[WMBF News] HORRY COUNTY, SC ‐ One person was transported from the scene after a car rammed into a fire truck near the Coastal Carolina University campus multiple times Tuesday afternoon, according to officials and witnesses at the scene.
Lt. Brian VanAernem with Horry County Fire Rescue said no firefighters were injured in the crash, which happened on Highway 544 and Founders Drive, just outside the university campus.
A witness to the crash said on Twitter that he saw a woman crash into the fire truck in her car, then back up, say she was tired of being harassed by the police, then ram into into the truck again. Another witness show video of the crash which clearly shows the vehicle driving into the fire truck. Warning: this video contains explicit language.
[Guardian] Former NFL star Darren Sharper was sentenced on Tuesday a 20-year prison term, ending a tour of shame and punishment in the courthouse where he first admitted drugging and raping women in four states.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor denounced Sharper’s "horrible conduct" and "disgraceful abuse of trust" during the hearing that concluded prosecutions that unmasked the popular former all-pro safety and Super Bowl champion as a serial rapist.
Under the terms of a plea deal negotiated with prosecutors in four states, Sharper will be eligible for parole in about eight years because California law requires he serve half his sentence and he has already been behind bars more than two years since his arrest.
But he will probably serve more time if an appeals court upholds an 18-year prison sentence handed down by a New Orleans federal judge who rejected the deal as too lenient. Sharper has appealed that harsher sentence.
[LATINO.FOXNEWS] A man from El Salvador who indirectly caused the death of a Florida sheriff's deputy had been deported twice before, most recently in September.
During a court hearing on Monday, Francisco Portillo-Fuentes told a federal judge he wanted to plead guilty to illegally re-entering the United States but claimed his innocence in regard to Deputy Eric Oliver's death.
Oliver, a Nassau County deputy, was fatally struck by a passing SUV while he was chasing Portillo-Fuentes on foot.
The Florida Times-Union reported Portillo-Fuentes was riding in a truck with other men and when U.S. Border Patrol agents approached, he ran and deputies gave chase.
Mark Rosenblum, Portillo-Fuentes' attorney, told News4Jax that what his client did was not intentional.
"He didn't do anything. Basically all he did, as I understood what they tell me, is that he bravely ran away. And that to me is just human nature. It's what's called fight or flight," the lawyer said.
Portillo-Fuentes could face up to two years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
The man had been deported in 2011 and again sometime after an Aug. 15, 2016, conviction for DUI, News4Jax reported. He has a third-grade education, is married and is the father of three children.
Records show Portillo-Fuentes returned to the U.S. by crossing the Rio Grande just three days before Oliver was killed.
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Third time's the charm. If you deport him in baggies or a pine box.
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Spent a really nice vaca at Berry Springs Lodge right near Dollywood a couple of years ago, beautiful place in Pigeon Forge. Follow them on FB and they've posted pictures of the fire burned right down the hill behind the lodge, about 300 yds from the back deck.
Nasty situation for all concerned, praying for more rain to knock out the last of the fires.
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Rain again today, which helps. But more wind and lightning, which hurts.
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Nephew's a fireman working those fires right now.
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Had some rain night before last and went I went out yesterday morning it smelled like I had just poured water on a campfire. Smoke has been very bad.
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Hat-tip to your nephew, Glenmore. Those large wildfires can get...squirrely.
Heard there were some nasty storms in the area.
If downwind of this thing, check and ready your boogie bag and have a couple routes planned. These things can move remarkably quick and evacuation warnings can be thin to non-existent. Also, particle mask is not a wussy thing to have - blowing briquettes out of your nose for a couple days is no fun. Its like that scene in Total Recall when Ahnold pulls the deal out of his nose, except he also has pneumonia.
A reported influx of white protestors at Standing Rock has led to an unusual request from activists at the North Dakota Access Pipeline protest.
According to the Independent, fellow protestors are asking white demonstrators to please stop treating the area like a free-for-all festival, complete with drugs, unsolicited music and photo ops.
"No drugs or alcohol... This is not burning man or a festival," one statement posted on Facebook reads. "... YOU ARE NOT ON VACATION. This is not a camping trip."
"White people are colonizing the camps..." protestor Alicia Smith added on Facebook. "They are coming in, taking food, clothing and occupying space without any desire to participate in camp maintenance and without respect of tribal protocols.
"These people are treating it like it is Burning Man or The Rainbow Gathering and I even witnessed several wandering in and out of camps comparing it to those festivals."
Several of the requests, which are going viral on social media, ask that people stop breaking into song.
"Nobody wants to hear your songs with your guitar or drum around the fire," one tweet reads.
According to other protestors, some of the new additions have also asked to use donation money to buy "fluoride-free" water instead of drinking from taps. Another protestor witnessed "a dozen or so white people" encouraging other demonstrators to block police from crossing a bridge.
"These agitators unnecessarily wanted to put people in danger of being arrested just so their picture might go viral," she wrote on Twitter.
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"White people are colonizing the camps..." protestor Alicia Smith added on Facebook. "They are coming in, taking food, clothing and occupying space without any desire to participate in camp maintenance and without respect of tribal protocols.
Somalia’s presidential elections, scheduled to begin this week, have been postponed for a third time, the electoral body said Monday.
Omar Mohamed Abdulle, head of Somalia’s electoral body, said elections slated for Wednesday will not happen as planned. Abdulle did not offer a new date, but said the next president will be elected before the end of this year.
Somalia’s parliament members will elect the new president. However, parliamentary elections to elect new lawmakers have not been completed in all regions of the country. The parliamentary voting was marred by irregularities and corruption, and Somalia’s electoral body is investigating allegations of election malpractice.
Paging Dr. Jill Stein...
Somalia’s auditor general, Nur Jimale Farah, told VOA’s Somali service earlier this month that some of the parliamentary seats were bought by the highest bidder.
“Some votes were bought with $5,000, some with $10,000, and some with $20,000 or $30,000. But not all seats are equal. Some are influential seats and have a lot of candidates competing for them,” he said.
Capitalism at work!
Somalia is using a limited voting system in which about 14,000 delegates representing Somalia’s clans are casting their votes for the 275-member Lower House, while regional parliaments are electing the 54-member Upper House.
Somali officials had promised citizens a one-person, one-vote one time election; however, political infighting and insecurity in the country led them to drop the plan.
Incumbent President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud is among dozens of candidates vying for the post of president, which will be determined by the new lawmakers.
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[Dhaka Tribune] The Rizal Commercial Banking Corp RCBC in the Philippines said it is not liable to compensate Bangladesh for the bank heist money deposited in its accounts and instead blamed the central bank in Dhaka for being "negligent" on Tuesday.
Unknown cyber criminals tried to steal nearly $1bn from the Bangladesh Bank in February, one of the biggest bank frauds ever.
They succeeded in transferring some $81m via an account at the New York Federal Reserve to four accounts in fake names at a branch of Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) in Manila. Most of the money was laundered through casinos in Manila and remains missing.
RCBC external counsel Thea Daep urged Bangladesh Bank to be transparent and produce the results of its own investigation to shed light on who was behind the heist, saying it was the least Bangladesh Bank could do.
"RCBC is not the proximate cause of the theft. They have no case against us. BB (Bangladesh Bank) was the one who was negligent," Daep said in a statement, adding the local lender will not pay Bangladesh Bank anything.
Bangladesh Ambassador John Gomes was quoted in a newspaper as saying his government would seek compensation from RCBC. Gomes did not respond to request for comments.
Daep said RCBC received the funds after they went through three layers of highly protected financial institutions.
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[DAWN] The corpse count from the crash in Colombia of an airliner carrying 81 people, including a Brazilian football team, rose to 76 Tuesday as officials said at least six people survived the disaster.
"Six people were rescued alive, but unfortunately one died. The rest of the occupants unfortunately died. The tragic toll is 76 victims," Jose Gerardo Acevedo, regional police commander, told journalists earlier.
Colombia's disaster risk management agency said they later rescued a sixth survivor of the crash, player Helio Hermito Zampier Neto, who is in the process of being evacuated.
"The possibility that other people will be found alive has not been ruled out," the agency said.
"It appears that the plane ran out of fuel," Elkin Ospina, the mayor of the nearby town of La Ceja, told AFP. He said authorities were on the scene and hospitals and medical centres were preparing to receive the injured.
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I had read somewhere that there was an electrical problem and they tried to burn off as much fuel as possible before the inevitable.
[Reuters] China said on Wednesday it wanted to develop smooth military-to-military ties with the new U.S. administration of Donald Trump.
While the world's two largest economies are frequently at odds over issues like the disputed South China Sea, both have been trying to improve trust between their armed forces to reduce the risk of misunderstanding in any encounters.
This month, China and the United States staged a three-day humanitarian relief military drill as part of that trust-building exercise.
New concern looms with Trump's election as U.S. president. He lambasted China on the campaign trail and has suggested Japan and South Korea be allowed to develop nuclear weapons.
Asked about Trump's election, Chinese Defence Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun said it went without saying there were tensions in the military relationship and China hoped the United States would respect its core interests and concerns.
"China is willing to work hard together with the defense department of the next U.S. government to promote the healthy and stable development of military-to-military relations," Yang told a monthly news briefing.
[The Hill] Top Donald Trump aide Kellyanne Conway will make a trip to the Alberta oil sands before January’s inauguration, a right-wing Canadian group announced on Tuesday.
Conway will visit Alberta in January and tour the province's oil-producing region, the Alberta Prosperity Fund announced on Tuesday.
Alberta's oil sands are a key driver of Canada's oil industry and the source of the tar sands oil that was set to flow through the Keystone XL pipeline. President Obama rejected that project last year, but Trump has said he will approve the project once he takes office.
Keystone developer TransCanada said after Trump's election that it plans to "engage" with Trump. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) also used a meeting with Trump to promote the Keystone project, which Republicans and the oil industry say will create jobs.
Conway will also host a fundraiser for the Alberta Prosperity Fund, which said her visit will be "a call to action for Alberta industry whose competitiveness and market access have been restricted by excessive regulation and public protests."
"This visit by such an influential member of a U.S. administration should stand as a call to action for all Alberta industry," Prosperity Fund founder and President Barry McNamar said in a statement.
"I hope that Ms. Conway receives an enthusiastic welcome here in Alberta and can return to the US with an informed attitude towards Canadian export products."
[NYTIMES] From the earliest days of his campaign, Donald J. Trump made keeping manufacturing jobs in the United States his signature economic issue, and the decision by Carrier, the big air-conditioner company, to move 2,000 of them from Indiana to Mexico was a tailor-made talking point for him on the stump.
On Thursday, Mr. Trump and Mike Pence, Indiana’s governor and the vice-president elect, plan to appear at Carrier’s Indianapolis plant to announce they’ve struck a deal with the company to keep a majority of the jobs in the state, according to officials with the transition team as well as Carrier.
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[Breitbart] A senior White House aide to President Barack Obama will attend Cuba dictator Fidel Castro’s service, according to the White House press secretary Josh Earnest.
The White House decided against sending an official delegation to represent the United States at Fidel Castro’s memorial, but will allow senior aide Ben Rhodes to attend as an informal symbol of his work to normalize relations with the communist country.
"America sometimes makes itself a prisoner of our own history. We have a very complicated history with Cuba," Rhodes explained during a discussion of his work for Obama in the Atlantic.
Earnest said that Rhodes had already planned a trip to Cuba this week, and would attend along with Ambassador Jeffrey DeLaurentis, the Chargé d’Affaires at the newly reopened U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba.
Rhodes’ trip, Earnest explained, would show the appropriate amount of respect for the Cuban people, but without the honor of an official delegation.
[DAWN] A suspect allegedly shot dead his niece Anila,18, and his nephew Jaffar Lashari,19, over the pretext of honour in Zahid Bambhar village area of Khairpur Mirs district.
An official of Pir Wasan police station, while talking to DawnNews, informed that the suspect has been arrested by the police.
However, an FIR was not registered with the police till the filing of this report.
It is pertinent to mention that FIRs in honour killing cases are registered on behalf of the state after a joint session of the Parliament unanimously approved anti-honour killing and anti-rape bills
In July, days after the 'honour' killing of social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch, a committee comprising lawmakers from both the lower and upper houses of parliament unanimously approved two bills aimed at tackling 'honour' killings and boosting rape convictions.
The perpetrators of honour killings – in which the victim, normally a woman, is killed by a relative – often walk free because they can seek forgiveness for the crime from another family member.
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Why do I think "boosting rape convictions" in Pakistan means more women in prison?
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[DAWN] A woman named Zulekha, 24, and a man identified as Mohammad Yaqub Chandio were reportedly shot dead by husband of Zulekha within the jurisdiction of Qambar Police Station in Qambar Shahdadkot district on Tuesday.
"Police arrested the accused, who confessed to have killed both his wife and her alleged paramour 'for honour'," said a police official at Qambar police station.
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[DAWN] "A teenage girl identified as Gul Bano, 16, and her cousin Dur Muhammad, 18, son of Hakim Wessar, were killed over the pretext of honour killing by the father of the girl, Mushtaque Wessar, by beating them with baton and later strangling both to death," said SHO Sadar cop shoppe Ayaz Pathan.
Ayaz Pathan further informed DawnNews that police had enjugged I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! the accused Mushtaque Wessar and brought the bodies of the dear departed to District Headquarters Hospital Jacobabad for the post-mortem examination.
"After conducting post-mortem examination, the bodies were reportedly handed over to relatives of the victims for burial," Ayaz Pathan maintained.
First Information Report (FIR) against the accused was registered by the SHO Ayaz Pathan on behalf of the state.
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[Caution: Mirror Alert] China's first astronaut says he heard mysterious knocks during his first flight in space - but no one has been able to explain the cause of them.
Astronaut Yang Liwei said the strange noises left him feeling very nervous and he looked out into the vast emptiness of space but couldn't see anything out of the ordinary.
Mr Yang, now a major general in China's Air Force, said it sounded like someone was knocking the body of the spaceship, comparing the noise to that of a hammer hitting an iron bucket. Popping rivets ?
The 51-year-old's unexplained experience has raised all kinds of theories, including aliens , and he said he has never heard the sound again since returning to earth.
In 2003 Mr Yang became the first person sent into space by the Chinese space programme, orbiting earth several times during a 21-hour flight.
He recalled the experience in a recent interview, telling Chinese media the mysterious knocking sounds occurred without rhyme or reason. He said: "A non-causal situation I have met in space is a knock that appeared from time to time.
"It neither came from outside nor inside the spaceship, but sounded like someone is knocking the body of the spaceship just as knocking an iron bucket with a wooden hammer.
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I'm sure the QA on the metal and welding was perfect on your craft. It was, after all, made in China where they don't use the lowest bidder, just the highest in kickbacks.
[BBC] The director of the CIA has warned US President-elect Donald Trump that ending the Iran nuclear deal would be "disastrous" and "the height of folly". 'Height of folly' found just to the right.
In a BBC interview, John Brennan also advised the new president to be wary of Russia's promises, blaming Moscow for much of the suffering in Syria.
In his campaign, Mr Trump threatened to scrap the Iran deal and also hinted at working more closely with Russia.
Mr Brennan will step down in January after four years leading the CIA.
In the first interview by a CIA director with the British media, John Brennan outlined a number of areas where he said the new administration needed to act with "prudence and discipline" - these included the language used regarding terrorism, relations with Russia, the Iran nuclear deal and the way in which the CIA's own covert capabilities were employed.
Mr Brennan offered a bleak assessment of the situation in Syria arguing that both the Syrian regime and the Russians were responsible for a slaughter of civilians which he described as "outrageous".
The administration of President Barack Obama has pursued a policy of supporting moderate rebels fighting the Assad regime in Syria. The CIA director said that he believed the US needed to continue that support to help rebels withstand what he called an "onslaught" carried out by Syria, Iran, Hezbollah and Russia.
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... TRANSLATION: "If he starts digging into this, I am SO screwed...not to mention the mullahs promised my compensation would keep rolling in as long as we kept our end of the deal."
Mike
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That is probably why Trump gets few briefings. Under O and Co it is called the Takkiya Report, and is quite suspect.
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There was a news story during the campaign about members of the intel community refusing to brief candidate Trump. Struck me as an abdication of professional responsibility. And more than a little childish.
The NFL’s narrative that the elections ruined their ratings took a substantial blow on Monday when the overnight numbers for NBC’s Sunday Night Football became available.
Hint: they did not impress.
NBC’s broadcast of the Chiefs vs. Broncos on SNF came in a staggering 27 points behind last year’s Week 12 SNF matchup featuring the Patriots and the Broncos. Sure, Patriots-Broncos makes for a more compelling watch than Chiefs-Broncos, but does not justify a thirty-point ratings difference.
The NFL actually tried to do the right thing on Sunday night and it still blew up in their face. The league, rightly, stepped in and moved the originally-scheduled Pats-Jets matchup to Sunday afternoon, replacing it with a much more appetizing Chiefs and Broncos, two relevant division rivals fighting it out for playoff position. If you say so. I was otherwise engaged.
Despite the game turning into an extremely hard-hitting, five-quarter affair complete with nail-biting moments and controversial decisions, the fans did not give it the time of day.
This ratings letdown stands in stark contrast to the Redskins-Cowboys game on Thanksgiving Day which drew more than 35 million viewers. The league thought that number would signal a turn in their ratings fortunes but instead it proved that the entire country at home and unable to move watches television. Huh? But, again, I was otherwise engaged.
Not to mention the fact that the presidential election ended three weeks ago, which makes pinning the NFL’s woes on the "quadrennial silly season" all the more problematic. In short, the NFL might just have to wake up to the fact that America just isn’t that into them anymore.
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The numbers were bad because my Broncos lost.
Shaddup! It is my fantasy, I'll make it as big as I want!
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I watched it. It was a great game, back and forth and hard hitting. I mean, Kapernick wasn't there so why not?
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No, blabberneck was busy embarrassing castro to death, but one of the KC D is in suit.
We all ended up turning the sound off and BSn. So, the game was on, but nobody was watching really.
Same with the Thanksgiving game. On, nobody watching.
That's the deal. Nobody knows if it is a good game if nobody turns it on. At one point I looked at the screen and went, "Hey, it's overtime. OK." then back to BSn.
So I guess that habit is kicked. I love the sport of football, but I can find it elsewhere, or even actually learn the rules of rugby to better appreciate the gameplay.
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@#3: You reminded me of what we used to do. Watch the ball game on the monochrome but with the sound turned off. Would pick up the color by tuning the radio to the game. Good times....good times.......
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Absolutely.
Tried doing just that during the 2015 MLB playoffs. By the time the World Series came around I was so very tired of the Fox Sports broadcasting teams, and the team they had was so rooting for the Metros it was a slobber fest.
I couldn't get radio, so I would turn the sound off when New York was batting, then turn it back on when KC was batting and harvested their little tears from the corner of my TV. Not as tasty as Vintage 2016, but still a fine sip.
[AmericaLookout] The Obama administration is now stealing money which was appropriated for services to help American citizens. And he’s using it to feed people who are in the country illegally.
Whose side is he on?
The Washington Examiner reports:
Feds cut $167 million in domestic programs to house, feed illegals for just 1 month
The Department of Health and Human Services is raiding several of its accounts, including money for Medicare, the Ryan White AIDS/HIV program and those for cancer and flu research to cover a shortfall in housing illegal youths pouring over the border at a rate of 255 a day.
HHS is trying to come up with $167 million to fund the Office of Refugee Resettlement that is accepting the youths, according to the Center for Immigration Studies.
Policy Director Jessica Vaughan said that insiders have told her that the funding crisis has forced the department to squeeze programs for money.
She just revealed on the CIS website:
"An average of 255 illegal alien youths were taken into the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) every day this month, according to the latest figures the agency provided to Congress. This is the largest number of illegal alien children ever in the care of the federal government. To pay for it, the agency says it will need an additional one or two billion dollars for the next year ‐ above and beyond the $1.2 billion spent in 2016 and proposed for 2017 ‐ depending on how many more arrive."
This is astounding. The Obama administration is doing this while the media is promising to be tough on Trump.
Where are they now, while Obama is still in charge?
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Imagine that. Democrats stealing money.
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In other words, another large group of illegals who can be easily found and sent back -- and another quick phone-and-pen cut to federal spending in the short term, while House Republicans decide whether they want to put the original spending back in the federal budget next year.
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.
A reported influx of white protestors at Standing Rock has led to an unusual request from activists at the North Dakota Access Pipeline protest.
[DAWN] A suspect allegedly shot dead his niece Anila,18, and his nephew Jaffar Lashari,19, over the pretext of honour in Zahid Bambhar village area of Khairpur Mirs district.
[DAWN] A woman named Zulekha, 24, and a man identified as Mohammad Yaqub Chandio were reportedly shot dead by husband of Zulekha within the jurisdiction of Qambar Police Station in Qambar Shahdadkot district on Tuesday.
[DAWN] "A teenage girl identified as Gul Bano, 16, and her cousin Dur Muhammad, 18, son of Hakim Wessar, were killed over the pretext of honour killing by the father of the girl, Mushtaque Wessar, by beating them with baton and later strangling both to death," said SHO Sadar 
