[Weasel Zippers] Columbia professor Dr. Prabhjot Singh calls himself a “leader in speaking out against white supremacy.”
Dr. Prabhjot Singh, a Columbia University professor, had just dropped his wife and his 1-year-old son off at home on Saturday night when he went for a short walk with his friend to the north of Central Park in Harlem, he explains. They were walking past a group of 25 to 30 young men, many of whom had bikes, when he heard, “Get him!” as well as “Osama” and “terrorist” being yelled.
Someone grabbed his beard and he was hit on the chin. All of the bikes began to mobilize and he started to run. The assailants on bikes started taking swipes at his head and a couple hit him in the chest. He was punched in the face repeatedly and he fell. ThatÂ’s when the group converged on him, hitting him in the turban head over and over again.
There wasnÂ’t much going through his mind at the time. Or at any other time for that matter.
He tried to protect himself while the punches rained down on his head as his body lay on the sidewalk. ThatÂ’s when white bystanders came to his aid. His body? Was he deceased for a time ?
In his first comments since the brutal attack, Singh tells BuzzFeed that he doesn’t remember much about the suspects — except that most were African-American Trekies — yet he says the police investigation and catching the attackers is not foremost on his mind. He reportedly remains mindful of the legacy of apartheid, eggs, omelet, etc.
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Remember this when they mumble about white supremacy. Hopefully the next major conflict will be the First (and probably last) Affirmative Action War.
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As the climate changes to colder than a well digger's arse in Idaho, are impacted by seasonal adjustments, look for an corresponding decline in climate caused violence.
CHICAGO (STMW) – A man calling himself “Officer Franklin” is posing as a federal agent to rob people on the South Side. At least he's not robbing innocent tax payers.
The man approaches victims in a tan SUV, pulls over to talk to people on the sidewalk and identifies himself as an IRS agent or “Officer Franklin,” according to a community alert from Area South detectives.
The robber convinces people to get into the SUV under the guise of a criminal investigation, then drives them a short distance and robs them with a silver semi-automatic handgun, police said. He does not show police credentials or wear a uniform. Of course he's not wearing a uniform, he's undercover.
The robberies happened about 3 p.m. Sept. 15 in the 7700 block of South Colfax Avenue and about 2:10 p.m. Tuesday in the 8100 block of South Paxton Avenue, police said. Get Franklin on it, that's his beat.
The man is described as a 40- to 50-year-old bald black man with a medium to dark complexion, police said. He is about 6-foot, 250-pound black man with sideburns. Medium to dark... as opposed to a white, black man.
He drives a tan SUV, possibly a late model Mercury Mountaineer, with temporary plates, police said.
Police advise people to ask for identification and to use common sense if asked to enter an unknown personÂ’s vehicle. My 9mm is my identification, now get in!
Anyone with information should contact detectives at (312) 747-8273 or send tips to area2tip@chicagopolice.org.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Pulling off the perfect bank heist isn't as easy as the movies make it seem, especially when the robber takes aim at five banks -- in the space of three weeks.
This week, a 23-year-old Saudi-U.S. woman has been accused of doing just that.
Ranya al-Huthaili, who was enjugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! earlier this month on charges of robbing the five banks, is now set to remain in jug out of fear she will flee 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... , U.S. newspaper Star Tribune reported on Friday.
"She has been charged with bank robbery [and] telling the teller that she had a gun. She took $2,300," said Nadia Bilbassy-Charters, an Al Arabiya correspondent in Washington.
According to the newspaper, the FBI believes Huthaili robbed the Klein Bank in Minnesota on Aug. 15, the First State Bank of Wyoming in Minnesota on Aug. 23, the TCF Bank in the Cub Foods on Broadway Avenue W. in Forest Lake on Sept. 1 and the First State Bank and Trust in Wisconsin on Sept. 5.
Huthaili stole $2,300 from the Wisconsin bank. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the money's identification markings led police to a shopping mall in Minneapolis where she bought a computer, the correspondent confirmed.
Not all the money was spent, however, and "nobody knows where the rest of the money is and the police didn't say," Bilbassy-Charters explained.
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Very good knowledge of northern plains geography. Many native born Americans don't even know where Wyoming MN is.
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[An Nahar] France has awarded the U.S. writer Philip Roth its highest decoration, the Legion d'honneur (Legion of Honor), with the country's foreign minister bestowing the award in New York. I had to stop and think about who he is. He's the guy that wrote about having sex with a couple pounds of liver.
At a ceremony on Friday, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, in the Big Apple for the United Nations General Assembly, praised Roth's prolific career as one of the leading men of American letters. He ain't no Mark Twain. O.Henry woulda turned up his nose at him. And James Fennimore Cooper would have beat him up.
The distinction, first established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802 to give recognition to civilians and soldiers, has five degrees and Roth, 80, was given the title of Commander. Under what circumstances do you wear it, or is it like costume jewelry? A conversation piece for one of those dull parties in el chateau. The Legion of Honor goes well with a black tie, but leave it in your room when on the links or in the clubhouse? And a tennis match is right out.
"This highest honor is a wonderful surprise," Roth said. Then, speaking in French, he said that he was "absolutely delighted."
Fabius, describing Roth's "huge success" in France, added: "France is giving you back what you have given to my country." Uh, Phil? A moment of your time? Jerry Lewis had Big Success in France. Thought you might want to know. You are replacing Jerry Lewis.
Roth achieved fame with his sexually explicit novel "Portnoy's Complaint" in 1969, and is well known for mining the Jewish-American experience as source material for his work.
He is the author of nearly 30 novels, including "The Humbling" (2009) about an aging actor and erotic desire, and "Nemesis," framed on a 1944 polio epidemic, which was published came in 2010. Now he just smokes cigarettes and gives standup routines like Lewis. He also wrote The Plot Against America, which was the obligatory takeover of the country by evil right-wingers. Critics swooned.
Roth's numerous U.S. literary prizes include two National Book Awards, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, three PEN/Faulkner awards, and the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for "American Pastoral."
Roth, who told French magazine in 2012 that he would no longer write fiction, said that he learned French when he was a teenager but has since forgotten most of it.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The head of the Saudi religous police, Sheikh Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, was pictured on Sunday consoling the father of a man who was involved a car chase with members of his police force.
Saudi-daily al-Watan reported that Sheikh attended the funeral of the man and told the family that he will not interfere in investigations, even if the inquisitors religious police members involved in the incident were convicted.
Attendees of the funeral reportedly asked Sheikh the reason for his visit, he replied that "he was here to fulfill his duty."
Nasser al-Otaibi, 24, died in a crash following a car chase by the country's inquisitors religious police earlier this week. His brother Saud, 22, was taken to intensive care with serious injuries and is said to be still in a coma, Saudi Gazette reported on Sunday.
The death has prompted nationwide anger after it became known that the involved members of the Saudi inquisitors religious policeexpeditiously departed at a goodly pace of the accident.
The two police members reportedly expeditiously departed at a goodly pace but were later tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... and are being investigated.
The family of the victims have made a plea for justice, saying the men were "innocent," their brother told the Saudi Gazette that the car chase was because his brothers' car had its windows tinted.
The pair was afraid that a violation would be registered against them or that they would be treated harshly, which is why they sped away when the police men asked them to pull up, he added.
Another brother of the victims told al-Hayat Arabic daily that the family is demanding the death penalty for those responsible.
The authority is also referred to in Arabic simply as "the Haia" meaning "the committee."
Assistant front man for the Haia Mohammad al-Sheraimi said investigations are under way and all those responsible for the accident and the subsequent death of the Saudi will be held accountable, the Saudi Gazette reported.
An eyewitness, Mohammad al-Sahabi, said the Haia vehicle deliberately bumped into the small car from behind.
The vehicle swerved off the road, fell off a bridge, and overturned, while the Haia pursuers fled from the scene, al-Sahabi said.
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[BBC.CO.UK] Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos has rejected proposed mediation by US civil rights activist Rev Jesse Jackson over a rebel-held hostage.
Mr Santos said only the Red Thingy would be allowed to be involved, because he did not want "a media spectacle".
Jesse Jackson had agreed to go to Colombia next week to seek the release of former US marine Kevin Scott Sutay, held by leftist Farc rebels since June.
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FYI Pert Artic a short while back denoted how the true strength of China's strategic deterrence lies in its PLAA [PLA Army = ground forces], as also supported by LR PLA Second Arty, NOT IN ITS PLAN = NAVY despite MSM-Net rhetoric to the contrary.
ALSO, THAT "PREEMPTION" [read, ATTACKING/STRIKING FIRST OR SUDDENLY = BOLT-FROM-THE-BLUE] has been all but formally adopted by China's inner Political-Military circles.
Lest we fergit, 1990'S SINO-RUSSIAN "WAR AGZ THE US IS NOT ONLY POSSIBLE BUT DESIRED" [circa 2018] + SINO-RUSSIAN COMMON "BATTLE/LOCAL ZONE" STRATEGY TO DEFEAT INTERVENING USDOD FORCES.
Lest we fergit II, CHINA > HIGH OR PROHIBITIVE PLA CASUALTIES IS N-O-T A MAJOR OR IMPORTANT FACTOR IN THEIR MIL PLANNING, albeit this is not to argue the CPC, CMC + PLA will waste soldiers' lives wantonly or foolishly. IT DOES MEAN THEY WILL DO WHAT IT TAKES, EVEN IFF IT MEANS TO "PUSH THE ENVELOPE" TO ACHIEVE DECISIVE = FINAL MILPOL VICTORY.
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I wonder what would happen when a large number of "pampered princes" died due to combat considering they are the only child in a family? I suspect much internal conflict would result.
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PLA has its own factories, businesses, slave labor and own's a big portion of the port of Long Beach. It should have no trouble raising 20b even without taxes.
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Also from STRATRISKS ...
> H-6K GIVES PLA STRIKE POWER WIDIN PACIFIC FIRST ISLAND CHAIN, + Guam-CNMI.
> US TINY ISLANDS FOR MILITARY USE IN ASIA-PACIFIC PIVOT.
> US TO BUILD MILITARY BASE ON SAIPAN TO COUNTER PLA MISSLE: ANALYST.
Wehell, I 've always argued that it not enuff for the US = USDOD to base THAAD Missles just on Guam, i.e. it will have to do so also in the CNMI + IMO even Iwo Jima [Bonins].
* RELATED WORLD MILITARY FORUM > EXPERTS SAY THE US HAS ACCELERATED THE CONSTRUCTION OF SECOND ISLAND CHAIN "BRIDGEHEAD" TO SUPPORT AND REINFORCE THE CONTAINMENT OF CHINA.
USDOD return to the CNMI islands of Saipan, Tinian + Pagan begin to worry/concern the Chinese.
* DAILY STAR LEBANON > PENTAGON CHIEF, AT KOREAN DMZ, SAYS US WILL NOT CUT FORCE IN [South] KOREA, despite ongoing Budget-Sequester Crisis, now Shutdown threat.
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Iff the US = USDOD is serious about intercepting enemy missles at launch or early-to-midflight phases, then the above should also include Air-launched BMD from large specialized/niche Aircraft [e.g. converted 747's]+ NT Dirigibles.
h/t Instapundit
NASA's newest delivery service has finally made it to the International Space Station. After a week's delay, Orbital Science Corp.'s Cygnus cargo ship pulled up at the orbiting lab Sunday morning. The space station astronauts used their robot arm to grab it. The capsule is making its debut on this test flight, and contains more than a half-ton of food, clothes and other supplies for the six astronauts. It marks a major accomplishment 260 miles up. Only one other private company has ever made such a high-flying shipment. Orbital Sciences launched the Cygnus capsule from Virginia on Sept. 18. It was supposed to reach the space station four days later, but got held up by inaccurate navigation data. A software patch fixed everything.
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On that not both SpaceX and Proton had beautiful launches on Sunday. SpaceX of its new rocket.
They were almost able to safely land their first stage vertically on the ocean. Plan to try that experiment again in late Jan early Feb on SPX-3 with legs added to the rocket.
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at 4 mins on that video (first shot was about 2.2) you see separation and then the puffs of vapor from the sides of the first stage as it starts adjusting to re-enter in a controlled way. It got a bit too much spin on it that caused the fuel to centrifuge to the walls of the tank avoiding the fuel sump for one of the engines. When they did a re-light just above the surface of the ocean that engine quickly went out and the stage hit the ocean at an angle breaking into large pieces. SpaceX was able to salvage these. In next years SPX-3 flight it's hoped that opening the legs just before the water will stop the spin allowing a vertical entry into the ocean. They expect that or some further form to get working this year so now they are discussing with the Air Force and Cape Canaveral about acquiring an obsolete pad on the tip of the cape to vertical land first stage boosters on.
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More, bigger-n-better ventures like this is whats sirely missing from the Bammer's attempt to get enviro-correct "Green Techs" off the ground, as opposed to giving mucho scarce Govt-Taxpayer dollars to Greenie ventures + related that go bankrupt in short time.
Iran is steadily increasing its ability to indigenously produce different kinds of submarines, some of which would likely play an important role in any Iranian effort to close down the Strait of Hormuz. In an interview with the semi-official Fars News Agency this week, Admiral Khordad Hakimi, commander of the Iranian Army's 4th Naval Zone in the Caspian Sea, said that Iran is mass producing light submarines and has begun constructing medium submarines.
Although Iran is well known for grossly exaggerating its military advances, these statements seem on the mark.
The Islamic Republic of Iran first became interested in acquiring submarines after it had numerous surface vessels sunk by the U.S. Navy during the Tanker War in the late 1980s. Realizing the futility in taking on the USN directly, Iran embraced an asymmetric strategy. Submarines are one component of this, as are its mine-laying capabilities, anti-ship cruise missiles and fast-attack speedboats and other small craft, which it could use in swarming tactics.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Iran purchased three 877EKM Kilo-class (Tareq-class in Iran) diesel-electric submarines from Russia, reportedly paying US$600 million per vessel. In reality, the utility of the vessels for Iran's Persian Gulf operations is limited, as the shallow depth of the sea means they can only operate in about one-third of it. The water's high salt content also hinders their ability to use passive sonar to locate other ships without being detected.
In November 2007, Iran launched the lead ship of its Ghadir-class midget submarines. Iran claims that the vessel was indigenously built, although many analysts believe it is derived from North Korea's Yono-class submarine. Iran is now believed to operate about 20 of the 120-ton vessels, which are almost certainly what Hakimi was referring to when he said Iran is now capable of mass producing light submarines.
Christopher Harmer, a senior naval analyst at the Institute for the Study of War in Washington, tells The Diplomat that by Western standards, Iran's Ghadir-class subs are "very small, very short range, with minimal capability." Nonetheless, the submarines serve Iran's purposes well. Iran's ability to threaten shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, which 20 percent of the world's oil travels, is one of the three legs of its deterrent-based military doctrine. The midget submarines play a large role in Iran's effort to convince the U.S. and its allies that it poses a credible threat to the strait. In principle, the Ghadir-class submarines, used as Harmer explained, could be effective in disrupting shipping. Besides being able to lay mines (Iran has other ships for this), Iran could exploit the narrow shipping lanes and limited routes in the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf by pre-positioning subs to attack commercial vessels.
"The quietest submarine in the world is one that rests on a sandy seabed," Harner said. "That is how the Iranians would use the Ghadir -- get it out of port, sink to the bottom of the shallow Persian Gulf, rest on the sandy bottom, and wait for a target to come to it. "The Iranian submarines are very low quality, but if they put their submarines out into the Persian Gulf and put them on the bottom, just resting there, it will be very difficult for us to find them. As long as a submarine is not moving, it is not putting out any ambient noise. If it is not putting out ambient noise, the only way to find it is with an active sonar. Our best active sonar detection ranges for a static target resting on the bottom are maybe 2,500 yards."
Thus, hunting Iran's subs would require coming into close contact with them, unless they fired a torpedo, in which case they "would be immediately detected and completely vulnerable to counterattack." In light of this, Harmer points out that Iran's submarine doctrine rests on deterrence. If deterrence fails, Iran's subs would in effect become "suicide vessels." This probably could only be maintained for a limited period of time, given the likely scope of the USN's response. Were Iran's submarines to pursue offensive action, the U.S. would be able to call on its Gulf Cooperation Council and NATO allies in responding to the threat.
Still, it's worth noting that the Fars New Agency article this week in which Hakimi discussed Iran's ability to mass produce light submarines concluded by reaffirming that Iran has the capability to close the strait, although many experts doubt this.
Whatever the extent of the threat of Iran's current midget submarines, Tehran is clearly playing a long game when it comes to its budding underwater fleet.
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Not completely true. Unless they are turning off all the equipment, there's always a bit of noise being transmitted. I can't see them turning off the fans, the crew'll die from heat stroke. Those waters are warm. Passive sonar was very advanced when I was in the Navy back in the Stone Age. I can imagine it is more so now.
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.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Pulling off the perfect bank heist isn't as easy as the movies make it seem, especially when the robber takes aim at five banks -- in the space of three weeks.
