A New Mexico woman who confidently performed a cartwheel for officers during a field sobriety test was nonetheless arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated last week.
Albuquerque PD were dispatched Friday evening after receiving reports of a black Volkswagen sedan that witnesses said was driving recklessly in the area.
When officers located a vehicle matching the description, they say it was parked partially in the road and partially in a driveway to a trailer park.
Cops say inside they found 23-year-old Bryelle Marshall apparently passed out behind the wheel.
"Marshall was asked to step out and appeared to be extremely intoxicated by stumbling and having a difficult time listening to officers commands," Albuquerque PD said in a statement.
Marshall was given instructions on how to perform a field sobriety test, but cops say she laughed and instead proceeded to perform cartwheels on the sidewalk.
An officer's bodycam shows a suspect complete one cartwheel before a second attempt ends less successfully.
Cops say Marshall struck an officer in the back on her second try before falling to the ground.
At this point Marshall's opportunity to complete the tests was over and she was arrested.
Marshall was asked by the officers to open her mouth to ensure she was not chewing gum, food or candy, a police release said. "This was to ensure the breath test would be accurate. However she refused to comply with the officers commands on this as well," the release said.
Despite the officers' self-described "extreme patience with Marshall," she was arrested and charged with battery, aggravated DWI and for an expired license plate.
Marshall has pleaded not guilty to all three counts.
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Ah, land of enchantment - where every bush hides a deputy eager to give you a sobriety test.
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...mainly because DWI there is a real butcher killer, but given the incredible leniency of the judiciary, time served till trial usually is the only punishment. If you are going to intentionally kill anyone in NM, just use a car and liquor up before the cops arrive.
[SCMP] More than 30 bald men gathered at a hot spring facility in Tsuruta City, Japan, on Wednesday to show off their hairless heads and have fun.
Members of the city’s Bald Men Club took turns competing in a unique game of tug-of-war by sticking a suction cup, which is attached to a single red rope, to each of their heads. Both sides then attempt to pull the cup off of their opponent’s head.
"My head still hurts," Toshiyuki Ogasawara, 43, said with a smile. "I think I need to ice it!"
Masatomo Sasaki, 64, a first-time participant at the tournament, said he used to feel insecure about his baldness but now feels differently.
"I feel proud. Or maybe I should say, I feel good about being a bald man," Sasaki said, adding that he started losing his hair when he was 40. "And that is thanks to this bald men’s club."
The club, which has attracted roughly 65 members from all over the country since its founding in 1989, encourages people to "view baldness in a positive manner, to have fun, and to brighten the world with our shiny heads", according to its website.
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(Groan) There has to be a joke in there somewhere like this old one:
A helicopter was flying around above Seattle when an electrical malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's electronic navigation and communications equipment. Due to the clouds and haze, the pilot could not determine the helicopter's position and course to fly to the airport.
The pilot saw a tall building, flew toward it, circled, drew a handwritten sign, and held it in the helicopter's window. The pilot's sign said "WHERE AM I?" in large letters. People in the tall building quickly responded to the aircraft, drew a large sign and held it in a building window. Their sign read: "YOU ARE IN A HELICOPTER."
The pilot smiled, waved, looked at her map, determined the course to fly to SEATAC airport, and landed safely. After they were on the ground, the co-pilot asked the pilot how the "YOU ARE IN A HELICOPTER" sign helped determine their position.
The pilot responded "I knew that had to be the Microsoft building because, like their technical support, online help and product documentation, the response they gave me was technically correct, but completely useless."
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somewhere there is photograph (taken by my loving daughter) of me actually stopping and asking for directions. (not in a helo, of course)
she was shocked!
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Ah, Microsoft...
Back when my connection was a telephone modem I was having trouble setting up my e-mail at msm.com. When I called on the telephone help line the operator told me: "I will e-mail you the instructions." (!?!)
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What I loved about Microsoft was they would always blame the application or the hardware, then the application vender would blame Microsoft or the hardware. The Hardware folks of course played the same game. Good times.
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Gravitational pull of mars on the earth is less than 4 orders of magnitude less than the pull of the moon on the earth. About like a mosquito burping into the hurricane.
Even with some mysterious 'resonance' (I didn't follow what causes that), this theory doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to me.
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I haven't seen the numbers, but this is supposed to be an instance of a known effect. Although most of the time gravitational pulls from other planets pretty much cancel out over time, if every now and then there's an unbalanced tiny tweak (ie from Jupiter, famous for such things) at about the same point in the orbit, over time the orbit will change shape.
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Even with some mysterious 'resonance' (I didn't follow what causes that), this theory doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to me.
[Wash Times] More than 300 scientists have urged President Trump to withdraw from the U.N.’s climate change agency, warning that its push to curtail carbon dioxide threatens to exacerbate poverty without improving the environment.
In a Thursday letter to the president, MIT professor emeritus Richard Lindzen called on the United States and other nations to "change course on an outdated international agreement that targets minor greenhouse gases," starting with carbon dioxide.
"Since 2009, the US and other governments have undertaken actions with respect to global climate that are not scientifically justified and that already have, and will continue to cause serious social and economic harm -- with no environmental benefits," said Mr. Lindzen, a prominent atmospheric physicist.
Signers of the attached petition include the U.S. and international atmospheric scientists, meteorologists, physicists, professors and others taking issue with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [UNFCCC], which was formed in 1992 to combat "dangerous" climate change.
The 2016 Paris climate accord, which sets nonbinding emissions goals for nations, was drawn up under the auspices of the UNFCCC.
POWERFUL tsunami-causing tremors could strike Earth over the next fortnight from TOMORROW, because of the alignment of the planets, it has shockingly been claimed.
Just in time! Now I don't have to do my taxes...
A self-styled earthquake predictor is warning of a magnitude eight or higher quake hitting the planet in just nine days on March 4.
’Quake mystic’ Now, there's a moniker I'd like to use in an introduction. Looks good on your resume.
Frank Hoogerbeets has issued an online "major earthquake warning" amid fears a "big one" is on its way.
Mr Hoogerbeets, who is based in the Netherlands, uses a non-scientifically recognised way of predicting earthquakes based on planetary alignments with Earth. He wrote on his website ditrianum.org: "In the last week of February and the first week of March there will likely be a significant increase in seismic activity with the highest probability of an eight plus magnitude earthquake around March 4."
Mr Hoogerbeets claims the positions of the planets and the moon have an impact on tectonic plate movement here on earth.
He added: "The anticipated seismic increase starting around February 24 will contrast sharply with only a few planetary alignments from the last week of January to the third week of February." Meh...we've had a good run.
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It's been quite a few years ago that all the planets were in line with earth and doom was predicted. Nothing happened.
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there are actually a number of good websites for seeing the planet positions
one, which uses a focus schematic is
http://www.theplanetstoday.com/
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the moon actually does exert a tidal pull on the liquid magma below the crust, causing the crust to bulge at perigee.
however the planets exert no such pressure
i think the more interesting predictor of earthquakes is short term changes in the magnetosphere which then cause fish to lose their bearings. Suddenly and for no reason, thousands of fish beach themselves/ turn up dead
then animals start acting crazy - the lost and found pages for dogs spikes up 5 x the normal rate
[Dhaka Tribune] The United States could eventually become an "associate member" of the Commonwealth, according to plans being drawn up by the Royal Commonwealth Society, reports the Telegraph. The move, which is said to have the backing of the Queen, is believed to have come about because of US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s love of Britannia and the Royal Family.
With the UK making plans to leave the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , official are keen to build up international relations through the Commonwealth in a number of areas, including trade.
Director of the Royal Commonwealth Society Michael Lake told The Telegraph: "The UK rather left this treasure in the attic, and forgot about it because people were so glued to Brussels." Lake said the plans had been hastened by the "opportunity of a new president, and the slightly dangerous but great fun opportunity that the ’Bad Boys of Brexit’ offered."
In December, Lake wrote a letter to Trump, which was hand carried by Andrew Wigmore, a close aide to Nigel Farage, and then delivered by the former UKIP leader. Wigmore joined Farage and Arron Banks, the millionaire businessman in visiting Trump after the US election, and continues to have close ties with the administration.
Farage, who has emerged as a key ally of Trump, promoted the idea with senior aides, reportedly presenting the letter to Steve Bannon, the president’s chief strategist. He believes the Commonwealth alliance fits well with Trump’s foreign policy outlook.
A new branch of the Commonwealth Society has already opened in Helsinki, acting as a Baltic-Scandinavian hub, to help facilitate business ties with Commonwealth countries. Last year the Commonwealth Society opened a chapter in Dublin, as part of a campaign to help persuade the Republic to rejoin the alliance of 52 member states.
Sources indicate that Trump believes that the model of the Commonwealth fits well with his foreign policy outlook. Trump is understood to think that the former Commonwealth country India is a "true friend and partner", according to a phone call he had with the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Trump, whose mother is Scottish and a royalist, has also expressed his enthusiasm for building his connections with the Royal family.
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Don't know if it is true or if it will ever come to be but despite that the US should act like it is a member. Confiding with the Commonwealth states before any major foreign policy initiatives.
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USN Ret, sorry am not familiar with the Prince of Darkness, however, I've a friend that is an automotive engineer in UK who has worked for Williams, Lotus, Caterham and now Aston Martin (F-1 till this last gig) SOOOO I be he knows all about Lucas. 8^) I'll ask him when I see him in August.
A total of two Ukrainian soldiers were wounded in fighting on the line of contact in Donetsk, according to Russian language news accounts.
lb.ua also reported that Russian backed separatists attacked several locations in Donetsk and in Lugansk. Mortars were used on Ukrainian targets in Zaitsevo, which is north of Gorlovka, and on Kamenka, which is south of Donetsk city.
In Lugansk, separatists fired mortars on Ukrainian positions at Popasnaya and Novozvanovka.
A separate news account in lb.ua said a Ukrainian paratrooper, identified as deputy company commander Stanislav, used an anti tank guided missile to destroy a separatist BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicle near Donetsk. Rebel troops immediately returned fire on Ukrainian positions.
Direct fire combat has been reported by rebel media in the Svetodarsk region, which include Gorlovka, Zaitsevo, and Logvinovo, all areas which have rebel troops dug in. Mortar fire on rebel positions in Zaitsevo, Gorlovka, and Petrovka have been reported.
Ukrainian artillery has once again hit the water filtration plant near Yasinovataya, which serves the population on both sides of the line, but according to a report in Novorosinform.org, plant operations continued without stopping.
According to a spokesman for the Lugansk ministry of defense, Lt. Colonel Andrey Marochko, Ukrainian mortar fire hit rebel targets in Lugansk, including at Kalinovka, Loginovo, Kalinovo and Lozovoye.
It has been reported in rebel media that Ukrainian mortar fire has been interspersed with fireworks shows in Donetsk city commemorating a Russian military holiday.
A deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's national parliament, was a participant in a staged kidnapping by Ukraine's top security agency, the SBU, according to Ukrainian language news accounts.
Alexey Goncharenko reportedly was taken by a group of armed men in Kiev Thursday morning, according to a news account in korrespondent.net. He was released unharmed only a few hours later
Goncharenhko is a member of Ukrainian president Petr Poroshenko's voting block.
According to numerous news accounts, the SBU received information that Goncharenko was the target of a kidnap plan by local separatists in the Odessa region. The articles say that video had surfaced involving a local government deputy in the village of Limanskoye in the Odessa region, identified as Aleksandr Kushnarev. Kushnarev is shown in the video discussing torture.
According to a separate news report which appeared in strana.ua, the SBU sponsored kidnapping was executed in order to deprive Kushnarev of his target.
News accounts say that Kushnarev's son was killed in the May 2nd, 2014 Odessa Trades Union Hall building fire, which Russian separatists claimed was a cover for brutal attacks against Russian speaking separatists by local groups tied to the then new Maidan Ukrainian government. Russian separatists claimed that most of the people killed in the incident were murdered, a charge the government denies. It is stated in the articles that Kushnarev's plan was for vengeance for his son's death.
Yet another strana.ua report said that Kushnarev's son, identified as Gennady Kushnarev, at that time had been autopsied and the cause of death was said to be asphyxia caused by carbon monoxide poisoning. The autopsy also stated that Gennady was found in a pool of his own blood, which meant foul play could not be ruled out.
The Trades Union Hall fire is one of the galvanizing incidents which ethnic Russian separatists cite as proof the Ukrainian government intended to attack ethnic Russians in Ukraine.
According to the strana.ua report, remarks by Goncharenko about the incident, which were characterized as flippant, angered Kushnarev. Goncharenko himself was not involved in the May 2nd, 2014 incident.
The strana.ua report said that Kushnarev planned to torture Goncharenko by using an acid attack and by breaking his kneecaps. The report said that an Odessa local prosecutor, Oleg Zhuchenko, had ordered the arrest of three men including Kushnarev, all of whom were said to be involved in the planning of the kidnapping.
Instead of condemnation, the incident has received ridicule, including from deputies in Goncharenko's own voting block. Some have posted production stills from obscure Ukrainian comedy films depicting kidnappings.
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If this is true, many others could have been affected. VX is bad stuff, and persists indoors.
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yep, to include someone close enough to administer it as a spray and personnel responding to the immediate location of the victims. Requires decontamination protocols and personnel.
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Almost certainly, or the attackers would also be seriously dead. As it is, apparently one of them was very ill immediately after the event. But not both. Which is consistent with binary application. The first attacker would be fine, the second though would be exposed at least to some of the poison.
[Reuters] VX nerve agent, a chemical on a U.N. list of weapons of mass destruction, was used to kill the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in last week's bizarre murder in a busy Kuala Lumpur airport, Malaysian police said on Friday.
Kim Jong Nam died on Feb. 13 after being assaulted by two women who wiped the toxic chemical on his face as he prepared to board a flight to Macau at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
Police arrested the two women - one Vietnamese and the other Indonesian - and a North Korean man last week. They are also seeking seven other North Koreans wanted in connection with the case, including a diplomat at the embassy in Kuala Lumpur.
South Korean and U.S. officials have said they believe North Korean agents assassinated Kim Jong Nam, who had been living in the Chinese territory of Macau under Beijing's protection.
[SCMP] North Korea blamed Malaysia on Thursday for the death of one of its citizens there last week and accused it of an "unfriendly attitude" in a scenario drawn up by South Korea, which has said Pyongyang agents assassinated the North Korean leader’s half-brother, Kim Jong-nam.
Malaysia had initially told North Korea the person bearing a diplomatic passport had died after suffering a heart attack at Kuala Lumpur airport on February 13, Pyongyang’s state-run KCNA news agency said.
KCNA, citing a front man for a state committee, said Malaysia quickly changed its position and started to complicate the matter after reports surfaced in South Korea that the man was poisoned to death.
"What merits more serous attention is the fact that the unjust acts of the Malaysian side are timed to coincide with the anti-DPRK conspiratorial racket launched by the South Korean authorities," KCNA said, using the North’s formal name of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Malaysia, meanwhile, has requested Interpol put an alert out to apprehend four North Korean suspects, Malaysia’s police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said on Thursday.
Police are also holding one North Korean man, but are seeking another seven in connection with the liquidation. Three of them ‐ a diplomat, a state airline official, and another man ‐ are believed to still be in Malaysia.
Khalid told news hounds a request had been made to Interpol to put out an alert to apprehend the four other suspects, who they believe have already made their way back to North Korea.
Khalid also said the police have sent an official request to the North Korean embassy requesting to interview the embassy’s second secretary and the airline official, having released their names on Wednesday.
"If you have nothing to hide, you should not be afraid to cooperate, you should cooperate," Khalid told news hounds.
North Korea’s state media, in the first official media report of the killing, did not name the person who died on the way to the hospital or acknowledge that he was the estranged 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... , referring to him only as "a citizen of the DPRK".
"The biggest responsibility for his death rests with the government of Malaysia as the citizen of the DPRK died in its land," the KCNA report said.
The state media also blasted Malaysia for carrying out an "illegal and immoral" autopsy on Jong-nam.
"Malaysia is obliged to hand his body to the DPRK [North Korea] side as it made an autopsy and forensic examination of it in an illegal and immoral manner," the North’s Korean Jurists Commitee told KCNA.
Malaysia has not released the corpse "under the absurd pretext" that it needs a DNA sample from the dead man’s family.
"This proves that the Malaysian side is going to politicise the transfer of the body in utter disregard of international law and morality and thus attain a sinister purpose", it said.
The North’s statement repeated Pyongyang’s demand for a joint investigation, stressing it was ready to dispatch a delegation of its jurists.
On Wednesday, North Korea’s envoy called for Malaysia to release the North Korean citizen being held, along with two other women who have been detained.
"They should immediately release the innocent females from Vietnam and Indonesia as well as a DPRK citizen," ambassador Kang Chol said in a statement which repeated allegations that South Korea had influenced the probe.
The women must have been framed as they would have died if they had carried the poison in their hands, the ambassador claimed.
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[DAWN] Malaysian police on Wednesday named a North Korean diplomat along with a state airline official who are wanted for questioning over the murder of Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korea’s leader.
Kim Jong Nam, 46, was killed at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Feb 13, while preparing to board a flight to Macau, where he lived in exile with his family under the protection of Beijing.
South Korean and US officials believe the killing of the elder 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... was an liquidation carried out by agents of the North.
Kim Jong Nam had spoken out publicly against his family’s dynastic control of the isolated, nuclear-armed state.
Giving an update on an investigation that has already angered North Korea, Malaysia’s police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said the diplomat wanted for questioning was 44-year-old Hyon Kwang Song, a second secretary at the embassy.
Police also want to interview Kim Uk Il, 37, an employee of the North Korean state-owned airline Air Koryo.
Khalid said both were in Malaysia but could not confirm they were in the embassy.
"They’ve been called in for assistance. We hope the embassy will cooperate with us and allow us to interview them quickly or else we will compel them to come to us," he told news hounds.
"We can’t confirm that they are hiding in the embassy," he said.
So far, police have identified a total of eight North Koreans suspected of being linked to the killing.
One, Ri Jong Chol, has been in jug since last week, and another, Ri Ji U, remains on the lam.
Khalid said police "strongly believed" four others were back in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, having fled Malaysia on the day of the attack.
Police have not stated Ri Jong Chol’s role in the killing. He lived in Malaysia for three years without working at the company registered on his employment permit or receiving a salary.
Police are also holding two women -- one Vietnamese, one Indonesian -- who are suspected of carrying out the fatal assault on Kim Jong Nam using a fast-acting poison.
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[Gateway Pundit] The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DOW) hit another record new high on Wednesday! For the 9th straight closing bell, going back to February 9th, the DOW set a new stock market high.
Counting weekends and holidays, the DOW has closed with new highs over the past 14 days. The only time in the history of the DOW where the DOW closed with new highs over a longer period was in 1987 under President Reagan. The DOW closed with new highs over a 16 day period (counting weekends) ending on January 20th 1987 for the highest number of consecutive days with new highs ‐ the best in DOW history.
The ’Trump Bump’ is only 2 days short of the all time record! No other rally has reached this level!
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The problem with the stock market is the height before the fall. I fear this is just a bubble as there are still some real economic problems here and overseas that haven't been addressed yet.
Spain has invited the head of Airbus to travel to Madrid next month to brief defence officials about its troubled A400M military transport plane, the defence ministry said Friday.
The A400M was commissioned jointly in 2003 by the governments of Germany, Belgium, France, Britain, Luxembourg, Spain and Turkey, but since its delayed launch in 2013 it has run into difficulty, with delays in delivery of the plane.
A spokesman for the ministry told AFP Airbus CEO Tom Enders had asked to meet representatives from these countries, and Spain's junior defence minister Agustin Conde had responded by inviting him and defence officials from those nations to Madrid.
"He sent him a letter inviting him to attend a meeting with the programme's partner countries, on March 30 in Madrid," the spokesman said.
It is unclear exactly why Enders has called the meeting, but on Wednesday he told reporters that the group would ask clients to refrain from imposing further penalties over delivery delays.
Originally planned for 2011, the plane's launch was delayed until 2013. The A400M's delivery has also run into substantial delays due to a string of technical problems and different requests from the governments.
An A400M plane crashed during a test in May 2015 near Seville in Spain, killing four of the six people on board and seriously injuring the two others.
And new faults were discovered in the propellor engines last year.
On Wednesday, Airbus said its profits nosedived in 2016 due to charges related to problems with the plane.
Speaking to reporters when the group announced the results, Enders said that Airbus needed "the cooperation of clients... to push the programme forward and end the haemorrhaging."
The Spanish defence ministry spokesman said Enders had "surprised the seven partner countries with declarations to the media about difficulties encountered in the development of the programme".
"So Mr. Conde invited Mr. Enders to tell the junior ministers (attending the March meeting) about the problems faced by the A400M programme".
The German government, the main customer for Airbus' military aircraft, this week urged the firm to live up to its contractual obligations and deliver the promised A400M jets.
Airbus delivered 17 A400M in 2016, compared with 11 in 2015 and has delivered two of the military transport planes so far this year.
Could have bought C-130s or C-17s and been done with it...
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A dhimmi walks into... How durst he?
Broad daylight, in Ramadan? Thirsty?
With jeers he's sent packing
By barkeep and sacking:
Mohammedan Woody and Kirstie.
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"In 2000, Robert Dudley of the University of California in Berkeley proposed the idea of a deep historical link between fruit-eating animals and alcohol intake. With his curiously-titled "Drunken Monkey Hypothesis", Dudley suggested that our early ancestors were introduced to alcohol in fermenting fruit, and that this might underlie our current taste for it."
Indonesia President Joko Widodo will discuss the prospect of joint patrols with Australia in the South China Sea when he meets his counterpart Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at the weekend.
Widodo told The Australian newspaper he would like to see joint patrols with Australia, but only if did not further inflame tensions with China.
"If there is no tension I think it's very important to have the patrols together. We will discuss this with PM Turnbull," said Widodo.
Indonesia has traditionally taken a neutral position on the South China Sea, acting as a buffer between China and fellow members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) that have the most at stake, the Philippines and Vietnam.
But after China angered Indonesia by saying the two countries had "overlapping claims" to waters close to Indonesia's Natuna Islands, Jakarta staged large-scale exercise on the edge of South China Sea in October.
China claims almost the entire South China Sea, through which about $5 trillion worth of trade passes each year. Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims to parts of the sea.
Australia - which says it takes no sides on South China Sea disputes but has supported U.S.-led freedom of navigation activities in the region - has been seeking to repair ties with Indonesia after their most recent spat. Indonesia suspended military cooperation with Australia in January after "insulting" teaching materials were found at an Australian base. While Australia's army chief apologized to Indonesia in February, military cooperation remains suspended.
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[Reuters] The U.S. Justice Department has reversed an order by the Obama administration to phase out the use of private contractors to run federal prisons.
In a memo made public on Thursday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Obama policy impaired the government's ability to meet the future needs of the federal prison system.
The Obama administration said in August 2016 it planned a gradual phase-out of private prisons by letting contracts expire or by scaling them back to a level consistent with recent declines in the U.S. prison population.
It said privately operated prisons were less safe and a poor substitute for government-run facilities.
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This is one of the few things the Obama administration got right!
Private prisons is a bad idea, just follow the money and you'll see why,, Judges been busted for sending people to those private prisons in return for a "fee" among other things.
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It said privately run prisons are less safe and a poor substitute for government-run facilities.
The problem here is that the foundations for those claims are dubious - at best. But if true, which it's not, the insinuation that somehow by virtue of Government operated these facilities are "safer" is nonsense. There may be legitimate reasons to consider such policies. But the basis for the Obama Administration prison policy was bogus.
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Ah, yeah, just look at the pay and pension deal the California corrections union has rung out of the state and taxpayers. Remember how that relationship of union money and pols have influenced politics there.
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One of the few things I agreed with that Obumble did.
The corporations that run these have their lobbyists keep the drug laws strict and the war hot. Gotta keep bodies flowing into their prisons.
Prisons are supposed to be expensive for governments to maintain. It helps keep laws reasonable in a democracy.
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] More than 30 bald men gathered at a hot spring facility in Tsuruta City, Japan, on Wednesday to show off their hairless heads and have fun.
[Wash Times] More than 300 scientists have urged President Trump to withdraw from the U.N.’s climate change agency, warning that its push to curtail carbon dioxide threatens to exacerbate poverty without improving the environment.
POWERFUL tsunami-causing tremors could strike Earth over the next fortnight from TOMORROW, because of the alignment of the planets, it has shockingly been claimed.
[Reuters] VX nerve agent, a chemical on a U.N. list of weapons of mass destruction, was used to kill the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in last week's bizarre murder in a busy Kuala Lumpur airport, Malaysian police said on Friday.
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[Gateway Pundit] The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DOW) hit another record new high on Wednesday! For the 9th straight closing bell, going back to February 9th, the DOW set a new stock market high.
