[Dhaka Tribune] Emelia Holden, a 21-year-old college student who works as a waitress at a pizzeria in Savannah, Georgia felt a customer graze her buttocks. A protest would have been expected, but not an actual body slam.
The waitress reacted with startling speed, grabbing him by the collar and putting him in a chokehold before throwing him to the ground.
The 21-year-old said: "I don’t care who you are. You have no right to disrespect me,"
The culprit tried to defend himself by pleading that he was just trying to "push her out of the way" and saying: "Oh, I’d barely touched you," according to Emelia - but the CCTV footage says otherwise.
Emelia told CBS how the incident unfolded: "I took someone's order and I was getting ready to set them up and then I just felt it.
"I was like, 'nope, that's not going to happen' and turned around and took the guy down."
She was astonished by her own strength: "I'm 115 pounds. I didn't know I could do that. I guess I just had the right stance for it and I did it."
The manager of the restaurant told police he had witnessed the incident and provided them with the surveillance footage of the pizzeria. The video went viral after she shared it with family members and a relative posted it online, the story went viral this week on Reddit.
Savannah police then charged the culprit with a misconduct of sexual assault.
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The viral video looked like a grope.
I wonder what he might have done had he been carrying a gun.
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Groping is not O.K.--Look but don't touch. The waitress attire does look a bit like Hooters. Mix that with alcohol (if that is served) and you have a potential for a groping environment.
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When I first saw this I 'hoped' the two had a history that some how explained his groping. Who in this century thinks that's still alright? What happened to Southern manners?
[DAWN] Massive flooding from a South Korean-constructed hydroelectric dam in Laos left several people dead and hundreds missing, state media said on Tuesday. Rescue efforts were underway as top government officials rushed to the site and public appeals were launched for aid.
The official Lao news agency KPL said the Xepian-Xe Nam Noy hydropower dam in southeastern Attapeu province collapsed on Monday evening, releasing large amounts of water that swept away houses, flooded villages and made more than 6,600 people homeless.
A later report on the website of the state-run Vientiane Times newspaper, however, said water had overflowed the dam, rather than bursting it. It said the dam was at risk of collapse, and rain and strong winds predicted for the next few days could make the situation worse.
It said two people were confirmed dead by Tuesday afternoon from flash floods that affected eight villages, and that the government had declared the flooded area an emergency disaster zone.
KPL said the disaster "claimed several human lives" and "left hundreds of people missing," without providing details.
Photos and videos posted on social media showed people sitting on rooftops to escape the surging water, while others were carried to safety or rescued by boat. State media said helicopters were also being used to rescue people.
The dam was built by a joint venture led by South Korean companies with Thai and Lao partners, and was still under construction. KPL described the portion that reportedly collapsed as a "saddle dam," which is an auxiliary dam used to hold water beyond what is held by the main dam.
South Korea's Yonhap News agency quoted an unidentified official at SK Engineering and Construction, one of the two South Korean partners in the project, as saying rain in the area was triple the usual amount, and one of five auxiliary dams had overflowed.
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There are consequences to living below millions of tons of water.
Answering the "WTF? How did they get exposed?" question
[NYPost] The British man exposed to a deadly nerve agent that killed his girlfriend said he is guilt-ridden because he gave it to her as a present – thinking it was a discarded bottle of perfume, according to a report.
"I'm feeling very low about Dawn," Charlie Rowley, 45, told the UK's Sun newspaper about his partner Dawn Sturgess, 44, who died July 8, eight days after exposure to Novichok.
The poison was contained in a bottle thrown away by Russian hitmen who had used it in the attempted assassination of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, 67, and his daughter, Yulia, 33, the outlet reported.
It is believed Rowley found the bottle in Queen Elizabeth Gardens in Salisbury, close to where the Skripals were found slumped on a park bench after being poisoned. He then took it to his home in Amesbury.
"I remember finding a cosmetic bottle which I had picked up and gave it to Dawn as a present," he told the paper weakly after being released from a hospital on Friday.
Sturgess, who is thought to have sprayed the nerve agent on her wrists, was rushed to a hospital after collapsing in Rowley's apartment.
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That answers one question I had; i.e. how this couple ended up with the nerve toxin. There's still some unanswered questions.
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The poison was contained in a bottle thrown away by Russian hitmen who had used it in the attempted assassination of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, 67, and his daughter, Yulia, 33, the outlet reported.
Bastards Ivans: not only they assassinate, they also litter!
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Frank G, sounds like you too found this part of the story a little poignant, and the least mysterious part of the picture? A vial of dehydrated garlic -- or a perfume bottle -- wouldn't last an hour on a sidewalk in downtown Anytown these days. Back to the original incident for a sec: who, at this particular juncture, might enjoy seeing Britain (and by extension, America) cheesed off at Russia?
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^ I must reject this outrageous slander in the most strenuous terms! Herr Skripal was obviously poisoned by Russian product suspiciously clumsily disguised as American product suspiciously clumsily disguised as Russian product!
[PRESSTV] Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu says Moscow would "take response measures" if Sweden and Finland joined the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... military alliance.
Shoigu said at a meeting of the ministry’s board on Tuesday that Russia was concerned about recent NATO moves aimed at involving the two countries in the US-led alliance’s activities for such measures would undermine global security.
"A treaty was signed in May that provides for [Sweden and Finland’s] full participation in the exercises of the alliance and the possibility of using its command-and-control systems for troops and weapons," Russia’s Interfax news agency quoted Shoigu as saying.
"In exchange, NATO received unrestricted access to the airspace and territorial waters of these countries," Shoigu said, adding that "such steps by Western colleagues lead to the destruction of the existing system of global security and generate even greater mistrust, forcing us to take response measures."
The Russian defense minister also said last week’s summit in Helsinki between President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... and President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. 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 him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... could lead to deeper military cooperation between Moscow and Washington as well as NATO countries.
NATO member states, largely made up of Western European countries, have significantly increased their military activities near Russia’s western borders in recent years.
Russia, realizing that security threat under its nose, has held several military drills to maintain preparedness, and the NATO countries have then pointed to those drills as signs that Russia has aggressive intentions.
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You mean like sneaking your submarines into their waters and harbors?
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Hmmm why would they want to join. Russian threats maybe?
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*Cough* Crimea *Cough*
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"We wanted in, but the evil Trumpkins wouldn't allow it."
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(1) It is not as if NATO would do anything to defend them. Russia would cut off German gas supplies and Germany would fight for a peaceful resolution over armed conflict and the countries would be occupied. (2) Nations that happen to be members of NATO might act to defend Sweden and Finland even without any kind of NATO response.
So having them join NATO may be pointless anyway.
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Also, What If I want better relations with Russia but have given them no reason to want them. I re-explore this even though I know they have a dis-ingenious way of going about business.
Which means the Iran oil issue and the trade sanctions issue get conflated with the most powerful tool in the American economic arsenal already ready in Trump’s hand. if I was Xi I would be terrified what is going to happen in December.
[Bloomberg] U.S. airlines plan to comply with a Chinese government demand that they revise their website identifications of Taiwan to reflect China’s claim on the island territory, said a person familiar with the discussions.
The U.S. carriers affected by the mandate -- American Airlines Group Inc., Delta Air Lines Inc., United Continental Holdings Inc., and Hawaiian Holdings Inc. -- will begin to change the Taiwan references over the next day or two, said the person, who asked not to be named because discussions among the carriers were private.
The four airlines had been hoping for a negotiated resolution between the U.S. and Chinese governments ahead of China’s July 25 deadline. Other airlines, including Qantas Airways Ltd., Air France-KLM and Deutsche Lufthansa AG, have already cooperated with China’s wishes. Does someone out there have the resources to research the amount of Australian, French and German debt China holds?
In April, the Civil Aviation Administration of China sent a letter to more than 40 foreign airlines telling them that they shouldn’t place China, Hong Kong and Taiwan on an equal footing, and must refer to "China Taiwan" or the "China Taiwan region." Maps must display the territories in the same color as mainland China and the websites can’t place Taiwan in other categories such as Southeast Asia, the order said.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China, or CAAC, said Wednesday it didn’t have an immediate comment on the plans of U.S. carriers. During a briefing by China’s foreign ministry on Tuesday, spokesman Geng Shuang said he hoped the U.S. government will urge relevant businesses to abide by the one China principle and make corrections on their websites as soon as possible.
[The Hill] Investor and television personality Kevin O'Leary praised President Trump's regulation policy on Tuesday, saying he gives the president high marks on reducing government regulations.
"I would say on a policy basis, I'm going to have to give it an 8 1/2 out of ten so far," O'Leary, an entrepreneur who appears on ABC's "Shark Tank," told Hill.TV's Buck Sexton on "Rising."
"The reduction of regulations has been remarkable in how it has accelerated small business," he said. "These things are quietly being changed, and I really ‐ I credit the administration for doing this. They're making it easier to run a small business in pretty well every state I'm involved in. So that's working."
"I do a lot of investing in private companies all across America," O'Leary added, noting that his investment portfolio includes more than 34 firms. "We're having one of the best years we've ever had ‐ not because of tax reform yet, that's coming, that's the upside in the next year or so."
Trump signed an executive order within the first month of his presidency aimed at dramatically scaling back federal regulations. He said the order, which requires agencies to revoke two regulations for every new rule they want to issue, would benefit both small and large businesses.
[PRESSTV] German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has warned that Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... will not give in to threats by the administration of US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , amid a global trade war between the EU states and Washington.
"Europe will not be threatened by President Trump. If we cede once, we will often have to deal with such behavior in the future," Heiko Maas said in a post on Twitter on Tuesday.
"No one has an interest in having punitive tariffs, because everyone loses in the end," said the foreign minister of Europe's biggest economy.
Separately, Maas told the German public television, "We in Europe must stick together...I hope that we succeed in resolving this via consensus but we will not be threatened and climb down so easily."
Elsewhere in the remarks, the top German diplomat hoped that a planned visit to Washington by the chief of the European Commission could prevent an all-out trade war. "It is good that Jean-Claude Juncker will be in Washington tomorrow to talk and to seek a solution but we are not heading to negotiations with a pistol at our chest. I don’t think threats bring us closer to a solution."
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is due to meet with Trump to discuss the imposition of US tariffs on EU steel and aluminum and his threats to expand those measures to European cars.
European Commission front man Margaritis Schinas told a news conference on Monday that Juncker would not arrive in the United States for talks with US President Donald Trump with a specific trade offer. "I do not wish to enter into a discussion about mandates, offers because there are no offers. This is a discussion, it is a dialogue and it is an opportunity to talk and to stay engaged in dialogue."
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It's not lose-lose. America is so far disadvantaged that any disruption to the status quo is an improvement.
If Trump tariffs their autos they are so screwed. I love my president so much.
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Big boys. You can defend yourselves. You want to be equal, then take full responsibility for your own house and leave us out of it.
1) The European Union and the United States have the largest bilateral trade and investment relationship in the world worth roughly $1.06 trillion)per year and growing. The trade created 6.9 million jobs in the U.S.
2) More than 70 percent of all foreign direct investment into the United States comes from the European Union. This number has doubled over the last 15 years.
3) U.S. companies earn more than twice as much exporting goods to the EU as they do exporting to China - $295.91 billion compared to $135.78 billion in 2017.
3) U.S. companies earn some $106 billion more in corporate profits in the EU than EU companies do in the U.S. When these corporate profits are added to the U.S. trade balance, Washington has no trade deficit with the EU.
4) Some 2.4 million European cars are made in the U.S. every year. Some 60 percent of German cars made in the U.S. are exported abroad. The BMW Spartenburg plant in South Carolina is the biggest BMW factory in the world, employing 10,000 people and exporting out of the U.S. 70 percent of what it makes. Some 70,000 U.S. workers depend on jobs linked to the BMW group.
%) Car tariffs: US 2.5%, EU 10% BUT due outward processing (EU cars parts shipped to the US for assembly) a very large portion of US car imports into the EU is actually subject to a much lower import duty. In 2017, only 1 billion euros out of the total value of US cars imports to the EU of EU 6.5 billion was subject to the full tariff.
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A concise and useful summary, European Conservative. Thank you.
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More than 70 percent of all foreign direct investment into the United States comes from the European Union.
Its' called capital flight. They can't get good RoI in Europe so they "bank"* their money in the US. Throw in the still though old respect of property (not likely to be found in most of the rest of the world) and 'where else are they going to go?'.
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I'd just like to make the case that a trade war is absurd and will only hurt both sides.
Abolishing tariffs wouldn't be such a difficult thing but carefully check your own tariffs first. Tariffs aren't that big an issue. Regulations are more complicated. Just think how long it took (and takes) the EU to "harmonize" regulations within the EU.
Some regulation serve as a clandestine trade barrier but once again, both sides do it.
Trump thinks he just has to threaten exorbitant tariffs and everybody comes to negotiate. It doesn't work this way and he's actually stabilizing the EU.
I don't like tariffs at all because they are easily introduced and so hard to abolish. Retaliatory tariffs introduced by the EU generate money for the EU. Brussels may come to like the new income. WE pay.
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Always appreciate your point of view, EC.
Unfortunately, some in the U.S. are tired of the 'status quo' and are willing to upset the apple cart (so to speak) to try to get a better deal.
Admittedly, Trump's approach is more 'brute force' than subtle. I say, give him six months.
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>"harmonize" regulations within the EU.
Every country seems to get the worst set of regulations...
Be much better off bi-lateral trade deals and international trade standards, with the "comply or explain (clearly on packaging)" methodology.
I think Trump's heavy-handed policy will fail. Here's why:
Like Trump, the British have tried to divide the EU. And like the U.S. they also have considerable economic potential.
Nevertheless, the EU has remained remarkably united in the negotiations. British Brexit hardliners now speak of national humiliation in this context, and with good reason. Their hope that the economy - above all the German car industry - will force the EU to soften its hard line has been shattered. The reason is simple: the cohesion of the EU's single market is much more important to the economy in the long term than enabling the British to enjoy a pleasant Brexit. To this end, EU-27 industry and governments are prepared to accept short-term losses if necessary.
The situation is similar in the dispute with the USA: rule-based global trade will in the long term be much more important for Europe than US tariffs.
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FUCK EUROPE.
These assholes have been nonstop protesting demanding we get the fuck out forever. What's wrong with giving them what they want?
They want a life independent of us, where they are not dragged into our wars like Afghanistan. Let's give it to them.
Europe profits to the tune of $150 billion *every goddamned year* because of our stupidity. The horrible Iran deal was $120 billion once. The wall is $25 billion once. Free university for every American is $60 billion every year. Do you begin to understand just how bad the deal is with Europe?
Why are we bribing "allies" to be on our side? Fuck them. Spend the money on ourselves instead.
When every apple is rotten, what do we lose by upsetting the apple cart?
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Nevertheless, the EU has remained remarkably united in the negotiations
Uh huh. Like Hungary, Italy, German opposition on Immigrants?
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EC is getting delusional.
Tmay is just negotiating very badly because she's the establishment remainiac picked for the role after they nobbled Andrea Leadsom.
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Poor EU , they don't have money for self-defense or for fair trade, but plenty of money for funding "human rights" groups - attempting to subvert other democracies, or outright terrorists like "Palestinians".
t seems a farmer was complaining to a friend about the trouble he was having in getting his stubborn mule to move. After listening to the farmer's complaint, the friend said he knew just what to do.
"Get a two-by-four and whack the mule across the head with all your might," advised the friend. The farmer was taken aback. "But how will that get him to move?" asked the farmer. "Well, you see," the friend said, "first you've got to get his attention!"
[Wash Examiner] President Trump castigated his staff during his recent trip overseas for playing CNN on the television on Air Force One, a Tuesday report reveals.
According to a Thursday email exchange obtained by the New York Times, Trump told his staff that the White House entourage should begin each trip with Fox News on the television, instead of the "fake news" CNN.
The officials in the email exchange said that the television mishap caused "a bit of a stir," and going forward tuning the TVs to Fox News would be a standard operating procedure.
Officials in the White House Military Office and White House Communications Agency also said in the email exchange that Trump ordered two more televisions that support Beam, a TiVo-like streaming device, so he and first lady Melania Trump could both watch TV in their separate hotel rooms when they travel.
Since his campaign, Trump has called CNN "fake news" and accused them of reporting dishonest stories about him and his administration.
[Breitbart] Secretary of State Brian Kemp, endorsed by President Donald Trump, has won against Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle in the Republican runoff for Georgia governor.
Kemp captured a whopping 69 percent, while Cage notched just 32 percent with 36 percent of the vote reported. The Georgia Secretary of States will now face off against Democrat nominee Stacey Abrams, vying to be the first black woman governor ever elected.
Cagle, whose campaign was badly hurt after secret recordings emerged in which he admitted to helping ram through "bad public-policy," told supporters one hour after polls closed that "Tonight did not turn out quite the way we anticipated."
President Trump on Tuesday urged Georgia voters to support for Kemp. "Will be great for Georgia, full Endorsement!" the president tweeted.
Senator Warren is not my favorite politician, but when you have a point, you have a point. It’s also illuminating that the populist left agrees with the populist right on principle. If I were a foreign leader & I saw this interview I would panic. https://t.co/5whonVvigo
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Getting the Chinese to come clean on their monetary policy and the end of their phony exchange rate on the Yuan would definitely change things without tariffs.
They can bs and threaten us all they like about dumping T-bills and stuff but they need hard currency US dollars to prop up their house of cards/Ponzi scheme economy.
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Is it cheaper to "subsidise" the jobs or the benefits?
It would of course be better if there was less rent in the American economy (in relation to wages), but it still would not help those at the lowest productivity.
Tariffs seem much less harmful than income (and deffered income aka sales)taxes.
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.
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. 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 him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
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