[FREEP] A teen was fatally shot while live on an Instagram video Monday night in bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... , police said.
The victim and suspect, both 18-year-old males, were on the live video with money and a gun when the shooting happened at 11:55 p.m. on the 17600 block of San Juan Drive, on the city's west side, according to a statement Detroit Police Department sent via text message.
The suspect told police he accidentally put his finger on the trigger and discharged the rifle, striking the victim in the back of the head in the living room area, according to police. The victim was pronounced dead on the scene.
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Funny, but these are our trading partner allies, the first to buckle to P.Trump's tariff threat, DPRK peace mongers and will be the first to squeal when Seoul is overrun.
[Guardian] The Facebook data of up to 87 million people ‐ 37 million more than previously reported ‐ may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, the company has revealed.
This larger figure, which included over a million UK users, was buried in the penultimate paragraph of a blogpost by the company’s chief technology officer, Mike Schroepfer, published on Wednesday, which also provided updates on the changes Facebook was making to better protect user information.
Mark Zuckerberg, during a conference call shortly after the post was published, said: "We didn’t take a broad enough view on what our responsibility was and that was a huge mistake. That was my mistake."
Skipping down a bit
The data was collected through an app called thisisyourdigitallife, built by Cambridge University academic Aleksandr Kogan through his company Global Science Research in collaboration with Cambridge Analytica. Hundreds of thousands of users were paid a small fee to take a personality test and they consented to have their data collected. Aleksandr Kogan aka Aleksandr Spectre
However, the app also harvested the information of the participants’ friends, which allowed for the accumulation of data from tens of millions of Americans.
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We don't know what we have, we don't know how far down around out ankles our pants are. Give us more...
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Two years ago, some guy I wanted to book a vacation rental from had a problem with the fact I was not of farcebook. Going forward, the answer to that is "Really, boobie?"
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Self-enrollment! Social network analysis made very easy. Seems harmless, what could possibly go wrong.
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Facebook cannot hide behind or point their finger at Cambridge Analytica. There is very clear precedent that the owner of the data is responsible for its security and usage even if the third party acted on their own.
[Daily Caller] A city in Illinois is making a gun control activists’ dreams come true.
The Village Board of Trustees in Deerfield, Ill., a suburb of Chicago, approved an ordinance to ban "assault weapons" and large capacity magazines, Cleveland 19 News reports.
Violators will face a hefty fine. If the owner of an assault weapon lives in the town does not voluntarily turn over their banned weapon, he will be fined $1,000 a day until the weapon is confiscated.
According to Cleveland 19 News, the term "assault rifle" applies to "Semiautomatic rifles with a fixed magazine and a capacity to hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition are banned. Shotguns that have revolving chambers are also outlawed."
In a press release sent out by the city, the mayor cites the Parkland, Fla. high school shooting as the motivator for the ordinance:
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I'd expect people with relatives in neighboring states will let their relatives "store" their guns for them. If I ran a gun shop in a neighboring state, I'd get a firearms lawyer on board and buy up all the black rifles I could get from people who can't move away from Deerfield.
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I’m not sure I would want to be the guy doing the confiscating.
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They are commies, Lone Ranger. Nothing more or less. This is a political act, designed to deprive US citizens of their natural rights. I would suggest seizure of all involved and their incarceration in a Federal facility until the courts finish their circle jerking come to a conclusion.
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Guess where the next surge of Chitown crime is gonna be?
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Per Wiki - "This is despite an Illinois State Preemption on any further municipal firearms restrictions, and the fact that amendments to city ordinances have to pass said amendments as separate ordinances."
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Confiscation is gun control at the extreme. The ultimate dream of the gun grabbers in confiscation. Confiscation would throw the door wide open to tyranny by government.
[Al Jazeera] Officials announce agreement over the establishment of up to 40 theatres over the next five years, state media reports. The sheikhs and the holy men must be taking the gaspipe over all this sin and debauchery they're letting in.
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I don't have the primary sources, but this tidbit is interesting, picked up from a blog: "St. Thomas Aquinas took a practical approach to prostitution: it was "...filthy and against the law of God," but that a prostitute should always be fairly paid for her services. "It is lawful for her to keep it and also to give it to charity even though it is acquired by an unlawful action...." But he also stipulated that prostitutes were bound to pay their tithes to the Church, "...only after the individuals in question have done penance."
I would have thought that splitting one's proceeds with the church penance enough.
follow up to article earlier this week
[Bloomberg] Bahrain will invite international oil companies to help it develop its first major discovery in decades, hoping to begin production within five years... Production from the new discovery could one day reach 200,000 barrels a day, local newspaper Al-Ayam reported... The amount of oil and gas that can be recovered from hard-to-reach pockets in shale rocks under the sea is uncertain, and development is potentially an expensive proposition. Halliburton Co. will drill two wells this year in the offshore Khaleej Al Bahrain Basin to appraise how much of the oil contained underground is actually recoverable. [total in the field is about 80B barrels - maybe 4B actually economically extract-able under current technology]. Undeniably, a considerable amount of fracking oil.
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Virtually all oil fields have oil shale source rock associated with them somewhere. Some small amount of that shale oil was naturally expelled into the oil reservoirs or lost to the surface. How much of the rest can be recovered by artificial means (e.g. fracking) is a big question - perhaps 5-10%?
[Dhaka Tribune] Rangpur Special Court’s missing Special Public Prosecutor Rathish Chandra Bhowmik was killed on the night of March 29, Director General of RAB Benazir Ahmed told a press briefing on Wednesday.
Benazir said that Rathish’s wife Deepa Bhowmik and her lover were involved in the murder.
"We think that Rathish was killed on the basis of family conflicts and his wife’s extramarital affair," said Benazir.
"After interrogating Deepa Bhowmik, we came to know that the plan for Rathish’s murder was hatched two months ago," he continued. "However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... it could be not executed till March 29 because of various reasons."
According to RAB-13 Acting Commander Maj Gen Armeen Rabbi, Rathish’s corpse was recovered based on his wife’s and her alleged lover’s confessions.
At around 11pm on Tuesday, RAB picked up Deepa from her house. During her interrogation, she confessed that her husband’s body had been hidden in a construction site owned by her alleged lover’s brother, Khademul Islam Jafri, in the Mohallapara area of Tajhat, Rangpur.
Deepa and Jafri accompanied RAB to recover Rathish’s body, which was covered in a sack and stowed under the construction site.
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Taking over the Shipman VZ Watch. RIP, Tom
Venezuela's currency is worth even less than previously believed, with new trackers of the black-market rate showing deep discounts compared with the long-standing benchmark gauge.
Rates from the widely watched Dolartoday.com, known for arousing President Nicolas Maduro's ire on state TV, have lagged behind other markers that show prices about 30 percent weaker. While the U.S.-based website posts a rate of 251,000 bolivars per dollar, DolarPro has it at 362,000 and e-wallet AirTM is selling dollars for 313,000 bolivars each.
"It's about confidence, and Venezuelans feel that their dollars are worth more than DolarToday rates," said Henkel Garcia, the director of the Caracas consultancy Econometrica. "In a market lacking information, new indicators will appear, and consumers will ultimately determine their sell price."
With Venezuelans having limited access to official exchange markets, they're reliant on websites that track the rate and small exchange platforms to get a sense of what their money is worth. As DolarToday falls out of favor, dollar auctions on Whatsapp groups, sites that host virtual wallets and cryptocurrency exchanges are seen as a better marker of true value. Amid skyrocketing inflation and a massive depreciation of the Venezuelan currency, even local businesses often demand foreign currency for nearly everything they offer.
Any way you count it, the bolivar is worth massively less than just five years ago. The current DolarToday rate has it down 99.99 percent in that time span. Meanwhile inflation in the country has been running at an annual rate of 6,147 percent. "We need more price control!"
Officials at DolarToday didn't immediately respond to emails requesting information about how it calculates exchange rates and why it differs significantly from its competitors.
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Tom Shipman, Omeger Gray6606. He’d never been in the Navy — that was his real name. I somehow did not know both those things until a few months before he died. He was a good, dear man who could be amazingly silly.
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Thank you TW for the information. Tom may be the same person who frequented other patriot blogs that were established after 9/11, over the years. He had a unique sense of humor there as well. I look forward to meeting him in person in a greater place soneday.
A wise decision. Though going back home, settling in Mexico, or continuing on without the protection of the group will each have a different set of unpleasant risks. Perhaps next time it would be better to ignore the siren song of the activists.
[AFP] A caravan of Central American migrants colonists whose trek across Mexico infuriated 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 decided not to travel to the US border, leaders said Tuesday.
"We will wrap up our work in Mexico City," said Irineo Mujica, the head of the migrant advocacy group People Without Borders (Pueblo sin Fronteras).
"We have support teams at the border if there are people who need assistance there, but they would have to travel on their own," he told AFP in the town of Matias Romero, in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.
The just over 1,000 migrants colonists who currently make up the caravan -- many traveling in families of up to 20 people -- have been camped in the southern town since the weekend, deciding their next move in the face of daily attacks from Trump.
The Republican president vowed to send the US military to secure the border and threatened to axe the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) if Mexico did not stop the caravan.
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Of course, that doesn't mean that Trump did something right!
[BBC] Russia state TV has aired a recording of an alleged phone conversation, which it says took place between UK poisoning victim Yulia Skripal and her cousin.
Ms Skripal and her father, ex-spy Sergei Skripal, are in hospital in Salisbury following a nerve-agent attack against them last month.
In the recording, which has not yet been verified, she says she is fine.
The UK government has accused Russia of being behind the attack, sparking an international diplomatic crisis.
The alleged Yulia tells her cousin Viktoria: "Everything is ok. He [her father] is resting now, having a sleep. Everyone's health is fine, there are no irreparable things. I will be discharged soon. Everything is ok."
[ALMASDARNEWS] An updated missile defence system was successfully tested by Russian Aerospace Forces at the Sary Shagan test range in Kazakhstan on Monday.
According to Andrey Prikhodko, Deputy Commander of the Air-Defence and Missile Defence Command of the Russian Aerospace Forces, the missile test was a success. "The missile successfully pursued the set goal and struck a hypothetical target within the scheduled time," he said.
The specific model of the missile was not disclosed in the Ministry’s press statement.
The modernised missile defence system has already been in combat duty and is aimed at protecting the Russian capital Moscow from air attacks by aerospace forces.
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[KCNAWATCH.CO] Rodong Sinmun - 70 years have elapsed since the April 3 Popular Uprising on Jeju Island.
The April 3 Popular Uprising was a righteous anti-U.S., anti-fascist resistance to oppose the U.S. imperialists' colonial enslavement policy in south Korea and their moves for national division and achieve democracy of society and national reunification.
The south Korean people do not allow their aspiration and demand, democratic rights and livelihood to be trampled down by the U.S. and the pro-American conservative forces. They are turning out to decisively punish the aggressors and traitors.
Just is their struggle to uproot the evils of the conservatives and realize the dream of new politics and new society.
70 years have passed since the April 3 Popular Uprising on Jeju Island in south Korea. Independence and democracy of the south Korean society and national reunification, so ardently desired by the uprisers, should be realized without fail.
The conservative group of south Korea is making last-ditch efforts to seek a way for revival while insulting the April 3 Popular Uprising as "riot by the leftist forces" and justifying its crime-woven history. A severe punishment should be given to the satanic group which is betraying the nation, beautifying the pro-U.S. sycophancy and fascist dictatorship and seeking a way out in confrontation with the fellow countrymen.
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...that was because all we were given were country club Chamber of Commerce pols who masqueraded as Trunks. If the funding bill didn't convince you of that fact, maybe you need a time out. Hope is not a strategy.
[Rasmussen] The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 51% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-eight percent (48%) disapprove.
The latest figures include 33% who Strongly Approve of the way Trump is performing and 38% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -5. (see trends).
This is the president’s best overall job approval rating since April of last year. President Obama earned a 46% job approval rating on April 4, 2010, his second year in office.
The president earned a monthly job approval of 46% in March, down two points from February but still better than it has been for several months prior to that.
[DAWN] 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... police on Wednesday locked away ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... a seminary teacher in Karachi over charges of rape and blackmail. Getting porked by a holy man, y'see, makes you holy too.
Korangi SHO Inayatullah Marwat said the teacher had allegedly raped a girl at the seminary he taught at, and later blackmailed her parents with videos of her. Putting the Islamic pork to the girl can be denied after a few days, once the evidence dissipates. It's pretty hard to deny videos.
The police official told Dawn that on the complaint of the girl's father police have registered First Information Report (FIR) under section 376 (punishment for rape) of Pakistain Penal Code (PPC) and arrested the nominated suspect ‐ a 60-year old religious teacher. Another dirty old holy man.
The accused demanded money from the complainant and threatened to defame him by making the video public if money was not paid, said the Korangi SHO. "Pay up, or I'll have the wench stoned! Nyahahahaha!"
That’s how they say “Mwahahahah!” in Urdu.
The suspect reportedly gave Koran lessons to children in a seminary located in Korangi-3 area of the metropolis. "Hey, baby! Want a few Koran lessons? Heh heh heh!"
"[SLAP!] I'm not that kind of girl!"
The SHO pointed out that the incident took place four years ago and the girl is now married and has a son. By whom?
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[DAWN] Chinese engineers and other staffers, engaged in the construction of M4 Motorway from Bahawalpur to Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... , attacked coppers deployed for their security after the foreign workers were barred from leaving their camp's premises without a security squad, DawnNewsTV reported on Wednesday. Hey, it's Pakistain. You don't like somebody, you thrash them.
Several mobile phone clips doing rounds on social media show Chinese nationals approaching the police officials in a provocative manner and attacking them. A video showed a Chinese national standing on the bonnet of a police van, another video showed several Chinese nationals trashing coppers and some local people in plain clothes. Then they ride by with two or three friends on a motorcycle and shoot you.
According to police officials, Chinese engineers and other officials wanted to leave their camp in Khanewal and visit a "red-light" area on Tuesday night. They resorted to agitation when denied permission to leave the camp without being accompanied by security officials. If you survive, you can propose marriage to one of their sisters. When you get turned down, you give her a sulfuric acid shower.
Later, the Chinese engineers also cut power supply to the police camp established within the main construction camp, the officials added. A jirga will ultimately solve the dispute by awarding one or two of your sisters in wana marriage.
On Wednesday morning, the Chinese workers stopped work on the project and abandoned heavy machinery and vehicles on various roads in the area. They also resorted to violence and attacked police in their camp. Your sister will whistle at good-looking guys, so her husband will cut her nose off.
That'll really get you cheezed, so you'll thrash the bastard.
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These people are nuts. They are unarmed, in a country populated by heavily-armed, frothing at the mouth fanatics who would like nothing more than to kill and slaughter them for food.
Representative Nunes and the House Committee should get a Civil order and have US Marshals retrieve the Documents previously requested at DOJ & FBI. Furthermore, POTUS and AG Sessions may wish to have a personal chat with these two gentlemen.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes is threatening another legal fight, this time over the Rosetta Stone of the Russia collusion investigation: The FBI document, (or EC, for Electronic Communication) showing exactly what triggered it.
According to the Daily Wire:
On Wednesday, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) sent a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray that instructed them to produce unredacted copies of the documents that the FBI used as the basis to officially open up its Russia investigation.
It's significant because an FBI investigation of a presidential candidate that was begun right in the middle of a presidential campaign, apparently as an "insurance policy" as the texts of FBI lovebirds Peter Strzok and Lisa Page suggested, is rather unprecedented in a democratic system. If the pretext for the probe were anything but something serious about national security, it would be an FBI abuse of power. The FBI investigation also amounted to the building material that led to the appointment of the Special Counsel and that office's investigation of Russian collusion, something that has frequently thrown the Trump administration into turmoil, and has resulted in firings and indictments of Trump's closest aides.
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.
[Guardian] The Facebook data of up to 87 million people ‐ 37 million more than previously reported ‐ may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, the company has revealed.
Self-enrollment! Social network analysis made very easy. Seems harmless, what could possibly go wrong. 
[Dhaka Tribune] Rangpur Special Court’s missing Special Public Prosecutor Rathish Chandra Bhowmik was killed on the night of March 29, Director General of RAB Benazir Ahmed told a press briefing on Wednesday.
[KCNAWATCH.CO] Rodong Sinmun - 70 years have elapsed since the April 3 Popular Uprising on Jeju Island.
[Rasmussen] The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 51% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-eight percent (48%) disapprove.
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[DAWN] Chinese engineers and other staffers, engaged in the construction of M4 Motorway from Bahawalpur to 
