[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The head judge of the Primary Court of Ghor province has been detained on corruption charges, an official said on Tuesday.
Atta Mohammad Farouqi was reportedly jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... red handed in the placid provincial capital Firoz Koh.
Chulam Mustafa Mohseni, police chief of Ghor province confirms the arrest. He said that the Primary Court judge is now behind the bars.
Farouqi is the person who had ordered public punishment to a couple for allegedly committing crime.
Ahmad, 21, and Zarmina, 22, received 100 lashes each in front of several community elders and local residents for having illegal contacts about three weeks before.
After the punishment, Mohseni told news hounds that public punishment is allowed in the constitution.
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[Dhaka Tribune] More than 100 people were killed in South Sudan when an oil lorry went kaboom! as a crowd tried to gather fuel from the vehicle after it had veered off the road, a regional official said yesterday, a day after the incident.
In addition to those killed in Wednesday's blast, Charles Kisagna, the minister of information in Western Equatoria, said about 50 people were seriously injured.
"We don't have medical equipment and these people may not survive because we do not have the facilities to treat the highly burnt people," he told Rooters, adding the truck had been travelling from the capital Juba to the Western Equatoria area.
Such incidents have happened before in the east African region where fuel tankers often have to travel long distances along potholed roads and pass through poor
communities.
There are almost no tarmac roads in South Sudan, one of Africa's poorest nations, which has been mired in conflict since December 2013. Rebels and the government signed a peace deal in August, although the ceasefire has already been violated.
Presidential front man Ateny Wek Ateny said Wednesday's incident was not related to the conflict. "This was an accident," he said.
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"anybody got a smoke?"
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[Dhaka Tribune] More than 1,000 pilgrims in 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... were safely evacuated from a hotel in Mecca after a fire broke out on Thursday ahead of the hajj, emergency officials said. The hajj is going just trippingly this year, ain't it?
They got a new king recently, so everyone moved to a new job with unfamiliar responsibilities. This results in a great deal of bad luck.
Authorities said the blaze started on the eighth floor of an 11-story hotel in Mecca's Aziziya neighborhood.
Saudi civil defense officials said two pilgrims were being treated for injuries from the fire.
The hajj is expected to start on Monday. More than 1 million pilgrims have already arrived for the annual pilgrimage, which all able-bodied Moslems are required to perform once in their lives.
The fire comes after a crane collapse in Mecca last Friday killed at least 111 people and injured more than 390.
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When the current renovations to the el grande mosk
are done it will hold two million over excited muzzies. The potential for stampedes on an unprecedented scale is obvious.
[Dhaka Tribune] Two more prosecution witnesses gave deposition yesterday against BNP Chairperson the loathesome Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... and two others in the Zia Charitable Trust graft case.
The two witnesses are Amir Uddin and Paritush Chandra Dey, Sonali Bank's assistant general manager and senior executive manager respectively, who were both previously officers at the bank's Prime Minister's Office branch.
With yesterday's proceedings, the court has so far recorded depositions of 10 witnesses.
After recording the witness depositions, Judge Abu Ahmed Jamadar of Dhaka Special Judge Court 3 adjourned the trial proceedings until October 15 in the Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Charitable Trust cases. He fixed the date following time petitions from Khaleda's counsel.
Two separate defence petitions were also filed explaining Khaleda's non-appearance at the court, mentioning that the BNP chief was ill and had gone abroad for treatment.
Both the cases are being tried by the same court in the makeshift courtroom at Central Jail Parade Ground amid tight security.
On July 3, 2008, the Anti-Corruption Commission filed the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case against six, including Khaleda Zia and her eldest son Tarique Rahman ...the elder son of former President of Bangladesh Ziaur Rahman Bir Uttam, and Khaleda Zia, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh. He is the Senior Vice Chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). His nickname is Pino. There are allegations that Pino took a rakeoff from every foreign investment into the country while Mom was in office... .
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The drawings at the link. It should be noted that both sides acted terribly during the last hot phase of the war, not just the rebels. A lot of organized crime, and probably a fair amount of the usual kind as well was inflicted on the innocent. No one wore halos or angel wings in this thing.
Full disclosure: I plan on buying his work when it comes out.
After being captured by militants in Donetsk, artist Sergey Zakharov is working on a comic to shed light on political prisoners in the ongoing conflict.
Zakharov was living in Donetsk in 2014 and spent his time putting up guerrilla artworks around the city mocking the separatist movement.
[France 24] SOFIA (AFP) - Bulgaria began on Thursday deploying up to 1,000 troops to buttress its southeastern border with Turkey as hundreds of migrants remained stranded for a third day on the Turkish side, a senior official said.
"We have triggered a plan for the start of the step-by-step deployment of up to 1,000 troops along the whole Bulgarian-Turkish border (within the next week)," interior ministry chief of staff Georgy Kostov said.
It followed increased migrant pressure at the border overnight when 660 migrants attempted to cross into Bulgaria illegally, Kostov said.
The trespassers were spotted by the Bulgarian patrols, which alerted the Turkish authorities who turned them back to Turkey, he added.
EU member Bulgaria has already sent more than 1,000 extra police to its porous 260-kilometre (160-mile) Turkish border and sealed part of it with a 30-kilometre razor-wire fence that is being extended.
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Bulgaria + Eastern Europe may wanna deploy more than that, as per FREEREPUBLIC HUNGARY says up to 35.0Milyuhn immigrants will be heading to Europe in coming months.
LEST WE FERGIT, RADICAL ISLAM = ISIS/ISIL = ALIGNED HAVEN'T BEGUN FULL-SCALE, DESTABILIZING JIHAD = TERROPS AGZ RUSSIA, CHINA, + INDIA, ETC.
YET.
Fabulous!
President Obama, in a historic first for the Pentagon, has chosen to nominate Eric Fanning to lead the Army, a move that would make him the first openly gay civilian secretary of one of the military services.
Fanning's nomination is the latest in a series of actions taken by the administration to advance the rights of gays and lesbians throughout the federal government. The Obama administration has overhauled internal policies to provide benefits to same-sex partners, appointed gay men and lesbians to the executive branch and the federal bench and ended the 18-year ban on gays serving openly in the military.
“The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist.
"The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition." It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign.
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If he has no experience on the ground and outside of an office, he has no competency. Mr. Trumps cadet experience at a military school becomes more impressive (not much at all, but more than the nominated SoA).
Never forget who was SoD when the troops in Somalia were denied armor in their deployment.
Say you've been diagnosed with prostate cancer, the second-leading cause of cancer death in men. You opt for surgery to remove your prostate. Three months later, a prostate surface antigen (PSA) test shows no prostate cells in your body. Everyone rejoices.
Until 18 months later, when another PSA test reveals that now prostate cells have reappeared. What happened?
The first PSA test yielded what's known as a false negative result. It did not detect the handful of cells that remained after surgery and later multiplied. Now a chemist at Michigan Technological University has made a discovery that could, among other things, slash the numbers of false negatives in PSA tests. Good new for all us guys over fifty.
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What about false positives? PSA is notoriously inaccurate, and end up with painful surgery to do the biopsy whcih turns out was negative to begin with.
Plus PSA levels can be raised by urinary tract infections, or recent irritation of the prostate, by a foley catheter during surgery for example.
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A better PSA test would be a good thing. More, less invasive treatment options would also be a good thing. As of now, radiation (there are different kinds of radiation delivery methods), chemo, surgery, hormone therapy, watchful waiting, and cryosurgery are the major methods of dealing with PC. A recent development called Provenge (autologous cellular immunotherapy) is available and might provide some benefit. It gives your immune system a boost to fight off the cancer.
PC is often confused with another condition called benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH)--enlargement of the prostate that comes with age. Another concern about biopsies is that the procedure might break the prostate capsule and actually spread cancer cells to other parts of the body. Generally 12 needle samples are taken in the area between your penis and your rectum. A somewhat painful procedure. I asked my urologist if this was going to be painful; he said "It has never hurt me." I found a new urologist.
The PSA test and digital rectal exam are the first line of defense against PC. These generally indicate whether a biopsy is indicated. The good news is that if PC is caught early, the 5 year survival rate is high with surgery or radiation (>95%+). The 10 year survival rate is slightly less.
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Yes, the false positive result is MUCH more common (like twenty times higher) and causes all kinds of additional testing, spending, and possible harm as JohnQC describes.
However, there is no additional money to be made from negative results, so eliminating false positives isn't going to get any research money from industry.
This is different. Ties into quantum encryption.
[QuantaMagazine]. A two-year-old cryptographic breakthrough has proven difficult to put into practice. But new advances show how near-perfect computer security might be surprisingly close at hand. Warning: Eggheads be here.
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Any form of quantum encryption has got to be scary to US code breakers. Even if NSA could impede US companies it can't stop the bad guys. At least NSA has had time to think about it.
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[Daily Caller] Amid the many unanswered questions in the Hillary Clinton email scandal is whether the former secretary of state signed an official document acknowledging that she turned over all of the classified information in her possession to the State Department when she left office in Feb. 2013.
The "Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement" -- Special Form 312 -- also requires incoming government officials to acknowledge that classified information can be either "marked" or "unmarked" as such.
But finding out whether Clinton signed the document has been difficult. Fire them all and unleash the bulldozers.
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How can anyone seriously ask if she signed the damn form. By this point if she did she broke one set of rules and if she didn't she broke others. So, avoid the question and they will get tired of asking, or in extremis say you can't verify its existence but think she might have.
[PatriotUpdate] Showing the lack of class typical of this president....
President Obama will apparently test just how far Pope Francis' notorious tolerance will go by inviting a rogue's gallery of people opposed to Catholic teaching to greet the pontiff at the White House during his visit next week.
Of course he did.
In a stunning show of political indecorum, Obama has invited a series of individuals who publicly flout Catholic teaching, including a pro-abortion religious sister, a transgender woman and the first openly gay Episcopal bishop, along with at least two Catholic gay activists.
Pope Francis is a Jesuit. This could be educational.
The White House was illuminated in gay pride colors on June 26, 2015, after the Supreme Court legalized gay same-sex marriage.
One of the invitees, retired Episcopal bishop Gene Robinson, made history by becoming the first openly gay episcopal bishop in 2003 and subsequently the first to divorce his gay partner in 2014, after having previously separated from his wife of 14 years.
I wonder if that counts as bigamy or adultery if he never formally divorced her...
He has attended a number of religious events with the Obama administration, offering a prayer at President Obama's inauguration in 2009 and taking part in the 2014 National Prayer Breakfast.
Mateo Williamson, a cross-dressing woman and former co-chairman of the Transgender Caucus for Dignity USA, has also received an invitation to the White House for Pope Francis' visit. Williamson says that though she now thinks of herself as a man, she continues to be attracted to males. "Today I identify as a gay man and before that was difficult to understand because I thought that in order to be transgender, in order to be a transgender male that I had to be attracted to females but I never have throughout my entire life."
Though Pope Francis has said that he doesn't believe in judging persons and is ready to welcome anyone in Christ's name, he has also said that Catholics do not accept the modern mentality of transgenderism and once said that gay marriage is the devil's "attempt to destroy God's plan."
"The acceptance of our bodies as God's gift," Francis wrote in his encyclical letter on the environment, "is vital for welcoming and accepting the entire world as a gift from the Father and our common home, whereas thinking that we enjoy absolute power over our own bodies turns, often subtly, into thinking that we enjoy absolute power over creation."
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Champ might get a surprise. I was at a retreat 15-20 years ago when a man revealed he was attending a church known for it's homosexual membership. I expected anger, but the whole table got up and went to the chapel to pray together, overcome by God's love. It was quite moving.
I hope Champ gets to witness Christian love.
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It is doubtful Bobby. The Left and Muslims tend to view Christianity as the enemy. The Left tends to embrace its pet ideologies and gets blinded to reality. Muslims tend to get lost in their religion and are blinded to other religions.
This country is fundamentally good. What makes it good are the great number of good people across the country. Washington is something else.
"I don't like you, but won't say anything. Introduce you to some folks who will though, and I'll watch."
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From the folks who go into a rage if they see a Rebel Battle flag, can't help themselves in shoving something equally offensive into the face of others.
File under - one set of rules for me, another set of rules for thee.
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^ nominee for Snark 'O The Day
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The Vatican has made it known they don't appreciate the in-your-face insult. Francis should refuse to attend
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His Holiness could turn it back on the freak show and Obama by gently explaining Church teaching on homosexuality and abortion. He could urge the various people to repent their sins and sin no more.
Sort of like what happened to the Clintons had Mother Teresa at the national prayer breakfast. She lectured them on the evil of abortion, and they had to sit there, gritting their teeth, because she was the guest of honor.
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Ooooopsie!: Vatican objects to White House invitation list for papal visit [LINK]
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.
Say you've been diagnosed with prostate cancer, the second-leading cause of cancer death in men. You opt for surgery to remove your prostate. Three months later, a prostate surface antigen (PSA) test shows no prostate cells in your body. Everyone rejoices.
[PatriotUpdate] Showing the lack of class typical of this president....
