[DAWN] China's police have placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! 44 people over a scam which saw many as 93,000 people contribute start-up capital to "unfreeze" assets smuggled overseas when the Nationalist government was tossed in 1949, police authorities said late on Thursday.
The criminal network used Wechat and other communication tools to encourage people to pay 10 yuan ($1.46) for membership in a scheme which promised returns of as much as 50,000 yuan ($7,280) once the assets were unfrozen, the Ministry of Public Security said in a notice on its website.
The ministry said that it had busted a total of 15 criminal groups involved in the scam since investigations began in October 2016. The fraud involved more than 950 million yuan ($138.34 million).
The public security ministry said earlier this month that it had already set up 32 provincial and 206 city centers dedicated to cracking down on online and telecom fraud. It said it uncovered 83,000 cases last year, up 49.6 percent compared to 2016.
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[NYPOST] A leading young Democrat and de Blasio administration employee has a secret taste for sickening kiddie porn that involves baby girls as young as 6 months old, court papers revealed Friday.
Jacob Schwartz, 29, was busted for allegedly keeping more than 3,000 disgusting images and 89 videos on a laptop after downloading the filth from the internet.
The illegal smut shows "young nude females between the approximate ages of 6 months and 16, engaging in sexual conduct... on an adult male," court papers say.
Schwartz’s father -- labor lawyer and Democratic insider Arthur Schwartz -- called his son’s case "a personal tragedy."
"I understand these are serious charges," said the elder Schwartz, who watched his son get arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on Thursday night.
"He’s already in therapy for this."
Jacob Schwartz surrendered to NYPD computer-crimes Sherlocks in Manhattan’s 13th Precinct on Thursday morning, sources said.
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Should be a Dem CV enhancement
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The elites seem to have a penchant for such things.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security advisor to former President Jimmy Carter, has died, according to an announcement from his daughter, MSNBC anchor Mika Brzezinski.
There was no word of the cause of death.
"He was known to his friends as Zbig, to his grandchildren as Chief and to his wife as the enduring love of her life," Mika wrote on Instagram.
Brzezinski served as President Carter's national security advisor from 1977 to 1981 and continued to hold influence in foreign policy issues. A registered Democrat once considered to be the answer to Republicans' favored Henry Kissinger, Brzezinski also served on former President Ronald Reagan's Chemical Warfare Commission and held other roles in the administration until 1989.
He was born in Warsaw, Poland, and became a naturalized US citizen in 1958.
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So, he'll continue his long streak of not having an original or useful thought
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"There was no word of the cause of death."
Huh. I'm thinging he stopped breathing, etc. Things like that cause death, I'm pretty sure. Or are a strong indicator.
He was not amongst my faves, so buh bye, Zbig.
J. F'in Kerry next, plz.
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We have the mad mullahs in Iran thanks to his incompetence.
May God have mercy on his soul for proliferating such fanaticism on the world.
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You just know if Carter picked him to be national security adviser and if he was dumb enough to accept a job from Carter that he wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed.
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Don't speak ill of the dead, but... There was always something off kilter about him and his works.
The child is probably sweet and loving, so the award was obviously, to the teacher, utterly silly. And so she expected the bright students in her class to understand, instead of noticing that bright early teens are not as a group noted for their social awareness.
[DallasNews] A Houston-area school is apologizing after a seventh-grade student was given an award that named her "most likely to become a terrorist."
The student got the certificate during a mock awards ceremony, which followed the official awards ceremony at Anthony Aguirre Junior High, the school said in a prepared statement.
"As principal, I want to assure all students, parents and community members that these award statements and ideals are NOT representative of the Aguirre Vision Mission, and educational goals for its students," the statement said.
Lizeth Villanueva told that she was given the award Tuesday in her AVID class, an advanced learning program to prepare students for college.
Her mother, Ena Hernandez, was furious and said her daughter was hurt by the award.
"When she first showed me the paper, I'm like, 'What is this?' I read it again, and I'm like, 'What is this?' That's when my daughter told me it was supposed to be a joke," Hernandez told the station. "It doesn't look like a joke to me."
Lizeth said the teacher meant the awards to be funny and gave out others but added that "it might hurt [students'] feelings," the station reported.
"It was not a joke," Lizeth said. "I do not feel comfortable with this. ... I do not feel comfortable being in the same classroom with" the teacher.
The school principal also apologized in person for the mock awards, and the district, Channelview ISD, said the teachers involved have been disciplined. The district did not release the teacher's name, however, Lizeth told the station the teacher was suspended. Her mother said she doesn't think suspension is enough.
"Get fired, at least, or something," she told KHOU-TV.
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After all, they're only Google. How could they possibly be expected to figure that kind of thing out?
Either way, without the data, how could anyone know that these women were being underpaid? And if Google couldn't figure it out, then who could? Or is someone just fishing for notoriety or dollars?
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Google is in the mid peninsula of the SF Bay Area. Therefore there's more than just two sexes to parse. You need lawyers to do that, and lots of liberal arts professors as expert witnesses. And them bastards are expensive.
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Can you look into that young girl’s eyes and convince her that Robert E. Lee is there to encourage her? Do you think she will feel inspired and hopeful by that story?
Here's the deal Mitch: That little girl doesn't care whether the statute of is of Robert E. Lee or the Emperor Hadrian. She does care a lot that her brother was one of the 175 New Orleanians murdered last year, and that her grandmother was one of the 1500 or so people robbed at gunpoint.
Statues are easy, crime is hard. We can see what your priority is.
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Does anybody else see the similarity between this crap and the Taliban destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas?
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Is Mitch Landrieu related to Mary Landrieu? Mitch Landrieu does not know what others see in these statues and he cannot speak for everyone else. Go Alabama.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Western Washington University is hosting a public seminar on 'white privilege'
It will be hosted by a white professor, Randall Jimerson, who teaches history
The workshop is aimed to 'reduce the impact of white privilege' on campus
Jimerson said it is open to anyone but specifically curated for white participants
This article starring:
Randall Jimerson
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Western Washington University is in Bellingham Wa. Fairly close to the Canadian border. Last I was there it did not have a very large black population. Odd seeing this sort of thing there and not, for example, The University of Washington.
I wonder how long before its mandatory. I give it three years.
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Globalists. The only thing preventing the world from entering the dark ages is "the shining light on the hill" (a.k.a. U.S.A.). So how to distinguish that light...
There are 321.4 million people in the U.S.. Open the borders to the 7.4 BILLION people around the world to just come in and overrun the current population.
According to CNN (which these numbers could be suspect considering the source) whites have 10 times the wealth than blacks or Hispanics.
Therefore, it is really not white privilege that is under attack, it's a campaign to take what is theirs and spread the wealth.
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Once the incompetent and talentless grasped the principle of getting themselves soft academic positions, there is no stopping them except outright violence.
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Never heard of this august institution. But then again, I don't see many matchbook covers these days
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^ Heh. "Draw Blinky Whitey"
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According to CNN (which these numbers could be suspect considering the source) whites have 10 times the wealth than blacks or Hispanics.
Consider the 'economic miracles' of the Far East, Japan, S.Korea, Taiwan, and now China. They did it by adopting (Northern) Western European Civilization, its techniques and processes. Not to mention developing a large popluation that could read, write, and articulate the modern international language, English. Today's language of science, technology, aviation, medicine, etc. rather than promoting their own tribal languages.
BTW, as an exercise in stats, blacks make up 12 percent of the general population, of which one third are reported to live in poverty (not Haitian poverty). That's about 4 percent of the overall population. The white population makes up about 75 percent of the population of which ten percent live in poverty or 7.5 percent of the general population. So you are twice as likely to be a poor white than a poor black. Remember that white privilege.
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(i) It will be hosted by a white professor, Randall Jimerson, who teaches history
I wonder if Randy is familiar with the term Judenrat?
(ii) whites have 10 times the wealth than blacks or Hispanics
I'm familiar with this kind of rhetoric - every historically literate Jew is. But I never heard it applied to a (well armed) majority.
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re #4:The only reason I have heard of it is that a couple of good friends of mine work (or worked - they may be retired by now) there. They are as liberal a pair as any I have met.
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Ministry of Defense of Ukraine in the near future to conduct sea trials of a series of fast high-speed military boats developed by company «Sea Magic».
As the press service of the Association of Ukrainian Defense Manufacturers told, which includes the company «Sea Magic», the relevant document on preparation for state trials was signed by Minister of Defence of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak and representative of the company of 24 May.
During the last several years the member companies of the Association has provided the Armed Forces of Ukraine with considerable amount of armored vehicles, air-defense capabilities, electronic warfare devices, drones, other modern armaments and military equipment.
According to the document, the first trial will be held “Jura” high-speed patrol boats. The high-speed patrol boat is designed to deliver up to 3 combat swimmers or 5 soldiers with light equipment, staging surface and underwater false targets and obstacles delivery remote-controlled underwater robots and explosive charges, finding and destroying underwater mines and navigation tasks in the sea.
The maximum speed of the boat is 110 kph (60 kts), with a range of more than 500 kms (270 nautical miles). In addition, the boat has the level six ballistic protection, post controls and systems, and is invisible to thermal imagers.
In the near future will be published a detailed review of the «Sea Magic» company products.
[AURORA.DAWN] In a country like ours where overpopulation is as rampant as jalebi, truck art and shaadi halls, there are many who may admire China’s stringent one-child policy. A month ago, I counted myself among them... and then Y&R flew me out to Shanghai for a strategy workshop, where I discovered the strange-but-true fact of the matter: Being a young person in China is like being part of a sociological experiment gone terribly wrong.
Oh brother, where art thou?
Imagine if you will a world where the words ’brother’ and ’sister’ don’t exist. Sounds like something out of Twilight Zone, but it is a reality for most young urban Chinese. China instituted its one-child policy in 1979 to bring its overpopulation under control. Arriving in Shanghai, I had heard of the policy, but like most people, I had not considered what it meant.
There are many stereotypes about only children. They like to be the centre of attention, they are lonely, they are maladjusted and they are spoiled brats. Picture an entire generation of kids growing up this way. There is a term for this: The Little Emperor Syndrome. As Jane Macartney (China correspondent of NYT) put it:
"Ice-creams and piano lessons, designer sneakers and a flat of their own: these are some of the extras that China’s only children receive from their doting families. The one-child policy has created a generation of little emperors."
I met and befriended one such emperor on the streets of Shanghai, a fascinating young programmer named Lee. On my last evening in Shanghai, we were leaving the Westin Hotel when Lee decided to jump on the grand piano and start playing. He told me how his parents made him learn the piano and the violin when he was young. Studies suggest that only children face more pressure from their parents. But in a country full of emperor children, this pressure too has its own term: ’4-2-1’. Four grandparents, two parents and one child that will one day have to support them. Oh, and speaking of pressure and math that doesn’t add up...
25 vs. 27
Imagine if you will a world in which 25% of adult men may never get married. Welcome to China in the year 2020, by which time, it is estimated there will be 30-35 million more adult men than women... that’s an army of single men equal to the current population of Canada! It’s due to a lethal combination of hundreds of years of gender discrimination, exacerbated by the one-child policy and increased access to ultrasounds and abortions (allowing couples to abort if it’s a girl). What sad irony that all this preferential treatment for boys has actually led to this perfect storm of lonely men, the vast majority of them being poor.
What about the women? With so many eligible men, they must have it made, right? Not quite. Young, successful women in China are increasingly under threat because if they don’t get married by 27, the Chinese government labels them as sheng nu or ’leftover women’. Twenty-nine-year-old Huang Yuanyuan sums up this dilemma best.
"A-quality guys will find B-quality women, B-quality guys will find C-quality women, and C-quality men will find D-quality women."
So as Chinese men ’marry down’ in age and education, "The people left are A-quality women and D-quality men." It’s these A-quality women who get their Master’s and pursue careers who are under immense pressure to find a husband. Pressure laid on them by family, friends and yes, the Chinese government.
What will become of the emperor children?
Dating show contestant Ma Nuo proclaimed in 2010, "I would rather cry in the back of a BMW, than laugh on the back of a bicycle."
Most Chinese women look for successful men. The army of poor, lonely men continues to grow, as do successful ’leftover women’. What will become of these emperor children? Time will tell as China’s bold sociological experiment continues to unfold.
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The army of poor, lonely men continues to grow
If I ever seen a prescription for a large military & campaign of conquest...
"This one, we'll get it right. Not like the previous ones"
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I'm trying to imagine a couple of hundred little emperors in the first weeks of basic.
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There are many stereotypes about only children. They like to be the centre of attention, they are lonely, they are maladjusted and they are spoiled brats. Picture an entire generation of kids growing up this way. There is a term for this: The Little Emperor Syndrome.
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They like to be the centre of attention, they are lonely, they are maladjusted and they are spoiled brats. I don't see how this applies to the vast number of dirt poor boys / only children. It takes money/resources to spoil a child.
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I teach these kids English in China. To compound the M/F disparity, the little boys are often complete sh*ts while the girls are generally little angels. The ratio is just the first issue, the second is Chinese girls know the boys are often not worth having as a spouse.
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the little boys are often complete sh*ts while the girls are generally little angels My teachers of Mandarin here in the USA were all native born Chinese women, excellent people.
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Maybe China will export its surplus of A-quality women.
An excellent idea. I don't know if it's still true or not but at one time a lot of baby girls in China were being offered for adoption. I remember thinking it would be a good thing to adopt one but could never scrape up the cash that would have been required.
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[SCMP] North Korea pushed back against United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Security Council resolutions meant to restrict the country’s trade and international financial ties, accusing Secretary-General António Guterres of ignoring multiple requests from Pyongyang to consider countermeasures.
Guterres has declined to respond to multiple requests from North Korea’s UN delegation to convene an "international forum of legal experts" to discuss the legal justification for UN sanctions implemented and tightened in recent years, most recently in November 2016, Kim In-ryong, North Korea’s deputy permanent representative to the UN, told news hounds.
The Security Council’s resolutions are meant to stop Pyongyang’s nuclear detonations and ballistic missile tests, a programme analysts say is meant to develop nuclear weapons. The body has issued a series of resolutions since 2006, after six-nation talks involving North Korea, China, the US, Japan, South Korea and Russia broke down.
Kim’s delegation has also sent multiple petitions to the UN Security Council seeking an emergency meeting to discuss joint military exercises conducted by the US and South Korea.
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Alternatives to sanctions? I have one - better behavior.
[DAWN] Five people bit the dust, including two children that gave up the ghost on Friday, as a result of bullet injuries sustained during a heavy exchange of fire between two groups over the petty issue of children’s fight in Garhi Dewan village near Larkana on May 25.
The injured were taken to Chandka Medical College Hospital where on Friday, according to hospital sources, 11-year-old Babar and 10-year-old Kainat died.
Earlier three persons identified as Munawwar Ali Odho, Sherma, 70, and Amjad, 14 were killed in the fight, while five others were maimed.
The atmosphere was tense in the village after the incident as heavy police contingents were deployed in the area to avert further loss of lives.
Armed men of the warring sides took positions in their respective areas.
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[SCMP] When a Haitian teenager alleged that she had been raped and sodomised by a Sri Lankan peacekeeper, the Sri Lankan government here dispatched a high-ranking general suspected of war crimes to lead the investigation.
He didn’t interview the accuser or medical staff who examined her, but he cleared the peacekeeper ‐ who remained in the Sri Lankan military.
"A suspected war criminal is the wrong person to conduct an investigation into alleged crimes committed by a peacekeeper," said Andreas Schuller of the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights, a Berlin-based group that helped launch the complaint.
It wasn’t the first time that accusations against Sri Lankan peacekeepers were swept aside. In 2007, a group of orphaned Haitian children identified 134 Sri Lankans who gave them food for sex in a child sex ring that went on for three years, an News Agency that Dare Not be Named investigation found.
In that case, which was corroborated by UN Sherlocks, the Sri Lankan military repatriated 114 of the peacekeepers, but none was ever tossed in the calaboose Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! In fact, Sri Lanka has never prosecuted a single soldier for sexual misconduct while serving in a peacekeeping mission abroad.
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When a Haitian teenager alleged that she had been raped and sodomised by a Sri Lankan peacekeeper, the Sri Lankan government here dispatched a high-ranking general suspected of war crimes to lead the investigation.
"He had prior experience"
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I'm still waiting to hear about the $2 billion the Clintons ran off with from Haiti. Also, I waiting to hear about the child trafficking ring in Haiti run by one of Hillary's buddies.
[DAWN] The moon, marking the beginning of the Islamic month of Ramazan, was not sighted on Friday and the first day of the holy month will now fall on Sunday (May 28). Oh, where could it possibly be?
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Thereby postponing the ceremonial singing of 'Rama Lama Ding Dong'.
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Oh, where could it possibly be?
A pity there isn't some sciencey thing with math and stuff where you could figure out when and where the Moon is going be. Someone should invent that!
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Such a target, and set up on a tee, and my head so cloudy today. Rhymes are greased pigs. Waxing generic...
Turks lurked in a murky obscurity,
Perfecting their curses and purity,
Till madman Mohammed
Turned Turk, and Mohammedans
Traded their shirk for security.
Rebecca went back from TriBeCa
Bedecked with a secular pecker.
A whole new identity!
Tell us, how went it!
We waited. No postcard from Mecca.
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.
[DAWN] China's police have 
[DallasNews] A Houston-area school is apologizing after a seventh-grade student was given an award that named her "most likely to become a terrorist."
North Korea
[SCMP] When a Haitian teenager alleged that she had been raped and sodomised by a Sri Lankan peacekeeper, the Sri Lankan government here dispatched a high-ranking general suspected of war crimes to lead the investigation.
