[DAWN] A Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, city has agreed to pay $85,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a Moslem woman whose hijab was forcibly removed by the police.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations ... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ... , (CAIR ...designated a terrorist group by the UAE... ) which announced the settlement on Thursday, had sued the city of Long Beach, California, on behalf of Kirsty Powell, an African-American Moslem, "after coppers forcibly removed her hijab in view of other male officers and dozens of inmates."
Powell, who wears the head covering "as part of her religious beliefs," was "forced to spend the entire night exposed in jug and described the experience as deeply traumatising," the rights group said.
Powell was placed in durance vile You have the right to remain silent... during a traffic stop in May, 2015, on outstanding warrants that were since cleared.
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Some broads look better in hijabs. Just saying.
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That's the first thing I would do with infinite RD$. Countless uses for mutant ants ... say for example you breed some who hate marijuana and cut them loose in Seattle. Just saying.
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I distinctly recall seeing this movie. (Although, all they ever do now is remakes and comic books, so I suppose it's a two-fer.)
This demonstrates the principle that should be, and isn't, taught in STEM classes: Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
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Didn't play that one. Spent some hours on Defender of the Crown and Wings; 3 Stooges was fun but could never complete the game. Rocket Ranger, TV Sports Football and Basketball. Now, Lords of the Rising Sun was a blast.
[DAILYCALLER] A Minnesota writing conference was canceled Wednesday after people complained about the lack of diversity in the line-up of writers that were going to attend.
The organizers of the Loft Literary Center’s conference, aimed at teaching people how to write young adult novels, scrapped their plans when they learned that all the speakers but one were white, reports the Star Tribune.
"We have set a goal for ourselves to be inclusive and to work toward equity, and we didn’t think the conference would live up to that mission," Britt Udesen, executive director of the Loft, said Wednesday. "We made a mistake."
Twenty-two authors were set to speak at the event, but only one had an ethnic background. William Alexander, winner of a National Book Award, is a Cuban-American author. Udesen said the event was canceled in part because of the lack of diversity in the line-up, but also because not enough people were going to attend.
Udesen added that they invited more than 30 people of color to speak at the conference, but none accepted the invitation.
"It’s MEA [teachers’ conference] weekend, so a lot of local writers were unavailable, or a lot of them had just recently taught with us and they thought it would be repetitive," Udesen said.
One author criticized the children’s conference for not having enough diversity in the line up in general.
"The times I’ve been to that conference it has felt stiflingly white, definitely stiflingly older white woman, stiflingly suburban," young adult author Shannon Gibney said. "And because of that it hasn’t been a space where, as a newer writer of color, it is really useful for me."
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William Alexander, winner of a National Book Award, is a Cuban-American author.
'Ethnic' when they need them to be, 'White Hispanic' when they don't. Funny how that works!
Shannon Gibney, an English faculty member at Minneapolis Community and Technical College, told MCTC student newspaper City College News in a video interview that three white students filed a complaint against her with the school after a discussion on structural racism in one of her communications classes.
In the interview, which was posted by the college newspaper to YouTube, Gibney says a white student interrupted her lesson to ask “Why do we have to talk about this in every class?” Another white male in the class then chimed in, Gibney told the student paper, saying he didn’t understand either. “It’s like people are trying to say that white men are always the villains, the bad guys. Why do we have to say this?” the student asked, according to Gibney.
Gibney said that when she told the students that they could file a complaint with the college’s legal affairs department if they were so unhappy with the discussion, they took her up on her offer. That led to an official reprimand from the school in early November, she claims.
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Supremacist spuds in colcannon?
Just black bile and cabbage for Shannon!
One stygian droplet
That falls from her chaplet
Could blacken Buchanan or Bannon.
Charlottesville, Virginia (CNN)One person was killed and 19 were hurt when a speeding car slammed into a throng of counterprotesters in Charlottesville, where a "Unite the Right" rally of white nationalist and other right-wing groups had been scheduled take place, the city tweeted on its verified account. Not sure if was the right or counter-protest side that was rammed. Right-wingers were there to protest the removal of a Confederate monument.
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Very last part of the CNN article at the link. Doesn't sound all that Hitlerite to me.
Jason Kessler, who organized Saturday's "Unite the Right" rally, said he doesn't consider himself to be a white nationalist. But, he said, "we're going to start standing up for our history."
"The statue itself is symbolic of a lot of larger issues. The primary three issues are preserving history against this censorship and revisionism -- this political correctness," he told CNN Friday.
"The second issue is being allowed to advocate for your interests as a white person, just like other groups are allowed to advocate for their interests politically. And finally, this is about free speech. We are simply trying to express ourselves and do a demonstration, and the local government has tried to shut us down."
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See, that makes me wonder if this guy is really "Right-wing". I have a hard time believing a Right-winger would damage his Dodge Challenger like that. It's a NICE car.
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Looks like Aunty Fa group was hit; lots of Red Fister and BML signs.
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Welcome to the Bleeding Kansas phase. They shoot a congresscritter and kill a councilman, the other side gets agitated. Their rhetoric hasn't lessen since the shootings.
[Iran Press TV] Opponents of Britannia's departure from the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... have expressed interest in the idea of forming a centrist party aimed at blocking Brexit.
James Chapman, a former top aide to Brexit Secretary David Davis, is calling for a new centrist political party since both the governing Conservative Party and the opposition Labour Party say they will go through with the decision to departure from the 28-nation bloc.
Chapman said that two members of Britannia's Prime Minister Theresa May's Cabinet have contacted him to express support.
"Two people in the cabinet, a number of people who have been in Conservative cabinets before now ‐ better cabinets, I might say, than the current one ‐ and a number of shadow cabinets ministers have also been in touch.
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[Townhall] "Cuba is resolutely opposing the U.S. sanctions and pressure against North Korea and expressing full support for the just steps of North Korea in bolstering up defense capabilities including ICBM test-fires...we express our deep thanks to the Korean people who are sending solidarity to the Cuban people's just cause."
That was Ulises Rosales Del Toro, Stalinist Cuba’s "Vice President of the Council of Ministers" (i.e. eunuch apparatchik) conveying his master’s (Raul Castro’s) support to Kim Yong Nam, Stalinist North Korea's "President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly," (another eunuch apparatchik.)
The shout-out between these Stalinist eunuchs took place this week in Teheran during Iran’s "Presidential Inauguration ceremonies," (pow-wow among terrorists/murderers/burglars) which also included Zimbabwe’s "President" (witch-doctor/dictator) Robert Mugabe. The event was reported by Stalinist North Korea’s "press." (Propaganda ministry.)
"The Cuban party, government and people are always sided with the Workers’ Party of Korea, Korean government, and Korean people...Cuba and Korea are located far from one another, but are fighting in the same trench of continuing the joint struggle against imperialism," (Kim Jong Un, July, 5, 2016).
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State-sponsored Terrorists was the 3rd World Country Nuke Program of the late 20th Century. Organizing Cyber-Terrorist Teams is the new and improved™ latest version for our times and Cuba wants to play?
[Iran Press TV] 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... says he will not "rule out" military option in Venezuela to solve the ongoing crisis in the country. Trump should just ignore it. No threat to us, just a shame.
"I’m not going to rule out a military option, we have many options for Venezuela," the president said on Friday at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, calling the current situation there "a mess."
Venezuela has been reeling from unrest for several months in a crisis caused by political disagreements -- including on the formation of the National Constituent Assembly -- and shortages of food and medicine and hyperinflation.
The opposition says the leftist government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is to blame for the crisis, but the government accuses foreign powers and "right-wing terrorists" for the unrest.
Maduro has reiterated that the assembly held supreme powers over all the three branches of the government.
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When was the last time Anyone from "Foreign Powers" thought it was even profitable to rent a hotel room in your once first world, now third world - THEORY?
Listen or collapse in the toilet.
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If ever there was a no-win situation, it's Venezuela. It's would be a long hard drag under the best of circumstances for those poor people, and there will be lots around to 'help' things not be best.
Right now, there's nothing to be had but blame. Send food and medical relief deliveries, and stay the hell out.
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The only military option Trump should activate against VZL is to mobilize and deploy the first Hollywood Brigade headed by Sean Penn, Slammin' Sammy Jackson and Michael 'Mad Dog' Moore.
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Maduro was the official drug lord under Chavez, using military planes with weekly flights to Iran. Evangelical Christianity has sparked a revival in the Latin socialistic empires, fighting for democracy with few resources and fleeing if they can get valid visas. I would think Treasury could dredge up plenty of violations against Maduro and hold the leaders accountable instead of State Dept. sanctions that deprive the public of food, CIA meddling dirty tricks, or drawn into military action we don't want or need. Deploying prayer warriors doesn't require taxpayer dollars or Congressional approval.
[KCNAWATCH.CO] Mass rallies were held in South and North Phyongan, South Hwanghae and South Hamgyong provinces of the DPRK on Friday to hail the DPRK government statement categorically rejecting the recent UN "sanctions resolution".
Present were officials of local party, power and economic organs, working people's organizations, industrial establishments, farms and universities and working people and youth and students.
At the rallies, the statement of the DPRK government was read out before speeches by vice-chairmen of the provincial committees of the Workers' Party of Korea and representatives of workers, agricultural workers, intellectuals and youths.
The speakers expressed full support for the government statement which totally rejected the UNSC "sanctions resolution" 2371, cooked by the U.S. and its vassal forces, as an illegal criminal document.
The "sanctions resolution" is no more than the last-ditch efforts of those frightened by the might of the DPRK, they said, adding:
The U.S. and other hostile forces have framed up the UN "sanctions resolutions" several times so far while picking on every DPRK's exercise of legitimate rights, but neither sanctions nor pressure could frighten the DPRK and they hardened its faith for independence and increased the spirit of self-development.
They said that as they have respected Supreme 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... and the might of single-minded unity and self-development more powerful than nukes, the service personnel and people of the DPRK will firmly defend the security of the country and win the final victory of the cause of socialism, though all the formidable enemies in the earth may come in attack.
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Until they see a shitload of JDAM's and A-10's, that is.
[KCNAWATCH.CO] Foreign guests came here Friday to attend the Fifth International Festival in Praise of the Great Persons of Mt Paektu.
They include Victor Petrov, chairman of the Russian Association for Friendship and Cultural Cooperation with the DPRK who is co-chairman of the International Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu, and his party; Helmi El Hadidi, chairman of the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organization who is co-chairman of the International Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu; Javed Ansari, secretary general of the Karachi branch of the Pakistan-Korea Friendship Association who is secretary general of the Pakistani National Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu; Suneet Chopra, secretary general of the All India Indo-Korean Friendship Association who is secretary general of the Indian National Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu; a delegation of the Mongolian Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu led by Chairman J. Lomvo... Wow.
Everybody seems to want to praise the Great Persons of Mount Paektu. I wonder what the dues are?
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(KCNA) -- Trump is driving the situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of a nuclear war, making such outcries as "the U.S. will not rule out a war against the DPRK".
From historical point of view, the U.S. criminal attempt to impose nuclear disaster upon the Korean nation is not of recent occurrence.
Even in the period of the 1950-1953 Korean war, the U.S. schemed to drop A-bomb on the Korean peninsula on at least 20 occasions.
After provoking the Korean war in 1950, the U.S. made desperate efforts to put into practice its plan for using A-bomb worked out before the war.
Whenever the war situation had gone against its will due to the powerful strike made by the Korean People's Army, the U.S. tried to use A-bomb in a bid to win the "honorable victory".
MacArthur, the then commander of the U.S. forces in the Far East, in secret telephone talks with the then U.S. President Truman claimed the use A-bomb in the Korean war.
He went the length of saying that according to his plan to drive the enemy into a tight corner, only an A-bomb was needed to destroy the one and only route from Manchuria of China and Vladivostok of Russia to Korea and it would take six months to restore it, as there were many tunnels and bridges along it.
And voices demanding the use of A-bomb in the war could be heard even from U.S. hard-line congressmen.
At that time, a British newspaper reported that B-29 and B-50 with the mark of atomic bomber in their tails frequented Yokoda air base in Japan.
In November 1950, Truman said in his statement that the U.S. would use A-bomb against north Korea. Timed to coincide with it, the U.S. imperialists deployed B-47 strategic bomber having A-bomb on board at its air base in Okinawa, Japan. And in December that year, they stored A-bombs on an aircraft carrier anchoring in the waters off Inchon, south Korea in top secrecy and kept its planes ready for action.
The U.S. imperialists dared not use A-bomb due to the strong protest of the international community, but such attempt was continued by those American warmongers like Eisenhower and Ridgway in the whole course of the Korean war.
All these facts go to prove that the U.S. is, indeed, the criminal mastermind of nuclear threat, the heinous nuclear war fanatic.
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U.S. judge awards 4.0 points - no 'sea of fire' or 'capitalist running-dog lackey', quite a boring and rote delivery.
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After provoking the Korean war in 1950, the U.S. made desperate efforts to put into practice its plan for using A-bomb worked out before the war.
I don't recall that we "provoked" the Korean War. 75,000 North Koreans spilled across the 38th parallel and attacked to the south. We had a token force in Korea at the time--we were totally unprepared.
[Breitbart]. The cost of living in the United States rose by less than expected in July, a Labor Department report showed Friday.
The Labor Department’s consumer price index rose 0.1 percent compared to the previous month, less than the o.2 percent median forecast of economists. On an annual basis, prices rose 1.7 percent, below the forecast of 1.8 percent.
Core inflation, which excludes the more volatile food and energy components of the index, rose 0.1 percent. That was less than the 0.2 percent expected. Year-over-year, core prices were up 1.7 percent, in line with expectations.
The continued slowdown in inflation challenges the Fed’s view that lower-than-expected inflation would be "transitory." It could make it harder for the Fed to continue its plan to raise interest rates later this year.
The Fed targets 2 percent inflation but does not rely on the Labor Department numbers. It used a Commerce Department price index that will be updated at the end of August.
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Core inflation, which excludes the more volatile food and energy components of the index
There's your answer, gorb. The government has been cooking the numbers for years to avoid raising Social Security payments and anything else indexed to inflation. My own food bills are double what they were just a few years ago.
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Their 'inflation' numbers are reliable as their unemployment numbers. Cooked. Then they wonder why their economic programs flounder. Welcome to Caracas.
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It's a tool of the Swamp. Get rid of it and replace it with something that makes sense and forces the politicians to do their job instead of hide in the smoke and slime in a hall of mirrors.
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Lay off the Fast-Food and your food dollars stretch a long way.
My Zojirushi 3-Cup Rice Cooker, A refridgerator, and a microwave made my cooking a lot simpler/cheaper. Bulk dried is so-o-o much cheaper than processed and amazingly cheaper than Fast-Food.
[Free Beacon] Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W. Va.) has been rumored to be President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Energy in order to free up his Senate seat.
Trump wants Manchin's seat open so it can be filled by Gov. Jim Justice, who recently changed party affiliations and became a Republican, so that a Republican can fill Manchin's seat in order to vote for a repeal of Obamacare, Bloomberg reports:
If Manchin were offered and accepted the position, that would allow West Virginia’s Governor Jim Justice -- a newly minted Republican -- to appoint a GOP successor and bring the party a vote closer in the Senate to being able to repeal Obamacare. The idea is in the early stages of consideration, and it’s unclear whether it has support within the administration, according to the people, who described the conversations under condition of anonymity.
[DAWN] SARGODHA: Municipal Corporation Mayor Aslam Naveed is planning to hire a helicopter to shower flower petals on the rally of ousted 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... at Kala Shah Kaku while the parliamentarians of Sargodha are also making arrangements to greet him there.
In a statement, Mr Naveed claimed to have arranged a helicopter for the purpose, announcing that a caravan of thousands of workers would proceed towards Kala Shah Kaku and Lahore at 9am today (Friday). He claimed he had set up a camp over there where every participant would get food and refreshments.
An insider of the PML-N told this scribe that the parliamentarians were critical of the PML-N ministers from Sargodha for not taking interest in campaigning for Nawaz’s rally.
On the other hand, the PTI leaders, including Mehr Ansar Haral and Barrister Hassan Dastgir, alleged the entire government machinery was being used for the participants in the rally and the babus government employees were being forced to attend it.
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[DAWN] Speeding cars accompanying 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... 's 'homecoming' motorcade crushed a nine-year-old child to death in Lalamusa on Friday, DawnNews reported.
According to DawnNews, the child was among a crowd of supporters gathered to greet Nawaz Sharif as his motorcade passed through Lalamusa.
It seems that he strayed onto the road and was hit by one of the cars belonging to the Elite Force before multiple following cars ran over him without stopping.
According to eyewitnesses, the child departed this vale of tears while the vehicles passed over him. While a mobile health unit was accompanying the deposed prime minister's motorcade, bystanders said no car stopped to take stock of the child's condition.
The child's father lost consciousness, experiencing heart palpitations, after he saw his child's body on the road, DawnNews said.
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[DAWN] A man with an intellectual disability, who had earlier been sentenced under a blasphemy charge but later acquitted due to his condition, was killed in Tando Adam on Friday, police said.
The 32-year-old, Atta Mohammad Buriro, was rubbed out in the Kamal Buriro village near Tando Adam town.
Later in the evening, two attackers surrendered themselves to police and confessed to having killed Atta Mohammad "because he had committed blasphemy".
A police official confirmed the arrest of the two self-proclaimed killers, but told local news hounds that they were investigating the murder from different angles.
Sharing details of the incident, the official said that the victim, who had only recently been released from captivity, had been bathing at an irrigation watercourse when two pillion riders shot at him, killing him on the spot.
His body had been handed over to relatives after a postmortem examination.
Talking to media persons, SSP Dr Farrukh Lanjhar said the victim was under the trial of blasphemy charges and was released on a bail in the light of a medical report which declared him intellectual disable.
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[IsraelTimes] Drill slated for October will take place in Israel and Jordan, include four European nations, and test cooperation in cases of major fires and disasters.
According to the Israel Hayom newspaper, the Middle East Forest Fire exercise, or MEFF, is slated to take place from October 22 to 26 in Jordan and Israel, and will include rescue forces from Italia, La Belle France, Spain and Croatia.
The planning stage of the exercise is set to take place in Jordan before the field training begins in Israel.
[Al Jazeera] The prime minister of Cambodia has issued a six-day ultimatum to Laos to pull back its troops who have allegedly trespassed into a border area or face a military response.
Hun Sen said on Friday that about 30 Laos soldiers crossed into Cambodian territory in April in northern Stung Treng province despite repeated requests by his government for them to leave the area.
He said he had been in touch with the government of Laos.
"I appeal to Laos Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith to withdraw troops from Cambodian territory without any conditions," Hun Sen said during a ceremony in the capital, Phnom Penh.
Military commanders have been ordered to deploy troops along with multiple rocket launchers to the border area, he said, giving Laos the "ultimatum" of pulling out by August 17.
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Military commanders have been ordered to deploy troops along with multiple rocket launchers to the border area
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.
Bringing batteries and spares for the Cjitong-III acoustic attack generator ? 
[KCNAWATCH.CO] Mass rallies were held in South and North Phyongan, South Hwanghae and South Hamgyong provinces of the DPRK on Friday to hail the DPRK government statement categorically rejecting the recent UN "sanctions resolution".
[KCNAWATCH.CO] Foreign guests came here Friday to attend the Fifth International Festival in Praise of the Great Persons of Mt Paektu.
(KCNA) -- Trump is driving the situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of a nuclear war, making such outcries as "the U.S. will not rule out a war against the DPRK".
[Breitbart]. The cost of living in the United States rose by less than expected in July, a Labor Department report showed Friday. 
[DAWN] A man with an intellectual disability, who had earlier been sentenced under a blasphemy charge but later acquitted due to his condition, was killed in Tando Adam on Friday, police said.
