[Huffpoo] Austin "Chumlee" Russell, one of the stars of the popular History show "Pawn Stars," was arrested in Las Vegas on Wednesday during an investigation into a sexual assault case.
No charges have been filed in connection with the alleged assault, which is still under investigation, Deadline reported. However, police found at least one gun as well as methamphetamine and marijuana during a search of the 33-year-old reality star's home.
"We don't have details yet but are here to help Chumlee however we can," Rick Harrison, Russell's costar and owner of the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop at the heart of the show, told the Las Vegas Sun.
Russell was taken to the Clark County Detention Center, where, as of Wednesday night, he was still listed as an inmate facing charges of "possession of a gun by a prohibited person" and 19 drug-related charges.
His bail was set at $3,000 for each drug charge and $5,000 for the gun charge, for a total of $62,000.
He has a court appearance scheduled for 7:30 a.m. on Friday.
Russell has been a star of "Pawn Stars since its inception in 2009, where he is often the comic relief.
[Dhaka Tribune] An attempt of laundering $870 million, in addition to already stolen $100m from Bangladesh Bank, was foiled in February thanks to international banks' recalling of an order to transfer the amount to local banks in the Philippines.
Just a few days ago $81m had been suspected to have been stolen from the central bank of Bangladesh and managed to enter the Philippine banks. The amount was already released to the local clients of Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC), revealed a report by Philippine daily the Inquirer yesterday.
Soon after the RCBC released the funds to its client, the bank received a so-called "MT103" message through the Swift system from international banks recalling the $81m and ordering to stop the release of another $870 million -- roughly one-third of the cost of constructing the Padma Bridge -- in inward transfers.
The Inquirer quoted a banking source as saying that the transfer of the $870 million was stopped in time, but $81m had already been released and, by the time authorities were alerted, had already been moved back offshore.
Bangladesh Bank claims that it has already brought back an amount of $20m that was stolen from its reserve account and laundered to Sri Lanka.
"We have brought back a portion [of the stolem money] from Sri Lanka with the help of the Sri Lankan central bank," Bangladesh Bank Executive Director Subhankar Saha told journalists in Dhaka yesterday after a meeting with the scheduled banks on cyber security.
He expects that the amount of $81m transferred to the Philippines will be recovered soon with the help of the anti-money laundering authorities there. He declined to disclose anything further for the sake of investigation.
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transfer the amount to local banks in the Philippines.
Was there a leak about the GPS chips hidden inside the candy bars?
Fifteen tons of Snickers chocolate bars have met a sticky end in Gaza.
Islamic Hamas authorities hurled boxes of the peanut chocolate candy bar into a bomb crater Thursday, dousing them with diesel and lighting them in a crackling bonfire following a company recall.
Confectionary giant Mars recalled sweets from its Netherlands factory last month after "a small piece of red plastic" was found in a Snickers bar.
Three children from a nearby Bedouin encampment managed to snatch some of the chocolate bars before they melted away.
Israel has maintained tight restrictions on imports to the Gaza Strip since the militant Islamic group Hamas violently took over the enclave in 2007. Chocolate is exempt from the restrictions and Gaza should be able to restock its Snickers supply soon.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] With criminal activities on the rise in the main cities of the country, including the capital Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... , the intelligence operatives have nabbed two suspected robbers who were involved in stealing the registration plates in Kabul city.
The National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) said the two suspects were nabbed Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! from the 8th police district of the city.
A statement by NDS said one of the suspect has been identified as Safiullah son of Jan Agha and the other has been identified as Jalaluddin son of Abdul Ghafar.
NDS further added that the two individuals were involved in stealing registration plates of the vehicles in the 8th police district of the city.
The two suspects have confessed that they were placing their mobile numbers by stealing the registration plates and were returning the plates by receiving money from the owners of the vehicles, NDS added.
According to NDS, the intelligence operatives confiscated 9 registration plates from the detained individuals.
The robbery of registration plates in Kabul city has not been rare and has turned into a major issues for the residents operating vehicles in the city.
The residents have long been complaining about the disappearance of their registration plates which are stolen by the robbers who are demanding large sums of money, a practice that has turned into a major business for the smaller gangs.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Whether it is a proposal for marriage, wedding or win in a game, in some areas of Afghanistan, people shot in the air to express their happiness.
They load their weapons and ready to pull the trigger as soon as the girls family say ‘yes’ to the proposal for marriage.
The celebratory shots are also fired during the wedding night. When there is a win in a game, that is something coming with unbelievable fires. You would feel like a large scale attack has been launched on the town or city you live in.
The same happened last night when the National Cricket Team of Afghanistan defeated Scotland in the ICC World Twenty20 match.
Afghanistan played first securing 170 runs and giving a target of 171 runs to Scotland.
Scotland fall short to reach to the target during its inning of batting and lost the game.
As Afghanistan was announced winner of the match, gun fires started in the bustling provincial capital of eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province and a number of its districts.
Two children lost lives in these fires.
Even though, officials have put a ban on celebratory fires but they have not been able to stop it.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Venezuela's opposition called Tuesday for the "largest movement that has ever existed" to oust President Nicolas Maduro, vowing to pursue all means to force him from power, including a referendum and protests.
The opposition, which has been on a collision course with Maduro since winning control of the legislature in December, spent weeks deciding on its strategy to remove the socialist president, whose popularity has plunged in the face of a crippling economic crisis.
In the end, after a heated debate over the merits of a referendum, a constitutional amendment or the drafting of a new constitution, it announced its plan was all of the above, and more.
It placed special emphasis on its call for protests, starting from Saturday -- a potentially explosive path amid the tensions tearing at Venezuela, after anti-government demonstrations in 2014 left 43 people dead.
"The Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) has taken the unanimous decision to call on the Venezuelan people to launch the largest popular pressure movement that has ever existed, to activate all -- I repeat, all -- mechanisms for change," said the opposition coalition's executive secretary, Jesus Torrealba.
That, he said, includes organizing a recall referendum, which enables voters to remove elected officials midway through their terms -- six years, in the case of the president.
Maduro was elected in 2013, a month after succeeding mentor Hugo Chavez following his death from cancer. Maduro reaches the midway point of his term in six weeks, on April 19.
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The US company Orbital Sciences Corporation will procure eight Russian-made RD-181 rocket engines, Russia’s space and rocket engine company, Energomash, said Wednesday.
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Yup. Dems gotta keep up their Midnight Basketball For Russia, it is gonna stop them from arming Iran or giving them reactors invading Georgia the Ukraine or I know, This time it'll stop them from giving AA missiles to Hezbollah, everyone's still observing proper genuine Joe Biden brand omerta about that, right?
MilSpecs: "The animals must be caught under the supervision of a professional specialist in aquatic mammals and kept in quarantine by the seller for one month before being transported to the military in seawater tubs.
The tender also says there should be no visual damage on the skin of the dolphins. They should have all teeth without scratches or cracks, minimal breathing rhythm should be two breaths per minute, and the maximum: four."
"Sharks Dolphins with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads."
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Reuters:“It is extremely difficult to access the inside of the nuclear plant," Naohiro Masuda, Tepco's head of decommissioning said in an interview. "The biggest obstacle is the radiation.”
[Breitbart] Huffington Post reporter Ryan Grim told CNN’s Brooke Baldwin on Tuesday that "something like 54 private jets" had arrived at an elite meeting of tech CEOs, GOP party insiders and big donors set on stopping Donald Trump before he wins the Republican nomination.
The meeting was the annual World Forum, an off-the-record conference hosted by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a leading Washington, D.C.-based conservative think tank. AEI has hosted the "secretive" event since 1982, but this year had a unique focus. Republican pundit Bill Kristol and former George W. Bush strategist Karl Rove were there, among others, including leaders of both the House and Senate.
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I'm delighted to see Trump stir up the politicians. And the media. But if his negatives are so high, as I read here yesterday, the Beest might take it. Mrs. Bobby, no liberal by any stretch of the imagination, fears The Donald so much she just might vote for Hillary.
He's gonna hafta started acting more presidential before the election, and maybe the Pubs could help with that. But if he did, you'd have to be there, to see it live, because the press would never report it.
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What are they so afraid of?
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But if his negatives are so high, as I read here yesterday
Think about that. Who's writing it and who's pushing it for consumption. He's a demagogue, he's Hitler, he's a fascist, etc, etc, etc. What will he be next week. What personifications will they keep coming up with? Freudian projection on parade from real crony-capitalist fascists that have very serious interests in the power and money that have been centralized in their paws for the last several decades.
All the info mongers said he was suppose to fold in a month or two. So much for talking heads.
We're witnessing people crawling over broken glass and it panics the oligarchs and their retinues at St. Simon's Island.
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Trump will become a grandfather again(#3?) in the spring. That's an opportunity for the media to moderate his public behavior without changing the message. Look for clashing grandbabies soon there after.
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More likely the GOPe will go third party. Even though they have the infrastructure, if Trump shows up with even a good plurality and they dump him, they indeed become the third party.
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Procopius, open your eyes. They write about him being a fascist because he behaves like one. Ordering war crimes, for instance, and insisting the military will obey HIM and not the UCMJ or their oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. And htat's just one example. And yes he tried to walk it back, but his first words show his instincts and (lack of) character. You might want to stop defending him on this unless you want people to think you support him because of his fascist tendencies.
And the negatives are a FACT - they are repeatedly verified by multiple statistically valid surveys - so are you just sitting there telling me "LALALALA I CANT HEAR YOU" when confronted with facts? Are you becoming a Trumpbot every bit in denial and willful ignorance as the Obamabots were back in 2008? Take a hard look in the mirror about what you are doing and who it shows you to be.
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Back at the end of the 90s Apple computer was on the ropes. Desperate, they brought in Gil Amelio. Promised him a large golden parachute (because the turn-around job looked impossible) and set him lose to try to save the company. Now Gil was no savior, he didn't have what it took to recreate Apple but he was just the guy to stop the bleeding and take all the negatives for doing so. Then Jobs worked his way in and rebuilt the company.
Trump is no Jobs but he might be a Gil Amelio. At this point I'd settle with that.
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It drives me nuts the way people throw around the term "fascist". Fascism was specified by Mussolini.
In his own words it is:
Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State, which stands for the conscience and the universal, will of man as a historic entity (11).
Now who in this election believes in and stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State???
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So vote Cruz and stop worrying about what Trump would or wouldn't do. If Cruz wins the nomination, I believe Trump would do the right thing. If Trump wins the nomination and the party attempts to screw him out of it, he will retaliate--and should.
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Those people took control of the GOP and did what they wanted to. The voters caught on and they want to protect their position. They have long moved past the good of the nation, or even the good of the party.
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For those you meet who don't know where fascism falls in the political spectrum, please tell them to take ten minutes of their lives to educate themselves by watching this video in order to save themselves from spending the rest of their lifetimes embarrassing themselves.
Then again, like the tree falling alone in the forest, are they embarrassed if they don't know what they are doing is embarrassing?
My eyes are open. They observe that the 'Right' is as intolerant as the 'Left' when it comes to a democracy and the people. "The masses are unable to digest the 'evil' of the other guy and need to be ruled 'educated' for their own good." And if that means putting the fix in, so be it.
It's all illusion. All ritural and ceremony. The republic is dead. It's an oligarchy. Too much power and money have been concentrated. As the story reports, those having it are not going to give it up politely. Your real choice is Pompey, Caesar or Crassus.
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I'm still going through my memory of fascist leader who arose from the business class, particularly successful ones. Lots of crony capitalists at the trough, but not El Supremo. Mostly failed artists, newspaper men, poly sci students, community organizers, et al.
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Why I like Trump:
Obama hates him
The media hates him
The establishment republicans hate him
The establishment democrats hate him
The Mexican presidents hate him
The terrorists who want to migrate to America hate him
Mitch McConnell hates him
Mitt Romney hates him
The guys in private jets hate him
..........
Attorney General Loretta Lynch testified Wednesday that the Justice Department has "discussed" taking civil legal action against the fossil fuel industry for "denying" the "threat of carbon emissions" when it comes to climate change. It appears that someone thought 1984 was a "how to."
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And you doubt me when I write it's no longer a constitutional republic. Hell people, it's only the First Amendment. Why would the thought even enter their minds if they believed in its text. They have no use for it, only power.
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FDR was the first president to feel himself no longer constrained by the Constitution. Champ's is the first administration to no longer feel itself constrained by the rule of law.
We didn't lose the Constitution this time around - that was long gone. What we have lost in the last 7 years is any pretense of not being a banana republic.
FHWA Administrator Gregory Nadeau said in a statement, "By providing a path to put nearly two billion stranded dollars to work, we have an important opportunity to support infrastructure projects across the country while at the same time clearing a legacy backlog and promoting good government." Right. Good government means spending every dime we can. What would you want us to do? Pay it back to taxpayers? Retire the Federal Debt? Who could choose?
The appropriations measure says that to be eligible for the funding shift, earmarked projects had to have been authorized or had funds appropriated before Oct. 1, 2005. They also had to have less than 10% of their funds obligated, or spent, as of Dec. 18, the spending bill's enactment date.
The impact will vary from state to state. Just counting projects with less than 10% funding obligated, ENR calculates that New York has the largest amount of potential repurposed funds, with $215.6 million. Georgia ranks second, with $166 million; followed by California, with $126.1 million; Virginia, with $122.7 million; and New Jersey, with $116.9 million. North Dakota and Wyoming, on the other hand, have no eligible orphan earmarks in the under-10% category. Apparently, that's bad government.
But wait! There's more!
Also available for "repurposing" are unspent money for projects that have more than 10% of their funding obligated and are completed, according to FHWA. Data shows that unobligated amount is $3.3 billion on top of the $1.96 billion. But not all of that $3.3 billion may end up being reused.
The appropriations statute attaches another string to the money, specifying that the funds must be reused on other projects located within 50 miles of the original earmarked project. Once my boodle, always my boodle.
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Governmental funding is of the "Use it or lose it." mindset. And, if all is not spent, the budget may be reduced the following FY, and that would be, er, "unacceptable."
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Well, for the army the 'use it or lose it' applies since the old Constitution stipulated that it could only be funded for two years. You can blame Charles I and Cromwell for that.
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The UK must every five years or new Parliment repass the Armed Forces Act which allows for a standing army which would otherwise be forbidden under the 1689 Bill Of Rights
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.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Whether it is a proposal for marriage, wedding or win in a game, in some areas of Afghanistan, people shot in the air to express their happiness.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch testified Wednesday that the Justice Department has "discussed" taking civil legal action against the fossil fuel industry for "denying" the "threat of carbon emissions" when it comes to climate change.
FHWA Administrator Gregory Nadeau said in a statement, "By providing a path to put nearly two billion stranded dollars to work, we have an important opportunity to support infrastructure projects across the country while at the same time clearing a legacy backlog and promoting good government."
