[Sacramento Bee] SACRAMENTO, CALIF. Authorities have identified a parolee who died after jumping out a moving patrol car in Northern California.
The Sacramento County Coroner's Office identified the man Saturday as 29-year-old Ryan Ellis.
Sacramento County Sheriff deputies detained Ellis on Thursday night near his estranged wife's home in North Highlands after receiving reports of a man who had violated a restraining order.
Officials say Ellis was handcuffed and put in the back of a patrol car. While he was being driven to jail, he kicked out the rear window of the vehicle and jumped out.
Department spokesman Sgt. Tony Turnbull says Ellis received critical injuries to his head and was sent to the hospital. He died the next morning.
[Sunday Express] The scorching Middle Eastern country, and much of the transcontinental region, is in the midst of a drought with some studies suggesting a water shortage could last for the next 25 years.
The UAE, which is among the top 10 water-scarce countries in the world, hopes to help ease the stress of a drinking water shortage by towing an iceberg from the freezing Antarctica in order to create more drinking water.
The National Advisor Bureau Limited’s (NABL) managing Director Abdullah Mohammad Sulaiman Al Shehi says an average iceberg contains "more than 20 billion gallons of water” which would be enough for one million people over five years.
Up to four-fifths of an iceberg’s mass is underwater, and due to their vast density, they would theoretically not melt in the boiling climate of the Middle Eastern coastal line.
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...Y'know, this has been proposed I don't know how many times in my lifetime, but nobody's ever actually tried it.
And given the stark screaming berserk terror over the loss of ice in the Antarctic, I'm sure we're going to hear the Usual Suspects denounce this idea any time now...
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I'm sure we're going to hear the Usual Suspects denounce this idea any time now
No way, Islam trumps all the rest of SJ/environment issues.
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Ditto Mike. I think I saw an exhibit about this at the NY World's Fair in '64 right next to the atomic powered Panama Canal replacement and the clearing the Amazon for farming.
Seems that the energy required to move a berg is rather more than is economical.
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ultimately the UAE will end up using Israeli desalinization technology, perhaps laundered through a dummy corporation in Leb or Cyprus
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I read a short story once that described strapping a nuclear propulsion plant onto an iceberg which they then smashed into Africa for fresh water. Made a port after it all melted. I wondered at the time how many tugboats you would need ....
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It seems a large area of Africa has large underground water reserves(5000 years old). In my area they drilled on a mountain. The water found was at three hundred feet deep. The bit and pipe broke off. Two hundred feet of it fell into the lake of underground water. They sent a camera down to find it. It wasn't found. It had fallen to a depth as yet undetermined. I have heard it said that within the earth exists water quantities much greater than currently exists in our oceans.
[Libya Herald] Sebha is tense today after gangland fighting yesterday supposedly between members of the Awlad Sulaiman and Mahamid tribes left a number of them dead. Estimates vary between six and 15 dead, however, the mayor of Sebha, Rafeh Hamed, has said that officials are not “not yet sure” about the exactly number. For its part, Sebha Medical Centre reports receiving six bodies yesterday.
The wounded are put at 12. The medical centre says that it had received none so far but feared that no injured had come because they feared they would be targeted even in the hospital if they went there.
The trouble started when a gang of Mahamid armed men tried to steal a car belonging to a member of the Awlad Sulaiman tribe, Yahia Aswaidat Al-Sulaimani, while he was heading to the Fajr (dawn) prayers. He resisted and was shot dead.
Members of the Awlad Sulaiman, intent on revenge, then went to the area in the town known as Camp 80, near the Manshia neighbourhood and attacked members of the Mahamid tribe based.
Clashes are reportedly still ongoing despite attempts by elders from other tribes to mediate a peace. Mayor Hamed has effectively confirmed this, saying that the situation was still “not resolved”. Latest reports say that two more people died in fighting today
However, he also said that the clashes had nothing to do with the two tribes, that those involved were simply gangland criminals and most of them from other countries Libya. Only two of the dead were known to be Libyans, he claimed.
The district known as Camp 80 is inhabited largely by people from Chad and Niger, but many of them were in fact originally from Libya who returned, following a call from Qaddafi, and settled in what was then a camp in 1980 – thus the name. It became overcrowded, squalid and poor but was re-laid out, with new roads and buildings, in the years immediately before the revolution.
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[An Nahar] A young man died Friday after he was injured in violence as looting broke out in impoverished Venezuelan cities, an official said, bringing the toll from unrest in more than a month of anti-government protests to at least 36.
Hecder Lugo Perez, 22, died after he was hit in the head by a projectile in the northwestern city of Valencia, sources at the Valles de San Diego medical clinic said. City Mayor Enzo Scarano confirmed his death.
Mass protests erupted on April 1 by demonstrators demanding elections to remove President Nicolas Maduro. They blame him for an economic crisis that has caused shortages of food, medicine and other basics.
Anger boiled over Friday in the western municipality of Rosario de Perija, where young protesters burned, pulled down and then smashed a statue of former president Hugo Chavez, Maduro's late predecessor and mentor, according to video posted on social media showing the incident in a public square.
Looting broke out this week in cities such as Valencia, which looked like a disaster zone with bars on shop windows bent and windows broken.
"There was a crowd of them. They broke through the walls and took everything. They destroyed everything" before police came and fired tear gas to disperse the looters, said Nuvia Torrealba, 42, who worked in a bakery.
"My bosses have lost their home and we are out of a job. It was horrible."
Residents were stockpiling food, water and fuel. At least 70 stores have been raided since Tuesday, the Valencia chamber of commerce said.
"They are taking advantage of the protests to go out and rob," said Magaly Oliveros, a 64-year-old housewife in Valencia.
"Today we are hungry, and tomorrow we will be hungrier still because there is nothing."
- Army allegations -Maduro is resisting opposition demands for elections.
Each side accuses the other of using gangs to sow violence in the demonstrations.
Maduro has the public backing of the military high command, which analysts say is key to resisting the protests.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... senior opposition leader Henrique Capriles said on Friday that 85 mid-ranking army officers have been detained for opposing moves to crack down on protesters.
He cited information he said was given by the officers' families.
- Weekend protests -Maduro's opponents called for women to march on Saturday dressed in white, a traditional show of defiance against what they brand a repressive government.
"The regime is falling," said Lilian Tintori, wife of incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, outside the prison near Caracas where she was demanding to see her husband.
"It has no strength and is showing its worst side, using weapons because it is does not have right on its side."
The president has launched moves to reform the constitution, further angering the opposition, which says he is trying to dodge elections.
He says the economic crisis is a US-backed conspiracy to topple him and install a right-wing government.
"We will not let a fascist regime be set up here," said Elias Jaua, the official appointed to lead a presidential commission on the constitutional reforms.
Capriles said the opposition will take no part in the constitutional discussions.
The celebrity Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel, director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, added his voice to calls for an end to the violence on Thursday.
He called for Maduro to "listen to the voice of the Venezuelan people", in a message posted on Facebook.
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According to Igor Kasatonov, a former deputy commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy and former Black Sea Fleet commander, the submarine is capable of detecting targets at a distance three to four times in excess of the capabilities of enemy radar systems.
[SCMP] A turncoat assassin sent to North Korea armed with "nano poison" to kill leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... ?
It’s only the latest in a string of odd, as-yet-unproven accusations over the years that a proud, highly sensitive North Korea has levelled at its US and South Korean rivals.
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It would be VERY nice if journalists and politicians had to pass an economics course before practicing their trade. But I'm not holding my breath.
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It would be VERY nice if journalists and politicians had to pass an economics course before practicing their trade.
A statement that could be made about a good many subjects, alas. Then there is an acquaintance of mine, a former Yahoo finance columnist, who strongly believes Obamacare was a good financial move. The queer thing is that that his father groomed him to inherit the family construction business, and his degree was engineering, so he has no excuse for not understanding numbers and trends. There must be something in the ink fumes they breathe...
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They're in denial of the failure of socialism and liberalism in general. Just like with Che. He was a cowardly murderous psychopath who routinely killed gays. But he's sooo dreamy on this t-shirt
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Could find you plenty professors of economics for whom it's a mystery as well.
[Free Beacon] Australian billionaire and manufacturing CEO Anthony Pratt said Friday on Fox Business that he is investing $2 billion in the United States because he has "confidence" in President Trump.
"We have enormous confidence in President Trump. He's doing a wonderful job, and we think he will continue to do a great job," Pratt said. "He's reducing unemployment. As we saw today, the job figures show unemployment is the lowest it's been for a decade, and he's supporting manufacturing."
"And that's why we are doubling down on our investment in the United States, creating 7,000 high-paying manufacturing jobs, mainly in the Midwest," Pratt added.
The latest jobs report was released Friday and showed the U.S. created 211,000 jobs in April, leading the unemployment rate to fall to its lowest level in a decade, 4.4 percent. The report also showed 12,000 more Americans joined the labor force in April.
Fox Business reporter Elizabeth MacDonald asked Pratt in which states these new manufacturing jobs would be located.
[An Nahar] A socialist politician died after collapsing on stage during a speech at a campaign rally for French presidential frontrunner Emmanuel Macron, party officials said Saturday. It's called Deadication.
Corinne Erhel, 50, was the last to speak at the rally Friday in western La Belle France when she suddenly fell to the ground. She was rushed to hospital, where she was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim! "I learned with immense sadness of the death of Corinne Erhel at the event in Plouisy, where she was speaking to 300 activists," wrote French lower house speaker Claude Bartolone, a socialist.
"A member of parliament since 2007, she was fully invested in her parliamentary work, while still remaining close to the people," said socialist President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist...
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"There's a spot in La France
That's Emmanuel's own...
An ecole, an old soul
Known before he was grown.
There's a cute little place
Off the Champs Elysees,
Where -- if we can take it --
My boy-toy will play...
Sure, he loves the dear silver
That shines in the banks,
And the mines that we've burrowed
Right under the Franks.
As the antifa singers
Shriek, 'No pasaran...'
No... quelqu'un but Le Pen, Dieu!"
- Mother Macron
Okay, that's crap, but maybe someone can do (or has done( sometihng decent?
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It was on the second reading that I realized the final verse only scans if
- Mother Macron
is the closing line instead of just a mock attribution. It is a bit rough, but I think polishing would take away the immediacy that is its charm. It feels like it sprang to the paper with only a brief tussle with the spell check function to retain the French bits. I envy.
She's "dead" now. [DAWN] An 18-year-old woman was allegedly killed by her uncle on Friday in Fauji Colony, Pirwadhai, when her father turned down his offer of her marrying his son.
The dear departed was engaged to Wajid, a son of her uncle, who is suspected of having killed her.
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... her father refused to marry her off to Wajid as he had polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... According to preliminary investigations, the victim’s father, Khalid Khan, had broken off the engagement and promised his daughter to a son of his younger brother.
Khalid found his daughter dead in her room on Friday and he said in his statement that two of his brothers who lived in the same house as him had told him that their brother had killed his daughter and fled.
The police said the victim’s body was handed over to her parents after a post-mortem was conducted and an investigation was launched.
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Yep. Pakiland. Denied to one cousin so she can marry another cousin
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Guess there's a first time for everything. Laughing out loud at mention of polio? Check.
[DAWN] In an unusual development, police have registered a report against 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... for provoking people against the Pakistain Army and creating hatred against the armed forces.
It is worth noting that the report registered by the police is not a First Information Report or FIR. It is a report registered in the police diary, known in local parlance as roznamcha.
The one-page report was lodged by Advocate Ishtiaq Ahmed Mirza, chairman of the I.M. Pakistain, a political party which he claimed was registered with the Election Commission of Pakistain.
Mr Ahmed in his complaint said he was sitting at his office at the district courts when he received a WhatsApp clip at 12.47pm which showed a man making a speech. He said it was visible that the man delivering the speech was Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister, who was allegedly provoking people and creating hatred against the armed forces.
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[An Nahar] The unmanned Cassini spacecraft, after completing two passes in the vast, unexplored area between Saturn's rings has discovered not much else there, researchers at NASA said.
Scientists have been surprised to find that not all that much -- not even space dust -- lies between Saturn's iconic rings.
"The region between the rings and Saturn is 'the big empty,' apparently," said Cassini Project Manager Earl Maize of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, after the probe's first pass.
The rings themselves are made of fast-moving particles of ice and space debris.
The 22-foot-tall (6.7 meter) Cassini spacecraft launched in 1997 and began orbiting Saturn in 2004.
Cassini made a first pass to explore what lies between the rings in late April and a second one on May 2, at a speed of about 77,000 miles per hour relative to the planet.
The gap between the rings and the top of Saturn's atmosphere is about 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers).
Cassini is expected to make a total of 22 dives between the rings and the planet before making a death plunge into the gas giant in September.
Cassini is a 20-year-old joint mission of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency.
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The gap between rings A and B is named the Cassini Division. Any particle orbiting in that gap would align with the moon Mimas every other orbit making such an orbit unstable causing any dust/ice that should enter the gap to leave.
I would look for moons to associate with each of the other gaps.
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What EF said. There's actually a couple dozen gaps in rings that correspond to orbital periods of the major moons.
As for "rings themselves are made of fast-moving particles of ice and space debris", the rings ARE the minor moons of Saturn.
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[Wash Times] Colorado hospitals have experienced a surge in visits involving teenagers and young adults testing positive for marijuana since the state legalized medical and recreational pot, according to new research.
The annual number of marijuana-related emergency room visits logged by Colorado’s children’s hospital system spiked from 106 in 2005 to 631 in 2014, Dr. George Wang of Children’s Hospital Colorado wrote in a study scheduled to be presented Monday in San Francisco.
The rate of marijuana-related visits among total hospitalizations involving 13- to 21-year-olds increased over four-fold that same span, with about four visits per every 1,000 patients in 2015 involving marijuana in one regard or another, Dr. Wang reported.
Legalizing medical marijuana in 2000 and the nation’s first retail pot shops in 2014 may have played a part in the uptick of hospital visits, according to the report’s author.
Emergency department and urgent care visits "increased at a rapid rate after commercialization of medical marijuana and legalization of recreational marijuana," Dr. Wang wrote.
Colorado’s children hospitals treated 3,443 patients between 2004 and 2014 who were either admitted for marijuana use or subsequently tested positive for THC, the plant’s potent chemical, according to the report. About two-thirds of those patients were also given psychiatric consultations, its authors acknowledged, the likes of which similarly surged from 65 in 2005 to 450 consultations in 2014.
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Legalize pot, kids use pot, end up in hospital.
Whodathunkit?
I had a former coworker here in Texas, took a vacation and went to Colorado. Used it there. Came home, was tested. Lost job.
("But it's legal there." "But it's not here. You're here.")
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It ain't your Granddaddy's pot.
'Weeding out' the weak ones.
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.
[Sunday Express] The scorching Middle Eastern country, and much of the transcontinental region, is in the midst of a drought with some studies suggesting a water shortage could last for the next 25 years.
North Korea
[DAWN] An 18-year-old woman was allegedly killed by her uncle on Friday in Fauji Colony, Pirwadhai, when her father turned down his offer of her marrying his son.
[An Nahar] The unmanned Cassini spacecraft, after completing two passes in the vast, unexplored area between Saturn's rings has discovered not much else there, researchers at NASA said. 
[Wash Times] Colorado hospitals have experienced a surge in visits involving teenagers and young adults testing positive for marijuana since the state legalized medical and recreational pot, according to new research.
