[Reuters] LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - George Blake, who died in Russia on Saturday at the age of 98, was the last in a line of British spies whose secret work for the Soviet Union humiliated the intelligence establishment when it was discovered at the height of the Cold War.
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All that true believing and he died after the country he defected to...
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He converted as a prisoner in North Korea because, he said, "Communism will put an end to war." He said this in North Korea. During the war that was started by ...North Korea.
Why wasn't this disgusting, murderous lunatic executed when MI6 caught him?
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Defections due to espionage are so 'old school'.
[Jpost] The news comes after Britannia and South Africa both reported new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that appear to be more contagious.
Another new variant of the novel coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... seems to have emerged in Nigeria, the head of Africa's disease control body said on Thursday, cautioning more investigation was needed.
"It's a separate lineage from the UK and the South African lineages," John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told an online news conference from Addis Ababa.
"The one we are seeing in Nigeria, and this is based on very limited data yet, has the 501 mutation," Nkengasong added, referring to the variant termed 501. V2 identified in South Africa and announced by public health officials there on Dec. 18.
The Nigeria CDC and the African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases in Nigeria will study more samples, Nkengasong said.
The country's principal COVID-19 investigator has just released publicly the genomic sequences of the new variant, he added.
Nigeria's CDC did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Nkengasong's remarks.
Nigeria, Africa's most populous country with more than 200 million people, has seen fewer coronavirus cases than many others on the continent.
Total cases crept past 80,000 on Wednesday. Daily recorded cases exceeded 1,000 for the first time this month.
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/\ Variants include live/dead fowl, fish, domestic meat, bushmeat, roadkill, pets, all varieties of rodents and insects to name just a few. These creatures are conspiring to put all of us on ice.
Don't blame Xi Jinping, the MSS, or international students. Think 'Arc Encounter' and total Intelligent Design betrayal.
[Breitbart] A Texas judge may strike down President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... ’s 2012 DACA amnesty for roughly 700,000 illegal migrants colonists — and undermine other giveaway programs that allow U.S. employers to keep foreign workers in jobs needed by Americans.
In a December 22 hearing, the pro-migration supporters of Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) amnesty asked District Judge Andrew Hanen to preserve the award of work permits, regardless of the economic impact on non-college Americans.
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[Interesting Engineering] Roughly 21,000 tons of oil poured into local rivers and the surrounding ground. Obviously we should blame Trump
Alexander Chupriyan, First Deputy Minister of Emergencies of Russia, said "In the history of mankind, such a quantity of liquid, diesel fuel has never flowed out. We caught it already in the Arctic zone," according to the state-run RIA Novosti news agency. "Before it made it to...the Arctic Zone"
The spill in the arctic earlier this year marks one of the most significant petroleum-related natural disasters in history. Roughly 21,000 tons of oil leaked into the region due to a failed storage tank.
All of the holding tanks were under the ownership of Nornickel, a Russian metals company, and the spill itself had a peculiar effect on the region's water. Located outside of the arctic city of Norilsk, as Interesting Engineering's Fabienne Lang reported earlier this year, "Striking images of two rivers, the Ambarnaya and Daldykan, taken from above look like they belong in a murder mystery movie. Instead of clear water running between their banks, you see blood-red veins of water swooshing through."
While the investigation into the failure of the large oil tank is still underway, authorities now believe that flaws in the construction of the tank contributed to the disaster.
The tank's foundation was constructed of several large concrete piles or concrete columns that are supposed to cut through the unstable ground and rest on bedrock. Investigators found that several of the piles for the tank that were supposed to be resting on bedrock were in fact shorter than they were designed to be and were likely resting on permafrost. The local region had a particularly warm winter this last year, which could've caused the foundation to weaken considerably.
As for the spill itself, Russian authorities claim that all of the oil has been isolated to the arctic region and local microflora in the surrounding waters is already adapting to break down the oil.
The Russian government earlier this year slapped Nornickel with a $2 billion fine for the spill, something the company is currently contesting. Mitigated by a small one-time payment to Vlad
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The spill in the arctic earlier this year...
I don't recall Greenpeace or little Greta raking them over the coals for this; funny how that works.
[JPost] China has lowered the age of criminal responsibility to 12 years old for "abominable" crimes such as murder or causing injury that leads to death or severe disabilities by extremely cruel means, the China Daily said. also criticizing or mocking Xi or the CCP or active Christian worship?
The revision was passed by the National People's Congress Standing Committee on Saturday after a third review and will be effective from March 1. It applies to children aged between 12 and 14, the state-backed newspaper said.
Children in China aged 14-16 can be held criminally liable if they intentionally commit serious violent crimes such as murder and rape. For most other offences, the age of criminal liability is 16. UN, HRW and AI condemnation in 987...986...
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For all their faults I seriously respect these bastards.
Last year they executed a rapist. The entire case from prosecution to death took just under a month. Maybe it's because they know the correct worth of crims - not much.
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I kinda like how the Chinese handle slimy business dealings and corruption. Imagine if a CEO or board member here had the prospect of execution hanging over his/her head.
24 hour rule in place
[RT] Four individuals were rushed to the hospital with serious injuries resulting from a shooting in the German capital, according to Berlin’s police and fire services. Security forces are currently searching for suspects.
The incident occurred in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district in the early hours of Saturday. A police spokesman confirmed that there had been a shooting involving several people but did not provide more details.
In a message posted to Twitter, the city’s fire department said that three people had been hospitalized with serious injuries. Two of the victims were found at the crime scene while the third person was pulled from a nearby canal with an injury to his leg, Berliner Zeitung reported. Police later confirmed that a fourth person had been hurt in the incident.
Local media, citing eyewitness accounts, said that heavily armed security personnel had been deployed to the scene to search for those involved in the shooting. A police helicopter was also used in the operation.
Authorities are still trying to determine the circumstances that led to the shooting.
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Manhunt underway
Armed officers were deployed to the scene to search for those who may have carried out the shooting.
Reports said a police helicopter was seen circling the area, and officers had also searched around the Möckernbrücke subway station.
Berlin sees its fair share of disputes — some of them violent — between different groups or criminal family clans.
Most recently there was an attack by about 10 men on a ground floor flat and a car in Kreuzberg after a 29-year-old was shot.
Given that many of the criminal clans there are Kurds, Lebanese, Syrians, or Turks, this could easily be a Muslim colonist problem, if not actually Sudden Jihad Syndrome with an ISIS or similar connection.
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
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Defections due to espionage are so 'old school'. 
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[Interesting Engineering] Roughly 21,000 tons of oil poured into local rivers and the surrounding ground.
[JPost] China has lowered the age of criminal responsibility to 12 years old for "abominable" crimes such as murder or causing injury that leads to death or severe disabilities by extremely cruel means, the China Daily said.
