[VOCATIV] Police supporters cheered the arrests of more than 50 protesters, including a few renowned civil rights activists, who staged a sit in in front of a government building in St. Louis early Monday afternoon.
Several Ferguson activists jumped over a police barricade at around 1:30 p.m. and sat down in front of the St. Louis courthouse. Police soon placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... many of the protestors, including prominent leaders DeRay McKesson, Johnetta Elzie and Cornel West. McKesson shared a Vine video of Elzie being arrested. McKesson was arrested moments later. Unlike with some previous Ferguson-related demonstrations, both the protests and the arrests in this case were peaceful. The protesters will face charges for obstructing an entrance.
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About time.
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[THEDAILYBEAST] A senior citizen reportedly attacked Talladega's 75-year-old mayor with a baseball bat Saturday--an early bird beating that sent both men to the hospital and that one local attorney claims is Dire Revenge over a sex tape.
Mayor Larry Barton was ready to start his 8 a.m. shift at an Alabama barbershop when he noticed a man in a trench coat waiting for him. Barton said the attacker slugged him in the face when he tried exiting his car.
"He told me he had to kill me," Barton told AL.com from the hospital, where he was being treated for facial injuries Sunday.
"Ain't no doubt about it," Barton added. "If I hadn't kicked him twice in the balls I'd be dead."
During the struggle, Barton said he pulled the hood off the suspect to reveal the man's identity. The mayor has fingered the suspect as 71-year-old Benny Green--a friend turned foe and former cohost on Barton's public access television show, In the Interest of the People.
"Ain't no doubt about it," Barton added. "If I hadn't kicked him twice in the balls I'd be dead. If he had been able to get me out of the car it would have been over."
Stewart Springer, a former attorney for Green, said the mayor got what he deserved for supposedly betraying his longtime friend. He told The Daily Beast that Barton was likely attacked because he allegedly bedded Green's wife around the time the couple filed for divorce in 2013. (A message left at Barton's home was not returned. Green's ex-wife declined to comment, and his divorce attorney could not be reached.)
Barton and his buddy's spouse--who currently serves as a giggly cohost on the mayor's TV show--were allegedly caught fornicating on camera in Green's liquor store, Springer said.
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"Liq0ur up front, P0ker in the rear"
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[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] The moment US news anchor walked off set during live broadcast in protest at Kylie Jenner's 18th birthday coverage
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In other news, "BRUCE" NAMES OWNER "RABBIT"
Fitting that it's a Daily Mail link, since it's only thanks to their sidebar thingy that I have any impression of various stellar rumps-n-bumps. I feel like a freak admitting this, but I don't think I've ever seen the famous haunches in motion. Something to live for, eh?
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Kardashians, not to be confused with Cardassians.
One wears so much make up the skin color is off, has low moral values, and is only interested in expanding their empire even if it involves torture and mutilation to achieve its goals.
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A chunky Clintonian spaceman
Tunes in to our Earth's big-assed wasteland
And, wont to serve women,
Lands, clutches his lemon
And leeringly loosens his waistband.
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Humans are causing the heat death of the universe with our activities! This calls for massive government intervention and regulations!!!! Whoever doesn't go along is a heat death denier and must be killed!!!
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BLUF - from behind the subscriber wall at Discover Magazine -
Instead, McGaugh is considering an idea called Modified Newtonian Dynamics, or MOND. Although many astronomers regard it as blasphemous, MOND has consistently outperformed dark matter models in describing the motions of stars and gases in galaxies. Instead of relying on new, hypothetical types of matter, this alternative theory merely tweaks Isaac Newton’s laws of gravity to strengthen the gravitational pull as needed. If gravity plays by different rules than we thought, MOND advocates suggest, we might be able to explain galaxy dynamics, and other puzzling aspects of the universe, without having to invoke dark matter at all.
See? Don't need no steekin' dark matter!
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Well, the Bullet Cluster looks like a smoking gun for dark matter. And MOND theories need some pretty wacky modifications to make them fit the data.
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Hypothetically, for our Universe to keep expanding NEW "BIG BANGS" OR RELATED "MINI-BANGS" MUST NOMINALLY OR PERPETUALLY OCCUR, BUT ONLY AT YET UNKNOWN OR UN-PREDICATED LEVEL(S) OF RISK TO CURRENT LIFE-N-REALITY.
IOW, for our Universe to stay alive + keep expanding, Humanity must inversely be at perpetual risk of disaster or extinction from the various "Bangs".
[THEATLANTIC] Something strange is happening at America’s colleges and universities. A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense. Because that sort of thing's really important when you're looking for a good job as an art historian or interpretive dancing.
Last December, Jeannie Suk wrote in an online article for The New Yorker about law students asking her fellow professors at Harvard not to teach rape law—or, in one case, even use the word violate (as in “that violates the law”) lest it cause students distress. All that canola oil they've been using for cooking or as a personal lubricant used to be known as "rapeseed oil."
In February, Laura Kipnis, a professor at Northwestern University, wrote an essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education describing a new campus politics of sexual paranoia—and was then subjected to a long investigation after students who were offended by the article and by a tweet she’d sent filed Title IX complaints against her. In June, a professor protecting himself with a pseudonym wrote an essay for Vox describing how gingerly he now has to teach. “I’m a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Terrify Me,” the headline said. You grew 'em, now live with 'em.
A number of popular comedians, including Chris Rock, have stopped performing on college campuses. Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Maher have publicly condemned the oversensitivity of college students, saying too many of them can’t take a joke. Bet that really fired up the sensitive little boogers.
Two terms have risen quickly from obscurity into common campus parlance. Microaggressions are small actions or word choices that seem on their face to have no malicious intent but that are thought of as a kind of violence nonetheless. For example, by some campus guidelines, it is a microaggression to ask an Asian American or Latino American “Where were you born?,” because this implies that he or she is not a real American. In the event the sense of humor returns, possible responses include "I'm from Noo Joisey. Are you from Noo Joisey?" and "I'm not sure. I was pretty young then."
Trigger warnings are alerts that professors are expected to issue if something in a course might cause a strong emotional response. For example, some students have called for warnings that Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart describes racial violence and that F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby portrays misogyny and physical abuse, so that students who have been previously victimized by racism or domestic violence can choose to avoid these works, which they believe might “trigger” a recurrence of past trauma. Thereby putting F. Scott Fitzgerald into the same category as artillery.
Some recent campus actions border on the surreal. In April, at Brandeis University, the Asian American student association sought to raise awareness of microaggressions against Asians through an installation on the steps of an academic hall. The installation gave examples of microaggressions such as “Aren’t you supposed to be good at math?” and “I’m colorblind! I don’t see race.” But a backlash arose among other Asian American students, who felt that the display itself was a microaggression. The association removed the installation, and its president wrote an e-mail to the entire student body apologizing to anyone who was “triggered or hurt by the content of the microaggressions.” There remains at the site a fairly long article discussing similar claptrap. Feel free to read it and weep for the nation that raised Daniel Boone, Kit Carson, and William Barrett Travis.
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Let me give you a hint: the purpose of higher education is not to improve one's earning ability.
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Public universities were originally A&Ms - agricultural and mechanical. In other words, practical education for skills the society depended upon (and still do for the fundamentals food and energy). They've long dispensed with that justification for their existence. They should go back to A&Ms - (practical) application and medical.
The other problem has been societal extension of childhood. You protect children, but adults are expected to deal with the reality of life and its challenges. As Instaprof alludes to, too many 'children' are in college. If they can't deal with it, they should not be there.
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I think the word you are thinking of is snowflakes. Our collages and universities are filled with delicate snowflakes who were carried around by their parents, and school teachers so much that they would melt if they ever had to actually touch the ground....
[Telegraph] Bradford will soon be home to the UK's first women-led mosque after complaints of 'patriarchal sexism' reach fever pitch. But not everyone is happy. Radhika Sanghani reports. Onslow taking it all in stride.
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Lest we fergit, BELFAST TELEGRAPH > "WE ARE ISIS, WE HATE WESTERNERS": CHILLING WORDS FROM IRISH TEENAGERS AS MUSLIM CLERIC CLAIMS EXTREMISTS [Jihadi-wannabes] ARE CONGREGATING/GATHERING IN 2 OF 26 MUSLIM MOSQUES IN IRELAND.
Whew, a long 'un - hope I remembered it correctly.
From Ireland to OWG Globalist USoAmerika - can't blame a Potato famine on this one.
The Kremlin has no plans to issue Russian passports to residents of Doentsk and Lugansk, according to a news report in ng.ru
Earlier it had been reported on rebel media that government officials in Donetsk and Lugansk were in negotiations with the Russian Federation government to begin issuing Russian Federation passports to residents of Donetsk and Lugansk, collectively known as the Don Basin, io Donbas. The talks were said to conclude by the end of September.
Now, it appears that those talks have failed, and that residents of the two breakaway republic whose Ukrainian passports have expired will be allowed to travel into the Russian Federation on expired Ukrainian passports.
Since last spring, most Ukrainian government services to residents of the Donbas have been suspended, including the payment of pensions and other services such as the issuance of travel documents. That has essentially placed residents in a bind since any travel documents issued by the two republics are not recognized by the Russian Federation, and many Ukrainian passports have since expired. Since residents are not allowed to travel to Ukraine to get their documents renewed, those residents have been stuck in the Donbas.
A Russian Federation law on the books permits the issuance of a passport if the applicant can be proved to speak fluent Russian and/or has family in the Russian Federation, under limited circumstances. It has been speculated as early as last week, that the Russian Federation was considering issuing passports to Donbas residents.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com and on Twitter. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraina by clicking here.
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Regions in northern, western and southern Donetsk remain under Ukrainian artillery fire, according to Russian language news accounts.
A news release on the website of the Donetsk ministry of defense said that Ukrainian violations of the ceasefire were somewhat reduced. Ukrainian artillery struck rebel positions in western Donetsk city including at Kievskiy and Kuibyshevskiy districts of Donetsk city, the Donetsk airport and at Spartak.
In the Telmanovskiy district, Ukrainian artillery hit rebel troop positions, following the end of a short, but intense fight between rebel forces and Ukrainian military units on Saturday. Ukrainian artillery also hit Sahanka in far southern Donetsk.
The Ukrainian ministry of defense said in its daily briefing that rebel forces fired on Ukrainian troops a total of 99 times on Monday with artillery, including the use of 120mm mortar and 152mm artillery on the western Donetsk city suburb of Avdievka.
According to the korrespondent.net report, rebel artillery also struck rebel positions at Starognatovka and Bogdanovka near the Mariupol defense zone.
Once again, residential sectors of Gorlovka were struck by Ukrainian artillery. A Gorlovka city official identified as Roman Khramenkov said that one residence was set afire by the shelling. Two unidentified wounded were reported near Gorlovka city hall.
Rebel media say Ukrainians are using 122mm rocket artillery, mortar and tank gunfire on their nearly daily attack on Gorlovka. Artillery is originating from Dzerzhinsk, Maiyorsk and Artemovsk, according to a post from the VKontakte page named Self Defense Gorlovka.
Ukrainian media also reported two skirmishes between rebel forces and Ukrainian naval infantry forces in the former demilitarized town of Shirokino.
Somewhere in Lugansk
A brief fire fight took place between a Lugansk rebel armored rifle platoon and a Ukrainian tank. The unit attempted to advance over open ground with the armored vehicles running abreast, when the Ukrainians decide to send in a tank. A few minutes later two BTR APCs were burning, and, apparently, the rebels destroyed the tank with AT rockets.
The video was posted on the internet. I saw it on tsnesor.net, and it was advertised as a recent video. But Russian journalist Boris Rozhin said the video was shot last summer.
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IIRC WAFF Blogger claims it was a an explosion at a chemical warehouse-facility that caused a next-door or nearby gas warehouse or plex to explode in domino.
As per RUSSIA TODAY, death toll is same now up to 17 killed, over 400 injured.
[DAWN] Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... on Tuesday suspended senior police officials from Kasur for failing to conduct their duties effectively in relation to reports of child molestation in the area.
According to a notification issued by the government, District Police Office (DPO) Rai Babar and Deputy Superintendent Police (DSP) Hassan Farooq have been dismissed from their positions for not taking timely actions to prevent child sex abuse and the ensuing videotape blackmailing that has allegedly continued for the past many years in Kasur district's village Husain Khanwala.
Meanwhile, ...back at the game, the Babe headed for second base. He almost made it. Then Sheila slapped him.... Punjab Police Inspector General (IG) Mushtaq Sukhera visited the affected village on Tuesday evening, where he conducted a presser that was attended by families of the victims.
The provincial police chief said the scandal was one of the worst in Pakistain's history, adding that a joint investigation team had been constituted to thoroughly probe the matter.
Sukhera said there was no need to take the matter to a military court and requested villagers not to register "fake cases."
On the occasion, the IG listened to villagers' grievances vis-à-vis the police's inaction.
But the police chief had to cut short his conference when the villagers became agitated at his responses over their complaints on the police's inefficiency. Sukera was escorted by a heavy contingent of coppers while protestors attempted to stop his vehicle from leaving the area.
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[DAWN] With the case of alleged sexual abuse of children in Kasur district of Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... making headlines, the issue of successive governments' failure to effectively legislate for child protection has yet again come to the fore.
During the ongoing session of the National Assembly, the house was provided with a list of initiatives which are in the pipeline specifically to safeguard the rights of children. At best, these measures looked superficial and did not have anything that could be presented as a way forward to address the abuse of child rights.
The information was placed before the lower house of the parliament by federal Minster for Law and Justice Pervez Rashid, who is holding the additional charge of the ministry, besides looking after his prime responsibility of chief spokesperson of the government as information minister.
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[DAWN] The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday sought a report from Advocate General Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Naveed Rasool Mirza, Inspector General Police Punjab Mushtaq Sukhera and Home Secretary Punjab Azam SLearned Elders of Islamn to determine if the Kasur child abuse case can be tried in an anti-terrorism court (ATC).
A petition filed by Advocate Aftab Ahmed Bajwa in the LHC on Monday was heard by LHC Chief Justice Manzoor Ahmed. The petition stated that since the case is of a serious nature, it should be tried in an ATC.
The report will describe what sections of the Anti-Terrorism Act ─ in particular, Section 7 of the ATA, "Punishment for acts of terrorism" ─ are applicable to the case in order to decide whether the case can be tried in an ATC.
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[DAWN] The Election Commission of Pakistain (ECP) announced Tuesday it will conduct by-election in Haripur's NA-19 constituency using biometric machines in a test run on 30 selected polling stations. Good idea for Pakistain, but we could never do that here. It would... ummm... suppress the minority vote.
Somehow.
According to the ECP, the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), Pakistain Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and Ufone will render technical assistance in this regard.
The launch of the test project is in line with the desire of political parties, which was conveyed through the Electoral Reforms Committee of Pakistain (ERCP).
The ERCP recommended that by-election be conducted through biometric machines to educate the general public about its use in electoral activity.
"Since the whole exercise would be performed purely on an experimental basis, the impact of the use of biometric machines in the by-election would certainly not disturb the electoral process in the constituency," the ECP said.
The ECP has already taken all contesting candidates on board and briefed them comprehensively about the measure, sharing with them the list of selected polling stations where the technology will be used, the objectives of the pilot project and standard operating procedures of using biometric machines.
All contesting candidates have welcomed the use of biometric machines as an experiment and have also expressed their consent in this regard, resolving to extend complete support to the ECP by sensitising their polling agents and educating voters on the lam about the use of such machinery.
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h/t Instapundit
A new study into causes of the scarcity of women in technical and scientific fields says that it is not discrimination by men in the field keeping the ladies away. Nor is it a repugnance felt by women for possibly dishevelled or unhygienic male nerds.
No, the reason that young women don't train in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) areas - and thus, don't find themselves with jobs at tech companies, in IT etc - is quite simply that they mostly don't know enough maths to do those courses.
"It is all about the mathematical content of the field. Girls not taking math coursework early on in middle school and high school are set on a different college trajectory than boys," says economics prof Donna Ginther.
Ginther and a colleague, Shulamit Kahn, examined statistics on young women's maths qualifications and mathematical requirements for college courses in America. Put simply, they found that absence of women studying a given course can be accounted for simply by the fact that most young women don't know much maths. An interesting note: most of the work on gender differences I'm familiar with is done by women---maybe not so surprising, given the society we live in.
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While we are doing maths, relativistic physics, civil engineering and IT, feminazis are publishing studies on gender differences and whining about not getting Tech jobs.
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The Left can not fathom 'human free will'. When you have no god but yourself, and you believe humans just another trainable animal that should be obedient to you, that should not be surprising.
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What I told about feminazis can be applied to all the left. While we are busy at real work they dedicate themselves to convince/brainwash people into their ideology. That is why they are winning.
Now I am not advocating we no longer take _real_ jobs but we should spend less time watching football and more at activism.
By the way readers could be interested by this https://feministbrainwash.wordpress.com/tag/historical-revisionism/. Written by a woman.
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I am now working in the research building at the chemical company I work for. There is a large number of Asian women who work there. Just on my observation it's close to 50/50 men and women with probably 80/20 Asian women over non-Asian.
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Actually that is what I head a woman say here in France. O commented her they were very few engineer women quiete simply because thre very few of them in "prepatory classes" (in France yjere is a compatitive exam for admittance in enegineering scholls and you prepare, it by studying ùaths and phusis for about thirty hours a week for two years in "prepatory classes". If, say, you go to theater that means other people are studting and overcoming you). She answered me "that is because they can't take the inhuman system of teâtory cmasses". Inhuman or not, that system was designed well before anyone though of women engineers, so it wasn't designed agsint them. It was designed for getting the best of the best.
But answer from that woman amounted at; "Let's adapt the standards for women". Just like others want to adpt the standards for Rangers and to heel if they no longer can climb thirty yards high Pointe du Hoc and D-Day ends in a bloody failure.
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.
[THEDAILYBEAST] A senior citizen reportedly attacked Talladega's 75-year-old mayor with a baseball bat Saturday--an early bird beating that sent both men to the hospital and that one local attorney claims is 
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] The moment US news anchor walked off set during live broadcast in protest at Kylie Jenner's 18th birthday coverage
[NBCNEWS] 
[THEATLANTIC] Something strange is happening at America’s colleges and universities. A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense.
[DAWN] The Election Commission of Pakistain (ECP) announced Tuesday it will conduct by-election in Haripur's NA-19 constituency using biometric machines in a test run on 30 selected polling stations.
