[Wash Times] Five Dakota Access pipeline activists have been indicted on federal charges, accused of setting fire to a bridge in order to stop authorities from reaching a protest camp illegally built on private property.
The indictment unsealed Wednesday stems from one of the protest’s most chaotic confrontations, an all-day Oct. 27 melee that saw agitators set blazes, hurl rocks and Molotov cocktails at police, and try to start a buffalo stampede with riders on horseback.
About 700 protest-related arrests have been made since August, mostly for trespassing and rioting involving activists who posted bail and were promptly released, but the indictment reveals that at least a handful of activists remain in jail pending trial on federal crimes.
The five men, identified by authorities using aerial photography at the scene, are charged with torching blockades on the Backwater Bridge erected by protesters using "stacked logs, fallen trees, tires and other miscellaneous items," according to an affidavit.
"As law enforcement approached the bridge, individuals at the bridge were notified that law enforcement was approaching," said the affidavit by Derek J. Hill, a special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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A fool frames a fanciful schema:
A frightening, more right-leaning FEMA
Sends vandals to labor
And pay back their neighbor
On "River Kwai" crossed with Kolyma.
[Free Beacon] Newly confirmed Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was physically blocked from entering a school in Washington, D.C. on Friday by protesters.
Anti-DeVos demonstrators climbed the stairs of the back of the Jefferson Middle School Academy building in southwest D.C. and began to scream and hover around the secretary. DeVos' security team quickly moved in and escorted her back to her car.
Protesters can be heard in the video screaming that DeVos gave money to senators so that she could buy her position to head the Department of Education.
DeVos remained unfazed by the protesters while two other reporters tried to get a comment from her.
One protester screamed "Shame! Shame! Shame!" as her security detail tried to leave.
A man could be seen holding a "Black Lives Matter" sign as he stood in front of Devos' black Chevy Suburban, trying to block the vehicle from leaving.
DeVos released a statement Friday afternoon saying that she would "not be deterred" after the incident with protesters. She thanked Jefferson Middle School Academy for hosting her at the event, the education secretary's first visit to a public K-12 school since being sworn in.
"Focusing on their students and families is at the heart of Jefferson Academy's approach and that's exactly what I believe is at the heart of providing an exceptional education," DeVos said in her statement. "I was honored to speak with Jefferson's team about our shared commitment to strengthening public education."
And the D.C. Police, school officials and school security were where ?
U.S. immigration authorities arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in at least a half-dozen states this week in a series of raids that marked the first large-scale enforcement of President Donald Trump's Jan. 26 order to crack down on the estimated 11 million immigrants living here illegally.
The raids, which officials said targeted known criminals, also netted some immigrants who did not have criminal records, an apparent departure from similar enforcement waves during former President Barack Obama's administration that aimed to just corral and deport those who had committed crimes.
Trump has pledged to deport up to 3 million undocumented immigrants with criminal records. Last month he also made a change to the Obama administration's policy of prioritizing deportation for convicted criminals, substantially broadening the scope of who the Department of Homeland Security can target, to include those with only minor offenses or those with no convictions at all.
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So, INS (unlike State) works with this POTUS. How about ordering them to take all the 9th circuit's "refugees" into custody until the matter is resolved?
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Immigrant rights groups said they were planning protests in response to the raids, including one Friday evening in Federal Plaza in New York City, and a vigil in Los Angeles.
Target rich environments.
And they are not immigrants and shouid *never* be granted any sort of immigration process or hearing.
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There should be a PR push on as well to make sure that legals are identified to be left alone and that legals helping ID the ills would be rewarded in some way.
Maybe play up the Elian Gonzales episode and reinstate the wet-foot dry-foot for Cubans.
[Breitbart] Kellogg’s CEO John Bryant says the company’s plummeting stock and reported $53 million loss in the fourth quarter are unrelated to the company’s politically driven decision last year to pull ads from Breitbart News, which spurred a boycott campaign and intense online backlash.
According to the Associated Press, Bryant says that "the company did not see any effect it could attribute to the boycott."
Last November, Kellogg’s pulled its ads from Breitbart News, caving to the demands of left-wing pressure groups.
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Seems a lot of stupid in the executive suites. One, they really don't know who buys their products. Two, their ego demands they 'conform' to their peer group over their fiduciary responsibilities to their stockholders.
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There is a phase lag between actions and consequences that the CEOs of large corporations cannot understand. That phase lag will stay and the company will suffer or go tango uniform unless they will change.
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Americans are just sick of these mindless bullying waifs.
World oil industry can’t stand another price collapse, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro said, according to the message posted on the website of Venezuelan Ministry of the People's Power of Petroleum and Mining.
I think the US oil industry can handle it just fine. We'll cap off some of the wells drilled in the last couple years and wait. How long can you wait, Mr. Maduro?
Maduro expressed regret for the massive layoffs in transnational oil companies in 2016 as a result of the decrease in oil prices.
Last year, more than 50,000 oil workers were fired across the world, added Venezuelan president.
He warned that if the prices collapse again, there could be massive bankruptcy of companies, starting with transnational companies.
Don't worry, all your companies are going bankrupt anyway -- the ones you haven't seized, that is...
Venezuelan president invited companies to work towards compliance with the agreement reached between OPEC and non-OPEC countries in Vienna.
During a meeting in Vienna, Austria, on Nov. 30, 2016, OPEC members decided to implement a new production target of 32.5 million barrels per day. Later, non-OPEC countries agreed to cut the output by 558,000 barrels per day during the meeting held Dec. 10, 2016. Eleven non-OPEC countries – Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Brunei, Equatorial Guinea, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mexico, Oman, Russia, Sudan, and South Sudan – agreed to reduce the oil output.
Not a single US or Canadian fracker agreed, you'll notice...
OPEC and non-OPEC countries pledged to start implementing the deal from Jan. 1, 2017 for six months, extendable for another six months.
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Well, you have no production. What do you care?
We gave you everything. You took everything. Now you have nothing.
Pray to Marx for deliverance? How is that working?
GOD no longer has Quarter for any Nation respecting this hideous ideology.
Retake your Nation or you will be poorer than most shithole arab states soon.
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"Maybe you can ask the current US SecState for help?"
Whom?
Ohh, that guy.
I don't expect him to save Venezuela actually. I expect him to crush it's leadership and gove them back the regular world status they enjoyed before soros and the other marxist turned the entire nation into hunger games piece of shit.
[The Hill] Russia is considering handing over former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden as "a gift" to President Trump, according to a new report.
Russia sending Snowden back to the U.S. is one of several options Moscow is considering to "curry favor" with Trump, NBC News reported Friday, citing a senior U.S. official who had analyzed intelligence reports on Russia.
NBC noted a second intelligence community source affirmed the intelligence, adding it had been gathered since Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration.
Ben Wizner, who is Snowden’s American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawyer, said Friday he is unaware of plans to return his client home.
"Team Snowden has received no such signals and has no new reason for concern," he said.
Snowden is facing espionage charges for leaking classified information in the U.S.
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...so just another globalist actor or tech millionaire who opines about Trump-Hitler but lives in gated communities and sends their kids to private schools while saying the rest of us must house and feed the world in our own abodes?
[An Nahar] Thousands of Ukrainians stood in line with flowers on Friday in the separatist fiefdom of Donetsk to bid farewell to a field commander who was slain in a rocket attack on his office.
Kiev and the forces of Evil have traded blame for the death of Mikhail Tolstykh with Sherlocks saying a portable rocket launcher was fired at his office in a suburb of Donetsk on Wednesday morning.
The 36-year-old whose nom de guerre was "Givi" was head of the powerful "Somali" battalion and a leading commander of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic in the east of Ukraine.
Tolstykh's body was laid out in the city's opera theatre with the battalion's flag covering his closed coffin.
AFP news hounds saw about 2,000 people -- most of them pensioners and rebel fighters -- line up with flowers and orange-and-black ribbons expressing their support for Russia to get inside the theatre and say their final goodbyes.
Another well-known Donetsk military chief called Arseny Pavlov was killed in a kaboom in October last year.
Several rebel commanders considered to be a threat to the separatist authorities -- or those who have become too powerful -- have been killed in boom-mobileings and ambushes far from the scene of the fighting in eastern Ukraine.
Tolstykh took part in major battles with Ukrainian government forces in a conflict that has been going on for 33 months despite Western efforts to forge a truce.
He was born in eastern Ukraine and served in the army as a tank commander before working in various manual jobs and then joining the rebel cause when the war broke out in April 2014.
He and Pavlov -- better known as "Motorola" -- had been the most recognised faces among the rebels during the worst of the fighting.
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[Daily Caller] A Canadian school was fully prepared with replacement staff up and working on the first day of a 250-worker strike.
The school district first notified parents of a potential strike Feb. 2, noting that it was open to negotiating with the union. In its latest press release, Conseil scolaire de district catholique de l’Est ontarien (CSDCEO) told the community its schools remain operational.
"We do not want a labor dispute. We wish to continue the negotiations and conclude an agreement for the benefit of staff members, students and parents," said Francois Turpin, CSDCEO secretary and education director.
Raymond Giroux, president of CUPE Local 4155, the union representing the strike, said the school was trying to avoid the issues. "We see now why they refused to meet with us on Monday, the day before the strike began," Giroux said. "They were more interested in hiring contractors to do our jobs, and in renting a bus to deliver their managers past the picket line."
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They were more interested...in maintaining the sovereignty of an elected government of the people than surrendering that responsibility to a small group of people who believe they were the equal of that sovereignty.
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They were more interested...in maintaining the sovereignty of an elected government of the people than surrendering that responsibility to a small group of people who believe they were the equal of that sovereignty.
A comparison of the School Staff with the U.S. 9th Circuit? Bravo !
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That's from the Eastern Ontario/Quebec interaction part of the country. No telling what will come out of there. Glad it's there and I'm out here. Don't you just love a story with a happy ending?
h/t Donald Sensing
A study by a British think tank, Reform, says that 90% of British civil service workers have jobs so pointless, they could easily be replaced by robots, saving the government around $8 billion per year.
[DAWN] The father of a child maid allegedly tortured by an additional district and sessions judge (ADSJ) in Islamabad said he 'forgave' the suspect and his wife a second time during a hearing of the case on Friday.
ADSJ Raja Khurram Ali Khan, and his wife were facing an inquiry for their alleged involvement in keeping juvenile housemaid Taiba in wrongful confinement, burning her hand over a missing broom, beating her with a ladle, detaining her in a storeroom and threatening her with dire consequences.
During a hearing of the case before an additional district and sessions court today, Mohammad Azam, Taiba's father, said he forgave Khurram and his wife, adding that the case was "baseless".
Azam maintained that Khurram and his wife are not the criminals in the case and that a petition has been filed against the real criminals with police.
In an affidavit submitted in court, Taiba's father stated that he would have "no objections" if the court decides to grant bail to the judge and his wife.
Appearing before the court earlier in January, Azam had forgiven the judge and his wife and claimed that he had investigated the matter on his own and found the case to be a false one.
However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... when he appeared before the Supreme Court later, Taiba's father had retracted his statement and said he had forgiven the suspects after being pressured.
"You had backtracked from your earlier statement as well," ADSJ Raja Asif who was hearing the case today told Azam, and assured him that there was no need to be scared.
"Are you giving this statement of your own accord? Is there any pressure on you?" the judge asked, adding, "The court will protect you."
Mohammad Azam, however, repeated his stance, saying "I forgive Raja Khurram and his wife."
Judge Raja Asif granted bail to Raja Khurram and his wife against surety bonds of Rs30,000 each.
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[An Nahar] A dispute between the Zoaiter and Rahil families escalated into an armed clash Thursday in the Beirut southern suburb of al-Laylaki, state-run National News Agency reported.
The violence, reportedly over the elopement of a young woman from the Rahil family, damaged several vehicles and houses in the neighborhood, NNA said.
"Gunmen withdrew from the streets after they learned that security forces were heading to the area as a state of cautious calm engulfed the region," the agency added.
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[An Nahar] The Internal Security Forces confiscated on Friday massive amounts of hashish they found in a warehouse in the Bekaa town of Shmestar, the National News Agency reported on Friday.
NNA said, the ISF patrol was assaulted by a group of women when they tried to raid the warehouse in the said town.
Security enforcements arrived at the scene and the hashish was confiscated.
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So, 'cops have the best dope' rings true once again.
[An Nahar] Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Wally Jumblat ... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... said on Friday that Leb must develop a judicial system similar to the one in the United States after it refused to reinstate 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... 's ban on refugees.
"I wish that the judicial system in Leb resembles that of the United States which suspended a draft law issued by Trump against immigration," said Jumblat in a tweet.
"The American judiciary dealt a slap in the face to Trump's chaotic policy," added Jumblat.
He went on and asked: "When will we see a similar governing body in the Arab world?"
On January 27, Trump issued a decree that summarily denied entry to all refugees for 120 days, and travelers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... for 90 days. Refugees from Syria were blocked indefinitely.
A US court on Thursday unanimously refused to reinstate Donald Trump's ban on refugees and nationals from seven Moslem-majority countries, dealing the new president and his controversial law-and-order agenda a major defeat.
For his part, former Minister Wiaam Wahhab --a Druze rival of Jumblat--criticized the latter's tweets and said: "Leb can witness such a judicial system only when people like you stop pressuring the it into the continued detention of Bahij Abou Hamzah."
Abou Hamzah, ex-Jumblat aide and businessman, was sentenced to jail on charges filed by Jumblat.
"You must stop hypocrisy because when Leb develops a judiciary similar to that in the US, you will be become work-less," added Wahhab.
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On February 8, Adam Housley of Fox News reported a story with a terrifying headline: "Radiation at Japan's Fukushima Reactor Is Now at 'Unimaginable' Levels." Let's just pick up the most exciting paragraphs:
The radiation levels at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant are now at "unimaginable" levels.
[Housley] said the radiation levels -- as high as 530 sieverts per hour -- are now the highest they've been since 2011 when a tsunami hit the coastal reactor.
"To put this in very simple terms. Four sieverts can kill a handful of people," he explained.
The degree to which this story is misleading is amazing, but to explain it, we need a little bit of a tutorial. I recommend not drinking coffee near computer while reading
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.
[Wash Times] Five Dakota Access pipeline activists have been indicted on federal charges, accused of setting fire to a bridge in order to stop authorities from reaching a protest camp illegally built on private property.
[Free Beacon] Newly confirmed Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was physically blocked from entering a school in Washington, D.C. on Friday by protesters.
U.S. immigration authorities arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in at least a half-dozen states this week in a series of raids that marked the first large-scale enforcement of President Donald Trump's Jan. 26 order to crack down on the estimated 11 million immigrants living here illegally.
'Cracking' down. 
I don't get it. If they're here illegally doesn't that make them criminals? Posted by: Abu Uluque 
World oil industry can’t stand another price collapse, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro said, according to the message posted on the website of Venezuelan Ministry of the People's Power of Petroleum and Mining.
[Daily Caller] A Canadian school was fully prepared with replacement staff up and working on the first day of a 250-worker strike.
Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling...
