Took a left turn at Rome...
Another of Tripoli’s historic mosques has been attacked and badly damaged by militants. Part of the Mizran mosque in the central Tripoli street bearing its name was bulldozed this morning. The vandals then went to the temporary structure serving as the Sidi Sha’ab Mosque opposite the Radisson Blu Macary Hotel and destroyed it.
The Sidi Sha’ab Mosque was bulldozed in 2012 by militants in an orgy of mosque attacks that continued into 2013.
The Mizran mosque, which once served a small suburb outside Tripoli escaped that wave of destruction. There was, however, an attempt a year ago to attack it but it was thwarted.
Today’s vandals destroyed the old guard room at the mosque. The old mosque itself is no longer used for prayers. A modern, larger and air-conditioned prayer hall was built behind it some years ago to meet the needs of the large number of Tripoli residents who prefer to use it rather than others closer to home.
Despite the use of a bulldozer, there was no attempt to stop the vandals who are presumed to have thought there were graves in the mosque. “There has been response from the Awqaf [the endowments ministry in charge of the mosque] nor from the Grand Mufti nor from Tripoli council”, one angry resident who regularly uses the Mizran mosque told the Libya Herald.
Venezuela is shutting down for a week as the government struggles with a deepening electricity crisis. "and probably April too"
President Nicolas Maduro gave everyone an extra three days off work next week, extending the two-day Easter holiday, according to a statement in the Official Gazette published late Tuesday. Maduro had originally said over the weekend that the extended holiday would only apply to state employees.
The government has rationed electricity and water supplies across the country for months and urged citizens to avoid waste as Venezuela endures a prolonged drought that has slashed output at hydroelectric dams. The ruling socialists have blamed the shortage on the El Nino weather phenomena and "sabotage" by their political foes, while critics cite a lack of maintenance and poor planning.
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Now we know the real reason we refuse to seriously combat our CO2 emissions and global warming - it's part of our climate war against Venezuela.
The Malaysian defence minister, Hishammuddin Hussein, said he will meet his Australian counterpart next week to discuss China’s military buildup in the disputed South China Sea. Hishammuddin said he would meet the Australian defence minister, Marise Payne, to ensure efforts are made to “hold China to their promise of not placing military assets in the area”.
China claims most of the energy-rich waters through which about $5tn in ship-borne trade passes every year. Neighbours Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims.
Beijing is feeling public pressure at home to show it can protect its claims to the waters after the United States began conducting “freedom of navigation” operations near islands where China has been carrying out controversial reclamation work and stationing advanced weapons. In September, the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, said China had no intention to militarise its outposts in the Spratly islands.
“If the reports we’ve received from various sources regarding the buildup and placement of military assets in the Spratlys are true – this forces us in a pushback against China,” Hishammuddin told reporters.
The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) said last month it was “seriously concerned” over developments in the disputed waters, which include recent missile and fighter jet deployments by China in the Paracel island chain.
Hishammuddin said he would also meet with authorities in Vietnam and the Philippines as, if reports on China’s military expansion were true, Malaysia “cannot act alone in stopping the aggressive actions”.
“We need the support of other Asean countries, and I will continue to [seek that support]”, Hishammuddin said. “This is important for us to maintain balance and to curb the actions by superpowers, whether it is China or the United States.”
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Again, is RISING CHINA a OWG Globie-desired, "US-style", "US-par", OWG Co-Superpower in [rough?]PARITY wid the US, + siblings RUSSIA + IRAN, OTHER? NOT INFERIORITY TO THE US, OR IS IT NOT!? Iff China is, then the Bammer will PCorrectly-Deniably help China expand and acquire a sphere(s) of influence befitting its Co-Superpower status.
THE BAMMER SENDS POWERFUL USN WARSHIPS INCLUD THE USS "STENNIS" CVN + ESCORTS TO THE SCS, YET THESE SAME STAY OUTSIDE THE 12-NM LIMIT, ALL BUT OFFICIALLY SUPPORTING OR RECOGNIZING CHINA'S CLAIMS OF SOVEREIGNTY + INTERESTS TO SAME, N-O-T THOSE OF US REGIONAL ALLIES.
* TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > SOUTH CHINA SEA: US ADMIRAL WARNS CHINA IMPOSING "MIGHT MAKES RIGHT" ATTITUDE IN SE ASIA.
US PACFLT Chief ADM. Scott Swift.
See below.
* WORLD NEWS > [US] DNI CHIEF: CHINA WILL HAVE "SUBSTANTIAL [Offensive] MILTARY POWER" IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA BY 2017.
* SAME > [Indian Express] US: IMPACT OF LOSING ACCESS TO SOUTH CHINA SEA GOES BEYOND [just] MILITARY [naval]. Also has MAJOR OR SERIOUS implications for the Global Economy + International Law.
* JAPAN TIMES > TAIWAN KEY TO CHINA'S DEFENCE, REGIONAL AMBITIONS.
Yeeeuuup.
* RELATED TOPIX > [2016 US POTUS] CANDIDATES SHOULD START THINKING ABOUT TAIWAN.
Vee FUTURE-N-FINAL US-CHINA RELATIONS.
* TOPIX > [WaPo] US HEADING TOWARDS A DANGEROUS SHOWDOWN WID CHINA.
["Guam will capsize" = Pearl Harbor 1941 USN BB USS "Oklahoma" here].
* TIMES_OF_INDIA@TWITTER > CHINA, JAPAN BACK NORTH KOREA SANCTIONS AS KIM-JONG-UN WARNS OF [new] NUCLEAR WARHEAD TEST [+ also tests of various Rocket = Delivery Vehicle designs].
TWITTERHEAD = argued that the "US HAS NO BUSINESS IN ASIAN AFFAIRS, AND SHOULD GET OUT OF OKINAWA AND GUAM TOO".
Wehell now, lets just sink the BB USS "Oklahoma" - again - why don't we??
* DEFEENCE.PK/FORUMS > HILLARY CLINTON "DOES NOT WANT HER GRANDCHILDREN TO LIVE IN WORLD DOMINATED BY THE CHINESE".
Y-o-o-o-kay, WILL HILLARY FEEL BETTER IFF THE WORLD WAS MUSLIM OR ISLAMIC??? Both threaten Guam's Camel Rock.
Lest we fergit, "US-VS-CHINA" RIVALRY IN EAST ASIA-PACIFIC IS NOW THE "US-VS-CHINA-VS-NUCLEAR-ISLAM".
[Ynet] An EU representative met with Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz Wednesday morning to discuss a timeline for the developement of Israel's offshore natural gas supply.
After the development of the Leviathan gas field, European interest has been piqued in regards to coming to Israel for Europe's energy needs.
The EU commissioner is expected to visit Israel on an official trip to discuss the issue soon.
I'd require an end to all BDS efforts as the price of negotiating, which is why they don't let me near such things.
[IsraelTimess] Royal Brunei Airlines cockpit staff members land Boeing jet plane in Saudi Arabia, which doesn't allow women to drive. Looks like they brought their "quick don" hijabs. Smart move.
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Big deal! Cars don't have auto-pilots!
OK, so I do see the irony of the article.
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h/t Instapundit
In 2005, John Ioannidis, a professor of medicine at Stanford University, published a paper, "Why most published research findings are false," mathematically showing that a huge number of published papers must be incorrect. He also looked at a number of well-regarded medical research findings, and found that, of 34 that had been retested, 41% had been contradicted or found to be significantly exaggerated.
Since then, researchers in several scientific areas have consistently struggled to reproduce major results of prominent studies. By some estimates, at least 51%--and as much as 89%--of published papers are based on studies and experiments showing results that cannot be reproduced.
Researchers have recreated prominent studies from several scientific fields and come up with wildly different results. When you use students as cheap labor, use affirmative action/collegiality as criteria for tenure track, and reward "significance" and "broad appeal" in papers---what do you expect?
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Meanwhile, in cases where researchers have access to large amounts of data, there’s a dangerous tendency to hunt for significant correlations. Researchers can thus convince themselves that they’ve spotted a meaningful connection, when in fact such connections are totally random.
Large amounts of data you say? Data so voluminous no one can check it? Like temperature data from hundreds of sources for a hundred years, then millions of sources millions of times in a short period of time? Like that?
But you can convince a lot of people who have never looked at the data, and who want to believe.
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When you use students as cheap labor, use affirmative action/collegiality as criteria for tenure track, and reward "significance" and "broad appeal" in papers---what do you expect?
And gobs and gobs federal research money. You get more of what you subsidize.
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It's the politicization of science for the gain of power. As a result the credibility of the scientific process suffers. At other times, it's just trying to make a buck through manipulation.
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Science has always been driving gen by politics. Galalelo was under house arrest for his scientific findngs. And to agree that science is right is also false. Most of our science is as we see it todAy and very little to do with reality. We are still using calculus to define stuff and that math is so ik exact is crazy. Science is a best guess, and that's about it.
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2009 I was sitting in my office when the head of collections of the British Museum of Natural History walked in.
The man was checking out experts everywhere. That museum has the world's largest collections of everything natural and earns money off of leasing it out.
Problem was scientists all over the planet were leasing the use of items that could disprove their conjectures or research. Then they would destroy them!
This was because of both publish and die plus grant money. Anything that diminishes either hurts their careers and or empires.
He wanted to be able to lease out virtual artifacts and not the real ones!
[Planned Parenthood] Washington. DC -- Planned Parenthood Action Fund released the following statement today on news that the President will nominate Judge Merrick Garland, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy left behind by Justice Antonin Scalia.
"Judge Garland is an intelligent, highly accomplished judge who has secured bipartisan support in his previous appointments," Richards said in a statement. "Now that the President has upheld his constitutional duty, it is time for the Senate to uphold theirs. The American people deserve a full court and a justice appointed by the President they elected for four years -- not three. It is time for the Senate to do their job and give Judge Garland a fair hearing and up or down vote."
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...by modern Democrat standards...Nazis are conservatives, even though they were the National Socialist Workers Party and very much socialists. Imagine if they think the Nazis were conservative where that places them on the political spectrum. Same with the concept of 'moderate'.
Don't some folks consider PP murders? But not racist, I suppose.
Who gets to decide which groups are worthy, which speech is free?
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Get used to it. More of this is coming. Think about President Hillary and Harry Reid in control of the Senate again. Or Trump - historically and recently he supports PP and abortion on demand, and gun control, so either way we are screwed.
The family of a Miami teenager who was shot and killed while burglarizing a home is blasting the homeowner for defending her property.
Trevon Johnson, 17, died Thursday following a gunshot wound from the owner, Gwendolyn Jenrette, who shot him as he fled from her house after breaking into it, according to police.
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If 'Obama's son' was fleeing while shot, Ms. Jenrette may be in trouble, both criminal and financial - certainly would be in many states, but Florida is not quite so accepting of home invasions.
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When the family pipes up like this, the Israeli approach to families of terrorists should be followed. We've had the same attitude displayed here. Early morning, individual walks into a Dunkin Donuts, pulls a gun on the clerk. Clerk pulls own gun, kills assailant. Family member shows up days later in a hysterical fit for killing their kindred. We're probably different than Florida. No jury here would convict someone defending their lives or property (as the local 'authorities' can't claim they're doing a bang up job themselves). Insurance is not an excuse for theft, you are stealing that part of one's life one worked for to attain. That time can not be replaced. That time is gone. We only have so much time on this planet.
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Just another tragic tale of workplace firearms violence! Really if you want money that bad you should have told your son about stealing wire from the FPL substations. When those guys get fried the family gets a go away settlement. Because the power company can use legal expenses to keep them from having excessive profits. Of course you have to split it with Dewey, Cheatum and Howe.
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The basic complaint is that homeowner already called the police so she didn't "have to" shoot. The reality is, that Trevon The Honor Student would have learned that he could repeat offend with impunity.
Instead he learned that crime does not pay, which is something they can carve on his headstone, so that his family can read and learn (if they can).
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Should have taught him how to work and feed himself. I know you idiots don't.
You know, they are stealing from society then if they don't work, can and collect welfare.
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Sometimes, when stories like this pop up, I feel like people like these families see crime as a valid career choice. It's just another job. This viewpoint, if I am even half right, would explain a lot of what looks otherwise as dim-wittery.
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Whiskey Mike if they saw crime as a job they would not do it.
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I think instead of 3 felonies and you get life, it should really be 3 felonies and you get to ride the nitrogen chamber. It'd keep the prisons empty and you can use them for organ donors. By the time you've been convicted three times for felonies, your value to society is completely negative with no hope for redemption.
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Thank Lyndon Johnson's Great Society for destroying the black family by massive welfare and no responsibility, just to get votes.
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Whiskey Mike - it's called Black Privilege.
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Law functions in society where it is both viewed as moral and a deterrent. Where the subset of society has no moral compass, or worse, a lifeview that imprisonment is a rite of passage, law mostly fails as a deterrent. So, enhanced law enforcement is added to the more criminal portions of the society. Now, we have reached a point in the manipulation of race as a policy tool, that the disproportionate number of minorities in custody is a reality, and only two explanations are reasonable: either minorities commit crimes at a disproportionate rate, or the system is racist. Since the first is a politically unacceptable answer, it must be the second. So, now the more criminal subset of society gets to further enhance the victim card debt and act out. Voila unrest coming to a neighborhood near you....
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NoMoreBS nails it. This is why CA is full steam ahead with releasing an additional 40,000 criminals early. In 2015, violent crime in CA rose 20% bucking a near 12 year trend. Property crime up close to 150% (see OP). For the Dems, this is real, measurable progress towards what NoMoreBS posits.
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Alaska Paul, and the unions that drove the big auto companies into the ground. Cost a lot of black jobs.
And increases in minimum wage that replaced unskilled blacks with illegal Mexicans who could be paid under the table.
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.
Venezuela is shutting down for a week as the government struggles with a deepening electricity crisis.
[IsraelTimess] Royal Brunei Airlines cockpit staff members land Boeing jet plane in Saudi Arabia, which doesn't allow women to drive.
