[WAPO] The California legislature is near final approval of a bill that would make it a crime, punishable by a jail sentence, to carry out and distribute undercover video or audio stings against Planned Parenthood and other health-care groups.
The measure was inspired by two California antiabortion activists who made undercover videos of themselves trying to buy fetal tissue from Planned Parenthood. The project prompted multiple investigations by Congress and states, none of which found wrongdoing on the part of Planned Parenthood.
The bill was approved California state Senate Wednesday and enjoys broad support in the Assembly, which passed an earlier version and is expected to concur in several Senate amendments before sending it to Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown.
California law, like laws in other states, already bars use of an electronic device to listen in on or record people without their permission.
The new measure, authored by Assembly Member Jimmy Gomez with the backing of Planned Parenthood, protects health-care providers in particular and would prohibit the intentional disclosure of such recordings, video or audio, without the consent of all parties "in any forum, including, but not limited to, Internet Web sites and social media, or for any purpose ..."
One should go through Jimmy's campaign finance filings carefully. I suspect there won't be enough 'pro' between the 'quid' and the 'quo'...
[IBTIMES.CO.UK] An Oklahoma woman has been tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... on suspicion of shooting a 31-year-old man who she found in the bedroom of her teenage daughter. Valerie Fowler, 34, is accused of assault with a deadly weapon following a shooting at her home in Paoli in Garvin County.
Police said they received two calls relating to a shooting at about 7.20am (1.20pm BST) on 29 August. When officers arrived at the scene, they found a 31-year-old man with gunshot wounds nearby. He was taken to a hospital by air ambulance with non-life threatening injuries.
According to Koko Oklahoma City, the man, who has not been identified, would visit her the teenage girl at least three times a week after her mother left for work.
Following a search of the address, officers found a gun believed to have been used in the shooting.
A spokesperson from the Garvin County County Sheriff's Office said: "The Garvin County 911 Center received two separate calls this morning related to a possible shooting in Paoli. The calls were received at 7.20 a.m. Members of the Garvin County Sheriff's Office and Paoli Police Chief Mike Lewis responded with the assistance of Pauls Valley Police Department.
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He may have been a statutory rapist, he may have been the shooter's boyfriend. We're missing some detail.
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If I came home and found a stranger in my house let alone in my daughters bedroom, I have a 9mm Walther on me. I carry it because of the work I do.
An underage daughter with a strange man in her bedroom ( one of the details they fail to mention is what were the couple doing when the parent came home and found them there)?
I wouldn't hesitate to shoot a man in my house in bed with my underage daughter. Too bad all the way round.
And I would take my chances on charges, wouldn't slow me down at all.
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Sneaking into my home to sexually assault my kid, damn right I'd be pissed.
Home intruder.
Sexual assault.
I would insist on a toxicology.
And if were reversed, I already know enough about the woman to know she had to sneak around, and I would check around to see what valuables are missing.
There is a serious meth problem, and this plinkos right into the hole.
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Basically, the age of consent in Oklahoma is 16. A close-in-age exemption applies if the minor was over the age of 14 and the actor was age 18 or younger.
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Elon Musk @elonmusk 29s30 seconds ago
Loss of Falcon vehicle today during propellant fill operation. Originated around upper stage oxygen tank. Cause still unknown. More soon.
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Interesting China's launch yesterday failed:
ARTICLE: Long March 4C apparently fails during Gaofen-10 launch - https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2016/09/long-march-4c-apparently-fails-during-gaofen-10-launch/ … (waiting for State media).
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Peter B. de Selding:
SpaceX explosion didn't involve intentional ignition - E Musk said occurred during 2d stage fueling - & isn't covered by launch insurance.
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Looks like the problem started on the GSE at the upper tower, near the upper stage. So in a way that's a small positive, that the booster and rocket itself was not at fault.
picture here of the first frame of the detonation
http://i.imgur.com/evh5kNe.png
GSE = Ground Support Equipment.
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"Alright. Who drug their sneakers on the shag carpet and set off the static electricity?"
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A Saudi court has sentenced a 28-year old man to ten years prison, 2,000 lashes and a fine around $5000 for tweeting that he was an atheist.
The man had refused to repent and expressed his beliefs that he had a right to express them.
A law that defines atheism as "terrorism" is what he was charged under.
Article one of the law defined terrorism as "calling for atheist thought in any form, or calling into question the fundamentals of the Islamic religion on which this country is based".
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Islam must be destroyed.
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[USATODAY] After an emotionally charged, late-night debate, the Brazilian Senate voted Wednesday to remove suspended President Dilma Rousseff from office for fiscal irregularities, a move she said amounted to an illegal coup.
The 61-20 vote capped a year-long power struggle between Rousseff's long-governing leftist government and opposition senators and comes less than two weeks after the Rio Olympics, which highlighted Brazil but also put the country's economic and political woes on international display.
Two hours after the Senate voted to remove her from office, Rousseff addressed a small crowd of supporters in a defiant speech in which she again claimed she was ousted by a "coup d'etat."
"Hear me well: they think that they have beaten us, but they're mistaken. We'll all fight. There will be a firm, untiring and energetic opposition to their government," she said as women surrounding her applauded.
In an unexpected second vote, senators failed to reach the two-thirds majority needed to ban Rousseff from public office for the next eight years -- leaving open the possibility that Rousseff could run again in 2018, or serve in a future government.
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[IBTIMES.CO.UK] North Korea has reportedly executed a top-ranking education minister and punished two other senior political figures, South Korea has said. Seoul claimed that Kim Yong-jin, 63, who was the vice premier for education, was executed by a firing squad.
South Korea's unification ministry said the high-ranking education minister, was said to be reprimanded in July. The ministry's spokesperson Jeong Joon-hee did not reveal the reason behind the execution.
Jeong said another Pyongyang official, Kim Yong-chol, chief of the powerful United Front Department that handles relations with rival South Korea, was forced to undertake "revolutionary measures". It means Yong-chol, 71, was sent to work in a rural farm in hard labour for a month. The South Korean ministry has a mixed track record of accurately reporting executions taking place in the secretive neighbouring country.
A South Korean official was cited as saying: "As Kim [Yong-chol] will be more inclined to show his loyalty (to the North's leader) after (re-education), so the government is keeping close tabs on the possibility that North Korea would show a more hardline attitude toward South Korea."
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If anyone has the chance, please forgo the formalism and just hit me in the head with a shovel.
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Pretty sure Hillabeast's head exploded while watching that speech which, imo, was the speech which will be one day viewed as the speech which made Mr. Trump President Trump.
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Clustering and load leveling would have allowed them to handle the volume. It would seem they didn't anticipate the volume. But I'm wondering what the term crash means here. Did the server go haywire and need to be rebooted? Did it lose data? Or did it just become unresponsive because it had reached a set number of processes and had to finish some of the queries before it could take any more? Can't expect a journalist to know the difference.
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#1 Pretty sure Hillabeast's head exploded while watching that speech
What the heck can Hillary say after that? What will her messaging be? Is the coronation in a holding pattern?
I worry about the Dems trying to steal the election. They may get help from DHS.
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I worry about the Dems trying to steal the election. They may get help from DHS.
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This 'alleged' Russian hacking thing is worrisome. I suspect the dems are knee deep into contingency planning, with the Republican establishment riding along in the back seat.
When will they start the saturation 'insta-tronic' deluge of fax, email, instagram, twitter, Akami ad caching, etc? Why so reserved for something so contentious for an audience that has the attention span of a gnat?
[IsraelTimes] The US expresses "deep concern" over an announcement that Israel okayed close to 500 new settlement homes and retroactively approved another 179 already existing units.
"We are deeply concerned by the government of Israel’s announcement today to advance plans for over 500 new settlement units in the West Bank," the official says.
The US has long held that settlement construction is detrimental to the chances of reaching a peace deal with the Paleostinians, a charge that Israel rejects.
The United States and its negotiating partners agreed "in secret" to allow Iran to evade some restrictions in last year's landmark nuclear agreement in order to meet the deadline for it to start getting relief from economic sanctions, according to a report reviewed by Reuters.
I hear Darth Vader's voice in the background: "Pray I don't alter it any further."
The report is to be published on Thursday by the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security, said the think tank’s president David Albright, a former U.N. weapons inspector and co-author of the report. It is based on information provided by several officials of governments involved in the negotiations, who Albright declined to identify.
"The exemptions or loopholes are happening in secret, and it appears that they favor Iran," Albright said.
Among the exemptions were two that allowed Iran to exceed the deal's limits on how much low-enriched uranium (LEU) it can keep in its nuclear facilities, the report said. LEU can be purified into highly enriched, weapons-grade uranium.
The exemptions, the report said, were approved by the joint commission the deal created to oversee implementation of the accord. The commission is comprised of the United States and its negotiating partners -- called the P5+1 -- and Iran.
One senior "knowledgeable" official was cited by the report as saying that if the joint commission had not acted to create these exemptions, some of Iran’s nuclear facilities would not have been in compliance with the deal by Jan. 16, the deadline for the beginning of the lifting of sanctions.
And so...
The U.S. administration has said that the world powers that negotiated the accord -- the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany -- made no secret arrangements. A White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the joint commission and its role were "not secret." He did not address the report's assertions of exemptions.
Of course it wasn't a "secret" -- the P5+1 all knew. How could it be a secret? So okay, they didn't tell the little people...
The report's assertions are likely to anger critics of the nuclear deal. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has vowed to renegotiate the agreement if he's elected, while Democrat Hillary Clinton supports the accord.
Albright said the exceptions risked setting precedents that Iran could use to seek additional waivers.
Albright served as an inspector with the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team that investigated former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program. While Albright has neither endorsed nor denounced the overall agreement, he has expressed concern over what he considers potential flaws in the nuclear deal, including the expiration of key limitations on Iran's nuclear work in 10-15 years.
The administration of President Barack Obama informed Congress of the exemptions on Jan. 16, said the report. Albright said the exemptions, which have not been made public, were detailed in confidential documents sent to Capitol Hill that day -- after the exemptions had already been granted.
They weren't about to ask permission...
The White House official said the administration had briefed Congress "frequently and comprehensively" on the joint commission's work.
Democratic Senator Bob Menendez, a leading critic of the Iran deal and a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told Reuters in an email: "I was not aware nor did I receive any briefing (on the exemptions).”
As part of the concessions that allowed Iran to exceed uranium limits, the joint commission agreed to exempt unknown quantities of 3.5 percent LEU contained in liquid, solid and sludge wastes stored at Iranian nuclear facilities, according to the report. The agreement restricts Iran to stockpiling only 300 kg of 3.5 percent LEU.
The commission approved a second exemption for an unknown quantity of near 20 percent LEU in "lab contaminant" that was determined to be unrecoverable, the report said. The nuclear agreement requires Iran to fabricate all such LEU into research reactor fuel.
If the total amount of excess LEU Iran possesses is unknown, it is impossible to know how much weapons-grade uranium it could yield, experts said.
The draft report said the joint commission also agreed to allow Iran to keep operating 19 radiation containment chambers larger than the accord set. These so-called "hot cells" are used for handling radioactive material but can be "misused for secret, mostly small-scale plutonium separation efforts," said the report. Plutonium is another nuclear weapons fuel.
The deal allowed Iran to meet a 130-tonne limit on heavy water produced at its Arak facility by selling its excess stock on the open market. But with no buyer available, the joint commission helped Tehran meet the sanctions relief deadline by allowing it to send 50 tonnes of the material -- which can be used in nuclear weapons production -- to Oman, where it was stored under Iranian control, the report said.
The shipment to Oman of the heavy water that can be used in nuclear weapons production has already been reported. Albright's report made the new assertion that the joint committee had approved this concession.
Within five days of his arrival in the Mediterranean in June 1815 in command of a squadron of ten ships, Commodore Stephen Decatur had captured two Algerine warships, including her flagship Meshuda, and killed the commander of the enemy fleet.
With word of the American squadron rippling through the region, Decatur sensed that his chances of catching more enemy vessels out at sea were dwindling. Perhaps they would be withdrawing to the safety of their home port. "I shall proceed to the Port of Algiers, in the hope of impeding their return," he reported.
After more than a month at sea and with scurvy spreading among his own men, his squadron was in need of fresh supplies of water, fruit, and vegetables.
The time had come, he decided, to open talks.
Decatur's squadron arrived off Algiers on June 28. The city was protected from naval attack by more than 400 cannon. On June 29 Decatur's flagship Guerriere raised two flags, a white flag of truce and the flag of Sweden to summon the Swedish consul to serve as an intermediary between the Americans and the ruling dey of Algiers.
The Swedish consul, Johan Norderling, and the captain of the port of Algiers were ferried to the Guerriere. Decatur was resplendent in navy blue coat with gold trim and white trousers, the pale blue and white ribbon and gold leaf bald eagle of the Order of Cincinnati pinned to his lapel. Radiating a proconsular authority, Decatur led his guests to his great cabin, where William Shaler, the former merchant seaman and diplomat appointed to assist in peace negotiations, awaited.
Alleged quote from a WWII veteran overhearing someone say that `You can't bomb an ideology."
"The hell you can't. Because we did it. These Muslims are no different than the Imperial Japanese. They had their suicide bombers too, and we stopped them. What it takes is the resolve and will to use a level of brutality and violence that your generations can't stomach. And until you can, this shit won't stop. It took us on the beaches with bullets, clearing out caves with flame throwers, and men like LeMay burning down their cities, killing people by the tens of thousands. And then it took two atom bombs on top of it. But if that was what it took to win we were willing to do it.
"Until you are willing to do the same...well I hope you enjoy this shi*, because it ain't going to stop."
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The quote from that WWII veteran is spot-on, although I would that to render the Islamic world non-toxic is going to require doing a LOT more than it took to vanquish the Japanese Empire or the Nazis.
My assessment after the 9/11/2001 attacks is that like it or not, this will end up being nothing less than a war of extermination.
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You forgot to mention Operation Starvation Mr. B.
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My assessment is the Muslim world's desire to fight will mostly end once the West starts acting like the strong horse again instead of kow-towing to everyone as we've been doing lately. When that happens you'll see a lot more Muslim-on-muslim attacks again.
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.
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