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-Land of the Free
EecchhSPN Link: Anthem Singer At 76ers-Heat Game Kneels During Performance
Yeah, but Trump SAID A BAD WORD!!!!

Let's all congratulate ourselves on how well we're taking the flushing of this country down the toilet, as all the good little Troo Cunservativez are wont to do.
Posted by: charger || 10/22/2016 13:28 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Went to a street fair in town. There was a BLM tent manned by three white womyn. They had a sign which said: "White silence is violence." Almost said something to them but then again, I think they would most likely have preferred my silence.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/22/2016 16:25 Comments || Top||

#2  This stuff is killing the NFL, not sure what it'll do to the NBA. Might boost ratings.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/22/2016 19:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Maestro, a bit of the ol' bloody schmatta, if you please...

The old black and whites... yes, the silents,
Authentic portrayals of violence.
Projectors still clatter
That just their lives matter.
Intolerance always to tyrants!
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 10/22/2016 21:57 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Saudi Arabia: Prince executed for murder
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A statement from Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
’s Ministry of Interior has confirmed on Tuesday it has carried out the execution orders on Prince Turki bin Saud al-Kabir.

The prince was found guilty three years ago by a Saudi court for murdering a young Saudi man following a group fight in al-Thumama region in the outskirts of Riyadh.

The statement said that "Turki bin Saud al-Kabir killed Saudi citizen Adel bin Suleiman bin Abdul Karim Mohaimeed."

The statement added that "authorities were able to arrest the above mentioned offender. After the investigations, they charged him of committing the crime and his indictment was sent to the General Court. He was charged with what was attributed to him and sentenced to death as retribution."

The Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court both agreed on the indictment. A Royal Decree was issued for the implementation of the court’s rule.

The victim’s family refused offers of ’blood money’ and demanded justice be carried out.

The statement added that the Interior Ministry confirmed "King Salman
...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians....
’s keenness on enforcement of security, justice and God's judgments."

It also warned "that legitimate punishment would be the fate of whoever tries to assault innocent people and shed their blood".
Posted by: Fred || 10/22/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1  6,483 to go
Posted by: Frank G || 10/22/2016 8:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Wonder what would have happened if he killed a Pakistani or Indian worker?
Posted by: John Frum || 10/22/2016 10:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Much, much less cash would have been offered.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/22/2016 10:15 Comments || Top||

#4  The vic's family "left him hanging..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/22/2016 10:26 Comments || Top||

#5  #3 Much, much less cash would have been offered.

Pappy, I do believe you are becoming cynical.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/22/2016 10:36 Comments || Top||

#6  I kinda know the region, Steve.

And Murcek - you do know where your room is, right?
Posted by: Pappy || 10/22/2016 14:04 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Setbacks for Venezuela Opposition Drive against President
[An Nahar] Venezuela's opposition has suffered a major blow after authorities halted their drive to recall leftist President Nicolas Maduro and reportedly ordered top opposition leaders not to leave the crisis-torn country.

Henrique Capriles, a former presidential candidate and governor of the state of Miranda, said on Twitter late Thursday that he and seven others had received court orders barring them from travel outside the country.

The government was taking the country into a "very dangerous scenario" and an even greater crisis, he warned on Twitter.

The opposition had been gearing up for a massive three-day drive next week to collect signatures from millions of voters demanding a recall referendum in the crisis-stricken country.

It was supposed to be the last hurdle in a multi-stage process to meet the constitutional requirements for a recall vote.

But on Thursday, pro-Maduro governors in four states informed the National Election Council that small-time Mister Big court judges had annulled the results of an earlier petition drive because of alleged fraud.

Soon after, the council suspended the recall process, saying it was acting in compliance with the courts.

"Let us hope that those responsible will now be sought out and detained and go to prison for the deception they have committed," Maduro's number two Diosdado Cabello said in a speech.

Maduro also accused the opposition of "a gigantic fraud," in a speech before leaving on a tour of the Middle East. "Their cheating is coming out," he said.

Posted by: Fred || 10/22/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  I hope he's eaten first
Posted by: Frank G || 10/22/2016 8:20 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Japan to lend to sanctioned Russian bank to push island talks
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/22/2016 02:34 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Russian-held Kuriles have a sentimental value for Japanese. It was at Kunahsiri and Etorofu where they practiced for the Pearl Harbor attack.
Posted by: Thereck Chutle5003 || 10/22/2016 7:22 Comments || Top||

#2  "Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can always get you gold."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/22/2016 8:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Who's the dominant world power now, eh?
"A little tribute goes a long way"(:p) B. Clinton
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/22/2016 11:18 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
ATC directs police to implement arrest orders for Imran, Qadri in PTV attack case
[DAWN] An anti-terrorist court in Islamabad on Friday directed the police to implement its orders in relation to the arrest warrants of Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
(PTI) Chairman Imran Khan
... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems...
and Pakistain Awami Tehrik chief Tahirul Qadri
...Pak politician, and would-be dictator, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran and Pakistain Awami Tehrik. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him...
in the Pakistain Television (PTV) headquarters attack case.

Today’s hearing of the case was presided by ATC judge Kausar Abbas Zaidi who inquired why the police had not been able to submit an implementation report on the court’s arrest orders.

Expressing his displeasure over the police's failure to submit the implementation report, the judge directed authorities to carry out the arrests of Imran Khan, Tahirul Qadri and 68 others by Nov 17 and present them in court on the said date.

The 70 were booked after a mob of protesters belonging to the PTI and PAT stormed PTV headquarters and forced its staff to take two of the state broadcaster’s flagship channels -- PTV News and PTV World -- off the air on Sept 1, 2014.

According to eyewitnesses, at the time nearly 400 PTI and PAT workers had stormed the PTV building, across the road from the main entrance to the Pakistain Secretariat. The attack had come soon after demonstrators were repulsed from the secretariat compound.
Posted by: Fred || 10/22/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Kohistan video case: Girls declared alive by SC had actually been killed, says Bari
[DAWN] The mystery surrounding the killing of four girls and two men from Kohistan
...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns....
took another turn on Friday after rights activist Farzana Bari claimed that the girls, who were declared alive during the Supreme Court suo motu
...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard...
hearing, were dead.

Bari, who also heads the Gender Studies department at Quaid-e-Azam University, was included in the fact finding mission dispatched to Kohistan by the Supreme Court to inquire about the wellbeing of the girls, after allegations emerged that the four girls were murdered after their video of clapping during a marriage ceremony went viral.

The witness statement by Bari comes after the Supreme Court on September 27 sent a notice to the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
(KP) government and Kohistan DPO to again investigate the issue.

In her earlier statements, Bari claimed, she had expressed serious doubts that the two girls produced before the commission were not the girls who had appeared in the said video. Bari noted that her views were contrary to the other members' views on the issue.

Bari said she had appended a dissenting note at that time, demanding involvement of Nadra officials in the case for positive identification of the girls to ensure that the girls produced before the commission were the same girls who appeared in the video.

The case was closed by the then chief justice as it was established the girls were alive.

"Photos of the girls taken during the commission session were given to a Rooters' journalist, Katharine Houreld, who got the matching done through a renowned independent British agency 'Digital Barriers'. It was found in the said report that the photos of the girls, who were made to appear before the commission, did not match the images of the girls appearing in the said video," Bari stated in her witness statement.

Bari also referred to the two pressers of local leaders in which they had admitted that the girls had been killed.

Former MPA Maulana Dildar, who was nominated by the KP government to assist the commission, also testified in his presser that the four girls were murdered and that the commission had been misguided, she said.

The rights activist alleged that the local administration including the police had formed some kind of unholy alliance with the elected representatives of the Awami National Party
founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism....
(ANP) to bury the whole issue.

She demanded reproduction the girls in front of the Supreme Court and formation of an independent investigation team to inquire the issue and alleged negligence of the authorities.

The court had taken a suo motu notice on the issue in 2012 since reports came up that holy mans had allegedly issued orders for the killing of four women and two men after a mobile phone video emerged of the six singing and dancing at a wedding in a remote village in Kohistan.

Posted by: Fred || 10/22/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Southeast Asia
Full speech by Phillipine President Duterte announcing separation from US
Evidently he's tired of being treated like shit by the State Department. They look down on inferiors and Duterte has had enough of it. Based on my very limited experience dealing with the State Department overseas, I can't say I disagree with him.

He speaks pretty slowly so click the gear icon, select speed, and then 1.5 or 2. It gets it done faster and you can still understand him perfectly.
Posted by: Thumper Dribble5791 || 10/22/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Culture Wars
Bob Dylan's Nobel silence 'impolite and arrogant'
[BBC] Bob Dylan's failure to acknowledge his Nobel Prize in literature is "impolite and arrogant", according to a member of the body that awards it.

The 75-year-old singer was named the shock winner of the prize last week.

But all efforts by the Swedish Academy to contact him have failed, and he has not acknowledged the win in public.

Academy member Per Wastberg told Swedish television: "He is who he is," adding that there was little surprise Dylan had ignored the news.

"We were aware that he can be difficult and that he does not like appearances when he stands alone on the stage," he told Sweden's Dagens Nyheter newspaper in a separate interview.
Posted by: John Frum || 10/22/2016 10:03 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Don't you know who we are!!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/22/2016 10:15 Comments || Top||

#2  I wouldn't want my name associated with Rigoberto Menchu and jugears either...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/22/2016 10:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Yasser Arafat got one of these baubles too for peace. Al Gore won 1/2 a Nobel peace prize. They have become a joke. As Groucho said: "I Don’t Want to Belong to Any Club That Will Accept Me as a Member."
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/22/2016 11:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Where were they when Dylan was writing all of his hit songs? Ignoring him, that's where. Treating him like a leper. But he didn't need them then and he doesn't need them now. They are worse than irrelevant.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/22/2016 12:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe he's just not into you, Per Wastberg...
Posted by: Raj || 10/22/2016 12:24 Comments || Top||

#6  At last someone tells them off in the best way.
Posted by: Thumper Dribble5791 || 10/22/2016 13:40 Comments || Top||

#7  Nashville Skyline was one of his best albums IMO. Johnny Cash was on the album also.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/22/2016 16:21 Comments || Top||

#8  The Peace prize is a joke but I thought the others were still prestiges.

In Bob's defense he was probably stoned out of his gourd on peyote in some kind of Indian Sweet-tent away from civilization and suddenly they surprise him with an award he didn't know he was even in the running for. Give him a break.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/22/2016 19:28 Comments || Top||

#9  He probably can't believe this crap either.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/22/2016 19:47 Comments || Top||

#10  Probably hasn't stopped laughing at them yet.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/22/2016 23:11 Comments || Top||



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