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Okay, for once I'm gonna resist the obvious. No I'm not.
North Charleston: He led, and they sought him.
They spot the van bouncing... "We got 'im"
They rolled up and shot him
And stopped his Black Bottom.
That last partner never forgot him.
[NEWS24] Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles said on Thursday authorities confiscated his passport and prevented him from traveling to New York to meet with UN officials about his country's deadly political crisis.
"I will not be able to attend the meeting with the [UN] High Commissioner for Human Rights... I am outside the migration zone without my passport" after officials confiscated it, Capriles said in a video posted on Twitter.
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[NEWS24] The head of Austria's Greens party has resigned from all party functions and says she will also give up her seat in parliament.
Austria's political landscape is in turmoil. The governing centre-right coalition has agreed to part ways and hold early elections October 15 while the opposition Greens have been shaken by recent infighting that has alienated some supporters.
But Eva Glawischnig said on Thursday that her decision was personal and prompted only by her wish to remain in good health while caring for her children.
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[Al Jazeera] European politicians have threatened Hungary with unprecedented sanctions if the right-wing government does not withdraw some of its anti-European Union rhetoric. A concerted campaign by the Hungarian government blames the European Union for many of its problems. Yet critics of Hungary say it gets billions of dollars every year in European grants, only for the money to disappear because of corruption.
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>Yet critics of Hungary say it gets billions of dollars every year in European grants, only for the money to disappear because of corruption.
Hey the wrong people must be getting the EUSSR graft! Corruption is embedded in the EUSSR.
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European politicians have threatened Hungary with unprecedented sanctions if the right-wing government does not withdraw some of its anti-European Union rhetoric.
[RT] The famous Russian architectural features enveloping the White House on the latest cover of Time magazine seem to have stumped CNN, which referred to the onion domes as "Russian minarets."
The cover of the new issue of Time features the White House covered in a structure which appears to be a combination of two Moscow landmarks ‐ the Kremlin Walls and the onion domes of St. Basil's Cathedral.
The architectural depiction of the "Trump Russia ties" narrative had CNN stumped, which called the onion domes "Russian minarets" in an editorial. While onion domes are a predominant form of Russian Orthodox church domes, minarets are distinctive tower-like features usually found adjacent to mosques.
CNN quickly realized the mistake and changed the headline "to more accurately describe Russian architecture," according to a clarification in the article.
White House overtaken by Russian minarets on new Time cover
Time magazine published an eye-catching cover Thursday aimed at the Trump presidency -- this time depicting the White House being overtaken by Russian minarets.
Despite promptly changing the wording, the ’Russian minarets’ caused a wave of online mockery.
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[DAWN] Khadija Siddiqui, a student at a private college, who was brutally attacked by her classmate in May last year, is due to sit an exam in the coming week -- alongside her attacker.
Siddiqui, 22, was attacked on May 3 last year, three days before she was due to appear for her final law exams, by Shah Hussain, the son of Advocate Sayed Tanvir Hashmi.
Siddiqui had gone to pick up her seven-year-old sister, Sophia, from school and had barely approached her car when Hussain, wearing a helmet rushed towards them. The attacker then pushed Siddiqui and stabbed her 23 times.
Siddiqui was stabbed 23 times.─Facebook
Siddiqui was stabbed 23 times.─Facebook
A murder case was filed in Lahore High Court (LHC) within a week of the attack. Evidence was presented before the judiciary, including video footage which helped identify the attacker.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... LHC had dismissed pre-arrest bail of the suspect in September 2016 while a sessions court granted him post-arrest bail after two months.
Appearing on Geo TV's 'Aaj Shahzaib Khanzada Kay Saath' on Wednesday evening, Siddiqui said she could not accept that a man who had tried to attack her in the presence of her younger sister would be appearing for the same law exam as her in two days.
"He will become a part of the same legal system, this is traumatising for me. I do not know how I will give the exam" Siddiqui said, appearing on the daily talk show a year after the brutal stabbing that left her in a critical state.
Siddiqui said that she used to be friends with Hussain up till a year before he attacked her. However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... she added, that all communication between them had been cut off when Hussain became "coercive" towards her. Siddiqui said that Hussain has also hacked her accounts.
The victim of the brutal stabbing expressed her dismay at the legal system that has failed to bring her attacker to accountability.
"I don't understand how you can attack someone in front of their little sister with the intent to murder. Yet in this society, there is no accountability."
Siddiqui said that, in her opinion, the attacker had been allowed to walk free due to the "influence the lawyers have over the judge".
"The judges get scared, the lawyers have so much influence the judges are forced to give an incorrect verdict."
"In our [legal] system there are weaknesses. We have loopholes in the law, of course, but they are not enough to to validate such extensive delays [in granting justice]."
She asserted that the delays were means to exert pressure on "the weaker party."
"Those who have the power to do so, pressure the courts so much that the victim is forced to give up."
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... she added that that her determination to fight her case had never wavered, rather, it had become stronger.
"If i give up, the avenues will open up for others to engage in such violence with ease."
Siddiqui recounted that her attacker's father had approached her outside the court once and asked her to forgive his son.
"I told him the way you have sided with your son... this is very dangerous for the society. He can someday attack another girl, just the way he attacked me," Siddiqui said
Appealing to the judiciary to review its decision, Siddiqui said that her case should become a landmark case and set an example in society of punishment is handed down to even the powerful when they commit a crime.
She said that the decision of the court was "erroneous" and "perverse" and called on Chief justice Saqib Nisar to listen to her appeal.
Siddiqui also appealed to "those who have mothers and daughters in their homes to stand up and raise their voices."
"In this society the woman is always silenced, and she is asked to tolerate. They have tried to silence me as well, but I am still standing strong."
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China has for the first time extracted gas from an ice-like substance under the South China Sea considered key to future global energy supply.
Chinese authorities have described the success as a major breakthrough.
Methane hydrates, also called "flammable ice", hold vast reserves of natural gas.
Many countries including the US and Japan are working on how to tap those reserves, but mining and extracting are extremely difficult.
What is 'flammable ice'?
The catchy phrase describes a frozen mixture of water and gas.
"It looks like ice crystals but if you zoom in to a molecular level, you see that the methane molecules are caged in by the water molecules," Associate Professor Praveen Linga from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the National University of Singapore told the BBC.
Officially known as methane clathrates or hydrates, they are formed at very low temperatures and under high pressure. They can be found in sediments under the ocean floor as well as underneath permafrost on land.
Despite the low temperature, these hydrates are flammable. If you hold a lighter to them, the gas encapsulated in the ice will catch fire. Hence, they are also known as "fire ice" or "flammable ice".
By lowering the pressure or raising the temperature, the hydrates break down into water and methane - a lot of methane. One cubic metre of the compound releases about 160 cubic metres of gas, making it a highly energy-intensive fuel. The noose is closing on oil ticks.
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Statoil of Norway found that the floor of the North Sea is lousy with this stuff. You have to be careful with offshore platform placement because of it, not to mention sea floor equipment.
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[CampusReform.org] - Even as "concerned students" rally to his defense, former students are revealing even more recordings of a Texas A&M professor advocating violence against white people.
- Curry and his defenders insist that recordings of him apparently advocating for "killing white people" were taken out of context. Yeah, sure...
- A group of former students, however, has compiled an archive of classroom recordings taken over the past several years in which Curry repeatedly advocates for violence against white people. Here is Dr. Curry's CV and contact page.
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"I'm killing Caucasians!" cries Curry.
"Don't worry, I'm not in a hurry.
I gotta get ready
And whet my machete,
But someday... KABLOOEY! Oh, sorry."
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There is no intellect, no integrity in academia. Since they refuse to clean house, its up to the legislative body of the people to clean house. Don't give me crap about 'academic freedom' as the Left has already destroyed it.
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@#5: Also part of the mix is the BS put forth by "Roots." Ignored by the movie were those black countrymen who facilitated ans profited from the slave trade. And don't get me started about the Dutch.
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Ignored by the movie were those black countrymen who facilitated ans profited from the slave trade.
It's all about the neighbours. The Slavic slave trade goes back to the Roman Empire, but continued until Catherine II of Russia annexed the Crimea in 1783, putting the Moslem Tatars out of business. Link Likewise, the Moslem sub-Saharan tribes hunted their non-Muslim neighbours for fun and profit as they still do today, sending them north to be sold in the great slave markets of the Muslim world. The trade to the Americas was much smaller, and very probably less deadly to the cargo.
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Leopard doesn't change its spots, Barbara. Nor does it become a vegetarian.
(i) Just How many Iraqis, Syrians, and Afghans have the US military killed since 2001?
(ii) Who invented guns*, tanks, warplanes, aircraft carriers, chemical weapons, nukes, biological weapons, cyberwarfare - African Americans?
*I know about Chinese & gunpowder - they invented it & used it for fireworks.
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The Slavic slave trade goes back to the Roman Empire, but continued until Catherine II of Russia annexed the Crimea in 1783, putting the Moslem Tatars out of business.
It actually continued in the Central Asian khanates until the 1870s, and the Ottomans were enslaving Bulgarians and Serbs at least as late as the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78.
And that's not counting the what the Nazis did, or the Communists for that matter.
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.
[Al Jazeera] European politicians have threatened Hungary with unprecedented sanctions if the right-wing government does not withdraw some of its anti-European Union rhetoric. A concerted campaign by the Hungarian government blames the European Union for many of its problems. Yet critics of Hungary say it gets billions of dollars every year in European grants, only for the money to disappear because of corruption.
[DAWN] Khadija Siddiqui, a student at a private college, who was brutally attacked by her classmate in May last year, is due to sit an exam in the coming week -- alongside her attacker.
