[Daily Caller] The special Select Investigative Panel set up by House Republicans to investigate Planned Parenthood's abortion practices will begin using subpoena power next week to force organizations to cooperate with several unmet document requests.
The panel staff has sent more than 30 letters to organizations requesting documents relevant to the investigation on a voluntary basis, Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn, who chairs the panel, said in a statement announcing the planned subpoenas Friday. Starting next week the panel will begin issuing subpoenas to organizations that refuse to cooperate, beginning with Stem Express, the University of New Mexico and Southwestern Women's Options.
"Without these subpoenas, the American people and the House itself would be left to speculate about what is going on in the fetal tissue industry," Blackburn said in the statement. "We cannot leave questions unanswered."
Republicans set up the panel after the Center for Medical Progress released a series of undercover videos filmed over the course of years that exposed the explicit details behind Planned Parenthood's harvesting and distribution of fetal tissue. Some of the videos featured Stem Express, one of the processing companies that obtained the fetuses from Planned Parenthood and then shipped the demanded parts to various researchers and scientists.
[WAPO] Guevara also rebutted a report by a Dallas TV station that quoted her as saying that Scalia had died of "myocardial infarction." In an interview with The Washington Post, she said she meant only that his heart had stopped.
"It wasn't a heart attack," Guevara said. "He died of natural causes."
In a statement Sunday, the U.S. Marshals Service, which provides security for Supreme Court justices, said Scalia had declined a security detail while at the ranch, so marshals were not present when he died. "Deputy U.S. Marshals from the Western District of Texas responded immediately upon notification of Justice Scalia's passing," the statement said.
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On rare occasions I have been to fancy hotels I noticed they have pillows all over the bed. I spend most of the night in a pillow fight against myself. The pillow over his head may have been an unfortunate accident upon death in bed.
#7
I confess, I've been known to sleep with a pillow over my head if there are noises that are keeping me awake. That's not necessarily Scalia's explanation but if somebody really held a pillow over his head to suffocate him, would they have left it there?
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For many, many people with means, motive, and opportunity, Scalia's death is a wish come true.
West Texas is sparsely populated, so local law enforcement is unsophisticated - the kind of place where it would be easy to get away with murder, as long as no one looks too close.
Scalia may have had "several chronic ailments," but that doesn't mean that's what killed him. Chronic diseases do not typically sneak up and kill you in your sleep with no warning. But a quick injection of harmless KCl can, nicely mimicking a fatal heart attack, and can't be detected without a tox screen.
I'm deeply suspicious of what happened here. Without an autopsy or investigation, I'll never be convinced that Scalia died of natural causes.
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Kanye West stunned fans on Saturday night after declaring he was $53million in debt. The rapper made the claim on Twitter ahead of his Saturday Night Life appearance, his latest headline-making tweets in recent days. The father-of-two, who is known for his extravagant lifestyle with wife the unspeakable Armenian Kim Kardashian, tweeted: 'I write this to you my brothers while still 53 million dollars in personal debt... Please pray we overcome... This is my true heart...'
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I'd love to see some of his tax returns - Al Sharpton Jr., anyone? Hope Mrs. Big Bucket Kanye West didn't file any of them as joint returns; that would be bad.
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I really really he owes at least a chunk to the mob.
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...Would explain who's ACTUALLY been buying his albums.
Mike
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If he thinks he is in the hole now, wait until the Cardassians divorce him for a ratings bump divorce him for being a negligent husband, and sue for child support and accustomed standard of living compensation.
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He has been begging Mark Zukerberg for money on FB. He wants a billion dollars, says that Mr Zukerberg's money would be better spent on him than on opening schools for orphans in Africa. You can't make this stuff up.
#15
How much has Kanya given to leftist politicians over the years? Not everyone gets a picture with the president or whitehouse visits without writing a few checks.
[Tolo News] Women rights activists lashed out at government on Sunday for not ensuring justice in the Farkhunda case.
They claim justice has not been served. The activists accuse the Supreme Court of negligence.
An angry mob in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... , lynched Farkhunda, 27, last year, after falsely accusing her of burning the Holy Koran.
She was beaten to death, and her body was burned.
By chanting the slogan of 'justice for Farkhunda, justice for all' the activists joined the One Billion Rising Revolution, the 2016-campaign to end violence against women.
The Minister of Women's Affairs, Dilbar Nazari, also joined the protesters and called on the government not to forget Farkhunda's case. Nazari, on behalf of Afghan women, called on the president [Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. ] to fulfill his promises that he has made to Afghan women. The First Lady of Afghanistan, Rula Ghani, also put her weight behind the justice seekers.
"I want to deliver to you the commitment of the first lady. When we were coming to this event, the first lady said that she was standing beside all Afghan women," said Nadia Saleh, an advisor to the First Lady. Out of the 49 persons placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... for killing Farkhunda, currently only 11 people are behind bars.
Sultana Khaknezhad, the defense attorney in the Farkhunda case accused the Supreme Court of negligence.
"Justice was undermined. Pace of the case is very slow. They (Supreme Court) want people to forget about this case,"she said. The brutal murder of Farkhunda last year sparked reactions inside the country and around the globe. The Afghan government was asked to bring those involved to book.
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The Gods of the Copybook Headings in all their uncompromising glory.
[AlAhram] The Egyptian pound could be allowed to fall to as low as 8.4 against the dollar within ‘weeks’ in the first of several devaluations as Egypt steps up battle against FX shortage
Egypt will allow a sharp devaluation of its currency in the first half of this year as it has run out of options in the midst of an escalating foreign currency shortage crisis that has slowed economic activity, according to bankers and economists surveyed by Ahram Online.
Since the January 2011 mass uprising that overthrew Hosni Mubarak, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) has propped up the Egyptian pound, which was officially traded at 5.8 pounds to the US dollar at the time.
Today, the Egyptian pound is changing hands at 8.7 to the US dollar on the black market according to traders surveyed by Reuters on Tuesday, compared to an official rate of 7.73.
But with a collapsing tourism sector, falling Suez Canal toll revenues, lower-than-expected foreign direct investment, and stagnating export receipts, Egypt, which relies heavily on imported food and fuel, has come under increasing pressure to let its currency weaken.
[Wash Times] HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Zimbabwe aviation authorities impounded a U.S.-registered cargo jet, a senior official said Monday, with a dead body and millions of South African rand reportedly on board.
Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe general manager David Chawota confirmed a plane registered with Western Global Airlines was impounded at Harare International Airport on Sunday. A web site says Western Global Airlines is based in Estero, Florida.
"The case is now in the hands of the state. It involves nationals and property of other countries so I am no longer qualified to give much detail but yes we impounded the plane on Sunday," Chawota told The Associated Press.
"The crew requested to land for refueling but our ground-handling personnel discovered blood leaks and became suspicious. Talk to the police for more details," he said by telephone, refusing to give details about the crew or the cargo.
Police spokeswoman Charity Charamba said she did not have the facts of the case yet.
State-run Herald newspaper, quoting unnamed sources, reported on Monday that the MD-11 trijet was traveling from Germany to South Africa "stashed with millions of rands." At today's exchange rate, 1 million rand is worth $62,500.
The crew, according to the Herald, includes two Americans, a South African and a Pakistani. The U.S. Embassy said it does not yet have a comment on the matter. Several U.S. embassy vehicles were seen at the airport Monday morning. Retrieving the monthly embassy Hefeweizen shipment. We didn't come here for the waters. Nothing more than a coincidence.
In 2004, Harare airport authorities impounded a plane with 64 people on board, who were arrested on accusations that they had been on their way to stage a coup in Equatorial Guinea.
[ROANOKE] Lawmakers chose the Senate chief on Sunday to lead a caretaker government that will fill the void left by the end of President Michel Martelly's term last week and perhaps ease lingering tensions that recently pushed deeply Haiti into political crisis.
In the early hours of Sunday, Jocelerme Privert was elected as provisional president and sworn in after a plodding session by Haiti's bicameral legislature. He was formally installed in the afternoon before a crowd of Haitian officials and foreign diplomats.
The veteran politician was one of three candidates vying to lead an interim government that is supposed to last only 120 days.
His new position will be that of a powerbroker who hopefully carries enough weight to quickly smooth political divisions that have left Haiti without a president chosen by voters or a completed Parliament due to suspended elections. Prime Minister Evans Paul remains in office for now, but Privert and politicians are expected to choose a No. 2 official in coming days.
During a speech to politicians hours before their final vote, Privert promised that if selected he would lead a caretaker administration that would "foster confidence within all sectors of society," ensure stability and see that suspended elections are held "as soon as possible."
He submitted his resignation letter from the Senate to start his new post.
An initial vote by politicians gave Privert just two votes more than Edgard Leblanc, a former Senate president who was being backed by Martelly's political faction. But after closed-door negotiations, Privert became interim president after 3 a.m. in a second round of voting that gave him a clear majority of hand-written votes from senators and lower house deputies.
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Four US ships of NATO entered the Batumi port (Adjara) Feb. 12, Archil Khabadze, Chairman of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara said, RIA Novosti reported.
“This is the first time, when ships with such large crews entered our port,” he said.
“It is planned to conduct a series of meetings, cultural events, and joint trainings during the visit. The arrival of these ships confirms once again our deep desire to cooperate closely with NATO,” Khabadze added. The ships will stay at the port until February 15.
In April 2008, at the summit of NATO member countries in Bucharest, it was confirmed that Georgia may become a NATO member in the future if it meets NATO standards.
Because we all know that an attack on Batumi is an attack on New York...
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[Guardian] The working girls at a Nevada brothel launched a campaign to elect the first female president. 'We're helping Hillary and we're helping ourselves. Women should help other women, right?'
Just days after Hillary Clinton launched her 2016 presidential campaign via online video – Everyday Americans want a champion, and I want to be that champion – some not-so-everyday Americans kicked off their own campaign in similar style.
Hookers for Hillary was the brainchild of brothel owner Dennis Hof and the working girls at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, and it marked a hard left turn after Pimpin’ for Paul, the group’s 2008 and 2012 efforts to propel libertarian Ron Paul into the White House.
It is hard to argue with the attention-getting power of sex workers in stilettos, plunging red-white-and-blue necklines, noms d’amour such as Entice Love, Air Force Amy and Caressa Kisses. But behind Hof’s publicity stunt turned political action is a sobering reality.
[DAWN] A clause in the draft Hindu Marriage Bill, which states that a marriage will be annulled if any of the spouses converts to another religion, is being vehemently contested by both its opponents and supporters.
However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... seeking an end to the controversy, Senator Nasreen Jalil, the chairperson of the Senate standing committee on law and justice, has convened a meeting of the committee to take up the matter.
The draft bill has already been passed by the National Assembly standing committee on law and justice.
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Pakistain rushes to claim her without making her possible or even likely.
[DAWN] Much before her name became synonymous with Einstein and his gravitational waves, the astrophysicist and associate department head of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Dr Nergis Mavalvala, was a little girl born to a Parsi family in Karachi and raised here in a joint-family set-up. For a moment there I thought she might have been a Moslem, but that little goose of surprise has flown. She's Zoroastrian by birth.
Nergis moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1984 for higher studies after having completed her schooling at the Convent of Jesus and Mary (CJM) in Clifton. Prior to that, she grew up in a big house near the PIDC building on Beaumont Road. In Pakistain she'd have likely had a nice Moslem suitor who'd have thrown acid in her face when rejected.
“Her grandfather, Maneck Mavalvala, a prosperous businessman, lived there with his three brothers. It was more than a house. It was a big sprawling mansion with these four brothers, their children and grandchildren. The compound also housed a dhobi, drivers, cooks and their families. Today, the site has been turned into a marriage hall,” reminisced Natasha Mavalvala, who is married to Nergis’s first cousin. Or she could have been kidnapped and forcibly converted to Islam after being raped a few times.
“The family moved to Canada in the mid-1980s and Nergis and her older sister, Mahrukh, went to college in the States. They only have extended family here in Pakistan now. The last time we met both the sisters was over two years ago when they came to Karachi to attend a cousin’s wedding,” the cousin-in-law shared. I'm sure they were comfy being surrounded by Moslems.
“I am part of this family through marriage but we Parsis are a close-knit community so I remember the girls well. They were sweet, happy children but not very naughty. I would describe them as quiet studious girls, who were highly accomplished students. Both are brilliant scientists and professors today,” Mrs Mavalvala told Dawn. Few Pak women are. Many live under burkas and never come out.
Nergis’s uncle or chacha, who lives in Parsi Colony in Mehmoodabad, also remembered his nieces as very serious about their education. “Nergis was also into sports. She would frequent Karachi Gymkhana for sports activities, especially swimming,” he said.
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Few Pak women are. Many live under burkas and never come out.
People with interest and talent in science are rare. Squandering that potential is business as usual in the Islamic world.
Don't get me started on the Paleostinians who represent multiple generations of wasted human capital.
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.
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Kanye West stunned fans on Saturday night after declaring he was $53million in debt. The rapper made the claim on Twitter ahead of his Saturday Night Life appearance, his latest headline-making tweets in recent days. The father-of-two, who is known for his extravagant lifestyle with wife 
Millions or trillions, both birds of a feather. 
[Guardian] The working girls at a Nevada brothel launched a campaign to elect the first female president. 'We're helping Hillary and we're helping ourselves. Women should help other women, right?'
