LORETTO, Tenn. (WZTV) ‐ A Tennessee police department's social media post has thousands of people talking online.
The Loretto Police Department posted a picture of an officer pointing an AT-4 on Dec. 10 that reads:
"Speeders beware. We recently acquired this surplus AT-4 and will be strictly enforcing the 45 mph zone in town. Here we see Officer Thomas set up on North Military Street. The versatility of the AT-4 allows for hit and run tactics on all our roadways.
(Do not take this post seriously.)"
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How bout IEDs for speeding (outside of legal pursuit) LEOs?
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Someone in the Loretto PD (pop. 1700+) has a sense of humor. I think Lawrence County was at one time a dry county. What do they do to tipplers, nuke em?
[BBC] Venezuela Supreme Court judge Christian Zerpa has fled to the US to protest over President Nicolás Maduro's second term in office.
Last year's election "was not free and competitive", the former Maduro loyalist told a Florida radio station. Just what we needed, more lawyers.
And he accused President Maduro of systematically manipulating the affairs of the Supreme Court.
In response, the court said Mr Zerpa was fleeing allegations of sexual harassment.
Opposition parties boycotted the 2018 vote, calling it a sham.
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Mr Zerpa had been a crucial ally for Mr Maduro on the court, writing a key legal opinion in 2016 justifying the president's decision to strip congress of its powers.
His ruling Socialist party had lost control of the legislature to the opposition in a landslide vote earlier that year.
But in an interview with Miami broadcaster EVTV on Sunday, Mr Zerpa called the Supreme Court "an appendage of the executive branch", saying the president would tell justices how to rule on certain cases.
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From Instaprof -
Zerpa was for years a crucial ally of Maduro on the Supreme Court, which has backed the ruling Socialist Party in every major legal dispute since Maduro’s 2013 election.
He wrote a 2016 ruling that provided the legal justification for Maduro’s government to strip congress of most of its powers after the Socialist Party lost control of the body to the opposition in a landslide election.
This is more like a Trotsky 'vacation' than an awakening.
[Al Jazeera] Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has defended his government's legitimacy amid growing opposition and international condemnation of his bid for a second six-year term.
In a Tweet on Sunday, Maduro, who is to be sworn in on Thursday, said the Venezuelan people had given "legitimacy" to his administration "with their vote".
"To those who hope to break our will, make no mistake. Venezuela will be respected!" he said.
His comments came after the opposition-controlled National Assembly declared Maduro's presidency illegitimate and called on the military to support efforts to "restore democracy" in the South American country.
Speaking at the start of a new legislative session on Saturday, Juan Guaido, the assembly's new president, said politicians reaffirmed "the illegitimacy of Nicolas Maduro".
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No it won't
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The way thugs say it: "Respet!"
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A U.S. guided-missile destroyer sailed near disputed islands in the South China Sea in what China called a "provocation" as U.S. officials joined talks in Beijing during a truce in a bitter trade war.
The USS McCampbell carried out a "freedom of navigation" operation, sailing within 12 nautical miles of the Paracel Island chain, "to challenge excessive maritime claims", Pacific Fleet spokeswoman Rachel McMarr said in an emailed statement.
The operation was not about any one country or to make a political statement, McMarr said.
[TheStar] (Rooters) Emmanuel Macron intended to start the new year on the offensive against the 'yellow vest' protesters. Instead, the French president is reeling from more violent street demonstrations.
What began as a grassroots rebellion against diesel taxes and the high cost of living has morphed into something more perilous for Macron - an assault on his presidency and French institutions. The little people are tired of being screwed. Expect more pain.
The French authorities' struggle to maintain order during the weekend protests raises questions not just over policing tactics but also over how Macron responds, as he prepares to bring in stricter rules for unemployment benefits and cut thousands of public sector jobs.
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This is normally where the big shots (le grand fromages) decide to double down.
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...and cut thousands of public sector jobs.
If the goal is to stop the riots from getting worse, this part is the exact wrong thing to do.
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From Instapundit, "Weird how our media has gone silent on this. Note to all proponents of the 'green new deal'. When you make war on your own people, sooner or later they fight back. Also, shocked face time! Wow, it backfired? Who would have thunk it?"
From War News Updates, "WNU Editor: I have some friends in France, and they all told me the same thing yesterday. All that the French government has done is cancel the rise in gas/diesel prices temporarily (for 6 months), and given benefits to those who are dependent on government for assistance. For the middle class .... who are the driving force behind these protests .... nothing but derision and criticisms. The problem that I see for France is that President Macron has 5 more years in his mandate, and he has no interest to compromise or accommodate the protest movement. This is an easy prediction .... these protests are going to continue, and some of them are going to be very violent."
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The no deal Brexit takes place in March and right now, Britain may not make the last 30 billion dollar payment to the EU. On top of that, Britain is the second largest contribute to the EU in payments. The rest of the countries will have to raise their taxes to feed that beast and guess who pays? The little guy. Britain leaving just may destroy the EU once and for all.
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@DarthVader
Node Eel is a MSM spin term. There's a default wTO deal where the UK trades with the EUSSR just like every other western country outside the EUSSR.
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BP. Yep. The WTO still functions and there are lots of countries that will trade with Britain despite the EUSSR being dumbfucks. I think Britain will be stronger for the no deal breakup.
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he has no interest to compromise or accommodate the protest movement.
Part of President Macron’s problem is that one of the Yellow Vests’ demands is his resignation.
And sadly, to keep France functional he does have to reduce benefits and cut government jobs. Had he started with summarily evicting illegal immigrants and rejected asylum seekers, and cutting the regulations that so burden France’s many small businesses, they would have been cheering him on instead of rioting... not to mention being able to afford to expand and hire more staff.
[Al Jazeera] "Yellow vest" protesters clashed with police in several French cities, smashing their way into a government ministry in Gay Paree with a forklift.
Benjamin Griveaux - a government front man evacuated from his ministry in central Gay Paree on Saturday when a handful of protesters in high-visibility vests smashed down the large wooden door to the ministry compound - denounced the break-in as an "unacceptable attack on the Republic".
"Some yellow vest protesters and other people dressed in black ... got hold of a construction vehicle which was in the street nearby and smashed open the entrance gate to the ministry," he told the AFP news agency.
They briefly entered the courtyard where they smashed up two cars, broke some windows and then escaped, Griveaux added, saying police were trying to identify them from security footage.
The Interior Ministry put the number of protesters who erupted into the streets across La Belle France at 50,000, compared with 32,000 on December 29 when the movement appeared to be weakening after holding a series of weekly Saturday protests since mid-November.
French President Emmanuel Macron did not specifically refer to the forklift incident, but tweeted his condemnation of the "extreme violence" against "the Republic, its guardians, its representatives and its symbols".
Police said about 3,500 demonstrators turned up on the Champs-Elysees in Gay Paree on Saturday morning.
Some then made their way south of the river to the wealthy area around Boulevard St Germain, where they set light to a car and several cycle of violences and set up burning barricades, prompting police to fire tear gas to try and disperse them.
Police said 35 people were locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! .
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Aside from that, everything is just hunky dory. Really. In totally unrelated news, expect any new House witch hunts investigations of the elected president to take on a whole new urgency.
[AyPee] Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is missing arguments for the first time in more than 25 years as she recuperates from cancer surgery last month, the Supreme Court said.
Ginsburg was not on the bench as the court met Monday to hear arguments. It was not clear when she would return to the court, which will hear more cases on Tuesday and Wednesday, and again next week.
Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said the 85-year-old justice is continuing to recuperate and work from home after doctors removed two cancerous growths from her left lung on Dec. 21.
Ginsburg was discharged from a New York hospital on Dec. 25.
Chief Justice John Roberts said in the courtroom Monday that Ginsburg would participate in deciding the argued cases "on the basis of the briefs and transcripts of oral arguments."
Ginsburg had two earlier cancer surgeries in 1999 and 2009 that did not cause her to miss court sessions. She also has broken ribs on at least two occasions.
The court said doctors found the growths on Ginsburg’s lung when she was being treated for fractured ribs she suffered in a fall at her office on Nov. 7.
After past health scares, Ginsburg has come back to work relatively quickly. In 2009, she was at the court for arguments on Feb. 23, 18 days after surgery for pancreatic cancer.
Weeks after her fall in November, Ginsburg was asking questions at high court arguments, speaking at a naturalization ceremony for new citizens and being interviewed at screenings of the new movie about her, "On the Basis of Sex."
Her latest surgery was a procedure called a pulmonary lobectomy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. The court said in a release issued the day of the surgery that doctors found "no evidence of any remaining disease" and scans taken before the surgery showed no cancerous growths elsewhere in her body. No additional treatment is currently planned, the court said.
Appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1993, Ginsburg rebuffed suggestions from some liberals that she should step down in the first two years of President Barack Obama’s second term, when Democrats controlled the Senate and would have been likely to confirm her successor.
She already has hired clerks for the term that extends into 2020, indicating she has no plans to retire.
If she did step down, President Donald Trump would have another opportunity to move a conservative court even more to the right. On the day she had surgery, Trump tweeted his wishes for Ginsburg’s "full and speedy recovery!"
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No plans to retire - in other words, plans to stay on the bench until they wheel her out feet first. Starting to look like that may not be very long now.
Sure, when there is only one, Ebbavirt Clunk4147. But when there are eight others involved in a court which went with only eight until Justice Kavanaugh was confirmed, the argument doesn’t stand, thank goodness.
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RBG is not required to be there. Basically have the court arguments and briefings and decide which decision would hurt American citizens & taxpayers the worst and there is her decision.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The organizers of a major Indian science conference distanced themselves Sunday from speakers who used the prestigious event to dismiss Einstein’s discoveries and claim ancient Hindus invented stem cell research.
The Indian Scientific Congress Association expressed "serious concern" as the unorthodox remarks aired by prominent academics at its annual conference attracted condemnation and ridicule.
The distinguished gathering of Indian researchers and scientists hosts Nobel laureates, but in recent years has seen Hindu mythology and faith-based theories edging onto the agenda.
At this year’s congress, the head of a southern Indian university cited an ancient Hindu text as proof that stem cell research was discovered on the subcontinent thousands of years ago.
"We had 100 Kauravas from one mother because of stem cell and test tube technology," said G. Nageshwar Rao, Vice Chancellor at Andhra University, referring to a story from the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
Rao, who was addressing school children and scientists at the event, also said a demon king from another centuries-old Hindu epic had two dozen aircraft and a network of landing strips in modern-day Sri Lanka.
"Hindu Lord Vishnu used guided missiles known as ’Vishnu Chakra’ and chased moving targets," added the professor of inorganic chemistry.
Event organizers tried to hose down the remarks, saying it was "unfortunate" the prestigious event had been derailed by controversy.
"We don’t subscribe to their views and distance ourselves from their comments. This is unfortunate," Premendu P. Mathur, general secretary of Indian Scientific Congress Association, told AFP.
"There is a serious concern about such kind of utterances by responsible people."
Another speaker, a scientist from a university in southern Tamil Nadu state, also raised eyebrows by questioning the breakthroughs of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein.
India is no stranger to prominent figures debasing science or citing ancient Hindu texts like the Puranas and Vedas as ironclad evidence of the country’s technological prowess.
India’s minister for higher education Satyapal Singh last year said Darwin’s theory of evolution was wrong, and vowed to change the national school curriculum to reflect that.
The minister hails from the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which rules 17 of India’s 29 states and territories outright or through alliances.
BJP leader and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2015 pointed to Hindu scriptures as proof that plastic surgery existed in ancient India.
Science minister Harsh Vardhan last year said ancient Greeks took credit from India for early mathematical principles and misquoted Stephen Hawking as praising the Vedas for discoveries greater than Einstein’s theory of relativity.
The Breakthrough Science Society, an Indian-based educational charity, said it was "astounded and even horrified" at the remarks made at an academic summit.
"Puranic verses and epics are poetic, enjoyable, contain moral elements and rich in imagination but not scientifically constructed or validated theories," the group said in a statement Sunday.
"Such a hallowed assembly of scientists has been misused to make false and chauvinistic claims about ancient India."
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[Jpost] National Security Adviser John Bolton raised US concerns on Sunday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over China's creeping role in Israel's critical infrastructure, particularly its upcoming management of Haifa Port, a frequent dock for the US Sixth Fleet.
White House officials confirmed to The Jerusalem Post that Bolton raised the Haifa matter. The Post exclusively reported last month that the US Navy might change its longstanding operations there once the Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG) ‐ a company in which the Chinese government has a majority stake ‐ takes over the city's civilian port in 2021.
Senior Israeli officials have recently told the Post that they are aware of Washington's concerns and are working to address them.
"The State of Israel is dealing with all aspects connected to the establishment and management of infrastructure by foreign companies in Israel," Intelligence and Transportation Minister Israel Katz, who pioneered the project and is also a member of the security cabinet, said.
Israeli officials have also confirmed that the government is reviewing how to ensure that Chinese construction and management of the port does not adversely impact ties with the US. The Americans are said to be concerned that China will use the port to improve its standing in the Middle East and potentially gather intelligence on US interests.
Foreign and defense ministry officials have raised internal concerns with how the SIPG was handled in the first place, when the agreement first concluded in 2015. According to one source, several bigwigs are expressing worry that sensitive infrastructure matters have not been properly vetted by Israel's full national security cabinet prior to approval.
"You don't want a decision that was made ostensibly for business reasons to have an impact on Israel's relationship with the American Navy," the source said.
News of an interagency review in Israel comes amid a spike in tensions between Washington and Beijing, and growing discomfort within Israel over China's increased activity in its national infrastructure projects.
The Israeli security cabinet recently convened to discuss friction with the Trump administration over the port and agreed to set up a mechanism to prevent possible problems with the Americans. Israeli officials did not immediately confirm whether Netanyahu presented this mechanism to Bolton on Sunday, or whether it would assuage US concerns.
Commander Kyle Raines from the Sixth Fleet said last month there were currently no changes to operations in Israel. But "I can’t speculate on what might or might not occur in 2021," he added, asked whether China’s coming presence might affect fleet operations in the Mediterranean city.
SIPG operates the largest port in the world in Shanghai and was the sole bidder for the Haifa project. It plans on growing the bay terminal into Israel's largest harbor over the life of its 25-year contract with the government.
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Before the UAE controversy erupted, most Americans probably did not know that many US ports are already owned or run by private corporations, some of which are owned by foreign governments. According to the New York Times, foreign-based companies own and/or manage over 30% of US port terminals. According to Time Magazine, over 80% of the terminals in the Port of Los Angeles are run by foreign-owned companies, including the government of Singapore. In fact, APL Limited, controlled by the Singapore government, operates ports in Los Angeles, Oakland, Seattle and Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Chinese government-owned companies control terminals in the Port of Los Angeles and other West Coast ports, as well as both ends of the Panama Canal.
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It all depends on whether or not the Chinese company needs to install sorts of extra antennas. Like the Russian Consulates that had "A/C Vents" that had a habit of relocating from place to place...
Probably wish they could condemn him to death, or life, like that Palestinian-American the PA is trying to send back home after the Americans made their displeasure known.
[IsraelTimes] Dozens of Paleostinians are protesting the arrival of the Greek Orthodox patriarch of the Holy Land ahead of an Orthodox Christmas celebration in Bethlehem.
The protesters shout "traitor" at Patriarch Theophilos III as he makes his way under heavy guard toward the Church of the Nativity, revered by Christians as the traditional site of Jesus’s birthplace. Paleostinians have been demanding his resignation for allegedly selling church land to Israelis.
The Greek Orthodox church is one of the largest real estate owners in the Holy Land. It is dominated by Greek clergy while the flock is overwhelmingly Paleostinian.
The Orthodox mark Christmas on January 7, according to the Gregorian, rather than Julian, calendar.
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.
[BBC] Venezuela Supreme Court judge Christian Zerpa has fled to the US to protest over President Nicolás Maduro's second term in office.
[TheStar] (Rooters) Emmanuel Macron intended to start the new year on the offensive against the 'yellow vest' protesters. Instead, the French president is reeling from more violent street demonstrations.
[Al Jazeera] "Yellow vest" protesters clashed with police in several French cities, smashing their way into a government ministry in 
