MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) ‐ A 5-month-old infant who miraculously survived more than nine hours being buried under a pile of sticks and debris in the woods of western Montana suffered only minor injuries despite wearing wet and soiled clothes in cold weather, authorities said.
The baby boy is otherwise in good condition, authorities said.
Missoula County Sheriff’s deputies were called about 8 p.m. Saturday about a man threatening people in the Lolo Hot Springs area of the Lolo National Forest. Deputies apprehended the man, who indicated that a baby was buried somewhere in the woods.
The sheriff’s office hastily put together a search crew of federal, state and local officials that combed the forest outside the hot springs for six hours before a deputy heard a baby’s cry at about 2:30 a.m. Sunday.
He found the baby face-down under the pile of sticks and debris, dressed only in a wet and soiled onesie in the 46-degree (8-degree Celsius) weather.
"He suffered some minor scrapes and bruising but overall is in good health," sheriff’s spokeswoman Brenda Bassett said in a statement Monday.
The baby was taken to a hospital. Custody of the child has been referred to the state Division of Child and Family Services. Spokesman Chuck Council declined to answer any questions about where the child will be placed or how the baby will be cared for, citing medical privacy.
Francis Crowley, 32, was being held on $50,000 bail on a charge of criminal endangerment. Additional charges will follow, the sheriff’s office said in a statement Sunday.
"For all of us at the sheriff’s office, this is what we call a miracle," the statement said. "For the officers who were present for this event, it’s especially hard knowing what this small baby endured in the last 24 hours."
Crowley is from Portland, Oregon, and was previously arrested in June in Missoula on a fugitive warrant from Oregon, the Missoulian reported. Crowley was released when Oregon officials decided not to extradite him, Deputy Missoula County Attorney Jason Marks said.
The nature of Crowley’s relationship to the baby was not immediately clear. There was no information on whether Crowley had an attorney.
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The nature of Crowley’s relationship to the baby was not immediately clear.
Kidnapping on top of everything else?
Crowley was released when Oregon officials decided not to extradite him
Montana should bill — or sue — the state of Oregon and named officials for search, court, and incarceration costs incurred in relation to these events, plus whatever costs will be incurred to care for the baby until it is eighteen and search for his parent(s); had Oregon taken him back in a timely manner, none of this would have happened..
[Breitbart] Four people were killed and another 24 wounded by gunfire in gun-controlled Chicago over the weekend.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that three of the four fatalities occurred on Sunday.
The first fatality of the day occurred at 12:30 a.m. when someone pulled out a gun following an argument and opened fire. Twenty-two-year-old Daniel Carter was shot and killed.
Another fatality occurred earlier Sunday, around 3:30 a.m. In that incident a 32-year-old male was in a car with another 33-year-old when a car pulled up beside them and someone began shooting. The 32-year-old was struck in the head and neck and later died. The 33-year-old was stuck too, but is hospitalized "in good condition."
The last fatality of the day happened around 12:15 p.m. in an Austin neighborhood Sunday afternoon, when someone opened fire on two individuals on the sidewalk. One of the individuals, a 23-year-old male, was shot multiple times in the chest and killed. The second individual, a 19-year-old male, was shot but is hospitalized in stable condition.
On May 29, 2018, Breitbart News reported that 36 were shot in gun-controlled Chicago over the Memorial Day Weekend. Seven of the shooting victims died.
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They need a law making it illegal to shoot someone with an illegal gun. And while they're at it, they should make a law that criminals have to obey the law. That's really the crux of the problem, isn't it?
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Thank GOD the strict gun laws in Chicago are working! Just think what the numbers would be if it were the Wild West of Texas where people can and do carry guns.
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Didn't they just have a highway-blocking protest to stop this?
That protest was not aimed at gang-bangers. It was aimed at law abiding citizens. You, whose firearms have never been used for a crime of any sort, are the enemy...
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[Mail] A 24-year-old man fell 500 feet to his death at the Grand Canyon National Park just days before he was due to begin his career as a nurse.
Andrey Privin, of Buffalo Grove, Illinois, lost his footing after climbing over a railing to get a better view at the Mather Point lookout area on July 3.
Privin was supposed to start his job as a registered nurse at the Highland Park Hospital on Monday.
Some witnesses said they saw Privin throw his backpack to an intended landing spot before jumping a gap at the lookout area. Safety railings, who needs them ?
“Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.”
[Breitbart] Border Patrol agents in the Laredo Sector rescued a Honduran woman and her young son after human smugglers abandoned them in the South Texas heat with little food and water. The mother and her eight-year-old had been traveling for three days after being smuggled into the U.S.
Agents assigned to the Laredo West Station began searching after officials received a 911 distress call on Friday about a woman being lost after being abandoned by human smugglers. The agents began their search and eventually found the missing migrants, according to Laredo Sector Border Patrol officials.
The agents provided emergency medical assistance to the mother and child. They are now in good health, officials stated.
The intense heat of the South Texas summer combined with the lack of adequate supplies of food and water put the woman and her eight-year-old in danger. In addition to the lack of supplies, the terrain, animals, snakes, and cactus make the travel even more dangerous. The terrain also makes navigation without proper equipment nearly impossible as everything looks the same when you get into the brush, Border Patrol agents told Breitbart Texas in past interviews.
[NEWZIMBABWE] OUTGOING Zanu PF MP for Mpopoma-Pelandaba, Joseph Tshuma has made astounding claims Zim-bob-weans were doomed without the involvement of whites in their affairs. A bit of diversity ain't gonna hurt 'em. It can't make things worse, anyway.
Tshuma, who is also party central committee member, was speaking at a political parties discussion forum in Bulawayo Saturday.
The event was hosted by the Zim-bob-we Union of Journalists (ZUJ) and the Bulawayo Media Centre.
Relations between the country and the West took a knock at the turn of the century when then President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case. Dumped in November 2017 when the Missus decided she wanted to be president, and opposed heer might against Crocodile Mnangawa Important safety tip: If your opponent goes by the name Crocodile andf your title is Shopper in Chief let him win.... seized productive land which was in the hands of white Zim-bob-weans of European descent for redistribution to black locals.
Mugabe went on to introduce laws which compelled foreign businesses in Zim-bob-we to surrender at least 51 percent equity to blacks.
He followed his policies with repeated public rants against whites on alleged attempts to recolonise his country through financial support to his opponents as well as attempts to prescribe solutions to the country’s myriad problems.
Mugabe once stunned the world during an international summit attended by world leaders when he confronted then British Prime Minister Tony Blair and telling him to "keep your England and I will keep my Zim-bob-we".
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the enormous newt was trying to decide if Gloria was edible... his anti-white stance Saturday invited strong rebuke from one of his former allies, Tshuma who described it as "dangerous".
"We are coming from the era of Robert Mugabe. An era which closed us out from the rest of the world," Tshuma said.
"We began to leave in a vacuum. That was the most dangerous thing that was ever experienced by this country other than the bombings during the liberation struggle."
The Zanu PF politician said no other country was capable of developing without the involvement of whites.
"We made a mistake as a party through our (former) president when we said’ Blair keep your England and we keep our Zim-bob-we’.
"Yes, we kept our Zim-bob-we but what kind of Zim-bob-we did we keep? One thing that I have been made to understand and agree strongly whether painful or not, we cannot do away with that person called umkhiwa (white).
"When you do that, it is at your own peril. You need the white man to be there somewhere."
Incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa has moved to try and mend the country’s relations with the West through an engagement process that has seen Western business delegations visit the country to explore opportunities.
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Does this imply that Detroit and Baltimore are doomed unless the white man comes back?
[All Africa] MDC Alliance presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa has rubbished continued State media claims he has promised former First Lady Grace Mugabe a Vice President post in exchange for her support in his bid to form the country's next government.
The State-owned Sunday Mail ran a story claiming the Presidential hopeful had "jumped into bed" with former President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case. Dumped in November 2017 when the Missus decided she wanted to be president, and opposed heer might against Crocodile Mnangawa Important safety tip: If your opponent goes by the name Crocodile andf your title is Shopper in Chief let him win.... 's wife.
Grace is said to be the brains behind the National Patriotic Front (NPF), a political opposition formed by disgruntled G40 politicians who were elbowed out of the ruling party when President Emmersn Mnangagwa took over the country following Mugabe's shock ouster November last year.
Addressing thousands of party supporters at campaign rally at Rudhaka Stadium in Marondera on Sunday, Chamisa accused Zanu PF and the State-controlled media of misleading the public ahead of this year's elections July 30.
"I have not run out of options that I would resort to appointing Grace Mugabe as my vice president. Don't listen to the Sunday Mail.
"The Herald and Sunday Mail now have an editorial policy to misinform the people," Chamisa said.
The opposition leader said he found it strange that after working with Mugabe for 56 years, Mnangagwa and Zanu PF now found everything so wrong about anyone cutting deals with the former first family.
"As the MDC Alliance, we respect Mugabe's legacy but he is now history and like everyone, we are also happy that he has retired," Chamisa said, adding, "Why is Zanu PF tormenting him? I have never met him since he retired but I have heard from sources that he said Chamisa had a clear agenda and he would vote for me. If Mugabe wants to vote for me, he is welcome.
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[All Africa] Former president Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case. Dumped in November 2017 when the Missus decided she wanted to be president, and opposed heer might against Crocodile Mnangawa Important safety tip: If your opponent goes by the name Crocodile andf your title is Shopper in Chief let him win.... has fired six security details provided by the state because he suspected they were spying on him on behalf of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government, it has been revealed.
According to insiders, Mugabe took the drastic action last week soon after his return from Singapore where he spent over two weeks seeking medical treatment.
The long-time Zanu PF leader, who was ousted through a coup in November last year, is said to be now considering recruiting his own security details.
During Mugabe's absence, the government allegedly withdrew three of the former president's security details without his knowledge.
The 94-year-old politician was reportedly infuriated by the move and ordered the remaining six aides to stop reporting for duty.
"Three aides were withdrawn on June 23," a source said. "No explanation was given to Mugabe, who was told by the other aides that the three had been withdrawn by government."
The dumped workers included a receptionist and members of the kitchen staff.
Mugabe is said to have complained that the security details spent most of their time at State House where they would have been summoned by their bosses.
"Mugabe has dumped the workers. He found three withdrawn when he was away and he dismissed the remaining six," the source said.
The sources said Mugabe was not happy that his workers were regularly quizzed about visitors to his Harare mansion.
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[PRESSTV] British Prime Minister Theresa May has appointed Jeremy Hunt as foreign minister after Boris Johnson resigned in protest at the government’s plans for a close trading relationship with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... after Brexit next year.
The British prime minister's office said in statement on Monday that the Queen has been pleased to approve the new appointment.
Johnson stepped down on Monday over May's plan for Brexit, which include remaining closely aligned to EU rules on manufactured goods.
Hunt is the long-serving health minister and a close ally of May. He had served as health minister for more than 5-1/2 years, the longest term of any in the history of the state-funded National Health Service. Matt Hancock replaced Hunt as Health Secretary.
Hunt’s appointment could alter the Brexit balance of May’s top ministerial team. Hunt backed "Remain" during the 2016 referendum campaign.
However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... in October 2017 Hunt said he had changed his mind on the issue, and slammed disappointing "arrogance" in the EU’s behavior during Brexit negotiations.
Last month, Hunt criticized Airbus and other such businesses who had issued warnings about moving jobs because of Brexit. He added that they should instead be getting behind May in her push for a good deal on leaving the EU.
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[Wash Times] Mexico’s president-elect has complained about President Trump’s immigration policies, but he’s looking to adopt some them for his country, a top aide said.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is planning his own border force to stop illegal immigrants and drugs crossing into Mexico from Central America, Alfonso Durazo, his chief of public security, told Bloomberg.
Mr. Durazo said the border force would also patrol the U.S.-Mexico line, though he declined to give Bloomberg more details.
Mr. Durazo said they will try to work to improve conditions Central America to stem the flow of people fleeing those countries ‐ similar to pledges made by the Obama administration after the 2014 surge of illegal immigrants.
Those migrants have continued to flow north, with some of them stopping in Mexico whole others continue north to try to enter the U.S.
[Jpost] US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he could not say if Russian President Vladimir Putin is a friend or foe, but that he is a competitor.
Trump made the remark in answer to a question from reporters at the White House before leaving for Europe on a visit that includes a summit with Putin in Helsinki "I'm not your friend, I'm the President of Russia!"
[RT] A delegation of 30 South African farming families has arrived in Russia’s farmbelt Stavropol Region, Rossiya 1 TV reports. The group says it is facing violent attacks and death threats at home.
Up to 15,000 Boers, descendants of Dutch settlers in South Africa, are planning to move to Russia amid rising violence stemming from government plans to expropriate their land, according to the delegation.
"It’s a matter of life and death ‐ there are attacks on us. It’s got to the point where the politicians are stirring up a wave of violence," Adi Slebus told the media. "The climate here [Stavropol Region] is temperate, and this land is created by God for farming. All this is very attractive." After 30 years of Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe, who could have possibly seen this coming.
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My guess is they asked and our state Department wondered if white farmers fleeing racism and violence from a black government might be too dangerous an act of political incorrectness. Plus bringing in skilled white farmers who are knowledgeable about modern farming would be unfair to the illegals whose farming skills are marginal, but are guaranteed to vote Democrat. Disgusting that we didn’t open our arms to them who really are fleeing racial persecution.
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"Get Out While The Gettin's Good!" Wise saying for any true survivor. The trajectory seems set for the area to decivilize... Pity. Now they can trade the evils of Apartheid for the "charms" of decadent tribal warlordism...
Twitter isn't properly posting this conversation here so click on Alexander Gabuev's name and look at his series of tweets. Lots of interesting stuff including a natural gas pipeline from Sakhalin Island to Russia and then down to China and an agreement between Russia and China for China to play "Good Cop" and Russia to play "Bad Cop" on the world stage.
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... and an agreement between Russia and China for China to play "Good Cop" and Russia to play "Bad Cop" on the world stage...
That's been in effect for about the last thirty years, as near as I can tell.
Three years ago Russia invaded Ukraine and the same week the Chinese were collecting on the situation from Russia by drilling in their vassal state Vietnam's coastal waters.
[DAWN] The grinding of the peace processor between the United States and North Korea was in crisis on Sunday after Pyongyang angrily rejected Washington’s "gangster-like" demand for rapid nuclear disarmament, despite two days of intense talks.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in Tokyo to brief his Japanese and South Korean counterparts on the talks, which he called positive and declined to comment on Pyongyang’s statement rejecting his efforts and appealing to US 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... to revive the grinding of the peace processor.
In a tweet, Pompeo said he had held a "constructive meeting" with his Japanese counterpart and discussed "maintaining maximum pressure" on North Korea.
He is due to meet Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, as well as South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha later on Sunday.
Speaking privately, US officials suggested the harshly-worded North Korean statement was a negotiating tactic. But after two days of theatrical amity in Pyongyang, it appeared to mark a return to the North’s traditional hardline position.
The North’s foreign ministry took exception to Pompeo’s effort to secure concrete commitments to back leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... ’s promise, made at a summit last month with US President Donald Trump, to work towards the "denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula".
And it did so in stark terms, according to a statement relayed by the KCNA state news agency.
"The US is fatally mistaken if it went to the extent of regarding that the DPRK would be compelled to accept, out of its patience, demands reflecting its gangster-like mindset," the statement said, referring to North Korea by its official initials.
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[NY Times] With millions of cameras and billions of lines of code, China is building a high-tech authoritarian future. Beijing is embracing technologies like facial recognition and artificial intelligence to identify and track 1.4 billion people. It wants to assemble a vast and unprecedented national surveillance system, with crucial help from its thriving technology industry.
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China is building a high-tech authoritarian future...in collaboration with Silicon Valley.
Remember the 'revolt' by Google employees about the possibility of the organization working with the American DoD? However, not a peep about their work with the Chinese.
[DAWN] The Supreme Court on Sunday ordered placing of names on the Exit Control List (ECL) of presidents and chief executive officers of three banks allegedly involved in Rs35 billion suspicious transactions used in money laundering.
A three-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, also summoned the CEOs and presidents of the Summit Bank, Sindh Bank and United Bank Limited (UBL) and others mentioned in the FIR registered by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) over money laundering charges even if they are in jug of the agency.
The names of the bankers would be placed on the ECL by the interior ministry so that they might not flee the country until the investigations were complete, the court ordered.
The FIA investigation has also revealed names of the beneficiaries of suspicious transactions, including those of former president Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari ... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... , who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ... and his sister Faryal Talpur as members of the Zardari Pvt Ltd.
The court has taken suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... notice of slowness and slackness on part of the FIA in conducting the investigation into fake accounts and fictitious transactions worth billions. These accounts were allegedly used for transactions of funds received through heavy bribes and kickbacks.
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[DAWN] An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Monday sentenced a teenage boy to life in prison for sexually assaulting and murdering a four-year-old girl in Mardan, DawnNewsTV reported.
Fifteen-year-old convict Mohammad Nabi has also been fined Rs1 million.
Nabi kidnapped the girl from outside her home in January this year. She was found dead a day later in a nearby sugarcane field. A medical examination revealed that she had been raped before being strangled. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... later the police negated the claim, saying that the convict had attempted to rape the child but ended up suffocating her to death with his hands after she began shouting and crying.
The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa police had collected and sent DNA samples of 243 suspects to the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Forensic Science Agency in Lahore to match samples recovered from the scene of the crime. The convict was nabbed You have the right to remain silent... on Feb 7 after his DNA specimen matched a blood sample collected from the field.
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[DAWN] India's Supreme Court on Monday upheld death sentences for three men over the infamous gang rape and murder of a woman in New Delhi in 2012 that sparked national protests and soul-searching.
The victim, a physiotherapy student, was raped and left for dead by a gang of five men and a teenager on a bus in New Delhi in December 2012.
"The review petition of all the three convicts has been rejected," A.P. Singh, a lawyer for the defendants, told news hounds.
The 23-year-old woman, on course to be the first professional in the family, was coming home from the cinema with a male friend.
The six gang raped and tortured her with an iron bar as the bus drove loops through the Indian capital. Singh was dumped on the streets 45 minutes later with horrific internal injuries, and died 13 days later in a Singapore hospital.
The brutality of the attack, and her determination to survive long enough to identify her attackers to police, triggered angry demonstrations by thousands of people in Delhi and nationwide.
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[The Economist] IN THE school playground in Los Tomes a lone child, José Ossandón, plays with his emboque, a ball-and-cup game. The eight-year-old is the school’s only pupil. His teacher, Nilda Jimena Gallardo, herself a former pupil, says that enrolment has dropped from 65 when she started teaching 43 years ago. Drought has driven families away, she says. "Only the old remain."
Los Tomes is an agricultural co-operative, one of 178 in Chile’s Coquimbo region. Nineteen comuneros try to grow wheat and raise sheep and goats on 2,800 hectares (7,000 acres) of semi-arid scrubland. A decade-long drought has made that harder. Hilltop springs where the animals once drank have dried up. As herds shrank and yields fell, farmers’ children moved away to take jobs in cities or at copper mines.
Hope for Los Tomes comes in the form of three 60-square-metre (646-square-foot) nets stretched between poles on a ridge above the community. These atrapanieblas capture droplets from the fog that rolls in from the sea 4km (2.5 miles) away. They trickle down to a pipe, which channels the water to two troughs at the foot of the ridge, from which livestock drink. The banner-like nets can harvest 650 litres (140 gallons) of water a day. "We’re content: it’s produced the results we wanted," says José Ossandón, the child’s father and the president of the co-operative.
Chile has been investigating fog capture since the 1950s. The dense fog that arises from the Humboldt current, called the camanchaca, can be harvested with the help of a coastal mountain range and strong winds. Earlier attempts to turn the mist into usable water failed. In 1990 fog nets at Chungungo, a fishing village north of Los Tomes, captured 8,000 litres a day. Villagers argued about how to share responsibility for maintaining the atrapanieblas.
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It's hard to argue with results. Who could imagine that electric cars are harder to do than large rockets?
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I have always wondered how long it would take to convert an ICBM in its launcher to an "emergency" resource packet to the ISS... Suppose you positively needed something and couldn't wait for the next scheduled cargo mission...?
In these bureaucratic days is it even feasible?
h/t Instapundit
[MadGeniusClub] Back in the dark ages ‐ 1980’s in South Africa the BBC Radio News reported on a labor dispute/picket protest led by the ANC aligned organizers in a fishing town up the West Coast of the Cape. The picket line had been savagely broken up by the police with dogs (the BBC reporter of the time was a passionate promoter of the anti-apartheid cause, and as his media was not within the country could report whatever he liked without any form of censorship.)
...Now, as it happens I was ‐ quite inadvertently ‐ there, along with my pregnant wife. I wasn’t protesting, or with the police. I was just at the tail end of a long sampling trip, collecting shark vertebrae and gut contents ‐as well as measurements of said sharks ‐ at various fish processing plants up the west coast. I was a very broke research scientist, and paying dog-sitters or putting our two hounds (a sloppy bull-terrier x keeshond cross and a dim-witted but loveable Old English Sheepdog) in kennels was just an expense that couldn’t be met. So they traveled with us, sleeping in the back of the truck.They loved the trips. My wife used to record for me ‐ as it was a bloody, slimy, smelly dirty job, making writing difficult while you were doing it. Now, typically ‐ as we were taking nothing of value, fish processors were quite obliging about us sampling the catch ‐ as long as we didn’t get in the way. In this particular fishing town, that meant starting really early on the previous night’s landings, before work started. The track to the shark plant was a narrow alley next to and around the corner from the main only large employer in the town ‐ they dealt with pilchards and anchovies.
We got there in the dark and had worked hard for several hours, and, tired, smelly, bloody and laden with sample buckets of vertebrae sections, (for age and grown studies) were glad to be heading for a coffee and giving the dogs a run before heading home. The dogs of course knew the pattern and were hyper with ’walk-delight’, as always.
So: Barbara driving we headed around the corner and into the midst of a whole bunch of people. My dogs ‐ confined to the back canopy ‐ were barking. They were already excited for their walk and liked to tell the world... My wife, being herself, hooted and drove slowly towards the protestors ‐all we wanted was out of there... And, to be honest, we couldn’t actually turn around ‐ and the sea was behind us.
Now, whether the protestors got freaked the idea that cops were somehow behind them, or just the noise of the two dogs was enough ‐ people scattered in all directions running and screaming. We drove out, past the couple of local cops, having no idea what the hell we’d done, and wondering if we were in trouble.
A friend later told me the Cape Town Riot squad (we were about 2 hours away from the city) showed up about an hour and half after this, and were somewhat peeved at being called out for nothing.
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We told you it would happen, and it finally has. Conservatives long predicted that feminism and transgenderism were ultimately incompatible, but for a long time it seemed like the LGBT movement might just hold them together. Well, on Saturday that movement burst open, as lesbians led the parade in attacking transgenderism.
"Transactivism Erases Lesbians!" read a banner that temporarily led the Pride in London march in the heart of Britain's capital.
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.
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) ‐ A 5-month-old infant who miraculously survived more than nine hours being buried under a pile of sticks and debris in the woods of western Montana suffered only minor injuries despite wearing wet and soiled clothes in cold weather, authorities said.
[Breitbart] Four people were killed and another 24 wounded by gunfire in gun-controlled Chicago over the weekend.
[Mail] A 24-year-old man fell 500 feet to his death at the Grand Canyon National Park just days before he was due to begin his career as a nurse.
[Wash Times] Mexico’s president-elect has complained about President Trump’s immigration policies, but he’s looking to adopt some them for his country, a top aide said.
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With millions of cameras and billions of lines of code, China is building a high-tech authoritarian future. Beijing is embracing technologies like facial recognition and artificial intelligence to identify and track 1.4 billion people. It wants to assemble a vast and unprecedented national surveillance system, with crucial help from its thriving technology industry.
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