[RT] A Vienna man can breathe a sigh of relief after a fine he was issued for belching in public was overturned when a court ruled that his allegedly turbulent exhale could not be proven.
Edin Mehic was fined €70 ($75) in February of last year after a police officer wasn’t amused by a belch, credited to too many onions on a kebab, which he allegedly let out at a fun park in Vienna.
The officer’s claim didn’t carry enough weight in court, however, as it ruled on Friday that there was "never proof" that Mehic had burped next to the officer, according to a document sent to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named by the alleged belcher.
The belch in question made a martyr of Mehic after he made the details of the fine public last year.
Taking to Facebook in February, he expressed disgust with the police, who he said should top wasting their time and work on picking up "real criminals." He also wondered if he was being fined for "CO2 emissions."
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[IsraelTimes] Israeli-American youth threatened Republican politician, sent drugs to his house in effort to incriminate him, Israeli indictment reads.
The Israeli-American teenager accused of making hundreds of bomb threats against mainly Jewish institutions in recent months reportedly also tried to extort a Republican US senator, going so far as delivering drugs to his house in an effort to incriminate him.
These allegations were part of an indictment being filed against the 18-year-old, whose identity in Israel remains under a gag order, in an Israeli court on Monday, according to reports in the Hebrew-language media.
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Under civilian law, having knowledge of a criminal act and not reporting it is not a crime. The UCMJ is different and makes one a conspirator to the act. Once again way being in the military is different than being a civie and why you can't civilianize the military.
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Good for the remaining sane students at Bezerkley. There ought to be both civil and criminal charges against whomever created this climate for the denial of basic Constitutional rights.
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Attorney Ms. Harmeet Dillhon, a Sihk Indian California Republican Party leader, once a member of the ACLU is going after Berkeley U, and the city. This will put her on the national political landscape. In the picture of her over at Breitbart she looks wicked with a blue Sikh towel over her head, kinda like a Talibun or Kurdish female fighter.
That image would definitely melt the hearts of snowflakes, even in their safe spaces.
Good. He is a vile man who has consorted with Jew haters and other horrid people since he entered politics. By stacking the intra-party election in his favour, Hillary-style, Labour showed what it has agreed to become.
[EXPRESS.CO.UK] ONE in seven of those who voted Labour at the last General Election will switch to the Conservatives because of Jeremy Corbyn, a Sunday Express poll reveals.
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and the 2015 General Election wasn't particularly good for Labour. They got about 30% of the vote but lost seats in the H of Commons.
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[US Defense Watch] University of Virginia student, Otto Warmbier, is a prisoner somewhere in the Orwellian hell hole known as North Korea. Otto Warmbier may be suffering a fate tantamount to an inmate of Dachau. At this very moment, Otto Warmbier may be starving, performing slave labor, being beaten or in fact, he may very well be dead.
The tragic fate of Otto Warmbier, is the tragic fate of the millions of North Koreans living in the Gulag Archipelago of Kim Jong-un’s totalitarian nightmare world.
Warmbier, 23, was convicted of conducting "hostile acts against the DPRK".
Mr. Warmbier was not an intelligence officer working for the CIA and his ’hostile act’ was not sabotage or espionage.
The so-called hostile act against North Korea committed by college student Warmbier, (who was travelling with a tour group called Young Pioneer Tours), was purloining a propaganda poster off the wall of the Yanggakdo Hotel in Pyongyang with the inscription, "Let’s arm ourselves strongly with Kim Jong-il’s patriotism!"
Stealing or harming a poster or other items with the name or image of one of North Korea’s past or present lunatic asylum leaders is considered a serious crime against the state.
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Young Pioneer Tours is an adventure travel company formed in 2008 and based in mainland China. Specialising in North Korea tours, we provide “budget travel to destinations your mother would rather you stayed away from”.
Otto chose the Young Pioneer non-refundable, extended immersion tour.
[RT] North Korea has vowed to sink the USS Carl Vinson, which is scheduled to arrive in the waters around the Korean peninsula "within days." Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido stepped from behind the suit of armor, rapier in hand. Ciccolini snarled and reached for his own weapon... Japan said two of its ships have joined the aircraft carrier group for a "joint exercise."
"Our revolutionary forces are combat-ready to sink a US nuclear powered aircraft carrier with a single strike," according to Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the North’s ruling Workers’ Party, as cited by Rooters.
The newspaper reportedly called the vessel a "gross animal," while saying that sinking it would be "an actual example to show our military’s force."
The aircraft carrier group should arrive in waters along the Korean Peninsula "within days," US Vice President Mike Pence said on Saturday, without giving any specific details.
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Somebody will take Fatboy at his word get nervous and strike first.
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The major irony blast came in with this newspaper sabre rattling with "gross animal" commentary being on page 3 of Rodung Sinmun, and pages 1 & 2 being devoted to breathless coverage of Kimmie's inspection of a pig farm.
Sounds like somebody got stuck in rut, but I'm not sure who or which one.
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Is this the "super-mighty" strike previously threatened ? Does it cause sea of fire effects and destroy running dog Yankee imperialists like the older stuff?
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3-5000 dead in a single strike on the greatest seagoing technological marvel in the world? That will give all the little nibblers more than a little hope of success.
[UPI] Retail giant Sears said it will close 50 Sears Auto Centers and 92 pharmacies inside Kmart stores in a bid to reduce operating expenses by $1.25 billion. The cuts come four months after the company announced 150 Sears and Kmart department stores would close across the country.
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Sears, established in 1886, which means the before Playboy there was the popular Sears Catalog Lingerie section.
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There was a time when Sears was the Amazon.com and even more. You could buy a complete house from their catalog and have it delivered. At one time people bought their guns from the Sears catalog. Ah, those were the days.
Germany's Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Sunday hailed projected results in France's first-round presidential vote putting centrist Emmanuel Macron ahead of far-right leader Marine Le Pen. The Social Democrat said he was "sure" Macron would be elected president in the run-off on May 7.
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Marine Le Pen stepped down on Monday as head of France’s National Front Party, a move experts say is one meant to position her so as to embrace a wider framework of voters, per Fox News.
The move comes after a split election result over the weekend, which means Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron will face one another in a runoff in May.
“Tonight, I am no longer the president of the National Front. I am the presidential candidate,” she said on French public television news.
Le Pen has said in the past that she is not a candidate of her party, and made that point when she rolled out her platform in February, saying the measures she was espousing were not her party’s, but her own.
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Far-right leader Marine Le Pen and independent centrist Emmanuel Macron have made it to the second round
Republican candidate Francois Fillon conceded after initial results showed he achieved 19.5 per cent
Far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon refused to concede until final results of first-round vote announced
France's Prime Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, has called on voters to support Macron instead of Le Pen
This is the first time in 60 years none of France's mainstream parties have entered the second round
Riots have broken out in Nantes and Paris' Place de la Bastille - the birthplace of the French Revolution
According to La Belle France's Interior Ministry, 46 million people voted in the first stage of the elections which knocked the traditional Right and Left parties out of the running for the first time in 60 years.
Macron achieved 23.8 per cent of the votes, followed by Le Pen with 21.5 per cent.
But it is thought that Le Pen's chances of winning the second round are limited as supporters for Republican candidate Francois Fillon, who conceded but has gained 19.9 per cent of the votes, will support Macron.
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Marine Le Pen stepped down on Monday as head of France’s National Front Party, a move experts say is one meant to position her so as to embrace a wider framework of voters, per Fox News.
The move comes after a split election result over the weekend, which means Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron will face one another in a runoff in May.
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“Tonight, I am no longer the president of the National Front. I am the presidential candidate,” she said on French public television news.
Le Pen has said in the past that she is not a candidate of her party, and made that point when she rolled out her platform in February, saying the measures she was espousing were not her party’s, but her own.
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About the author: Cathleen O'Grady is Ars Technica's contributing science reporter. She has a background in cognitive science and evolutionary linguistics.
Great detective work and quite interesting fields of study. Love to sip a pint or two with her. Thanks g(r)om.
Fanelli, D. (2009). How many scientists fabricate and falsify research? A systematic
review and meta-analysis of survey data. PloS one, 4(5), e5738.
Fanelli, D. (2010). Do pressures to publish increase scientists' bias? An empirical
support from US States Data. PloS one, 5(4), e10271.
Fang, F. C., Steen, R. G., & Casadevall, A. (2012). Misconduct accounts for the
majority of retracted scientific publications. Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences, 109(42), 17028-17033.
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G. W. Bush destroyed science by ... lessseee ... restricting nearly-human parts for stem-cell research?
Or was he one of those science-settled-skeptics, too?
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I've come to be suspect of projects funded by government dollars. A few year ago, I headed up a project funded by the feds. The project involved the evaluation of several competing designs. The government had a "favored design." Our research did not support their favored design and was reported as such. We did not get the follow-on research.
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Our research did not support their favored design and was reported as such. We did not get the follow-on research.
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I seem to recall a team of microbiologists dispatched to Baghdad some years ago to examine potential WMD trailers belonging to Saddam. Their findings did not support the gov't WMD narrative either. The team lead, a contractor, was quietly dismissed a few months later.
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Whatever his ethics, GWB hugely advanced the field of immunology and human repair by constraining the stem cell lines to those already existing. His action forced the research community to seek other sources than cannibalized dead infants.
Now, autoimmune cures exist for cancer, vision degeneration, organ failure, joint repair and heart regeneration. Spinal damage is on the way.
Abuse him and his intellect as you will. The decision process worked.
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.
[US Defense Watch] University of Virginia student, Otto Warmbier, is a prisoner somewhere in the Orwellian hell hole known as North Korea. Otto Warmbier may be suffering a fate tantamount to an inmate of Dachau. At this very moment, Otto Warmbier may be starving, performing slave labor, being beaten or in fact, he may very well be dead.
North Korea
