[IMAGES.DAWN] Taylor Swift teared up and hugged her attorneys after a judge determined a former radio host did not prove she personally set out to have him fired for allegedly groping her at a photo op before a concert. But the singer's ordeal isn't over quite yet.
While U.S. District Judge William Martinez threw out David Mueller's case against Swift on Friday, identical allegations against her mother and her radio liaison are expected to go to jurors on Monday.
Mueller sued the three after Swift's team reported the alleged 2013 assault in Denver to his bosses. He is seeking up to $3 million, saying the allegation cost him his reputation and his job.
Swift countersued Mueller, saying she wanted a symbolic $1 and the chance to stand up for other women. The jury will still consider her assault claim.
"I couldn't be more proud to represent somebody like Taylor Swift who's willing to step up in a situation like this," attorney Douglas Baldridge said outside court Friday. He also expressed his gratitude for the judge.
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"I couldn't be more proud to represent somebody like Taylor Swift who's willing to step up in a situation like this," attorney Douglas Baldridge said outside court Friday while dollar signs danced in his head!
[FOX] Body builder Sifiso Lungelo Thabete’s attempt to entertain the crowd as he entered the arena went horribly wrong when he didn’t rotate far enough and landed on his head, breaking his neck.
The incident was caught on camera and footage showed several people coming to his aid after the initial shock of what happened left the audience stunned.
Thabete -- who hailed from Umlazi in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa -- had been playing to the crowd before a contest on the weekend. He walked out slowly towards the center of the gymnasium before breaking into a trot and waving his arms, encouraging spectators to cheer him on.
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This cruel Zulu son of Umlazi,
Crack backflipping black kamikaze
From straight outta Durban,
Posthumously urban,
Outslaughtered our Charlottesville "Nazi".
In BLM terms, anyway. RIP, young sir. Tough place to get out of, apparently.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] As the United States and North Korea faceoff in a nuclear standoff, the very small Arab community in the 163,000 population pacific island is standing strong. Arabs? In Guam? Who knew?
Al Arabiya spoke on early Friday morning to one of three Arabs residing in Guam.
Three? But that's the beginning of many in the one, two, many counting system.
The island is currently in the midst of strong war of words between 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... and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, who identified it as his first strike target if the US waged war.
Guam is home to only 50 Moslems, 5 of whom are locals. The Moslem population there includes members from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, as well as three Arabs, an Egyptian, Algerian and a Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... n, who lived there for the past 28 years.
Mohanad Al Khojah is the longest residing Moslem in Guam and has become the Imam of the only mosque on the island.
Al Khoja, 48, was born in Riyadh and left Saudi Arabia with his parents and siblings to the United States when he was a one-year-old infant.
His family resided in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, where he later served as a soldier in the US Army. Al Khoja, who speaks, reads and writes Arabic very well, was stationed at a US base on the island in 1988.
"I fell in love with the Island and stayed there," He said. "One year later, in 1989, I married a woman from the Guam who converted to Islam a year before I met her and changed her name to Jamila," he told Al Arabiya.
Al Khoja was blessed with quadruplets, a boy and three girls, who all live in the city of Mangilao on the eastern coast of the island that is home to 15,000 people.
See? Many.
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"We came for the waters. And the Spam"
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Give 'em a toehold and they'll take over the whole island.
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Frank, that remark about waters and Spam, and the resulting nostril spray almost sunk my new keyboard!
If we get a geometric Arab population explosion, my calculations say that the island will tip over in 2024 at 1709 hrs GMT.
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Forgot the month and day: April 1st
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Guam is home to only 50 Moslems, 5 of whom are locals. The Moslem population there includes members from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, as well as three Arabs, an Egyptian, Algerian and a Soddy Arabia
[Iran Press TV] Locals have protested in the popular resorts of the Spanish city of Barcelona against an unchecked boom in the tourism industry, which they say is making life for the residents increasingly unbearable.
About one hundred activists gathered on the Barcelona beach to show discontent with the increasing arrivals of tourists.
The protesters said foreign tourists had become more rowdy in their party-seeking behavior. They said the influx had also affected rent prices, making life more difficult for locals.
"Recover the beach for everyone!" was the theme of the protest, which was organized by a group of local residents.
Spain’s burgeoning tourism industry has also triggered anger among some leftist groups who have launched a campaign of vandalism against foreigners in several Spanish tourist destinations, including Barcelona. Some tourists have arrived in the city to a quite frosty welcome as youngsters make chaos in the airport and the buses are sprayed with slogans.
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Some tourists have arrived in the city to a quite frosty welcome as youngsters make chaos in the airport and the buses are sprayed with slogans.
So, sort of like Chicago, Detroit, Oakland, et al. Do they get mugged on the subway/elevated too?
[Iran Press TV] South Sudan’s rebels say they have retaken control of their stronghold town of Pagak near the border with Æthiopia from government forces.
"We took control of Pagak ... government forces are not in Pagak, we have pushed them out," Rooters quoted rebel front man Lam Paul Gabriel as saying on Saturday.
Pagak was captured by South Sudan's military on Monday, but rebels engaged in heavy festivities with government forces on Friday in an attempt to retake the town.
The rebels’ control of Pagak, located in the Upper Nile region, provides them with an easy route for cross-border movement and smuggling of arms and other supplies from Æthiopia.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Two people have been killed and 25 others injured in a clash between two rival groups over the formation of a mosque’s committee and changing its imam in Habiganj’s Bahubal. This is, of course, adjacent to Lake Habiganj, where all the children are above average. The dear departed are Motin Mia and Kabir Mia.
The injured have been admitted to Bahubal Upazila Health Complex.
According to police, two groups of villagers had a longstanding dispute over committee formation of a mosque and changing its imam. During the Jummah prayers on Friday, Mugkandi village’s Sohel Mia locked in an altercation with Shafik Master that resulted in a clash.
Following Friday’s clash, the two groups engaged in another clash on Saturday morning that left two people dead and 25 injured.
Being informed, police rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control.
Bahubal cop shoppe Officer-in-Charge Mazharul Islam said additional police were deployed in the area.
Police were trying to catch the culprits, said the officer.
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[Iran Press TV] British police have conducted an investigation into hate mail and suspicious packages sent to mosques in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Hate mail and suspicious packages were sent from a location near Sheffield to mosques in London, South Yorkshire and the US, the Guardian reported on Saturday.
"Police received a number of reports of malicious communications and packages which have been received in recent days" by mosques, the North East Counter Terrorism Unit said in a statement. "Specialist officers have attended the addresses and the contents of the packages were examined. In all cases, the substances were found not to be noxious or harmful."
"All the letters I have seen have similar drawings, handwriting, and originated from Sheffield," Corey Saylor, a front man for the Council on American-Islamic Relations ... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ... "Whoever is behind these letters feels empowered to make people on the opposite side of the Atlantic feel afraid to go to their places of worship. Such religious intimidation is wrong in any context and I hope British authorities act to expose and bring appropriate legal charges against the sender."
The letters contained offensive material and threats, saying the sender would be visiting the mosques.
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[Iran Press TV] A US Republican senator says Congress would "obviously" not authorize war against Venezuela after 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... threatened the crisis-hit South American country with a military action.
Senator Ben Sasse criticized Trump on Friday night for the president’s remarks made earlier in the day in New Jersey. Trump told news hounds that he would not rule out a "possible military option" in Venezuela, which has long grappled with political and economic crisis.
"No. Congress obviously isn't authorizing war in Venezuela," Sasse said in a statement.
The senator from the US state of Nebraska, who is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said, "Congress doesn't vote to spill Nebraskans' blood based on who the executive lashes out at today."
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Everyone can threaten us, but we can't threaten back?
Congress would "obviously" not authorize war against Venezuela
Did it authorize it in Libya or Syria? Someone is funding it.
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"No. Congress obviously isn't authorizing war in Venezuela," Sasse said in a statement.
We'd all be incinerated in a thermonuclear tsunammi before Congress could come out of their bunker and get their collective kak together to 'declare war.'
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I'm opposed to bailing Venerealzuela out of the results of their own stupidity as well, but Bend Asse is only opposed because of Trump listing it as an option.
If Yeb! or the Beest had wanted to waste blood and treasure on Chavezland, Asse would be entirely in favor.
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I think President Trump is only playing mindf*ck, which is by the way, easy to do with the geniuses in congress and the media.
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Leave Venezuela alone. They voted to get themselves in this mess and they still love Chavez and think that the latest idiot is the one that fucked things up. Never mind Chavez built the system he is using.
[Iran Press TV] Pyongyang has claimed that at least 3.5 million people have joined the North Korean army to defend the country in the case of a war with the US. That's nothin'. Saddam had eight million, remember?
"All the people are rising up across the country to retaliate against the US thousands of times," said a report published by the North’s Rodong Sinmun newspaper the RT cited on Saturday.
The report states that some 3.5 million people, including retired soldiers and students, have enlisted in the army since tensions began to soar with the US over North Korea’s missile tests.
"In North Hwanghae Province, 89,000 young men pleaded to enlist or reenlist on August 9 alone. In Daedong County of South Pyongan Province, more than 20,000 students, party members and laborers filed enlistment or reenlistment requests," the report notes.
Over the past few days, the US and North Korea have gotten into a fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... rhetoric, threatening to take military action against one another.
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[DAWN] In an unprecedented move, the chief justice block of the Lahore High Court (LHC) was fully cordoned off on Friday by anti-riot police to frustrate possible storming by the supporters of a lawyer from Multan facing contempt of court charges while leaders of Pakistain and Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... bar councils succeeded in securing another opportunity from a larger bench for the appearance of the contemnor.
The police had already locked the iron-grill safety gates installed in the corridors of the CJ block when the lawyers started gathering at around 10am. Everyone was denied access to the block.
The lawyers, dozens in number, rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud against Chief Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah for issuing contempt notice to their colleagues, including High Court Bar Association-Multan President Sher Zaman Qureshi.
As decided by a general house meeting of the bar, the president did not appear before the bench seized with the contempt proceedings while other contemnor, Syed Qaiser Abbas Kazmi, attended the hearing.
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It's actually possible to hate lawyers more than here in the US?
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My impression is that the lawyers in Pakistan are not really real lawyers. More like loudmouthed thugs that make up 'laws" on the spot to argue their cases.
It's like a MMA cage match, only in the courtroom, last man standing win the case. The judge is only there to referee the match.
[DAWN] Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... 's caravan arrived in Lahore from Gujranwala late on Saturday, the fourth and last day of his 'homecoming' rally, which had set off from Islamabad on August 9.
"Have you accepted Nawaz Sharif's disqualification?" he asked supporters while making a brief stop at Shahdara. "Everybody said they did not accept the [Supreme Court's] decision," he told the gathered crowd.
"Nobody has accepted this verdict. I will not sit in peace and accept it, and neither will you. Do you promise me?" he asked, receiving a resounding "yes!" in response. "Let's head to Data Darbar," he had said, putting off the rest of his much-awaited final speech for later. It had been reported earlier that Sharif may not stop at Shahdara, but head to Data Darbar directly; however, he chose to briefly stop and address workers and urge them to head towards the venue of the final speech.
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[ABC] Protesters marched in California cities to decry racism in the wake of deadly violence that erupted at a white nationalist demonstration in Virginia.
In Oakland, hundreds of protesters gathered Saturday night to hear speakers and then marched peacefully downtown, chanting and waving signs and banners. Some of the protesters blocked Interstate 580 before being dispersed, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.
One of the downtown marchers carried a hand-crafted sign reading, "Call it what it is. White supremacy."
The hastily arranged gathering was a response to events earlier Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia. A car plowed into a crowd that was peacefully protesting a white nationalist rally, killing one person and injuring 19.
Authorities say the driver of the car, 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr. of Ohio, was charged with second-degree murder.
A smaller rally held in Los Angeles Saturday evening was peaceful. Candlelight vigils were held in San Francisco and El Cajon in San Diego County.
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The follwing by Skidmark is, I think, a good respond to you Raj. From this article.
Rantburg is one of the last bastions of free expression left in this or any world you may have visited. The personal or professional expression of any contributor is generally welcome. Even 'hateful' HA.
Sympathies for your stones.
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FYI, there will never be a complete cure for ignorance, One can try their best, but as soon as one think one found a cure, one quickly discover that one is still ignorance about something else.
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It's Double Secret racism. The worse kind.
You know the kind black conservatives engage in when they, well, do anything conservative.
The kind that non-whites (or whites for that matter) practice when they stray, even slightly, from the liberal groupthink. Just ask Google.
The kind that Whites practice just by existing.
I wonder how much it cost Soros to fly all those protesters from Virgina to Oakland.
A spider plopped down on a tuffet
And winked at his pal, Warren Buffett.
"I'll burn and I'll churn --
Er, excuse me, I'll earn,
But I'm sorry, Miss Muffet -- you'll rough it.
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fly all those protesters from Virgina to Oakland
Totally oaks to Oakland, no?
Also... Crazy, I've wondered for years. Does your nym allude to the song? The song I always hear in Link Wray's voice, but everyone else alive apparently associates with Elvis? Please... I gots to know.
Yep, we got another one...
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- The Raiders weren’t going to take any chances, so coach Jack Del Rio only used two offensive starters in Saturday night’s preseason-opening 20-10 loss to the Cardinals. Not only did quarterback Derek Carr, receivers Amari Cooper and Michael Crabtree and running back Marshawn Lynch sit this one out, but Lynch sat on the bench during the national anthem.
Del Rio was surprised that Lynch sat during the anthem and talked to him afterward. (Lynch was long gone by the time the locker room doors opened).
"He said, ’This is something I have done for 11 years. It’s not a form of anything other than me being myself,’" Del Rio said. "I told him I very strongly believe in standing for the national anthem. But I respect him as a man and he can do his thing." Somehow, I'm doubting that 11 year claim.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia - A vehicle has struck protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, after police dispersed a gathering of white nationalists on Saturday.
At least one person was killed in the collision, Charlottesville Mayor Mike Singer said on Twitter.
"I am heartbroken that a life has been lost here," Singer wrote. "I urge all people of good will -- go home."
At least a half-dozen others were also wounded, suffering minor to life-threatening injuries, authorities said Saturday.
A dozen medics were seen carting the injured back and forth on stretchers. The victims appear to be counter-protesters but could be residents, CBS News justice reporter Paula Reid reports.
"A car appeared to deliberately mow down pedestrians," eyewitnesses tell Reid.
Video from the scene showed a grey sedan plowing into protesters marching through the downtown shopping district as bystanders screamed for help.
Footage from another angle showed the car speeding in reverse to flee the scene.
White nationalists clashed with counter-protesters hours before the collision in downtown Charlottesville. Alt-right activists and white supremacists planned to protest the city's decision to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from the city's Emancipation Park.
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency in the city to aid the state's response to violence in the area.
The City of Charlottesville also declared the assembly unlawful and officers in riot gear began to clear the area shortly after noon.
"It is now clear that public safety cannot be safeguarded without additional powers, and that the mostly out-of-state protesters have come to Virginia to endanger our citizens and property," McAuliffe said in a statement.
"I am disgusted by the hatred, bigotry and violence these protesters have brought to our state over the past 24 hours," McAuliffe said, adding that state troopers and the Virginia National Guard were providing support to local authorities. Zman has a different take on the rally
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city's decision to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from the city's Emancipation Park.
The fact that slavery was ended because of the was a humongous civil war that killed a 1/4 million people doesn't fit the narrative. Everybody knows that slavery was ended by Dr. Rodney King refusing to ride in the back of the bus!
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.
[IMAGES.DAWN] Taylor Swift teared up and hugged her attorneys after a judge determined a former radio host did not prove she personally set out to have him fired for allegedly groping her at a photo op before a concert. But the singer's ordeal isn't over quite yet.
North Korea
North Korea
[DAWN] In an unprecedented move, the chief justice block of the Lahore High Court (LHC) was fully cordoned off on Friday by anti-riot police to frustrate possible storming by the supporters of a lawyer from Multan facing contempt of court charges while leaders of Pakistain and
