, as part of a government plan to replace men with women in these stores, the Saudi newspaper Al-Ektsadya reported Saturday.
The Saudi Labour Ministry threatened that lingerie shops that have not replaced all their male staff within six months could be shut down.
In 2005, the Labour Ministry ordered that lingerie shops to hire Saudi saleswomen to replace foreign salesmen. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... the order was mainly ignored, until in July tougher guidelines and a deadline were set.
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The Grand Mufti's real job is at a lingerie shop? The perverts must love showing lingerie to abaya clad women.
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The Grand Mufti's wife probably bought some Frederick's of Hollywood kinky underwear, to "put some spice back into our marriage", and after he got over his hysterical blindness he decided that this has to end, NOW.
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Several hadith more than suggest that dressing sexy for one's husband is halal. How exactly can a halal compliant horn-dog buy sexy garments, if they can't be sold? Makes sense to a quran thumper.
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The Palace of Westminster has rejected demands to serve halal meat in its restaurants.
Muslim MPs and peers have been told they cannot have meat slaughtered in line with Islamic tradition because the method -- slitting an animal's throat without first stunning it -- is offensive to many of their non-Muslim colleagues.
The stance has infuriated some parliamentarians who have eaten meat in the Palace's 23 restaurants and cafes, having been assured that it was halal.
Lord Ahmed of Rotherham said: 'I did feel misled. I think a halal option should be made available.'
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"Lord Ahmed of Rotherham". That title just makes me cringe.
Oh! I don't know, Anonymoose. Nazir is one of the lads. Did I mention that he used to work down at the market, selling gear that "fell off the back of a truck"
All he had to do was organise Muslims to vote Labour and Tony Blair made him the first Muslim Lord. Beats flogging gear down at market,eh!
Just to show how reasonable he is about this issue all he is asking for is that the kuffars submit themselves to Sharia law, instead of English Law and just make Andy Choudary Prime Minister for life. What could be more reasonable?
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UK children have to eat halal, so as to accomodate the supremacist cult. Halal certification means only that it was done under supervision of an imam. The real issue is: halal slaughter. That involves slicing the throat of an animal, and hanging it while it bleeds to death. Civilized cattle ranchers kill instantly by running hot electrodes at the creature's temple. Local ranchers shoot the animal in the head with a high velocity 22 cal (instant but the bullet makes the brain inedible)
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[An Nahar] Russian riot police tossed in the clink dozens of people on Saturday in Moscow and Saint Petersburg who tried to stage unsanctioned New Year's Eve protests against 12 years of Vladimir Putin ...Second President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Because of constitutionally mandated term limits he is the current Prime Minister of Russia. His sock puppet, Dmitry Medvedev, was installed in the 2008 presidential elections. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law. During his eight years in office Russia's economy bounced back from crisis, seeing GDP increase, poverty decrease and average monthly salaries increase. During his presidency Putin passed into law a series of fundamental reforms, including a flat income tax of 13%, a reduced profits tax, and new land and legal codes. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile... 's dominant rule.
The show of police force marked the first time the authorities had cracked down on members of the Russian opposition since allowing two massive rallies on December 10 and December 24.
Chants of "Russia without Putin" and "We need another Russia" rang out at both events Saturday. Reports said that 200 people had also gathered in the central city of Nizhny Novgorod but without being tossed in the clink.
Agence La Belle France Presse correspondents saw 20 people roughly rounded up by helmeted interior ministry troops who had set up an imposing cordon around Moscow's Triumfalnaya Square and a dozen more jugged in Putin's native city of Saint Petersburg.
Russia's opposition has been mobilized by the outcome of disputed December 4 parliamentary polls in which Putin's ruling party retained a narrow majority amid widespread allegations of fraud.
The huge rallies witnessed in Moscow earlier this month were the largest since the turbulent early years of post-Soviet rule and brought together various political forces marginalized since Putin's rise to power in 1999.
But those jugged on Saturday were mostly brought out on the street by the radical leftist leader and author Eduard Limonov -- tossed in the clink on many occasions at other unsanctioned end-of-month events marking the right to freedom of assembly.
Limonov told Moscow Echo radio that he was jugged again Saturday and was now being driven to a cop shoppe.
The veteran Russian human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... activist and leader of the Moscow Helsinki group Lyudmila Alexeyeva described the arrests as "shameful and stupid".
"Our authorities have to understand that the era of breaking up meetings has come to an end," she told the Interfax news agency.
The 59-year-old Putin now intends to return to the Kremlin after March 4 presidential elections that -- according to a privately-agreed job swap -- will see him hand his current premiership post to President Dmitry Medvedev.
The arrangement's announcement in September came as Putin's approval ratings soared not far off the highs they enjoyed throughout his 2000-2008 presidency and subsequent premiership.
But the prospects of the ex-KGB colonel returning to the Kremlin for up to two terms that could last until 2024 created public resentment that spilled over into the streets once the December 4 election results were announced.
Putin has in the past days ridiculed the opposition movement and effectively rejected their calls for direct talks that could lead to changes allowing more political forces to enter politics and run for senior seats.
He told Russians on Saturday in a televised New Year's message that the turbulence was the "unavoidable price of democracy".
"Of course, we are in the middle of a political cycle -- the parliamentary elections have finished and the presidential elections are going to start," Putin said in a televised message to Russians ahead of the New Year.
"In such times, politicians always exploit the feelings of citizens, everything gets shaken around a bit, boils up. But this is the unavoidable price of democracy," Putin said.
"There is nothing unusual here," he added.
The protest movement has not said when it will call the next mass demonstration. Some had suggested a date at the end of January while others have lobbied for a day closer to the presidential vote itself.
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A 39-year-old man in southern China died Saturday from what appears to be a contagious strain of avian flu, state media reported Saturday. The man -- identified by Xinhua as a bus driver with the surname Chen -- was hospitalized in Shenzhen on December 21 as he battled a fever. He tested positive for the H5N1 avian influenza virus, the provincial health department said in a statement, according to the official news agency.
The man had not traveled out of the city of Shenzhen, nor did he have direct contact with poultry in the month before he came down with the fever, according to the department. Shenzhen borders Hong Kong, where more than 17,000 chickens were ordered culled on the same day that Chen was hospitalized. That decision came after a chicken carcass tested positive for avian flu. A bus driver indicates he caught it from a passenger. If I'm correct then expect a wider outbreak. Crowded public transport is the ideal means of spreading the flu.
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Influenza in humans works on a two advanced wave cycle, because of its two week incubation period. That is, when symptoms appear in a person, the spread of its invisible first wave is to his neighborhood, and its second wave to his entire village.
Then, when symptoms show up in the people of his neighborhood, the infection to his village is still invisible, but the disease is spreading in the region, to other villages and even cities.
This is why it is so difficult to contain.
However, like a wildfire, it goes in fits and starts, reaching dead ends with many infections, and missing areas entirely while infecting everything around them.
By the time there is a massive, regional outbreak in a region of some nation, it is spreading internationally, so national, regional and individual epidemic responses should be begun.
In keeping with his orderly ascension from ranking army general to top political official to supreme leader of the last hard-line Communist country on earth, North Korea's chubby young Kim Jong-un is expected soon to take up golf, where he will challenge his father's record of scoring almost a dozen holes-in-one on his first try at the game.
Afforded little else in the way of information on the internal doings of the secretive country, observers will be reduced to parsing news of the young leader's score, speculating on what it might mean should he fail to match his father's 38-under-par.
Such is the fantasy scenario of North Korea's notorious -- often ludicrous -- propaganda machine, which is operating at full throttle after the death of the country's last demigod ruler. Observers question whether the regime can maintain the barrage of lies big and little it has used for so long to mislead and repress its citizens.
In particular, they wonder how long it will be before the flood of information loosened by the digital revolution, which helped destabilize and wash away repressive regimes throughout the Middle East this year, finally leaks through slowly widening cracks in the Kimchi Curtain.
The new National Defense Authorization Act among other things places the chief of the National Guard Bureau on the Joint Chiefs of Staff despite the opposition of other military brass.
The Senate Armed Services Committee held the only hearing on the subject on Nov. 10, where the Joint Chiefs of Staff uniformly express their admiration for the chief of the National Guard Bureau but flatly dismissed the idea that he should join their ranks.
Among the reasons for rejecting the idea, the top officers of the Air Force, Army, Navy and Marine Corps, along with the Joint Chiefs chairman Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, argued that National Guard forces already were represented on the Joint Chiefs as part of the total force for both the Army and the Air Force. They contended that the National Guard Bureau chief had no real budget authority and placing him on the Joint Chiefs would create confusion as to the Army and Air Force chain of command.
But Air Force Gen. Craig McKinley patiently refuted the arguments of his fellow officers and said chain of command would remain clear and that he really did have billions of dollars at his command. Advocates also pointed to the increasing workload of the National Guard in responding to natural disasters and terrorism domestically, asserting that putting the national chief on the Joint Chiefs of Staff would improve coordination of national resources to meet the requirements of those catastrophes.
McKinley applauded his pending promotion to the Joint Chiefs in a statement released along with Graham's statement Wednesday. I am deeply suspicious of this, likely as an effort to permanently federalize the National Guard.
Energy production and job creation? Does the Obama administration know about this??
The Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear power plant has been approved for construction in the US. This modern plant that includes passive safety features not requiring external power for emergency cooling is already being deployed in countries overseas. Two plants are to be constructed in Georgia by the Southern Company at the Vogtle facility and site preparations are already underway.
The AP1000 is one of a new generation of nuclear plants that use passive measures such as gravity, evaporation and condensation to remove excess heat in an emergency. The plant design is greatly simplified using requiring less piping, valves, control cabling, pumps, and earthquake hardened building volume than previous generation designs.
The building of the two plants in Georgia will result in 3500 construction jobs each during the construction phase and a permanent increase of 800 jobs to staff the two plants in addition to the 900 staff at existing plants 1 and 2 built in the 1980's.
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Obama science team approved... The AP1000 is one of a new generation of nuclear plants that use passive measures such as gravity, evaporation and condensation to remove excess heat in an emergency.
John Holdren, Obama science advisor, advocates Large-scale geoengineering projects designed to cool the Earth, such as shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the suns rays.
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There is actually a lot of good news on the nuclear energy front. There are some previously licensed plants that were never built after Three Mile Island that are now being built by the Tennessee Valley Authority and there are a couple of plants where construction was completed but were mothballed that are now being started. Looks like 2012 will see the start of a major ramp up in nuclear power generation in the US after a 20 year break.
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The quiet revolution in nuclear power is in small, very low maintenance systems. These are in development by no fewer than five major companies.
Some are more like typical small reactors, needing a staff to function and for maintenance, giving a medium small amount of power for a very energy consumptive corporation or a few.
But the most interesting from my point of view are those about the size and shape of a large shipping container that are factory sealed and kept underground in a concrete pit with a concrete slab lid. They have just two above ground cables, a large, electrical output of DC or AC and a smaller diagnostic cable that goes to a computer.
Typically, such a reactor would provide power for a 5 square mile mixed use central city area, or a 10-20 square mile mixed suburban use, for a set time, after which the lid would be removed, and the reactor sent back to the factory, a new one put in its place.
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As I understand it, this is an advanced 3rd generation (3G) reactor. It will generate about the same amount of electricity as the earlier 3G designs but should be easier to build, safer and have indefinite on site storage of rad waste.
The PRChina has 4 of these under construction.
But I agree w Moose that a 4G design that can be mass produced would be a real game changer in a good way.
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Remember, energy can be as cheap as chips, but if comparative advantage is destroyed by transfer taxes the economy will still SUCK.
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.
As 2011 concluded, problems with unpaid bills continued to pile up for copyright lawsuit filer Righthaven LLC of Las Vegas.
...Second President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Because of constitutionally mandated term limits he is the current Prime Minister of Russia. His sock puppet, Dmitry Medvedev, was installed in the 2008 presidential elections. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law. During his eight years in office Russia's economy bounced back from crisis, seeing GDP increase, poverty decrease and average monthly salaries increase. During his presidency Putin passed into law a series of fundamental reforms, including a flat income tax of 13%, a reduced profits tax, and new land and legal codes. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile...
In keeping with his orderly ascension from ranking army general to top political official to supreme leader of the last hard-line Communist country on earth, North Korea's chubby young Kim Jong-un is expected soon to take up golf, where he will challenge his father's record of scoring almost a dozen holes-in-one on his first try at the game.
