Would it be OK to link to a site that posted copyrighted stuff without permission? Seems to me that it would be their problem then, not ours, even if we pointed people to it.
Groot Constantia, in the heart of Cape Town's wine country, can deal with inebriated holidaymakers but it is invading baboons which have developed a taste for its grapes that the wine makers are struggling with.
Each day, dozens of Cape Baboons gather to strip the ancient vines the sauvignon blanc grapes are a particular favourite before heading into the mountains to sleep. A few, who sample fallen fruit that has fermented in the sun, pass out and don't make it home.
Others? Go on rampages through the houses, creating total chaos.
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Drunken baboons? There's got to be a pic of these sots somewhere.
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They WILL jump into your car after food or soft drinks. As you.... QUICKLY EXIT, be sure to leave a door or window open so that they can get out as well. They will rip the seats to shreds to escape.
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ARTIC > D *** NG IT, NO PICS OF UNCONSCIOUS OR OTHERWISE SPACED OUT BABOONS, NOT EVEN ONE DRUNK + MYSTERIOUSLY WEARING A GRASSY HULA SKIRT, WTH IS GOING ON AROUND HERE!?
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A problem wid "Stolen Valor" Cases is that US-WORLD INTEL + COVERT DIPLOMACY had historicially used many many 000's [or more] of Operatives whose TRUE BACKGROUNDS + ACTIVITIES, MILITARY ANDOR CIVILIAN, had been intentionally altered, hidden, or even destroyed for the sake of undercover Credibility + of course National Security.
IT GENERALLY TAKES AN ARMY TO FIGHT ANOTHER ARMY, A CROOK TO CATCH ANOTHER CROOK, A SPY TO CATCH ANOTHER SPY, and so on. AGZ THOSE ENEMIES WHOM ARE MINDFUL + SAAVY ENOUGH TO USE PRE-ESTABLISHED LAWS, PROTOCOLS, + LOCAL TRADITIONS-VALUES AGZ ITSELF TO INTENS ENGAGE IN MALICIOUS OR CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES.
IMO the above is why a number of US-STATE COURTS + US FED AGENCIES per se had NOT strongly nor punished offenders in such Cases, + MORESO NOW WID THE POST-9-11 GWOT = WAR AGZ HIGHLY DECENTRALIZED OR SEMI-ORGANIZED MILITANTS, ee INDIVIDUAL RADIC OR EXTREMIST PERSONS + NONS + CELLS + GROUPS + LOCAL, INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS, ETC.
E.g. CHARLIE SHEEN in "NAVY SEALS" Movie > "WE [USN Seal Team(s)]DON'T EXIST", aka "I [Charlie = USN Seal Team member per se] DON'T EXIST".
IOW, "STOLEN VALOR" CASES = FOR "I-WORK-NINE-TO-FIVE-THEN-GO-HOME-TO-WIFE-N-KIDS-N-DOG-N-DINNER-THEN-BED" PEOPLE, NOT FOR INTEL OR COVERT OPS.
[Gulf News] A court on Sunday overturned an imam's three-year prison sentence by acquitting him of the charges of molesting an eight-year-old school boy in a mosque.
The imam was acquitted by the court after his lawyer claimed police had coerced his confession.
The Dubai Appeal Court threw out the primary sentence of three years in jail followed by deportation, and acquitted the 26-year-old Indian imam, ZH, of sexually molesting the American boy while teaching him the Quran in a private room inside the mosque.
ZH's lawyer, Haroun Tahlak, told the appeals court: "My client did not sexually abuse or molest the boy. From the beginning ZH denied the boy's claims that he molested him. When police arrested him, eight police officers beat him with their hands, legs and a stick ... They assaulted him and coerced him to confess a crime he did not commit." Well, at least the cops had some fun with him...
In May, the Dubai Court of First Instance sentenced the imam to three years in jail for molesting the eight-year-old boy while teaching him the Quran. ZH pleaded not guilty and told the court: "This is unfair. I am innocent, I didn't commit any crime." Must've been pitching...
Tahlak defended: "The prosecutor, who questioned my client, noticed that he had bruises and injuries on his chest, shoulder and back after he was allegedly beaten by the policemen".
"A forensic doctor who examined ZH mentioned the bruises and injuries in his medical report... but prosecution didn't pursue our complaint."
The advocate argued before the court that the boy claimed that he was molested, because he didn't want to learn the Quran.
Tahlak said: "The boy and his brother were fed up because ZH was strict in teaching them the Quran".
"Besides, the father's claims were unfounded and baseless," Tahlak said.
"The boy's statement [before prosecutors] was inconsistent. Police questioned my client in the absence of a legal translator. ZH is 26 years old and he didn't have any criminal intentions. What really happened is that he gave him a peck on the cheek, in a rewarding manner, like any teacher who encourages his students. He didn't have any intention to molest the claimant." No tongues...
At least he was thoroughly beaten. The boy can take some comfort in that... and resolve never to be alone with a Muslim cleric, nor allow his own children to do so.
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after all he's a good muslim and the boy *was* american....
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What's with this fascination with famous people's toilets?
A toilet that belonged to late Beatle John Lennon fetched 9,500 pounds (NZ$20,730) at auction on Saturday, around 10 times its estimate, the sale organizers said.
Lennon, who was murdered in New York in 1980, had the porcelain lavatory removed from Tittenhurst Park in Berkshire, southern England, where he lived from 1969 to 1971, and replaced with a new one. Builder John Hancock stored it in his shed for 40 years until he died recently and the lavatory was sent for sale, British media reports said.
The pre-auction estimate was 750 to 1,000 pounds.
Anne-Marie Trace, who works at the Beatles Shop in Liverpool which organized the sale, said the high price paid had taken the organizers by surprise. "I think it's the most unusual item we've ever had in our auction," she told Reuters. The buyer was not identified but Trace said it was likely it was "going overseas."
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The doorman in my condo building told me that a few years before I moved in, my unit was leased by a film production company and was occupied by, among others, Dennis Weaver and Jennifer Connelly when they were in town filming.
DEADLY sea monsters have woken from the deep to cause carnage among some of the worlds richest fishing grounds.
Millions of killer giant squid are not only devouring vast amounts of fish they have even started attacking humans.
Two Mexican fishermen were recently dragged from their boats and chewed so badly that their bodies could not be identified even by their own families.
No wonder the giant squid are called diablos rojos red devils.
Monster squid are the stuff of legend. But for fishermen and marine biologists along 10,000 miles of coast from Chile to Alaska, the myth has become reality.
Since 2002, Humboldt giant squid, named after the 18th century German explorer, have been spreading their tentacles to deplete fishing stocks by moving from their traditional tropical hunting grounds off Mexico and laying claim to a vast sweep of the Pacific.
Hunting in 1,000-strong packs the giant squid can out-swim and out-think fish. Scientists believe they coordinate attacks by using pigment cells to communicate.
A single female is believed to be able to lay 30 million eggs, each one capable of becoming a giant killing machine.
Marine biologists wear chain-mail to protect themselves from creatures that can measure 8ft, weigh 100lb and carry an armoury of more than 40,000 fearsome teeth along two attack tentacles.
The creatures have another eight legs for grasping and swimming and can reach speeds of more than 15mph.
Former US special forces diver Scott Cassell has put his life on the line to study the squid. He too has been attacked.
He said: Within five minutes my right shoulder had been pulled out of its socket. I had 30 big marks on my head and throat and one squid hit me so hard I saw stars. They then grabbed on to me and pulled me down so fast that I could not equalise and I ruptured my eardrum.
They are the most opportunistic predators on the planet. They eat everything in their path. One Humboldt squid in the course of two years can eat 27,000lb of fish. What is going to be the impact on the environment? "We're doomed, I tell you. DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!"
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Wow! The hyperbole in this article is THICK! Next, when the big die off comes we'll be treated to weeping & wailing about how humans and gorebal worming are destroying the cuddly and friendly squid.
These creatures go through cycles and the men that fish for them are well aware of the dangers. Oh, they are pretty damn tasty too.
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"Red Devils" > Uh, uh, ONE OF THE US-WORLD'S PERENNIALLY BEST-SELLING TABASCO BRANDS IS MADE FROM SQUID???
Gut nuthin.
Its either that or the Calinaris have formed a [Octo-]COMMANDO BRIGADE!
[Dawn] Troops and workers were on a "war footing" Sunday as they battled to save the southern city of Thatta after most of the population of 300,000 fled advancing flood waters.
Torrential monsoon rains have triggered massive floods that have moved steadily from north to south over the past month, engulfing a fifth of the volatile country and affecting 17 million of its 167 million people.
Sindh is the worst-affected province, with 19 of its 23 districts ravaged as flood waters swell the raging Indus river to 40 times its usual volume.
One million people have been displaced over the past few days and hundreds of thousands have already fled Thatta alone ahead of the approaching torrents as soldiers work frantically to repair breached levees on the river.
"The water is still two kilometres (about a mile) away from Thatta where the armed forces and the local administrative workers are working on war footing to save the city," senior city official Hadi Bakhsh Kalhoro told AFP on Sunday.
"The army brought a maximum of resources to try to fill up the breach. Almost all the people have left Thatta to safer places, all shops and schools are closed," he said.
Water levels were still rising in the district, but Kalhoro said: "We are hopeful that we can save at least Thatta city in two days."
An AFP reporter said the road linking Thatta with the town of Sujawal had been flooded and closed to all vehicular traffic, while Kalhoro said an electricity grid station near Sujawal had been flooded.
The military said its engineers had repaired an important embankment in the south and were trying to protect the highway linking Thatta with Karachi.
The government has been overwhelmed by the magnitude of the disaster, the worst in the country's history, with millions in need of tents and food and medical aid.
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(KUNA) -- A disgruntled soldier of the Sudan National Army opened fire randomly at a group of people killing 10. The angry soldier, who lost temper due to a heated feud with a relative, opened fire indiscriminately at a crowd of people killing 10 and injuring two others in the southern province of Yei, said David Lonka, the governor of Yei province, in a statement on Sunday. The soldier was arrested and would be tried by the authorities, he added.
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You know I'd heard that the Sundanese truly despised Richard Dawson. He seemed to twist their minds...drove them to madness. Who knew.
[Bangla Daily Star] Local people beat two abductors to death and rescued two businessmen three hours after their abduction in Kushtia Sadar upazila yesterday.
The deceased were identified as Somir Uddin, 30, of Sugondhipur in Mirpur upazila of Kushtia and Ratan Kumar Das, 35, of Kumaripur in Alamdanga upazila of Chuadanga district.
Assistant Police Super Chokdar Abdul Halim said police arrested the two other abductors and they were taken to Mirpur police station for questioning. One of the arrestees was identified as Safiul of Ailchhara.
Police said the abductors intercepted a motorcycle near a field at Ailchhara village in the upazila and abducted its riders Mirazul Haq Titu, 25, and his brother Matiul Haq Mitu, 23. They were returning home from their shop in Bheramara upazila at about 10:30pm on Saturday.
Later, the abductors called their father Mahbubul Haq and demanded Tk 9 lakh as ransom.
Hearing the news hundreds of people of the village came out of their houses and encircled the entire area.
They found four abductors in the field at about 1:30am yesterday along with Titu and Mitu.
At one stage, the angry people started beating the abductors, leaving two of them dead on the spot.
On information, police reached the place and brought the situation under control.
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yay for mob violence. often the only form of law and order in the third world.
Try stealing a mobile phone in Nairobi, you'll see what i mean
The body of an official investigating the massacre of 72 Central and South American migrants killed in a ranch in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas was found today dumped beside a nearby road alongside another unidentified victim, according to local media.
The Great Prohibition (2): War On Drugs has claimed just short of a hundred more victims pics at link) victims. Not to worry; it'll be won soon. In a couple of years. Surely.
Japan's foreign minister Katsuya Okada issued what amounted to a formal protest at top-level meeting with Chinese officials in Beijing over the weekend, saying the sudden cut-off was "affecting the global production chain".
It is the latest sign of rising pressure after angry complaints by companies outside China that rely on this family of 17 metals for hybrid cars, mobile phones, superconductors, navigation, and a host of high-tech industries.
China's commerce minister Chen Deming said that Beijing would not back down over the export quotas. "Mass-extraction of rare earth will cause great damage to the environment, that's why China has tightened controls," he said, repeating the official line.
Beijing set off shockwaves in early July when it announced a 72pc reduction in rare earth exports over the second half of this year. The country has acquired a near monopoly, with 97pc of global output after under-cutting the rest of the world with Mongolian ores in the 1990s. The sudden cut-off since July has drastically restricted supplies to the rest of world.
The last US mine shut 14 years ago, discouraged by tough US environmental rules. The US General Accounting Office said China now has a "dominant position" with market power. "Rebuilding a US rare earth supply chain may take up to 15 years," it said.
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This will only increase in the future. Strange as it seems to Americans, the Chinese government is only interested in advantage to China. You want rare earths, be prepared to pay top dollar and bow to China. Much like Obama.
(PTI) The Liberal party of Tony Abott today raced ahead of the ruling Labor party after its candidate Ken Wyatt today became the first Indigenous person to be elected to the Australian parliament, even as the political deadlock entered the second week.
With the election of the Liberal candidate the party's score in the cliff hanger general elections have gone up to 73 seats, with ruling Labor party winning 72 in the 150-member House of Representatives.
Meanwhile, Wyatt became the first Indigenous person to be elected to the House of Representatives after grabbing Perth seat of Hasluck.
Australians voted in the country's first hung parliament in 70 years at the August 21 polls -- delivering Tony Abbott's Liberal/National coalition 73 seats and Prime Minister Julia Gillard's centre-left Labor 72, but giving neither the 76 seats needed to rule.
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best thing to happen in ages
power taken away from the oligarchs and big business donors propping up the major 2 parties
instead, a handful of independents are calling them to account to the People of Australia
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best thing to happen in ages
Don't know about that anon 1.
The problem is you end up with "consensus government" which sound great until you realize that you have to pay for the crazy promises from both sides of the fence, instead of just half of them.
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I'm questioning this as racist - or rather is it playing the race card. DNA's are not all the same amongst all humanity. Now if the banker had called for reinstatement of the Nuremburg Laws...
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ION DEUTCHWELD = GERMANIA, WAFF THREAD > TURKISH POLICE PROPOSED FOR GERMANY, TURKEY MIGRATION [into Germany] A MISTAKE | [Frontpage Magz] GERMANY SURRENDERS | [YouTube] GERMANY TO BRING IN TURKISH POLICE TO HANDLE CRIMES IN ETHNIC COMMUNITY.
LOCAL AUTHORS + CITIZENS-RESIDENTS fear LOSS OF SOVEREIGNTY + [Pol-Legally Correct]"CREEPING ISLAMIZATION"/JIHADIZATION".
The Maricopa Community College District requires authorized foreign workers to submit additional credentials to insure that their identification is legitimate, which they do not require from US citizens seeking employment with them.
The Justice Department labels this as discriminatory, and has filed a lawsuit to prevent it.
The Immigration and Nationality Act requires employers to treat authorized workers in the same manner during the hiring process, regardless of their citizenship status. A Boston Globe article attributed Barack Obamas win in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election to a marked reduction over the preceding decades in the percentage of whites in the American electorate, attributing this demographic change to the The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. The article quoted Simon Rosenberg, president and founder of the New Democrat Network, as having said that the Act "Set America on a very different demographic course than the previous 300 years."
30 National Guard employees ordered to protect the U.S.-Mexico border arrive at their post in southern Arizona today.
About 30 citizen soldiers are set to start their new assignment under Operation Copper Cactus.
Their job will be to help the Border Patrol with surveillance and serve as a deterrent for anyone trying to sneak across the border from Mexico.
President Obama has ordered 1200 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, and a total of 532 guardsmen will be deployed to Arizona alone by the end of September. Currently there are 17,000 Border Patrol agents on the Mexican border, reduced by 384 agents this year from last by the administration.
[Dawn] Muslim countries, organizations and individuals have pledged nearly $1 billion in cash and relief supplies to help Pakistan respond to the worst floods in the nation's history, the head of a group of Islamic states said Sunday.
The announcement came as floodwaters inundated a large town in Pakistan and authorities struggled to build new levees with clay and stone to prevent one of the area's biggest cities from suffering the same fate.
Foreign countries have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to help Pakistan cope with the floods, which first hit the country about a month ago after extremely heavy monsoon rains. But some officials had criticized the Muslim world for not contributing enough.
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, head of the 57-member Organization of The Islamic Conference, likely sought to counter that criticism by announcing that Muslims have pledged nearly $1 billion. The pledges came from Muslim states, NGOs, OIC institutions and telethons held in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, he said.
''They have shown that they are one of the largest contributors of assistance both in kind and cash,'' said Ihsanoglu of the various donors. He spoke during a joint press conference with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in Islamabad.
Ihsanoglu did not provide a breakdown of the pledges or say how much of the money would flow through the Pakistani government versus independent organizations.
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani criticized donations made to foreign NGOs rather than the Pakistani government Sunday, saying much of the money would be wasted ''Eighty per cent of the aid will not come to you directly,'' said Gilani, referring to Pakistani citizens.
''It will come through their NGOs, and they will eat half of it,'' he said during a press conference in his hometown of Multan. ...and we'll eat half of what's left.
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"Pledge" and "donate" are two different things.
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"Ihsanoglu did not provide a breakdown of the pledges or say how much of the money would flow through the Pakistani government versus independent organizations."
In other words, he pulled the number out of his arse.
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Muslim countries, organizations and individuals are notorious for making large charitable pledges that they never pay. It's that whole wish vs. reality thingie that they're so bad at in other areas... like war.
Floodwaters inundated Sujawal, a large town in southern Pakistan, on Sunday as authorities struggled to build new levees with clay and stone to prevent one of the area's biggest cities from suffering the same fate.
Almost all of Sujawal's 250,000 residents fled the town before the water rushed in, but the damage to homes, clinics and schools added to the widespread devastation the floods have caused across Pakistan, said Hadi Baksh, a disaster management official in Sindh province.
The floodwaters also threatened Thatta, a historic city of some 350,000 people who have mostly fled to higher ground. Thatta is the base of operations for local authorities trying to cope with a disaster that has overwhelmed the government and international partners who have stepped in to help.
Authorities rushed to build makeshift levees across the road connecting Sujawal and Thatta, parts of which were already flooded, Baksh said.
''We are trying to plug the bridges at three different points to stop the water flow toward Thatta,'' said Baksh. ''We are trying all our best efforts.''
The floods began in the mountainous northwest about a month ago with the onset of monsoon rains and have moved slowly down the country toward the coast in the south, inundating vast swaths of prime agricultural land and damaging or destroying more than one million homes.
More than eight million people are in need of emergency assistance across the country.
The United Nations, the Pakistani army and a host of local and international relief groups have been rushing aid workers, medicine, food and water to the affected regions, but are unable to reach many people.
The US said Saturday that it would deploy an additional 18 helicopters to help with the relief effort. The US military is already operating 15 helicopters and three C-130 aircraft in the country, the US Embassy said in a statement.
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Tax deadbeats -- you got there Major, these mosque developers.
Searching city records shows Sharif El-Gamal, the leading organizer behind the mosque and community center near Ground Zero, owes back property tax on the site for some $224,270.77.
El-Gamal's company, 45 Park Place Partners, failed to pay its half-yearly bills in January and July, according to the city Finance Department. The delinquency is a possible violation of El-Gamal's lease with Con Edison, which owns half of the proposed building site on Park Place. El-Gamal owns the other half but must pay taxes on the entire parcel.
The late taxes are the latest wrinkle in the controversial plan.
And yet another wrinkle, Mr. Mayor, that you should already know, El-Gamal insisted to The Post that the lease permitted him to demolish the property at any time. But the lease agreement says El-Gamal must provide Con Ed with a copy of a financing commitment or other proof that money is available to "cover the estimated cost of demolition of the building and construction of the new building." Dig deeper, guys, that got to be more.
Developer Sharif El Gamal
1990 disorderly conduct
1992 DWI
1993 Attempted Petty Larceny
1994 Patronizing Prostitute
1994 Disorderly in Manhattan
1998 Disorderly in Manhattan
2005 Assault on brother's tenant settled out of court while allegly yelling Muslim epithets
2008 Slow to pay fine from assault charges settled
Imam Faisal Mosque leader
Owns Apartments in NJ that receive taxpayer funded renovation assistance that allegedly doesn't get put into property repairs. Reports of squalid conditions: roaches, bed bugs and leaks.
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Give the Leona treatment bars, prison bars, not drinking bars for their asses
Hey prosecutors draw from the 1989 playbook when Hotelier Leona Helmsley convicted on tax evasion charges, was later sentenced to four years in prison and fined $8.8 million
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.
[Dawn] Troops and workers were on a "war footing" Sunday as they battled to save the southern city of Thatta after most of the population of 300,000 fled advancing flood waters.
[Bangla Daily Star] Local people beat two abductors to death and rescued two businessmen three hours after their abduction in Kushtia Sadar upazila yesterday.
