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-Lurid Crime Tales-
LA-area woman arrested on fed charges alleging scheme to smuggle restricted space coms tech to China
[INS Website] LOS ANGELES ‐ A Pomona woman was arrested Tuesday morning on federal charges that accuse her of conspiring to procure and illegally export sensitive space communications technology to her native China.

Si Chen, also known as Cathy Chen, 32, is expected to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon in U.S. District Court on charges contained in an indictment that was returned by a federal grand jury April 27 and unsealed following her arrest.

The 14-count indictment accuses Chen of violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which controls and restricts the export of certain goods and technology from the United States to foreign nations. Chen is also charged with conspiracy, money laundering, making false statements on an immigration application, and using a forged passport.

According to the indictment, from March 2013 to December 2015, Chen purchased and smuggled sensitive items to China without obtaining licenses from the U.S. Department of Commerce that are required under IEEPA. Those items allegedly included components commonly used in military communications "jammers" from which Chen removed the export-control warning stickers prior to shipping. Additionally, Chen is suspected of smuggling communications devices worth more than $100,000 that are commonly used in space communications applications. On the shipping paperwork Chen falsely valued the items at $500. The indictment further describes how Chen received payments for the illegally exported products through an account held at a bank in China by a family member.

"Federal export laws are designed to protect American interests by preventing the proliferation of technology that may fall into the wrong hands," said Acting United States Attorney Sandra R. Brown. "We will vigorously pursue those who traffic items that could harm our national security if they land in the wrong hands."

Chen was taken into custody without incident Tuesday morning by special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Office of Export Enforcement (OEE); and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS).
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/24/2017 14:07 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Chen was taken into custody without incident Tuesday morning by special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Office of Export Enforcement (OEE); and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS).

Meanwhile, the repeat illegals murder-for-hire drug gang down the street has filed a 'restraint of trade' civil action against law enforcement authorities for blocking customer traffic access during the arrest of Ms. Chen for possession of cell phone parts.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/24/2017 14:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Hang her
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/24/2017 15:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Oh, but she's so Fierce! ...please tell me how we need more SJWs in STEM fields
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 05/24/2017 21:23 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
California Continues the Slide into the Pacific

The weekend slide in Big Sur buried a portion of Highway 1 under a 40-foot layer of rock and dirt and changed the coastline below to include what now looks like a rounded skirt hem, a spokeswoman with the California Department of Transportation, said Tuesday.

The state already had closed the Highway 1 along Mud Creek to repair buckled pavement and remove debris after an earlier slide triggered by one of California's rainiest winters in decades. Authorities removed work crews from the area last week after realizing that saturated soil in that area was increasingly unstable.

"There's no question if you live and own a business in Big Sur, you live in a very dramatic landscape and we know historically, whether it's fire or a mudslide or a landslide from one year to the next it's not very predictable," said the President of the Chamber of Commerce.
Posted by: Bobby || 05/24/2017 11:04 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They've been sliding into the ocean for a long time both physically and politically.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/24/2017 11:53 Comments || Top||

#2  And wildfire season's right around the corner...
Posted by: Raj || 05/24/2017 12:41 Comments || Top||

#3  The Peoples Republic of California has been moving to the far left for decades.
Posted by: airandee || 05/24/2017 12:56 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Ministers, experts highlight efforts to tackle Egypt's population 'catastrophe'
[AlAhram] Egypt is heading for a population of 151 million in 2050, according to recent data from the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
Population Fund, a huge increase on the current official figure of 93 million.

Key bits from a much longer article:
The minister highlighted the importance of controlling the birth rate through birth control, and said the state has now created a database of 13.5 million citizens, mostly fertile women who may add to population growth.

Wali stressed that the most significant factor driving Egypt's population-growth crisis is the lack of awareness of birth-control methods and the unavailability of the methods themselves, especially in the governorates of Upper Egypt.

She said that the ministry has trained 32,000 young Egyptians to take part in a "door knocking campaign" designed by the National Council for Women with the aim of increasing awareness of birth-control issues and methods.

Gendy stressed the necessity of raising awareness in the country's poorest areas, while the involvement of health services and the provision of birth-control methods will be a decisive factor in dealing with the problem.

"The most populated country in the world, which is China, has a population growth rate of 1.5, in comparison to Egypt's 2.1," said El-Gendy.

Minister of Planning Hala El-Saeed said that population growth is generally considered a resource, but one that must be controlled, or else it becomes a burden on the state, especially when combined with a lack of resources.

"Forty percent of the country's population are children who are in need of health and education services, which constitutes a greater burden on the state than the current economic situation," El-Saed said.

She said that a key factor in the nation's population growth is the phenomoenon of early marriage.

She called for the national system of identification to be enforced for all citizens, helping to ensure that all marriages are registered, thereby reducing the number of people marrying young. This would in turn reduce the number of children being born, she said.

Egyptian law prohibits the marriage of girls younger than 16 years, which is the official age of issuance of national identification card in the country. However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
in remote areas and southern Egypt, nearly 36 per cent of marriages occur before that age, according to studies by the National Council For Women.

Morsi also stressed the significance of media in raising awareness regarding the dangers of early marriage, as well as the direct relationship between poverty and population growth.

The Sustainable Development Strategy "Egypt Vision 2030" is an extensive social, economic development plan, taking into account the visions of civil society, the private sector, ministries, and government agencies.

Egypt aims to limit population growth to 118 million by 2030.

The plan also aims at eliminating extreme poverty, reducing it from the current rate of 4.4 per cent to zero per cent.
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#1  Clearly they need Planned Parenthood.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/24/2017 9:51 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
The Buddhas of Bamiyan and the Possible origins of the left's war on statuary
[Telegraph - 9 April 2015] Cecil Rhodes statue pulled down in Cape Town.

Statue of Cecil Rhodes, the British mining magnate and African coloniser, removed from South Africa university to cheers from protesters.

A statue of Cecil Rhodes, the British mining magnate and African coloniser, has been pulled down from its plinth at the University of Cape Town after a prolonged protest by students.

The statue, which has occupied a prominent position on the South Africa university’s rugby fields since 1934, had been previously pelted with excrement and paint and wrapped in plastic bags by those who argued that it was offensive to black students and that memories of the brutal heritage Rhodes represented should not be preserved.
Buddhas of Bamiyan link
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/24/2017 01:57 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Since history shows that all their Utopian schemes lead to infinite suffering, history is their biggest enemy: "Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/24/2017 2:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Pulled down by the descendants of those who invaded SA not long before Rhodes.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 05/24/2017 6:53 Comments || Top||

#3  A good story.
What explains the New Orleans behavior?
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/24/2017 9:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Statue to be replaced with peacemaker Shaka Zulu.
Posted by: borgboy || 05/24/2017 15:32 Comments || Top||


Three Killed in I. Coast Clashes between Ex-rebels and Police: AFP
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Three people were killed when police clashed Tuesday with former rebels who had been blocking the road into Bouake, Ivory Coast’s second biggest city, to demand government compensation payments, an AFP reporter said.

Three bloodied bodies were brought into the main Bouake hospital, the reporter said, shortly after police in the morning stepped in to clear the protesters who had blocked off the southern road into Bouake on Monday.

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Bangladesh
Don’t use the word raped, says Hefazat
[Dhaka Tribune] Hefajat-e-Islam
...a madrassa-based false nose and mustache of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, formed in 2010 to protest against secular education. In 2011 demonstrated violentyly against women's rights and in 2013 held large rallies demanding capital punishment of Shahbag Square protesters and banning women working outside the home...
, the radical Islamist group, on Saturday urged media not to use the word "raped" to describe a raped woman and instead call them "victim" or "tortured".

Reacting to the recent incident of the rape of two university students at Hotel Raintree in the capital, the radical organization’s secretary general Allama Junayed Babunagri and organising secretary Azizul Haque Islamabadi jointly issued the statement.

Signed by Mowlana Azizul Haque Islamabadi, the press statement said they demanded exemplary punishment of the accused in the Banani rape case and urged the government to ensure justice for the two raped university girls while the leaders also expressed their sympathy with, and condolence to the victims.

In the statement, they also urged the journalists and media not to use the word "raped" to describe the victim and instead call them "victim" or "tortured". The Hefazat leader also said rapists must be punished, while it will be an injustice to a woman if she is termed as "raped".

Both the words "rapist" and "raped" carry a negative connation in society and the leaders opposed the use of "raped" in a bid to protect the "woman’s future and honour", said the statement.

The statement further added that the heinous incident of rape in a posh area like Gulshan and Banani is a symptom of the moral degradation of society. Rape, torture and repression of woman has been increasing day by day due to the culture of impunity in the country.

The two leaders also asked the male youth to keep their gaze lowered and to fear the Almighty, while they asked the woman to stop "free-mixing" and to wear hijab while staying outside. The Hefazat leaders said this will help woman to stay safe and secure.

The Hefazat leader also said rape, homosexual relations and unlawful sexual relations have increased, which indicates that the observance of Koran and Sunna is falling.
Posted by: Fred || 05/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hefajat-e-Islam

#1  The Hefazat leader also said rape something, homosexual relations something else and unlawful sexual relations another thing have increased, which indicates that the observance of Koran and Sunna is falling.

It's all fixed now
Posted by: Frank G || 05/24/2017 10:15 Comments || Top||

#2  "Imam, does this raising of gazing,
That sets every Muslim breast blazing,
Necessitate draping?"
"Oh, yes, and less gaping,
And dazzlingly generalised phrasing!"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 05/24/2017 17:38 Comments || Top||


Man arrested for raping girl in Sylhet
[Dhaka Tribune] Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has placed in durance vile
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
a London-based Bangladeshi emigrant on the charge of raping a 12-year-old girl from Beanibazar, Sylhet.

The victim too was rescued at the same time.

The law enforcement agency conducted a drive at the residence of Sarwar Ahmed, 38, on Sunday morning, confirmed RAB-9 Senior Additional Superintendent of Police and Senior Assistant Director Moinuddin Chowdhury.

The RAB officer said: "The victim and her mother were domestic helpers at the residence of Sarwar. The victim was being tortured by him for many days, and when her mother came to know of it, she wanted to leave the job and go back with her daughter to their village."

The victim’s mother was admitted to Osmani Medical College Hospital at death's door after Sarwar beat her for trying to leave the house with her daughter, the rape victim.

RAB then conducted the drive on the basis of a complaint she made while admitted at the hospital.

Legal steps will be taken against Sarwar and a case will be filed with Beanibazar police, the senior ASP said.

The victim was admitted to the hospital’s One-Stop Crisis Centre, he said.
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Two more girls were raped at Raintree hotel on Mar 28
[Dhaka Tribune] Two other maidens were raped at Banani’s now infamous Raintree hotel on March 28, the same night when two university students were violated there, it has emerged.

Nayem Ashraf, one of the Banani rape case accused, told Sherlocks that the girls were taken to the hotel around the same time, according to a police source familiar with the matter.

The two university students filed a rape case on May 6 with Banani police against Shafat Ahmed, Nayem, Shadman Sakif, Shafat’s driver Billal Hossain and his bodyguard Rahmat Ali.

Police’s Detective Branch teams are collecting information about the two other, newly discovered victims who have not lodged complaints against the rapists, the source said.

Officials with knowledge of the investigation said none of the Raintree hotel staff intervened, even after hearing one of the girls plead for help, as the rapists were well acquainted with them.

The victim cried through the night and begged Nayeem to spare her in vain. Subsequently, the victims were threatened and told to keep silent about the ordeal.

The hotel authorities have repeatedly claimed that they were unaware of the rape incident.
Posted by: Fred || 05/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Was WJC anywhere close?
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/24/2017 11:54 Comments || Top||


Economy
North American Strategic Energy Adds Diplomatic Clout
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/24/2017 09:33 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hug a fracker
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/24/2017 9:33 Comments || Top||


Europe
Euro court says freedom of expression violated in case of draft novel seizure in Turkish prison
[Hurriyet Daily News] The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on May 23 ruled that freedom of expression was breached in the case of the seizure of a draft novel written by a prisoner in the eastern Turkish province of Erzurum in 2004.
And now it is 2017. I think this falls under the justice delayed is justice denied heading. Congratulations, European Court of Human Rights. Did you enjoy all your lunches, dinners, and vacations over the years?
In its decision, the ECHR stated that the applicant, Resul Sarıgül, deposited the handwritten draft of a novel with the Erzurum prison authorities to be forwarded to his family through his lawyer on Dec. 1, 2004.

The chairman of the prison board seized the text of the novel on Dec. 15, 2004, claiming that the text “supported an illegal organization, insulted the police and used abusive and inappropriate language, including expressions directed against women, public morals and beliefs.”
However, five days later, the chairman of the prison board seized the text of the novel on Dec. 15, 2004, claiming that the text “supported an illegal organization, insulted the police and used abusive and inappropriate language, including expressions directed against women, public morals and beliefs.”

Sarıgül appealed against the decision on Dec. 16, 2004, stating that the novel was a work of fiction, but the appeal was rejected. In January 2005, he handed the administration a letter for his lawyer along with the appeals decision, but that letter was also seized as an investigation was launched into him on charges of “public denigration of Turkishness, the Republic, the armed forces, and the State Security services.”

On July 29, 2005, he applied to the ECHR while the draft novel was returned in March 2006.

The court stated on May 23 that the seizure of the draft novel constituted an interference with his right to freedom of expression Article 10 § 2 of the Convention.

“Firstly, the disciplinary board had not expressly relied on any statutory basis in ordering the seizure of the manuscript, explaining only that the text in question contained inappropriate words and expressions according to the administration’s pre-established verification table, of which no details were given in the application file,” the court stated in its decision.

“The Court referred to its previous finding that the prison administration rules did not indicate with sufficient clarity the scope and terms of the authorities’ discretionary powers in such matters, and that their practical application did not appear to remedy that shortcoming,” it added.

However, regarding the seizure of the letter, the ECHR noted that Sarıgül had not exhausted all possible domestic remedies and rejected his complaints.

The Court also ordered Turkey to pay Sarıgül 1,500 euros in non-pecuniary damages.
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#1  What does the court say about Geert Wilders?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/24/2017 11:14 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Selling of cats, dogs at pet shops to be banned across Turkey
[Hurriyet Daily News] The selling of cats and dogs from pet shops will be banned across The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, according to a new regulation from the Forestry and Waters Affairs Ministry.

The ministry has prepared a draft law on animals, animal rights and pet shops following a series of meetings with representatives of animal rights groups.

According to the changes, those who want to buy pets from pet shops will have to choose from catalogues, as owners of the pet shops will not be allowed to keep cats and dogs on display in their stores. Cats and dogs will be bred at specially designated sites with a suitable light and heat balance, while pet shop owners will only be able to display fish and bird species in their stores.

The draw law also bans people from going outside with four species of dog - Pitbull Terrier, Japanese Tosa, Fila Brasileiro and Dogo Argentino - without a leash and muzzle.
Posted by: Fred || 05/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  better to be Ergodan's dog than his subject.
Posted by: Huperetch Gluper5554 || 05/24/2017 8:58 Comments || Top||

#2  "Store-bred pets are Gulenist"
Posted by: Frank G || 05/24/2017 10:16 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm pretty sure cats are Gulenists right from the getgo.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/24/2017 11:32 Comments || Top||

#4  So, no more Gyro peddlers?
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/24/2017 12:04 Comments || Top||

#5  They have a new exclusive export agreement with Venezuela.
Posted by: ed in trexas || 05/24/2017 13:19 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Space weather events linked to human activity
Towards the end of the certain to be abridged piece:
[NASA.gov] Such atmospheric nuclear testing has long since stopped, and the present space environment remains dominated by natural phenomena. However, considering such historical events allows scientists and engineers to understand the effects of space weather on our infrastructure and technical systems.
Uh oh...now we've done it...
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 05/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Budget time?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/24/2017 8:27 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Stone Mountain Middle School teacher fight caught on tape by student
An EEOC team consisting of
A teacher and a paraprofessional at Stone Mountain Middle School have been removed from the school following a fight Friday that was caught on tape by students.

In one 24-second clip, posted on social media, two women are seen in what appears to be a science classroom punching each other several times before another adult attempts to break up the fight.

DeKalb County School District officials declined to name either woman involved, and did not elaborate on a statement released about the incident.

"Those staff members that participated in the conduct have been removed from the learning environment," the statement said. "The interaction and conduct in the video is completely unacceptable and contrary to our district’s tenets and core principles."

The incident at a DeKalb County school comes after video surfaced twice this month from fights at Discovery High School in Gwinnett County.
As in Stone Mountain, GA. Stats here.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 05/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A good school - neither had a gun.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/24/2017 1:56 Comments || Top||

#2  I believe Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell may have foreseen such future events as early as 1936. In Mitchell's book, the 'McDonough Road' was one of the only routes of escape. Strangely enough, it still is.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/24/2017 2:29 Comments || Top||

#3  What the Christ is a "paraprofessional"?
Posted by: no mo uro || 05/24/2017 8:00 Comments || Top||

#4  aka comfort animal companion for challenged educators?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/24/2017 8:30 Comments || Top||

#5  A teachers assistant. Dekalb county is known far and wide here in Ga. as the leaders in classiness.
Posted by: chris || 05/24/2017 10:00 Comments || Top||

#6  What the Christ is a "paraprofessional"?

A person hired off the street, often with no training or educational background for the job. Cheaper than a professional and frequently much more effective. /sarc
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 05/24/2017 10:07 Comments || Top||

#7  Cheaper than a professional and frequently much more effective. /sarc

Here in Massaholia that statement can be totally true and NOT sarcastic. The unions and progturd administrations are such that teacher's aides are the only people who can act with common sense and adult maturity. Even if the teacher was trying to do the correct things the bureaucracy would drag them down.

This opinion is based on watching my wife act as an aide for 15 years. She retired when her ability to act was supplanted by the bureaucrats of common-core.

So, the bureaucrats are winning and trying to turn the statement into indisputable fact.
Posted by: AlanC || 05/24/2017 10:47 Comments || Top||

#8  For your viewing pleasure: School Fight Club
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 05/24/2017 13:30 Comments || Top||

#9  Two plus-sized black women going at it. Interesting...
Posted by: Omiper Hupoluling5156 || 05/24/2017 14:05 Comments || Top||

#10  What the Christ is a "paraprofessional"?

By my count, 2,

Posted by: USN, Ret. || 05/24/2017 14:30 Comments || Top||

#11  Possibly preferable to sex with students.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/24/2017 15:02 Comments || Top||


Man in clown makeup with bladed gloves accused of killing man near Torchy's Tacos
[DenverPost] Christian Lee Gulzow, 36, allegedly attacked the victim at 12:49 a.m. Tuesday following an argument near Torchy’s Tacos at West 11th Avenue and Broadway, according to a Denver police arrest warrant affidavit.
Whaddya, some kinda clown?
Yeah, what are you going to do about it?
This..gurgle

Gulzow’s jail nickname is Diablo.
OK, acoupla' clues right there.
He has an extensive criminal history with multiple domestic violence, assault and weapons convictions,
A few more.
In 2012, he was convicted of felony menacing with a deadly weapon.
Well, he seems a terribly disadvantaged person.
according to Colorado Bureau of Investigation records.
"Members of the Jury, my client was merely practicing his right to adopt the 'super power' of Wolverine with the persona of Emmett Kelly. Surely you cannot fault him for practicing his trans-wtf identity. Not only that, but what kind of idiot argues with someone crazy enough to be wandering around in a clown costume?"
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 05/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Two clowns are eating a cannibal. One turns to the other and says, "I think we have this backwards".
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 05/24/2017 13:32 Comments || Top||



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  Egypt orders military trial for 48 'Islamic State' suspects over church attacks
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  Manchester 'explosions': Police warn people to stay away from arena after loud bangs heard at Ariana Grande concert
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  Police arrest knife-wielding 14-year-old girl in West Bank
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  Saudi Arabia confirms Yemen’s missile strike on Riyadh
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  Female Bombers Attack NE Nigeria Village, Kill Two
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  Accused bomber Rahimi seeks reduced charges in New Jersey case
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  Kurdish forces reach the northern gates of Raqqa after liberating four more villages
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  Iraq: ISIS leaders killed during ‘meeting’ in al-Qaim
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  Syrian Army Makes Gains in Rebel Area of Damascus
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  Turkish court sentences notorious British ISIS member wanted by US, UK
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