[Guardian] Montana authorities say a grizzly bear attacked and killed a cyclist riding in the Flathead national forest just outside Glacier national park.
The victim was killed on Wednesday afternoon about a mile from a West Glacier campground run by KOA, Flathead County Sheriff Chuck Curry told the Associated Press.
He did not identify the person killed or immediately provide additional details about the circumstances surrounding the death. Information about the victim is being withheld pending family notifications.
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Having come across grizzlies while miles from anybody deep in Glacier... yeah I suspect it happens more than is noticed. Also, the mountain lions in Glacier are more worrisome than grizzlies esp. if you are biking.
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I wonder if the bicyclist ever knew what hit him. I was once followed by a very angry mother black bear on a mountain trail in TN while taking a scenic drive out of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. She was vewy, vewy quiet. Fortunately I was in an F150 & could see her in the rear view mirror. She made a bluff charge at the rear of my truck. I was so glad I was not on a bike or on foot.
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More from KRTV, local news: The victim, Brad Treat, a off-duty Forest Service law enforcement officer, was mountain biking on a trail with another male at the time of the attack. It appears they surprised the bear and Treat was taken off his bike by the bear, according to Flathead County Sheriff Chuck Curry. Treat was pronounced dead at the scene.
The second rider was able to escape the area to get help, and was not injured or involved in the attack.
The sex of the attacking bear & whether or not cubs were involved is unknown at present. The incident involving myself started similarly, I drove around a sharp, blind bend on a forest road and almost hit a mother bear nursing 3 cubs in the center of the roadway. She jumped up & ran into the woods with a couple of cubs still holding on, then doubled back & followed my truck.
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Surprising the bear is the worst, especially with cubs. Right now at our house in the mountains, we had a grizzly walk right by the house. Then a few minutes later a cow moose and a calf were running in panic by the house, then followed by the bear.
We always observe before we go out, this time of year. Bicycles cover ground quickly, and going around the corner can be dangerous.
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Paul, on a bicycle, you can't outrun a bear. However, you can outrun your buddy whose on foot.
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"who's", not "whose".
I can't even blame this one on autocorrect.
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I remember watching the bikers crossing Glacier - esp ones from Japan and Germany and thinking "They don't understand big animals and heat. This is a really bad idea."
[2Ocians] The news of the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the EU has spread like wildfire, and the consequences are slowly rolling out.
Not only has our very own JSE plummeted, but the pound has also decreased in value.
Inspired by the news, ZA News, the home of those satirical puppet shows, released a statement announcing a Cexit -- or Cape Exit:
Inspired by Britain’s Brexit vote, a group of Capetonians calling themselves Better Than Whole (BTW) are campaigning for a Cexit -- or Cape Exit -- from South Africa.
According to BTW spokesperson Stephanie Green, Cape Town would just be better off emotionally without the whole rest of the country to deal with. "Plus we can charge a fortune when they apply for visas for their summer holidays in the Cape".
Cexit already has a trendy website, a meaningful song, and a solid hashtag. BTW are also subtly referencing that the move would help keep those Eastern Cape "refugees" out, but definitely not in a racist way.
For the purposes of Cexit, Cape Town obviously includes the wine route and Hermanus, although they remain undecided about the West Coast.
h/t Instapundit
A journalist working for the Telegraph has asked her Twitter followers to consider if they would kill UKIP leader Nigel Farage, comparing him to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. I thought Bush was Adolf Hitler? To paraphrase Andy Warhol, in the future everyone will be Hitler for fifteen minutes.
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A sinister sniff of frustration:
"Some say, in the whole population,
There might be a guy who
Don't vote the way I do...
It's like there's this whole other nation!"
#5
Sauce for the goose can be sauce for the gander. You want to go there, buddy? Who will restrain someone else from going after you (based on your logic)? Not a good position to have. Civilization is a very thin veneer over anarchy.
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In the future, everyone will be Hitler for 3 minutes.
[Bloomberg] Thomas Fanning, Southern Co.'s chief executive officer, discusses the company's strategy with Bloomberg's David Gura and Vonnie Quinn from the Aspen Art Museum in Aspen, Colorado, on "Bloomberg Markets."
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Rodrigo Duterte was sworn in Thursday as president of the Philippines, with some hoping his maverick style will energize the country but others fearing he will undercut one of Asia’s liveliest democracies amid threats to kill criminals en masse.
The 71-year-old former prosecutor and longtime mayor of southern Davao city won a resounding victory in May’s elections in his first foray into national politics.
Duterte, who begins a six-year term as president, captured attention with promises to cleanse the poor Southeast Asian nation of criminals and government crooks within six months — an audacious pledge that was welcomed by many crime-weary Filipinos but alarmed human rights watchdogs and the influential Roman Catholic church.
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[Navy Times] Iran’s supreme leader is hailing his hard-line paramilitary forces as heroes for their arrest of 10 American sailors at gunpoint, but an emerging consensus of U.S. legal experts believe the provocative act was a dangerous violation of international law that has so far gone without repercussions.
The U.S. riverine boats had the right to pass expeditiously through Iran's territorial waters under the right of innocent passage without being boarded and arrested so long as they weren't engaged in a military operation such as spying. Pentagon officials have said the riverine boat crews mistakenly entered Iran's waters in the Persian Gulf due to a "navigation error" while en route to a refueling.
Their arrests nearly derailed the months of nuclear deal negotiations with Iran and U.S. officials quickly secured the sailors' release. But only hours after their release, Iran's hardliners released propaganda videos of the sailors in custody.
Iran did not have the legal standing to arrest the sailors at gunpoint and that demands a U.S. response, said one expert.
"This should be very concerning for the Navy community," said James Kraska, a maritime law expert at the U.S. Naval War College. "This says that U.S. vessels don’t have innocent passage and that their sovereign immunity is not respected."
[Guardian] On a cold February night in 1986, Berlin’s Glienicke Bridge became the scene of the cold war’s last ever prisoner exchange -- a dramatic hand-over involving a Soviet dissident and Karel Koecher, the only foreign agent ever known to have infiltrated the CIA.
Koecher was a Czech citizen who had been living undercover in the US for 21 years. Alternately codenamed Rino, Turian or Pedro, he had moved to America in 1965 to establish himself as a mole within the CIA. Koecher’s KGB case officer, Colonel Alexander Sokolov, would later call him a super-spy.
According to files held by Czech secret police, his wife, Hana Koecherova, codenamed Adrid, had distributed secret messages on Koecher’s behalf during their decades abroad but was never charged with espionage.
For years she had been a New York City diamond dealer. Everyone in the business loved her. Living in the couple’s flat at 50 East 89th Street in Manhattan, a block from the Guggenheim, Hana’s neighbours were Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft, and tennis star Ivan Lendl.
But in 1986 Hana was on her way back to a very different world -- Czechoslovakia was a stifling place in the mid-80s.
Koecher was eager to cross the bridge. After spending years as a sleeper agent he had eventually obtained a job and top secret security clearance with the CIA. When he fell out of favour with his Soviet handlers in Prague, he bypassed the Czechoslovak state security, the StB, and reported directly to the KGB in Moscow.
After two decades in the US he was finally arrested by the FBI, and by February 1986 he had been held for 14 months awaiting trial in New York City’s Metropolitan Correctional Centre, where a fellow prisoner had tried to stab him to death.
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....Hmmm. Christopher Andrew's superb book Sword and Shield: The Mitrohkin Archive offers another explanation for their success: Hana was a hottie who enjoyed swinging. They would go to exclusive clubs in the DC area and quickly learned who did and didn't have security clearances, and Hana would get the information while Karl did the admin work.
Mike
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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
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