[An Nahar] A construction worker was bitten by a crocodile while pooping during a toilet break in a river in Malaysian Borneo, but fought off the huge reptile and escaped with his life.
Pai punched the two-meter (6.5-foot) crocodile in the eye after it bit him in the ass just above his right buttock, and despite being in incredible pain and soaked in blood managed to summon help, reports said Saturday.
The attack happened early Friday, when the 32-year-old decided to take his chances in the river in Sarawak state despite knowing it was infested with crocodiles.
The laborer, an Indonesian who works at a nearby construction site, had just finished relieving himself under a bridge when the animal bit him from behind.
"Fortune favored me when the crocodile let go after I punched it in the eye," he was quoted by Malay tabloid Harian Metro as saying.
"After being freed from the jaws of the crocodile, I found extraordinary strength to run and call for help even though my waist was extremely painful."
Several newspapers ran pictures of Pai, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, lying on his stomach at the Sarawak General Hospital with bandages on his waist and hip area.
According to The Star newspaper, he also suffered puncture wounds on the left side of his ribs.
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Uh, uh, THE NOT-A-HILL = OUTHOUSES HAVE EYES???
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Too da** close by any standards. Was the picture worth that amount of risk???
These rare bear-on-human attacks usuall seem to happen in late Summer and Fall. Generally the grizzlies are getting hungry at that time to put fat on their bodies - preparing for hibernation. Not a good time for tourists to pretend they are Natl Geo photographers.
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Too damn many commercials, I gave up Killing the fourth.
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IMO its the Sun - its giving out EM Waves which once again is seemingly distorting or warping the visual dimension of buildings around Hagatna/Agana. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT ITS NOT AS STRONG OR POTENT AS LAST TIME.
D *** NG IT, personally I'm blaming MADONNA-VS-MOSCOW/PUTIN.
Tokyo: Typhoon Bolaven was Sunday edging closer to the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, bringing downpours accompanied by strong winds to the region, the Meteorological Agency said.
Stormy weather travelling ahead of Typhoon Bolaven, the 15th of the season, had already engulfed Okinawa and nearby islands, the agency said, warning of record rains and waves up to 12 metres.
All flights to and from Naha, the capital of Okinawa, and ships linking the island with others were cancelled, Kyodo said.
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JAKARTA: A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's Moluccas islands on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said, revising down a preliminary reading of 6.8.
The quake struck in the Moluccas Sea, 169 kilometers (105 miles) northwest of the city of Ternate at around 11:05 p.m. (1505 GMT) at a depth of 69 kilometers. No tsunami warning was issued.
An official of the country's disaster management agency in Ternate, one of the Moluccas islands, said there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
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Wid the usual pre-Quake/Event lights in the late or post-Midnite skies oer Guam-Westpac, save just in the Southy direction.
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..this tropical storm has confounded the forecasts
Which leads the question, if their models can't predict several days or one week in advance, how can they rationally project decades and lifetimes ahead? GIGO
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...but we can accurately predict the position of planets and asteroids.
Purer math, far fewer variables in the environment. There exists a long established methodology by the astronomical community that uses explicit base observations and formulas that have been tested for generations and repeatedly validated.
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Weather has to take into account mutant Japanese butterflies and the heathen collectivist prayers for a Tampa slam, which not only slightly delayed the opening rounds (get to see Tampa/Texas play ball) but will bring water and prosperity to thirsty bible belt farmers as well as the Halliburton weather devision - move along you did not read this part.
[An Nahar] A solider and five assailants were on Saturday killed when a military checkpoint came under attack in southern Ivory Coast, a military source said, in the latest of a series of assaults.
"A checkpoint of the Republican Force (army) was attacked late morning at Irobo by men in a pick-up. A soldier was killed, another was injured and transferred to Abidjan. Five attackers were killed," the source told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The attack took place near Grand-Lahou 140 kilometers west of the economic capital Abidjan.
A string of recent attacks targeting the army have sparked a sharp rise in tension more than a year after the post-electoral crisis of December 2010 to April 2011 claimed 3,000 lives.
The government of President Alassane Ouattara ...the current president-for-life of Ivory Coast. He actually beat his predecessor in an election before having to eject him from the presidential palazzo.... has blamed supporters of former president Laurent Gbagbo ... Former President-for-Life of Ivory Coast from 2000 to 2011. Laurent lost to Alassane Ouattara in 2010 but his representtive tore up the results on the teevee and he refused to vacate the presidential palace. French troops assisted the Oattara forces in extricating him from his Fuhrerbunker... whose refusal to accept the election result led to the crisis.
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As after the falls of their civilizations both the Romans and the Egyptians did with the ancient edifices in the vicinity of their house building. Recycling is good for the environment, right?
One of China's top military leaders warns the U.S. not to interfere in a territorial spat between Beijing and Tokyo. Andrew Raven reports. Rooters video at link shows Chicom general hoping for continued good relations between US and China.
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LATEST as per TOPIX > [Noda] GOVT. OFFERING SENKAKUS OWNERS Y$2.0BILYUHN FOR CONTESTED ISLES, as part of an on-going plan by Japan to "nationalize" the China-claimed islands + incorporate same widin the jurisdiction of Metro Tokyo.
* SAME > CHINA [strongly] OPPOSES APPLICATION OF THE US-JAPAN SECURITY TREATY TO DAOYUS ISLANDS.
* SAME > CHINA TO JAPAN: STOP "HARMING OUR SOVEREIGNTY" OVER ISLANDS.
* CHINA DAILY > CHINESE NEWSPAPER [Global Times] WARNS [demands] MILITARY PREPARATIONS BY CHINA FOR [conquering] DAOYUS ISLANDS, agz Japan.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US SAYS ASIA "PIVOT" WENT TOO FAR. Assistant SecState for East Asian Affairs Kurt Campbell.
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RELATED PRESSTV > US MISSLE SYSTEM EXPANSION IN ASIA-PACIFIC [Japan, PHIL LR Radars] ANGERS CHINA.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Chin Blog] DAOYU CRISIS: JAPAN MILITARIZES WID US SUPPORT; PLA SHOULD MINE DAOYU TERRITORIAL WATERS AGZ JMSDF + US NAVY, BUILD AIR BASES.
English translation [paraph] of Chinese-language Blog, Artic.
* WORLD MIL FORUM > [LUO YUAN] DAOYU ISLANDS AND OKINAWAN LEGALLY, SPIRITUALLY, AND HISTORICALLY BELONG TO MAINLAND CHINA, NOT JAPAN.
* SAME > JAPAN DEFENSE MINISTER MORITOMO: DESIDES THE US-JAPAN SECURITY TREATY, NATION NEEDS AN INDEPENDENT, NATIONAL MILITARY CAPABILITY STRONG ENOUGH TO DEFEND ITS INTERESTS VEE DISPUTED ISLANDS, JSDF TO STRENGTHEN SOUTHERN DEFENSE LINE TOWARDS DISPUTED ISLANDS.
* SAME > KOREA EXPERT: EXPECT CHINA TO SUPPORT SOUTH KOREA AGZ JAPAN ON DOKDO DISPUTE.
* GLOBAL TIMES > CHINA MUST BE READY FOR FURTHER CONFLICT WID JAPAN.
* WORLD MIL FORUM > CHINA SHOULD TIE ANY SUPPORT FOR JAPAN'S BID FOR A PERMANENT SEAT ON THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL TO JAPAN PERMANENTLY GIVING UP ITS SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE DAOYUS AND OKINAWA ISLANDS.
versus
* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > PHILIPPINES BEST WEAPON AGZ CHINA? PRAYER. PAPER ADVOCATES USING POWER OF PRAYER IN PURSUIT OF SOUTH CHINA SEAS RECONCILIATION.
IMO can't hurt, although whose to say God didn't plan or force these events, etc. to occur in order to induce a Nation(s) to change ways or foster something better - IN PAIN THERE IS GAIN???
* TOPIX, INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > PEOPLE'S DAILY CALLS FOR CHINA-INDIA [Strategic and Military] ALLIANCE AGZ US, i.e. a Sino-Indian "Strategic Partnership" for East and Pan-Asia Security.
[YOOHOO, FBI-CIA-NSA-DIA, ONCE AGAIN "RISE OF THE RED-STAR TURBAN" here].
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > INDIA WALKING TIGHT-ROPE IN INTRA-MUSLIM COLD WAR IN WEST ASIA.
D *** NG IT, IS THAT "INTER-MUSLIM", BOOKER
... ... I'M COMING DOWN THERE, BOOKER!
Once again, the GWOT + WAR FOR OWG-NWO = as much an Muslim-vs-Muslim struggle for Ideo + Geopol control and dominance, etc. of the Muslim World as US-vs-Radical-Islam due to 9-11.
* TOPIX > "ARAB SPRING" WILL TURN INTO [Global]TSUNAMI", widin 10 years [Year 2022?].
ARTIC > CONFLICT IN SYRIA = akin to the "WEST FIGHTING EAST".
The US-West = JudeoChristianity have the Global Power Ball now, but oer time may or may not lose it to up-n-coming rival [Nuclear] Islam, etc. as per the normal "Great Game of Geopolitics" aka SUBSTITUTION OF NATIONS [One(s) by Other(s)].
Once again, to paraph SUN TZU = THE ENEMY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE STRENGTH OR WEAKNESS OF YOUR SPEAR/SWORD, YOUR SHIELD, ANDOR YOUR CAMP.
Its not Islam's, etc. fault iff one abandons God, reduces his own Armies and Nukes to levels dangerous to national + geopol existence, or no longer like sex ... ... @etc.
* SAME > VIETNAM ASKS TAIWAN TO CANCEL ITS LIVE-FIRE MILEX ON VIETNAM-CLAIMED TAIPING ISLAND [Nanshas].
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That's right, Joe. The government is offering ¥2 billion for the privately owned islands. Wonder what kinda deal the owner could get from the Chicoms?
A video display in a New Zealand art gallery will exclude men because it shows Muslim women without veils. The ban in an exhibition due to open next month is discrimination, a lawyer says.
The Dowse Art Museum is hosting the world premiere of an art installation including a video by Qatari writer and film-maker Sophia Al-Maria called Cinderazahd: For Your Eyes Only. It shows women getting ready for a wedding without wearing hijabs, or veils.
Museum director Cam McCracken earlier said Al-Maria's work would be off-limits to men in keeping with the artist's wishes. He said, "I haven't seen the work, and I won't. I've bought into the fact that we take this work on the proviso that no men see it. We respect the artist and the privacy of the women who are portrayed."
Nicholai Anderson, a senior associate at the law firm Chen Palmer, said that banning men would be unlawful discrimination by the museum and the people displaying the work. He said people had rights to their own religious beliefs "but at the same time under the laws of New Zealand to not admit someone because of the sex they are is unlawful."
In a statement, Al-Maria said that images should be treated as privileged and private, for women's eyes only.
McCracken said the work would probably be screened in a small curtained-off area behind the gallery's reception, not usually open to the public.
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Perhaps the museum could cordeon off a seperate section showing photos of the New Zealand ladies beach volleyball team so the men have something to do.
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Perhaps especially because Champ wanted it delayed until after November...
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#1 - when you lead from behind, your backseat driving input lacks a lot of influence. I'm sure the One doesn't want by word or implication paint himself as an overbearing evil imperialist dictating the fate of other nations. Isn't that what he despises in the American record of international relations? /sarc off
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Just another reason. Progressive lives up to its cousin's political name. Their rationale is that they didn't defend the accused, but were a third party in the case trying to put the blame on the victim for the accident in order to protect their assets against the family. "It's not mandate, it's a tax."
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Paradoxical Quote of The Day (allegedly) From Ben Stein:
"Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen."
Now add this, "Many of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens."
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.
A construction worker was bitten by a crocodile 
JAKARTA: A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's Moluccas islands on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said, revising down a preliminary reading of 6.8.
A solider and five assailants were on Saturday killed when a military checkpoint came under attack in southern Ivory Coast, a military source said, in the latest of a series of assaults.
A video display in a New Zealand art gallery will exclude men because it shows Muslim women without veils. The ban in an exhibition due to open next month is discrimination, a lawyer says.
