[Fox13Now] SALT LAKE CITY - Authorities on Monday released video of a US Marshal shooting an accused gang member who attacked a witness with a pen inside the Salt Lake City Federal Courthouse.
The video from 2014 shows Siale Angilau leaving the defense table, picking up a pen and rushing at a witness who was testifying.
"Deputy Jane Doe" fired four shots at Angilau, killing the man, according to court documents.
United States District Judge John E. Dowdell granted the summary judgment Friday and dismissed the plaintiff’s excessive force lawsuit. Dowdell also ordered the release of the courtroom video, which had been the subject of a lengthy court battle involving media outlets, including Fox 13, over freedom of information and the First Amendment.
Angilau’s family argued the use of deadly force was not permissible in this case and claimed that the deputy fired several shots into Angilau’s back after he was already incapacitated.
The judge disputed these claims saying the deputy and witness were boxed into a corner with no room to escape the attack and the deputy had reasonable belief that Angilau was going to harm or kill the witness or other innocent bystanders.
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I would like to thank this gang member for saving the taxpayers the considerable cost of his incarceration as well as saving the legal system the innumerable appeals he would have filed. I wish all thugs would be so civic-minded.
A pedophile has been left with "life-altering" injuries after climbing through the bedroom window of two young children, only to be greeted by their pet bulldog who bit his doinker off. I'm not familiar with the source, and Googs describes it as "far right," and Snopes sez the story's false, but they do have an x-ray of a dog with about an eight inch baloney inside it, so it must be true.
52-year-old Randle James of Saline County, Arkansas, climbed into the 1st-floor window of the small family home into the room where the two young sisters were sleeping after passing by and seeing the open window. "Ahah! A toddler and a first grader! I think I'll give 'em a good molestation!"
After climbing into the room of the 3 and 6-year-old sisters, James got more than he bargained for when family’s Pitt Pull Terrier leaped to the girl’s defense. The dog severed the rapist’s genitals clean off and swallowed his penis and testicles. "Argh! My crank! My Bells of Saint Mary's!"
The commotion alerted the children’s parents "Hey! Whut's all thet there screamin'?” he said in Arkansawanese...
who called emergency services. "Howdy! Is that there Ee-mergency services?"
"Anybody here speak Arkansawanese?"
According to the father of the children, after calling the police, the attacker was in so much pain that he didn’t attempt to make an escape. "Owww... My doinker! My doinker! Where'd it go?"
James was rushed to the hospital where doctors treated his wounds but said they were unable to rescue his genitalia after it had been swallowed by the pet bulldog. "Doctor Casy! I have an idea!"
"What's that, Doctor Kildare?"
"We shave the tip of the doggy's tail and sew that onto where the winkie used to be!"
"Ummm... Better ask Nurse Ratchett about that one. I don't think most women wanta be greeted by a snarling pit bull when a man takes his pants off."
Hospital staff said they were able to "patch him up," and while he lost a lot of blood and was clearly in a lot of pain, he would survive. "Pain! I'm in so much pain!"
"Have an aspirin, Casanova."
Aspirin makes the blood flow more freely. Better take a Tylenol instead.
They added that although his injuries were no-longer life-threatening, they were "certainly life-altering. "I mean, how do you go through life without peeing?"
"I bet it really cheeses off that pit bull hangin' between his legs!"
"The family, who can’t be named, said they are just thankful their dog was there to protect the maiden of tender yearss from the attacker.The mother of the girls said: "He’s our hero. He’ll be eating steak for a week now." "Hi, mister! We stopped by to play with our doggy!"
"No! Not again! Don't...!"
"Fetch, Rover! [THROW!]"
"Aaaiiieee!"
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least six kidnappers including two women were placed in durance vile Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! by the Afghan cops in Jalalabad city, the picturesque provincial capital of eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
According to the local security officials, the security forces arrested the gang during an operation which also led to the release of a 4-year-old who was kept as hostage.
Provincial police front man Hazrat Hussain Mashriqwal told news hounds, the gang had kidnapped the 4-year-old girl from the vicinity of the 2nd police district of Jalalabad.
Mashriqwal further added that the child was kidnapped from Fatima al-Zahra hospital located in the 2nd police district of the city.
According to Mashriqwal, the child belonged to a doctor who was lured by the two women and was then taken to Surkh Rod area by the four men.
He said the child has been returned to her family safely and the six individuals icluding two women are currently in the custody of police.
This comes as the Afghan intelligence operatives had also rescued a 8-month-old baby from the custody of a group of three kidnappers on Sunday.
According to the local officials, at least three people including a woman were also arrested in connection to the kidnapping of the child.
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[TheDrive] The head of the Norway’s main military intelligence arm says his agency has watched as Russian military aircraft flew a number of simulated attacks on key military installations in his country and NATO warships in the region. The incidents offer yet more evidence that the Kremlin is taking an increasingly aggressive stance toward the Western alliance and that it is looking for ways harass it and its other European partners that don’t run the risk setting off an actual conflict.
Norwegian Air Force Lieutenant General Morten Haga Lunde, who is now in charge of the Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS), also known as the Etterretningstjenesten or E-tjenesten, gave details about three separate incidents in 2017 in an annual speech to the Oslo Military Society on March 5, 2018. Neither Norwegian authorities nor NATO officials appear to have previously disclosed the threatening looking flights toward a shadowy radar facility in the town of Vardø along the Barents Sea, a flotilla of NATO ships in the Norwegian Sea, and various military facilities near the city of Bodø in northern Norway.
A year or so ago, Pella Shipyard of St Peterburg produced a fast attack patrol boat similar to this ship. Two differences are the BK-16 appears to be shorter and it also sports an additional three points for PK machine guns.
The boat is remarkably similar to the Swedish CB-90, currently deployed in several Western navies, including the US Navy and the Mexican Navy.
[fort-russ.com] “Kalashnikov” company has began the construction of high-speed landing boats BK-16 for the National Guard of Russia. The first launch of the boat was held at the shipbuilding yard “Rybinsk shipyard”.
“On March, 12 at the Rybinsk shipyard, a member of the group of companies “Kalashnikov”, held a ceremony for the launch of the high-speed transport boat BK-16 for the Federal Service troops of the National Guard of the Russian Federation,” – said the Kalashnikov a statement.
The boat has the ability to move at high speed, has a large landing compartment, and can come directly on to the shore with subsequent landing of fighters.
“Depending on the wishes of the customer, we can supply the equipment in various configurations for the solution of specific military tasks,” – said general director of Rybinsk shipyard, Sergei Antonov.
Lieutenant-General Sergei Mileyko, Deputy Director of the National Guard, attended the ceremony. He congratulated the management and shipyard workers on this event and wished them success in carrying out this order.
“Servicemen and employees are at the forefront of the fight against terrorism and crime, so one of the priority tasks is to equip them with the best weapons, protective equipment. It is very important that we rely on domestic producers and developers. Today, we are laying the first boat from a series of vessels designed to perform special tasks in the sphere of the National Guard’s activities.”
The boats are designed for operations in coastal zones, transportation of personnel, landing on unequipped coasts, medical evacuation, rendering assistance to those in distress in remote areas, combating piracy and terrorism.
[StrategyPage.com] This switch from limits on Chinese leaders back to the more traditional dynastic “ruler for life” model was something of a surprise. Supreme leader Xi Jinping got another five year term in late 2017, allowing him ten years in office. This has been the custom since 1982 when it was decided that a “collective leadership” was a good idea and supreme leaders should be serve for only two five year terms (or just one if there were problems.) Since 1982 this has worked but Xi Jinping wants more and is getting it. This time he put ineligible (too old and more loyal to Xi than able to take his place) men in the Politburo Standing Committee from which the next leader is selected. Xi did not designate a preferred successor. And as “ruler for life” he no longer has any legitimate opposition to his power to do whatever he wants.
Another pattern noticed by foreigners (working from public records) is that “tigers” accused of corruption tend to be disproportionately people who had not supported current leader Xi Jinping in the past. Those who did and do support Xi Jinping for a long time and are caught up in a corruption investigation still tend to get punished, but in the form of quietly retiring and often allowed to keep much, if not all, of the wealth they stole. One area where this “friends of Xi Jinping” angle does not work so well is the military. The senior officers accused of corruption had fewer opportunities to support (or not) Xi Jinping, who came up through the civilian and CCP (Chinese Communist Party) bureaucracy. Corruption in the military has been an ancient tradition and there’s a lot more opportunities to steal now. Xi Jinping has made it his personal goal to break that tradition, or at least greatly erode the extent of corruption in the military and that means a lot of the accused “tigers” tend to be generals and admirals.
Xi Jinping has a solution that does not involve democracy but will succeed or fail on how effectively it imposed accountability and honesty on a CCP bureaucracy that is more concerned about getting rich any way they can. Xi Jinping, like Deng Xiaoping, is willing to tolerate some bad behavior if it produces a net benefit for China and its rulers. So far that has led to the prosecution of the more inept corrupt officials and at least encouraged local officials to do something about practices that lead to pollution, waste and abuse of power. Despite enormous efforts to censor the Internet bad news (of CCP misbehavior) still gets out and causes unrest.
Xi Jinping gained followers in the bureaucracy by demonstrating his appreciation of how important the loyalty (and effectiveness) of the military and national police was. Xi Jinping also pushed for greater emphasis on seeking new ways to use the Internet rather than just fear and seek to control it. Many Chinese admire the way the government has used Cyber Warfare and Internet based espionage to gain information (commercial, military and so on) that would otherwise be unavailable. To many Chinese, especially CCP members, this is admirable not criminal behavior.
Internet based crime is one thing, managing the economy is another matter. Many Chinese are aware that Japan was poised, in the popular imagination, to become a great power in the 1980s because its economic growth seemed unstoppable, until suddenly in the early 1990s it wasn’t. China is showing some of the same symptoms (falling birthrate, corruption and poor economic management) that ended the Japanese threat. The Japanese are still affluent but they have still not found a cure for their demographic problems. South Korea is suffering from a similar affliction as is Western Europe. The Chinese situation is worse because the CCP caused a lot of ecological and economic damage that would get fixed a lot sooner in a democracy. Xi Jinping is ignoring all that for the moment, but those problems, in the long run, will not ignore him.
Followed by more discussion, then a shopping list of resources for China to get control of around the world esp. Africa and MidEast.
[StrategyPage.com] Air Weapons: More MOP For Mister Kim
In early 2018 the U.S. Air Force ordered another $21 million worth of their 14 ton deep penetrator bomb (the MOP or Massive Ordnance Penetrator, officially the GBU-57). Based on past purchases this would be 5-10 GBU-57s. Earlier purchases had included a lot of additional equipment as well as modifications to the B-2 bomber that is the only aircraft that carries this bomb. There is no official data on the number of MOPs the air force has because data on bombs used for tests and training are kept secret.
It is known that GBU-57 underwent modifications in 2013 and 2017 that required one of more of them to be used to ensure the mods had the desired effect. While the 2013 mods were apparently to increase penetration and effectiveness against Iranian underground facilities the 2017 mods apparently took the characteristics of North Korean (or even Chinese) underground facilities into account. The 2013 tests were apparently against an accurate replica of the main Iranian nuclear weapons development facility at Fordo. Some of the results of this test were distributed to American allies with the intention of sending a message to Iran. There is no indication that a similar message about GBU-57 performance was sent to North Korea after the 2017 tests.
[ATimes] Italian engineers and Chinese traders are looking to transform Venice into a key hub with an offshore-onshore port system, known as Voops, to rival northern European ports such as Rotterdam
Also see Greenland in another post today. China is going full bore to take on the world and win.
The Greenlandic government is enthusiastic about China as a key investor in mining and infrastructure projects, as well as a source of tourism and a customer for seafood, with a foreseeable central role in reducing economic dependence from Denmark. Such enthusiasm has not been reciprocated through major investments, although that might be about to change. Chinese companies remain cautious, as the development of the mining industry is hindered by high costs, low commodity prices, a lack of infrastructure and financial uncertainty. In political contacts, China avoids any signs of support for Greenland’s independence, but the topic is now open for academic discussion. Although it remains unstated, an independent Greenland with China as a key trade and investment partner and good political relations would be a valuable geopolitical asset in the context of China’s long-term Arctic strategy.
[KCNAWATCH.CO] Rodong Sinmun - To mark the birth anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il, newspapers of different countries featured articles: "Comrade Kim Jong Il's Great Feats for Korean Revolution", "People's Leader Kim Jong Il", etc.
Those papers carried a portrait of smiling Kim Jong Il and his photos.
The Lao paper Vientiane Mai said that the reality of the DPRK pushing ahead with the building of a powerful socialist country despite ordeals of every description is inseparable from the feats of Kim Jong Il.
The Iranian paper The Iran News said that he devoted himself to the people, regarding them as the most precious being in the world and a teacher, adding that his benevolent image as the genuine leader of the people would be always remembered by the Korean people and the world progressives.
The Myanmar paper The New Age referred to the feats of the peerlessly great man who developed comprehensively and in depth the Juche idea through his rare ideological and theoretical activities to clearly show the road ahead of the progressive people, praising him as the great sage of mankind.
The Zambian paper Brandline News, the DR Congo paper La Prosperite and the Belarusian paper Buperyod, too, carried articles praising his ideo-theoretical feats and Songun leadership feats.
The Angolan paper O Pais told about his feats for national reunification; the Congolese paper La Patriot about the noble traits of Kim Jong Il who took care of all people with warm human love; and the Nigerian paper Nigerian Observer about how the immortal flower Kimjongilia came into being.
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Automatic translation, but brushed up to make it readable. Of course the picture of Trump is negative, but also has a few words for China.
What can Europe do when US President Donald Trump and the Chinese launch new trade wars? Pascal Lamy, former Secretary-General of the World Trade Organization WTO and EU Trade Commissioner, has a few ideas on this subject
DIE ZEIT: Donald Trump is threatening trade wars all over the world, the Europeans are already threatening to retaliate, and the Chinese are also closing off many industries. How harmful is this new wave of protectionism?
Pascal Lamy: Honestly, I don't see a serious protectionist wave yet...
ZEIT: The research institute Global Trade Alert has been observing an increase in trade barriers worldwide for some time now.
Lamy: I don't see it that dramatically, and I even think it's dangerous to shout "Wolf!" if there's no wolf at all. When the wolf really comes, people don't care. At the moment, world trade is becoming increasingly free, not restricted.
ZEIT: How do you establish that?
Lamy: Everywhere! Look at the lower tariffs on services and goods. Or the volume of world trade which is increasing. Of course, there are of course obstacles to free trade and, yes, a few new ones have been added.
ZEIT: For example?
Lamy: In many countries around the world, laws and regulations are now being enacted to protect consumers. If I am a rose grower from London, I may have zero taxes and restrictions on exports to Europe, Japan or the USA. But each of these regions has its own rules and bans on the use of pesticides. So I have to divide my rose production into different production lines: Roses for Europe, USA and Japan. That costs me something, and it also reduces my competitiveness compared to local rose-growers in these countries. But that is not protectionism!
ZEIT: Why is that not protectionism?
Lamy: First of all, it is not meant as protectionism; these regulations have other, structural reasons. People in these countries are getting richer, older and more afraid of risk. So the politicians pass corresponding protective laws. This can, however, also be abused, in which case it is protectionism. This is when such provisions are adopted to protect domestic producers from foreign competition. This is an old issue, and the WTO has long had mechanisms in place to deal with it.
ZEIT: You don't worry about the trade threats from the White House?
Lamy: Trump is a dog that barks more than it bites. His predecessor, Barack Obama, had not been as supportive of the WTO as it was in the past, and important personnel decisions were blocked, which made the work of the WTO bodies more difficult. But Trump, the dog, doesn't bite yet. So far! In the Trump government, however, a man has been made Trade Commissioner, Robert Lighthizer, who learned his trade in the Middle Ages, so to speak. Thirty years ago he was involved as a commercial lawyer on the American side when the USA accused Japan of artificially reducing the price of its steel. This man sees himself as an opponent of the WTO. He believes that everything was still fine before the North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA existed, when Reagan was still in power.
ZEIT: So this barking Trump has some biting reflexes after all.
Lamy: Trump's biting reflex is: I want customs duties! His trading philosophy is very simple, and he has already explained it to Chancellor Merkel: The number of Chevrolet cars in Berlin will be the same as the number of Mercedes cars in Washington! He also says: "We have to levy duties on products from abroad in order to compensate for our disadvantages. That's total nonsense!
ZEIT: Why is this nonsense?
Lamy: Because international division of labour is efficient. If I do one thing better than you and you do another thing better than I do, then we should urgently trade with each other! But that is what the market should decide, not a politician. You can tell from the Chevrolets that they are not good enough for German consumers. Mercedes cars, however, are very well suited for consumers in Washington. That's how it works in the modern world. We are no longer in the world of the Pharaoh of Egypt and the King of Crete, who sign a treaty on who trades what at what price. Only Trump still lives in that time.
ZEIT: Trump doesn't sound like he wants to change his worldview...
Lamy: That's my concern. As long as people understand their reality to some extent, they may have different opinions, but these differences are moving within a reasonable zone. I know, of course, that many of Trump's own staff try to explain to him how the contexts really are. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, for example, is in a state of shock because the NAFTA trade agreement could be abolished. But if you understand so few things as Trump, you may make big mistakes.
ZEIT: You said he's just barking.
Lamy: So far, he has waived duties on washing machines and solar panels. He may think that washing machines and solar panels were the spearhead of technology, and that the US is making these products efficiently. Sorry, it's not like that. The Japanese and Chinese can do better.
ZEIT: Can't you understand Trump too? He sees that the Chinese, for their part, are not big free traders.
Lamy: Absolutely right, China is still a relatively closed economy. It must also be seen, however, that it is more open than other emerging markets. In my opinion, rich countries need less protection than poor countries. Now, however, there is a huge debate about where China stands, i. e. whether it is still a classical emerging market country. The US believes that China is a rich country with many poor people living in it. The Chinese believe that they live in a poor country with many rich people. For me, China as a whole is not a rich country.
ZEIT: Nevertheless, Americans and Europeans can rightly feel unfairly treated. The Chinese subsidize their export products, they even expand through direct investments and company acquisitions all over the world, but they seal off their own markets.
Lamy: Yes, China is exploiting a number of weaknesses in the system, for example by subsidizing its domestic manufacturers. We have probably focused too much on barriers to market access at the WTO, i. e. tariffs and the like, but not enough on subsidy rules. This is where the WTO could work better. I also find it totally untenable that China has not opened up its market for public-sector purchases. We have been talking about this since 2001!
ZEIT: The Chinese, like you, do not believe that all barriers should simply be dismantled and that the markets will then do everything efficiently.
Lamy: But if Donald Trump wants to protect his own market from the Chinese by making imports more expensive, he is damaging his own economy. He has also not yet understood that production chains span the entire globe today. For example, if he levies 40 percent taxes on iPhones from China, the US economy will suffer four times as much as the Chinese economy. He doesn't realize that!
ZEIT: Economic efficiency thinking is just a little out of style in the US, strategic and even military thinking is in. This is also apparent from the latest Washington announcements to impose fines on steel and aluminium imports.
Lamy: Absolutely right. In the USA, such a military-strategic argumentation has been around steel and aluminium for a long time. According to the motto: "If we do not have the production of steel and aluminium in our hands, how can we wage war? The Obama administration had even made such an argument to stop Chinese investment in a sausage factory. They said: "Sausages are an important input for the army. Soldiers eat a lot of sausages."
ZEIT: Between these big squabbling roosters USA and China, trapped in the middle, is small Europe....
Lamy: Excuse me, small Europe? Europe is not small. The European market is larger than the American or Chinese market.
ZEIT: Okay, can big Europe influence Trumps America and Xi's China to remain fair players on the world market?
Lamy: Europe must work with both sides. It must lead the US to put pressure on China and vice versa.
ZEIT: How, for example?
Lamy: Europe must lead the coalition of those who want to keep the US in the WTO. They must explain to the Americans that this is in their own interest and that the Americans must also abide by the rules. It is possible that the USA may want to demolish the entire system.
ZEIT: Are European leaders at the moment as determinedly behind the WTO as you want it to be?
Lamy: If that's what they want. We are currently having discussions, a common European line on foreign direct investment. France and Germany stand together, but 15 EU member states do not, because China puts pressure on them.
ZEIT: Europe can easily be divided on such issues.
Lamy: Of course! The advantage of Europe is that a federal system tends to be more reasonable. The disadvantage is that China or the USA can put pressure on the smaller states. At the moment, this is happening in a number of Central and Eastern European countries that are being told: we will invest in you if you support us politically in Brussels. "Divide and conquer" is the game of the Chinese and the Americans. I have been a long time Trade Commissioner in Brussels, I know what I am talking about.
ZEIT: In Europe, the population no longer necessarily believes that free trade is a good thing.
Lamy: Yes, that is true, but I do not expect any major protectionist reaction from the people of Europe either. Nobody expects that.
ZEIT: But hardly any politician will be going out of his way for free trade at the moment. You can't win votes with that.
Lamy: This is partly a cultural problem. In connection with all the migration debates, there is a general hostility towards everything that comes from outside. George W. Bush once said: "The problem with imports is that they come from abroad." That was a good point. There is also a socio-economic reality. Where social systems are strong, people are more in favor of free trade. These systems reduce social insecurity when jobs are suddenly relocated, skills requirements change, employment becomes more insecure and education or pension systems come under pressure. In the United States and Great Britain, the welfare state has been severely reduced in recent decades, and that is probably why we have Trump and Brexit.
ZEIT: What is the next job for European politicians? What should they tell Trump, and what should they tell China?
Lamy: The big issue for the meetings with the Chinese is the subsidies granted by the government to their producers. The big issue with the Americans is that they are causing too much damage to the WTO, that they are boycotting the proceedings there. On the other hand, European politicians should build alliances with Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Switzerland, Norway, Australia and New Zealand. There are plenty of countries that want a sensible middle way and that all have a problem when the United States destabilizes the WTO. The USA can then be explained calmly: We have a plan B.
ZEIT: A plan B?
Lamy: Yes, a WTO without the USA. So think twice about it, Mr Trump, before you break up the World Trade Organization! Because if we have a WTO without the United States, you are out there in the cold.
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Yup. Confirms it again. These people can see nothing beyond:
1) Their own interests, which they retroactively fit rational-sounding explanations.
2) What they imagine American interests to be. The fact that we wish to benefit our people at the expense of everyone who has profited handsomely from trade seems like insanity to them. "But GDP will slightly decrease its rate of increase! Doing this is the worst thing anyone could ever do!"
We know what we're doing, shithead. We're doing what's right for our people who have long been neglected under your system. It's going to come at your expense - just like you've been deliberately damaging us for decades. Now that the shoe's on the other foot, it's suddenly wrong and unfair that you don't get your way.
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Lamy: Trump is a dog that barks more than it bites.
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I guess being an Israeli (i.e. somebody whom these people proclaimed as not having a right to exist) prejudiced me against European elites - just a little bit. So, when Trump tells them "no more free meals"
For example, if he levies 40 percent taxes on iPhones from China, the US economy will suffer four times as much as the Chinese economy. He doesn't realize that!
Because it's bullshit.
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They don't get Trump. I becoming convinced that the only one who really gets Trump is Scott Adams.
Trump is negotiating in a new way as the old way always seemed to wind up with the USA getting the short end, at least the USA workers.
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Thank you for bringing us this translation, European Conservative. I think having a Plan B is wise — having the option to let go those who do not want to be part of tthe World Trade Organization, just as it would be wise to set free those who no longer wish to be part of the European Union.
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A while ago, Broadcom was bought by a Singapore company. It kept Broadcom's name and I wondered at that. The funding appeared to be from China.
So buying Qualcomm would give them existing cellular chips and a hook into OneWeb. China is bursting out of it's borders.
[DAWN] The Daska City police on Sunday tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! a 42-year-old woman suspected of committing blasphemy and shifted her to the Sialkot District Jail after registering a case against her.
However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... the locals said the woman was mentally deranged and she recently got back home after spending two months in a Lahore hospital.
According to the first information report lodged under sections 298 and 298-A PPC, one Rehman Mehmood Anwar alleged that the woman had publicly committed blasphemy against the prophets and companions of Prophet Muhammad (PTUI!) near a tea stall on Bank Road in Daska.
The police arrested the suspect, shifted her to the Sialkot District Jail and started investigation into the case.
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Yeesh. Looks like her neighbors could use some Diversity and Inclusion training.
[DAWN] The murder of a girl and injuries to her sister during an alleged robbery at Murad Ka Kathia village on March 7, turned out a case of honour killing, the police said.
Harrapa Station House Officer Jahanzeb Wattoo during a media talk on Saturday said the two sisters had alleged affairs with two men. On the night of March 7, the father of the girls found two suspects in his house and along with his son, son-in-law and two others opened fire, killing one of his daughters and causing injuries to the other, the SHO said.
The suspects managed their escape.
Mr Wattoo said the girl’s father told the police that his daughter was killed in a robbery incident.
The SHO said police, on the report of girl’s mother, had started the paperwork but haven't done much else against girl’s father, brother, brother-in-law and two faceless myrmidons.
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[DAWN] A scuffle broke out between Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) MNA Hamidul Haq and the prime minister's son, Abdullah Abbasi, in the Upper House on Monday evening, moments before the announcement declaring Senator Sadiq Sanjrani as the newly-elected Senate chairman was to be made, DawnNewsTV reported.
In a tense contest between PML-N backed Senator Raja Zafarul Haq and opposition-backed Sanjrani ‐ an independent candidate from Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... ‐ the latter came out comfortable on top with 57 votes, four more than the required count and 11 more than his rival.
As soon as Sanjrani was announced the new Senate Chairman, Haq had started chanting slogans in PTI's favour which angered Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi's son.
A heated verbal argument ensued between the two, which quickly escalated into a brawl.
The two were eventually separated by politicians and Senate staff present in the gallery.
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A report produced by the Singapore government has revealed the cause of a deadly collision between an American warship and an oil tanker in August last year. The report says the collision was caused by a ‘series of missteps’ leading the USS John S. McCain to make a sudden turn, putting it into the path of the oil tanker Alnic MC. The USS Fitzgerald almost sank in a similar collision in June. Seventeen sailors died in the two collisions, prompting the US Navy to institute reforms in sea training.
Australia has refused to follow the US lead in conducting freedom of navigation operations in the South China Sea. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said that Australia won’t provoke China by sailing within 12 nautical miles of China’s man-made islands. The US Navy has repeatedly sailed within 12 nautical miles of the islands. The UK recently committed HMS Sutherland to conduct freedom of navigation drills.
Dramatic morning tweet by the president announces that Rex Tillerson has been fired as Secretary of State
Tillerson, the former boss of Exxon, had just been on a trip to Africa and was last seen boarding his Air Force place on Monday
His last public act was to blame Russia for the poisoning of its former spy Sergei Skripal at a British pizza restaurant - something White House had not done
Gina Haspel becomes first ever women to be Director of the CIA after clandestine career and involvement in 'black sites'
Tillerson had a troubled relationship with Trump but Washington Post reported he had actually been fired on Friday without the news leaking
Update at 10:00 a.m. ET: The text of the “dramatic” tweet:
Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He will do a fantastic job! Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service! Gina Haspel will become the new Director of the CIA, and the first woman so chosen. Congratulations to all!
Update at 10:30 a.m. ET:
Gina Haspel will need to face a Senate confirmation hearing.
Pompeo will not, because the Senate confirmed him as the CIA director just three days into the Trump administration.
There’s a nice biography of Mr. Pompeo at the link: West Point, engineering company backed by Koch brothers, four terms in the House including sitting on the Intelligence committee and that Benghazi thing.
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Fired? Maybe. The MSM likes to find scandal/chaos in this WH where none exists. Tillerson said he planned to leave in a year when he signed on. It's been 14 months. Recently, it was reported that Tillerson cut short a trip in South Korean because he was sick.
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Trump wants Pompeo handy for his trip to Korea. T-Rex's turtle appears to have an extensive resume of overseas assignments, which is excellent. A pox on the Klingon beltway homesteaders.
#9
Be amusing to see how many commentators who wrote that Tillerson was totally unsuited to the job now suddenly think the exact opposite...
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Iran deal imperiled as Trump ousts Secretary Tillerson:
Israeli officials tell The Jerusalem Post that they believe Trump is serious in his threat to withdraw from the deal. The US-E3 talks dominated Trump's conversation with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House last week.
The talks are scheduled to continue in Berlin on Thursday.
IOW Trump fired Tillerson in order to 'imperil' the Iran deal.
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Livid "activists"? Must be a day ending in 'y'.
I am glad to see Tillerson go, he seemed to be bucking PDT and was being obstructive (at least as seen from the really cheap seats).
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LGBT Activists Are LIVID About Trump Naming CIA Director Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State
Sending a protest message via AEA appears to be the only viable option. Solo won't garner much press however. I recommend even numbered groups of six or more, the.... buddy system as it were.
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