[San Diego Union-Tribune] When Brian Houston wed his Mexican fiancée in a surprise ceremony during a rare opening of the steel gate on the U.S.-Mexico border fence last month, he said it was because he could not cross into Tijuana.
Now we know why.
Houston, a U.S. citizen, is awaiting sentencing in San Diego federal court on a drug smuggling conviction ‐ a fact that the Border Patrol says it did not know when it ran a background check on him clearing him to participate in the event at Border Field State Park.
Houston was arrested in February as he crossed through the San Ysidro Port of Entry. Found hidden in his Volkswagen Jetta were 43 pounds of heroin, 47 pounds of methamphetamine and 43 pounds of cocaine, according to the complaint.
"The agents are upset, feel like they were taken advantage of, feel like they were duped," said Joshua Wilson, vice president and spokesman for the National Border Patrol Council Local 1613. "Turns out we provided armed security for a cartel wedding."
The incident could put future "Door of Hope" events in jeopardy. The event is closely monitored and choreographed, with a handful of vetted families on the U.S. side allowed to embrace and greet family members on the Mexican side in three-minute reunions under the watchful eye of Border Patrol agents. The encounters are held in a small strip of land owned by the Department of Homeland Security known as Friendship Park.
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"After his arrest he was granted release on $20,000 bond secured by the signatures of his parents and a 15 percent cash deposit, according to court records. Houston was arrested in February as he crossed through the San Ysidro Port of Entry. Found hidden in his Volkswagen Jetta were 43 pounds of heroin, 47 pounds of methamphetamine and 43 pounds of cocaine, according to the complaint."
[Daily Caller] Twenty-one percent of federal inmates are suspected or confirmed to be non-citizens, according to statistics released by the Justice Department Thursday.
According to the latest U.S. census, only 12.9% of the total U.S. population was foreign born.
An executive order signed by President Trump called for the federal government to release quarterly reports on incarcerated immigrants. The DOJ and Department of Homeland Security released its third report Thursday.
There are 39,455 immigrants currently in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons, which amounts to 21 percent of the total population. The average annual cost per inmate in the BOP was $30,619.85 in Fiscal Year 2014.
One senior administration official said that using sentencing data, the government determined that "non-citizens make up a disproportionate percentage of drug offenses, fraud offenses, money laundering offenses, and many others including of course immigration offenses."
The quarterly report also found that there were an additional 19,311 known or suspected immigrants in U.S. Marshal Service custody. Of the total 37,557 confirmed immigrants in federal custody, 94 percent are illegal immigrants.
The report does not have data on the populations in state prisons and local jails, which make up roughly 90 percent of the total American incarcerated population.
A senior administration official said he hopes to have these figures in future reports.
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I'm way past the point of caring about criminals. Time to put the three strikes law back, only after your third felony, you go in the box for a pure nitrogen breather, then into the organ banks. It'll empty the prisons quickly and may force some of these idiots to realize that consequences abound. It's quick, painless and doesn't mess up the organs so the organ banks should get a good haul.
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Silentbrick interesting concept. I know just the people to carry it out without remorse. They have a lot of related experience though on a smaller scale. Call it 'Three Strikes', formerly known as Planned Parenthood.
[Reuters] Police in Chicago said on Thursday they have arrested 50 people suspected of using "secret groups" on Facebook to deal in guns and drugs, and have teamed up with the world’s largest social media network to crack down on criminal trafficking online.
Announcing the arrests at a news conference, Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson initially criticized Facebook as being unhelpful during a 10-month investigation by his department.
“Quite frankly, they haven’t been very friendly to law enforcement to prevent these things,” he told reporters.
However, police later said the department and the California-based company agreed to work collaboratively “to target any illegal activity on the platform.”
Police did not detail charges facing the 50 men and women arrested through Thursday, but said there were “dozens and dozens” of private Facebook groups being used for illegal drug and weapons transactions. Arrest warrants for 18 more suspects have been signed, and most have prior criminal histories, police said.
120 Million American Households Exposed In 'Massive' ConsumerView Database Leak
Information on more than 120 million American households was sitting in a massive database found left exposed on the web earlier this month, Forbes has been told. It included an extraordinary range of personal details on residents, including addresses, ethnicity, interests and hobbies, income, right down to what kind of mortgage the house was under and how many children lived at the property. In total, there were 248 different data fields for each household, according to the researcher who uncovered the leak data this week.
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Not a a hack. The data wa sitting there for the world to see.
So long as data is stored in the cloud or on internet-connected private servers, incompetence will guarantee it will be made available to the bad guys.
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Are there any financial penalties associated with jackassery like this? I would term this gross negligence. Companies trafficking in personal data - and these days, that's really everyone - need to have respectable security or risk fines/jail/ass-kicking. Equifax anyone?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... says it will remove news hound Glenn Thrush from the White House beat but not fire him following an investigation into sexual misconduct.
A former colleague wrote last month that Thrush made unwanted, drunken advances on her and other women when they worked at Politico. The Times suspended Thrush and investigated while Thrush entered substance abuse rehabilitation.
Times’ executive editor Dean Baquet says in a statement Wednesday that while Thrush acted offensively, he did not deserve to be fired and instead will be suspended for two months, undergo training and be given a new assignment.
Baquet says that in addition to covering sexual misconduct cases aggressively, the Times is grappling with what consequences are appropriate in its own newsroom. He said each case must be examined individually.
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A former colleague wrote last month that Thrush made unwanted, drunken advances on her and other women when they worked at Politico.
Was it at work, or after work when you went drinking? Did he take "no" for an answer?
[Patch.com] SAN DIEGO, CA; Authorities have arrested a convicted child molester caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
The incident happened around 2:40 p.m. Wednesday when U.S. Border Patrol agents responded to "illicit cross-border activity" near Otay Mesa and found four men hiding in the brush north of the border. The men were subsequently arrested for illegally entering the country and were taken to a nearby border station for processing, according to the U.S. Border Patrol.
Record checks revealed that one of the men had previously served a three-year prison sentence in California for lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14. The 32-year-old also had a prior record for deportation. The man now faces felony charges for reentering the U.S. as a previously deported foreign national.
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[Blaze] A Catholic priest in Chicago who was under investigation for interactions he had with an underage boy has committed suicide. Reverend James Csaszar had served at New Albany’s Church of the Resurrection in Columbus.
According to a statement from the Catholic Diocese of Columbus, Csaszar had been under investigation for "excessive and questionable" text and phone communications with an underage boy. He was also being investigated for possible misuse of funds at a church he had served prior to his last church.
He had been placed on administrative leave on November 7 as the accusations were being investigated.
The details have not been released, but his body was discovered in downtown Chicago Wednesday, and police have ruled his death a suicide.
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I am starting to have doubts about the increasing use of "altar girls" instead of traditional "altar boys" for Catholic ceremonies. That never happened until about 10-15 years ago, is getting quite common now, all over the USA. Trouble waiting to happen...
[WASHINGTONTIMES] The University of Minnesota has disavowed a set of guidelines issued by one of its academic departments labeling holiday symbols such as Christmas trees, doves and dreidels as "religious iconography" inappropriate for a school setting.
The school’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resources Sciences recently issued a set of guidelines that encouraged employees to "recognize holidays in ways that are respectful of the diversity of our community," Campus Reform first reported.
The department included a list of "religious iconography" that shouldn’t be included in holiday parties, such as Santa Claus, Christmas trees, bows/wrapped gifts, bells, doves, dreidels, and green and red color schemes.
The list made the rounds on conservative media sites as evidence of an academic "War on Christmas," but the university on Thursday distanced itself from the controversy.
The guidelines were "the actions of a single employee, whose attempt at a diversity training session was, to be blunt, ill advised," and "does not constitute a policy on the part of the university," the school told Campus Reform in a statement.
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So whoever the "single employee" was as Faculty advising and participating in this has been reprimanded and removed from authority, right?
Right?
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Since the diktat said they should celebrate neutral things like a "winter celebration," the best comment I saw was something along the lines of who in his right mind celebrates winter in Minnesota?
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who in his right mind celebrates winter in Minnesota? Those who are trying to keep riff-raff as far away from the state as possible?
[InformationLiberation] European finance ministers are "worried" the Republican's newly passed tax bill will make the US "go from being a high-tax to a low-tax country" and "unfairly" incentivize companies to move to America from the EU and the UK.
This is truly terrifying. We broke the world rules to let all the other countries win ahead of us
From Deutsche Welle:
Last week, the finance ministers of Europe's five biggest economies ‐ Germany, France, the UK, Spain and Italy ‐ wrote an anxious letter to their American colleague, US Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin, and copied it to all senior Republican politicians in the Congress and Senate.
The letter's thrust: The draft US tax bill, if passed as written a week ago, would represent a break with global fair-taxation rules as applied to corporations, and represent a thinly disguised form of trade war.
"The United States is Europe's single most important trade and investment partner," the finance ministers wrote. "It is important that the U.S. government's rights over domestic tax policy be exercised in a way that adheres with international obligations to which it has signed-up. The inclusion of certain less conventional international tax provisions could contravene the US's double taxation treaties and may risk having a major distortive impact on international trade."
A day later, a similar letter was sent to Mnuchin by the European Commission's four most senior economic officials and made many of the same points.
Their letters reportedly "didn't get much of an answer."
Clemens Fuest, the president of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich, said: "The European Commission's criticism of the US tax plans is justified. The proposed measures would disrupt international trade and lead to double taxation."
Tobias Hentze, an economist at the German Economic Institute in Cologne, told DW that he was worried the tax reforms could be the spark for the next round of a "race-to-the-bottom" of jurisdictions competing to offer corporations ever-lower tax rates.
If the reforms go through, Hentze said, the US will go from being a high-tax to a low-tax country. Until now, the tax burden on companies has been significantly higher in the US, with a tax rate of 39 percent, compared to 30 in Germany or 34 in France.
They go on to lament the tax bill will unfairly put "America First, again."
The US also proposes to play unfairly by taxing profits that have already been taxed in Europe, Hentze said, concluding: "The underlying message to multinational companies is: If you produce here in the US, you will be spared the double taxation."
The reform package provides further incentives for companies, too. With the creation of a so-called patent box, US legislators want to incentivize companies like Apple to register their patents and trademarks in the US, by means of a preferential tax rate on profits generated (12.5 percent). A fair tax regime, in Hentze's view, should not offer tax rebates for certain types of profits.
"However, countries like Ireland or the Netherlands already do that too," Hentze pointed out. "Therefore, the indignation of EU finance ministers is not very credible on this particular point."
This is the greatest endorsement of the bill to date. Exactly. We have been hobbling ourselves and bending over for nearly a half century so the rest of the world can get its ass moving and maybe not need our fucking help. Turns out that hasn't worked (EU I'm looking at you not able to even being able to afford your own army).
So we are taking our ball, going home and gonna make lots of money. So fuck you.
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Blaming an 'Unfair' U.S. tax bill for the departure of business and industry in Europe? Perhaps the galloping Mohammedan infestation should be examined a bit more closely.
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EU Finance Ministers Slogan: "Make America Bend Over Again"
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(EU I'm looking at you not able to even being able to afford your own army). but they can afford "give away welfare" and socialist state planning that has so far broken Ireland and Greece with Portugal and Spain not far behind.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Students at the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, San Diego filed a complaint and triggered an administrative probe after pictures of Kate Steinle were hung on campus.
Gregory Lu said he hung up 150 posters picturing Steinle with the caption, "She had dreams too," on Dec. 7. Four days later, he said he received an email from the Office for the Prevention of Harassment & Discrimination asking to meet with him.
"Our office received an online incident report and I would like to schedule a time to speak with you about it," an investigator wrote in the email, reported The College Fix. "Are you free this week by phone or in person."
Mr. Lu said the meeting has not taken place and he has contacted an attorney. He said the probe is an attempt to intimidate conservative students on campus, arguing that the same scrutiny would not be applied to a poster advocating a liberal stance on immigration.
"We have had a bunch of left-wing posters go up all the time," he said. "So the argument they might make is, ’This is a political poster, we don’t want you to put it up,’ is a nonsensical argument because leftists put up posters all the time."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The first show of Literature and Erotic Arts organized by the Medina Book Club in Tunisia, titled "Artgasme" will take place on December 23rd at el-Hamra Theater.
Mixing visuals, dance, music, singing, painting and theatrical readings of erotic texts, the show promises to offer the viewer "a subtle and enjoyable moment".
Photographers as well as the painters will be present at the open gallery.
The show will be followed by a debate moderated by the young writer and founder of the literary spectacle, Notre Dame Des Mots, Sabrine Ghannoudi.
Guide of the Bride and Pleasure of the Soul
The history of Tunisian literature is full of pioneering books in this field, such as Guide of the Bride and Pleasure of the Soul, which is the most prominent encyclopedia about Arab women throughout Islamic history.
In this encyclopedia, Abu Abdullah al-Tijani included a range of stories and religious and linguistic facts concerning both the body and the soul of Arab women.
The most famous Erotic book in the history of Islam is The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight by Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nafzawi which is a fifteenth century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic literature.
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Chapter 2 - Anatomy and Physiology of the Goat
>> Learn the basic structure and functioning of goats if you are to maintain the health and increase the productivity of your herds
>> Discover the points of goat that an owner would need to examine in order to assess its health
>> 3 groups of teeth that will usually erupt in a goat and when you can expect it to happen
>> Know exactly the different parts of a goat skeleton, cross-section of a movable joint, stomach, intestines, reproductive system, skin, embryology, udder with illustrations to guide you in understanding the roles and purpose
>> Find out the functions and how the liver, kidney, reproduction system operates so that you can appreciate and handle the situation when your goat shows any symptoms which relate to it
[LA Times] Kambale Mate huddled beneath a tangle of grass, looking up at bright stars in a moonless sky, a tumble of chaotic events cascading through his mind. The foto: Anti-poaching troopie with Boerboel hond tracker, nie in die Kongo nie (not in the Congo).
Where were the other wildlife rangers, Jean de Dieu Matongo and Joel Meriko Ari? Were they alive?
He had been a ranger for only five months at Garamba National Park, the last remaining preserve for disappearing populations of elephants and giraffes in this part of Africa. Yet here he was with two comrades, hiding like small, petrified mammals in the grass. If any of them moved, a large band of poachers nearby could find and kill them.
A hassock of grass cradled his back as he looked up. He couldn’t remember quite how he had escaped the shrieking storm of bullets. What he remembered was the crunch of the crisp, dry leaves as boot steps crept through the dusk.
The world is experiencing an epidemic of environmental killings. Last year 200 environmental defenders ‐ citizens protesting mining, agribusiness, oil and gas development and logging, as well as land rights activists and wildlife rangers ‐ were killed, according to the London-based nonprofit Global Witness. In the first 11 months of this year, the number was 170.
[All Africa] Harare City Council executives prejudiced council of more than $3 million in unsanctioned allowances and performance bonuses, while executives' golden handshakes accounted for more than $6 million at a time when the city recorded huge budget deficits and service delivery had plunged to an all-time low.
Harare Water director Engineer Hosiah Chisango was appointed acting town clerk tasked with appointing officials to fill the void left by the suspended officials; acting town clerk Mrs Josephine Ncube, human capital director Dr Cainos Chingombe, Dr Prosper Chonzi (Health Services) and Tendai Kwenda (Finance).
According to the City of Harare Report of the Tribunal on the Ministerial Audit Report of June 30, 2016, the officials dipped into the Traditional Beer Levy account, using the funds to purchase top-of-the-range vehicles, while some funds were transferred to personal accounts without any explanation.
The Traditional Beer Act (Chapter 14:24) requires breweries that sell traditional beer within the jurisdiction of a local authority to pay a levy of three percent of the sales to the local authority, which is required to use the levy for welfare activities as prescribed by the Minister of Local Government.
Former town clerk Dr Tendai Mahachi, the report notes, got $740 751 in unauthorised benefits, human capital director Dr Cainos Chingombe $601 080, acting town clerk Mrs Josephine Ncube $506 175, health services director Dr Prosper Chonzi $477 888, finance director Mr Tendai Kwenda $242 321, former works director Engineer Phillip Pfukwa $116 805 and former Harare Water director Eng Christopher Zvobgo $123 361.
The tribunal also revealed that generous packages were paid to 10 retrenched directors, prejudicing council of more than $6 million, while former health services director Dr Stanley Mungofa was also allocated a house at the corner of Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case. Dumped in November 2017 when the Missus decided she wanted to be president, and opposed heer might against Crocodile Mnangawa Important safety tip: If your opponent goes by the name Crocodile andf your title is Shopper in Chief let him win.... Road and Rotten Row. Dr Mungofa's severance package also made no such reference to the cost of the allocation of both an industrial stand and a residential stand. He was paid $1 747 23, 05
Other retrenched directors include Mr Cosmas Zvikaramba (business development), who was paid $838 843,18, Mr Justine Chivavaya (housing and community services) $559,670, 82, Mr Psychology Chiwanga (urban planning services) $747,835, 74 and Mr Leslie Gwindi (corporate affairs) $530 493, 71.
Managers Mr Emmanuel Muza (waste management manager) had $408 580,30 and cemetery manager Mr Raymond Chiromo had $478 085,49 in golden handshakes.
"Individual contracts of employment did not state applicable allowances to be paid, and yet there were more than one type of allowance paid to all executives," reads the report. "The payment of the same had a direct effect on total council costs and, as such, each allowance was part of the total remuneration budget.
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[All Africa] Few weeks after buying a fleet of vehicles to some of his workers, Prophet Shepherd Bushiri returned to vehicle dealers this week and bought a K300 million top of the range Maserati Levante as birthday gift for his first born daughter.
In buying the gift, the South Africa based preacher has underlined that people should not just look at the money; rather, they should learn the importance of being there for family and, also, the need for responsible parenthood.
The daughter, Israella, was born December 25 five years ago.
The delightful preacher unveiled the gift Wednesday afternoon and wrote movingly about his unconditional love for the daughter.
Israella, despite being four-years old, is already a hit at church because she carries the anointing of healing.
The Prophet, later, took it to Facebook to celebrate her daughter's coming of age.
He wrote: "A man should never neglect his family for business. This is the reason why I always take time out with my family and show them love. Their happiness defines my success. Celebrating the birth of our daughter, Israella Bushiri!"
He added: "It seems like just yesterday when her little palms held my forefinger. It seems like only a while ago when I celebrated that finally I could lift her up and allow her to rest on my shoulders.
"It's been a joy and heavens honor to watch her grow from being a baby to being the strong and brave child that she is today. I count myself blessed because not only did she give me a reason to smile but she gave me the opportunity to be called a Dad.
"My sweet little daughter, my pride and joy. May God's loving kindness always shine on your beautiful face. I prophesy long life! You shall be great and yours, shall be a life that heaven celebrates. Happy birthday my princess!"
The Prophet is currently in Malawi for several line up charity programmes targeting the poor.
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[REUTERS] Venezuela’s pro-government legislative superbody ruled on Wednesday that parties who boycotted this month’s local elections had lost legitimacy, potentially eliminating the main opposition groups from the 2018 presidential race.
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I've always wondered why dictatorships go to the trouble of trying to find "weasel words" to describe the tyranny.
[MiamiHerald] The Cuban government has announced that it will postpone a historic presidential election scheduled in two months’ time that was expected to result in a generational political transition and Cuban leader Raúl Castro’s stepping down from office.
Castro will remain in power at least until April 19, the date now set for election of a new legislature and the president of the Councils of State and Ministers, positions that Castro currently holds. The official announcement, published in the Communist Party newspaper Granma on Thursday, said the decision was made because of the impact of Hurricane Irma, which hit Cuba as a category 5 storm in September.
Storm recovery also delayed municipal elections ‐ the first step in a process that was to culminate in the Feb. 24 election of a new National Assembly and the selection of a new president. Provincial elections where candidates are selected by slates determined by electoral commissions also were postponed until March 25.
Since 2013, Castro has been saying that he planned to retire Feb. 24, the end of his second term in power after succeeding his late brother Fidel.
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Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont couldn't vote in the election because he's currently in self-exile in Belgium, but he and his party won yesterday's elections in Catalonia, exit polls show. This means that Catalonian voters have strongly rebuked the aggressive anti-independence stance of Madrid and the European Union.
In all, 70 out of the 135 seats in Catalonia's parliament will now be occupied by separatist parties, with Puigdemont's Junts per Catalunya (Together for Catalonia) being the largest of those parties. The only party that's larger than Puigdemonts JPC is Ciudadanos (Citizens). Ironically, that's a unionist party. The reason the unionist lost the elections, however, is that the other unionist parties suffered significant losses. EU delenda est!
[Al Jazeera] Exit polls following Catalonia's snap election show pro-independence parties maintaining their majority in the regional parliament, setting up a conflict with Madrid.
Catalonia's parliament has 135 seats, requiring 68 seats for a majority. Secessionist parties are projected to win between 67 and 71 seats.
The results are not in line with the desires of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who called the snap election in October.
Unionist parties are projected to win a maximum of 62 seats. No official results have yet been published and it was unclear if final results would match the poll published by La Vanguardia newspaper as voting stations closed.
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[DAWN] A teenage Hindu girl who was recently kidnapped from a village in Thar has been forced to convert to Islam and reportedly made to enter a marriage, her family and relatives claimed on Thursday.
The family of the 14-year-old girl told news hounds at Islamkot press club that the girl was kidnapped a few days ago after three gunnies barged into their home and held the family hostage.
Hero Meghwar, the said girl's father, revealed that he contacted local people of influence but was told that the girl had converted and married a certain Naseer Lunjo, hence there is little that could be done.
The family members alleged that local police, too, was not interested in recovering the girl. They demanded that the girl should be recovered and produced before a court if she has indeed converted.
But SSP Thar Ameer Saud Magsi maintained that a first information report (FIR) has been registered under Sections 365 and 34 of the Pakistain Penal Code, while raids are being conducted to arrest the three suspects nominated in the FIR.
The SSP revealed that according to a letter he received from elders of the person accused of converting the girl, the girl had converted to Islam at the hand of a pir (spiritual leader) in Umerkot district.
Magsi said not only has the police received a certificate of conversion, a copy of which is available with Dawn, issued by the pir, but also the now-married couple has filed an application in the Sindh High Court, seeking protection. He said the court has fixed the application for hearing on January 17 next year.
The conversion certificate, however, leaves open the mystery of how a 14-year-old from a distant Thar village made it as far as Samaro.
Taking notice of the matter, Sindh Inspector General of Police A.D. Khawaja has directed deputy inspector general Mirpurkhas to immediately submit a report regarding steps taken by the police and details of the inquiry into the case.
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[DAWN] Putting an end to confusion surrounding the future leadership of the embattled PML-N, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif told party aides on Wednesday that Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif would be the party's candidate for premiership in the upcoming General Election.
Expressing confidence in his younger brother, Nawaz said that Shahbaz had never disappointed him or the party, and had risen to prominence because of his hard work and performance.
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[AnNahar] More than 174,000 Paleostinian refugees live in Leb, authorities announced Thursday, in the first-ever census of its kind for a country where demographics have long been a sensitive subject.
The census was carried out by the government's Lebanese-Paleostinian Dialogue Committee in 12 Paleostinian camps as well as 156 informal "gatherings" across the country.
The census result is much lower than the 469,331 people registered in Leb with the U.N.'s Paleostinian refugee agency.
The result of 174,422 Paleostinian refugees is much lower than previous estimates of up to 500,000.
Paleostinians began taking refuge in Leb with the creation of Israel in 1948, setting up camps that have since transformed into bustling, urban districts.
But their presence has long been a controversial in Leb, with many blaming it for the eruption of the bitter war that ravaged the country between 1975 and 1990.
Leb has not carried out a census of its own citizens since 1932, making the 2017 count even more remarkable.
It sheds light on the living conditions of 174,422 Paleostinian refugees, as well as another 18,601 Paleostinians who fled the neighboring conflict in Syria to camps in Leb.
It found the population split evenly between men and women, but nearly half of the total are 24 or younger.
Around 7.2 percent are illiterate, but an impressive 93.6 percent of children aged between three to 13 were enrolled in schools. Around 18 percent of the workforce is unemployed.
Leb's Paleostinian camps suffer serious problems, with varying degrees of poverty, overcrowding, unemployment, poor housing conditions and lack of infrastructure.
Announcing the results, Prime Minister Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... has him bumped off, too. said Leb had a "duty" towards Paleostinians.
"Over the past decades, the social and humanitarian problems faced by Paleostinian refugees have accumulated, and the reality in the camps has become tragic on all levels," Hariri said at the Grand Serail.
But he insisted Leb would, under no circumstances, accept their naturalization.
Paleostinian officials have also consistently rejected permanent resettlement in Leb because of their longstanding demand that those who fled or were forced out of their homes with the creation of Israel be granted the right of return.
The census result is much lower than the 469,331 people registered in Leb with the U.N.'s Paleostinian refugee agency.
An interesting observation for any country wanting to significantly reduce their donation to the UNWRA...
"UNRWA does not have a headcount of Paleostinian refugees who are currently residing in Leb. What we have as an agency are official registration records for the number of registered Paleostine refugees in Leb," spokeswoman Huda Samra told AFP.
"If someone registered with UNRWA in Leb decided to live outside Leb, they don't notify us," she said.
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Paleostinian officials have also consistently rejected permanent resettlement in Leb because of their longstanding demand that those who fled or were forced out of their homes with the creation of Israel be granted the right of return.
Which will NEVER HAPPEN
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How many? Start at $#it load and work up from there.
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The UN only counts the number of 'people' to whom they give out rations. Surprise surprise that is three times the actual number of people.
Of course there is no fraud, like there is no voting fraud.
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Your feel-good story of the day, folks!
[NewsBusters] Nearly a year into the Trump presidency, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos says he’s experiencing "the worst moment I’ve had in the 34 years I’ve been living in the United States."
"With Donald Trump there, I have never been treated so badly. I have never been insulted so much. We’ve never been attacked so much. They have never tried to run us out as much as now," Ramos vented in an interview with the Spanish radio network Cadena SER.
Ramos, who proclaimed himself "if not an enemy, an opponent" of Trump in the interview, complained about the massive blowback he has received since deciding to use his media platforms to openly oppose the choice of over 62 million American voters in last year’s U.S. presidential election. Surely there's a solution to this poor man's dilemma...
WASHINGTON POST ‐ The FBI’s top lawyer, James Baker, is being reassigned ‐ one of the first moves by new director Christopher A. Wray to assemble his own team of senior advisers as he tries to fend off accusations of politicization within the bureau.
Baker told colleagues he will be taking on other duties at the FBI, according to people familiar with the matter. In recent months, Baker had been caught up in a strange interagency dispute that led to a leak probe and attracted the attention of senior lawmakers, but people familiar with the matter said the probe had recently ended with a decision not to charge anyone. The leak issue had not played a part in Baker’s reassignment, these people said.
Baker informed colleagues in an email Wednesday that his duties were changing at the FBI, according to people familiar with the matter. Two said he is being "reassigned’’ by Wray, but they cautioned that the change does not take effect immediately and such a move is a normal part of a new director taking charge at the bureau ‐ not a reflection of the political controversies buffeting the FBI.
Methinks they doth protest too much.
[Baker] was very close to former FBI director James B. Comey, who asked Baker to be his general counsel. They were colleagues at the Justice Department and when they were out of government at Bridgewater Associates, an investment management firm. (read more)
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.
[San Diego Union-Tribune] When Brian Houston wed his Mexican fiancée in a surprise ceremony during a rare opening of the steel gate on the U.S.-Mexico border fence last month, he said it was because he could not cross into Tijuana.
[Daily Caller] Twenty-one percent of federal inmates are suspected or confirmed to be non-citizens, according to statistics released by the Justice Department Thursday.
[Reuters] Police in Chicago said on Thursday they have arrested 50 people suspected of using "secret groups" on Facebook to deal in guns and drugs, and have teamed up with the world’s largest social media network to crack down on criminal trafficking online.
[Patch.com] SAN DIEGO, CA; Authorities have arrested a convicted child molester caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
[Blaze] A Catholic priest in Chicago who was under investigation for interactions he had with an underage boy has committed suicide. Reverend James Csaszar had served at New Albany’s Church of the Resurrection in Columbus.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] The University of Minnesota has disavowed a set of guidelines issued by one of its academic departments labeling holiday symbols such as Christmas trees, doves and dreidels as "religious iconography" inappropriate for a school setting.
[InformationLiberation] European finance ministers are "worried" the Republican's newly passed tax bill will make the US "go from being a high-tax to a low-tax country" and "unfairly" incentivize companies to move to America from the EU and the UK.
[LA Times] Kambale Mate huddled beneath a tangle of grass, looking up at bright stars in a moonless sky, a tumble of chaotic events cascading through his mind.
[REUTERS] Venezuela’s pro-government legislative superbody ruled on Wednesday that parties who boycotted this month’s local elections had lost legitimacy, potentially eliminating the main opposition groups from the 2018 presidential race.
[MiamiHerald] The Cuban government has announced that it will postpone a historic presidential election scheduled in two months’ time that was expected to result in a generational political transition and Cuban leader Raúl Castro’s stepping down from office.
[DAWN] Putting an end to confusion surrounding the future leadership of the embattled PML-N, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif told party aides on Wednesday that Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif would be the party's candidate for premiership in the upcoming General Election.
Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if 
