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-Lurid Crime Tales-
OJ could begin search for 'real killers' as early as Monday
[CBS] O.J. Simpson could be released from a Las Vegas prison a free man as early as Monday, according to Nevada prison officials Wednesday.

Under the terms of a plan worked out by the state, the 70-year-old Simpson would be transferred from Lovelock Correctional Center in northern Nevada to High Desert State Prison outside Las Vegas for a release that could happen on Oct. 2, state Department of Corrections spokeswoman Brooke Keast told the Associated Press.

Keast said the process of releasing the former NFL star and actor was still being approved and documents would need to be signed to finalize the release.

Simpson spent nine years behind bars on armed robbery and kidnapping charges following a 2008 confrontation between Simpson and two sports memorabilia dealers at the Palace Station hotel in Las Vegas.

An Oct. 1 eligible parole date was set by state parole board members during a hearing in July. Nevada inmate releases are only conducted on weekdays, making Oct. 2 the first business day on which a Simpson release could be handled by state probation officials.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Prediction: Within two weeks, we'll be hearing OJ's opinions about BLM and the National Anthem.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/28/2017 20:33 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Hugh Hefner is dead.


Hugh Hefner, the iconic founder of Playboy magazine, died at his home, the Playboy Mansion, of natural causes at age 91, Playboy Enterprises said in a statement on Wednesday.
Posted by: 3dc || 09/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gives a new meaning to 'Rest in Peace'.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/28/2017 0:30 Comments || Top||

#2 

Job opening for Rantburg's very own GolfBravoUSMC.
Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196 || 09/28/2017 0:37 Comments || Top||

#3  You got to have a niche to sale at the edge of the culture. When everyone does it or you burn down the culture, its no longer a niche.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/28/2017 8:04 Comments || Top||

#4  The Missus says "About time."
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 09/28/2017 19:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Glossy magazines are dying. They only come out once a month, for goodness sake.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/28/2017 22:33 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
'A fairytale without the prince': Italian woman 'marries herself'
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] A madly in love couple is usually a prerequisite for any marriage, but a lovelorn Italian woman has broken with tradition by 'marrying herself'.

Laura Mesi dressed in a white gown and was joined by 70 family and friends for the self-marriage ceremony, which is not legally recognised.

She paid for the €10,000 (£8,700) wedding herself and had a cake made - with a figurine of just her on top of it. Ms Mesi even went on honeymoon to Egypt - by herself.

The fitness trainer began exploring the possibility of marrying herself following the end of a 12-year relationship in 2015, the BBC reports.

Following her break-up, Ms Mesi promised to wed herself if she didn’t find the perfect partner by her 40th birthday.

She hasn’t ruled out eventually marrying another person, but says her happiness does not depend on finding a man.
Posted by: Fred || 09/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When too many cats is not enough...
Posted by: SteveS || 09/28/2017 3:32 Comments || Top||

#2  She hasn’t ruled out eventually marrying another person, but says her happiness does not depend on finding a man.

And yet, one can see that any man with her must hourly expound on his worship of her as the center of his own joy in life.
Posted by: no mo uro || 09/28/2017 5:39 Comments || Top||

#3  When the divorce happens who gets the vibrator
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 09/28/2017 6:04 Comments || Top||

#4  A bold matrimonial foray
Was made by a windy signore:
"I love his Corelli,
But, boy, is he smelly!"
(he'd married his oboe d'amore).
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 09/28/2017 7:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Kinda provides a new definition to:

Self absorbed
Self centered
Egomaniacal
Posted by: AlanC || 09/28/2017 8:33 Comments || Top||

#6  She's not that hard on the eyes, but the post-coital conversation must be something else - and in Italian, no less.

Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 09/28/2017 8:52 Comments || Top||

#7  Following her break-up, Ms Mesi promised to wed herself if she didn’t find the perfect partner by her 40th birthday

Well, you passed your expiration date and no man worth his dick is going to write a check against that aged meat sack.

More than likely she passed on many a good man in her youth because they weren't "Good Enough" for her and now there aren't any good men around. If they are, they are pulling in women 10 years younger because they can.

Enjoy the next 40+ years of loneliness and cats.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/28/2017 8:56 Comments || Top||

#8  I've dated a few Italian (from Italy) girls and they were absolute self-absorbed bitches. Super high maintenance.
Posted by: Phick Darling of the Chinese2723 || 09/28/2017 9:39 Comments || Top||

#9  Did she sign a pre-nup?
Posted by: Spot || 09/28/2017 10:31 Comments || Top||

#10  She's gonna be devastated when she cheats on herself.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/28/2017 15:07 Comments || Top||

#11  She's attractive but obviously a little bit on the crazy side on the hot/crazy scale.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/28/2017 17:41 Comments || Top||

#12  Did she have to prove the wedding was consummated?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/28/2017 18:37 Comments || Top||

#13  So -er- who wears the pants in that marriage?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/28/2017 19:54 Comments || Top||

#14  That's 1ncestual
Posted by: Frank G || 09/28/2017 20:07 Comments || Top||

#15  Mentally ill. No wonder she did this.
Posted by: Harcourt Angoluting9366 || 09/28/2017 21:44 Comments || Top||

#16  Future FeMail headline...

Self-marrying Mesi from Pisa
In threesome with Miss Mona Lisa,
Recovering her groove
At the Musée du Louvre,
Is arrested but leaves with sorriso.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 09/28/2017 22:35 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
President Trump sends USNS Comfort to Puerto Rico
[Daily Caller] The Trump administration is sending the hospital ship USNS Comfort to Puerto Rico to provide assistance in the wake of Hurricane Maria, but the president isn’t the one getting the credit.

The Washington Post is praising former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who tweeted about sending the hospital ship Sunday, for the federal government’s decision to provide additional relief.

FEMA.gov: There are more than 8,800 federal staff, including more than 600 FEMA personnel, on the ground in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands engaged in response and recovery operations from Hurricanes Maria and Irma.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  With a little luck they won't run into any monuments or memorials on the way.
(They clipped the Arizona Memorial the last time they were in Pearl.)
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/28/2017 20:35 Comments || Top||

#2  (They clipped the Arizona Memorial the last time they were in Pearl.)

Not our fault. We blew the whistle.
-- Shipdrivin B. Hard
Posted by: SteveS || 09/28/2017 20:43 Comments || Top||


Africa North
US pledges over $100 mln in cooperation agreements with Egypt: Ministry
[AlAhram] Egypt and the US signed eight economic cooperation agreements worth $121.6 million to develop investment, education, health, agriculture and water management in line with Egypt's economic reform programme as well as the country's 2030 development plan.

Egypt's international cooperation and investment ministry said the agreements were signed between minister Sahar Nasr and director of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Sherry Carlin at the ministry's premises in Cairo.

The agreements include a grant of $29 million to be disbursed periodically by 2022, with an initial disbursal of $6 million, for improving family planning and reproductive health.

The second agreement is a grant worth $50.8 million for supporting integrated solutions for water with the housing ministry and the Holding Company for Water and Wastewater.

The water agreement aims to increase the availability of potable water and improve its quality. It also aims to improve sanitation services, especially in rural areas, by establishing water plants, improving the methods of water treatment, replacing damaged pipelines, and building sewage systems.

One of the agreements allocates $13 million to enhancing the country's lower and higher education systems through support programmes, and allots $27 million for the US-Egypt Higher Education Initiative.

The agreement should help create more job opportunities for higher education graduates, as well as more scholarships for and partnerships with Egyptian higher educational institutions, according to the ministry.

The deal also sets $4 million to "broaden the scope of relations between scientific and technological communities in both countries, enhance scientific and technological cooperation for peaceful purposes and exchanging ideas, information, skills and technology of common interest," according to the ministry.

The agreements also allot $12 million to raise incomes and job opportunities for farmers in targeted communities in Upper Egypt (Beni Suef, Minya, Assiut, Sohag, Qena, Luxor, and Aswan) through increasing productivity, engaging farmers in global markets and focusing on new areas in agriculture.

A trade and investment promotion agreement worth $5.1 was signed to bolster the investment and trade environment, and specifically micro, small and medium enterprises.

Another agreement allocates $3.6 million for the ministries of justice and social solidarity as well as the National Council for Women and the National Council for Population to put into effect various initiatives in criminal justice, family justice and media development.

"These agreements reflect our strong and enduring partnership and the impact that our joint efforts have on the people of Egypt," USAID's Carlin said, according to a statement by the US Embassy in Cairo.

The statement added that through cooperation with the Egyptian international cooperation and investment ministry, the two countries are "strengthening the cornerstones of stability and prosperity in Egypt."

Since 1978, the USAID programme has contributed nearly $30 billion in Egypt, according to the US envoy in Cairo.

According to investment minister Nasr, the agreement came as "an outcome of [President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi's] meeting with his American counterpart 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...
in New York and what has been agreed upon regarding economic cooperation between both countries."

El-Sisi's meeting with Trump last week was the first between the two following an August decision by the US to withhold aid to Egypt, citing concerns over Cairo’s record on democracy and human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
Trump told news hounds before the meeting that the US "will consider" resuming some of the suspended military assistance to Egypt.

Last month, Egypt described the US decision to reduce aid as a "misguided decision given the nature of the strategic relations" that have bound the two countries for four decades.

Egypt normally receives $1.3 billion annually in military assistance from the United States and nearly $250 million in economic aid.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
Police Sergeant Marius Claassens' partner Alex retires
[SA People and Dog News] Western Cape: A dog is commonly known as man’s best friend... but to Sergeant Marius Claassens from the West Coast K8 Unit, based in Saldanha Bay, his ’paw enforcement’ partner, Alex, is his partner and so much more.

According to the South African Police Service (SAPS), Alex – a Belgian Malinois – has been Marius’ “eyes and ears, his protector and companion, in light and in darkness, whether he is chasing criminals and apprehending suspects, or running on the beach.”

Sadly, as energetic as Alex is, SAPS says he is “slowly fading”. The patrol dog is now 11-years-old… which equates to 77-years-old in human years.

Marius and his patrol dog have been partners for many years and have shared “moments of success, love and joy” but unfortunately Alex is now suffering from ill health – he has back and hip problems for his years of service… and so, he has come to the end of his career with his partner in blue.
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Uganda introduces bill to remove presidential age limit
[Al Jazeera] Uganda's parliament has taken a first step towards scrapping the presidential age limit that would allow long-time leader Yoweri Museveni to stay in power, in a heated session that saw politicians brawling for a second consecutive day.

The move on Wednesday met widespread opposition from civic rights activists, opposition politicians and religious leaders.

Under the existing constitution, a person standing for president must be under 75 years of age - which would make Museveni, 73, ineligible to stand at the next polls in 2021.

Tempers frayed in parliament for the second day over the plan, backed by members of Museveni's National Resistance Movement (NRM) party.

MPs brandished microphone stands, threw punches and clambered over benches as security officers sought to remove 25 politicians barred by Speaker Rebecca Kadaga after engaging in another brawl on the same issue on Tuesday.

Despite the disruption, the bill was passed after the leader of the parliamentary opposition, Winnie Kiiza of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), led a walk-out.

"We are not going to be part of Museveni's life presidency project," Kiiza said.

But supporters of the motion argued that age limits discriminate against the elderly.

"Age should not be a factor that hinders the rights and freedom of any Ugandan to vie for the post of a president," Moses Balyeku, a member of parliament, said.

Posted by: Fred || 09/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So Museveni can live forever?
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/28/2017 20:36 Comments || Top||


Thousands march against corruption in South Africa
[Al Jazeera] Trade union confederation says time has come for 'workers and citizens to stand up and push back against this rot'.
Posted by: Fred || 09/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I can't wait for Besoeker's comment.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/28/2017 3:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Education is the key to opportunity, good paying jobs, and the lowering of criminal activity and corruption:

FBI arrests ten in NCAA basketball coaches and Adidas rep in bribery probe involving recruitment
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/28/2017 3:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Did they blame racism for the rot and corruption?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/28/2017 8:00 Comments || Top||

#4  How is that ANC communist government working out for you ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/28/2017 8:31 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Venezuela Prepares For War With U.S.
[NEWSWEEK] Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro called on his nation's military leaders Tuesday to prepare for war against the U.S. days after the Trump administration banned Venezuelan officials from entering the nation.

"We have been shamelessly threatened by the most criminal empire that ever existed and we have the obligation to prepare ourselves to guarantee peace," said Maduro, who wore a green uniform and a military hat as he spoke with his army top brass during a military exercise involving tanks and missiles. "We need to have rifles, missiles and well-oiled tanks at the ready....to defend every inch of the territory if needs be," he added.

The Trump administration has taken a hard stance against Maduro's regime by banning money lending to Venezuela's government or its state oil company PDVSA, and passing sanctions against Maduro and his brass hats.

Maduro referenced the sanctions during his speech at the military base. As he spoke, Russian military plans flew in the sky as part of the training exercise, Agence La Belle France-Presse reported.

"The future of humanity cannot be the world of illegal sanctions, of economic persecution," Maduro said.

Posted by: Fred || 09/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  What about feeding your proletarian masses first?
Posted by: 3dc || 09/28/2017 0:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Ever heard the expression "cannon fodder" 3dc?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/28/2017 3:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Redirect to populations anger.

That's being the classic tyrant, Nicky.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/28/2017 7:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Mullah, they know that - after conquering them, USA is going to feed them.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/28/2017 11:53 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 09/28/2017 14:31 Comments || Top||

#6  This is why we need orbital microwave beam weapons. Just explode him while he's giving a speech.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/28/2017 15:49 Comments || Top||

#7  said Maduro, who wore a green uniform and a military hat as he spoke with his army top brass

Ahhhh yes. The bus driver becomes a Generalissimo
Posted by: Frank G || 09/28/2017 20:10 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russian internet watchdog threatens to block Facebook
[RT] The head of Russian state internet watchdog Roskomnadzor has told reporters that Facebook must fulfill the demand to store personal data of Russian citizens on Russian territory or face forceful blocking as early as in 2018.

“No one is above the law. In any case, either we will force them into observing the law or this company will stop working on the territory of the Russian Federation. There are no exceptions here,” Aleksandr Zharov told Interfax when facing the question about the terms in which Facebook must bring their facilities in line with the Russian law demanding that all personal data of Russian citizens is stored on servers physically located inside Russia.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Putin hails Russia’s destruction of last chemical arms
[Iran Press TV] Russian President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
hails his country's destruction of its last supplies of chemical weapons, accusing the US of failing to fulfill its own obligations in this regard.

Putin on Wednesday described the destruction of the chemical stockpile, which was carried out before the initial deadline, as "a historic event," stressing it was "a huge step towards making the modern world more balanced and safe."

"Russia strictly complies with its international obligations, including those related to non-proliferation and reductions of weapons of mass destruction," he said in televised remarks broadcast by the Rossiya 24 TV channel.
Putin also criticized the United States for not following Russia’s suit, saying Washington had put off doing so three times citing a lack of financial resources, which the Russian leader said "looked a little bit strange."
Posted by: Fred || 09/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Pizdish parnisha.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/28/2017 3:22 Comments || Top||

#2  😉
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/28/2017 8:15 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China opposed to military settlement of Korea dispute
[Iran Press TV] China has once again warned against the potential use of military action to resolve a conflict involving North Korea’s nuclear program, saying the dispute should solely be settled through peaceful means.

"We have always believed that military means should not be an option to resolve the nuclear issue on the peninsula. Because arms cannot resolve the differences and can only cause a bigger disaster. No side can accept this," Chinese Foreign Ministry front man Lu Kang said at a daily news briefing on Wednesday.

China is concerned that an ongoing war of words between the United States and North Korea, which was escalated after the North carried out its sixth and most powerful nuclear test earlier this month, could spark a full-fledged confrontation in the region.

North Korea has warned that it could target the mainland US with its intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM). Pyongyang also claims that it has mastered the technology to fit its powerful nuclear weapons on the missiles. The threats came after the US and allies piled more economic pressure on North Korea after it successfully test-fired two ICBMs in July. 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...
even warned of "fire ad fury like the world has never seen." The two sides have continued to threaten each other, creating fears that a miscalculation could lead to action with untold ramifications.
Posted by: Fred || 09/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies


North Korea could show 'super response' to Trump threats
[Iran Press TV] A North Korean official says Pyongyang will "show a super response" to recent threats made by 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...
In an exclusive interview with Press TV on Wednesday, Paek Hyon Chol, the vice general director of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian affairs, said his country was determined to react to Trump's threats against North Korea’s illusory sovereignty.

Trump threatened to "totally destroy" North Korea if necessary during his first speech at the United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
General Assembly on September 19. North Korea has said that his remarks constituted a declaration of war against Pyongyang.

Paek told the Press TV correspondent that Pyongyang's response to what he called the US declaration of war would amount to his country’s contribution to regional peace.

The official said Washington was in no position to talk about negotiations, while it is conducting "nuclear exercises near the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) borders."

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis recently said the United States sought to solve the Korea crisis "diplomatically."

"We continue to maintain the diplomatically-led efforts in the United Nations," Mattis told news hounds during a visit to India on Tuesday.
Posted by: Fred || 09/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1 
I'm sure Sec'y. Mattis has a "super-duper" response at the ready.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 09/28/2017 8:31 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Trump cuts Obama's refugee target in half, takes more Christians than Muslims
President Trump, in just eight months in office, has succeeded in upending U.S. refugee policy, cutting by more than half the 110,000-refugee target that the Obama administration had bequeathed him and dramatically shifting the demographics of who is accepted.

Gone is President Obama's overwhelming focus on Muslims, and particularly on Syrians fleeing a civil war that his administration facilitated. Under Mr. Trump, the rate of Syrian refugees has been cut by more than 80 percent, and Christians have overtaken Muslims in total refugees resettled.

"It's impossible to escape the clear message that there's a new sheriff in town," said Matthew O'Brien, research director at the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which advocates for stricter refugee controls.

The Trump changes have reverberated around the globe, with the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees drastically cutting the number of refugee candidates it submits to the U.S.

After recommending nearly 35,000 refugee candidates last year, the UNHCR submitted just 3,591 applications from January to July.
Posted by: Frank G || 09/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  It's impossible to escape the clear message that there's a new sheriff in town,"


Elections have consequences.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/28/2017 8:17 Comments || Top||

#2  After recommending nearly 35,000 refugee candidates last year, the UNHCR submitted just 3,591 applications from January to July.

graft pool draining (see - Casablanca, letters of transit)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/28/2017 8:53 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
New Delhi wants to buy US drones to monitor China in the Indian Ocean
[Wash Times] New Delhi is expected to purchase two dozen unarmed drones from the United States to monitor growing Chinese activity in the Indian Ocean.

President Donald Trump's administration authorized the sale in June, with the price tag estimated at $3 billion, according to defense researcher Jane's by IHS Markit. The U.S. approval was the first such clearance to a friendly, non-NATO nation, but the transaction has yet to be finalized and was a key topic of discussion during General James Mattis' visit to India this week.

Manufactured by American defense contractor General Atomics, the unmanned devices‐ called Guardians ‐ are "the world's most advanced maritime reconnaissance drones and can help India track the movement of Chinese warships with its multi-mode maritime radar," said Harsh Pant, head of the strategic studies program at the Observer Research Foundation, a New Delhi-based think tank.

Privately held General Atomics makes the drone in question as a maritime variant of its Reaper unmanned vehicle.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/28/2017 04:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


Begum Kulsoom rushed to hospital, tweets Maryam Nawaz
[DAWN] Begum Kulsoom Nawaz was taken to the hospital in an emergency last night, Maryam Nawaz tweeted on Wednesday.

Doctors are trying to stabilise her condition, Maryam wrote, requesting for prayers for her mother's recovery.

The wife of ousted 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...
was diagnosed with early-stage lymphoma last month and has been in London since, where she has undergone three surgeries.

Kulsoom left for the United Kingdom in August, before she could begin campaigning for the NA-120 seat that was vacated after Nawaz Sharif's disqualification. Due to her diagnosis, she could not return to Pakistain and her campaign was run by her daughter Maryam instead. She won the elections after a close contest with Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
's Dr Yasmin Rashid.

The Election Commission of Pakistain formally notified Kulsoom as the returned candidate in the NA-120 by-poll on Wednesday.

Nawaz Sharif, who was also in London for his spouse's medical treatment, returned to Pakistain on Monday, putting to rest all speculation by political rivals that he would skip the National Accountability Bureau court proceedings against him.

All other members of the family, including daughter Maryam and sons Hussain and Hassan, are still in London.

Posted by: Fred || 09/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Co-accused in Tania Khaskheli murder arrested in Sanghar
[DAWN] Jamshoro police on Tuesday tossed in the slammer
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
a co-accused in the murder of 19-year-old student Tania Khaskheli in Sanghar, police said on Wednesday.

Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) Jamshoro Irfan Bahadur confirmed the arrest of Ali Noohani from Sanghar. He was produced before journalists on Wednesday night.

The SSP told the press that Ali had accompanied Khan Muhammad, alias Khan Noohani, the prime accused in the case, on a cycle of violence to Khaskheli's house. He said that he waited outside Khaskheli's house as Khan killed her.

Ali allegedly told police he was not aware Khan was going to murder Khaskheli, as he had been informed by Khan that he was going to retrieve a cellphone from her.

After the murder, Khan and Ali expeditiously departed at a goodly pace of the crime, the SSP said.

He said the co-accused had been handed over to a team constituted under the Additional Inspector General Sindh Aftab Pathan's supervision, adding that the bike used by both suspects had been recovered and handed over to the investigation team.

Tania Khaskheli was bumped off on Sept 7 in the the town of Jhangara-Bajara near Sehwan, Jamshoro district, allegedly after she turned down Khan Noohani's marriage proposal.

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Murky circumstances surround 'suicide' of teenage girl in Chitral
[DAWN] Chitral police on Wednesday incarcerated
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
four local teenagers believed to be involved in the death of a teenage girl under mysterious circumstances.

The girl, a student of Grade 9, had allegedly did away with himself earlier this month by jumping into the Chitral River near Awi village, which is located over 85 kilometres north of the district headquarters of Chitral town, police told Dawn.com.

An official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that the teenage girl had eloped with a boy prior to her death.

The key accused, a student of Grade 10, and a friend of his had picked up the girl from her house in the Mandagh area of Awi on a cycle of violence at night, officials added.

He said that police believed the girl might have been gang-raped by the boy and his friends before she took her life.

A police official said the girl’s body was recovered from the Chitral River near Booni town the next day.

The body was shifted to District Headquarters Hospital Chitral, where doctors conducted a postmortem examination, officials said.

A First Information Report (FIR) was registered by the police against four boys ‐ including the two who had picked up the girl from her house ‐ under Sections 302, 365b and 24 of the Pakistain Penal Code, police said

The four were later arrested and two motorbikes belonging to them were impounded.

Initial police investigations suggested that the girl had been interested in marrying the main accused. However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk...
when he refused, she took her life by jumping into the river.

The main accused, whom police arrested after obtaining the girl’s phone records, confessed that they had met on the night she eloped, but claimed she had later returned home.

But police officials also said that they had found the victim's shirt, torn from one side to another, in a house in the same locality.

Locals alleged that the group of teenagers had torn the girl's clothes and gang-raped her through the night.

Locals are also blaming a local provincial politician of using his influence to save the arrested young men and trying to settle the case out of court.

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Science & Technology
Navy Returns to Compasses and Pencils to Help Avoid Collisions at Sea
[NYT] WASHINGTON ‐ Urgent new orders went out earlier this month for United States Navy warships that have been plagued by deadly mishaps this year.

More sleep and no more 100-hour workweeks for sailors. Ships steaming in crowded waters like those near Singapore and Tokyo will now broadcast their positions as do other vessels. And ships whose crews lack basic seamanship certification will probably stay in port until the problems are fixed.

All seemingly obvious standards, military officials say, except that the Navy only now is rushing the remedies into effect after two collisions in two months left 17 sailors dead, despite repeated warnings about the looming problems from congressional watchdogs and the Navy’s own experts dating to 2010.

"Many of the issues we’re discussing today have been known to Navy leaders for years. How do we explain that, Admiral?" Senator John McCain of Arizona, the Republican chairman of the Armed Services Committee, demanded of Adm. John Richardson, the chief of naval operations, at a hearing last week.

"Senator, there is no explanation," Admiral Richardson said.

The orders issued recently by the Navy’s top officer for ships worldwide, Vice Adm. Thomas S. Rowden, drew on the lessons that commanders gleaned from a 24-hour fleetwide suspension of operations last month to examine basic seamanship, teamwork and other fundamental safety and operational standards.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/28/2017 03:08 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...to examine basic seamanship, teamwork and other fundamental safety and operational standards

..but what about social justice, whiteness, transphobia? And all the paperwork that goes with that? (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/28/2017 8:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Do they have a Muslim outreach program?
Posted by: AlanC || 09/28/2017 8:12 Comments || Top||

#3  From The HMS Pennifore:

"I copied those letters so pretty and neat they made me the Admiral of the Fleet."

I used to think that was funny and satire but honestly, it appears that once again Gilbert and Sullivan were on to something...
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 09/28/2017 15:07 Comments || Top||

#4  How'sa 'bout standing on the lookout deck with binoculars?
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/28/2017 16:07 Comments || Top||

#5  "Senator, there is no explanation," Admiral Richardson said.

Of course there is!
Inadequate leadership from the top down.
Sadly, it's a welcome event these episodes did not occur in conflict.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/28/2017 17:44 Comments || Top||

#6  I bet those are some very expensive pencils.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 09/28/2017 17:58 Comments || Top||

#7  Re: #6 - "You use #2 Pencils? How old-fashioned! These are Space Pencil 2000's™. They even write upside down!"
Posted by: Frank G || 09/28/2017 20:05 Comments || Top||


Russia, US agree to create 1st lunar space station
[Iran Press TV] As part of a long-term venture to send humans to Mars, the US and Russia have agreed to team up to build a crewed spaceport called Deep Space Gateway in lunar orbit.

"The partners intend to develop international technical standards which will be used later, in particular to create a space station in lunar orbit," the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, said in a statement on Wednesday, after the signing of an agreement at an astronautical congress in Adelaide, Australia.

The Russians and Americans would cooperate to build the systems needed to organize scientific missions in lunar orbit and to the surface of the moon, the agency added.

In a mission statement for the project, the US space agency, NASA, also said it was "leading the next steps into deep space near the moon, where astronauts will build and begin testing the systems needed for challenging missions to deep space destinations including Mars."

"The area of space near the moon offers a true deep space environment to gain experience for human missions that push farther into the solar system, access the lunar surface for robotic missions but with the ability to return to Earth if needed in days rather than weeks or months," it added.

The first modules of the station will be completed as soon as 2024, with construction starting in 2022.

The moon ship would be open to astronauts and cosmonauts from around the world.

Meanwhile,
...back at the laboratory, Igor and Oleg were discussing what the quickest way might be to deal with the monster...
the Roscosmos head, Igor Komarov, said the project would be open for other states, including China and India, to join.

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#1  Collusion!!!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/28/2017 3:20 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Yingluck Shinawatra sentenced to five years in absentia
[Al Jazeera] Former Thai prime minister-turned-fugitive was not present in court, which sentenced her to five years over subsidy scandal.
Posted by: Fred || 09/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Government
101st Airborne Division deploying to Puerto Rico
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Home Front: Culture Wars
DirecTV Allowing NFL Sunday Ticket Refunds After Protests, Ratings Already Down
[OANN] DirecTV is offering refunds to customers who want to cancel their NFL Sunday ticket package following recent outrage over football players kneeling during the national anthem.

Previously, subscribers who wanted to cancel or downgrade the almost $300 package had to do so before the season, which began on September 9th.

Season passes purchased after September 10 were generally non-refundable.

However, AT&T decided to change the policy in light of the nationwide upheaval.

New Nielsen ratings reveal NFL viewership is already dropping just three weeks into the 2017 season.

Viewership for national telecasts has dipped to just over 15 million this year after averaging nearly 18 million through the first weeks of last season.
Direct TV owned by AT&T. - AT&T CEO: Randall L. Stephenson

"...Randall began his career with Southwestern Bell Telephone in 1982 in Oklahoma. He served as the company’s senior executive vice president and chief financial officer from 2001 to 2004, and from 2004 to 2007 he served as chief operating officer. He was appointed to AT&T’s board of directors in 2005.

He is a member of the board of directors of Emerson Electric Co. and Boeing, a member of the PGA TOUR Policy Board [!], and National President of the Boy Scouts of America [!!]. Randall received his B.S. in accounting from the University of Central Oklahoma and his Master of Accountancy from the University of Oklahoma."

With this background, he must be a RACIST!!!!!! /sarc
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 09/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  OMG, not a Ivy League ring tapper.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/28/2017 7:57 Comments || Top||


Antifa Rioter In Oregon Gets Five Years In Jail For Torching Police Car
[AmericanLookout] A far left Antifa rioter in Portland, Oregon is heading to jail for five years for his involvement in an incident that left a police car burned. It’s good to see one of these thugs suffering the consequences of their actions.

How to Deal with Being in Prison

The Oregonian reports: Man who threw flare into cop car during May 1 protests gets 5 years

A 23-year-old man who threw burning flares into a Portland police cruiser and the downtown Target store during May 1 protests that overran downtown Portland admitted guilt Monday and will be sentenced to five years in prison.

A local TV station aired live footage of Damion Zachary Feller hurling a flare through a shattered picture window at Target, prompting employees to run with fire extinguishers to put out a burning section of carpet. TV and cellphone cameras also caught Feller throwing a flare through the shattered window of a battered police SUV parked across the street from Target, at Southwest 10th Avenue and Morrison.
I'll bet his mentors didn't make this downside clear to the maroon.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 09/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I hope he gets "Bubba" for a cell mate
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 09/28/2017 5:46 Comments || Top||

#2  He looks exactly like how you'd expect.
A pale stringy wimpy cuck.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/28/2017 7:08 Comments || Top||

#3  I hope this isn't the only rioter who gets hard time.
Posted by: lord garth || 09/28/2017 7:55 Comments || Top||

#4  ...could be, he wasn't a Trust Fund baby. Bad luck.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/28/2017 7:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Arrest, prosecute, and jail them when they assault folks and destroy things...Law and order is a good thing.
Posted by: Tennessee || 09/28/2017 12:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Who's going to write a "Joe Hill" style ballad about him? Ima bet nobody. Ahahahhahahhahhaaaaaaa....
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/28/2017 13:11 Comments || Top||


It Begins. Owner of Historic US Clothing Company Pulls Ads from NFL Games
Allan Jones, CEO of Hardwick Clothing and Check Into Cash payday loan company, announced on Tuesday he is through with sponsoring the wardrobes and advertising on the NFL.

Hardwick Clothing is America’s oldest suit maker.

In his statement Jones said, "Our companies will not condone unpatriotic behavior!"


Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 09/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I think I need a new suit!
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/28/2017 0:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Anheuser-Bush, Hardwick Clothing and millions of people across America - I'd say we got ourselves a preference cascade. Gonna suck to be you, NFL!
Posted by: SteveS || 09/28/2017 3:34 Comments || Top||

#3  More to it than football, but you knew that:

I’m mad as hell and I’m not taking it anymoreL. Todd Wood at the Washington Times

The NFL has deeply offended most of America. They will pay an economic and reputational price, as they should.


Link to story
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/28/2017 3:39 Comments || Top||

#4  I suspect a bit of revival of the 'Sunday go to meeting best clothes'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/28/2017 8:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Figures. Colin Kaepernick Has Never Registered to Vote
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 09/28/2017 9:40 Comments || Top||

#6  The NFL made the game political. This is what happens when you choose to alienate half the nation, and more than half of your own fan base.
Posted by: Iblis || 09/28/2017 11:09 Comments || Top||

#7  Put this one squarely on Goodell. He's a squish and the left rolled him.
Posted by: Raj || 09/28/2017 12:18 Comments || Top||

#8  It would be interesting to see the Chablis-sipping demo for the Packers tonight: Packers' national anthem plans continue to rile fans

btw, the Press-Gesundheit is a USA Today affiliate. Don't expect much in the way of reasoned or intelligent discourse.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 09/28/2017 12:18 Comments || Top||

#9  Packers' national anthem plans continue to rile fans

I looked at the chart of who-did-what at VRWC's link and thought "*BLEEP* all y'all and the taxpayer-subsidized stadiums you play". And I bet I'm not the only one.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/28/2017 20:55 Comments || Top||



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