[FOX] A historic C-47 twin-engine prop plane crashed at the Burnet Municipal Airport in Texas on Saturday; all 13 passengers onboard survived, officials said.
The Burnet County Sheriff's Office said the C-47 "Bluebonnet Belle" was trying to takeoff when it crashed.
ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) ‐ Officials say a 70-year-old southern New Mexico man who regularly fed wildlife at his home suffered multiple injuries when he was bitten by a bear as he stepped outside.
The state Game and Fish Department says conservation officers went to the man’s Cloudcroft home Friday after his wife drove him to an Alamogordo hospital for treatment of injuries that included arm puncture wounds and leg scratches.
According to the department, the man acknowledged feeding cracked corn to wildlife and that multiple bears routinely entered the residence.
Officers found pet food bowls near the house, bear prints on windows and scratch marks on the porch.
Department Director Alexandra Sandoval says it’s good that the man will recover quickly from his injuries but feeding wildlife "is never an acceptable practice."
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At least he was feeding them grain. My neighbors let their meals pets run loose at night. As validated by the frequent "Missing" posters on the stop signs.
[All Africa] Hopes of finding the remains of Ancient Greek ruler Alexander the Great were lost on Thursday, when archaeologists opened a sarcophagus in Alexandria, Egypt. The coffin had been the largest ever found in the Mediterranean city, which had prompted theories and speculation about whether it might be his final resting place.
The 2,000-year-old black granite sealed sarcophagus had been found this month by workers on an apartment building construction site. The large coffin weighed 30 metric tons.
Alexander the Great died in 323 BC in Babylon and his remains have never been found.
Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities had previously dismissed the notion that Alexander's remains inside the sarcophagus.
Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, attended the coffin opening. "We found the bones of three people, in what looks like a family burial... Unfortunately, the mummies inside were not in the best condition and only the bones remain," he said.
Waziri added that some of the remains had disintegrated, due to sewage water from a nearby building that had leaked in through a small crack in one of the sides of the tomb.
The opening of the long-sealed sarcophagus left many in Egypt fearful of the possibility that the act could unleash a 1,000-year curse. But Waziri was undeterred. "We've opened it and, thank God, the world has not fallen into darkness," the Antiquities minister said.
"I was the first to put my whole head inside the sarcophagus... and here I stand before you ... I am fine," he added.
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My remains will be cremated and dispensed at large. In the worst case scenario that muzizm dominates the globe, none of those goat f*ckers will mess with my remains.
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the act could unleash a 1,000-year curse.
Apparently sewage trumps a 1000 year old curse.
[BBC] New York City is the second most rat-infested US city after Chicago, and one group of residents is taking matters into its own hands - or rather, into the paws of its four-legged friends.
Dogs owners belonging to a group called the Ryders Alley Trencher-fed Society (Rats) take to the streets at night with their pets - often terriers.
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There was no ground to stand on because McGlockton wasn't a persistent threat. The girlfriend should have just run him over out of fear for her life.
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Excuse me! The man was not threatening the woman in the car. He wasn’t right up in her face or being aggressive. McGlockton comes up and violently shoves him to the groung, YOU, have no way of knowing whether he would have persisted. I’d have shot him too.
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That's, IMO, how ethnic conflict looks - you are attacked (without any warning, I might add, McGlockton came up and knocked him to the ground without talking) you assume the worse and respond accordingly.
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Thinking about the chain of events which led to the pulling of the trigger. When each person left their house that afternoon, neither could imagine what would soon happen.
Whatever side of the story you claim, it should cause anyone who reads it to pause and consider what can happen in seconds.
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As usual, the woman causes the fracas and gets away free. The police on site should ticketed her for occupying a handicap slot.
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First error in judgement: "Drejka scolded an entitlement woman...."
It went downhill from there and sadly, will continue to go downhill for Drejka. Better to keep your own councel and walk away. Whatever Drejka has accumulated in life will now be lost to legal fees.
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He pushed him once and backed off. He didn't go back for more. Insufficient time had elapsed to decide whether or not the assaulter was or was not going to go back for more. It was all over in seconds.
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He was a good shot. Broward Sherriff Department take notice.
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Multiple occasions to defuse the situation, especially when the entitled woman did not back down. IMHO it was, morally, the guy with the gun who should have done so.
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It occurred to me that not charging this guy might be some kind of ploy to generate enough public outrage that the law gets pulled completely.
[DailyMail] Eleven people have been killed and four others critically wounded after gunmen fired on a minibus taking taxi drivers to Johannesburg, South African police have said.
Police spokesman Jay Naicker said the victims of the Saturday night attack had attended the funeral of a colleague and were returning home when the ambush occurred.
'There was a shooting at about 8pm (6pm GMT) last night. The vehicle was ambushed. There were 11 fatalities and four were seriously injured and are in hospital.
'We understand they were from the Gauteng taxi association.
'There has been a lot of taxi violence in the area but we are still investigating who the perpetrators were.'
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Zone encroachment.
You want to become a taxi driver, no problem. You will purchase a license for an assigned client zone or neighborhood... STAY WITHIN IT! You want a larger zone, your monthly license fee will be a bit more.
[All Africa] Former cabinet minister Samuel Undenge was sent to Chikurubi maximum security prison on Friday as his lawyer vowed to appeal at High Court his conviction for fraud.
Defence attorney Alec Muchadehama gave the notice of appeal after Undenge was sentenced to four years in jail by Harare magistrate Hosea Mujaya following conviction for criminal abuse of office.
Muchadehama said considering the circumstances, the only option was to approach the High Court to challenge Mujaya's decision as his client was innocent.
"Real criminals are roaming free in the streets," he said.
"It's on record that the Vice President's wife was given a contract also without going to tender and an official from the president's office confirmed that under oath before this court."
In response, the State led by prosecutor Jonathan Murombedzi and Oscar Madhume said Undenge should only concentrate on his fate and not worry about other people.
"The accused should not worry himself with issues of other corrupt people. Justice will soon catch up with them.
"He (Undenge) should appreciate that he broke the law and the trust with the people of the country.
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[PJ] Since 2012, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadoran embassy in London trying to evade a warrant for his arrest from the Swedish government on sexual assault charges. The Ecuadorans granted him asylum because he said he feared being handed over to the American government for exposing millions of classified documents.
Apparently, Assange has overstayed his welcome. According to The Intercept, the new Ecuadoran president, Lenin Moreno, is prepared to transfer custody of Assange to the British.
A source close to the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry and the President’s office, unauthorized to speak publicly, has confirmed to the Intercept that Moreno is close to finalizing, if he has not already finalized, an agreement to hand over Assange to the UK within the next several weeks. The withdrawal of asylum and physical ejection of Assange could come as early as this week. On Friday, RT reported that Ecuador was preparing to enter into such an agreement.
The consequences of such an agreement depend in part on the concessions Ecuador extracts in exchange for withdrawing Assange’s asylum. But as former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa told the Intercept in an interview in May, Moreno’s government has returned Ecuador to a highly "subservient" and "submissive" posture toward western governments.
It is thus highly unlikely that Moreno ‐ who has shown himself willing to submit to threats and coercion from the UK, Spain and the U.S. ‐ will obtain a guarantee that the U.K. not extradite Assange to the U.S., where top Trump officials have vowed to prosecute Assange and destroy WikiLeaks.
The central oddity of Assange’s case ‐ that he has been effectively imprisoned for eight years despite never having been charged with, let alone convicted of, any crime ‐ is virtually certain to be prolonged once Ecuador hands him over to the U.K. Even under the best-case scenario, it appears highly likely that Assange will continue to be imprisoned by British authorities.
Swedish prosecutors dropped the sexual assault charges against Assange last year and he faces only a "failure to surrender" charge in Sweden. But the Trump administration would love to get their hands on Assange and make an example of him.
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I expect to hear that he has walked into an open elevator shaft... Maybe the Embassy was the safest place on Earth for him after all of those diplomatic documents ended up on WikiLeaks.
[PRESSTV] Russia’s Federal Security Service ... the successor to the KGB... (FSB) has reportedly raided a top space research facility over the suspected leaking of secrets about the country’s new hypersonic weapons to the West.
Citing anonymous sources in law enforcement agencies on Friday, the Russian Kommersant daily newspaper said, "This morning, the FSB raided offices of staff at the Central Research Institute of Machine Building (TsNIImash)," which develops rockets and space technology for Roskosmos, Russia’s space agency.
The paper reported that the security forces carried out the search operations in the town of Korolyov outside Moscow after finding out that Western security services had information on "secret hypersonic developments by Russian industry."
Sources told Kommersant that the investigation was over "high treason," with some 10 people suspected of "cooperation with Western secret services."
It remained unclear what data may have been leaked but Russian media said the suspects were being investigated over passing secrets on the development of classified hypersonic technology ‐ involving missiles able to travel at more than five times the speed of sound ‐ to western intelligence agencies.
"It’s been established that TsNIImash employees are responsible for the leak," one of the sources familiar with the FSB case materials was cited as saying by Kommersant. "Many heads will roll, and the case will not end with mere dismissals."
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meddling, I tell you. Meddling. This will not stand. Given the public statements, finding nobody guilty is not in the cards.
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[PRESSTV] Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has rejected "fabricated charges" against a Russian woman nabbed Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! in the United States on accusations of acting as a government agent, saying she should be freed immediately.
In a phone call to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday, Lavrov said the arrest of Maria Butina, a gun enthusiast, on espionage charges was "unacceptable," Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a blurb on Monday that Butina had been charged "with conspiracy to act as an agent of the Russian Federation within the United States without prior notification to the Attorney General," through establishing relationships and infiltrating organizations that had influence in US politics.
The DOJ alleged that Butina, 29, who studied at American University in Washington and is a founder of the pro-gun Russian advocacy group Right to Bear Arms, had acted with "the purpose of advancing the interests of the Russian Federation" at the direction of a "high-level" Russian official, who was not named in reports.
A US judge on Wednesday ordered Butina to be tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... until her trial.
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Of course, USGOV does about nothing for most US citizens jailed overseas, so what does Lavrov expect?
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I'm weary of these chicken____ chicken____ers who never encountered a single ally they didn't sell out in one way or another to the Russians suddenly being Born Again Nationalist Patriots because a bunch of SMR shitposted to facebook.
Just going back four years... they let Russia have Ukraine, then turned around and paid them through Iran to bomb Syria into submission... but horrors, someone might read mind-reprogramming byte strings created by the evil genius SMR.
This isn't really about the Russians. It's using the Russians for purposes of establishing domestic censorship.
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I’m not sure what SMR means, but I am sure that the Democrats chose this approach on the assumption that Republicans have a visceral hatred/fear of Russia, and would therefore be galvanized to turn against President Trump. Given all the doubling down since the original accusations were released to the media, they must still be convinced of this despite evidence to the contrary.
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*Breaking News* The Commie Hating MCCarthyites in the Republican Party are largely ... deceased. Or they popped a champagne bottle when the Berlin Wall fell because -- We Won.
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There are more Hard Left-Wingers mad at Russia for being Apostates and betraying the Grand Socialist Crusade™ than Right-Wing Xenophobes hating Russians 'cuz they're Rooskies.
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Magpie: They expressed their anger by as recently as 2015 giving billions of dollars to Iran, a large fraction of which probably ended up in... Russia?
[Al Jazeera] Spain's conservative People's Party (PP) has picked Pablo Casado to replace Mariano Rajoy as its leader after the former prime minister was removed in a no-confidence vote in June and stepped down as head of the party.
Casado on Saturday beat challenger Soraya Saenz de Santamaria by 1,701 to 1,250 votes in a ballot of politicians and other senior PP members.
The appointment of 37-year-old Casado, who has promised a generational revamp of the opposition party, will be seen as a lurch to the right for the PP.
He has taken a hardline stance on the Catalan independence crisis, calling for the addition of offences such as illegally calling a referendum to the criminal code to boost Madrid's legal response to the secession threat.
"Spanish democratic parties should not be able to include illegal goals in their statutes," Casado said in reference to the Catalan pro-independence parties on July 11, according to Catalan News Agency.
"Dialogue doesn't work with those who want to break the law," he said earlier this week.
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[Al Jazeera] A Moslem man has been killed by a mob of vigilantes in India after being accused of smuggling cows for slaughter, according to officials.
Akbar Khan, 28, was beaten to death by the group on Friday evening in the northwest of Rajasthan state while transporting cows through a village around 160km from the state capital Jaipur, local police said.
According to police officer Mohan Singh, the mob intercepted Khan and another man on foot who were herding two cows at around midnight Friday in a forested area. He said the mob began punching and beating the men with sticks. One managed to escape while Khan was taken to a hospital, where doctors declared him dead. He's dead, Jim! on arrival.
Vasundhara Raje, Rajasthan's chief minister, described the attack as "condemnable" in a tweet, adding those who carried out the attack would face the "strictest possible action".
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[ToddStarnes] The commander at F.E. Warren Air Force Base is defending her decision to remove a Bible from a POW-MIA table and replace it with a generic “book of faith.”
Col. Stacy Jo Huser, the 90th Missile Wing commander, tells the Todd Starnes Radio Show that the Bible was removed to insure “the religious and non-religious feel included and cared for.”
The Bible was removed following complaints from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.
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Generic "Book of Faith"
The Germans started doing that in the 30's... The Communist Party in Mainland China started requiring that the Christian denomination's dogmas had to pass their scrutiny...
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And if inoffensiveness for its own sake isn't enough, for God'sHeaven'sPete'sgoodness something's sake, heed the wisdom of Hollywood...
Your typical scriptwriter bristles
At "shalt nots" and saints and epistles,
Ergo, Armageddon
Is where we are headin'
When missileers mingle with missals.
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How about letting airmen choose their own book? Stay the hell out of things are not a problem and that shouldn't be your concern. Get on with war-fighting preparedness.
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I don't understand this all or none mentality, the Bible should have been left with the "generic" book, That way people would have a choice. Sounds more like "do as we say or your pathetic career becomes history".
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Look above the Colonel in her chain one and two up to find the favor she hopes this receives. Methinks the Colonel has stars in her eyes and wants nothing, nothing, to reflect badly on her next OER's, so religious controversy requires immediate solution, even is it means insulting the other 90% of the command!
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"Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure your receiving said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen."
Possibly Proper Prayer. Creatures of Light and Darkness by Roger Zelazny
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[DailyWire] This year’s San Diego Comic-Con kicked off on Thursday with a slate of movie trailer releases, new series announcements, artwork presentations, cosplay fans, and a big dose of social justice propaganda.
On the first day of the convention, fans were treated to the seminar "Entertainment is LGBTQ," where insiders offered their thoughts on inclusivity in the industry. Comicbook.com reported:
BOOM! Studios and GLAAD present an in-depth roundtable discussion about LGBTQ representation in pop culture and the path forward to a brighter, more inclusive future, with special guests from all corners of the entertainment world including Emily Andras (Executive Producer and Showrunner of Wynonna Earp), Lilah Sturges (Lumberjanes: The Infernal Compass), Marguerite Bennett (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers), Noah Hayes (Wet Hot American Summer) and more. Moderated by Megan Townsend (Director of Entertainment Research & Analysis, GLAAD).
Aside from the GLAAD sponsored panel, AMC’s anti-Christian and low-rated show "Preacher" gets spotlighted with "the Women of Marvel." It is worth noting that the "Men of Marvel" receive no such panel.
Just what fans want to see, according to the Left. Forget the much-anticipated trailer to the DC Universe series "Titans" or Marvel Comics presenting their newest titles, it’s all about intersectionality.
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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.
[All Africa] Hopes of finding the remains of Ancient Greek ruler Alexander the Great were lost on Thursday, when archaeologists opened a sarcophagus in Alexandria, Egypt. The coffin had been the largest ever found in the Mediterranean city, which had prompted theories and speculation about whether it might be his final resting place.
[DailyMail] Eleven people have been killed and four others critically wounded after gunmen fired on a minibus taking taxi drivers to Johannesburg, South African police have said. 
