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When the Justice Department arrested the chairman of Temple University's physics department this spring and accused him of sharing sensitive American-made technology with China, prosecutors had what seemed like a damning piece of evidence: schematics of sophisticated laboratory equipment sent by the professor, Xi Xiaoxing, to scientists in China.
The schematics, prosecutors said, revealed the design of a device known as a pocket heater. The equipment is used in superconductor research, and Dr. Xi had signed an agreement promising to keep its design a secret.
But months later, long after federal agents had led Dr. Xi away in handcuffs, independent experts discovered something wrong with the evidence at the heart of the Justice Department's case: The blueprints were not for a pocket heater.
Faced with sworn statements from leading scientists, including an inventor of the pocket heater, the Justice Department on Friday afternoon dropped all charges against Dr. Xi, an American citizen.
And they wonder why American Jews don't go into science & technology anymore
American Jews do, and they're as successful as you might expect. What happened to Dr. Xi should lead, in a just world, to people losing their jobs at DoJ. But it's quite a hop, skip and a jump to equate what happened to him to anti-semitism. I honestly don't know why you went there.
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the emails represented the kind of international academic collaboration that governments and universities encourage
Intradepartmental competition for the chairmanship is pretty aggressive I expect. The JD practice of nourishing suggestive in-you-end-o only encourages.
(CNN) Heavy rains caused a crane to topple Friday evening at one of Islam's most important mosques -- Mecca's Masjid al-Haram, or Grand Mosque -- killing at least 87 people and injuring 201 others, Saudi Arabia's civil defense authorities said Friday on Twitter. Soodies now blame winds.
The Masjid al-Haram surrounds Islam's holiest site, the Kaaba -- a shrine that worshipers circle during the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.
A strong thunderstorm popped up over Mecca about 4 p.m. local time Friday (9 a.m. ET), bringing gusty winds which shifted direction and caused the local temperature to drop from 42 to 25 degrees Celsius (107.6 to 77 degrees Fahrenheit.), CNN meteorologists reported.
Per the Daily Mail, body count is now 107 and counting...
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I get the urge to ululate & pass out candy for some reason...
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We do a lot of things here domestically with our large construction mobile 'crawler' cranes when big storms or high winds are predicted.
Like lowering the booms to the ground as much as possible, tying them off, or actual boom dis-assembly.
We lower the tower cranes completely.
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Are cranes mentioned in the Koran? Or did Allan just fart?
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When Muslimahs turn to Thin Lizzy,
The Muslims' heads spin till they're dizzy.
The crashing and clangor
Drives headbangers' anger
And makes them all who-bitch-this-izzy.
[Dhaka Tribune] An autorickshaw driver has been burnt alive by miscreants in Amati Shibpur area in Kishoreganj.
Deceased Shamim, 27, is the son of Jahangir Alam of Amati village.
Jahangir said: "Four youths of the area including Jony, Al Amin and Shafiq were drinking liquor at a fishery near our house on Tuesday evening. They beat Shamim up when he tried to stop them from drinking liquor."
Following the matter, Jony, Al Amin and Shafiq took Shamim to the fishery around 8:30pm Thursday.
"They tied up Shamim's hands and legs and blindfolded him and set him on fire by pouring petrol," he said.
Locals went to the spot seeing the fire and took Shamim to Kishoreganj 250-bed General Hospital.
Hospital's emergency department duty doctor Monoj Kumar Roy said: "Around 80% of his body was burned in the incident."
Shamim's uncle Tajul Islam said he died while being taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital around 1am Friday.
Kishoreganj model cop shoppe OC Meer Mosharaf Hossain confirmed the matter to the Dhaka Tribune.
He said: "We are conducting drive to arrest the culprits. The body has been kept at Kishoreganj 250-bed General Hospital for an appointment with Dr. Quincy."
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[The Mail] An American couple are so dedicated to their favourite British pub that they have decided to up-sticks and move more than 4,000 miles to make it their local in Warwickshire.
Matt and Delores Lawrence, from Bloomington, Indiana, used to make an annual 8,700 mile round trip for a pint at The Plough in Shustoke, near Nuneaton.
Since discovering their favourite tavern, they have regularly travelled back to Warwickshire, costing them a whopping £48,000 since their first trip in 2011.
But now the couple have taken it one step further - and have decided to leave their life in America behind to move across the pond with their teenage son Achilles, 19.
Delores has quit her job as a psychiatric nurse while Matt is transferring to a British branch of his firm, loss adjuster Liberty Mutual. Their son Achilles has applied to study at Coventry University.
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My brother lives in Bloomington, Ind. A university town infested with liberals. Probably more to this than meets the eye. but then again calling your child, Achilles?
"Say what? Cut me off? No, you shouldn't!
To madden a Muslim's imprudent.
You won't like me cranky,
Damned infidel Yankee --
I honor-killed my honor student!"
[ALMANAR.LB] Activists planned new protests in Venezuela on Friday after incarcerated Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez was sentenced to nearly 14 years in prison for inciting violence during deadly anti-government protests in 2014.
After the court decision against the popular, US-trained economist, the opposition called for "peaceful" protests.
"We call for protests to take place in a peaceful, democratic and constitutional way," said Jesus Torrealba, executive secretary of the opposition coalition Democratic Unity Roundtable.
Lopez will serve his time at the Ramo Verde military prison, where he has been held since February 2014.
Judge Susana Barreiros found Lopez guilty of "damage and arson, public incitement and conspiracy," the attorney general's office said.
He was incarcerated Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! for 13 years, nine months and seven days, defense lawyer Roberto Marrero said late Thursday on Twitter.
The opposition rejected the ruling, proclaimed Lopez's innocence and called the sentencing decision a political, not a judicial one.
Another Lopez attorney, Juan Carlos Gutierrez, said the trial was plagued with irregularities, reflecting the "lack of independence" of the Venezuelan judicial system.
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One can only hope he lives long enough to see Maduro and the redshirts overthrown and killed
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I expect he will lead the next government, when is the question. Caprilles doesn't have enough street 'cred.
Ukrainian media said Friday that Russian specialists will be operating the ZRPK "Carapace" AA system sent to Syria two years ago.
The ZRPK “Carapace” is a short range AAA and SAM system they say can down low flying cruise missiles such as the US Tomahawk. There are several versions including one in use by the Russian Navy and one cold weather version that is either deployed in the arctic or soon will be.
The Rooshuns say the vehicles electronics/radar can track and classify as many as 100 aerial objects.
News reports published two years ago indicated that the Russian naval vessels can tie in their communications and radar data injto Syria's air defense net in order to counter low flying threats, presumably including the ZRPK "Carapace" AA system.
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Gotta be sure and keep a lid on capacities and capabilities. Might need to be used to defend Mother Russia sometime, and there's no reason to give away the whole project here.
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One of the Mod's compared this system's Leitmotif to that of the T-28 landship. :)
[ALMANAR.LB] The man behind a shocking knife attack on the US ambassador to South Korea was convicted of attempted murder on Friday and sentenced to 12 years for an assault that left the envoy needing 80 stitches to a deep gash on his face.
Prosecutors had sought a 15-year sentence for Kim Ki-Jong, 56, who lunged at Mark Lippert with a paring knife during a breakfast function in Seoul in March.
In passing judgment, the Seoul Central District Court noted Kim had "shown no repentance, attempting to justify his actions throughout the trial".
The public attack on the envoy of South Korea's most important military and diplomatic ally -- and dramatic TV footage of Lippert being rushed to hospital clutching his bloodied face -- was shocking for a country where passionate political protest is common but acts of such extreme violence rare.
There was also a degree of shame and disquiet that a man with a record of violence against foreign envoys had been able to carry out such an assault.
A maverick activist who was known to police, Kim had been handed a two-year suspended sentence in 2010 for hurling a rock at the then Japanese ambassador to Seoul.
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How harsh are South Korean prisons? I get the feeling that a man with a large sense of entitlement wont fair to well with the tattooed S. Korean mafia members.
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[The Telegraph] Relief for defence giant BAE Systems as Kuwait fighter order extends work for its Typhoon production line in UK.
BAE Systems has been given a massive boost after Kuwait agreed to buy 28 of the Typhoon fighters which the company makes through its membership of the Eurofighter consortium.
The sale is a vote of confidence for the jet, which has recently lost out on export orders to France’s Rafale jet.
As well as BAE, the partner companies in the consortium are Airbus Defence and Space in Germany and Spain, and Alenia Aermacchi/Finmeccanica in Italy, which spearheaded the sales campaign in Kuwait.
[The Telegraph]The honorary French consul in the Turkish seaside resort of Bodrum has been suspended for selling rubber dinghies and life jackets to migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe.
Pictures of the body of a drowned Syrian toddler lying on the beach at Bodrum, south-western Turkey, prompted international outrage and an outpouring of sympathy for migrants earlier this month. Three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, his four-year-old brother and mother perished trying to make the crossing.
Bodrum is a gateway to the European Union and thousands of others have risked their lives crossing from the resort to the Greek island of Kos on tiny boats.
The consul, Francoise Olcay, was secretly filmed by France 2 television at her boat supplies shop selling inflatable dinghies and life jackets to Syrians who have fled civil war. The shop has a French flag hanging outside, beside a plaque reading "Consular agency of France". She has a very bright future in American politics should she decide to come to the States.
I wonder if that involves his EPA dumping more toxic mine water into another river?
Buoyed by the success of his nuclear deal with Iran, President Barack Obama is preparing to move aggressively on other long-delayed priorities, including a major climate change summit this winter and his elusive quest to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
The National Security Council's directorate of strategic planning has been quietly building an agenda of action items for the closing year of Obama's presidency, in a White House that sees its work as far from complete, administration officials say.
"We have no intention of resting on our laurels," said one senior administration official. "We have an ambitious foreign policy agenda that we'll continue to pursue aggressively throughout the remainder of [the] fourth quarter of the administration." Over the next sixteen months, we are so screwed...
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resting on laurels? They got jobbed - and its opbvious today when Iran came out iwth "unexpected" large uranium reserves the very day after Obama claimed victory to allow mining companies to go in and help Iran arm itself.
This is simply disgusting that the GOP in Congress abdicated its duty to check and balance an out of control executive branch.
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And the gutless fucks McConnell and Boehner will sell us out on environmental stuff too. They need to be forcibly removed from their leadership positions. And office too.
[DAWN] LAHORE: Police on Thursday tossed in the clink Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! two prosecution witnesses in Zain murder case for denying to recognise prime suspect Mustafa Kanju.
Police said the witnesses, earlier in their statements, had said that Mustafa Kanju was drunk and shot at a car rider. Later, the witnesses retracted for some unknown reasons.
Police said that they arrested the witnesses and were investigating why had they changed their statements.
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From the ancient Hippocratic Oath: "Nor shall any man's entreaty prevail upon me to administer poison to anyone; neither will I counsel any man to do so. Moreover, I will give no sort of medicine to any pregnant woman, with a view to destroy the child."
Of course a lot of doctors today seem to have forgotten the second part as well.
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so long as they are given six months or less to live by two doctors, submit a written request and two oral requests at least 15 days apart and possess the mental capacity to make their own health care decisions.
So you are allowed to die if your papers are all in order. It all sounds like a combination of filling out tax schedules, a trip to the DMV and interviews with high school guidance counselors. Wanna bet the approval process will be slightly longer than your six month expiration date?
We will need a nice name for the boards of approval since Death Panels sounds so mean. And reminds us of Sarah Palin's snarky comments on just this topic.
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This is one kind of death panel. I believe the one Palin was talking a out was the kind that would decide whether or not your life was worth saving once the government has to foot the bill.
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.
[Dhaka Tribune] An autorickshaw driver has been burnt alive by miscreants in Amati Shibpur area in Kishoreganj.
[The Mail] An American couple are so dedicated to their favourite British pub that they have decided to up-sticks and move more than 4,000 miles to make it their local in Warwickshire.
[ALMANAR.LB] Activists planned new protests in Venezuela on Friday after 
[ALMANAR.LB] The man behind a shocking knife attack on the US ambassador to South Korea was convicted of attempted murder on Friday and sentenced to 12 years for an assault that left the envoy needing 80 stitches to a deep gash on his face.
[DAWN] LAHORE: Police on Thursday 
