[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In a tragic incident in northern Morocco, a snake charmer was killed after being bitten by a poisonous snake in the middle of his show in front of passers-by.
The incident took place on Monday evening in the touristic city of Martil. The man who made his living out of playing music for the snakes and hypnotizing them was stung by one in his right hand. Despite attempts to rescue him, the man died.
Many Moroccans make ends meet with this profession, chiefly in touristic cities, most notably the city of Marrakech.
The death of the citizen, which was highly foregrounded on social media evoked a general feeling of sadness among citizens especially the inhabitants of the city and the by passers who witnessed the tragic event.
In addition, his death is one among many since an important number of snake charmers to die by lethal poison despite the experience they have in this area.
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Not so charming.
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[UPI] An elephant on an Indian road was filmed pulling a tarp from the top of a truck and stealing some of its load of potatoes.
The video, filmed on a road through the Garhbeta forest in West Midnapore, West Bengal, shows the elephant pulling the tarp at the top of a produce truck to the side.
The elephant then pilfers potatoes from inside the truck while ignoring calls for it to get away from the truck.
The pachyderm is unperturbed even when the truck driver and others stopped on the road attempt to use firecrackers to chase it away.
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Oh, I thought this was going to be about Michelle
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Elephant pilfers potatoes? Not "pilfers." The elephant was merely a socialist and "expropriated" the potatoes. Or perhaps the elephant was a Democrat and just "taxed" the driver of the truck.
[Hurriyet Daily News] A young Ottoman Turkish man who was registered twice separately by his divorced parents has been facing the possibility of doing his compulsory military service twice.
Yusuf Yildiz has already applied to the military service with his first ID, which was registered by his father with the birth year of 1997, only to find out that he had a second ID card belonging to him, in which his birth year is 1998.
Yildiz’s parents divorced when he was two years old. He lived with his father until the age of 12.
"My dad had me registered when I was about to start school," Yildiz said.
"My mother’s name is Melek, but he had it registered differently and my birth year as 1998. I have used this ID for years. But this year I received an official document for my military service, which says my name is Yusuf Demirel, my mother’s name is Melek and my birth year is 1997. When I applied to the civil registry office, I found out that I actually have a second ID, which was registered by my mother," he added.
Yildiz wants the identity card registered by his mother to be annulled. He applied to a court in an attempt to solve the problem.
"But it was not annulled since I could not take my parents to the courthouse," Yildiz said.
"This year, I suspended my military service because my birthdate appears to be 1997 on this ID. The second call [to military service] is also approaching. Will I serve in the army twice? I do not know how this will end," he added.
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Same thing happens to people with two passports from two different countries. I remember there being a big brouhaha a few years back about some kid who was Korean but also had American citizenship. He showed up in Korea with his Korean passport and the authorities were there to meet him at the airport: "You're in the Army now." His parents freaked, naturally, and called lawyers and tried to weasel out of it because having a US passport means a get out of jail free card.
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One of my professors in college had the same problem. He had both Greek and U.S. citizenship. He couldn't go back to Greece because he would be inducted into the army.
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[OANN] Venezuela tossed in the slammer Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! two leading critics of President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday in a fresh blow to the opposition after the election of a new political body with absolute powers to strengthen the hand of the leftist government.
The United States imposed sanctions on Maduro on Monday, calling him a "dictator" for Sunday’s election of a constituent assembly that the opposition boycotted and denounced as illegitimate.
In a statement announcing the jailing of opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez and veteran politician Antonio Ledezma, the pro-government Supreme Court said they were planning to flee the country and had violated terms of their house arrest by making political statements and speaking to media.
But government opponents called the abrupt removal of the men from their homes by security forces in nighttime raids a sign of Maduro’s determination to silence rivals and stamp out four months of massive street protests against him.
About 120 people have been killed in the unrest, including at least 10 during Sunday’s vote.
Both Lopez and Ledezma had been urging protests against Sunday’s vote, which they charged was rigged and a naked power grab by Maduro.
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Ah, yes, the wonderful world of utopian socialism. Counter revolutionary saboteurs to the gulags!
[DAWN] All 29 suspects nominated for their involvement in the panchayat-ordered 'Dire Revenge rape' of a teenage girl in Muzaffarabad area of Multan district last month have been placed in durance vile Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! , read the police report submitted before the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
According to the progress report submitted by Multan city police officer (CPO), the main accused in the case -- who raped 16-year-old N* as "punishment" for a rape her brother had committed days earlier -- has also been arrested.
The man who is accused of raping the 12-year-old F*, sister of the main suspect, was arrested last month.
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[DAWN] Jordan's parliament scrapped a controversial article in the penal code that allowed a rapist to escape punishment if he married his victim, on Tuesday.
"Lawmakers agreed to remove the controversial Article 308, which stops the punishment of a perpetrator of sexual crimes if he marries his victim," the official Petra news agency reported.
The article was scrapped as parliament passed amendments to the penal law.
Activists have been campaigning for years to abolish the article, which allows rape charges to be dropped if the rapist marries his victim and does not divorce her for five years.
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Racial minorities engage in "competitive victimhood" in a quest for recognition of past sufferings such as slavery and colonialism, according to a new research study published by Belgian professors.
Laura De Guissmé and Laurent Licata, professors at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, made the claim in a recent article in the European Journal of Social Psychology, further finding that the struggle for victimhood can "foster intergroup conflict" such as a desire for revenge, increased hostility, and racism against other minorities.
Consequences of competitive victimhood are especially dangerous, the professors note, because they can contribute to the escalation of conflict (for example, with regards to the Israel/Palestine conflict), reduce trust and empathy, and impede the resolution of conflicts by peaceful means (heightening the threat of violence).
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Me first! I'm the worst victim ever,
A tool to be used as a lever,
Coerced and accursed,
Well rehearsed (but not nursed!),
And I'll make my escape, um, er...
[Telegraph] Obese people will be routinely refused operations across the NHS, health service bosses have warned, after one authority said it would limit procedures on an unprecedented scale.
Hospital leaders in North Yorkshire said that patients with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or above; as well as smokers; will be barred from most surgery for up to a year amid increasingly desperate measures to plug a funding black hole. The restrictions will apply to standard hip and knee operations. Sometimes they are obese because they can't move around. Fix that and they might lose weight
And a funding black hole? Don't you have 65% tax rate to pay for this? Where is the money going? Illegals?
The decision, described by the Royal College of Surgeons as the "most severe the modern NHS has ever seen", led to warnings that other trusts will soon be forced to follow suit and rationing will become the norm if the current funding crisis continues. This is why they can't afford a decent military
Chris Hopson, the head of NHS Providers, which represents acute care, ambulance and community services, said: "I think we are going to see more and more decisions like this.
"It's the only way providers are going to be able to balance their books, and in a way you have to applaud their honesty. You can see why they're doing this – the service is bursting at the seams."
The announcement is the latest in a series of setbacks for patients who are facing rolling strikes by junior doctors that threaten to cripple the health service as winter approaches.
The decision by Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) comes amid increasing limits across the NHS on surgery for cataracts as well as hip and knee operations. What a wonderful system... I say we adopt it!!!
Just remember kids, it is easier to change insurance companies than it is to change a government.
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$$$ is why the NHS Death Panel deemed baby Gerard must die
Money is why the NHS refused to treat Baby Gerard. Control is why they refused to allow the parents to spend their own money -- raised by a Go Fund Me, as I recall -- to take their infant to America for an experimental treatment that would have benefitted future patients even if it did not cure their son. They refused even to allow the parents to take the baby home to die, insisting it be kept much greater expense in the hospital until the end.
Although BMI does accurately calculate the proportion of one’s weight in relation to one’s height, it falls flat on at least a few grounds. For one, it does not differentiate whatsoever between fat mass and muscle mass. For example, let us assume that we are a highly-muscular or fit person with a low body fat percentage. It is possible that, due to a high percentage of muscle mass, our BMI would place us in the overweight category, even though we actually have a lesser percentage of body fat than a non-athletic person in the normal category.
Likewise, BMI does not take into account bone density as existing separate from fat. As described by NPR’s Keith Devlin, bone is both denser than muscle as well twice as dense as fat. As a result, an athletic person with a lot of muscle, strong bones, and low fat would have a BMI index of overweight or even obese, even if his or her lifestyle and body were in fact, very healthy.
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WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration is preparing to redirect resources of the Justice Department’s civil rights division toward investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants, according to a document obtained by The New York Times.
The document, an internal announcement to the civil rights division, seeks current lawyers interested in working for a new project on "investigations and possible litigation related to intentional race-based discrimination in college and university admissions."
The announcement suggests that the project will be run out of the division’s front office, where the Trump administration’s political appointees work, rather than its Educational Opportunities Section, which is run by career civil servants and normally handles work involving schools and universities.
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NYT's anticipated reaction, from their readers -
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The Trump administration is preparing to redirect resources of the Justice Department’s civil rights division toward investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants
It's clear they do when dealing with well qualified Asians. Use that tactic to isolate and identify the real culprit of institutionalized racism. Alinsky them, make them live up to their own principles or die on them.
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"...the civil rights division, seeks current lawyers interested in working for a new project on "investigations and possible litigation related to intentional race-based discrimination in college and university admissions."
Aren't all these programs intentional and race-based?
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...not that the Constitution in any way says that's legit, in fact the text of the 14th read by laymen without a legal BS says otherwise. Equal before the law means equal before the law.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
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Considering what passes for education in a lot of colleges today, affirmative action may actually be unfairly favoring whites - by keeping them out.
Late Wednesday, DOJ spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores issued a statement calling the press reports “inaccurate.”
“This Department of Justice has not received or issued any directive, memorandum, initiative, or policy related to university admissions in general,” she added. “The Department of Justice is committed to protecting all Americans from all forms of illegal race-based discriminations.”
Instead, Flores said the department was looking for lawyers to investigate a 2015 complaint filed with the Department of Education over Harvard University's race-based quota system. The complaint alleges the Ivy-League school requires Asian students to have SAT scores 140 points higher than white students, 270 points higher than Hispanics and 450 points higher than black students.Late Tuesday, The New York Times reported that it obtained an internal DOJ job announcement that sought lawyers interested in a project on “investigations and possible litigation related to intentional race-based discrimination in college and university admissions.”
While the notice doesn’t come right out and say which races and ethnicities are considered by the Trump administration as “at risk” for discrimination, the reported implication was that Jeff Sessions’ DOJ could go after affirmative action policies.
Late Tuesday, The New York Times reported that it obtained an internal DOJ job announcement that sought lawyers interested in a project on “investigations and possible litigation related to intentional race-based discrimination in college and university admissions.”
While the notice doesn’t come right out and say which races and ethnicities are considered by the Trump administration as “at risk” for discrimination, the reported implication was that Jeff Sessions’ DOJ could go after affirmative action policies.
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After a white Evergreen State College student filed a formal complaint citing claims of "racially driven violence and harassment" from peers of color, a campus official has pledged that future training topics for student leaders will include preventing bias based on race.
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You've got to train people not to discriminate against whites at Evergreen. Sad. Close the school and start over again. Maybe Hillsdale College will consider starting a real school there without all the problems and drama.
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Sounds like most of these jagoffs have their heads up their asses before they get to this shithole college. The ideal solution - nuke the teachers unions, fire every teacher and start over.
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
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In a tragic incident in northern Morocco, a snake charmer was killed after being bitten by a poisonous snake in the middle of his show in front of passers-by.
[UPI] An elephant on an Indian road was filmed pulling a tarp from the top of a truck and stealing some of its load of potatoes.
[DAWN] All 29 suspects nominated for their involvement in the panchayat-ordered '
[Telegraph] Obese people will be routinely refused operations across the NHS, health service bosses have warned, after one authority said it would limit procedures on an unprecedented scale.
