Ay-Pee. Grains of salt required. The lawyers have shut everyone up
[USNews] Construction of the pedestrian bridge that collapsed and killed six people in the Miami area was behind schedule and millions over budget, in part because of a key change in the design and placement of one of its support towers.
Documents obtained by The Associated Press through a public-records request show that the Florida Department of Transportation in October 2016 advised Florida International University and its contractors to move one of the bridge's main support structures 11 feet (3 meters) north to the edge of a canal, widening the gap between the crossing's end supports and requiring some new structural design.
The span's signature, 109-foot-tall (33-meter-tall) pylon was to be built atop a base at the span's northern end. It was designed for basic support and to contribute to the aesthetics of the bridge
U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has ordered her department's inspector general to conduct an audit of the bridge, according to a news release Tuesday from the U.S. Department of Transportation. The agency awarded millions of dollars to the project. so "Buy America" provisions for the steel (rebar, tension strands and anchorages) were in place. No foreign steel allowed above 0.5%
It is still unclear if the design change contributed to the failure. But emails between the school, contractors, Sweetwater city officials and permitting agencies show a project that was behind schedule, which had officials worried that further delays could jeopardize the federal funding.
When the bridge collapsed, the project was already running about $2.6 millionover its $9.4 million initial budget, cost-tracking documents from February show. Originally scheduled to be completed in July, the finish date had been pushed back to January 2019
Difficulties began in late 2016, when the Florida Department of Transportation emailed project officials saying they wanted more room to allow for future widening of the U.S. highway under the bridge, according to the documents. The new position of the tower would be on the north side between the road and the canal.
"This ... places the current location of the pylon in conflict with the extra travel lane and would require bridge design modifications," Alfred Reyna, a transportation department employee working on the bridge project, wrote in an email.
After weeks of back and forth, it was decided to move the pylon 11 feet to the north, sitting near the edge of the canal. According to documents, initial costs for the new design were $204,540, with another $402,723 for construction changes. The final cost was not divulged.
"The city attorney is advising us not to speak about anything to do with the bridge," said Sandra Antonio, a spokeswoman for the city of Sweetwater, which was working with FIU. The tower was to be located on the Sweetwater side.
Don Silver, a spokesman for Munilla Construction Management, or MCM, the Miami-based construction management firm that won the bridge contract, said the National Transportation Safety Board forbade engineers or contractors from talking about the project pending its investigation. MCM collaborated with Tallahassee-based FIGG Bridge Design on the bridge project, which also declined comment.
A spokeswoman for FIU, Maydel Santana, declined comment on the pylon redesign, but did confirm Tuesday that the bridge was expected to be completed early in 2019 and the grant ran out on Sept. 30, 2019. She also said the school was cooperating with the NTSB's investigation.
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so apparently, this was supposed to be a cable stayed bridge with the support tower on one of the ends instead of in the center of the span
and also they decided to place the deck structure before they built the support tower
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This was interesting...why the bridge collapsed.
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garth,
As I understand it, the suspension cables were only for show. They didn't carry any load. The temporary support on the end that failed was supposed to be under the single truss at that end. Instead, it was placed further towards the middle leaving that end to sag. Concrete is great under compression but sucks wind under Tension.
The tension bars were already stressed to the limit when they tried to tighten them and it soon failed.
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I do this for a living and I still don't know enough to say confidently why it failed. One box was checked off - the materials were all US-Origin for steel, as should the cement (just because it's cheaper), so not likely a sleazy material swap-out
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[UPI] March 21 - The bomber believed to have terrorized Austin, Texas, with a wave of explosive attacks this month blew himself up as police approached his vehicle early Wednesday, authorities said.
Police said several related bombings this month were the work of a serial bomber -- who changed tactics as explosive packages were left around Austin and one went off at a package sorting facility near San Antonio. The bombings, which began March 2, killed two victims and injured others.
Investigators said they received information early this week that led them to a suspect they tracked to a hotel in Round Rock, Texas, about 15 miles northeast of Austin.
Police said they kept the suspect under surveillance in his car while awaiting a SWAT team Wednesday. Officials said when the vehicle left the hotel around 2 a.m. Wednesday, police followed and pulled the man over on Interstate 35. When SWAT officers approached the vehicle, he set off a bomb -- killing himself and injuring an officer.
The suspect is described as a 24-year-old while male. Police believe he is responsible for all the events that occurred in Austin, the city's police chief said. He was not immediately named.
Police are still investigating whether there are any accomplices. Even if he acted alone, police warned residents to remain vigilant in case he left behind more packages.
A blast at a Goodwill store in south Austin Tuesday night turned out to be unrelated to the case. Austin Police Department Asst. Chief Eli Reyes said officers determined a Goodwill employee found a box of donations containing two "artillery simulators," one of which initiated when a second employee handled the item.
Earlier Tuesday, a package bomb headed for Austin exploded at a FedEx sorting facility near San Antonio. A FedEx employee received a concussion in the blast at the Schertz, Texas, facility.
Police later found another package containing an explosive device at another FedEx facility near Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Investigators said that package, found intact, may yield clues.
Police so far are investigating a total of six bombs or suspicious packages this month. In addition to the one that exploded in Schertz and the suspicious package found at the Austin FedEx facility Monday:
-- March 2: Anthony Stephan House, 39, died in the first bombing attack in east Austin. He was a father and a graduate of Texas State University.
-- March 12: Draylen Mason, 17, died and his mother, Shamika Wilson, was injured in the second attack, also in east Austin. Draylen was recently accepted into the selective Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin.
-- March 12: Esperanza "Hope" Herrera, 75, was injured when a package left outside her east Austin home exploded.
-- Sunday: A package bomb triggered by a tripwire injured two men, ages 22 and 23, but they will survive.
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Thought this might happen. The guy was getting careless.
The boomer was caught on video at a Fed Ex facility. He had something written on his T-Shirt but I couldn't read it. It "fuzzed out" when enlarged. Might have given some indication of what he was supporting--like Antifa or some other looney org.
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Austin PD is special. Same department that had a mounted officer shot a guy a mile away while holding the reigns of two horses with the other hand a couple years ago. Too bad city hall is so liberal.
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Daily Mail: FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs: 'You literally had Austin police running toward a vehicle that had explosives in it. Those are real heroes.'
The Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Australia native Justine Damond in 2017 has been placed in durance vile Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in relation to her death.
A Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) warrant for the arrest of Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) Officer Mohammed Noor was issued on Tuesday, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported.
Officer Noor, 32, turned himself in to police, and was booked into the Hennepin County jail at 11:16 a.m.
According to jail records, he faces charges of third-degree murder "perpetrating eminently dangerous act and evincing depraved mind," and second-degree manslaughter "culpable negligence creating unreasonable risk" in Hennepin County District Court, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported.
A presser has been scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, County Attorney Mike Freeman said.
Damond, 40, called 911 on the night of July 15, 2017, and reported that a possible sexual assault was taking place in the alley behind her residence, the Chicago Tribune reported.
According to the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Officer Noor and his partner, Officer Matthew Harrity, responded to Damond’s call.
Officer Harrity said that the officers were startled by a loud sound, and that immediately afterwards, Damond approached the driver’s door of the patrol vehicle.
Officer Noor, who was sitting in the passenger seat of the patrol car, then shot Damond through the open driver’s window.
the county now has basically a second by second timeline of what occured
there were problems getting this because the officer's cam wasn't on a lot of time and because Noor wouldn't talk and of course because Damond died
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Well, his partners face probably had GSR on it from Noor shooting across the cab. What a tool
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Racism! Racism and Islamophobia!
It's a cultural misunderstanding. He should be given more chances until he doesn't kill at the drop of a hat.
And the police need to make sure to take a looooong time to investigate. It increases our confidence in their ability to root out problems in their system and ranks.
[FOXNEWS] Police in Glendale, Wis., are currently seeking the public’s help in identifying an irate McDonald’s customer who assaulted a teenage employee after receiving the wrong breakfast order. The. Wrong. Breakfast. Order.
The suspect and a friend reportedly pulled up to the drive-thru of the McDonald’s just before 11 a.m. on March 18, where they placed an order for a breakfast sandwich with bacon, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. But upon receiving a breakfast sandwich with sausage instead, the woman became angry. As well she should, by gum!
"What the [expletive] is this? I didn't order no sausage biscuit," said the woman, who then threw the food back at the drive-thru operator. "I don't want no damn sausage biscuit! [FLING!]"
A manager replaced her order with another sandwich, but she and her friend soon returned ‐ this time entering the dining area ‐ and claimed that the order was still wrong. "I dint aks fer no damn Crispy Fries!"
The woman then proceeded to walk behind the counter to argue with the manager, and ended up shoving a separate 17-year-old female employee to the ground. "Take that, britch! [SHOVE]"
"She shoved the employee to the ground causing her to hit her head twice and then fled the store," police wrote on Facebook. The Journal Sentinel adds that the girl hit her head on both the french-fry station and the floor, but didn’t suffer any burns. She was transported to a hospital for evaluation. "Guess I showed her who be boss!"
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People with no pride. Hypersensitive to the slightest insult, because they know they're pieces of shit.
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[PRESSTV] Harvey Weinstein's former production company announced late Monday it had filed for bankruptcy, less than six months after the Hollywood mogul was beset by avalanching sexual assault allegations.
The studio also said it was immediately releasing accusers from non-disclosure agreements which Weinstein had used to silence them, allowing women to speak up without fear of retaliation.
"Even as the company heads into bankruptcy, the company remains committed to doing whatever it can to maximize value for its creditors and... continue its pursuit of justice for any victims," it said.
The company added that it "cannot undo the damage Harvey Weinstein caused, but hopes that today's events will mark a new beginning."
It announced a "stalking-horse" agreement -- an initial bid on a bankrupt company's assets from an interested buyer -- with the affiliate of a Texas-based private equity firm.
Lantern Capital Partners will purchase assets -- subject to conditions and approval from a bankruptcy court in Delaware, it said.
Weinstein's brother and company chairman Robert said the board was "pleased to have a plan for maximizing the value of its assets, preserving as many jobs as possible and pursuing justice for any victims."
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[TheDrive] When it comes to warbirds, the F-4 Phantom is the most advanced American fighter ever owned privately. Just one exists, an F-4D, and it belongs to the Collins Foundation which flies it occasionally for air shows and other events. But another Phantom exists in private hands that could bring the number of civilian-flown Phantoms to two‐and it's for sale.
McDonnell Douglas F4H-1F Phantom Bu.145310‐just the 11th Phantom built and before the aircraft got its ultimate designation of F-4‐is being presented for sale by Platinum Fighters according to our friends over at Warbirdsnews.com. Supposedly the jet is the only privately owned Phantom that is capable of being restored to flying condition, of which roughly 85 percent of the work has already been done. Hey Honey! Guess what I bought today..!
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Re #1: Correct I believe - only rockets. Israelis demanded cannon when they received their jets in '69. All this is just to the best of my knowledge.
[AFRICANEWS] Zambia’s parliament suspended a cabinet minister on Tuesday from its proceedings for one month for slapping a fellow politician within parliament grounds.
Verbal abuse is common among members of parliament in Zambia but physical assault is rare.
Speaker of the National Assembly Patrick Matibini said Lusaka Province Minister Bowman Lusambo was suspended for slapping outspoken politician Chishimba Kambwili last October, describing his conduct as unbefitting of a Member of Parliament .
"This is a House of honour, decorum and dignity and I am duty bound to ensure that the honour, decorum and dignity of the House is protected and preserved at all times", said the Speaker.
The suspension bars Lusambo from accessing the physical premises of parliament and denies him allowances and salary as a member of parliament for the month in question.
Kambwili has repeatedly accused government officials of corruption since his dismissal as information and broadcasting minister in November 2016 but the state denies the allegations.
Kambwili complained after the incident that Lusambo had slapped him twice after accusing Kambwili of making false accusations against the government.
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Gentlemen!!! You can't fight in here. This is the War Room!
[SABANEWS.NET] The Political bureau of Ansar Allah sent a message of condolences to Yemeni society, the Islamic Ummah and the family in the death of the great religious scholar Assayed Hamoud Abbas Al-Moayad.
we send our condolences to the family of the deceased, may God have mercy on him, the Yemeni community and the Islamic nation, asking God to have mercy on him and inspire his family and relatives patience and tolerance. And unto God and to Him we shall return.
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[DAWN] Inspectors from the world’s chemical weapons watchdog on Monday began examining the poison used to strike down a former Russian double agent in England, in an attack that London blames on Moscow.
Britannia says Sergei Skripal and his daughter, who are critically ill in hospital, were targeted with the Soviet-era military-grade nerve agent Novichok. It accuses Moscow of stockpiling the toxin and investigating how to use it in liquidations.
Russian 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... , who easily won another six-year term on Sunday, said the claims were nonsense and that Russia had destroyed all its chemical weapons. While the Kremlin told Britannia to back up its assertions or apologise, Britannia’s fellow EU members offered it "unqualified solidarity".
Skripal, a former colonel in Russian military intelligence who betrayed dozens of Russian agents to Britannia, was found collapsed along with his daughter on a bench in the small southern city of Salisbury two weeks ago.
The identification of Novichok as the weapon has become the central pillar of Britannia’s case for Russia’s culpability. Each has expelled 23 of the other’s diplomats as their relations have sunk to a post-Cold War low.
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One thing no one has mentioned: Was Skripal carrying a load of nerve agents somewhere else & simply fumbled it & spilled some? IOW, he brought it on himself as part of a failed clandestine operation. Sneaking poisons around is something a spy like him would do.
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Ref #1: It might be interesting to compare what type of agents are being used in Syria, and what type of agent Skripal and his daughter were exposed to. Again, his residence being 6 kilometers from Porton Down, quite curious.
By the way, AMDRO Fire Ant Killer works by soldiers who carry the poison back to the nest and the Queen. Just a thought.
[PRESSTV] 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... has said he spoke to 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... over the phone to congratulate the Russian president on his re-election victory, and they discussed the possibility of a meeting in the near future.
"I had a call with President Putin and congratulated him on the victory, his electoral victory," Trump said on Tuesday, adding that they "will probably get together in the not-too-distant future."
Trump made the phone call two days after Putin won the election on Sunday. The call also came hours after the Kremlin said it did not regard Trump’s failure to congratulate Putin as an unfriendly act.
Putin, who has been president or prime minister since 1999, won nearly 77 percent of the vote in Sunday’s presidential election.
In his victory message, Putin said he was willing to resolve differences with the West, particularly in regard to the intensifying arms race.
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One wouldn't think this from the MSM. They are reporting that Russia is responsible for everything from collusion and election rigging to baldness and ED.
[ARABNEWS] A Russian scientist told state media Tuesday he worked on an official program to produce the nerve agent Britannia says was used on ex-spy Sergei Skripal, contradicting Moscow’s claims it never developed Novichok.
Leonid Rink told RIA Novosti state news agency he worked on a state-backed program up to the early 1990s, adding that the former double agent and his daughter would be dead had Moscow been involved in his poisoning.
"They are still alive. That means that either it was not the Novichok system at all, or it was badly concocted, carelessly applied," he said. "Or straight after the application, the English used an antidote, in which case they would have to have known exactly what the poison was," he said.
Rink said he worked at a state laboratory in the closed town of Shikhany for 27 years, where the development of Novichok formed the basis of his doctoral dissertation.
"A large group of specialists in Shikhany and Moscow worked on ’Novichok’," he said.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov last week said Moscow never had any programs to develop Novichok.
Moscow meanwhile is awaiting the arrival of two dozens diplomats ordered to leave Britannia as part of a standoff over a nerve agent attack on British soil.
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... Or the victim fumbled what he knew he was carrying & poisoned himself & his daughter.
Unusually candid analysis coming from a pro Russian news outlet by Alexandr Shishkin Originally appeared at Vzglyad;
Translated by AlexD exclusively for SouthFront
A few years ago, the Navy actively pushed the concept of “new ship in the old body”, a radical reconstruction of Soviet-built ships with new armaments and electronics. A whole group of ships was sent for upgrades, but now we can say that all these plans failed completely. How did it happen and who should be held accountable?
At the beginning of the 2010s advances in the Russian military steel construction caused a kind of euphoria. Its typical manifestations were, for example, ideas of resuming the production of missile trains, ekranoplans, hovercrafts and an almost universal deep modernisation of the main ship composition, inherited from the USSR.
A technical project was approved in 2012, providing for the tripling of ammunition of the nuclear submarines of Project 949A for the replacement of the complex “Granit” for “Onyx” and “Kalibr”. According to some reports, all five ships of the Pacific Fleet were to be upgraded. In 2013, in the “Star” shipyard work began on the nuclear submarine “Irkutsk”, the following year “Chelyabinks” was pulled up, third, “Tver” was next. It would seem that the process had begun.
With regard to the cruising submarines of Project 971, the plans were even broader; it was about the whole series of 10 boats. In 2011, the “Leopard”, set to become the leading ship of Project 971M, came to the “Little Star” shipyard. The planned terms of modernisation were about three years, and although at the end of 2013 there were already delays on the “Leopard”, it was believed to be all good, especially since in 2014 the boats “Wolf”, “Samara” and “Bratsk” arrived at the “Little Star” shipyard.
With surface ships, the situation was no less rosy. “Little Star” received for intermediate repairs the missile cruiser “Marshal Ustinov” of Project 1164, which was supposed to return to duty in 2014, treading a path for same class “Moscow” and “Variag”. In 2013, a state contract was signed with Sevmash for intermediate repairs and modernisation of the heavy battlecruiser “Admiral Nakhimov” of Project 11442M, the first of two maintainable “Eagles”, with the completion date in 2018. In the same 2013, the Murmansk 35th shipyard received for intermediate repairs (until 2016) the large anti-submarine ship “Admiral Chabanenko” of Project 11551. It was presumed that all seven destroyers of Project 956 were to be repaired and all eight large anti-submarine ships of Project 1155 were to be modernised.
Collapse of an attractive Concept
By the end of last year it was crystal clear that the concept of “new ship in the old body”, the essence of which is the rapid and inexpensive renewal of the main ship’s structure through intermediate repairs with the modernisation of Soviet projects, was a total failure.
The serial submarines of Project 949AM, after some hesitation, settled at 4 units. The term of transfer of “Irkutsk” to the fleet (and subsequently “Chelyabinsk”) increased by 4 years, from 2017 to 2021, and the duration of the repair increased to 8 years (despite the fact that it was built twice as fast). In this regard, the Deputy Minister of Defense’s statement that 2021 is a real timeframe for when the Fleet can get the four ships back (while on the “Tver” and “Tomsk” work has not even begun) raises questions.
The situation develops miserably with the nuclear-powered submarines of Project 971M, the series from which “the whole series” was cut to six, and then to four units. The deadline to return “Leopard” was moved from 2016 to 2019; however, a source at the “Star” considers even a four-year delay too optimistic. In case of unexpected work acceleration by 1.5 to twice faster on the other three boats, the Navy will receive the latest 971M around 2023-2024 – simultaneously with the latest “Yasens” or even after them, making the modernisation programme of “Pike-B” if not meaningless, then highly questionable. More at the link
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The Typhoons were marvels of engineering. It was a marvel they could make it to sea at all. Like the Foxbat was to the air force, the Typhoon was a monster under the bed that kept admirals awake at night...
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As long as they keep their tug boats in tip top shape.
[KCNAWATCH.CO] The hostile forces' brutal sanctions and pressure upon the DPRK lay grave ordeals on the way of its advance. An emulation report! Haven't read one in years, at least not willingly.
For us to bravely overcome manifold hardships and difficulties and leap higher and faster is to actively launch the socialist emulation. To compose an emulation report you have to toss a specific glossary into a word processor and set it on "Puree."
The degree of the socialist emulation is the speed of the grand Mallima march. See? That makes absolutely no sense, but it sounds great when declaimed over a loudspeaker.
The more active the socialist emulation becomes, the higher the enthusiasm of the struggle becomes, and a great surge will be brought about in production and construction. It's best to have production and construction come in great waves, y'see.
To help and lead each other forward and bring about the collective innovation is the nature and advantage of Korean-style socialism. Collective innovation. Let a single flower bloom.®
Vitality of the socialist emulation is to achieve the unity of the collective with one thought and purpose and give fullest play to the creative wisdom and enthusiasm of the masses. Unity in the Community!
The dynamic socialist emulation is the source of popular heroism and representation of the indomitable offensive spirit of our people to outpace the world. Are we watching North Korea outpace the world?
When all the units and fields redouble their efforts and achieve fresh leaps and bring about joint innovations, the invincible spirit of Korean-style socialism will be fully displayed. Redouble... efforts... invincible... spirit... zzzzz... zzz
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Meanwhile the rest of us will endeavor to persevere.
[The Weekly Standard] The newest member of Donald Trump’s legal team, Joseph diGenova, has lately been appearing on cable news to blast the Mueller investigation as part of a "brazen plot" to "frame" the president‐revenge of the Swamp and the Deep State, if you will. But earlier this month diGenova was yukking it up with Washington’s elite journalists about the administration he would soon be working for. And his future boss, President Trump, was there too.
At the white-tie Gridiron Club dinner on March 4, diGenova was one of the event’s "ringers"‐non-members who are brought in to supplement the singing sketches that are part of the 133-year-old dinner’s program. DiGenova, according to attendees at the dinner (where no recording is allowed), participated in several humorous songs, including one set that parodied the Trump administration in the style of the Marx Brothers. His role was as Groucho Marx playing Michael Wolff.
First access attempt Google Chrome tried to claim that "Gateway Pundit" was a dangerous site for me to visit. Seems Google is really getting into to censorship favoring the left.
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It's their Cloudflare hosting. Tries to determine who you are before you connect. Only if it can see you it lets you view the page, otherwise it makes you solve a captcha, which is enough to discourage most people.
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Pretty obvious Google is involved in site hits and data capture.
Google also reads your email sent thru gmail. Think about that. They claim its to better target their ads but who knows what else 'Yes, do evil!' Google is doing with that data?
[Washington Examiner] President Trump has hired Joe diGenova, a well-known attorney and legal commentator, to join the team of lawyers working to insulate him from a special counsel's investigation into alleged Russian collusion, multiple outlets reported Monday.
DiGenova has criticized leaders at the FBI and Justice Department ‐ including FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein ‐ and has even suggested federal agencies are plotting to destroy Trump's presidency.
"They work for the president. He can fire them. He can tell them what to do," diGenova told Fox News of Wray and Rosenstein in February.
[ARABNEWS] Pakistain’s supreme court has banned a TV host from appearing on-air for three months over his false report that the rape and murder of a maiden of tender years was linked to an international network for child pornography.
Shahid Masood was also ordered on Tuesday to publish a written apology for his January report on the rape and murder of seven-year-old Zainab Ansari, a case that stirred national outrage.
Masood had reported that her killer had 37 foreign bank accounts, a claim that was dismissed by Sherlocks.
Pak authorities appear to have taken the rare step of ordering an anchorman off the air because of sensitivities surrounding the killing.
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[DAWN] Border Military Police in the tribal area of Dera Ghazi Khan on Tuesday placed in durance vile Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! a man accused of mutilating his wife's genitalia.
A case has been registered against the accused on the complaint of the victim's father, said the political assistant to the tribal area of Dera Ghazi Khan, Jamil Ahmed.
The victim is currently under treatment at the tehsil headquarters hospital Taunsa Sharif.
The woman's father told the police that he along with his brother were going to a nearby village when they heard screams coming from his daughter's house.
According to the father, upon entering the house, they found his daughter screaming in a room locked from the inside. After breaking the door, the father said he caught his son-in-law in the act and found his daughter in a pool of blood. He alleged that an accomplice of the suspect was also present at the scene.
The victim's father took her to the hospital. Police said that the husband has been arrested while raids were being conducted to arrest the alleged accomplice who was on the run.
The accused, according to the FIR, said that he attacked his wife after she refused to give him her gold earrings. The woman's family, however, told the police that the couple fought often and her husband committed the violent act for them "being unable to conceive children". Of course the first question I would have would be whether the wife had reached puberty yet.
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[DAWN] A Quetta anti-terrorism court on Tuesday sentenced a man to life in jail for the murder of a seven-year-old girl. He was also handed a four-year jail sentence for raping the minor.
Junaid, the accused, was convicted for raping and murdering the child on November 7, 2014, in Quetta's Zarghoon Road area. Judge Ghulam Siddique Bazai announced the judgement amid tight security in the courtroom.
The parents of the seven-year-old, who were also present in the courtroom, expressed their satisfaction over the judgement.
The girl's father thanked civil society and the media "for highlighting the issue and making sure that justice was served."
Deputy Inspector General Razzaq Cheema told the media during a presser after the judgement was announced that the accused had confessed to his crimes on Nov 20, 2014, when he had been jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! .
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[DAWN] NAWABSHAH: The court of second additional sessions judge Ms Zahida Sikander on Monday set at liberty 16 bonded labourers, including men and women, and their 14 children who were recovered from a farm near Daulatpur.
Police raided the farmland of landlord Ghulam Mohammad on the court’s directive which received an application from one Mir Khan Lashari, a labourer, seeking recovery of his family members.
The freed labourers belonged to Lashari community who had come to work at the farmland from Allah Dino Lashari village in Tando Mohammad Khan district.
They had been working on the farmland for the last eight months during which the landlord never allowed them to visit their home nor gave them money in case of illness, said Mr Lashari.
Police sources said the labourers did not appear to be captives as they were sitting in fields near Malwah branch at the time of the raid.
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[DAWN] Sindh Inspector General A.D. Khowaja on Tuesday took notice of the death of a woman who reportedly did away with himself in Sindh's Ghotki district after allegedly being forced into an exchange marriage by a jirga.
The incident took place six days ago, in Obaro area of Ghotki, when the girl ‐ who refused to marry her suitor ‐ not only drank poison herself but also poisoned her parents.
According to the police, a few weeks prior to the incident, the girl's elder brother had contracted a freewill marriage.
A police official told Dawn that after the brother's marriage, the village jirga ruled that the man will have to compensate for the action by giving his sister into marriage to his in-laws, and also pay a fine of Rs1 million.
The girl ended up killing herself after ingesting poison, while the police say that her parents are hospitalised in 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... , and are said to be at death's door.
Khowaja, while taking notice of the police's lacklustre response in the matter, ordered Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ghotki Kamran Nawaz to submit a detailed report on the matter at the earliest.
He also ordered that measures be taken for the affected family's security and that all possible cooperation be extended to them in legal matters.
Furthermore, the police were instructed to carry out a thorough investigation against all perpetrators involved in the incident and register a case against the jirga chief as soon as possible.
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[HERALD.DAWN] Whichever way one looks at it, former senior superintendent police (SSP) Malir, Rao Anwar, appears to be a butcher. According to a police report submitted in the Supreme Court of Pakistain, he has been accused of killing 444 people in 192 encounters between July 25, 2011 and January 19, 2018 in the 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... district under his charge. Let that number sink in. 444.
[IsraelTimes] The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... says international donors have raised 456 million euros ($560 million) to build a desalination plant in the Gazoo Strip to provide around 2 million people with safe drinking water.
At a pledging conference in Brussels on Tuesday, the EU offered more than 77 million euros, which combined with other donations will meet around 80 percent of the plant’s costs.
People in the impoverished coastal strip rely on an underground aquifer for their water. But quality is poor and Gazooks are drawing off around four times what the aquifer can sustain each year.
The Paleostinians say water shortages are creating health problems and exacerbating political tensions.
The EU says that funding the plant is part of its efforts to help build a Paleostinian state.
[VigilantCitizen] "Unspoil Me" claims it can "erase the memory" of a TV show you’ve watched, allowing you to watch it again for the first time. Life without reruns. Nirvana redefined.
Did you ever tell yourself: "I wish there was a corporate website that could hypnotize me and erase part of memory"? If so, what is wrong with you? Also, you’re in luck. We are just a small step away from Blue / Red pills, I suspect.
Samsung’s Swedish site includes a bizarre feature called Unspoil Me ‐ a 23-minute hypnosis session comprised of swirling patterns, mesmerizing music and a hypnotherapist controlling your mind. The aim is to get your brain to forget your favorite TV show in order for you to watch it again ‐ as if it was the first time.
[CNet] "Unspoil Me" promises to let you rewatch your favorite TV series as if it were the first time. Here's everything I experienced while trying to forget "Big Little Lies."
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No thanks! Short term memory loss due to a concussion -- once was more than enough. Still, there was that (amusing in retrospect) phone call from the Insurance Lady (Workman's Comp) and patiently explaining: "No, ma'am, I can't describe the accident because I don't remember... amnesia, understand?"
[LA Times] A Pico Rivera teacher whose anti-military rant was caught on video and drew widespread condemnation has been terminated from his post, the school board president said.
The El Rancho Unified School District voted unanimously Tuesday evening to fire Gregory Salcido, who taught history at his alma mater El Rancho High School, said Board of Education President Aurora Villon. He has 30 days to appeal the decision.
Villon said students should feel respected on campus, and in this case, she felt "that was not happening."
"The classroom should never be a place where students feel that they are picked at, bullied, intimidated," she said.
Salcido, who also serves on the Pico Rivera City Council, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
During the Jan. 26 diatribe, Salcido called members of the military the "lowest of our low."
"We've got a bunch of dumb ... over there," Salcido says in the recording, using an expletive. "Think about the people who you know who are over there ‐ your freaking stupid Uncle Louie or whatever ‐ they're dumb.... They're not like high-level thinkers, they're not academic people, they're not intellectual people. They're the freaking lowest of our low."
Salcido's rant appears to have been in reaction to a student wearing a Marines shirt.
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He'll have an honorary PhD and a better paying job at a California state funded college any minute now.
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Given that 2/3rds of American 'utes' can't qualify mentally or physically for the armed forces, what does that say about our 'education' system? BTW, Pico, ever check how DoD's schools for dependents rate academically compared to your CA public schools?
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I'd love to see him in a debate with Secretary Mattis, to see how smart he is.
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Too bad. For every Salcido in California schools there are a dozen more like him.
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The guy claims military people are stupid. And he's not even smart enough to avoid the almost impossible task of being fired as a government worker in California.
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[FOXNEWS] Police in Glendale, Wis., are currently seeking the public’s help in identifying an irate McDonald’s customer who assaulted a teenage employee after receiving the wrong breakfast order.
[DAWN] Inspectors from the world’s chemical weapons watchdog on Monday began examining the poison used to strike down a former Russian double agent in England, in an attack that London blames on Moscow.
...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...
[KCNAWATCH.CO] The hostile forces' brutal sanctions and pressure upon the DPRK lay grave ordeals on the way of its advance.
[DAWN] A Quetta anti-terrorism court on Tuesday sentenced a man to life in jail for the murder of a seven-year-old girl. He was also handed a four-year jail sentence for raping the minor.
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