[An Nahar] Some artists got naked on Wall Street during a performance art piece -- and then they got jugged.
The two men and a woman were jugged on charges of disorderly conduct Monday morning outside the New York Stock Exchange.
Manhattan artist Zefrey Throwell organized the 5-minute social critique of Wall Street with dozens of volunteers acting like people at work.
And none of them looked like Dorothy Sebastian...
He says he didn't intend to provoke police
Public nudity is illegal most places. In what way could this not provoke those who chose the profession of enforcing the law?
and his target was U.S. and world financial institutions.
Among those jugged was Brooklyn personal trainer and performance artist Eric Clinton Anderson, who played a naked janitor outside the stock exchange's heavily guarded front door. He jokes, "Somebody needs to clean up Wall Street."
Arrested with Anderson were another Brooklyn man and a Queens woman. Police say they created a public disturbance.
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It's interesting isn't it?
You take off your kit and get arrested immediately, you plunder an entire country, causing untold financial burdens on millions, and they give you a couple trillion dollars.
Its a very weird world we have made where the sight of one's body is a greater crime than thievery and fraud.
[Straits Times] ROCKAWAY TOWNSHIP (USA) - POLICE say there was more on the menu than Munchkins and lattes during the late shift at a Dunkin' Donuts in northern New Jersey. "I'd like a half dozen glazed, a large coffee, and 20 minutes in the back room with Melissa!"
"That'll be $24.95."
A 29-year-old female is facing prostitution charges after police say she took breaks to provide sex in exchange for money. "Melissa, isn't your break over yet?"
"Hold your horses! Lemme get my pants back on!"
Rockaway Township police launched an investigation known as 'extra sugar' after getting a tip about the workers activities at the shop. "Huh huh! He said 'extra sugar'!"
Detective Sergeant Kyle Schwarzmann told The Daily Record of Parsippany he noticed that 29-year-old Melissa Redmond of Mine Hill would go out to cars and would spend 10 to 15 minutes in the vehicles. You wouldn't believe what went on at the drive-through window...
Schwarzmann says Redmond was arrested after soliciting sex from an undercover officer. "Whoa! Is that a .38 in yer pocket or are you happy to see me?"
No one at the Dunkin' Donuts wanted to comment.
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"Ya jus' might wanna rethink about that 'glaze' on yer donut, Officer..."
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Now that's a promotion campaigm. Think what it could do for Sonic.
Prostitution was actually an issue back in the days of the drive-in. Also a minor reason among many why McDonald's originally started with an all male crew.
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How desperate does a person need to be to work a DD and give hand-jobs in the parking lot? Do prostitutes usually hold down a 9-5 job in addition to their freelance work?
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Desperate enough to want to eat and pay rent, I suppose. Fremont's been fairly comfortable in the last few decades, but other places aren't, by and large.
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The safety of Wi-Fi networks may be in danger from small threats flying above us. An airplane hobby shop owner and an ex-Air Force official team up to create a drone that cracks into Wi-Fi and cell phones.
Built by Mike Tassey and Richard Perkins, the Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform (otherwise known as the WASP) is a flying drone that has a 6-foot wingspan, a 6-foot length and weighs in at 14 pounds. The small form factor of the unmanned aerial vehicle allows it to drop under radar and is often mistaken for a large bird. It was built from an Army target drone and converted to run on electric batteries rather than gasoline.
It can also be loaded with GPS information and fly a predetermined course without need for an operator. Taking off and landing have to be done manually with the help of a mounted HD camera, though. However, the most interesting aspect of the drone is that it can crack Wi-Fi networks and GSM networks as well as collect the data from them.
It can accomplish this feat with a Linux computer on-board thatÂ’s no bigger than a deck of cards. The computer accesses 32GB of storage to house all that stolen data. It uses a variety of networking hacking tools including the BackTrack toolset, as well as a 340-million-word dictionary to guess passwords.
In order to access cell phone data, the WASP impersonates AT&T and T-Mobile cell phone towers and fools phones into connecting to one of the eleven antennas on-board. The drone can then record conversations to the storage card, and avoids dropping the call due to the 4G T-mobile card routing communications through VoIP.
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Gaaawd, in my youth a "six-footer" or better was a SATURN-5 or ATLAS, ETC. FLYING MODEL ROCKET.
Nowadays, since IMO so-called "OWG-NWO" = synonymous wid FUTURE "SPACE GOVT-ORDER", I suppose US Modeling-Rocket Clubs will be into "FLYING SAUCER" + WEIRD LOOKING, NOT-A-B17-OR-B24-OR-ZERO SPACE PLANE, SHUTTLE DESIGNS???
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Obviously attention whores, or they would have painted the bird in a less visible color; copy the current palatte the military uses for minimizing visual detection.
[Bangla Daily Star] A pro-BNP lawyer hurled a plastic object at a High Court judge Tuesday during the hearing of a petition seeking steps against Fazlul Haque Amini for making derogatory remarks on the country's charter.
The incident took place immediately after the HC said that the statements of the opposition leader and Amini, chief of a faction of Islami Oikya Jote ... a political party in Bangladesh. In the 2001 elections the party won 2 out of 300 elected members in an alliance with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. It has a focus on building an islamic state, and has used the madrassas to gain support... (IOJ), on the constitution are similar to sedition.
The statements questioned their patriotism and no patriotic person can make such comments on the constitution.
Khaleda at the BNP-sponsored mass hunger strike last month stated that the amended constitution is nothing but Awami League's manifesto which will be thrown away, if BNP returned to power.
Amini reportedly told a meeting in the city's Lalbagh area on July 14 that the recently amended constitution will be thrown into the dustbin. Amar Desh, a Bangla daily, published the comment on the next day.
Based on the Amar Desh report, Shahriar Kabir, a writer-columnist, on July 20 filed the petition with the HC, seeking its directive on the government to take actions against Amini for making the comment.
Pro-BNP and pro-Awami League lawyers locked in a scuffle that continued for about half an hour leading to the throwing of the object, part of a printer, at the judge.
The object, however, did not reach the judges platform. It hit a ceiling fan and then fell on the floor of the courtroom.
The incident took place at one point of chaos inside the courtroom in the afternoon at the bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore.
The judges had summoned Amini to appear before the bench on August 2 to clarify his remark about the charter.
The IOJ leader appeared before the bench Tuesday morning following the court directive to explain his comment on the constitution.
Earlier, Justice Manik and Justice Tagore who were hearing the petition left the ejlash (courtroom) around noon amidst chaos by a sector of pro-BNP lawyers.
When presiding judge of the bench Justice Manik was passing an observation over a comment of Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... , BNP chairperson, the BNP lawyers burst out into anger.
The BNP lawyer protested the observation of the presiding judge saying as Khaleda has no involvement in this case so the court can not pass any observation against her.
Since the pro-BNP lawyers did not stop shouting, the judges left the ejlash saying that it will continue passing order after a recess.
Talking to The Daily Star, Shahriar Kabir said the pro-BNP lawyers got furious at the courtroom after they told the court that the opposition leader had said that they would threw away the constitution if returned to power.
He said Amini went one step ahead to show his atrocities saying the constitution should be thrown into dustbin.
Shahriar Kabir expresses his apprehension that the constitution would be set on fire if the atrocities continue.
Shahriar Kabir claimed that he was also attacked in the courtroom during the chaos.
He said one has right to criticise the constitution but can not throw it into dustbin.
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Was the Object, a shoe, by chance?
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Has anyone else noticed that there are a lot of rowdy lawyers in Bangladesh?
[Al Jazeera] The Cuban National Assembly has approved Communist Party proposals to overhaul the country's state-dominated economy and lift some restrictions on citizens' personal lives, according to state-run media.
The plan, which includes more than 300 points, was first approved at a Communist Party congress in April and would end the socialist society built under Fidel Castro's leadership.
"The Cuban parliament today supported and approved the economic and social plans of the Communist party and Revolution" state news agency Prensa Latina said.
Compañero Raul Castro ...Fidel's little brother... , the Cuban president, and other senior party and government officials presided over Monday's session to which foreign journalists were not invited.
He first replaced his ailing brother Fidel five years ago, becoming president in 2008.
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Could we have one without all the communism this time, por favor? We're tired of being Almost Haiti.
[An Nahar] Belarus on Tuesday gave a cool reception to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ...Second President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Because of constitutionally mandated term limits he is the current Prime Minister of Russia. His sock puppet, Dmitry Medvedev, was installed in the 2008 presidential elections. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law. During his eight years in office Russia's economy bounced back from crisis, seeing GDP increase, poverty decrease and average monthly salaries increase. During his presidency Putin passed into law a series of fundamental reforms, including a flat income tax of 13%, a reduced profits tax, and new land and legal codes. 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 Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile... 's surprise announcement he favors a merger between the two countries into one state as in the days of the USSR.
The opposition raised the alarm over what it said were Russian dreams to essentially annex Belarus while sociologists said that support for re-unification with Russia was dwindling in the country year-by-year.
Meeting pro-Kremlin youth at a lakeside camp a day earlier, Putin said it would be "desirable" for Russia and Belarus to unite into one country although the final decision rested with the Belarusian people.
Throughout his rule of over a decade, Putin has made no secret of his admiration for the Soviet Union, whose collapse he once famously described as the "greatest geopolitical catastrophe" of the 20th century.
Belarus foreign ministry front man Andrei Savinykh said he had no comment on Putin's remarks, noting only that President Alexander Lukashenko had said in the past that Belarus illusory sovereignty was a "holy thing".
Neither Lukashenko nor any other top Belarus government figure has offered any reaction to Putin's comments so far.
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This is a remarkable sequence of pictures from Calculated Risk showing that no major economic indicator has returned to its pre-crisis level. In other words, after two years of recovery, not a single key broad measure of the economy has actually recovered.
The ingenious thing about these graphs, which I've never before seen, is that they compare key recession indicators as a share of their pre-recession peaks. The outcome reveals each recession in the last 50 years as a kind of hanging icicle. Ours is by far the longest, and we don't yet know when we'll trace our way back to the 2007. Here's why I don't expect the path up to get much smoother in the near future. Needless to say, the graphs make it quite clear we haven't recovered yet. Not even close. With a double dip, this has the classic depression fingerprints all over it.
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But at the end of the day, Democrats are a left-of-center party in a right-of-center country signing onto a right-of-right deal to reduce the deficit. You practically need infrared goggles to see the silver linings.
He's not a big fan of reducing the deficit, either.
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ION FREEREPUBLIC > US BORROWING TOPS 100% OF GDP: TREASURY.
ARTIC > Post-Debt Deal new US Tote Public Debt = US$14.58TRILYUHN, versies EOY 2010 US GDP of US$14.53TRILYUHN; US NOW PAR WID ITALY + BELGIUM, ETC. DEBT-TROUBLED EUROS.
FYI POST-DEAL EURO + ASIAN MARKETS STILL GETTING SLAMMED.
* SAME > GROSS US DEBT SURGES TO US$240.0BILYUHN OVERNIGHT, US DEBT-To-GDP HITS POST-WORLD WW2 HIGH OF 97.2%.
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) today released a video -- "Brian Terry: Semper Fidelis & Honor First" - to honor U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, who lost his life on December 15, 2010 after being shot in the line of duty in Rio Rico, AZ. Chairman Issa introduced the Brian A. Terry Memorial Act of 2011 last week to rename the Bisbee, AZ Border Patrol station in honor of Agent Terry You won't miss this two minutes
On Holder's order, these restrictions were handed down a few weeks ago. A result of Project Gunwalker.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for America's firearms industry, today filed a lawsuit challenging the legal authority of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) under the Gun Control Act to compel 8,500 federally licensed firearms retailers in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas to report the sale of two or more rifles.
Specifically, the regulation calls for reporting multiple sales of any semi-automatic rifle larger than .22 caliber and capable of accepting a detachable magazine that are purchased following an FBI background check by the same individual within five consecutive business days.
NSSF's lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, seeks an injunction to block ATF from implementing the reporting requirement. ATF has sent "demand letters" to firearms retailers in the four states to inform retailers they must begin reporting such sales by August 14.
NSSF Senior Vice President and General Counsel Lawrence G. Keane pointed out that if ATF can require this record-keeping and reporting requirement of law-abiding retailers in these four states simply by sending a letter demanding the information, then there is no record or report ATF cannot require of any licensee, anywhere in the country, for as long as ATF wants. "This is the proverbial 'slippery slope,' and our industry is extremely concerned about it," said Keane.
Keane added, "At the time Congress authorized the reporting of multiple sales of handguns, it could have required it for the sale of long guns, but it did not. Acting ATF Director Ken Melson himself has questioned ATF's legal authority to impose this new requirement."
Despite its lawsuit, NSSF is encouraging all retailers, not just those along the Southwest border, to continue to cooperate with law enforcement and report any suspicious activity to the ATF. "The firearms industry and NSSF take pride in having a longstanding cooperative relationship with ATF," said NSSF President and CEO Steve Sanetti. "Retailers have long been considered a vital source of information for law enforcement in combating illegal firearm trafficking."
Even if ATF had the legal authority to require multiple sales reporting for long guns, NSSF believes the policy would still be unwise to implement. "We believe the policy will make it more difficult for retailers to assist law enforcement," said Keane. Illegal firearms traffickers will simply alter their schemes to avoid and evade the reporting requirement, making it more difficult for retailers to identify and report suspicious activity. For example, traffickers could simply recruit more "straw purchasers" and have them illegally purchase firearms from multiple licensees, or simply move their illegal trafficking activities to other states where the reporting requirement does not exist.
Sanetti pointed out that for more than a decade, the firearms industry has done its part to help prevent illegal straw purchases through the Don't Lie for the Other Guy program. The program, a cooperative effort between NSSF and ATF, educates retailers on how to spot potential illegal purchasers and warns the public that it's a serious crime to attempt such a purchase. The program is active in firearms retailer shops across the country. Over the last several years, the firearms industry has solely funded the rollout of Don't Lie for the Other Guy in border-state areas to deter individuals with intent to illegally purchase firearms.
Also today lawyers representing the National Rifle Association filed a separate lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging ATF's requirement for reporting multiple sales of rifles.
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I don't think I've ever bought more than one gun at the same time. In fact I'm sure I haven't. If you were reported to the ATF for doing this, I'm sure you'd be on some sort of watchlist for years to come. It might even come up at the airport or public job you were applying for, even if it was an innocent purchase. I don't trust the ATF not to use this to abuse people, or not to storm their homes with SWAT teams in the middle of the night.
[Al Jazeera] The US Senate has approved a bill that raises the country's borrowing limit and averts a possible default, after the lower house of congress approved it on Monday following weeks of political wrangling.
The upper house of congress passed the measure by 74 votes to 26. It required 60 votes to pass.
Barack B.O. Obama, the US president, has signed the bill into law following Tuesday's vote.
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No word if Bambi had spent any time in cars in Dunkin Donut parking lots, working on his, er, next stimulus package.....
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See also WORLD NEWS > [Daily Mail.UK = you bet the Title, Artic is LONG]DEBT DEAL PASSES SENATE AS OPEN WARFARE BREAKS OUT IN WASHINGTON DC, WITH [Sarah] PALIN SLAMMING "VILE" BIDEN [VPOTUS Joe] ATTACK CALLING TE PARTY "TERRORISTS".
and
* FREEREPUBLIC > {Der Spiegel] A CIVIL WAR ATMOSPHERE IN WASHINGTON.
* SAME > CHINA BOLDLY GOES WHERE MOODY'S HAS NEVER GONE BEFORE, DOWNGRADES US ["Dagong" Global Credit Rating], OUTLOOK NEGATIVE.
From A+ to A.
* SAME > RUSH:THERE WILL BE A NEXT OBAMA CRISIS, + IT WILL HAPPEN WIDIN SEVEN DAYS.
Plenty of Debt Deal News + related oer at FREEP.
* TOPIX > ANALYSTS: DEBT DEAL GOOD FOR US, BUT NOT FOR STRUGGLING EUROS.
IMF + EU bracing for post-Deal $$$ fluxes = "Dollar Anarchies".
[Dawn] A local court on Monday dismissed bail petition of six persons including a prayer leader and members of a jirga charged with giving a female in swara to a rival family for settling a dispute.
The court presided over by Additional District and Sessions Judge Muneera Abbasi observed that the petitioners were charged in a heinous offence, which was non-bailable and thus they were not entitled to be set free on bail.
The accused persons -- Mohammad Zaman, Idrees Khan, Khan Mast, Laes Khan, Riaz Khan and a prayer leader Maulvi Mohammad Kareem -- were tossed in the clink few days ago by officials of Badhber cop shoppe after an FIR was registered against them under section 310-A of Pakistain Penal Code, which prohibits giving females to rival families for settling feuds.
The said case was registered after publication of a story in a local newspaper wherein it was alleged that the jirga had been planning to give the girl, Maryam, to a rival family in marriage so as to settle a dispute.
The said dispute had allegedly originated after a female of the area had eloped with the brother of the girl named Imran. The said girl was already engaged to her cousin, Tariq Khan.
The police alleged that a jirga was convened to discuss the issue and it was decided that sister of Imran should be married to Tariq so as to resolve this issue. While the jairga was holding deliberations, the local police raided the area and tossed in the clink the six accused persons.
Earlier, the bail petition of the accused was dismissed by court of a judicial magistrate.
The alleged victim also appeared before the court and stated that neither she was given in swara to any person nor was her marriage organised by any jirga. She claimed that it was wrong to suggest that she had been a victim of swara.
The counsel appearing for the accused persons argued that following the statement of the alleged victim there was no justification left for keeping the petitioners behind the bars.
He argued that the jirga had never taken the decision to give the girl in swara to the rival family.
He stated that the police had registered the FIR merely on the basis of a newspaper report, which was an injustice to them. He further argued that how the petitioners could be tossed in the clink for an offence which had never taken place.
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[Dawn] A female student was rubbed out allegedly by her principal after she resisted his bid to sexually assault her, police said here on Monday.
The perforated carcass of S.A, 22, a student of a private computer training institute, was found in an under-construction house in the new city area.
The body was later handed over to the family after an autopsy at the tehsil headquarters hospital Taxila.
Police set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock the principal of the college.
The station house officer (SHO) of Wah Cantonment told this correspondent that the accused had tried to assault the student and on resistance he shot her dead.
He said the accused had been set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock and had confessed to the crime.
In another incident, a teenage girl was kidnapped from the Banian village.
The victim`s father reported to the police that his daughter, N.B., was going to meet some relatives when S.M. along with his accomplices kidnapped her.
The Wah Cantonment police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else and are investigating.
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I wuz hopin' it was Chicago.
Am I gonna get banned?
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Why were you wishing for any girl to be killed, Bobby? To make a political point?
While I dislike Chicago-style corruption as much as anyone, Rantburg regulars are - or should be - better than to hope for such a thing.
[An Nahar] A unit from the Drug Enforcement Bureau seized 53 kilograms of cocaine worth an estimated $8 Million from two vehicles driven by foreigners in the coastal town of Kaslik, the National News Agency reported Tuesday.
NNA said that the unit seized the drugs from a Range Rover and a Mercedes. Two of its occupants were Paleostinians and the other two were Irish and Dutch.
The 53 kilograms of cocaine were "stashed in secret places inside the two vehicles," NNA said.
The four men were taken to the Hobeish cop shoppe in Beirut for questioning. Investigators are now trying to find out how the big quantity of drugs was smuggled to Leb.
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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
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.
[An Nahar] Some artists got naked on Wall Street during a performance art piece -- and then they got 
ROCKAWAY TOWNSHIP (USA) - POLICE say there was more on the menu than Munchkins and lattes during the late shift at a Dunkin' Donuts in northern New Jersey.
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...Second President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Because of constitutionally mandated term limits he is the current Prime Minister of Russia. His sock puppet, Dmitry Medvedev, was installed in the 2008 presidential elections. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law. During his eight years in office Russia's economy bounced back from crisis, seeing GDP increase, poverty decrease and average monthly salaries increase. During his presidency Putin passed into law a series of fundamental reforms, including a flat income tax of 13%, a reduced profits tax, and new land and legal codes. 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 Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile...
This is a remarkable sequence of pictures from Calculated Risk showing that no major economic indicator has returned to its pre-crisis level. In other words, after two years of recovery, not a single key broad measure of the economy has actually recovered.
A local court on Monday dismissed bail petition of six persons including a prayer leader and members of a jirga charged with giving a female in swara to a rival family for settling a dispute.
[Dawn] A female student was 
