[ROLLINGSTONE] “We don’t believe the production of the festival can be executed as an event worthy of the Woodstock Brand name,” investors say Damn! I was looking forward to seeing Wavy Gravy again.
Apparently tickets were to be listed at $450.
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...I've seen a couple stories that suggested that this thing was well on the way to becoming another Fyre Festival, and the grownups in the room decided to cut their losses and shut it down before it got completely out of control.
Mike
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After all, who wants to see 70 year-old hippies cavorting naked?
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Cancelled because many of the original musicians are dead from overdoses?
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I know one of the founders of Burning Man. Years ago he emphasized to me the steps BM was taking so that it didn't develop "Woodstock Syndrome." Namely: a group of old LLC members waiting for each other to die so the last man standing can sell the IP for a fortune. If wonder if that's some of what we're seeing here?
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Just more of the propaganda about the 60's. Woodstock was a drug infested, squalor and I never understood why it is so mythical. I talked to several friends who took off and went to Woodstock and they said it was a completely nightmare.
The media looks to elevate the 60's when they nearly took down the Republic, turned over a highly strategic portion of southeast Asia to the Communists, and accelerated the consumption of drugs into the epidemic it is today.
I still would like to know if anyone has ever investigated the source of the money that allowed all of those demonstrators to travel and stay in hotels and organize.
[TheSun] The Sharia law-run state has advertised for eight new executioners to handle the projected rise in brutal public beheadings.
No special qualifications are needed for the jobs Saudi interviewer: so what is your current job?
Applicant: Exterminator
Saudi interviewer: and what is your reason for wanting a new job
Applicant: I want to work with people
whose main role is "executing a judgement of death" but also involves performing amputations on those convicted of lesser offences.
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its an independent kingdom, the operating word here being "kingdom" and free and independent country, which we, or anyone else , has "zero" business criticizing
[Express] West Parley residents were shocked to discover one of their ’silent soldiers’, located on one of the village’s main road, was defaced last week. The vandalism “upset numerous residents”, forcing the Dorset village’s parish council to remove the damaged statue. Great care had been taken to choose the location of the statue before it was damaged and children had laid a poppy dedication under each of the ‘silent soldiers’.
[AlAhram] Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Tuesday made his strongest call yet to the military to help him oust President Nicolas Maduro Venezuela's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy... , and violence broke out at anti-government protests as the country hit a new crisis point after years of political and economic chaos.
Several dozen armed troops accompanying Guaido clashed with soldiers supporting Maduro at a rally outside the La Carlota air base in Caracas, but the incident fizzled out and did not appear to be part of an immediate attempt by the opposition to take power through military force.
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"...Maduro has appeared to retain control of state institutions and the loyalty of senior military officers and has foreign allies such as Russia and Cuba."
also AOC, Illan Omar, Bernie, CNN, MSNBC and most of Hollywood
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Head of the secret police has broken from Maduro. Trmp is threatening Cuba total w/sanctions. Ï assume Cuba is where Maduro would flee to and use as a base to be a constant agitator of Guido from.
[Miami Herald] As his Cabinet members pledged the administration’s support for Juan Guaidó, President Donald Trump used his favorite bully pulpit to target the Cuban government for its role in Venezuela.
Trump warned of “a full and complete embargo, together with highest-level sanctions” against the Havana government if the Cuban military does not immediately cease operations “for the purpose of causing death and destruction to the Constitution of Venezuela.”
“Hopefully, all Cuban soldiers will promptly and peacefully return to their island!” Trump tweeted Tuesday afternoon.
A senior administration official told McClatchy on Tuesday there has long been a need to strengthen implementation of the Cuban embargo, which had become weakened over the years.
“We haven’t spoken that way about Cuba in a very long time,” the official said. “These recent comments from the president are a very strong pivot against the Communist regime in Havana.”
The official warned they also send a message to Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega for his work backing the Venezuelan regime.
National Security Advisor John Bolton has called the three countries a ”Troika of Tyranny” led by “clowns” and that the United States “looks forward to watching” their governments fall.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Maduro had been preparing to fly to Cuba on Tuesday, but was convinced by Russian officials to remain.
Just saw @CNN shamefully call what is happening today in #Venezuela a “coup attempt” @jguaido is recognized as legitimate interim President of #Venezuela by constitution,over 50 countries & OAS.
The only coup is the one carried out by #Cuba in support of dictator #Maduro
Driving to Caracas across Venezuela Tue most of the usual military & police roadblocks are gone. At Nat. Guard outposts no car checks. No soldiers on main highway. Soldiers not joining protesters but not repressing either. Same wait & see FANB attitude I’m hearing across country
•Trump: Cuba cud face Full Embargo • Canada calls on Maduro to leave • Bolton: All options on Table • Abrams: Regime & Opposition talks • Erdogan 📞 Putin, Backs Maduro • Media crackdown in Venezuela https://t.co/Numnt7JVEK
The United States is reportedly looking to re-evaluate its practice of sharing information with nations that are using #Huawei equipment in both "core" and "non-core" parts of their telecommunications networks. http://t.co/KK0SLXc8Ek
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Time to utterly scrap the "five eyes" and take notes about who whines the most when we do.
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Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment Europe’s biggest phone company identified hidden backdoors in the software that could have given Huawei unauthorized access to the carrier’s fixed-line network in Italy, a system that provides internet service to millions of homes and businesses, according to Vodafone’s security briefing documents from 2009 and 2011 seen by Bloomberg, as well as people involved in the situation.
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This is a baby step. The hard part is doing away with all computers and cell phones assembled in China. But it needs to be done.
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Wasn't here a big stink about spyware embedded in the operating systems of Lenova computers a while back?
Seems to me, that anything made in China for data processing has trapdoors and spyware to data mine for information.
Why anyone is complaining about this is beyond me. When Vodophone unearthed this, you would think every western intel organization would have dumped their Huawei stuff immediately.
PARIS (AP) ‐ French police clashed with stone-throwing protesters who set fires and smashed up vehicles as thousands of people gathered for May Day rallies Wednesday under tight security. About 165 arrests were made.
Police repeatedly used tear gas to try to control the crowd gathering near Paris’ Montparnasse train station for the main protest. It wasn’t immediately clear how many people were injured. One bandaged-up man with a head wound was helped away from the scene by paramedics.
Associated Press reporters saw groups of hooded, black-clad people shouting anti-police slogans, mixing with other protesters wearing yellow vests or waving union flags.
Some threw rocks and other objects at police officers, attacked a parked van in a nearby street, kicking the vehicle and breaking its windows.
Paris police said officers carried out more than 9,000 "preventive searches" of bags and arrested 165 people before the march.
Meanwhile, some peaceful protesters were waiting for the march to start. They were planning to head toward Place d’Italie in southern Paris.
French authorities have warned "radical activists" may join the Paris demonstration and renew scenes of violence that marked previous yellow vest protests and May Day demonstrations in the past two years.
More than 7,400 police are deployed in the French capital.
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Me: So will the Pope excommunicate his accusers?
Friend: He would need some "delict," some crime. I don't think there is one here. However, my experience as a Catholic is that whistle blowers get punished. As the letter shows, that happened to victims. They will almost certainly be punished somehow, but informally, and if my experience is anything to go by, dishonestly and in a cowardly way.
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Protestants: Lets be kinder and sort of ignore our own rules as difficult to follow.
Masses: Lets join Islam where we can be told restrictions and it seems like a real religion.
Catholics: Lets do what the Protestants are doing, that looks good.
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Cause a 100 million dead in the 20th Century was just a start. Now scream at me now about the evils of slavery that ended over a hundred years ago. /sarc off
#3
Is it too much to hope they'd come protest out at my rig site? The crew are bored. I'm sure they'd love to 'welcome' them our rig with a proper oilfield trash greeting.
[DAWN] Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Information Firdous Ashiq Awan on Tuesday said that a bill that seeks to enforce women's rights to property will be introduced by the government to help ensure women get their due share in inheritance. "As long as an adult male makes the right decisions as trustee"
Awan was addressing a news conference along with Minister of Water Resources Faisal Vawda after a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... She said that the government wanted to provide women with their fair share in inheritance and ensure that they are not cheated out of their rights.
Citing other discussions from the cabinet meeting, she said amendments in the code of civil procedure will help decide the civil cases swiftly. Similarly, the succession certificates will now be issued by the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) and heirs would be able to procure them within two weeks, instead of going through courts for years.
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[DAWN] A day after the passage of a bill seeking to set minimum age for marriage at 18 in the Senate, a similar legislation was introduced in the National Assembly on Tuesday, but only after an intense discussion which exposed cracks within various parties on the issue.
Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri referred the Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Bill, 2019 to the committee concerned after the house allowed its mover Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani of the ruling Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) to table it with a majority 72-50 vote.
The National Assembly also witnessed introduction of 10 other bills, including two constitutional amendment bills seeking creation of a new Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... province, on the private member’s day.
Former president Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari ... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... , who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ... , who came to the house after the Asr prayer break, was seen conversing with the PML-N’s Khawaja Saad Rafique, who is currently under custody of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in connection with a housing society scam and attending the session after issuance of his production order by the speaker. The two arch-rivals of the past remained busy discussing some important matter for some time without caring for the proceedings.
Earlier, a heated discussion took place on the child marriage bill which exposed a division even within the federal cabinet. Religious Affairs Minister Noorul Haq Qadri and Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Mohammad Khan strongly opposed the bill and termed it un-Islamic, whereas Human Rights Minister Dr Shireen Mazari argued in support of it and asked the deputy speaker to refer it to the committee.
The opposition Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) was the only party whose members voted in support of the bill in unison as the members of the Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) also gave a divided vote.
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In all fairness, child marriage is a complicated subject, not something easy like abortion. Oh, wait . . . .
[The Hill] The Food and Drug Administration will allow Philip Morris International to sell a new tobacco device that’s designed as an alternative to traditional cigarettes.
The iQOS is a small pen-like electronic device that heats a stick of tobacco, rather than burning it, making the vapor less harmful than smoke from traditional cigarettes.
The tobacco stick also sets the device apart from electronic cigarettes, which utilize a nicotine-laced liquid that allows users to inhale much stronger levels of nicotine and tobacco than a traditional cigarette.
FDA said allowing the device to be sold is "appropriate for the protection of the public health because ... the products produce fewer or lower levels of some toxins than combustible cigarettes."
The FDA review took nearly two years to complete, highlighting the public health debate over the device.
Harold Wimmer, president and CEO of the American Lung Association said the group is "deeply concerned" about the health impacts of the new product, and urged FDA to "carefully monitor how this product is actually being used ‐ and by whom."
The agency noted that even though the device is now legally allowed to be sold, "it does not mean these products are safe. All tobacco products are potentially harmful and addictive and those who do not use tobacco products should continue not to."
[Teslarati] According to an official statement, SpaceX’s satellite mass production is “well underway” and the first batch of operational Starlink satellites are already in Florida for their May 2019 launch debut.
Simultaneously, the FCC has granted SpaceX’s request to modify the deployment of its first 1584 Starlink satellites, permitting the company to lower their orbit from approximately 1150 km to 550 km (715 mi to 340 mi). A lower insertion orbit should improve Falcon 9’s maximum Starlink payload, while the lower operational orbit will help to further minimize any risk posed by orbital debris that could be generated by failed SpaceX satellites.
Above all else, SpaceX’s confirmation that the first batch of Starlink satellites are already in Florida drives home the reality that the company’s internet satellite constellation is about to become very real. Said constellation has long been the subject of endless skepticism and criticism, dominated by a general atmosphere of dismissal. There is no doubt that Starlink, as proposed, is an extraordinarily ambitious program that will cost billions of dollars to even begin to realize. SpaceX will have to find ways to affordably manufacture and launch ~11,900 satellites – together weighing something like 500 metric tons (1.1 million lbs) – in as few as nine years, start to finish.
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If CNN didn't have a lock on people trapped in airports, their numbers would be about 60% lower than they are now.
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We only get CNN here (plus BBC, RT and Al Jazeera).
CNN is unwatchable: Pontificating anchors and screaming self-ads (Richard Quest is the most obnoxious thing since the invention of the circular saw).
BBC is sometimes watchable but only sometimes.
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If CNN didn't have a lock on people trapped in airports
They own the televisions screens at the airports, but people’s laptops and cell phones have their eyeballs.
[The Hill] A bill in Alabama banning nearly all abortions in the state passed the House of Representatives Tuesday with only three lawmakers voting against the measure.
State Rep. Terri Collins (R), a sponsor of the measure, said the bill is intended to go all the way up to the Supreme Court and challenge Roe V. Wade, currently the law of the land making abortions legal.
If passed, the bill would would criminalize abortions in all cases unless the health of the pregnant person was in danger and make it a Class C felony for a doctor to perform the procedure, according to Al.com.
The bill also does not include any exceptions for cases where rape or incest caused the pregnancy. The measure passed by a vote of 74-3.
While several Democratic lawmakers attempted to add amendments to the bill, such as adding an exception for rape or incest, Collins said none would be accepted due to the fact she wants the bill to be used to overturn Roe V. Wade.
"We decided it was time to address the actual issue, which was ’do we want to allow abortion in our country’ and maybe ask the Supreme Court to revisit their decision so long ago with so little technology we have right now," Collins previously told Al.com
The local news outlet reports the American Civil Liberties Union chapter of Alabama plans to challenge the bill in court if it becomes law.
"The people of Alabama are paying the bill for unconstitutional legislation and we hope that the Senate members will realize its detrimental impact and stop this bill from becoming law, a statement from the ACLU read. "Otherwise it will be challenged in federal court."
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.
[ROLLINGSTONE] “We don’t believe the production of the festival can be executed as an event worthy of the Woodstock Brand name,” investors say
[Express] West Parley residents were shocked to discover one of their ’silent soldiers’, located on one of the village’s main road, was defaced last week. The vandalism “upset numerous residents”, forcing the Dorset village’s parish council to remove the damaged statue. Great care had been taken to choose the location of the statue before it was damaged and children had laid a poppy dedication under each of the ‘silent soldiers’.
Venezuela's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy...
PARIS (AP) ‐ French police clashed with stone-throwing protesters who set fires and smashed up vehicles as thousands of people gathered for May Day rallies Wednesday under tight security. About 165 arrests were made.
[DAWN] A day after the passage of a bill seeking to set minimum age for marriage at 18 in the Senate, a similar legislation was introduced in the National Assembly on Tuesday, but only after an intense discussion which exposed cracks within various parties on the issue.
According to an official statement, SpaceX’s satellite mass production is “well underway” and the first batch of operational Starlink satellites are already in Florida for their May 2019 launch debut. 
