[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A US court sentenced Colin Osborne, the man accused of murdering a Saudi student in October 2016 in Wisconsin, to four more years in prison on Monday.
Hussain Saeed al-Nahdi died in October of 2016 from injuries he suffered after he was violently assaulted in Wisconsin.
Al-Nahdi, a Saudi student who studied at the University of Wisconsin, was an outstanding student according to his university’s reports. The university had announced a reward of 15,000 dollars in return for information about the killer.
According to Nahdi’s brother, Ali, a law firm was hired by the Saudi embassy in the US to follow up on the developments of the case.
Ali said that he believes the sentence is very little for a deliberate murder, where they increased four years in this hearing, and two years in the last hearing, which makes a total of six years of prison for a murder.
In 2016, the Dun County District Court had found that Osborne was guilty of a battery with intent to cause physical harm but was not guilty of murder.
"We will follow this with the firm appointed by the embassy, to know the details of the ruling and to seek to intensify the punishment against Hussein’s killer," Ali said.
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[Reuters] A 29-year-old Russian woman living in Washington has been arrested and charged with conspiracy to act as an agent of the Russian government while developing ties with American citizens and infiltrating political groups, the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday.
Maria Butina, who studied at American University in Washington and is a founder of the pro-gun rights Russian advocacy organization Right to Bear Arms, is accused of working at the direction of a high-level official who worked for the Russian Central Bank and was recently sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, the Justice Department said in a statement.
The court records do not name the official.
However, she is pictured in numerous photographs on her Facebook page with Alexander Torshin, the deputy head of Russia’s Central Bank, and a person familiar with the matter confirmed to Reuters that she worked for him.
Torshin was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department in April.
Butina was arrested on Sunday and was ordered held pending a hearing set for Wednesday, it said.
The complaint was made public on the same day that President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Helsinki, at which Trump refused to blame the Russian leader for meddling in the 2016 election.
Before the summit, Trump also took to Twitter to blast Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia, calling it a "rigged witch hunt."
[DAWN] A club-and-machete wielding mob in Indonesia butchered nearly 300 crocodiles in an act of Dire Revenge after a local man was killed by one of the reptiles, authorities said on Monday.
Images from the scene showed dozens of dead crocodiles lying on top of each other and covered in blood after the attack at a breeding farm in Papua province.
The incident happened on Saturday following the funeral of the 48-year-old man who was killed after he entered an enclosure while looking for grass to feed his livestock, police and conservation officials said.
"One of the crocodile farm employees... heard someone screaming for help and ran to the scene where they saw a person being mauled by a crocodile," said Basar Manullang, head of Indonesia's Natural Resources Conservation Agency in West Papua.
The man's family and "hundreds" of other locals, angry over the farm's location near a residential area, marched to the cop shoppe where they were told the breeder would pay compensation, he added.
But the mob was not satisfied and headed to the crocodile farm armed with clubs, knives, machetes and shovels which they used to slaughter some 292 crocs, ranging from palm-sized babies to two-metre adults, authorities said.
Outnumbered police and conservation officials said they were unable to stop the grisly attack. Criminal charges may be laid, they said.
"For now we are still questioning the witnesses," said district police chief Dewa Made Sidan Sutrahna.
The bloody incident highlighted the dangers of trespassing into a breeding farm and also raised concerns about its safety.
"They have to make sure that the farm has good barriers and they need to step up security with CCTV and security signs to warn people" of the dangers, said Dwi Nugroho Adhiasto, programme manager at the World Conservation Society's Indonesia office.
The Southeast Asian archipelago is home to a vast array of wildlife, including several species of crocodile that regularly attack and kill humans.
In March, authorities in Borneo shot and killed a six-metre long crocodile after it ate a local palm plantation worker.
Two years ago, a Russian tourist was killed by a crocodile in the Raja Ampat islands, a popular diving site in Indonesia's east.
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Judging from the picture, you have to assume she was an (unfortuntately, HARD)target of opportunity, rather than the epitome of an obsessive fantasy....
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A bus stop. A lady. A dasher.
She's holding an old fashioned slasher.
I keep her in view
As we two form a queue
And am not a bit tempted to flash her.
Of course, that was back when a gal could walk the street with an open straight razor from one end of the Empire to the other without a buncha g.dd.mn busybodies whipping out their cellphones... seems like yesterday but it might as well be "Old Creole Days." Sigh.
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Wasn't where a call for womyn to "kill their rapists" a few days ago?
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Benny Hill on older women: "They don't yell, they don't tell and they're grateful as hell."
This particular case excluded...
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Now that I am actually awake, the following true story comes to mind, as told by Mr. Wife’s elderly Aunt Beadie about her best friend. Aunt Beadie was not really related to the family, but lived next door; she shared the copious fruits of her baking, and Mr. Wife’s father mowed her lawn with as much care as he mowed his own.
At any rate, Aunt Beadie’s friend worked for a 7-Eleven as a cashier ringing up snacks and gasoline to supplement her Social Security check, not having been married to a provident union agitator like Aunt Beadie’s husband had been, and in fact never having been married at all.
One evening, while she was working alone, a gentleman dressed in a stylish raincoat came in to get some snacks. She quietly admired the raincoat, it being very much a baseball jacket kind of neighbourhood where the gentlemen’s ideas of stylishness had always run in a very different direction. Up the stylish gentleman came to the counter behind which she stood next to her cash register, laying down in turn a can of corn and his instrument of delight. The poor dear, utterly flustered by the new experience, picked up the can and smashed it down on the unexpected thing, with exactly the result that can be imagined. The stylish gentleman, naturally, fainted dead away.
He came to just as the friendly policeman was putting him in handcuffs. “Next time, son,” quoth Officer Friendly, ”be smart and buy a loaf of bread.”
Our current miscreant got off easy, though it took his target a little longer to complete her response.
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suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, police wrote.
"Her face"
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That is a great story!
Truly, Skidmark. Aunt Beadie died almost three decades ago, leaving us with a few homemade Christmas decorations and the memory of being helpless with laughter when she told that tale to my darling, ladylike mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and me as we sat around her kitchen table.
[CNN] A lava bomb hit a tour boat on Monday morning in Hawaii, injuring 23 people, the Hawaii County Fire Department said.
The lava punctured the boat's roof and it returned to Wailoa Harbor, the fire department said.
The roof of the boat after an explosion sent lava flying onto it Monday morning in Hawaii.
Hilo Medical Center confirmed 13 passengers were treated at the hospital, and another 10 passengers with superficial injuries were treated on arrival at Wailoa Harbor.
Of the 13 injured passengers, four were taken by ambulance to Hilo Medical Center, according to the Hawaii County Fire Department.
One woman in her 20s was in serious condition with a fractured femur, the fire department said. Three passengers were in stable condition.
The lava bomb, or flying chunk of molten rock, left a large hole in the boat's roof, the fire department said. A railing was also damaged.
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Just Remember!, "You will know if you are comfortable living on the same island as this powerful creator of new earth when you go to visit Pele at the Volcano Observatory, Jagger Museum, or any place near the Volcano—as the saying goes, “Pele will either embrace you, or spit you out…and you will know if you are meant to be here or not soon after you come here.”
We were told to bring a bottle of gin, flowers, fruits, and the song within us to honor the Goddess Pele, and when we went there, it was such a beautiful day! We could tell she was pleased to see us! "
Just remember don't bring her rot-gut gin!
[AlAhram] Russia was the target of almost 25 million cyber-attacks during the World Cup, President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... said, though he did not indicate who may have been behind the attacks.
"During the period of the World Cup, almost 25 million cyber-attacks and other criminal acts on the information structures in Russia, linked in one way or another to the World Cup, were neutralised," Putin said during a meeting on Sunday with security services. The comments were reported by the Kremlin on Monday.
[DAWN] Russia must "account for its role" in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine and cooperate with efforts to establish truth and justice, foreign ministers of the world’s industrial democracies said on Sunday.
The statement by the G7 ministers came on the eve of a summit between US 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 his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... , but also just before the anniversary of the July 17, 2014 air disaster which killed all 298 crew and passengers when the airliner was shot down.
G7 ministers said a joint investigation into the crash had yielded "compelling, significant and deeply disturbing" findings on Russia’s involvement.
"We are united in our support of Australia and the Netherlands as they call on Russia to account for its role in this incident and to cooperate fully with the process to establish the truth and achieve justice for the victims of MH17 and their next of kin," the statement said.
The call came not only before the Putin-Trump summit in Helsinki on Monday but as the Russian leader was to meet La Belle France’s President Emmanuel Macron in Moscow, where he was attending the World Cup soccer final on Sunday.
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The idea that if Russia and USA fight, they'll fight over EUrope, doesn't seem to penetrate EU minds. Well, anybody capable of seeing Muslim influx as a good thing...
[The Hill] The European Union and Japan signed an agreement on Tuesday that will lift close to 100 percent of tariffs on products exchanged between the two.
The Associated Press reported that leaders from Japan and the EU hailed the deal as a significant step toward installing free trade practices, standing in stark contrast to President Trump’s decision to implement steep tariffs against U.S. allies and China.
Leaders from the EU and Japan struck a deal on key aspects of the agreement late last year, the AP reported. The new policies won’t go into effect immediately, as they require legislative approval.
The deal eliminates about 99 percent of tariffs on Japanese goods entering the EU, and cuts roughly 94 percent of tariffs on European exports to Japan. The latter number will eventually climb to closer to 99 percent, the AP reported.
"The EU and Japan showed an undeterred determination to lead the world as flag-bearers for free trade," Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said.
EU leaders said member countries will be able to buy Japanese beef and fruit more easily, and argued European exports of chemicals, clothing, cheeses and beer will increase, the AP reported.
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Looks like Europeans will be out of work soon, replaced by Japanese automation.
At least they'll have the consolation of reading about GDP growing an extra 0.8% in the newspaper.
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A comment below from Tony Abbot about the TIPP resonates here...In the short term, freer trade can be better for rich people in poor countries than for poor people in rich ones.
[DailyWire] The mainstream media in the U.S. derided President Trump for taking a hard line against fellow NATO members (the ones who don't pay their fair share). But it turns out one liberal newspaper actually thought Trump did OK in Brussels.
"Trump Got From NATO Everything Obama Ever Asked For," wrote The New York Times.
The New York Times? Yes, really.
"Now that the smoke has cleared from the NATO summit meeting, the most tangible result is apparent: President Trump advanced President Barack Obama’s initiative to keep the allies on track to shoulder a more equitable share of NATO’s costs. Mr. Trump even signed on to a tough statement directed at Russia. For once he saw eye to eye with his predecessor," the Times wrote in its own editorial.
As Mr. Trump, and Mr. Obama before him, have argued, Europe can do more to help itself. The allies rely too heavily on the Americans to transport troops and equipment, for instance, and the fact that France ran out of bombs during the 2011 Libya operation demonstrated a crucial weakness. There may be other shortcomings, too ‐ NATO is not transparent with its data.
Greater spending by American allies might mean the United States could lower its own spending and bring thousands of troops home. Mr. Trump didn't make that argument, but he has often talked about withdrawing forces and closing bases, whether in Germany or Syria or somewhere else.
Trump hammered NATO last week, and just before his press conference with international press on Thursday, NATO leaders called an emergency session to address Trump's criticism that they aren't spending enough on defense.
"Yesterday, I let them know that I was extremely unhappy with what was happening, and they have substantially upped their commitment," Trump said at around noon local time in Belgium. "I told people that I'd be very unhappy if they did not up their commitments very substantially," he told reporters after the emergency session.
"Tremendous progress has been made. Everyone's agreed to substantially up their commitment. They're going to up it at levels that they've never thought of before," Trump said. "Commitments were made," he added. "The commitment was at 2 percent, ultimately that'll be going up quite a bit higher than that."
"Everyone in the room thanked me. There was a great collegial spirit in that room. . . . Very unified, very strong. No problem," Trump said. "NATO is much stronger now than it was two days ago."
Now, even The New York Times agrees Trump did more than Obama.
Weird. Granted it was only the editorial and could just be a trial balloon, but still. Gotta be eating at the liberal communist hearts of the left.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Indian police tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! two men on Monday over the gang rape and burning to death of a woman, the latest shocking crime against females in the country, officials said.
Five men allegedly took it in turns to rape the woman after barging into her home early on Saturday, before dragging her to a Hindu temple where they burned her to death in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
"Two of the accused were arrested from an adjoining district early Monday and we are looking for the rest," local police chief Radhey Mohan Bhardwaj told AFP.
Initial investigations found the men, who are members of the same extended family as the victim and from the same locality, were "annoyed" with the 35-year-old for meeting a particular man, Bhardwaj said.
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And this is in the Quoran where? Ohh, yes. I read it.
[TheNationalInterest] Washington should consider inviting the Indian Navy to make port visits to Diego Garcia and even go so far as to establish a logistics office on the island country.
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Since the US and UK are on the far side of the world a base in Diego Garcia makes a lot of sense for our power projection into the area. Since India is already in the region this makes no sense to me.
[BBC] Building colonies on the Moon will “provide a blueprint to Mars”, Nasa scientists say. The men and women who will found these lunar settlements will in all likelihood be employed by small private mining companies, not tech tycoons. Many of these companies are connected to the tiny EU nation of Luxembourg.
h/t Instapundit
[Powerline] Someday, historians will analyze what caused American corporations to veer sharply to the left in the early years of the 21st century. It is a weird phenomenon, as exemplified by the case of WeWork:
Office space sharing company WeWork says it is no longer serving red or white meat at company events.
In an email to employees Thursday, co-founder and Chief Creative Officer Miguel McKelvey said the company won’t serve pork, poultry or red meat, and it won’t allow employees to expense meals that include those meats to the company. Fish will stay on the menu.
I would love to be present when a WeWork marketer takes a prospective client to lunch and explains that he can’t order a hamburger or a chicken salad sandwich. WeWork’s "Chief Creative Officer"‐that’s a bad sign, right there‐explains the company’s theory:
McKelvey said the change means WeWork will use less water and produce less carbon dioxide as well as saving the lives of animals.
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The policy is effective immediately and also applies to the company’s Summer Camp gathering in the United Kingdom in August. McKelvey wrote that WeWork could save 10,000 animals by eliminating meat at the upcoming Summer Camp event.
WeWork apparently thinks the "saved" cows will spend their days gamboling in meadows, while "saved" chickens will retire to old fowls’ homes. Someone should explain to these morons that such animals are raised for the sole purpose of being slaughtered. If demand for pork declines, the price of pork will fall and fewer pigs will be raised. But none will be "saved."
It would be entertaining to calculate how much impact the decline in carbon dioxide emissions resulting from WeWork’s new policy (if any) will have on global temperatures. I’m not sure there are enough zeros for that calculation. I am not in the market for WeWork’s services, but if I were, I would hire someone else, on the assumption that any company that is 1) this dumb, and 2) this distracted from its core mission is probably incompetent.
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The Linda McCartney Cycling Team did the same thing to their riders - forced them to go on a vegan diet. The team sucked, in part, because pro cyclists simply cannot get the required calories they need through a vegan diet; I think a pro cyclist can burn 8,000 calories a day. They shit the bed within two years.
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O lovely lunch ladies of Amite,
What stuff do your students, today, eat?
"An odd dish of crawfish
Or sawdust on 'codfish,'
But, mostly, mysterious grey meat."
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.
[DAWN] A club-and-machete wielding mob in Indonesia butchered nearly 300 crocodiles in an act of 
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
[The Hill] The European Union and Japan signed an agreement on Tuesday that will lift close to 100 percent of tariffs on products exchanged between the two.
[DailyWire] The mainstream media in the U.S. derided President Trump for taking a hard line against fellow NATO members (the ones who don't pay their fair share). But it turns out one liberal newspaper actually thought Trump did OK in Brussels.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Indian police 
