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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Shock as married Zvishavane woman busted using mubobobo on men
[iHarare] A MARRIED Zvishavane woman stunned fellow villagers when she confessed that she has had sex with a number of men in the village using mubobobo (bluetooth sex) in order to quench her sexual desires. Mubobobo is a kind of black magic whereby someone miraculously has sex with another person from a distance without her/ his consent.

Sources who spoke to B-Metro said Esther Moyo (PICTURED ABOVE) of Wedza Village under Chief Wedza admitted to using mubobobo during a tsikamutandas cleansing ceremony.

"At first, tsikamutandas openly told Moyo she uses mubobobo on men, but she declined. They then went to her house where they found the juju.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/19/2016 13:38 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I guess she got tired of wearing a grocery bag.
Posted by: davemac25 || 01/19/2016 13:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Mubobobo is a kind of black magic whereby someone miraculously has sex with another person from a distance without her/ his consent.

In the west its call p0rn.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/19/2016 14:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Mubobobo...? IMA thinking Maria Elisa Antonelli. Is there an app for that ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/19/2016 14:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Was the juju legit?
Posted by: Shipman || 01/19/2016 17:41 Comments || Top||

#5  (maxwellsmart/ON)

"So, the old tsikamutandas mubobobo juju trick, eh?"

(maxwellsmart/OFF)

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 01/19/2016 17:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Heh. You're dating both of us, Mike
Posted by: Frank G || 01/19/2016 20:16 Comments || Top||


Danville Officer Thomas Cottrell Shot Dead, Weapon and Cruiser Stolen
[NBCNEWS] A police officer was found dead in Ohio with his gun and cruiser missing, authorities said early Monday. The Ohio State Highway Patrol had deployed extra units and aviation resources after the Danville officer was reported missing and possibly maimed late Sunday.

Officer Thomas Cottrell was found dead without his service weapon or cruiser just before midnight, according to the Knox County Sheriff's department. It said dispatchers had received a tip-off from a female caller that Danville cops "were in danger" because her ex-boyfriend Herschel Jones had "left with weapons and was looking to kill an officer."

Dispatchers tried to reach the officer but were unsuccessful, the sheriff's office added. Sheriff's deputies searched the village of Danville and found Cottrell's body behind a municipal building 27 minutes after the initial call. The officer had been rubbed out, according to NBC station WCMH.

Jones was taken into custody following a "foot chase" at around 1:36 a.m. after he was seen "running from a residence," the sheriff's office said. It was not immediately clear if Jones had been charged with any crime or if Cottrell's weapon and cruiser had been recovered.

Jones has a lengthy criminal record and has tried to claim he was legally insane in one case. According to Knox County court records, he was charged in several cases with breaking and entering, burglary, receiving stolen property and carrying a concealed weapon.

He pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
to a 2011 case by reason of insanity, but later changed his plea to guilty.
Posted by: Fred || 01/19/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Portland Community College to devote an entire month to 'whiteness'-shaming
[CAMPUSREFORM.ORG] Portland Community College has designated April "Whiteness History Month" (WHM), an "educational project" exploring how the "construct of whiteness" creates racial inequality.

"'Whiteness History Month: Context, Consequences, and Change' is a multidisciplinary, district-wide, educational project examining race and racism through an exploration of the construction of whiteness, its origins, and heritage," PCC states on its website. "Scheduled for the month of April 2016, the project seeks to inspire innovative and practical solutions to community issues and social problems that stem from racism."

The WHM site makes clear that the project is not a "celebratory endeavor" like heritage months, but is rather "an effort to change our campus climate" by "[challenging] the master narrative of race and racism through an exploration of the social construction of whiteness." ("Challenging the master narrative," PCC explains, "is a strategy within higher education that promotes multicultural education and equity.")

The initiative was conceived by a subcommittee of PCC's Cascade Campus Diversity Council, which noticed that "evidence from hiring data, student-­led research, surveys, focus groups, college-wide emails, and other sources have illuminated the underlying reality of whiteness embedded in the overall college climate." In response, the subcommittee decided that "intentional action" was necessary across the district's four campuses to honor PCC's strategic plan, which calls on the college to "create a nationally renowned culture for diversity, equity, and inclusion."

According to a sub-page defining the term (adapted from a definition developed by the University of Calgary), whiteness "does not simply refer to skin color[,] but [to] an ideology based on beliefs, values, behaviors, habits, and attitudes, which result in the unequal distribution of power and privilege based on skin color."

Not only does the concept of whiteness allow those who are "socially deemed white" to accrue benefits, the page asserts, but those benefits "are accrued at the expense of people of color, namely in how people of color are systemically and prejudicially denied equal access to those material benefits."

The ideology of whiteness, it continues, dates back to "at least the seventeenth century, [when] 'white' appeared as a legal term and social designator determining social and political rights," a concept that eventually grew to include "thousands" of "special privileges and protections" for white citizens.

For those interested in learning even more about the study of whiteness, PCC provides a link to a portal on the school library's site listing additional resources.

Planning for the event is still ongoing, with applications being accepted until February 1 from those who wish to "get engaged" by hosting a lecture, guest speaker, panel, film screening, discussion, art exhibit, or class field trip to local art or history museums.

Posted by: Fred || 01/19/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  whiteness "does not simply refer to skin color[,] but [to] an ideology based on beliefs, values, behaviors, habits, and attitudes, which result in the unequal distribution of power and privilege based on skin color."

So, blackness is not about pigment
But ideological figment:
Bad habits, behaviors,
And race-baiting "saviors"
That keep you dependent and ign'ant.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 01/19/2016 2:24 Comments || Top||

#2  ...If the white students had any smarts at all, they'd concurrently celebrate "We're Not Paying Our Tuition And Fees Month." That would put an end to this nonsense PDQ.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 01/19/2016 5:03 Comments || Top||

#3  It's a community college; this kind of BS is likely acceptable, desirable, or maybe even essential to the community that pays the bills - Progressive Portland.
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/19/2016 12:54 Comments || Top||

#4  I expect the faculty to present this without whiteness privilege, as in without -
Western:
Technology
Transportation
Energy
Medicine
Clothing
Engineering (as in buildings)
Security or Legal processes
and (God forbid) currency
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/19/2016 12:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Food.
Posted by: gorb || 01/19/2016 13:34 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm hoping I run into one of these clowns soon - I'm gonna grab his / her phone, yell 'Alexander Graham Bell was a white Christian male - who owned slaves!' and chuck it as far as I can, hopefully into a nearby stream.
Posted by: Raj || 01/19/2016 15:04 Comments || Top||

#7  Yet somehow they have the effrontery to post these messages in English, on the internet, all generated by an electronic keyboard device. They should strictly limit their communications to an oral mode, and only using non-Indo-European language.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/19/2016 15:52 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
S. Hawking: Threats to human survival likely from new science
[CNBC] Physicist Stephen Hawking has warned that new technologies will likely bring about "new ways things can go wrong" for human survival.

When asked how the world will end, Hawking said that increasingly, most of the threats humanity faces come from progress made in science and technology. He says they include nuclear war, catastrophic global warming and genetically engineered viruses.

But the University of Cambridge professor added that a disaster on Earth -- a "near certainty" in the next 1,000 to 10,000 years-- will not spell the end of humanity because by that time humans are likely to have spread out into space.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/19/2016 13:54 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Igor, you didn't put enough Jim Beam in the beaker."
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/19/2016 15:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe a asteroid strike

or a CME
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/19/2016 16:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Make way for the hyperspace expressway!

Unfortunately, a Darwin Award winner might claim the top prize by taking the rest of us with him/her.
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 01/19/2016 16:23 Comments || Top||

#4  If the problem is human nature then there is no getting away from stupid. In the immortal words of Buckaroo Banzai, "No matter where you go, there you are".
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 01/19/2016 18:01 Comments || Top||

#5  George Carlin on Global Warming
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 01/19/2016 19:07 Comments || Top||


Touring the massive Lun Klas Ekranoplan
[TheBrigade] Russia’s unprecedented monster aircraft ship
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/19/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  AFAIK CHINA has, + still is, expressed interest in using and upgrading such Cold War-era Soviet miltech to help maintain "sea control" ala "hybrid [naval] warfare" agz the USN in East Asia-WESTPAC, + IOR agz both the USN + Indian Navy.

NAVAL HIT-N-RUN = NAVAL GUERILLA WARFARE.

Post-9-11, the most effective purveyor of Russian Miltech or Navtech, etc, is seemingly CHINA + PLA, NOT VLAD + STILL ECON-STRUGGLING RUSSFED.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 01/19/2016 0:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Didn't you [Americans] had a project like this until one day somebody said "Wait a sec, isn't a low flying airplane the most dangerous kind of vehicle there is?"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/19/2016 3:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Early wingless, combustion engine version. Winged updates remain classified. Ekranoplan was invented here in America, by Americans using American PCmatic software.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/19/2016 4:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Been watching it since the mid-70s, it and its many counterparts. IIRC, one of the big problems is that it doesn't take much to harm it -- a floating plastic jug, any other kind of flotsam. Also, they never tested it outside the Caspian, which is, of course, landlocked.

It was supposed to be a carrier-killer, but the lack of maneuverability, especially at or near full speed, made it a flying coffin.

What is it all of a sudden with all the praise of Russian military hardware? Most of it's junk, or unreliable, or just plain clunky. When you have to build things that uneducated plow jockies can use, you have to make it rugged, durable, and easy to fix. It also makes it about as sophisticated as a bathtub.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 01/19/2016 17:25 Comments || Top||

#5  This is all the things you mention OP

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-36_(missile)

It only as to work 1/2 the time.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/19/2016 18:05 Comments || Top||

#6  But, OP, it looks like something from that scifi puppet show from yesteryear.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 01/19/2016 19:41 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Americans Giving Up on Jobs
h/t Instapundit
Forty percent of Americans who are capable of working but who don't have a job say they have completely given up looking for work, according to a new report.

The findings of a survey conducted by Express Employment Professionals show that the longer an individual has been out of the labor force, the more likely they are to say they have given up looking. More than half -- 55 percent -- of those out of work for more than two years say they have given up, while 21 percent of those out of labor force for three months or less say the same.

"Sometimes people get so frustrated with their job prospects that they give up looking for work altogether," states the report. "If they're not looking for work, then they're not officially counted among the 'unemployed' according to the government."

These factors contribute to a falling labor force participation rate, a figure monitored by the Bureau of Labor Statistics that measures the proportion of the population who do not have a job and did not look for one in the past month. In 2015, this rate averaged out to 62.7 percent, the lowest level seen since 1977.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/19/2016 04:48 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I know several. And will shortly become one, as my job will be going away, and I will not pursue a replacement.
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/19/2016 13:02 Comments || Top||

#2  But... they keep telling me, we're kicking the saudis' butt... hic! .... yup, sure showed them... hic!
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 01/19/2016 13:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Unemployment applications are down, disability claims are going up.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/19/2016 16:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Sad to see you leaving the oilfield Glenmore. Our rig is still drilling out here, and I feel pretty confidant that BP won't give up exploring completely in the gulf regardless so given we're the only rig doing exploration for BP in the Gulf, we're okay for now.

Morale is pretty crappy for everyone out here though. It always is during downturns but it makes people lose focus and then they get hurt.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 01/19/2016 19:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Consequence of 0bean putting the Saudis in a bad place with the Iran nuclear deal. The Saudis feel so insecure that they are using oil as a weapon against Iran. The Saudis have deeper pockets, for now. Thank fearless leader for not working with our regional allies to make sure that their concerns were addressed. Idiot.
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 01/19/2016 19:51 Comments || Top||


Government
US in need of political revolution since 1950s: Analyst
[Iran Press TV] The United States has needed a political revolution since the 1950s when the administration of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower began to conduct covert operations around the world, says a political analyst.

Rodney Martin, a former US congressional staffer
, made the comments in an interview with Press TV on Monday when asked about the necessity of a political revolution in the US as was suggested by Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders
...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords...
earlier.

"Senator Sanders' statement that America needs a political revolution is true, interestingly, I would say that America has needed a political revolution since 1963 when president (John F.) Kennedy was assassinated, probably even before that, going back to the Eisenhower administration when the American made a policy decision to engage in covert operations around the globe and to undermine the will of their citizens," Martin said.

"Senator Sanders' statements are courageous and admirable and they're true; they are truth. The problem is the truth has never resonated in the American electorate; it's never triumphed," he added.

Martin said that the US government represents "the global interests of international banking and of huge conglomerates and most importantly (of) Jewish Zionist' interests."
Posted by: Fred || 01/19/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Beware what you wish for, lest you get your wish.

The problem for most of these wannabe revolutionaries is that they always think they will wind up as a commissar in the new order.

They never seem to understand that they are much more likely to wind up one of the zeks in the gulag, or worse, an anonymous statistic after one of the inevitable post-revolution purges by the party leaders.
Posted by: Nguard || 01/19/2016 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  It called "9-11", where the Global operation known by acronym as the Global War on Terror [GWOT] is also a parallel Counter-Operation to forcibly unilaterally impose SSSHHHH ... CCCCCC anti-Electoral OWG-NWO + Marxism-Socialism-Communism aka Global Socialist Order.

BUT WHOM'S NOTICING???

But I digress ...
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 01/19/2016 0:30 Comments || Top||

#3  10 bucks to anyone who can find a conspiracy theorist whose theories not involve Jews.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/19/2016 3:36 Comments || Top||

#4  10 bucks to anyone who can find a conspiracy theorist whose theories not involve Jews.
Posted by g(r)omgoru


Enuf of your senseless haggling. My 'theorist' rate remains 15 bucks. Take it or leave it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/19/2016 3:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Why does Night of the Long Knives jump into my mind as I read this?
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/19/2016 12:57 Comments || Top||

#6  We had a revolution with Reagan but because of the cold war and entrenched interests (and the VP) the revolution didn't last after his term.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/19/2016 17:51 Comments || Top||

#7  Free Masons for $19 Mr. B.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/19/2016 17:58 Comments || Top||

#8  Sounds like a bargain Ship.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/19/2016 18:00 Comments || Top||

#9 
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 01/19/2016 18:21 Comments || Top||



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Tue 2016-01-19
  Morocco arrests Belgian with links to Paris attacks
Mon 2016-01-18
  But wait - ther's more: Kerry Says U.S. to Pay Iran $1.7 Billion in Debt and Interest
Sun 2016-01-17
  Burkina Faso attack: At least 23 dead, scores freed after hotel siege
Sat 2016-01-16
  Senior Qaeda-linked figure captured in Lebanon
Fri 2016-01-15
  U.S. designates ISIS in Afghanistan as foreign terrorist organization
Thu 2016-01-14
  Terror attacks in Jakarta -- 7 die so far
Wed 2016-01-13
  Suicide bomber kills 10 people, mainly Germans, in Istanbul
Tue 2016-01-12
  Bombings at Iraq cafe kill 20: Officers
Mon 2016-01-11
  It begins: Cologne gangs attack foreigners
Sun 2016-01-10
  US drone strikes kills 25 suspected militants in Pakistan, Afghanistan
Sat 2016-01-09
  Philadelphia police officer ambushed 'in the name of Islam'
Fri 2016-01-08
  ISIS Man Executes His Mom
Thu 2016-01-07
  Iran says Saudi-led airstrike hit Iranian Embassy in Yemen, but no damage seen
Wed 2016-01-06
  1 US soldier killed, 2 wounded in Taliban attack in Helmand
Tue 2016-01-05
  44 ISIS Bad Guys die in battles near Fallujah


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