Theresa May will on Sunday announce she will repeal the 1972 European Communities Act in a move that will formally begin the process of making Britain’s Parliament sovereign once again.
Addressing the Conservative Party Conference for the first time as leader, Mrs May will declare that her Government will begin work to end the legislation that gives European Union law supremacy in Britain. In its place, a new “Great Repeal Bill” will be introduced in Parliament as early as next year to put power for the nation’s laws back into the hands of MPs and peers.
Well not really: it moves all the current EU laws under the British code. Then the MPs will begin the process of deciding which laws they wish to keep.
The announcement is Mrs May’s first firm commitment on Brexit since becoming Prime Minister in July and marks a major step on the road to ending the country’s EU membership. More at the link
[Daily Caller] The U.S. sanctioned and filed charges against a Chinese firm for doing illegal business with North Korea, and China is not pleased, according to Reuters.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned China’s Dandong Hongxiang Industrial Development Company Ltd. (DHID) Monday. Criminal charges were brought against four executives, namely, Ma Xiaohong, Zhou Jianshu, Hong Jinhua, and Luo Chuanxu, for contributing to North Korean proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
DHID is being charged with collaborating with Korea Kwangson Banking Corporation (KKBC), which is under U.S. and U.N. sanctions for providing financial services for North Korean WMD programs.
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Tuesday that it firmly opposes countries that try to "exercise ’long-arm jurisdiction’ by enforcing its domestic laws over China’s enterprises and individuals."
Three Chinese fishermen have died in a fire after their boat was boarded by the South Korean coastguard.
The incident began when a coastguard vessel identified the fishing boat in South Korean waters, and ordered it to stop for inspection.
A coastguard official said the men ignored the commands, and barricaded themselves inside the wheel-house while the boat continued to travel. Officers then fired "flashbang" or stun grenades into the space, after which a fire broke out. The men, who were suspected of illegal fishing, were caught in the blaze after the coastguard officers threw a "flashbang" or stun grenade into part of their boat where they were hiding.
It is believed they died of smoke inhalation, an official said, and an autopsy has been ordered.
Fourteen other fishermen survived and are being questioned by authorities.
Chinese authorities have requested a full investigation, and South Korea's coastguard has said one is already under way.
Fishing in South Korean waters by Chinese vessels is permitted with the proper authorisation, but illegal fishing has become a point of contention between the two countries in recent years.
Gonna have a first-class transplant program. I have to say, I read that headline, much, much differently...
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday rejected Attorney General Ashtar Ausaf’s request for two months to streamline issues in the public sector hospitals of the federal capital and directed the government to appoint their permanent heads by Nov 7.
A three-member bench, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Anwar Zaheer Jamali, was hearing a case regarding the situation of facilities in the hospitals.
During the hearing, Justice Ameer Hani Muslim observed that patients were dying at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) and Polyclinic but the government still needed two months to streamline the affairs. He regretted that the court had to intervene in the appointment of the executive directors and administers of the hospitals.
“The court knows what is happening at Pims. One doctor is looking after eight offices. Pims hospital and the university should be separated,” he said.
Chief Justice Jamali said it was not possible to give two months for the appointment of the heads of hospitals. He ordered the appointment of the heads by November 7.
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[DAWN] Two suspected killers of a police official were freed from police custody in a mysterious gun attack that left one policeman dead and another critically maimed while an investigating officer of the case, who claimed his weapon had been ’missing’ since Friday morning, remained unhurt in the firing.
The three coppers were taking the two suspected killers back to the Korangi cop shoppe in a private car of the investigating officer after a hearing of the police official’s murder case at the anti-terrorism court when the firing was carried out along the Malir river at around 5pm, officials said.
The police authorities initially relied on the statement of station investigating officer (SIO) Abdul Wasay, who remained unhurt in the incident, but they found enough evidence to call the entire episode ’mysterious’. An examination of the four spent bullet casings found at the scene of the crime showed that the SIO’s official pistol was used in the firing. It also emerged that the firing was carried out from inside the car as no evidence was available to corroborate the SIO’s statement that the firing was carried out by armed motorcyclists.
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Yeah..."mysterious"
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GWADAR: Six people, among them a man and his three sons, were bumped off in the Parom area of Panjgur district close to the Pakistain-Iran border on Friday, said official sources.
Armed men barged into the house of Abdul Malik in Garr village of Parom tehsil and opened indiscriminate fire. "Six people died in the attack," a senior police officer, Allah Bakhsh Baloch, told Dawn.
The dear departed were identified as Abdul Malik, his sons Saddam Hussain, Muhammad Aamir and Abdul Razak and guests Muhammad Zareef and Mullah Muhammad Gul.
Bodies were handed over to heirs after medico-legal formalities.
The cause of the gruesome killings could not be ascertained, but police sources said that Abdul Malik and his sons were wanted by the police and Levies force for their involvement in robberies, theft and other crimes.
Police and Levies started an investigation into the incident.
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[RedAlertPolitics] Grant Strobl has become a viral internet legend in the last few days for his epic troll of the University of Michigan's new online pronoun system, which encourages students to select whatever gender pronoun they wish to be called. The university faculty and staff are required to comply and use whatever pronoun the student picks, and the pronouns would be distributed to classrooms.
Strobl -- a UM student, YAF Chapter Chair, and 2016 Red Alert Politics '30 Under 30′ winner -- selected the pronoun "His Majesty," proving the ridiculousness of the program.
We were among the first to report it. Fox News reported on it. Total Frat Move covered it too.
Now, a liberal UM professor is striking back.
Emily Jashinsky, spokeswoman for Young America's Foundation, reports:
Friday afternoon, a University of Michigan statistics professor threatened to "punish" anybody in her class who used the school's new pronoun designation tool to change their pronoun to "His Majesty" like YAF Chairman Grant Strobl did earlier this week.
According to student sources, the professor, identified as statistics lecturer Nadiya Fink, told her class they would be punished if they changed their pronoun to something "disrespectful" to students who are "different" than "us."
"Fink remarked, "People who do what that kid did will be punished.'
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Since Xer and Zqrs or whatever have no dictionary meaning or grammatical sense I here by declare them to be pronounced "a$$hole" or "fish" as in ghoti.
Take this shit and stuff it back up their assholes.
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Ms. Fink is a lecturer. She likely is not tenure-track. Apparently she is also an assistant professor at Albion College down the road from the big M. It's a bit strange: not sure why Albion would let her teach at Michigan.
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I suggest these people at U-Mich do something useful than annoy and bully others with this PC crap. Strobl [His Majesty] has got balls and a good sense of humor.
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How dare that professor out a student that is following "the rules"! Especially by calling him/her/it/lkes/xan "a kid"? how disrespectful of herd animals of the quadruped persuasion.
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All respects Dr.White, it's not just the lecturer. It the faculty and administration that created the environment that produced the event that justifies forfeiture of the defense of 'academic freedom' from accountability from the people and state that fund them. I don't think any of these public universities could survive if faced with going private and having to pay their way and have to honestly lease or take a mortgage to pay for the land and facilities they operate upon.
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Geez, His Majesty doesn't sound the least bit disrespectful...I'm sure Juan Carlos appreciates it and I am sure the latest wahabist in Soddy Arabia insists on it.
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Daily Caller] The U.S. sanctioned and filed charges against a Chinese firm for doing illegal business with North Korea, and China is not pleased, according to Reuters.
GWADAR: Six people, among them a man and his three sons, were 
