[The Hill] High school students in Tennessee reportedly jumped on a police car and tore down an American flag during what was supposed to be a peaceful protest for gun control.
The Lexington Herald Leader reported Wednesday that students disrupted a planned national walkout event at Antioch High School, which included 17 minutes of silence to honor the victims of the Parkland, Fla. school shooting.
Videos posted online by Meylin Zavala show students tearing down an American flag hanging from a flagpole. Police said some students jumped onto one of their patrol cars as well.
Police have not been able to identify who was responsible.
Michelle Michaud with Metro Nashville Public Schools said in a statement that while they respected students advocating for important causes, students disruptions on Wednesday were not safe.
"We understand that our students may be feeling lots of emotions, including anxiety, fear and even anger about today’s events," Michaud said.
"Unfortunately, some students on our Antioch campus today chose to protest in ways that significantly disrupted school operations and threatened the safety and order for other students and staff within our school. Swift action was taken by school security and MNPD to address the situation. No students or staff members were injured during the walkout."
Students across the nation walked out of class on Wednesday in solidarity with the survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting and to push lawmakers to take action on gun violence.
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The ignorant students of Metro Nash disgraced our great State. The mayor disgraced the city and the owner of the Titans disgraced us too... my list of reasons to avoid the cesspool that is Nashville.
[DailyMail] Elizabeth Holmes, the chief executive of the blood-testing company Theranos, has been charged by US securities regulators with an 'elaborate, years-long fraud.'
The SEC charged Holmes, 34, and former Theranos president Ramesh Balwani Wednesday with raising more than $700million by exaggerating or lying about the business and its technology.
The pair made a deal to settle the case against them, with the penalty including her surrendering majority voting control of the company, according to a statement by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Holmes will pay $500,000 as per the terms of her deal with the government. Much more at the link
[BREITBART] According to the Daily Mail, “Hotelscan.com reported that the number of people landing on its Wisconsin Wakanda Water Park page is up by 620 percent and Hotels.com reported that searches for neighbouring Wakanda Park are up by 55 percent year on year.”
“Hotels.com, meanwhile, said it had spotted spikes in searches to other Wakanda namesakes around the world. It said searches for Wauconda, Illinois (pronounced identically to Wakanda), are up more than 25 percent and Makanda, also in Illinois, are up over 40 percent year on year,” they continued. “Further afield, Wakaya, in Fiji, are up over 235 percent and Wakkanai in Japan is enjoying a more than 55 percent year-on-year uplift.”
In a statement, a spokesman for Hotelscan.com claimed, “The fact we’ve seen such an increase in the number of site visits to the Wakanda Water Park destination page on our website since the launch of Black Panther suggests that, until people visit our website searching for trips, they’re not aware it’s a fictional destination… Either that, or people are more interested than ever in attending the Water Park, but we think that the movie has something to do with it!”
Isabelle Pinson, the vice president of Hotels.com parent EMEA also commented on the increased popularity of Wakanda searches, declaring, “Our hotel portfolio spans more than 200 counties and territories around the world but not yet Wakanda. We’re looking into it.”
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Anyone wants to emigrate, I say we give 'em a plane ticket and even a little walking around money. As long as they leave permanently.
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Menomonie, Wisconsin is sometimes beautiful at this time of the year. Unfortunately, the Water Park is closed for a couple of months yet due to icing.
The area is not exactly what the geographically and politically ignorant moron might expect.
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Lake Woebegone is also nice in the Spring.
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It's lovely like Rwanda; only without the State Department warnings.
[All Africa] The parliament of Somaliland administration has on Tuesday voted to approve the second time the deal between the state and the UAE's DP World over Berbera port investment.
During the session, Somaliland MPs unanimously denounced Somali parliament's decision to nullify port agreement with DP World, which Æthiopia holds 19% of the share.
Somaliland parliament said the move is "belligerent and illegal", reiterates support for the tripartite deal. The house of the representatives warn the d move could destabilise region.
The is the 2nd time that the parliament approved the controversial port agreement.
On Monday, Somalia's Lower House Chamber of the Federal Parliament Declared that Berbera port deal is "null and void" and called for the Ban on UAE's DP World from Somalia.
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[HERALD.CO.ZW] Three armed robbers stormed a construction site in Umwisdale, which is believed to belong to Bona Mugabe, and manhandled a police officer on duty before fleeing with items worth $4 800.
Robson Kandenga(45), Peter Mangwiro(40) and Brighton Chisiko(30) yesterday appeared before Harare magistrate Ms Tilda Mazhande and pleaded guilty to armed robbery charges.
The trio was remanded to today for sentencing.
It is the State’s case that on December 31 last year, Kandenga, Mangwiro and Chisiko approached the complainant asking for directions to an unnamed place.
The complainant then left his guard room to assist them.
He was however disarmed of his AK47 service rifle before being assaulted with iron rods, booted feet and open hands.
His arms and legs were subsequently tied up using a wire that had been retrieved from the site.
The trio proceeded to take the complainant’s personal items, including two phones and 80 wooden construction boards, which were on the site.
They then further used a hired truck, which was driven by Shadrek Chivambe, to load and transport the goods to Siyaso, Magaba, Mbare, where they disposed of the stolen goods.
The items were then sold to Stephen Chimhungwe.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... the only recovered construction board was identified by Howard Karima of Hualong Construction as one of the stolen boards.
Investigations led police to the trio.
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The cake quit coming! What else did she expect?
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Yesterday you were saying the nerve gas attack was stupid.
Now you say "what goes around comes around," as if the UK had done something effective instead of just expelling some pencil-pushers.
Thought for the day: if they torpedoed Nord Stream 2 today noone would know who did it, and it would hurt the European Reich and Putin at the same time.
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Let do a thought experiment, Thing. Suppose, a week from now, some London Muzzi is whacked with an Uzi. Would you support La May if she decides to expel a bunch of Israeli diplomats?
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I dunno, Grom, would you support my expulsion if they were killed with a Mosin Nagant?
An Uzi is probably a lot easier to duplicate than an obscure nerve agent, and besides, it's been sold everywhere from Columbia to the Philipines.
My larger point: if May wanted to do something besides some worthless symbolic gesture, she probably could; the worthless symbolic gesture isn't worthy of Dire Revenge.
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There used to be certain norms of behavior between countries, Thing. Used to, you didn't make these kinds of accusations - even if you were sure. You just arranged a payback on QT.
Now about being sure.
(i) If Brits can identify the stuff, then they (and anybody else in industrialized world can produce it).
(ii) Former soviet republics (and anybody who bought it from them) have it. To recollect, one former soviet republic, Ukraine, is at war with Russia at present.
(iii) In all detective stories I've ever read - if something is too pat, it's suspicious.
p.s. What's your connection to Mosin Nagant?
The 3-line rifle M1891 (Russian: трёхлинейная винтовка образца 1891 года, tryokhlineynaya vintovka obraztsa 1891 goda), colloquially known as Mosin–Nagant (Russian: Винтовка Мосина, ISO 9: Vintovka Mosina) is a five-shot, bolt-action, internal magazine–fed, military rifle developed from 1882 to 1891, and used by the armed forces of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and various other nations. I pegged you as Remington Model 700
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Grom: they're making a lot of noise precisely because a) they aren't going to do anything significant, and b) they and everyone else in the world _knows_ they aren't going to do anything.
For that matter, has Brexit happened yet, or has it been brought 'relatively under control?'
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What a stupid comparison. Uzis were sold on the open market. If the Russians sold their unique nerve gas, they're still culpable for its use; it's a different class of weapon completely.
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[DAWN] The Kremlin on Wednesday said ties with the US could not get any worse under next Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, after the sacking of Rex Tillerson.
“It's hardly possible to fall below the floor, so it is unlikely things will get any worse in this regard,” President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a response to a question about the high-level staff changes in the US administration announced on Tuesday.
“In any case, there of course remains the hope of a constructive and sober approach to bilateral ties. There is always this hope,” Peskov said at a regular press briefing.
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IMO, Russia & USA need each other as allies against China (20 million superfluous males).
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You know, I'm beginning to think that I got this "collision probe" thing completely wrong. I mean, we think of it as Mandarinate trying to overthrow Trump. But, what happens if they succeed? They don't get Hillary, they get Pence.
Meanwhile, though, Trump cannot negotiate mutually beneficent deals with Russia - so, who benefits?
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] New York City could be the next site of a chemical liquidation attempt if world leaders fail to punish Russia for its alleged role in poising of a former spy in the United Kingdom, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Nikki Haley ...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... warned Wednesday.
"If we don't take immediate concrete measures to address this now, Salisbury will not be the last place we see chemical weapons used," Haley told the United Nations Security Council. "They could be used here in New York, or in cities of any country that sits on this Council. This is a defining moment."
Haley raised the specter of new attacks during an emergency council meeting, held at the request of British officials who have accused Russia of using "a military-grade nerve agent" to target a former military intelligence officer who committed treason. Russian diplomats have denied responsibility for the incident, but British Sherlocks say they have identified the poison as a chemical weapon produced by the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
"Time and time again, member-states say they oppose the use of chemical weapons under any circumstance," Haley said. "Now one member stands accused of using chemical weapons on the sovereign soil of another member. The credibility of this council will not survive if we fail to hold Russia accountable."
Russia has denied responsibility Nope. Nope. Wudn't us. for the March 4 incident, which left former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia hospitalized, and warned British Prime Minister Theresa May against considering a cyber-attack or other aggressive retaliation.
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South Korea’s arms procurement agency recently signed a contract to purchase 90 more Taurus long-range, air-launched, bunker-busting missiles, according to defense officials.
The Defence Acquisition Program Administration, or DAPA, however, had not issued a news release on the contract, an apparent move not to harm the warming atmosphere for dialogue with the nuclear-armed North.
Tension on the Korean Peninsula has eased in the wake of meetings between North Korea and South Korea, as well as ongoing negotiations about a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
The contract for the missile system, made by German company Taurus Systems GmbH, was signed late February, said Kang Hwan-seok, spokesman for the DAPA.
The latest contract for the Taurus missile is the second of its kind since 2013, when the DAPA ordered 170 Taurus missiles to arm the fleet of F-15K fighter aircraft. Each missile costs about $1.8 million.
[KCNAWATCH.CO] The imperialists' "human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... " racket should no longer be overlooked in order to build an independent new world in which the illusory sovereignty and equality are ensured for all the countries and nations free from domination, subjugation, aggression and interference.
The imperialists are the kingpin of human rights abuses and human rights criminals who have to face stern punishment by the international community.
The politicization of human rights and application of double standards have to be rejected at international organizations including the UN Human Rights Council. No specified nation can be a judge. But the imperialists, claiming as if they are "human rights judges", are politicizing human rights and attacking and pressurizing progressive countries after singling them out. This strains confrontation and has an adverse impact on the worldwide efforts for protecting human rights.
Human rights can never come true as long as the imperialists remain on the earth. In order to ensure genuine human rights, one has to build one's own strength. Without strength one cannot fight against those standing against human rights and safeguard genuine human rights, falling victim to the strong.
The imperialists are resorting to all sorts of sleights of hands under the signboard of "guarantee of human rights", but with nothing can they cover up the deceptive and aggressive nature of their racket for "human rights".
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[FOX] CANBERRA, Australia -Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has announced he plans to examine ways to fast-track a visa program for white South African farmers.
The decision comes in the wake of newly-elected South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's apparent plan to appropriate white-owned South African farms and redistribute the land to black South Africans. Ramaphosa's plan would exclude white South Africans from receiving any compensation for their appropriated land.
In addition, Sky News Australia reported that white South Africans are being murdered at a rate of more than one per week, according to News Corp Australia chief Paul Toohey, who travelled to South Africa to investigate. In the wake of such claims, Dutton suggested to the media that a humanitarian visa may be what is needed.
Australia's home affairs page states a total of 13,765 visas were granted under the annual Humanitarian Program from 2015 to 2016. Under the current system, a refugee would first need to be referred by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to the Australian government.
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Chinese state firms now control about one-tenth of all European port capacity.
The port deals are one of the clearest manifestations of Beijing’s ambitious plans to physically link China to Europe by sea, road, rail, and pipeline. The ports are half of the Belt and Road Initiative, snaking from the South China Sea across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal and into the soft underbelly of Europe.
In 2016, China invested over $20 billion into seaports on foreign terrain.
China Merchants Port Holdings bought a 90% share of the Brazilian port operator TCP Participacões for nearly a billion dollars. Jiangsu province paid $300 million to build a free trade zone around Khalifa Port in Abu Dhabi.
China is also building high-speed rail line between Hungary and Serbia.
A delightful time was had by all, though nothing at all was achieved.
[ARABNEWS] A European Parliament delegation said Wednesday it has been conducting secret talks with North Korea over the last three years to try to persuade Pyongyang to negotiate an end to its nuclear program.
The group led by British MEP Nirj Deva has met senior North Korean officials, including ministers, 14 times and plans another meeting in Brussels in the near future.
News of the below-the-radar diplomacy effort comes after the surprise announcement that 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... plans a summit with 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... , part of fast-paced developments following an Olympic detente
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[DAWN] A man in Badin surrendered himself to police on Wednesday after killing his 38-year-old wife for 'honour' by repeatedly hitting her with an axe. Nothing like an axe to restore the old honor. Bet it wasn't a fair fight; they never give the woman an axe in an honor killing.
The suspect told police that he suspected that the victim ‐ who was the mother of eight children, including three differently-abled daughters ‐ had illicit relations with another man who lived in the same area. With three "differently abled" daughters, my guess is that the dear departed and the guy with the axe were closely related.
Eyewitnesses said that after being attacked, the woman ran out on the street crying for help but the suspect continued to attack her, eventually killing her. "Help! Help! He's murdering me!"
"Is it an honor killing?"
"Yes! Hellllp!"
"Yer on yer own, lady."
The incident was confirmed by Assistant Sub-Inspector Mohammad Salim Khoso of Badin cop shoppe, who said that the body had been sent to Indus Hospital for post-mortem examination. A first information report (FIR) is yet be to registered. "What do you think, Doctor Quincy?"
"Looks like an axe murder to me, Sam!"
In a separate incident, a man killed his 25-year-old wife and a mother of one, along with another man for the sake of "honour" in the Dilawar Marfani village of Shikarpur. "Aaar! Me honor! It's been offended!"
"Help! Help! He's murdering me!"
The Station House Officer of Dilawar Marfani cop shoppe Shahzado Dasti told Dawn.com that the accused suspected that his wife had an extra-marital affair with his second victim, who hailed from Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... and worked as a peasant in the village. "Hi! I'm here from Balochistan to work as a peasant... Hubba hubba! What a babe!"
"Yew brazen hussy! Where's me axe?"
The bodies of the victims were returned to their families after a post-mortem examination was conducted at Garhi Yasin Taluka Hospital.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Israel is holding talks with Russia and other parties about the situation around a disputed gas field that has been put up for tender by Leb and is expected to be developed by an international consortium of energy companies, including Russia’s Novatek, Israeli Ambassador to Moscow Gary Koren told Sputnik.
"I can only confirm that we hold talks with Russia and other parties, and we hope that they will be successful. The Russian side is fully aware of the details," the ambassador said when asked about the possible risks for Russian companies that plan to develop the gas field.
In February, Israeli Minister of National Infrastructure, Energy, and Water Resources Yuval Steinitz said that Israel was ready to resolve differences with Leb by diplomatic means.
At the same time, Total said that the exploration work of the consortium at Block 9 would not affect the disputed territories with Israel.
Leb’s 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. emphasized during talks with outgoing US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in February that his country has the right to explore and develop potential oil and gas reserves in its territorial waters.
In December 2017, the Lebanese government approved provisions for the right to explore two energy blocks ‐ Block 4 and Block 9 ‐ in Leb to the consortium of natural gas producer Novatek with La Belle France’s Total and Italia’s Eni.
In February, the companies signed relevant agreements; the Russian share amounted to 20 percent, while Total and Eni each got 40 percent.
However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... in late January, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that Block 9 belonged to Israel and that the companies participating in the tender were making a big mistake.
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Some visits but not much chatter on this one so I'll add my own.
Recently, late one evening (or early one morning, I forget) I ran across this while self-medicating.
I thought, "Interesting, in selected zones, the light of stars dims when partially occluded by something assumed to be a planet." The span of data time must of course include some orbital interval of the possible planet.
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Sometime during this period of pharmaceutical enlightenment the thought condensed to "when dark things happen in the light there is an active agent of interest."
Later I remembered "descriptive, prescriptive, predictive" and thought "well hey, if there is a discernible event agent it was there before and likely will be in the area again."
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Free software and large datasets are like jam on toast for me. While I was downloading I started asking myself "crime and acts of terror, terror and acts of crime, given a big enough data sampling of events how are they different from a presumed planet blocking otherwise shining moments?"
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So I'm starting to design tensors from Rantburg's rogue's gallery (et. al.) of reported events using the POLE model.
It will be an interesting long term project. My hypothesis is the 'AI' should predict, something.
If any readers think the project is too bizarre, techno or just pseudo-intellectual solo sex, please advise, critically as you choose. As you may see from some of the references there is open interest in the topic.
I'm a little removed from the closed door studies. Perhaps some of you are not.
[American Thinker] Waving the flag of the country they'd do anything to avoid being sent back to, DREAMers were out in force as President Trump's plane touched down in San Diego. The Mexican flags flew, and the hate-Trump chants pounded from the left.
Don't expect the rest of the media to notice any of this. Or the chants of "¡sí se puede!" or the Che banners and t-shirts, the foul language, or the scads of ethnic Mexican clothing to demonstrate the absence of assimilation. Nope, most of the press did its level best to keep such images out of the news and present only the most sanitized versions of the anti-Trump protesters to the public.
Fortunately, since there were a lot of them covering the rallies, the details leaked out here and there. Two news agencies, Fox News 5, the local station in San Diego, and Breitbart News, in Beverly Hills, reported without filters, as did the San Diego Free Press, a radical left-wing news agency that actually likes the foul language and Mexican flag-waving. The New York Times did note the Che t-shirts even as it snidely called the pro-Trump rallies "pep rallies." (Would they have called a pro-Obama rally a "pep" rally?) But if you wanted to see what the rallies were really like, most of the local press by and large blacked out the flags from the coverage.
Get a load of some of these screen grabs from Fox 5, the local affiliate of Fox News, or better yet, go see their video:
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It's nothing new. Their intent has been clear for quite some time now. They fly the flag of the country to which they bear loyalty. They don't care about becoming Americans. They want America to become Mexico.
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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.
[The Hill] High school students in Tennessee reportedly jumped on a police car and tore down an American flag during what was supposed to be a peaceful protest for gun control. 
According to the Daily Mail, “Hotelscan.com reported that the number of people landing on its Wisconsin Wakanda Water Park page is up by 620 percent and Hotels.com reported that searches for neighbouring Wakanda Park are up by 55 percent year on year.”
...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems...
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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 
