[AOL] Pro wrestler King Kong Bundy, the 458-pounder who played the heel to superstar Hulk Hogan in the 1980s, has died at age 61.
"Today we lost a Legend," Bundy’s friend David Herro announced on Facebook Monday.
"Very sad news," wrestling star Brutus Beefcake wrote. "He was a kind soul."
Bundy, whose real name was Christopher Alan Pallies, famously faced Hogan for the WWF heavyweight championship in 1986′s WrestleMania 2, the event that became a staple for the industry. Bundy, often cast as the heel, or villain, lost that staged cage match.
He also wrestled in the inaugural WrestleMania, defeating Special Delivery Jones in nine seconds, WWE (formerly the WWF) noted on its website.
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For all the criticism studio wrestling has taken over the years, I see a couple things:
1) A LOT of people get a lot of entertainment value from it.
2) The ones I met seemed very aware of how lucky they were to make money at it.
3) A "family" much like old time carney people. Give me that over media manufactured hipster bullsh*t any day...
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4) It provides a model for current American politics with the Democrats as the faces and the Republicans as the heels. It may look like two opposing sides, but it is just all part of the same show. You may know it as the Uniparty.
[Hunt365] As we loaded up the truck in preparation for the 45-minute drive to our hunting location, Wade and I were still reliving the unbelievable action we’d experienced the first day of the contest. 18 coyotes in a day was a personal best for each of us and we knew we’d put ourselves in a great position to win the National Coyote Calling Championship. But as experience had taught us, 2-day contests are generally won on the second day. We would need another exceptional effort with a touch of luck in order to finish strong and bring home the national champion buckles.
During the short drive, we finalized a few remaining details for the day ahead of us. We verified the projected wind direction and then laid out an efficient route getting from stand to stand. We estimated only having time for 12 stands based off of the check-in deadline of 6 pm, the 3-hour drive back to Rawlins and the scattered stand locations we had mapped out. Building a plan and executing it on a timeline is essential for successful contest hunting. Every second counts and wasting time throughout the day deciding on where to go next will ultimately cost you several coyotes in the long run.
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Could we do this with jihadis? Maybe make it an Olympic sport like the biathalon which appears to have evolved from the Finnish custom of shooting at Russians while on skis.
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Simo Häyhä, also known as “The White Death” is widely regarded as the most skilled and successful sniper there ever was, with over 500 kills to his name. He helped defend Finland from the Soviets during World War II
[NYT] WASHINGTON ‐ The National Security Agency has quietly shut down a system that analyzes logs of Americans’ domestic calls and texts, according to a senior Republican congressional aide, halting a program that has touched off disputes about privacy and the rule of law since the Sept. 11 attacks.
The agency has not used the system in months, and the Trump administration might not ask Congress to renew its legal authority, which is set to expire at the end of the year, according to the aide, Luke Murry, the House minority leader’s national security adviser.
In a raw assertion of executive power, President George W. Bush’s administration started the program as part of its intense pursuit for Qaeda conspirators in the weeks after the 2001 terrorist attacks, and a court later secretly blessed it. The intelligence contractor Edward J. Snowden disclosed the program’s existence in 2013, jolting the public and contributing to growing awareness of how both governments and private companies harvest and exploit personal data.
The way that intelligence analysts have gained access to bulk records of Americans’ phone calls and texts has evolved, but the purpose has been the same: They analyze social links to hunt for associates of known terrorism suspects.
Intelligence agencies can use the technique on data obtained through other means, like collection from networks abroad, where there are fewer legal limits. But those approaches do not offer the same systematic access to domestic phone records.
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Analysing data is not the problem,
The problem is that the analysis is on EVERYONE and not warranted.
This can lead to problems of
#False positives- this can disrupt more targeted investigations with using investigatory resources that could be used in a more targeted manner.
#Massive overhead- May be better to distribute storage back out to comms providers, and also have an electronic warrant system to approve it, then just join the results.
#Privacy This is perfect for illegal domestic spying on political enemies.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said he would make President Nicolas Maduro Venezuela's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy... ’s ’oppressive regime unable to operate’ at a speech upon landing in Caracas on Monday.
"The time has come to say, ’Enough’," he said, in front of a crowd of supporters. "Tomorrow, I will call for a meeting with all unions and all public employees to make an important announcement to the country."
Guaido has just returned from Colombia where he attended a ’Lima Group’ summit gathering Latin American leaders who oppose Maduro’s government.
Venezuela has been in the midst of a political crisis since January, when opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president, in a move that was rapidly recognised by the US, as well as several European and Latin American nations.
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[ELUNIVERSAL] The president of the National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, on his arrival in the country, went to the Plaza Alfredo Sadel, in Las Mercedes, to guarantee his functions as president "in charge" of Venezuela.
He arrived at the Maiquetía International Airport on Monday, where he was received by Ambassadors from Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... , Brazil, Canada, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, the United States, Germany, Spain, La Belle France, the Netherlands, Portugal and Romania.
After passing through migration without problems, despite "the threats and persecutions" of a possible arrest, he went to Caracas to attend the mobilization called by the opposition in the Plaza Alfredo Sadel.
He also made statements regarding the events that occurred at the borders with Colombia and Brazil, on February 23, the day on which humanitarian aid would enter, and noted that "the regime has already shown us the worst face, gangs and prisoners for Massacre the people. "
"Here we are humbly serving all our people, I ask applause to each deputy who moved to the border and all of you brave," he said and thanked the diplomatic representatives present.
He called on the Armed Forces to "detain the gangs that acted on February 23," and also said that "we can not look the other way when they attack our indigenous people, enough of impunity."
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[Aljazeera] Two years after the end of the one-child policy, China is struggling to encourage women to have more children.
One of the talking points at the annual parliamentary meeting will be a declining birth rate. With a shrinking workforce and ageing population, analysts say China could be heading for a demographic disaster.
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China has been able to turn subsistence farmers into factory workers over the past 20 years. This is the basis for their current economic power
The US did this beginning over a hundred years ago.
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China has been able to turn subsistence farmers into factory workers over the past 20 years. This is the basis for their current economic power. The US did this beginning over a hundred years ago.
Jury is still out on the crowded urban impacts. Such issues as voting and the political implications, as well as the inability to subsist when the lights go out. Perhaps we should not go there.
[IsraelTimes] French police are facing a new form of weapon during "yellow vest" protests ‐ bags of fecal matter thrown bomb-like by demonstrators.
On Saturday "bags filled with feces were thrown at police and went kaboom!. Three coppers were soaked through with it," Rudy Manna from the Alliance police trade union in the southern port city of Marseille told AFP.
One policeman also suffered an elbow injury when hit by "a poop-filled projectile," Marseille police headquarters said.
Similar incidents took place in the southern city of Montpellier, police trade union representatives said.
Police said there had been calls on social media ahead of Saturday’s demonstrations for demonstrators to arm themselves with "Caca-tovs" ‐ after Molotov cocktails but filled with "caca," the French term for poo.
Manna said none of the perpetrators, hidden in a crowd of about 1,000 demonstrators in Marseille, had been identified.
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There has got to be a wonderful countermeasure for this. So if 100 people pull off their pants to poo in a bag, in preparation for tossing it at you, what would you do? Vipers?
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Countermeasure? Bees. Or if people dropped trou then unleash the itching powder. Wonder if pepper spray on the lower mucus membranes hurts like hell...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Matthew Whitaker, whose brief tenure as acting U.S. attorney general was marred by accusations he might try to interfere in a probe of President Donald Trump’s campaign, left his Justice Department job over the weekend, a department spokeswoman confirmed on Monday.
Whitaker’s last day at the department was on Saturday, the spokeswoman said, adding she did not know where he might be headed next.
In mid-February, Attorney General William Barr was sworn in and Whitaker stepped down from the top post to become a senior counselor in the office of the associate attorney general.
In one of his final acts as acting attorney general, Whitaker testified before the House Judiciary Committee, where combative Democratic lawmakers pressed him on whether he had tried to interfere with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia.
Whitaker denied any interference and said he had not talked to Trump about the probe. Trump has denied colluding with Russia and has repeatedly called Mueller’s investigation a "witch hunt."
Whitaker first joined the Justice Department as former Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ chief of staff in the autumn of 2017. Trump handpicked him as acting attorney general in November after the president ousted Sessions.
[DAWN] Chief Justice of Pakistain Asif Saeed Khosa said on Monday that the court is starting a "journey towards truth" from today, which will entail strict action against those found to be guilty of having given false testimony in court cases.
The statement was made while the chief justice dismissed a murder case after it was found out that it was based on a false testimony given by a police officer.
"All those who have given testimonies, beware. We are starting a journey towards truth from today ‐ March 4," the chief justice said.
"If any part of any testimony is found to be false, the whole of it [the testimony] will be disregarded," the chief justice warned.
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[Rudaw] Poverty and a lack of services haunt what could be Iraq's most beautiful port city of Basra.
"The people have made sacrifices and have deaders. They fought and had injuries. Basra is [Iraq’s] milk supplier. It supplies all of Iraq. Why don’t we have anything? We ask for the Prime Minister to come and look at our situation," said one local.
Al-Qaim was one of the most beautiful streets in Basra, but it has been abandoned for 16 years.
Now with they are neglected, many live in garbage in the streets of al-Hussena.
According to the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights, 80 percent of the residents are jobless and 50 percent live below the poverty line.
"I swear to God, none of the authorities could come and live here. I swear to God, these people have the right to come out and protest and make fires with tires on the streets or whatever they do. It’s still not enough. People are tired and fatigued. The youth are jobless," said another local.
The city experienced months of protests over a lack of jobs and services.
Local authorities say they are ignored by the central government in Baghdad.
"The basic services of Basra are not sufficient to meet the people’s demands. We waited for 2019 as it’s been decided to make important and useful projects for people so as to present services here. But I don’t think that will be done this summer," said Walid Getan, the deputy head of the Basra Governorate Council.
More than 3 million bpd of oil is produced there and it sends billions of dollars in revenues to Baghdad every year.
The lack of progress has made people and some authorities to consider steps towards an autonomous region, as is possible through the Iraqi constitution.
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Beyond sad and every parent's nightmare.
[AP] WEST POINT, N.Y. ‐ The parents of a 21-year-old West Point cadet fatally injured in a skiing accident raced the clock to get a judge’s permission to retrieve his sperm for "the possibility of preserving some piece of our child that might live on."
U.S. Military Academy Cadet Peter Zhu was declared brain dead Wednesday, four days after the California resident was involved in a skiing accident at West Point that fractured his spine and cut off oxygen to his brain.
"That afternoon, our entire world collapsed around us," Monica and Yongmin Zhu of Concord, California, said in a court petition. But they saw a brief window to fulfill at least part of Peter’s oft-stated desire to one day raise five children.
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[PsyPost] A new study indicates that mainstream economic news coverage tends to be biased in favor of Democratic presidents. The findings, which appear in the journal American Politics Research, provide evidence that the media is more charitable to Democrats than Republicans.
"Trust in the mainstream media has been on the decline for decades. It has fallen most among supporters of the Republican Party, partially in response to a constant drumbeat of complaints about a biased press from conservative elites. This is a serious problem. Trust in the mainstream news is essential for the health of a democracy, now more than ever. If there is something to these allegations, we need to address it," said study author Eric Merkley, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of British Columbia. Eric, old boy, kiss your chances of tenure-track position goodbye
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, partially in response to a constant drumbeat of complaints about a biased press
This is a variant of the "Republicans Pounce" technique. Note that it is complaints from "conservative elites" that are the problem not that the bias is actual reality.
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.
Something good may actually come from all of this. 
Venezuela's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy...
[IsraelTimes] French police are facing a new form of weapon during "yellow vest" protests ‐ bags of fecal matter thrown bomb-like by demonstrators.
