[Dhaka Tribune] A mob in India beat to death two Moslems who were accused of trying to steal cows for slaughter, police said on Monday, the latest incident in a surge of violence blamed on hardline Hindu groups.
Some Hindu groups are demanding a ban on the slaughter of cows, which many Hindus regard as sacred.
Activists have been making their demands more vociferously since Prime Minister Narendra Modi, of the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, came to power in 2014.
Police said the latest attack happened on Sunday in a village in the northeastern state of Assam.
About 20 people attacked the two Moslem youths, beating them with sticks, after they were accused of plotting to steal cows.
"When the first police team reached the spot we found the two youths at death's door after being severely beaten," district police chief Debaraj Upadhay told Rooters by telephone.
Some television pictures showed the two victims with their hands tied.
The parents of one of the youths had lodged a complaint and police were investigating. No arrests had been made, Upadhay said.
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We hang rustlers in these here parts. Some what contradictory. "Beaten to death" and at "death's door". One is exageratione the other understated
[MACON] Chairs were toppled and punches were thrown inside Greater Bellevue Baptist Church in Macon on Monday night after a disagreement about the pastor’s future escalated in to a full-on brawl.
A Bibb County sheriff’s deputy in the church was standing by as the congregation prepared to vote on whether or not pastor David Stephens would stay, but the deputy had to call for back up when things started getting heated.
"I can’t handle this. This is church, though. They overdoing it, though," one man said on a video he took with his phone that night.
A woman came on the microphone and said, "Us not having a pastor at all, is that going to make this a better church or worser?"
"Worser!" the man taking the video said. "We want Pastor Stephens. He a big help to the community, though. They trippin.’ "
A deputy waved people away from the podium saying, "One at a time!"
"If you keep talking you won’t be able to vote," a man at the podium told about 150 people in the church. "If y’all don’t vote, y’all just don’t vote."
A little more than 20 minutes into the 35 minute video, church decorum decayed in a matter of seconds.
Young men threw punches and folks shoved each other among chairs that had been knocked over.
At the blow of a whistle, everyone left the church and the fight dissipated.
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[Harvard Crimson] Harvard libraries will no longer charge 50 cent per day fees on overdue books.
The change, one of several detailed in a post on the Harvard Library system’s website, went into effect on April 1. Though standard fees have been eliminated, fees for overdue recalled material have been raised from two dollars a day to three dollars a day, with a 45 dollar maximum.
"The goals of these changes are to improve the student experience and embrace a ’One Harvard’ approach for borrowing material across Harvard Library," wrote Steven Beardsley, Harvard's associate director for access services administrative operations and special projects, in an email.
Harvard's libraries eliminated standard fees and raised fees for overdue recalled material from two dollars a day to three dollars a day.
"We have witnessed firsthand the stress that overdue fines can cause for students," Beardsley continued. "Eliminating standard overdue fines and standardizing loan periods across Harvard’s libraries should help students focus on their scholarship, rather than worrying about renewing library books every 28 days in order to avoid fines."
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They should do away with books altogether as a "white man invented patriarchal tool used to define artificial and dubious 'facts' and rules".
Unless you can color in them...
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My public library offers e-books on loan. One advantage to me of borrowing e-books is that the day they are due the library app removes them from my device. I've saved a fortune in overdue fees since I signed up -- and the library is no doubt happier to have the books available to lend to others.
[RT] A woman has sued a German hotel chain for failing to disclose the name of the anonymous man who fathered her child following a three-night affair. Who was the Man with the Hat?
The affair took place in the summer of 2010 in a hotel in the Bavarian city of Halle. Nine months later the unidentified woman gave birth to a son named Joel. The woman is convinced that her mysterious companion, reportedly a male escort, is the father of her 7-year-old son.
The mother has one clue. Her companion’s first name is Michael – although that could be a fake name he gave to hide his real identity.
The woman decided to ask the hotel chain to provide Michael’s full name and address, so she could track the potential dad down and make him cough up child support.
[DW] A court in Munich has ruled that the hotel in eastern Germany was under no obligation to divulge the identity of a man who may have impregnated a German woman during a three-night love affair.
The case was further complicated by the fact that four men stayed at the hotel during the period in question who had the first name of Michael.
The only other information the woman knew was that the room they stayed in was on the second floor, according to a court statement.
The court ruled that the hotel was correct in refusing to divulge the man's personal details under Germany's Federal Data Protection Act.
Since the woman could not describe the man in detail, it was impossible for the hotel to identify just one man, the court ruled.
Judges said the man has the right to control his own personal data, along with the right to protect his family and marriage, according to the statement. Those rights took precedence over her right to child maintenance payments, the court added.
The four men named Michael also have the right to keep their sexual relations secret, the court said.
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With all this uncertainty, is she sure the kid is even hers?
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I have trouble seeing how this the hotel's problem, except for whether they should have sent up the hotel detective to 'break it up'. You know, the "hotel dick"?
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Rantburg is in good form this a.m with pit bull stories, fights in church and now this story.
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"How goes it, Miss Elsie?" "I'm warmer.
The dog knew the name of the farmer.
The cat's in the basement
(She's checking the statements).
I'm hot on the tail of that charmer!"
[NEWS-LEADER] As he does every morning, Texas County dairy farmer Jared Blackwelder started milking his cows around 4 a.m. Saturday. He finished up just before daylight and headed back to the barn. He was about to lock the gate when lightning struck hard and close. Cow week at Rantburg!
"It was so bright I couldn't hardly see," he said. "It just brought fire down the fences."
Later in the day when it was time to milk again, Blackwelder returned to the field and found 32 of his certified organic cows dead.
A veterinarian confirmed the cows had been struck by lightning. Blackwelder suspects it was that same lightning strike that sent fire along his fences.
"I went down over the hill and seen them laying there," an emotional Blackwelder said. "They were just piled on top of each other. They were huddled up, trying to get out of rain.
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[LAT] Already reeling from massive antigovernment marches in recent weeks, Venezuela is bracing for more demonstrations Wednesday as increasingly vocal activists protest the surprise plan by President Nicolas Maduro to draft a new constitution. Opposition leaders condemned the proposal as an antidemocratic move that will only aggravate the country’s ongoing political crisis.
Maduro critics expressed their outrage at the plan at a time when his government has curtailed the powers of the opposition-controlled National Assembly and indefinitely postponed elections of governors and mayors.
Henrique Capriles, an opposition leader and governor of Miranda state, said at a news conference Tuesday that the Maduro plan was a “constitutional fraud” and a “mechanism to do away once and for all with the National Assembly.” He called on supporters to go to the streets Wednesday to voice their opposition to the plan.
Late Monday, opposition Assemblyman Julio Borges, who heads an alliance of opposition parties, said the aim of the new constitutional assembly would be to “dissolve democracy and the republic…. It’s a swindle designed to fool the people.”
The United States and countries throughout Latin America have denounced the Maduro government in recent weeks. In response Venezuela has threatened to withdraw from the Organization of American States.
On Tuesday, Michael Fitzpatrick, the State Department deputy assistant secretary for the Western Hemisphere, told reporters in Washington that the U.S. will talk to other countries in the region to consider imposing new sanctions on Venezuela in light of Maduro’s recent crackdown on dissent.
Maduro’s approval rating has plummeted to 21%, according to a recent poll by Datincorp, a political consulting agency, as even past supporters grow weary of food shortages, violent crime and a collapsed economy.
“The current constitution is a nothing but an obstacle for the new radical phase of the ‘revolution,’” said Datincorp analyst Jesus Seguias in a text to the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday. “From here on out, the socialist plan of [the Maduro government] is possible only in a dictatorship.”
In a televised speech Monday night, Maduro said half of the constitutional assembly’s delegates would come from groups representing “the working-class base, the communes, the social movements, handicapped groups, retirees, indigenous, students and youth.” The remaining 250 delegates would be elected by Venezuelan voters at large.
Capriles, who urged Maduro opponents to boycott such an election, said voting for “all delegates to such an assembly has to be direct, universal and secret.”
Luis Salamanca, political science professor at Central University of Venezuela in Caracas , said Maduro’s plan is a political calculation, not a constitutional one.
“Maduro is looking for a way to avoid elections that should be held soon: governors and mayors this year and presidential elections in 2018, and to preserve his power without them,” Salamanca said.
Salamanca added that another reason for the new constitution would likely be “to take the National Assembly out of play and create a communal parliament so that Maduro could assume absolute powers, like a monarch, liquidating the republic.”
[An Nahar] Brazil on Tuesday branded as a "coup" a proposal by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to change the constitution without authority from the legislature.
Maduro, whose security forces are clashing daily with anti-government demonstrators at increasingly violent street protests, said the new charter would be drawn up by a specially created assembly, not by the opposition-held Congress.
"I consider the proposal... a coup," Brazilian Foreign Minister Aloysio Nunes said in a statement on Facebook. "It's another step in breaking the democratic order, which contradicts the country's own constitution."
Leftist Maduro said he was invoking his power to create a 500-member constituent assembly representing a "working class base" and local soviets councils to rewrite the constitution.
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O exército Brasileiro é muito forte, mais forte do que o governo civil e pode facilmente DESTRUIR Maduro.
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[WSJ] Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro on Monday signed an order to convene a special assembly to redraft the country’s constitution, the latest in a string of efforts to retain power in the face of mounting protests and civil unrest.
Mr. Maduro called for a vote--though it remained unclear among whom--to elect a so-called constituent assembly, which would in theory become the nation’s highest authority.
The opposition responded by pledging to intensify antigovernment demonstrations. They called on protesters to block roads beginning as early as 6 a.m. Tuesday in rejection of what they said was the leftist leader’s latest attempt to violate democratic order and avoid elections that polls show his ruling Socialist Party would overwhelmingly lose.
"Don’t let yourselves be fooled. This is a fraud, a coup d’état," said Julio Borges, who leads the country’s congress, the National Assembly.
Mr. Maduro fired back by saying, "I am no Mussolini."
"We need to transform the state, especially that rotten National Assembly over there," Mr. Maduro told red-clad supporters at a May Day rally in downtown Caracas, referring to the country’s congress.
Mr. Maduro said a constituent assembly would ease Venezuela’s crippling economic crisis, guarantee peace and beat back what he alleges are efforts to destabilize his administration, without explaining in detail how. "I don’t want a civil war," he added.
But legal experts said Mr. Maduro’s decision was a last-ditch effort to sideline his rivals who control the National Assembly. While Mr. Maduro has largely neutered the legislature by barring it from passing laws, politicians have warned international investors that any deals with the government would be illegal unless approved by congress, curtailing the cash-strapped Maduro administration’s ability to secure credit lines overseas.
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[Free Beacon] U.S. special operations forces are set to conduct operations against North Korean nuclear, missile, and other weapons of mass destruction sites in any future conflict, the commander of Special Operations Command told Congress Tuesday.
Army Gen. Raymond A. Thomas stated in testimony to a House subcommittee that Army, Navy, and Air Force commandos are based both permanently and in rotations on the Korean peninsula in case conflict breaks out.
The special operations training and preparation is a warfighting priority, Thomas said in prepared testimony. There are currently around 8,000 special operations troops deployed in more than 80 countries.
"We are actively pursuing a training path to ensure readiness for the entire range of contingency operations in which [special operations forces], to include our exquisite [countering weapons of mass destruction] capabilities, may play a critical role," he told the subcommittee on emerging threats.
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They are going to have to get in, permanently destroy the capabilities quickly, then get out. There are 500,000 North Korean troops ready to over run the commandos during an operation.
#5 The first order of action against North Korea is to immediately destroy and occupy all ICBM launch sites. Stealth fighters followed by stealth helicopters bringing in Seals is the first order of battle.
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Gosh, wouldn't saying things publicly make the Norks increase security at the real storage and processing sites? Of course if someone was able to watch and listen to them.....
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This makes zero sense. This kind of mission is the whole point of the B2s. This is crappy armchair quarterbacking regurgitating how we took out Osama.
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Left out was intel-gathering. Kinda hard to do with B-2s.
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#3 and #4, Get them to commit more of their troops to secure these sites and then drop MOABs on them. Kill the troops and destroy the sites all in the same raid.
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All of the non-stealth aircraft carrying MOABs will be met by NK MIGs. A large number of undetected stealth Raptor F22s and F35s would have to pick off the intercepting Migs. If Puddgy sees his air power being decimated, either with intercepts or all out airfield Tomahawk strikes like at the Syrian airfield recently, the young guy may go all out phsyco and order a major South Korean strike killing many civilians or a full SK invasion, a goal of his anyway. He is a lune who killed his half brother to maintain power and maybe his own father to assume power with VX nerve agent. He, his assassins and his methods are outside the box and purposely unpredictable and well planned.
His goal is to annex South Korea, even of he has to threaten the US with nukes to do it. That threat needs to be eliminated and then he needs to be weakened or taken out without collateral damage.
[RT] The US has sent a high-altitude surveillance RQ-4 Global Hawk drone to Japan, marking the beginning of a five-month deployment. It is expected to monitor moves made by North Korea, according to Japanese media.
The drone landed at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo on Monday night, after flying from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the Japan Times reported.
According to Japanese Defense Ministry officials, the drone can capture aerial images and electronic data from an altitude of around 50,000 feet (15,240 meters) or higher.
It will be remotely controlled from Yokota during takeoff and landing. Once it reaches a sufficient altitude, it will be controlled from the US mainland.
The arrival of the drone, which is part of the 69th Reconnaissance Group Detachment 1, marks the beginning of a five-month mission for the drone. The US military said it will remain in Tokyo until October to avoid inclement weather in Guam, including typhoons.
"This rotational deployment of the Global Hawk is temporary but necessary to provide a base from which the platform can be reliably operated during the summer," the US Pacific Command wrote in a statement last month.
It went on to state that the US "continues to deploy its most advanced capabilities to Japan, including the Global Hawk, in keeping with our commitment to further contribute to the security of Japan and to the stability of the region."
Japan’s NHK broadcaster reported that the drone is expected to monitor moves made by North Korea, including ballistic missile launches, while it is stationed in Japan.
Four other Global Hawk drones and around 105 personnel currently based at Anderson Air Force Base in Guam are also scheduled to arrive at Yokota soon, according to US Pacific Command.
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Raise ya a dollar, Fat Boy!
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[Sydney Herald] Participants at an intergovernmental meeting hosted by Australian foreign minister Julie Bishop in Perth have described "disgusting" and "extraordinary" scenes as the Chinese government delegation shouted over the welcome to country ceremony and forced the suspension of proceedings.
A Taiwanese delegation was later ejected from the Kimberley Process meeting at the behest of the Chinese delegates who objected to their attendance.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade confirmed it had raised concerns over the incident with the Chinese ambassador.
Participants at the Kimberley Process intersessional meeting have described extraordinary scenes as the Chinese delegation noisily disrupted the official Indigenous welcome ceremony and forced the suspension of at least one other session on Monday.
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Another example of the ChiComs getting their way.
What if you told them they had to leave?
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I'd show them out and tell their ambassador that they aren't welcome back until they can act with some decorum and decency worthy of a so called great power.
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So- fake, pretentious aboriginal "welcome to country" ceremony disrupted and shouted down- check.
Treacherous, worthless foreign minister humiliated- check.
Chinese commie thug diplomats shown up as low lifes- check.
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A few years ago, I had occasion to brief a delegation of approximately 45 Chinese mid-level emergency management and law enforcement officials at a state homeland security/emergency management agency. The presentation was on structure and information analysis systems, and about 15 minutes into it I had to stop because of the loud cross-talk, chatting and obviously sarcastic comments they made as I was speaking. When their senior leader noted my pause, after a few minutes he stood up and said something, after which there was utter silence and rapt attention. They were arrogant, dismissive and haughty, but repeatedly wanted to use our computer systems to "check email" yet it seemed a thumbdrive was always planned. We refused every attempt, which cause them to comment on our lack of "courtesy". Their arrogance and contempt was palpable. SO this doesn't surprise me, the mask is less and less worn.....
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An Afghan woman has reportedly been stabbed to death by a fellow asylum seeker from Afghanistan, apparently due to religious rift as the victim was seen by the assailant attending a Church service.
According to the sources quoted by the local news outlet, Bild, the victim was believed to be about 38-year-old and was killed by the fellow asylum seeker in Bavaria of Germany.
The identity of the victim has not been disclosed by the authorities in Germany so far but relatives of the victim have said she was singled out by the assailant and killed with the knife.
The assailant has reportedly been tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... as the authorities are saying that an investigation is underway to ascertain the motives behind the murder.
This comes as the authorities in Germany are concerned that numerous religious bandidosturbans including members of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group have managed to arrive in Germany to seek asylum.
Hundreds of thousands of Afghans left for Europe last year amid deteriorating security situation in the country.
Scores of the migrants colonistsbit the dust on the way to Europe by going through the most dangerous routes, including the Iranian land route and the Turkish waters.
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Scores of the migrants colonists bit the dust on the way to Europe
[Times of India] AGRA: The panchayat of Mathura's Muslim dominated Madora village has decided to impose a hefty penalty of Rs 2.5 lakh on anyone found indulging in cow slaughter. The decision was announced on Tuesday by former village pradhan Mohd. Gaffar, who said that the Muslim community supports chief minister Yogi Adityanath in his campaign against cow slaughter.
"We, too, respect the cow and will not allow its killing," Gaffar said. "Those who provide information about cow slaughter will get Rs 51,000." [$816. USD]
Gaffar claimed that Muslims respect the cow and that they have decided to hand over bovine killers to police. "We will also socially boycott them. In case a person is not able to pay the fine, the money will be recovered from his property," he said.
[DAWN] ABBOTTABAD: Family of Ambreen, 17, who was burnt alive by some accused in a van on May 2, 2016, still awaits justice.
Police had jugged I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! some 15 people in the murder case, but have not yet completed the investigation.
According to human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... activist, Ejaz Jadoon Madani, delay in the trial of the accused is on the part of police, which, he alleged, were deliberately slowing the investigations. Even the statutory time for filing of the challan ... list of charges ... against the accused in the court has lapsed, he added.
Lawyer Shabnam Nawaz alleged that the accused were influential people and were influencing the police investigations.
It may be mentioned that soon after the incident, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Assembly Speaker Asad Qaisar had visited the girl’s house in Makol village near Donga Gali and vowed to plead Ambreen’s case in the court himself and also promised to establish a school in her name. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... the promises remain to be fulfilled.
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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.
[Dhaka Tribune] A mob in India beat to death two 
[MACON] Chairs were toppled and punches were thrown inside Greater Bellevue Baptist Church in Macon on Monday night after a disagreement about the pastor’s future escalated in to a full-on brawl.
[Harvard Crimson] Harvard libraries will no longer charge 50 cent per day fees on overdue books.
[RT] A woman has sued a German hotel chain for failing to disclose the name of the anonymous man who fathered her child following a three-night affair.
[NEWS-LEADER] As he does every morning, Texas County dairy farmer Jared Blackwelder started milking his cows around 4 a.m. Saturday. He finished up just before daylight and headed back to the barn. He was about to lock the gate when lightning struck hard and close.
[An Nahar] Brazil on Tuesday branded as a "coup" a proposal by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to change the constitution without authority from the legislature.
North Korea
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An Afghan woman has reportedly been stabbed to death by a fellow asylum seeker from Afghanistan, apparently due to religious rift as the victim was seen by the assailant attending a Church service.
