[NEWYORK.CBSLOCAL] Give the feral children what they want or else.
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Thousands of hip-hop and music fans ... crowds attempting to illegally enter the sold out Summer Jam concert by climbing over fences and forcing their way ... "the way they treat our people is like animals."
[IOL News] Durban - The bodies of the two elderly women found mutilated at a Durban funeral facility were cremated last Thursday after a state pathologist completed his examination.
Operations director of Doves Funeral parlour Adriaan Batt, who requested the names of the affected families be withheld, said informing the families of the women that the bodies of their loved ones had been violated was the hardest thing he had ever done.
The women were 69 and 96 and had died of natural causes. 'Natural causes' as opposed to kidnapped and murdered for parts. "It made me sick to the stomach. I was never prepared for this and I was angry that people would show such disrespect for the dead," he said.
"The reality struck me when I had to phone the families. Can you imagine calling people who are in mourning, bringing them more grief?"
He said last Monday, during a routine inspection, when the bodies were brought in from the state pathologist, it was discovered that the women's private parts, including a breast, had been removed.
He said the police were called and four possible suspects were identified. After some questioning the four funeral directors were suspended and the matter was being investigated by police.
He said a few days later two more funeral directors were suspended, bringing the suspensions to six.
"These employees have worked for the company for between five and 15 years. They knew that the bodies would be cremated immediately on arrival and thought that they could get away with their grim actions. A bit lax on supervision are we ?
"In my many years of working in this industry I have never had to face grieving families to tell them about a heinous act like this. We have offered counselling to the two families and we are keeping in touch with them."
He also said all employees at the branch had been put through a lie detector test.
Provincial police spokesman Colonel Jay Naicker said no arrests had been made. Nor will any arrests be made.
Professor Nceba Gqaleni, a member of the Traditional Health Practitioners' Council of South Africa, and honorary research professor at the Durban University of Technology, said harvesting of human bodyparts was "pure witchcraft". It's called 'Muti.' (Black magic voodoo medicine). Welcome to 7th Century Africa.
"In the past dead people were respected, but that has been overtaken by witchcraft. These people harvesting body parts, taking them to so-called traditional healers, are criminals who engage in witchcraft with bogus healers.
A semi-trailer carrying about 2,200 baby pigs overturned on an Ohio highway on Monday night, an official said, forcing a lane closure as authorities frantically chased piglets over the roadway and into an adjacent woods.
Up to 15 local police and fire agencies were still trying to capture the pigs more than two hours after the accident on State Route 35 in Xenia Township, about 16 miles east of Dayton, said a dispatch operator for the Green County sheriff's department who did not want to be identified.
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I will remember, the next time I hear my neighbor LEOs paged out in the middle of the night to persue a fleeing criminal, they will not be brave unless they Tivo the MSUSA pageant when they get home.
Moroccan Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane has ordered an investigation into the TV broadcast of a Jennifer Lopez concert.
The singer's performance at the Mawazine festival in Rabat on 29 May was aired on the 2M public TV network.
Mr Benkirane said the airing was "serious delinquency", adding it contained "disgraceful scenes".
He added the "sexually suggestive" broadcast was in violation of the country's audiovisual law.
Last week, Morocco's minister of communication was criticised for allowing the gig to air on public TV, leading to calls for him to resign.
Local media also criticised Lopez for her "suggestive poses" and for being "scantily" dressed. OK. OK. I know it's not WOT related. But it kinda relates to the clash of cultures. Besides, there are some nice pictures at the link. It's a BBC article but hat tip to TMZ because that's where I heard about it. Yeah. I'm ashamed of myself for watching TMZ but after reading Rantburg I need something a little lighter.
[Hurriyet Daily News] The largest supplier of police water cannons in Turkey has seen a steep fall in its stock prices, hours after the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost its parliamentary majority.
Shares in Katmerciler Ekipman, the company that manufactures the riot control vehicles popularly known as TOMAs, decreased 10 percent early June 8.
The fall was worse than the average decline in Borsa Istanbul stock prices, which saw a fall as low as 8.15 percent in its opening following the June 7 general elections.
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[DAWN] "The dichotomy of this country is that it prides itself on more becoming a democratic state, yet various forms of slavery still exist within its borders," says Dr Ghulam Haider, who works at the Green Rural Development Organisation (GRDO) that aims to free bonded labourers.
Trade union leaders, representatives of farmers bodies and civil society activists came together at the Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... Press Club on Sunday to launch a campaign to end bonded labour in Sindh, highlighting how deeply engrained the problem has become in the rural areas of the province.
Dr Haider said the inhuman practice was rampant in the agriculture industry, in brick kilns and fisheries, and shared many examples of the plight of labourers, who were being mercilessly exploited by influential landlords "committing atrocities against these vulnerable communities".
The GRDO has initiated a campaign all over Sindh to end bonded labour. It plans to stage protests and demonstrations, camps and sit-ins in different parts of the province to highlight the issue.
According to Dr Haider, over 2.3 million people are facing bonded labour, with over 80 per cent of them being Hindus.
He spoke about the Bonded Labour Abolition Act 1992 which, he said, was not being implemented rigorously in Pakistain, and as a result "Pakistain has become the third highest bonded labour-infected country in the world".
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The agenda list is packed with risks to the world. Funny how US Elections made that list.
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
Chemical Weapons Threats
Current Economic Issues
European Strategy
Globalisation
Greece
Iran
Middle East
NATO
Russia
Terrorism
United Kingdom
USA
US Elections
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I'm surprised that "Climate change" didn't make the list? Obumble has said it was the numero uno threat that causes all the evils on the planet but then Obumble says a lot of things.
Sock puppet Kerry has hit the curb, the real foreign policy architect now steps to the plate.
[Econ Times] JERUSALEM: CIA chief John Brennan made a "secret" visit to Israel last week to discuss an emerging nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported on Tuesday.
It came as a June 30 deadline looms for a deal that would row back Iran's nuclear programme in return for relief from sanctions, which Israel and a large number of other intelligent people has long opposed, causing friction with the White House.
[PJmedia] History is not static and it does not progress linearly. There was more free speech and unimpeded expression in 5th-century Athens than in Western Europe between 1934-45, or in Eastern Europe during 1946-1989. An American could speak his mind more freely in 1970 than now. Many in the United States had naively believed that the Enlightenment, the U.S. Constitution, and over two centuries of American customs and traditions had guaranteed that Americans could always take for granted free speech and unfettered inquiry.
That is an ahistorical assumption. The wish to silence, censor, and impede thought is just as strong a human emotion as the desire for free expression -- especially when censorship is cloaked in rhetoric about fairness, equality, justice, and all the other euphemisms for not allowing the free promulgation of ideas.
George Orwell devoted his later years to warning us that while the fascist method of destroying free expression was easily identified (albeit only with difficulty combatted), the leftwing totalitarian impulse to squelch unpopular speech was far harder to resist -- couched as it was in sloganeering about the "people" and "social justice." It is easy to object to the speech codes of a self-interested, corrupt dictator in sunglasses and epaulettes, but difficult to fight censorship that allegedly helps the poor, minorities, and the helpless.
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...I don't particularly care who/what someone sleeps with (with the caveat that everybody involved is a consenting adult)as long as they can do a given job. Trouble here is that no matter how good a SecArmy Mr Fanning may be, his appointment is going to be seen as a sign that there's a new protected class in town, and every single decision he makes is going to be seen in that light.
Mike
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The aversion to gays in positions of high trust and security goes back to the famous Riedel case in Hungary. A Austro-Hungarian Colonel named Riedel took a liking to a young handsome Russian cavalry officer/military attaché in Budapest and essentially sold Austro-Hungary down the river by giving the young Russian officer all of their war plans in exchange for his "favors."
Of course, if a guy is out of the closet, you really can't blackmail him about his sexual orientation...British Intelligence and the CIA suffered some catastrophe security breaches by gays in high places particularly with regard to the A-Bomb...most notably being Philby and his boyfriend in British Intelligence.
Still I think Mike has hit on something with regard to the perception of favoritism.
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Mike. You are wrong. One of the parms in being able to do the job is the impact on other peoiple and if the people in the military don't think well about being un der the authority of a gay (and possibly being oredered to do more sensitivity training instead of the kind of training who prevents of you returning in a boduy bag) and recruitment plummets then that person is not fit for the job.
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.
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