[RT] A British DJ has been sentenced to a year in jail by a Tunisian court after he played a dance remix of the Muslim call to prayer. Berlin-based DJ Dax J, whose real name is Dax Heddon, played the song in a Tunisian nightclub last week during the Orbit Festival in Tunisia’s northeastern town of Nabeul.
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See, not even Muslims want to hear that shit.
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Only a stone-stupid fool would play a remix of the call to prayer in a Muslim country.
I hope he survives his sentence to learn his lesson...
This story is no longer about antisemitic threats, nor even about Israel -- and with each revelation it has become stranger and stranger.
[IsraelTimes] After finding his bitcoin account, Sherlocks believe Israeli-American teen sold counterfeit IDs on dark net for cryptocurrency.
The Israeli-American teenager behind hundreds of hoax bomb threats against Jewish institutions in the US reportedly earned millions of shekels’ worth of digital currency by selling counterfeit documents over the internet.
Police suspect the 18-year-old -- whose name is sealed under gag order in Israel -- sold forged identity cards, passports and driver’s licenses over both the internet and the dark net in exchange for bitcoins, a cryptocurrency often used in illicit transactions online, according to a Channel 2 report Thursday.
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A solid point, Skidmark. But even if he only made US $500,000, that's an awful lot of money for an autistic 18 year old who can't hope to work at McDonalds. No wonder his parents didn't know what he was doing -- they never got the bills.
Don Rickles, the acidic stand-up comic who became world-famous not by telling jokes but by insulting his audience, died on Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 90.
The cause was kidney failure, said a spokesman, Paul Shefrin.
For more than half a century, on nightclub stages, in concert halls and on television, Mr. Rickles made outrageously derisive comments about people’s looks, their ethnicity, their spouses, their sexual orientation, their jobs or anything else he could think of. He didn’t discriminate: His incendiary unpleasantries were aimed at the biggest stars in show business (Frank Sinatra was a favorite target) and at ordinary paying customers.
His rise to national prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s roughly coincided with the success of “All in the Family,” the groundbreaking situation comedy whose protagonist, Archie Bunker, was an outspoken bigot. Mr. Rickles’s humor was similarly transgressive. But he went further than Archie Bunker, and while Carroll O’Connor, who played Archie, was speaking words someone else had written — and was invariably the butt of the joke — Mr. Rickles, whose targets included his fellow Jews, never needed a script and was always in charge.
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...roughly coincided with the success of “All in the Family,” the groundbreaking situation comedy whose protagonist, Archie Bunker, was an outspoken bigot.
Protests have mostly shutdown French Guyana including the huge European Spaceport there. This is having a major impact on the EU space effort.
Poster Chasm gave this response:
The last days brought a few articles in the press. From those articles, an unchecked.
French Guyana is part of France, part of the EU and NATO. It not part of the Schengen zone. Being an EU border makes local imports more difficult and expensive as it would be otherwise.
EU citizens can move to and work in French Guyana without restrictions. The reverse is of course also true. Doing this in reality is much harder because of things like:
40% of the pupils don't graduate school. At all.
15% of the population has access to potable water.
The official unemployment number is ~22%, and has been that high for decades. (France ~10%)
For those under 25 years the official unemployment number is 46.5%. (France ~24%)
Half the GDP of France, 45% higher food prices.
Arianespace is the biggest part of the economy. Tourism is next and growing. Forestry, tropical hardwoods, is also big. There is some agriculture at the coast for local consumption and crab fishing mostly for export. Gold mining closes the list.
Illegal gold mining is a major and long lasting cross border issue. Crime and serve pollution of the environment.
250k people in French Guyana. It is not the poorest oversea department but has the highest murder rate in France, averaging to once a week.
26k live in Kourou. Neighborhoods with Arianespace employees are easy to find at night, they are the ones with streetlights.
The main demands are: Higher wages, more workplaces, money for social infrastructure [schools, clinics], more support for the farmers, better protection of small local businesses.
Additional demands include: more police, deporting illegal immigrants.
One of the overarching complaints is that the government did not act on its past promises.
This is not the first conflict, just the most visible and longest. The upcoming presidential election adds visibility, the fear that the protests spread into other poor departments adds urgency for the politicians.
The clinic and medical situation is one of the old promises, the demand is for something more local than a ticket on the next plane to France for even slightly complicated issues.
One observation: When the guys with the balaclavas who are enforcing the strike are the ones demanding more police there is something odd here.
Again, sourced via this weeks news and magazine articles and not fact checked. (Turns out that is hard if you don't speak French.)
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The main demands are: Higher wages, more workplaces, money for social infrastructure [schools, clinics], more support for the farmers, better protection of small local businesses.
The EU splashes large sums on these things in poor peripheral areas. I assume a lot of it is getting stolen.
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Jailing won't get the necessary public support - fines, on the other hand...
Jailing is a cost center, fines are a revenue center...big diff. Add something to the fines that impact the managers / owners of said business directly and personally.
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Link Western Union money transfers to Mexico with IRS tax returns. No verification of tax filed for previous year, no transfer of funds. Money transfer application and foto forwarded to the IRS.
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Walls aren't worth much without a willingness to use them - they just slow the border-crossers down a bit so they can be apprehended or killed. Once the crosser community believes they will be apprehended or killed they will stop trying to cross. Interestingly, the number of crossers seems to have dropped drastically in the last few months, without the wall being built at all. Sounds like people down south believe Trump's talk and choose not to risk their life savings and huge chunks of future earnings.
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One of these from San Diego to Brownsville would be more effective and provide a lot of employment opportunities (for decades). Makes tunneling a bit of a challenge.
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Google decided not to wait for NASA to send up OldSpook's many little satellites -- or even just a few more big satellites? Good for them, even if it does mean they are creating a captive market where previously there was no market at all... not to mention efficiently, effectively, and with no graft, all of which are beyond the ability of the locals below.
Will it be as much as ten years before they are denounced in the UN as bloody-handed plutocrat imperialists?
[Kit Up] MKS Supply, LLC is offering Inland Manufacturing’s new modern Liberator .45 caliber derringer pistol.
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[An Nahar] Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Thursday he has ordered troops to deploy on unoccupied South China Sea islands, boosting the military presence on remote reefs claimed by Manila in a move that could provoke rival claimants including Beijing.
"It looks like everybody is making a grab for the islands there, so we better live on those that are still vacant," he told news hounds during a televised visit to a military camp on the western island of Palawan, near the disputed Spratly group.
China asserts illusory sovereignty over almost all of the resource-rich South China Sea despite rival claims from Southeast Asian neighbours and has rapidly built reefs into artificial islands capable of hosting military planes.
Duterte has previously sought to improve his nation's relations with Beijing by adopting a non-confrontational approach over their competing claims in the strategically vital waters.
But the president appeared to alter his tone with his announcement Thursday, saying it was time to "erect structures there and raise the Philippine flag".
"I have ordered the armed forces to occupy all," Duterte said.
"At least, let us get what is ours now and make a strong point there that it is ours," he said, adding Manila was claiming "nine or 10" Spratly islands, reefs and cays.
The defence department later said that nine outcrops "are already in our possession" and occupied by marines, including Thitu island where the Philippine military maintains an airstrip.
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... Between that little message during dinner with the President yesterday and this, the Chinese aren't having a good couple days. Wonder if their check to Duterte bounced.
Mike
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Okay, the Philippine soldiers now sit (awash) on some reefs. How do they get fed, etc?
Logistics, as I recall, was never exactly the strong point of the Philippine military.
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Okay, the Philippine soldiers now sit (awash) on some reefs. How do they get fed, etc?
h/t Instapundit
It’s something many suspected already ‐ that students demanding safe spaces and protection on campus are, in fact, pretty privileged.
And now new data has confirmed that protesters who march against controversial campus speakers are overwhelmingly scions of extreme wealth.
Data assembled by The Economist showed that the institutions most affected by the waves of campus activism sweeping America are also the ones where all the rich kids go:
[Free Beacon] The top officer of the U.S. Army reprimanded Congress on Wednesday for its repeated failure to pass a budget that fully funds the military, rejecting remarks from a Democratic lawmaker that the military should adapt to stop-gap spending bills as the new reality in Washington.
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley warned that Congress's inability to pass a budget by the end of the month would "ultimately result in dead Americans on a future battlefield" and pose a threat to national security.
"Failure to pass the budget, in my view as an American citizen and the chief of staff of the United States Army, constitutes professional malpractice," Milley testified before the House Armed Services Committee.
The heads of the Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps joined Milley in warning lawmakers that the services will face significant challenges in protecting the homeland and sustaining ongoing missions if Congress again fails to pass a federal budget.
Congress has turned to stop-gap spending bills over the past eight years to avert government shutdowns amid toxic partisan strife. The temporary budgets freeze defense funding, forcing the Defense Department to shuffle funds from modernization and hiring to support current missions.
Milley rejected a suggestion by Rep. Susan Davis (D., Calif.) that the military adjust to operating under short-term spending bills as a "new normal."
"I don't think we should accept it as the new normal," Milley said. "The world is a dangerous place and is becoming more dangerous by the day. Pass the budget."
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"I don't think we should accept it as the new normal," Milley said. "The world is a dangerous place and is becoming more dangerous by the day. Pass the budget."
Say there, Class-VI store manager, what brand of whiskey does this man drink?
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Gee, I remember several years in the mid to late 70s the Army was late getting a budget. One year, after two delays and two 30 temps, Congress just passed a continuing resolution for funding the year.
The top officer of the U.S. Army reprimanded Congress on Wednesday for its repeated failure to pass a budget that fully funds the military,
Let's not get too ballsy. A lot of procurement malfeasance and gold plating out there, not to mention paying for more General officers than we had in WWII when we had millions of men under arms, not less than 500,000.
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Mrs. Ret. made a omment the other day that furloughs are now b eing discussed, and unlike previous ones legislation is in place to prevent backpay for non work. While i support that i do recognize the potetial hit on the vast Ret Financial Empire. Her take is that those loathsome convresscritters, especially Pubs should not be paid since they are not doing their job either (passing the budget).
other than the partisan dig i think she may be on to something.
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.
