[FoxNews] Vehicle attempts to enter National Security Agency campus; several injured.
At least 3 people have been shot at the entrance of the NSA headquarters.
A man was taken into custody Wednesday morning after a black SUV attempted to enter the National Security Agency campus in Maryland without authorization, the incident ending with the bullet-riddled vehicle being stopped by barriers outside the gate, officials said.
Several people were taken to the hospital after the vehicle tried to enter the campus on Fort Meade just after 7 a.m., the NSA said in a statement. The conditions of the injured were unknown.
“Weapons were discharged in the course of the incident, which remains under investigation at this time,” the agency said in an updated statement. “Several individuals were transported to area hospitals; however, preliminary reports do not presently indicate that there are injuries attributable to gunfire.”
Federal law enforcement officials told Fox News there were three people in the vehicle. At least one person was taken into custody. The official also said preliminary information from the scene suggested that someone tried to ram the NSA gate with their vehicle.
The shooting occurred at the visitors gate off Route 32 at the U.S. military installation. The highway was quickly closed off in both directions as police responded to the incident. Video from the scene showed an SUV riddled with bullets, the vehicle's airbags were deployed and bloodied items were on the ground. The SUV also appeared to have crashed into a white barrier.
The FBI said the incident at the military installation “has been contained” nearly two hours after the initial reports.
“Baltimore has assumed the investigative lead in the Fort Meade incident this morning,” the agency added.
President Trump was briefed on the situation, White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters said.
[Real Clear Investigations] House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes next plans to investigate the role former CIA Director John Brennan and other Obama intelligence officials played in promoting the salacious and unverified Steele dossier on Donald Trump -- including whether Brennan perjured himself in public testimony about it.
In his May 2017 testimony before the intelligence panel, Brennan emphatically denied the dossier factored into the intelligence community’s publicly released conclusion last year that Russia meddled in the 2016 election "to help Trump’s chances of victory."
Brennan also swore that he did not know who commissioned the anti-Trump research document (excerpt here), even though senior national security and counterintelligence officials at the Justice Department and FBI knew the previous year that the dossier was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Last week, Nunes (R-Calif.) released a declassified memo exposing surveillance "abuses" by the Obama DOJ and FBI in their investigation of Trump’s ties to Russia. It said the agencies relied heavily on the uncorroborated dossier to take out a warrant to secretly surveil a Trump adviser in the heat of the 2016 presidential election, even though they were aware the underlying "intelligence" supporting the wiretap order was political opposition research funded by Clinton allies ‐ a material fact they concealed from FISA court judges in four separate applications.
[Breitbart] A devoted husband has gifted his wife the same box of chocolates on Valentine’s Day since 1979.
Ron Kramer, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, told KOAT that the 39-year Valentine’s Day tradition began when he asked his then-girlfriend Donna if she would like him to get her chocolates for Valentine’s Day.
Donna said yes, telling Ron that she liked the dark chocolate cremes sold at Buffet’s Candy Store ‐ a gourmet candy shop in the Albuquerque area that had been around since the 1950s.
Ron, taking Donna’s request into account, went to Buffet’s to purchase the dark chocolate cremes. The store’s staff told him that if he returned to the store with the empty box, they would refill it on Valentine’s Day the following year.
The box of candy, which cost $13 when Ron first bought it in 1979, is now worth $41. But he insists the candy is worth every penny.
"It’s awful good candy," he said. "It’s worth every dime of it."
[YAHOO] Olympic great Aly Raisman has returned to the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue, and this time, she brought along a message.
The 23-year-old, who led the U.S. gymnastics team to gold medals in 2012 and 2016, posed with inspiring words scrawled on her body, such as "survivor" across her chest, "live 4 you" and "every voice matters" down one arm, and "fierce" on the other. "Women do not have to be modest to be respected" ran down one side of her body. There was no swimsuit, no clothing at all, just those words, which Raisman ‐ not the photographer or stylists ‐ chose, as did all the women featured in the what the magazine called its "In Her Own Words" project. Women do not have to be modest to be respected.
That's a bald statement without any backup documentation. She's a really pretty girl, with a really nice birthday suit, but I can't think of many religions that don't at least encourage women to be modest. Tantrism, maybe. The rest of it is just standard blah crap. Labeling yourself a "survivor" just means you're not dead. Life's full of things you survive, child abuse by an athletic director sometimes among them. Calling yourself "fierce" doesn't mean much. One moment you're fierce, another you might be cringing in horror. It depends on the circumstances: the accuracy of the enemy's artillery, whether the wing's gonna fall off your plane because there's a big hole in it, whether you can outrun the mudslide. I'll betcha the Herculaneum Volunteer Fire Department was "fierce" until the volcano blew.
The time when women were taught to be ashamed of their bodies might be over, but why's it so absolutely necessary to flaunt? Spend a day on the internet and you can find thousands of pictures of women, from prepubescents to granny ladies, nekkid as eggs, in positions that would make a gynecologist blush and sometimes doing things that would gag a goat. "Respectability" sounds so trite and corny, but it has advantages, among them a degree of social stability and personal comfort. I'm guessing, though I don't know, that Aly Raisman was raised in a stable home. Her mother put her in gymnastics when she was two years old, which bespeaks parental interest and encouragement, a decent family income (lessons ain't free), and considerable application on her part. She is to be admired for her accomplishments; we don't need to see her titties.
But nobody listens to me. I'm just an old crank.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] A 'time-traveller' who says he is from the future has passed a lie detector test after claiming Donald Trump will be re-elected and Artificial Intelligence will take over.
In a startling YouTube video posted by Apex TV the man, whose face and voice have been distorted to hide his identity, claims he has risked his life to travel back in time.
Apex TV says it is 'one of the biggest voices of paranormal content on YouTube', with over 56 million views and 100,000 subscribers.
His mission, he says, is to tell those alive now what the world has in store.
Among his predictions is the claim that Google Glass-style robotics will spread across the globe.
Technology will also have developed to the point where it will be able to independently run a home.
Bitcoin will be increasingly popular but pennies and cents will still be in use.
In 2030 he says the US president is a mysterious figure called Ilana Remikee.
He also suggests global warming has caused temperatures in North America to increase while Europe has cooled.
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No future stock price charts or sporting event scores? How disappointing.
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If you can't believe a guy who says he comes from the future, who can you believe?
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Playing the odds.
Presidents nearly always get reelected. Even W and Obama each got two terms and both will probably be in the bottom ten when the history books are finally written by an unbiased generation.
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Isn't this the plot of one or more Phillip K. Dick stories? Dangerous madman is elected President; guy from future travels back in time to warn about fill-in-the-blank but can't convince anyone he is really a time traveler. Never mind the lie detector. We should administer a Voight-Kampff test, just to be sure...
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His 2030 "time traveler" self can presumably remember where he was "back" in 2018 - so have him arrange to bring in his 2018 "original" self - and let the two have a chat,and compare notes - on-screen. Hah!
[Al Ahram] Although the Grand Egyptian Museum overlooking Giza Plateau will celebrate a soft opening in December, it is the Egyptian Museum which will remain one of Egypt’s archaeological icons.
To highlight some of its distinguished treasured collections, the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir overlooking Giza Plateau is to exhibit at its foyer and on a weekly basis, three of its artefacts that were located in a hidden display area, repatriated from abroad and stored in the basement.
This week the mummy of Unknown Man E and a gilded cartonnage mask with a shroud are the selected objects going on special display. Ummm...
We seen dis movie!
Elham Salah, head of the Museums Sector at the Ministry of Antiquities, said the gilded cartonnage mask with a shroud was repatriated from the United States in 2017. The shroud looks like a net with beads used since the 21st Dynasty as a mummy cover.
Meanwhile, Unknown Man E is wrapped in sheepskin with trimmed toe nails dyed with henna and an open mouth which makes the mummy look as though he had been poisoned. The mummy possibly belongs to Prince Pentewere, a son of the 20th Dynasty King Ramses III, who had been involved in a conspiracy against his father. It ain't him! It's Imhotep! He's lookin' for his girlfriend and you're all gonna die!
“The gruesome mummy of Unknown Man E, also known as the ‘Screaming Mummy’, has long puzzled scholars,” renowned Egyptologist Zahi Hawass told Al-Ahram Weekly, adding that this particular mummy is surrounded in mystery. Although he was re-buried in the royal mummy cache of Deir Al-Bahari, he was not wrapped in the usual fine linen bandages like the rest of the mummies. Instead, he was wrapped in sheepskin, which was considered impure by the ancient Egyptians. His hands and feet were tied with leather thongs. He was not even mummified, but was merely left to dry in natron and then had some resin poured into his open mouth. They put bugs in the coffin with him!
“Such unusual mummification has perplexed Egyptologists and no one has succeeded in knowing the story behind such a mummy until the launch of the Egyptian Mummy Project several years ago under my direction to create a complete database of forensic information related to the mummy collection at the Egyptian Museum,” Hawass said.
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Maybe he was a research project for the priests in charge of mummifying techniques, or a victim of 20th Dynasty Clintonista equivalents.
[Al Jazeera] On February 5, in an article published in the opinion section of Al Jazeera English, author Eisa Khan Ayoobi classified Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. as an "ethnonationalist", surprising many people who have been following Ghani's political career and tenure as president closely.
I have known Ghani personally for several years - I served as the senior policy adviser at the Afghanistan Security Transition Commission which he chaired, I was a member of his electoral campaign team on behalf of the Afghanistan Social Democratic Party, and for the past year, I have been serving as a deputy minister in his National Unity Government. I can confidently say that the president I know and work closely with is not an ethnonationalist.
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[All Africa] President Jacob Zuma faces a vote of no confidence tabled in Parliament by his own party within days if he does not resign his office.
Leaders of the ANC are still hoping to avoid his and the party's "humiliation" by having further talks with him.
But the party wants its new leader, Cyril Ramaphosa, to deliver the annual "State of the Nation" address at the formal opening of this year's session of Parliament.
This became clear on Tuesday when the party's secretary-general, Ace Magashule, announced that Zuma had been "recalled" as a public representative, and the ANC caucus in Parliament was summoned to an urgent meeting on Wednesday.
In South Africa, members of Parliament are not directly elected by voters but are chosen by their parties on the basis of the proportion of votes a party wins. The ANC's practice is to "deploy" and "recall" MPs at the discretion of party leaders.
Once a parliament is constituted, it elects the president of the country ‐ inevitably until now the leader of the ruling party.
Magashule and his deputy, Jessie Duarte ‐ both among the last of the top leaders of the party to support Zuma ‐ delivered a letter to the president on Tuesday informing him that the ANC's national executive committee had decided to recall him.
The decision, reached in debate beginning after lunch on Monday and lasting until the early hours of Tuesday, had not been easy, Magashule told an interviewer on the ANC's Twitter feed. "Indeed, President Zuma does have support," he said.
Zuma asked the party that he remains as president of the country for another three to six months in order to fulfil his roles as a regional leader in the Southern African Development Community and in the Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) group of nations.
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[Al Ahram] A top Kuwaiti official condemned on Tuesday a call by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to evacuate his country's workers from Kuwait, suggesting Duterte could damage ties between the two countries. It ain't like all Filipino servants are murdered and their bodies stored in refrigerators...
Duterte said last week that his government would ask private airlines to evacuate Filipino nationals from Kuwait within 72 hours, after the discovery of the dead body of a Filipino migrant worker in a freezer.
Two planes full of workers arrived in Manila from Kuwait on Monday on flights provided for free by commercial airlines at the president's request. On Sunday, the Philippine labor minister said more than 2,200 Filipinos were ready to take up Duterte’s offer.
"We are surprised and we condemn statements from the Philippine president, especially as we are in contact with the Philippines on a high level to explain the workers' conditions in Kuwait," said Kuwait's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid al-Sabah.
He was speaking at a joint news conference with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during a meeting in Kuwait of the global coalition against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... "Escalation does not serve the ties between Kuwait and the Philippines," Sheikh Sabah said, adding that 170,000 Filipinos "live a decent life in Kuwait ... but separate accidents unfortunately happen, and we are providing our Filipino counterparts with the results of the investigations."
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[MONEY.CNN] Venezuela's main source of cash is dwindling at a breathtaking pace. Obviously not doing socialism right.
The country's oil output in January fell to its lowest level in nearly 30 years, not including a brief oil strike in 2003, according to S&P Global Platts.
A monthly OPEC report published Monday revealed Venezuela pumped 1.6 million barrels of oil per day last month. Production in January was down 20% from a year ago.
The staggering decline is another sign of Venezuela's economic and political crisis. The country is heading toward a presidential election in April that international critics are already labeling fraudulent.
Venezuela has more crude oil than any other country in the world and it heavily depends on the commodity to power its economy. Crude oil makes up about 95% of Venezuela's exports. The country has no other source of foreign income.
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If socialists were in charge of the Sahara, it would eventually run out of sand.
[Business Insider] FBI director Christopher Wray reiterated a commonly held view on Tuesday that China is seeking to become a global superpower through unconventional means ‐ but framed the threat China poses to the US as not just a governmental one, but as a societal one, too.
Speaking before the Senate Intelligence Committee alongside the heads of other US intelligence agencies, Wray told Senators that China is using a host of methods to undermine American military, economic, cultural, and informational power across the globe that rely on more than just China's state institutions.
"One of the things we're trying to do is view the China threat as not just a whole of government threat, but a whole of society threat on their end," Wray said, "and I think it's going to take a whole-of-society response by us."
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats expressed a similar sentiment after Sen. Marco Rubio asked him about China's plans to overtake the US as the world's supreme world power.
"There is no question that what you have just articulated is what's happening with China," Coats said. "They're doing it in a very smart way; they're doing it in a very effective way; they are looking beyond their own region."
Coats said multiple agencies are conducting "intensive studies" to understand the ways China is looking to carry out its global agenda.
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Every tv, missile defense system, nintendo, whatever they designed is possibly suspect for "something.
Self interest means being better at them at this.
I Pray our Prisoners start to study a trade and become entrepreneurs in something other than low rate crime. We will find anyone to make better security for All of our device.
[Sort of late to the game. Where were you when the Clintonistas were authorizing the transfer of missile and satellite technology? Deep State sort of shrugged.]
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But if we introduce them to a world-market economy, won't they eventually become our friends and partners in peace ?
Wishful thinking. It's disappointing that Kissinger would fall for it. But then, he's made a lot of money on it, hasn't he?
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Who the fuck cares? We have huge problems at home. Let the Chinese take leadership, it's a useless white elephant. We spent 6 trillion dollars on it and thousands of dead and we're still no closer than when we started. Let the Chinese bleed and waste their money.
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He's trying to say Cold War without saying Cold War. Cocom, a trade embargo and the rest of it. I think it's an excellent idea. The problem is getting the Euros, the Japanese and the Koreans to go along.
[DAWN] Olympic chief Thomas Bach dismissed concerns North Korea had tried to "hijack" the Pyeongchang Winter Games on Monday as the unified Korean ice hockey team saw their hopes dashed after another heavy defeat. "Curses! Foiled again!"
On a day when strong winds caused a series of falls in the women’s slopestyle snowboarding final and forced the women’s giant slalom to be postponed, Bach said he hoped the Games had paved the way for greater peace on the Korean peninsula.
Bach, who will visit Pyongyang after the Olympics, said the North’s high-profile participation was a strictly sporting matter, playing down fears that the isolated country was manipulating the Games to suit its political agenda.
"This is about sport and this the IOC made very clear," Bach said in an interview. "This is about the role of sport to build bridges, to open doors and nothing more.
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[Al Ahram] North Korea's leader said he wants to boost the "warm climate of reconciliation and dialogue" with South Korea after his high-level delegation returned from a visit to the South, as his foes reiterated the need to keep up maximum pressure and sanctions.
Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... gave instructions for measures aimed at more inter-Korean engagement after his younger sister Kim Yo Jong led a three-day visit to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, North Korea's state media reported on Tuesday.
It did not specify what those instructions were.
The United States has appeared to endorse deeper post-Olympics engagement between the two Koreas that could lead to talks between Pyongyang and Washington. South's President Moon Jae-in said on Tuesday the United States is open to talking with North Korea, Moon's front man told a briefing.
"The United States sees inter-Korean dialogue in a positive light and has expressed its openness for talks with the North," Moon told Latvian President Raimonds Vējonis, according to the front man.
US officials also want tough international sanctions to be ramped up to push North Korea to give up its nuclear programme.
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At some point when he's old, tired and paranoid as hell for damn good reasons, Pudgy might start thinking about his retirement. Seoul might be a good place for that.
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[Al Ahram] One year after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's half-brother was assassinated at Kuala Lumpur's airport, Malaysia is further downgrading once-close ties with Pyongyang, sources familiar with the government's plans said.
Kim Jong Nam was assassinated on Feb. 13, 2017 when two women smeared his face with VX nerve agent - which the U.N. lists as a weapon of mass destruction. The women claim they were tricked into believing they were part of a reality show, but U.S. and South Korea say the murder was orchestrated by Pyongyang.
The brazen killing came as North Korea was starting to accelerate its missile tests and countries around the world came under mounting pressure to enforce ever-tightening U.N. sanctions against Pyongyang.
The repercussions from the killing are still being felt.
Malaysia is considering reducing the staff size of the North Korean mission in Kuala Lumpur to four by not renewing requests to replace diplomats when their terms end, according to a diplomatic source and an advisor to the government. Both declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter.
Malaysia is also turning down invitations to participate in North Korean events. A diplomatic source with direct knowledge of the situation said Malaysia declined an invitation to send an envoy to attend last week's military parade in Pyongyang.
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[FreeBeacon] A major coal-mining company that has pushed the Trump administration for a bailout of the industry quietly signed a deal last fall with a Chinese manufacturer to produce mining equipment and did not disclose it to the White House or other government agencies.
The deal with China is setting off alarm bells for free-market advocates and others who support President Trump's "America First" policies, as well as the administration's efforts to punish China for its unfair trade practices of "dumping" cheap goods in the United States, including aluminum and steel, as well as washing machines and solar panels. "Alarm bells" is a rather light description.
A spokesman for Murray Energy, whose CEO Robert Murray is a major Trump backer, confirmed the deal with Zhengzhou Coal Mining Machinery Group, Co., or ZMJ, to make mine shields. The spokesman said it was necessary to meet a sudden time crunch to keep a mine in Utah running.
Mine shields are hydraulic roof supports that keep the walls and ceilings of mines from collapsing and are partly composed of steel.
A Facebook post first tipped off critics to the Chinese business deal. During a mid-January trip to China, Murray Energy executive Eric Lipinski marveled at the technology and height of the 28-foot tall mine shields made by the Chinese company.
"Spent the morning touring the ZMJ Factory in China," Lipinski wrote on Facebook in a post he later deleted. "We are building equipment here for our mine in Utah. For my mining buddies...check out these shields that they are building here in China and Mongolia." Ah, death by Facebook.
"They are over 28′ high. Unbelievable how big these are and the fact that they are used underground," he wrote in the post. We used to engineer and build awe-inspiring stuff also, Mr. Murray. Remember?
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[DAWN] A masked man threw acid at a young woman at her residence in Punjab's Sialkot district on Tuesday, police told DawnNews.
According to initial reports, Muradpur Station House Officer (SHO) Usman Jawed said that a masked man had knocked on the door of the girl's house, saying that her mother had sent some milk for her.
When the door was opened, the attacker threw acid at the woman, the SHO said, adding that she had received burn injuries on parts of her face and hands. Three minor girls close by also received burn injuries, he said.
According to the statements of the affected girls, the attacker was carrying acid in a jug.
Rescue 1122 officials shifted the four affected siblings to Sialkot's Government Allama Iqbal Memorial Teaching Hospital for medical treatment.
SHO Jawed told DawnNews that police had started an investigation into the incident.
Between 150 to 400 cases of acid attacks are reported in Pakistain every year. As many as 80 per cent of the victims are women, and almost 70pc are below 18.
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[DAWN] Health Minister Saira Afzal Tarar on Tuesday ordered the formation of a committee to investigate five tossed in the clink Book 'im, Mahmoud! people accused of tapping 'spinal fluid' from at least 15 women in Hafizabad and Gujranwala after tricking them into believing that it was a requirement for participation in a government welfare project.
The committee, headed by the area's deputy commissioner, has been given three days to submit its report on the matter.
Hafizabad District Police Officer (DPO) Dr Sardar Ghias Gull earlier told Dawn that the five suspects, including one woman, had told their victims that they would help them acquire financial assistance through the prime minister’s dowry fund.
The suspects ‐ identified as Nadeem, Muhammad Aslam, his wife Amna Bibi, and Irfan ‐ would allegedly sell the fluid they had tapped to Sajid Masih, who worked as a sweeper at the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital’s kidney ward.
The DPO said that Sajid had asked the suspects to provide him with spinal fluid from at least 15 women, which he would then sell abroad. They were promised a sum of Rs40,000 for their efforts.
DPO Ghias added that Nadeem, the prime suspect, would pretend to be a DHQ Hospital employee and use that as a cover to tap 'spinal fluid' from women, mostly from financially distressed backgrounds. He said that Nadeem had confessed to conducting a spinal tap on more than 15 women.
He said that at least 16 victims of the horrendous scam had so far recorded their statements with the police regarding the extraction of fluid from their spinal cords. All of them said they had been medically examined at the Hafizabad DHQ Hospital.
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[DAWN] The Supreme Court on Tuesday, during the Naqeebullah Mehsud extra-judicial killing case hearing, granted protective bail to Rao Anwar and directed the former Malir senior superintendent police (SSP) to appear in court on Friday.
The case was being heard by a three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar at the Islamabad registry.
Earlier, the SC had given ten days for the Sindh police to arrest the accused; however, no breakthrough was made with regards to his arrest, although some other police officials allegedly involved in the staged encounter have been locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! Sindh Inspector General (IG) A.D. Khowaja on Tuesday told the court that a committee had been constituted to find Anwar's location. He told the bench that the reports compiled by Inter-Services Intelligence ...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir... (ISI), Intelligence Bureau (IB), and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in this regard have also been furnished.
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[DAWN] SWABI: A woman, whose body was found in pieces in Ghani Kot village of mountainous Gadoon Amazai a couple of days ago, was given in swara a few years back, police and locals said on Monday.
Utla police said Azizur Rehman, father of the dear departed woman, got registered an FIR against Taj Bar, the woman’s husband, for killing her and later cutting her body into pieces.
He reported that her head, legs and arms were severed from the body and placed at different places in the lawn of their house.
The police have yet not tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! the accused persons.
However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... Mohammad Amin, father-in-law of the victim, and Radur Rehman, cousin of Taj Bar, have been arrested.
Local residents claimed that the killed woman was given in swara in 2002 and that the couple had five children.
Police said the preliminary investigations revealed that the accused killed her with the help of three or four accomplices.
Sources said the accused suspected her wife to have illicit relations with someone else.
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[Independent] Frequent use of self-deprecating humour has been linked to a better overall psychological wellbeing, a study has discovered.
When you hear someone making fun of themselves, you would usually assume that they’re doing so to conceal their insecurities.
However, a recent study has found that the opposite may be the case; that making yourself the butt of your jokes actually demonstrates greater levels of happiness and self-assurance.
University of Granada researchers from the Mind, Brain and Behaviour Research Centre (CIMCYC) decided to explore different kinds of humour to determine whether a person’s comedic streak is connected to the way in which they cope with anger.
[AlAhram] Previously undetected malware directed at users of the desktop version of the messaging app Telegram has been discovered by the Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab, Kaspersky said on Tuesday.
The malicious software has been used to target Russian users since March 2017, Kaspersky said in a statement. It was designed to trick users of Telegram's desktop computer software into enlisting their machines to mine cryptocurrencies like Monero and Zcash.
Telegram ranks as the world's ninth most popular mobile messaging app and expects to hit 200 million users during the first quarter of 2018, according to a recent white paper by the company. Only its desktop computer version was targeted.
The malware exploited a feature that allows its messaging software to recognise Arabic and Hebrew language text, which is read right to left.
By using a hidden character in the feature that reversed the order of the characters, the attackers could rename a file, triggering the installation of the malware. Examples of the malicious software were only found in Russia, Kaspersky said.
Kaspersky Lab said clues found in the code indicate connections to Russian cybercriminals. It said such messaging app vulnerabilities are not unique to Telegram, noting that last month it had found a way for hackers to steal WhatsApp messages.
Kaspersky said it had reported the vulnerability to Telegram in October and the issue appears to have been fixed.
In a statement posted on an a Telegram technical channel, the company said the attack was a form of social engineering that only worked if a user was tricked into downloading an image file. It was fixed by Telegram in November, the post said.
"This is not a real vulnerability on Telegram Desktop, no one can remotely take control of your computer or Telegram unless you open a (malicious) file," Telegram said.
Telegram is preparing the biggest initial coin offering, in a private sale of tokens, which could be traded as an alternative currency, similar to Bitcoin or Ethereum, an investment proposal seen by Rooters showed. The offering could raise up to $2 billion, according to media reports.
[AlAhram] One year after North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... 's half-brother was assassinated at Kuala Lumpur's airport, Malaysia is further downgrading once-close ties with Pyongyang, sources familiar with the government's plans said.
Kim Jong Nam was assassinated on Feb. 13, 2017 when two women smeared his face with VX nerve agent - which the U.N. lists as a weapon of mass destruction. The women claim they were tricked into believing they were part of a reality show, but U.S. and South Korea say the murder was orchestrated by Pyongyang.
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[WeeklyStandard] Students at Princeton learn a lesson about how free speech works at the modern university.
Anthropology 212, Cultural Freedoms; Speech, Blasphemy, and Pornography cancelled for the term.
Last week Prof. Rosen received national attention for using the N-word in this class on freedom of expression. Some students walked out and protested the term’s use. One report, cited in Princeton’s main campus newspaper, says that Rosen asked, "What is worse, a white man punching a black man, or a white man calling a black man a n****r?" And when Rosen was met with disagreement of his use of the N-word, and on his continued use of the term in the academic setting, he said, he would use it, "if I think it’s necessary."
The course’s objectives, as Carolyn Rouse, chair of Princeton’s Department of Anthropology explained in defense of Rosen, was to have students, "be able to argue why hate speech should or should not be protected using an argument other than ’because it made me feel bad.’" Now that Anthropology 212 has been cancelled, Princeton students have learned a powerful lesson about free speech, though perhaps not the one Rosen intended.
[Science Alert] Stashed inside the midnight-cherry Roadster was a mysterious, small object designed to last for millions (perhaps billions) of years ‐ even in extreme environments like space, or on the distant surfaces of far-flung planetary bodies.
Called an Arch (pronounced 'Ark'), this tiny storage device is built for long-term data archiving, holding libraries of information encoded on a small disc of quartz crystal, not much larger than a coin.
The Arch looks like a shrunk-down DVD or Blu-ray, but its potential for data storage goes way beyond any optical discs you have in your home.
The technology, developed by physicist Peter Kazansky from the University of Southampton in the UK, can theoretically hold up to 360 terabytes of data, about the same amount as 7,000 Blu-Ray discs.
But even more impressive than the data capacity is the physical longevity of the medium ‐ the first two discs, called Arch 1.1 and Arch 1.2, are said to be two of the longest-lasting storage objects ever created by humans, theoretically stable for up to 14 billion years, thanks to '5D data storage' inscribed by laser nanostructuring in quartz silica glass. To infinity and beyond!
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I thought it was going to be about Spam or Twinkies......
Well, we need storage that will last that long. But if that storage contains jpegs of the Hildabeast, maybe not.
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But if the aliens see pics of the Hildabeast, they're going to say, "Hell no, I ain't going there!" It's part of a new safeguard for earth. Then if they get closer, they'll find pictures of Lena Dunham and Moochelle. If this doesn't deter them, we're screwed anyway.
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.
[FoxNews] Vehicle attempts to enter National Security Agency campus; several injured.
[Breitbart] A devoted husband has gifted his wife the same box of chocolates on Valentine’s Day since 1979.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] A 'time-traveller' who says he is from the future has passed a lie detector test after claiming Donald Trump will be re-elected and Artificial Intelligence will take over.
[Al Ahram] Although the Grand Egyptian Museum overlooking Giza Plateau will celebrate a soft opening in December, it is the Egyptian Museum which will remain one of Egypt’s archaeological icons.
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
North Korea
[Al Ahram] 
[DAWN] A masked man threw acid at a young woman at her residence in Punjab's Sialkot district on Tuesday, police told DawnNews.
[DAWN] Health Minister Saira Afzal Tarar on Tuesday ordered the formation of a committee to investigate five 
[DAWN] SWABI: A woman, whose body was found in pieces in Ghani Kot village of mountainous Gadoon Amazai a couple of days ago, was given in swara a few years back, police and locals said on Monday.
North Korea
[Science Alert] Stashed inside the midnight-cherry Roadster was a mysterious, small object designed to last for millions (perhaps billions) of years ‐ even in extreme environments like space, or on the distant surfaces of far-flung planetary bodies.
