[FOXNEWS] Police in Washington say two people face charges for offenses that happened during an anti-corruption march in Washington.
Police said in a statement that they saw graffiti on buildings and sidewalks in the area of Saturday's Million Mask March, which organizers describe on their Facebook page as a march against government and corporate corruption.
Police photographs appear to show the word "corrupt" and images of English anti-hero Guy Fawkes spray painted at the Federal Bureau of Investigation building on Pennsylvania Avenue. They also show graffiti at the Trump International Hotel. Police say a police cruiser was also damaged.
Police say they incarcerated Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! 27-year-old Eric Roberts of Florida and charged him with defacing the FBI building and resisting arrest.
Police say they also charged 35-year-old Danny Hamilton of Louisiana with destruction of District of Columbia government property -- the police cruiser -- and resisting arrest.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/07/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under:
[NYT] Janet Reno, who rose from a rustic life on the edge of the Everglades to become attorney general of the United States -- the first woman to hold the job -- and whose eight years in that office placed her in the middle of some of the most divisive episodes of the Clinton presidency, died on Monday at age 78.
She died at her home in Miami-Dade County, Fla., from complications of Parkinson’s disease, according to her sister, Margaret Hurchalla. The disease was diagnosed in November 1995, while she was still in office.
Ms. Reno’s tenure as attorney general was bracketed by two explosive events: a deadly federal raid on the compound of a religious cult in Waco, Tex., in 1993, and the seizing in 2000 by federal agents of Elián González, a young Cuban refugee who was at the center of an international custody battle and a political tug of war. Con't.
#3
If Clinton wins, there will be more of such to come--It will not just be a splinter group of 7th Day Adventists in Texas but all of us will be screwed bigly. The woman is nucking futs.
You can now toast to the Iron Age with a 2,500-year-old brew.
A team of researchers worked with a brewery in Milwaukee to recreate an ancient beer from remnants of the alcoholic beverage that were found at an Iron Age burial site in Germany, reported Milwaukee Public Radio (WUWM). Though the acidic soil had dissolved the skeleton, archaeologists found metal weapons and a cauldron at the burial site.
The cauldron, which dates back to between 400 B.C. to 450 B.C., was full of an ancient mead when it was buried, according to study leader Bettina Arnold, an archaeologist and anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
"The dead man in Tumulus 17 Grave 6 had been sent into the afterlife not only with his weapons but with about 14 liters of an alcoholic beverage that he could have used to establish himself as an important person in the next world as he had been in this one," Arnold, who uncovered the cauldron back in 2000, explained in a blog post. Hats off and bottoms up to Arnold, who had what it took to recognize the valuable find for what it was!
Arnold and her team worked with a paleobotanist to analyze the alcoholic remnants and derive a recipe for the ancient brew. The alcoholic drink was probably a type of mead known as braggot, Arnold told WUWM. The brew, made from a blend of barley and honey, also contained meadow sweet (often found in prehistoric mead) and mint, the researchers said.
Milwaukee's Lakefront Brewery then worked with the researchers' recipe to re-create the brew, which was available to taste during the 6th Annual Wisconsin Science Festival on Oct. 22, where the research was presented. A good application of the best modern science has to offer, in my opinion.
[All Africa] There are growing signs the tide has indeed begun to turn against South African President Jacob Zuma and his supporters. The politics of patronage is no longer working as it used to when Zuma's defenders could be rewarded for their efforts with promotion, tenders, or a lucrative revolving door to corporate directorships.
In addition, his power base is in a state of increasing disarray. Zuma came to power on a campaign driven by the African National Congress Youth League, Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu), and the South African Communist Party. Today the youth league is a shadow of its former vibrant self. The trade union federation has split, with large unions such as the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa and the National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union opposing him. The Communists are now strident in condemning state capture.
For the moment Zuma's supporters control the ANC's levers of power. But an unprecedented and growing army of ANC veterans, whose service to the party goes back to the 1950s, like Ahmed Kathrada, Andrew Mlangeni and Ben Turok, issue public protest upon public protest.
Most devastating of all, the ANC's chief whip in parliament, Jackson Mthembu - whose very job description includes caucus discipline - backs critics of the ANC's current executive. The chief whip would certainly not have issued his statement that the party's leadership should resign unless he had taken the feeling of the majority of his caucus.
In short, Zuma's critics within the ANC are emboldened to make protest upon protest, with clearly growing momentum. There is a sense that the Zuma machine within the ANC has begun to grind to a halt.
Anyone remember the Marikana mine protestor massacre? Keep an eye on Jacob 'Shower Head' Zuma. He'll be letting go with volleys of small arms fire before he climbs down from his tower.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/07/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under:
[Iran Press TV] The leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), Nigel Farage, has warned that recent attempts to undermine Britannia's withdrawal from the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... (EU) might result in "real disturbance on the streets."
Speaking to BBC on Sunday, Farage said there was a "movement" to prevent the results of a June referendum to leave the EU from taking effect.
Nearly 52 percent of Britons voted to end the UK’s membership in the 28-bloc nation on June 23.
"If the people of this country think they’re going to be cheated, we will see political anger the like of which we have never seen in this country in our lifetime," the UKIP leader said.
When asked if by anger he means "disturbance in the streets and so on," he said: "Yeah I think that's right."
"The temperature of this is very, very high," Farage said, calling on Brexiteers to "get even" by launching protests in case their votes were ignored.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/07/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under:
[FRANCE24] Former Marxist guerrilla leader Daniel Ortega is expected to easily clinch a third consecutive term as president of Nicaragua on Sunday, buoyed by steady economic growth that has trumped fears he is trying to install autocratic family rule.
Ortega and his running mate, his wife Rosario Murillo, have nearly 70 percent support, according to a recent poll, tapping into strong voter approval for a drop in poverty in one of the poorest countries in the Americas since he took office in 2007.
"He (Ortega) is the only person who has worked for the poor, and he will keep doing it, because that is his essence," said Jose Vicente Pong, a 64-year-old retiree, casting his vote by the ministry of labor in Managua on Sunday morning. "He comes from poverty, and he’ll keep working for the poor."
Posted by: Fred ||
11/07/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under: Commies
#1
And the waves of illegals continues. Gee, wonder why?
{TASS] Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev believes that Washington is to blame that the relations of Russia and the United States "hit rock bottom."
"Unfortunately, in the wake of developments in Ukraine and owing to efforts of the US President (Barack) Obama’s administration, this relationship (of Russia and the US) has dropped to the lowest level ever, just hit rock bottom," Medvedev said in an interview with Israel’s Channel One broadcaster.
"The relations are at the lowest point, at the extremely lowest point," the Russian head of government said. "Frankly speaking, when we began contacts with the current Administration of President (Barack) Obama, I could not even imagine that they would have dropped to such an unprecedentedly lowest level."
"We used to live through quite good periods in our relations as we used to have common objectives to be solved and we have done so. It includes the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT), the Iran nuclear deal and lots of others," he said.
Medvedev emphasized the deteriorating relations with the US "are neither our fault nor our choice." "We want these relations to be normal," he said.
#3
I guess that's what happen when you have unmarked soldiers stealing a chunk of a country, becoming authoritarian, threatening the west with your nuclear capabilities, shooting down a civilian airliner and covering it up, and don't forget your relentless hacking of the US public and private.
Posted by: Herman Whusonter7171 ||
11/07/2016 2:08 Comments ||
Top||
#4
Buzzing US navy ships hasn't helped either.
Posted by: Herman Whusonter7171 ||
11/07/2016 2:09 Comments ||
Top||
#5
Dmitry, you ain't seen nothing yet - wait until Baba Yaga is POTUS.
#1
Bipolar world: arms race, space race. Darwin rules!!!
Maybe even a way to get western "elites" to pull their collective head from their collective rectum.
#3
Its formidable tank, more modern then anything out there now, its relatively cheap and as it has only a three man crew (which I do not like) definitely has a price advantage.
I particularly like that the crew compartment is physically separated from the ammunition.
#5
the Israeli Merkava also is a low profile and designed for crew protection
what you don't get from the article is the actual performance
can the tank turn and back up quickly, how do the electronics work, etc. also of vital importance is how well the tanks coordinate with air power and air recon
Posted by: lord garth ||
11/07/2016 6:27 Comments ||
Top||
#6
Reminds me of the same "experts" that lauded the Mig-25 as a "Super Plane" as well. The plus side is we did build the F-15 to counter those imagined planes.
Before panicking, I would like to see some data:
How well the tank is survivable against western anti-tank missiles
The penetration performance of the main gun ammo (been a problem in the past)
Sustained fire reliability (the US didn't go with an autoloader as they found an 18yo arm was smarter, more reliable and helped with tank maintenance)
Crew comfort (russian tanks in the past were uncomfortable and during long operations made the crew exhausted)
#7
So an unmanned turret is a good idea, I'll give you that. But the range and speed are no real benefit on todays battlefield. Lots of nice flat panels on that tank, even with reactive armor, it is sabo bait. Our other weapon shoot from the top down. Smaller turret means nothing but a direct hit into the crew if it does not hit the turret. The track is still vulnerable, to hand held systems. And that laser viewfinder sitting on top like a periscope is telling me they are putting too much into buttoned up operations, probably because of the unmanned turret, and will be very vulnerable to other than kinetic weapons. Russian shit briefs well, but only works well when the fight like the Chinese, in echelon, with mass numbers. Fighting an Army that uses fire will still defeat them.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
11/07/2016 10:18 Comments ||
Top||
#8
Couldn't help but notice all painted European Forest Green camo pattern.
#11
Behavioral controls are much more complex than smaller unmanned vehicles. Terrain interactions cover a much larger range of soil, water etc conditions. Plus coordination is key for armored assault and that adds complexity too.
#12
After reading about what the Chechynas did to the Soviet tanks that went into Grozny I'd be looking into some way to automate the tanks, or at least give them drone eyes so they can keep the tank buttoned up.
[Iran Press TV] A court in South Korea has issued arrest warrants for two former aides to President Park Geun-hye for their suspected involvement in a political scandal that has plunged the country in crisis.
In a statement on Sunday, the Seoul Central District Court said that it had granted a warrant to prosecutors to arrest An Chong-bum, a former senior advisor to Park who had already been in jug under an emergency detention order and who now faces charges of abusing power and attempted extortion.
The court also issued an arrest warrant for Jung Ho-sung, another former presidential aide accused of leaking classified information and passing on presidential documents to Choi Soon-sil, whose unconventionally close relationship with Park triggered the scandal.
Eight presidential aides had earlier resigned in connection with the scandal.
Allegations were first reported by media that the 60-year-old Choi manipulated her close ties with the president to persuade local business institutions into donating large sums to foundations run by her.
Choi, who herself was formally detained last week, is also accused of intervening in governmental affairs and having had access to potentially confidential government data despite lacking any official position or a security clearance.
Public outrage over the scandal brought tens of thousands of South Koreans to the streets in the capital on Saturday to demand the resignation of Park.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/07/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under:
[IsraelTimes] Decision makes the state the 14th to pass legislation targeting procurement in entities boycotting Israel.
Pennsylvania’s governor signed a bill Friday preventing the state from contracting with businesses or entities that participate in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.
The legislation, which has been passed in a number of other states in recent years as well, will "prohibit contracting with BDS businesses" and dictates that an "entity must certify that it will not engage in such boycotting during the duration of the contract," according to an official statement released by the governor’s office.
The BDS movement supports economic and other pressure on the State of Israel for its perceived ill-treatment of the Paleostinians.
Pennsylvania is the 14th state to pass anti-BDS legislation. The others are California, New Jersey, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Alabama, South Carolina, Rhode Island and Iowa. New York's Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order against doing business with Israel boycotters.
Pennsylvania is the 14th state to pass anti-BDS legislation. The other states are Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, New Jersey, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Alabama, South Carolina, Rhode Island and Iowa. In New York, Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo signed an executive order against doing business with Israel boycotters.
"We must make clear that we are in favor of a peaceful, negotiated solution to this conflict," Governor Tom Wolf said, "and will not encourage economic punishment in place of peaceful solutions to challenging conflicts."
Representative Matt Baker, the prime sponsor of the bill, said, "This legislation makes it very clear that companies can either perform a BDS action or they can do business with Pennsylvania. However, women are made to be loved, not understood... they cannot do both," according to a statement from the governor’s office.
Several organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union and Jewish Voice for Peace, expressed opposition to the bill, arguing that it stifles the voices of those who oppose Israel’s policy.
Lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights, the National Lawyers Guild and Paleostine Legal claimed that the bill hinders constitutional rights to free speech, in a letter to Pennsylvania Sen.Jake Corman, urging him to oppose the legislation.
"The bill’s stated purpose of targeting boycotts of Israel," the letter read. "Its vagueness, its enormous financial penalty, and its potential for misuse, will chill and suppress speech protected by the United States Constitution."
Rahul Saksena, a staff attorney from Paleostine Legal, said boycotts were a legitimate tool of social protest and should not be stifled.
"The U.S. has a long history of non-violent boycotts as a tactic to advance civil and human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... , including the Montgomery bus boycott in the 1950s and the boycott of Apartheid South Africa in the 1980s," Saksena said in a statement.
In September, California Governor Jerry Governor Moonbeam Brown ... those who ignore history are bound to repeat it ... signed a similar bill which prevents companies that boycott or discriminate against any sovereign country, including Israel, from doing business with the state.
In June, the New Jersey Legislature passed a bill prohibiting state agencies from investing in pension and annuity funds of companies that engage in political boycotts of the Jewish State. A similar bill was also signed in March by the Georgia General Assembly.
#1
preventing the state from contracting with businesses or entities that participate in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel
Does it mean they'll have to close all state supported universities?
[FOXNEWS] New York University liberal studies professor Michael Rectenwald, the man behind the @DeplorableNYUProf Twitter account, has gone public about being placed on paid leave by the University after publicly criticizing its campus culture of political correctness and "safe spaces".
But NYU has since claimed that the leave was voluntary and has nothing to do with Professor Rectenwald’s Tweets. And a recent article in New York magazine titled "A Communist NYU Professor Says He Was Ousted for Mocking Political Correctness. Was He?" by the liberal writer Jesse Singal questions Rectenwald’s arguments, portraying him as an embellishing attention-seeker who is only trying to impress Breitbart commentators.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/07/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under:
#2
Put on paid leave? The university is a bunch of pu$$ies. Could have been worse, he could have been sent to a gulag to "re-educate" him to get rid of his hetero-normative views, patriarchal-leaning transgressions, white-privilege abuses, micro-aggressions and PC-busting tendencies without pay.
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.
You can now toast to the Iron Age with a 2,500-year-old brew.
[All Africa] There are growing signs the tide has indeed begun to turn against South African President Jacob Zuma and his supporters. The politics of patronage is no longer working as it used to when Zuma's defenders could be rewarded for their efforts with promotion, tenders, or a lucrative revolving door to corporate directorships.
[DailyMail] - Military intelligence officers have assessed Putin's new Armata battle tank which was introduced in 2015
Jerry 
