[EASTIDAHONEWS] We’ve heard a lot about tourists trying to touch wildlife at Yellowstone National Park but this story takes personal encounters with animals a bit further.
Karen Richardson of Victor, Idaho, was one of several parents chaperoning a group of fifth-graders on a field trip to Yellowstone this week.
Richardson says on Monday, as students were being taught at Lamar Buffalo Ranch, a father and son pulled up at the ranger station with a bison calf in their SUV.
"They were demanding to speak with a ranger," Richardson tells EastIdahoNews.com. "They were seriously worried that the calf was freezing and dying."
Rob Heusevelet, a father of a student, told the men to remove the bison from their car and warned they could be in trouble for having the animal.
"They didn’t care," Heusevelet says. "They sincerely thought they were doing a service and helping that calf by trying to save it from the cold."
Law enforcement rangers were called and the father-and-son tourists, who were from another country, were ticketed.
Heusevelet says the rangers followed the pair back to where they had picked up the bison, and the animal was released.
Yellowstone visitors are not allowed to approach wildlife and are to stay at least 25 yards away from large animals, according to the National Park Service website.
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The mother (Bison) must not have been around when these fools did this or their vehicle (and they) would look less than pristine.
Driving very slowly on a Wind Cave area road amongst a small herd, our car came between a mother and her calf. The mom bellowed and charged the car (until she heard her calf's call from the other side of the road).
Thought we were toast for a bit. They move VERY quickly.
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We poor little bison-Americans,
Deprived of our culture's inheritance:
They kidnap and warm us --
Injustice enormous!
Sheer simian privilege and arrogance.
[PJ] The last living performer from Casablanca is gone, as French actress Madeleine Lebeau, who played Yvonne in the 1942 Academy Award winning classic, and in real life lived through experiences as harrowing as those of the film’s lead character, died following a hip injury on May 1. She was 92.
Born in 1923 in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France, Lebeau began her career in film immediately before the start of World War II with the 1939 French drama Jeunes filles en détresse (Girls in Distress). The following year, in a scene right out of the film for which she would become best known, Lebeau, who was Jewish, was forced to flee Paris with her then-husband Marcel Dalio ahead of the advancing German invasion. The couple ended up in Lisbon, Portugal and from there attempted to travel to the Americas on a Chilean visa. Their transit across the Atlantic was stopped in Mexico when it was discovered their visas were forgeries, but were eventually able to secure temporary Canadian passports which they used to make their way to the United States.
Remember "tax expenditures"? More of the same. Kinda makes me wonder what it would be like to wander the halls of 0bean's mind. I'm sure the first thing I would notice would the sense of being utterly and hopelessly lost. I'm not sure if 0bean would be aware of this as a problem since he's probably used to it.
It's only May, but I think I've found the euphemism of the year: According to Team Obama, criminals should now be declared "justice-involved individuals."
The neo-Orwellianism comes to us from the bizarre flurry of last-minute diktats, regulations and bone-chilling threats collectively known to fanboys as Obama's Gorgeous Goodbye.
In another of those smiley-faced, but deeply sinister, "Dear Colleague" letters sent to universities and colleges this week, Obama's Education Secretary John King discouraged colleges from asking applicants whether they were convicted criminals.
An accompanying pamphlet was called "Beyond the Box: Increasing Access to Higher Education for Justice-Involved Individuals."
So rapists, burglars, armed robbers and drug dealers aren't criminals anymore. These folks are simply "involved" with "justice," according to Obamanoids.
Maybe they're right: "Criminals" is an inherently disparaging term that leads to stigmatization and decreased access to Eugene O'Neill seminars. But don't we need to retroactively reconfigure how we think of those unfortunate souls who found themselves pursued by harsh enforcers of restrictive behavioral norms?
When you think about it, Jack the Ripper was merely a "cutlery-involved individual" while Jeffrey Dahmer was simply an "unconventional dietary-options-involved individual."
Colleges generally ask whether applicants have criminal records, and for excellent reason. Parents probably don't want their eager young freshperson daughter Molly living across the hall from a rapist -- I mean, sexual-justice-involved individual.
King notes that when you ask college applicants about whether they brutalized, mugged or otherwise committed outrages against their fellow human beings, the ugly specter of "disparate impact" arises. The black crime rate is higher than the white crime rate, so the "Are you a criminal?" question is bound to do injury to blacks, or so goes the reasoning.
Obama is fighting the war for criminals to get closer to you on several fronts. Last month, through the Department of Housing and Urban Development, he went after landlords, threatening them with penalties if they barred criminals from living in their buildings.
In November, Obama unilaterally ordered federal agencies to strike the box asking applicants whether they had committed crimes and referred to criminals as "folks." This would be the same president who on Oct. 25, 2010, referred to Republicans as "enemies" and suggested voters should "punish" them. Convicted rapists? They're just "folks."
It's fair to argue that the criminal justice system, and society as a whole, have a strong interest in rehabilitating criminals in addition to punishing them. And Team Obama argues innocently that (the people they refuse to call) criminals deserve to get their foot in the door before the step where they are asked about their criminal history.
But this is just a step in a long-term strategy pursued by progressives, who love criminals the way little girls love Disney princesses. The goal is to sneak criminals into your apartment building or workplace or campus.
Just glance at the website of one Ban the Box advocacy group, the South Dakota Peace & Justice Center. Its stated goal is to put off questions about criminal behavior until later in the game: "Only during the interview process will a criminal background check be completed if it is relevant or required for the position."
In other words: Enforcers will tell you whether an applicant's criminal background is relevant to a particular gig and order you not to ask about it if they deem it irrelevant.
Yet there is no job on the planet in which your criminal background is automatically irrelevant. Employers can weigh how much importance to assign to which crimes and judge for themselves whether a criminal has reformed.
Bringing up "disparate impact" is a way to change the subject between who you are and what you did. One is about characteristics you were born with; the other is about bad choices you made. One is a terrible reason to discriminate against you; the other isn't.
King says that there is no evidence that questions about criminal backgrounds have any impact on campus safety. How hard did he look for such evidence? Because I'm pretty sure that one reliable predictor of crime is the presence of criminals.
Colleges find themselves at a point in time where debates about, say, whether rape is spiking on campus (it isn't) are treated as so imperiling that they require the establishment of alternative "safe spaces" such as the rubber room established at Brown in 2014 and "equipped with cookies, coloring books, bubbles, Play-Doh, calming music, pillows, blankets and a video of frolicking puppies," according to the New York Times.
Yet these colleges are now being nudged not to ask a potential student whether he's a rapist, or an assailant or a heroin dealer, with the implicit threat of the administration's power to launch civil rights investigations lurking not far behind.
University donors, and parents of matriculating students, should be eager to ask college admissions officers how far they are willing to go to comply with Team Obama's wishes: Exactly how many convicts are going to be housed in Molly's dorm?
[FOX/SA Sunday Times] A tip from the Central Intelligence Agency to South Africa's racist apartheid government led to the arrest of Nelson Mandela in 1962, a former CIA operative claims in a new documentary. 'Pride Salute' noted in foto.
Whenever I see that fist, the thought occurs: here is someone who has never punched.
Donald Rickard, who also served as a vice-consul based in Durban, South Africa, told British film director John Irvin that the U.S. believed Mandela to be "completely under the control of the Soviet Union", making his arrest necessary.
Rickard's claims were first reported by the Sunday Times newspaper. Irvin's documentary, "Mandela's Gun", is scheduled to be screened at the Cannes Film Festival this week.
"He could have incited a war in South Africa, the United States would have to get involved, grudgingly, and things could have gone to hell," Rickard said of Mandela. "We were teetering on the brink here and it had to be stopped, which meant Mandela had to be stopped. And I put a stop to it." Making Mandela a Living Martyr was much more effective, and look at the progress which has been made.
Mandela was arrested after police stopped a car he was driving at a roadblock. One of South Africa's most wanted men, Mandela was posing as a chauffeur when he was detained.
"I found out when he was coming down and how he was coming," Rickard says. "That's where I was involved and that's where Mandela was caught."
A spokesman for South Africa's ruling African National Congress called the revelation "a serious indictment" and accused the CIA of working against the country's current government.
"We have recently observed that there are efforts to undermine the democratically elected ANC government," Zizi Kodwa alleged. "They never stopped operating here." "Recently learned" is it? And you've never stopped making the claim.
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They know we know. We tell them we know, so that he doesn't just simply disappear. Having a war where the U.S. is 'grudgingly involved'... rubbish. Our efforts were elsewhere at the time, and remain so.
Demographics will generally steer events, and they did.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Ex-London Mayor Boris Johnson has compared the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... ’s aims to those of Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... , arguing that the 28-nation bloc is creating a super state that mirrors the attempt of the Nazi leader to dominate the European continent.
Johnson, the most prominent political figure arguing that Britannia should leave the EU, says the past 2,000 years of European history have been dominated by doomed attempts to unify the continent and recreate the Romans’ golden age.
"Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically. The EU is an attempt to do this by different methods," he was quoted by The Sunday Telegraph as saying. "But fundamentally, what is lacking is the eternal problem, which is that there is no underlying loyalty to the idea of Europe. There is no single authority that anybody respects or understands. That is causing this massive democratic void."
Johnson’s remarks immediately elicited outrage on the part of those campaigning to remain in the EU ahead of a June 23 vote in Britannia on whether to stay or leave. The "stay" camp described Johnson's comments as a desperate effort take the focus off the economic impact such a rupture would create and on to the more populist theme of illusory sovereignty issues.
"Leave campaigners have lost the economic argument and now they are losing their moral compass," said Hilary Benn, a senior member of the Labour Party. "After the horror of the Second World War, the EU helped to bring an end to centuries of conflict in Europe. And for Boris Johnson to make this comparison is both offensive and desperate."
The remarks come after a steady drumbeat of economic warnings about the shock to the nation's economy in the event of a vote to leave. The Bank of England and its respected Gov. Mark Carney cautioned last week that Britannia faces a recession amid the uncertainty of a so-called Brexit (British exit from the EU).
By shifting to the illusory sovereignty issue, Johnson is changing tack - and tapping into the deep-seated concerns of many Britons who believe that babus bureaucrats in Brussels have seized too much control over their everyday lives. By evoking World War II, Johnson has reminded much of the country of its "finest hour" - the moment that the nation acted as the bulwark to halt Nazi tyranny.
Johnson’ attention-grabbing tactics have also underscored his ability tap into the popular mood, and his comments Sunday are likely to appeal to the patriotic sentiments of those who have not yet made up their minds on the vote. Johnson’s self-deprecating manner and jokey persona often seizes the public's imagination - a factor that makes him a leading contender to succeed fellow Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... , the leader of the "stay" campaign.
Another leading figure in the "out" campaign, the nationalist UKIP party leader Nigel Farage, compared Johnson to former US President Ronald Reagan and rejected suggestions he wasn't serious enough to be Britannia’s prime minister.
"Boris goes on surprising people," Farage told the Mail on Sunday. "They say he can’t do this, he’s a joker - it’s like Ronnie Reagan. Could he do it? Yes."
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[PanamaPost] Ramon Muchacho, Mayor of Chacao in Caracas, said the streets of the capital of Venezuela are filled with people killing animals for food.
Through Twitter, Muchacho reported that in Venezuela, it is a "painful reality" that people "hunt cats, dogs and pigeons" to ease their hunger.
People are also reportedly gathering vegetables from the ground and trash to eat as well.
The crisis in Venezuela is worsening everyday due in part to shortages reaching 70 percent. This to go along with the world’s highest level of inflation.
The population’s desperation has begun to show, with looting and robberies for food increasing all the time. This Sunday, May 1, six Venezuelan military officials were arrested for stealing goats to ease their hunger, as there was no food at the Fort Manaure military base.
The week before, various regions of the country saw widespread looting of shopping malls, pharmacies, supermarkets and food trucks, all while people chanted "we are hungry."
The Venezuelan Chamber of Food (Cavidea) said many businesses only have 15 days worth of inventory. Production has been effected as a result of a shortage of raw materials, as well as exhausted national and international supply resources.
Supermarket employees confirmed food does not arrive at the same rate as it did before, and that people’s inability to get enough is a daily struggle.
Supermarkets are registered into a system in such a way that they are not permitted to sell Venezuelans food 15 days since their purchase of the same product. As a result, long food lines have formed all over the country, with many people reselling their share to earn an "extra income."
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Supermarkets are registered into a system in such a way that they are not permitted to sell Venezuelans food 15 days since their purchase of the same product
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Always the end point of communism and socialism: an early grave from either a rifle or starvation.
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Kipling had these guys figured out a long time ago, Percy McCoy7690.
Too bad they don't teach anything worthwhile in school these days.
The problem with our wannabee socialists is that they all think they will be the commisar running the camp, none of them think they will wind up the zek in the camp. It is funny to see the expressions on their faces when the "inner party" apparatchiks demote them to our level.
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other supporters of Hugo Chavez included Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey, Danny Glover, Oliver Stone, Harry Belafonte, Naomi Campbell, Cornel West, Castro, US Rep (NY) Jose Serrano and of course Jimmy Carter.
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Also Cindy Shehan who *loved* Hugo and don't forget Barak Obama who held them up as an example.
And lets not forget that Maria Gabriela Chávez. Daughter of the late Dictator, is worth 4.2 Billion (with a B!).
You can bet they aren't waiting in line or hunting down cats and dogs.
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Deacon, it should be noted that the communists and socialists generally came to power in countries that were already well on their way to mass starvation, if not already there. Communism is not the cure, though it is also not the cause.
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Stalin intentionally starved the Ukranians. The 5 year plans for the rest of the Soviet Union were also disasters. In Mao's China the harvests were taken by Mao and the peasants got almost nothing. If you became too weak or too old to work you got nothing.
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The famine in the Ukraine occurred in the 1930s and was completely man-made. The much greater famine in China was so as well.
How did these happen? Apparently the local officials were so terrified of being executed for reporting poor harvests, that they made up their reports claiming better ones. The government then demanded that they send off much of the spurious harvests to the cities. Out of fear they sent what was was required of them, leaving nothing for the rural populations to eat. Something like 30 million people died in this famine in China.
[Dhaka Tribune] Venezuela’s opposition on Saturday slammed a state of emergency decreed by President Nicolas Maduro and vowed to press home efforts to remove the leftist leader this year amid a grim economic crisis.
Maduro on Friday night declared a 60-day state of emergency due to what he called plots from Venezuela and the United States to subvert him. He did not provide specifics.
The measure shows Maduro is panicking as a push for a recall referendum against him gains traction with tired, frustrated Venezuelans, opposition leaders said during a protest in Caracas.
"We’re talking about a desperate president who is putting himself on the margin of legality and constitutionality," said Democratic Unity coalition leader Jesus Torrealba, adding Maduro was losing support within his own bloc.
"If this state of emergency is issued without consulting the National Assembly, we would technically be talking about a self-coup," he told hundreds of supporters who waved Venezuelan flags and chanted "he’s going to fall."
The opposition won control of the National Assembly in a December election, propelled by voter anger over product shortages, raging inflation that has annihilated salaries, and rampant violent crime, but the legislature has been routinely undercut by the Supreme Court.
Protests are on the rise and a key poll shows nearly 70% of Venezuelans now say Maduro must go this year.
Maduro has vowed to see his term through, however, blasting opposition politicians as coup-mongering elitists seeking to emulate the impeachment of fellow leftist Dilma Rousseff in Brazil.
Saying trouble-makers were fomenting violence to justify a foreign invasion, Maduro on Saturday ordered military exercises for next weekend.
He added the government would take over idled factories, without providing details.
But the opposition fear authorities are trying to delay a referendum until 2017, when the presidency would fall to the vice president, a post currently held by Socialist Party loyalist Aristobulo Isturiz.
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[CHRON] Online shopping is reaching such a critical mass with American households that many of the icons of the traditional mall —from Macy's to The Gap and J.C. Penney — face an increasingly uncertain future. Full price stores started coming under pressure with the founding of E.J. Korvette's (which wasn't really Eight Jewish Korean Vets, but Eugene & Joe's Corvette)
A government report Friday suggested a modestly healthy consumer, with retail sales up 1.3 percent in April. Americans are eating out more at restaurants. They're buying more cars. But the main beneficiaries of spending in the past year have been Amazon, eBay and other internet behemoths. Where things are usually cheaper and more convenient but harder to return.
Spending at these non-store retailers shot up 10.7 percent from a year ago, the government said in a week when earnings reports showed disturbing drop-offs at Macy's, Kohl's, Nordstrom and J.C. Penney. I'm guessing their drop went toward Walmart and Target and such, with Walmart and Target losing revenue toward the online stores.
Shoppers who once crowded malls are now ordering on phones, computers and tablets, siphoning sales from physical stores, which face growing pressure to reinvent their businesses. If you need to touch it or you need it this afternoon you need brick and mortar. If Wednesday will do, you go with online.
"Online is cannibalizing the store business," said Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst at the NPD Group. Sears and Montgomery Ward got their start with mail order, and Penney's joined them. Online came around and Penney's went upscale, competing with Macy's. Ward's petrified and went out of business. Sears is still at the old stand, but they're not mass mailing catalogues anymore and their K-Mart acquisition hasn't competed wth Walmart. It's not a question of whether they'll go under, but when.
The magnitude of the change may be just beginning to intensify. Online shopping has attuned customers to focusing on price and hunting for the best bargains, thereby shrinking profit margins at many stores. The stores are under pressure to pay more for their employees. Retail wages and benefits (hah!) have been horrible for years. Retailers are now going to self-checkout.
How will they keep people from shoplifting?
Retailers have responded by shuttering stores to cut costs, leaving more shopping malls and plazas empty. The result has been a painful upheaval in an industry that employs 15.9 million people. If your store's closed you know nobody's gonna buy anything.
Online, in the meantime, has been catching up to the general merchandise stores that range from Wal-Mart to Nieman Marcus. Nieman Marcus is probably losing more proportionately than Walmart, which is opening superstores that sell groceries and tires.
Back in 2000, for every dollar spent at physical stores, just 30 cents were spent online and at mail-order houses, according to government figures. Now, the online category makes up nearly 70 cents for every dollar spent at general merchandise stores. Sixteen years ago things were pretty primitive online. Amazon was a good idea that grew, unlike a hundred other internet flops.
"We have yet to learn the ramifications of just how paramount these shifts in consumer behavior are," Cohen said. "This is a cultural shift from the younger generation that is only going to carry forward." Pretty much everyone's doing it now. The "older generation" today was sixteen years younger then.
The April retail sales report from the Commerce Department showed uniformly solid growth. It assuaged concerns that an economic slowdown in the first three months of 2016 might have significantly disrupted consumer spending. As far as anybody but the Commerce Department can tell the economy is flat as a board. They tell us we've got one percent inflation and things still cost more on a curve kind of like Zim-bob-we. If you go to the grocery store the shopping basket that cost you $100 in 2008 will cost you about $175 today.
The gains weren't just online. Though internet purchases rose 2.1 percent from March, auto sales jumped 3.2 percent. Clothiers, restaurants, sporting goods stores, grocers and gas stations also posted gains. Gasoline is still down. Clothing has shifted all the way to tee shirts and either shorts or jeans -- suits cost too much. Business casual costs a lot. Restaurants have shifted to fast food and chains. It's hard to find regional cooking anymore; it costs too much to run a restaurant. I suspect the profits from sporting goods stores is from people buying guns.
Only building materials stores suffered a monthly drop, but their annual sales growth was solid. I don't know about everyplace else, but around here they keep building. The rents I've seen posted for apartments are more than my mortgage.
Though sales at department stores edged up slightly, they've sunk 1.7 percent over the past 12 months. The shift online points to more disciplined consumers whose collective habits can reshape sales. Impulse buys make up 45 percent of store purchases, for example, but only 23 percent online, according to research at the NPD Group. I think people shop online when they want to buy a specific thing. Stores are designed to add impulse buying. It's harder to do that online.
At the same time, the improving economy has yet to fully relieve the financial pressures on many Americans. Across the country, households are more reluctant to spend than they were before Great Recession struck in late 2007. Prices are way up, labor force participation is way down.
Ken Perkins of Retail Metrics, a research firm, notes that incomes have been rising only tepidly despite a stronger job market. A result is that women may be less likely to step up spending on clothing at a time when Amazon has intensified price competition. I believe salaries have been dropping and wages have been tepid. Lots of jobs now are 32 hours -- part time, which means no benefits. Labor is plentiful, but it's still not cheap.
"My gut says that women don't have the money outside replenishing items," Perkins says. "And the Amazon effect is gaining momentum." Women are also wearing tee shirts and shorts. We're unisex ugly.
Shoppers such as Morgan Province of Herndon, Virginia, say they're tightening spending for a variety of reasons. Oh, well. That clears that up.
Province says that she's saving for a move and that when she does buy, she's spending more online. She's going to Amazon.com every two weeks, compared with every six or eight weeks a year ago. "It's more convenient," Province says. "It's more affordable, and there are more options." You don't need to try on tee shirts and shorts, so you can buy them online.
John Blackledge, an analyst at Cowen & Co., says he expects Amazon.com to replace Macy's Inc. as the No. 1 apparel retailer by next year.
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Good inline, fred. Gonna be hilarious when all of what you have pointed out is discovered by the press the day of President Trump's swearing in.
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I went online to buy my kid a camera kit for college. I bought a really nice Nikon with 2 lenses at an 'obselete' brick and mortar store for $150 less than any online site and got free delivery. On-line is this year's Home Shopping Club for the lazy.
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...only if they don't shop and compare. On line is helped by having inventory on hand that local merchants don't or won't stock. "We can order that for you" today means no sale, I can order it myself.
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It is getting easier to return items online too.
Many things are pre-paid to go back and no real hassle. My wife will order 3 or 4 things knowing that she'll only keep the one she likes the best with no cost return.
[EXPRESS.CO.UK] Ever since Norway brokered its European Economic Area deal with the EU 22 years ago, the oil industry has been an area of conflict.
Now the EU has again attempted to pressure the Scandinavian country into giving bureaucrats direct influence over the oil and gas industry.
However, Norway's Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (MPE) has said Brussels has no business meddling in individual nations affairs.
MPE officials said: “The government does not consider the Offshore Directive of EEA relevant.
“This has been conveyed to the EU on several occasions. Norway's position on this issue remains unchanged.”
Brussels bureaucrats want Norway to introduce EU rules on health, safety and environmental matters relating to the offshore industry, however the oil-rich nation is refusing to bow to the pressure.
Government officials added that Norway has unique expertise in the area, a brilliant safety record and EU meddling is unwanted.
The EU and Norway have been in a tug of war for decades, but the disagreement deepened three years ago when Brussels introduced its own directive called Safety of Offshore Oil and Gas Operations Directive.
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...Along the same lines, just started watching 'Occupied' on Netflix last night: very good Norwegian drama (it's subtitled) about the Norwegians electing a Green prime minister who shuts off gas and oil production in the face of an energy crisis...and then finds out that Green political ranting doesn't last long when people with guns are freezing in the dark.
Mike
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Mike keep watching -- you'll never guess who the PM asks for help. Schadenfreude Theater.
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Now if the EU had a military, Norway would be in trouble.
At the worst right now is a volley of "strongly" worded letters that are filled with a bunch of whining.
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Note that all agreements come with an unspecified expiration date. This one was 3 years ago.
You cannot trust elites to keep their word. That is the reason our constitution was written as it was. Even so, it is a constant battle to maintain any sort of freedom.
See the photos at the link. The kayaks were all made from plastic (a petroleum product) and so were the tents they used to block the railroad tracks. There wasn't a single dugout canoe among them.
NACORTES, Wash. - Dozens of "kayaktivists" hit the water Sunday afternoon near the site of two oil refineries in Skagit County, day three of their demand for action on climate change and an equitable transition away from fossil fuels such as oil and coal.
An estimated 2,000 protesters gathered near Anacortes over the weekend with the goal of blocking the transportation of oil to the state's oil refineries on land and on water.
Fifty-two climate activists were arrested and cited for trespassing Sunday morning after authorities cleared their protest campsite on top of railroad tracks near Mount Vernon leading to the refineries. One person was also cited for resisting arrest. No one was injured.
"We’ve been in communication throughout the weekend with protesters to let them know that they risked arrest for trespassing on the railroad tracks," said Skagit County Sheriff Will Reichardt in a released statement. "Prior to making any arrests, we did advise protesters that they could move to designated locations near March’s Point and lawfully demonstrate."
A spokeswoman for the protesters says she expected everyone to be processed and released from police custody. Emily Johnston says protests would continue around Anacortes on Sunday, but she doesn't expect people to return to the railroad tracks.
About 150 people had spent the night Saturday in tents and sleeping bags on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe tracks west of Mount Vernon. I saw this as I was driving by on my way to Oak Harbor. Most of the tents were of the plastic kind. It was pretty pathetic. However some of the car dealerships in the area were advised to pull their show cars back from the road to risk vandalism.
BNSF Railway spokesman Gus Melonas says they were asked to leave at about 5 a.m. and most gathered their belongings and peacefully left the area.
The rail line has been closed since Friday because of the protests. Melonas says trains will begin running Sunday afternoon. Personally I would have been tempted to run the locomotives thru them real slow. Take care of the evil plastic tents for them
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They are blocking strategic assets. Load up the troops, clear the obstructions and bet you they won't do it again. (They might still vote, the dead often do.)
[DAWN] Nineteen years after the killing of managing director of the then Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... Electric Supply Corporation Shahid Hamid, his widow and son picked out a suspect as one of the four hitmen during an identification parade held before a judicial magistrate on Saturday.
The suspect -- Muhammad Minhaj Qazi alias Asad -- along with his accomplices has been booked in a case pertaining to the July 5, 1997 killing of the then KESC MD, his driver and a guard in the Defence Housing Authority.
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[DAWN] GHOTKI: A feudal landlord in Ghotki, while presiding over a local jirga, allegedly levelled allegations of wrongdoing on a married woman and ordered her brother to submit a fine of Rs0.5 million along with presenting two girls from his family for marriage, it has been learnt.
Upon refusal, two brothers of the woman were locked up by the influential landlord and later handed over to the local police.
The father of the girls, who were allegedly ordered to be given away as Vani, said "the influential landlord enforced his decision on them and forced them to accept that a wrongdoing’s allegation has been proven on his sister".
"When we refused to accept the decision and protested over it, they locked us up in a room before handing over us to the local police," he maintained.
The family further appealed to the chief justice to ensure the service of justice to them, saying "they are poor and weak so no one pays heed to their complaints".
Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... senior police official took notice of this incident and ordered an inquiry into the matter.
SSP Masood Ahmed Bangash informed Dawn that he has "formed a team to investigate this matter and submit its findings in 24 hours".
Bangash also said that police will provide security to the women and her family.
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[Telegraph] Spring has well and truly sprung, the daffodils are out, and hardier owners of convertible cars have been taking the opportunity for some topless motoring. Meanwhile Indian, the famous old bike marque recently reborn after a half-century long hiatus, has introduced a two-wheeled convertible that combines familiar style with comparable versatility.
The Springfield even has a seasonal flavour to its name, though that is misleading because it refers to the city in Massachusetts, Indian’s home until production ceased in 1953. When Polaris relaunched the brand three years ago, a vital part of its appeal was a rich heritage dating back to its foundation in 1901, two years before old rival Harley-Davidson.
[Military.com] Supporters of a deal allowing American access to military bases in the Philippines hope the new president-elect,
Rodrigo Duterte, will embrace the agreement despite his outspoken opposition to U.S. influence and his promise to change foreign policy when he takes office next month.
Washington and Manila have yet to work out the details of a base-sharing agreement that calls for developing five military bases to be used by rotational U.S. forces, and Duterte would face strong resistance if he simply abandoned agreement, an executive order by current President Benigno Aquino. But proponents of the base-sharing plan are worried that his administration could effectively neuter it through delays.
The two nations announced the base-sharing deal in February under the terms of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement signed in 2014. Those facilities are Antonio Bautista Air Base, Basa Air Base, Pampanga, Lumbia Air Base, Fort Magsaysay, and Mactan-Benito Ebuen Air Base.
Defense Department spokesman Bill Urban said, "The U.S. is working closely with the Philippines to develop project proposals to enhance the existing military infrastructure and installations at these five locations that will enable high-impact, high-value training for both the Armed Forces of the Philippines and U.S. Pacific Command."
Runway repairs and expansions, depots for disaster-response supplies and fuel storage tanks are among the infrastructure upgrades being considered. A decision has not been made on the upgrades, said a spokesman for the Philippine Department of National Defense.
The five bases require varying amounts of improvement, particularly Fort Magsaysay and Basa Air Base, which are in remote areas and lack sleeping and mess hall facilities that meet American standards for rotations longer than a few weeks.
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...The way this used to work, in the Olden Time, was that the Philippine Government would make a few unpleasant noises, we'd sweeten the deal a bit, and everybody would be happy. I suspect though that this time we might just tell 'em to go jump in the lake.
Mike
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Oh,yes, let's fuel the utter corruption in the PI. More money! (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
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
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Ex-London Mayor Boris Johnson has compared the 
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[EXPRESS.CO.UK] Ever since Norway brokered its European Economic Area deal with the EU 22 years ago, the oil industry has been an area of conflict. 
[Military.com] Supporters of a deal allowing American access to military bases in the Philippines hope the new president-elect, 
