[BLOOMBERG] The archbishop of Canterbury says DNA tests have identified his real father, but the revelation hasn't shaken his sense of identity. Ooh! Ooh! I seen dis movie!
Earlier this month, DNA analysis of Archbishop Justin Welby's mouth swabs determined that his father was not whisky salesman Gavin Welby but civil servant Sir Anthony Montague Browne. Browne and Welby's mother, Jane Williams, both worked as aides to Prime Minister Winston Churchill. "Yes, Sir Anthony! YES! I am your... son!"
"By Gad! Sonny! Is it... Is it you?"
"Yes, Father! It is I!"
Saturday's announcement from Welby, leader of the Church of England and the worldwide Anglican Communion, followed an investigation by the Daily Telegraph newspaper. "[Sob!] I can't marry Geraldine, even if I am the Archbishop of Canterbury, because my father was a whisky salesman!"
Welby said: "I find who I am in Jesus Christ, not in genetics, and my identity in him never changes." "But Sir Anthony's leaving you a fortune in secret offshore holdings!"
"Well, that will help, too, of course..."
Williams issued her own statement confirming a drunken one-night stand with Browne shortly before her 1955 marriage to Welby. "[Hic!] Shay, lady! Y'wanna buy some whish... whish... whishky?"
"[Hic!] Sure! C'mon in!"
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Church of England, you say? Who are we to judge?
Djibouti's President Ismail Omar Guelleh has been reelected for a fourth term, the country's Prime Minister Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed announced citing preliminary projections, Sputnik reported.
The announcement was made before all the Friday votes were in, The Business Standard said on Saturday.
What better time to announce the results?
Guelleh, 68, has been in power since 1999. He is the second president of Djibouti since the country gained independence from France in 1977. Some of Djibouti's opposition parties have decided to boycott the presidential election calling it a sham.
Djibouti borders on Somalia and is located on the Horn of Africa. The United States' only military base in Africa, Camp Lemonnier, is located in Djibouti.
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BUENOS AIRES -- Cristina Fernandez, who stepped down as president of Argentina in December after eight years in office, has been charged by a prosecutor with money laundering, local media reported on Saturday.
Bwha-ha-ha...
The decision follows testimony on Friday by businessman Leonardo Farina, who in a plea bargain implicated Fernandez and her late husband and former President Nestor Kirchner in a case related to money laundering and embezzling funds earmarked for public works.
Julio De Vido, a longtime Fernandez and Kirchner ally and former minister, was also charged, local newspapers Clarin and La Nacion reported, citing judicial sources.
Last Tuesday, another Fernandez ally, businessman Lazaro Baez, was arrested for questioning as part of the same investigation.
Fernandez, 63, is due to answer questions in court on Wednesday over a separate probe into the sale of U.S. dollar futures contracts at below-market rates by the central bank during her administration.
Fernandez, a leftist leader from the Peronist party, was barred constitutionally from seeking a third consecutive term. Opposition candidate Mauricio Macri won the November election, ending more than a decade of Peronist rule.
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The large Russian warhead buildup, combined with official statements from Moscow questioning the utility of continued adherence to the treaty, are raising concerns about a break-out from the treaty limits.
Another legacy of our present occupant of the White House.
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[Mail] Karsten Nordal Hauken, from Ă s, Akershus, was raped in his home and the perpetrator was subsequently caught and jailed for 4.5 years.
However, when Nordal Hauken found out that the man was to be deported back to Somalia after serving his time, he reveals he felt guilt that the man would possibly face hardship in his old country.
Nordal Hauken, who describes himself as a 'young Socialist Left Party member, feminist and anti-racist', was attacked in his own home.
The politician reveals that he struggled to come to terms with being a heterosexual male rape victim, and subsequently self-medicated with alcohol and cannabis.
'I am a heterosexual man who was raped by a Somalian asylum seeker,' Nordal Hauken writes for NRK.
'My life fell into ruin, but now I feel guilty about him being sent out of the country.'
He reveals how he was called up by the prison shortly before the perpetrator was to be deported to Somalia, having served 4.5 years in prison for the rape.
'I felt relief and happiness that he would be gone forever. I felt like the Norwegian State had taken responsibility to carry out the ultimate revenge, like an angry father confronting it's child's attacker.
'But I also had a strong feeling of guilt and responsibility. I was the reason that he would not be in Norway anymore, but rather sent to a dark uncertain future in Somalia
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...who describes himself as a 'young Socialist Left Party member, feminist and anti-racist', was attacked in his own home.
.. just a member of the ruling leftist castrati in the EU. Ours are still in their University incubation pens. We still have some time to rid ourselves of our own effeminate Khmer Rouge
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Also, see the post of Wretchard's article under Opinion. The ability of Critical Theory to paralyze a nation extends from the highest position of govt to the lowest individual. We saw this play out on a wider scale in New Year's Eve
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sounds consensual
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[DAWN] MULTAN: Two brothers convicted of murdering six people from the same family were hanged at a jail in Sialkot on Saturday, just days after Amnesia Amnesty International criticised the country for becoming the world's third most prolific executioner after China and Iran.
Nasir Mehmood and Tahir Iqbal were hanged for the 2002 murders, senior prison official Chaudhry Arshad Saeed Arain told AFP.
The hanged men killed six members of a family over a land dispute, jail officials said. No further details were available.
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once again proving
"The family that slays together, sways together."
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[BLOOMBERG] The archbishop of Canterbury says DNA tests have identified his real father, but the revelation hasn't shaken his sense of identity.
