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Israel announces it has found and destroyed another Hezbollah tunnel
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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
DHS Calls CDC To Investigate Growing Number of Sick Migrants
[Daily caller] A DHS official told reporters that "literally dozens" of sick migrants are being transported to hospitals across the border each day and that growing numbers of children showing illness are present in border patrol custody.

"We’re doing dozens of hospital trips every single day with children that have fevers or manifest other medical conditions," CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan told CBSNews Wednesday morning.

An official also told reporters that DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is requesting that Mexican authorities also investigate the living conditions of migrant holding camps across the border to see if that is the source of illness.

Related: Hot Air - Border Patrol Orders Universal Secondary Pediatric Screening After 2nd Child Dies In Custody; Update: DHS Probing Shelters In Mexico
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/27/2018 02:40 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Important not to import illness as well as other forms of taxpayer subsidised parasitism.

Should tell people wanting to immigrate who don't have a job waiting earning greater than average wage, "No Chance". Those with children should earn vastly more.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/27/2018 2:58 Comments || Top||

#2  are being transported to hospitals across the border each day

So Mexico doesn't have hospitals? Have they not progressed beyond the shaman?
Posted by: Count Galeazzo the Anonymous7377 || 12/27/2018 8:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Once they are in the US, they will most likely be released into the US population, spreading any latent diseases. Smart Power™
Posted by: Count Galeazzo the Anonymous7377 || 12/27/2018 8:52 Comments || Top||

#4  They can't afford health insurance at home, so they must flee. Health care refugees.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/27/2018 9:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Bobby
If they can't pay they'll make American's pay for them, which leaves America less healthy.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/27/2018 17:56 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
France discontinues Rwanda genocide investigation
[PRESSTV] French judges have discontinued their long-running investigation into a deadly 1994 attack on a former Rwandan president, which sparked genocide in the African country.

A French legal source told media outlets on Wednesday that the investigation was stopped on December 21 due to a lack of evidence.

Seven people close to Rwandan President Paul Kagame were charged in the inquiry. In October, French prosecutors had requested a halt to the probe because of insufficient evidence against the seven suspects.

The investigation began in 1998. After a closure interval it reopened in 2016 before hitting a series of legal obstacles the following year.

The Rwandan genocide began following the shooting down of a plane transporting former President Juvenal Habyarimana on April 6, 1994. Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira was also killed in the plane crash. They were both ethnic Hutus.

After the crash, Hutus who were in majority, were incited to commit acts of ethnic violence against Tutsis. Habyarimana’s liquidation triggered 100 days of bloodshed that left thousands of people dead, mostly members of the Tutsi minority.

In 2009, a Rwandan inquiry found Hutu myrmidons, who viewed Habyarimana as too willing to compromise with Tutsis, responsible for the liquidation. A report from ballistic experts in 2012 also suggested that the missiles used in the attack were likely fired from a camp held by Habyarimana's own presidential guard.

Posted by: Fred || 12/27/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Britain
Doctors wanted to end care of baby boy tortured by parents until he lost his legs -- but he fought back to life

[THESUN.CO.UK] Tony Hudgell was just 41 days old when he was admitted to hospital with multiple organ failure, numerous ­fractures and sepsis just four years ago
Merry Christmas, Tony.

Posted by: Fred || 12/27/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Only 10 years?

If you're a member of a "banned group" National Action you get 6, but have seemingly done no other crime...

The courts are purely a fig leaf for protecting the establishment.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/27/2018 3:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Wow, good on you boy!
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/27/2018 8:52 Comments || Top||


Hundreds of passengers in UK arrested on suspicion of being drunk on planes
[PRESSTV] UK government is planning new restrictions on drinking alcohol in airports and planes as police statistics show a significant surge in drunkenness on flights and airports that have led to hundreds of arrests over the past two years.
"Yer under arrest!"
"Shay, whuddish dish?"

Statistics from police forces in several regions of England published on Wednesday showed that a total of 273 people had been nabbed
Drop the bottle and step away witcher hands up!
on suspicion of being drunk on a plane or at an airport in 2017 and 2018.
"I ain' drunk. Yoush guyz're outta focus! [hic!]"
The report said that drunken people had caused significant troubles during flights and in the airports, forcing the government to plan a ban on round-the-clock drinking in airports across England and Wales.
"Wuddya mean it'sh closhin' time?"
"It's five a.m., bub!"
"Shee? It'sh five o'clock shumwhere!"

It said the government was considering to extend high street licensing laws which would mean passengers would not be able to buy alcoholic drinks in airports before 10 am.
"Bartenner! Cheeriozh, pleazh! An' a pint o' gin to wash 'em down!"
The Home Office (interior ministry) has also launched a review into the case and will study evidences in the upcoming three months, said the Daily Express.
Posted by: Fred || 12/27/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's gotten almost impossible to endure air travel sober...
Posted by: Glenmore || 12/27/2018 8:47 Comments || Top||

#2  "I ain't drunk. I'm speaking in cursive"
Posted by: Frank G || 12/27/2018 8:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Frank, I am SO keeping that one around.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/27/2018 11:18 Comments || Top||

#4  They'll use this sure-fire test:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNn-6FzTimY
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 12/27/2018 11:28 Comments || Top||

#5  The only way to fly (when not the pilot) is to have a cocktail for Breakfast.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/27/2018 15:19 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Magnitude-5.5 quake rattles Venezuela before dawn
Posted by: Frank G || 12/27/2018 10:17 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia begins testing of 'Poseidon' underwater nuclear drone
[PRESSTV] Russia has started underwater trials of its mysterious Poseidon underwater nuclear drone, sources say, an state-of-the-art weapon that Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
says is invincible.

Testing of the strategic weapon’s nuclear propulsion system was underway in an undisclosed location under Russia’s territorial waters, a source in the Russian military industry told state news agency TASS on Tuesday.

"In the sea area protected from a potential enemy’s reconnaissance means, the underwater trials of the nuclear propulsion unit of the Poseidon drone are underway," the source added.

The reactor installed in the hull of the nuclear-tipped was undergoing experimental test and more work needed to be done before full-fledged sea trials at this stage, the source noted.

Designed to be launched from submarines, a Russian Navy nuclear-powered submarine moved the drone around for the purposes of the test, the source added.

Posted by: Fred || 12/27/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Many nations can play this game.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 12/27/2018 2:49 Comments || Top||

#2  "The first prototype will be called Kursk II"
Posted by: Frank G || 12/27/2018 6:50 Comments || Top||

#3  How long before the Seals steal one?
Posted by: Count Galeazzo the Anonymous7377 || 12/27/2018 7:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Okaaay, it's technically feasible, but.. Why? Like the Soviet-era Ekranoplan this looks more like a Mad Scientist's fantasy than something cost effective.
Posted by: magpie || 12/27/2018 19:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Russia should build the Orion nuclear powered rocket.
Posted by: ruprecht || 12/27/2018 21:12 Comments || Top||


Putin hails successful test of Avangard hypersonic missile system
[PRESSTV] Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
has commended his military forces for carrying out a successful test launch of the cutting-edge Avangard hypersonic missile system.

"On my instructions the industrial enterprises and the Defense Ministry have prepared for and carried out the final test of this system," Putin said at a meeting with members of his government on Wednesday. "The test was completely successful; all technical parameters were verified."

The test on Wednesday saw an Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle launched from the Dombarovskiy missile base in Russia’s southern Ural Mountains, successfully hitting its designated target 6,000 kilometers (3,700 miles) away in Kamchatka’s Kura shooting range.

"The Avangard is invulnerable to intercept by any existing and prospective missile defense means of the potential adversary," Putin said after the test.

When first unveiling the Avangard in his state-of-the-nation address in March, Putin said the hypersonic system has an intercontinental range and could reach speeds 20 times faster than the speed of sound when flying in the atmosphere.

Posted by: Fred || 12/27/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It took the Russians 40 years to copy the Pershing II warhead. Congrats!
Posted by: Count Galeazzo the Anonymous7377 || 12/27/2018 7:06 Comments || Top||

#2  "The Avangard is invulnerable to intercept by any existing and prospective missile defense means of the potential adversary," Putin said after the test.

Mach 24 = 18,414.5 miles/Hour

Laser weapon = 670,600,000 miles/hour

Do tell.
Posted by: Vortigern Elmusotle7351 || 12/27/2018 13:08 Comments || Top||

#3  They also invented the incandescent light bulb, but that was 65 years ago.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/27/2018 13:12 Comments || Top||


Economy
Historic 1,000+ Stock Boom Day After Christmas
[Breitbart] The Dow Jones Industrial Average rocketed upward Wednesday in the highest single-day point increase ever and highest percentage raise in nearly a decade.
The Dow closed at 22,878 the day after Christmas, a 1,086-point, nearly five percent gain on the day. It was the highest one-day point gain in history and the greatest percentage gain since March 2009, according to Fox61. The boost came in the first day of trading since Monday’s Christmas Eve dip of more than 600 points.

The S&P and Nasdaq had their best days since August 2011, according to the report. The S&P was up four percent Wednesday while the Nasdaq rose 4.8 percent.

Retail sales hit their highest levels in five years, according to CNN Business. Mastercard and Amazon were among those reporting Wednesday that 2018 saw top holiday retail sales numbers. The boost was attributed at least in part to soaring wages and diving gas prices.

The numbers are supported by strong consumer sentiment numbers issued the week ahead of Christmas Day. They were the highest recorded in the past two decades. Results noted that consumers were more concerned with jobs and income prospects than the stock market. Only 12 percent of consumers were concerned with the markets. The University of Michigan report stated, "If the current expansion lasts past mid-2019, as is likely based on current data, it will become the longest expansion ever recorded."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/27/2018 02:37 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Most falls in the stock market with rising interest rates are just portfolio balancing into fixed income.

Entirely expected, but dismally badly reported on by the MSM.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/27/2018 3:02 Comments || Top||

#2  ...ah, come on, you expect 'reporters' to know what they are reporting about? /rhet question
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/27/2018 7:57 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
CJP gets Kanju’s son arrested for torture of maids
[DAWN] Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on Tuesday got a son of former federal minister Siddique Kanju jugged
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
at the courtroom No 1 of the Supreme Court on charges of detaining and abusing his maids.

The parents of maids Yasmin and Saima appeared before a two-judge bench with a complaint that Amin Kanju, the son of the former minister, used to physically torture their daughters. Muhammad Rafiq, the father of the girls, said his daughters were employed at the house of Kanju. However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
he said, Kanju often kept his daughters in detention and tortured them too. Lastly, he said, Kanju levelled a theft allegation at the girls, detained them for days and physically tortured them.

"Why don’t you stop victimising the poor?" Chief Justice Nisar asked Kanju, who was present in the court. He ordered the police to arrest Kanju and proceed against him in accordance with the law.

Another son of Siddique Kanju namely Mustafa Kanju is a court’s absconder as he fled the country soon after his acquittal in a murder case following ’reconciliation’ with the complainant party.

In 2015, an anti-terrorism court had acquitted Mustafa Kanju and his guards of the charges of killing Zain, 16, and injuring another person namely Hasnain in Gulberg. The prosecution challenged the acquittal of the suspects on direction of the Supreme Court in a suo motu
...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard...
case.

Kanju never appeared before the Lahore High Court on the prosecution’s appeal as he escaped the country.

Finally he was declared an absconder while the prosecution engaged Interpol for his arrest.

Posted by: Fred || 12/27/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Peshawar man commits suicide after killing 5 family members
[DAWN] A man rubbed out five of his family members, including three brothers, over a domestic dispute before committing suicide in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
's Tehkal area on Wednesday, police said.

The 24-year-old man first fatally shot his father after a verbal altercation between the two.

Later, when three of his brothers and an uncle reached the site of the incident, he opened fire on them, leaving all four of them dead.

The suspect then killed himself. Police said he reportedly had mental health issues.

A police team rushed to the area after the killings and shifted the bodies to Khyber Teaching Hospital for postmortem examination.
Posted by: Fred || 12/27/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Culture Wars
Jerry Brown Grants Pardons to Immigrants Facing Deportation Due to Criminal History
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/27/2018 00:44 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good reason to constrict 'limited liability' of government employees and politicians. If you make it possible, you are liable in future consequences.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/27/2018 7:56 Comments || Top||

#2  What an arrogant act of hubris by a man who craves being seen as somehow accomplished like his dad. Classic son of a famous and successful politician trying to equal “daddy “...
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/27/2018 16:50 Comments || Top||



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Thu 2018-12-27
  Israel announces it has found and destroyed another Hezbollah tunnel
Wed 2018-12-26
  Nigerian army says 14 personnel killed in Boko Haram ambush
Tue 2018-12-25
  Daesh’s second-in-command killed in eastern Syria: report
Mon 2018-12-24
  Libya complains about weapons cargo from Turkey, new investigation launched
Sun 2018-12-23
  Somalia blast kills at least 16 near presidential palace
Sat 2018-12-22
  Nine new arrests in Morocco over murder of Scandinavian hikers
Fri 2018-12-21
  ISIS Blamed for Murder of Scandinavian Women on Camera in Morocco
Thu 2018-12-20
  Yemen's warring sides accuse each other of violating ceasefire
Wed 2018-12-19
  Jihadist Migrant Plotted to Bomb Vatican, Italian Churches at Christmas
Tue 2018-12-18
  KDF Arrests Al Shabaab Members Planting Explosives In Lamu County
Mon 2018-12-17
  U.S. airstrikes kill 62 al-Shabaab terrorists in Somalia
Sun 2018-12-16
  Israeli Army Says Fourth Hezbollah Attack Tunnel Found Crossing From Lebanon
Sat 2018-12-15
  Heavy clashes breakout in Hodeidah after UN-backed ceasefire announcement
Fri 2018-12-14
  Maulana Samiul Haq's personal secretary arrested, labelled person of interest in murder probe
Thu 2018-12-13
  Egyptian military kills 27 terrorists in recent operations


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