Opens to typical CNN anti-Trump 'Deep State' tirade.
[CNN] President Donald Trump on Saturday called for his Justice Department to allow members of Congress to review documents related to an FBI informant who spoke to some of Trump's advisers during the 2016 presidential campaign.
"If the FBI or DOJ was infiltrating a campaign for the benefit of another campaign, that is a really big deal," Trump wrote on Twitter. "Only the release or review of documents that the House Intelligence Committee (also, Senate Judiciary) is asking for can give the conclusive answers. Drain the Swamp!"
The tweet, which fosters an unsupported theory circulating on Capitol Hill and conservative media outlets about an intelligence "informant" spying on the Trump campaign, appears to be the first time Trump has called for the department to allow lawmakers to see the documents. It sets up another possible battle between the President and his own Justice Department. Trump has attacked the department's leaders over their handling of the Russia investigation, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions' recusal from that probe, and criticized the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server.
[Breitbart] The 17-year-old suspect in the killing of ten people at Santa Fe high school in Texas has confessed, authorities say, but his motivation for the attack remains unclear.
Santa Fe High School junior Dimitrious Pagourtzis hid a shotgun and a pistol under his trenchcoat before opening fire in a first-period art class on Friday, according to an affidavit filed by police. The FBI announced Saturday that it had taken the lead in the joint investigation, at the request of local authorities.
"He gave a statement admitting to shooting multiple people inside the Santa Fe High School with the intent on killing people," the police affidavit said. "Dimitrios advised he did not shoot students he did like so he could have his story told." The attack ended when he walked out of a classroom and surrendered to police.
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Some sort of high-level psychiatric panel should be immediately convened in an attempt to come up with answers and potential solutions to this dreadful phenomenon. Too many commonalities, there must be an underlying cause or causes.
Young men and youth, socialization, politics, muzic, family, meds, gaming, religion, diet, guns, bullying, music, rejection......WTF is it ?
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Suicide contagion, I suspect. The publicized report of a suicide, whether within a community, by a celebrity, or even fictional, can trigger others in the community to coomit the same type of suicide. Also called copycat suicide, a suicide cluster, or the Werther effect.
And while usual localized in time and/or space — a school or the month or so following Marilyn Monroe’s death — some echo down through time. Columbine is one of those. The community appears to be deeply unhappy boys who want to go out in a blaze of glory.
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#4 - that's why you only hear about jumpers when they hit somebody else
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Not always meds.
Key traits of Clinical Sociopaths and Psychopaths:
A disregard for laws and social mores
A disregard for the rights of others
A failure to feel remorse or guilt
A tendency to display violent behavior
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"A disregard for laws and social mores
A disregard for the rights of others
A failure to feel remorse or guilt
A tendency to display violent behavior"
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Donald Sensing suspects we may be "normalizing" these.
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Until Columbine nobody had even thought of this. The widespread publicity and notoriety thoroughly opened that Pandora's Box, and started a trend that can't be easily reversed. Gun control won't help much, no matter how strict - the concept is killing, not shooting, and there are many other obvious methods available. I really believe we need a much stronger investigation of underlying psychological triggers - video game desensitization, psychiatric medications, abusive childhood homes, even vaccines, environmental hormones and antibiotics.
[All Africa] The entourage for Andile Ramaphosa, the son of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has arrived at former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi's home in Kololo where the introduction ceremony is going on.
On arrival Andile was slapped with a fine of a goat, for reportedly siring a child with another woman other than Mbabazi's niece.
Ramaphosa arrived in the country last evening with a marriage proposal which he will present to former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi's family.
Ramaphosa's has been dating Bridget Birungi Rwakairu who hails from Kigezi where the ceremony is called okushaba.
This is where the groom to be visits the bride's family to propose the marriage.
Ramaphosa is accompanied by his mother Hope Ramaphosa, South African High Commissioner and city businessman Charles Mbire.
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Luckily, he was also fined one child for siring a goat, so he's back to carefree bachelorhood.
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#1 - Heh heh
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[BALTIMORE.CBSLOCAL] Police say a man was fatally shot and another was maimed after being shot in the face in separate shootings Saturday night in Baltimore.
Officers were called to the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and Roberts Street by a concerned citizen around 5:43 p.m. Police found a 31-year-old man suffering from a gunshot wound to the face. He was taken to an area hospital for treatment, authorities say.
Investigators say the shooting happened in the 1300 block of Fremont Avenue.
The second shooting occurred around 8:28 p.m. in the 4600 block of York Road. Officers found a 35-year-old man suffering from gunshot wounds. He was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital where he died.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Baltimore Police Department Citywide Shooting detectives at 410-396-2221. Those who wish to remain anonymous can utilize the Metro Crime Stoppers tip line at 1-866-7LOCKUP. You can also submit a tip by downloading the Baltimore Police Department’s mobile APP on your smartphone.
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[Guardian] A portion of a storage tunnel that contains rail cars full of radioactive waste collapsed Tuesday morning, forcing an emergency declaration at the Hanford nuclear reservation in south-eastern Washington state.
Officials detected no release of radiation and no workers were injured, said Randy Bradbury, a spokesman for the Washington state department of ecology.
There were no workers inside the tunnel when it collapsed. But nearby Hanford workers were evacuated and others who were farther away were told to remain indoors, the US Department of Energy said.
The accident occurred at a facility known as Purex, located in the middle of the sprawling Hanford site, which is half the size of Rhode Island, Bradbury said.
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Define 'collapsed.' That rock is pretty stout, and underground collapses would typically be just spalling of a little fractured ceiling. Unless there was an earthquake.
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Do what the Union Army did to Robert E. Lee when they turned his wife's plantation into Arlington Cemetery...
Seize Harry Reid's property and inter the radioactive waste there.
[Fox] NEW YORK - Here is something to think about before jumping into the pool on your next vacation. Hotel pools and hot tubs are breeding grounds for waterborne diseases.
A study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention find a third of all recreational waterborne disease outbreaks occurred in hotel pools or hot tubs and water play venues.
Between 2000 and 2014 the CDC recorded nearly 500 disease outbreaks related to recreational water use that resulted in more than 27,000 illnesses and eight deaths. Hotels were the leading setting, associated with 157 of the outbreaks
Of the outbreaks with a confirmed cause, most were due to pathogens in the pool while the rest were caused by chemicals. A parasite that causes diarrhea and other gastrointestinal issues caused most of the illnesses.
Outbreaks spiked during June, July and August but they were observed to take place all year long with March being another month with a spike in cases.
Chlorine is the primary barrier to the transmission of pathogens in treated recreational water. At CDC-recommended concentrations of at least 1 ppm, free available chlorine inactivates most pathogens within minutes.
[All Africa] South Africa's pastor Mboro has always been on a level of controversy of his own, and he has never stopped raising his bar high, catching a spot in the country and continent's news headlines. From his supposed trip to heaven to taking pictures with Jesus, this time around, he has made his congregants takeoff their underwear and wave them in the air during a church service. "Okay, whoever made poo poo, fess up!... C'mon, out widdit!... That's it! The Lord sez, everybody take off yer undies! Let's see 'em!"
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How did he not get invited to the royal wedding?
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[PRESSTV] A fire and kaboom at a Texas chemical manufacturing plant has reportedly left one person missing and 20 others injured, officials said as cited by local news outlets.
The blast and the ensuing roaring fire occurred Saturday morning at the Kuraray America Eval factory in the city of Pasadena. The plant specialized in "chemical, fiber and resin production," according to a local TV news broadcast.
This is while the company announced in a statement posted on its official Facebook page that only six people at the plant were receiving treatment for non-life-threatening injuries and all onsite employees had been accounted for.
Factory authorities further confirmed "that a fire occurred at the company's EVAL facility in Pasadena, Texas," around 10:43 a.m. local time, adding that the fire had been put out and there was "no threat to the surrounding area."
"At the time of the incident, approximately 250 employees and contract personnel were onsite. All have been accounted for," said the official statement. "The company is fully cooperating with all local authorities and emergency response teams and will provide additional information as it becomes available and is confirmed."
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[PRESSTV] As Venezuela prepares to vote on Sunday, May 20, in presidential elections, President Nicolas Maduro held an event in Caracas Friday, May 18, in which he officially welcomed international observers in the face of wide doubt on the vote's legitimacy.
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[KCNAWATCH.CO] (Rodong Sinmun) The imperialists are resorting to crafty psychological smear campaign along with the policy of strength to topple anti-imperialist independent countries.
If one is taken in by the psychological campaign of the imperialists, one does not believe in one's own strength, loses conviction in justice and victory of one's cause and can not but surrender and turn one's coat.
The situation urgently requires to decisively cope with the imperialists' psychological campaign.
To foil the imperialists' base and vicious psychological campaign is an important way of defending the illusory sovereignty of the country and the nation and victoriously advancing the cause of global independence.
It is necessary to bring up the army and people to be strong in faith. Those with strong revolutionary faith and will are never afraid of the enemies nor will take a step backward.
The DPRK is demonstrating its might as the power of Juche despite any tempests. This is because its army and people are transparent in their faith. As they are firmly equipped with the revolutionary idea of our party, the Juche idea, and are confident of the justice of the cause of the Juche revolution and the inevitability of its victory, they are never shaken by any psychological campaign of the imperialists.
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"Juche! Army First! Stomachs roasting in a Sea of Fire! Those Imperialists are Crazy!
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"Stomachs roasting in a Sea of Fire!"
"Bellies roasted" was one of Baghdad Bob's lines. You don't suppose...?
Mike
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Wow, a new theme that is even less connected to actual English sentence structure or actual thought. I wonder if they just use a random word generator around Juche, Sea of Fire and other pet terms? might make more sense if they did? Illusory sovereignty, I like that one...wonder if they know what it means?
The Ukrainian leadership academy held a sidewalk cafe in Brussels near the European Parliament. Its aim was to raise awareness about the Holodomor, Stalin’s artificial famine which took the lives of at least 4 million Ukrainians in 1932-1933.
Titled UNCOUNTED since 1932, it served visitors food which was the only nutrition for Ukrainian peasants during those years after the Soviet authorities confiscated their farm produce. Afterwards, the death tolls were classified and the Holodomor itself was not mentioned during Soviet times. The Belgians were served soup from pine cones and needles, bread from mashed grass, and pancakes from tree bark – “dishes” which Ukrainians ate in order to survive. The organizers state that their intention is to raise awareness about the tragedy in the EU and achieve the recognition of Holodomor as a genocide of Ukrainians.
[PJ] And you thought The Camp of the Saints was fiction:
With only 20 rooms vacant, Toronto is within seven days of evoking an emergency plan to house the growing number of refugees settling in the city after crossing the U.S.-Canada border, Mayor John Tory says.
"We could not, cannot and should not be doing this alone. If these daily arrivals continue, as we expect them to, to some degree or another, we will be in a position within the next seven days, where we will need to open an emergency reception centre," Tory told a news conference Friday.
As of Thursday, there were 2,683 refugee claimants in the Toronto shelter system, accounting for 41 per cent of the shelter population. At the current rate of arrivals, the city expects refugees will make up 54 per cent of the spaces by November.
"We are seeing on average 10 new refugee claimants added to our shelter system each and every day. Already, we have added 1,080 motel beds to our refugee program within the shelter system," Tory said. "We have an overall responsibility to shelter people who are in need of shelter, but we’re trying to get help from other governments to establish a separate way of dealing with refugees" and avoid the capacity issues of the shelter system.
As of late April, 7,612 asylum seekers have crossed into Canada between official ports of entry this year ‐ up from 2,749 by this time in 2017.
Behold the Cloward-Pivening of the West: operating under the false flags of "diversity" and "tolerance," and demanding that post-Christian West "live up to its own book of rules" (Alinsky Rule #4), the cultural Marxists seek to destroy the political integrity of the European and the North American nation-states by flooding them with "migrants" (to where?) and "refugees" (from what?).
Well, it's certainly not THEIR fault. If the Americans would just go back to assuming the position and letting people stay there, the Canadian government (I want to be careful about specifying that) could go back to making great pronouncements about how important it is to take care of these poor downtrodden refugees without, you know, having to actually DO anything about it.
Mike
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Behold the Cloward-Pivening of the West: operating under the false flags of "diversity" and "tolerance,"
"Behold" my arse." We've been watching and suffering under it now for decades.
[DAWN] Two suspected robbers were bumped off in an ’encounter’ in North Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , Sector 15-A, police said on Friday.
They claimed that the dear departed had allegedly been involved in the recent murders of two shopkeepers for putting up resistance during a robbery attempt in the same area.
Taimuria SHO Asif Munawar said the suspects were allegedly looting people late Thursday night near the terminus of 7-C bus when a police party reached there.
On seeing the police, the suspects resorted to firing and during the exchange of fire, both the suspects were killed.
One of them was identified by his relative as Ghulam Rasool alias Ghulamu, who originally belonged to the Johi area of Dadu district. He had a criminal record as he had been jugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! in the past, added the officer.
The other deceased was identified with the help of his CNIC found in his pocket as Danial, a resident of New Karachi.
His relatives have so far not approached the police for claiming the body.
The SHO claimed that the witnesses had identified the dear departed as they had been involved in the murders of a shopkeeper and his employee at their meat shop in the same locality of Taimuria last Sunday.
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[DAWN] The Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW) successfully rescued a 19-year old Pak girl from confinement by her parents and other members of her family in Lahore.
Reportedly, the girl was brought to Pakistain from Italia in February 2018 for 10 days, under false pretenses of her brother’s engagement. It later transpired that her parents wished to marry her off against her will.
While in Italia, her father had put a stop to her studies. The Italian Embassy informed the PCSW chairperson about the matter with the request to ensure safety of the girl, while the Ministry of Interior continuously followed up and provided assurance of full support. The Embassy will support the girl in case she wishes to return to Italia, where she has resided for the past 10 years.
The PCSW team and Garhi Shahu SHO located the girl’s address and recovered her, after which she was transported to a secure location. She is adamant to go back to Italia and continue her studies, so that she may pursue a career path of her own choice. The girl is safe and relieved that the PCSW, the Punjab police and the Italian Embassy reacted swiftly to rescue her.
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[DAWN] TOBA TEK SINGH: Police started the paperwork but haven't done much else on Friday against a security guard and a former employee of Darul Aman for allegedly attempting to rape a woman who was staying at the shelter on a court order.
The complainant from Chak 330-JB Seowal told City police that her brother-in-law (husband’s brother) had attempted to rape her in their house and when she informed her husband about it he and his family instead drove her out of the house. A few weeks ago she appeared before a judicial magistrate who sent her to Darul Aman upon her request.
She claimed that during her stay at the shelter, a security guard and a former employee attempted to rape her twice but she raised an alarm both the times.
City police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against the suspects under sections 376 and 511 of the PPC and started an investigation.
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[The Wire] In a virtue signaling stunt on Saturday, a former porn star decided to give up her shotgun after the recent school shooting in Texas, indicating that while she supports the Second Amendment she was sick and tired of the recent acts of violence that have dominated national headlines.
In a series of tweets, Mia Khalifa claimed that she was "not against the 2nd amendment," but was against the deaths of children which led her to give up her shotgun, which she stored on the wall of her living room.
Khalifa tweeted: "They couldn’t have made it easier. Thank you, @Austin_Police for picking up my weapon for safe destruction. This may not effect anyone but, but it’s symbolic. If all of us were to #DoSomething small, eventually it will add up and change the world."
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.
Anxiously awaiting Halper, Brennan, and MI6 connection. 
[All Africa] The entourage for Andile Ramaphosa, the son of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has arrived at former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi's home in Kololo where the introduction ceremony is going on.
[BALTIMORE.CBSLOCAL] Police say a man was fatally shot and another was 
[All Africa] South Africa's pastor Mboro has always been on a level of controversy of his own, and he has never stopped raising his bar high, catching a spot in the country and continent's news headlines. From his supposed trip to heaven to taking pictures with Jesus, this time around, he has made his congregants takeoff their underwear and wave them in the air during a church service.
[KCNAWATCH.CO] (Rodong Sinmun) The imperialists are resorting to crafty psychological smear campaign along with the policy of strength to topple anti-imperialist independent countries.
[DAWN] Two suspected robbers were 
[DAWN] The
