(UPI) -- More than 200 people were arrested in Washington, D.C., Friday -- as well as dozens more across the United States -- following scattered protests against President Donald Trump that turned violent.
In the nation’s capital, authorities said at least 217 people were arrested and charged with rioting for disruptive conduct that included throwing objects, breaking windows and even setting a limousine on fire.
The demonstrations caused what police called "significant damage," and resulted in the injuries of six Washington, D.C., police officers. Three received head injuries after they were struck by thrown objects, Washington, D.C., Metro Police Chief Peter Newsham said late Friday. All of their injuries, though, are not life-threatening.
"Unfortunately, a small group of people have engaged in vandalism as well as violence against our law enforcement officers," Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser told reporters Friday evening. "This type of violence against people in Washington, D.C., will not be tolerated."
Update at 3:40 p.m. ET: The Daily Mail, of course, has photos.
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Today the big news is the pink pussy hat Women's march on Washington. Apparntly they have too many people to actually march anywhere, and their speakers are utterning inanities. Several of my women friends are there -- here's hoping they learn something useful from the fact that they were not only allowd to march, unmolested, but guarded by those working for the man they profess to fear even more than they hate him. But I am not sanguine, bright and insightful though my friends are outside of politics.
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Exercising his acting class skillz. Note the black clad legs around him as he kneels on the sidewalk with his arms in the air, posed perfectly -- and protected from the crowd for the benefit of the photographers -- for the action shot at the critical moment. This was a team effort, videographer and sound man no doubt included.
[SA Today] On the day of the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States of America, South Africans held a pro-demonstration calling on the new president to help the white minority of South Africa.
At the main entrance of the US Embassy in Pretoria around 13:00, the National Conservative Party (NCP) held a peaceful demonstration calling for assistance in South Africa. The leader of the NCP, Willie Cloete, Wessel Basson the Deputy Leader, Marius Coertze the Chancellor, Trevor Stumke, the secretary and Barend Daubern the youth Leader were all present during the demonstration. Holding posters calling on Trump to make South Africa great again and build an ANC wall, the demonstrators ask for Trump to consider the plea of the white minority who are oppressed.
On a lighter note, some of the posters said “ It’s Trump’s Time and “America had Obama, we still have Zuma” and “Trump you can govern SA anytime”. Seriously the white minority need assistance and since the affirmative action policies, brutal farm murders, and other horrific incidents have created widespread disaster for the white people, the demonstration was all about getting support.
[Al Jazeera] Gambia ... The Gambia is actually surrounded by Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain... 's new president has said that Yahya Jammeh, who ruled the country for 22 years and refused for weeks to step down after losing the recent election, has finally "agreed to leave".
Writing on Twitter on Friday, Adama Barrow said Jammeh would also leave the country.
"I would like to inform you that Yahya Jammeh has agreed to step down. He is scheduled to depart Gambia today. #NewGambia," he tweeted.
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I heard he was going to Palm Springs before resettling in DC so Sashay could finish high school. Wait..what?
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[Daily Mail] A housewife was found slumped over her vacuum cleaner after mysteriously suffering an anaphylactic shock and dying. Susan Mullins was discovered lying face-down having collapsed suddenly while doing housework, an inquest heard.
Scientists were unable to find the cause of the fatal anaphylactic shock which caused a dramatic fall in Mrs Mullins' blood pressure. An inquest into her death heard that the tragic mother's body was found lying face-down over her Hoover at her home near Reading, Berkshire, on September 13.
Berkshire coroner Peter Bedford said that there was no explanation for her 'sudden collapse which was because of the use of the Hoover at the time'. He read a statement from Mrs Mullins' close friend who was the first person to find her at her home.
Christine Cooper was among more than half a dozen family members who attended the inquest and told Mr Bedford that mystery had also surrounded the death of Mrs Mullins' younger sister.
Ms Cooper desperately gave her friend CPR until paramedics arrived after she used a spare key to enter her home when there was no response to knocks on the door. The pair had planned to go shopping but there was no answer at Mrs Mullins' door in Heathfield in Mortimer Common.
'I could tell immediately that she was not breathing and called an ambulance,' Ms Cooper said in the statement. She took instructions from a 999 call handler as she tried to revive her friend but paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene and called the police.
The inquest heard that Mrs Mullins, who had a life-limiting disease called spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and heart and lung health problems, had suffered from adverse side-effects from medication she had taken months before her death.
The coroner, however, ruled out the possibility that it could have caused her death after her GP at Mortimer Surgery reported that the 'puffiness' in her eyes decreased and that she was taken off the medication.
SMA is a very rare degenerative condition that presents as chronic fatigue, and I believe was completely untreatable until recently. The only medication approved by the FDA has a high level of adverse side effects, and likely, like hormonal birth control and antidepression medications, causes problems when one stops taking it as well as when one is on the stuff. But the FDA only approved me the stuff in December, so that information has not yet appeared. Whether the National Health Service earlier approved medications, or whether the lady in question was participating in a clinical trial, is not mentioned inthe article.
And the coroner will not have wanted to accuse the doctor of manslaughter-by-neglect without hard data and precedents. That would impugn the entire NHS, the one thing all agree makes Britain British, and is another reason to avoid complete government ownership of health care delivery.
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Sorry. SMA presents as chronic fatigue in the adult-onset types. In infants it presents as failure to progress along the stages of development. The Daily Mail had an article a few days ago about a toddler who was finally diagnosed at age four; the NHS pediatrician and specialists the parents had consulted previously diagnosed her as a "lazy baby" who just felt no need to lift her head, roll over or crawl.! until the final specialist ran the test that revealed the true cause.
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NHS pediatrician and specialists the parents had consulted previously diagnosed her as a "lazy baby" who just felt no need to lift her head, roll over or crawl.!
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Truly, gorb. I have a girlfriend who possibly has the rarest of the four types, but remains undiagnosed as idiopathic (no known cause) chronic fatigue for a quarter century. Because she has no diagnosis, she cannot sign up for Social Security disability, and because she looks perfectly healthy, even doctors accuse her of shamming.
I look healthy, too, but at least I have a diagnosis and a husband who didn't bolt when it became clear this was not a short term situation.
This is the lady whose schizophrenic son is in jail to be tried for murdering his grandmother.
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TW, can they put a Fitbit on her and watch her for a few weeks or months to confirm low activity?
OMG, that's a brilliant idea, gorb!!! I talked her into getting an old smart phone and a sleeping app to show long hours of really poor sleep, but this is will help nail it home. I knew there was a reason I hung around this place! Thank you!!
[Free Beacon] Fox News announced on Friday that it has hired Nigel Farage, the former head of the United Kingdom’s Independence Party and a leader of the "Brexit" movement, to serve as a paid contributor for the news network.
Farage was an early supporter of Britain leaving the European Union, arguing that the British people had to retake control of their country. The campaign succeeded in June 2016, when U.K. citizens voted to withdraw from the EU through a referendum.
Farage resigned from his leadership position a few weeks following the referendum vote and then started hosting his own radio program in the U.K.
In addition to his radio program, Farage has been involved in American politics by vocally supporting President Donald Trump, defending then-candidate Trump throughout his campaign.
Fox News made the hiring announcement as Trump was preparing to walk out of the U.S. Capitol building to be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, Politico reported.
Farage’s contract says that he will be a contributor on both the Fox News and Fox Business networks. He will join the channels effective immediately.
[Free Beacon] Missouri is one of three states to take up right to work in as many weeks after its House of Representatives passed legislation on Thursday.
The Republican-controlled House voted 100-59 to end coercive unionism. The bill would outlaw the practice of paying union dues or fees as a condition of employment. Rep. Holly Rehder, chairman of the Economic Development Committee, said that the bill would help attract jobs to rural areas, which have lagged behind the state’s cities in employment.
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One step at a time. Firet reduce the power and purse of the unions altogether so they become considerably less able to support their public sector brothers, then go after the public sector unions. There are very few with Governor Scott Walker's abilities, as Ohio's John Kasich proved when he was unsuccessful in fighting Ohio's unions. Here's hoping he tries again soon... and comes to appreciate President Trump's support in the effort, as opposed to his predecessor's active opposition.
Americans want a federal infrastructure program to focus on rebuilding aging roads and bridges, but are reluctant to use federal dollars for such projects, according to a Reuters poll released on Thursday. Everyone wants infrastructure, but almost no one wants to pay for it. Obama was giving it away for free! Gimmee summore!
Consistent with voter attitudes since before the Declaration of Independence was written.
I think it began shortly before the Magna Carta...
According to the Dec. 16-Jan. 12 poll, most Americans said a federal infrastructure program should focus on improving existing roads and bridges. They expressed less interest in mass transit, new roads and new technology. Will somebody ask them if they'd rather have roads or a Department of Energy?
Americans also expressed little interest in paying for such a program. Some 51 percent of respondents said they did not want a higher tax bill as a result, but 49% didn't care and 56 percent said they do not want the government to borrow money to pay for infrastructure. Some 50 percent said motorists should pay tolls and user fees, but nearly as many, at 41 percent, did not want that kind of charge, either. That's be the "More Free Stuff" 41%, right? All Dems? Why should the folks of Omaha pay for the expressways in New York? Toll roads aren't going to be constructed in Emblem, Wyoming. They ought to be for tolls! All ten residents!
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"But Bernie said we could!"
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How about actually spending the existing gas revenue tax collected at the pump on roads and bridges rather than diverted to other pork projects, sequestered to balance the budget or apply to 'green' alternatives like bike and pedestrian paths and metro mass transits?
[Hurriyet Daily News] Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu has called on the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to call an early election "if it is not afraid of the people’s will," saying none of the political party’s manifestos for the last Nov. 1, 2015 election promised to introduce the presidential system.
Kilicdaroglu said there should be an election in which the parties can put forward their own amendment proposals before the AKP-drafted constitutional charter is submitted to a referendum.
"In order for this constitutional amendment to be properly discussed in society and not imposed on society, elections must be held first," he told news hounds on Jan. 20.
"Deciding to go to an election and present themselves in front of the public, the parties should say ’if you bring us to power, we will change the constitution as follows.’ As things stand, none of the political parties included the presidential system in their declarations before the last election, including the AKP," Kilicdaroglu added.
"We are saying ’hold an election first,’ as they do not go to an election. They are the ones who are afraid of the nation’s will," he said.
The CHP head also touched on the raised tension in parliament, which recently led to physical altercations amid voting on the constitution change proposals. He said the main reason for the tension is the fact that the government is attempting "regime change."
"The first reason [for the altercations] is that the proposal was not brought to parliament with an agreement. The second reason is the working conditions. Tempers have flared," Kilicdaroglu said.
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[Daily Mail] It was not the day his wife would become president after all, but it seems Bill Clinton still plenty enjoyed himself at the inauguration.
The former president was captured on camera supposedly ogling Ivanka Trump as she arrived at ceremony on Friday. Clinton seemed to bite down on his lip with approval and then muttered something as he intently watched from the podium at the Capitol.
But it wasn’t just the cameras who caught Bill. What was Bill Clinton staring at at Trump's inauguration?
[The Hill] President Trump on Friday signed an executive order directing federal agencies to "ease the burden of ObamaCare."
Trump signed the order in front of reporters at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, one of his first official acts as president.
The order did not direct any specific actions, instead giving broad authority to the Department of Health and Human Services and other agencies to take actions available to them under the law to ease regulatory requirements from ObamaCare.
It pushes agencies to target provisions that impose a "fiscal burden" on a state or a "cost" or "regulatory burden" on individuals or businesses.
[Free Beacon] Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly were sworn into office Friday evening to serve in President Trump’s administration.
Before the inaugural balls, Vice President Mike Pence administered the oath of office to the two retired Marine Corps generals. Both Mattis and Kelly were confirmed by the Senate hours earlier on Friday.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer released pictures on Twitter of President Donald Trump signing documents allowing Mattis and Kelly to be sworn in, as well as an executive order on Obamacare and a picture of Pence swearing in Mattis. The two received strong bipartisan support during their confirmations.
Kelly’s wife held the Bible for him while he took his oath, and another woman held the Bible for Mattis, who is a lifelong bachelor. Kelly also did the sign of the cross after finishing his oath.
[Wash Times] Winston Churchill is back in the Oval Office.
On his first day in office, President Trump brought back a bust of the legendary British prime minister to the West Wing, after President Obama had removed it. Mr. Obama replaced it with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr.
Reporters who were summoned to the Oval Office Friday night to witness Mr. Trump signing an executive order noticed the Churchill bust had been returned to the Oval Office.
British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson had speculated that Mr. Obama removed Churchill’s bust in part because he is "part-Kenyan," and was motivated by anti-colonial feelings. Mr. Obama refuted that, saying he had moved the bust to a place of prominence in his private office in the White House residence.
"I love Winston Churchill, I love the guy," Mr. Obama said.
Mr. Trump did more redecorating, replacing Mr. Obama’s crimson drapes in the Oval Office with gold ones.
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Why Churchill was removed from the Oval Office in the first place. Could this be the reason ?
On Islam, Churchill wrote (The River War, page 249), “is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog.”
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedanism law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property–either as a child, a wife, or a concubine — must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
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And the media stepped in it again, reporting that the MLK bust was gone from the oval office (because rayciss, ya know) when in fact no such thing occurred. Way to go, morons...
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[NATION.PK] LAHORE - City police yesterday nabbed Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! a man after he set his 35-year-old spouse on fire at their house in Shalimar area.
The victim was admitted to the Mayo Hospital with 40 percent burns.
A police officer claimed Muhammad Mansha set his wife Saeeda Bano on fire as they clashed over some domestic dispute. According to the victim’s parents, the accused sprinkled petrol over her wife and then light the fire with matches.
The locals intervened as the mother of three made hue and cry. The lady was rushed to the Mayo Hospital with multiple burns.
According to doctors, at least 40 percent body of the victim was burnt.
The woman was said to be at death's door till yesterday night.
The suspect was put behind bars after police filed an attempted murder case against him on the complaint of his wife. The complainant told the police that she had married with Mansha on the will of her parents some 11 years ago.
As per the police report, the husband was addicted to drugs and he used to torture his wife over domestic issues. Further investigations were underway.
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at least it wasn't murder by Hoover. that would suck.
[NATION.PK] LAHORE - Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif yesterday fired the whole staff of Lahore’s Drug Testing Lab, replacing it with new team which is now being headed by new director, Dr Shafique-ur-Rehman.
Presiding over a meeting, the chief minister took significant initiatives to ensure provision of quality medicines by accelerating a campaign launched for the elimination of spurious and substandard drugs in the province.
Among the notable steps, the old DTL staff was replaced with fresh and professional team with a hope to make this lab one of the best renowned drug testing labs "not only of Pakistain but the whole world".
"Due to disloyalty of previous staff, the drug test reports were being faked before for vested interests so we have wiped out this plague and will do every needful to nip this corrupted evil in bud from all other departments," Shehbaz Sharif said while addressing the meeting.
"This new staff including director has been appointed at merit basis and trained under supervision of Punjab Forensic Science Agency and staff will be sent to foreign renowned institutes for more professional trainings," he added.
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[NATION.PK] The Supreme Court observed today that it was yet to be established whether the Sharifs owned their London properties before 2006.
JI lawyer who began his submission Friday said that Sharif family’s assets grew manifold in the reign of Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N).
The court asked: "Is there any rule that prohibits PM from having own business? If not, then why you are dragging the court on just assumptions". The counsel replied that there is no such law.
Justice Khosa, who is heading a five-judge larger bench of the apex court in Panamagate case, told Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... counsel Taufiq Asif that unless the conflict of interest was established mere allegations of the premier’s involvement in business would not take the petitioner anywhere.
Justice Ijazul Ahsan asked the JI counsel whether there was any code of conduct prohibiting the prime minister from partaking in business activities while remaining in office.
The JI counsel insisted that the premier's speech in the national assembly be considered a confessional statement. "The prime minister's speech should be taken to be a confession. There is no other way," he asserted.
Justice Ijaz remarked that explanations on personal allegations against the premier could be demanded at the National Assembly.
When the counsel referred to the Zafar Ali Shah case judgment, Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan observed that this was a submission by the AGP that could not be used against the Sharifs.
Another judge. Justice Azmat Saeed Sheikh told the JI counsel that they can not deliver a verdict on the basis of assumptions.
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[New Scientist] A heat-sensing film could let robots detect when humans are around, like pit vipers hunting out warm-blooded prey.
The flexible, transparent coating is made of pectin, a low-cost plant material used to set jam. Unlike conventional electronics, it relies on currents of ions rather than electrons to detect temperature variations ‐ just like natural membranes used by the snakes.
The film can sense temperature changes as small as 10 millikelvin, which is twice as sensitive as human skin. It can detect a warm body the size of a rabbit from a metre away, something the researchers tested by microwaving a teddy bear and setting it at different distances from the film. Changes in temperature cause the film’s resistance to vary, which is picked up by electrodes along the edges and transmitted to a computer.
Applying it over a robot’s entire body could provide 360° thermal sensing, says Raffaele Di Giacomo at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, who led the research. That could help machines navigate crowded areas without hitting people, or help search and rescue robots locate humans in rubble or smoke-filled rooms. It could also help them to avoid damage and be more helpful to people. A robot assistant might need to know if a cup of tea is too hot to hand over, for example.
For Di Giacomo, helping robots learn about their environment is key. "The most important thing about combining AI and humanoid robots is that this AI needs to be shaped by its senses like we are," he says. "You need to provide full sensory feedback so the AI can build up a picture of the world."
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Don't see why this couldn't be used as clothing for people too. I have long noted that I could "feel" warmth given off by other people a few feet away, with my eyes closed. Similar to how most anyone can "feel" a hot teakettle on the palm of their outstretched hand from 6-12 inches away. Some electronic modification would probably be needed for best effect.
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.
[Al Jazeera] 
Americans want a federal infrastructure program to focus on rebuilding aging roads and bridges, but are reluctant to use federal dollars for such projects, according to a Reuters poll released on Thursday. Everyone wants infrastructure, but almost no one wants to pay for it.
[Free Beacon] Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly were sworn into office Friday evening to serve in President Trump’s administration.
[Wash Times] Winston Churchill is back in the Oval Office.
[NATION.PK] LAHORE - City police yesterday 
