The Chinese military says excessive masturbation and too many video games are among the reasons its physical-test failure rates have reached an "alarming high."
The People’s Liberation Army is now dishing out advice after one city saw more than half its candidates -- 56.9 percent -- fail their physicals, according to the BBC.
PLA found that 8 percent of candidates failed because of abnormalities found in their scrotum from sitting too much. Another 25 percent flunked because of blood and urine tests.
It recommended that candidates follow 10 basic principles, including exercising more, cutting out fizzy drinks and booze, limiting computer games and masturbation, not getting a tattoo and drinking clean water.
The advice was instantly mocked by users on social media microblog Sina Weibo.
"Next year they’ll be asking for circumcisions!" said one user.
The PLA has struggled to recruit new members, despite desperate measures to find candidates like releasing a rap recruitment video last year.
The Ministry of Defense last month announced the PLA would be cut from 2 million to 1 million -- a move that some believe is due to a lack of new recruits. They probably have better things to do.
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Patient: "Doctor, I'm always tired and have no energy". Doctor: "You've got to stop m@sturbating." Patient: "Why?" Doctor: "Because I'm trying to examine you."
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The Ministry of Defense last month announced the PLA would be cut from 2 million to 1 million
My God, what are all the Generals and Colonels going to do!
[Well, you want to copy the Americans, they've seemed to have figured it out, now that they have more generals per troop than they did in WWII.]
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When the ratio of boys to girls is so out of wack that most will not find a mate I would think this sort of thing would be expected. Perhaps they need a lot of salt peter in the food.
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Another result from the one child policy is most of them tend to be spoiled little shits. You think the kids in the west expect everything to be handed to them on a silver platter? Ain't got nothing on these vaginal turds.
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Digression:
Well, according to the legendary story they told us at Airborne School at Benning, it's what got Jimi Hendrix (James Marshall Hendickson) out of the 82nd Airborne.
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Mr. President, we must not allow a m@sturb@tion gap!
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I hereby find Rantburg guilty of "Double-Dutch" Cultural Appropriation.
The .gif is from a Gilligan's Island episode about a Japanese soldier who arrived at the island still fighting WWII. Vito Scotti, an Italian-American, played the soldier.
It's no secret that Fred Scott Pruitt is a climate change skeptic, and the Environmental Protection Agency has been undoing Obama-era policies ever since he took office. The agency's latest move follows that trend: the EPA has announced that it's no longer sponsoring the 2018 Climate Leadership Awards program, which recognizes companies that take steps to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and publicly report their progress. As a result, the awards program itself and the Climate Leadership Conference that usually goes with it have both been canceled for next year.
EPA spokesperson Jahan Wilcox apologized but didn't explain why the EPA withdrew its support. As he told Reuters in an email "It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that [the EPA doesn't] plan to fund an awards ceremony on climate change." To start with, the administration's proposed budget for 2018 will see its funding cut by 31 percent, which will specifically affect its climate change and pollution initiatives. Even without the budget cut, though, it's hard to imagine the EPA supporting a climate change award in its current state. Personally, I hope it's because of the budget cuts.
Earlier this year, the agency pulled down its climate science pages to reflect the views of the White House. The president also signed an executive order rolling back climate policies approved by the previous administration. And let's not forget that the United States withdrew from the Paris Accord, an agreement between 142 countries to make an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Getting rid of the "Climate Change Leadership Awards" should help offset the "damage" by doing away with the need for attendees to all show up in their personal airplanes.
While the awards program for 2018 was canceled, the EPA's former co-sponsors, non-government organizations C2ES and the Climate Registry, intend to continue the tradition. They're now looking for a new co-sponsor willing to fund and host the program in the future. Maybe Gore can host them in the mansion he lives in with the doors and windows wide open year-round.
BERLIN (AP) -- Eight mountain climbers have died in three different accidents this weekend in the Austrian and Italian Alps.
The Austrian Red Cross said five mountain climbers died Sunday in the Austrian Alps in Wildgerlostal on Mount Gabler, east of Innsbruck, and a sixth climber was severely injured, the Austrian news agency APA reported.
The group of six men from Altoetting in the southern German state of Bavaria was roped together when they fell in a very remote area of the mountain at an altitude of about 2,000 meters (6,562 feet.) The lone survivor was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Salzburg and is in stable condition, public broadcaster ORF reported.
Apparently one member of the group slipped and fell on a glacier, bringing the others down with him, the head of the rescue teams, Martin Reichholf, said. The group fell down 200 meters (yards) on a steep slope covered with ice and debris.
German news agency dpa reported the ages of the climbers who died as 34, 56, 65, 69 and 70. It said the survivor is 75 years old. None of the climbers was named in keeping with German privacy law.
Three Italian mountain climbers also died this weekend, two of them on Sunday after falling into a crevasse in the Italian Alps. The Italian news agency ANSA said one of the crevasse victims was rescued in grave condition, but later died.
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"None of the climbers was named in keeping with German privacy law."
Disconnecting from this sad set of accidents, but this one statement stuck out. Wouldn't someone's death (after notification of kin, of course) be a matter of public record?
Not in Germany... my wife worked for a large multinational as a sales executive. In Germany, a sales manager could not post sales results by sales reps name or corporate number under privacy laws. She couldn't even get a spreadsheet based on performance by rep even though she had Global responsibility and quota for a portion of the revenue...she could only get the ranking of the locations to search for underperformers. Only In country managers could see detail at that level.
I guess everyone got the coffee and you didn't know Gunther was not a closer until his cube was vacant.
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This study must be from the Journal of Irreproducible Results a journal of scientific humor. The study must have been done by someone who swears and runs around their house naked.
The pounding rainfall in East Texas has brought one man's passion for fishing from the great outdoors to inside his own living room.
A viral video recorded by Vivian Saldana shows an unidentified Houston man wading through nearly knee-high floodwaters in his living room, attempting to catch a fish with his bare hands.
The catch doesn't come easy as the man leaps about the house, splashing into the water as the fish darts away. The fish is eventually caught when it tries to swim past him again and the man falls to his hand and knees, hands landing on the fish.
"Why go out looking for food when the food is coming to our living room?" Saldana wrote in the posts caption.
The video had more than 5 million views before noon Sunday.
[YAHOO] An anti-bullfighting activist jumped into the arena in Carcassone, southern La Belle France, on Sunday and was promptly attacked by one of the animals he wants to protect, local police said.
Two protesters, a man and a woman, were in the audience before managing to make their way into the main ring during the "novillada", a series of fights involving young bulls.
One bull charged at the man who, according to police a received "a long but not deep" injury from its horns.
The protester, in his 30s, "was very lucky" that he was not properly gored and was only lightly injured, another source said.
He was taken to Carcassone hospital for examinations. His female companion was not inured and was placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! by police.
Earlier two other protesters had briefly hung a banner saying "Stop Bullfighting" from the ramparts of the medieval French town.
Bullfighting is banned in most of La Belle France but is allowed in some southern regions where it is protected as part of local traditions.
Defenders of bull fighting say it has huge cultural importance, embodying traditions dating back hundreds of years but its popularity has been steadily waning in recent years.
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I fought a young bull in Mexico when I was much younger. (It was part of the entertainment at a restaurant built like a bull ring - I think mostly for the Mexicans rather than the tourists.)
The trick is to wait until the bull is almost upon you, then twirl to one side (yes, they gave me a cape to use) as it passes (really closely) - its reflexes are slower than ours - usually.
This idiot probably tried to pet the bull. And got what he deserved.
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Jews used to be considered a minority here, g(r)omgoru, but nowadays we count as white unless visibly Black or Hispanic. Suntanned doesn't count, I'm afraid.
[NOLA] Harvey spun deeper into Texas and unloaded extraordinary amounts of rain Saturday after the once-fearsome hurricane crashed into vulnerable homes and businesses along the coastline in a blow that killed at least two people and injured up to 14.
Throughout the region between Corpus Christi and Houston, many people feared that toll was only the beginning. Authorities did not know the full scope of damage because weather conditions prevented emergency crews from getting into the hardest-hit places. And they dreaded the destruction that was yet to come from a storm that could linger for days and unload more than 40 inches of rain on cities, including dangerously flood-prone Houston, the nation's fourth-largest.
In the island community of Port Aransas, population 3,800, officials were unable to fully survey the town because of "massive" damage. Police and heavy equipment had only made it into the northernmost street.
"I can tell you I have a very bad feeling and that's about it," said Mayor Charles Bujan, who had called for a mandatory evacuation but did not know how many heeded the order.
Some of the worst damage appeared to be in Rockport, a coastal city of about 10,000 that was directly in the storm's path. The mayor said his community took a blow "right on the nose" that left "widespread devastation," including homes, businesses and schools that were heavily damaged. Some structures were destroyed.
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"Yawn",
Wake me when it's over.
Oh, it's already over?
Where's the 12th Iman?
The enormous cache of formerly classified Cold War-era documents released by the US' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) early this year also describes Latvia's 'forest brothers' - a resistance movement to occupying Soviet power following World War II. This batch of documents, released by Rus.lsm.lv, describes the anti-Soviet sentiment that was pervasive throughout Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Ukraine following the second world war. Click through to read the archive.
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[Sky News Australia] The Japanese government says North Korea has launched a missile in the direction of northern Japan.
The rocket passed over the island of Hokkaido and landed in the northern Pacific Ocean approximately 1100km to Japan's east, according to Japanese media reports.
South Korean media also confirmed the missile flew over Japan toward the northern Pacific.
With tensions between North Korea and the U.S., South Korea, and its allies at an all time high, and as the U.S. and South Korea execute combat drills, Pyongyang ordered its own military show of force. North Korea's recent exercises included a massive artillery barrage and an amphibious assault near the maritime border between the two long time foes. Images released by state media shows North Korea's modernized commando units going through their paces, but one picture was of especially unique interest.
The photo in question shows a gaggle of An-2 biplanes dropping North Korean commandos at low altitude. At first glance it just looks like another canned and somewhat laughable military display by the North Koreas, but it's actually relevant practice for what North Korea has planned for the opening hours of an all-out conflict on the peninsula.
During the dark of night, as part of the opening throws of a battle royale between South Korea, the U.S. and North Korea, hundreds of these old radial engine biplanes will fly low over the ground at slow speed, penetrating deep into South Korean airspace. For the vast majority of their crews it will be a one-way mission--to deliver Kim Jong Un's hardest shock troops deep behind enemy lines. This is done via low altitude air drop, as seen above, or by landing in short stretches of fields or roadways. Continues.
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...When I was with the 8th TFW at Kunsan AB, ROK, (84-85) we were officially told that the An-2s were damned near invisible on just about any radar we had.
We were also told that if we saw NK commandos dropping from one (and they have to climb up above about 1000 ft to get safely out with the loads they'll be carrying), we weren't allowed to shoot at them until they got to the ground.
The universal response was, "Yeah, right."
Mike
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Covered in Small Arms Air Defense. Lead the target, volume fire. M2s hitting it will do a number previously experienced by German and Japanese pilots.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil markets were roiled on Monday after Hurricane Harvey wreaked havoc along the U.S. Gulf coast over the weekend, knocking out numerous refineries and some crude production.
Gasoline prices hit two-year highs as massive floods caused by the storm forced refineries across the U.S. Gulf Coast to shut down.
In crude markets, Brent futures were pushed up by pipeline blockades in Libya, but U.S. crude futures eased as the U.S. refinery shutdowns could reduce demand for American crude.
Harvey came ashore over the weekend as the most powerful hurricane to hit Texas in more than 50 years, killing at least two people, causing large-scale flooding, and forcing the closure of Houston port as well as several refineries.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Villagers in eastern India beat two Moslem cattle truckers to death on Sunday, police said, in yet another lynching on the pretext of protecting a beast considered sacred by many Hindus.
The drivers were transporting cows in West Bengal near the border of Bangladesh when they were stopped by villagers, police said.
"The villagers blocked the road and forced them to stop the vehicle. The two men were then dragged out of the vehicle and lynched. The driver of the vehicle escaped," said senior West Bengal police official Anuj Sharma.
It was too early to say whether the murders were motivated by religion or suspicions the men were mistreating the cows, police added.
An investigation is underway into the lynching and into whether the drivers had legally purchased the cattle or were smugglers involved in the illicit beef trade.
West Bengal permits cow slaughter, unlike many Indian states where possession or consumption of beef is banned, and some where life sentences are imposed for breaking the law.
India has been reeling this year from a spate of vigilante murders, especially targeting Moslems for allegedly killing cows or consuming beef.
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Trigger Alert: Johnny Rebs!
The mystery of how the crew of one of the world’s first submarines died has finally been solved - they accidentally killed themselves.
The HL Hunley sank on February 17 1864 after torpedoing the USS Housatonic outside Charleston Harbour, South Carolina, during American Civil War.
She was one of the first submarines ever to be used in conflict, and the first to sink a battleship.
It was assumed the blast had ruptured the sub, drowning its occupants, but when the Hunley was raised in 2000, salvage experts were amazed to find the eight-man crew poised as if they had been caught completely unawares by the tragedy. All were still sitting in their posts and there was no evidence that they had attempted to flee the foundering vessel. Continues at link.
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...There's a drawback to Dr. Lance's theory. Now, without question, the crew of the Hunley was badly shaken by the explosion (not so much of the spar torpedo, but of the explosion of the Housatonic's magazine), to certainly include soft tissue injuries and yes, likely broken bones and possible internal bleeding.
But that happened at approximately 8:47 PM. According to Dr. Lance, the crew should have been dead then and there - however, at approximately 9:30 PM, one of Housatonic's survivors saw a blue signal light to the southeast. This would have been Hunley's response to a signal light from her base on the Isle of Palms - where CSA personnel said they gave THEIR blue signal light and stated for the official record that it was answered.
Had the explosion done the damage Dr Lance believes it did the wreck of the Hunley should have been found very close to the wreck of the Housatonic.Hunley, however, was found some distance to the east (IIRC .5 nautical miles, or about three thousand feet)
The crew was unable to crank the boat back against the ebb tide, so after they cleared the attack site her skipper realized that and let her drift. But it's likely that he did so submerged - which means the crew was using up the air in the hull, exhaling more CO2, and getting progressively colder - and unknowingly, allowing the sub to gradually flood through sprung seams in the ballast tanks. It would have been a death of a thousand cuts that they never even realized was happening. When they finally did surface again, it was just enough for the skipper to open the hatch and show his lantern - maybe 12"-18" at most. He shows the light (and there are in fact some questions as to whether the light was shown from shore, but I lean towards the conclusion that it was), submerges again, and now the boat is too heavy to do anything other than proceed pretty much straight into the seabed. It hits the bottom, rolls onto one side, and begins to flood through the open-topped ballast tanks. The crew - concussed, anoxic, hypothermic, and likely suffering from CO2 poisoning, doesn't stand a chance. They're found where they are because they have no way to go anywhere else, and opening the hatches at thirty feet down isn't an option.
I do not mean or intend ANY disrespect or insult to Dr Lance and her team at Clemson - she is clearly a superb engineer who has performed solid experiments and come up with a technically possible conclusion. However, I respectfully disagree with her.
Mike
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Thanks Mike, an amazing story. Like many others, I recall reading about Lt. George Dixon's coin , which was found when the sub was recovered.
Hopefully these stories and historical artifacts will survive our present-day anarchists misguided fury.
[NYPOST] The NYPD has to scrap the 36,000 smartphones it gave cops over the past two years because they’re already obsolete and can’t be upgraded, The Post has learned.
The city bought Microsoft-based Nokia smartphones as part of a $160 million NYPD Mobility Initiative that Mayor Bill de Blasio touted as "a huge step into the 21st century."
But just months after the last phone was handed out, officials plan to begin replacing them all with brand-new iPhones by the end of the year, sources said.
The move follows Microsoft’s recent decision to stop supporting the operating system that runs the NYPD’s devices and nearly a dozen custom-engineered apps.
Law enforcement sources blamed the boondoggle on NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Information Technology Jessica Tisch, with one saying, "She drove the whole process."
"Nobody purchases 36,000 phones based on the judgment of one person," a source said.
"I don’t care if you’re Jesus f- -king Christ, you get a panel of experts."
Technology experts had long questioned the NYPD’s decision to choose Microsoft-based phones over those that run on Google’s Android software or Apple’s iOS.
"The NYPD’s decision to go with Microsoft’s mobile operating system seems to confound more than a few, since Windows Phone’s 2.3 percent US market share is anemic when compared to Android’s 65.2 percent and iOS’s 30.9 percent," read an article published on the tech news site Digital Trends in October.
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Deputy Commissioner for Information Technology Jessica Tisch, with one saying, "She drove the whole process."
I wonder: (i) what her cut of $160 million was? (ii) will she pull the gender card if the issue investigated?
h/t Gates of Vienna
[FoxNews] Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) expressed his gratitude to President Trump for his help in the wake of Hurricane Harvey's devastation in the Houston area.
Hurricane Harvey hit southeast Texas as a category 4 storm on Friday after Texans were encouraged to evacuate the area. President Trump declared the hurricane a major disaster even before it hit, ensuring resources were ready to go after the storm passed.
President Trump's response to the crisis has been "extremely professional, very helpful," the governor assured, adding that the two spoke on the phone several times.
"He called and said, 'Governor, whatever you need, you've got.'"
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It doesn't matter what Trump does. This whole hurricane is his fault. He pulled out of the Paris climate accord. Hurricane Harvey is a direct result. /sarcasm
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The owner of Alabama Flag & Banner, likely the last remaining U.S. retailer to sell the Confederate flag, said that sales surged after the violent protests two weeks ago in Charlottesville. They don't teach much physics in progressive universities - such as Newton's third law,
do they?
h/t Instapundit
Is the nation switching from the land of the free and the home of the brave -- to the land of the silent, and the home of the reluctant? Citizens are wary of speaking their minds, a new poll suggests. Many Americans are opting to stay quiet in an intensified culture of political correctness fostered by activism and often biased media coverage.
"Few Americans think they have true freedom of speech today and think the country is too politically correct," reports a new Rasmussen Reports survey.
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Quit being bitches and not worry about the bullies.
What they gonna do? Sue? I
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I know! Lets ask that guy who got 'googled' (1).
(1) Googled - fired for speaking one's mind in a reasonable fashion in a company who claims to be 'diverse and encourages speaking one's mind' - as long as it follows the established groupthink.
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The fatal flaw in polling is those of us who are uninterested in being participants or profiled in some unknown database. We vote, we buy things and we support ideas/institutions privately.
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Mr. Wife is a Never Trumper, and believes pot should be legalized, so we both tread carefully. Among his colleagues, and in my own activities where I know most of the participants think differently than I, I talk about things other than politics, or listen politely, asking the occasional question. It's been so at least since George W. Bush was elected -- we voted for opposing sides as usual (Mr. Wife was the one who chose Mr. Bush the first time, though he loathes the man; he voted for him, or against the other guy, the second time, too, despite loathing him more than before).
But Mr. Wife's parents have disagreed about key matters of faith since he was a child -- his mother became Evangelical, while his father remained a desultory Catholic. They respect one another enough to agree to disagree, she quietly prays for him as she prays for all of us, and they celebrated their silver anniversary a few years ago.
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The problem is cars get keyed, tires get flattened, and it comes from one side of the political spectrum. California Conservatives learned these lessons about the tolerant left decades ago.
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Perhaps the Celestial System Administrator decided it was time to demonstrate man's goodness and his inherent ability to come to the aid of his fellow man. I have read that he oftentimes uses heavy rainfall to create such illustrations.
[ESPN] About 30 Cleveland Browns players stood linking arms in a line during the national anthem before Saturday's preseason game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Saturday's demonstration contrasted to the team's sideline five days ago when a dozen Browns players formed a circle and prayed in silent protest during the anthem in a game against the New York Giants.
All players on both teams were standing during the anthem Saturday night.
This came the day after Browns legend Jim Brown said he wouldn't "desecrate my flag and my national anthem," as he talked about free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick taking a knee last season during the national anthem. Kaepernick has become a polarizing figure for kneeling during the anthem and is currently out of the NFL.
Brown had a discussion with the team about societal issues and the anthem on Friday, and part of the discussion was about the best way for players to express themselves and have maximum impact. Brown stressed acting as a team and perhaps discussing issues and approach with the organization, which Brown said would be supportive.
"Jim Brown's message to us was, 'Your message really becomes powerful when you're unified.' That's what we're trying to do right now," Browns tight end Seth DeValve said.
In a separate interview on Friday, Brown said he did not believe in showing any disrespect to the anthem or the flag, but he supported players' activism. The team has made it clear it supports the players and their right to express themselves.
"I just think numbers are an amazing thing. When we can get more guys -- black, white, everybody just unified as a team -- I think that will make the greatest impact," Browns defensive back Jason McCourty said.
Browns coach Hue Jackson said he was not aware what happened behind him as he sang the anthem. The long line of players stood together just in front of the Browns' bench, behind the rest of the players and coaches standing closer to the field.
"I just knew that our guys would handle everything respectfully," Jackson said "You're not talking about anybody kneeling, so I think that's an improvement. Whatever the guys did, I'm with them 100 percent and I'm sure they tried to handle it with class." Someone got the message that the fans (and sponsors?) were becoming increasingly tired of the B.S?
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Brown had a discussion with the team about societal issues
..about growing up in a real era of oppression and segregation. You know before the time when there were more black American millionaires* than in all of Africa.
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I've always been OK with Jim Brown because he has always, always been a cranky African American who had some legitimate beefs- even those beefs didn't hold him back from making careers in sports, entertainment and philanthropy.
Straight shooter.
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.
The Chinese military says excessive masturbation and too many video games are among the reasons its physical-test failure rates have reached an "alarming high."
The pounding rainfall in East Texas has brought one man's passion for fishing from the great outdoors to inside his own living room.
[YAHOO] An anti-bullfighting activist jumped into the arena in Carcassone, southern 
[WND] 'White Shaming' Is New Rage On College Campuses
[NOLA] Harvey spun deeper into Texas and unloaded extraordinary amounts of rain Saturday after the once-fearsome hurricane crashed into vulnerable homes and businesses along the coastline in a blow that killed at least two people and injured up to 14.
With tensions between North Korea and the U.S., South Korea, and its allies at an all time high, and as the U.S. and South Korea execute combat drills, Pyongyang ordered its own military show of force. North Korea's recent exercises included a massive artillery barrage and an amphibious assault near the maritime border between the two long time foes. Images released by state media shows North Korea's modernized commando units going through their paces, but one picture was of especially unique interest.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil markets were roiled on Monday after Hurricane Harvey wreaked havoc along the U.S. Gulf coast over the weekend, knocking out numerous refineries and some crude production.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Villagers in eastern India beat two 
[NYPOST] The NYPD has to scrap the 36,000 smartphones it gave cops over the past two years because they’re already obsolete and can’t be upgraded, The Post has learned.
Try and find a vintage (non-Chinese knockoff) one of these for under $200 USD. 
