MIAMI (Tribune News Service) ‐ An active-duty U.S. Marine was arrested last month when investigators say he landed in Haiti with boxes filled with guns, ammunition and body armor.
Federal prosecutors indicted Jacques Yves Sebastien Duroseau, a native of Haiti, in North Carolina last week on gun-smuggling charges. Duroseau, described in the indictment as a military firearms instructor, reportedly told investigators he brought the eight guns to the Caribbean country to teach marksmanship to the Haitian army.
Investigators say Duroseau bought some of the guns in Jacksonville, near Camp Lejeune in Eastern North Carolina.
An unidentified "known individual" told federal investigators that Duroseau "wanted to help Haiti and wants to become President of Haiti," according to the indictment filed Wednesday.
The unidentified person helped Duroseau check in to fly to Haiti from an airport in New Bern, N.C., according to the indictment. Duroseau had three boxes with five handguns and three military-style rifles and ammunition, which he declared when he checked the luggage, according to the indictment.
Haitian officials told the Miami Herald "that they became suspicious when they saw the three black cases, two of which were long. Most often the cases mean guns are inside."
Haitian police arrested Duroseau when he landed in the capital, Port-au-Prince, on Nov. 12, according to U.S. court filings.
#10
A Haitian, on crossing his Rubicon,
Sat weeping in Zion for Babylon.
"Bro, why did you go?"
"Doh! I really don't know...
But I wish I'd invaded Lake Woebegone."
[Book Intro] Historical Research all to often resembles diamond mining. Great effort is needed to sift through vast amounts of material to find a few gems. Happily, the source of this book was a rich vein lying just under the surfact of the Library of Congress Newspapers and Periodicals Reading Room among the microfilm rolls of newspapers and records.
The National Tribune lay there quietly, not much disturbed by other miners of history, all but forgotten. This weekly publication was the ancestor of the Stars and Stripes, the service newspaper of the United States Armed Forces, founded in 1877 "to secure to soldiers and sailors their rights...."
Later the Tribune become known for its regular feature. "Fighting Them Over: What Our Veterans Have to Say About Their Old Campaigns," which solicited memoirs from veterans of all ranks and backgrounds. This column established the National Tribune as a forum for discussion, debate, and reminiscence for veterans around the country, eventually becoming the official paper of the Grand Army of the Republic."
This feature is a practically unknown treasure trove of firsthand accounts of America's bloodiest war, the struggle that defined the United States as a nation. Within this trove are the serialized reminiscences of the Chief Scout of the Army of the Potomac, Judson Knight, the the "Fighting Them Over Again" feature, which this book presents for the first time.
The brilliant Col. George H. Sharpe, 120th New York Volunteers created American all-source military intelligence as Chief of the Bureau of Military Information (BMI) for the Army of the Potomac. He became one of Grant's favored family of generals. Judson Knight always referred to him with respect.
[Mil.com] West Point Cadet Daine Van de Wall, the son of immigrants from the Netherlands and "First Captain" of the Corps of Cadets, has been chosen for a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford. Statue of Cecil Rhodes in the garden of the Kimberley Club, Kimberley, SA.
Last year, two members of the Air Force Academy were selected as Rhodes Scholars. But Van de Wall, who intends to become an infantry officer, was the only one from a service academy to be chosen for the coveted award earlier this month.
"Service means a lot to me, specifically having parents who are immigrants coming over here and just being welcomed into the United States of America," Van de Wall, a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, said in an academy news release.
"My parents had the privilege to become naturalized citizens here a few years ago. Now, what it means to me to serve is really just to give back and have the opportunity to thank America for everything it's done for me," he added.
Related: McSally to Service Academies: Stop Putting 19-Year-Olds in Charge of 18-Year-Olds
Van de Wall, of West Friendship, Maryland, was among nearly half of this year's 32 recipients of Rhodes Scholarships who are first-generation Americans, according to the Rhodes Trust.
For the third consecutive year, the majority of the recipients were minorities, and for the first time those selected included a transgender woman.
This year's recipients "once again reflect the extraordinary diversity that characterizes and strengthens the United States," Elliot F. Gerson, American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust, said in a statement. "They will go to Oxford in September 2020 to study in fields broadly across the social, biological and physical sciences, and in the humanities."
The Rhodes Trust pays all college and university fees, and provides a stipend to cover expenses while in residence in Oxford.
The scholarships were created in 1902 by the will of Cecil Rhodes, the controversial diamond mine magnate and British imperialist who was prime minister of the Cape Colony in southern Africa in the 1890s.
Van de Wall, a systems and decisions science major, said he intends to pursue a Master of Philosophy in international relations at Oxford. A Dutchman, Rhodes must be pleased.
As first captain and brigade commander for 4,400 cadets, Van de Wall will have the honor of leading the Corps of Cadets onto the field Dec. 14 at Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field for the 120th Army-Navy football game.
"The role of the First Captain is to lead the course," Van de Wall said in the academy release. "I'm ultimately responsible for the performance of the Corps of Cadets. My job is to come up with the objectives we're trying to reach and come up with a vision for how we're going to get there."
.....the BBC has spent £10m of our money putting together a farrago of exaggerations and smears about this great man." Peter Godwin said of the film that "it feels like a work overwhelmingly informed by malice, consistently seizing on the very worst interpretation of the man without really attempting to get under his skin. Rhodes was no 19th-century Hitler. He wasn't so much a freak as a man of his time."
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Heh, forces. I see I'm not the only one who picked up on that.
He wasn't so much a freak as a man of his time.
This is something that really annoys me about today's progressives/activists/morons - a total unawareness of any historical context whatsoever.
Person X was bad because he kicked a dog.
Yeah, but the dog was biting his leg at the time.
It doesn't matter. Kicking dogs is bad.
I've watched this video many times now. And each time I do., I find it chilling. This is what Corbyn and his allies have unleashed, And even if/when he goes, it won't... https://t.co/4lCmicG19Q
#5
We should home port two of those crappy littoral ships in Taiwan configured with the over the horizon naval strike missile. And two more in the Philippines, and Vietnam. They would be a cheap trip wire, with a serious counter punch.
Such a move would put China's navy on the horns of a dilemma if they wanted to start something.
The announcement from the Office of the United States Trade Representative ended a monthslong investigation into the French tax, which hits companies like Facebook and Google even though they have little physical presence in France. The investigation concluded that the tax "discriminates against U.S. companies, is inconsistent with prevailing principles of international tax policy and is unusually burdensome for affected U.S. companies."
It recommended tariffs as high as 100 percent on certain French imports valued at $2.4 billion, including cheese, wine and handbags.
President Trump, in London on Tuesday for a NATO summit meeting, said the finding was justified. "They’re starting to tax other people’s products," he said, according to a pool report. "So therefore we go and tax them."
France’s economy and finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, on Tuesday denounced the tariff threat as "unacceptable" and said that Europe would come ahead with a "strong response," without elaborating on possible retaliatory measures.
#2
Recent studies have shown the grape fermentation process releases hydrocarbons which contribute to the greenhouse effect. Do we really need all that wine?
#6
I've become rather fond of Australian wines. Pro bogan tip: if you buy it in a box, you can use the plastic bladder as a pillow when your need for sleep exceeds your need for fun.
Yugoslavia used to have some decent and surprisingly cheap wine before it blew up as a country. No idea about the current situation.
[DAWN] Malta’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, under fire over his handling of the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, said on Sunday he would step down after his replacement is chosen in January.
Muscat declined to make a link with Caruana Galizia’s 2017 murder, saying in a televised address that he was resigning "as this is what needs to be done." The announcement came after two weeks of mounting pressure and popular protests calling for Muscat to quit for his handling of the probe into Caruana Galizia’s boom-mobile killing.
Muscat said he would resign after his successor is chosen by January 12.
Earlier Sunday, the Labour leader got the unanimous backing of part MPs at an emergency meeting called a day after tycoon Yorgen Fenech was charged with complicity in the murder. A court has also frozen Fenech’s assets.
The investigation has rocked the southern Mediterranean island, reaching the highest echelons of government.
Critics including members of Caruana Galizia’s family have accused Muscat, 45, of protecting those involved in murdering the popular journalist and blogger who exposed cronyism and sleaze within the tiny country’s political and business elite.
[NewYorkTimes] Jeffrey Epstein, Blackmail and a Lucrative ‘Hot List’: A shadowy hacker claimed to have the financier’s sex tapes. Two top lawyers wondered: What would the men in those videos pay to keep them secret?
#1
Note that this is the Times' lawyers' version of what went down. They make themselves, naturally, look like heroes of probity and superior street smarts, skepticism and caution.
Which raises a questionL why the f--- didn't these brilliant gumshoes see through the bullshit-on-stilts that was Russiagate?
[ThePrint.in] Modi's new love: Fundamental duties Indira Gandhi inserted in Constitution during Emergency
I purposely chose a totally leftist libtard opinion site, to show the sort of restive distrust for everything Modi in these people. That and loathing, like the American left has for Trump. But in India they have to couch that hatred in clever sounding leftSpeak like 'Right-wing tendencies', and 'ultra-nationalism', or 'totalitarian'.
They mention the word 'fascist' irresponsibly and they're toast. The Govt won't do much, no. The public themselves shall torch their offices, smash their cars and kidnap their cats. And the police will be called to save them from the people. Observe the polite circumlocution around something they are totally uncomfortable with, just can't openly say it. An acceptable level of public accountability wouldn't you say ?
I just posted this so people could see what some countries are doing to transform their social landscapes from hair-triggered, freebie loving, perpetually whining mobs into responsible citizens conscious of the value of their citizenships. The onslaught of faux-liberal globalist corruption of cultures must be met with a standard of nationalist fervor and responsible civic life. That's the idea anyway.
It's notable that at least some leaders are trying. In Poland, Italy, Hungary, India, Thailand, Japan, USA, Brazil... so many Govts that are being termed 'populist' by globalist lackeys. But they're not globalists, they're nationalist leaders. Of course, this wave began with Japan, just as the sun rises there.
Soon after his spectacular victory in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in Parliament that there was a need for a 'paradigm shift' in India - from the centrality of fundamental rights to the fundamental duties. Many in media, Parliament, and among the common public saw the statement in a positive light and found nothing controversial: Modi was most likely rendering a version of John F. Kennedy's 'ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country'.
Then it was reported that the Ministry of Human Resource Development has sent a letter to all institutes of higher education, laying out the guidelines on how to celebrate Constitution Day. What is striking about the letter is its repeated focus on fundamental duties for this year's celebration. But this is not a one-off incident. There was a letter sent out in 2016 too wherein fundamental duties were similarly given special attention. It is quite clear that Modi and the state apparatus under him seem to believe that the thrust of constitutional education and constitutional discourse must be centred around fundamental duties.
I'll skip a bit.
Modi's citation of M.K. Gandhi in The New York Times article to support his emphasis on 'duties' is indeed correct. However, Gandhian thinking on rights and duties represents only a sliver of India's constitutional tradition. Most of Indian constitutional thinking, forged in the crucible of our freedom movement, emphasized rights and not duties.
Apart from one or two instances where members of the Constituent Assembly echoed Gandhi's idea on rights and duties, we find no evidence that remotely suggests that the framers of our Constitution seriously considered adopting something that resembled fundamental duties. While they might have had moral and political convictions about the links between rights and duties, they did not find it appropriate for these to be encoded into the Indian Constitution. Fundamental rights were given the most emphasis.
And here it is... Authoritarian regimes emphasize duties over rights
This is not to say the idea that citizens must perform certain duties towards their fellow citizens and society is not important. A lot of what we have in our fundamental duties chapter is laudable and must be aspired to. However, when political leaders and the state equate duties with rights, or worse, elevate the former over the latter, alarms bells should ring, especially when this happens in a political ambience flush with majoritarianism and under an authoritarian leader.
But why would the Modi government want us to pay less focus on rights to freedom, equality, non-discrimination, minority welfare, etc and instead obsess over our fundamental duties inserted during Indira Gandhi's Emergency? Well, authoritarian regimes know that they can profit immensely from such a 'paradigm shift'.
First, this shift allows the state to erect a mask over violations of citizen's rights. When citizens are exclusively concerned about the performance of duties, issues of rights are relegated to the fringes of their attention. We would focus on state-assigned homework to ensure our streets are swachh (clean) and remain oblivious to the rights of manual scavengers.
By using the language of 'duties', any call for accountability of state action that violates rights can be dismissed as a form of selfishness: 'You keep talking of rights but what about your duties' was something that was heard during the JNU-Kanhaiya Kumar episode. Kanhaiya Kumar is a Marxist activist.
The students' claims to right of free expression and protection against state violence were responded with some form of 'you are a student. It is your duty to study, not protest'. But God forbid ! A student... study ?!
A republic that is brainwashed into thinking that fundamental duties are the crème of the Constitution, can slowly begin to worship the very concept of duty itself - even if this duty has nothing to do with the actual content in the chapter on fundamental duties in the Constitution.
The BJP government is stellar at handpicking certain fringes of India's constitutional tradition that it finds agreeable and dressing them up as the Constitution's core. It performs fancy footwork around India's constitutional and political history to dazzle the citizenry into confusion about the republic's founding ideals. The citizenry, according to Marxists being dolts who are meant to be dazzled, seduced, entrapped, and 'managed' to death. They cannot have their own convictions, surely ? They haven't even read the Manifesto or smoked pot !
The author is the senior associate editor for Constitutional and Civic Citizenship at the Centre for Law and Policy Research, Bengaluru ... An incosequential dweeb really.
[DAWN] In what appears to be an audacious kidnapping of 20-year-old female student in a busy commercial area of DHA, some five gunnies in a car intercepted her and her young friend, who were strolling along the road, fired multiple shots, left him maimed and took away the girl early on Sunday morning, officials and witnesses said.
The authorities are still clueless about the motive for and suspects involved in the act. The incident triggered fear and panic in the neighbourhood.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah and IG Dr Syed Kaleem Imam ordered fast-paced investigations into the alleged kidnapping, asking the authorities to use every possible channel and technology to arrest the culprits and recover the girl safely.
They assured the families of the two victims of their full support and cooperation.
"It was in the early hours of the day when a car intercepted the maiden of tender years who was walking on the island along the main road in DHA Bukhari Commercial area with a young man in his 20s," said an official at the Darakhshan cop shoppe.
"The two put up some resistance initially, but it did not last for long as one of the car occupants pulled out a pistol and fired multiple shots. The firing left the young man maimed who fell to the ground and the girl was whisked away by the men in the car. Some witnesses said there were five men and they noticed at least two gunnies among them."
The incident sparked panic and fear in the area, where a large number of people were present at the roadside eateries, most of them with families, enjoying the weekend.
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It's mostly because they don't have good detectives in Pakistan, more like "armchair experts." I blame this on their culture.
h/t Gates of Vienna
[BREITBART] Since 2016, there have been over 100 acts of reported violence and harassment perpetrated against conservatives on college campuses. Within the last few months, scores of additional instances of violence and harassment have been reported bringing the current total to 117 incidents.
Whether perpetrated by students or school faculty, instances of violence or threats against conservative students ‐ and sometimes even conservative professors ‐ are becoming commonplace on America’s college campuses. This trend is also expanding to the high school level.
Here is a list of incidents of violence and threats made against conservatives on campus, or made by leftists in academia, that have been reported within just the last few months.
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When I was in college in 1979 we threw beer bottles at Iranian students marching in support of the "revolution." The cops stood around and laughed. My how times have changed.
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Take a page out of their own books. Show a pattern of behavior (ie disparate outcome), make them (the university or college) take a mandatory time out. A semester or a year may have remarkable effect upon their behaviors. If it doesn't, take another page out of their book. Have a federal judge take over the administration of the organization.
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.
[Book Intro] Historical Research all to often resembles diamond mining. Great effort is needed to sift through vast amounts of material to find a few gems. Happily, the source of this book was a rich vein lying just under the surfact of the Library of Congress Newspapers and Periodicals Reading Room among the microfilm rolls of newspapers and records.
[Mil.com] West Point Cadet Daine Van de Wall, the son of immigrants from the Netherlands and "First Captain" of the Corps of Cadets, has been chosen for a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford.
