[NEWYORK.CBSLOCAL] Security guards hopped into action after a fight broke out between a man dressed as the Easter bunny and shoppers at a mall in New Jersey.
A video of the incident was posted on Twitter around 5:40 p.m. Sunday. It shows a chaotic scene in a section that was set up to take photos with the Easter bunny at the Newport Mall in Jersey City.
The man in the bunny costume is seen brawling before being separated by security. The man then appears seconds later, throws off his white bunny gloves and exchanges punches with another man.
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[Dhaka Tribune] In the fallout of the $100-million Bangladesh Bank heist, the Philippine financial industry became front and center in the media, raising questions on how such a huge amount of dirty money easily got into the country.
The money was coursed through Philippines' banking system, deposited to a Filipino-Chinese businessman's bank account, and transferred to 3 large casinos -- these are just some important details in a story that is developing into the biggest documented case of money laundering in Philippine history.
With less than two months left before the current administration ends, this could even stain President Benigno Aquino III's legacy of minimizing corruption in the country, with the Philippines in danger of returning to the "gray list" of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
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[Dhaka Tribune] Businessman Kim Wong appears to be the criminal mastermind of the laundering through the Philippine financial system of $81 million stolen from the Bangladesh central bank, according to Senetor Serge Osmeña.
Maia Santos-Deguito, manager of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC) branch on Jupiter Street, Makati City, is not the most guilty party in the caper, said Osmeña, who described Deguito as a credible witness after she faced the senators in a closed session on Thursday.
It was Wong who asked Deguito to open the bank accounts where the $81 million was wired, and who instructed her to use the services of foreign exchange remittance company Philrem Services Inc., Osmeña said.
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"Appears to be..."
Does that mean they could have the Wong Kim?
[American Mirror] Bill Clinton is deteriorating before our eyes.
The former president appeared in Tucson and Phoenix on Sunday and during an introduction by Mark Kelly, Clinton stood expressionless, seemingly chewing on his tongue with his mouth agape.
Kelly, and his wife, former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, appeared with Clinton. As Kelly launched attacks against Republican front runner Donald Trump, Clinton stared off into the crowd. He looked at the floor, his mouth hanging open.
As the audience cheered for Kelly’s lines, Clinton stood motionless. Even Giffords smiled and nodded affectionately.
The campaign trail -- and perhaps other factors -- have clearly taken a toll on Clinton.
While campaigning in Iowa in January to rescue Hillary’s floundering presidential campaign, the former president’s hand could be seen trembling while he was making a point.
As he was explaining his wife’s rationale for invoking 9/11 to defend her ties to Wall Street, Clinton said, "She was making the point that the people devastated on 9/11 were people to her, not categories."
Watch his left hand at the :30 mark:
In 2013, Clinton denied having Parkinson’s.
"I have a condition that sometimes you get with aging," Clinton said at the time, the Huffington Post reported. "You may have noticed it; my hand has a little tremor when I’m tired and a lot of people do when they’re older."
"The first time it happened, I had to go get myself checked to make sure I didn’t have Parkinson’s [disease]," he said.
He said his doctor claimed he didn’t though Clinton didn’t say what condition he has.
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Neither one of them is young, and I get the impression that they are distracted by a lot of side issues (ahem, fbi investigation, ahem) that is soaking up energy needed for campaigning. As they deserve to be.
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By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com
Ukrainian and Russian backed rebels continue to suffer casualties in ongoing fighting in southeastern Ukraine, according to Russian language news accounts.
A news report which appeared in tsensor.net.ua said that rebels have lost six dead and 11 wounded over two days of fighting in and near Donetsk city. Most of the losses were to the rebel 11th Separate Motorized Rifle Regiment, which is posted near Makievka in northeastern Donetsk city. They have been participating in the fighting near Avdievka and in Yasinovataya for two weeks.
A separate news account which appeared in korrespondent.net said that at least two Ukrainian soldiers were killed when their vehicle struck a mine in Avdievka Sunday evening. A Twitter report by an individual identified as Vitaliy Denega said he was uncertain if those losses were from the Ukrainian 58th Motorized Rifle Brigade.
Rebel military officials say that the main Ukrainian unit involved in the fighting at Yasinovataya, the 58th Separate Rifle Brigade has lost eight dead and 15 wounded over the last three days.
The total losses for the Ukrainian side at Yasinovataya comes to 38 dead. Rebel officials have yet to summarize their losses. The last time they reported losses, two rebel soldiers were killed three days ago.
The situation around Yasinovataya is static, with rebel troops dug in along the main road that connects Gorlovka to Donetsk city. Rebels say that Ukrainian artillery continues hitting rebel positions near the road, making normal transport all but impossible. The Ukrainian move into the area comes during the rainy season in Ukraine and Russia, where travel becomes difficult for tracked vehicles and nearly impossible for wheeled vehicles.
It is anyone's guess as to what will happen to the Ukrainian positions once the ground firms up in late spring.
Fighting elsewhere in Donetsk
Another news report posted on tsensor.net.ua quoted the Ukrainian ministry of defense saying rebel activity has been reported in Opytnoye, Novotroitsk, Peski and Marinka, where rebel forces have fired small arms and RPGs at Ukrainian positions.
The report also said that rebel mortar fire was reported near Zaitsevo, which is north of Gorlovka. 152mm artillery fire was reported on Ukrainian targets at Avidievka.
According to a news release posted by the Donetsk ministry of defense on its website, Ukrainian forces violated the ceasefire a total of 43 times in 24 hours.
Among the localities hit were Zaitsevo, Spartak, Trudovskoy, and the Donetsk airport. Ukrainian artillery struck the southern Donetsk village of Kominternovo.
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 Ukraine by clicking here.
No rocket artillery yet. But the rebels will want to restore the situation at Yasinovataya before too long, and that means bringing back the rocket artillery.
MOSCOW, March 20. /TASS/. A passenger Boeing of Russia’s UTair air company has safely landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport after spending about two hours in midair preparing for an emergency landing, a spokeswoman for the airport told TASS on Sunday.
"The plane landed safely, the passengers will be taken to the terminal," Maria Sharavina said.
There were 112 passengers onboard the plane.
The Boeing 737-800 passenger jet (flight UT-247) took off from Vnukovo for Surgut but shortly after the takeoff the pilot decided to return to the airport after a failure detector signaled a malfunction.
A source in emergencies services told TASS that the plane was flying at an altitude of 2.13 kilometers over Obninsk and Serpukhov (southwest of Moscow) for more about two hours to burn out fuel.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The pilots of the Flydubai plane that crashed in Russia on Saturday, killing 62 people, had expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... s over weather conditions, an air traffic control recording has allegedly revealed.
One of the pilots in the seven-minute recording can be heard asking whether the "weather is better?" as they approached Rostov-on-Don airport. Apparently it wasn't.
Preliminary information indicates the FlyDubai Flight FZ981 was landing when it hit the ground and broke into pieces at the airport about 950 kilometers south of Moscow.
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The purported video I saw made it look like they flew it into the ground.
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They missed their first approach then held for 2 hours. Prolly low on fuel and began their approach too close to the airport and too high = "diving to the numbers" (not a good strategy).
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New discount airline with lower paid, less experienced pilots encounter difficult flying weather. The odds aren't good that smart flying will result.
A country that has allowed North Korean vessels to sail under its flag has canceled the registrations in line with United Nations sanctions on the communist regime, a senior government official said Sunday.
Without naming the country, the official told reporters that it was one of several nations that allowed the North to skirt taxes and other regulations under a practice called flag of convenience.
The vessels whose registrations were canceled belonged to the Ocean Maritime Management Company, which has been blacklisted under U.N. sanctions.
Earlier this month, the U.N. Security Council adopted a new resolution punishing Pyongyang for its fourth nuclear test in January and long-range rocket launch last month. Among other sanctions measures, the resolution blacklists 31 vessels belonging to OMM.
On Monday, meanwhile, South Korea and the United States will hold high-level consultations on ways to tighten the screws on Pyongyang. South Korea's top nuclear envoy Kim Hong-kyun plans to meet with Sung Kim, the U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, and Daniel Fried, the State Department's coordinator for sanctions policy, in Seoul.
The unusual session will focus on exchanging information on bilateral sanctions on North Korea the allies are imposing, officials said.
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North Korea is clearing up and repairing a remote nuclear test site in Punggye-ri, which seems capable of supporting another nuclear test "at any time," according to the website 38 North.
North Korean Pudgy Kim Jong-un early last week announced a test of a nuclear warhead soon. The fourth and latest nuclear test was conducted 22 days after the enormous Kim gave the order on Dec. 15.
Defense Ministry spokesman Moon Sang-gyun here confirmed that the site at Pyungye-ri, North Hamgyong Province is being maintained "in a condition that allows another nuclear test to be conducted at short notice."
Activity has been spotted near the north entrance of the test site, where the last test was carried out, according to analysis of satellite images on March 6 and 14.
"Recent commercial satellite imagery indicates continued activity... that does not appear directed at further tunnel excavation but rather to maintain existing tunnels as well as to clean up after the January 2016 nuclear test," 38 North said.
38 North pointed to what appears to be water draining from the entrance.
"This may support the hypothesis that branching tunnels lead to other test chambers since the shaft used for the January test should have been completely sealed to prevent radioactivity leakage," 38 North said.
A rash of celebrations are coming up in the North, including regime founder Kim Il-sung’s birthday, and a party congress looms in May, which is ample motivation for the regime to show off achievements to an increasingly disaffected population.
The North recently claimed to have miniaturized a nuclear weapon so it can be mounted on a missile, and speculation here is that it will be testing the device.
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How much weapons-grade stuff have they got? (According to the CIA, that is.)
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[On whose side you'll have to toss a coin. BTW, the Klan was a child of the Donks. Bull Connors was a DNC member. Both past and present of the party seek to shut down the free and peaceful assembly of others.]
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Don't forget Robert Byrd, lifelong Democrat Senator from West Virginia and KKK member.
But I have to wonder if some of these people who are punching the protesters at Trump rallies are who they say they are. I wonder if a close look at their background might show they are Hillary supporters who are throwing punches to further the narrative that Trump supporters are prone to violence...agents provocateurs, so to speak. If the Beest would stoop to sending her Brown Shirts to Trump rallies she'd certainly stoop a little lower just to be absolutely certain that there is trouble at Trump rallies.
"If you ever wondered what's wrong with the Black Lives Matter supporters mentality, wonder no more. One woman actually stated, 'He didn't do no wrong, he just shot a cop.'
Najee Harmon, 19, had a long list of assaults, thefts, vandalisms [sic] and armed robberies. But when he shot a police officer, a woman who's known him his entire life, Stephanie King, uttered some of the most heartless words I've ever heard.
'HE DIDN'T DO NO WRONG, HE JUST SHOT A COP!' She continued, 'Then everybody come around when they shoot the cops, but when the cops shoot people, do they come around?'
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[Daily Caller] An event featuring a transgender speaker at Brown University has been called off after student activists objected that the speaker’s event would be hosted by a Jewish organization.
Janet Mock, born a male, transitioned to living as a female as a teenager and now works as a writer and transgender activist. Mock was scheduled to speak at Brown March 21 as part of a speaker series put on by Moral Voices, a Jewish student organization dedicated to the discussion of various moral issues.
Mock’s scheduled appearance was soon the target of activists, who complained that his speech would be delivered at Brown/RISD Hillel, Brown’s Jewish student center. In an online petition, critics argued that Mock’s appearance was an act of "pinkwashing," an attempt to distract from the suffering of Palestinians by portraying Israel and Jews in general as progressive on LGBT issues. Israel is the only country in the Middle East that allows same-sex marriage, and it has allowed gays to serve openly in the military since 1993.
"Hillel’s Moral Voices campaign has chosen the topic of LGBTQ rights this year," the petition says. "This hides the fact that for decades, the state of Israel and Israeli advocacy organizations (like Hillel) have been engaging in pinkwashing, a strategy that tries to improve Israel’s image and rebrand it as a liberal, modern, and ‘hip’ country. By shifting the focus to a very narrow definition of LGBTQ rights (exclusively for queer Israelis and not for queer Palestinians), Israel uses pinkwashing to deflect attention from Israel’s colonization and occupation of Palestine, and the violence that is being carried out against Palestinians."
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.
North Korea is clearing up and repairing a remote nuclear test site in Punggye-ri, which seems capable of supporting another nuclear test "at any time," according to the website 38 North.
[Daily Caller] An event featuring a transgender speaker at Brown University has been called off after student activists objected that the speaker’s event would be hosted by a Jewish organization.
