[Breitbart] Colton Haab, a student who survived last week’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, refused to participate in a CNN Town Hall on Wednesday night after he was told to ask a "scripted" question.
Haab, a junior at the high school, told Fort Lauderdale ABC affiliate WPLG that CNN invited him to speak at the televised town hall in nearby Sunrise, Florida, and that he and his parents had dressed up for the occasion.
But CNN then told Haab he would have to read a question that CNN had prepared for him:
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Colton should have sandbagged the bastards - 'Yeah, sure - what question you want me to ask?', then go with another one that'll make the CNN clowns look like more of the jackasses than they already are.
[KrebsOnSecurity] Patrick Reames had no idea why Amazon.com sent him a 1099 form saying he’d made almost $24,000 selling books via Createspace, the company’s on-demand publishing arm. That is, until he searched the site for his name and discovered someone has been using it to peddle a $555 book that’s full of nothing but gibberish.
Reames is a credited author on Amazon by way of several commodity industry books, although none of them made anywhere near the amount Amazon is reporting to the Internal Revenue Service. Nor does he have a personal account with Createspace.
But that didn’t stop someone from publishing a “novel” under his name. That word is in quotations because the publication appears to be little more than computer-generated text, almost like the gibberish one might find in a spam email.
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[BREITBART] Three men have been tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... in the heavily migrant-populated Gay Paree suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois for attacking a man by biting at his face and then eating the pieces of flesh they had bitten off.
The men, who all originally came from the African island nation of Cape Verde,
were arrested on Sunday after they attacked a man who was walking in the Hector-Berlioz alley at around 6 pm and bit off pieces his ear and lower lip, Le Gay Pareeien reports.
The victim was able to fight off the attackers, wounding one of them in the ankle, before police arrived a short time later and arrested the three Africans.
Castrate ‘em, hamstring ‘em on the left side, and send ‘em back to where they came from with just the clothes on their backs. And test them for HIV and other unpleasant diseases — the odds are high they just shared something.
Both the victim and the injured man were then taken to Montfermeil hospital.
Clichy-sous-Bois has become infamous as one of the most troubled no-go zones surrounding the French capital. The massive riots that occurred in 2005 began in the area when a pair of teenagers running from the police potted themselves by hiding in an electric power station.
Since then, Clichy-sous-Bois has been associated with further riots, as was the case last year, and with a connection to the rising tide of radical Islamic extremism in La Belle France.
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[DailyMail] Jeff Bezos reveals construction of a massive clock inside a Texas mountain that will chime every day for 10,000 years as a ‘symbol for long-term thinking’
The clock is being buried 500 feet inside a mountain in the Sierra Diablo range
It's programmed to play a different chime each year for the next ten millennia
Bezos revealed a clip on Twitter of construction work under way at the site
Visitors will able to climb down stairs and hear the daily chime at noon
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"Alexa, what does Bezos do with the excess money he screws out of me?"
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Kind of makes me feel good to know that I live in an age where private individuals have enough wealth and free time to indulge fancies like this and Musk's space Telsa. Kind of like the difference between a plain glass box office building and a cathedral. The world needs more things done just for the sh*ts and giggles. It does not need more glass boxes.
Remember a couple days back about the German Navy not able to get their submarines out to sea. Seems classical German logistics isn't 'German' anymore.
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Actually, historically the Germans were always cavalier in their handling of 'logistics' and also 'military intelligence(at least the strategic, high level kind)'. A focus on short, decisive wars meant tactics was where all of the smart officers went -- when you start out in the center of Europe you have to win the first battle or the game could be quickly over.
[AlAhram] Sisi commented on the controversial $15 billion gas deal brokered between Egyptian and Israeli gas companies, saying that Egypt has 'nothing to hide' about the agreement.
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah said on Tuesday that the dream to turn Egypt into a regional energy hub is becoming a reality, referring to a number of gas deals recently signed in the country.
The president made the comments while opening a number of investor service centres across the country.
El-Sisi commented on the controversial $15 billion gas deal brokered between two Israeli companies and private Egyptian company Dolphinus, saying that Egypt has "nothing to hide about this deal."
"Egypt is now one of the few countries in the Mediterranean region that owns facilities fully capable of providing all oil-related services," El-Sisi said, adding that Egypt will use these facilities to liquefy the imported gas for later export or for use in industry.
El-Sisi said that Egypt has developed these facilities before other countries in the region like in Leb, Israel, Cyprus and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , which will allow Egypt to benefit by having oil from Mediterranean countries liquefied in Egypt.
"We had to take advantage of this opportunity to attract Cypriot, Lebanese and Israeli gas in preparation for liquefaction and export," he said.
"We scored a goal," El-Sisi said in Egyptian colloquial slang, referring to the recent gas deals and other achievements in the gas sector, though he stressed that these agreements are reached by the private sector and not the state.
[Business Insider] If you’ve been following much international news, you’ve probably heard that, after literally years of scandal, abuse, and incompetence, South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma was finally forced to resign last week.
This is a big deal for South Africa.
The country has been suffering for nearly a decade under Zuma’s corruption.
And people are certainly hoping that the new president, Cyril Ramaphosa, will represent a positive, new chapter for South Africa.
Yesterday Ramaphosa addressed the nation’s parliament in Cape Town and made clear that his priority is to heal the divisions and injustice of the past, going all the way back to the original European colonists in the 1600s taking land from the indigenous tribes.
Yes, 'new chapter' of same old book. As at the University of Vermont, it starts slow and then whilst people sleep and do nothing, it gradually becomes the law of the land.
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Yep, you would think Ramaphosa would have been smarter. Afterall, Southern Rhodesia is right next door and the results of Mugabe's pet project were right there...including thousands of refugees clogging up the welfare rolls in SA.
(CNN) Before Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico on September 20, there already was an unprecedented migration from the Caribbean island to the mainland United States -- at least in part because of the US commonwealth's financial crisis. After the storm, academics are starting to use words such as "exodus" and "stampede" to describe the massive outflow of people.
"This is the greatest migration ever from Puerto Rico since records have been taken," said Jorge Duany, a professor of anthropology at Florida International University.
Some reasons for the migration are obvious: Millions of Americans living in Puerto Rico were left without power or running water because of the Category 4 hurricane. Schools were closed. Jobs lost. There seemed to be little hope on the horizon. Puerto Ricans are American citizens and can move to the states without visas or other paperwork. And so, many did.
Yet the scope and shape of this diaspora remain mysterious.
So far, estimates of its size have been based on airline traveler data, which some academics consider unreliable because flying off the island doesn't necessarily mean you're going to migrate. Florida school enrollment numbers have added clarity, but they only cover students who showed up in the Sunshine State, not the entire nation.
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Millions of Americans living in Puerto Rico were left without power or running water because of the Category 4 hurricane.
You confuse the symptom with the underlying causal factors. Generations of corruption and mismanagement. Other parts of the nation have had major disasters but have been able to rebound (unless they as Instapundit would say - been a Democratic stronghold since [insert date here]).
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2 Sept 2015: The Puerto Rico Department of Housing Did Not Properly Administer $90.79 Million of FEMA Grant Funds Awarded for the New Secure Housing Program OIG, DHS document title
[The Hill] Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Wednesday went to a massive Philadelphia oil refiner to rally its workers for changes to the federal ethanol mandate.
Philadelphia Energy Solutions, the East Coast’s largest refiner, filed for bankruptcy last month, blaming the costs of complying with the Renewable Fuel Standard.
Cruz wants to put a cap on the costs of Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs), the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) tradeable credit system for complying with the mandate that refiners blend ethanol and other biofuels into the traditional fossil fuels.
"There is a win-win solution where we can fix RINs, save the jobs of the refinery workers and also allow corn farmers to sell more corn and get the government out of the way of the success of both of them," Cruz told the boisterous campaign-style rally in South Philadelphia.
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Ethanol is yet another vote getting agri-scam. See wind farms, subsidized milk, food stamps, free cell phones, and the war on coal for more information.
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It began in 1919 with the addition of Tetraethyl lead and they've been buggering around with gasoline ever since.
In 1919, Dayton Metal Products Co. merged with General Motors. They formed a research division that set out to solve two problems: the need for high compression engines and the insufficient supply of fuel that would run them. On December 9, 1921 chemists led by Charles F. Kettering and his assistants Thomas Midgley and T.A. Boyd added Tetraethyl lead to the fuel in a laboratory engine. The ever present knock, caused by auto-ignition of fuel being compressed past its ignition temperature, was completely silenced. Most all automobiles at the time were subject to this engine knock so the research team was overjoyed. Over time, other manufacturers found that by adding lead to fuel they could significantly improve the octane rating of the gas. This allowed them to produce much cheaper grades of fuel and still maintain the needed octane ratings that a car’s engine required.
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"Does a corn surplus mean a drop in whiskey prices?"
Maybe, plus the cost to feed beef cattle and other delicious animals. Might lower the price of that chuck roast or brisket, too.
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A corn surplus might help the millions of people nearly at starvation put there by the diversion of corn to making alcohol for automobiles.
What a scam. Doing the math, you find that ethanol is BTU negative, meaning that the distillation process consumes more BTU's than the generated BTU's of the ethanol. The only place in the world where ethanol is not BTU negative is Brazil where they use the sugar cane pulp to fire the boilers...of course the EPA would have a fit if we tried that.
BTW, electricity is BTU negative when the energy source is natural gas.
[RT] Armed police and a helicopter have been deployed to a house in Brussels. At least one armed man is believed to be inside, according to local media.
The incident is taking place near a primary school in the municipality of Forest, on Rue Jean-Baptiste Vanpe. The school is attended by approximately 350 pupils, and the children have been taken inside as a safety precaution. The mayor of Forest, Marc-Jean Ghyssels, has also confirmed the police operation, citing "suspicion of the presence of armed men," RTBF reported.
A security perimeter has been established, with a witness telling RTL Info that police have ordered residents of the neighborhood to stay inside their homes. Armed police and snipers have been deployed to the scene. Police helicopters are also flying above the area.
Local media reported in August that Belgian prosecutors had opened an average of more than 20 probes per month against people suspected of terrorism-related offenses since the start of 2017, many of whom were thought to be "homegrown" extremists.
Update at 9:40 a.m. ET: the Daily Mail is on the case:
But a police spokeswoman denied media reports that an armed gunman was hiding in the area, saying the heavily armed units were responding to reports of a possible murder.
She said the special units of the federal police had been deployed in a major security operation after a Polish man reported that someone had been murdered in the morning.
'They are searching the buildings but we can say there has not been any terrorist attack,' she said.
Page 1: War on Terror was the right first call, and we’ll stick with that until we are certain it should be filed elsewhere, especially given the location.
Update from the Daily Mail at 2:15 p.m. ET:
Thursday's incident began after a Polish man reported what he said was a murder, Calie said.
When police arrived at the address, they found nothing.
'It seems he may have expressed himself badly,' Calie said.
But witnesses there said that an incident had happened at a nearby building and they reported seeing an armed man, so officers from Belgium's special federal police force were called in, she said.
'We can rule out terrorism,' Calie said.
Article moved to P.3: Non-WoT. Here’s hoping the Belgian police did not call it too soon.
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no one besides the government has one Someday we'll be reading articles about one classified band of government-paid gunmen shooting it out with a different classified band of government-paid gunmen. You read it here, first.
[Daily Caller] None of the 16 publicly-confirmed lawyers on special counsel Robert Mueller’s team are registered Republicans, The Daily Caller News Foundation has found.
Voter registration records indicate that 13 of the attorneys are Democrats and three have no party affiliation. This is the first time the political affiliation of all 16 lawyers has been reported.
One of the lawyers, Zainab Ahmad, appears to have registered as a Republican at the age of 18, but has since changed her registration status to unaffiliated.
There is a 17th lawyer on the Russia probe, but this person’s identity and political affiliation remain unknown.
The special counsel’s office has previously disclosed that nine of the 16 lawyers have made a total of $62,000 in donations to Democrats, with one of those nine lawyers having also donated $2,750 to Republican candidates.
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I'm pretty sure this is old news. Remember the reports from two or three months ago that detailed all their political donations went to Democrats? It doesn't take a great leap of faith to determine that none of them are 'Pubs; this is merely confirmation.
[DAWN] KARACHI: A recent report by the police about an anti-drug operation in Chanesar Goth carries alarming details of connection between the law enforcement agency, its special and intelligence branches, excise department, and drug traders and smugglers protecting the illegal business in the city. The report, a copy of which is available with Dawn, also speaks of an "organised nexus of police, lawyers, notables and political representatives" behind the racket.
The document titled Operation Detail Report ‐ Chanesar Goth, PS Mehmoodabad actually contains day-to-day details of a four-month operation in the densely populated neighbourhood that led to "almost an end" to drug business in the area where it had been booming for the last three decades.
The success, the report said, was not achieved only through raids and sending over 150 drug peddlers behind bars but also taking action against dozens of coppers ranked from constable to DSP and severing the supply line, which was being operated by the excise officials.
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[Rudaw] ERBIL, Kurdistan Region ‐ US-based oil firm Chevron announced on Monday it has resumed drilling in the Kurdistan Region having suspended operations in mid-October following the independence referendum.
"Chevron can confirm that it has resumed its activities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) and we have restarted drilling operations at our Sarta 3 well," Chevron spokeswoman Sally Jones said in a statement, Rooters reports.
The block is operated by Chevron that has an 80 percent interest in the Sarta production-sharing contract (PSC). Sarta is just north of Erbil, the capital city of the Kurdistan Region.
The company also operates at the Qara Dagh field with an 80 percent PSC, about 28 kilometers south of the historic provincial capital city of Sulaimani. The two blocks cover a combined area of 1,129 square kilometers.
The firm had drilled a new well at its Sarta block in September but halted operations in the Kurdistan Region in mid-October 2017 after Baghdad moved Iraqi forces and Hashd al-Shaabi paramilitaries into oil-rich Kirkuk and other disputed areas claimed by Erbil and Baghdad.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) says its revenues have been slashed by almost half since the loss of Kirkuk oil production.
Chevron began operating in the Kurdistan Region in 2012. Shortly thereafter, it was blacklisted by the Iraqi government for dealing directly with the KRG.
Oil disputes and independent exports from the Kurdistan Region have been at the heart of disagreements between Erbil and Baghdad.
The Iraqi government announced earlier in February it will not cover the gross payments due to oil companies that have signed agreements with the Kurdistan Region, but will require new contracts signed with the central government.
The KRG says it is ready to resolve issues with Baghdad within the framework of the Iraqi constitution.
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(Rooters) - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday announced he would create a task force to examine how his Justice Department can better combat global cyber threats, including efforts to interfere with elections or damage critical infrastructure.
Last week, leaders of U.S. intelligence agencies warned that Russia will try to interfere in the 2018 midterm elections in November and said the United States was "under attack."
The Justice Department will have until the end of June to report its findings, according to a memorandum Sessions signed on Friday but released on Tuesday.
"The internet has given us amazing new tools that help us work, communicate, and participate in our economy, but these tools can also be exploited by criminals, terrorists, and enemy governments," Sessions said in a statement.
The task force, composed of representatives from different branches of the Justice Department, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, will examine use of the internet to spread violent ideologies and recruit followers, how hackers breach private corporate and government data, and law enforcement challenges posed by strong encryption. Then rooters goes into propaganda mode. Interesting, it took them to the 6th paragraph.
Some security experts expressed skepticism about the task force, saying it lacked focus or a clear mission purpose.
"This step basically takes a number of really complicated parallel issues in 'hard' cybersecurity and 'soft' information security and throws them into the same amorphous task force," said Graham Brookie, a cyber security aide in the Obama administration who now works at the Digital Forensic Research Lab at the Atlantic Council think tank.
U.S. intelligence officials have said Russia believes it successfully undermined U.S. democracy in the 2016 presidential election and would try again. Which intelligence officials? Clapper and Brennan?
U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller last week charged several Russians with conducting a trollingcriminal and espionage conspiracy through social media by boosting Republican Donald Trump and denigrating Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Russia has repeatedly denied the allegations. What crap.
Trump has repeatedly dismissed the Russian cyber threat, and called Mueller's investigation of possible collusion between his campaign and Moscow a "witch hunt."
Sessions, who recused himself from overseeing the Mueller probe after failing to disclose meetings with Russian officials, said last October "probably not" when asked by a U.S. senator if enough was being done to tackle Russian interference.
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[AL.com] Hector Posset, the ambassador of the Republic of Benin, cracked the seal on a bottle of gin as we neared the wreck.
Travelling aboard my boat, we had come up the Spanish River, through its confluence with the Mobile River to 12 Mile Island, following the exact path that the Clotilda, the last American slave ship, used to smuggle the final 110 slaves brought in bondage from Africa to the United States.
Posset arrived in Mobile two days after news broke that a burnt ship the size and age of the Clotilda had been found in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta, the swamp where the captain claimed he set it afire in 1860. In a previous article, I relied on historical evidence and analysis by archaeologists to suggest that the 19th century wreck I found might be the Clotilda, which was burned after it arrived here with a last load of slaves from Benin.
I had been asked to take the ambassador upriver to the site by Dr. Sharon Ingram, chair of the state-sponsored Alabama Benin Trade and Cooperative Forum, so that he might offer libations and perform traditional rituals practiced in his homeland.
Floating a few feet from the hull of what may be the Clotilda, the ambassador, wearing a necktie and pinstripe suit, shook water and then gin from two bottles over the wreck. In low, forceful tones, he spoke directly to the wreck in a Beninese dialect, his voice often colored with anger. Then, taking a slug from the gin bottle, the ambassador began spraying mouthfuls of liquor over the wreck. Tears streamed from behind his sunglasses.
The moment was a profound one for Posset. Not only does he hail from Benin, once known as the Kingdom of Dahomey, where the Clotilda captives were first captured by fellow Africans and then sold to the Americans, but Posset is actually a descendant of the nation's royal family. By the 1800s, the King of Dahomey was making about a quarter of a million dollars a year selling Africans to Europeans, Americans and Brazilians, according to historical records. To put that number in perspective, a quarter of a million dollars in 1860 would be worth roughly $50 million today. The prosperous kingdom was notorious as a hub of the slave trade, and home to the door of no return, through which millions of slaves, including perhaps the Clotilda captives, passed as they were transferred to slave ships for the middle passage.
Asked to explain the words he spoke over the wreck, Posset covered his eyes for a moment as he regained composure and stifled a sob.
"I am just begging them to forgive us, because we sold them. Our forefathers sold their brothers and sisters. I am not the person to talk to them. No! May their souls rest in peace, perfect peace. They should forgive us. They should," Posset said, wiping tears from his cheeks. "Qualified people will come and talk to them in due time. I feel so sad." Continues.
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.
[KrebsOnSecurity] Patrick Reames had no idea why Amazon.com sent him a 1099 form saying he’d made almost $24,000 selling books via Createspace, the company’s on-demand publishing arm. That is, until he searched the site for his name and discovered someone has been using it to peddle a $555 book that’s full of nothing but gibberish.
[AlAhram] Sisi commented on the controversial $15 billion gas deal brokered between Egyptian and Israeli gas companies, saying that Egypt has 'nothing to hide' about the agreement.
(CNN) Before Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico on September 20, there already was an unprecedented migration from the Caribbean island to the mainland United States -- at least in part because of the US commonwealth's financial crisis. After the storm, academics are starting to use words such as "exodus" and "stampede" to describe the massive outflow of people.
[Daily Caller] None of the 16 publicly-confirmed lawyers on special counsel Robert Mueller’s team are registered Republicans, The Daily Caller News Foundation has found.
[DAWN] KARACHI: A recent report by the police about an anti-drug operation in Chanesar Goth carries alarming details of connection between the law enforcement agency, its special and intelligence branches, excise department, and drug traders and smugglers protecting the illegal business in the city. The report, a copy of which is available with Dawn, also speaks of an "organised nexus of police, lawyers, notables and political representatives" behind the racket.
[Rudaw] ERBIL, Kurdistan Region ‐ US-based oil firm Chevron announced on Monday it has resumed drilling in the Kurdistan Region having suspended operations in mid-October following the independence referendum.
