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She looks better with her head intact
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Mansfield bars, also known as underride guards, are metal bars affixed to the back of semi-trucks and trailers. They are designed to prevent passenger cars from sliding underneath semi-trailers in the event of a collision.0 The bars were named after the tragic death of actress Jayne Mansfield, who died in a car crash at the age of 34. The U.S. government mandated trailers have a rear bumper to help prevent similar deaths. While the bars are designed to prevent people from sliding underneath semi-trailers, cars with low bumper heights and hood heights can still slide underneath a semi-trailer.1 The effectiveness of Mansfield bars is a topic of debate.
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A talented musician, I read somewhere that she wanted to focus on playing the violin but people wanted to see her other talents.
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Alan Arkin dead at age 89.
"Serpentine, Sheldon!"
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IQ north of 150, so she was also a pretty smart lady.
She didn't capitalize on that as the 'fans' wanted her for her other qualities.
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Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto in A Minor is a solid high school musician piece, which is about how well she’s playing. But that’s the age she would have given it up for her acting career.
I’m glad she had such private pleasures to enrich her life.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Commander Mohammed Hamdan Daglo "Hemetti" acknowledged on Monday that his forces had committed violations against civilians and revealed the establishment of field courts to address these offences.
In an audio message shared on social media to mark the occasion of Eid al-Adha ...a major Moslem holiday, marked by animal sacrifice and ritual rioting... , Hemetti declared a two-day unilateral truce. He expressed concern over reports of human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... violations and thefts perpetrated by his troops against civilians and their properties.
"These (abuses) violate the RSF law and the directives of its big shotship, and we will address them firmly and seriously," he stated.
Since the outbreak of the conflict on April 15, RSF elements have been engaged in widespread looting in Khartoum, targeting stores, civilian residences, and even foreign embassies. Numerous videos depicting these crimes have been circulated. Additionally, cases of rape against women have been reported.
Nevertheless, before Monday’s statement, the paramilitary forces leaders turned a blind eye to these abuses.
Hemetti announced the formation of a court led by Major General Essam Fidail to combat these crimes. He stated that the court has already commenced its work in Omdurman and has already tried several individuals involved in violations.
Referring to the recent demonstrations held in various Khartoum neighbourhoods against the RSF’s presence in residential areas and the crimes committed by its members, Hemetti said that the military had exploited these violations to incite the public against them and accused the army of being behind these protests.
He further termed the calls for demonstrations against the RSF as a "malicious conspiracy" to drag civilians into war.
Hemetti also declared a unilateral cessation of hostilities on Tuesday and Wednesday, "except in cases of self-defence."
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[GOOBJOOG] Air raids were reported in Sudan’s capital Khartoum Wednesday despite the two warring parties declaring a ceasefire in respect of the Moslem holiday Eid al-Adha ...a major Moslem holiday, marked by animal sacrifice and ritual rioting... Local media reported that fighting continued in Omdurman, at the outskirts of Khartoum Wednesday afternoon as the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... mission in Sudan continued calls for a sustained ceasefire.
"The RSF and allied militias remain accountable for violence against civilians, rape and looting in the areas they control, including in Khartoum, and ethnically targeted violence against civilians in Darfur", the mission said in a statement.
The war between Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that broke out in April has caused a major humanitarian crisis and displaced nearly 2.8 million people, of which almost 650,000 have fled to neighboring countries.
The three cities that make up the wider capital around the confluence of the River Nile — Khartoum, Khartoum North and Omdurman — have seen more than 10 weeks of heavy festivities and looting, while the conflict has triggered a resurgence of ethnically motivated killings in the western region of Darfur.
The conflict broke out amid disputes about what powers they would retain under an internationally backed plan for a transition to civilian rule.
Multiple ceasefire deals have failed to stick, including several brokered by 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... and the United States at talks in Jeddah that were suspended last week.
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UPDATE: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says it has facilitated the release of 125 soldiers of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) held by the Rapid Deployment Forces (RSF) in its role as neutral intermediary and following a request by the parties to the conflict. pic.twitter.com/Ac9kKORpqx
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[Regnum] More than a thousand law enforcement officers are involved in the search for 16 police officers abducted by armed criminals in southern Mexico. This was announced on June 28 by the Minister of Security and Civil Protection of the state, Gabriela Cepeda Soto, on social networks.
Police officers were kidnapped in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. A bus from the Ministry of Security and Protection of the Citizens of the State of Chiapas was found at the scene of the incident, in which there were 17 women. All the women were employees of the Ministry, they told about the interception of the bus by a group of armed men. The attackers in cars surrounded the bus and forced all the men to get out of it, they took them away in an unknown direction.
A total of 16 police officers were abducted. Zepeda Soto specified that during the extended operation, which was carried out near the place of kidnapping, two men were detained, who are suspected of involvement in the crime.
Earlier, IA Regnum reported that four Mexican citizens were arrested in the United States, suspected of involvement in the death of 53 illegal migrants in a truck while transporting them through American territory.
It is alleged that the organizers of the importation of illegal migrants to the United States were aware that the ventilation in the truck was faulty and the air conditioner was not cooling the room in which the people were. If those arrested are found guilty, they face a sentence of life imprisonment without the right to pardon.
[An Nahar] Protesters angry after police fatally shot a 17-year-old boy set cars and public buildings ablaze in Gay Paree suburbs and unrest spread to some other French cities and towns, despite increased security efforts and the president's calls for calm.
The killing of 17-year-old Nahel during a traffic check Tuesday, captured on video, shocked the country and stirred up long-simmering tensions between young people and police in housing projects and other disadvantaged neighborhoods around La Belle France.
Nahel's surname has not been released by authorities or by his family. In earlier statements, lawyers for the family spelled the name Nael.
Clashes first erupted Tuesday night in and around the Gay Paree suburb of Nanterre, where Nahel was killed, and the government deployed 2,000 police to maintain order Wednesday. But violence resumed after dusk.
Police and firefighters struggled to contain protesters and extinguish numerous blazes through the night that damaged schools, cop shoppes and town halls or other public buildings, according to a spokesperson for the national police. The national police on Thursday reported fires or skirmishes in multiple cities overnight, from Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... in the south to Lille in the north, though the nexus of tensions was Nanterre and other Gay Paree suburbs.
Police arrested 150 people around the country, more than half of them in the Gay Paree region, the spokesperson said. She was not authorized to be publicly named according to police rules.
The number of injured was not immediately released.
French President Emmanuel Macron held an emergency security meeting Thursday about the violence.
"These acts are totally unjustifiable," Macron said at the beginning of the meeting, which aimed at securing hot spots and planning for the coming days "so full peace can return."
Macron also said it was time for "remembrance and respect" as Nahel's mother called for a silent march Thursday in his honor on the square where he was killed.
Multiple vehicles were set ablaze in Nanterre and protesters shot fireworks and threw stones at police, who fired repeated volleys of tear gas. Flames shot out of three stories of a building, and a blaze was reported at an electrical plant. Fire damaged the town hall of the Gay Paree suburb of L'Ile-Saint-Denis, not far from La Belle France's national stadium and the headquarters of the Gay Paree 2024 Olympics.
A third night of mayhem saw violent clashes spreading across Europe last night
Macron was criticised by an MEP for 'applauding' John while Paris was on fire
Rioting and looting spread across Europe last night after the 'execution' killing of a teenager in Paris - as pictures emerged of President Emmanuel Macron partying with Elton John while his country burnt, triggering a furious backlash.
Mr Macron was filmed at Paris's Accor Arena on Wednesday evening, watching the singer on his farewell tour, while rioters caused mayhem in the capital following the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old identified as Nahel on Tuesday. The French President was snapped arm in arm with the legendary 76-year-old artist - who he bestowed France's Legion of Honour award - alongside his wife Brigitte.
But while Macron was hobnobbing backstage, police were locked in fierce clashes with protesters, making 150 arrests nationwide - as public anger spilled out onto the streets of France's major cities for a third night.
Protesters torched cars, barricaded roads and hurled projectiles at police. Other rioters scrawled 'Vengeance for Nahel' across buildings and bus shelters as a bank was set ablaze.
And in a fresh escalation of the chaos, violent clashes reportedly spread into the Belgium capital of Brussels, amid fears further protests could spread to other European capitals.
In a desperate attempt to quell the civil unarrest, some 40,000 French cops are today being deployed nationwide.
But Macron's photo with Elton ignited outrage overnight, with Thierry Mariani, an MEP with Marine Le Pen's National Rally, raging: 'While France was on fire, Macron applauded Elton John', the Telegraph reported.
The violence continued despite the police officer accused of pulling the trigger being handed a preliminary charge of voluntary homicide.
There are also growing concerns of the mayhem spilling out into other corners of Europe after footage emerged of on social media of riots starting in areas of Belgium.
Riot police in body armour and wielding shields were seen storming the streets in the Belgium district of Anneessens. Protesters, some clad in hoodies and wearing masks, clashed with the authorities as they torched cars and used fireworks as weapons in the streets. The disorder was reportedly arranged over social media in response to the killing of 17-year-old Nahel M. who was shot dead in his car on Tuesday by a French police officer.
About a dozen people were detained during scuffles related to the killing in France, with Belgian police spokeswoman Ilse Van de Keere saying several fires were brought under control, and that at least one car was burned.
Prosecutor Pascal Prache has said his initial investigation led him to conclude 'the conditions for the legal use of the weapon were not met'.
Despite government appeals for calm and vows that order would be restored, smoke billowed from cars and rubbish was set ablaze in the Paris suburb of Nanterre following a peaceful afternoon march in honour of the teenager identified only by his first name, Nahel.
After a morning crisis meeting following violence that injured scores of police and damaged nearly 100 public buildings, interior minister Gerald Darmanin said the number of officers in the streets would more than quadruple, from 9,000 to 40,000. In the Paris region alone, the number of officers deployed would more than double to 5,000.
'The professionals of disorder must go home,' Mr Darmanin said.
While there is no need yet to declare a state of emergency - a measure taken to quell weeks of rioting in 2005 - he added: 'The state's response will be extremely firm.'
He said officers made more than 180 arrests before Thursday and that there would 'doubtless' be more.
Bus and tram services in the Paris area were shutting down before sunset as a precaution to safeguard transportation workers and passengers.
The town of Clamart, home to 54,000 people in the French capital's south-west suburbs, said it was taking the extraordinary step of putting an overnight curfew in place from Thursday through to Monday, citing 'the risk of new public order disturbances.'
The mayor of Neuilly-sur-Marne announced a similar curfew in that town in the eastern suburbs of Paris.
Marseille, the giant port city in the south of France saw the beginnings of unrest on Thursday evening, with several hundred young people roaming the city centre and setting fire to rubbish containers, including in front of the region's main administrative building, police said.
Officers dispersed most of the about 400 people who had gathered, police said. Police arrested three people and one officer was injured.
The unrest extended even to Brussels, where about a dozen people were detained during scuffles related to the shooting in France. Police spokeswoman Ilse Van de Keere said several fires were brought under control, and that at least one car was burned.
The shooting captured on video shocked the country and stirred up long-simmering tensions between police and young people in housing projects and other disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
The teenager's family and their lawyers have not said the police shooting was race-related and they did not release his surname or details about him. Still, his death instantly inflamed raw nerves in neighbourhoods that have welcomed generations of immigrants from France's former colonies and elsewhere. Their France-born children frequently complain that they are subjected to police ID checks and harassment far more frequently than white people or those in more affluent neighbourhoods.
Mr Prache, the Nanterre prosecutor, said officers tried to stop Nahel because he looked so young and was driving a Mercedes with Polish licence plates in a bus lane. He ran a red light to avoid being stopped then got stuck in traffic. Both officers involved said they drew their guns to prevent him from fleeing. The officer who fired a single shot said he feared he and his colleague or someone else could be hit by the car, according to Mr Prache. The officers said they felt 'threatened' as the car drove off.
He said two magistrates are leading the investigation, as is common in France. Preliminary charges mean investigating judges strongly suspect wrongdoing but need to investigate more before sending the case to trial. The police officer was in provisional detention, prosecutors said.
A decorated French police officer shot and killed a 17-year-old French-Algerian, Nahel M., who raced away from a traffic stop while reportedly endangering the life of a pedestrian and a cyclist.
Besoeker commented: Additional decorations, a new Peugeot 508, and a villa in Saint-Paul-de-Vence should be forthcoming.
So who was this angelic soul so brutally gunned down by French police?
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According to information from Europe 1 news outlets, Nahel M. had 15 mentions in the criminal history file and had been implicated five times for refusals to comply with police officers since 2021, thus all in less than two years.
In addition, police recorded him for crimes including “concealment” and disorderly conduct against police in 2020. In February 2022, he had been implicated in the use of false license plates, concealment and driving without insurance.
In January and March 2023, police arrested him for the consumption and sale of narcotics.
Not exactly an Algerian mob hitman, but on the other hand, running away from police and nearly killing innocent bystanders creates a situation for the police officer to make a choice to protect law-abiding citizens or not.
The officer was no nervous rookie either. He was a highly decorated and experienced police officer.
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Assigned to the public order and traffic department (DOPC) as a biker for the Hauts-de-Seine territorial traffic and road safety company since September 2022, this father has received a series of distinctions during his career in the national police, which began 10 years ago. According to our information, this former soldier received eight letters of congratulations and an internal security medal.
His action during the demonstrations of the yellow vests in 2020, as well as his role in the arrest of an organizer of kidnappings and theft in Val-d’Oise in May 2021, also earned him decorations by the then prefect of police, Didier Lallement, two bronze medals for acts of courage and dedication.
More than 150 arrests have been made and dozens of vehicles torched. Also, several buildings, including the local city hall, were set on fire.
There’s more to this story than meets the eye — on both sides.
The Local:
The circumstances leading to his death are puzzling. How did he come to be driving a bright yellow rented Mercedes? Why were the motorcycle traffic cops so wound up about a banal traffic violation? One of the policemen is heard on the video clip saying: “You’re going to get a bullet in the head if you’re not careful.”
Relations between police and suburban youth are appalling. That has not changed since 2005. In France, the least experienced officers often end up policing the most difficult areas. That has not changed either.
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The return of the Car-Be-Que and the Sharia No-Go Zones as France discovers all that immigrant/diversity bullsh*t was really appeasement and cowardice by Macron and the Brussels Buffoons.
Embassies are by millennia-long practice inviolate, and it is the job of the local government to protect the sanctity if the embassies in its midst. The Ummah, however, believes itself exempt from such practices becausethey are the beloved of Allah, and the rest of us are not.
[IsraelTimes] A few dozen Iraqi protesters briefly breach the Swedish embassy in Baghdad over the burning of the Koran by an Iraqi living in Sweden.
The demonstrators, supporters of firebrand ...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... Shiite Moslem leader Moqtada Sadr, enter the building and remain inside for about 15 minutes before leaving peacefully as security forces deploy.
The protesters rallied outside the embassy in response to a call by Sadr who demanded the removal of the Swedish ambassador, echoing outrage in Moslem countries over the Koran burning ...One of the basic tenets of Islam is that once a Koran has been printed it is expected to last for all time, no matter how old, ratty, and smelly other, lesser holy books may become. Should it actually become necessary to put a Koran out of its misery there is a ritual that includes extensive charivari, featuring long drawn-wailing and head bonking, ritual wife beating, and the sacrifice of dozens of women's noses and pubic lips. When the actual disposal has been completed there is a prescribed period of celebratory gun sex with the expectation of a minimum of two hundred casualties. Should actual infidels dispose of a Koran, Islamic custom calls for three weeks of rioting and a minimum of three dozen dead, which is a holdover from the days of Moloch worship.... yesterday in Stockholm.
Sadr’s supporters also torch rainbow flags that represent the LGBTQ community, after the powerful holy man suggested this would be "the best way to provoke" those who back Koran burnings.
Stockholm’s foreign ministry says in a statement it was "well informed about the situation. Our embassy staff are safe."
Salwan Momika, 37, who fled to Sweden from Iraq several years ago, stomped on the Koran before setting several pages alight in front of Stockholm’s largest mosque yesterday.
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Embassies are by millennia-long practice inviolate, and it is the job of the local government to protect the sanctity if the embassies in its midst. The Ummah, however, believes itself exempt from such practices because they are the beloved of Allah, and the rest of us are not.
TW,
Well put, ma'am. Before the Barbary Wars of the early 1800s, the various Sultans, Beys. Deys, and assorted Satraps in the area overran US embassies and consulates on a regular basis, and on one memorable occasion hijacked a US Navy ship to ferry a menagerie to Turkey.
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Quid Pro Quo - failure to protect the sovereign territory of an Embassy by the host nation should be immediately met with occupation of its' site in the affected nation. Weakness never ends well!
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Generally, the embassy is sovereign territory, but drawing blood to defend the territory is better avoided. That is best done through design. Embassies in Turkey may need a security refresh for all secular countries. Turkey is not the country that it was when most of the embassies were established.
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[IsraelTimes] Spy agency says Yusef Shahbazi Abbasalilo was apprehended in operation in enemy territory; in video, he recounts following his Israeli target and making plans to kill him
Israel’s Mossad spy agency announced Thursday that in a special operation in Iranian territory, it had caught the Iranian terrorist sent to lead a planned terror attack against Israeli targets in Cyprus. The Mossad named the man as Yusef Shahbazi Abbasalilo and published a video of his interrogation by its agents, in which he confessed to the plot and gave details on it. It said Abbasalilo was given weapons for the attack from bigwigs in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and instructions on its implementation. The spy agency said the plan was to target Israeli businessmen in the small island nation.
In his interrogation, Abbasalilo recounted following a target for liquidation and waiting for an opportunity to kill him, but said police eventually caught wind of the plot and he was forced to flee back to Iran
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[NPASYRIA] On Wednesday, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS) arrested 17 people, including four women, from a protest camp set up against the krazed killer group near the Sarmada Roundabout in Sarmada city, northern Idlib. The protesters demanded the release of detainees held by the HTS.
A local source told North Press that Unit 106 from the HTS’ General Security Apparatus surrounded the protest camp earlier in the day. The camp was set up by refugees from the countryside of Hama who were demanding the release of their sons who were tossed into the calaboose by the group in a previous security campaign.
The source added that the campaign sparked outrage among residents over the arbitrary arrests being carried out against them. The General Security has charged the detainees with threatening civil peace and referred them to an anti-terrorism center.
On Tuesday, dozens of protesters set up a protest camp near the Sarmada Roundabout in northern Idlib, demanding the HTS release their loved ones and stop its repression, according to the same source.
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[NPASYRIA] On Thursday, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it will continue its air strikes in Syria until the "elimination of turbans", and revealed the outcome of its recent strike in Idlib, northwest Syria.
On Monday, Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria, affiliated with the Russian Ministry of Defense, said that the Russian forces carried out precision strikes on their facilities in the Sarjah area, in the Idlib de-escalation zone, on June 27.
Deputy Head of the Russian Reconciliation Center, Major General Oleg Yegorov, said that the precise strikes of the Russian air forces will continue until the complete elimination of the Lions of Islam involved in the provocations in Idlib.
The strikes resulted in the destruction of the control center of what he described as illegitimate armed formations and a depot of weapons and ammunition, killing 18 turbans, according to Yegorov.
The Russian military escalation against northwestern Syria is the first of its kind in about three years, as Russian warplanes have carried out more than 25 Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on the area since mid-June, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries.
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Deadly explosion targets Iranian-backed militants in #Homs, central #Syria. As a result, two killed and one injured. However, responsibility remains unknown. #Iranhttps://t.co/fx6wThag8H
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) June 29, 2023
On Wednesday, two bully boyz of Iranian-backed factions were killed and a third was injured in an IED explosion that targeted their car in a town east of Homs Governorate, central Syria.
A military source from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Crops (IRGC) told North Press that an bomb planted under a dirt embankment went kaboom! as a military bus belonging to the Baqir Brigade, affiliated with Iran, passed on Athriya-al-Sukhna road in the eastern countryside of Homs.
The source, who preferred not to be named for security reasons, added that the earth-shattering kaboom resulted in the death of two local bully boyz and the injury of a third of Iraqi nationality who were on board the bus.
The Baqir Brigade deployed military reinforcements to the earth-shattering kaboom site and launched a combing campaign in the surrounding areas without achieving any results or identifying the party responsible for the earth-shattering kaboom, according to the source.
The Iranian-backed militias and Syrian government forces control vast swathes of the Syrian Desert and the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, which witness increasing activity by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) sleeper cells and hard boys.
Since 2017, the government forces have been combing the desert in response to ISIS increasing practices that have caused the forces massive human and material losses.
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