[Reuters] Protesters stormed and set fire to Paraguay's Congress on Friday after the Senate secretly voted for a constitutional amendment that would allow President Horacio Cartes to run for re-election.
The country's constitution has prohibited re-election since it was passed in 1992 after a brutal dictatorship fell in 1989.
"A coup has been carried out. We will resist and we invite the people to resist with us," said Senator Desiree Masi from the opposition Progressive Democratic Party.
Firefighters managed to control the flames after protesters left the Congress building late on Friday night. But protests and riots continued in other parts of Asuncion and elsewhere in the country well into the night, media reported.
Earlier, television images showed protesters breaking windows of the Congress and clashing with police, burning tires and removing parts of fences around the building. Police in riot gear fired tear gas and rubber bullets.
Several politicians and journalists were injured, media reported, and Interior Minister Tadeo Rojas said several police were hurt. One member of the lower house of Congress, who had been participating in protests that afternoon, underwent surgery after being hit by rubber bullets.
[Breitbart] Democrats in Montana have opposed a bill banning the use of foreign law in its state courts on the grounds that such legislation would target Muslims.
Senate Bill 97, introduced by Keith Regier (R-Kalispell) bans the application of foreign law in Montana’s courts, with the debate particularly focused on Sharia Law, a form of Islamic law typically used in the Middle East.
Although the bill passed on party lines by 56-44, Democrats claimed it was designed to target Muslim communities.
"I think it sends a dangerous message to minority groups both here living in our state and wanting to come visit our state, just merely on the fact that you may be different," said Rep. Shane Morigeau, D-Missoula, while debating the bill. "I truly believe this law is repugnant. I believe this is not who we are as Montanans."
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"I think it sends a dangerous message to minority groups both here living in our state and wanting to come visit our state, just merely on the fact that you may be different," said Rep. Shane Morigeau, D-Missoula, while debating the bill. "I truly believe this law is repugnant. I believe this is not who we are as Montanans."
If you think that law is repugnant, wait until you get inundated with Muslims demanding your obedience to THEIR law. Then you'll find out what repugnant REALLY is.
Idiot...
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#2 What do they think about Branch Davidian Law?
After the Waco siege, I got a good idea what they think of that. The count was a total of 76 people dead including cultists burned to death and the 4 government agents and 6 Davidians shot to death. This occurred during the 1st Clinton administration.
The question is why do the Democrats have all this new-found liking for Sharia Law? Is it the "supremacy" aspects? Or the possibility of new recruits into the Donk Party?
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With hands that've never held helves,
They'll shovel sharia by shelves,
Then shout, as they light it,
"You fascists should fight it!
We would, but we're too tired, ourselves."
[Salt Lake Tribune] Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly fired back at California's chief justice for criticizing the use of courthouses to arrest undocumented immigrants, writing in a letter released Friday that the practice was only necessary because the state was so uncooperative on immigration enforcement matters.
Responding to a missive from California Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, Sessions and Kelly wrote that the characterization of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers "stalking" undocumented immigrants at courthouses was "particularly troubling," and that officers were within their rights to arrest undocumented immigrants in public places.
They blamed state and local officials for enacting "statutes and ordinances designed to specifically prohibit or hinder ICE from enforcing immigration law" and "denying requests by ICE officers and agents to enter prisons and jails to make arrests." Such policies, they wrote, made it necessary for officers to arrest undocumented immigrants at courthouses.
"We would encourage you to express your concerns to the Governor of California and local officials who have enacted policies that occasionally necessitate ICE officers and agents to make arrests at courthouses and other public places," the two men wrote.
Responding to their letter, Cantil-Sakauye said in a statement she appreciated the reply but "making arrests at courthouses, in my view, undermines public safety because victims and witnesses will fear coming to courthouses to help enforce the law."
"I am disappointed that despite local and state public safety issues at stake, courthouses are not on ICE's 'sensitive areas' list that includes schools, churches, and hospitals," she said.
The back-and-forth marks an escalation in the burgeoning battle between federal and some state governments over immigration enforcement matters, with both sides staking out aggressive postures.
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There must be some kind of criminal charge that can be made against Gov. Moonbeam along with many of California's mayors, legislators and city council members. It's time to put some of these people in jail.
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I say this with all seriousness. If we are to be a nation of laws then laws must be enforced. Public officials who obstruct law enforcement need to be put in jail just like anybody else who aids and abets the commission of a crime.
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Cantil-Sakauye said in a statement she appreciated the reply but "making arrests at courthouses, in my view, undermines public safety because victims and witnesses will fear coming to courthouses to help enforce the law."
Good! I hope they're so afraid that they get the fuck out of my country.
[PJ] Evelyn Farkas, the former Obama administration official who dropped a bombshell on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" earlier this month, is now furiously back-peddling. Farkas, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense under Obama, seemed to admit during that March 2 appearance that her colleagues had gathered intelligence on the Trump campaign's alleged ties to Russia before Donald Trump took office and then tried to hide the sources of that intelligence from the incoming administration.
"I was urging my former colleagues and, frankly speaking, the people on the Hill, it was more actually aimed at telling the Hill people, get as much information as you can, get as much intelligence as you can, before President Obama leaves the administration," said Farkas. I fear for Evelyn.
"I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior [Obama] people who left, so it would be hidden away in the bureaucracy," she said, adding that if "the Trump folks" found out how they knew what they knew, "they would try to compromise those sources and methods, meaning we would no longer have access to that intelligence."
The media, including some in conservative media, are not reporting or are burying key information about Dr. Evelyn Farkas, the former Obama official at the center of a controversy over her remarks about Obama government intelligence gathering and dissemination about President Donald Trump’s campaign and transition staffers: Farkas was an advisor to the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and was touted to be in line for an appointment in the expected Clinton administration by over-confident campaign officials.
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She figured out she will be thrown to the wolves by the Democrats.
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'Fake News' functions pretty much like 'wreckers' did in the days of the Soviet Union; with a little hammering, it can be made to fit most anywhere.
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Dr. Dale Klein may be the highest-paid U.S. government employee who literally does nothing while he's on the clock. A highly rated pain management specialist at the Southeast Missouri John J. Pershing V.A., Klein is paid $250,000 a year to work with veterans, but instead of helping those who served their country, he sits in a small office and does nothing. All day. Every day.
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I dunno, grom. When you don't have anything to do at work the boredom is crushing.
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he's not doing it by choice. The VA Hospital is assigning him to the empty room and not giving him any patients - and *you* are paying for it.
People need to go to jail for crap like this.
[FOX] The U.S. intelligence official who "unmasked," or exposed, the names of multiple private citizens affiliated with the Trump team is someone "very well known, very high up, very senior in the intelligence world," a source told Fox News on Friday.
Intelligence and House sources with direct knowledge of the disclosure of classified names told Fox News that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., now knows who is responsible -- and that person is not in the FBI.
For a private citizen to be "unmasked," or named, in an intelligence report is extremely rare. Typically, the American is a suspect in a crime, is in danger or has to be named to explain the context of the report.
"The main issue in this case, is not only the unmasking of these names of private citizens, but the spreading of these names for political purposes that have nothing to do with national security or an investigation into Russia’s interference in the U.S. election," a congressional source close to the investigation told Fox News.
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Barry Soetoro's puppet master will soon be revealed. I too, doubt anything will come of it. The Congress as a governing body is a fiction. It's feckless investigations are little more than a pretense for justice. If the evil Clinton's could not be brought to heel, no one can.
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However, after viewing the evidence, Schiff is urging all members view it securely so they will know Congress is not being partisan! If nothing to do with Russians or of intel value...this may end up being a big vindication for Trump. And I suspect it is not unmasking of names at issue, but they were never masked in the first place. This sounds like raw intel few should have access to....
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If the CIA can do this, it is hard telling what else they can do.
It (WikiLeaks latest Vault 7 release) says the CIA disguised its own hacking attacks to make it appear those responsible were Russian, Chinese, Iranian or North Korean.
WikiLeaks says the source code suggests Marble has test examples in Chinese, Russian, Korean, Arabic and Farsi (the Iranian language).
It says: 'This would permit a forensic attribution double game, for example by pretending that the spoken language of the malware creator was not American Englishbut Chinese.'
This could lead forensic investigators into wrongly concluding that CIA hacks were carried out by the Kremlin, the Chinese government, Iran, North Korea or Arabic-speaking terror groups such as ISIS. Daily Mail article.
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.
[Salt Lake Tribune] Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly fired back at California's chief justice for criticizing the use of courthouses to arrest undocumented immigrants, writing in a letter released Friday that the practice was only necessary because the state was so uncooperative on immigration enforcement matters.
A 'courthouse arrest' might have saved Kate, but we'll never know. 
[PJ] Evelyn Farkas, the former Obama administration official who dropped a bombshell on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" earlier this month, is now furiously back-peddling. Farkas, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense under Obama, seemed to admit during that March 2 appearance that her colleagues had gathered intelligence on the Trump campaign's alleged ties to Russia before Donald Trump took office and then tried to hide the sources of that intelligence from the incoming administration.
People like Evelyn are why Vlad goes fishing. 
