[An Nahar] Police in Japan have tossed in the slammer Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! a 70-year-old man over claims he arranged sexual encounters among senior citizens through newspaper adverts soliciting "tea-drinking companions", police and press reports said Tuesday.
Kiyohide Kuroda had allegedly been posting classified ads in a Tokyo newspaper for around a decade before he was taken into custody last week.
Press reports said Kuroda had helped arrange sex among about 1,000 men and 350 women, mostly in their mid sixties, earning some 30 million yen ($310,000) as commission in breach of Japanese prostitution laws.
His small ads for his "San Ai" (Three Loves) club offered to arrange meetings for "tea-drinking companions aged between 40 and mature ages," the reports said.
The oldest male customer was 88 and the oldest woman was 82.
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A record-breaking storm that dumped 4 feet of snow in parts of western South Dakota left ranchers dealing with heavy losses as they assess how many of their cattle died during the unseasonably early blizzard.
Meanwhile, utility companies were working to restore power to tens of thousands of people still without electricity Monday after the weekend storm that was part of a powerful weather system that also buried parts of Wyoming and Colorado with snow and produced destructive tornadoes in Nebraska and Iowa. See? Early season blizzards AND tornadoes! Too much carbon from China and India the U.S. should be offsetting.
Ranchers and officials said the losses were aggravated by the fact that a government disaster program to help ranchers recover from livestock losses has expired. Ranchers won't be able to get federal help until Congress passes a new farm bill, said a spokesman for Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D. Naturally, there is a government shutdown angle, too.
In South Dakota, the 19 inches of snow that fell in Rapid City on Friday broke the city's 94-year-old one-day snowfall record for October by about 9 inches, according to the National Weather Service. The city also set a record for snowfall in October, with a total of 23.1 inches during the storm. The previous record was 15.1 inches in October 1919. Al Gore rests his case.
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I imagine Mt. Rushmore was even more shut down after the storm.
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Snow plows probably wreak havoc on those poor little orange cones blocking the scenic waysides, too.
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* TOPIX > STUDY: TEMPERATURES TO GO OFF THE CHART AROUND 2047, starting circa 2030 in isolated or differentiated world regions, then steadily escalating globally until 2047.
Unless I've missed something, the only way Global temps can go "off the chart" is per the SUN EXPLODED = MOTHER-OF-ALL-SOLAR-FLARES occurred???
Again, iff the Climate + Weather Models are wrong, DITTO THE SOLAR + OTHER [e.g. Planetary System creation]???
* RELATED FREEREPUBLIC > [AFP News] RADICAL CLIMATE CHANGE JUST AROUND THE CORNER:STUDY.
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* ENENEWS > "ALARMING" MASS DIE-OFF OF STARFISH IN AREAS ALONG CANADA'S PACIFIC COAST - "THEY'VE DISINTEGRATED, NOW THERE'S JUST GOO LEFT" -"APPEARED TO MELT" - "SINGLE ARMS CLINGING TO ROCKS, TUBE FEET STILL MOVING" - SIMILAR REPORTS AS FAR AWAY AS CALIFORNIA.
[An Nahar] At least 30 people died and dozens more were maimed in festivities Tuesday between ex-rebels of the Seleka coalition and local self-defense groups in the Central Africa Republic, a security source said.
"Fierce fighting has claimed at least 30 lives ... but the festivities were still going on as of mid-morning," the source close to the military high command in Bangui told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Fighting in the village of Garga, in the country's northwest, continued into Tuesday morning, the source added.
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[Al Ahram] Three female members of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's Shura Consultative Council filed a recommendation on Tuesday that a ban on women driving in the ultra-conservative kingdom be lifted, one of them said.
The move comes ahead of a 26 October initiative by Saudi activists to defy a longstanding driving ban on women in Saudi Arabia.
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[Al Ahram] A Saudi court sentenced a preacher convicted of raping his five-year-old daughter and torturing her to death to eight years in prison and 800 lashes, a lawyer said Tuesday.
In a case that drew widespread public condemnation in the kingdom and abroad, the court also ordered Fayhan Al-Ghamdi to pay his ex-wife, the girl's mother, one million riyals ($270,000) in "blood money," lawyer Turki Al-Rasheed told AFP.
Blood money is compensation for the next of kin under Islamic law.
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a father cannot be executed for murdering his children, nor can husbands be executed for murdering their wives.
[FT] Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela's president, is seeking to rule by decree in order to wage "economic war", as he battles a litany of problems with a loosening grip on power.
Currency market distortions have fueled worsening shortages of food and basic goods from milk to toilet paper alongside high and rising inflation, posing a threat to the late Hugo Chavez's socialist revolution. Price controls as well as endless fiddling with strict but ineffective exchange restrictions have generated a scarcity of foreign currency on which the import-dependent economy relies.
Mr Maduro, who served as Mr Chavez's foreign minister and vice-president, is seeking "special powers" from the country's national assembly to fight graft and pass economic measures. The president claims members of the "fascist" opposition, with support from the US, are "sabotaging" the economy in order to bring down the government.
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Maduro: Part of Speech: n: Definition: a dark-brown strong and slightly sweet cigar: Etymology: Spanish 'ripe' Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon
or a Friend of Fidel Castro
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I'm sure Obama is paying close attention. The difference is that Maduro is asking the legislature for permission to become a dictator. O will never get that from the obstructionist Republicans, so he will just have to do it via executive orders.
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with support from the US
Obviously the TEA Party. Shirley he knows he has a friend in The One?
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[An Nahar] Surgery on Tuesday to remove a blood clot from the brain of Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner was successful, a government spokesman said.
A medical report said Kirchner is progressing "favorably" after the surgery, which encountered "no complications."
She remains in an intensive care unit.
"It went very well. The president is in good spirits and is already in her room," said spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro.
Kirchner was diagnosed over the weekend with a "chronic subdural hematoma" resulting from a blow to the head sustained in a fall in mid-August.
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A Friend of Fidel Castro:
I detect a pattern developing here, Chavez, Kirchner,Correa and Madoro
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you know it's a politician when the lead surgeon for brain surgery is a proctologist
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So, Kirchner will get through her subdural hematoma, and then lead her country on again to successful ruin.
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No, successful surgery was a big failure for Argentina.
Not exactly Killington or Vail, is it?
The Masik Pass ski resort is North Korea's latest white elephant. The project took 10 months of labor and will officially open this Thursday for the public, even though most of the citizens can't afford to visit it.
Supreme leader Kim Jong Un enjoyed skiing as a child, which most likely provided all the reasoning needed for building an expensive ski resort in North Korea. AP photographer David Guttenfelder took some photos of the construction last month. If the site looks unfinished, that's because it is; although the resort will open, there is still much to finish. The resort doesn't even have ski lifts yet. When you're busy starving and enslaving your citizens, those things happen
[An Nahar] Turkey on Tuesday lifted a decades-old ban on headscarves in the civil service as part of a package of reforms by the Islamic-rooted government meant to improve democracy.
The measure was hailed by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose wife wears a headscarf, as a "step toward normalization" and came into effect after it was published in the Official Gazette.
"We have now abolished an archaic provision which was against the spirit of the republic. It's a step toward normalization," Erdogan said in a parliamentary speech to his ruling party politicians.
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A US Navy admiral who oversees the nation's nuclear weapons forces has been sacked, a Navy spokesman has said.
Vice-Adm Tim Giardina, second-in-command of the US Strategic Command, is under investigation for illegal gambling activities. He is accused of using counterfeit gambling chips in "a significant monetary amount" at an Iowa casino.
Adm Giardina was demoted to a two-star admiral and will be reassigned pending outcome of the inquiry.
On Wednesday, the Navy's top spokesman Rear Adm John Kirby announced the removal of Adm Giardina as the deputy in charge of the US Strategic Command.
Adm Giardina, a career submarine officer, was suspended from duty on 3 September after the military launched an investigation into allegations he used counterfeit chips at a casino not far from his base in eastern Nebraska. The case was referred to the US Naval Criminal Investigative Service after he first came to be suspected of the crime.
[Dawn] An internal audit report of the Institute of Kidney Diseases (IKD) Hayatabad Medical Complex has unearthed the misappropriation of millions of rupees, with the hospital revenue being pocketed by some officials instead of being deposited in the treasury.
The IKD officials have also confirmed that despite repeated notices, the concerned 'officials' have failed to deposit the amount and action is being initiated against them.
Director Institute of Institute of Kidney Diseases Dr Asif Malik, who is the Drawing and Dispersing Officer and in-charge of the IKD's administrative and financial affairs, said that action has been initiated and would be completed according to rules and regulations.
"The official involved has been suspended while another two are likely to be suspended tomorrow," Director IKD Dr Asif Malik told Dawn.com when approached for comments.
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[Dawn] Following revelation of the NADRA report regarding likely poll rigging on a massive scale in a Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... constituency, the Election Commission of Pakistain (ECP) Tuesday directed an election tribunal to decide the matter until October 25, DawnNews reported.
A National Database and Registration Authority report submitted to an election tribunal on Monday revealed only 6,815 of the total 84,748 ballots sent to Nadra for verification, of certain polling stations in NA-256 constituency could be successfully authenticated.
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[Dawn] The son of a retired brigadier has confessed to killing his father, mother and two sisters.
According to a source close to the investigation, the suspect confessed because evidence available with the Sherlocks was against him.
Brigadier (retired) Dr Sikandar Ali Malik, his wife Shahida Malik and two daughters -- Zainab, 23, and Fatima 20 -- were found dead in their house on October 1.
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Before of after they've started cutting his fingers?
[Dawn] A report of the National Database and Registration Authority has revealed that the May 11 general election to a National Assembly seat in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , NA-256 (Shah Faisal Colony), was rigged.
The Nadra report, second in a row, was submitted on Monday in the Election Tribunal at Karachi in an election petition of Muhammad Zubair Khan, the runner-up candidate of the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
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[Dawn] A suspected gangster was shot dead in a Lyari locality on Monday in what police described as infighting within criminal gangs.
Officials said two armed motorcyclists fired at Ayaz Niazi alias Bhoora, 30, outside his Moosa Lane house and rode away. He sustained multiple bullet wounds and died on the spot. "Niazi was killed by his cousin Ghaffar Niazi for being a police informer," said Lyari SP Shahnawaz.
He said the deceased was also a nephew of alleged gangster Sultan Niazi alias Snookerwala, who is a member of the Sheeraz Comrade gang.
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[Dawn] Myanmar on Tuesday began freeing dozens of its remaining tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! activists, officials said, after the country vowed to release all prisoners of conscience by the end of the year.
"Our government will release 56 political prisoners," presidential adviser Hla Maung Shwe told AFP, in comments confirmed by correctional department officials.
Setting free dissidents detained arbitrarily under the former junta has been a cornerstone of reforms by a new quasi-civilian regime and has been warmly welcomed by the international community with the scrapping of most western sanctions.
Hundreds of political detainees have been freed since President Thein Sein took power in March 2011. But activists say authorities are continuing to prosecute dissidents and scores remain behind bars. They accuse the government of using the headline-grabbing releases for political gain and leverage with the international community.
Thein Sein, who travelled on Tuesday to a meeting of regional powers in Brunei, announced there would be "no prisoners of conscience in Myanmar" by the end of the year during his first visit to London in July.
Numbers for political prisoners held in Myanmar vary, but Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party said there were around 140 activists held before Tuesday's announcement.
Thet Oo, from the ex-detainees group Former Political Prisoners, told AFP that he could confirm that some of the 56 had already been set free, adding that his organization estimates that around 50 new activists have been held by the current regime.
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I wonder what their filtering criteria is?
My guess: you're not a Shan or Karen or Kachin, you've never said anything nice about a Shan or Karen or Kachin... etc.
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a car drove by and someone inside shouted a racial comment toward the white soldiers. Authorities said the soldiers shouted something back, and a group of five black men from the car stopped and surrounded the soldiers.
Police said the men in the car began to leave but one of the suspects appeared to bump into Geike as he walked past. Geike's friends discovered he had been stabbed.
No,No, Not a racial stabbing, Of course not, Blacks are protected when a white is involved, of course.
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Well, maybe the racist honkies said something offensive and deserved to be stabbed? Perhaps the accused can find a judge to agree with that line of thinking...
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On the bright side, due to local gun laws, no one was shot. Sarc.
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But I thought all those liberals said the Trevyon case said it was legal to hunt black men. Guess these soldiers couldn't get a hunting license with the shutdown. That or the liberal commentators are full of crap, but what are the odds of that really?
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] Police in Japan have 
A record-breaking storm that dumped 4 feet of snow in parts of western South Dakota left ranchers dealing with heavy losses as they assess how many of their cattle died during the unseasonably early blizzard.
[An Nahar] At least 30 people died and dozens more 
[Al Ahram] Three female members of 
[Al Ahram] A Saudi court sentenced a preacher convicted of raping his five-year-old daughter and torturing her to death to eight years in prison and 800 lashes, a lawyer said Tuesday.
[FT] Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela's president, is seeking to rule by decree in order to wage "economic war", as he battles a litany of problems with a loosening grip on power.
[An Nahar] Surgery on Tuesday to remove a blood clot from the brain of Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner was successful, a government spokesman said.
[Dawn] A suspected gangster was shot dead in a Lyari locality on Monday in what police described as infighting within criminal gangs.
