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Woman Famous for Climbing Mountains in Bikinis Found Dead and Frozen After 20 Meter Fall
Well, she should have seen this coming. A Taiwanese woman known as the "Bikini Climber" because she often climbed mountains in bikinis was found frozen and dead after a 20-meter-fall, according to reports.

Gigi Wu, 36, was renowned in the east for climbing mountains in a bikini and posting sexy photos from mountain peaks. But, apparently, she made one excursion too many.

Eight days into a 25-day solo hike on Saturday Wu reportedly called a friend to say she’d fell down a ravine in Central Taiwan’s Yushan Mountain. She also said she was trapped at the bottom of the ravine with a broken leg and could not get out, Taiwan News reported (via the New York Post).

Due to weather conditions, rescuers could not reach Wu for over a day.

Authorities said that the tempers [sic] had fallen to freezing overnight.

By the time Wu was fund she had already died from exposure.

According to the Post:

Wu, who also went by Wu Chi-yun, was a local social-media star who posed on some of Taiwan’s highest peaks in barely-there outfits.

In one image, she stands in a rainbow bikini and blue hat, with treacherous boulders in the background.

On Christmas Eve, she shared an image showing her scratched-up legs after being injured in a fall that she said she was lucky to survive.
Yeah, there's pix.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 01/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Actually she changed once she got to the top. She hiked in normal clothes. But she did it alone which meant when she got into trouble, nobody could help her.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 01/23/2019 0:52 Comments || Top||

#2  YA, YA jus can't fix STUPID??
Posted by: ranture || 01/23/2019 7:14 Comments || Top||

#3  an over-developed sense of her own personal immortality...subsequently disproved.
Posted by: Skunky the Unfortunately Complexioned8853 || 01/23/2019 9:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Not always alone..dude in the background of the second pic from some hike. Still not a smart way to go. Applaud the idea of the pics..she just didn't take it far enough...you know what I mean....
Posted by: Warthog || 01/23/2019 9:28 Comments || Top||

#5  But philately is so boring.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/23/2019 9:33 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
OH orangutan yanks off caretaker's thumb
[Cleveland.com] TOLEDO, Ohio — An orangutan at the Toledo Zoo grabbed the arm of a volunteer during feeding, biting her forearm and detaching her thumb, according to reports.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/23/2019 02:43 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Got your nose, er, thumb."
Posted by: Knuckles Omomock6582 || 01/23/2019 8:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Never volunteer....
Posted by: Lampedusa Snart6891 || 01/23/2019 9:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Kids had a book that went "hand, hand, fingers, thumb" Don't think this is quite what they meant.
Posted by: AlanC || 01/23/2019 9:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Not a vegetarian Orangutan, it seems
Posted by: Frank G || 01/23/2019 10:11 Comments || Top||

#5  "Got your nose,"

I haven't thought of that in about a billion years. LMAO here...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/23/2019 10:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Note to staff. Please do not hitchhike next to the primate cages.
Posted by: Woodrow || 01/23/2019 10:59 Comments || Top||


Ask Pasadena's Lucille Brown, about to turn 107, about music, poodles and life
[Houston Chronicle] As she prepares for her 107th birthday, Pasadena resident Lucille Brown gives advice for a good life. "Go to church. Be close to God. Don’t drink. Don’t smoke. Those things will kill you," she said.

At almost 107 years old, Pasadena resident Lucille Brown doesn’t think of major historical events such as the Great Depression when citing what has had the most impact on her life.

"Meeting my husband," answers Brown, whose birthday will be Jan. 28. "I had just graduated beauty school. I knew my husband’s nephew, who was actually older than my husband, and he introduced me and him. I fell for him right then and there."

"I lived with him all these years. All these years until he passed away when he was 66," she said of her late husband, Clem, who was a carpenter and supervised carpenters. "We had been married for almost 40 years."

For years, Lucille Brown, a Louisiana native, taught piano lessons. "Oh. And I also taught accordion," she said.

"I taught piano up until here just a few years ago. But the kids stopped practicing; so I told their parents, ’You’re just wasting your money. I can teach them all I know, but if they won’t practice at home, you’re just wasting your money.’ So, I stopped teaching them. Why would you even take lessons if you aren’t going to practice?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/23/2019 01:37 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Trans-racial model cut off the air for saying she can have black baby
Go to the link and check out her picture. D’you remember the book Black Like Me, dear Reader? As I recall, he developed cancer as a result of his treatments.
[Jpost] German model Martina Big claimed she can produce a black child with her white husband, she claims to be trans-racial having darkened her skin using artificial means.

German model Martina Big was forced off the air during an interview she gave Holly Willoughby on This Morning on Tuesday after the model claimed she can have a black baby, with a white husband.

Big, who was born as a white woman, strongly identifies as black and had darkened her skin using severe tanning and melanin injections, reports the Sun.

Born under the name of Martina, Big claims to have the largest breast implants in Europe
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and had undertaken the Swahili name Malaika Kubwa [Big Angel] after a trip to Kenya.

Former president of NAACP in Spokane Rachel Dolezal resigned in 2015 after it became public knowledge that she is not of African-American heritage, despite idenfiying as black, she was fired from her position as an instructor in Africana Studies in Eastern Washington University.

Wolfgang Seibert had to resign from his position as head of the Reform Jewish community of Pinneberg in Germany after it became public knowledge that he isn't Jewish.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Pssst. You want a black baby? I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a Chinese doc who can brew one up for ya. Super easy. Barely an inconvenience.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/23/2019 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  A weird old man on Marengo
Who fed his birds curry and mango
('twas said that the wretch
made the little dears stretch!),
In the end, bred an orange flamingo.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 01/23/2019 4:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Some Germans like Wicca, some bicker,
Some emulate Shirley Q. Liquor
To share a jacuzzi
With her an' Watusi
And put them big pictures on Flickr.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 01/23/2019 5:15 Comments || Top||

#4  D’you remember the book Black Like Me, dear Reader?

It's taken me 50 years to get that one out of my head.... Now it's back. Thanks. ;->
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 01/23/2019 8:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Paging Maury Povich.....
Posted by: Yosemite Sam || 01/23/2019 14:34 Comments || Top||

#6  Babylon Bee?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/23/2019 15:44 Comments || Top||

#7  Jerusalem Post, Bright Pebbles, so probably not pretend.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/23/2019 20:37 Comments || Top||

#8  She's either nuts or an awesome troll.
Posted by: charger || 01/23/2019 21:33 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Weather attacks the Starship Hopper!


Posted by: 3dc || 01/23/2019 13:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  People who worship Musk, well, it seems to speak for itself...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/23/2019 15:19 Comments || Top||

#2  After the Hubble, the NOAA-N that got dopped, and the Mars Mission (Imperial or SI, who cares?) I have got a little numb to mistakes like this...
Posted by: magpie || 01/23/2019 16:15 Comments || Top||

#3  He plundered money out of SpaceX to build a tunnel and MAYBE to buy Teslas with and there's reportedly a semi-revolt of SpaceX investors underway.

There's probably many facilities large enough to build Starship on the Gulf Coast where it could be barged to Matagorda... just off the top of my head, there's Michoud...
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 01/23/2019 22:31 Comments || Top||


Geologist – “The sun, not CO2, drives Earth’s climate”
[IceAgeNow] Devastating news for human-caused global warming proponents.

"The sun, not CO2, drives Earth’s climate," says Dr Roger Higgs, long-time consultant geologist and sedimentologist.

Higgs bases his statement on four vital points:

  • Global warming and cooling are driven by the sun, specifically by the solar-sourced Interplanetary Magnetic Field, which regulates incoming cosmic rays, which in turn govern cloudiness and thus global temperature (the breathtakingly elegant Svensmark Theory).

  • Global temperature oscillations lag 25 years behind the causative solar magnetic fluctuations. This 25-year lag is due to ocean thermal inertia in remarkable agreement with the 15-20-year time lag estimated by Abdussamatov et al. 2012).

  • The idea that CO2 is the main climate driver, despite its scarcity in Earth’s atmosphere, ie 400 parts per million, near plant-starvation level, contrasts starkly with CO2’s 1,000 to 4,000 ppm levels for most of the last 600 million years.


  • Earth is now cooling. Global warming ended in 2016: proof that the sun, not CO2, drives Earth’s climate. Moreover, from AD500 to 1200, CO2 levels were anti-correlated with Earth’s temperature.

"The reality is that man’s industrialization just happened to occur in a period of solar-driven warming, a mere coincidence, causing governments to needlessly spend trillions of taxpayer dollars on CO2-reduction efforts," says Dr Higgs.

See entire paper, with several graphs:
Global Warming Ended In 2016: Proof that the sun, not CO2 drives Earth’s climate

Here’s some information about Dr. Higgs
http://www.geoclastica.com/BudeGeoWalks.htm
But we kinda' knew that already, right?
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 01/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Don't confuse them with actual science and facts! Their brains will melt. And it doesn't fit in with their demands for government imposed poverty and slavery for everyone but them.

Personally, I think we should tell them we must appease the CO2 gods and burn them at the stake. It's the only way to save the planet. Hey....my religion is just as valid as theirs:p
Posted by: Silentbrick || 01/23/2019 0:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Is Captain Obvious on vacation? Bet he's in warm, sunny Bermuda...
Posted by: Raj || 01/23/2019 9:19 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't know about ended. But it is only 0.25 C above a cold 1970's baseline, as of December 2018.

Those spikes are due to El Niño events which are part of the naturally occurring El Nino-Southern Oscillation.
Posted by: Tyranysaurus McGurque5763 || 01/23/2019 9:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Boy howdy! Ain't it amazing that the furnace determines the heat.

Last two days here in mid-NH were below zero, tomorrow is supposed to be 48 and rain....turning too 28 and ice. I don't think their models work well on a realistic time scale.
Posted by: AlanC || 01/23/2019 9:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Yeah, we shoveled 6-7" of Global Warming at 5:30 this AM just to get out of the driveway.

Luckily the plows hadn't shown up yet to produce their little gift.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/23/2019 11:59 Comments || Top||

#6  HERESY!!! HE MUST BE DESTROYED!!!!
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/23/2019 12:27 Comments || Top||

#7  I have been working off & on these last 5 days to clear my driveway from last week's intense snowfall. City streets were always passable even before they got plowed. The city plows come by ever few hours & throw up more slush to block the drive. We are getting inches of rain on this mess today, to be followed by severe cold. I pity those who are just leaving the stuff on their streets and drives.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/23/2019 14:26 Comments || Top||

#8  A greenhouse stays warm inside, even during winter. Sunlight shines in and warms the plants and air inside. But the heat is trapped by the glass and can't escape. So during the daylight hours, it gets warmer and warmer inside a greenhouse, and stays pretty warm at night too.
Posted by: Victor Emmanuel Trotsky3550 || 01/23/2019 23:56 Comments || Top||


Britain
Brexit Boost: Employment, Earnings, Job Openings Up as EU Migration Falls
[Breitbart] Earnings are up and British employment and job vacancies are at record highs at the country experiences its lowest net EU immigration since 2012.

From September to November 2018, 75.8 percent of people aged 16 to 64 were in paid employment ‐ the highest since records began in 1971, according to figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Tuesday.

The economically inactive (not looking for employment) are at 21 percent ‐ again, the lowest since 1971 ‐ while the unemployment rate is at four percent, its lowest rate since the mid-1970s.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There must be some weird link between supply or labour and wages!?!

What's next some link between density of people and land prices?!?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/23/2019 15:46 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
'I do not want to die': Central American exodus grows
[Aljazeera] Thousands of Hondurans wait on Mexico's border, hoping to find respite from poverty and political violence.

Guatemala City and Tecun Uman - Noemi Banegas and her family spent the night on the border bridge that served as a pathway between Guatemala and Mexico.

After a 1,200km journey from their home in southern Honduras, they were among the hundreds of Central Americans waiting their turn to enter Mexican immigration. "This is the first time we are making this journey," Banegas told Al Jazeera on the pavement of the Mexican end of the bridge spanning the Suchiate River.

Banegas, her husband and their two children, aged three and seven, fled Honduras last Monday with hundreds of other Honduran migrants and refugees.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/23/2019 01:08 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why don’t they head South ?
Posted by: Jim Cramer6666666 || 01/23/2019 6:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Really smart, walking tinder into a fire that will be a civil war.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/23/2019 7:26 Comments || Top||

#3  (cue the Jim Lampley voice)

"...aaand in this corner, Guatemala City, weighing in for cities with the 24th highest murder rate in the woooorrrrlllld..."
Posted by: Raj || 01/23/2019 9:12 Comments || Top||

#4  What they meant to say was 'I do not want to die POOR'.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/23/2019 9:14 Comments || Top||


Bolsonaro says that the left in Latin America "will not prevail"
[ELUNIVERSAL] "We do not want a Bolivarian America as there was recently in Brazil with previous governments (...) The left will not prevail in this region" said the Brazilian president

Posted by: Fred || 01/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Jorge Rodríguez warns that "violence will not be allowed in opposition march"
[ELUNIVERSAL] The sectoral vice president of communication and culture, Jorge Rodríguez, denounced the "training of terrorist cells, by factors of the right-wing Popular Will Party (VP), to generate violent scenarios in the mobilization" opposition called for this Wednesday 23 from January.

According to preliminary investigations, five or six weeks ago terrorist groups were captured in Caracas and transferred to the cities of San Cristóbal (Táchira) and Cúcuta (Colombia) to complete phases of training and "perpetrate acts of violence and establish false positives" .

In addition, he specified that in the training would be used the weapons of war stolen last Monday, by a group of assailants affiliated to the Command of Zone 43 of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), in the detachment of Urban Security, located in the parish Petare, Miranda state.

"The weapons were handed over to civilians, belonging to the terrorist cell, Voluntad Popular, for the perpetration of acts of violence, injuries and deaths in the opposition demonstration on January 23," he said from Miraflores, Caracas, reported AVN.

Rodriguez explained that of 51 weapons of war stolen by the "group of assailants", only 40 managed to be recovered, leaving only 11 "in the hands of terrorist factors."

According to the sectoral vice-president, the false positive was intended to standardize facsimile snuffies of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), achieving the objective of "firing against the opposition demonstration" and comply with the orders of the US vice president, Mike Pence.
Posted by: Fred || 01/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Maduro ordered "a total revision" of diplomatic relations with the US
[ELUNIVERSAL]
Posted by: Fred || 01/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  ...Lordy, lordy, lordy.

Look, bub - you don't HAVE any diplomatic relations with the US, except when you're blaming us for one of your own screwups. It's not fooling anyone. Take your boodle, move to Switzerland, and call it a day before you end up in an unmarked grave somewhere in Caracas.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 01/23/2019 4:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Hey! Look at that squirrel!
Posted by: 3dc || 01/23/2019 12:46 Comments || Top||

#3  That's nuttin. Look at the stache on that squirrel!
Posted by: Chesney Snoluth5129 || 01/23/2019 12:53 Comments || Top||

#4  'We're going to turn our relations around 360 degrees!'
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/23/2019 13:28 Comments || Top||

#5  Where do you go when you've gone to far?

Maduro has a problem. The economy is totally messed up. There is no nice path to staying in power, not one that doesn't involve calling out the army and killing a bunch of Venezuelans. Don't want that on the international news!

He likely has enough stolen boodle stashed away in offshore banks to live out his days comfortably but he can't just ride off into the sunset and live happily ever after lounging around the pool at the Motel 6 in Abu Dabu, not without worrying about being hunted down by a whole range of vengeance-seekers ranging from the International Criminal Court and crazies from the opposition parties to angry citizens looking for revenge. Can't go. Can't stay. What to do?

If only there was some sort of dictator theme park, like Dictator World at Disneyland or one of those African game parks, where he could live out his days protected from the outside world behind bullet-proof plexiglass while people gawked and jeered. I think it would be a great tourist attraction and facilitates the problem of regime change in what our glorious President referred to as sh1thole countries. It's a win-win!
Posted by: SteveS || 01/23/2019 14:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Heard rumors today that Maduro has been shitcanned. True?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/23/2019 19:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Not quite, VPOTUS Mike Pence did call Juan Guaidó the new interim president of Venezuela.

Venezuela's freedom begins with new interim president Juan Guaidó
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 01/23/2019 19:59 Comments || Top||

#8  Thanks SCFI.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/23/2019 21:04 Comments || Top||

#9  We could always create a Vlad the Impaler theme park and family fun center where former dictators can be seen and laughed at.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 01/23/2019 21:17 Comments || Top||



Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
US intelligence warns of ‘ever more diverse' threats
WASHINGTON (AP) ‐ Russia’s efforts to expand its influence and China’s modernizing military are among the "ever more diverse" threats facing the U.S., according to a major intelligence report released Tuesday.

The National Intelligence Strategy report, issued every four years, also singles out such potential threats as North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, the growing cyber capabilities of U.S. adversaries and global political instability.

The report, which sets out the priorities for the various agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, notes that the United States "faces an increasingly complex and uncertain world in which threats are becoming ever more diverse and interconnected."

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said in a letter accompanying the report that the U.S. agencies must adapt to respond to what he calls a "turbulent and complex" environment.

"We face significant changes in the domestic and global environment," Coats said. "We must be ready to meet the 21st century challenges and to recognize emerging threats and opportunities."

He said the intelligence community must improve cooperation among member agencies and foster more innovation. He also said agencies must do more to increase transparency to raise public trust in their work.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/23/2019 01:32 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gosh, that's helpful. But I get a better intel briefing just by reading Rantburg.
Posted by: Matt || 01/23/2019 10:17 Comments || Top||

#2  I thought diversity was our strength.
Posted by: charger || 01/23/2019 20:01 Comments || Top||


Economy
U.S. airlines tap army helicopter pilots to ease shortage
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. Army pilot Shaun Perez spent ten hours flying an Apache helicopter over Afghanistan, providing gun cover for Special Forces soldiers on the ground as they hunted for high-value targets, guns and weapons.

Returning to his base at dawn, he donned a fresh uniform before shutting himself into a small room to secure the next stage of his career - as a commercial airline pilot.

He would win the job in a video interview that day in August 2017, joining hundreds of other U.S. military helicopter pilots who have taken attractive offers from domestic airlines trying ease a global pilot shortage.

Perez took advantage of one of the tightest labor markets in the United States, created by years of slow hiring, a wave of pending retirements at major U.S. airlines, and Federal Aviation Administration rules that in 2013 increased the number of required training hours from 250 to 1,500.

The industry’s aggressive recruitment of military helicopter pilots is one of the most striking examples yet of the contortions required to quickly train new commercial aviators since the FAA increased the minimum flying requirement. The pilot shortage threatens the industry’s growth just as travel demand booms.

Posted by: Besoeker || 01/23/2019 01:28 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  File this under government-induced pilot shortage.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/23/2019 14:22 Comments || Top||


Europe
Brexit: Sony to move European HQ from UK to Netherlands to avoid disruption
TOKYO (AFP) - Sony will shift its European headquarters from Britain to the Netherlands to avoid Brexit-related customs issues, but operations at its current UK company will remain unchanged, a company spokesman said on Wednesday (Jan 23).

"We are moving the location of our European headquarters' registration to the Netherlands" by the end of March, company spokesman Takashi Iida told AFP.

The relocation is aimed at avoiding cumbersome customs-related procedures after Britain leaves the European Union, he said.

The Japanese electronics giant late last year registered a new company in the Netherlands, and plans to integrate its existing European headquarters in Britain into the new company.

The move will make the firm "a company based in the EU", so the bloc's common customs procedures will apply to Sony's European operations after Britain relinquishes membership, Iida said.

Sony, however, will not move personnel and operations from the existing UK company to the Netherlands, and "the only change we will make is the change of registered location of the company", he added.

Its rival Panasonic last year moved its European headquarters from Britain to the Netherlands over concerns about potential Brexit-related tax issues.

Posted by: Besoeker || 01/23/2019 04:29 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sony, however, will not move personnel and operations from the existing UK company to the Netherlands, and "the only change we will make is the change of registered location of the company", he added.

aka Panamanian or Liberian registry
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/23/2019 7:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Consider poor Airbus; they have just recently discovered the coming Brexit and now have their panties in a knot because most of their wings are built in the UK. And there is currently no sort of agreement between the UK and EASA for airworthiness approvals.
Several other major aerospace companies also have business units in the UK and also haven't got a plan for post-March 29 festivities.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 01/23/2019 8:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Doe's Sony have any hot products anymore?
Just curious.
Posted by: 3dc || 01/23/2019 12:41 Comments || Top||

#4  #2, sounds a lot like people in US gummint who totally assumed swillary would be elected. Whuttasurprise...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/23/2019 15:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Totally OT thanks to Sony for a cheap, ugly all-in-one CD player whose freakishly pleasant sound (merely a lucky accident, as I learned when I went to replace it) made a good chunk of the '90s more tolerable.

O oh-so-euphonious Sony,
No box less expensive or tony,
But never more faithful
A friend playing plates full
Of Bach have I known, no baloney!
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 01/23/2019 16:18 Comments || Top||

#6  Last Christmas I got a nice little Sony audio system with tuner, CD player Bluetooth, line in, line out, USB interface, remote for not that much money. It may not be a hot product, but it was just what I wanted.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/23/2019 18:27 Comments || Top||


France, Germany try to 'show the way forward' for embattled EU project
AACHEN, Germany (Reuters) - The leaders of France and Germany signed a new treaty on Tuesday to update their 1963 post-war reconciliation accord, aiming to reinvigorate the European Union’s main axis as growing euroskeptic nationalism tests the bloc’s cohesion.

At a ceremony in the German border city of Aachen, an historic symbol of European concord, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron sought to show they can provide fresh leadership for the troubled EU project.

But some analysts doubt that France and Germany can still lead an EU that has grown to 28 members with diverse and often conflicting interests and priorities.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/23/2019 01:25 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Two hated "leaders" to resign?

Nope, thought not.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/23/2019 2:56 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
White House planning to proceed with State of the Union, but details up in the air after Pelosi threat
[FOX] The White House is still planning to move ahead with next week’s scheduled State of the Union address, but the details remain up in the air after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi strongly urged the president to delay the speech or submit it in writing amid the government shutdown fight.

According to multiple sources, it remains unclear whether the address scheduled for Jan. 29 will in fact go forward, or what venue it would be in. The White House is even planning for the possibility of a speech outside of Washington.
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#1  Covington KY?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/23/2019 7:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Hold it in the Senate Chambers
Posted by: Frank G || 01/23/2019 9:17 Comments || Top||

#3  How about outside right in front of the Lincoln Memorial?
Invite the nation to come and listen while he stands in front of the sitting Lincoln.
Posted by: 3dc || 01/23/2019 12:44 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ And addresses Lincoln, and quotes Lincoln (yeah, let's go there). Beautiful.
Posted by: Bertie Grotch9592 || 01/23/2019 12:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Mar a Lago
Posted by: 746 || 01/23/2019 22:41 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Two policemen held over injuring couple in crossfire
[DAWN] KARACHI: Two coppers were detained on Monday over charges of injuring a man and his pregnant wife by resorting to "uncalled for" firing on two suspects who snatched an official rifle from them in Korangi-5 area on Sunday night, officials said.

The passerby couple, Adnan Arfeen, 32, and his wife Saqiba Khan, 28, were shot at and maimed when the police resorted to firing at the fleeing armed pillion riders.

The police said two coppers riding a cycle of violence tried to stop two suspects also riding a cycle of violence at Korangi-5 near the model park. The suspects stopped and snatched the official rifle from one of the coppers and fled.

However,
a hangover is the wrath of grapes...
another armed policeman shot up the fleeing suspects.

As a result, the passerby couple sustained bullet injuries, said DIG East Amir Farooqi.

The senior officer admitted that the couple was hurt by the firing conducted by the policeman.

Investigators collected two spent bullet casings fired from the official rifle (SMG) while there was no evidence that the fleeing suspects also resorted to firing, revealed the officer.

The suspects abandoned the rifle at a short distance and fled.

"The suspected dacoits took away the SMG of one of the coppers, but to resort to firing while chasing in such a situation was uncalled for, which proved fatal," opined DIG East Amir Farooqi.
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PIA flight from Peshawar to Jeddah lands in Karachi after bird strike
[DAWN] They gotta pray harder before takeoff.
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Footage shows drug bust as dozens of smugglers meet at Israel-Egypt border
[IsraelTimes] Police ambush Bedouin traffickers as they receive 100kg of drugs from Egyptian narcos at security fence, firefight ensues.

Rare police footage broadcast by Channel 13 news this week shows an attempt to smuggle around 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of drugs into Israel across the Egyptian border.
A grainy photo, but no video, can be seen at the link.
The footage, captured in January 2018, depicts several dozen smugglers congregating near the border fence while unbeknownst to them, an Israel Border Police force lies in ambush nearby.

The Egyptian smugglers place ladders along the six-meter high fence and begin throwing drug packages into the hands of the Israeli Bedouin smugglers waiting on the other side.

At that point, heavy fire is directed at the smugglers from the Egyptian side, possibly by Egyptian security forces. Israeli coppers then emerge from their hiding and also begin firing. One Egyptian smuggler can be seen falling from a ladder after being shot.

The Israeli Bedouin smugglers load the drugs onto their vehicles and flee, with authorities giving chase.

The smugglers were eventually caught and incarcerated
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
, and their drug haul was confiscated.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


Home Front: Culture Wars
Confirmed by WAPO- Native American Nathan Phillips Never Served in Vietnam
[IOTWReport] An overlooked correction to a story published at WAPO-



Correction: Earlier versions of this story incorrectly said that Native American activist Nathan Phillips fought in the Vietnam War. Phillips said he served in the U.S. Marines but was never deployed to Vietnam.
There is a difference between "I was in Vietnam." and "I was in during Vietnam." For additional clarification, let's see his DD-214, eh?!
Several veterans groups have reportedly filed Freedom Of Information Act requests with the Department of Defence for exactly that information.
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#1  I also want to know who is funding this guy.

Is he actually using tribal funds and if so, which tribal funds (or is he funded by Soros or some other source)?
Posted by: lord garth || 01/23/2019 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  via Gateway Pundit: this guy seems to have the DD-214
Video is NSFW (language)
tl;dr: Mr Recon Ranger served stateside for 4 years as an electrician, left as a private.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/23/2019 0:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Sounds like he's been hanging around the Black Hebrews too much.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 01/23/2019 2:51 Comments || Top||

#4  The question you should ask, lord garth, is "what tribe he belongs to?". Is it, by any chance, the same tribe as Ward Churchill & Elisabeth Warren?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/23/2019 6:57 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ "The Wild Wannawampums gonna stomp some Trump!"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 01/23/2019 7:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Heard this a.m. that he was in the USMC Reserves from '72-'76 and went AWOL not once, not twice but thrice during his "service."

"Liberalism - where losers go for validation."
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 01/23/2019 8:23 Comments || Top||

#7  My cousin served during Viet Nam.

Electronics tech in the Navy....wound up shore based in Napels Italy, spent weekends on the Riviera, married an Italian hottie who's a doll, passed away last year at 75. The closest he came to combat was sailing to the Eastern Med in the late 60's
Posted by: AlanC || 01/23/2019 10:00 Comments || Top||

#8  Next: What tribe is he an Elder in?

Not Elder: another old person, but Elder: as in respected village elder.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/23/2019 11:08 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ Perhaps not tribe but denomination: Mormon? Presbyterian? Plymouth Brethren?
Posted by: Omomp the Fat3894 || 01/23/2019 11:30 Comments || Top||

#10  So now, after they blew an insignificant incident totally out of proportion and disrupted the lives of everyone associated with Covington High School, WAPO publishes a correction? The damage is done, innocent lives have been put at risk because Jeff Bezos hates Donald Trump. It's too late for a correction. They committed libel for partisan purposes and they need to be sued for all they're worth.

The most troubling aspect of this story, aside from the death threats to innocent kids, is that WAPO and the rest of the mainstream media made no attempt to verify or corroborate anything that Nathan Phillips told them. They presented it without question to the American people as the Gospel truth. Other outlets across the country eagerly ran the story without question.

Nor did they make any attempt to get the students' side of the story. That's Journalism 101, folks, and there's no excuse for not doing it.

This is slanted, one sided, chickenshit, biased, bigoted, dishonest and hateful fake news at its worst. They know better. They can try to characterize it as a mistake, or just sloppy journalism, but they know better. They lied, deliberately and with malicious intent.

I happened to be in the room yesterday when Mrs. Uluque had ABC's The View on television. (Trust me, I do not make a habit of this.) I was astounded when Whoopi Goldberg began the show by admitting that the media made a snap judgment about the students before gathering all the facts.

"Why do we keep making the same mistakes?" she asked.

To which her cohort Joy Behar replied, "Because we're desperate to get Trump out of office."

Behar smiled as she said this and exhibited no shame or remorse, as if her hatred for Trump is a valid excuse for outright lies. She didn't care at all if those students are getting death threats or if their school had to be closed because they're afraid it might be bombed or shot up.

So the mask slipped. It isn't just Behar, it's all of her colleagues in America's mainstream media. They were all complicit. They were all willing to sacrifice their integrity for the higher cause of their hatred for Trump.

I have learned that these so-called news organizations are unreliable, more like propagandists for the Democrat Party and the Deep State. But it's truly frightening that millions of people across the country still believe them. First I get scared and then I get seriously pissed off.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/23/2019 13:56 Comments || Top||

#11  But it's truly frightening that millions of people across the country still believe them.
Even worse is the fact that those millions learned nothing whatsoever from the fuller story of what happened at the Lincoln Memorial that day, they are still mouthing off in comments all over the internet regarding this brouhaha. They are 100% complicit in this network of lies, and they are NUMEROUS.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/23/2019 14:30 Comments || Top||

#12  Not Elder: another old person, but Elder: as in respected village elder.
There is a lot of context here most won't know. Natives can't be Elders until they pass 55 years of age, it's the custom. I always though that seemed a bit too young until I started tracking the die off of the natives doing my family history research - a great many don't survive to age 65, due to alcohol, accidents or disease. The convention is to call any native who looks old enough an Elder, even if they are just old enough and lack any other distinction. What little I was able to find about Nathan Phillips the day the incident news broke showed that he liked to get his face in the news, that he had some good PR people supporting him, and that his story / demeanor / language was very, very fishy. No one has yet disclosed whether or not he is enrolled in any federally recognized tribe. I know I am. I have a plastic ID card with its barcode to back up what I say.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/23/2019 14:36 Comments || Top||

#13  Welp, at least he could get into Harvard Law School
Posted by: Frank G || 01/23/2019 15:07 Comments || Top||

#14  Reckless disregard of the truth

Reckless Disregard Of The Truth
reckless disregard of the truth


or
reckless disregard for the truth

1 : disregard of the truth or falsity of a defamatory statement by a person who is highly aware of its probable falsity or entertains serious doubts about its truth or when there are obvious reasons to doubt the veracity and accuracy of a source [the knowingly false statement and the false statement made with reckless disregard of the truth, do not enjoy constitutional protection "Garrison v. Louisiana, 379 U.S. 64 (1964)"]
2 : a reckless lack of attention to the truth that misleads or deceives another (as a magistrate) [whether false statements were made intentionally or in reckless disregard of the truth in support of the warrant "State v. O'Neil, 879 P.2d 950 (1994)"]
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/23/2019 15:13 Comments || Top||

#15  Defamation, Libel, and Slander: Key Elements of a Claim
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/23/2019 15:17 Comments || Top||

#16  I suspect he's a close friend of an old college professor friend who hangs with the older elders of the Pawnee Nation. They tend to be around Dannebrog Nebraska link

You would know my old college professor friend as he used to be on CBS Sunday Morning when he was a state Poet Laureate. He first started with the Ogalla Sioux and then switched somewhere in there to working with the Pawnee.
Posted by: 3dc || 01/23/2019 15:18 Comments || Top||

#17  Hmm. The Pawnee Arts Center gets IP address not found...
Posted by: 3dc || 01/23/2019 15:30 Comments || Top||

#18  Someone yesterday said, "He needs to put out a different statement, I’m disappointed with his statement. He didn’t accept any responsibility. That lack of responsibility, I don’t accept it.”
That "someone" was Nathaniel Phillips.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/23/2019 16:14 Comments || Top||

#19  The left is really chagrined this fell apart so quickly. My advice to people at public protests is watch out for wheel chairs and crutches, because the next play will be "Trump supporter attacks disabled veteran."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/23/2019 17:50 Comments || Top||

#20  Don Shipley's investigation

Not safe for work or sore abs. Guy is a treasure and a riot all in one.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/23/2019 19:38 Comments || Top||

#21  #20 - caught that at AOSHQ. That hurts ;-)
Posted by: Frank G || 01/23/2019 20:29 Comments || Top||

#22  Heard local AM radio station 700 WLW talk show host interview one of the school's chaperones Sunday around noon. She defended the boys and factually described the events as they later turned out on longer versions of video. The talk show host basically called the chaperone a liar and told her the boys needed more supervision. I'm still waiting for that a$$hole to apologize.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/182-sterling-on-700wlw-28237230/
Posted by: jvalentour || 01/23/2019 22:16 Comments || Top||

#23  I see the innocent participants in this as continuing to be mugged by the MSM & the Twitterverse for years to come. They should stop giving interviews!
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/23/2019 23:54 Comments || Top||


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