[Star] The rising star, who campaigned for gay rights, was shot on his motorcycle in Puerto Rico and later died in hospital.
The musician was shot and killed in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico. It's been reported that Kevin was on his motorcycle when he was shot at around 5:30am local time.
He later died in hospital from the injuries he had sustained. The upcoming artist was only 24.
[KTLA-5] Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas is returning to a Florida port a day early and giving passengers full refunds of their fare after 277 guests and crew members were hit with an outbreak of Norovirus as it sailed to Jamaica.
Cruise line spokesman Owen Torres told The Associated Press "we think the right thing to do is get everyone home early rather than have guests worry about their health."
He says the ship will return to Port Canaveral on Saturday. It sailed from there Sunday on a seven-day Caribbean cruise.
Passengers took to social media on Wednesday, tweeting they were forced to stay onboard after docking in Falmouth, Jamaica, for what was supposed to be a day of excursions.
Torres says returning a day early gives the cruise line "more time to completely clean and sanitize the ship" before it sails again.
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We sail on a different RC ship on Saturday. Our past experience is that they are really serious about preventing such outbreaks - not sure what failed.
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They have hand sanitizer stations all over the place and a crewmember doing a little humorous song-and-dance reminder as you go into the dining room.
[GunsAmerica] National Concealed Carry Reciprocity is back on the table thanks to Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), who reintroduced legislation this week that would allow licensed concealed carriers to bear arms in all 50 states.
"This bill focuses on two of our country’s most fundamental constitutional protections‐ the Second Amendment’s right of citizens to keep and bear arms and the Tenth Amendment’s right of states to make laws best-suited for their residents," said Sen. Cornyn of S.69, the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act.
"I look forward to working with my colleagues to advance this important legislation for law-abiding gun owners nationwide," he added.
The National Rifle Association was quick to applaud Cornyn’s work, noting that concealed carry reciprocity is already a reality in at least 22 states. Moreover, that only 10 states (and the District of Columbia) take the draconian position of forcing law-abiding citizens to surrender their rights when traveling through those jurisdictions.
"The current patchwork of state and local gun laws is confusing and can cause the most conscientious gun owner to unknowingly run afoul of the law when they are traveling or temporarily living away from home," said Chris W. Cox, executive director of the NRA-ILA in a statement. "Sen. Cornyn’s legislation provides a much-needed solution to a real problem for law-abiding gun owners."
"Law-abiding citizens should be able to exercise their fundamental right to self-defense while traveling across state lines," continued Cox. "We thank Sen. Cornyn for his leadership on this important issue."
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Once again...
Now that the GOP needs our support for the next election they are again claiming they will do the things they promised the last few times they got elected and were in power.. the things promised but they never did once getting elected.
So I'll asked the obvious question.
Why weren't all the things we were promised in 2008-2010-2014-2016-2018 passed or at least voted on by congress?
What about 2016-2018 when the RINO's had control of all 3 branches of the Fed gov.? What happened to the Wall funding that was approved under Clinton, Bush, Obama?
We are all tired of being played election to election by both parties American vs American. Either put up or shut the hell up and fade away.
The Tea Party and the Reform Party were the RINO's and DINO's wake up calls. The next time we the voters boil over we'll just may end up having a permanent 3 party system. Capitalists Party, Socialists Party and The Pro-America Party
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Why weren't all the things we were promised in 2008-2010-2014-2016-2018 passed or at least voted on by congress?
If the baksheesh supporting the 'Areas of Overlapping Interest' is sufficient, anything can be accomplished in Washington.
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This may assist the understanding and further validate the commonly held belief that 'they're essentially all the fok'n same.'
Political ideom 'Uniparty.' The "Uniparty" is a term that describes the globalist establishment's control over politics and policy to the extent that every or nearly every major political party or politician are controlled by them and, thus, have far more in common than different, policy-wise.
[Inquirer Philly.com] AT&T said Thursday that it will stop selling its customers' location data to third-party service providers after a report this week said the information was winding up in the wrong hands.
The announcement follows sharp demands by federal lawmakers for an investigation into the alleged misuse of data, which came to light when Motherboard revealed a complex chain of unauthorized information sharing that ended with a bounty hunter successfully tracking down a reporter's device.
AT&T had already suspended its data-sharing agreements with a number of so-called "location aggregators" last year in light of a congressional probe finding that some of Verizon's location data was being misused by prison officials to spy on innocent Americans. AT&T also said at the time that it would be maintaining those of its agreements that provided clear consumer benefits, such as location sharing for roadside assistance services.
But AT&T's announcement Thursday goes much further, pledging to terminate all of the remaining deals it had - even the ones that it said were actively helpful.
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"Abusing customers has always been our highest goal at AT&T. It's a tradition."
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They're not ending the arrangement until March, to give "some" of the third time parties time to "transition," presumably to a new arrangement that is out of sight and off the books.
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Thinking the same thing Murcek. Middleware drop company washing the data. Noting nothing will change informing on their customers.
[Telegraph] Three journalists murdered in the Central African Republic in July were being accompanied by a driver connected to the secretive Russian mercenaries they were investigating, a report has found, calling into doubt Moscow's official explanation that they were shot in a robbery.
The new investigation provides the strongest evidence yet that Orkhan Dzhemal, Alexander Rastorguyev and Kirill Radchenko were killed for trying to report on military contractors whose existence is not admitted by the Kremlin.
The revelations came after the CAR revealed its army's chief of staff trained in Russia, highlighting Moscow's growing military ties with Africa, which have alarmed the West.
The CAR defence minister said during a visit to Russia on Thursday that Moscow was welcome to open a military base in the war-torn republic, where rebel groups still control large areas.
Thursday's findings on the journalists' killing uncovered troubling links with Yevgeny Prigozhin, a catering magnate dubbed "Vladimir Putin's chef" who is known as the patron of the Wagner mercenary group they were investigating.
Prigozhin was sanctioned by the United States in February for financing the troll factory that interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
Boils and Frogs get ready
[Times of Israel] A massive swarm of locusts plagued Mecca, Saudi Arabia, earlier this week, prompting authorities at Islam’s holiest site to launch a cleaning operation to remove them.
Videos posted to social media showed the insects swarming around cleaners and worshipers in the city’s Grand Mosque, where millions of Muslim pilgrims congregate every year.
A massive swarm of locusts plagued Mecca, Saudi Arabia, earlier this week, prompting authorities at Islam's holiest site to launch a cleaning operation to remove them.
Videos posted to social media showed the insects swarming around cleaners and worshipers in the city's Grand Mosque, where millions of Muslim pilgrims congregate every year.
"Specialized teams have been directed to work in the fight to eliminate these insects," authorities in Mecca said, according to the Al-Araby Al-Jadeed news site. "they've been specially trained to differentiate between the hajj visitors and the insects"
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Nukes are messy...maybe some "Rods from God" kinetic strikes would be less of a clean-up in prep for the new ME Disney 1001 Arabian Nights theme park
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The only insect that is kosher is the locust that swarms regularly through the Middle East... and pretends just to be a normal grasshopper when it isn’t swarming time.
Dedollarization in Russia means yuanization. Over the last spring @bank_of_russia has ditched $101b in USD holdings, shifting it to Euro&RMB. Share of RMB in currency reserves has grown 147x (!!!), from 0.1% in July 2017 to 14.7% in July 2018. Some details in short thread 👇 1/ pic.twitter.com/A6z2uWXTqf
[ABC.net.au] A Victorian man has been charged after dozens of packages, which police allege contained asbestos, were sent to consulates and embassies in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra.
Key points:
Police have alleged in court that the man sent 38 parcels containing asbestos
29 packages seized by police will be forensically tested
The charge laid against him carries a maximum penalty of 10 years' jail
Victoria Police and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) tossed in the calaboose Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! 49-year-old Savas Avan at his Shepparton home in northern Victoria last night.
He was charged with sending dangerous articles to be carried by a postal service and has been remanded in jug following a Melbourne Magistrates' Court hearing this morning.
Police alleged Mr Avan sent 38 parcels containing asbestos to consulates and embassies in the three cities on January 7.
In an earlier statement, the AFP said it believed the substance in the packages was sourced from his Shepparton home.
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Police said they had recovered 29 of the packages and planned to have them forensically tested.
Victoria Police said on Wednesday that "a number" of consulate offices had received suspicious packages.
The US, Pak, New Zealand and Swiss consulates confirmed to the ABC they had received suspicious parcels in the mail. Emergency services workers were also seen going into the Greek, French, Italian, Spanish and South Korean consulates.
"There is no ongoing threat to the general public," both police forces said in a joint statement.
"Police have identified all intended recipients and have put processes in place to recover the outstanding packages.
"The assistance of [Australia Post] has been crucial to the outcome of this investigation."
If convicted of the charge laid against him, Mr Avan could face up to 10 years in prison.
SHEPPARTON HOME SEARCHED
Officers from the AFP were seen searching a Shepparton home on Callister Street today, where it is believed Mr Avan was arrested.
A neighbour named Gordo described Mr Avan as "a loner".
"I spoke to him once and that was it, but I've never seen him again. He was like a loner thing, like he wanted to keep on his own," he said.
"I always thought something's not right there, because I walk [my] dog every morning past there, and he's a loner.
"I knew something was weird with this guy because he's never out, never watered his lawns, nothing like that, that's why I kept away."
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A neighbour named Gordo described Mr Avan as "a loner loser".
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In other news... Victorian man with funny name not arrested for role in producing millions of packages of loony literature.
Sniffs Marmaduke Pickthall, "Pooh-pooh!
The faith of my fathers won't do,
But a Musulman can
And his holey divan?
Well, I turned Turk toute suite! Wouldn't you?"
A Victorian father has been charged with posting dozens of suspicious parcels containing asbestos to consulates and embassies across the country.
Savas Avan, 49, faced Melbourne Magistrates Court this afternoon, charged with sending 38 dangerous articles in the post; a Commonwealth offence.
Federal and Victorian police allege Mr Avan ripped up the walls of his Shepparton home, packaging the broken pieces of asbestos before allegedly mailing them on January 7.
[Guardian] A US sportswear company has stopped using a Chinese supplier following concerns it was using forced labour in camps in Xinjiang.
Badger Sportswear, a company based in North Carolina, said it would stop sourcing clothing from Hetian Taida in north-western China.
The company said in a statement posted on its website on Wednesday: "Out of an abundance of caution and to eliminate any concerns about our supply chain given the controversy around doing business in north-western China, we will no longer source any product from Hetian Taida or this region of China."
Reports of gross human rights violations targeting the Uighur ethnic minority in the region have leaked out in the past year.
[Independent UK] Gilets jaunes {Yellow Jacket} activists have reportedly destroyed over half of France’s speed cameras in protest against speed limits introduced last year.
Up to 65 per cent of the cameras have been smashed, set ablaze, blown up, painted or covered with the yellow jackets that give the movement its name, The Times reports.
The attacks began when president Emmanuel Macron’s government cut the speed limit on country roads from 90 km/hr to 80 km/hr in July.
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Road revenue cameras.
They rarely are placed in location like near schools where they'd do good.
[Politico] The White House is reaching out to political allies and conservative activist groups to prepare for an ailing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s possible death or departure from the Supreme Court ‐ an event that would trigger the second bitter confirmation battle of President Donald Trump’s tenure.
The outreach began after Ginsburg, 85, on Monday missed oral arguments at the court for the first time in her 25 years on the bench. The justice, who was nominated to the court by President Bill Clinton in 1993, announced in late December that she underwent a surgical procedure to remove two cancerous growths from her lungs.
The White House "is taking the temperature on possible short-list candidates, reaching out to key stakeholders, and just making sure that people are informed on the process," said a source familiar with those conversations, who spoke on background given the delicate nature of the subject. "They're doing it very quietly, of course, because the idea is not to be opportunistic, but just to be prepared so we aren't caught flat-footed."
Ginsburg had a pulmonary lobectomy, the Supreme Court said in a statement, and her doctors said that post-surgery there was "no evidence of any remaining disease." She has also recovered from several past health scares. But her departure from the Court would allow Trump to nominate a third Supreme Court justice ‐ the most in one presidential term since President Ronald Reagan placed three judges on the highest court during his second term.
The nine-member court is currently divided 5-4 between its conservative and liberal wings. Ginsburg’s departure would allow Trump to create the Court’s strongest conservative majority in decades, a scenario sure to bring intense opposition from Democrats and liberal activists still furious over the October confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
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...Lord almighty, this will be bad, especially if the shutdown is either still ongoing or ends in a Trump victory.
I said a few weeks ago that the MSM was starting to deify Justice Ginsburg in preparation for her departure, and it's only gotten worse. The other shoe will drop when we hear one of the Usual Suspects say, "We hope Justice Ginsburg has many years left on the Court, but any replacement will have to be etc., etc., etc......"
Mike
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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.
[GunsAmerica] National Concealed Carry Reciprocity is back on the table thanks to Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), who reintroduced legislation this week that would allow licensed concealed carriers to bear arms in all 50 states.
[Telegraph] Three journalists murdered in the Central African Republic in July were being accompanied by a driver connected to the secretive Russian mercenaries they were investigating, a report has found, calling into doubt Moscow's official explanation that they were shot in a robbery. 
[ABC.net.au] A Victorian man has been charged after dozens of packages, which police allege contained asbestos, were sent to consulates and embassies in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra.
[Guardian] A US sportswear company has stopped using a Chinese supplier following concerns it was using forced labour in camps in Xinjiang.
[Independent UK] Gilets jaunes {Yellow Jacket} activists have reportedly destroyed over half of France’s speed cameras in protest against speed limits introduced last year.
[Politico] The White House is reaching out to political allies and conservative activist groups to prepare for an ailing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s possible death or departure from the Supreme Court ‐ an event that would trigger the second bitter confirmation battle of President Donald Trump’s tenure.
