[NYDailyNews] Surveillance footage outside of Jeffrey Epstein's cell during suicide attempt is missing
Surveillance footage of the outside of Jeffrey Epstein's cell at the troubled Metropolitan Correctional Center during his suicide attempt has gone missing, prosecutors revealed Wednesday.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Swergold admitted nobody can find the footage of the outside of the cell the multimillionaire perv shared with accused quadruple murderer Nick Tartaglione during a hearing in White Plains District Court. Tartaglione, a former Briarcliff Manor cop, faces the death penalty for the alleged murders in a drug deal gone bad.
Bruce Barket, an attorney for Tartaglione, confirmed the stunning revelation that the footage was not preserved. The Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office declined comment.
Tartaglione's attorneys filed a request for the footage to be retained two days after Epstein's unsuccessful suicide attempt on July 23, Barket said.
"It is on the surface troubling," Barket said. "I'll reserve judgement until I've found out more details."
Tartaglione has still not been questioned about Epstein's suicide. Multiple probes are underway about how Epstein managed to assassinate kill himself in the federal lock up.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Florida police officer was sentenced to 10 years behind bars Wednesday for threatening to arrest two teens if they didn’t strip and run naked through the Everglades.
Former Miccosukee officer Michael Martinez, 30, pulled the young couple over in 2016 after they ran a stop sign and he found a small amount of alcohol and marijuana in the car, authorities said.
Prosecutors said he told the teens to follow him down an isolated road where he ordered them to take their clothes off and run, or go to jail.
The teens testified they felt intimidated and thought they had no choice but to follow his orders. Authorities say he also tried to solicit a sex act from the teenage girl.
A jury found him guilty of two counts each of extortion and unlawful compensation.
Martinez may be released on bail while appealing the case, the Sun Sentinel reported.
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It would be fun to be in charge of making fake stuff to leave for satellite images. The way we had inflatable tanks to fool the Nazi's we should totally have inflatable x-wings, and small cruise ships and whatever to turn the 'believers' into laughing stocks.
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Yeah, only sooper sekret stuff would be put on display on a runway for a 10:15AM local time satellite flyby
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There was a short lived tv show (1995), Space: Above and Beyond. They made mockups of full scale 'hammerhead' craft. The fabrication plant was near the freighter docks. Seems some Russian 'seamen' were caught photographing it. :)
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Heard a funny Cold War story about a spy sat that had been watching Russian subs tied up along a pier. After a big storm, one of the 'subs' appeared to be folded in half. Doh!
[WBUR] About a dozen activists attempting to stop a coal resupply train near Worcester were forced from the tracks when the train failed to stop Monday night.
No one was injured or arrested.
The activists ‐ some of whom were affiliated with groups like the Climate Disobedience Center, 350 New Hampshire Action and 350 Mass Action ‐ said in a press release that the action was part of their campaign to shut down the Merrimack Generating Station in Bow, N.H., one of the last remaining coal plants in New England.
About 25 people congregated in the woods by the tracks in West Boylston around 8 p.m, and around 9:35 p.m."scouts" stationed further south on the tracks called to report that the train was heading toward the group, moving at about 10 miles per hour.
Vermont-based activist Jacob Powsner called the rail line's emergency dispatch officer to let him know there were people on the tracks, reading the following statement to the dispatcher: "This is an emergency. There are protesters on the track of the Worcester Main line Near milepost seven. I repeat you need to stop the train on the Worcester main line there are protesters on the track at milepost seven."
During a similar protest on Dec. 8, activists called the dispatcher and the train stopped before it reached them. In this case, however, Powsner says the man who answered told him that he couldn't stop the train, though Powsner says it's unclear if the man was unwilling or unable to stop the train.
Soon after the 9:30 p.m. calls, activists willing to risk arrest stepped onto the tracks, flashlights and headlamps pointed toward the oncoming train. About a minute later, the first blares from the train's horn could be heard from where they stood.
Lila Kohrman-Glaser, an organizer with 350 New Hampshire Action, said she felt "anxious" standing on the tracks. "But I feel way more anxious about the climate crisis and the fact that coal is still being used in New Hampshire. And if I have to stand in front of a train and be a little anxious, that feels like a really fair trade-off."
By 9:45 p.m., the lights from the train were visible in the distance, as were flashing red and blue lights from law enforcement vehicles. West Boylston Police Sargent Anthony Papandrea confirmed that three officers in three cars responded to a call about an "out of place" vehicle.
Shortly before 9:50 p.m., the train came into view, blaring its horn as it approached the protesters. Those standing on the track began to wonder out loud whether the train was going to stop.
Activists stationed about a mile and half-mile away tried to warn the driver with flags, but the train gave no indication of slowing down.
With the train about 50 feet away, the group ran off the track.
"If we were locked to the tracks, they wouldn't have had time to slow down by the time they saw us," one of the protesters said. "They went through two sets of flaggers."
A spokesperson for the Federal Railroad Administration said that as of publication time, no one had filed an incident report.
Pan Am Railways, which operates this section of track, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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...Back in the late 80s, a group of protesters tried to stop what they thought was a weapons train headed into the Trident submarine base on Puget Sound. Confident in their righteousness, they laid down on the tracks knowing that the train would have to stop.
Narrator: "It didn't stop."
The snowflakes had not done their homework - had they done so, they would have known that the crews would run down their sainted grandmothers if they had to, but the train ain't stopping. One guy lost both legs, a couple more were injured - and then the lead engineer on the train sued the guy who lost his legs, claiming that he suffered mental anguish when the idiot wouldn't get out of the way of a blankety-blanking train.
Interestingly, that was the last instance of anyone trying to stop a weapons train.
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Perplexing isn't it. They insist upon humans being the the problem. They are human. Their solution should have been to stay on the tracks. Sort of a wishy-washy religion, belief without commitment.
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Where I work they really have mini thins and tampons n the men’s restroom. As far as I can tell they aren’t used for some reason. I often thought about opening one, throwing away the contents, and just leaving the empty box to F with peoples heads.
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Better to pack wounds with a coagulant impregnated gauze is what I found when looking into what to put in my medical kit. Easier to get out, and supposedly works better. Not as cheap though.
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Seems like Tampons might be good for cleaning shotguns.
Small bore, maybe
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Plugging holes? No. But you can unwrap the plastic and unravel the tampon and make a sucking chest wound bandage. You can utilize the tube to filter water, and barring the whole entire sucking chest wound situation you can utilize the string to fish with snake gut bait. On the whole, I would rather a stout knife and a lighter.
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They may be good for landing a friggin' plane without landing gear. I still wouldn't want to be caught dead holding one. I'm sure one can find products meant for all those things.
[BREITBART] The International Association of Exorcists (AIE) has issued a statement warning parents of the dangers of a 2019 children’s book that gives instructions on how to summon up demons.
The statement refers to A Children’s Book of Demons, a book targeting children aged 5-10 by Aaron Leighton, an illustrator and "fan" of occult practices. The book invites children to summon demons as a way of dealing with unpleasant problems such as chores, homework, and getting rid of bullies.
"Summoning demons has never been so fun!" it proposes. Of course, it wouldn't be fun if it worked, would it?
The book, published by Koyama Press, presents a number of demons, each accompanied by a sigil, to be drawn by kids as a means of conjuring the demons for their personal benefit.
"Leighton’s renderings of the multieyed, multiarmed, sharp-toothed demons are outlandish without being creepy, and the creative concept will likely inspire some readers to create demons of their own," Publishers Weekly declares in its review of the book.
Not everyone is so sanguine in evaluating the potential impact of Leighton’s book on child readers.
The author presents the calling up of demons as something "ordinary and recommendable," says AIE president Father La Belle Francesco Bamonte, "inviting children them to ally themselves with them, to take advantage of them."
The priest notes that Leighton teaches children to summon demons by drawing the demonic seal, or sigil, that represents them. "Thus, the children reproduce symbols very similar to those featured in the grimoires, manuals of magic spells that teach, with meticulous detail, the procedures necessary to contact evil spirits," he said.
According to Father Bamonte, the book forms part of a broader trend to propose satanism as "a normal alternative to other religions," deserving of the same respect and freedoms.
Teaching children to summon demons is like suggesting they get help from a criminal, Bamonte suggests, while warning that such an activity can damage a child "morally, psychologically, and spiritually."
"You don’t mess around with demons. Whoever invites a child to summon a demon is like a person who puts a grenade in their hands to play with. Sooner or later the child will pull the pin and the bomb will explode in their hands," the AIE said in its statement, posted last week.
In their statement, the exorcists warn that a book like Leighton’s totally subverts the "discernment between what is good and what is bad."
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If the stupid elitist bastards had not hidden away the literature on demonology and spiritualism in their vaults, or leaked their dumb apocryphal bullshit to the world, these silly things would be forgotten by now.
The catholic church itself is to blame for popularizing and sensationalizing demons and angels and stuff of no practical consequence to mankind in any positive way.
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As if an entity which can travel through words and ideas, insinuate itself into society wholesale, wait for centuries to fulfill its plans can be summoned at whim. By 'sigils' and 'mantras'. The demon is already in society which allows such shit to be trivialized as childrens' book. It doesn't need to be called.
These things are just placebo suggestions which work on already damaged psyches and naive youth to draw them into induced psychopathy, creating justification for anti-social, misanthrope behavior. While the administrations and academics struggle to find causes.
'I did it for Pazuzu.' - Bzzzt ! Temporary insanity and counseling in rosy rooms.
My guess is, this stupidity, like any before it will not be a straight hit with the children themselves. Such things have to be force-fed by rabid leftist parents and teachers to them, after which they still cause severe dissonance with nature itself. Until a hollywood production popularizes it with a dwarfish hermaphrodite in glasses waving wands and acting 'cute'.
[1010WINS.RADIO] For decades, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was one of Boy Scouts of America’s greatest allies and the largest sponsor of troops. But on Jan. 1, the Utah-based faith will deliver the latest blow to the struggling organization when it pulls out more than 400,000 young people and moves them into a new global program of its own.
The change brings excitement and some melancholy for members of the faith and may push the Boy Scouts closer to the brink of bankruptcy as it faces a new wave of sex abuse lawsuits.
Losing the church will mean about an 18% drop in Boy Scout youth membership compared with last year's numbers and mark the first time since the World War II era that the figure will fall below 2 million. At its peak in the 1970s, more than 4 million boys were Scouts.
Wayne Perry, a church member who is a past president of Boy Scouts of America and a current member of its national board, said the end of the long-term alliance will sting and force many regional councils in the U.S. West to lay off employees and sell some camps.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... Perry said he’s hopeful the Boy Scouts can eventually bring back at least 20% of the Latter-day Saints Scouts who liked the experience and want to keep pursuing merit badges in activities ranging from camping and lifesaving to citizenship.
The church's new youth program will weave in camping and other outdoor activities in parts of the world where that’s feasible, but there won’t be uniforms or a chance to earn the coveted Eagle Scout rank ‐ the highest in Scouting ‐ that was long seen as a key milestone for teenage boys in the church. The focus will be squarely on religion and spiritual development, with youth working toward achievements that earn them rings, medallions and pendants inscribed with images of church temples.
Perry understands why the faith widely known as the Mormon church wants a program it can use worldwide because more than half its members live outside the U.S. and Canada, where the Boy Scouts isn't available. But he predicts that a heavy emphasis on the gospel may leave some young church members who already go to two-hour church services each Sunday and other Bible studies longing for Boy Scouts.
"One of the advantages we always had with Scouting is that it wasn’t ’churchy,’" Perry said. "They were getting the Scout oath and the Scout law, which are incredibly compatible with the church’s philosophies and views, but they weren’t reading out of the Book of Mormon."
"I think there will be a boomerang effect as parents see that there is still a place for Scouting," he added.
The split between the Boy Scouts and church ends a nearly century-old relationship between two organizations that were brought together by shared values but have diverged in recent years. Amid declining membership, the Boy Scouts of America opened its arms to openly gay youth members and adult volunteers as well as girls and transgender boys, while the church believes that same-sex intimacy is a sin.
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[ToloNews] The latest explanation for the combined army-airforce-police strike against Qaisari in Mazar-e-Sharif is that his men were occupying a house illegally.
Documents obtained by TOLOnews reveal that the recent operation by the Afghan cops against Nizamuddin Qaisari, the former police chief of Faryab’s Qaisar district, was over the ownership of a house where he was living along with his armed guards.
Based on the documents, the house where Qaisari was residing belonged to Farhad Azimi, a former member of Afghan parliament and one of the close aides to Atta Mohammad Noor, the former governor of Northern Balkh province and a member of the Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... party of Afghanistan.
However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... a man named Mohammad Yaqoub had also claimed that he was the real owner of the house.
Abdul Rauf Bahrami, head of Balkh’s legal department, said that based on the court’s verdict, Mohammad Yaqoub was not the real owner of the house.
According to Bahrami, last month a delegation comprised of members from various government institutions were sent to Balkh to implement the court’s verdict, however, Yaqoub was not in Balkh at the time and his wife requested a week to evacuate the house.
Mohammad Yaqoub however handed control of the house to Qaisari’s gunnies instead of letting the government evict him after the end of the one week deadline.
"After completion of the deadline, when the delegation arrived in the area, they didn’t see Mohammad Yaqoub and his family members, but they did see illegal gunnies living in the house," said Bahrami.
But documents that were released by Azimi show that local officials in Balkh have called for the court’s ruling to be acted on so that Azimi can reclaim the house.
"The Appeals Court in Balkh has decided that the house is the asset of Azimi," said Munir Ahmad Farhad, a front man for the Balkh governor.
But Mohammad Yaqoub and his son also came up with some documents and claimed ownership of the house.
"We were helpless, because they (Farhad Azimi) were bullying people, so we were compelled to sell the house to Qaisari," said Zabiullah, the son of Mohammad Yaqoub.
[JEWISHNEWS.TIMESOFISRAEL] Prince Charles will travel to Israel next month in the second Royal visit in two years, Clarence House said on Wednesday.
Both the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall will attend events related to the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, joining other world leaders such as the presidents of Russia and La Belle France.
Charles will travel to Israel to meet both Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, then on to the West Bank to meet Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... , after attending the World Holocaust Forum at Yad Vashem on 23 January at Rivlin’s invitation.
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then on to the West Bank to meet Mahmoud Abbas, after attending the World Holocaust Forum at Yad Vashem
"Mahmoud, let me tell you what you're doing wrong"?
[Dhaka Tribune] Former British prime minister Tony Blair urged his Labour party on Wednesday to abandon "quasi-revolutionary socialism" as it seeks a new leader after its worst election defeat since the 1930s.
Britannia's shellshocked left entered a period of soul-searching and mourning in the wake of last Thursday's drubbing at the polls.
The electorate handed Prime Minister Boris Johnson ...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies.... 's Conservative party a clear mandate after he promised to take Britannia out of the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union on January 31.
But it also redrew the political map of England as swathes of its working-class north voted Conservative for the first time.
Labour's socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn - a 70-year-old who campaign on a radical platform of state spending and re-nationalization - has since promised to step down.
The formal campaign to replace him is not set to begin until next month.
Yet several prominent Labour figures have already signalled their intention to enter a leadership contest.
Blair castigated Corbyn for "almost comic indecision" about which position to take on Britannia's near half-century membership in the EU.
"The absence of leadership on what was obviously the biggest issue facing the country reinforced all the other doubts about Jeremy Corbyn," Blair said in a speech in London.
"Politically, people saw him as fundamentally opposing what Britannia and Western countries stand for.
"He personified politically an idea, a brand of quasi-revolutionary socialism, mixing far-left economic policy with deep hostility to Western foreign policy, which never has appealed to traditional Labour voters."
[The Drive] The United States has stepped up aerial intelligence gathering around North Korea, including using a newly modified RC-135V Rivet Joint surveillance aircraft. This comes amid threats from the regime in Pyongyang to send the U.S. government a "Christmas gift," very likely in the form of a long-range ballistic missile test. The U.S. military has also said it is developing options for how it might respond to such a launch, including reviewing plans that it developed during the last period of significantly heightened tensions between the two countries in 2017. American officials have said they could turn again to the strategy they employed two years ago, which included shows of force in the air, at sea, and on the ground.
Aircraft spotters using online tracking software have been recording the uptick in aerial intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) operations near North Korea since at least the beginning of December. On Dec. 3, 2019, Ri Thae Song, North Korea's Vice Foreign Minister of U.S. affairs, had made the "Christmas gift" remark, which the regime in Pyongyang followed up with a "strategic" test of a large rocket motor at the Sohae Satellite Launching Ground five days later.
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Assuming the Norks do a long-range ballistic missile test, if I were me, just for grins I'd take a shot at it with an airborne anti-missile laser.
If you miss, no one knows. If you hit, you get to deny it: "There is absolutely no truth to the rumor that we destroyed the missile with a megawatt-class chemical oxygen/iodine airborne laser mounted on a modified 747."
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I was hoping they introduced horoscopes into Sri Lankan papers or something.
* Signs indicate it is a bad year for emigration to beer loving nations...
* The moon is in a bad position for international travel.
* Venus indicates good luck for those that stay in Sri Lanka.
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The Indian R&AW once had a famous godman in their employ. Operated in Karachi, on rich businessmen, officers and their wives, politicians. He would make people alter their itineraries, hire and fire people based on criteria fed to him, relay their personal troubles and those of their families to his handlers. Poor guy went nuts over a local woman and died, but the superstitious rubeshe fleeced paid a good dividend for the time he worked them. The wonder that is Asia.
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By standing down Brexit Party candidates in close fought seats between the Conservative Party and the Labour Party, Farage was instrumental in delivering a large majority which will allow Boris Johnson’s Conservatives to finally deliver Brexit on January 31st.
Farage returned to the European Parliament today to celebrate the "beginning of the end" of the EU.
"After three and a half years of deception, we will be leaving this prison of nations at the end of January," said Farage.
"We’re going to become an independent, self-governing nation and you can delude yourselves inside this cathedral that all is well but it isn’t," he added.
"People do not want to be run and governed by faceless bureaucrats...you’re being rejected," said Farage in comments aimed at EU leaders.
The Brexit Party leader then highlighted how the anti-EU revolt is spreading across the continent as opinion polls show a majority of Poles believe they will be better off by leaving the European Union.
"Brexit is the beginning of the end of this project, we are giving leadership to a Europe of sovereign states, working together, being friends together but not being run by the gang down at the middle there," Farage concluded.
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Farage returned to the European Parliament today to celebrate the "beginning of the end" of the EU.
He also promised to renounce his EU pension. Oh, he didn't?
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A personal insult? That's all you got?
Farage dealt a body blow to the EU. Screw those ungrateful freeloaders. They just lost their only credible military. Good luck standing up to the Russians - oh wait you just did Nordstream 2. OK enjoy your new masters.
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This prison of nations will pay Farage an annual pension of £73,000 when he reaches the age of 63.
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Actually the Russians depend a lot more on the income generated by Nord Stream II than Germany depends on the gas that will flow through it.
And Germany is developing other options as well (LPG Terminals, gas from the Caspian Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean etc.). It won't be possible to blackmail Germany by shutting down Nord Stream.
Btw Nord Stream II is an entirely private enterprise. Germany doesn't pay a dime into it.
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Can't we all jus' git along?
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Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht,
Alles schläft; einsam wacht
Nur das traute hochheilige Paar.
Holder Knabe im lockigen Haar,
Schlaf in himmlischer Ruh!
Schlaf in himmlischer Ruh!
Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht,
Hirten erst kundgemacht
Durch der Engel Halleluja,
Tönt es laut von fern und nah:
Christ, der Retter ist da!
Christ, der Retter ist da!
Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht,
Gottes Sohn, o wie lacht
Lieb' aus deinem göttlichen Mund,
Da uns schlägt die rettende Stund'.
Christ, in deiner Geburt!
Christ, in deiner Geburt!
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[IsraelTimes] An Albanian Moslem man whose house was destroyed in an earthquake will have it rebuilt by a Holocaust commemoration group in honor of his father’s rescue of Jews.
The home of Muhamet Bicaku, 83, was devastated during the November 26 calamity that claimed the lives of at least 55 people in the Balkan nation. During the Holocaust, Bicaku’s father, Mefail, and older brother, Njazi, sheltered about 20 Jewish families from the Italian and German occupation forces in Qarrishte, a town located about 50 miles east of the capital Tirana.
From the Depths, a Poland-based organization that focuses on celebrating the actions of rescuers of Jews, has raised $10,000 to restore the house, the group’s founder, Jonny Daniels, writes in a statement after visiting Albania as part of a humanitarian mission following the earthquake.
The total cost will be $45,000 and fundraising is ongoing, he says.
Muhamet Bicaku, who was 5 when his father began harboring Jewish refugees, is now living in crowded conditions in a home of one his children in Durres, 20 miles west of Tirana.
In 2007, he received on behalf of his family the Anti-Defamation League’s Courage to Care Award. His father and brother were recognized in 1996 by Israel as Righteous Among the Nations, the country’s title for non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.
"They offered our people the most basic of human needs, shelter, during their difficult times, saving their lives," Daniels writes. "It should be obvious for us today to come together and return that favor."
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's government announced Thursday that it was seeking to disqualify the head of a three-judge panel that ruled that the corpse of convicted former dictator Pervez Musharraf should be "hanged for three days" outside Parliament if he died before his execution.
In its unprecedented short order announced this week, the special court issued a death sentence to the former military ruler for high treason for subverting the country's constitution in 2007. Musharraf, 76, has been living in self-imposed exile since 2016 and is undergoing medical treatment in a Dubai hospital. Avoiding gaol basically.
The court has directed law enforcement officials to arrest the "fugitive-convict" to ensure the death sentence is carried out. But "if found dead, corpse be dragged to the D-Chowk, Islamabad, Pakistan, and be hanged for 03 days," the ruling said, referring to a place just outside the national Parliament.
Top government officials told a hurriedly called news conference Thursday evening that they had decided to initiate legal proceedings against Judge Waqar Ahmad Seth for issuing a "despicable order" that they said was in violation of the constitution.
"Our plea is that such a judge has got no authority to be a judge of any high court or the Supreme Court ... . [H]e must immediately be stopped from performing his official duties," said Pakistani Law Minister Farogh Naseem. This statement is honestly a beaut. I wish we could use it for so many others.
Neither the constitution nor Islam allows public hangings, the minister said.
Prominent Supreme Court attorney Aitzaz Ahsan compared the special court's ruling with the harsh Islamic justice of the radical Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan in the late 1990s, where public hangings and executions were common.
Goa, Daman and Diu, situated on the coast of Arabian Sea, were under Portuguese rule for over 400 years. In 1961, India conducted a military invasion of Goa, Daman and Diu. After 36 hours of fighting, the Portuguese forces surrendered on December 19, 1961. Goa, Daman and Due are now Union Territories of India.
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Under Lieutenant General Sagat Singh, of 3 GR. He led the 50th Parachute Brigade. Absolutely drove the Portuguese FTEI to flee their posts.
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Electric Corporation says it is cutting power to several Paleostinian cities in the West Bank, citing the Paleostinian electric company’s outstanding debt, which it says amounts to $519 million.
That’s a lot of money.
According to Rooters, the IEC says it has been cutting power for three hours every day since Sunday and that it is "determined to collect the debt but disconnects the power in a reasonable and proportionate way."
Hisham Omari, the head of the Jerusalem District Electricity Company (JDECO), the main Paleostinian electric company, says there have been afternoon power outages affecting some 130,000 people in Ramallah and Bethlehem.
"When you have no electricity, there is no life. You stop life, you stop work, you feel the winter cold, for three hours," Omari is quoted as saying. Go ahead, have a charcoal fire inside
Palestinians in the West Bank are largely dependent on electricity supplied by Israel.
JDECO buys electricity from IEC and then sells it to customers in the West Bank, where the Palestinian Authority has limited self-rule under interim peace deals with Israel.
JDECO does not have its own power stations and relies on Israel for 95 percent of its energy supply. It buys the remainder from neighboring Jordan.
Omari said the company was “trying to take a 150 million shekels ($43.25 million) loan from a Palestinian bank to help pay off the debt.”
He added that the PA is negotiating with Israel to reschedule JDECO’s debt payments and end the power cuts.
The Palestinians have tried to reduce what they call their dependence on Israel for energy, in part through state and private sector funded solar energy projects and plans to build their own power plants.
[FoxNews] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints built a $100 billion investment portfolio using tax-exempt funds "intended for charitable purposes," potentially in violation of federal laws, according to a whistleblower complaint filed to the Internal Revenue Service.
The 74-page complaint was lodged by David A. Nielsen, a 41-year-old former portfolio manager for the church's nonprofit investment arm, Ensign Peak Advisors, in Salt Lake City, where the church is based. He was aided by his twin brother, Lars Nielsen, who provided documents and spoke to The Washington Post Monday.
The former member worked there until September when he filed a complaint to the Internal Revenue Service Nov. 21, accusing church leaders of "misleading members — and possibly breaching federal tax rules — by stockpiling their surplus donations instead of using them for charitable works. It also accuses church leaders of using the tax-exempt donations to prop up a pair of businesses," the Washington Post reported.
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and possibly breaching federal tax rules — by stockpiling their surplus donations instead of using them for charitable works.
Sounds like the Tax Exempt Endowment Funds for big universities...
[IsraelTimes] Russia is considering a slew of major commercial projects in Syria, a senior Russian official says.
Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov says after meeting with Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... in Damascus that Russia will spend $500 million to modernize Syria’s commercial port of Tartus.
Borisov says in remarks carried by Russian news agencies that the four-year modernization program envisages an overhaul of the old port in Tartus and the construction of a new one.
He adds that there is also a plan to build a railway across Syria and Iraq that will link Syria’s Mediterranean coast with the Persian Gulf.
Russia has a Soviet-era naval base in Tartus, the only such facility outside the former Soviet Union.
In 2017, Moscow struck a deal with Assad’s government to extend its lease on Tartus for 49 years. The agreement allows Russia to keep up to 11 warships there, including nuclear-powered ones.
#7
Vaccines do work. See: Smallpox (eradicated) Polio (eradicated, except in muzz lands) Flu? That's a much more mixed bag, for a variety of reasons. But refusal to get measles or pertussis vax is just plain stupid.
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"But refusal to get measles or pertussis vax is just plain stupid."
Maybe. But if you are vaccinated and it works then what do you care?
[The Hill] The Defense Department’s senior adviser for international cooperation earlier this week left the Pentagon, marking the fifth top official in seven days to leave or announce their departure.
Ambassador Tina Kaidanow, a longtime State Department official who began working in her Pentagon role in September 2018, resigned on Dec. 16, the Pentagon confirmed. Defense News first reported her departure.
"We appreciate her service to the department and wish her continued success. ... The department remains committed to the development and implementation of international cooperative programs and defense exportability efforts to foster cooperation with U.S. allies on research, development, production and support of weapons systems and related equipment," a Department of Defense (DOD) spokesman said in a statement.
"The department will not provide anything further on this personnel matter," the spokesman added.
Michael Vaccaro, the director for international armaments cooperation, will serve as the acting senior adviser.
Kaidanow’s resignation follows four other announced departures within a week.
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Those include the Dec. 12 notification that top Asia policy official Randall Schriver would leave after two years on the job, the Dec. 13 announcement that top official in charge of personnel and readiness Jimmy Stewart had resigned after taking the role in October 2018 the Tuesday report that Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency leader Steven Walker will leave in January, and the news earlier Wednesday that Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Kari Bingen submitted her resignation on Dec. 5 and will leave Jan. 10.
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Did these people who are resigning have some of those special lucrative relationships with defense industry lobbyists or just normal turnover? Swamp-dwellers??
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Leroy Jethro Gibbs: "If you cut it like this? I'll shoot you"
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Pic search suggests BIG change in appearance between roughly 2005 and 2010. Big like, "Hotei to full belly-backbone Buddha," "taking up marathon running and veganism" or "wasting away from dread disease." I'm guessing health was an issue.
h/t Gates of Vienna
Google on Friday fired security engineer Kathryn Spiers after she created a Chrome popup notification reminding her colleagues that they have the "right to participate in protected concerted activities."
Spiers claims she was fired for labor organizing, a protected workplace activity.
She says she wrote the code ‐ which generated a notification for Googlers and is for internal use only ‐ after hearing that the internet giant had hired a union-busting consultancy and fired four workers on November 25 who were said to be involved in labor organizing.
"I created a little notification, only a few lines of code, that pops up in the corner of the browser whenever my coworkers visited the union busters’ website or the community guidelines policy," she explained on Monday.
#3
So basically she hijacked her employer's product to send a political message that suited her point of view. Sounds like a fireable offense. I'm no gurgle fan (I sure don't use chrome) but maybe if they act like a capitalist operation they can come around in other ways too.
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Of course Google (who imitates academia) is against capitalism - their mindset favors slavery.
#5
Not capitalists. They're market manipulators who've been allowed, thanks to all the baksheesh they've spread in Washington-Babylon, to skirt the antimonopoly and competition laws and create a two-sided market in which they not only dominate both sides but also run an opaque auction whose results they refuse to disclose to other participants.
It's as if we allowed one investment house to dominate both the buy-and sell-side trading AND own & operate NASDAQ and the NYSE ... and create its own monopoly trading platform in which the other traders are never allowed to see a bid/ask spread.
All of this blatantly anticompetitive activity has been going on for more than 15 years!
We are living through the most corrup period in our history since the days of Jay Gould and Rockefeller.
Shame on our corrupt, mendacious, stupid lawmakers.
Shame on us for allowing this to happen.
#6
I am curious what the demands of the Google Union would be. More thought control? Hundreds of additional bathrooms to cover every pronoun? All non-vegan food removed from vending machines?
Summit News via Gates of Vienna
An academic in the UK says that the insults "geek" and "nerd" should be criminalized as hate crimes because they cause distress to people with high IQs.
No, you’re not reading the Onion.
Psychology lecturer and psychotherapist Dr Sonja Falck says that "anti-IQ" insults are hate crime’s last "taboo" and that they should be legally treated the same way as homophobic and racist slurs.
During her research, Falck says that people being called "nerd" or "egghead" or "brainiac" contributed to them "being set apart as being different to others and feeling like they’re a misfit and they don’t belong."
So in other words, these individuals developed high IQs partly as a result of being taunted as "nerds," suggesting the insults actually helped them in life.
#8
I don't think the Last paragraph meshes with what the academic said: CALLING someone a "nerd" or a "geek" doesn't MAKE one have a high IQ.
The professor is actually in deep trouble: by making IQ on the same level as being homosexual or a minority race, one is saying that IQ is mostly Nature, not Nuture.
[MAIL] The Washington suburbs have been revealed as some of the richest places in the US - out-earning California's Silicon Valley.
Loudoun County and Falls Church City, both in Virginia, topped the nation in terms of median incomes, with households earning an average of $140,000 and $137,500 per year, according to the US Census Bureau.
They far outstripped Santa Clara County in California, which makes up the majority of Silicon Valley and where the average household earns $126,000 per year.
In total, nine of the 20 wealthiest counties in the US are located in the DC suburbs.
#3
You know if you disperse most of that government activity, it would drop property prices and the rationales for outrageous civil service and lobbyist pay. Additionally it would force special interests groups to also disperse across the country to multiple locations driving up their operational costs. Decentralization, just another of those checks and balances for the national government.
#4
Extend the right of servicemembers granted in the early 40s not to pay local and state income taxes to federal employees who because of federal reorganization or reassignment move to new locations, but with a 8 or 10 year homestead clause (stay too long, you become a local). No grandfathering.
#3
Considering some of the meetings I was expected to attend when I worked for the C&Cof SF, I can only applaud the creativity of the organizers in trying to get people to attend.
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.
[NYDailyNews] Surveillance footage outside of Jeffrey Epstein's cell during suicide attempt is missing
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Florida police officer was sentenced to 10 years behind bars Wednesday for threatening to arrest two teens if they didn’t strip and run naked through the Everglades.
[WBUR] About a dozen activists attempting to stop a coal resupply train near Worcester were forced from the tracks when the train failed to stop Monday night.
[BREITBART] The International Association of Exorcists (AIE) has issued a statement warning parents of the dangers of a 2019 children’s book that gives instructions on how to summon up demons.
[1010WINS.RADIO] For decades, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was one of Boy Scouts of America’s greatest allies and the largest sponsor of troops. But on Jan. 1, the Utah-based faith will deliver the latest blow to the struggling organization when it pulls out more than 400,000 young people and moves them into a new global program of its own.
[JEWISHNEWS.TIMESOFISRAEL] Prince Charles will travel to Israel next month in the second Royal visit in two years, Clarence House said on Wednesday.
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[The Hill] The Defense Department’s senior adviser for international cooperation earlier this week left the Pentagon, marking the fifth top official in seven days to leave or announce their departure.
