"A WOMAN who disguised herself with a beard and wig before killing her half-sister with a chicken-shaped ceramic pot was jailed for life today [Weds.]." Photo of the disguised perp is worth the trip!
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If you knew there was someone out there who really wanted to kill you, why would you even ANSWER a knock on your front door, much less open it to anyone?
[DAWN] The executive of a Pak company was charged in a US federal court on Wednesday for his part in an alleged $140 million 'fake-diploma mill' scheme, the latest step in a global crackdown touched off by arrests in Pakistain last year.
Umair Hamid, 30, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan with wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with a scam that impacted tens of thousands of consumers.
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These stats are only what they can verify up to the minute, Pappy.
They still have a week to get there (and a long weekend in the middle, complete with drunken/doped up 'family/babymama gatherings' and the historical violence that ensues).
Poll at work at 816 for the year, but that's somewhat conservative.
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[Al Ahram] Security forces in Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... killed at least 34 people during protests this week against President Joseph Kabila's failure to step down at the end of his mandate, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.
Ida Sawyer, HRW's Central Africa director, said on Twitter that all the deaths occurred during the initial protests on Tuesday, raising the toll from an earlier count of 26.
She added that the group was also verifying additional reports of deaths. The Congolese government says 22 people died in the festivities, one of them a police officer.
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Mexico’s homicide rate is surging. Government and independent sources are reporting an up to 18 percent increase for 2016, compared to last year. This comes on the heels of a multi-year decline in criminal violence in many parts of the country. It has been more than six years since Mexico’s murder rate shot up so “dramatically,” notes former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico (2002-2009) Antonia Garza.
The U.S. has given Mexico $139 million this year to help “advance justice sector reform, modernize Mexico’s borders (north and south), and support violence prevention programs.” This aid is part of the Mérida Initiative, a $2.5 billion, eight-year bilateral security agreement that went into effect in 2008 and that Ambassador Garza helped spearhead.
So why is violence on the rise, and why isn’t billions of dollars of U.S. aid sufficient in boosting security?
The answer lies largely in the failure of well-intentioned policies. Former Mexican President Felipe Calderón started the country’s war on drugs in earnest in December 2006, when he sent 6,500 federal troops to Michoacán state to eliminate cartel operations there. During his six years in office, Calderón’s method of ending drug violence was to use federal forces to wipe out drug lords and patrol cities, while getting state and local law enforcement officers to clean up their acts – that is, end the cycle of corruption and involvement with criminal organizations – and also aid in the eradication of Mexico’s leading criminals. Mexico’s current president, Enrique Peña Nieto, has more or less carried out this same approach.
But hitting drug cartels at the top only creates eventual fragmentation, Dwight Dyer told The Cipher Brief. Dyer, who is the former Head of Analysis at Mexican national intelligence agency Cisen, explained that when ring leaders are captured, groups tend to break up quickly into smaller factions, resulting in more competition and leading to more violence.
In addition to this seemingly effective but in reality insufficient policy of targeting criminals at the top of the totem pole, the Calderón-era of judicial reform has yet to prove fruitful. A series of reforms, passed in 2008, intended to create more transparency in the judiciary and transform it from “a closed inquisitorial system toward an adversarial model,” explains Kimberly Breier, Director of the U.S.-Mexico Futures Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), in a recent article. However, writes Breier, that model has “yet to be fully implemented” and there remains “slow progress on rule-of-law issues.”
Compounding the failures of Mexico’s judiciary is widespread corruption within President Peña Nieto’s ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Then there’s the fluctuating economy, which, when weak, can exacerbate corruption amongst politicos and law enforcement, enabling criminal groups and violence to flourish.
Low oil prices have had a drag on the Mexican economy, given the country’s role as an energy supplier. The 2008 financial crisis in the U.S. also took its toll, since America is Mexico’s largest export market.
The connection between economics, corruption, and a failed strategy to eliminate drug cartels has diminished the effectiveness of U.S. financial aid to help Mexico fight its war on drugs. According to Breier, the United States, instead, should look to other methods of weakening organized crime influence. “Success will depend primarily on U.S.-Mexican intelligence and law enforcement partnerships and the mutual sharing of information,” she said.
The U.S. could also do more to curtail drug demand in the United States.
An economically more vibrant, politically stronger, and less violent Mexico is in the interest of the United States. Mexico is a huge export market for America, and thus, a source of millions of U.S. jobs. Plus, a better situation at home means fewer Mexicans crossing the border into the United States looking for jobs – a major concern for President-elect Donald Trump.
It is unclear if Mr. Trump will continue the Mérida Initiative of security cooperation or come up with a new approach to assist Mexico with its critical security needs. What is clear is that Mexico’s current efforts are not working.
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KSA seems to do things differently than Mexico and the US:
Cannabis use KSA 0.3% Ranked 21st. US 13.7%
Ranked 1st. 46 times more than Saudi Arabia
Opiates use KSA 0.01% Ranked 14th. US 0.57% Ranked 3rd. 57 times more than Saudi Arabia
Of the 59 people executed by mid-October, 22 had been convicted for smuggling drugs
h/t Istapundit
On Dec. 16, the Russian military reportedly tested what appears to be an anti-satellite weapon--a rocket that can boost into low orbit and smash into enemy spacecraft.
The test could be the latest sign of Russia’s intention, and improving ability, to threaten America’s hundreds of government and private spacecraft--and chip away at the United States’ military and commercial advantage in space.
h/t Instapundit
A hacking group linked to the Russian government and high-profile cyber attacks against Democrats during the U.S. presidential election likely used a malware implant on Android devices to track and target Ukrainian artillery units from late 2014 through 2016, according to a new report released Thursday.
The malware was able to retrieve communications and some locational data from infected devices, intelligence that would have likely been used to strike against the artillery in support of pro-Russian separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine, the report from cyber security firm CrowdStrike found.
The findings are the latest to support a growing view among Western security officials and cyber security researchers that Russian President Vladimir Putin has increasingly relied on hacking to exert influence and attack geopolitical foes. Not quite like fighting bearded baboons of Dar, is it Barack & Hillary?
Taiwan’s president is planning to meet members of Congress next month during a stopover visit to the US that will go ahead despite strong Chinese government objections, a senior Taiwanese official has said.
China tried to block the visit by President Tsai Ing-wen in the wake of a row over perceived pro-Taiwan comments by the US president-elect, Donald Trump, who also held an unprecedented phone conversation with the Taiwan leader.
The visit has caused speculation in Washington and Taiwan that Tsai may meet Trump in person, or members of his transition team, during a nine-day trip that begins on 7 January and includes brief state visits to Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador.
'Brutal, amoral, ruthless, cheating': how Trump's new trade tsar sees China
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Speaking to the Taiwan legislature’s foreign and national defence committee, Javier Hou, deputy foreign minister, said Tsai’s planned stopover in the US would be made in accordance with past practice.
The foreign ministry was seeking to arrange for Tsai to meet members of the US Senate and House of Representatives, Hou said. The exact locations of the meetings, and the duration of the stopover, have yet to be announced. Trump’s transition HQ is in New York.
Trump infuriated China’s leadership when he spoke to Tsai on the phone and later made separate comments questioning the longstanding "one China" policy, under which the US notionally accepts Beijing’s view that Taiwan is part of China. The US does not officially host Taiwanese leaders.
Taiwan has been self-governing and de facto independent since the end of China’s civil war. Beijing regards it as a renegade province.
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All of the US embedded left wing lounge lizards, will cry bitter tears over this and whine to the MSM. Schadenfreudenboners to follow for the rest of us.
Imported farm-raised seafood from China is tainted with antibiotics and often salmonella, U.S. regulators say, and the tainted fish is making its way to American tables. Reason# 3,432,664 not to buy from China
The problem is, Asian fish farmers often supplement their fish feed with feces from pigs and geese, which contain harmful bacteria and antibiotics that have a direct impact on the seafood we eat. According to the latest research, up to 90 percent of the antibiotics administered to pigs pass through their urine and feces.
The U.S. Department of Commerce slapped a 112 percent tariff on Chinese shrimp, effective 2005, but unfortunately, Chinese suppliers have found ways to get around that. A 100% ban from Chinese farmed source food would help
A new report from Bloomberg Business Week explains how pervasive the problem is, and how the Chinese are getting away with it.
Beside one of those fish farms near Zhaoqing, on a muggy day in June, a farmhand wearing a broad-brimmed straw hat hoses down the cement floor of a piggery where white and roan hogs sniff and snort. The dirty water from the pens flows into a metal pipe, which empties directly into a pond shared by dozens of geese. As the yellowish-brown water splashes from the pipe, tilapia flap and jump, hungry for an afternoon feeding.
Chinese agriculture has thrived for thousands of years on this kind of recycling‐the nutrients that fatten the pigs and geese also feed the fish. But the introduction of antibiotics into animal feed has transformed ecological efficiency into a threat to global public health.
At another farm, in Jiangmen, a farmer scatters a scoop of grain to rouse her slumbering swine, penned on the edge of a pond with 20,000 Mandarin fish. The feed contains three kinds of antibiotics, including colistin, which in humans is considered an antibiotic of last resort. Colistin is banned for swine use in the U.S., but until November, when the Chinese government finally clamped down, it was used extensively in animal feed in China. Vials and containers for nine other antibiotics lie around the 20-sow piggery‐on shelves, in shopping bags, and atop trash piles. Seven of those drugs have been deemed critically important for human medicine by the World Health Organization.
The overuse of antibiotics has transformed what had been a hypothetical menace into a clear and present one: superbugs, bacteria that are highly resistant to antibiotics. By British government estimates, about 700,000 people die each year from antibiotic-resistant infections worldwide. If trends continue, that number is expected to soar to 10 million a year globally by 2050‐more people than currently die from cancer.
In November 2015 scientists reported the discovery of a colistin-resistant gene in China that can turn a dozen or more types of bacteria into superbugs. Since then the gene has been found in patients, food, and environmental samples in more than 20 countries, including at least four patients in the U.S. Food, it now appears, can be a crucial vector. "People eating their shrimp cocktails and paella may be getting more than they bargained for," says Dr. Martin Blaser, a professor of microbiology and an infectious diseases physician at New York University Langone Medical Center who chairs President Barack Obama's advisory panel for combating antibiotic-resistant bacteria. "The penetration of antibiotics through the food chain is a big problem."
China, helping the world build a better superbug!
But the antibiotics aren't the only problem. Because the distribution networks that move the seafood around the world are often filthy, the products teem with bacteria that can't be killed by common antibiotics.
In almost a third of random seafood samples collected in Shanghai from 2006 to 2011, researchers found salmonella, a major cause of gastroenteritis in people. A closer examination of the germs showed that 43 percent of the samples harbored multidrug-resistant strains of bacteria.
After the U.S. antidumping tariffs on Chinese shrimp went into effect in 2005, a group of seafood executives gathered in Shanghai to find another way to export shrimp to the U.S.
Many knew one another from when they'd all worked for Shanghai Fisheries, a large company overseen by the government. The executives agreed to create a venture that would focus primarily on exporting shrimp to the U.S., despite the new tariff. They would finance and control the company from China, but it would be incorporated in Texas. That was the beginning of American Fisheries.
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No paperwork connected to those 2011 and 2012 shipments of Malaysian-labeled shrimp indicated they might have originated in China. The certificates of origin were signed by officials at the Penang Malay Chamber of Commerce. On a day in August, a man named Mohd Noordin Ismail sits at a desk in the reception room of the chamber's offices in the seaside district of George Town. Bespectacled and wearing chunky gold rings on his fingers, Mohd Noordin has a foot-high stack of documents teetering in front of him. He says he's worked at the chamber of commerce for 40 years, and his duties include signing certificates of origin for products produced in Malaysia and then exported. The certification process, as he describes it, is built on trust. He's presented with documents provided by exporters, and he rubber-stamps the certificates under the assumption that the documents are genuine and correct. He doesn't verify their authenticity.
"We cannot trace if the shrimp is coming from Thailand or from China or from other countries," Mohd Noordin said. "We cannot trace."
A full ban from those countries would help matters as well
"When you talk about globalization...people move at different speeds," explained Bloomberg editor Megan Murphy. "Regulators move at different speeds and economies are moving at very different speeds and they will take their advantage where they can in terms of exploiting regulatory arbitrage...The antibiotics there have been introduced for a specific reason that is beneficial to that part of the economy. It's just that on the end product of the economy, on the more developed world side, that's where the problems are emerging."
Murphy said that there might have to be some sort of "global oversight" over this particular sector of the global economy in order to fix the problems.
[Al Ahram] North Korea has rejected NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... 's demand that Pyongyang stops its nuclear missile program, Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) said on Thursday.
KCNA said that it is confusing why NATO, "the official function of which is to ensure security in the North Atlantic, meddles into affairs of the Korean Peninsula."
By putting forward its demands, "NATO proved that this military-politicial bloc turned into a puppet of the United States," the agency added. Moreover, "it plays into the hands of
the South Korean regime of Park Geun-hye which is living its last days," KCNA said.
Accusing NATO strategists of complete incompetence in the affairs on the Korean Peninsula, the agency noted that "this organization now plays the role of the instrument that undermines international peace and security."
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"NATO's demands to stop"
Or what? A sternly worded letter? Ohh scary!
NATO is pretty worthless when it comes to follow through.
[DAWN] Romania's Social Democrat Party (PSD) proposed a leftist woman from the country's tiny Moslem minority as prime minister on Wednesday, a close associate of PSD power broker Liviu Dragnea who was ruled out of the job after being convicted in a 2012 referendum rigging case.
Sevil Shhaideh, 52 who must be approved by President Klaus Iohannis and then get a parliamentary vote of confidence, has served under a previous leftist-led government as regional development minister.
The PSD won the Dec. 11 general election and, with its junior coalition partner and long-time ally ALDE, has an outright majority in parliament of 250 MPs in the 465-seat, two-house assembly.
"I have come up with a solution that I hope will be accepted so that a government is in place quickly to ensure we have a budget plan approved by Jan. 15," Dragnea told news hounds.
Dragnea made clear he intended to be the power behind the new government.
"If appointed, she would be prime minister, but the political responsibility stays with me first of all, Dragnea said. She has work capacity, knowledge of public administration and EU fund absorption and of all ministries' operations."
Dragnea and Shhaideh, who comes from Romania's tiny Moslem community, are close. He was a witness at her 2011 wedding to a Syrian-born former agriculture ministry consultant.
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Though terrified Muslims reviled him,
Vlad welcomed them to his asylum,
Displaying their phylum
On pila of xylem...
They probably shouldn't have riled him.
President-elect Donald Trump upended years of Pentagon procurement planning with a tweet on Thursday, announcing he had asked Boeing Co. to price an upgrade of its F-18 Super Hornet jet that could replace Lockheed Martin Corp.'s F-35, the most expensive U.S. weapon system ever.
"Based on the tremendous cost and cost overruns of the Lockheed Martin F-35, I have asked Boeing to price-out a comparable F-18 Super Hornet!" Trump said Thursday in a post on Twitter. Boeing agreed within the past 24 hours to cut the cost to Airforce One so it makes business sense to throw them another bone to chew on. Mr. Trump has saved more jobs and money so far as pres-elect than Obama in 8 years as pres (he actually doubled the debt.)
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It used to be the military set specs for what they wanted. The contractors built a prototype and tested them all against each other and then a winner was chosen. A price was agreed on and if the project ran over the projected cost, the contractor ate it.
Just handing out contracts to businesses that bribe give the best donations is how we get in this mess.
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Boeing has been pushing upgraded F-15, F-16 and F-18s to "generation 4.9" for a while. The idea is that while they can't be stealthy, they can have the near the same avionics and battle network management.
While Mr. Trump may be doing this just to hammer the price down on the F-35, and score points with his base (who think the plane is over-priced and under-performing), I suspect Boeing is hoping for foreign sales of the gen 4.9 aircraft.
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"I suspect Boeing is hoping for foreign sales"
I suspect Boeing, period, Dr. Steve.
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump called for the expansion of the United States' nuclear capabilities until the world "comes to its senses," but gave no other details in a tweet on Thursday.
"The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes," Trump said in the post on Twitter.
Trump does more in 140 characters than Champ does in an entire speech.
Representatives for his transition team could not be immediately reached for comment.
Why would they comment? What would they say that makes this tweet from the Boss any clearer?
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Wait a minute! How can he be President material, when he didn't use personal nouns and pronouns to include himself in every pronouncement.
I guess this is what the Dims call being a poor public speaker.
[DAWN] KARACHI: "No longer restricted to the rural and tribal areas of Pakistain, but sadly increasing in urban communities as well is a very serious human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... issue that Pakistain faces -- violence in the name of honour," said Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari at the launch of Nafisa Shah’s book Honour Unmasked: Gender Violence, Law, and Power in Pakistain at the Arts Council on Wednesday.
With regard to 2016 alone, he reminded the audience of a few such heinous incidents of young women being murdered in the name of ’honour’. From a jirga in Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... ordering the killing of a teenager, a mother torching to death her own teenage daughter, and even the honour killing of social media activist Qandeel Baloch, Bilawal lamented the reality of how women in the country are falling prey to crimes of ’honour’ perpetrated by those near and dear to them.
In the midst of his speech, Bilawal went off script and decided to engage the audience in a more honest appraisal of the political standing of laws and consequent amendments to prosecute those guilty of honour killings. It was then that the contradictions the country faces came right to the fore.
"It is rightly said that it is up to my generation to find a solution, but the problem is that we cannot do it alone. We know how controversial, how dangerous this topic gets. We, as the PPP, have lost Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... and despite having a UN commission investigate her liquidation, we have not got justice. Then how am I expected to get justice for every woman and child in Pakistain who suffers at the hands of the violence of men?" he questioned.
"The challenge before us is to create a system of justice that will punish the [perpetrators of] violence and not seek out cultural, religious or moral rationales."
The author of Honour Unmasked, Nafisa Shah, also spoke about how the book is primarily academic while incorporating anthropological theories of honour and law. "I have explored connections between practices of violence and ideologies of peace, between victims and perpetrators, between custom and law, between state and society," she explained.
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: In a decision expected to raise eyebrows among opposition parties as well as legal circles about the effectiveness of the National Accountability Bureau, a top government functionary facing serious allegations of corruption was on Wednesday ’cleared’ by NAB, paving the way for his release from custody.
Mushtaq Ahmed Raisani, the then finance secretary of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , hit the headlines in May this year when NAB seized over Rs730 million hard cash from his house in Quetta hours after he was taken into custody.
As the drama involving the recovery of such a large amount began to unfold, the finance man was also found to be owning as many as a dozen houses in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , whose estimated cost was said to be around Rs2 billion.
With the suspect caught keeping millions in illegal money and owning property obtained beyond his known sources of income, it appeared to be an open-and-shut case ending with his conviction -- until NAB’s decision on Wednesday.
The executive board meeting (EBM) of NAB, which itself had put Mr Raisani’s corruption figure at Rs40bn, accepted his plea bargain request for Rs2bn. NAB chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry presided over the meeting.
Mushtaq Raisani’s plea bargain request of over Rs2bn accepted
"The EBM decided to accept plea bargain request of over Rs2 billion of Mushtaq Ahmed Raisani, Secretary Finance Balochistan, and Sohail Majeed Shah, contractor and frontman of Khalid Lango, ex-adviser to Chief Minister Balochistan," the NAB front man confirmed.
He said it was the biggest-ever plea bargain deal struck by NAB.
In reply to a question, the front man said Mr Raisani would be "fully cleared" after the deal is approved by the accountability court. However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... he would not be able to seek any government job or a bank loan for next 10 years.
"We have already recovered over Rs1 billion cash from the accused which was in addition to confiscation of his 12 houses," the front man said.
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World oil prices are going down on Dec.22, according to the trading data.
Quick note to the Saudis: suckers!
The price of February futures for Brent crude oil decreased by 0.06 percent and stood at $54.43 per barrel as of 01:32 EST. This is while the price of February futures for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil dropped by 0.08 percent to $52.45 per barrel.
Earlier today, oil prices rose supported by a weaker dollar and optimism that crude producers would abide by an agreement to curb the output.
But the unexpected rise in US crude inventories last week and Libya’s announcement about boosting the oil output over the next few months changed the situation.
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The crude oil production by Saudi Arabia has dropped to 10.625 million barrels per day in October 2016, from 10.650 million barrels per day in September, according to the kingdom’s self-reported figures to the Joint Organizations Data Initiative (JODI).
The country’s crude production peaked at 10.673 million barrels per day in October 2016, while during the reporting period, the lowest volume of oil output in Saudi Arabia was recorded in February 2016 (10.220 million barrels per day).
During OPEC’s Vienna meeting held Nov.30, Saudi Arabia undertook the biggest cut in oil production, as the country agreed to reduce the output volume by 486,000 barrels per day to 10.058 million barrels per day (mbd) from Jan.1, 2017.
The second biggest cut was undertaken by Iraq, which agreed to reduce its oil output by 210,000 barrels per day to 4.351 mbd, UAE – 139,000 bpd to 2.874 mbd, Kuwait – 131,000 bpd to 2.707 mbd.
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More important finding of the Court was that the lawsuit against Steyn and Simberg may continue.
That is awful. Mann's lawsuit should have been dismissed within a month of its filing.
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After wading through the double and triple negatives involved in the court's finding, I found the 100 page opinion to be a useful discussion of the issues and law involved in considering whether an article or blog could be construed as actionable defamation. As such, it may be worth the time of any site owner or moderater.
While the National Review is off the hook for its editorial on the lawsuit, that is certainly not the case for the Simberg and Stein articles. The case will be tried. They will have to defend their defamatory allegations of scientific misconduct. Good luck, but it doesn't look good, in my opinion.
The opinion concludes, "Dr. Mann has supplied sufficient evidence for a reasonable jury to find, by a preponderance of the evidence, that statements in the articles written by Mr. Simberg and Mr. Steyn were false, defamatory, and published by appellants to third parties, and, by clear and convincing evidence, that appellants did so with actual malice."
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 WOMAN who disguised herself with a beard and wig before killing her half-sister with a chicken-shaped ceramic pot was jailed for life today [Weds.]."
[DAWN] The executive of a Pak company was charged in a US federal court on Wednesday for his part in an alleged $140 million 'fake-diploma mill' scheme, the latest step in a global crackdown touched off by arrests in Pakistain last year.
Mexico’s homicide rate is surging. Government and independent sources are reporting an up to 18 percent increase for 2016, compared to last year. This comes on the heels of a multi-year decline in criminal violence in many parts of the country. It has been more than six years since Mexico’s murder rate shot up so “dramatically,” notes former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico (2002-2009) Antonia Garza.
Imported farm-raised seafood from China is tainted with antibiotics and often salmonella, U.S. regulators say, and the tainted fish is making its way to American tables.
North Korea
President-elect Donald Trump upended years of Pentagon procurement planning with a tweet on Thursday, announcing he had asked Boeing Co. to price an upgrade of its F-18 Super Hornet jet that could replace Lockheed Martin Corp.'s F-35, the most expensive U.S. weapon system ever.
[DAWN] KARACHI: "No longer restricted to the rural and tribal areas of Pakistain, but sadly increasing in urban communities as well is a very serious 
