[SCMP] Two Pak men face the gallows in Singapore after a court on Friday found them guilty of murdering a compatriot over a gambling dispute and dismembering the body.
Street-side tissue sellers Rasheed Muhammad, 45, and Ramzan Rizwan, 28, were convicted of smothering fellow Pak Muhammad Noor to death in their lodging house in 2014, before hacking up the body with saws.
The 59-year-old victim’s torso and lower limbs were found stuffed in two separate luggage bags in the city-state.
Murder convictions in Singapore are punishable by death and carried out by hanging.
Rasheed Muhammad. Photo: The Straits Times
"As the photographs and evidence of the discarded limbs and torso show, both Rasheed and Ramzan acted in concert after the murder as they did before and during it," High Court Judge Choo Han Teck said in his judgement.
Rasheed and Ramzan arrived in Singapore in May 2014, and sold packets of tissue paper for a living.
The dispute started after the pair sought to retrieve S$1,100 (HK$6,030) Ramzan had lost to the victim in a card game.
After using a shirt to smother the victim, the two men purchased saws to dismember the body.
A bag with the torso was found by an 81-year-old man and Rasheed subsequently led police to a second bag containing the legs, court documents showed.
Ramzan Rizwan. Photo: The Straits Times
Defence lawyers for the pair had argued that they did not intend to commit murder, and both blamed each other for the death.
Rasheed, a father of eight, and Ramzan, a father of three, will appeal the conviction, their lawyers said.
Earlier this month, Singapore’s highest court upheld the death sentence of a former Singapore policeman for double murder.
Singapore executed four people in 2015, one for murder and three for drug offences, according to prison statistics.
Rights groups have called on Singapore to abolish capital punishment, which was carried over from British colonial rule, but the government argues that it is a deterrent to crime.
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That makes him immediately at risk of being a Sunni Islamofascist, possibly Muslim Brotherhood.
Self-employed businessman moved to Anaheim in 2004, became citizen in 2012 (why was this allowed???)
On a pilgrimmage to Mecca.
Won't let border security look in his phone "because he didn't want male staff to see a picture of his wife with her head uncovered"
leading to his being locked up 4 hours for interrogation.
This is EXACTLY the type of person I want Trump's extreme vetting to ban from moving to the West
someone who doesn't want a border security official in the course of their job to see just a photo of their wife without a hijab is someone who is NOT COMPATIBLE with Western Civilisation.
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also worth noting. This story would have originated by el-Sharkawi ringing up AP and saying "I've just been searched 4 hours at airport, I'm being profiled for being Muslim".
It would have started with his complaint, and he would have been very happy to pose for photos and be quoted.
That's the frame for the journo to hang the story on.
Journo would have checked it out, and found this is now the policy. Done some research on the rules
voila wire story goes everywhere
this is Muslim Brotherhood propaganda. Just like al Jazeera pushes "refugees are good" (for the West)
the Muslim Brotherhood use complaints like this to push news "we are victims being targeted"
i hope they DO get targeted, they are indeed the enemy
[Reuters] Guards at one of Mexico's high security prisons have to worry much more about criminals breaking in than busting out. Despite a price tag of more than 2 billion pesos ($98 million), the Papantla prison built for about 2,000 men in the eastern state of Veracruz does not have a single inmate, and only a handful of staff look after the site.
So it was not surprising that last year, construction materials were stolen from inside the prison perimeter.
"In reality, it's a white elephant," Galdino Diego Perez, the legal representative for Papantla's municipal government, said of the enormous white and gray complex outside of town.
The Papantla facility is the most egregious example of wasted taxpayer money under a 2008 prison-building plan that aimed to solve chronic overcrowding in Mexico's prisons and house an influx of new inmates as security forces cracked down on drug cartels.
Under the plan, then-President Felipe Calderon's conservative government gave out some 176 billion pesos ($8.65 billion) of no-bid contracts to open 15 facilities. But years later, four of them stand only partially built or are still not open. Such a poor country. I wonder where the $8.65 billion originated, and where most of it actually went ?
Public policy experts say the idle prisons reflect inadequate planning by Calderon's government, though the facilities that were opened did help reduce overcrowding in the penal system.
People involved in executing Calderon's plan blame current President Enrique Peña Nieto's administration for the delays.
Most agree, however, that Mexican taxpayers lost out.
[AA.TR] North Korea has criticized the Malaysian government over the delay in returning the body of Kim Jong-nam, the murdered half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... North Korean Ambassador to Malaysia, Kang Chol said Friday that Malaysia was delaying the return of Jong-nam's body, who was allegedly poisoned to death in Kuala Lumpur International Airport last Monday.
They're upset about the delay. They're a lot more upset over the prospect of an autopsy...
Malaysia has also violated human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... by conducting a post-mortem Thursday on Jong-nam without the consent of North Korea, Chol told news hounds gathered outside Kuala Lumpur General Hospital, where Jong-nam's body is being kept.
"We did not approve the post-mortem. This is the culmination of the violation of the human rights and infringing upon our citizen, disregarding the elementary international laws and the consular laws," he said.
The ambassador said North Korea would also reject the outcome of the post-mortem, as it was not approved by the country. Chol said the Malaysian government was delaying the handing-over process even after the autopsy.
Chol also attacked South Korea, claiming it was behind the delay.
"The South Korean puppet authorities [...] are distorting the public opinion, resorting to the tricky plots to defame the image of North Korea with this incident," he said.
Kim Jong-nam, 46, died in Malaysia on Monday. He was allegedly assaulted by two women while at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport while waiting to fly to Macau to meet his family.
The Malaysian authorities are still investigating the case.
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Tricky Plots Haiku
I hear tricky plotz
I hear them, there, in my sox
My hair, stop it now
[AA.TR] Princess Cristina, the older sister of Spain’s King Felipe VI, was cleared of all charges in a major corruption trial on Friday, but her husband was sentenced to over six months in jail by a Spanish court.
Inaki Urdangarin -- the monarch’s brother-in-law -- was convicted by the Mallorca court of perversion of justice, embezzlement, fraud, influence peddling and tax fraud.
Public prosecutors had not been seeking charges against the princess but the court did, however, find her civilly responsible, meaning she will have to pay a €265,088 ($282,170) fine.
Urdangarin’s final sentence is less than a third of what public prosecutors originally demanded -- 19 and a half years.
The verdicts are in relation to a corruption ring surrounding Urdangarin’s non-profit organization, the Noos Institute, which siphoned off more than €6 million ($6.4 million) in public funds.
Fifteen other defendants -- including former politicians and business people -- stood trial alongside the Spanish royals. Several were acquitted, but others were convicted, among them Diego Torres -- Urdangarin’s former business partner -- who was sentenced to more than eight years in prison.
The case began in 2010 and is the first in which a member of Spain’s royal family stood accused.
Friday’s sentences are not final and may be appealed.
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[Hot Air] Down goes another option to replace Michael Flynn as national security adviser, CBS News reports, and from a rather surprising source. After a speech overseas that apparently angered the White House, David Petraeus is no longer in the running for the spot -- and that comes from sources close to Petraeus rather than the White House:
Sources close to retired Gen. David Petraeus say the White House eliminated the former CIA director from consideration for the open national security adviser post after he weighed in on the job during a conference in Germany this week.
"Whoever it is that would agree to take that position certainly should do so with some very, very significant assurances that he or she would have authorities over the personnel of the organization -- that there would be a commitment to a disciplined process and procedures," Petraeus said at the Munich Security Conference.
That pronouncement angered the White House as it deepened the sense the next national security adviser must assert authority over staff and the inter-agency process -- highlighting the reason Vice Adm. Robert Harward refused to take the job earlier this week. Two sources confirmed to CBS News that Harward had demanded his own team, and the White House resisted.
The bigger surprise of this CBS update on the national security adviser sweepstakes is that David Petraeus was seriously in the running. The former four-star general and CIA director had his name included in media shortlists, but with the big, fat asterisk of having a misdemeanor conviction on his record for mishandling highly classified information. That wouldn’t have been an insurmountable legal issue -- if nothing else, Donald Trump could have issued a presidential pardon to wipe it off the record. Politically, though, it would have created some difficulties, and it’s not certain whether Petraeus could get a high enough clearance after that to perform the job.
[DroneLife.com] Aerovironment, a manufacturer of unmanned aircraft systems for both military and commercial applications, shared details regarding its ongoing pilot programs which are entering their third year and have guided development of the AV DSS platform. The company also displays its Quantix™ drone and AV Decision Support System™ (AV DSS) to World Ag Expo and National Farm Machinery Show attendees this week, highlighting the fully-integrated ecosystem’s powerfully-simple operations and innovative data analytics capabilities.
"Our extensive work with early adopter agriculture customers continues to inform the architecture for our Quantix drone and AeroVironment Decision Support System," said Jon Self, vice president of Commercial Information Solutions at AeroVironment. "The pilot programs allow us to learn how to integrate drone technology into the way growers operate and is helping us to develop some very specific analytics. Our results and experience from working with multiple crops guide our design to give farmers an intuitive solution that is the first of its kind in the marketplace." Obviously a technology and application worthy of close monitoring.
Those are the words of someone who should know, the leader of the aggressor squadron at Red Flag, the man who tries to kill U.S. forces. Lt. Col. Tyler Lewis, commander of the 57th Adversary Tactics Support Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, echoed comments we’ve heard before, that he often had no idea he was going to die until he was declared dead. Why? The F-35’s combination of stealth, Electronic Warfare, cyber and sensors lets them find, target and destroy an enemy plane from beyond visual range.
For example, more fourth generation fighters died in one day than did F-35As during the entire exercise through Feb. 2. It began Jan. 23.
(While working on this, I found a great quote by Capt. Stephanie Anne Fraioli that explains the fundamental difference between a fourth- and a fifth-generation aircraft: "With fourth-generation fighter airframes, speed and energy equaled life and survivability. In the fifth-generation realm, information equals life.")
Most Red Flag coverage so far has focused on a statistic we’ve all heard. The F-35As at the Air Force’s toughest combat training exercises are killing enemy aircraft at a rate of 15-1. But one of the pilots flying the F-35s -- Lt. Col. George Watkins, 34th Fighter Squadron commander -- says: "The kill ratio isn’t that important. We are more focused on the SAM and IADS threat." Think Russian-made S-300s and 400s.
At this Red Flag, Watkins and Lewis said the Joint Strike Fighter faces the most dangerous IADS threats they’ve ever encountered at an exercise. The plane’s EW suite helps it find the threat, then they can use their stealth and jamming to "get in a lot closer to these threats than anyone else can," Watkins told reporters. Then they can use their cyberwarfare capabilities, about which no one will talk on the record, and EW to neutralize the IADS. Or they can use a missile or bomb or a combination of all four.
I asked Lewis if his plane had been neutralized or affected by F-35 cyber attacks during this Red Flag. After a long pause, he chuckled and didn’t answer.
Also, the F-35s can gather the threat information and pass it to those less fortunate fourth-generation aircraft or, Watkins told us, "we can use stealth, jamming etcetera to get in a lot closer to these threats than anyone else can get."
One of the little discussed of the F-35’s effectiveness is mission planning. Capt. Fraioli, whom I quote above, notes that mission planning plays a central role in making stealth (Low Observability to the professionals) effective during a combat mission. "Up until about six months ago mission planning was fairly difficult to do day to day because we have to decrypt everything," Watkins said. Now they can change the data on a mission to mission basis. He also noted that the F-35As flying at Nellis had flown "126 missions without losing a single flight to maintenance" during this Red Flag.
On Tuesday we’ll be getting another shot at the F-35A pilots to discuss the exercises, which ended today.
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I would like to know if Lt. Col. Tyler Lewis was flying a Cessna 172RG or some such? Article doesn't mention what he was flying.
Oh wait, the article mentioned 4th and 5th generation aircrafts. So presumably the 'Flying Turkey' is a 'fifth generation' aircraft, in which case, what are the 'fourth generation' aircrafts? It's a safe bet it's not the F-18 as it's already proven to outperform the F-35. That leave the original F-16 series (later series is superior to earlier versions) or maybe the F-111?
Something smell here as they refuse to identify the other aircrafts.
Oh I know, maybe the F-15 achieved their "kill ratio" of 15 to 1 against L-4s. Against any modern fighter planes (both propeller and jet) The Flying Turkey fared poorly? Perhaps the P51 and the P38 would also fare well against the F-45?
Really from what I've been reading about Red Flag, It's like a scripted wresting match where the outcome is guaranteed in favor of the F-15. Too much information missing or redacted from the various reports that I could find.
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Another article had most of the OPFOR flying F-16 Block 32. An older F-16 that simulates the technologies that most countries fly but is fairly obsolete to our F-16s. They also have some older F-15s they fly as well.
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It's good news indeed if our fifth generation fighter can get a 15:1 loss ratio against older, early-4th generation fighters.
Now, if only we can persuade our opponents to fly older, early-4th generation fighters...
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Really from what I've been reading about Red Flag, It's like a scripted wresting match where the outcome is guaranteed in favor of the F-15. Too much information missing or redacted from the various reports that I could find.
It's been a while since my last RED FLAG trip, but the drill then and now is that breaking the rules to try and guarantee an outcome is a immediate-transfer-to-Thule level no-no. Nothing is scripted that isn't explicitly so in order to prove or disprove a theory.
For instance, I was present in the Observation Area (AKA the God Room) when a flight of F-15s - my unit in fact, the old 71 TFS - got its ass handed to it by the Aggressors, and lost a strike force of RAAF F-111s to boot.
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I read somewhere that back in the day the US Navy tested artillery readiness and accuracy in exercises in calm sea, presumably with little or no wind.
Does the tradition continue?
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I keep wondering what would happen in a battle with all this silicon wonderstuff if somebody sets off an EMP weapon nearby.
I realize it's supposedly hardened; hardening is like bulletproof, the key is how big and how close.
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Russia has the best hackers in the world, so what happens to the flying iPhone if we get in a dust up with the Russkies??
A computer that can fly, imagine that...killing bad guys over the horizon. So what happens if one of these Killer Turkeys gets up close and personal with a MIG 31? or some such Sukhoi or other that is also "fifth generation" and happens have an onboard gun if its missiles don't lock and you have a visual?
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The abilities they are listing sound optimum for a stealthy penetration light bomber. Comes in sneaky singly, or in pairs, and scoots for home. While the pilot is watching Netflix on those big screens. Air-to-air, not so much, what happens after the first kill "spots" them? CAS? Loitering?
[AA.TR] The crucial conditions for life exist on the dwarf planet Ceres, which orbits among the mob of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, researchers reported on Friday.
In the study’s results, the international team of astronomers said that the discovery means that primitive life may have formed on Ceres, which is the largest space object in the asteroid belt.
This large region populated by asteroids and minor planets ranges between 179.5 and 329 million kilometers (111.5 and 204.43 million miles) away from Earth, depending on where Earth is in its year-long orbit around the sun.
The research was published Friday in the journal Science.
"Ceres has evidence of ammonia-bearing hydrated minerals, water ice, carbonates, salts, and now organic materials," Simone Marchi, an author of the paper and a senior research scientist at Southwest Research Institute in Texas, said in a statement. "With this new finding Dawn has shown that Ceres contains key ingredients for life."
These organic compounds, the "key ingredients for life", were detected by a spectrometer on NASA’s Dawn spacecraft. Dawn launched in 2007 and has been orbiting around Ceres for the past two years.
"The combined presence on Ceres of ammonia-bearing hydrated minerals, water ice, carbonates, salts, and organic material indicates a very complex chemical environment, suggesting favorable environments to prebiotic chemistry," wrote Michael Kuppers, a planetary scientist with the European Space Agency (ESA), in a commentary piece published alongside the research.
The study’s authors are not sure how the compounds actually formed on Ceres, though it appears that the molecules likely developed organically on the dwarf planet as opposed to being transplanted via an asteroid collision.
These compounds, which are very similar to molecules found on Earth, would probably not survive the intense heat generated by a crashing asteroid.
The finding now cements Ceres, which formed about 4.5 billion years ago, as the hot new location for scientists searching for extraterrestrial life.
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Perhaps they should see if conditions are right for life to continue on planet EARTH FIRST and not LIE!
Virus undetectable in high percentage of patients after treatment.
Press release: WASHINGTON – A Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) database study shows that new drug regimens for hepatitis C have resulted in "remarkably high" cure rates among patients in VA's national health care system.
Of the more than 17,000 Veterans in the study, all chronically infected with the hepatitis C virus at baseline, 75 percent to 93 percent had no detectable levels of the disease in their blood for 12 or more weeks after the end of treatment. The therapy regimens lasted 8 to 24 weeks, depending on patient characteristics. .. the newer drugs are considered far more tolerable than the older interferon-based antiviral regimens, although they are far more expensive.
Other sources indicate:
Veterans Affairs spent $696 million -- or 17 percent of their total annual pharmacy budget -- on HCV medication in 2015. This year, it has dedicated nearly a billion, which it hopes to increase to $1.5 billion in 2017.
According to recent studies, one out of 10 U.S. veterans are living with HCV, a rate five times higher than the average population. Veterans of the Vietnam War are considered to be at particular risk due to blood transfusions and blood contact during warfare.
[SCMP] Indonesia’s corruption fighters are back in the depths of despair after the arrest on bribery charges of a justice of the Constitutional Court, the country’s highest legal institution, once considered a success story of the democratic era.
Former National Mandate Party politician Patrialis Akbar, 58, was taken into custody by the Anti-Corruption Commission (KPK) last week, two and a half years after former Constitutional Court chief justice Akil Mochtar received a life sentence for the same offence.
Long-numbed by the string of thieving politicians and babus bureaucrats filing through the courts, Indonesians have been left to wonder whether they are witnessing not only a failure of the rule of law, but a systematic collapse in public morality that seems to have no end.
Akbar’s arrest further undermines confidence in a court that was once considered an icon of Indonesia’s reform success story. Established in 2003 under a 2001 amendment to the 1945 constitution, it was Indonesia’s first judicial body empowered to review government regulations (those below the level of actual laws).
It won plaudits in its early years under pioneering chief justice Jimly Asshidiqqie, but in subsequent years its shine dimmed amid suspicions of political interference under his successor Mohammad Mahfud. Now, with the arrest of a second justice on bribery charges, there have been calls to rein in some of its unlimited powers.
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President Trump on Friday said that the U.S. is looking into a “big order” of Boeing’s F/A-18 Super Hornets that may have stealth capabilities. Trump made the comments during a tour of a Boeing plant in South Carolina. The message appeared to be also directed at Lockheed Martin, the maker of the F-35 and corporate rival, Bloomberg reported.
“We are looking seriously at a big order,” Trump said, referring to the F/A-18. He said, “If the price (of the F-35) doesn’t come down, we would. The F-18’s a great plane and now put a stealth component onto it.”
Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, was seen at the factory holding a brochure for the F/A-18 XT, which is the advanced Super Hornet, DefenseNews.com reported.
How would the F-35 do against the XT? 15 to 1 kill ratio?
Trump has called the costs of the F-35 program “out of control.” He has been critical of both Lockheed and Boeing and appears to be comfortable pitting the two aerospace giants against each other.
Dennis Muilenburg, the CEO of Boeing, said in January that he has spoken to Trump about the Air Force One program and “discussed fighter aircraft.”
The U.S. Air Force plans to buy 1,763 of the F-35A model jets, Bloomberg reported. The report said that there is likely not much Boeing could do to compete with the fifth-generation F-35, which is equipped with a more advanced radar system.
The Dallas Morning News reported that Lockheed cut about $600 million from the F-35 program. The planes used to cost $102 million each, now they are under $100 million.
The F-35 program made up 20 percent of Lockheed's total 2015 revenue of $46.1 billion. And U.S. government orders made up 78 percent of its revenue last year. The F-35 program directly or indirectly supports more than 146,000 U.S. jobs, according to the company's website. Lockheed assembles the F-35s in Fort Worth, Texas.
In December, Trump tweeted Thursday that based on the “tremendous” cost overruns of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 program, he had asked the aerospace giant's competitor, Boeing, to "price-out a comparable F-18 Super Hornet."
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...Not entirely sure how this is gonna go - what makes sense is if the USN buy is throttled back and refilled with SuperDuper Hornets. There are actually some benefits there - we get a mature, proven airframe on deck in bigger numbers and a combat-capable airframe a lot sooner. We also get away from the potential horror show of all of Naval Aviation's combat airframes being the same damned airplane. Downside - the cost for the rest of the Killer Turkey program goes up. Interesting times...
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Yep, and except for the stealth gizmos and gadgets on the Superduper Hornets, the maintenance crews on carriers can repair a Hornet with their eyes closed they are that familiar with the bird...yep and not so much transition training for the jet jockeys...
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To expand, China has stolen and also developed stealth, advanced radar and comms capabilities. Without what the F-35 is intended to be, and is a lot of the time, our military is only ready to face 2nd rate opponents. China is rapidly threatening to be more than that and other adversaries will arise as well.
Don't make the mistake of fighting the last war, which was against an incompetant middle eastern junkyard.
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Competition is good. Make those LockMartin bastards sweat. Boeing is no better, but letting them fight for the business, will give the sailor and aviator options that they would not have if we sole source the future to the F-35.
Even if we never buy another F-18 we will have mixed fleets of aircraft for a long time. Buying a few more F-18s would just extend that time, and give us, the people, leverage on the contractors.
Baltimore Black Lives Matter segment in closing adds appropriate gravitas. Be sure to save to favorites, you'll want to visit this site and get April Ryan updates often.
[Breibart] A group of mostly white students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is demanding that the school offer a wholly free education to black students, even if they are convicted criminals.
The group, the Associated Students of Madison, demanded that the school offer free tuition, free living expenses, and cancel all fees for all African American students as a form of "reparations" for the practice of slavery that ended 150 years ago, Fox News reported.
"The university’s rhetoric suggests that it is committed to diversity and inclusion, so this legislation compels the university to move towards action -- which is imperative," said the resolution’s author, ASM Student Council Rep. Tyriek Mack. "If no one challenges the university’s empty promises, then the racial composition will remain stagnant."
Calling it the "Cognitive Dissonance Resolution," the ASM policy proposal demands free tuition for all black people, including formerly incarcerated criminals. Free tuition, free housing, and no fees would save a black student up to $20,000 a year.
The resolution also demands that universities spend ten percent of their donations on financial aid. Another provision called on the school to weigh admittance by geographical regions, instead of grades.
While black students make up only two percent of the student body, University spokeswoman Meredith McGlone insisted that the proportion of students of color has grown from 11 to 15 percent under current administration policies, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
On the other hand, the State of Wisconsin itself is only six percent black, while the U.S. population is 12 percent black.
In the end, McGlone said that some of the things the student group wants are not even legal. "It’s unclear that the methods that they’re suggesting are either legal or the best approach to accomplishing those goals," McGlone said.
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Little more than guilt therapy for the while privileged classes. Much, much more is needed. Culturally adjusted grading schemes, free books and lab fees, meals, lodging, laundry, day-care, pocket money, clothing allowance, priority employment placement, Affirmative promotion and advancement, tax exemption (April 15th is rapidly approaching) and much more. Real action required. Time is of the essence.
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When the tuition fees are loaned from the gov't, and later the debt forgiven, the cost no longer matters. The increases are spread across the entire society, a shared burden.
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Virtue signalling with other people's money. Except isn't U of W a state school, in a state with a very hard-nosed accountant as governor? Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Governor Scott Walker's next triumph -- this should be fun!
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Since there's apparently so many white libs free with someone else's money, why doesn't the school assign a "foster black" to each one and they can pay for their room, board, tuition, remedial tutoring (no SAT req'ts mean anyone gets in).... that cool ride, protest gear, etc.
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It seems to me the NAACP could better use their money if they offered little amounts to guilty liberal white kids to come out and virtue signal in this way.
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BU5562, my general rule of thumb is that any major that has the word "studies" in it is worse than useless.
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I'm not sure why this particular emission from the ASM is getting more attention than their usual nonsense. The turnout for elections was about 11% last year--not that many students seem to care about their representatives.
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"The university’s rhetoric suggests that it is committed to diversity rather than unity. FIFY
(KUTV) A video of a baby left in a locked car in Southern Texas has gone viral and so has the reason why the parents of the child weren't arrested.
A couple from Saudi Arabia was watching a movie at a theater in Corpus Christi, Texas on Saturday night. While they were watching the movie, they left their baby locked inside, according to police. While the baby was unharmed, it hasn't stopped people from being outraged at why officers didn't hold the couple, who is not from this country, accountable.
"It wasn't an accident and there wasn't an arrest ... it seems this time, culture played an unexpected factor," KIII-TV reports.
As police respond and get into the car to check on the baby, a woman records video and posts it to Facebook.
"Someone left their baby in the car," says a woman.
Police were called to the parking lot around 11 p.m. on Feb. 11. The couple was found inside the theater with their 4-year-old child inside.
"It is a violation of law to leave a child unattended in a vehicle," Kirk Stowers of Corpus Christi police told KIII-TV 3News. "There were no arrests made last night."
The reason? It was something police weren't expecting to hear.
"What they found out is that the family is from Saudi Arabia and they said that this is culturally acceptable for them -- it's normal."
Authorities aren't sure how long the family has been living in the United States, but decided to show "cultural sensitivity" and let the family go this time. Police are filing the case as an active criminal investigation and plan to follow up with the parents and see if it "really is normal in Saudi Arabia" to leave a child unattended in a car.
"If it was someone who grew up in the United States, of course the outcome may be very different," a Stowers, a spokesman for the Corpus Christi Police Department said.
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"They were from Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador .... and they said that this is culturally acceptable for them -- it's normal." - to ignore the laws of other countries.
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If you leave a baby unattended in a locked car in Saudi Arabia, the baby will be cooked even faster than is South Texas. So no, I don't buy the "cultural" argument.
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Their right. The problem won't be solved through greater LE resources. Police protection is after the event. Sadly, nor will it be solved anytime soon. Decades of Government dependence by design has decimated the nuclear family. A tribal culture has taken root and groups like BLM are fertilizer for the next generation.
Glen Brooks, a Chicago Police Department area coordinator, ducked behind sandbags stood behind barbed wire at Firebase Richard Daley in front of a sometimes hostile crowd shouting "Off the pigs!" for the third time this week, calling on the community to help curb the city's gun violence. Then he ran for his life when rounds of bullet started flying.
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.
[SCMP] Two Pak men face the gallows in Singapore after a court on Friday found them guilty of murdering a compatriot over a gambling dispute and dismembering the body.
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[Hot Air] Down goes another option to replace Michael Flynn as national security adviser, CBS News reports, and from a rather surprising source. After a speech overseas that apparently angered the White House, David Petraeus is no longer in the running for the spot -- and that comes from sources close to Petraeus rather than the White House:
[DroneLife.com] Aerovironment, a manufacturer of unmanned aircraft systems for both military and commercial applications, shared details regarding its ongoing pilot programs which are entering their third year and have guided development of the AV DSS platform. The company also displays its Quantix™ drone and AV Decision Support System™ (AV DSS) to World Ag Expo and National Farm Machinery Show attendees this week, highlighting the fully-integrated ecosystem’s powerfully-simple operations and innovative data analytics capabilities.
WASHINGTON: "You get whacked a lot."
[SCMP] Indonesia’s corruption fighters are back in the depths of despair after the arrest on bribery charges of a justice of the Constitutional Court, the country’s highest legal institution, once considered a success story of the democratic era.
President Trump on Friday said that the U.S. is looking into a “big order” of Boeing’s F/A-18 Super Hornets that may have stealth capabilities. Trump made the comments during a tour of a Boeing plant in South Carolina. The message appeared to be also directed at Lockheed Martin, the maker of the F-35 and corporate rival, Bloomberg reported.
(KUTV) A video of a baby left in a locked car in Southern Texas has gone viral and so has the reason why the parents of the child weren't arrested.
