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-Obits-
Inventor of General Tso's Chicken dies in Taipei at age 98
[TAIWANNEWS.TW] Chef Peng Chang-kuei, the founder of the famous Hunan-style restaurant chain Peng's Garden Hunan Restaurant and inventor of the world famous Chinese dish General Tso's Chicken, died on Nov. 30 at the age of 98 from Pneumonia.

A native of Changsha, Hunan Province, Peng began training at the age of 13 under the tutelage of the famous Hunan chef Cao Jing-chen, who was the family chef of Tan Yan-kai, the prime minister of the Nationalist government from 1926 to 1928. After WWII, he was put in charge of running Nationalist government banquets, and in 1949 he fled to Taiwan after the Kuomintang's forces were defeated by the communists in the Chinese Civil War.

According to an interview with the China Times, Peng says that his most famous dish was created in 1952 during a four-day visit by U.S. Seventh Fleet commander Admiral Arthur W. Radford. After three days, he had served the guests most of his repertoire of dishes, so to try and mix things up a bit, he decided to chop some chicken into big chunks, fry it to a golden hue and then added a different combination of sauce and seasoning to create a new dish.

The admiral was so impressed with the dish that he asked Peng what it was called, he thought quickly on his feet and said "General Tso's Chicken".

Peng chose the name to honor General Tso, a famous military leader from Hunan who helped put down the Taiping Rebellion as well as other rebellions in the 1800s during the Qing Dynasty. He was well respected not only for his successes on the battlefield, but also for his contributions to Chinese agricultural science and education.
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  First the inventor of the Big Mac, now the force behind General Tsos Chicken, who's next? I hope it's it's that creepy burger Koenig d00d.
Posted by: Shipman || 12/03/2016 6:06 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
$750K sculpture sickened FBI workers in Miami
Emails and other internal documents indicated the scope and severity of the illnesses.

The office nurse, who was not named in the documents, had one of the most extreme reactions.

"Upon the installation of the art sculpture, the nurse developed rhinitis, difficulty swallowing, sinus pressure, sneezing, has difficulty breathing and began to itch all over," read a June 2015 letter from Marisol Rente, the supervisor of facilities for the FBI’s Miami Division to two GSA officials.

The same letter indicated the nurse did at least three rounds of steroids to "reset her immune system," and that she was the area’s lone nurse.

"We have only one nurse at this time who is responsible for approximately 1,000 employees," the letter read. "She is not able to perform her job duties being at an off-site when her health unit is in the federal building."

According to the letter, another employee’s "face became very swollen along with their lymph nodes and they developed a fever ... the employee states when they are away from the building for an extended time there is resolution of symptoms."

A test conducted by OSHA in February found traces of "numerous substances" like formaldehyde, but the samples did not exceed OSHA air quality standards.
Yup, formaldehyde will do all those things, particularly with a "tight" air conditioning system...
"The most notable impact on air quality during the project was the increased odor when the tarps covering the sculpture were removed," read the report.

GSA also noted tests from the Federal Occupational Health agency.

"FOH measured no cedar dust in the facility and found insufficient evidence to implicate the artwork as the source of health conditions reported by FBI employees," said Muwwakkil, the GSA spokeswoman.

After the decision was made to remove the statue, it went on a more than 1,000-mile journey from Miami to Alexandria, Virginia, where GSA has an off-site fine arts facility. It is currently awaiting its next stop at a storage facility in Maryland.
Some poor GS-5 at the storage facility is about to become sick...
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 12/03/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Somewhere in the hills of WV a coal miner's stove needs stoking.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/03/2016 5:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Dry heat 86 degrees wind shield in the teens priceless maybe losing the Constitution should make them sick perhaps they should do their FUCKING JOBS!
Posted by: Goober Wittlesbach5685 || 12/03/2016 5:53 Comments || Top||

#3  These are not 'job's Goober, these are positions.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/03/2016 5:55 Comments || Top||

#4  At first glance, thought the sculptor's vision and rendition might have been the cause.

Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/03/2016 8:56 Comments || Top||


Declassified CIA Maps On Flickr
Posted by: Grunter || 12/03/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Some good stuff for historians here; e.g., map of Afghan refugee location in Pakistan in 1982. In the nineteen eighties, when cartography was influenced by the human (rather than machine dominated) touch, the CIA was the best.
Posted by: Heriberto Greper9897 || 12/03/2016 7:56 Comments || Top||

#2  when cartography was influenced by the human (rather than machine dominated) touch,

Yep, you can thank the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)... aka 'no longer mapping agency' for that.

But how are we going to sell expensive new computers and SW every 18 months if these pogs are wedded to 1:50,000 paper maps ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/03/2016 8:00 Comments || Top||


How I Ended Up In A Psych Ward On Election Night
I found out Donald Trump had won the Electoral College while midstream in providing a urine sample for the emergency psychiatric staff of a New York City public hospital. The unlockable bathroom door in this unescapable wing was ajar, and I could hear the victorious Mike Pence’s sinister Sunday-school baritone taunting me with the truth from the hallway television.

For the preceding witching hours of election night, I had lain in a fetal position amidst a cast of anonymous men nursing their own crises, my hands clasped tightly over my ears. It wasn’t that I minded the howls of the guy nearby who was shackled to his cot and monitored by an unimpressed brood of policemen. Instead, I wanted to spare myself any word of the far greater insanity unfolding beyond the hospital walls.

Drained of tears, too tired to sleep, I stared at the fluorescent ceiling lights --which, indifferent to our suffering, remained on throughout the night -- and endured the passing time by willing my thoughts to vanish into the dull glow. For a second, I imagined someone would burst in and proclaim, "It’s all right, Hillary won!" and I would bound out of bed, awoken from this nightmare.

This was all just a dream, right?

A while before, during the final hour of November 8, I had committed myself to institutional psychiatric care. A generation or two ago they would have said I was suffering a nervous breakdown: catatonic, plagued by involuntary jerking motions (my head furiously shaking "No! "), speech patterns disjointed, weeping uncontrollably.
Read it all
Posted by: Beavis || 12/03/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Somebody needs to be beat with a reality stick.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/03/2016 2:27 Comments || Top||


#3  ...Seriously - how do people like that survive in Real Life(TM)?

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/03/2016 4:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Did anyone take a video?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/03/2016 5:20 Comments || Top||

#5  Mike Pence’s sinister Sunday-school baritone

Scratch a leftist, find an anti-Christian bigot.

Every time.
Posted by: no mo uro || 12/03/2016 5:21 Comments || Top||

#6  I texted a flare to my friend and plus-one, Sean, who soon appeared in the stairwell and cradled me in my hysterics. We kept in touch with a therapist friend of mine, Austin, through phone and text. Austin strongly urged me to leave the party. Hearing that I was suicidal, he proposed that I have myself committed.

oh my.... the poor dear... (/sarc)
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/03/2016 5:27 Comments || Top||

#7  Just a sec, you mean this is not a parody?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/03/2016 5:51 Comments || Top||

#8  It's not?
Posted by: Shipman || 12/03/2016 6:09 Comments || Top||

#9  Sorry guys. All comedy is not parody.

That said....................hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Posted by: AlanC || 12/03/2016 7:44 Comments || Top||

#10  When the bullets start flying in the civil war they're generating, these will be in -

a - the front line
b - moving the ammo to the front line
c - in the stairwell sobbing
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/03/2016 9:16 Comments || Top||

#11  I thought the text was funny, then I came to the visuals. Oh Murgatroyd
Posted by: Cesare || 12/03/2016 10:30 Comments || Top||

#12  Seriously ..this isn't parody? Pajama Boy just finished telling us how bad the Pubs are to the bottom-caste and how his tribe wants to save them. Yet won't give a crying woman a pudding cup.
He thinks he's in a nightmare...HA..welcome to our world for the last 8 years.
Posted by: Warthog || 12/03/2016 10:33 Comments || Top||

#13  They should of released him to Venezuela where his mature socialist GIVERnment model is currently in place. That should cure him quicker than any meds.
Posted by: Airandee || 12/03/2016 10:55 Comments || Top||

#14  I bounded into the space at 6 o’clock in a frolic of an outfit: a red belt, white skinny jeans, and a blue Hillary-as-Rosie-the-Riveter T-shirt, my hair lavishly coiffed into a confident pompadour.

*SNORT!*
Posted by: Frank G || 12/03/2016 11:06 Comments || Top||

#15  Reading this, his friends should have let him jump.
Posted by: Charles || 12/03/2016 11:18 Comments || Top||

#16  He looks...a bit light in his loafers.
Posted by: Skunky Tingle8011 || 12/03/2016 12:24 Comments || Top||

#17  Sounds like he just needed an excuse.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/03/2016 13:44 Comments || Top||

#18  I seemed to be the only garden variety anxious-depressive in the ward, and was probably the only one gainfully employed, certainly the sole Ivy League grad. As far as I could estimate, most of the two dozen or so other men and women were homeless or unstably housed and largely suffered from psychosis.

The psych ward was the floor they couldn’t fall below. Or in political terms, it was the safety net. Mostly black or brown, these were the people at the very bottom of the totem pole, the ones Democrats strive to protect and Republicans see as a burden best left out in the cold. Even I, for all my fortune in life, was there among them in the hospital only thanks to the grace of progressive politics, with my Affordable Care Act marketplace health plan picking up the tab. (Thanks, Obama!)


"There I was, me and all those (ugh!) deplorables..."

What an execrable little swine he is, to be sure. He has Obamacare, and therefore gets care. Those others -- mostly schizophrenics who live unmedicated on the streets because the insane asylums were closed on the advice of the therapeutic professionals in the '80s --have nothing, not even Medicaid, and they get the exact same care he is given.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/03/2016 13:54 Comments || Top||

#19  his friends should have let him jump.

A real friend would have pushed him.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/03/2016 14:50 Comments || Top||

#20  MODS! IMPERATIVE YOU DELETE ENTIRE THREAD IMMEDIATELY as it compromises our BEST. AGENT. EVER.
Posted by: Graing Lumplump5730 || 12/03/2016 15:25 Comments || Top||

#21  "It’sall right, Hillary won!" No, Hillary did not win, you were having a dream.

You chose a bad, flawed candidate, one who should have been in prison to begin with. Your candidate did not like a large number of Americans and indicated such. As the result, Trump flipped nearly 200 blue counties to win. She had a sense of entitlement as you most likely did also. Bad choices often have bad outcomes. These deplorable, irredeemable folks who Hillary and most likely you condemned lived with a president for 8 years who probably will go down in history as the worst president. So get your therapy, get over it, bitch about it and toughen up buttercup; you might even learn to like it with time.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/03/2016 19:34 Comments || Top||

#22  Rather you in a psych ward where you belong than making the entire nation one.
Posted by: newc || 12/03/2016 22:56 Comments || Top||

#23  She Is More Educated
Posted by: newc || 12/03/2016 23:00 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Gov. Chris Christie Signs Bill to Put Armed, Retired Cops in Schools for Security
[Breitbart] New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) has signed legislation that will allow schools and colleges to hire armed, retired police officers to serve as security to protect students and teachers alike.

Christie’s signature comes during the very week in which a Somali refugee drove a car into a group of pedestrians, then chased unarmed students with a knife at Ohio State University.

According to NJ.com, the legislation, S86, allows schools and colleges to hire retired police officers as "special law enforcement officers."

Christie "conditionally vetoed" S86 two months ago because the first version did not require the retired officers to undergo "specialized training covering security issues that routinely arise in the school setting."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/03/2016 07:46 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cause retired cops at the airport working boarding security in Boston did such a fine job on 9/11, IIRC.

A new venue for patronage crony job opportunities.

Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/03/2016 9:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Do they also get to carry paddles?
Posted by: Fluper Click1940 || 12/03/2016 9:55 Comments || Top||

#3  TX 30.06 posted by property owners identifies 'felonious criminal trespass' as walking in the door with a gun. Licensed, concealed or not.

Seems to me 'possession', 'assault with/without a weapon' and 'intent to distribute' are also righteous laws that already exist for a reason and should be enforced. Leniency for "kids that don't understand" has one or more parents as accessories, perhaps 'premeditated' if they themselves are 'negligent'.

A lot of good laws, which if applied to 'first time offenders' will reduce the copycat cascade.

Do these old dudes still have arrest powers so they can engage with the feral kiddies without fear of DOJ civil suit retaliation?
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/03/2016 13:02 Comments || Top||


Kellogg Foundation Gave Big to Soros Organization, Tides Foundation
[BREITBART] The institutional left’s funding behemoth W.K. Kellogg Foundation has partnered with and given major donations to George Soros’s Open Society Institute and the Tides Center as part of its massive push to promote a far-left agenda.
I've been doing my part for years, eating house brand breakfy foods.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is the nonprofit arm of cereal and sweets giant Kellogg’s, based in Battle Creek, Michigan. The Kellogg Company is chiefly known for its breakfast brands, including Special K™ cereal, Eggo® waffles, and Pop-Tarts®; but its namesake nonprofit W.K. Kellogg Foundation is one of the largest institutional funders in the world and is the seventh largest philanthropic foundation in the United States.

The Kellogg’s website explains the history of the Foundation:

As the United States sunk into the Depression, W.K. Kellogg declared, "I’ll invest in people." He split shifts and hired new employees to work them. He also founded the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, whose mission -- to help children realize their potential -- complements that of the Kellogg Company to this day.

In recent years, however, the focus of the Foundation has drifted away from just helping children toward promoting left-wing political issues.

Examples of such funding include a direct grant to George Soros’s Open Society Institute, which received $200,000 from the Foundation to "eliminate racial inequities in the juvenile justice system and promote racial healing through community-based conferences, policy changes, and communication strategies."

Two other far-left groups, the Tides Center and Tides Foundation, both based in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
, are also top recipients of funds and support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. A search of the grants given by the Foundation for "Tides" yields over 120 results.

Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  From where the sun now stands, I will eat Frosted Flakes no more forever.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/03/2016 2:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Forgive me, but I'm always a bit skeptical when the foundation web site opens to....'We're doing it for the children, Racial Healing.' Copious amounts of sugar and animal appropriation marketing, no help either. BTW, see any clinically obese children at the link ?

Probably just me...old habits, that sort of thing.

Kellogg Foundation link.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/03/2016 6:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Looks like the Kellog-Brand Pact is broken, cereal war imminent, C.W. Post is on high alert, General Mills and Captain Crunch are on the move.
Posted by: Shipman || 12/03/2016 6:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Malt-O-Meal brand (Lakeville, Minnesota) makes a good version of those, SteveS. Good Raisin Bran, too.

Gave up on Kellogg's years ago when their foundation started this sh*t.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/03/2016 8:41 Comments || Top||

#5  I can't go the onions, but McCann's Irish is an old favorite
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/03/2016 8:55 Comments || Top||

#6  Now if you really want to raise taxes. As Willie Sutton, you rob banks because that's where the money is. All these foundations need to be stripped of any tax abatement. Only religious organizations with at least a hundred years of establishment (See - separation of church and state), to receive any exemption.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/03/2016 9:24 Comments || Top||

#7  More to the saga, including Kellogg's boycotting of Breitbart owing to what K believes to be inappropriate (non-PC) content.

In case you are interested, their sub's include:
Kashi
Keebler Company
Bear Naked, Inc.

Wiki: "In August 2014, Kellogg's called on the President to support the Paris Agreement on climate change. In 2016, Kellogg Company urged President-elect Donald Trump to "continue the Paris Climate Agreement". The company also decided to remove their advertisements from the Breitbart News website. Breitbart News in turn called for a boycott of Kellogg's products."
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 12/03/2016 12:04 Comments || Top||

#8  http://discoverthenetworks.org/

It's been known for awhile
Posted by: newc || 12/03/2016 12:28 Comments || Top||

#9  Sounds like the foundation needs a good federal auditing.

Posted by: DarthVader || 12/03/2016 13:06 Comments || Top||

#10  Promoting diabetes for over 100 years.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/03/2016 14:20 Comments || Top||

#11  SteveS with the Chief Joseph reference has me standing by the roadside with trash at my feet and a tear in my eye.
Posted by: Regular joe || 12/03/2016 14:42 Comments || Top||

#12  Stick to making cereal. Use the Foundation money for something useful. Stay out of politics, you will get hurt in the cash register.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/03/2016 19:40 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Computer virus attack targeted Saudi government installations
So many possibilities, miscreantwise...
[Ynet] A computer virus attack in mid-November targeted Saudi government bodies and vital installations including the kingdom's transport sector, Saudi state news agency SPA reported on Thursday.

The attack appeared to originate outside the country and was one of "several ongoing cyberattacks targeting government authorities", SPA quoted the National Cyber Security Center, an arm of the Ministry of Interior, as saying.

It did not give further details of the identity of the attacker or the damage that had been done, beyond saying the virus aimed to disrupt servers and plant malicious software in computer systems. A Ministry of Interior front man did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

U.S. security firms said on Wednesday that a version of Shamoon, the destructive computer virus that four years ago crippled tens of thousands of computers at Middle Eastern energy companies, was used two weeks ago to attack computers in 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...b
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Posted by: trailing wife || 12/03/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The attack appeared to originate outside the country and was one of "several ongoing cyberattacks targeting government authorities"

Getting their pron from a satellite service provider?
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/03/2016 2:30 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Venezuela rejects suspension from Mercosur trade bloc
[Iran Press TV] Venezuela has lambasted its suspension from the South American economic bloc Mercosur as a "coup" launched against Caracas.

"This is a coup d'etat to Mercosur and constitutes a very grave attack on Venezuela," said Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez at a presser on Friday, adding that she does not recognize the action and considers it as illegal.

Rodriguez’s remarks came hours after foreign ministers of Argentina
...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita...
, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, in a joint letter addressed to the Venezuelan Forging Ministry, suspended the oil-rich country from the bloc, arguing that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s leftist administration has missed a December 1 deadline to comply with the pact’s democratic standards and trade bylaws.

Mercosur’s member states, led by Brazil, added that Caracas would be required to renegotiate its membership, four years after its membership became effective in the sub-regional bloc.

The new conservative, market-friendly administrations across the region are at considerable odds with Maduro’s crackdown on the opposition. Recently, Brazil and Argentina even spearheaded an effort to prevent Venezuela from taking its turn as the bloc’s rotating leader.

However,
the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach...
Venezuela insists that it is still the group's rotating president, while Argentina is now slated to take the 25-year-old group’s six-month presidency.

Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  The 100 Bol note (the highest denomination) now worth less than 2 cents. This has forced the use of debit cards for even small transaction overloading the system. It all came to a halt yesterday. Uncertain of current status.
Posted by: Shipman || 12/03/2016 6:19 Comments || Top||


Haiti: violent protests erupt over presidential election result
  • [THEGUARDIAN] Early results give win to political newcomer Jovenel Moïse, a banana exporter

  • Losing candidates vow to fight outcome amid low turnout and irregularities
Whoa! That's never happened before, has it?
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When the Haiti's president sez he "has a pen...,
Posted by: Shipman || 12/03/2016 6:22 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
New gas reserves found in Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan is not an OPEC member. Let's hope that they can sell this NG at a profit at below $50 a barrel equivalent.
Turkmen Geology State Corporation has discovered new rich gas deposits in the exploitation well at the Chelekbay site located in the north-western part of the giant Galkynysh field, the Oil and Gas Complex of Turkmenistan said in a message Dec. 1.

"The upper layers of the well produce more than 1 million cubic meters of natural gas per day, according to the experts’ estimates," the message said.

According to Gaffney, Cline & Associates, which audits Turkmenistan’s Galkynysh field and the adjacent Yashlar field, these two sites have an estimated total reserve of 26.2 trillion cubic meters of gas. With the newly discovered Garakel field, the block's reserves rise to 27.4 trillion cubic meters.
Posted by: Steve White || 12/03/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
China lodges protest after Trump call with Taiwan president - That didn't take long.
[Reuters] China lodged a diplomatic protest on Saturday after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump spoke by phone with President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan, but blamed the self-ruled island Beijing claims as its own for the "petty" move.

The 10-minute telephone call with Taiwan's leadership was the first by a U.S. president-elect or president since President Jimmy Carter switched diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China in 1979, acknowledging Taiwan as part of "one China".

China's Foreign Ministry said it had lodged "stern representations" with what it called the "relevant U.S. side", urging the careful handling of the Taiwan issue to avoid any unnecessary disturbances in ties.

"The one China principle is the political basis of the China-U.S. relationship," it said.

The wording implied the protest had gone to the Trump camp, but the ministry provided no explanation.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/03/2016 08:13 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Punish us please by banning the export of Xiaomi, Meizu, Lenovo, and Oppo cellies to U.S. markets. We'll come around, you'll see.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/03/2016 8:21 Comments || Top||

#2  The leader of Taiwan called the President-Elect. The evil on the left can have a stroke.
Posted by: Lonzo Clavick6068 || 12/03/2016 8:42 Comments || Top||

#3  What makes the Chinese leadership think that Americans don't want "disturbances in ties"?
Posted by: Fluper Click1940 || 12/03/2016 9:51 Comments || Top||

#4  If I were Tim Cook I'd start planning to move at least some iPhone production out of China. Apple and other American manufacturers are going to end up being the jelly in the middle of the sandwich.
Posted by: Steve White || 12/03/2016 11:21 Comments || Top||

#5  Steve, I have seen some reports of Apple planning on bringing back iPhone 7 production to the US.

I think they see some of the writing on the wall.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/03/2016 12:09 Comments || Top||

#6  #4, I imagine there are quite a few American manufacturers discussing their China holdings this weekend.
Posted by: jvalentour || 12/03/2016 12:28 Comments || Top||

#7  Samsung Galaxy 7 is made in Korea. That was a big factor in my decision to buy one instead of a new iPhone. HP and Dell can pound sand too.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/03/2016 12:31 Comments || Top||

#8  "The one China principle is the political basis of the China-U.S. relationship," it said.

Thanks, jimmuh. /sarc
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/03/2016 12:39 Comments || Top||

#9  Hey China, that US Gov't bond paper you're holding, we've had to make some unforeseen interest adjustments. Trade balance discrepancies, that sort of thing. Nothing personal, it was simply a business decision.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/03/2016 12:44 Comments || Top||

#10  You can't eat FOAD.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/03/2016 12:44 Comments || Top||


Trump Speaks With Formosa's Tsai Ing-wen, China likely butthurt
[NYT] WASHINGTON -- President-elect Donald J. Trump spoke by telephone with Taiwan’s president on Friday, a striking break with nearly four decades of diplomatic practice that could precipitate a major rift with China even before Mr. Trump takes office.

Mr. Trump’s office said he spoke with the Taiwanese president, Tsai Ing-wen, "who offered her congratulations."

He is believed to be the first president or president-elect who has spoken to a Taiwanese leader since 1979, when the United States severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan after its recognition of the People’s Republic of China.

In the statement, Mr. Trump’s office said the two leaders noted that "close economic, political, and security ties" exist between Taiwan and the United States. The statement also said Mr. Trump "congratulated President Tsai on becoming president of Taiwan
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/03/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  China has been told, they can't tell him who he can and can not talk to.

If you're going to get jobs back into America, escalating a trade war is one way to do it. The Chinese haven't been in a major economic depress yet. Nasty enough for a democracy to weather. When you're the only party in town, guess who's to blame.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/03/2016 9:19 Comments || Top||

#2  ...depression...
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/03/2016 9:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Champ practically gives Iran - our primary enemy nukes and no one bats an eye.

Trump takes one phone call from an Ally and the media goes ape.

The media must be destroyed and rebuilt.
They are supposed to have one job and that is report, not distort or omit the news.

It's pond scum peddling sewage.
Posted by: newc || 12/03/2016 11:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Obama's first call from the Oval Office was to the PLO. And that was not immediately reported.
Posted by: Airandee || 12/03/2016 13:12 Comments || Top||


Economy
OPEC basket price continues to rise
The price of OPEC basket of fourteen crudes stood at $49.35 a barrel on Dec.1, compared with $44.80 the previous day, according to the cartel’s website.

The new OPEC Reference Basket of Crudes (ORB) is made up of the following: Saharan Blend (Algeria), Girassol (Angola), Oriente (Ecuador), Rabi Light (Gabon), Minas (Indonesia), Iran Heavy (Islamic Republic of Iran), Basra Light (Iraq), Kuwait Export (Kuwait), Es Sider (Libya), Bonny Light (Nigeria), Qatar Marine (Qatar), Arab Light (Saudi Arabia), Murban (UAE) and Merey (Venezuela).

Oil prices are decreasing Dec.2. The price of February futures for Brent crude oil has decreased by 1.17 percent to $53.31 per barrel. This is while the price of January futures for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil dropped by 0.78 percent to $50.66 per barrel.
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#1  Turkey and Russia have a new deal on a popeline and the trailer trash from America with the glowing white orbs along power lines over gas and oil and timber along the east coast has brought the trailer trash light show to Turkey with her cheap k mart jean jacket bad perm really expensive walkie talkie and taste for really shitty food! You tube video UFO's and trailer trash housing oil gas and timber all up and down the burn zone on the east coast perhaps the FBI should investigate them! 2009-2011 their tesla psychotron 14 an hour inbred mujunazi fake American Faggio clowns!
Posted by: Goober Wittlesbach5685 || 12/03/2016 5:50 Comments || Top||

#2  GW no more than 200 micrograms EVER!
Posted by: Shipman || 12/03/2016 6:24 Comments || Top||

#3  It's not clear to me whether GW needs to double his dose or halve it...
Posted by: Steve White || 12/03/2016 11:23 Comments || Top||


Europe
Teenage Refugees Selling Sex On Athens Streets
[Tolo News] Desperate young refugees have been forced into the murky underworld of drugs and prostitution in an attempt to survive on the streets of Athens, in Greece.

In a CNN documentary, young men are seen congregating at Victoria Square, in central Athens, in small groups, where they ply their trade. Many of them are teenagers ‐ unaccompanied minors.

According to a social worker, Tassos Smetopoulos, they come here for money so they can pay human traffickers to get them to central Europe.

One teenager, interviewed by CNN, is Ali (not his real name). He is 17 years old and is from Afghanistan. He said he came to Europe hoping to get an education and to eventually bring his mother to join him. But now Ali is dependent on drugs and on the money from clients.

Like many others, Ali visits a nearby park regularly where deals are made with men. Ali said some of the older men offer to take boys to a local disco or to their home.

"Some will take you home, give you clothes and anything you like," he says.

"They will treat you like their husband, their boyfriend, they will give you €200, €300, €400 ($212, $318, $425).

"It's very hard. How can a person be with another man like that? Those men are sick. No matter how often I do it, it doesn't get easier," Ali said.

CNN reported that the seeming rise in unaccompanied minors prostituting themselves comes after a "one-for-one" deal brokered between the EU and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
in March.
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  One teenager, interviewed by CNN, is Ali (not his real name).

Yeah, wouldn't want to use his real name, which is Mohamhead.
Posted by: gorb || 12/03/2016 1:45 Comments || Top||

#2  So once again lamenting the unfortunate life choices of the prey with no regard for controlling the predators.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/03/2016 3:00 Comments || Top||

#3  "It's very hard. How can a person be with another man like that? Those men are sick. No matter how often I do it, it doesn't get easier," Ali said.

One teenager, interviewed by CNN, is Ali (not his real name). He is 17 years old and is from Afghanistan
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/03/2016 3:05 Comments || Top||

#4  This is known as bad luck.
Posted by: AlanC || 12/03/2016 7:34 Comments || Top||

#5  Speaking of Greece, whatever became of ol' Rantburg bugboy Aris Katsaris?
Posted by: Raj || 12/03/2016 13:07 Comments || Top||

#6  houseboy to some Turkish immigrants
Posted by: Frank G || 12/03/2016 13:35 Comments || Top||

#7  You saying he's working for Murat now?
Posted by: Shipman || 12/03/2016 14:15 Comments || Top||

#8  I'll bet this article is almost all #fakenews.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/03/2016 14:18 Comments || Top||

#9  Go tell the Spartans. Oh wait, never mind.....
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/03/2016 17:45 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
All 3 members of the Republican Jewish Coalition Back ‘Mad Dog' Mattis
[Breitbart] The Republican Jewish Coalition, the most powerful organization among politically conservative Jews, is formally backing the nomination of retired Marine Gen. James "Mad Dog" Mattis as Secretary of Defense.

In a press statement, RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks said:

"The selection of General Mattis to serve as Secretary of Defense is a smart and important decision by President-elect Trump. Throughout his career, General Mattis has made the protection of the United States, our assets, and our allies around the world, his top priority. General Mattis believes in a strong U.S. military posture and understands of the threats we face, like a newly aggressive Iran. He has the type of worldview the leader our Defense Department needs.

"For decades, bipartisan national security and foreign policy experts, representatives of our allied nations, respected foreign policy think tanks, and pro-Israel organizations have praised General Mattis’ work. We are happy to stand with them and fully support this appointment."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/03/2016 02:17 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Voter fraud uncovered in Nevada, registered to vacant lots and still voted
Today, Megan Barth interviewed Republican Assembly Candidate for District 15, Stan Vaughan, with actual proof of massive voter fraud in his Clark County district. Vaughan brought into the NEWSMAXTV Las Vegas studio and laid it out for all to see, US postal service certified returned mail from 9,200 voters in District 15. Many of the people who were listed as deceased are still on the active voter rolls today. Many of the returned mail came back with 5 people living in a vacant lot with no mail receptacle.

Edward Snowden, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and dozens of movie stars were registered to vote in District 15 according to Mr. Vaughan. Mr. Vaughan tested a sample of 200 people of the 9,200 return mail and found that 185 of those had indeed voted.

Mr. Vaughan and many others have testified that they went to the polls to vote only to be told they had voted already. They were given a provisional ballots which would only be counted if the total vote count was within 1% according to poll supervisors.

According to Mr. Vaughan, there were other serious voting system irregularities he documented, including early voting numbers flipping day to day. A total number of 17,086 votes were cast in District 15 for both Republican and Democrat candidates. 9,200 voters on the voter rolls who, by law, should not be on the voter rolls is a huuge discrepancy. Vaughan reported the certified returned mail issue to Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske, who according to Vaughan, sent the issue back to Clark County to investigate itself.

President Donald Trump lost by only 27,000 votes statewide in Nevada. So 9,200 fraudulent voters in one small Assembly district equals 1/3 almost of the total margin. 9,200 votes was the margin by which Question 1 passed.

Megan Barth said "The Main Stream Media attacked Donald Trump this week for claiming there were millions of illegal votes cast. Well it appears Nevada, which has voted for the winner of the Presidency for the past 108 years may have been stolen and must be investigated by the Feds. Not Obama feds but incoming Attorney General Jeff Session must investigate this issue."
Posted by: Thumper Dribble5791 || 12/03/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This must be how Harry Reid got "elected" to office for all those years.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/03/2016 18:46 Comments || Top||

#2  I think the first thing enacted would be the "Harry Reid Full Storage" bill for nuclear waste. Yucca Valley has waited too long. Store oversupply adjacent to Harry's property, "temporarily"
Posted by: Frank G || 12/03/2016 20:14 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Kohistan video girls may be dead, probe body tells SC
And here it is, only six years later.
[DAWN] In a damning report submitted to the Supreme Court on Thursday, a commission headed by the district and sessions judge for Kohistan
...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns....
, Shoaib Khan, expressed fears that the five girls involved in a 2010 video scandal might not be alive.
No! Re-e-e-e-ally?
"The view taken and expressed... is the outcome of human observations, not free from error, maybe right or wrong, and can lead to an inference that either the girls are not alive or they have fled away and gone into missing being well aware of [the] consequences of traditional approach of their elders in such cases," the report said.
That was a pretty mush-mouthed statement, though my opinion is the outcome of human observations, not free from error, maybe right or wrong, yadda yadda and yadda.
The girls in question were Ms Amina, daughter of Sarfaraz, Ms Begum Jan d/o Mubeen, Ms Siran Jan d/o Saeer, Ms Bazeega, wife of Idrees, and Ms Shaheen w/o Habibullah.
May they rest in peace, especially since they didn't go that way.
On Nov 10, a two-judge Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan had ordered the district and sessions judge to visit Sartay, Pallas -- a village in Kohistan district -- along with the local district coppers and a senior woman police officer to find out if the girls were still alive.
No doubt some girls were produced, probably not the girls they were claimed to be.
The directions had been issued by the court on an application filed by Dr Farzana Bari, a human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
activist and director of the gender studies department of Quaid-e-Azam University.
Actually the idea of Islamic gender studies sounds pretty frightening.
Dr Bari was part of a three-member commission that had visited Kohistan back in 2012 to probe into the allegations of murder of the girls shown clapping in a video clip.
Having fun, were they? No wonder they were killed. The brazen hussies dropped their veils, too!
In her fresh statement, Dr Bari had sought a direction for production of the girls before the court in-camera and for verification of their identity by experts.
"Oh, sorry, judge! Can't do it. They seem to have stepped out for a moment!"
The report submitted to the court said that any definite answers about the girls being alive required an exhaustive inquiry to be carried out by government agencies and through forensic means.
"Forensic" would seem to imply DNA testing or something, which if you recalled was pronounced by the Council of Islamic Ideology of Pakistain not to be definitive evidence of rape.
The commission, however, regretted that two of the girls produced before its members were not the girls allegedly visible in the video clip.
"That one seems to have gained quite a bit of weight in the past six years. That one's eye color has changed."
"It would not be unsafe to conclude and presume that other girls produced before us were also not [the] girls visible in the video scandal," the report said.
"Okay, judge. We'll send some more. You see the ones you're looking for, let us know!"
"Now the question arises, whether owing to their non-production before us, would it be safe to hold them dead?
That's a pretty good bet.
Keeping in view the history of the case, failure of the elders in producing the actual girls, especially Siran Jan and Bazeega, before us, the reply [to] the query would be certainly in positive [sic].
Meaning the judge thinks they've been murdered, too.
But contrary to this conclusion, all the elders of the area were unanimous that the girls were alive," the report added.
"Oh, yeah, sure. Trust us on that! It's not like we'd have the little darlings bumped off!"
The report said the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) was contacted for furnishing family trees of the girls’ fathers. Luckily, it was discovered that Siran Jan and Bazeega got their identity cards issued in 2010 when the incident happened.
Fingerprints and photos shouldn't be considered proper Islamic evidence, either.
The commission tried to convince the local elders to allow the girls to be photographed but they did not agree on the pretext that the girls had already "faced defamation" and any fresh pictures could create more problems for them.
"We're only looking out for them, y'understand, judge?"
"Keeping in view the sensitivity of the people, overall atmosphere and gravity of the situation, it was not deemed suitable to insist on requirement of pictures," the report said.
"Mahmoud, all those guys over there have knives! Put your camera away! Quick!"
The commission said that one of the girls, Amina, was asked about burn marks on her thumbs. She replied that she had been injured while doing some kitchen work. "[T]his does not appeal to reason because [of] burning of two thumbs at a time without any damage to the index or other fingers...," the report said.
Now, would a proper Moslem scorch the thumbs of a maiden of tender years? Does that sound like the sort of thing a devout fellow with a turban would do?
Another girl, Siran Jan, and her father were unable to tell her age. "By appearance she was not more than 16/17 years and in the year 2010 she must be 9/10 years. On the contrary, as per Nadra record her date of birth was Feb 2, 1993 -- contradictory to her appearance. Video snap of this girl was not clear therefore cannot be compared with her photo.
"But she don't look 23!"
"She just don't look her her age!"

"However,
a hangover is the wrath of grapes...
the third girl, Begum Jan, resembled the video picture but she too was looking about 16/17 years [old] with no mole marks on her upper lip as appearing in her photo shoot. When asked about the mark, she said it was made with [the help of] antimony/kajal," said the report.
"And how'd you change your shoe size?"
"The fourth girl, Bazeega, also resembled the photo and her apparent age was also compatible with her age as appearing in the photo.
"Got a pretty good fit on that one!"
"The last girl, Shaheen, and alleged controller of the video, disclosed her age as 13 years but her elders said it was 16 years."
"Don't listen to her, judge! She can't count higher'n two when she's wearin' mittens!"
The report said that despite clear directions, the husbands of the girls, except for Shaheen’s, were not produced before the commission. "[About] their absence, elders of the girls advanced lame excuses, except for the husband of Siran Jan, who is reportedly in jail."
"For what?"
"Um... Murder."

The commission noted that after marriage, girls routinely went through a number of changes but its members noticed no such effects on the girls’ faces.
You mean they still look like they did six years ago?
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Home Front: Culture Wars
Hyperventilating About The Wall
[DallasNews] BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK - It took years for visitors to Big Bend to once again ride in a rowboat to cross the Rio Grande and enjoy homemade tacos and beer in the tiny Mexican village of Boquillas del Carmen.
Montezuma never took revenge on progressive tourists.
The 2013 reopening of the privately held border crossing was an emotional moment for residents on both sides of the border after an informal crossing was shut down after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
We all feel much safer now. No one worries about bad guys sneaking across the border. Right?
President-elect Donald Trump's promise to build a big wall along the 2,000-mile border has residents and visitors alike worried. A wall, locals say, would harm tourism and threaten conservation and renewed efforts to create a binational protected area straddling the border, something critics say in a time of border security concerns is unrealistic.
Some of us learned months ago, at Rantburg, that a wall doesn't need to be continuous to be effective.
"The idea of putting a wall up from Brownsville to San Diego can't be discounted," said Shawn Moran, vice president of the National Border Patrol Council, the union representing Border Patrol agents. "We can look at each sector of the border and decide. Are we able to control an area without a fence? If the answer is yes, then we can look at that ," said Moran. "Security really has to come first."

Opponents, however, argue that a wall would destroy the park's scenic beauty and threaten wildlife, including the return of the black bear to Texas. They also say it would do little to enhance security or deter illegal immigration. The park, which shares 118 miles of border with Mexico, is likely to become part of the debate if Trump tries to make good on his promise of a border wall.
But we might not need a wall there. Undeterred, The Media plows on.
"A big wall in Big Bend would basically destroy the wilderness quality Big Bend has protected." said a member of the Greater Big Bend Coalition, a nonprofit leading the effort to create a binational park or protected area.
How about a little wall? Some concertina wire? A minefield, maybe - they don't take much space!
The Dallas Morning News in 1938 reported on the Big Bend International Peace Park proposal. President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote to Mexico's President Manuel Avila Camacho in 1944, the year the national park was created, to say Big Bend would not be complete until "both sides of the Rio Grande form one great international park."
Oh, I see. So put the wall on the south side of the great International Park!
Posted by: Bobby || 12/03/2016 14:58 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The border between North and South Korea is an amazing nature preserve, I understand. Ditto the depopulated area around Chernobyl. .
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/03/2016 20:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Why a wall and not a sensor network from the Israelis like India is putting in Kashmir?
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/03/2016 23:59 Comments || Top||


Government
Acquisition Chief: LCS Program 'Broke' the Navy
The Navy's littoral combat ship is costing taxpayers billions more than budgeted, failing survivability assessments, and may never live up to the original vision for the program, a panel of Navy and government oversight officials told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday.

The hearing, which focused on continued testing and acquisition of the small surface vessels, came at the close of a 12-month period in which five of the eight littoral combat ships in service have suffered major mechanical and engineering casualties. Navy officials have ordered dramatic program overhauls and reviews of ship employment and training in response to the breakdowns.

And despite the program's underperformance, costs continue to skyrocket, testified Paul Francis, managing director of acquisition and sourcing management at the Government Accountability Office. The ship's unit cost has more than doubled from $220 million to $478 million apiece, and plans to conduct a "block buy" of 12 redesigned littoral combat ships, to be called frigates, will put taxpayers on the hook for nearly $14 billion, he wrote in a GAO report released Thursday.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 12/03/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What is it about the Navy? Is it Mabus? Obama? I have this eerie feeling that the Navy is so bollixed that like its littoral combat ship it barely functions.
Posted by: Heriberto Greper9897 || 12/03/2016 7:42 Comments || Top||

#2  We had a shipyard here in the state that refused to bid on any further Navy contracts. The last contract they had with the Navy involved changes in specifications when bout 75 to 80% complete. Complete redesigns of systems after they were installed. If grew to be more headache than it was worth. I suspect this is also part of the problem with the F-35 along with the "trying to be all things". The will still bid on contracts for the Coasties and the Army (the Corps of Engineers has a pretty substantial amount of small craft) but the Navy can look elsewhere as I understand it. I wonder who many officers from Commander to Flag grade see procurement as a bridge to a secure retirement. We don't have a Navy to provide commands or ticket punches for ring knockers from Canoe U*. We have a Navy to serve the national interests of the United States of America

*The same goes for the rest of the services. Nor are they there to provide careers for PAOs, "diversity experts" or any of a number of career paths. The Departments of the Navy; Army and Air Force may need some of these things to function in todays society but their core function is to protect and serve the interests of the USA
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 12/03/2016 9:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Bad design ship is failing tests, and the officer in charge lays it off on poorly trained crew?

Thats not how its supposed to work.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 12/03/2016 9:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Hey, all the senior officers got spiffy medals at retirement or PCS. Short and Kimmel couldn't be reached for comment.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/03/2016 9:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Leadership starts at the top. You figure out who that is.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 12/03/2016 10:10 Comments || Top||

#6  S'what happens when you haven't been in a real war in 70 years.
Posted by: Pappy || 12/03/2016 11:32 Comments || Top||

#7  Pappy, this is what happens when the people in charge don't treat things like a war is just around the corner.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/03/2016 12:04 Comments || Top||

#8  Leadership starts at the top. You figure out who that is.

That's my take as well, between this and the F-35 clusterfucks (and trying to kill off the A-10). It's not just the Navy.
Posted by: Raj || 12/03/2016 13:10 Comments || Top||



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