[Guardian] Native American activists at the Standing Rock "water protector" camps vowed to remain in place the morning after the US Army Corps of Engineers denied a key permit for the Dakota Access pipeline, with many expressing concerns that the incoming Trump administration and potential legal action from the pipeline company could reverse their victory.
The Army Corps of Engineers announced Sunday that it would not grant the permit for the Dakota Access pipeline to drill under the Missouri river, handing a major victory to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe after a months-long campaign against the pipeline.
However, the companies behind the pipeline, who have the backing of the incoming Trump administration, have insisted the project would still go ahead. "Nothing indicates for us to pack up and go home," said Tom Goldtooth, executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network. "Our native people have reason to be distrustful."
Donald Trump's spokesman says the former reality show host will consider restarting the Dakota Access pipeline project when he takes office. The Army Corps of Engineers refused to grant an easement for the pipeline.
A great many people are going to find the next four years challenging.
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The speaking with forked tongue part seems to be true: The Army Corps of Engineers in July granted ETP the permits needed for the crossing, but the agency decided in September that further analysis was warranted given the tribe's concerns.
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The DAPL would cross the Missouri River (impounded Lake Oahe) about 75 miles upstream of the current railroad crossing and future Reservation water system intake at Mobridge, SD - the current water intake is at Fort Yates, about 45 miles north, but more subject to low water levels during drought.
75 miles downstream of a pipeline crossing is a LONG way! Several pipelines under the Mississippi River are closer to New Orleans water intake than that. Check out a pipeline map of the US - I suspect a majority of the population gets water from within 75 miles of a pipeline.
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The "little man in the boat" says "two thumbs up!"
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A fish joint, and business is snappy...
But diners don't seem to be happy,
Asserting, en masse,
"Say, this stuff smells like bass!"
"I assure you, good sir, it's just crappie!"
[Dhaka Tribune] A Sylhet court has recorded deposition of 17 witnesses in the case file in connection with attempted murder of college girl Khaidza Akter Nargis
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Saifuzzaman Hiru recorded the testimonies, including that of the victim’s uncle and plaintiff of the case Abdul Kuddus, and the principal and vice-principal of MC College, on Monday.
The sole accused in the case Badrul Alam, a suspended leader of BCL’s Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) unit, was present in the court during the recordings of the depositions. He was produced before the court under strict police protection.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Bangladesh will share the findings of Bangladesh Bank (BB) heist investigation carried out by Criminal Investigation Department (CID) with Philippines, but the country will not share the probe report of former central bank Governor Farashuddin Ahmed
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[Ynet] Officials say a Greek court has refused to extradite to the first three of eight Turkish servicemen who fled to Greece after the failed July 15 military coup.
All eight helicopter crewmen deny charges they participated in the coup and in a plot to assassinate Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... Monday's decision by the Athens council of appeals court judges followed arguments by a Greek prosecutor that the lives of the pilots and flight mechanics would be in danger in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... The three Turks are expected to be released from police custody in the coming days.
Their lawyer, Stavroula Tomara, said the court will rule over the next three days on the extradition of the other five servicemen. All eight fled to Greece in a Turkish military helicopter July 16
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[The Hill] Former secretary of State Henry Kissinger will meet with Donald Trump Tuesday, according to pool reports.
Kissinger, who served under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, met with Trump after he won the presidency and earlier during the campaign.
Kissinger also met with China's Xi Jinping on Friday, which some saw as an attempt to ease concerns there about the incoming Trump administration. The meeting came as Trump took a phone call with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, a move that could cause friction between the U.S. and China.
On Monday, Trump also met with Robert McFarland, who served as Ronald Reagan's national security adviser from 1983 to 1985. Jason Miller, Trump's transition spokesman, told the pool McFarland had a "great discussion with the president-elect’s national security team."
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If you want to explore the mind spark of the Clinton Foundation, and the chicanery of globalization, look no further than Kissinger Associates model.
I have no idea why Trump would meet with this man or Al Gore. Perhaps his motivations will be revealed in due time.
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Gul Dukat: Anyone can blow up a ship. Ha! But to look your enemy in the eye, knowing you'll remember his face for the rest of your life, now that takes... a stomach, much stronger than you'll ever have.
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I have no idea why Trump would meet with this man or Al Gore. Perhaps his motivations will be revealed in due time.
Kissinger is China's emissary to the US. Xi has told Kissinger to lay down the law, and the Donald had better prostrate himself, or else... We'll see soon enough what Trump is made of. Bush was all set to confront China, especially after the EP-3 incident, but was sidetracked by 9/11 and the punitive expeditions into Afghanistan and Iraq that turned into expensive nation-building exercises.
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I can understand how Nixon wanted detente with China just like he did with the Soviets. That doesn't mean we have to kowtow to them.
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If your premise is the US went off-track after the cold war then it makes sense to talk to some of the foreign policy experts from before before the end of the cold war and get their take.
[DAWN] Three accused in the Qandeel Baloch murder case, including her brother, denied having killed the social media celebrity, after they were indicted by the court here on Monday.
When Additional District and Sessions Judge Saeed Ahmad Raza indicted the three accused -- Qandeel’s brother Waseem, her cousin Haq Nawaz and taxi driver Abdul Basit -- they denied committing the crime.
The fourth co-accused, Zafar Hussain Khosa, was declared an absconder by the court.
The three accused were brought for appearance in the court from jail.
The court fixed Dec 8 as next date of hearing while issuing directions to the witnesses to appear before it.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella grabbed the cocoanut cream... Lahore High Court, Multan bench, granted bail to one of the accused, Abdul Basit.
Qandeel was found murdered in her rented house in Multan on July 16. Her father had alleged that she was killed by her younger brother, Waseem, in the name of honour.
Waseem, who had allegedly fled from the scene, later courted arrest. He later confessed to having killed his sister at a presser.
The police had claimed that Waseem had also made a confession in the presence of an area magistrate. But the counsel for the accused denied any such confession.
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[DAWN] A teenaged girl was allegedly molested by three men, who also took her photos from a cellphone, in a suburban area of Muzaffarabad over the weekend, Dawn reported Monday.
Fourteen-year-old Zahra*, while speaking to the media, claimed she was sexually assaulted by her distant relatives over a property dispute between her immediate family and that of the accused.
Ashfaq Ahmed, Zahra's elder brother, alleged constable Asghar Ali and his family had been threatening them to give up ownership of a piece of land, some 15 kanals in size, in Nairiyan village, Langarpura Union Council of Azad Jammu and Kashmire (AJK).
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[DAWN] At least 12 people were killed and 75 others injured when a huge fire erupted at 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... 's Regent Plaza hotel early Monday, police and a doctor said.
The blaze broke out in the kitchen located at the ground floor of the four-star hotel located on the city's Shahrah-e-Faisal, and swept through the building, trapping scores of hotel guests in their rooms.
Three trucks from the fire brigade reached the site and started an operation to rescue the guests.
The firefighters were able to contain the blaze after three hours, with 11 people having been killed, said a blurb issued by the Saddar Police Station.
No fire exits?
Karachi mayor Waseem Akhtar speaking to news hounds outside the hotel said the cause of the fire could not be immediately ascertained.
He said the hotel had "no fire exits or fire alarms".
"We have received 11 dead bodies and 75 injured," Dr Seemin Jamali, head of the emergency services at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, told AFP.
Amongst the injured were people who had fractured bones after jumping from hotel windows to escape, others had been hurt by shattered glass and many were treated for smoke inhalation, she said.
She said six men, including three doctors and the hotel's front desk manager, and five women were among the dead. A couple from Punjab, attending a wedding in the metropolis were also among the dead. Three foreigners affected by the fire are in a stable condition, said Jamali.
Rescue officials recovered another body from the washroom of a room on the second floor on Monday evening.
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[NYP] This is the horrifying moment a pregnant dancer was shot dead on stage ‐ by drunk men who were angry that they could not dance with her, it was reported.
Kulwinder Kaur died after she was gunned down at a wedding in Bathinda in the Punjab state in Northern India. Four people have since been arrested for the murder of the 25-year-old and remain in custody after shocking footage of the shotgun attack was posted online and went viral.
Among those arrested include Lucky Goyal, the leader of the Sikh political party Shiromani Akali Dal, and his friend Sanjay Goyal. Two others have not yet been named. The young woman’s husband, named as Rajinder Singh, claimed she was three months pregnant when she was killed.
All Sikhs, then. Got it.
He added that a few drunk men tried to get on stage to dance with the girls but they were refused by stage management. Singh claimed they grew frustrated by this and fired a gun out of anger, with a bullet hitting his wife and killing her instantly.
Police Senior Superintendent Swapan Sharma said: "Both weapons found by officers belonged to Sanjay Goyal, but Lucky was holding the 0.32 bore revolver, as per the video clipping which we have seen.
"Lucky fired in the air while trying to go on stage. Sanjay Goyal was also near the stage holding his 0.12 gun. Both weapons have been recovered."
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More shocking than the shooting (to me, anyway) was the brutally careless way she was "carried" off the stage (thunk!) and dragged across the floor. Dunno whether they were trying to hide her or help her at that point, but it was painful to watch. I guess this is where I say "bloody savages" and thank God for putting me in a place where, if I'm gunned down by thugs, I'll be hauled away by experts.
On September 11th, 2001, terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, a symbol of American power and prestige. It was the worst sneak attack in U.S. history since the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. The destruction of the Twin Towers was a huge blow to America’s national psyche. Apart from the tragic loss of life, however, the attack by itself did little to diminish America’s military or economic strength. The next surprise strike -- if it comes -- could be far more disruptive and disabling.
Historians, military experts and technology buffs agree that the next 9/11 or Pearl Harbor could involve a form of cyber warfare that begins in outer space. In a nightmare scenario, rogue powers (hackers and terrorists) or familiar adversaries (Russia or China) might succeed in knocking out or disabling critical American communications satellites.
A worst case scenario would entail a nationwide loss of cell phone service, an Internet blackout and the disruption of key power grids across the country. Under such circumstances, experts contend that the stock market would grind to a halt. Traffic signals would malfunction. Online commerce would cease. The American way of life would be under siege. Sounds a lot like the Y2K problem, back in 2000. When we left 1999 behind us and all the ATM's failed, and computers went down, barfing COBOL and ALGOL and Logo and all those other horrible things, and the power grid shut down... But that never happened because a swarm of programmers made good money by fiddling the way dates turned over, and then when we entered the new century -- the first year in a thousand years that was neatly divisible by four that wasn't a leap year -- the whole hysteria evaporated when even the machines that had gotten overlooked in the hysteria mostly functioned correctly. The power stayed on, the ATMs continued giving money, occasionally drooling a bit of C++ but not much, and computers didn't freeze up. Now nobody wants to talk about it.
But I'm sure this one really is different. And don't eat barbecue. It'll give you cancer. Apples are coated with Alar at least an inch deep. Salt is bad for you. Farmers torture chickens for fun.
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We will screw this up somehow. We'll have satellite parts engineered and made in some hostile foreign country that will have a backdoor, or the encryption will be hacked by some basement dweller or the keys will accidentally posted on the internet, or the whole system will be overly complicated like the LCS or the F-35 and just won't work or do what it's told to do.
[Guardian] The chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe has asked the thousands of "water protectors" gathered in encampments along the Missouri river to "go home" after the US Army Corps of Engineers denied a permit for the Dakota Access pipeline to drill under the river.
In a video statement Dave Archambault thanked the thousands of Native American and environmental activists who travelled to North Dakota to help the tribe fight back against the pipeline, which they feared would contaminate their water source and destroy sacred sites.
But after the "huge victory" of the Army Corps decision, Archambault said: "There’s no need for the water protectors or for anyone to be putting ourselves in unsafe environments.
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A little ways away from home, but their gripe is that the oilway, crossing as it does upstream from their Res., could contaminate their water if the 'lines were corrupted. Some credence to this argument. Do they have earthquakes in No. Dak?
Their other position that a leak in the pipeline could desecrate their tribal "Sacred Grounds" which, as a conclusion to my time and experience on terrestrial soil, could only be escaped by living on the high-seas...if there.
[OneNewsNow] A lawsuit claiming that the national motto of the United States is unconstitutional ‐ filed by the notorious atheist Michael Newdow ‐ was dismissed by an Ohio federal court last week.
Representing atheists nationwide, Newdow contended that the Americans’ free speech and free exercise clause rights are violated solely because they appear on U.S. currency.
Handling cash offensive?
It was argued that the mere existence of the national motto on a dollar bill forces religious beliefs upon the user. Ever heard of a credit card, Derp?
"Plaintiffs asserted that carrying currency equated to governmental compulsion to speak in support of the National Motto and to bear a ’religiously offensive’ message, in violation of the Free Exercise Clause and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act," the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) reported.
However, Newdow’s claim met stiff competition, as ACLJ attorneys filed an amicus brief on behalf of 50 members of Congress and the Committee to Protect the National Motto ‐ consisting of more than 120,000 ACLJ members ‐ calling for the court to dismiss Newdow’s problematic lawsuit.
"While the First Amendment affords atheists complete freedom to disbelieve, it does not compel the federal judiciary to redact the national motto from the Nation’s currency," ACLJ’s brief reads. "Plaintiffs’ quarrel is essentially with a foundational principle of America, [and] the national motto simply echoes the principle found in the Declaration of Independence that our freedoms come from God and not the state."
Also contended In the brief is the fact that neither the free speech rights ‐ nor the free exercise rights of atheists ‐ are violated by just looking at the National Motto on American currency.
"Placing the National Motto on currency does not force atheists to do anything," ACLJ attorneys explain. "The National Motto is the government’s message and no one would attribute that message to atheists or to any other person who happens to carry money." Continued...
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Ever thought how it could be improved by a period?
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
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[THESUN.CO.UK] The 2017 Carponizer carp calendar features a series of naked and scantily-clad women holding — you guessed it — carp
[Dhaka Tribune] A Sylhet court has recorded deposition of 17 witnesses in the case file in connection with attempted murder of college girl Khaidza Akter Nargis
[The Hill] Former secretary of State Henry Kissinger will meet with Donald Trump Tuesday, according to pool reports. 
[DAWN] Three accused in the Qandeel Baloch murder case, including her brother, denied having killed the social media celebrity, after they were indicted by the court here on Monday.
On September 11th, 2001, terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, a symbol of American power and prestige. It was the worst sneak attack in U.S. history since the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. The destruction of the Twin Towers was a huge blow to America’s national psyche. Apart from the tragic loss of life, however, the attack by itself did little to diminish America’s military or economic strength. The next surprise strike -- if it comes -- could be far more disruptive and disabling.
[Guardian] The chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe has asked the thousands of "water protectors" gathered in encampments along the Missouri river to "go home" after the US Army Corps of Engineers denied a permit for the Dakota Access pipeline to drill under the river.
