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-Lurid Crime Tales-
OH: 2 pounds of fentanyl seized in Cleveland
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/16/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Video shows women dancing on roof of SUV on St. Louis highway
[WHNT-19 News] ST. LOUIS, Mo. ‐ Video shared on Facebook shows a bizarre site along a St. Louis highway ‐ two women twerking on top of a vehicle while a third woman records the risky spectacle, according to KTVI.

"Leaving work today & see this......No comment 🤦🏼‍♀️" wrote Jackie Friedhoff, who posted two videos of the incident to social media on Monday.

The videos have gone viral with thousands of reactions on Facebook.

"They could fall off of the car and cause other drivers to wreck. It’s a dangerous situation for themselves and other drivers," a spokesperson for the St. Louis Police Dept. told KSDK. "They could fall off and create a fatal accident. We do not encourage anyone to try anything like this ever. You are supposed to be in your car when you drive."

After viewing the video, the spokesperson said police could have cited the women for for riding outside of a vehicle, failing to use a seatbelt, lack of state license plate and possibly a failure to maintain the posted minimum speed.

It’s not clear whether or not St. Louis authorities will try to track down the women seen in the video.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/16/2019 09:26 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Will Darwin be denied?
Posted by: AlanC || 01/16/2019 9:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Opportunity knocks in St. Louie
For ordinary folks to act screwy:
If given a chance,
Anybody can dance
On the roof of a hoopdee... but do he?
Posted by: Fat Bob tse Tung1475 || 01/16/2019 10:04 Comments || Top||


Free Cheese
[Daily Wire] To help federal workers going without paychecks during what is now the longest government shutdown in history, Kraft Heinz Co. will be opening up a complimentary pop-up grocery store in the Washington, D.C. area.

According to Fox News, Kraft announced on Tuesday that workers who have been furloughed by the government shutdown will be able to pick up unlimited Kraft products absolutely free come Wednesday.

"Called 'Kraft Now Pay Later,' it will allow federal workers to stock up on the company’s staples such its famous mac and cheese mix and other items for free," reports the outlet. "The only caveat is that the Chicago-based food maker wants workers who can to pay it forward by donating to their favorite charity or help someone in need once their back pay comes through."

Sergio Eleuterio, head of marketing for Kraft, said in a statement that the pop-up grocery store will alleviate some of the worry facing federal worker families during the shutdown. "During the government shutdown, parents should not have to worry about putting dinner on the table because they aren’t receiving a paycheck," Eleuterio said. "Kraft stands for families and we want to support the families who have built our brands. This store is one way we can help those affected get the grocery staples they need. And we celebrate all who are doing their part to help."
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/16/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mr. Wife’s mother made Kraft mac’n’cheese when the union was on strike, so I s’pose this is appropriate. The current lot are a very different kind of union member than those steel workers, so the offer may be more symbolic than substantial.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/16/2019 0:37 Comments || Top||

#2  There was a broke, really broke period that I lived on Ramen noodles and peanut butter sandwiches for six months to pay off some debts. 'Twas about ten years before the very *Smell* of Ramen, cooked or not, didn't make me queasy...

Still, Ad stunt or not, hope it helps the lower ranks.
Posted by: magpie || 01/16/2019 1:07 Comments || Top||

#3  US gov't cheese stockpile, June 2018: 1.39 billion pounds (evil WaPo link)
Posted by: Glereck Grolugum2595 || 01/16/2019 1:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Gubbamint cheese ain't bad.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 01/16/2019 8:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Govt. Cheese was/ is the shit. Been along time since I have seen those big blocks they used to give away, but they made the best grilled cheese sandwiches .
Posted by: Chris || 01/16/2019 8:59 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Green Berets Targeted After Anonymous Email Exposed Lowered Standards
[Breitbart] Two Army Green Berets are fighting for their military careers after being associated with an anonymous email that accused their commanders of lowering standards to enable more soldiers ‐ particularly female ‐ to graduate from its prestigious Q-course.

The anonymous email, signed, "A concerned Green Beret," accused the leaders of the school of "moral cowardice" for lowering the standards, and weakening instructors’ ability to discipline students as they look to get further through the pipeline.

"[The school] has devolved into a cesspool of toxic, exploitive, biased and self-serving senior officers who are bolstered by submissive, sycophantic, and just-as-culpable enlisted leaders," the email said. "They have doggedly succeeded in two things; furthering their careers, and ensuring that Special Forces [are] more prolific but dangerously less capable than ever before."
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/16/2019 08:36 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There is much truth in this private conversation.
Posted by: newc || 01/16/2019 12:21 Comments || Top||

#2  ...Oh, we knew it happened, and it happened under Obama's watch. We were just waiting for somebody to finally speak out.

The REAL SHTF will come when - to our utter surprise, shock and amazement - we discover that most cultures the Berets will be ordered to help are almost pathological in their disdain for and often hatred of women.

Of course, no one will have seen it coming.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 01/16/2019 16:51 Comments || Top||


Mausers for the Masses: The Budget Master M18 For The Masses (VIDEO)
[Bearing Arms] For more than 120 years, the Mauser brand and its M98 bolt action rifles have defined both reliability and quality in the civilian and military markets. This year, the Mauser company, now known for high-end rifles, has jumped both boots into the budget hunting market with their new M18. Guns.com finds out whether this German-made "People’s Rifle" will resonate with an American market.

Though a budget Mauser seems as foreign as schnitzel at the food court, here we are with a synthetic stock, matte blued piece wearing the old Mauser logo recognizable from military rifles of many decades and world wars past. The M18 is a traditional bolt action centerfire rifle that Mauser defines as a "no-frills" rifle that "brings together all the essentials for hunting in the best ­possible way and does not include ­anything that isn’t necessary in the field."

The M18 is indeed utilitarian, built with solid steel construction. Cold hammered barrels are geared toward long-term accuracy. An adjustable trigger comes standard. The company’s "multi-purpose end cap" is actually a removeable, rubberized buttpad with space for internal storage. Sling swivels come standard, and while the rifle ships sans scope bases, the M18 accepts Remington 700 two-piece mounts.

All M18’s come with the same stock, though standard calibers wear a 22 inch barrels while Magnum chamberings have the longer 24 inch tube. The M18 is now shipping chamberings in: .243 Win, .308 Win, 6.5 Creedmoor, .270 Win, .30-06 Spfld, 7mm Rem Mag, and .300 Win Mag. MSRP on the M18 in its variety of calibers is $699, a far cry from the $13,000+ price tag of the current production Mauser M98 Magnum.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/16/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sounds like a nice step up from a surplus Mosin-Nagant.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/16/2019 0:49 Comments || Top||

#2  I examined a couple of these at the NRA convention last year. Very nice for the money.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/16/2019 7:10 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Zimbabwe soldiers patrol streets after deadly protests
[Al Jazeera] At least five dead in latest demonstrations that erupted after government hiked fuel prices by 150 percent.

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Cote d'Ivoire: ICC Trial Chamber I acquits Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Bl Goud From All Charges
[All Africa] Today, 15 January 2019, Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court ("ICC" or "Court"), by majority, Judge Herrera Carbuccia dissenting, acquitted Mr Laurent Gbagbo
... Former President-for-Life of Ivory Coast from 2000 to 2011. Laurent lost to Alassane Ouattara in 2010 but his representtive tore up the results on the teevee and he refused to vacate the presidential palace. French troops assisted the Oattara forces in extricating him from his Fuhrerbunker...
and Mr Charles Blé Goudé from all charges of crimes against humanity allegedly committed in Côte d'Ivoire in 2010 and 2011. A fully reasoned decision will be issued in writing in due course. The Prosecutor may appeal the decision after the full decision is filed.

As a consequence, the Chamber ordered the release of Mr Gbagbo and Mr Blé Goudé. The Prosecutor may request that Mr Gbagbo and/or Mr Blé Goudé remain in detention for exceptional reasons. Trial Chamber I will hear the parties and participants on this matter tomorrow 16 January 2019 at 10 hours.

Judges Cuno Tarfusser (presiding) and Geoffrey Henderson, forming the Majority of the Chamber, noted the violent political conflict in the context of the 2010 presidential elections, in Abidjan and in other parts of the country. The Majority, however, considered that the Prosecutor has failed to submit sufficient evidence to demonstrate the responsibility of Mr Gbagbo and Mr Blé Goudé for the incidents under the Chamber's scrutiny.

In particular, having thoroughly analysed the evidence, the Chamber concluded by majority that the Prosecutor has failed to demonstrate several core constitutive elements of the crimes as charged, including the existence of a "common plan" to keep Mr Gbagbo in power, which included the commission of crimes against civilians "pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy"; and the existence of patterns of violence from which it could be inferred that there was a "policy to attack a civilian population".

Furthermore, the Chamber concluded, by majority, that the Prosecutor failed to demonstrate that public speeches by Mr Gbagbo or Mr Blé Goudé constituted ordering, soliciting or inducing the alleged crimes. The Chamber decided that, accordingly, there is no need for the defence to submit further evidence.

Posted by: Fred || 01/16/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


Gabon: Ailing President Bongo Arrives Back in Gabon, but Not for Long
[All Africa] Gabon's President Ali Bongo arrived in Libreville overnight on Tuesday following several months of absence after suffering a stroke, just over a week after the country experienced an attempted coup d'etat. Bongo returned from Morocco to preside over a ceremony for the swearing-in of a new government. He is expected to return to Rabat shortly to continue his hospital treatment.

"The president of the republic is present in Libreville," said Alain-Claude Bilie-By-Nzé, in an interview with Deutsche Welle radio.

Bilie-By-Nzé said it was "out of the question" that Bongo swear in the new government from abroad and when asked if Bongo would be returning to Morocco he said, "certainly, he hasn't yet finished his convalescence".

Gabon has been without its head of state for several months. Bongo is thought to have suffered a stroke during a visit to Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
in October and received initial treatment in Riyadh. He was then transferred to Morocco to continue his recovery and has since made rare video appearances including a speech for New Year.

Posted by: Fred || 01/16/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


Zimbabwe: Finance Minister Ncube Open to Cannabis Exports As Zimbabwe Battles Forex Crunch
[All Africa] Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has backed calls for Zim-bob-we to grow cannabis for export to take advantage of the growing global legal marijuana market.

Legal marijuana has started gaining traction worldwide due to very high demand among consumers and increasing legalization of recreational or medical marijuana in various countries.

Zim-bob-we has, for years, struggled with serious foreign currency shortages which have lately manifested in acute fuel shortages.

Minister Ncube was asked for his views on growing cannabis as an export product during a so-called Road to Davos town hall meeting in Harare.

"On the cannabis issue I agree with you it's a great opportunity we should move faster in giving licenses," Prof Ncube said last Friday.

"So, I will convey this to my (cabinet) counterparts in Agriculture and Health as well to make sure that we can issue those licenses to entrepreneurs to invite other partners and we get on with it.

Recently, Canada legalised cannabis entirely, which has now led many other countries around the world to consider either recreational or medical legalisation.

Argentina
...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita...
and Australia are amongst some of the recent countries to legalise medical cannabis, while European nations like the Netherlands and Italia are beginning to explore their options within the medical market.

A Canadian firm has since approached the Harare government with a proposal to produce the cannabis in the planned economic zones in a development that could earn the country about $100 million dollars annually.

Posted by: Fred || 01/16/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Britain
London mosque secretly agrees to host Holocaust exhibition
[IsraelTimes] An undisclosed London mosque has agreed to host an exhibition on the Holocaust that another Moslem house of worship canceled amid protests by members of that faith, activists say.

The new venue is being kept under wraps for fear of a repeat of the campaign that led to the Golders Green mosque scrapping its event earlier this month, Fiyaz Mughal of the interfaith group Faith Matters tells The Jewish News of London.

The Golders Green mosque canceled ‐ without giving a reason ‐ the exhibition titled "Love they Neighbor" about Albanians who rescued Jews during the Holocaust. The cancellation followed a journalist’s calls on a Moslem community news website to protest over the fact that the exhibition was created by Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum.

"Thankfully, the exhibition on Moslems who saved Jews is being held in Redbridge," Mughal says. "There is some fantastic work being done" in that borough of London, he adds.

Separately, the Board of Deputies of British Jews said it would host next month the exhibition at a meeting in the presence of the Albanian ambassador to the United Kingdom, Qirjako Qirko.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/16/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  An undisclosed London mosque...

Well there's another boom site in the making.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/16/2019 11:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Will variety sell at the Mosque?
It may seem an impossible task,
But the Hippodrome hosts
Very musical ghosts
And you never can know till you ask!
Posted by: Flenter Gletle1338 || 01/16/2019 11:58 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Venezuela: Oficialismo calls march for January 23
[ELUNIVERSAL] The first vice president of the PSUV, Diosdado Cabello, called the ruling party to a march for January 23, date in which the head of the Legislative, Juan Guaidó, had already called a mobilization before.

Cabello assured that the march will be carried out by the popular leaders who fought in 1958 for the overthrow of Marcos Pérez Jiménez's dictatorship.

He added that the mobilization will start from the East, the West and the La Bandera area, in Caracas, and will reach the El Silencio urbanization, since that day marks the 60th anniversary of the first speech of Commander Fidel Castro in Block 1 of the popular urbanization.

"On January 23 we go to the streets to remind the world that Venezuela is not betrayed again, we are going to tell those who sold this country that they will not continue to betray and manipulate this people," Cabello said. presser of the national leadership of the Government party in Caracas.

"We want to remember that the opposition calls for demonstrations on January 23 only when it wants to generate violence," he said, recalling the events of January 23, 2014 when right-wing leaders María Corina Machado and Leopoldo López called for "the exit" .

He indicated that the opposition sector lacks seriousness in its political action, which is why they resort to "media show" to position "negative matrices against the national government."

He questioned the false expectations generated to the opposing militancy on the scope of the call made by the President of the National Assembly (AN), Juan Guaidó, on January 23, where they would request the cease of functions of President Maduro's government.

"They say that January 23 is the day and we say that on that day we will go to the streets and (Nicolás) Maduro will remain President." On January 24, he will continue as President, we will see at the end who will comply, yes they or we and you you will see the opposition man who lied to him, "said Cabello.
Posted by: Fred || 01/16/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Maduro announced military exercises between February 10 and 15
[ELUNIVERSAL] President Nicolás Maduro announced on Tuesday that the civil-military operation Bicentenario de Angostura will be held from February 10 to 15 for the "integral defense" of the nation.

"This month we must start with strategic acceleration," the president said during a ceremony held in Fuerte Tiuna, adding that Venezuela has a military corps with great operational capacity, doctrinaire.

He also indicated that the beginning of the Plan of the Nation 2019-2025 must start within the framework of the commemoration of the bicentennial of the Angostura Congress.

"The start of the Plan of the Nation must be done within the framework of the Angostura Congress and the bicentennial era, we are preparing for the commemoration throughout the year, but on February 15, in large civic-military mobilizations we will commemorate the two hundred years of that day that the Liberator -Simón Bolívar- shone forever, "he said during a VTV broadcast.

On the other hand, he said that on April 13 he will swear in militia to reach the two million that "must be ready for the war of all the people, in the different scenarios, and we must have the weapons, so that the weapons system arrives to the Bolivarian National Militia. "

He reiterated that "the arms of the Republic are in the hands of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces, by constitutional and legal mandate, and the FANB is the one that deploys them, which puts them in the hands of the militiaman, so they can go to their military exercises and defend clean lead the illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity of Venezuela, should the case arise.
Posted by: Fred || 01/16/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  In the Parliament I guess.
Posted by: European Conservative || 01/16/2019 6:45 Comments || Top||

#2  civil-military operation Bicentenario de Angostura Bitters
Posted by: Frank G || 01/16/2019 7:14 Comments || Top||

#3  "This month we must start with strategic acceleration"

He needs to call out the military to add extra zeros to the national currency.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/16/2019 17:02 Comments || Top||


Venezuela: Parliament approved decree of amnesties and guarantees for those who defend the Constitution
[ELUNIVERSAL] Deputy Karin Salanova called on the UN agency to bend to neutrality, to impartiality and to help comptroller everything that has entered the country

Posted by: Fred || 01/16/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Venezuela: National Assembly declares the "usurpation" of the Presidency of the Republic
[ELUNIVERSAL] The National Assembly (AN) approved on Tuesday an agreement on the declaration of usurpation of the Presidency of the Republic -by President Nicolás Maduro- and the application of the Constitution to "re-establish its validity".

The Legislative Power also resolved to "assume the de facto situation" of Maduro as legally ineffective and to consider "null all the alleged acts emanating from the Executive Power."

According to the document read at the end of the discussion, the AN seeks to "establish a legislative framework that provides guarantees for democratic reintegration, so that incentives are created for civil and police officials, as well as the components of the Armed Forces National, stop obeying "Maduro.
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Posted by: Fred || 01/16/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  I Concur.
Posted by: newc || 01/16/2019 1:00 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China Asks State Firms to Avoid Travel to U.S. and Its Allies
(Bloomberg) -- China asked some state-run enterprises to avoid business trips to the U.S. and its allies and to take extra precautions to protect their devices if they need to travel, according to people familiar with the request.

In recent weeks, the State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission -- a regulatory body that oversees about 100 government-run companies -- has told some firms to only take secure, company-issued laptops meant for overseas use if traveling is necessary, the people said. They said the warning extended to the other countries in the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing pact: the U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

The order also said that employees should have the company verify which files they are carrying on any trip and only store them on secure USB flash drives, two people familiar with the warning said separately, adding that SASAC didn’t specify how long the travel rules will apply. The commission didn’t respond to a fax requesting comment.

Chinese and American executives have become more cautious when traveling after the December arrest of Huawei Technologies Co. executive Meng Wanzhou in Canada on behalf of the U.S., and the subsequent detention of two Canadian citizens in China. The U.S. has also stepped up efforts to catch and prosecute executives at Chinese companies that it alleges steal technology, which has resulted in several legal actions.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/16/2019 01:35 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  I would take their warnings to heart and not go to the US. Good advice. [heh]
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 01/16/2019 12:05 Comments || Top||

#2  One way to lose control of your field agents without regular check-ins.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/16/2019 12:07 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
‘Launching new airline easier than reviving PIA’
[DAWN] PIA Chairman Air Marshal Arshad Mahmood Malik says short-term and long-term plans are in the works to revive the airline.

Addressing members of the Faisalabad
...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after...
Chamber of Commerce and Industry here on Monday, he said revival was a daunting task as compared to launching a new airline.

Also read: Another go at a PIA turnaround

The chairman said getting rid of seven loss-making routes was his first priority. He said three direct flights from Faisalabad to Jeddah would be introduced from Feb 15. He said two different teams would visit Faisalabad next week to review the expansion of the runway and to evaluate local cargo potential.

He said 18,000 workers were on the airline payroll and the number was high compared to international standards.

FCC President Syed Zia Alumdar Hussain and former FPCCI president Mian Idrees also spoke on the occasion.

Posted by: Fred || 01/16/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  In the 80's their international flights weren't bad. Aside from a passenger revolt in a 747 on the tarmac in Istanbul. Which looking back was kind of funny. And they had great hot tea.
Posted by: Woodrow || 01/16/2019 7:12 Comments || Top||

#2  STILL not as many recently lost planes as Malaysia Airlines, so they got that going for them - which is nice
Posted by: Frank G || 01/16/2019 8:41 Comments || Top||


SC asks govt, civil society and religious scholars to tackle issue of increasing population
[DAWN] The Supreme Court on Tuesday in its verdict in a suo motu
...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard...
case on the increasing population said that the government, civil society and religious scholars should all take steps to tackle the issue.

A three-member SC bench, headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar and comprising Justice Umar Ata Bandial and Justice Ijazul Ahsan, was hearing the case. Population control is the latest campaign the SC has extended its support to.

According to the 2017 census, which was held after a gap of 19 years, the country’s population is approximately 207,774,520 living in 32,205,111 households. The results show that Pakistain has moved up the ladder becoming the fifth most populous nation only behind India, China, the United States and Indonesia. Top government officials have decided to reduce the population growth rate of 2.4 per cent per annum to 1.5pc.

The SC in its verdict today observed that an increasing population is a stress on the country's resources and likened the growth to an kaboom.

"We need a campaign to decrease the population," the court said. "It is a question of the future of our coming generations."

"The entire nation must stand united on the matter of population planning," said chief justice Nisar, who has termed unbridled population growth as the "most disastrous issue" for Pakistain.

Posted by: Fred || 01/16/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Those who can not feed, should not breed.
Posted by: warthogswife || 01/16/2019 12:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Schedule a good pandemic/plague with all vaccines clearly labelled "Made in Israel".

that oughtta do it
Posted by: Frank G || 01/16/2019 12:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Those who can not feed, should not breed.

Those who can not feed read, should not breed. Base it off of literacy and education. Maybe IQ as well.
Posted by: Speamble Elmeack5265 || 01/16/2019 15:22 Comments || Top||


Would-be bride, four other women die as mysterious fire engulfs Rawalpindi home
[DAWN] Tragedy befell a home on Rawalpindi's Sixth Road where preparations were taking place for a wedding, as a fire erupted and burned alive five women, including the bride-to-be.

The victims were identified as the 24-year-old bride, Sana; 14-year-old Hina; 20-year-old Hafza; 25-year-old Manahil; and 22-year-old Nayna.

Four women went titzup while the fifth women, who had received serious burn wounds, succumbed to her injuries at the hospital, DawnNewsTV reported. The bodies have been handed over to the families of the dear departed.

Eyewitnesses told DawnNewsTV that the fire broke out on the ground floor of the house and moved upwards to engulf the upper storey.

The homeowner, Malik Abdul Ghani, while narrating the incident to DawnNewsTV, laid the blame on rescue services: "They did not arrive timely and as a result five women, including my daughter are now dead."

The aggrieved father said his daughter was due to be married on Thursday, whereas today, a mehendi ceremony was going to take place.

When the fire broke out, between 40 and 50 guests were present within the home. Some had to jump out from the upper floor in order to save their lives.

According to New Town Assistant Superintendent Police (ASP) Ziauddin, the source of the fire remains a mystery and it is being investigated whether the cause was a short circuit in the wiring, a gas leakage, or if it was a case of arson. He said that to this end, the Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

Forensic Science Agency was also being consulted.

Former MPA Raja Hanif, an eyewitness to the tragedy, alleged that the rescue services arrived late and that the first fire truck to have arrived at the scene "did not have any water".

Rescue services official Farooq Butt denied the allegations.
No, no! Certainly not!
and said the rescue team had reached the residence six minutes after being alerted of the fire. However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
they were "subjected to violence" which delayed rescue efforts and prevented the team from controlling the fire timely.
Posted by: Fred || 01/16/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
West Bank Palestinians strike against PA’s social security law
And now for a moment of normalcy, in which yet another ruling class completely misreads the citizenry.
[IsraelTimes] Thousands of Paleostinians in the occupied West Bank join a strike against their government’s proposed new social security law, fearing the fund will be mismanaged.

The strike, which sees much of Ramallah, Hebron and other Paleostinian cities closed, comes hours before Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
is due to address the United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
A few thousand people protest outside the Social Security Corporation in Ramallah, where Abbas’s government is based.

Under the proposed system, both private employers and their employees will pay monthly into a government-managed fund, with employees receiving a pension when they retire.

The government says it will provide new security for employees, arguing similar systems exist in countries across the globe.

Protesters say they do not trust the Paleostinian government to manage the fund and point out there are no guarantees.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/16/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  Abu Al Gore: "It'll be in what I call a *fingerquotes* 'Lockbox'"
Posted by: Frank G || 01/16/2019 13:48 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
CNN analyst tells black SiriusXM radio host David Webb to check his 'white privilege'
[Wash Times] Sirius XM radio host David Webb, who happens to be black, had an awkward moment on his show this week when a CNN analyst began lecturing him on his alleged "white privilege."
Yes, that would be David Webb in the graphic.
Certain ideas about judging people by the content of their character instead of the color of their skin were perceived to be "white" during Tuesday’s "SiriusXM Patriot" broadcast.

The moment came while Mr. Webb and his guest discussed hiring practices.

"That’s a whole other long conversation about white privilege, the things that you have the privilege of doing, that people of color don’t have the privilege of," Areva Martin said of the host’s emphasis on credentials over pigmentation.

"How do I have the privilege of white privilege?" Mr. Webb asked, Mediaite reported.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/16/2019 07:08 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now we know who the real racists are. Though totally incapable of self recognition. See - Freudian Projection.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/16/2019 11:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Typical NPC response.

Posted by: DarthVader || 01/16/2019 12:11 Comments || Top||


Gillette Now Including Free Manly Side Bag With Every Purchase
[Babylon Bee] BOSTON, MA‐As part of its new ad campaign designed to target a new, more sensitive American male, Gillette announced Tuesday that the company will be giving out a free manly pink side bag with every purchase while supplies last.

The bag will reportedly contain a copy of The Feminine Mystique and instructions on how to treat any toxic masculinity you may have come down with. To get the free bag, you must spend at least $20 on a Gillette razor or other hygienic product and mail in your man card to the company.

"We want to appeal to the modern man," Gillette spokesperson Beau Petite said. "So we're offering this extremely manly, attractive side bag for a limited time if you buy one of our really manly razor products." Petite said the side bags have many great uses. "You can store a little concealer or blush for an afternoon touch-up, your coin purse, a pair of spherical objects. Whatever you want."

Gillette's promotion reportedly launched with a whimper, as few men wanted the "manly side bags" for some reason. The company has said it is regrouping and considering offering a free man bun hair tie with every purchase instead.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/16/2019 01:04 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...At this rate, I expect King Gillette his own self to come back to their corporate headquarters swinging a razor strop...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 01/16/2019 4:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Time to go short on Proctor & Gamble. They're done.
Posted by: ed in texas || 01/16/2019 7:10 Comments || Top||

#3  This offer may not last. Let me get my blades and 'free manly pink side bag' before you short them Ed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/16/2019 7:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Feminists everywhere running to get theirs.
Posted by: gorb || 01/16/2019 7:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Satire, Herb.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/16/2019 8:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Included in every Manly Side Bag is a bonus pack of Tampax brand nick absorbers.
Posted by: Spats B. Hayes3241 || 01/16/2019 9:00 Comments || Top||

#7  Thanks Spats! Amazon is offering free delivery.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/16/2019 9:01 Comments || Top||

#8  Don't they have a football stadium to un-sponsor?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/16/2019 9:03 Comments || Top||

#9  When Brady retires from the Pats, they could pick up Manning.

Bradley Manning.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/16/2019 9:04 Comments || Top||

#10  I always wanted to get in touch with my feminine side - I haven't got laid in weeks!
Posted by: Raj || 01/16/2019 9:11 Comments || Top||

#11  Kinda pissed that my Gillette shipment didn’t come with the tampons promised.
Posted by: Jack Salami || 01/16/2019 9:39 Comments || Top||

#12  Proctor & Gamble

To quote a long-ago company executive’s business card, “It’s -er, dammit!” The -or ending goes to Proctor Silex. ;-)

Beyond that, I suspect this will become another of Harvard Business School’s famous case studies.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/16/2019 10:23 Comments || Top||

#13  ...really, Harvard? At Harvard they'll blame the neolithic white male population for the failure rather than the 'geniuses' who cooked this up. Maybe the Booth School of Business at University of Chicago, unless they have sunk to the PC morass as well.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/16/2019 11:47 Comments || Top||

#14  Seen elsewhere:

Jillette
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/16/2019 13:13 Comments || Top||

#15  The most perverse poor man in Babylon
Once happened to capture a leprechaun:
"First, fatten my purse.
Make everything worse."
"And?" "Endless clay tablets to write upon."
Posted by: Whusorong Glosing6289 || 01/16/2019 13:46 Comments || Top||

#16  There are a number of very serious technical reasons why this rebranding is so bad, only a graduate of Harvard would come up with it.

One of which I mentioned, sponsoring a football stadium for the Patriots, a team notorious for the very storyline the razor advertisers rail against and right before the second biggest game of the season.

And in direct conflict with the recent, previous campaign of being the working man's razor, the Boston tradition, side crapping on Boston as well.

I'll try to get to the technical flubbary later, like the pre-pubescent boys hanging out on the small couch together, staring at the TV like Cinemax is still scrambled on Saturday night, and the laziness of blatant racism unseen since The Phantom Menace.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/16/2019 14:34 Comments || Top||

#17  I'm sure Gillette sells a lot of products to the ladies but they are courting the unshaven segment of the ladies which seems silly.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/16/2019 15:09 Comments || Top||


#19  Should have stuck to philosophy; her directing and storyline is awful.

Like a door to door salesman trying to sell me expensive ok razors by telling me I'm not folding the towels correctly.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/16/2019 21:42 Comments || Top||

#20  "Unmannerly men must be shunned,
De-platformed and nut-shamed, outgunned,
You cis-male barbarian!"
- Ana Kasparian, Turkish Amerikan Bund
Posted by: Slort Spawn of the Chinese6659 || 01/16/2019 22:46 Comments || Top||

#21  Let me guess, to get your bag you have to turn in your scrotum:p
Posted by: Silentbrick || 01/16/2019 23:20 Comments || Top||


Government
FBI ran website sharing thousands of child porn images
Snip. Article from 2016.

— trailing wife for the moderators at 10:30 a.m. ET

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: 746 || 01/16/2019 00:03 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I really like how the writer of this article made it sound like this was done last year, when in reality it was ran by the FBI in 2015.
Posted by: Chris || 01/16/2019 0:33 Comments || Top||

#2  I read it as the FBI turned the site on again last year; most likely tightening up the data capture from lessons learned in the earlier sting operations.
Posted by: Airandee || 01/16/2019 6:19 Comments || Top||

#3  FBI is so obsessed with making arrests that it doesn't bother to check if it leaves its morals behind.

I suppose they don't check for morals when making promotions, but they do check for arrests.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 01/16/2019 6:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Published 12:54 p.m. ET Jan. 21, 2016 | Updated 5:36 p.m. ET Jan. 21, 2016

When the article was published it was done in the previous year. Sorry we didn’t catch that before publishing it here.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/16/2019 10:30 Comments || Top||

#5  FBI is so obsessed with making arrests that it doesn't bother to check if it leaves its morals behind.

See - Whitey Bulger
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/16/2019 11:50 Comments || Top||



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