BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) ‐ Shirley Boone, the longtime wife of singer Pat Boone as well as a philanthropist, has died. She was 84.
She passed away on Friday surrounded by her four daughters, Cherry, Lindy, Debby and Laury, who sang to her, Milt Suchin, Pat Boone’s manager, said in a statement.
Shirley and Pat Boone had been married for 65 years. During that time, Shirley Boone helped to establish Mercy Corps, which has become an international charitable organization dedicated to addressing economic, environmental, social and political problems. She also published writings, hosted TV shows and recorded music.
Shirley Boone is the daughter of country singer Red Foley, a well-known country singer of the 1930s and 1940s who became a star with his recording of "Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy."
Shirley and Pat Boone had been high school sweethearts, and they married when he was 19 and rising to stardom.
In a statement to friends and family, Pat Boone wrote: "Quick bulletin, change of address:
Dear Shirley BOONE doesn’t dwell in Beverly Hills now_she’s just been warmly welcomed into a beautiful new mansion in Heaven, prepared specifically for her and her husband by Jesus Himself, who said "that where I am, you may be also".
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Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, in an interview with El Financiero Bloomberg TV that’s airing late Tuesday, said the fight against illegal pipeline taps by fuel thieves known as “huachicoleros” will take some time, and that the gasoline supply would begin to normalize bit by bit.
“We have enough gasoline, there’s no problem, it’s a matter of distribution,” Lopez Obrador said. In the worst of cases pipelines could reopen, he said.
The mounting crisis, which is compounded by congestion at Mexico’s ports and refinery closures, could not come at a worse time for Pemex and the Energy Ministry. In the past two months, they have let go some of their most experienced executives to make way for their replacements under the government of Lopez Obrador.
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Sounds like the mexican state bureaucrats are stealing all the oil "wealth" from the people..
[WVTM-13] BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ‐ A car burglary investigation near downtown Birmingham turned deadly early Sunday morning when a suspect opened fire on two officers, killing one of them.
The shooting occurred on 5th Avenue North, where an undercover officer and a uniformed sergeant encountered a pair of car burglary suspects just before 2 a.m. Smith said one suspect pulled a gun and opened fire after being confronted by the officers. The chief said the sergeant was "mortally wounded" and the officer was critically injured.
Smith said one suspect was injured in the shooting and taken to the hospital for treatment. The second suspect was taken into custody.
The names of the officers are being withheld pending notification of family.
This is the first Birmingham officer killed in the line of duty in more than 14 years. On June 17, 2004, three officers were shot and killed while serving a drug warrant in Ensley. It was the deadliest day in department history.
"This is a very difficult time," Smith said. "There are members on this department that have worked with them for years, and they're hurting just like everyone else."
The State Bureau of Investigation is investigating.
[AnNahar] Standing in his garden in Kabul, Baz Mohammad Kochi oversees the drilling of a new well more than 100 metres deep after his first water reservoir dried up. He is not alone.
A shortage of rain and snow, a booming population and wasteful consumption have drained the Afghan capital's water basin and sparked a race to the bottom as households and businesses bore deeper and deeper wells in search of the precious resource.
"The water level has dropped so much that it is now necessary to reach other underground basins 100 metres, even 120 metres" deep, says well digger Mohammad Aman as his dilapidated machine pierces the ochre earth in Kochi's yard.
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[PULSE.NG] Dah Sagbadjou Glele succeeds Dah Dedjalagni Agoli-Agbo, who died in July 2017 aged 84, dignitaries from royal families said following lengthy discussions.
Modern-day kings of Dahomey have no formal powers under Benin's constitution but retain much ceremonial, political and economic influence.
"The night was long but a new dawn has broken on the kingdom of Dahomey," they said.
One of those involved said the nomination was "happy and consensual" and that Glele was a worthy successor to Agoli-Agbo, a former police officer who had 41 wives.
The kingdom of Dahomey existed for nearly 400 years until its last ruling king, Behanzin, was defeated by the French in 1894.
The country then became part of French West Africa.
Dahomey was a major regional power built on conquest and the slave trade but also fostered major works of art and had an all-female military unit the French called the "Amazons of Dahomey".
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Amazons of Dahomey that helped capture the last slaves to USA. Now tell that to Feminists, they will be proud...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cudjoe_Lewis
During April or May 1860, Lewis was taken prisoner by the army of the Kingdom of Dahomey as part of its annual dry-season raids for slaves.
[PULSE.NG] Malawi Vice President Saulos Chilima has launched a bitter attack on his own government ahead of elections in May, when he hopes to win power as head of a new opposition party.
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[All Africa] No fewer than 60 persons were feared dead yesterday when a tanker loaded with Petroleum product fell and went kaboom! along Odukpani LGA axis of the Ikom-calabar Highway near the Federal Housing estate, Calabar, Cross River. The victims were scooping fuel from the tanker when it went up in flames.
An eyewitness, Mr Slyvester Ilem who narrated how the tragedy occurred said; "I saw people running to the scene with gallons and other containers to scoop fuel after the tanker veered off the road into a ditch by the roadside.
"Police officers from Odukpani Division also tried to cordon-off the area but the people refused and continued to scoop fuel. The rest is now history as the tanker burst into flames and engulfed all the people near and within the radius that the product had spread to.
"Let me be modest, the people scooping that fuel will not be less than 60 to 70 people because it was like a market place," he said.
When contacted, Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Irene Ugbo confirmed the incident adding that they had earlier warned the victims who took advantage of the illegal act but they were all dead now.
"Our men from Odukpani Division went there to cordon-off the area but the people refused and continued scooping fuel and before we knew it, the place was already in flames. As we speak, we cannot confirm the number of deceased persons because the fire is still heavy. It is only when the fire subsides that we can account for the victims, and give analysis of what happened there," she said. She however condoled with the families who lost their loved ones in the tragedy.
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[All Africa] The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has been caught padding its manifesto for the 2019 elections with materials copied from foreign websites without attribution.
The brazen plagiarism, which appeared from the title of the party’s ’plan’ for energy infrastructure, comes amidst complaints of a worsening disregard for intellectual property rights in the country.
President Muhammadu Buhari apologised in 2016 after being caught using lines of a speech once delivered by former American President Barack Obama Ready to Rule from Day One... without attribution.
Only last week, Segun Sowunmi, a spokesperson of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party presidential campaign organization, also apologised for stealing a speech from President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... and claiming it as his original thought in a New Year message on Facebook.
In the manifesto it recently uploaded on its website, the APC said its priority was to "ensure a safe and secure America ", setting itself up for scrutiny of the rest of the document which was designed to convince Nigerians that the party deserved reelection at the poll next month.
A google search of the first paragraph under the power’s proposal for power infrastructure revealed that the words were lifted in verbatim from either of a slew of website where they previously appeared, and without any attribution.
The paragraph reads: "Assertively pontificate long-term high-impact testing procedures wiProgressively synergize timely action items and business "outside the box" thinking. Distinctively foster best-of-breed markets before collaborative schemas. Authoritatively embrace tactical potentialities vis-a-vis low-risk high-yield architectures. Completely administrate robust testing procedures vis-a-vis dynamic testing procedures. Globally fabricate functional intellectual capital for B2B e-services."
The possible places where the party might have lifted the lines included one American political action page and and an Ivoirien energy website .
It was not immediately clear which one the party plagiarised amongst the websites, who appeared to have similarly plagiarised one another.
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One should never underestimate the importance of progressively synergizing timely action items. Or, as the British philosopher Alfred P. Doolittle put it, "Get Me To The Church On Time."
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[PRESSTV] Thousands of demonstrators wearing yellow vests have taken to the streets of London, in the largest protest yet in Britannia copying the "yellow vest" demonstrations rocking La Belle France since November.
Protesters opposed to the government's austerity program and demanding a general election marched Saturday through the center of the capital before rallying in Trafalgar Square.
A similar yellow-vest protest was held by people demanding more clarity surrounding Britannia’s withdrawal from the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... . The pro-Brexit march attracted hundreds of people, despite the fact that a leading campaigner had been placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... by police for the alleged harassment of a politician outside the parliament earlier this week.
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>Protesters opposed to the government's austerity program
There is NO/ZERO/NONE austerity. The UK government borrows about 200 billion a year.
[Evening Standard] A woman who suffered fatal head injuries while leaning out of a train window was killed when she hit a tree branch, an accident report has found.
Bethan Roper, 28, had stuck her head out the window of Great Western Railway train near Twerton, Bath on December 1 when she was struck while the train travelled 85mph.
A preliminary report by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch found that a yellow “caution” label above the door said “do not lean out of window when train is moving.”
The door was fitted with an opening window to enable passengers to access the handle, which was on the outside.
Miss Roper was on board the London Paddington to Exeter service while returning to Penarth, South Wales from a Christmas shopping trip with friends.
[BBC] A former communist militant who Brazil's new president had vowed to extradite has been detained in Bolivia, a Brazilian official said.
Italian Cesare Battisti is wanted for four murders in Italy during the 1970s, which he denies committing. Battisti spent years in Brazil as a refugee, backed by former left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
But far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who took office on 1 January, had pledged to send him back to Italy.
Filipe G. Martins, a senior aide on international affairs to President Bolsonaro, tweeted that Battisti "will be soon brought to Brazil, from where he will probably be sent to Italy to serve a life sentence".
An arrest warrant had been issued for Battisti in December, when Brazil's former President Michel Temer revoked his status as a permanent resident. The 64-year-old went on the run, and both his lawyer and the police told the BBC they had no idea of his whereabouts.
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Every Media article describes Bolsonaro as "far-right". No bias there. Compared to these commie symps he apparently is
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Italian Cesare Battisti is wanted for four murders in Italy during the 1970s, which he denies committing. Battisti spent years in Brazil as a refugee, backed by former extreme left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
But popular President Jair Bolsonaro, who took office on 1 January, had pledged to send him back to Italy.
[ELUNIVERSAL] The President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, confirmed on Saturday his commitment to a national dialogue with sectors of the opposition, to guarantee peace and coexistence in the country, for which he requested help from the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... . (UN) in your mediation.
"The UN (United Nations Organization) has to help us a lot in a national dialogue for peace, for mutual recognition, for harmony, coexistence, the coexistence of different political visions, I believe in dialogue in coexistence and in coexistence Hopefully sooner rather than later there will be a favorable criterion that will lead us to dialogue and superior understanding for the country, "said the president during a meeting with representatives of the UN held at the Miraflores Palace and which was broadcast on the State channel , Venezuelan Television.
In this regard, he denounced that there are sectors that seek to generate a "situation of total confrontation" in Venezuela, for which he reiterated his call for dialogue and debate to meet the needs of the people.
"There is a sterile diatribe that tries to escalate to a situation of total confrontation in Venezuela, we must promote a great social, cultural, political, institutional and public recognition dialogue," he said in relation to the latest actions of the AN that according to the president tries to "ignore the mandate of the people of May 20", when presidential elections were held that the bulk of the opposition and the international community branded illegal because they do not have the conditions and guarantees necessary to participate freely.
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VIDÉO @paris_normandie. Une équipe de journalistes de la chaîne @LCI ciblée par des manifestants à #Rouen. Les deux journalistes étaient accompagnés de deux agents de sécurité, dont l'un a dû être transporté à l'hôpital. 🔴 Suivez notre direct sur les ➡ https://t.co/VeQGgFWrvspic.twitter.com/VmU9bpLOdI
I see twitter as a good way around paywalls and other barriers.
Most twitter posts have the follow up comments that often link more places too, besides giving a very short summary. So if a paywall or other trick is in the way there are alternate references and quotable summaries. The "{n} people are talking about this" is a link to that conversation. Most of the highlighted blue is links.
Articles like those on Russia and China with people from those countries making posts or comments are only on twitter.
As to tech stuff like space and others MSM never comprehends the topic well enough to get it right, plus they are days (sometimes weeks) late. Twitter and sometimes Reddit present it better.
Oh and video of the press getting beaten up for supporting the globalist line? Not likely on an MSM (Main Stream Media) site.
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Beating up reporters? That's turrible...
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[PRESSTV] China’s flagship technology company Huawei has fired its sales director in Poland after authorities arrested the former diplomat over suspicious activities.
Wang Weijing was arrested on Friday by Poland’s counterintelligence service on suspicion of spying.
Huawei announced Saturday that the employee’s contract had been expired.
“In accordance with the terms and conditions of Huawei’s labor contract, we have made this decision because the incident in question has brought Huawei into disrepute,” the company said in a statement.
It emphasized that Wang’s alleged spying activities were in no way related to the tech company. The prompt move by Huawei was seen to be in accordance with the Chinese telecom giant’s efforts to maintain its international image of a reputable private company independent of any interference by the government.
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Itemphasized that Wang’s alleged spying activities were in no way related to the tech company.
Absolutely NOT. Harumph.
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[CBS] President Trump floated a "potential path to citizenship" for H1-B visa holders in an early Friday morning tweet, as the partial government shutdown is set to become the longest shutdown on record.
It's unclear what Mr. Trump meant exactly, as simplifying a path to citizenship for such visa holders would almost certainly require approval from Congress, and the White House has made no such suggestion in its latest border security funding proposal, or any other public offer.
"H1-B holders in the United States can rest assured that changes are soon coming which will bring both simplicity and certainty to your stay, including a potential path to citizenship," Mr. Trump tweeted. "We want to encourage talented and highly skilled people to pursue career options in the U.S."
The H-1B visa, under the Immigration and Nationality Act, lets U.S. employers temporarily employ foreign workers with at least a bachelor's degree for speciality occupations. H-1B visa holders can apply for a green card to obtain permanent residency ‐ but even a green card does not equate to citizenship.
Mr. Trump has expressed openness to a broader immigration overhaul, but has insisted that he first wants funding for a concrete or steel wall or barrier, along with funding for technology and personnel to handle the situation at the border. It's unclear what prompted Mr. Trump's tweet.
[DAWN] Australian batsman Steve Smith, who was to play for Multan Home of the Multan Sultans... Sultans in the upcoming edition of Pakistain Super League (PSL), has reportedly suffered an elbow injury due to which he will no longer be available to represent the PSL franchise.
According to Cricket Australia, Smith will undergo surgery and is expected to wear a brace for six weeks before commencing rehabilitation.
The fourth edition of PSL will be held from February 14 to March 17. Smith is not expected to regain full fitness in this period, read a statement issued by the Pakistain Cricket Board on Saturday.
"I am disappointed I won’t be able to play in the PSL but I wish Multan Sultans all the best for this year’s tournament," said Steve Smith.
"I was looking forward to playing the tournament and help my team win the trophy. We have a talented squad and I am confident that they will perform very well," the former Australian captain said.
Issuing a message on Smith’s unfortunate injury, the PCB said, "We are sad to lose a player of Steve’s calibre but we wish him a speedy recovery".
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[DAWN] An undertrial prisoner beat feet from Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Centre (JPMC) which resulted in the arrest and suspension of two court coppers over charges of criminal negligence, officials said on Saturday.
The prisoner was brought to JPMC on January 5 and got admitted in the general ward from where he managed to escape early Friday morning (Jan 11) despite the presence of the court police, said JPMC Executive Director Dr Seemin Jamali.
The suspect had gunshot wounds on his leg which was previously operated upon. He was admitted again to undergo surgery as he felt difficulty in walking, added Dr Jamali.
The JPMC director said the coppers deployed at the hospital were present at the time of his escape.
"Usually, they [the coppers] did not wear uniforms and appeared to be very casual towards their discipline," Jamali said.
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[Twitter] HT Powerline/Brit Hume - Facts don't lie. Acosta does.Link
"I try not to get autobiographical, but I lived 5 minutes from that RV park (Chimney Park). I'm an expert on the area. Let me tell you why there's no fence."
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I noticed there weren't a lot of liberal commenters on the thread.
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The overhead shots especially are just hilarious. Thanks, Frank.
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Beautiful. That cheered me up more than anything in a while, and I'm only -- 47 reasons? -- about a quarter of the way through.
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A silly young man of Aôsta called Acosta
Who passed all his hols on the Costa,
There met Mr. Lear Fog,
Who, I fear agog, bought him beer grog,
As did Foss, to his loss. Also pasta.
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.
[All Africa] No fewer than 60 persons were feared dead yesterday when a tanker loaded with Petroleum product fell and 
[All Africa] The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has been caught padding its manifesto for the 2019 elections with materials copied from foreign websites without attribution.
[Evening Standard] A woman who suffered fatal head injuries while leaning out of a train window was killed when she hit a tree branch, an accident report has found. 
[BBC] A former communist militant who Brazil's new president had vowed to extradite has been detained in Bolivia, a Brazilian official said.
[ELUNIVERSAL] The President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, confirmed on Saturday his commitment to a national dialogue with sectors of the opposition, to guarantee peace and coexistence in the country, for which he requested help from the 
[CBS] President Trump floated a "potential path to citizenship" for H1-B visa holders in an early Friday morning tweet, as the partial government shutdown is set to become the longest shutdown on record. 
