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I've had occasion to mix and mingle in the BP FLOT. When I read something like this my head begins to spin from the steam coming out of my nose.
Levels of direction, selection, sanitization and packaging for the masses from admin buttondowns diminish the work, sacrifices and very real successes that go unnoticed and unpublished because they want feel good stories that don't frighten the sheep or throw off their 'strategic objectives'.
This armed citizen might be the cop's best friend in a pinch. (I should add, such an action could be fraught with danger for the citizen as he might get shot by the cop or by the perp.)
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I agree with Besoeker. If I were a shooter an open carry person is the first one i'd shoot.
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I agree that anyone carrying openly is showing off and/or asking for trouble.
However, if open carry is legal in Connecticut, and the cops were conspiring to fabricate charges against him, yes, they should be sued AND imprisoned.
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That's different from open carry, the ?Koreans were in Castle Defense. That said open carry, in jewelry stores, pawn shops, coin shops and high risk likker stores is a good idea. But not on the street, that's asking for trouble and bad PR. Open carry in the yard hell yes, gardening, hell yes, a bad tomatoe is bad.
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I was in old downtown Kansas City, went to a quick shop, guy behind the counter was open carry/designated gunslinger. Safest I felt in that area.
That said, time and place for everything. I would say that if a person does decide to open carry in public, make sure you have a holster with a lock and/or located in a difficult position for someone to not be able to pick your pocket.
[Tolo News] When 18-year-old "Fawzia" was convicted of elopement and adultery, a local court in the southeastern province of Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... sentenced her to jail.
She soon discovered that she would not be serving the 18-month sentence in a government-run prison, but in the high-walled home of a tribal elder where she would work as an unpaid domestic servant, entirely under his control.
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So they made it worse by sending this woman to some fat bastard's compound to be his slave? Let's GTFO of that shithole area - backwards 7th century fucks; to hell with them. Hope Karzai gets buttfucked with a cruise missile in the near future.
[Times Live] The Times in Cape Town was contacted by a group of academics who said that most of their colleagues are afraid to speak out against the current student anarchy and violence and are secretly looking for employment at more stable institutions. The money always seems to run out, but it runs out faster when the students burn the school to the ground.
The impending "mass exodus" looms as the stalemate between university managements and the student protesters continues.
A recent study by the International Monetary Fund found that skilled workers are exiting sub-Saharan Africa at an increasing rate, and that the number of sub-Saharan migrants living in developed countries could increase from about 7million in 2013 to about 34million by 2050.
There are two facts in that sentence. They are not necessarily about the same people --- and probably aren't.
One academic in the humanities faculty at the University of Cape Town, who asked not to be named, said he was looking for a position further afield and that other academics, not only at UCT, were doing the same.
"The gradual effect of the continued protests will be the eventual impoverishment of South African tertiary educational institutions," the source said. "The very best academics will look for, and easily secure, employment at more stable universities [elsewhere].
"Top researchers will choose to do their PhDs elsewhere.
"This will be disastrous, not only for South Africa but for Africa as a whole, since much of the research into challenges facing the continent emanates from the top South African institutions." Con't.
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Most of the white and mixed race people with skills and brains got out years ago. Many of those who remained did so because of their liberal ideology. I don't have much sympathy for them.
[All Africa] At least eight civilians have been killed during a firefight between the army and rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... (DRC).
Gilbert Kambale, a civil society leader, told AFP news agency on Monday that rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) attacked the town of Beni in North Kivu overnight, with eight civilians, a soldier, and an ADF fighter rubbed out.
Mak Hazukay, the DRC army's front man, said the non-combatants were killed in the crossfire between the army and the rebels.
"The armed forces of the DRC intercepted the ADF and in the exchanges of fire civilians and soldiers were killed," Hazukay said.
The ADF was founded in Uganda in 1995 with the aim of toppling President Yoweri Museveni . It later moved to the DRC where it is one among dozens of gangs seeking control over territory and mineral resources in the east of the country.
Human rights violations
In the past, independent observers have blamed both ADF rebels and DRC forces for deadly attacks against civilians.
The Beni area in particular has seen numerous massacres since October 2014, which have left more than 700 civilians dead.
On Friday, US-based rights group Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... criticised the government for failing to protect the people of the Beni region and called on authorities to develop "a new strategy to protect civilians" in the area.
On August 4, DRC President Joseph Kabila and Museveni held talks in Uganda seeking a coordinated military strategy against the ADF fighters.
The rebels have been present in eastern DRC for more than 20 years.
The group has been accused of human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... abuses and is thought to be deeply embroiled in criminal networks funded by kidnappings, smuggling, and illegal logging.
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[Dhaka Tribune] A Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ... leader at Comilla Victoria Government College has allegedly turned his dormitory room into a torture cell in a bid to teach lessons to his rivals and those who are not in tune with his decisions.
The accusation was raised against Bashir Ullah, convenor of Kobi Kazi Nazrul Islam Hall unit Chhatra League. Not only general students but also journalist, and Chhatra Dal and even BCL activists were tortured in his room.
Students who had been tortured alleged that Bashir had been staying in the dormitory although his studentship had expired.
They also said Bashir had caned them in his room. Sometimes, he used to beat students with broken legs of benches.
On Sunday, the students formally placed a complaint to the principal about the matter.
Mahfuzul Islam Zico, fourth-year student of Management department, said: "On October 3, a student named Saiful Islam was forcefully picked up to Room No-260 over a trivial matter. When I urged them to release him, Bashir and his accomplices, including BCL Joint convener Sabbir Ahmed Mojumder as well as activists Shahidul Islam Shahin, Beni Amin Suman, Towhid, Tanvir and Anwar, beat me up mercilessly."
Some days ago, third-year student of the same department Hiron was picked up during having his meal and he was caned in the room. He was finally freed in exchange for a penalty of Tk2,100.
Many sources confirmed that BCL Organising Secretary Jahirul Islam was beaten up with legs of bench in the room on June 7. Some other students, named Arif, Sowrav, Jahid, also went through the bitter experience.
On August 24, Bashir assaulted Journalists’ Union resident of the college Toibur Rahman Sohel in the room.
Several BCL leaders opined that Bashir was a joint convener of Chhatra Dal, student body of BNP, and he became reckless after joining the pro-ruling party student organization.
Bashir Ullah said: "The allegations raised against me are not true. I have punished Zico for misconduct. As a senior of the organization, I have the rights."
Victoria Government College unit BCL President Kazi Sayem said: "This is not a big incident. It is our internal matter. The hall committee has already been dissolved and Bashir has been kicked out off it."
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All normal channels of collaboration between the United States and Russia have been cut off, including a wide range of critical issues, Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak said on Tuesday.
Kislyak added that the United States and Russia once had a bilateral commission of 21 working groups focused on science, technology, military, nuclear and other issues, which no longer exists. “All the normal channels of cooperation between states [US and Russia] are frozen,” Kislyak stated.
While neither country has recalled its Ambassador for consultations, which would be the final step before armed conflict, SuperStation95 has been given a "heads-up" to watch for exactly such a development.
Information obtained by SuperStation95 indicates the reason for this abrupt halt to US-Russia relations was the aggressive bombing of rebel positions in the Syrian city of Aleppo today.
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I'm in route to New Delhi and the flight plan goes through Russian airspace.
Please let us know when you've landed safely so we can stop being concerned, Black Bart Glutch4583. One of the reasons I started reading Rantburg regularly was so I would know when I did not need to worry about Mr. Wife as he wandered across more or less questionable bits of the planet.
From:bi@globalculturalstrategies.com
To: john.podesta@gmail.com
Date: 2016-03-13 17:06
Subject: From Bill Ivey
Well, we all thought the big problem for our US democracy was Citizens
United/Koch Brothers big money in politics. Silly us; turns out that money
isn't all that important if you can conflate entertainment with the
electoral process. Trump masters TV, TV so-called news picks up and repeats
and repeats to death this opinionated blowhard and his hairbrained ideas,
free-floating discontent attaches to a seeming strongman and we're off and
running. JFK, Jr would be delighted by all this as his "George" magazine saw
celebrity politics coming. The magazine struggled as it was ahead of its
time but now looks prescient. George, of course, played the development
pretty lightly, basically for charm and gossip, like People, but what we are
dealing with now is dead serious. How does this get handled in the general?
Secretary Clinton is not an entertainer, and not a celebrity in the Trump,
Kardashian mold; what can she do to offset this? I'm certain the
poll-directed insiders are sure things will default to policy as soon as the
conventions are over, but I think not. And as I've mentioned, we've all
been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire
to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry. The unawareness remains
strong but compliance is obviously fading rapidly. This problem demands
some serious, serious thinking - and not just poll driven,
demographically-inspired messaging.
Rubio's press conference yesterday AM was good and should be repeated in its
entirety, not just in nibbles. I will attend the Clinton fundraiser here
next week but as I can only afford the low level of participation may just
get to wave without a "hello."
I fear we are all now trying to navigate a set of forces that cannot be
simply explained or fully understood, so it is and will reamin interesting!
Sent with a handshake,
There is a cultural war going on and the American people are the enemy.
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There is a cultural war going on and the "Left" views the American people as an enemy of the left. I should have stated this clearer so there is no misunderstanding of the meaning. It is not paranoia, Hillary and company really don't like us.
Nb: I changed the formatting to clarify which is the key point from the writer (now in bold), and which is your personal opinion (now highlighted) to conform with Rantburg practice. ;-)
[Dhaka Tribune] A Vishwa Hindu Gay Pareehad (VHP) leader, who was disguised in a burqa, was caught molesting Moslem women at a Muharram Majlis at an Imambara in Mani Umarpur village in Allahabad.
Abhishek Yadav, who is the district secretary of VHP and also husband of BJP zilla panchayat member Shipra Yadav, was beaten up by the crowd before they handed him over to the police on Sunday, reports Hindustan Times.
Later, he was admitted to a hospital. Reportedly, Yadav’s accomplice managed to flee from the scene.
The incident came to light after women suspected two burqa-clad persons and accused them of harassment after which they were forced to remove their veil.
The Times of India reports that the village elders pacified the furious mob and convinced them to call the police.
Yadav’s family, however, claimed that he was attacked and looted while on his way to the village.
Yadav has been booked under sections 296 and 354A. Police have filed an FIR against him for molestation and disturbing religious gathering.
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Is this where we're supposed to be surprised?
Also, are Islamic leaders ready to castrate him for his obvious cross-dressing problem?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The father of murdered Pak social media star Qandeel Baloch has vowed no forgiveness for his son, who killed his daughter on the pretext of "honor", after her death cast a global spotlight on the practice.
Pakistain last week passed long-awaited legislation aimed at closing loopholes which allowed murderers like Baloch's brother Waseem to walk free, with hundreds of women killed in defense of the family "honor" in the conservative country each year.
Rights activists, who for years called for tougher laws to tackle violence against women, have praised the move as a step forward though lawyers criticized the amendments for not going far enough.
"There is no pardon from our side," Baloch's father Muhammad Azeem told AFP this weekend, calling for his son and the three men accused with him to be punished "at the earliest. They should get life imprisonment or death -- I will feel happy."
He and his wife, Baloch's mother Anwar Mai, said they had been unaware of the change in the law, which came three months after their daughter's death sparked revulsion in Pakistain and abroad.
Their son, Mai said, had not understood the repercussions the murder would have.
The death of Baloch, judged by many in the country as infamous for selfies and videos that by Western standards would appear tame, reignited polarizing calls for action after her brother admitted killing her.
"I am not embarrassed at all over what I did," he told media at a defiant presser in July, calling his sister's behavior "intolerable".
His mother said this weekend that he had thought his parents would become the only complainants in the case, which under previous legislation would have allowed him to escape punishment if his family had forgiven him.
Waseem thought he would be imprisoned for just "two to three months and then after he will be free, he was not aware that this would become a high-profile case," Mai told AFP.
Lawyers told AFP the wording of the legislation, aimed at mandating a life sentence for honor killings, still leaves too much up to a judge's discretion.
"There is a danger that it can be interpreted to mean that this only applies in cases when there is a disagreement over pardon of the offencer," said criminal law professor Abira Ashfaq.
"Unfortunately, the politicians have not made it an uncategorically uncompoundable offence. They have only made the penalties heavier."
"If the politicians wanted to make life imprisonment compulsory for honor killing, all they had to do was to state the same," said senior lawyer Anees Jillani.
In practice, Ashfaq added, most such cases are settled by police before they even reach court.
"We need to change the culture ... It would take a few high-profile prosecutions covered by media."
The language must also be changed, Ashfaq said.
"We should call it something negative -- patriarchal/misogynist crime, rather than 'honor' killing, which associates a positive value with this type of crime."
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Under the circumstances, Allan probably already gave him a pass.
[AlAhram] Egypt's Ministry of Religious Endowments decided on Tuesday to close al-Hussein Mosque in Old Cairo till Thursday hours ahead of the religious Ashoura celebrations to avoid any possible tensions between Shia and Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them....
If the Shia are not permitted to gather, they will not entice Sunnis to attack by being there. Uncovered meat, donchaknow.
"Sectarian religious practices will not be allowed on Ashoura or any other day," a statement by the ministry said on Tuesday, warning that sectarian rallies are banned under the law.
Moderation, Egyptian style. Had the Moslem Brotherhood still been in charge, they would have organized the attacking mobs.
Shia Moslems commemorate on Ashoura the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Imam al-Hussein, whose decapitated head is believed to be buried at the al-Hussein Mosque.
In the past few years, Egyptian authorities have closed al-Hussein Mosque on the day of Ashoura for fear of sectarian tensions.
There are no official figures conerning the number of Shia in Egypt.
Ashoura, the 10th day of the Islamic calendar, is a festival for the general Moslem community who celebrate a number of religious events that, although unrelated, coincide on the same day.
The Ministry of Religious Endowments runs mosques in Egypt in accordance with Sunni doctrine and does not recognise Shia mosques or rituals. Salafists, who are ultra-conservative Sunnis, reject the Shia denomination and consider it a heresy.
At least Coptic Christians are recognized...
In June 2013, four Egyptian Shias, including influential Sheikh Hassan Shehata, were killed by an angry mob in a Giza village following anti-Shia incitement by Salafist preachers.
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.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The father of murdered Pak social media star Qandeel Baloch has vowed no forgiveness for his son, who killed his daughter on the pretext of "honor", after her death cast a global spotlight on the practice.
