[THECOLLEGEFIX] A controversial, outspoken law professor who frequently bashes Republicans and specializes in poverty issues as a self-proclaimed champion of the poor earns $205,400 per year — for teaching one class per semester.
The University of North Carolina School of Law pays Professor Gene Nichol $205,400 annually for his one class per semester workload. On top of his teaching salary, he receives a $7,500 stipend as director of the law school's Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity.
Nice work if you can get it...
The News & Observer maintains a public database of public employee and educator salaries, and lists Nichol's salary at $212,900. Nichol, in an email to The College Fix, confirmed the figure is accurate.
Nichol is slated to teach federal jurisdiction this fall and constitutional law in spring 2015. He told The College Fix there is nothing unusual about his compensation.
"I'm a full time faculty member — doing all the varied things faculty members do," he stated. "That's the basis for the salary you quote. Beyond that, I'm paid $7,500 to run the poverty center — the same as all the other law school center directors."
Might be true. His "varied things" may bring great value to the law school. Perhaps, given the opportunity the newspaper gave him, he could explain that and get his side of it out there, so that he doesn't look like a Hillary-type leech...
When asked about his compensation compared to other law professors, Nichol said: "Several make a good deal more than I do at Carolina, some make less."
The News & Observer lists the UNC Distinguished Professor of Law Thomas Lee Hazen's salary at $222,000. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... he is slated to teach four classes this fall, and two in the spring. UNC Distinguished Professor of Law Sarah Elizabeth Gibson earns $200,000 annually, and has a similar workload to Nichol at one class per semester.
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These are midway up the left's pay arc, where you pay people to leave you alone. It's the whole concept government is based on. The more you pay them, the aloner you get.
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Quick Google - average income NC returns
$45,570
Remember when the Left bitches about CEO salaries, it's not about any morality, it's about envy.
My guess is it is not lost on this individual that her words can be considered a cause for war, since they want to use professional security services, such as federal law enforcement to steal property held by people, so to point out her desire to murder her political opposition is no stark reminder. She wants blood to flow and she wants the government to take, even more than it already does, the last line of defense of the individual: his firearm.
Miss Madrak fails to understand that she is at the front line as we speak, just as we are, and all it takes for the lead to start flying is one smug hothead from either side.
So, almost as if the message had been coordinated, which is likely has, a leftist writer does a three part series in which she ties oil companies to the National Rifle Association. You can read the series here and start with the last article first.
Her premise is that Global Warming is caused by oil and gas companies, which in turn support the National Rifle Association, which in turn suppresses the true feelings of hunters who really want to ban guns, even hunting rifles.
You don't believe me, do you?
While the issue in the article is weapons which can hold magazines of 11 or more rounds, the focus of the article is what are called sniper rifles, or guns with a bore of .300 or greater, or rifles which can kill at a range of 100 yards or more, or can penetrate body armor, which is all of them. In the article they are called terrorist guns. Neat trick, especially if you are totally unaware of guns and how they operate.
I can see it now. Anti gun fascists ban rifles onto which can be mounted a scope, or those with bores of .300 or more. Think about that. Guns with Picatinny rails or any rifle with a .300 bore or more. Makes me appreciate the notion of a rifle with open sights that can tag an individual at 300 yards or more, but well below the .300 limit for rifle bores.
What a mess that would be. The question is would such a ban, passed by a local legislature and signed by a chief executive, start a civil war. Rifle restrictions have been passed in Connecticut, New York and Maryland, so far to near zero effect. Civil disobedience thus far.
On a personal note, you can find photos of my homemade bipod for the Mosin Nagant M91/30 here, here, here, here and here. It has made a big difference at the range.
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Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for pistol and rifle ammunition prices were lower across the board.
Prices for used rifles and used pistols were mixed.
Pistol Ammo
.45 Caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (7 weeks) (From Q1, 2014: .33 Each, -.04 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Munire USA, Tulammo, steel cased, .29 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Munire USA, Tulammo, steel cased, .29 per round (From last week: Unchanged (3 weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (From Q1, 2014: .28 Each, -.03 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: I.Q. Metals, HSM, FMJ, Factory Seconds, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Freedom Munitions, Store Brand, reloaded, .24 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged)
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain From Last Week: Unchanged (From Q1, 2014: .22 Each, -.02 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Glen's Army Navy Store, CCI Blazer, FMJ, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Ammunition To Go, Brown Bear, FMJ, .21 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (From Q1, 2014: .47 Each, -.07 each (!))
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo2U, GECO, FMJ, .40 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 250 Rounds: LAX Ammunition, Store brand, Reloaded, .32 per round (From Last Week: -.04 Each (!) After Unchanged (2 Weeks))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: -.02 Each (From Q1, 2014: .27 Each, -.05 each)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammo Sale, Tula, steel cased, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Lucky Gunner, Wolf, steel cased, .25 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each (After Unchanged (3 Weeks)))
.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: -.04 Each (!) (-.17 Each Over 3 Weeks) (From Q1, 2014: .47 Each, -.06 Each)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Silver Bear, steel cased, .41 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Silver Bear, steel cased, .45 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks) (From Q1, 2014: .25 Each, -.04 Each)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Wolf, steel case, .21 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,080 rounds: SG Ammo, Red Army Standard, steel case, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged )
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 weeks) (From Q1, 2014: .15 Each, -.05 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: South Georgia Outdoors, Aguila, .10 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 325 rounds: Trop Gun Shop, Federal Champion, .10 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each)
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles
.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $620 Last Week Avg: $628 (-)
California (206, 211): Mixed Build AR-15: $750
Texas (330, 328): Mixed Build: $550
Pennsylvania (155, 167): DPMS: $625
Virgina (214, 214): Palmetto State Armory: $600
Florida (402, 416): DPMS Panther: $575
.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,210 Last Week Avg: $1,180 (+)
California (43, 44): Iron Ridge Arms: $1,100
Texas (52, 58): Detroit Gun Works: $1,450
Pennsylvania (26, 28): Smith & Wesson M&P 10: $1,200 (Same Gun)
Virginia (40, 42): Mixed Build: $1,300
Florida (76, 87): DPMS: $1,000
7.62x39mm (AK Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $524 Last Week Avg: $530 (-)
California (43, 49): Saiga: $500
Texas (54, 55): Zastava M-70: $500 (Same Gun)
Pennsylvania (50, 57): Saiga: $500 (Same Gun)
Virginia (76, 73): Czech VZ58 : $525 (Same Gun)
Florida (125, 120): Centurion C39: $595
7.62x54mm (Dragunov Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,134 Last Week Avg: $1,100 (+)
California (0): None Available
Texas (0): None Available
Pennsylvania (1, 1): Romak PSL: $1,400 (Same Gun)
Virginia (1, 0): Romak PSL: $1,200
Florida (6, 6): Romak PSL: $800 (!)
Pistols
.45 caliber ACP (M1911 Pattern Semiautomatic Pistol) Average Price: $420 Last Week Avg: $411 (+) California (145, 150): Auto Ordnance M1911A1: $500
Texas (216, 213): Llama: $450
Pennsylvania (197, 203): Para Ordnance: $400
Virginia (176, 161): American Tactical Imports: $400
Florida (388, 377): Llama: $350
9mm Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic Average Price: $434 Last Week Avg: $430 (+)
California (146, 146): Smith & Wesson SD9VE : $375 (Same Gun)
Texas (314, 309): Beretta 92F Compact: $430
Pennsylvania (209, 207): Glock 26: $415 (!)
Virginia (253, 242): Glock 19: $425
Florida (488, 505): Beretta 92FS : $525
.40 caliber S&W (Glock and other semiautomatic) Average Price: $410 Last Week Avg: $423 (-)
California (96, 87): Glock 23: $450
Texas (136, 141): Glock 22: $400
Pennsylvania (112, 116): Sig Sauer P250: $375
Virginia (125, 123): Glock 27: $450
Florida (222, 209): Sig Sauer P250: $375
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More than 100 more cases and 34 deaths from the new respiratory disease Mers have been reported by officials in Saudi Arabia.The cases date back to February and came to light after an analysis of hospital records.
The World Health Organization says there have now been 820 cases of Mers and 286 deaths.The exact source of the new infection is still uncertain, but camels are a prime suspect.The virus is from the same family as the common cold, but can lead to kidney failure and pneumonia.
[AnNahar] Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... on Friday demanded a clarification from 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... over allegations from security researchers that the kingdom is infecting and monitoring dissidents' mobile phones with surveillance malware.
The New York-based rights watchdog said surveillance software allegedly made by Italian firm Hacking Team mostly targeted individuals in Qatif district in Eastern Province, which has been the site of sporadic Shiite-led protests since February 2011.
"We have documented how Saudi authorities routinely crack down on online activists who have embraced social media to call out human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... abuses," said Cynthia Wong, HRW's senior Internet researcher.
"It seems that authorities may now be hacking into mobile phones, turning digital tools into just another way for the government to intimidate and silence independent voices," said Wong.
HRW said security researchers at the Toronto-based Citizen Lab have identified a malicious, altered version of an application providing mobile access to news related to Qatif, which if installed on a mobile phone infects it with spyware made by Hacking Team, which only sells to governments.
The spyware allows a government to see a phone's call history, text messages, contacts and emails and files from social media, HRW said.
The spyware also allows authorities to turn on a phone's camera or microphone to take pictures or record conversations without the owner's knowledge, it added.
Demonstrations in Eastern Province, where most of the mostly Sunni kingdom's two million Shiites live, erupted in 2011 alongside a Shiite-led protest movement in neighboring Bahrain.
They took a violent turn in 2012 and festivities between police and protesters have so far killed 24 people, including at least four coppers, according to activists.
If authorities in the absolute monarchy are targeting activists' mobiles with spyware, "it could indicate a ratcheting up of efforts to scrutinize online activism in an environment that is already hostile to the freedoms of expression and association," HRW said.
HRW said Citizen Lab could not confirm "whether Saudi Arabia or any other government has successfully deployed Hacking Team tools in Saudi Arabia, nor who may have been specifically targeted."
"However, women are made to be loved, not understood... given that the spyware is embedded in a doctored version of an existing application, potential targets are likely to have an interest in current affairs related to the Qatif governorate," HRW said, adding Hacking Team-linked servers have been found by Citizen Labs to be present in the kingdom.
The watchdog criticized the sale of such spyware tools to governments that are likely to use them against dissidents and called on companies manufacturing the software to "cease any support and sales to abusive governments."
[NEWS.YAHOO] A group of Cuban migrants who were anchored in an open wooden boat off the Cayman Islands for nearly two weeks obeyed a local government order to sail away on Friday, continuing their risky sea voyage in a quest to reach the United States. The Caymans has a population of about 57,000. The population has doubled since 1990. Unless you're a physician or a financier you probably can't immigrate there. It's referred to in the plural, but but most everyone lives on Grand Cayman. There weren't any slums that I saw, but it's been awhile since I was there. There's not a lot of room for expansion.
The makeshift vessel carrying about 30 people arrived on June 14 off the south coast of the island of Grand Cayman, and could be observed drifting about a quarter of a mile offshore near South Sound, a fashionable strip of expensive oceanfront homes. I believe all the oceanfront homes in the Caymans are "fashionable," even the little ones.
The Cubans were given an ultimatum on Wednesday to depart or be taken into custody and repatriated, according to Acting Chief Immigration Officer Bruce Smith.
Five Cubans chose to come ashore and were detained, according to the Cayman Islands prison director Neil Lavis. The rest departed early Friday and their boat was no longer visible from the shoreline.
Some residents assisted the Cubans with food and water while they sheltered from rough seas before likely heading west to the coast of Honduras. Everybody we ran into was pretty nice. The crime rate was approximately zero, mostly itinerant Jamaicans tossed into jug for drugs.
Cuban boats smuggling people seeking to flee the communist-run island are frequently seen off the Cayman Islands, a British territory located less than 100 miles (160 km) south of Cuba. The U.S. is about 90 miles north of Cuba.
They are usually headed for Honduras, from where migrants make the long journey overland to reach the U.S. border with Mexico.
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[NEWS.YAHOO] A blackout cut power to much of Venezuela on Friday, snarling traffic in the capital Caracas and other major cities as authorities scrambled to restore electricity after the outage, which twice interrupted a presidential broadcast.
Pedestrians streamed into the streets of Caracas as the blackout shuttered the underground metro trains and left frustrated drivers honking in the chaos without stoplights.
Government ministers in the late afternoon said they expected power would be restored shortly. It was the second nationwide major electricity outage in less than a year.
"How am I going to get to my house? By the grace of God," said Pedro Mayora, 58, an accountant who was waiting outside the Metro to see how he would reach his home on the poor west end of the city.
Workers stood in groups outside evacuated buildings, some complaining of difficulty in communicating over congested cellular phone lines.
An outage at a power station in the center of the country led to other generation centers going offline, halting service in that region and in the Andes region in the west, Electricity Minister Jesse Chacon told state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
The problems extended to Maracaibo, Venezuela's second city, and the industrial center of Valencia.
The OPEC nation has suffered an increasing number of power outages in recent years, which critics have attributed to low electricity tariffs and limited state investment following the 2007 nationalization of the power sector.
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Worser to come. If the weathermen are right (for once) the area is in for a draught which will drop the water levels of the Caroni behind Guri Damn.
This complex provides most of the countries base load. When the water levels dropped a few years ago the government started spending money on a decentralized system based on (srsly) Cuban experience. Many 10 and 20 megawatt diesel gen sets and several larger GE combustion turbines on barges. Diesel consumption went thru the roof. Maintenance is spotty, lack of dollars for parts and the Venezuelan national inclination to hope for the best make this an Achilles heel for the regime. To add to the problems paying electricity bills is optional, hell even getting a bill is optional. A neighbor might very well serve as the local lineman/electrician.
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Considering how successful Cubes have been keeping the lights on, that's ominous. And Cuba basically runs on Venezuelan oil.
It's always amusing how places that believe in central planning never seem to plan out their infrastructure. (It's like 'Oh, sanitation, ooh, let think a minute...)
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"If only Oogo were still alive..."
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The usual nabobs in the Beltway will ignore it like they keep ignoring the maps in the Paleos school books on the ME. Intent is there not in the glib words of liars politicians.
[CSMONITOR] British Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... is facing one of the most public defeats of his career in his opposition to whom will next head the European Commission.
His insistence that Jean-Claude Juncker is the wrong man for the job, despite the fact that most European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... leaders have rallied around the former prime minister of Luxembourg, has left Mr. Cameron isolated. Germany's Die Welt newspaper labeled him "the loneliest man in Europe."
Heading into the EU summit today, where the nomination of Mr. Juncker could be sealed, Cameron did not back down, but pushed even harder, positioning himself for a humiliating setback.
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[BBC] Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has extended a week-long ceasefire with pro-Russian separatists in the east for another three days.
He said he was hoping for progress on his peace plan.
Some rebel leaders in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions said they would observe the truce, but others rejected it.
Mr Poroshenko's announcement came hours after he had signed a landmark EU trade pact - the issue that has been the trigger of the recent crisis.
He said it was a "historic" moment, but Russia warned of "consequences" and that Ukraine would split in two.
The deadline for the ceasefire to expire was Friday at 22:00 local time (19:00 GMT).
Separatists in the east held talks on Friday with mediators, including Ukraine's former President Leonid Kuchma, Moscow's ambassador in Ukraine and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
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[AnNahar] EU leaders on Friday gave Russia three days to change policy on Ukraine or face the prospect of tougher sanctions as Kiev said it would consider a ceasefire extension with pro-Moscow rebels.
In a statement Friday, the 28 European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... leaders said Moscow had to take four steps, among them clear backing for the Ukraine government's peace plan, by Monday June 30.
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[AnNahar] Dozens of foreign diplomats have requested asylum in Canada, the daily French-language newspaper La Presse reported Friday, citing secret government documents.
They include 38 Afghanistan envoys and their families, from 2009 to 2014, as well as 16 diplomats from countries such as Syria, Iraq, Greece, Honduras, and even an American embassy staffer.
An American?!
Former head of Canada's consular affairs, Gar Pardy, told the Montreal newspaper this is an "unprecedented number" of refugee claims by foreign officials.
Experts said they are motivated by the hope for a better life, or are aware of rights abuses in their homeland that they can no longer support, or they have simply become accustomed to a North American lifestyle and do not wish to return home after their assignment ends.
Including the American?!
Immigration spokeswoman Alexis Pavlich noted that Canada has "one of the most fair and generous asylum systems in the world."
She would not comment on specific cases, citing Canada's strict privacy laws.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... she added: When a mission employee makes an asylum claim in Canada, his/her accreditation or diplomatic status is rescinded by the Department of Foreign Affairs... and he/she is processed in the same manner as all other asylum claimants."
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It's hard to see how you could expect a diplomat from Afghanistan to be willing to go home, considering the likelihood there will be a 'new' government when he gets there.
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I wonder what the American knows about Benghazi?
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[Real Clear Politics] ALAN COLMES: You know it's funny to me that conservatives talk about how much they love the constitution but when somebody exercises their constitutional rights they're declared guilty when they're not supposed to be. Simply because of the Fifth Amendment. Does invoking the Fifth Amendment indicate guilt? Every man's innocent until proven guilty. Some cases take more proof than others.
I mean, I love how conservatives always tell me how much they love and admire and basically want to have sex with the constitution — except they'd probably get paper cuts with that old parchment paper — but when somebody actually exercises their constitutional rights, it's a big problem. Like lots of liberals, Colmes seems to keep his mind stored in a gutter somewhere.
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Liberals either go for the sex or the homo in their insults.
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The Left only views the Constitution as an impediment to their power. They're right, that was the intent of the writers. Never allow the concentration of power as all of history as demonstrated the admonition - power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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"I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a Constitution in the year 2012. I might look at the Constitution of South Africa," says Ginsburg, whom President Clinton nominated to the court in 1993.
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Come on Colmes, you can do better than that. Well, maybe you can't. How do you feel about Lois Lerner and spoliation of evidence or perjury. I don't know why I'm surprised when this guy comes across as an idiot. He is so consistent.
[DAWN] The National Assembly Standing Committee on Law, Justice and Human Rights on Friday decided to finalise and approve a comprehensive draft regarding the Hindu Marriage Bill 2014 in its next meeting to stop forced marriages of Hindu girls with Moslem men.
According to the draft, girls belonging to the Hindu minority will not be allowed to marry below the age of 18.
The committee meeting was chaired by MNA Chaudhry Mahmood Bashir Virk and was attended by its members and officials of the concerned Ministry of Law and Justice.
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[DAWN] There is a handlebar-mustached thug in all of us — or so says local Android app developer Pawail Qaisar, the creator of a mindlessly addictive game centered around everyone's current favourite, Shafeeq Gujjar aka Gullu Butt.
"Everyone is frustrated in one way or another," Pawail says, in an email interview to Dawn.com. "There is a Gullu in all of us."
While we are hoping Pawail is wrong about there being a vandal in all of us, the 10,000 downloads of his game 'Gullu' trumpet the appeal of the Gullu Butt phenomenon.
The first game released by Pawail's Lahore-based company Weird Science, 'Gullu' was created just days after the baton-wielding hooligan became the hot subject of discussion in the National Assembly and on every television show.
The game allows a user to play Gullu Butt by smashing the windows of a parked car with the swipe at the screen. The aim is to collect as many shards of flying glass as possible.
While there is no movement or progression from one scene to another, the developers have incorporated the elements of the scene as it transpired on that fateful day in Lahore. The frame shows rows of blind coppers in riot gear standing in the background as Gullu Butt takes center stage and smashes the windows of the car with a stick. A tiny lion denoting the Pakistain Moslem League Nawaz (PML-N's) evergreen mascot sits in one corner, staring at you without expression.
While the game is not without glitches — the lack of an 'exit' option for one — it is a good attempt by a new entrant considering the limited resources. The creators have also remarkably mimicked real-life Gullu Butt's pre-strike position to the tee.
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[AnNahar] Nearly 1,000 illegal African immigrants in Israel on Friday staged a march towards the southern border with Egypt to protest against living conditions in their internment camp, public radio reported.
Israeli soldiers stopped the demonstrators, most from Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... and Sudan, nearly 300 meters (yards) from the border, it added.
The protesters, who are allowed out during the day, said in a statement that their march was in protest against their "inhuman and unlimited" detention in the Holot camp.
Holot houses some 2,300 immigrants.
Israel's construction of an electric fence along its border with Egypt has reduced the number of immigrants arriving illegally through the Sinai Peninsula to almost none.
The demonstrators were demanding to be able to leave Israel, and called on the U.N. refugee agency and the international community to take charge of their cases so they can immigrate to a third country.
The Israeli authorities require undocumented Democrats who have been in Israel for more than five years to live in Holot.
One demonstrator said the authorities present it as an "open facility", but it was "actually a prison".
Under legislation passed in December 2013, authorities can detain undocumented Democrats for up to a year without trial.
In February, Haaretz newspaper reported that Israel had started flying undocumented Democrats to Uganda with the authorization of that country's authorities.
The Israeli population and immigration office said that in late 2013 there were 53,646 African immigrants in Israel, 35,987 of whom were Eritrean, 13,249 Sudanese and the remainder from other countries.
Israel's construction of an electric fence along its border with Egypt has reduced the number of immigrants arriving illegally through the Sinai Peninsula to almost none.
Thousands of African immigrants rallied last year against the authorities' refusal to grant them refugee status.
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Israel's construction of an electric fence along its border with Egypt has reduced the number of immigrants arriving illegally through the Sinai Peninsula to almost none.
Why those clever juices. Who would have thought of such a thing?
[AnNahar] Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani ... Grand Mufti of Lebanon and the most prominent Sunni Muslim cleric in the country. An assassination attempt against Qabbani was foiled by Leb internal security forces in 2009 as part of the Eid al-Fitr celebrations in Beirut. In an interview broadcast in 2012, Qabbani stated that Jews were behind secularism, because they opposed the authority of the church, against Christianity. He also suggested that the attacks of September 11, 2001 were orchestrated by Jews in order to justify the persecution of Muslims worldwide. Qabbani is against the legalization of civil marriage in Lebanon. He has issued a fatwa declaring any Muslim politician who approves civil marriage legislation an apostate. Surprisingly, he is not considered very much of a nut by Moslem standards. announced on Friday evening that Sunday, June 29, is the first day of the holy month of Ramadan.
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... had confirmed earlier in the day that Saturday will be the last day of the month of Shaaban on the Islamic calendar, after observers failed to sight the crescent of Ramadan.
The holy month will also begin on Sunday in Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, religious authorities announced.
The month begins with the sighting of the new moon, which varies from country to country.
Ramadan is sacred to Mohammedans because it is during that month that tradition says the Koran was revealed to the Prophet Mohammed.
During Ramadan, Mohammedans fast from dawn to dusk and strive to be more pious and charitable.
The fast is one of the five main religious obligations under Islam.
No fun for you, big boy! You will be holy, whether you want to or not.
[AnNahar] Hundreds of police and soldiers raided a huge red-light district in Indonesia's second-biggest city Friday to close down brothels before the Moslem holy month of Ramadan.
Scuffles briefly broke out between security forces and people protesting the raid in the area known as "Dolly" in Surabaya, on Indonesia's main Java island, where women advertise their services by sitting in brightly-lit shop windows.
"The raid was conducted to make sure that entertainment centers, including brothels, are closed during the whole month of Ramadan," said Irvan Widyanto, a Surabaya official responsible for maintaining public order.
Ramadan, Islam's holiest month, begins on Sunday in Indonesia, the world's most populous Moslem-majority country. The faithful are supposed to abstain from eating, drinking and sex from dawn until dusk during Ramadan.
The raid came about a week after the city's mayor announced the closure of Dolly, but gave the hookers and pimps in the network of narrow alleys a few more weeks before the red-light district is finally closed.
The bid to close Dolly has sparked fierce resistance from sex workers and others whose jobs depend on the red-light district, and they have staged regular protests. The government has pledged to give them financial assistance and training in new professions.
Some 500 police, soldiers and public order officers -- who assist police in maintaining peace but have fewer powers -- were involved in Friday's raid, an Agence La Belle France Presse news hound at the scene said.
One large brothel in the area was closed down permanently, said Widyanto. Scuffles broke out when public order officers sought to take down banners condemning the closure of Dolly.
Islamic hardliners also regularly carry out raids on bars and brothels during Ramadan.
A sweet human interest story about the man who keeps the "refugee camp" running. Buried in the midst if all that is this interesting paragraph:
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency says there are some 22,000 Palestinian refugees registered in Shatila, but only about 8,000 live there — comprising around 30 percent of the camp's population. The rest of the residents are a combination of Lebanese, Filipinos, Sri Lankans, and now a large contingent of Syrians who have fled the civil war next door, according to UNRWA.
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Judicial Watch may catch a break. Maybe this whole investigation can get off the dime (I was thinking Lerner would have to be water-boarded to get anything out of her.)
Any bets on the Judge being removed from the bench by the empty suit and his cronies in DOJ prior to July 10?
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I wish him well.
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Maybe he will do what's right rather than what's political like Chief U.S. Judge John Sirica during Watergate. Nothing will ever get by Eric Holder with regards to appointing a special prosecutor. The present government can't be trusted. The only chance that this IRS scandal might have a chance of getting proper investigation is in the courts.
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Just to add to IRS miseries, at the beginning of June the suit against the IRS for discriminating against Jewish groups was allowed to go forward, per the JTA:
Federal judge rules Z Street case against IRS may proceed
June 1, 2014 6:51am
WASHINGTON (JTA) A federal judge ruled that a lawsuit challenging the Internal Revenue Services scrutiny of Israel-related groups may proceed.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. on May 27 dismissed U.S. government claims that federal courts lack jurisdiction over the lawsuit filed in 2010 by an Israel advocacy group, Z Street.
The lawsuit claims that IRS scrutiny of Z Streets application for tax-exempt status violated its freedom of speech.
Jackson accepted Z Streets argument that the group was not suing to gain tax-exempt status but rather because it alleged that the government was subjecting it to unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in assessing its application.
In its lawsuit, Z Street, which was founded in 2009 in part to counter the influence of J Street, cited a conversation that its legal counsel had with an IRS agent. According to Z Streets complaint, the IRS agent had said that applications for tax-exempt status from Israel-related entities are sent to a special unit in Washington to determine whether such organizations activities contradict the U.S. administrations public policies.
IRS officials in court papers have disputed this characterization of the conversation and said that it misstates the nature of their policy. The IRS has said that it gives special scrutiny to applicants that could provide resources to organizations in a country, such as Israel, that is at higher risk of terrorism.
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.
David Cameron
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[AnNahar] Hundreds of police and soldiers raided a huge red-light district in Indonesia's second-biggest city Friday to close down brothels before the 
