[Fox] Members of a Connecticut police department stood in line to salute a terminally ill four-legged partner on its last trip to a veterinary hospital.
K9 Hunter, a German shepherd, served with the Middletown Police Department at the side of its handler, Officer Michael D’Aresta. The dog was diagnosed with an aggressive form of liver cancer just recently.
Officers bid farewell to Hunter Friday as D'Aresta cradled the canine in his arms on the final trip to the vet, where the dog was euthanized.
[Guardian] A man who ran into the flames at the Burning Man festival’s burning ceremony has died.
Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen said the man ran through a human-chain of security officers at about 10:30pm Saturday during the Man Burn event at the counter-culture festival in the Black Rock Desert, about 100 miles north of Reno.
The sheriff says the man was rescued by firefighters and later died at the UC Davis hospital burn center in California.
About 70,000 people are attending the nine-day art and music celebration, which culminates with the burning of a towering 40ft-effigy made of wood. Attendees have tried to run into the flames as a symbol of rebirth.
Festival organizers did not immediately respond when asked for comment.
A man who died after running into a flaming pyre at the Burning Man festival in Nevada on Saturday was a Swiss resident, the sheriff’s office said.
Aaron Joel Mitchell, 41, was attending the annual art and music festival in the Nevada desert known for its ritualistic burnings, including its signature event, the burning of a huge effigy meant to symbolize rebirth.
According to the Pershing County Sheriff, Mitchell broke through a security perimeter and ran into the blaze, reported international media.
Firefighters had difficulty extracting him from the flames because part of the effigy structure was falling, said the sheriff. He was eventually pulled out and airlifted to a burns centre, but later died from his injuries.
On Sunday the sheriff’s office identified Mitchell, saying he was a US citizen who lived with his wife in Switzerland.
Swiss press reported that he lived in the canton of Thurgau.
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Burning man has a lot of the "Mad Max at the County Fair" vibe to it. If you're not prepared to be edgy and provocative, they all want to do the edgy and provocative at you.
Irony is dead, and these are the people that tortured it to death.
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Get 70,000 people doing crazy sh*t out in the desert, enjoying the alkalai flat dust storms, and you get the real burning man. And the expense of medivac-ing from Nevada to Davis probably by air.
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Actually, I've been to Burning Man over twenty times. (I live in the Black Rock Desert.) I've always found it to be a rather positive experience, irony and all. However, what this man did was inexcusable and selfish, showing little regard for others. In fact, he did it right in front of a friend of mine; a sweet young woman who wouldn't hurt anyone, and was rather traumatized by the experience. As I'm certain were a lot of other people who were simply enjoying themselves and minding their own business.
[An Nahar] A lonely monkey at an Israeli zoo has found a way to soothe her maternal urges: by adopting a chicken.
Niv, an Indonesian black macaque, has spent the past week caressing, cleaning and playing with the bird at the Ramat Gan Safari Park near Tel Aviv.
"It seems that Niv, who is four years old and has reached the age of sexual maturity, has difficulty finding a partner," the zoo's spokeswoman Mor Porat said.
"This probably explains the maternal instinct she expresses to this chicken."
The bird, which doesn't have a name, could easily escape through the bars but chooses to stay near Niv.
"These kinds of relationships are rare," Porat told AFP. "Sometimes macaques kill and eat chickens that enter their pens or play with them until they die."
To avoid such a tragic end, officials separated Niv and her feathered companion from the other macaques -- apart from her mother, who is often the target of hostilities from other females.
Porat said the chicken "seems very happy to have found a surrogate mother. At night they sleep together."
A few months ago, Niv attempted to adopt a previous chicken, but it spurned her advances.
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A few months ago, Niv attempted to adopt a previous chicken, but it spurned her advances.
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I still remember our border collie doing his duty & keeping our cat from going next door & eating the dog food at a neighbor's house. I actually saw the dog pick the cat up by the nape of his neck, carry him back to the front porch, dropping the cat & giving the cat a good tongue-lashing by barking at it.
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As my own mother aged, the two of us took many trips covering large parts of the USA. Particularly in California she noticed the huge cemeteries. I did not comment on them. At one point she told me, "They are using up too much space to bury all the dead people. The living people need the space. I want to be cremated." So that's what happened. When the time came I buried her ashes on the grave site of her oldest sister, who had been buried conventionally in a deep vault. That cemetery puts ashes 2 feet deep and so there is no chance of hitting the deeper gravesite. That same day my cousins also buried the ashes of their mother, my aunt 2 feet from my mother's spot. My aunt had donated her remains for research & her ashes weren't available for years. Years after that one of my cousins was buried over the same spot, 2 feet away. So now family has 4 burials in a single spot, still with room for more.
[Al Jazeera] Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on Sunday damage from Hurricane Harvey would likely reach $150bn to $180bn.
Harvey, which came ashore on August 25 as the most powerful hurricane to hit Texas in 50 years, has killed an estimated 47 people and displaced more than one million after causing wreckage in an area stretching for nearly 500km.
Abbott, who is advocating for US federal government aid to repair his state, said the damage would exceed that of Katrina, the storm that devastated New Orleans and surrounding areas in 2005, and Sandy, which overwhelmed New York City and the US northeast in 2012.
"Katrina caused, if I recall, more than $120bn but when you look at the number of homes and business affected by this I think this will cost well over $120bn, probably $150bn to $180bn," Abbott told Fox News.
"This is far larger than Hurricane Sandy."
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[Times of Israel] Two Jewish centenarians in Britain celebrated their 83rd wedding anniversary, becoming what is thought to be the country’s longest married couple.
Helen and Maurice Kaye, aged 104 and 105, celebrated their anniversary last week surrounded by their family at home in Bournemouth, the Jewish Chronicle of London reported Thursday, noting the longevity milestone.
The couple met when Maurice Kaye was a traveling salesman for his father’s clothing business. They have been together for 87 years.
"So much has changed, but we still have each other, thank God," he was quoted as saying. "We had a great day with fabulous entertainment from our gorgeous great-grandchildren. Now on to the next milestone."
Helen Kaye said: "I surprised myself how much I enjoyed it," referring to the anniversary party the couple had at their home approximately 100 miles west of London.
The couple have two surviving children, seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
[Iran Press TV] An analyst says the FBI search of Russian consulates in the United States is a “serious breach of diplomatic protocol,” but the target is probably US President Donald Trump not Russia.
“Obviously the whole issue was a travesty, the fact of this tit-for-tat in closing embassies on one side and ... we do not know exactly where it is going to stop … we just do not know what is going to happen, it has gotten into kind of an escalation, it is hard to forecast, but the fact that the FBI had gone into the US trade council raises the question, 'what are they really looking for?'” William Jones, a member of the Executive Intelligence Review, told Press TV in an interview on Sunday. That'd be Lyndon Larouche's unbiased opinion.
“But given the fact that there is an arm of the FBI, an arm of the US intelligence community, which is going after President Trump … this may be something that is directed against the president himself,” he said.
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They can do this all they want. The bottom line is that they can be hurt by the trade sanctions. Trump seems to have taken the initiative and got inside of China's OODA loop.
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South Korea's military said Monday it conducted a combined live-fire exercise in response to North Korea's sixth nuclear test a day earlier.
The training involved the country's Hyunmoo ballistic missile and the F-15K fighter jets.
In the drill, the Hyunmoo surface-to-surface missile and the F-15K's long-range air-to-ground missile accurately hit designated targets in the East Sea, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).
The South's military, in particular, said the range to the simulated targets were set in consideration of the North's Punggye-ri nuclear test site in its northeastern province.
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[Iran Press TV] United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Secretary General Antonio Guterres has one again called on North Korea to cease it illegal actions after Pyongyang announced the testing of a hydrogen bomb.
On Sunday, Guterres condemned the act as "yet another serious breach of the country's international obligations." That + $3.95 = 1 cup of coffee
"The secretary general reiterates his call on the DPRK leadership to cease such acts and to comply fully with its international obligations under relevant Security Council resolutions," said a statement released by the secretary general’s office.
The test was also slammed by the head of the UN atomic agency, who called it "an extremely regrettable act."
"This new test, which follows the two tests last year and is the sixth since 2006, is in complete disregard of the repeated demands of the international community," said Director General of the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano.
"Once again, I strongly urge the DPRK to fully implement all relevant resolutions of the UN Security Council and the IAEA," he added.
The test was also decried by, China, South Korea, Russia, and La Belle France.
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Long term US strategic existence ends in eventual enslavement by somebody if we capitulate to a 4th world despot with an H-Bomb. Think about it. Every negotiation in the back of the oppositions mind - "They didn't stand up to a mentally ill spoiled brat. I can roll these pretenders."
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The United States will launch a "massive military response" to threats from North Korea, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said Sunday.
He spoke after President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... met with his national security advisers following a test of what Pyongyang said was a hydrogen bomb able to fit atop a missile.
"Any threat to the United States or its territories, including Guam, or our allies will be met with a massive military response, a response both effective and overwhelming," Mattis said.
He added: "Kim Jong-Un should take heed of the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Security Council's unified voice. All members unanimously agreed on the threat North Korea poses and remain unanimous in their commitment to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
"We are not looking to the total annihilation of a country, namely North Korea, but as I said, we have many options to do so."
His comments came after Trump warned the time for "appeasement" was over and threatened drastic economic sanctions.
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I'm not sure about the meaning of 'threats' in this context.
North Korea has made statements massively threatening the US & allies for years.
Nuclear tests, missile tests & the use of WMD (VX) abroad should count as massively threatening action.
Is this about action that will be taken if the US believes an attack is imminent?
[Breitbart] Tensions are rising at some Australian universities amid concerns that the Chinese government is infiltrating teaching methods across the faculties, according to a report from news.com.au.
The concerns have arisen after multiple incidents of Chinese students demanding changes to teaching methods, as well as demanding apologies from lecturers about the way they explore certain topics.
The trend has led to concern across Australia of the growing threat of the Chinese Communist Party’s authoritarian ideology infiltrating universities and potentially influencing other students.
Some students have even posted footage online of lecturers going against the Chinese Communist Party’s ideology.
Last week, a student at the Chinese University of Newcastle uploaded footage of him arguing with a lecturer who referred to Hong Kong and Taiwan as independent countries.
"You are making us feel uncomfortable," the student tells business professor Nimay Khaliani. "You have to consider all the students."
"Exactly, all the students, not one set of students," replied Khaliani.
The incident reportedly went viral across Chinese media, with Newcastle University having to contact China’s consulate-general to resolve the issue.
Another incident at the University of Sydney reported in Chinese media involved IT professor Khimji Vaghjiani displaying a map with three regions currently disputed by China and India as part of India.
"Over 18 months ago, I used an out-of-date map, downloaded from the internet," Vaghjiani later said in a statement. "I was unaware that the map was inaccurate and out-of-date. This was a genuine mistake and I regret any offense this may have caused."
Recently, the publishing company Cambridge University Press ceded to pressure from Chinese authorities to remove an academic journal named China Quarterly, pulling 300 articles from their archives. However, they recently announced that the articles had been reinstated:
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Send the "students" home. No wtudents, no problem. There is no obligation on the part of universities in the US, Oz or anywhete else to admit foreign students.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has decided to scrap a program shielding from deportation immigrants who came to the United States illegally as children but will give Congress six months to craft legislation to replace it, sources familiar with the situation said.
The president decided to delay enforcement of his decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, the two sources said on Sunday. One source cautioned that the president could change his mind.
The decision to give Congress half a year to come up with a an alternative, first reported by Politico, represents a compromise of sorts after top Republicans and business leaders asked Trump to keep the program.
DACA, an Obama administration policy, protects nearly 800,000 young men and women often called "Dreamers" from deportation and allows them to work legally.
The Israeli press and liberals loathe Bibi, and have been hounding him, and therefore his wife, for years.
[An Nahar] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife has taken a voluntary lie detector test to try and dispel allegations she misused public funds, her lawyer said on Sunday.
National fraud squad detectives questioned Sara Netanyahu last month on suspicions she routinely claimed state payments for personal housekeeping expenses at the couple's official and private residences.
Private broadcaster Channel Two reported at the weekend that the attorney general was expected to announce charges against her by September 10.
"She took the test," Netanyahu family lawyer Yossi Cohen told Israeli public radio. "It's a very tough test. It's humiliating and she did it wonderfully."
He did not give details of the questions she was asked or the test results.
He said the decision to undergo the examination, at a privately operated polygraph facility, was taken "following the horrible mudslinging against her and after we heard that she is going to be put on trial."
Results of polygraph testing are not admissible as evidence in Israeli criminal trials.
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[ScienceAlert] A hydrogen bomb is different than a regular atomic bomb, like the ones the US dropped on Japan near the end of World War II. Collectively, the two A-bombs that the US detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 200,000 people.
But an H-bomb is an entirely different beast. It can be up to 1,000 times more powerful than an A-bomb, according to nuclear experts. Here's why. Just a little primer to help understand "blast radius"...
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The sign of a good teacher is someone who can simplify and make understandable difficult concepts. I like the simple narrative and bomb pic explanations and also the Asteroid impact fill-in-the-blanks solution to the effects of an impact.
[Daily Caller] Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced his retirement Friday afternoon, affording President Donald Trump the opportunity to replace a legal titan on the Chicago-based federal appeals court.
Posner is one of the most consequential legal figures of recent times, exerting significant influence on the practice and study of law from his perches on the Seventh Circuit and the University of Chicago Law School faculty. Something of an intellectual gadfly, he has written 50 books, 500 academic articles, and several thousand legal opinions on a wide range of subjects, a prodigious output surpassing even Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendall Holmes, Posner’s hero and perhaps the most lettered Supreme Court justice of his time. And Posner is almost certainly the most read jurist of recent decades: The Journal of Legal Studies says he was the most cited legal scholar of the 20th century.
Posner subscribes to a method of judging called "pragmatism," which seeks to balance the equities of each case and conform judicial rulings to the social, political, and economic arrangements of the times. He touted his commitment to pragmatism in announcing his retirement.
"I am proud to have promoted a pragmatic approach to judging during my time on the Court, and to have had the opportunity to apply my view that judicial opinions should be easy to understand and that judges should focus on the right and wrong in every case," he said in a statement announcing his retirement.
His vaunted pragmatism is often difficult to define, oscillating between libertarian law and economic theories and pure utilitarianism. What’s more, there are few in the federal judiciary as comfortable discarding precedent as Posner.
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The left has worked diligently through judicial fiat for literally decades to re-shape the country into the classic Soviet model. This is an absolute OUTRAGE !
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...There's also a school of thought that suspects Judge Posner wanted really bad to be one of the Supremes, and knows now he ain't gonna get it.
Mike
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'...conform judicial rulings to the social, political, and economic arrangements of the times.' Any fad will due just as long as it doesn't involve actual Law of course.
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“I don’t know what ‘existing law’ means except views currently held by many judges, lawyers, and politicians,” he wrote for Slate in August. “Those views are likely to be fluid, changeable — in accordance with new social needs, attitudes, and authority. Law means one thing to conservatives, another to liberals. It has no fixity.”
One could argue that if the law is considered fluid, then you have no legal benchmarks or in a couple of words "no law."
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Just imagine if the judge goes back into private practice.
Client: "So, your judgeness, under this here contract can I stop shipping to my deadbeat customer?"
Posner: "That depends on the social, political and economic arrangements of the times. Your contract has no fixity. My fee will be $50,000 for that advice."
Client: "Sorry, judge, but our fee agreement has no fixity, and them there social whatever changed just about five minutes ago. You owe me $50,000."
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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.
[Guardian] A man who ran into the flames at the Burning Man festival’s burning ceremony has died.
[An Nahar] A lonely monkey at an Israeli zoo has found a way to soothe her maternal urges: by adopting a chicken.
South Korea's military said Monday it conducted a combined live-fire exercise in response to North Korea's sixth nuclear test a day earlier.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has decided to scrap a program shielding from deportation immigrants who came to the United States illegally as children but will give Congress six months to craft legislation to replace it, sources familiar with the situation said.
