[NBCDFW] A Texas woman whose four pit bulls entered her neighbors' yard through a hole in the fence and killed their 10-year-old beagle is suing them for $1 million.
Emerald White says in her lawsuit filed this week in Galveston County district court that she was "seriously injured" on Oct. 27 trying to stop the attack and retrieve her dogs. She says she suffered "multiple serious bite and scratch-type injuries" and accuses her neighbors of failing to securely confine and restrict their dog, Bailey.
White also contends she's feeling "conscious pain and suffering and now suffers also from fear, anxiety and trepidation."
Bailey's owner, Steve Baker, told The Galveston County Daily News that everyone was telling him to sue White but that he didn't because it wouldn't bring Bailey back and the police declared her dogs dangerous.
"The police took the action I wanted and declared those dogs dangerous and awareness was raised, so I decided to let it go," Baker said. "Now they're suing me for $1 million -- I just can't believe it."
Each of the animals must be registered with Texas City annually as a dangerous dog. A sign must be posted in White's yard alerting residents of the danger and she must have a $100,000 liability on the dogs, according to police. A fence at least 6 feet high must also be installed.
Baker said that not long before the incident he had worked to replace parts of the current fence to make it more secure and safe for his dog and family.
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Operators initially expected to need steam from gas-powered boilers for an hour a day during startup. After operations began, they found they needed to keep boilers running more than four times longer - an average of 4 1/2 hours a day.
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The problem here is the mistaken impression that the plant was supposed to produce electric power. It produces wealth for the guys that built it; beyond that, it's a sink.
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The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow
There'll be sun!
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Same with wind. Notice how the old sailing merchant ships disappeared from the sea other than some local skiffs plying small waters along coasts. It's unreliable. Period.
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Most of the turbines that they're using in Mass. (mostly on Cape Cod and in Plymouth) are refurbed units from Europe, which means they'll probably fail sooner than expected.
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Left out of my first comment is that those 4.5 hours are powered by natural gas. Sorta like using the back blast of a jet engine to rotate a twirly during windless days.
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Centralized solar power is stupid. Its an attempt to conform to the old way of doing things to ensure control.
If they are serious they will talk about solar on rooftops. Spread all around the sunny areas. Selling power back to the grid when there is an access and sucking off the grid at night as necessary.
Of course it is still inefficent, but even taking large numbers of houses off the grid is worthwhile. For power, and reduce targets that can inconveneince everyone.
Government could bootstrap the whole thing, not with tax breaks and other subsidies but by putting solar panels on schools. Use the education budget and elminate a monthly power payment for all the schools, in fact schools could sell power back all summer and possibly pay the cost back in a reasonable time.
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At our place up north, I use solar power to keep batteries charged. Saves 80% running time on generator. For small systems this works great.
I (and 3dc) agree wholeheartedly with you, rjschwartz. Decentralizing power is the way to go. It is more resilient to hits.
Solar needs energy storage. This is a technology that is slowly maturing. When you have that, solar will go really big. Big Electricity, consisting of Big Generation, Big Transmission, and Big Distribution is a slowly dying dinosaur.
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REA won't go away, although they have finally done away with Willie Wired had due to his inability to hand a grounding prong.
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Solar on rooftops is big where I live in Perth due to generous feed in prices.
I did a survey in my neighbourhood, where most streets run east/west and roofs are oriented north/south.
Almost everyone has their solar panels on the east side of their roof to catch the morning sun. But peak electricity demand is in the afternoon in summer when people turn on their airconditioners.
The reason is that there is a bit more sun in the morning and it's more profitable to maximize your feed in KWs and take grid power when you need it.
The other time for peak electricity demand is cloudy days in winter when you need heat. Solar is useless on these days. My solar panels produce only 5% of the electricity they produce on a sunny summers day.
The moral is, rooftop solar feed in needs to be aligned with peak demand, and priced accordingly.
[CSMONITOR] Three years into a historic drought in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, with 2013 being the driest year on record for the state, stories like the ones above are proliferating. They point to the fact that Californians are finally turning their concern about the drought into changed behavior. Governor Moonbeam's about to run for president, so the rest of the country can be like Caliphornia. They've put lots and lotsa money into alternative fuels and all that trendy stuff, they've shut off access to Cal's water resources, and I'm not aware of a dime they're put into desalinization, with all that coastline.
"I think people are just taking it more seriously," says John Moore, an insurance salesman from Sherman Oaks. "I see the sign on the highway, 'Serious drought: [help] save water,' and so I turn off the water when I'm shaving. I read about farmers fallowing their fields, and something in me just says, 'Take a shorter shower.' "
The stakes have been high. California is the producer of half of America's fruits, vegetables, and nuts. Moreover, an already-costly wildfire situation has been getting worse, with the dry conditions sparking more fires and extending the fire season to year-round.
And so the drought has been the biggest story in California in 2014. In January, Democratic Gov. Jerry Governor Moonbeam Brown ... those who ignore history are bound to repeat it ... declared a drought emergency and urged people to reduce their water use by 20 percent.
Later that month, California officials announced they were cutting off the flow of water from the northern part of the state to the south for the first time in the 54-year history of the State Water Project. That meant SWP customers â primarily in water districts that serve about 25 million people total and irrigate about 750,000 acres of farmland â would have to rely on other sources for their water.
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reduce their water use by 20 percent
"Tommy Toilet says: If it's yellow, let it mellow. If its brown, flush it down!."
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It was a desert before. Look at the population distribution of the natives and few Spanish/Mexican coastal enclaves in the 17th and 18th Century. There was a reason for that. They were agrarian/hunter gather societies and thus tied to what the land could support which wasn't a whole lot because of the long term climate of the area.
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And no, not everyone in CA is adapting..or even having to. San Francisco is currently under no usage restrictions at all. I would love to see a chart detailing where water is being restricted the most, and what the the local voter rolls look like
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The biggest user is California agriculture, and it has a lot of room to improve efficiency of water use. Perhaps a foreign exchange program with Israel could be worked out....
[ACCUWEATHER] The coldest air since last winter, now over the Plains and Midwest will sweep into the East during the first half of this week.
The core of the frigid air will focus over the northern Plains and the Great Lakes through at least Wednesday with overnight lows dipping down into the teens, single digits and even near zero F in the coldest spots.
Bone-chilling nights will be followed up by frosty cold days with highs struggling to reach the 20-degree mark over the regions on Monday and Tuesday. Some locations in the Central states are forecast to stay below 20 F until Wednesday afternoon, including Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Temperatures this low can make it dangerous for outdoors activities if you are not wearing the proper clothing.
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Sorry Kaci, but to the world at large, you have become the face of Ebola to many. Get use to it.
Do you still work as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Fellow at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ? if so, then start using your intelligence. The Ebola Nurse moniker fits because...
Kaci Hickox, a nurse who treated Ebola patients in Africa - Fact
Kaci Hickox, the nurse who was quarantined at a New Jersey hospital despite exhibiting no Ebola symptoms after arriving from West Africa - Fact
Kaci Hickox, a nurse quarantined against her will in New Jersey after treating Ebola patients, says she won't obey instructions to stay home in Maine. - Fact
Nurse Kaci Hickox calls court decision a "good compromise" Judge rejects Ebola quarantine for Hickox, loosens restrictions - Fact
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Could she be a carrier with no symptoms? At least her attitude seems to be quite toxic.
If I was working in the center of the epidemic, I would volunteer to be quarantined for a solid month. In Kaci's case, her hungry ego got the best of her.
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A month is a short time. She should have viewed it as a vacation.
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Personally, I prefer to think of her as a "moral leper."
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Consider the doctor that just died from Ebola, he didn't test positive until a few days before he died and after he was already showing symptoms.
Selfish c*nt is right! Remember we can't spell C*NT without U!
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Kaci Hickox, the nurse who was quarantined at a New Jersey hospital despite exhibiting no Ebola symptoms after arriving from West Africa - Fact
Incorrect. She was quarantined after showing a fever at the airport. Treated Ebola patients + fever is cause for concern, especially given the number of health care professionals who have contracted the disease in spite of protective measures,
According to one African doctor's records, about 12% of his Ebola patients, including those that died, never showed any sign of fever. See #11 for additional info on being "symptom free".
[GhanaNews.com] Walking on water is not easy. Not too many people have the ability. Let’s see, there’s Jesus, and well, that’s about it. Unfortunately for one pastor on the West Coast of Africa, his attempt to become the second man to make this impossible feat a reality cost him his life.
Pastor Franck Kabele, 35, told his congregation that he was capable of reenacting the very miracles of Jesus Christ. He decided to make it clear through way of demonstration on Gabon’s beach in the capital city of Libreville. Referencing Matthew 14:22-33, Kabele said that he received a revelation which told him that with enough faith he could achieve what Jesus was able to.
According to an eyewitness, Kabele took his congregation out to the beach. He told them that he would cross the Kombo estuary by foot, which is normally a 20 minute boat ride. Here mate, hold my Bohlingers and watch THIS !
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Well, there was Peter too, though not for long...
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Jesus walked on water for one reason according to the Christian faith. To show people that he was the Son of God which set him apart from the rest of the human race. That with that authority he had power over nature that no one else had.
And he did so in front of only a handful of people. If anyone else did it, such as the preachers, such a spectacle would divert attention from Christ and put the preacher on the same level, which is a no no.
NEW DELHI: A 26-year-old Indian who was treated and cured of Ebola virus disease in Liberia has been quarantined at the Delhi airport's health facility after having tested positive twice. Although his blood samples were repeatedly found free of the disease, the deadly virus showed up in his semen.
The man was being kept under strict surveillance at the isolation ward of IGI Airport's health facility. He carries a certificate from Liberia of having successfully undergone treatment for the disease.
During recovery from Ebola, patients continue to shed the virus in body fluids. It's unlikely that he may infect others through personal contact. However, due to presence of the virus in his semen, it's possible that he could transmit the disease through sexual contact for up to 90 days after cure," Dr V M Katoch, DG, Indian Council of Medical Research, told TOI
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Interesting place for those little buggers to hide.
Who drew and tested that specimen?
Apparently the Indian version of our 'TSA' is a tad more intrusive than the folks around here. No more complaints from me about our domestic searches.
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[CSMONITOR] FARC rebels kidnapped the general and two others, putting in jeopardy a two-year grinding of the peace processor. It is the first time in 50 years of conflict that the group has captured such a high-level military figure.
The Colombian government suspended talks with leftist rebels on Monday in response to the group's kidnapping of a top Army general, a major setback for the two-year-old grinding of the peace processor.
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By Chris Covert
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Attacks by Donbas rebel militia intensified in northern Lugansk over the weekend, and Ukrainian military forces responded in kind, according to Russian language news accounts.
Much of the fighting centered around river crossings on the Northern Donetsk River and a highway linking Lugansk to points west.
Most of the rebel forces are south of the T1303 highway that links Lugansk city with the settlement of Orokhove. The Ukrainian military maintains a number of military checkpoints along that highway, many of which have come under artillery fire, including Checkpoint 31.
Much of the intensified activity is because rebel forces appear to want to cut off the main supply route leading from Kharkov well to the northwest, and Schastye, which is a bridgehead maintained by the Ukrainian military since late August. Their attacks are focused on river crossings that are less than three kilometers north of the T1303 highway
Since the start of the ceasefire last September, rebel forces have been constantly attacking Schastye using infantry and artillery. At least one recent attempt to encircle the city by the Donbas rebels has failed.
According to data supplied by the pro rebel Voice of Sevastopol, Donbas rebel forces with artillery have attacked several points in the region including at Gorskoye, which is a terminus of T1303, in response to a Ukrainian artillery attack on the town of Pervomaisk.
About two kilometers north of Graskoye, Donbas rebel artillery struck a Ukrainian checkpoint at Toshkova. Donbas rebels report destroying a pontoon ferry on the Northern Donetsk River by artillery fire.
Ukrainian and rebel artillery units exchanged fire at Smeloye and Tryokhizbyonka, both locations on or near T1303. Ukrainian artillery fire was reported at Faschevka coming from Debaltsevo as well.
A separate report by Donbas rebels said a tank engagement took place near T1303, but details were not disclosed.
Donbas rebel activity also extends north of the river as well. Reportedly, Ukrainian artillery was spotted firing from the airport at Severodonesk city at undisclosed rebel positions, with Donbas rebel mortar fire responding against Ukrainian positions at Boroskoye.
Northeast of Lugansk city near Stanitsa Luganskaya, Donbas rebels report direct fighting. Ukrainian forces have reportedly set a bridge over the Derkul River for demolition at Krasnaya Talovka, which is directly adjacent to the Russian border.
Donetsk city
Ukrainian artillery units positioned at Peski and Avedeyvka continued to shell several points in Donetsk city, including in the Kuibyshevsky and Oktyabrsky districts as well as on rebel positions at the old terminal in the airport. Rebel media in recent days have been reporting the use of white phosphorus artillery shells being used, although no hard video or photographic evidence has yet to emerge.
Fighting also was reported in settlements near the city including at Avdeyevka, Gorlovka, Yenakiyevo and Olkhovatka.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraina by clicking here.
Never a dull moment in Donetsk. Bare knuckle politics in southeastern Ukraina. Update: An unconfirmed report by the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs said that Donbas rebels have captured a bank owned by Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, presumably as part of the seizing of assets to satisfy tax requirements.
By Chris Covert
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Three cabinet ministers of the nascent breakaway republic of Donetsk were detained last Friday, only a week after the inauguration of the Donetsk government administration of Aleksandr Zackharchenko, according to unofficial reports.
And in a late development, the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) announced that Donbas rebels have captured a financial institution belonging to a Ukrainian oligarch.
Minister of Fuel and Energy Alexei Granovsky, Deputy Prime Minister Alexandra Kalyusskogo, and a third unidentified minister were detained by counterintelligence officials, related in a news item on a news website of Igor Girkin (Strelkov).
While Donetsk government officials claim the three had been denounced by citizens, an unlikely tip led to the arrests, according to a quote from intelligence chief Sergey Petrovsky. Most surprising, according to various data in Donetsk social media, was the arrest of Granovsky, a highly respected individual.
Granovsky had submitted his resignation from his cabinet post just hours before his arrest in protest of a new taxation policy with regard to property belonging to Ukrainian industrialist and oligarch, Rinat Akhmetov.
Akhmetov refused to pay taxes due Donetsk because of Ukrainian law which says transfers of monies to Donetsk constitutes supporting a terrorist group, and could lead to detention and conviction by Ukrainian authorities. When Akhmetov refused to pay, unidentified industrial property was seized by Donetsk and "nationalized".
Ukraina's official policy is that the separatists in Donetsk and its sister republic Lugansk are terrorists.
The Donetsk government has already begun to use seized industrial property to refurbish damaged heavy combat equipment such as tanks and infantry fighting vehicles. Although it was indicated by information elsewhere that the property was being used to repair military equipment, nothing had been said to that point about "nationalization".
According to a blog post by Vyacheslav Zaitsev, from information supplied in polit.ru news website, Akhmetov was not the only oligarch who was notified of the payment requirements by the newly formed Donetsk government. Several other unidentified Ukrainian businessmen with properties in Donetsk also were warned to pay.
Akhmetov, according to Zaitsev, urged workers on both sides of the conflict to go on a "warning strike" over what he termed was "Donetsk genocide". It is unclear in these and other reports if the call to strike was before or after the announcement of nationalization.
Head of the Supreme Council in Donetsk, Denis Pushilin, said nationalization of local businesses would begin this week.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraina by clicking here.
[AnNahar] Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday vowed never to use force to achieve Beijing's goals, including in maritime disputes, just days after U.S. President Barack Obama Jedi mind meld... warned of the dangers of outright conflict in Asia.
In an address to the Australian parliament, Xi said his giant and developing nation needed peace, noting that history showed no-one ever benefited from conflict.
"A review of history shows that countries that attempted to pursue development with force invariably failed," he said in a lengthy address in which he also reminisced about kangaroos and koala encounters during previous visits to Australia.
"This is what history teaches us. China is dedicated to upholding peace. Peace is precious and needs to be protected."
But he added: "We must always be on high alert against the factors that may deprive us of peace."
Beijing is locked in disputes with four Southeast Asian countries over lonely outcrops in the South China Sea, and with Japan over another set of islets.
The leaders of the U.S., Australia and Japan on Sunday called for peaceful resolutions of the maritime disputes. The day before, Obama had warned of "disputes over territory -- remote islands and rocky shoals -- that threaten to spiral into confrontation".
Xi said Monday he was open to dialogue.
"It is China's long-standing position to address peacefully its disputes with countries concerned and territorial illusory sovereignty and maritime interests through dialogue and consultation," he said.
"China has settled land boundary issues with 12 out of its 14 neighbors through friendly consultation. And we will continue to work in this direction," added Xi.
"The Chinese government is ready to enhance dialogue and cooperation with relevant countries to maintain freedom of navigation and the safety of maritime routes, and ensure a maritime border of peace, tranquility and cooperation."
[VOA News] European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... foreign ministers moved Monday to ratchet up sanctions against pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, amid reports of intensified fighting in the region.
EU diplomats reported that the foreign ministers, who were meeting in Brussels, have asked EU officials to put more separatists on the bloc's sanctions list.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... there was no indication that Russia would be hit with additional EU sanctions.
The EU move follows elections held by the separatists earlier this month in the areas under their control, which were denounced by Western governments, as well as an upsurge in fighting between rebel and government forces despite a cease-fire reached in early September.
Witnesses reported fresh shelling in and around the rebel stronghold of Donetsk on Monday.
Ukrainian officials reported Monday that ten servicemen - seven soldiers and three coppers - were killed over the previous 24 hours in attacks at various locations in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Donetsk city officials reported that one civilian was killed and eight maimed in shelling over the weekend.
Government and rebel forces routinely accuse each other of breaking the September 5 cease-fire and shelling civilian areas.
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The memo has gone out. Axelrod is now slamming Gruber, and evidently Champ really isn't well acquainted with Jonathan, or at least he doesn't wish to talk about him. But of course, the Champ doesn't talk much about Frank Marshall Davis either.
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Universities are hiding any Gruber videos they might have. I suspect the reason these were not realesed before the election is the investing this guy searched for every last video before releasing them, knowing they'd try to hide the info at some point.
hopefully, like Breitbart (whos strategy he seems to be following) he's saved some of the best for last.
[DAWN] FAISALABAD: Dozens of people besieged the house of Pakistain Moslem League-N MNA Haji Akram Ansari here on Sunday in protest against suspension of gas supply to their houses.
The protesters, including women and kiddies, belonging to different areas of the city gathered outside the ruling party MNA's house near Dogar Chowk, Iqbal Town and pelted its main gate with stones and eggs, screaming and hollering.
On being informed of the situation, Ghulam Mohammad Abad police rushed to the scene to avoid any eventuality.
Talking to news hounds, protesters said the government had been doing nothing to resolve the issue of gas outages in residential areas and was only obliging industrialists by allowing uninterrupted supply to their units.
The protesters dispersed after being assured by coppers that their grievances would be conveyed to the authorities concerned.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Social media is abuzz with a shocking revelation of love affair between Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and Pakistain People's Party Chairman Bilawal Baby Bhutto Zardari ...Pak dynastic politician, son of Benazir Bhutto and grandon of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. As far as is known, Bilawal has no particular talents other than being pretty and being able to memorize political slogans, but he had the good luck to be born into the right family and he hasn't been assassinated yet... .
Media reports from Bangladesh suggested that Junior Zardari received a "special gift" from his girlfriend Khar on the day of Eid Ul Fitr. Later, he also received a flower bouquet and a hand-written greeting card stating â "No wonder we waited enough, not its time to give an end to our waiting. Eid Mubarak!"
According to the gossipy Blitzweekly "following Bilawal's decision of marrying Hina Rabbani Khar, as she is poised to end her marital relations with millionaire businessman Firoze Gulzar, from whom she has two daughters named Annaya and Dina."
Blitz said "The secret affairs between Bilawal Bhutto and Hina Rabbani Khar came to the knowledge of Asif Ali Zardari, when the duo was caught in compromised situation inside the official residence of the President, where his son Bilawal Bhutto also resides. Later, President Zardari collected mobile call records between Bilawal and Hina and found evidences of relations between the two. The relations became much exposed to Asif Ali Zardari, when Hina Rabbani Khar sent Bilawal a greeting card on his birthday on September 21, 2011 with hand-written message stating â "The foundation of our relations is eternal and soon we shall be just ourselves."
It claimed that, at this stage, sensing his father's aggressive attitude towards Hina Rabbani Khar, Bilawal expressed anger and even threatened of resigning from the post of Presidency of Pakistain People's Party.
The tabloid said Bilawal told Asif Ali Zardari that he would settle in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... with Hina Rabbani Khar and her daughters, though later he even told his father that, Hina might leave her daughters with her husband after the divorce.
Zardari has reportedly also made numerous attempts to reconcile relations between Gulzar and Khar with the target of making an end to Hina-Bilawal romance. But nothing worked as Hina was unwilling for such reconciliation.
Hina Rabbani Khar born 19 November 1977 is a Pak stateswoman and an economist who is the current and 26th Foreign Minister of Pakistain. Hailing from the powerful feudal family, she embarked her statesmanship in 2002 in the government of Prime minister Shaukat Aziz and subsequently served in the Finance ministry and Foreign ministry as its minister of state.
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... when the duo was caught in compromised situation inside the official residence of the President, where his son Bilawal Bhutto also resides.
Was she bent over a bathroom sink or something? Pics or GTFO!
[TRIBUNE.PK] Pakistain ranks sixth highest on the second edition of the 2014 Global Slavery Index (GSI), compiled by Australia-based campaign Walk Free.
According to the report released worldwide on Monday, Pakistain not only ranks sixth in terms of the prevalence of modern slavery, it is host to the third highest population of enslaved people in the world.
Some 2 million Paks ‐ roughly 1.130% of the country's population ‐ especially children and bonded labourers, are thought to be enslaved, according to the report.
The report defines modern slavery as involving "one person possessing or controlling another person in such a way as to significantly deprive that person of their individual liberty, with the intention of exploiting that person through their use, management, profit, transfer or disposal."
According to new methodology adopted by the organization to gauge modern slavery, some 35.8 million people are currently trapped in modern-day slavery, more than originally thought.
"There is an assumption that slavery is an issue from a bygone era. Or that it only exists in countries ravaged by war and poverty," said Andrew Forrest, chairman of the Australian-based Walk Free Foundation which produced the report.
Situation in Pakistain
Terming debt-bondage as the most prevalent form of modern slavery in Pakistain, the report identified Punjab and Sindh as hotspots of bonded labour, with brick making, agriculture, and carpet weaving industries leading destination for such 'slaves'.
According to the report, Pakistain ranks sixth on index in terms of prevalence in the country with 1.130 per cent of total population trapped under modern slavery.
The situation gets worse in when gauged in terms of number of enslaved in the country. With over 2 million people 'enslaved', Pakistain is ranked third on the index by number of people.
By contrast, Pakistain is behind India which leads the index in terms of enslaved people with 14.286 million people trapped in modern slavery (1.141 per cent of population with a rank of seven on prevalence index). China is ranked second on index in terms of enslaved people with 3.241 million people trapped in modern slavery (0.239 per cent of the population with a rank of 109 on the prevalence index).
Citing a recent media report, which estimated that the brick kiln industry in Pakistain employs around 4.5 million people across the country, the index said that the majority of brick kiln workers in Punjab are bonded labourers. The report further claims that although brick kilns now fall under provincial labour departments owing to the 18th amendment, half of the approximately 10,500 brick kilns in Punjab remain unregistered.
Decrying provincial governments' lack of interest, despite the devolution of powers to the provinces, including responsibility for labour, child protection, and women's protection after the 18th amendment in the Constitution, the report said that there is no single national-level body exists to oversee a coordinated response to the modern slavery challenges that Pakistain faces.
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[DAWN] A five-year-old girl has allegedly been raped at a high school in Lahore, according to news reports.
The incident is reported to have taken place at the Abdali High School in Islampur area.
Police officials said that six people have been placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in connection with the incident, including the school's security guard.
The girl has been taken to hospital where she is now being treated.
Police said a medical report has been sought to ascertain the girl's condition and whether she had been raped or not.
Early in November, a six-year-old girl was strangled and dumped near a garbage heap in Quetta after being subjected to rape attempts.
On November 12 a female patient was allegedly gang raped at a hospital in Burewala by staffers.
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[DAWN] LAHORE: The Punjab government is planning to ensure stringent punishment for 'honour killings' even if heirs of the victims, mainly women, reach agreements with the killers. I'm just an ignernt infidel, but I fail to see how forgiving a relative's murderers benefits the murderee.
The initiative has been taken by the women development department after the killing of one Farzana allegedly by male members of her family near the Lahore High Court in May this year.
A summary was sent to the chief minister for permission to amend the relevant laws and he had constituted a committee under former law minister Rana Sanaullah Khan.
Sources told Dawn on Sunday that the committee had held its meeting a few days ago and discussed the proposal to make the honour killing a non-compoundable offence. But the meeting attended by government officials and members of civil society and religious scholars was informed that the idea might draw objections from religious circles.
Before 1990 the 'honour killing' was a non-compoundable offence, but it was later made compoundable in view of the opinion by religious scholars and recommendations by the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII). The view was that Islam allows a compromise in murder cases and, therefore, the offence should be made compoundable.
According to the sources, the meeting was informed that since the offence had been made compoundable under the CII instructions, the idea of making it non-compoundable would be opposed by religious circles.
An alternative proposal was presented which sought to amend Section 311 of the PPC under which courts 'may' punish a murderer if it is found that the act of 'Fasad Fil Arz' is involved in the case, even if heirs of the victim pardon the killer under an agreement. The pardoned killers to be punished by courts include those who have past criminal conduct, adopted brutal and shocking manner of the killing and are potential threat to society.
An amendment to the section made in 2011 also allows the courts to punish the killers pardoned under some agreements. The courts may sentence them to life imprisonment (25 years), 14 years imprisonment or even to death. According to the law, in any case the punishment should not be less than 10 years of imprisonment.
A suggestion was made at the meeting to replace the word 'may' in the section with 'shall' to make punishment for honour killings mandatory and fix death sentence or life imprisonment for the killers, even if they are pardoned by heirs of the victims.
The sources said that a sub-committee also comprising religious scholars had been formed to firm up recommendations and submit these in 15 days.
'The government is going to discourage honour killing by plugging loopholes in the law,' an official said.
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[CA.NEWS.YAHOO] Almost 36 million people are living as slaves across the globe with an index on Monday listing Mauritania, Uzbekistan, Haiti, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... and India as the nations where modern-day slavery is most prevalent.
The Walk Free Foundation, an Australian-based human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... group, estimated in its inaugural slavery index last year that 29.8 million people were born into servitude, trafficked for sex work, trapped in debt bondage or exploited for forced labour.
Releasing its second annual index, Walk Free increased its estimate of the number of slaves to 35.8 million, saying this was due to better data collection and slavery being uncovered in areas where it had not been found previously.
For the second year, the index of 167 countries found India had by far the greatest number of slaves. Up to 14.3 million people in its population of 1.25 billion were victims of slavery, ranging from prostitution to bonded labour.
Mauritania was again the country where slavery was most prevalent by head of population while Qatar, host of the 2022 World Cup, rose up the rank from 96th place to be listed as the fourth worst country by percentage of the population.
"From children denied an education by being forced to work or marry early, to men unable to leave their work because of crushing debts they owe to recruitment agents, to women and girls exploited as unpaid, abused domestic workers, modern slavery has many faces," the report said.
"It still exists today, in every country - modern slavery affects us all."
The index defines slavery as the control or possession of people in such a way as to deprive them of their freedom with the intention of exploiting them for profit or sex, usually through violence, coercion or deception.
The definition includes indentured servitude, forced marriage and the abduction of children to serve in wars.
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Of course he met with them.
He wants the kind of civil unrest that gives him an excuse to declare martial law and unleash his private army of militarized IRS, DEA, DHS, and BLM agents upon the population.
Even our PC true believer military leadership would not go for what he wants which is a coup d'etat
New York politician Karim Camara has introduced a bill that will require health warning labels on certain drinks with added sugar
He said the size of the warning should be dicatated by the size of the drink
They should read: 'DRINKING BEVERAGES WITH ADDED SUGAR CONTRIBUTES TO OBESITY, DIABETES AND TOOTH DECAY'
Up until the time Coca Cola was invented people drank beer, ale, wine, whiskey, mead, and other things I don't know the names of. The alcohol was the preservative. Drinking water would give you cholera or typhus or something like that. The twentieth century was the first century people were sober most of the time. I'm not sure it was an improvement.
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The more the govt has dicked with our food, the more unhealthy we have gotten. Pasteurized milk and iodized salt should have been the end of their interventions.
[CNSNEWS] From the speakerâs podium at the National Cathedral, an Episcopal church, and in an interview with CNSNews.com, a Muslim leader said that American Muslims are opposed to the persecution of Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East.
âWe condemn persecution of Christians â of any minorities in Muslim-majority countries,â Rizwan Jaka, chairman of the board of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society, told CNSNews.com at the Washington Natural Cathedral in Washington, D.C. on Friday where a Muslim prayer service was held.
When asked about the significance of the Muslim prayer service being held in a Christian church â an event that drew harsh criticism from some Christians and attracted one woman who tried to disrupt the service by shouting that Jesus Christ is the risen savior â Jaka said it reflects the countryâs values.
âThe significance is that America is a beacon of religious freedom and harmony, and that the Christian community embraces the Muslim community and thatâs the message to the world,â Jaka said. âLook at the beautiful pluralism and democracy and harmony that we have in the United States of America.â
âAnd we ask that the world take that as an example that minorities in Muslim-minority countries should be treated with respect, treated with religious freedom, and that they should have the right to worship and the right to have equal rights and that we have to protect the churches and temples and synagogues in Muslim majority countries,â Jaka said.
When asked whether it was true that Christians are being persecuted in the Middle East, Jaka repeated his condemnation of the practice.
âWe condemn persecution of Christians, of any minorities in Muslim-majority countries,â Jaka said. âWe have actually had many initiatives â like I said the fundraising we do to rebuild churches is an example of that.â So they condemn persecution of Christians, just not any particular persecution of Christians.
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"We strongly condemn the persecution of Christians. Just don't ask us to do anything about it."
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Persecution is by definition unfair and wrong, and our Muslim leader most properly condemns it. But that which follows the example of the prophet Mohammed, which complies with Sharia, is both fair and good, and therefore is not persecution.
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.
Jerry 
[ACCUWEATHER] The coldest air since last winter, now over the Plains and Midwest will sweep into the East during the first half of this week.
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Social media is abuzz with a shocking revelation of love affair between Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and Pakistain People's Party Chairman 
[DAWN] A five-year-old girl has allegedly been raped at a high school in Lahore, according to news reports.
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Sorry, I'm getting a bad reading. 
