[Guardian] John Ashe, a former president of the UN general assembly, has been killed by a barbell weight while he remained under investigation over corruption claims by US authorities.
Ashe, who was accused by US prosecutors of taking bribes, died from neck trauma he suffered while lifting the barbell, a medical examiner concluded on Thursday.
The announcement came a day after police responded to a medical emergency call at Ashe’s residence in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
Ashe, 61, was pronounced dead from "traumatic asphyxia" after he had been on a bench lifting the barbell, said an official with the Westchester County Office of the Medical Examiner.
[Politico] On a cool summer day in London in 1951, an American CIA officer told three British oil executives about a top-secret U.S. government plan. The goal was to ravage the Middle East oil industry if the region were ever invaded by the Soviet Union. Oil wells would be plugged, equipment and fuel stockpiles destroyed, refineries and pipelines disabled--anything to keep the USSR from getting its hands on valuable oil resources. The CIA called it the "denial policy."
Such a plan couldn't work without the cooperation of the British and American companies who controlled the oil industry in the Middle East, which is why the CIA operative, George Prussing, ended up at the Ministry of Fuel and Power in London that day.
To the British representatives of Iraq Petroleum, Kuwait Oil and Bahrain Oil, Prussing detailed how their production operations in those countries would in effect be transformed into a paramilitary force, trained and ready to execute the CIA's plan in the event of a Soviet invasion. He asked for their help, and they agreed to cooperate. He also emphasized the need for security, which included keeping the policy secret from the targeted Middle East countries. "Security now is more important than the success of any operations," Prussing told them.
[Daily Caller] Police arrested a woman in London Sunday because she let the public touch her naked body in the name of "women’s rights."
Milo Moire hosted her "Mirror Box" show in London’s Trafalgar Square, reports the Daily Mail. She placed mirror boxes over her breasts and waist and invited anyone over 18 to touch her for 30 seconds. She did this to advocate a woman’s right to decide when she can be touched.
"However, women decide for themselves when and how they want to be touched and when they don’t. Today, you have the chance to touch the box for thirty seconds and feel free. It doesn’t matter if you’re a woman or a man," Moire told the Mirror Online before her exhibition.
After some people complained about the indecency, police arrested and charged Moire with public indecency. She later appeared before court, pleaded guilty and was fined approximately $1,000, according to the Mirror Online.
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As was pointed out in the article, there's lots of countries that cooperate in ESA without being part of the EU. Norway and Switzerland, for example.
Britain would just be one more, as long as the EU didn't decide to be vindictive.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon says a new Scottish referendum on independence is "highly likely" because of Britannia’s vote to leave the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... She said Friday legislation will be prepared for a possible new vote.
Independence was defeated two years ago in a Scottish referendum.
Sturgeon said she would do everything possible to keep Scotland inside the EU. She said this means another referendum "has to be on the table."
Britannia’s decision to leave the EU represents a substantial, material change in Scotland’s relations and could justify another independence vote, she said.
The Scottish leader also praised British Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... , who has said he will resign when a new party leader is chosen before October.
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Every bit of the Eu should have a referendum. Those that want to be in the EU can join, those that don't can separate, and/or join into a variety of little groups nobody even thought of before. Personally Id love to see Bavaria and Tuscany join to be a rump-sized revival of the Holy Roman Empire.
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They may desire independence from Great Britain, and think breaking from the UK and joining the EU would give it to them. It would be independence in name only, and their EU masters would end up being more repressive than if they stayed with the UK.
[NewMax] Watch any of the TV news talk shows Friday and almost all have ignored one important fact: the Brexit 'Leave' victory was another humiliating loss for President Barack Obama. Disaster to some possibly.
In fact, some British polls even showed that voter sentiment moved decidedly in favor of Brexit after Obama traveled to Britain and urged a "no" vote.
British voters delivered a stinging rebuke to Obama on Thursday when they opted to leave the EU by a 52 percent to 48 percent margin.
So strong was the backlash to Obama's blatant attempt to influence the Brexit vote ‐ polls following his April visit to London showed the opposition to his remarks running at about 60 percent ‐ that a reasonable case could be made he contributed to the outcome.
Obama's threatening remarks against Britain over Brexit seemed to have ignited a tempest.
Upon leaving the EU, Obama said, Britain should not expect a new trade deal with the U.S., that it would be "in the back of the queue."
In a subsequent interview with the BBC, Obama suggested that a new trade deal with America's closest ally "could be five years from now, 10 years from now before we were able to actually get something done."
Obama's use of the Briticism "queue" for the word "line" triggered widespread speculation that the President's comments had, in fact, been written for him at 10 Downing Street.
Former London Mayor Boris Johnson, a staunch opponent of remaining in the EU and allowing unbridled immigration, blasted Obama's remarks as "paradoxical, inconsistent, and incoherent." I seldom post from NewsMax, but I thought this item was worthy.
The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, rose on Thursday as demand strengthened across all vessel segments.
The overall index, which factors in rates for capesize, panamax, supramax and handysize shipping vessels, was up 11 points, or 1.88 percent, at 596 points.
The capesize index rose 19 points, or 2.16 percent, to 897 points.
Average daily earnings for capesizes, which typically transport 150,000-tonne cargoes such as iron ore and coal, were up $146 to $6,253.
The panamax index was up 13 points, or 2.34 percent, at 569 points.
Average daily earnings for panamaxes, which usually carry coal or grain cargoes of about 60,000 to 70,000 tonnes, increased $107 to $4,554.
Among smaller vessels, the supramax index rose 7 points to 577 points, while the handysize index rose 4 points to 322 points.
Source: Reuters (Reporting by Nithin Prasad in Bengaluru)
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders on Friday called for the Netherlands to hold a referendum on whether to leave the EU, shortly after Britannia voted for a Brexit.
"The Dutch people deserve a referendum as well. The Party for Freedom consequently demands a referendum on NExit, a Dutch EU exit," Wilders said in a statement.
"We want be in charge of our own country, our own money, our own borders, and our own immigration policy," Wilders said in a statement.
"If I become prime minister, there will be a referendum in the Netherlands on leaving the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... as well. Let the Dutch people decide."
Elections are not due in the Netherlands until next year, but since last year polls have consistently shown support for the Freedom Party (PVV) climbing on the back of the refugee crisis.
Although it is has slipped back in recent months, the last polls from May showed Wilders’ party would win the largest support gaining some 31 seats in the 150-seat party, more than doubling its current 15 seats.
The statement sent by Wilders’ PVV said that recent polls showed a majority of Dutch people were in favour of holding a referendum, and that most would vote to leave.
The Netherlands, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the EU, held a referendum earlier this year on whether to back closer cooperation between the EU and Ukraine. Turnout was low, but over 60 percent voted against the deal.
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I've seen that there are ##exit movements afoot in France, Netherlands, Italy and Sweden.
Was Brexit the first domino or a flash in the pan ( to mix my metaphors)?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A hospital worker in the Turkish capital Ankara on Friday rubbed out four colleagues following a personal dispute, reports said.
The individual, who works in the pharmacy department of the Ankara University Hospital, got into an argument with several colleagues while at work, the state run Anadolu Agency reported.
He then pulled out a weapon and opened fire, killing three of his colleagues on the spot, while the fourth later succumbed to his wounds, the report said.
The employee, who was identified as Enver T., was detained, telling police that his colleagues had accused him of theft, prompting him to turn a gun on them.
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[DAWN] The first polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... case of the high transmission season has been reported from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , bringing the polio case count for this year to 12.
The case was confirmed by the National Institute of Health’s Polio Virology Laboratory. A one year old child, whose sample was received by the lab three weeks ago, has died.
The poliovirus is less active during the low transmission season from September to May due to lower temperatures, while June to August is known as the high transmission season.
An official of the national health services (NHS) ministry who is not authorised to speak on the record said that the one year old belonged to a family from Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... .
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[Ynet] The swearing-in ceremony for the March 2016 cycle of Desert Reconnaissance Battalion soldiers was held on Thursday at the Memorial Monument to the Bedouin Warriors with the majority of the sworn-in soldiers being Moslem. Before their commanders and families, the soldiers, mostly Bedouins with some Moslem and Christian Arabs who volunteered to join the IDF, swore allegiance to the State of Israel and its defense.
The swearing-in ceremony took place three months after the beginning of the training course, eventually becoming full-fledged infantry soldiers.
One of the soldiers who took part in the ceremony was 20-year-old Private Suliman el-Magnun, a resident of the Al-Fura village in the Bedouin area of the Negev. El-Magnun enlisted following his two brothers and a cousin's volunteering for the IDF as well. One of his brothers served in Golani and the other as a tracker. His cousin was in the Ordnance Corps.
"When we swore allegiance to the state, I did it with all my heart," said the excited private. "I understood how important it was to give and do my part for the country in which I was born, that I live my life in, and that I'm proud of."
Photos at the link. Arabs -- Bedouins, Moslems, Druze, and Christians -- and Moslem Circassians have fought for Israel in the IDF since the summer of 1948.
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.
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