[Right Scoop] Jussie Smollet is at it again! Or rather, an African-American couple pulled their best Jussie Smollet impression by attacking their own car and blaming it on the Trumpers!
Here’s how the original story came out:
An African-American Southaven couple said they woke up Tuesday morning to find racist graffiti had been spray-painted on two of their vehicles.
Southaven Police confirmed they are investigating the reported vandalism on Marcia Louise Drive, and the FBI is also looking into the matter.
The couple’s pickup truck has two N****** spray-painted on it. A car was painted with the phrase ’Leave N******’ and ’Trump.’
"This had to be unnerving for a quiet family to come out to their cars and see what they saw there," neighbor Pastor Vincent McCaskil said.
The couple didn’t want to speak with WREG about what happened and neither did most of their neighbors, but McCaskill said he couldn’t stay silent.
"It’s time for us as believers to truly speak up and speak out against it," he said. "We cannot remain silent against this."
Oh no, that is awful, they’re believers, they had to speak out! Oh wait wait wait... the only thing they believe is that it’s worth going to jail in order to smear Trump supporters:
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Just south of Memphis in Mississippi.
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If you can justify hate laws then you must support using the full power of the law against hoaxers as well as the hoax spreads fear throughout the targeted community the same way a real event would have.
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I remember seeing this on the news not too long ago. My first thought was hoax. I’m at the point that absolutely every one of these incidents is a hoax. Even the mythical kkk-nazi knows there is absolutely no benefit whatsoever to spray painting epithets. Can anyone show me one single time that any of these have been proven to be the works of the evil, white, maga hat, kkk, nazi redneck?
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I don’t recall Tim’s act being racially motivated. His enthusiasm for Trump remains unverified. Let’s limit our search to this century with the exception of the very limited backlash against immigrant grocers following 9/11
[BREITBART] Maurice ’Isaiah’ Torres died of septic shock in an Arkansas hospital after his father violated him with a stick for eating a piece of cake.
Mauricio Alejandro Torres was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 2016, but it was overturned due to a technicality. State law dictates that capital murder offences that carry the death penalty must be tried in the same state as where they are being prosecuted. And while Isaiah died in his home state of Arkansas, the assault that killed him happened in Missouri.
The disturbing details of his short life and protracted death were set before the court on Thursday. "This is a story of abuse, torture, and murder of six-year-old Isaiah," Benton County Prosecutor Nathan Smith told jurors. "He suffered chronic child abuse syndrome. The pictures you will see are ugly, grotesque."
Isaiah died of septic shock after his father raped him with a stick for eating a piece of cake without permission during a camping trip on March 28, 2015. The bleeding, badly injured little boy was then forced into strenuous exercise by his parents as further punishment. His mother, Cathy, then pushed him to the ground in the midst of his desperate fight for survival.
As he deteriorated, Isaiah’s parents finally alerted emergency medical services, who then transported him to the Bella Vista medical clinic near his home. Unfortunately, it was already too late. The next day, the bacterial infection Isaiah contracted from the torture finally took his life.
Isaiah did not have to die. A year before his death, the Arkansas Department of Human Services twice investigated his parents on allegations of child abuse. Unfortunately, no one ‐ not even the department that explicitly exists for that purpose ‐ took the action needed to save his life.
In the opening statements of the re-trial, two of Isaiah’s teachers testified that they recorded evidence of his abuse and reported it to authorities through the Arkansas Department of Health and Human Services Child Abuse Hotline. They received no response. Arkansas carries the fourth highest rate of rape in the United States, and is within the top 15 states for fatal child abuse.
Defense attorney Bill James told the jurors not to "use emotion as evidence," and urged them to "try your best to keep decision based on evidence/fact." Torres’s defense rests on putting the blame for Isaiah’s death on his wife. Cathy Torres has already received a life sentence on charges of capital murder for her part in the destruction of her child.
Mauricio Torres face charges of battery and capital murder. If re-convicted in Arkansas, he will face life imprisonment or execution. The trial will resume on Friday morning, and is expected to last roughly two weeks.
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May I suggest a transfer to Corcoran? It may be that Jonathan Watson - surprisingly talented man of letters and honorary Rantburg folk hero - could provide Mr. Torres with some much needed counciling.
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These conditions are probably better for the virus there than they are in China. Even though areas of rural China are rugged, there are not too many large urban populations of homeless/helpless/hapless people. I am not where they go, but they don't stay downtown here. Skid row, the Tenderloin, and other California cesspools could really get hit hard. They are kind of begging for it.
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..and we're blessed with activist lawyers and judges who believe plague has rights. They'll obstruct common sense public hygiene practices learned over hundreds of years of human experience. See - HIV
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I am just wondering that it seems most if not all homeless have substance abuse problems.Drugs cost money, and if the homeless did not spend money on drugs, they might have enough money to afford housing.Would it not make sense to put people in substance abuse centers as opposed to handing out free needles?
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meth has shown to give some protection to the flu.
possibly due to the higher body temp?
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That's what some of the University Researchers are saying around here too, Frank. Apparently the virus in its current form doesn't like temps over 'normal'. That's why kids have been mostly unaffected as their body temperatures can be 'normal' at 99.2F and the elderly (with typical lower body temps than 98.6F) have been hit hardest.
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Meth has the added benefit of making addicts look sketchy so everyone keeps their distance. This ensures they are only at risk of catching the flu from objects and objects tend to have a low tranmission rate compared to people.
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I am going to be a super star! Going on shark tank next week with a no fail start up! Rehab old smelters and coke ovens from steel plants and open up a giant morgue and crematorium and chase government no bid contracts! Going to have to pay off epa people though I imagine those 500,000 thousand resin coffins fema stored a couple of so years back will give off bad has and cause the greenies all sorts of hysteria! Watch for me!
WATCH: Vice President Mike Pence tells Chuck Todd "there will be more cases" but he has "confidence. #MTP#IfItsSunday@VP Pence: "The risk of infection to people in this country remains low." pic.twitter.com/QqbI14IKhI
Coronavirus: Over 87,000 Infected Globally, Nearly 3,000 Dead
[BREITBART] A viral outbreak that began in China has infected more than 87,000 people globally and caused nearly 3,000 deaths. The World Health Organization has named the illness COVID-19, referring to its origin late last year and the coronavirus that causes it.
South Korea wages ‘all-out responses’ to virus with 586 new cases
[BREITBART] South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Sunday the government was waging "all-out responses" to contain the novel coronavirus as the country added 586 more cases, taking the total to 3,736. South Korea has the largest national total in the world outside China, after it saw a rapid surge in the number of coronavirus cases in recent days.
Scores of events have been cancelled or postponed over the contagion, while the country’s central bank has warned of a minus growth in the first quarter for the world’s 12th-largest economy, noting the epidemic will hit both consumption and exports.
"The government is now waging all-out responses after raising the crisis alert to the highest level," Moon said at an Independence Movement Day ceremony, scaled down due to the outbreak.
"We will be able to overcome the COVID-19 outbreak and revive our shrunken economy," he added.
Samsung Electronics suspended operations at its domestic smartphone plant in Gumi ‐ 200 kilometres (210 miles) southeast of Seoul ‐ on Saturday for the second time in a week, after a third employee tested positive for the virus.
#breaking North Korea urges foreign diplomats to leave on Friday. Dozens of foreign diplomats quarantined in Pyongyang, North Korea are planning to take an evacuation flight this Friday, a source inside the country tells me.
The source says North Korea’s state run airline Air Koryo will operate the flight to evacuate foreign diplomats from from Pyongyang to Vladivostok, Russia. “But as far as I understand this is not agreed yet with the Russians,” the source adds. Russian MOFA won’t confirm to CNN.
First cases of coronavirus confirmed in Kurdistan Region
[RUDAW.NET] The Kurdistan Regional Government's Health Ministry has announced the first confirmed cases of coronavirus in the Region. "In the course of the past 24 hours, tests were conducted for 24 suspects. As a result, four people from Sulaimani tested positive for Covid-19 including a family of three and another woman who have all returnees from Iran," the KRG Health Ministry announced in a statement on Sunday.
Iran has quickly become a hub for the virus, with cases in Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Canada, Georgia, Iraq, Kuwait, Leb, Oman, Pakistain, and the United Arab Emirates tracing back to the country.
Eleven die from coronavirus in Iran in 24 hours [RUDAW.NET] Eleven people have died from coronavirus in Iran in the last 24 hours, bringing the country’s death toll to 54, a health ministry official announced on Sunday, as the country struggles to contain the outbreak.
The total number of confirmed cases in Iran has risen to 978, Ministry of Health spokesperson Kianoush Jahanpour announced at a daily press conference providing updates on the outbreak, with 385 new cases of the virus confirmed since yesterday.
"Three new lab-verified cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 have been recorded," the Health Ministry said in a statement.
"They are individuals who had arrived aboard planes coming from Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and had been in home quarantine. They were transferred to the quarantine ward at the Rafik Hariri hospital after showing symptoms of the disease," the Ministry added.
The health ministry said that after PCR tests confirmed their infections, they were moved to quarantined rooms in the hospital.
#3
some countries have for now gotten this under control
e.g.,
India had several cases diagnosed in early Feb but hasn't had a new case in about 3 weeks
Singapore with over a hundred cases and still no deaths.
Many of the provinces in China (not Hubai obviously) have been having no more than a half a dozen new cases per day even though these provinces have 30 million to 100 million people.
even the Diamond Princess, with 700+ cases and 3000+ people on board has gone most of a week without new cases
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Good news, LG, but could simply be a result of limited test kits.
As I recall though, Singapore has excellent health care.
[ARCAMAX] Adult film actress Riley Reyes was preparing for a "particularly physical" scene last week when she received word of a proposed state measure that would impose strict new rules on her industry."I was completely shocked," said Reyes, who is among "hundreds of thousands" of performers the bill initially sought to have fingerprinted, background-checked and mandated into education programs under a new licensing scheme. "It was weird to have to go to work and act sexy and normal after finding out."
Reyes shoots hardcore sex scenes on the storied sets of the San Fernando Valley, long dubbed the "porn capital of the world." She also heads the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee, one of a small number of organized labor and workers' rights groups that meet regularly with politicians on industry issues.
None of them knew about Assembly Bill 2389 until after it was introduced. The snub has renewed a bitter fight over who speaks for adult performers in a state where politicians have long sought to assert some control over the industry. After a decade of proposed porn czars and failed condom codes, strippers, adult film actors and webcam performers say Sacramento is looking for novel ways to police them.
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You voted the commies in, live with it, or in your case, move to Las Vegas where the industry is already headed. Commies want to control every part of your life. It's about power. BTW, they have no problem calling those who don't agree with them as fascists. Return the favor and don't hold back calling them commies.
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This is my rifle, this is my gun. California wants to register both.
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[PULSE.NG] Center-right leader Luis Lacalle Pou was sworn in as president of Uruguay on Sunday, marking a new era for the South American country after 15 years of left-wing rule that brought in social reforms but left a stagnated economy.
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[Independent] The workers in standard-issue blue jackets stitch and glue and press together about eight million pairs of Nikes each year at Qingdao Taekwang Shoes Co., a Nike supplier for more than 30 years and one of the US brand’s largest factories.
They churn out pair after pair of Shox, with their springy shock absorbers in the heels, and the signature Air Max, plus seven other lines of sports shoes.
However, hundreds of these workers did not choose to be here: they are ethnic Uighurs from China’s western Xinjiang region, sent here by local authorities in groups of 50 to toil far from home.
After intense international criticism of the Communist Party’s campaign to forcibly assimilate the mostly Muslim Uighur minority by detaining more than a million people in re-education camps, party officials said last year that most have "graduated" and been released.
But there is new evidence to show that the Chinese authorities are moving Uighurs into government-directed labour around the country as part of the central government’s Xinjiang Aid initiative.
[Jpost] North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... fired two unidentified projectiles off the east coast into the sea on Monday, South Korea's defense ministry said.
The ministry said the projectiles were fired from the eastern coastal city of Wonsan, where North Korea has fired a series of short-range missiles.
The ministry did not provide details of the projectiles but said it is watching for any additional launches.North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... oversaw military drills on Friday, a rare public outing amid efforts to prevent an outbreak of the coronavirus in the isolated country.
[Jpost] The government of Seoul asked for a murder investigation into leaders of a Christian sect at the center of the country's deadly coronavirus outbreak, saying the church was liable for its refusal to cooperate with efforts to stop the disease.
A large majority of the more than 4,000 confirmed cases of the South Korean outbreak, the largest outside China and still growing, have been linked to the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, a secretive movement that reveres founder Lee Man-hee.
Park Won-soon, mayor of the capital Seoul, said if Lee and other leaders of the church had cooperated, effective preventive measures could have saved those who later died of the virus.
"The situation is this serious and urgent, but where are the leaders of the Shincheonji, including Lee Man-hee, the chief director of this crisis?" Park said in a post on his Facebook page late on Sunday.
Seoul's city government said in a separate statement that it had filed a criminal complaint with the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, asking for an investigation of Lee and 12 others on charges of murder and disease control act violations.
The prosecutors' office said it had received the complaint and was reviewing it.
Health authorities said the vast majority of the 3,000 cases confirmed in Daegu, another Korean city, were linked to a branch of the church there, where a person who had tested positive in February attended services twice.
Many have blamed the church's secretive nature and tightly packed conditions at services for the large number of cases linked to it.
An additional 600 cases were detected in the province surrounding Daegu.
South Korea's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reported 476 new cases of the coronavirus on Monday, raising the total to 4,212 with 22 deaths.
The church issued a statement Sunday reiterating calls for an end to "stigmatization, hatred and slander" against its followers, saying it was cooperating with the government.
Health authorities said they have obtained a list of 317,320 Shincheonji members and "trainees," but have been told by some local governments that it was not exhaustive.
Dubai (AFP) Stock markets in the energy-rich Gulf states rebounded Monday, after huge losses in the previous session driven by fears over the impact of the coronavirus which has sent oil prices below $50 a barrel.
Kuwait Boursa, which suspended trading Sunday after shedding over 10 percent, led the rally with its premier shares index soaring some 7.0 percent and the All-Shares index surging around 5.0 percent.
Saudi Arabia's Tadawul market gained 2.3 percent at the start of trading with energy giant Saudi Aramco rising 1.0 percent from historic lows on Sunday.
Dubai Financial Market Index climbed 2.2 percent and its sister UAE market in Abu Dhabi rose 1.4 percent. The tiny Muscat Securities Market in Oman inched up 0.2 percent while Bahrain bourse rose 2.2 percent.
The recovery came as oil prices gained more than 3.0 percent to above $51 a barrel.
Qatar Stock Exchange, which was closed on Sunday for a holiday, bucked the trend to slide 3.1 percent at the start of trading.
On Sunday, the first trading day of the week in the region, all the Gulf bourses except Qatar posted heavy losses.
The Saudi market, the region's largest, had dropped 3.7 percent to an 18-month low with Saudi Aramco diving to its lowest price since listing about three months ago.
The United Arab Emirates bourses of Dubai and Abu Dhabi fell 4.5 percent and 3.6 percent respectively. Bahrain shares shed 3.4 percent and the Muscat bourse dropped 1.2 percent.
Asian stock markets also made a partial recovery on Monday as the Bank of Japan pledged support following heavy losses last week on concerns over the mounting economic impact of coronavirus.
BANGKOK (AP) ‐ Share prices in Asia bounced back Monday from last week’s retreat, with mainland Chinese indexes gaining more than 3% as data showed progress in restoring factory output after weeks of disruptions from the viral outbreak.
Stocks have been swooning as investors fret the coronavirus outbreak will derail the global economy. But in those declines, some see opportunities to buy.
Japan’s Nikkei 225 index recovered from early losses, gaining 1% to 21,345.54 after the Bank of Japan promised to step in to support the economy. The Shanghai Composite index rose 3.1% to 2,969.57. The benchmark for the smaller exchange, in Shenzhen, jumped 3.4%, while South Korea’s Kospi climbed 1% to 2,006.63. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong jumped 0.8% to 26,345.77 and India’s Sensex advanced 1.6% to 38,909.43.
Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda issued a statement Monday, after an early plunge in share prices, saying the central bank "will closely monitor future developments, and will strive to provide ample liquidity and ensure stability in financial markets through appropriate market operations and asset purchases."
On Friday the BOJ issued plans for purchases of assets for the coming weeks: the central bank already buys tens of billions of dollars’ worth of government bonds and other assets each year as part of its aggressive efforts to maintain cheap credit to help prevent deflation.
Shares fell in Australia, where the S&P ASX/200 lost 0.8% to 6,391.50 and in Taiwan, which fell 1.1%. Stocks were mostly higher in Southeast Asia, and Bangkok’s benchmark surged 0.9%.
[The News (Pak)] The federal government has decided to move the UK authorities to deport former prime minister Nawaz Sharif ...served two three non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... , a couple of days after the 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.... government decided it will not extend the PML-N chief's bail.
Speaking to media during a news conference, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said that it was now time for Nawaz to be brought back to the country.
"Nawaz Sharif did not provide his medical reports to the Punjab government," she said, describing the PML-N chief's decease as a 'fixed match'.
"The government will write to British authorities for Sharif brothers' deportation," said Awan. In the next week, concerned authorities will take steps in this regard, she added.
She said a section of media created an environment that if Nawaz was not allowed to leave for treatment abroad his life might be in danger.
[APNEWS] A coughing 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... told pilgrims gathered for the traditional Sunday blessing that he is canceling his participation at a week-long spiritual retreat in the Roman countryside because of a cold.
It is the first time in his seven-year papacy that he has missed the spiritual exercises that he initiated early in his pontificate to mark the start of each Lenten season. Such retreats are typical Jesuits, an order to which he belongs. "This year, for Lent, I'm giving up good health"
The 83-year-old pontiff, who lost part of a lung to a respiratory illness as a young man, has canceled several official engagements this week as he battled an apparent cold.
His weekly appearance Sunday to pilgrims from a window high above St. Peter’s Square was the first time he has been seen publicly since Ash Wednesday, when he was seen coughing and blowing his nose during Mass.
Francis paused twice to cough Sunday while addressing the faithful. At the end, he asked for prayers for the spiritual retreat, adding "unfortunately a cold prevents me from participating this year. I will be following the meditation from here."
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The next Pope should be an AI avatar. It would save everyone a lot of time, money and... carbon, all this traveling and shaking of hands. The avatar could remain in a meditative posture all the time, and be called up remotely on smart devices... offering unsolicited, inane profundities to users. The Pope could be downloaded from Google Play™.
I'm serious. It doesn't really have to be an intelligent human being, just a facsimile of one. This one proved it.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Footage shows the spaceship explode and as it flies off its stand and crashes
The prototype failed to contain its liquid nitrogen in a setback to Elon Musk
The test at 10pm on Friday was part of his push to put people on Mars
Welds failed in the bottom tank header not handling the cold of liquid nitrogen. There are statements that TIG welding may be inappropriate for extreme cold conditions. If one even looks a storage tanks for any super cold fluid they are usually narrow and long. These tanks are 10 meters wide. SpaceX is investigating a new arena here for metal expansion and contraction. One wonders if there are stamping presses that could do a 10 meter stainless end cap.
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The last time this happened I said I thought they were attempting manufacture without proper environmental control. They're right in the middle of a salt water marsh on the Gulf with a lot of humidity.
[XINHUANET] Muhyiddin Yassin, a former deputy prime minister, took the oath of office on Sunday to become Malaysia's new prime minister.
Muhyiddin was appointed following the abrupt resignation of 94-year-old Mahathir Mohamad, who had been in office since the general elections in 2018.
TV live-broadcast showed that Muhyiddin, wearing traditional Malay clothes, pledged to serve the country and the people well before Malaysia's King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah at the national palace.
The ceremony was attended by Muhyiddin's political allies.
Muhyiddin, 72, had served as deputy prime minister under former Prime Minister Najib Razak from 2009 to 2015. He later co-founded Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (PPBM) with Mahathir and served as its president, joining the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition to win the general election in 2018.
He served as home minister in Mahathir's cabinet.
On the same day of Mahathir's abrupt resignation on Feb. 24, Muhyiddin announced as party president that PPBM is pulling out of the PH coalition, costing its majority in the lower house of parliament.
Muhyiddin later won support from major opposition including the Barisan Nasional led by the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) and became a leading candidate as prime minister.
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.
Hey Roberts, come take a look at CAM #4. 
[BREITBART] Maurice ’Isaiah’ Torres died of septic shock in an Arkansas hospital after his father violated him with a stick for eating a piece of cake.
As he deteriorated, Isaiah’s parents finally alerted emergency medical services, who then transported him to the Bella Vista medical clinic near his home. Unfortunately, it was already too late. The next day, the bacterial infection Isaiah contracted from the torture finally took his life.
[RUDAW.NET] Eleven people have died from coronavirus in Iran in the last 24 hours, bringing the country’s death toll to 54, a health ministry official announced on Sunday, as the country struggles to contain the outbreak.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
[ARCAMAX] Adult film actress Riley Reyes was preparing for a "particularly physical" scene last week when she received word of a proposed state measure that would impose strict new rules on her industry."I was completely shocked," said Reyes, who is among "hundreds of thousands" of performers the bill initially sought to have fingerprinted, background-checked and mandated into education programs under a new licensing scheme. "It was weird to have to go to work and act sexy and normal after finding out."
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
...served 
...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...
