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The Dems under the control of the Obama Regime encouraged attacks on local police so they could implement a Federal police controlled by them like one sees in Socialist countries.
They will continue to call for "federal help" using body counts before they will make local law enforcement work.
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] An ambulance service for cattle has been launched in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state in a bid to protect animals sacred to the country’s majority Hindu community.
State deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya announced the Cattle Healing Mobile Van Service on Monday and publicised a toll free number to help the authorities rescue cows in distress.
Maurya said each ambulance, which included a veterinarian and an animal paramedic, would transport abandoned, ill or injured cattle to special shelters or take them to animals hospitals for treatment in the state capital Lucknow and four other nearby cities.
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An amoolance? Cowbonix misappropriation. Ten yard penalty.
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"The cow is a poem of mercy."
So said the Mahatma. In verse he
Rephrased it: "Thanks, Jersey,
For milk -- and you, Guernsey --
And urine to sip when I'm thirsty."
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Lampooned the lieutenant so listful,
"Woo woo," and the mooing was wistful,
Behooving a luvvie:
"This movie was groovy.
Some Hindu should give you a fistful!"
[Dhaka Tribune] Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! a young man for the abduction and torture of a private university student on Monday.
On Monday morning, around 1am, Oliur Rahman alias Kochi, 30, was arrested from his house in Lake Circus road in Kalabagan, Dhaka. RAB managed to rescue his victim, but found her at death's door.
RAB 1 Senior Assistant Superintendent Akramul Hasan confirmed the news to the Dhaka Tribune on Monday evening.
According to Akramul, RAB 1 had received an anonymous tip and had immediately deployed a team on a drive which resulted in Kochi’s arrest.
He added that the victim was a young woman who was a BBA student at Independent University, Bangladesh and lived in the Bashundhara Residential Area.
A year earlier, the families of the two had started discussions about a potential marriage between the two young people. At the time, Kochi had just returned to Bangladesh after having completed his Barrister‐at‐Law degree abroad and had become romantically and physically involved with the girl.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... noting that Kochi had behavioural problems and seemed mentally unstable, the girl’s father had rejected the proposal. Enraged at the girl’s father, Kochi began to harass the girl.
On the morning of April 28, he had driven up to the girl while she was on route to her university and carried her off in a white car. He took her to an unknown location and then sexually abused and physically tortured her.
He had then called the girl’s family and made them listen to her screams. He demanded Tk500,000 as ransom. He threatened to shoot and kill her if money was not sent to his bank account or through b-Kash.
On April 29, he took her to Cox’s Bazar but returned with her to Dhaka the next day. Locking her up in an unknown location in the city, her shaved off all the hair from her head and further tortured her physically. Subsequently, fearing the legal action which might be taken against him, he brought in a doctor to help heal her wounds.
RAB sources said when Kochi’s mother found out about the situation, she pushed to have the girl returned to her family. She further demanded that her son be tried in court for his atrocities.
During the primary investigation, Kochi confessed to all the facts. RAB will be taking legal action against him.
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from the Guardian, May 2. News of more damage from global warming
English winemakers are reporting "catastrophic" crop damage after the worst frost in a generation wiped out at least half of this year's grape harvest.
Chris White, the chief executive of Denbies Wine Estate in Surrey, said up to 75% of its crop was damaged by last week's sub-zero temperatures: [began Tues April 25 but it takes a few days for the damage to manifest]
"The temperature dropped to -6C and at that level it causes catastrophic damage to buds," he said.
White said staff had worked in vain using special fans and heaters to protect the vineyard, which at 265 acres in the UK's biggest, after an Arctic blast swept across the UK. "We are very disappointed and it's quite heartbreaking for the people who work in the vineyard all year round," he said. "From what I hear the majority of English vineyards have been affected to some degree."
Some of France's most famous winemaking regions, including Champagne, Bordeaux and Burgundy, were also affected by last week's severe frosts.
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William the Conquerer's Domesday Book (circa 1090) documented wine production as widespread in England at the time, and in many places was the most valuable commercial crop.
Television is mostly silent about deadly protests as President Nicolas Maduro pushes for a new constitution. Instead, people are turning to visual forms of social media barely available to Venezuelans three years ago — Instagram and Snapchat stories, live videos on Facebook and Twitter, and WhatsApp chat rooms — to transmit and consume information.
The opposition and government compete to shape the national narrative there. Maduro’s administration sends a stream of anodyne images as protesters send out up-to-the-minute updates of arrests and violence.
For example, dueling May 1 marches in Caracas drew thousands of supporters on both sides. While the opposition posted images of national guard troops firing tear-gas canisters at protesters, pro-government accounts showed of smiling supporters dressed in red at a peaceful rally.
“There has been an increase in the number of people using smart phones, because they know there is no information on the regular television and radio channels in conventional media,” said Andres Canizalez, a communications professor at the Andres Bello University in Caracas. “Opposition politicians used to complain that traditional media didn’t give them any space, but they understand the change that’s occurring with the young people now and have turned toward social media to get their message out.”
Still, about 30 percent of the population does not have access to either an Internet connection or smart phone and relies on the government and over-the-air television stations for information, he said. That’s why the government was so quick to shut down or censor television stations that broadcast coverage it didn’t like.
While Maduro ordered an investigation into Spain’s Telefonica SA’s local Movistar unit last month, claiming it helped opponents deliver text messages promoting protests, Venezuela’s government is for now competing on social networks instead of shutting them down.
“To counteract this situation of hyperconnectivity, the government has created its own digital militias, because it knows people are looking for information in other places,” Canizalez said. “But many people only have access to simply text messaging, and that’s why you’ve seen the government starting to try and control that.”
[An Nahar] North Korea on Wednesday confirmed the arrest of a US professor for trying to "overturn" the regime, as tensions spike between the isolated nuclear-armed nation and Washington.
Kim Sang-Duk, or Tony Kim, became the third American held in the North when he was detained at the capital's airport on April 22 as he tried to leave the country, after teaching for several weeks at an elite university.
In the North's first confirmation of the professor's detention, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said he had been held for "committing criminal acts of hostility aimed to overturn the DPRK", using an abbreviation for the country's official name.
It added that Kim was "under detention by a relevant law enforcement body which is conducting detailed investigation into his crimes".
The confirmation of Kim's detention comes as Pyongyang issues increasingly belligerent rhetoric in a tense stand off with the administration of new US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... over its rogue weapons programme.
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Somehow I don't think Pudgy will be able to hide behind him.
h/t Instapundit
Oil prices collapsed on Thursday to their lowest since late November as investor worries about the world's stubbornly persistent glut of crude erased most of the gains that followed last year's OPEC's output cut.
The slide worsened after OPEC delegates downplayed the chance that their group and other producing countries would deepen their output cuts when they meet on May 25. They did say current output cuts were likely to be extended.
Brent crude oil futures were down $2.31, or 4.6 percent, at $48.48 a barrel by 1:27 p.m. (1727 GMT). U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures fell $2.25, or 4.7 percent, at $45.57 a barrel.
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...It does tend to put a drag on my 401K, but the money I save all around with lower fuel prices makes up for it.
Mike
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It's taken a while, but we are getting closer to the end of cartel monopolist profits for OPEC. As fracking spreads, their corruption and incompetance will shift OPEC from the lowest cost producers toward the highest cost producers.
[NYTIMES] Puerto Rico’s leadership moved on Wednesday to place the island’s debt crisis into federal bankruptcy court, making it the largest United States government entity to seek court refuge from its creditors in American history.
The move sends Puerto Rico into uncharted territory. America’s recent spate of municipal bankruptcies has involved various state and federal laws, but Puerto Rico is not a state, so none of that hard-won precedent will apply. The outcome of its case could help determine where and how the deep financial troubles of certain states, such as Illinois, are resolved.
On an island that has already been experiencing an exodus of its professionals and well-educated citizens, the move toward bankruptcy is widely perceived as another sign that Puerto Rico has lost all control of its future.
The island has been in a painful recession since 2006, and previous governments dug it deeper into debt by borrowing to pay operating expenses. For the last two years, Puerto Rico has been seeking assistance from Washington, sending officials to testify before stern congressional committees and even making fast-track oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court.
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#1I wonder what idiots loaned them the money?
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We by-God better find out. If PR is gonna pull this stunt then they had better be held to the same standards as Joe Schmoe, and document every last dime of income and expenditure.
I am taking a bit of pride in my forecasting abilities, however - I figured they'd cry uncle no later than June 1st. Had last election day ended differently, they would have already had their bailout package.
Mike
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A good time for Blue Origin or SpaceX to by Roosevelt Roads to launch rockets - best place in the hemisphere.
[Breitbart] Mr. Kushner co-founded Cadre in 2014 with his brother Joshua and Ryan Williams, a 29-year-old friend and former employee of Kushner Cos., the family-controlled business that Mr. Kushner ran until recently...
Cadre also secured a $250 million line of credit from the family office of George Soros, a top Democratic donor whom Mr. Trump criticized during his presidential campaign, the people close to the company said. Mr. Soros’s family office is also an investor in Cadre.
[Kushner’s lawyer Jamie] Gorelick said the Cadre stake is described in a revised version of [Kushner’s] financial-disclosure form that will be made public after it has been certified by ethics officials. She said Mr. Kushner has previously discussed his Cadre ownership with the Office of Government Ethics and that Mr. Kushner has "resigned from Cadre’s board, assigned his voting rights, and reduced his ownership share." A spokesman for the Office of Government Ethics didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Jamie S. Gorelick is an American lawyer who served as the Deputy Attorney General of the United States from 1994 to 1997, during the Clinton administration.
Is that why she is revealing things that, it seems to me, her fiduciary duty requires her to keep confidential at least until the client makes them public? I also note that having a line of credit is not the same as borrowing money; it is a way of nailing down the possibility of quickly borrowing money in the future, should an opportunity arise making it necessary. Mr. Wife and I had a line of credit from our bank for years that we never touched, because we never needed to -- it came with the bank account Mr. Wife's company had us open so they could pay him more easily when they sent us to Germany, and it would have been useful in an emergency.
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Ethics is one issue. If a guy, his brother and a friend come to me and ask for a line of credit, I am going to make sure that these three people can make my money back if they ever need my money. If one of the three is married to the daughter of Donald Trump, I am going to give him the line of credit.
But if he then bails on the company and decides to focus his energies somewhere else, I would consider the landscape has changed considerably. Unless the somewhere else is an office next to the President of the United States.
If he had refocused somewhere other than the White House then he probably would have lost it and Kushner's other major investors would have also been concerned.
Is he a man of his word? Or if a sweeter deal comes along will he abandon our deal?
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The difference between a line of credit and a loan is the latter is transferred to you immediately and the former when you need it. There is no real difference in the conditions. I doubt he got it on personal surety and would have posted collateral, probably including his shares in Cadre.
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You have to read this article translated from the Hungarian at Gates of Vienna HERE. All about Soros' operations in the Balkans and elsewhere. Put Jared Kushner, line of credit from Soros, retaining the services of Jamie Gorelick, Republicans caving to max out the credit cards, and Soros together and I say that we are well and truly fooked.
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[DAWN] BAHAWALPUR: The Lodhran Saddar police on Tuesday started the paperwork but haven't done much else against 200 people on the charges of lynching two suspected robbers in a nearby village.
Police said hundreds of people tortured two persons who, along with an accomplice, were suspected to have entered the house of Muhammad Nawaz at Chatti village to commit a robbery.
As Nawaz’s family raised hue and cry, they said, the suspects took to the heels but the villagers began to chase them. They overpowered two suspects and brutally tortured them as a result of which one of them, who was later identified as Arif, died.
A Saddar police team reached the place and rescued the other man, Falakshair, and shifted him to the District Headquarters Hospital, Lodhran, where he also expired. Their accomplice made good his escape.
The police claimed that the dear departed had criminal record and were wanted in several cases. The Saddar police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against 200 attackers, 18 of them nominated in the FIR.
Lodhran District Police Officer Asad Sarfraz Khan is said to have condemned the mob and said those who took law in their hands also deserved to be punished.
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Is it possible to protect all this tech against an EMP? Because, if not, all of this unmanned/robotic/drone warfare stuff is just a big waste of time. One pulse and it's back to the old way of fighting.
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Some strategies are not meant to be fought but to escalate an expensive response. One drone 'triplet', as in the video, would require countermeasures to be distributed across a target area to limit access. Such a show also drives competition to copy/mimic/buy their own, another economic burden.
Please also note that a simple passive nylon tangle wire mesh along sensitive shorelines would/could bind both the boat prop and the rover wheels. No expensive EMP required.
[AlAhram] Malaysian police have placed in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! two Turks, including the head of an international school, suspected of activities threatening national security, police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said.
The men, school head Turgay Karaman and businessman Ihsan Aslan, were arrested on Tuesday under a section of the penal code related to "terrorist acts", he said in a Tweet.
No further details of their alleged activities in Moslem-majority Malaysia were immediately available.
The police confirmation came after Karaman was seen on CCTV recordings circulated on social media being forced into an unmarked car by five unknown men at a carpark in a suburb of Kuala Lumpur.
A police report was filed on Karaman's disappearance by a friend on Tuesday night.
Aslan was also reported missing by his wife on Tuesday night after she failed to hear from him for more than a day.
Karaman's lawyer, Rosli Dahlan, told Rooters that the disappearances bore similarities to a case in October when two Turks were reported missing and later discovered to have been deported to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... He denied speculation that the men were supporters of U.S-based Moslemholy manFethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , who is being blamed by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan for orchestrating a failed coup last year. Gulen denies any involvement in the failed coup in which more than 230 people were killed.
"They are academics. They have not been charged for any Gulen activities," Rosli said.
Turkey has applied pressure to other countries that are home to institutions backed by Gulen, whose Hizmet movement runs about 2,000 educational establishments around the world.
Human Rights Watch on Wednesday said the two men should not be forcibly sent to Turkey, and called for an urgent investigation.
"There is little doubt that if they are returned to Turkey, they will face torture in detention, and if charged with crimes there, be subjected to a trial that will fall far short of fair trial standards," Phil Robertson, Deputy Asia Director of Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.
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[Breitbart] House Republicans passed a revised version of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) on Thursday.
The bill passed after moderate Republicans fretted this week about how well the bill will protect patients with pre-existing conditions. Many, including former Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), previously came out against the bill, but now support it after GOP leaders agreed to add an amendment adding $8 billion to help cover people with pre-existing conditions.
The vote comes after a tumultuous process for the bill, which has seen previously scheduled votes pulled after Speaker Paul Ryan failed to accumulate enough Republican support. Speaker Ryan received widespread criticism after drafting the bill in secret and retaining many parts of Obamacare. Pundits dubbed the original bill, "Ryancare."
House Freedom Caucus chairman Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) stepped up and brokered a revised version of the bill, known as the MacArthur amendment, along with Tuesday Group co-chairman Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-NJ). The addition of the amendment collected enough Republican votes to pass the bill.
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The demo rats who lost their majority because they passed Obamacare announce that republicans will be voted out for repealing. Democrats still appear clueless.
[NYT] WASHINGTON -- Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin says his department is seeking to close perhaps more than 1,100 VA facilities nationwide as it develops plans to allow more veterans to receive medical care in the private sector.
At a House hearing Wednesday, Shulkin said the VA had identified more than 430 vacant buildings and 735 that he described as underutilized, costing the federal government $25 million a year. He said the VA would work with Congress in prioritizing buildings for closure and was considering whether to follow a process the Pentagon had used in recent decades to decide which of its underused military bases to shutter, known as Base Realignment and Closure, or BRAC.
"Whether BRAC is a model that we should take a look, we're beginning that discussion with members of Congress," Shulkin told a House appropriations subcommittee. "We want to stop supporting our use of maintenance of buildings we don't need, and we want to reinvest that in buildings we know have capital needs."
In an internal agency document obtained by The Associated Press, the VA pointed to aging buildings it was reviewing for possible closure that would cost millions of dollars to replace. It noted that about 57 percent of all VA facilities were more than 50 years old. Of the 431 VA buildings it said were vacant, most were built 90 or more years ago, according to agency data. The VA document did not specify the locations.
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[HeatStreet] Internet feminists are outraged after a scientific journal told a group of female researchers that their work on gender bias in academia was gender biased.
Two female evolutionary geneticists collaborated on the piece, which claimed that fewer women Ph.D. candidates were published by established scientific journals, leading them to believe, based on interviews with women across the scientific fields, that the publishing industry was biased against female scientists. Not clear that the above has to do with evolutionary biology - but typical. (I wonder if it somebody I know?) The reason females are published less because - unlike female professors of my youth, who got in on being better than average, nowadays its cuteness + the ability to game the system.
When they submitted their article to a journal that specializes in publishing research on diversity in the fields of science and medicine, a reviewer suggested that the women include a male voice in their study, just to show that they, themselves, were not coming at the issue from a position of gender bias. Which, I guess, was her way (in today's climate, a male wouldn't be asked to review a paper like this - and, if asked, wouldn't dare to criticize) of saying "your article has no original research, and your conclusions are twaddle
[Daily Caller] A longtime high school baseball coach in Phoenix, Ariz., was told to hit the bricks -- apparently because he "doesn't communicate effectively with millennials" (aka snowflakes).
Stan Luketich, the now former Desert Vista High School baseball coach, claimed that he was not sure what school officials meant, but assumed that it had something to do with the fact that players on the Desert Vista Thunder were expected to follow certain rules.
Luketich, who has coached baseball for 42 years, has led the Thunder to two state championships. He said that the news that he was being let go hit him "from out of nowhere." The high school principal, however, stated that the decision was made "after several conversations over the course of two years."
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Luketich said the Athletic Director had previously told him that his kids "don't play with passion and energy." Should one of these snowflakes get injured playing with passion and energy, then the parents will be all over the coach and school. Just can't catch a break either way.
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.
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] An ambulance service for cattle has been launched in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state in a bid to protect animals sacred to the country’s majority Hindu community.
North Korea
