#3
For some odd reason: in Chernobil and now Fukushima, we don't see any two headed mutants etc. It's like all this stuff from the 1960 was just movies.
Stephen Stirling describes doing this in his Dies the Fire mega-series. It's not for the faint of heart.
Posted by: Steve White ||
09/18/2016 13:23 Comments ||
Top||
#8
It was the sport of the 'old' ruling caste. Notes of hunts going back to the Iliad (boar tusk helmets). And yes, the scares with them, if you were fortunate enough, otherwise like bullfighters, sometimes you get the boar and sometimes the boar gets you.
[DAILYCALLER] A twice-nabbed Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! undocumented Democrat killed a Kansas sheriff’s deputy on Sunday, a source with knowledge of the case told The Daily Caller.
Adrian Espinosa-Flores, 38, was charged Monday with involuntary manslaughter after he allegedly was driving drunk and crashed his pickup truck into a patrol car stopped on the side of the road. The crash killed Johnson County (Kansas) Sheriff’s Department Master Deputy Brandon Collins, 45.
Posted by: Fred ||
09/18/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11125 views]
Top|| File under:
[REUTERS] Only a handful of leaders have traveled to a meeting of a large Cold War-era bloc in Venezuela this week, in an embarrassment for the crisis-hit socialist government.
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has touted the 17th meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement as one that would "be remembered for centuries," as the unpopular leftist seeks to bolster his international legitimacy.
Yet the turnout from the 120-nation Cold War-era bloc has paled compared to past meetings, including the previous summit in Iran in 2012, attended by some 35 heads of state.
Zim-bob-we's Bob Muggsy Mugabe Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... , Iran's Hassan Rouhani and Paleostine's the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , as well as regional allies from Cuba, Ecuador and Bolivia are among the few heads of states who have landed on the Caribbean island of Margarita.
The half-century old movement formed by nations wanting to avoid aligning with the United States or Soviet Union has dwindled in relevance over the years.
But it appears that heads of states' attendance at the summit in recession-stricken Venezuela is particularly low, possibly even in single digits, although the government did not respond to a request for a list of attendees.
Venezuela's opposition, vying to remove Maduro in a recall referendum, has jumped on low attendance as a sign of his isolation.
"Millions of dollars of Venezuelans' money spent for the government's ego," said opposition leader Henrique Capriles. "Many of the countries didn't come to the show!"
In one glaring absence, co-founder and key member India did not send Prime Minister Narendra Modi, only the second time the country's head of state has missed a summit since its 1961 founding.
Venezuela is undergoing a major economic crisis that has sparked worsening food shortages and triple-digit inflation.
Posted by: Fred ||
09/18/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11126 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
No mention of what was on the menu at the meeting.
#4
It appears United Russia got between 45 and 48 percent of the vote, while the Communist party got 16 percent and Zhirinovskiy's national party got 14 percent.
We won't know the actual composition of the Duma until later. Of course, United Russia will have the major plurality, but it doesn't have a majority.
Turnout was 40 percent average nationwide, lower than in 2011. It was less than 20 percent in Moskva and Saint Petersburg.
According to the preliminary results of the elections, on the basis of treatment 9% of the ballots, the federal district "United Russia" received 45.33% of votes, the Liberal Democratic Party - 17.65%, CPRF ??- 16.98% "Fair Russia" - 6,39%.
Among other parties to vote as follows: "Apple" - 1.38%, "Homeland" - 1.45%; "The Communists of Russia" - 2,85%; Russian Party of Pensioners - 2.12%, growth of the Party - 1.08%.
"Green" got 0.81% of votes, Civic Platform - 0.29%; Parnas - 0.69%. Civil Force gained 0.14%, Patriots of Russia - 0.69%.
According to the preliminary results of voting in single-mandate constituencies out of 111 districts where ballots have been processed, at 105 the first place took the "United Russia". In two districts the ruling party won, respectively, second and third place.
Communist Party won in two constituencies. In 54 districts of the Communists gained second place in the 26 - the third.
The Liberal Democratic Party won the first place in five districts, the second - in 26, and the third - in 51.
"Just Russia" won the three counties, finishing second in 18 and third place - in 17 districts.
My commentary:
It would appear that Vladimir Zhirinovskiy's party has drawn even with the communists, who were in 2nd place in the Duma. With these kinds of numbers, however, it means very little. Vladimir Putin's coalition will run the show for another five years, it would appear.
#6
According to a Russian blogger one of three Russian communist parties failed to make the three percent threshold to remain a viable political party in Russia.
Most disappointingly, IMMHO is the Russian nationalist Rodina also failed to make the cut for a second time in a row.
Russian military journalist Aleksandr Kots posted a video of a crowd of Ukrainians jumping and beating a Russian emigre in Kiev who appeared at the Russian embassy to cast his vote in the elections.
Turns out the victim was going there to vote against Putin's ruling party.
[CBSNEWS] French officials say three men have been charged and tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... after a woman was allegedly lured on Facebook by one of them and then gang-raped near the Eiffel Tower.
A police official said Friday that three Algerian men were tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! earlier this week in a Gay Paree hotel under suspicion of taking part in the rape of the French woman in the Champ-de-Mars garden, close to the famous tower.
The official says one of the men is suspected of chatting with the woman on Facebook before the alleged rape and then arranging a date with her in Gay Paree.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.
The Gay Paree prosecutor’s office confirmed that three men have been given preliminary charges in the case and tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... . It wouldn’t elaborate.
Posted by: Fred ||
09/18/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11129 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
I wondered how far I'd have to read to get an inkling of the perps. The recidivism problem should have taken care of at the Eiffel Tower. Maybe there wasn't a rope handy.
[THETIMES.CO.UK] Britannia will veto measures to build an EU army for as long as it remains a member of the union, the defence secretary has warned.
Sir Michael Fallon’s comments came as it emerged that La Belle France and Germany had drawn up a timetable to create a "common military force" that would rival NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... in army capability.
According to a document discussed by EU leaders at a summit in Bratislava yesterday, the European Commission will put forward proposals in December for the common military force, with the aim of agreement by June next year.
Posted by: Fred ||
09/18/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11125 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Sir Michael Fallon’s comments came as it emerged that La Belle France and Germany had drawn up a timetable to create a "common military force" that would rival NATO in army capability.
Paper tiger without a budget. How much would it cost to replace American capabilities they rely upon now. Heck, their Libyan adventure forced them to ask America for supplies which they burned through in around a week, not including the telecommunications and intel capacities. Big, big, big $$$$$. All talk, little change in budgets.
Bastards
BRUSSELS – Belgian authorities refused to allow the “Kurdistan Culture Week” festival, that was expected to start on 22 September in Brussels, the Kurdish Institute said on Saturday.
Although the institute officially applied for a permission on 13 June, it was notified by the local authorities on 14 September that they were not allowed to hold the “Kurdistan Culture Week”. This despite earlier pledges that the permission would be granted.
The Belgians aren't afraid of offending people who don't send splodydopes against them...
The Kurdish Institute in Brussels said it would file an appeal against the decision.
“An event like the Kurdistan culture week is more important than ever amidst the horrific events taking place in the Kurdish areas,” the institute said. “It brings people together with the aim of peace and tolerance.”
“We are protesting against the decision of the mayor, and we have right to exist and to celebrate our culture!” Derwich Ferho, head of the Kurdish Institute said.
The decision by the local authorities comes after increasing violence and tensions in Turkey between the Turkish security forces and the Kurdish Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), and many purges in Turkey after the failed military coup last July.
33 Kurdish activists are being prosecuted by Belgian courts, the Kurdish Institute in Brussels said, accusing Turkey of influencing the Belgian judicial process.
“They are accused of participating in terrorist activities, but in reality all of them have been engaged in peaceful and democratic activities in Belgium, an EU member state,” the institute said.
According to the Kurdish Institute in Brussels, the charges are “entirely based on evidence produced by the Turkish state, which is also a civil party in the trial”.
Funny how that works. Wonder if the Belgians would arrest a bunch of Turks based on the word of the Kurd Kommies. No, actually, I don't wonder at all...
“At the same time, this state [Turkey] is waging a war against Kurdish people, committing crimes against humanity, and suppressing human rights activists, journalists, lawyers, politicians and in fact anyone who criticizes the AKP [Justice & Development Party] government and its president,” the institute said in a statement.
According to Kurdish activists in Belgium, the trial goes far beyond the Kurdish question. “Conviction of these Kurdish activists would be an abuse of the anti-terrorism law, and will lead to the diminishing of the fundamental rights of everyone living in Europe.”
The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has criticized European countries, including Belgium, for being “too soft” on activities of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), and has put more pressure on Western countries to prosecute PKK sympathizers.
In the Netherlands, the Dutch police reportedly started registering PKK sympathizers, raising criticism from the Kurdish community that they are being criminalized.
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.
