[Egypt Independent] Public funds prosecutors arrested three Africans on charges of swindling people by claiming they can turn paper into dollars.
An owner of a garmets company in Sharqiya said the con artists told him they had US$10 million in banknotes painted with a black dye and asked him for 300,000 euros to buy solutions to remove it.
Investigators seized the said banknotes and referred the Africans to investigation.
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It's the turning dollars into worthless paper that I'm concerned about.
Cliven appears to have strayed from his gov't established First Amendment zone. How dare he express his personal beliefs with regard to cotton picking, slavery, and public housing in the same sentence. Good ole CNN piling on and linking every Pub a racist by association.
Let's just say that he could have chosen his words a whole lot better. Not that the NYT wouldn't have twisted him anyway, but he didn't do himself any favors.
Chattel slavery was completely, wholly evil. Asking if anything, anything at all is as "bad" as slavery must then be met with a firm "no!", or else one has walked into a moral trap.
If Mr. Bundy had compared the modern black urban underclass experience to Soviet serfdom he might have gotten away with it. If he had denounced how that experience robs people of initiative, self-respect, self-worth and responsibility, we would be nodding our heads in agreement. If he had suggested to the NYT reporter that the reporter should go read Hayek and return to Nevada with questions, we would be cheering.
But chattel slavery? No. Never.
Not just because slavery was evil. But also because the reference to it allows the progressive collectivists on the other side to use "the other" as a cudgel. There is no requirement for us to make it easy for them.
Oh, and Mr. Bundy, lose the word 'Negro'. It's old.
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White males have been labeled as default racists since at least 2007. Zimmerman got labeled a white Hispanic in order to keep up the racist drum.
He's an 80 year old cowboy in flyover, you expect him to talk like some movie star, or politician, or professional pundit? Speaking of politician, Harry Reid used light skin negro to describer Obama in 2010.
Both sides use slavery references all the time; Back on the Plantation or Uncle Tom are both charged phrases based entirely on slavery.
Worse than slavery, well not much, but look at the history of indentured servitude, voluntarily turning yourself into someone's property. There are accounts of them being treated worse than slaves, on account of being a short term property invested which didn't have to be as cared for, a cheap tool to be thrown away as opposed to a long term investment.
The slave is captured against their will, put in chains, and forced to labor for the benefit of others. The person who voluntarily gives up their freedom gives up their God given right to make decisions.
But we do that everyday with contracts. Those contracts contain rights and obligations to both parties. When they are not met there are consequences. How those consequences are enforced is the function of our government, our Constitution. We promised not to be wildmen in exchange for cooperating with the function of government to enforce legal obligations, obviously in exchange the government has obligations of its own.
Now one of the obligations of government seems to be to assist the poor or disabled, a function formerly done by church and community. To take unemployment from the government is to enter into a contract and in that contract, through elections, the contract can be altered through elections to be more beneficial to one side, so the indentured servant has the ability, based upon their own morality, to either live up to the safety net or increase the value of the contract to themselves by voting in officials which maintain to increase the voters value. If the free shit coalition on the board of directors outvotes the get shit done faction then you have a negative direction of production.
In this system, being a producer, I am contractually obligated to pay taxes. People who don't work, especially to not work for a living, have a contractual obligation to receive money (after the intermediary gets its cut, in this case the government). When the side which does not work controls how much money I pay them, the contract becomes immoral. The proof of the morality, or immorality, can be gaged on the success or failure of society.
So how successful do you think the United States of America is right now?
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The politically incorrect and artless Bundy made the mistake of referencing 'abortion' and welfare, the holy grail of the left. Worse yet, he referenced it in association with the black community. The simply irony is, nothing he said was anything other than his own opinion and rhetorical, albeit rather inconvenient. Unlike recent actions of the Federal Law Enforcement and the BLM, none of Cliven's ill-timed rants had the potential of killing dozens in a hail of bullets.
Potentially soon to come; Bundy's KKK e-mails, multiple child-bride activities will soon surface, along with illegal fully automatic assault weapons he has manufactured in his machine shed. If I had to guess, I'd say his days are numbered....
"Something will happen to Cliven Bundy."
~ Harry Reid
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This is the language of a segregated white America 50-60 years ago. People spoke openly with words that bit hard back in those old days. But then politicians who promoted specific races (and turtles) openly and with "well chosen words" with promises of paradise, their heads will indeed explode. After all, this country is broke and deeply in debt for trying to buy off races with "entitlements", saying as people should not work (Pelosi) and I do think Caucasian America (and other people of color who know how to be self sufficient) are getting tired of the price (taxes, fees, etc.) and getting less even after ponying up (worse health care, higher premiums, can't keep your doctor anymore) and saying people with cancer not getting medical treatment is a lie (Reid) is causing the melting pot to simmer and boil over.
United Negro College Fund (Authors of the phrase "A mind is a terrible thing to waste.") or National Association of Colored People, whites can't say some of those words with getting pummeled by the left, but try making an old school person like Cliven use a different language that white people must use, he is too old and hard headed and will stick to his guns yet again.
I read an article the other day that Ben Carson wrote which was along the same lines but his words were perfectly PC.
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Not convinced that Mr. Bundy was referring to slavery. Free black family sharecroppers and landowners were / are also part of our fabric.
Agreed, using the word "Negro" was unfortunate, but can we expect Mr. Bundy to be perusing the NYT to keep up on PC language? Old dog is unlikely to pick up new tricks, and aside of hoary resonance, I'm certain that no racism was intended.
Black rappers and hipsters use the "N" word with abandon, but, I suspect, more from the smug and in-your-face vantage of "Look what we can do, but you had better not."
I'm certain that Mr. Bundy's approbation (obsolete form) of Racism is more apocryphal than fact. Nuance is sometimes viewed as optional by men of conviction.
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The problem here is faulty reasoning. Even if you grant that Bundy is a "bigot" or "racist", it does not justify the federal appropriation of land that should belong to the state (to whom he has been paying the grazing fee), nor does it justify the heavy handed way they went about things, and most of all it does NOT justify the military style force they applied to protesters, nor does it justify the restriction of people to barbed wire"free speech" cantonments surrounded by militarily armed government "agents" (who are actually soldiers de facto given their arms, training, and equipment).
Don't let the left pull this one off - Bundy being a racist does not make the government any less wrong.
MORAL crusaders have the habit of heading off to their next crusade without bothering to see whether anything went wrong on their last one. During the '80s, TransAfrica, NAACP, Black Congressional Caucus, Hollywood glitterati, college students, and other groups held massive protests on college campuses and at the South African Embassy, built shanty towns, and called for disinvestment and sanctions against South Africa for its racist apartheid system.
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nor does it justify the restriction of people to barbed wire"free speech" cantonments surrounded by militarily armed government "agents" (who are actually soldiers de facto given their arms, training, and equipment).
And eat a dick Reid does a real disservice to both sides for this to not have turned into a Little Big Horn.
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As a historian, I need to say a couple of words to clear the air.
First, slaves in the U.S. lived 4 - 5 times as long as slaves in other parts of the new world. This is because American slaves did not grow sugar cane (a deadly business that killed 1/3 of the workforce each year). In fact, slaves in the U.S. lived about as long as the Whites.
Slavery in the US was a grim experience, but it was infinitely better than slavery in the Caribbean and Brazil.
Which brings us to life in today's urban ghettos. Poor urban Blacks have a much lower life expectancy than their White counterparts. In fact their life expectancy is the same as Bangladesh. It gets worse: Bangladesh's life expectancy is brought down by high rates of child mortality. By the time a Bangladeshi is 5, his chance of dying is less than that of an African American. The American Black's life span is brought down by alcohol, drugs and murder. These self-destructive habits have combined with the perverse incentives of the Great Society for destroy Black fatherhood.
Is modern Welfare worse than slavery? Yes. Absolutely.
P.S. Re. Lynching. Lynching is wrong. It is horrible. That said, the NAACP says there were some 4,000 Blacks lynched between 1882 - 1959. By their own admission lynching practically ended after 1924. This comes to ~ 52/year and only a couple per state. Therefore the entire emphasis on lynching is much ado about nothing.
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Frozen Al -- facts no longer matter. Remember when the outrage de jour was the lack of "hate crime" laws in Texas? People were upset that a guy sentenced to death wasn't getting an extra penalty added on...
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No real surprise here. Everyone knew the Left slime machine would go after him. His wife and kids are next.
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New York Times = Pravda on the Hudson
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How is it that conservatives don't have a media expert who can talk to folks before they stick their foot in their mouth (or decide to let CBS do their first big interview).
Fly in, talk about the message and how things will be twisted beyond all recognition and stay on message at all times, especially to new 'friends'.
[Egypt Independent] Rebels in South Sudan said Thursday they were closing in on key oil fields and two state capitals, predicting an imminent collapse of the government and a "bloodbath".
A statement from rebel front man General Lul Ruai Koang said forces battling President Salva Kiir captured the town of Renk, close to the border with Sudan, on Wednesday and were advancing on the Paloich oil fields.
"The fall of Renk... leaves government troops trapped in Malakal with no supply and escape routes," he said, referring to the strategic capital of Upper Nile state which has already changed hands several times in the four-month-old conflict.
He also said the rebels "once again renew calls for oil companies to stop production and evacuate staff/employees to avoid being caught in crossfire".
The rebel claims could not be independently confirmed, and the government's army front man dismissed the statement as "a big lie".
According to the rebel front man, anti-government fighters loyal to former vice president Riek Machar were advancing on Jonglei state capital Bor, situated just 200 kilometres (130 miles) north of the capital Juba.
"While our forces are making steady military gains... Kiir's military leadership is unravelling," Koang said, the day after the president sacked his army chief and head of intelligence in the wake of the loss of Bentiu, another northern state capital and oil hub that fell to the rebels last week.
He also said the purge "marks the beginning of an imminent bloodbath, escalation and regionalisation of the conflict" in the world's youngest nation, which only won independence from Khartoum in 2011.
But the front man for the government's army, Philip Aguer, told AFP that the claims were lies and that any recent festivities had left the rebels "completely defeated" and forced to "jump into the river, take to the desert or run towards Sudan."
As for a threatened attack on Bor, he said "let him come".
South Sudan has been locked in civil war since 15 December, when a clash between members of the presidential guard split the army and spiralled into countrywide fighting.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Mauritanian President Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz on Wednesday (April 23rd) declared his bid for re-election, ANI reported. The next presidential elections in the country are scheduled for June 21st.
The head-of-state came to power in a military coup in 2008 and won the presidential ballot in 2009.
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[Egypt Independent] Aswan security services enjugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! on Thursday four suspects for their alleged involvement in earlier festivities between two tribes, making the total number of suspects arrested 31 persons from the two tribes.
Two of the suspects belong to one tribe, while the other two belong to the other tribe.
A least 25 persons were killed, dozens were maimed as festivities broke out earlier this month between Nubians from the village of Daboud and the Beni Helal tribe reportedly after a girl belonging to one of the tribes was harassed by a man of the other tribe. Moreover, abusive graffiti against both parties had been spraypainted on the walls of a secondary school.
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The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia was in Jeddah on Thursday in a bid to reassure a worried public as the death toll from the Mers virus hit 85.
Besides, if the old boy kicks off it's no big loss...
The Red Sea city has seen a spate of cases among health staff in recent weeks that have sparked fears that the virus has mutated to make it more transmissible from person to person.
Public concern has been fuelled by the reported resignation last week of at least four doctors at Jeddahâs King Fahd Hospital after they refused to treat Mers patients for fear of infection with the deadly coronavirus.
In its latest bulletin on Wednesday, the health ministry said that it had recorded a total of 287 cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome in the kingdom so far, of whom a full 85 had died. Riyadh insisted there was no cause for public alarm.
"Remain calm! All is well!"
National Guard Minister Prince Mitab said his father King Abdullah was in Jeddah âto reassure the public and to prove that the exaggerated and false rumours about coronavirus are not true.â
âThe Mers situation is reassuring and it has not reached the level of an epidemic,â he told students in Jeddah according to the Saudi Gazette.
Labour Minister Adel Fakieh, who has taken over as acting health minister, said on Twitter late on Tuesday that he had visited the King Fahd Hospital. He promised âtransparency and to promptly provide the media and society with the information needed.â
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On Friday Evening, a debate over the referendum of the mass-immigration initiative took place on Swiss television station SF1. In it, SVP (Swiss People's Party) Oskar Freysinger met in the broadcast "Arena" with assistant SPD (Socialist Party of Germany) chief Ralf Stegner who had commented (PI reported) on the result of the SVP initiative with "The Swiss, they're nuts!" Freysinger countered Stegner in the program with: "If what the EU is doing is normal, then I'd rather be a nut case."
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Mass immigration also brings in the political habits from "back home". You know, the countries where a single "party" -- frequently a single man -- has won every "election" in memory? Where unilaterally applied "fees" and "baksheesh" are the norm?
Western pols dream of an electorate that malleable and comfortable with corruption.
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[An Nahar] Ukraine's military launched assaults to retake rebel-held eastern towns on Thursday in which up to five people were reported killed, a move Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... warned would have "consequences."
The offensive sent international tensions soaring and oil prices up on the prospect of Russia making good on its threat of a massive response in the ex-Soviet republic.
In Slavyansk, a flashpoint eastern Ukrainian town held by rebels since mid-April, armored military vehicles drove past an abandoned roadblock in flames to take up position.
Shots were heard as a helicopter flew overhead, and the pro-Kremlin rebels ordered all civilians out of the town hall to take up defensive positions inside.
"During the festivities, up to five turbans were eliminated," and three checkpoints destroyed, the interior ministry said in a statement. Regional medical authorities confirmed one death and one person maimed.
Hours later, the armored vehicles withdrew, leaving the town calm but tense.
The rebels, which the Kiev government and its Western backers believe are controlled and supported by Moscow, have been occupying around 10 towns in Ukraine's east since mid-April.
An international accord reached in Geneva last week was meant to defuse the crisis, but was swiftly dismissed by the rebels.
A brief truce collapsed over the weekend, prompting Ukraine's acting President Oleksandr Turchynov to order a resumption of an "anti-terrorist" offensive to flush the Death Eaters out.
Also on Thursday, Ukrainian special forces seized back control of the town hall in the southeastern port city of Mariupol with no casualties, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said. Separatist sources confirmed the loss of the building in the port city, whose population is nearly 500,000.
And an army base in the eastern town of Artemivsk overnight repelled an attack by heavily-armed rebels using machine-guns and grenades, the interior and defense ministries said. One soldier was maimed.
It was the worst violence to erupt in Ukraine since the signing the Geneva accord a week ago.
Putin called the armed offensive a crime.
"If Kiev has really begun to use the army against the country's population... that is a very serious crime against its own people," he said.
He warned of "consequences, including for our intergovernmental relations".
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See also VOICE OF RUSSIA > GENERAL MOBILIZATION ANNOUNCED [by Pro-Russia Militants-Separatists] IN UKRAINE'S DONETSK PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC.
As per SAME, the Pro-Russia MilSeps are perceived to be in favor of multilateral negotiations BUT NOT TO GIVE UP THEIR DREAM OF INDEPENDENCE FROM KIEV OR ACCESSION BACK TO RUSSIA.
IMO iff Putin gets tired of waiting for the Bammer + Kerry + does invade the Ukraine, he will order RussArmy forces to conquer a minimal portion of sovereign Ukrainian territory as opposed to the whole, i.e. just enuff to safely incorporate both the Crimea + pro-Russia regions of East Ukraine while maintaining strong defensive border lines agz any response by the US-NATO.
Again, "GLOBALISM" = "POLICE ACTIONS" THRU LIMITED WAR/MIL CONFLICTS = LIMITED OFFENSIVE ACTIONS. Ideally or preferably Conventional, AMAP ALAP + short-term, but not beyond or not worse than LIMITED NUCLEAR WAR OR LIMITED TACTICAL NUCLEAR WAR.
Unlike Russia vee the Ukraine, CHINA over in East Asia-Pacific has several strategic theaters = potential battlefronts to deal with as spread out over several pro-US = anti-China sovereign countries, e.g. "First Island Chain" + India + Guam-WESTPAC ["Second Island Chain"].
[DAWN] The Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) has demanded the PML-N government return 25 missionary institutions to Christians as the PTI has already returned Edward College in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... to the church.
This was demanded by PTI Punjab Secretary-General Dr Yasmin Rashid and PTI minority MPA Shanila Rooth at the PTI Foundation Day and Easter celebrations here on Wednesday.
A large number of Christian and minority workers from the PTI were present on the occasion.
Dr Yasmin said the PTI believed in rights of the minorities and claimed it was the only party that formulated a minority policy and presented it in the media. She said party Chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... wanted the Quaid-e-Azam's vision to become a reality and practically worked to ensure minorities in Pakistain got equal rights.
She said the PTI in KP had returned the Edward College to the church after 40 years.
PTI MPA Aslam Iqbal said it was because of PTI's vision of justice and equal rights for all that so many communities could sit together and celebrate Easter and Foundation Day.
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[An Nahar] Spanish scientists have for the first time used gene therapy to reverse memory loss in mice with Alzheimer's, an advance that could lead to new drugs to treat the disease, they said Wednesday.
The Autonomous University of Barcelona team injected a gene which causes the production of a protein that is blocked in patients with Alzheimer's into the hippocampus -- a region of the brian essential to memory processing -- in mice that were in the initial stages of the disease.
"The protein that was reinstated by the gene therapy triggers the signals needed to activate the genes involved in long-term memory consolidation," the university said in a statement.
Gene therapy involves transplanting genes into a patient's cells to correct an otherwise incurable disease caused by a failure of one or another gene.
The finding was published in The Journal of Neuroscience and it follows four years of research.
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My friend and business partner is on the downhill slide - she is in her 80s, and after having lived a very independent and slightly raucous life - she is on home hospice care. (Lung cancer being the primary diagnosis.) The thing she regrets and feels the most of all - is that her memory is shot. Long-term, short-term - all shot. She had a memory like a steel-toothed trap ... and it's now barely adequate to keep her remembering the plot of the books that she has recently read.
Two days after the New York Times led its editions with a one-sided article about photos supposedly proving that Russian special forces were behind the popular uprisings in eastern Ukraine, the Times published what you might call a modified, limited retraction.
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia was in Jeddah on Thursday in a bid to reassure a worried public as the death toll from the Mers virus hit 85.
...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
