[WICNews] A 19-year-old Indian-American student was sexually assaulted and afterwards strangulated to death in Chicago, police said about a severe homicide that has stunned the network in the United States.
Ruth George, initially hailing from Hyderabad and a distinctions understudy at the University of Illinois was discovered dead in the secondary lounge of a family-claimed vehicle in a grounds carport on Saturday.
The attacker, Donald Thurman, 26, was captured Sunday from a Chicago metro station. He isn't related to the college. On Monday, he was officially accused of first-degree murder and bothered rape for killing George. Bothered rape ?
The therapeutic analyst administered George's demise a murder by strangulation.
As per the college, George was a sophomore and kinesiology major.
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▪️ Thurman Was Convicted of Armed Robbery in 2018 & Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison, but Was Released on Parole After Serving Only 2 Years. Earlier, 1½ years I think
▪️ Thurman Has Been in Custody SInce Sunday & Will Be Held at the Chicago Police Lockup Pending His First Appearance in Cook County Court More at the link.
[CBSNews] For the first time since beginning his sentence at a maximum-security prison near Philadelphia, Bill Cosby has gone on the record about his trial and life in prison. In an interview with the National Newspaper Publishers Association's BlackPressUSA.com, the disgraced comedian said he won't tell the parole board that he feels any remorse for his crimes. BlackPress ? There is a... Black Press ? "I have eight years and nine months left," the 82-year-old said in a phone interview. "When I come up for parole, they're not going to hear me say that I have remorse. I was there. I don't care what group of people come along and talk about this when they weren't there. They don't know."
Cosby was sentenced three to 10 years in prison in 2018 after he was found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault. His comments imply he does not expect to be granted parole at any point and will instead serve his full sentence for the 2004 incident. Sex offenders usually have to show remorse before they are granted parole, according to AP.
Cosby also railed against the jury that found him guilty, claiming, "It's all a set up. That whole jury thing. They were impostors." During the trial, Cosby's spokesman Andrew Wyatt ‐ who was also on the call with BlackPressUSA ‐ said prosecutors presented falsified evidence, although that claim has not been substantiated.
Approximately 60 women have accused Cosby of drugging and violating them over the past 50 years.
While at SCI-Phoenix, Cosby often speaks to those who are part of the prison reform program Mann Up, although he is not formally associated with the group. As part of the program, he speaks to and works with other male inmates, most of whom are African American. The program, according to BlackPressUSA, "serves to encourage and empower African American men to strive for self-respect and dignity and to put their family first." The one they know of anyway.
Cosby told the outlet that he is concerned that black people are "under siege."
"They've thrown respect for the family out the window and they're blaming each other for what's going on. There is post-traumatic stress syndrome and there are also bad manners," he said. "...The influx of drugs and what they've done with their own history. If they would pay attention to these things and put education first and respect for others first...it's almost insane to hear someone say they don't know how to be a father."
Despite being incarcerated and the attention he has received for sexual misconduct, Cosby assured BlackPressUSA that he is a "privileged man."
"I am a privilege man in prison," he said, calling his cell a "penthouse." You know what would just kill it at this point ? If the 'phone interview' had been on the other end with some wiseguy jail guard impersonating the bastard.
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I believe they waited for the last possible day before the statute of limitations ran out to file charges because they were waiting for his dementia to get worse so they'd have an easier time prosecuting him.
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#5: "Surrender your virtue to me and I'll make you a movie star!" but unfortunately they weren't smart enough to get some kind of receipt when they did it.
[NYPOST] A Florida man was arrested after he tried to claim that the wind blew a coke baggie into his car, according to a report.
Joseph Zak, 37, was busted trying to throw something away when he was pulled over in Fort Pierce last month for failing to pause at a stop sign, the Smoking Gun reported.
Police searched his car and found a crack pipe in the center console as well as a clear baggie with white residue, which later tested positive for crack cocaine.
When questioned about the baggie, Zack said that it didn’t belong to him and the "wind must have placed it there," according to an affidavit obtained by the outlet.
Zack was arrested on drug paraphernalia charges and brought to St. Lucie County Jail, where he was released on bond.
He’s set to appear in court Dec. 3 for his arraignment, the outlet reported.
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[NYPOST] Two boys in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, were killed early Saturday while sitting inside a van in the parking lot of an elementary school when an unknown number of button men opened fire into the vehicle, authorities said.
The boys, ages 11 and 14, were shot outside Searles Elementary School in Union City, located about 30 miles southeast of the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... , Union City police said in a news release.
Multiple residents called 911 and reported hearing gunshots around 1:30 a.m., the East Bay Times reported. Police arrived at the school and found the boys with gunshot wounds.
The older boy died at the scene and the younger boy died while being rushed to a hospital, police said. Their names were being withheld because of their age.
"How do you just kill kids?" a mother, whose son was a schoolmate of one of the dear departed boys, told KGO-TV. "I don’t think he has quite grasped this yet," she said of her son. "He is afraid to go outside."
While it was unclear which schools the boys attended, New Haven Unified School District Superintendent John Thompson confirmed they attended schools in the district.
Family and friends set up a makeshift memorial at the school as police collected shell casings and other evidence for their investigation, KGO reported.
No arrests have been made in connection to the killings. Police said they were still investigating a motive for the shooting.
The possibilities that the shooting was gang-related or related to a previous shooting on Wednesday that left two men maimed have not been ruled out, police said.
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[BBC] "Indian food is terrible and we pretend it isn't," said international affairs professor Tom Nichols.
Critics called his comment a tasteless generalisation.
The remark led to a wider discussion of the immigrant experience and how many in the US have experienced racism in relation to food.
Mr Nichols - who teaches at the US Naval War College in Rhode Island - posted his opinion after another Twitter user had asked for "controversial food opinions".
...First-generation American Saira Rao wrote: "Having white people trash Indian food is extremely triggering as an Indian who has been told that I smell weird, that my food smells weird and that Indians [expletive] on the street which is why everything we are smells bad."
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Any white man who doesn’t like Indian food is a genocidal racist.
Any white man who likes Indian food is guilty of cultural appropriation and is no better than Hitler.
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Was called a racist once for criticizing Mexican restaurants - don't know how they are in general, but in NM they think that slow service is a mark of a fancy restaurant.
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I've been told by Indian guys I used to work with that the best Indian food on the planet was in London.
Personally, put me down in the Hitler column (Like I wasn't already there!)
And if you are not familiar with Titania McGrath, it is one of the most savagely funny parody accounts going.
What's that, curry and ... sausage ? Errm...not that I know of. The possibility can't be negated though. India is so freakishly diverse you can travel it all yet miss some weirdo demographic that might eat just that. I think Goa could have such a thing.
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I like chili, just not that Cincinnati stuff. I like Indian food even tho they insist on spelling "chile" as "chilli." Panang curry please...
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Mr. Wife brought me home a cookbook from his time in India — the pages are falling out. I really ought to scan the key recipes into the computer before he mistakes the scraps of stained paper for garbage, which is how I usually lose recipes.
M.Murcek, Cincinnati chili is strongly polarizing for those not born to it. It”s basically an unbaked Greek pastitsio without the bechamel sauce and with beans and/or chopped onion optional. (The pages of the Greek cookbook Mr.Wife brought home when he was starting up the factory in Athens also has loose pages...)
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As for the good professor, we all now know better than to rond to a joking “Say something controversial about X,”right? The humourless scolds have destroyed another opportunity for lighthearted human interaction. I can’t wait until the Crazy Years are over.
[Forecast.weather.gov] Nasty storm coming ashore in North CA. Winds will be nasty.
Lots of snow in Utah and CO on Wed and Thanksgiving 27-28 Nov will mess up travel.
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Got to shut down power you know. Don't want to be sparking more fires. Wind, snow and cold. Someday, maybe, science and technology will get around to providing basic human needs like light and heat.
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We're even looking at a couple inches of rain in San Diego
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The only thing to do is also shut down the highways, then send Estimate Use Bills to all residents in affected area. This money would be earmarked to provide certain services during the shutdowns, such as pamphlets promoting the invaluable service of trans-genders in restoring power and transportation after emergencies, as well as giant bill-boards praising the various apparatchiks in Sacramento.
[Mil.com] Second Lt. Willie Evelyn Webster served as an Army nurse during World War II, and she's turning 100 years old on Dec. 14. Let's all send her a birthday card in honor of her service and for reaching birthday triple digits!
Webster graduated from Celina High School in Texas and then from St. Paul Hospital's nurses training course in Dallas. She received her Army commission in January 1944.
Evelyn deployed to Europe and served with the 168th General Hospital, which was actually a tent hospital set up in an open field in rural France. In the field hospital, she administered penicillin and sulfa drugs. Nurses changed dressings on wounds and gave the injured hot packs and alcohol rubs while working closely with the ward surgeon.
"There's nothing we could do for our wounded men that would be too much," she said in an interview with her hometown paper during the war. "They come in from forward area hospitals, many with deep wounds, amputations, bad burns -- but they never whimper or complain."
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The United States has recalled its ambassador from South Sudan after the leaders of formerly warring factions failed to agree on a unity government, the US State Department said on Monday.
Ambassador Thomas Hushek will return for consultations “as part of the re-evaluation of the US relationship with the Government of South Sudan given the latest developments,” the department said in a statement.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted that Washington would “work with the region to support efforts to achieve peace and a successful political transition in South Sudan.”
After a devastating five-year civil war, South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and opposition leader Riek Machar signed a peace deal in September 2018, under pressure from the United Nations, United States, and regional governments.
On November 7, they agreed to give themselves another 100 days beyond a November 12 deadline to form the unity government, and Washington said it was “gravely disappointed.”
The conflict began after Kiir sacked Machar as vice president. It killed an estimated 400,000 people, triggered a famine, and created Africa’s biggest refugee crisis since the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
[cigar afficiando] For the first time ever, Brazil joins the U.S. in voting no
The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday overwhelmingly voted to denounce the 57-year-old U.S. trade embargo against Cuba. The tally on the annual resolution, titled "Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba," was 187 to 3. The United States, Israel and Brazil were the only nations to cast votes against the resolution, with Ukraine and Colombia abstaining.
The vote marks the 28th year in a row that the U.N. has denounced U.S. economic sanctions against Cuba. Last year, the vote was 189 to 2, with Israel and the U.S. voting no. At the time, then-Ambassador Nikki Haley denounced the U.N. for even considering the resolution.
The decision of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro to side with the Trump administration on the embargo resolution marks the first time Brazil has voted against the annual resolution. But unlike the U.S., Brazil has extensive trade with, and investments in, Cuba.
The Brazilian tobacco company, Souza Cruz Ltda, has a joint venture in Havana that manufactures Cuban cigarettes. In return for preferential trading status for at least $800 million worth of Brazilian goods and services, Brazil’s leading development bank, BNDES, advanced Cuba more than $700 million in financing to modernize the deep-water port of Mariel. Today, most of Cuba’s imports and exports flow through that port.
The United Nations’ first condemnation of the trade embargo came in November 1992, shortly after President George H.W. Bush signed the "Cuba Democracy Act" that extended sanctions under the embargo to third countries that continued to trade with Cuba.
[BREITBART] Lawmaker Luis Pardo Sáinz told Breitbart News in an interview Thursday that authorities in his native Chile have "well-founded suspicions" that communists tied to the Castro regime in Cuba and allies of the rogue socialist regime in 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... are playing a role in ongoing violent protests.
Chileans began taking to the streets of Santiago in October, nominally in response to a proposed hike in subway prices in the nation’s capital. As Sáinz explains, demands for social change amid growing economic concerns have led to a significant reform process ‐ which has sent many of the peaceful protesters home satisfied, leaving violent rioters in the streets.
While peaceful protesters marched and chanted, violent rioters have engaged in mass acts of arson, including burning down subway stations, major office buildings, and churches.
The protests erupted almost simultaneously with major political upheaval throughout the country. Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil have seen similar riots. The governments of Ecuador and Bolivia have revealed the arrests of dozens of Cuban and Venezuelan citizens participating in violent street activities such as looting, bombing, and blockading major streets.
Have they indeed. How very interesting.
Last week, Chile announced it would deport 30 Cuban nationals, some caught participating in riots. The arrests indicate foreign influence in some sectors of what many in the international left insist is an organic social change movement.
Sáinz, a member of the center-right National Rejuvenation Party working on legislation to ensure justice in cases of street violence, told Breitbart News that there are legitimate protesters among those demonstrating and they have conveyed real concerns about the state of the country.
"There have been very massive peaceful protests that have to do with social unrest," he explained. "Our country in the past 30 years has had very important economic development [that] has translated into a very, very significant reduction in poverty rates, from 50 percent rates to less than 10 percent and has created the emergence of a new middle class that has access to education, to consumer goods in a very important way.
That middle class, he noted, "today also suffers the effects of debt, effects of insecurity in facing life contingencies like diseases and such, so there is there civil unrest, that has to do with social conditions, that has expressed itself these days."
"But parallel to that, and taking advantage of that circumstance, there has been very well organized, systematic, very violent activity," he continued, "including significant acts like the burning of Santiago metro stations, the burning of important buildings, and also very active street actions, building barricades to block traffic, organizing looting to supermarkets, many of which were later burned."
Sáinz noted that the government has begun responding to legitimate concerns. Among the projects in the works is a complete overhaul of the Chilean constitution, put into place in 1989.
"As a result ... those that are remaining in the streets are the violent sector," he said. "We suspect that, behind that organizing and planning there is a foreign hand. For now, we have detained many Cuban and Venezuelan citizens, but we also know that the true heads of this, the ones leading and organizing this, are not committing the acts themselves, so we are waiting to untangle what is behind this wave of violence."
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Clemson University professors and Russian trolling experts Darren Linvill and Patrick Warren reveal how Russia's 2020 disinformation operations work
They say that Russian trolls create Twitter accounts that appear to be run by Americans and share uplifting and heartwarming messages as a 'Trojan horse'
After building a following the accounts then spew divisive tweets
The controversial tweets are designed to plant distrust in the U.S. government
Linvill and Warren spent two years studying online disinformation to understand Russian strategy and combed through data Twitter released to the public
Together they worked with Twitter to suspend Russian-operated accounts
They say these kinds of accounts are run by Russia's Internet Research Agency
The IRA was the very group that was at the center of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation for interference in the 2016 presidential election
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Interesting that the examples of trollers these "researchers" highlight almost always involve accounts / characters whose postings serve to further the America-is-Evil-and-Racist narratives of Black Lives Matter and the NYT's "1619" campaign.
These trolls aren't scoring any points; they're just giving an assist to our own homegrown liars.
There's literally nothing that these Russian bots are saying that hasn't been said 100,000,000x already by our country's wretched race-baiters.
The Russian trolls' contribution to dividing and demoralizing this nation is about as close to zero as possible when you set it next to the cumulative destructive contribution KaepernickSharptonCoates TheSqualid Fauxcahontas Fartacus Dr.BlowseyFord NYT WaPo CNN MSNBC et al.
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I noticed the same thing. The 'russian trolling experts' seem to be saying some pretty conflicting things too. Like how is this helping Trump win ? What purpose would the Kremlin achieve by this ? Also, it seems like too subtle a scheme to divide America - the mass psychology equivalent of a Rube Goldberg machine.
And there are already more effective in-country demoralizers working harder for this, so why does Russia waste money on this ?
It is fairly cheap to do and given that the goal is not to help a particular candidate but to keep the country in turmoil, it seems to be working quite well.
Recall the name of the Soviet-style nemesis of spoof-sitcom Agent Maxwell Smart: KAOS.
Putin's Chaos Operation has succeeded beyond his or any FSB operative's wildest dreams.
Hating other Americans, our civilization's achievements and and our cultural heritage now defines American elite culture. It's what our elites do. Attacking the great men of our pastand distorting our history are required signs of 'woke' bona fides.
Putin's people are running rings around our pseudo-sophisticated fools. It's like watching a judo champ throw a blustering brawler on his arse again and again.
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And at the same time he's getting Trump elected by... what, setting in motion some predetermined dynamic that shall motivate conservatives to vote in larger numbers so... uhh no. I don't get it.
Is Trump good for Russia ? Or is chaos good ? Or is Trump the reason there's chaos and...
Look, isn't it just possible this divisiveness is a wholly indigenous product, and these are just inept mischief makers operating out of Moscow on Soros' dime to make it look like Putin's finest is up to no good ? A greater divisiveness at play ? I'm just thinking aloud, I may be wrong.
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As I recall, the old Soviet game plan was to keep things stirred up wherever and however it could, presumably on the theory that there were unpredictable opportunities in chaos. Think of it as chumming the waters.
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I see your point, Dron. Probably correct that this is not driven from the top, nor is it part of any coherent strategy.
Most likely just rogue elements of the GRU having some fun, effing with our (elite's) excitable minds the way that we used to mess with the Cubans and v-v.
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Trump 's administration has most definitely NOT good for calm, peaceful relations with Russia.
Which is not to say that, purged of the pestilent influence of the foolish "Interagency Consensus" Trump could not set our relations with Russia on a rational, realistic, intelligent and stable footing.
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It's a very convenient ruse of certain 'experts' in the west, armed by greater media reach, and inordinate amounts of time, to raise McCarthy's ghost whenever they want to shift blame from Democrats. Nothing bad ever happens in America unless it's done by a white hyper-conservative, or got its roots somehow in Russia.
Besides, even if all this is correct, we can't blindfold or cotton wrap the population lest they hear 'what a sodding russian has to say to them !'
It's our job to make our national cultures and pride in our own societies more appealing and infinitely valuable to our generations. And MAGA was all about that. Trolls and influencers will exist forever. It's not new, posing as a citizen while disseminating incendiary ideas to destabilize society. The muslims have been doing it too. Wind up the natives, watch 'em go, pick out the remnant.
The trouble is, national integrity is held together by a willingness in society itself to remain integrated. I'm afraid it comes down to only this : there are just too many wakandans, militant bulldykes, globalist sell-outs and mercenary activists in America that have not been crushed under the nationalist boot. Remember that incident from the NYC subway, the mad tranny with her stilettos ? And the decent folks of NYC setting there like mannequins ? That is the problem.
This is nothing new. The Russkies have been using dezinformatsiya and agitprop for over a century to spread the notion that AmeriKKKa is incorrigibly fascist 'n' racist and hyper capitalist.
But in the 20th century, no one took that stuff seriously.
It's only now, with the rise of social media, far-left identity politics taking over the Dems and craven virtue-signaling among our media and entertainment and corporate elites, that the Son- er Russian dezinformatsiya is getting legs and actually running over American common sense and culture.
Or maybe the metaphor is of seeds and soil: the American cultural soil was barren until the identity-politics warriors began to cultivate it and make it fertile for anti-American chaos-mongering.
[DAWN] Little progress has been made in investigations into the activities of habitual child abuser Sohail Ayaz because the cybercrime wing of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has not yet been made a part of the process.
Ayaz was recently arrested in Rawalpindi by Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... police upon a complaint filed by the mother of one of his victims; the first case against him was registered on Nov 12, while two more were registered on Nov 14 after more complainants approached police.
During police investigations, Ayaz admitted that he had targeted eight- to 15-year-old children and abused and filmed 30, uploading the footage online.
The matter was discussed by the Senate Standing Committee on IT & Telecommunications during a meeting here on Monday, with the chairperson saying that money and mafia are also involved.
"The most serious issue is that bigwigs of both the FIA and the Pakistain Telecommunications Authority informed the committee in July that there was no child pornography ring operating in or originating from Pakistain," said Senator Rubina Khalid, chairperson of the committee, while presenting the minutes of the previous meeting.
However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... the committee was informed that the case has yet not been transferred to the FIA cybercrime wing, while the police investigation officer (IO) was not clearly aware of cybercrime.
Rawalpindi SSP Mohammad Faisal said that the accused, aged 46, had a history of abusing boys; he had previously worked and travelled in nine countries.
"During investigations, Sohail Ayaz told the IO that he used the dark net to purchase drugs and share footage with like-minded people, but our IO asked him what the dark net was," the SSP said.
Members of the committee asked FIA officials about progress in tracing details such as possible accomplices and a monetary aspect.
However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... to the astonishment of the committee, the director of the FIA cybercrime wing, Mirwaiz Niaz, said that the agency was not yet involved and was cooperating with Punjab police on a voluntary basis; Punjab police would transfer the case after completing their investigation.
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"I'm afraid there is no proof of these crimes you say you have committed. These things just don't happen in the Land of the Pure. No. Please leave. Just leave."
[NEWS.YAHOO] The United States and Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... bear more than half the cost of repairing the damage already wrought by climate change, a coalition of environmental groups said Monday.
Based on their historic greenhouse gas emissions, the US and EU should be held jointly responsible for 54 percent of funding owed to developing nations already dealing with extreme flooding, droughts and megastorms rendered more frequent and intense by global warming, the groups said.
Based on current emissions measurements, China and India are putting out more “greenhouse gasses” than the U.S. and EU combined, emissions that are forecasted to continue increasing. And the US has significantly more carbon dioxide absorbing trees now than a century ago, so we’ve been doing our bit to absorb what we’ve produced. Perhaps you should go back and calculate net emissions after plant growth before pointing fingers.
A week ahead of a UN climate summit in Madrid -- in which the controversial issue of how funding for the so-called "loss and damage" inflicted by climate change will be provided -- they said the amount needed would hit $300 billion annually within a decade.
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, under which the 2015 Gay Paree agreement was signed, is based on the principle that all countries must give at least their fair share in global efforts to mitigate and adapt to our changing climate.
That would be the one President Trump tore up, so we don’t owe anybody anything. Sorry.
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US and EU should be held jointly responsible for 54 percent of funding owed to developing nations
Let it be said that no one owes us anything, thank you very much. Well, except maybe the UN a measly $38 m. It's okay, we like 'em in our debt.
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India is proceeding nicely along the path from developing to developed — Mr. Wife is even prouder of y’all than I am (he was working there in 1989-91, when things when things were very different). Any country that has a respectable space program needn’t beg for financial support.
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The United States and Europe bear more than half the cost of repairing the damage already wrought by climate change, a coalition of environmental groups said Monday.
...People in Hell want ice water. They ain't getting that either.
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Send the bill to Trump; I'm sure he'll get right on it.
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Have any of these climate warriors factored in the potential role of dissolving limestone? Since there are orders of magnitude more 'fossil CO2' locked up in limestone than fossil fuel one would think it needs to be in the analysis, but I have yet to see it.
[DW] Omar Shakir, the local director for Human Rights Watch, left Israel for Germany on Monday after being expelled from the Middle Eastern country.
Given that he was ordered to leave in May, Mr. Shakir has nothing to complain about.
The Israeli government has accused Shakir, a 35-year-old American citizen and the rights group's director for Israel and Palestinian territories since October 2016, of a boycott of the Jewish state. He has denied the claim.
But then he sued the Israeli government for applying to him the same anti-BDS standard as those entering the country, when he was already there... and lost. It was a rather unclever way of admitting his guilt.
Before departing the Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, Shakir said his deportation is "an attack on the human rights movement" and an Israeli attempt to "muzzle Human Rights Watch."
"We will not stop until the day comes in which all people, Israelis and Palestinians, will be treated equally and have their whole human rights protected," he said.
Shakir was accused in April of supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel for its military occupation of the West Bank and its building of illegal settlements in occupied Palestinian territories.
Israel has formally banned entry of BDS supporters and has pressured Western countries to stunt the movement's influence.
The case against Shakir was based on comments he made before he joined Human Rights Watch, some going back to his student days nearly a decade ago. Shakir appealed his deportation, but Israel's supreme court backed his expulsion earlier this month.
More than 600,000 Israelis live in settlements on Palestinian land, communities considered illegal under international law — a ruling which Israel disputes.
As does the U.S. under President Trump — much to the annoyance of all the lock-step boys and girls, who considered it settled science.
Last week, the United States announced it no longer considered the settlements illegal, breaking with decades of international consensus.
[AMERICANTHINKER] Catholicism is on the decline in Pope Francis ...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess... ' 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... , a new study from the CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council) has revealed.
The results also showed that close to three-quarters of the population believes the State should not finance religious institutions, while 46.2 percent believe that religious education should not be taught in public schools.
The government agency published a study on Wednesday revealing that while Catholics remain the biggest religious force in Argentina by a long way, the number of faithful has fallen by more than 13 percentage points over the past decade.
According to CONICET, 76.5 percent of the population said they were Catholics in 2008, compared to the 62.9 percent who say so today. That's because the bears are pooping in Argentina's toilets.
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Despite Boston Dynamics' reluctance to deploy its robots in a more offensive setting, civil rights groups like the ACLU have already voiced concern over where the technology might go from here.
And there we go. The enemies of progress. Anus Clenching Liberals United.
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.
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[CBSNews] For the first time since beginning his sentence at a maximum-security prison near Philadelphia, Bill Cosby has gone on the record about his trial and life in prison. In an interview with the National Newspaper Publishers Association's BlackPressUSA.com, the disgraced comedian said he won't tell the parole board that he feels any remorse for his crimes. 
"I have eight years and nine months left," the 82-year-old said in a phone interview. "When I come up for parole, they're not going to hear me say that I have remorse. I was there. I don't care what group of people come along and talk about this when they weren't there. They don't know."
[NYPOST] A Florida man was arrested after he tried to claim that the wind blew a coke baggie into his car, according to a report.
[Mil.com] Second Lt. Willie Evelyn Webster served as an Army nurse during World War II, and she's turning 100 years old on Dec. 14. Let's all send her a birthday card in honor of her service and for reaching birthday triple digits!
[cigar afficiando] For the first time ever, Brazil joins the U.S. in voting no
...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...
[DAWN] Little progress has been made in investigations into the activities of habitual child abuser Sohail Ayaz because the cybercrime wing of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has not yet been made a part of the process.
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess...
