h/t Instapundit
[BroBible] Today’s Florida Woman is Mary Liane Fritz, 30, who was arrested by High Springs police on charges of stalking.
According to an arrest report obtained by Gainesville.com, Fritz followed a woman who claimed she was being stalked to the High Springs Police Station on Monday afternoon.
For some reason, despite already being at the police station, officers handcuffed Fritz’s hands behind her back and placed her in the back seat of a patrol car... alone. Big mistake.
The arrest report states Fritz then somehow got out of her cuffs, climbed through the partition in the vehicle to the front seat, STARTED THE CAR (WHY WERE THE KEYS IN THE CAR?), and drove off!
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Patrol units often are kept running until EOW because the radios and onboard electronic gear would drain the battery In minutes if the engine were shut down. Since the back seat is normally isolated from the front by a screen and/or plexiglass and the doors don’t open from the inside, I’m curious how she got out?
[KREBSONSECURITY] MyPayrollHR, a now defunct cloud-based payroll processing firm based in upstate New York, abruptly ceased operations this past week after stiffing employees at thousands of companies. The ongoing debacle, which allegedly involves malfeasance on the part of the payroll company’s CEO, resulted in countless people having money drained from their bank accounts and has left nearly $35 million worth of payroll and tax payments in legal limbo.
Unlike many stories here about cloud service providers being extorted by hackers for ransomware payouts, this snafu appears to have been something of an inside job. Nevertheless, it is a story worth telling, in part because much of the media coverage of this incident so far has been somewhat disjointed, but also because it should serve as a warning to other payroll providers about how quickly and massively things can go wrong when a trusted partner unexpectedly turns rogue.
Clifton Park, NY-based MyPayrollHR ‐ a subsidiary of ValueWise Corp. ‐ disclosed last week in a rather unceremonious message to some 4,000 clients that it would be shutting its virtual doors and that companies which relied upon it to process payroll payments should kindly look elsewhere for such services going forward.
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Bet they were using the payroll money to speculate in treasury or some such and got burned. A few pension companies used to do that but it got banned over here in the UK.
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Hmmm...New York. You know that you really really need to be careful doing that in New York. You might, just might have had your hand in a company that belongs to people who don't need the government to provide justice. No due process. No appeal.
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They probably didn't pay the payroll taxes they were with holding and like Bright Pebbles said were dong everything but the right thing with other peoples money.
[NYPOST] A Baltimore woman shot at a motel security guard who mistook her loud sex for a fight — but denies it was attempted murder because she is too good a shot to have missed, according to charging documents.
Allison Nicole Daughtrey, 34, got into a pissinghollering yelling match with the guard at a Days Inn on Monday after he booted her out for fighting even after she insisted she had just been having sex with her girlfriend, according to WJZ. Ewwww!
Surveillance footage from the lobby reportedly caught her pulling out and firing a handgun at his head — with the guard saying it only missed because he moved at the last second, according to the documents. "Yessir. Parted my hair, she did!"
However, Daughtrey insisted that her handgun accidentally fired after falling from her bag as she swung it at him during the struggle, according to the Baltimore Sun.
“If I intended to ever use the gun, I would never have missed the target,” she said, according to the Sun.
She then “bit him in his right arm and continued to pull the trigger” after he grabbed the gun, according to the charging documents. The guard was taken to MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital for treatment. "That's right, yer honor! If'n I'da actually been bitin' I'da chewed his arm off!"
The bullet hit a metal frame near the lobby window and damaged the wall, curtains and window frame.
Daughtrey was arrested at the scene and is charged with attempted second-degree murder, assault, reckless endangerment, destruction of property and gun charges, according to the documents.
She is being held without bond at the Baltimore County Detention Center in Towson, the Sun reported.
Three children who had been with her at the hotel — in a separate room from her girlfriend — are in the care of their grandmother, according to the reports.
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Three children who had been with her at the hotel — in a separate room from her girlfriend — are in the care of their grandmother, according to the reports.
The horror! Separated from their parent! (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
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Loud animal sex with girlfriend, with three children in the next room and a fucking grandm... WHAT ?!
Should the charges include 'impropriety in presence of two generations of dependents' ? No. I don't think it will. This sort of thing must be everyday in Baltimore.
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The problem with rats is that they look like, well, rats. Turn them into cute and cuddly looking prairie dogs and people forget that they're prime plague carriers. Master Splinter could not be reached for comment.
We had a rat problem at one time that came about from feeding birds. Birdseed fell to the ground around the feeder and attracted rats. While Mrs. JohnQC and I deliberated what to do, our German Shepard went quietly about catching them and stacking them up. End of problem.
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Sacramento's historic Old Town by the river is pretty cool. Other side of the freeway starts the shithole
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I'm not a cat fan, but wouldn't releasing feral cats help take care of the rats.
On the other hand, terriers were, IIRC, specifcally bred to kill rats.
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Dogs are actually more effective ratcatchers than cats.
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I think my dog was notorious among the rats in my building. It was a government allotted house in Delhi and shabby on the upkeep, so there were rats. A neighbor actually saw a rat die of fright on seeing him coming. It just skipped in the air and fell down dead. Once, a big rat simply ran off a ledge and preferred to fall seven stories below.
He was a bull terrier, 36 kilos of just muscle. He killed one huge monkey, two dogs, some cats and I don't know how many other small things. The monkey he ripped in two. I still remember, I had to pay the local temple to take it away, since it was a symbol of their deity... ohh those days.
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More than 50 years ago I had to do a paper in my Poli Sci seminar on Rat Control Legislation. (not my choice of topic, we got assigned at random)
All I remember is that there were upwards of 75 anti-rat programs from the Feds and they all were a waste of money. Most of them were agricultural but a fair number were for slums....ahhhh DC at work.
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[SUMMIT.NEWS] Nigerian-born rap artist Jesse Ekene Nweke Conable called for his fans to "shoot" white people while urging, "Take them as slaves and treat them even worse." This is not racism, of course.
What a fantastic role model for the kids.
The comments were made in a rant posted on a closed Instagram group called Barasvarta ("Blacks only"), according to news outlet Samhällsnytt.
"We, blacks" will "become number one and take over these whites," said Conable, adding, "Like these whites took us as slaves we should take them as slaves and treat them even worse."
"We’ll take their bitches and we’ll take their money," he continued. "To be perfectly honest, we will be the best race ever. We are African warriors, they are not on our level. This is just the beginning, black power."
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The irony being of course, if they take over they'll just turn the country into Chicago anyway.
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It'll take a minute for any rational person to decide he's talking shit. It'll take a week of research for any reasonable person to decide that "Palestinians" are talking shit. Didn't stop Swedish Governments from supporting "Palestinian Cause".
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In India there's a blanket National Security Act. You endanger any community by your sick song and dance or even read a commie poem or something, and you're fubar by the time you see bail.
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They are based in the commie states. Those states have leftist state administrations. Sort of the same as Chicago. Until a strong Centrist government replaces those administrations, the military can't intervene, and they have to be combated by the police forces. Those forces are not up to it, sadly.
The naxals are actually a result of the deep corruption and bureaucratic lunacy in India that has existed since the 60s. Most of their lower ranks wouldn't even know what a Marx is. All the naxal grunt knows is that the government Babu forgave the landlord that raped his wife and took his land. I don't blame him for feeling the way he does.
And then the China-backed commies arm them and train them to hunt and kill the government. The higher ranks are criminals, extortioners and traffickers who know better but use the ideology to profit off it. The provide security and muscle to corporate interests that pursue illegal mining and manufacture without labor rules and safeties. The industrialists in turn back the leftist governments.
It's a pitiful mess, yes. But the center has begun to appreciate the plight of the poorest only recently. Many naxals have surrendered in exchange for jobs and cultivable land.
Last mile coverage of law enforcement cannot be reached until these states vote the Right. Until then it's lowbrow media war, obfuscating a very bloody push against commies in the south, Bengal, in forested areas.
The globalists are massively similar to the "libertarian"s, just one is more stealthy about the transfers calling their hand on the scales "market forces".
g(r)omgoru, what on earth prompted you to post a video of a Canadian bluegrass band, evolved from grunge, that answers the question about the cello in the marching band?! They’re amazing! This explains the previously inexplicable delight my Canadian friend finds in the genre.
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Instapundit has long divided Big-L libertarians from Small-L libertarians. The first being somewhat nutty. Seems the Koch Group has picked which they prefer.
[DAWN] At least 50 stowaways were killed when a freight train derailed in southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... on Thursday, the latest rail tragedy to strike the vast central African nation.
"Another disaster! Derailing at 3am (0100 GMT) in Tanganyika (province) near Mayibaridi. Provisional toll: 50 dead and several injured," the minister for humanitarian action, Steve Mbikayi, said in a tweet.
Witnesses at the scene and local media feared more than a hundred people could have been killed.
Victor Umba, the union head of the national rail company SNCC, said the freight train was travelling from the town of Nyunzu to the town of Niemba when two carriages fell on their sides.
"Those who died in this derailment were stowaways. It is impossible for the SNCC to provide any kind of toll," Umba told AFP. He added that the SNCC's chief was in the quiet provincial capital of Kalemie trying to find a way to raise the carriages.
"It seems that many stowaways are trapped under the derailed carriages".
Railways in the DRC have a poor record for safety, hampered by derelict tracks and decrepit locomotives, many of them dating from the 1960s.
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[AnNahar] The United States invoked a regional defense pact Wednesday with 10 other countries and Venezuela ...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeds places like Honduras and El Salvador, and a significant proportion of the populace as refugeed to Colombia and points south... 's opposition after "bellicose" moves by Nicolás Maduro ...Commie el presidente para la vida of Venezuela, successor to Hugo Chavez. Nick is his country's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy, except that even though his country's sitting on an enormous puddle of oil, he can't manage to get it out of the ground... 's regime.
A request to invoke the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR) came from the Venezuelan opposition, said a statement from US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, retweeted early Thursday by President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... "Recent bellicose moves by the Venezuelan military to deploy along the border with Colombia as well as the presence of illegal gangs and terrorist organizations in Venezuelan territory demonstrate that Nicolas Maduro not only poses a threat to the Venezuelan people, his actions threaten the peace and security of Venezuela’s neighbors," Pompeo said.
Venezuela was thrust into a political crisis in January when opposition leader Juan Guaidó ...Venezuelan politician, a member of the social-democratic Popular Will party, and serves as a federal deputy to the National Assembly representing the state of Vargas. In 2019 he was appointed by the Popular Will party to become the president of the National Assembly, after which he declared he was acting president of the country, challenging Nicolás Maduro's presidency and starting the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis.... declared himself acting president, in a direct challenge to Maduro's authority over the country from which millions have fled economic deprivation.
The opposition has branded the socialist leader a "usurper" over his re-election last year in a poll widely viewed as rigged.
Pompeo said in the statement that invoking the TIAR is "recognition of the increasingly destabilizing influence" the Maduro regime has in the region.
"Catastrophic economic policies and political repression continue to drive this unprecedented refugee crisis, straining the ability of governments to respond," he said.
"We look forward to further high-level discussions with fellow TIAR parties, as we come together to collectively address the urgent crisis raging within Venezuela and spilling across its border through the consideration of multilateral economic and political options."
The US and more than 50 countries have recognized Guaido.
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Maduro is concerned about domestic troubles which are none of our business. Period. Their crude oil is of lower quality anyway. But g-damn, can't the USA stay out of things for a day or two?
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..if they hit Colombia, probably not. We'll be busy supplying the Colombians with what resources they need to clean up the problem on aisle 8. Been tight for decades with the government in Bogota dealing with drugs and their muscle FARC. Helped moved the country to a solid democracy.
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Jesus they're just not going to stop meddling in other countries, are they? Stop it. Just stop.
We know the "Venezuelan opposition" is a puppet of the State Department, right? Because it is.
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Hey Herb, there are many brands of decaf that are just as tasty as the real thing. We are not 'meddling' if we give assistance to a willing (say) Columbia. Besides, the 'stash was just let go. I don't think the 82nd will be spooling up anytime soon.
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Puppets! NeoCon Warmongers! Military-Industrial Complex! Invasion! World Police!
See? My Herb-Bot works just as good as the real one
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Sigh.
Time was, there was such a thing as Rantburg U. You could learn something. Now, all there are are childish insults I could get from Reddit or Youtube. No refutation of my points. No arguments. No learning anything.
Times change, I guess.
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We learn from you. And are better men and women for it.
Mr. McCoy, you started the insult exchange. And while I have one of your posts saved for future reference, I deeply resent how much you have deliberately coarsened our exchange here, and how often you repeat exactly the same points without absorbing anything whatsoever from your interlocutors.
You are starting your repeated process toward a time out. Each time it begins with this pantomime of the sadness of a longtime Rantburger, then proceeds to open insult of our vileness as a group, so unlike the pure souls of Rantburg’s salad days almost two decades ago. But I actually have been here almost that entire time, and I can tell you that back in the early days your nonsense would have regularly resulted in you being verbally flayed and rolled in salt. We are much politer now.
h/t Instapundit
[Rooters] China will exempt some agricultural products from additional tariffs on U.S. goods, China’s official Xinhua News Agency said Friday, in the latest sign of easing Sino-U.S. tensions before a new rounds of talks aimed at curbing a bruising trade war. Or an admission they can't find alternate sources and can't produce their own
...An outbreak of deadly African swine fever, which has cut China’s pig herd by a third since mid-2018, has propelled Chinese pork prices to record levels and left the country in need of replacement supplies from overseas.
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Not only doubled but rationed now at 10X smaller then the usual amount a pork a Chinese eats.
So if they had it one meal a day they now have it 1 meal every 10 days.
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Export tariffs are completely unconstitutional. The Export Clause bans taxes or duties on articles exported from any state. So I suppose they could be imposed on items leaving from Puerto Rico or Guam, if we really wanted to, but that's hardly a big deal economically, and neither raise pigs for export, as far as I know.
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The heathen Chinee, he is trips.
Though not quite as proud as the Nips,
His mysterious race
Is at pains to save face:
Be he bigger than Lee
Or as twiggy as [pfffft] me,
Though at Schwegmann's he stint
He will cheerfully squint
With a scant smear of fat for his lips.
[BREITBART] The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been asked by South Korea to bar Japan from using the “Rising Sun” flag at next year’s Tokyo games, Seoul’s sports ministry said on Wednesday.
South Korea’s sports ministry sent a letter to the IOC to express its “disappointment” over Tokyo’s organising committee’s decision to allow the “Rising Sun” ensign or kyokujitsuki to be displayed, claiming it represents a “militaristic and imperial past.”
The ministry said the standard defies the peaceful spirit of the Olympics as it was a symbol of Japan’s imperialist past that reminds Asian countries of “historical wounds and pains,” and it likened it to the swastika used in Nazi Germany.
The flag, which features a red sun with 16 rays radiating from the center, has been used by Japan for many centuries and is still flown by Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force. It differs from the country’s official flag, a red disk on a white background, which will be used by its Olympic team.
[WSJ] A French court convicted the sister of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... as of 2016.... of ordering her bodyguard to assault a workman who said he was beaten in her luxury apartment and forced to kiss the princess’s feet.
Princess Hassa bint Salman Al Saud, who was tried in absentia, was given a 10-month suspended sentence and fined €10,000 ($11,000) for the beating in September 2016 at her apartment on the western edge of Gay Paree. Her bodyguard, Rani Saïdi, who was present in court, was handed an eight-month suspended sentence and fined €5,000. Neither is expected to serve any time in jail.
Emmanuel Moyne, a lawyer for Princess Hassa, said the princess would appeal the ruling. A person close to the Saudi royal family denied that the princess ordered a beating, saying she merely asked the bodyguard to stop the workman from taking photographs in her apartment.
The verdict comes as the Saudi royal family and Prince Mohammed struggle to overcome damage to their reputation after last year’s gruesome killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The CIA concluded the prince himself likely ordered the killing. The Saudi government says Saudi operatives killed him on their own initiative in a "rogue operation," and Saudi prosecutors have charged 11 people in his death.
After the killing, Prince Mohammed sought to rehabilitate his image, attending the Group of 20 summit late last year in 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... , traveling on diplomatic missions to Asia and funding a youth conference with the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... . Yet he continues to face criticism from human-rights groups and Western governments over Mr. Khashoggi’s murder.
Princess Hassa was charged with ordering the beating during a visit by the worker, Ashraf Eid, for repairs to her apartment on Avenue Foch, an upscale address near the Arc de Triomphe where wealthy foreigners often buy real estate. The princess became enraged after she thought Mr. Eid was surreptitiously trying to photograph her, French prosecutors said.
After being summoned by the princess, her bodyguard tied up Mr. Eid, beat him, put a gun to his head and ordered him to kiss her feet, Mr. Eid said. At one point Princess Hassa said, "Kill him, the dog, he doesn’t deserve to live," Mr. Eid told the police.
Yassine Bouzrou, a lawyer for the bodyguard, Mr. Saïdi, said his client sought only to protect his employer. He said Mr. Saïdi ran over upon hearing the princess shout for help and firmly pushed back the assailant.
Mr. Bouzrou said his client denies threatening the man with a weapon, tying him up, or forcing him to kiss the princess’s feet.
[DAWN] PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Thursday lashed out at the federal government for "trying to occupy Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... " following Law Minister Farogh Naseem's statement that the centre was considering taking over the administrative affairs of the metropolis through a little-known constitutional provision.
Yesterday, Naseem had told Dawn that a strategic committee on Karachi was going to recommend to Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... that he invoke Article 149 for the uplift of Karachi.
"After getting approval of the cabinet, the provision will be exercised. In case of any resistance shown by the provincial government, we will approach the Supreme Court under Article 184(1) of the Constitution to seek a directive in this regard. If the province still shows reluctance, we will file a contempt petition in the SC," he had said.
The minister had told news channels that it was his personal view that the Centre should take over Karachi’s affairs. Any decision was likely to be taken by the premier during his visit to the metropolis on September 14, he added.
"You try to build a narrative against [Indian Prime Minister Narendra] Modi, saying that he unconstitutionally captured occupied Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... , and at the same time you try to occupy Karachi. This is bizarre," Bilawal said in his presser. He said Prime Minister Imran Khan, "who has vowed to protect human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... in [occupied] Kashmir, has ripped apart democratic rights of the people of Pakistain.
"You want to run Karachi from Islamabad?" he asked
Addressing the media in Hyderabad, Bilawal said that the PPP, which is the ruling party in Sindh, "will never accept any conspiracy" against the province.
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.
[NYPOST] A Baltimore woman shot at a motel security guard who mistook her loud sex for a fight — but denies it was attempted murder because she is too good a shot to have missed, according to charging documents.
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka 
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeds places like Honduras and El Salvador, and a significant proportion of the populace as refugeed to Colombia and points south...
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[DAWN] PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Thursday lashed out at the federal government for "trying to occupy .jpg "Kashmir")
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