[ABCNEWS.GO] A former prosecutor who used false testimony and withheld evidence to send a now-exonerated man to Texas' death row has lost an appeal to overturn his disbarment. I was a believer in the U.S. judcial system until I saw someone railroaded into federal prison. "Jury of his peers" isn't the norm -- 97 percent of federal jury trials result in conviction. "Speedy trial" is a laughable concept.
The Dallas Morning News reports that the Board of Disciplinary Appeals on Monday upheld the decision of the State Bar of Texas to disbar Charles Sebesta. The board's decision is final.
The bar revoked the Burleson County district attorney's law license in June, finding he had engaged in prosecutorial misconduct in the case of Anthony Graves.
Graves was sentenced to death in 1994 in the slayings of six people in South Texas two years earlier. A federal appeals court reversed his conviction in 2006. Graves spent 18 years in prison, including 12 on death row. He filed a complaint in January 2014.
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Seems fitting that the prosecutor should have to spend some time behind bars.
YAE (yet another example) of one law for the elite and another for the plebs. The prosecutor isn't one of the aristocracy, but, a sycophant of the system.
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Sebesta should serve the rest of Graves' sentence
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So the prosecutor knowingly used false testimony and withheld evidence, then opted for the death penalty, only gets disbarred? Why isn't he up for attempted murder?
[NYDAILYNEWS] A 44-year-old white straphanger was beaten in a Brooklyn subway station by a black man who told him, "Cracka, you don't belong here," police sources told the Daily News. Obviously Smith & Wesson were unavailable to assist.
The suspect also allegedly elbowed the victim's fiancé in the head, then spit in another straphangers' face.
"Someone get his white cracka ass off the floor,'' the suspect said, according to police sources. "It's a black neighborhood ... You don't belong here."
The incident, which happened about 9:45 p.m. Saturday at the Church Ave. Q stop, is being investigated by the NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force. No arrest has been made.
The victim was getting off the train when the suspect, believed to be about 40 years old, approached from behind and allegedly punched him in the face. He knocked him to the ground and called him a "cracka," a derogatory term for white people, police sources said.
When the victim's fiancé tried to intervene the suspect allegedly elbowed her, walked away and confronted another subway rider, who told cops about the incident. The victim's nose was bloodied and his right eye was bruised but he did not require medical treatment, police sources said.
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Remember, you're average college academic social justice instructor or administrator will tell you only white people can be racists.
What could possibly go wrong?
Donald Trump has a solution for North Korea's nuclear threat -- he said he'd have China make the country's leader "disappear."
"I would get China to make that guy disappear in one form or another very quickly," The Donald, fresh off a victory in the New Hampshire primary, said of Kim Jong Un on "CBS This Morning."
He didn't specify if "disappear" meant assassinated but added, "Well, I've heard of worse things, frankly."
"I mean, this guy's a bad dude, and don't underestimate him," Trump said about the strongman without referring to him by name. "Any young guy who can take over from his father with all those generals and everybody else that probably want the position -- this is not somebody to be underestimated."
Trump said China has control over North Korea and the US has control over China -- so "China should do that."
"China has control -- absolute control -- over North Korea. They don't say it, but they do," he said. "And they should make that problem disappear. China is sucking us dry. They're taking our money. They're taking our jobs. They're doing so much. We have rebuilt China with what they've taken out."
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Again, IMO Beijing = China is highly likely to annex NOKOR iff the latter regime + State collapses for any reason, MORESO IFF CHINA FAILS TO FORMALLY REGAIN SOVEREIGN CONTROL OF TAIWAN BUT STILL REFUSES TO GIVE UP OR AMEND ITS "POST-US", "MAHANIST", MILPOL OR GEOPOL AMBITIONS = MANIFEST DESTINY TO BE THE "SOLE" LEADER IN OWG EAST ASIA-PACIFIC/WESTPAC.
The USDOD's "Return to Asia/East Asia", e.g. THAAD deployments to SOKOR DMZ + JAPAN, USN back at Subic Bay, PH + LCS' in Singapore, Etc. = CHINA WILL HOLD ON TO NOKOR THAT MUCH HARDER OR LONGER.
The above being said, iff KJU + Regime believe that Chinese takeover of NOKOR can no longer be deterred or put off, I soncerely believe that to save his Country KJU willl find a way to unilaterally or "asymmetrically" start a DE FACTO MAJOR US-CHINA WAR, ostensib to begin as an initial Chinese milaction agz US Regional Allies.
AS WAS SAID PER IRAQ, THERE ARE NO GOOD, IDEAL, OR PERFECT SOLUTION(S) FOR THE US-ALLIES, ONLY ONES THAT ARE MINIMALLY OR THE LEAST BAD FOR US-ALLIED INTERESTS.
Authorities in Florida have arrested a man accused of throwing a live alligator through a restaurant's drive-through window.
Investigators identified Joshua James, of Jupiter, Fla., as the man who tossed the 3½-foot reptile into a Wendy's last fall, according to a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission incident report
Ed and Linda James told the station that their son was pranking a Wendy's employee whom he knew.
"It was just a stupid prank that he did that's now turning into this; it's stupid," his mother told WPTV. "He's a prankster. He does stuff like this because he thinks it's funny."
Then your son the idiot will think federal charges are hysterical.
Check the picture in the article. Loser.
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Florida? The hell you say!
I was curious of his age; doesn't mention it, but apparently old enough to have Steve Irwin as an idol. I guess.
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similar to the plot of the 1980 version of the Blues Brothers
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My calculations for another 1906 magnitude earthquake will occur around 2026 to 2028, based upon a regional thirty mm movement/year and a 1906 San Andreas fault strike slip of 3.66 meters.
At that time, the playing field will be leveled.
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Any chance it could be sooner, Paul?
A LOT sooner?
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Maybe move into a facility owned by the diocease (sp). But one thing I can't understand is if The City* is so expensive just how does one survive being homeless. Oh that's right, a city paid stipend, free health care and what ever else the social engineers can dream up
*Perhaps the best example of how pretentious SF is
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] A Muslim councillor has admitted that some feel as though 'it takes two to tango' as 12 men were nabbed ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... for gang-raping a 13-year-old white girl in West Yorkshire. Apparently it takes 13 to tango, especially if the girl's 13-years-old.
The gang of men from Pak origin were nabbed ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... for a total of 143 years at Bradford Crown Court today, for 13 months of horrendous abuse of the British white girl in 2011 and 2012. Is that a total of 143 years apiece, or is it 143 years divided by twelve, which is a different matter entirely. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... the Councillor for Keighley Central, where the abuse took place, has admitted that some members of the community felt 'it takes two to tango' and that the girl may have 'played her part'. Piece of meat is a part, I guess.
Zafar Ali, who has been a member of the Keighley Mosque for decades believes that some of the men may have attended in the past, but said the Muslim community totally condemn their actions. "Oh, yasss. Toadally."
He told MailOnline: 'Everyone now believes that justice has been done, we need to move forward and it is a lesson for the whole Muslim community. "Yes,sir. Lesson learned. Never happen again, sir! Yep. Yep."
'There are a few bad apples but this does not represent the Muslim community as a whole and any sensible Muslim totally condemns these actions.' "You can trust us on that, Dean Wormer!"
Eleven of the men were today nabbed ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... for rape and a twelfth man was nabbed ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... for sexual activity with a child under 16 today at Bradford Crown Court, but the ringleader has fled to Bangladesh. "I'm off to the Sunderbans! Write when it blows over!"
The sentences come as it emerged that:
Ringleader Ahmed Al-Choudhury who facilitated most of the offences is believed to now be living in Bangladesh after fleeing at the beginning of the investigation in 2012
Keighley MP Kris Hopkins spoke out about the 'sick model' of Asian sex gangs grooming vulnerable maidens of tender years for sex in West Yorkshire
Hopkins caused controversy in 2012 for claiming that Muslim men are 'fundamentally racist' and groups were 'out raping white girls' at that very moment
He claims he has today been 'lambasted' for mentioning that the men were Asian, but claims that there are more victims 'who need justice'
Councillor Zafar Ali, Keighley Central, says the issue is 'not confined' to the Muslim community and the response should be 'rational'
After the sentencing, Kris Hopkins, Conservative MP for Keighley spoke out against the 'sick model of organised groups of Asian men grooming young white girls', but said there are more women out there who need justice.
He said the sentenced were vindication for controversial comments he made during a parliamentary debate in 2012, claiming that organised groups of Asian men were 'going around raping white girls'.
However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... he claims that even today he has been 'lambasted' for even mentioning that the men are Asian when talking about the sentences.
He told MailOnline: 'There are sexual offenders who are white, but the fact is this particular model is all Asian men and all the victims were white.
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'There are a few bad apples but this does not represent the Muslim community as a whole and any sensible Muslim totally condemns these actions.'
Riiiiggghht.
That was 143 years total, not each.
And that was in trade for 13 months of this girl enduring these animals' favorite hobby.
Councillor Zafar Ali, Keighley Central, says the issue is 'not confined' to the Muslim community and the response should be 'rational'
Agreed. But it's strange how all twelve men were Pakistani. The group is not assimilated. That's a cultural thing.
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this headline and description of the rapists is everything that is wrong with our culture today.
1) it is irrelevant that the men are *asian*. race is irrelevant
2) It is irrelevant that they were pakistani origin. Nationality is irrelevant.
3) it was omitted that the men were all muslims. This is extremely relevant.
Islamist teaching tells men that muslim women in hijabs are showing their modesty with their veils. Therefore unveiled muslim women are sluts.
Unveiled non-muslim women are fair game. Not only sluts but it is sanctioned to sexually attack them because they are not to be respected. They are lower in the social heirarchy than muslim women veiled or unveiled, therefore - rape away and blame it on them
If we cannot get our heads around accurate reporting and naming the problem then we will lose this war. Your children will be banging their heads five times a day to mecca by the time they are 50
Name it -- muslim men, an Islamist rape gang
Name the problem -- Islamist teaching that women who are unveiled are partly to blame for rape is evil and wrong and needs to be tackled
Quote a muslim naming the solution -- plenty of muslim women have spoken out against slut shaming. Quote a progressive, liberal muslim (they hate Islamists) criticising this backwards stone age idea, and demanding that women be treated as equals without regard for multicultural concerns.
That is how news stories should be written
f*ck Islamophobia
What about stupid racism from these misleading descriptions? atheist, christian or hindu pakistani migrants would never engage in this, because they are not taught Islamist supremacism!
[NYTIMES] I dislike the New York Times, but occasionally they do run a story like this one, a preview of Bernie Sanders' America. Should be required reading, but the Bernie supporters are in the same league as the Chavistas who blame anyone but themselves and their idol.
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I wonder whose brilliant idea it was in the DNC to put Bernie up as HRC's token opposition?
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So Frank G says put them to the knife. Does anyone realize that that's crazy and genocidal? Or not? Is there any self consciousness there when people say horrid things like this?
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...well, the Lefties who talk about mankind needing a smaller population (sustainable earth) and footprint on Mother Gaia. Usually that doesn't include their rump in the calculation.
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I am fairly certain that that is a metaphorical knife. Drax the Destroyer would be lost on RB so don't be him.
Pain is the why that people learn. The only question for Venezuela is how much pain is it going to take.
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So Frank G says put them to the knife. Does anyone realize that that's crazy and genocidal? Or not? Is there any self consciousness there when people say horrid things like this?
Oh, look. It's Richard from the Internet. He's come to visit us again.
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So Frank G says put them to the knife. Does anyone realize that that's crazy and genocidal?
Perhaps the writer has forgotten that genocide means the killing off of an antire people, both children and adults, or a serious attempt thereof. Killing a few fascist followers of the now-dead head of the fascist ruling party of a nearly defunct smallish Hispano-American country while leaving their families untouched except for the loss of income and status is as nearly the opposite of genocide as it is possible to be... and in fact what Frank G. suggested is a much nicer version of the traditional method of changing the party in power in that part of the world.
This suggests that the label of crazy might also attach better to the writer than to his or her target, though one suspects a habit of writing censorious posts before thinking is to blame.
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One doesn't at all wonder how Mr. Panda would have behaved had he been in China during that horrid Cultural Revolution rather than today, Skidmark, given his vigourous virtue signalling when only a few dozen imaginary lives are at stake rather than the very real attempted class genocide numbering millions of bourgeoisie "intellectuals". How wonderful for the country he lives in that such behaviours are transferred from mind to mind via the medium of the written word rather than bodily in the DNA.
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Point of clarification: Frank G never said "put them to the knife" so Panda's initial point is a urine soaked straw-man.
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*snort*
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Well, Commodore Frank, that's a hell of a thread you put us through.......heh.
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There is enough wrong with selfish panda's remark to re-fill a Venezuelan grocery store.
(Apologies to Tangled)
I have a conscience, I have a conscience
does not mean we have to let evil punch us
While Maduro screams and cries
The people must do or die
And must do so without firearms among them
I may sound all mean and scary
But good people are in a place quite hairy
While Obama would rather arm and train Al-Qaeda.
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When they put the Chavista and Maduro supporters to the knife, they might have a chance
Here, let's try this with the roles reversed and see if anyone objects.
When they put the Reagan and Bush supporters to the knife, they might have a chance
If a leftist had said the second statement, would it be wrong? Yes or no? If yes, why exactly? And if yes, why is calling for mass murder of leftists by rightists good, and yet calling for mass murder of rightists by leftists bad?
Either calling for mass murder of people who disagree with your political opinions is bad or it's not, choose one.
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I believe the proper term for massive killings is to 'put them to the sword'. Putting them to the 'knife' implies much smaller scale - perhaps one or two - relatively small scale.
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So Frank G says put them to the knife. Does anyone realize that that's crazy and genocidal? Or not? Is there any self consciousness there when people say horrid things like this?
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ALSO, a small footnote for Mr. Panda to consider: there's already been a large-scale increase in the murder rate over the last fifteen years; it's enough to have been a pretty damn good purge in any other country.
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Well, EU just look that this little darling of the Toronto Film festival. When you're headed for an irreconcilable civil war, both sides start to use the same language. The destruction of the bourgeoisie is not going to happen by quietly going to the guillotine. They're taking up the same language of their intended destroyers.
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When they put the Reagan and Bush supporters to the knife, they might have a chance
Panda, the problem is that they will be killed, like it or not. What's the last time you heard of a socialist regime allowing to be voted out of office and they just hand over the keys to the kingdom to the next administration? Maybe in Europe, but not in hardcore socialist states. Remember how they got there, observe how they are nationalizing everything and bleeding it dry.
Frank doesn't condone it, it's just how regimes like that get taken out of power. They lose their "perks" when they are out of power, so they don't go peacefully.
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apparently the Sad Panda is ignorant or deliberately in denial of the Cuban Secret Police and their tactics the Chavista thugs adopted: Secret Police with block bosses to inform on and enforce party politics via shootings at protests, denial of food to entire communities, assassinations,imprisonment without process or trial, denial of medical care, etc.
Before you get your panties in a twist, perhaps you'd like to tell us how these people would be wrong to overthrow their armed oppressors as they lose their lives doing so? I thought not. Urine-soaked straw men indeed. Projection much? Coward
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Here's one news item about the government's shootings of one particular protester sometime in the last year and a half:
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Venezuela is a stellar example of that old joke, that goes like this. What happens if Communists take over the Sahara? They run out of sand.
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His black and white outlook deceiving,
Emotional Panda is grieving!
His innards are heaving
But all he's achieving
Is reading and shitting and leaving.
Vladimir Putin has put thousands of troops, warplanes and battleships on high alert in a series of military drills designed to test his military's mobility amid growing tensions with the West.
The war games in south-west Russia will include bombing runs and troop deployments, which the Kremlin says will test its military's ability to respond to external threats.
It comes as Western tensions with Russia remain at a low following its annexation of Crimea in 2014, its clandestine support for rebel forces in eastern Ukraine, and its bombing of Syria.
The drills comes as tensions with the West continue to worsen as Russia flexes its military might on the international stage
A man believed to be a Russia soldier stands guard on a military vehicle outside the Ukrainian city of Simferopol. Putin has initiated military drills for his army in the country's southwest near Ukraine.
A man believed to be a Russia soldier stands guard on a military vehicle outside the Ukrainian city of Simferopol. Putin has initiated military drills for his army in the country's southwest near Ukraine.
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that military units were put on combat alert early Monday, marking the launch of the exercise that involves troops of the Southern Military District.
The district includes troops stationed in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, as well as forces in the North Caucasus and southwestern regions near the border with Ukraine.
Shoigu said the maneuvers will also engage airborne troops and military transport aviation, as well as the navy.
He noted that the drills are intended to check the troops' ability to respond to extremist threats and other challenges.
According to Shoigu, who spoke at a meeting with the top military brass, the war games would include redeployment of air force units to advance air bases and bombing runs at shooting ranges.
Russia has demonstrated its resurgent military might with its air campaign in Syria in support of president Bashar al-Assad.
Russia has demonstrated its resurgent military might with its air campaign in Syria in support of president Bashar al-Assad
The maneuvers will test the troops' mobility, with some being deployed to areas up to 1,800 miles away, the military said.
Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said in a statement that up to 8,500 troops, 900 ground weapons, 200 warplanes and about 50 warships will be involved in the drills.
The exercises are the latest in a series of major drills intended to strengthen the military's readiness which have continued despite the nation's economic downturn.
The Supreme Court's surprise decision Tuesday to halt President Obama's climate change regulation could weaken or even imperil the international global warming accord reached with great ceremony in Paris less than two months ago, climate diplomats said.
The Paris Agreement, the first accord to commit every country to combating climate change, had as a cornerstone Mr. Obama's assurance that the United States would carry out strong, legally sound policies to significantly cut carbon emissions. Over history, the United States is the largest greenhouse gas polluter, although its annual emissions have been overtaken by China's.
But in the capitals of India and China, two of the world's largest polluters, climate change policy experts said the Supreme Court decision threw the American commitment into question, and possibly New Delhi's and Beijing's, too.
"If the U.S. Supreme Court actually declares the coal power plant rules stillborn, the chances of nurturing trust between countries would all but vanish," said Navroz K. Dubash, a senior fellow at the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi. "This could be the proverbial string which causes Paris to unravel. The Paris agreement was a fragile and hard-fought consensus."
The court's verdict does not block the climate change rule permanently but halts its enactment until legal challenges against it have been decided, a process that could take a year or more. Legal experts said the justices' unprecedented decision to stop work on the rule before any court had decided against it appears to signal that the regulation could ultimately be overturned.
"If the American clean energy plan is overturned, we'll need to reassess whether the United States can meet its commitments," said Zou Ji, the deputy director of the National Center for Climate Strategy and International Cooperation, a government policy think tank in Beijing.
"It had seemed that with the American commitments, it was possible to get on the right emissions path globally," said Mr. Zou, who was an adviser to the Chinese delegation at the Paris negotiations, by telephone. "But without those commitments, that could be a blow to confidence in low-carbon development. In China domestically there is also resistance to low-carbon policies, and they would be able to say, 'Look, the United States doesn't keep its word. Why make so many demands on us?'"
Inaction by the United States has long been the chief obstacle to meaningful global climate change agreements. India and China in particular resisted action absent a climate change policy in the United States.
Mr. Obama sought to change that by putting in place a set of aggressive but politically controversial Environmental Protection Agency rules to cut planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants. On the basis of those rules, Mr. Obama won agreements from China and India to enact their own pollution reduction plans, and helped push other countries into signing on to the Paris measure. Visiting Beijing in 2014, Mr. Obama made a joint announcement that both countries would enact concrete domestic policies to cut emissions.
Over the past year, Mr. Obama worked closely with the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, to bring India to the table for the Paris deal. Mr. Modi and many within India were resistant; the prime minister's top priority is to make cheap electricity available to the 300 million Indians who live without power. If the United States reneges on its commitments, "it really would strengthen the hand of those who say Paris was ineffective and a bad deal for India," Mr. Dubash said.
American policy experts agreed that the Supreme Court decision might be the first of many fractures in the deal. "The honeymoon for Paris is now definitely over," said John Sterman, a professor of management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who attended the Paris talks.
"This pushback is not something that's unique to the United States," he added. "It's happening all over the developed world."
In the European Union, Poland and some other coal-reliant countries have resisted signing on to the bloc's commitment under the agreement to more stringently reducing emissions across member states.
While the Paris deal was completed in December, it has not yet been signed. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has invited world leaders to a signing ceremony in New York on April 22, Earth Day. Those who do not attend the gathering will have several months to add their signatures to the formal document.
Already, some people deeply familiar with the climate negotiations worry that the events in the United States could lead to a repeat of what happened after the signing of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the first major climate change treaty. Vice President Al Gore, a staunch environmentalist, negotiated the treaty with other world leaders. But in Washington, the Senate voted against ratifying it. Then George W. Bush pulled the United States out entirely.
The Supreme Court's decision -- particularly if it ultimately strikes down the rule -- will put United States climate policy, and its participation in the Paris agreement, largely in the hands of the next president. While the Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have pledged to continue and strengthen Mr. Obama's climate change agenda, the Republican contenders, including Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, have questioned or denied the science of human-caused climate change and have sharply criticized the Paris Agreement.
"Who can we negotiate with if the White House can't be sure if it can keep its promises?" Mr. Zou asked. "Not the Congress. Not the court. The division of powers creates a very complicated situation."
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TS. That's why you go through the Treaty process. You don't go through the Treaty process because you know it won't pass. If you want a Treaty then you have to negotiate with the people who will finally approve it, which will be something far less than what you wanted for your ego/virtue flashing event. DOA.
[DAWN] The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... government has sent the much delayed Domestic Violence Bill to Council of Islamic Ideology to seek its advice as it believes that the matter involves interpretation of Islamic injunctions.
Law Secretary Mohammad Arifeen told Dawn that Domestic Violence Bill had been pending for the last two months with Council of Islamic Ideology where it was sent for interpretation.
"Since Islamic injunctions were involved in it so the law department sent it to CII after consultation with the social welfare and women development department for their advice on the draft," said Mr Arifeen.
The Provincial Commission on the Status of Women, a recommendatory body on legislation related to women's rights and working under the social welfare and women development department, had been putting its efforts behind the bill, however, the chairperson of PCSW, Neelam Turo, seemed unaware of the move of law department.
"It (the draft bill) is not yet sent to CII," said Ms Turo, who argued that since CII was not a mandatory body so why should the draft law should be sent to it. "Why should we be the one sending the bill to CII when Sindh has not done so," she added.
The Council of Islamic Ideology is a constitutional body that advises the legislature whether or not a certain law is repugnant to Islam, namely to the Holy Koran and Sunna. The Council has male members in majority and only one woman member, Dr Samia Raheel Qazi.
According to Article 227 and 228 of the Constitution, the official said, no law which was repugnant to Islam could be enacted so that was why draft of Domestic Violence Bill was sent to CII to get its view on it. However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... under the Constitution, CII has to intimate within 15 days the government about how much time it would need to review the draft law.
The official said that they kept sending reminders to CII. However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... he defended the delay saying that good laws took time to formulate. The federal government enacted in 2012 a law, identical to the draft bill of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
"I have no hopes from CII after the way they have treated other issues involving women's rights," said Saima Munir, a rights' activist. She wondered how the provincial government could send a draft law to CII when federal and Sindh governments had already enacted laws on the issue.
"Is Islam followed at federal level and in Sindh is different from what we follow here in the province," Ms Munir questioned.
The Sindh government is so far the only provincial government which has passed Domestic Violence Law in 2013.
However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... the official termed the law enacted by Sindh as "NGOs' law" that could be challenged. "We want a domestic violence law for Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa which is in the light of Islamic injunctions and which is better than that of other provinces," said Mr Arifeen.
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Last week, the fifth of six Kilo-class submarines that Vietnam bought from Russia arrived in the Southeast Asian state, local media outlets reported.
According to Thanh Nien News, the HQ-186, delivered by Dutch-registered cargo ship Rolldock Star, arrived at Cam Ranh Bay in Khanh Hoa province last Tuesday evening. The submarine laid at anchor near Cam Ranh Port and was scheduled to arrive at the port thereafter.
The HQ-186 underwent a trial run in the Baltic Sea on June 8 and was expected to arrive in early 2016. The fourth submarine, codenamed HQ-185 Da Nang, arrived at Cam Ranh Port back in July.
The submarines are part of a deal Vietnam reached with Russia’s Admiralty Shipyards for six Project 636 Kilo-class diesel-electric submarines for $2 billion back in 2009. Under the agreement, signed during Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s visit to Moscow that year, Russia agreed to provide the submarines, train Vietnamese crews, and supply necessary spare parts.
The latest delivery comes amidst simmering disputes in the South China Sea, where both Vietnam and China are claimants alongside the Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Taiwan. Last year, Vietnamese officials said that the first Kilo-class submarine had begun patrolling the South China Sea.
The sixth and final submarine, named HQ-187 Ba Ria-Vung Tau, is expected to arrive in Vietnam in mid-2016. Russia officially launched HQ 187 in September last year in a ceremony attended by the commander of the Russian navy Admiral Viktor Chirkov and his Vietnamese counterpart Rear Admiral Pham Hoai Nam. The two had also reportedly discussed strengthening security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific.
The Kilo-class submarines are considered to be one of the quietest diesel submarines in the world, and are designed for anti-submarine warfare and anti-surface-ship warfare.
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It went the China route. It is technically "communist", but has fairly open markets and lets its people travel and say most things freely. Piss off the central party and you can be in trouble, but they aren't as rabid about it as the Chinese.
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TW: Everything's still owned by the Party, or the Party Member's Relatives, or foreign corporations.
I think you were one of the people I talked to about how a lot of the "post-communist" countries were effectively following the pattern of post-closure-of-the-Grand-Council Venice a couple years ago.
Naqdi claimed that Iran under the Shah's rule was subordinate to the American administration, while today the United States subordinates to Iran's dominance in the Middle East.
The commander of the Basij paramilitary force of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mohammad Reza Naqdi, vowed that Tehran "will not make any compromises with our enemies in the Middle East."
Speaking in a press conference in honor of the anniversary of the 1979 Iranian revolution, Naqdi emphasized that "the hundreds of Revolutionary Guards generals fighting in Syria will never repeat the mistake of the Shi'ite Caliph Hassan bin Ali who surrendered leadership of the Muslim world to Muawiyyah bin Abi Sufyan."
Naqdi added that "it is impossible to compare Iran to Iran under the Shah's rule, since back then, Iran was subordinate to the American administration, while today, the United States subordinates to Iran's dominance in the Middle East and it cannot act in the region without getting the approval of the Supreme Leader of Iran."
In addition, Naqdi argued that while senior "American officials visit the Middle East secretly, images of Qassem Soleimani, the commander of Iran's Quds Force, spread across the streets in Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria."
Naqdi also attacked the nuclear deal with the great powers, blaming Iranian President Hassan Rouhani for concealing secret paragraphs of the agreement and making big concessions to the US in exchange for an agreement.
The Basij commander and other heads of Iranian security forces strongly oppose Iran's nuclear deal since it reduces their dominance in the state apparatus and opens Iran to Western influence.
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AFAIC IRAN is just broadly covertly affirming the Obama/US-led, Anti-US OWG-NWO + Globalist agenda where the "Co-Superpower" USoAmerika is restricted to CONUS-NORAM + Littorals/Peripherals.
Lest we fergit, under OWG NAU + Related, the OWG-suborned Co-Superpower USA must give up 1/2 of the Pacific [WESTPAC] to its OWG Co-Superpower sibling China, + likely 1/2 of the Atlantic to its OWG Co-Superpower sibling the EU [OWG Co-Superpower sibling Putinist Russia?].
I want to say "OWG Co-Superpower EU", but the latter is still a work-in-progress and its NOT CLEAR which Nation will lead or dominate the EU in righteous Anti-US OWG Co-Superpower indignation, ESPEC IFF BRITAIN BREAKS UP + LEAVES THE EU = "BREXIT" - DITTO AS PER FRANCE.
* FYI FRANCE EXIST FROM EU = "FREXIT/FEXIT" = [ahem ahem] "F **** IT"!???
TOO MANY CO-SUPERPOWER CHIEFS, NONE OR NOT ENUFF INDIANS - WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG!
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More Net News on Iran this post-NH sunny Guam AM ...
* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [FNA] DM: IRAN TO TEST NEW GENERATION OF "EMAD" BALLISTIC MISSLE, BUILD BATTLE TANK [MBT = indigenous version?] LIKE THE RUSSIAN T-90.
* SAME > NAVY COMMANDER - IRAN SENDS TWO FLEETS OF WARSHIPS TO INDIAN OCEAN.
* RELATED FREEREPUBLIC > [INN = Arutz Sheva] IGNORING OBAMA, IRAN UPGRADES ITS "EMAD" NUCLEAR-CAPABLE MISSLE.
VERSUS
* RUSSIA TODAY > ISRAELI PM NETANYAHU WANTS WHOLE COUNTRY SURROUNDED BY FENCE [Son-of-Maginot-Line?]TO PROTECT IT FROM [Paleo + other Arab-Muslim] "PREDATORS".
MIGHT AS WELL, espec iff the Co-Superpower US is going to be [self-]restricting itself to CONUS-NORAM + Littorals/Peripherals.
IFF ISRAEL WANTS SOMETHING IT HAS TO GO SEE MIDDLE EAST EL SUPREMO OWG CO-SUPERPOWER IRAN, NOTSOMUCH OR NO LONGER THE US???
DITTO US REGIONAL ALLIES IN EAST ASIA-PACIFIC/WESTPAC ALA OWG CO-SUPERPOWER CHINA, NOT THE USA???
Doesn't bug me that he's crying. But Iran's intentions are clear, and 0bean should react accordingly. But he won't.
Iran has released new photographs in which at least one of the recently captured U.S. sailors is crying, according to a series of the pictures posted on social media.
The pictures, as well as an accompanying video, were released by Iranian state-controlled news outlets and disseminated on Twitter by Iranian reporters early Wednesday.
The new photographs come on the heels of another set of pictures that showed Iranian military forces detaining the U.S. sailors at gun point and forcing them to place their hands upon their heads while kneeling on a ship.
Iran captured the 10 U.S. sailors earlier this year after they drifted into Iranian territorial waters.
The U.S. military disclosed after the incident that the sailors were held at gunpoint and that Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps removed SIM cards and other technology from them.
The Obama administration, including Secretary of State John Kerry, has praised and thanked Iran for the way it treated the captured sailors, who were released by Iranian authorities the following morning.
#2
I'm not sure I wouldn't either, knowing I was totally boned. Cannot fight, must surrender, will not be a rescue, prison and interrogations in a Persian prison, waiting for John Kerry et al to perform a release.
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.
Authorities in Florida have arrested a man accused of throwing a live alligator through a restaurant's drive-through window. 
Vladimir Putin has put thousands of troops, warplanes and battleships on high alert in a series of military drills designed to test his military's mobility amid growing tensions with the West.
The Supreme Court's surprise decision Tuesday to halt President Obama's climate change regulation could weaken or even imperil the international global warming accord reached with great ceremony in Paris less than two months ago, climate diplomats said.
Naqdi claimed that Iran under the Shah's rule was subordinate to the American administration, while today the United States subordinates to Iran's dominance in the Middle East.
