[NYPost] A vegan activist in Spain who claimed to have been attacked by an angry mob last week — after she “rescued” 16 rabbits from their farm — wound up causing the deaths of nearly 100 baby bunnies in the process, a report says.
The activist, who goes by the name “Mythical Mia” on social media, conducted the alleged rescue mission on a farm near Osono last Sunday, according to the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia.
Arctic tours ship MS MALMO with 16 passengers on board got stuck in ice on Sep 3 off Longyearbyen, Svalbard Archipelago, halfway between Norway and North Pole. The ship is on Arctic tour with Climate Change documentary film team, and tourists, concerned with Climate Change and melting Arctic ice. All 16 Climate Change warriors were evacuated by helicopter in challenging conditions, all are safe. 7 crew remains on board, waiting for Coast Guard ship assistance.
[DAWN] A day after ex-strongman and founding leader Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case. Dumped in November 2017 when the Missus decided she wanted to be president, and opposed heer might against Crocodile Mnangawa Important safety tip: If your opponent goes by the name Crocodile andf your title is Shopper in Chief let him win.... died, the only clear sign that Zim-bob-we was in mourning were flags flying at half mast.
The streets and shops were packed, weddings and parties went ahead as planned. Most people were going about their usual business, trying to eke out living. For while Mugabe is hailed for having led Zim-bob-we to independence, for many Zim-bob-weans he is also the man who wrecked their economy, leaving them to live with the consequences.
Commuter mini bus driver More Kondo, 30, was busy decanting petrol from a large jerrycan into a smaller container to share with a fellow driver.
"If it were another leader, right now this country should have shut down to mourn," he said. "But he was an autocrat.
"Had he left power early and the country in a better shape, we would be celebrating his life and would have seriously shut down the country in honour of him."
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Hiding out in Singapore, according to Wiki. Guessing the Singapore government's attitude is that as long as she keeps her head down, her mouth shut, and the checks clear, it's cool.
Mike
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Allow folks to piss on his grave for $1 and you'd make a fortune.
Put up a pub next to the cemetery that allowed you to cut in line at the grave and you could retire in a year as tourists with Rhodesian accents bought pint after pint and drowned the dead bastard.
In fact that is how most dictators should end. Embalm them and bury them with their head out of the ground and their mouth open.
[DAWN] Prime Minister Boris Johnson ...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies.... is sticking to his Brexit plan and will not seek a delay to Britannia's departure from the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union at a summit next month, two ministers said on Sunday despite the latest resignation from his government.
After work and pensions minister Amber Rudd's quit late on Saturday over his Brexit policy, the ministers said Johnson was determined to "keep to the plan" to leave the EU by October 31 with or without a deal to ease the transition.
Johnson's strategy to leave "do or die" by that deadline has been shaken by the events of recent days, which have prompted critics to describe him as a "tin pot dictator" and deepened uncertainty over how Britannia's 2016 vote to leave the EU will play out.
He has lost his Conservative government's majority in parliament, expelled 21 rebels from the party and failed to force through a new election. Then his own brother quit, saying he was torn between family loyalty and the national interest.
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The EU will find out the hard way when Hungary, Poland, the Czechs leave as well. Unelected bureaucrats will make it as hard as possible, but your EU is OVER, EC. It's just a matter of how hard the feelings are, after
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Amber Crud was always a remainiac and diversity hire, she's always been useless.
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I'm just an ignorant colonial, but I thought that when 17 million people checked the box that said "Leave the EU" they were voting to, you know, leave the EU. But apparently "Leave the EU" is a quaint British expression like "and Bob's your uncle", which has nothing to do with anyone named Bob or anyone's uncle. Cockney rhyming slang, perhaps?
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Well if you ask a guy whether he's willing to marry and propose him Taylor Swift as the bride, he might say yes but might change his mind if after that you tell him, oops Taylor isn't available after all, it's going to be Rosie O’Donnell.
And do find the bitching about all those "unelected" EU officials strange when an unelected Prime Minister without a majority in Parliament suspends the elected Parliament to push through an agenda that the majority of the British people (let alone Scotland and Northern Ireland) doesn't want.
I don't have a Cockney rhyming slang for that.
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EC, first, thanks for posting here. Your perspective is very valuable, as is BP's.
I haven't got a clue whether leaving the EU would be good or bad for Britain, but that was the vote. Your Rosie O'Donnell example is, indeed, horrific, but circumstances and opinions always change after the votes are in. For example, I doubt that Macron would be re-elected today, but that doesn't mean he is not the duly elected president of France.
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Here's what the voted for... No mention of a special deal. Just leave
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Bright Pebbles
I understand that you don't want to revisit the referendum as such.
But shouldn't the people be able to vote on a deal/no deal choice?
As I understand it there is a deal agreed upon by the May government and the EU, ready to be signed. It has not found a majority in Parliament.
So why not let the people decide on it? Elections might do the trick but not quite because I see a lot of people who'd like the deal option but not Corbyn as PM.
A clean referendum would be preferable. Let the people vote on the May deal (or any deal Boris can manage with the EU before October 31st.
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They should repeat until they get the right answer!
#16
and Matt, thank you for your appreciation.
The difference between elections and the Brexit referendum is that in 4 years people automatically get a new choice.
Not so when it comes to Brexit. So I think people should be fully informed of the consequences a deal or no deal will have and be able to vote on it. This seems the logical thing to do as Parliament has refused the deal AND the no deal option.
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We voted to Leave.
No need for a second referendum when Leaving the common market & the EU was offered and taken by the British people in the largest democratic vote in British history.
Reversing a terrible mistake for Britain.
Why should a people keep voting until a foreign power likes the result?
#19
I'm not asking for a referendum on Leave or Not Leave, as you can rightfully say that this has been decided.
But since Parliament can't agree on the CONDITIONS for leaving, shouldn't these conditions be decided by the people?
The Johnson government claims it can get a better deal. Well, let them try but if they don't, let the people decide between the deal that has been agreed upon with the EU or a no deal Brexit.
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"If MPs "representing" constituencies that instructed parliament to Leave the EUSSR felt they could not do as instructed they should have resigned."
This would be a so-called imperative mandate that socialist "democracies" used to have.
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UK needs a Trump, but you can't have him -- he's ours.
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EC - Consequences imposed by a vengeful EU. Fuck em. This institution will expire due to parochial interests seeing it is no longer in their interests. The EU will try and punish leavers, exacerbating the sentiments and hate. Bye EU
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FrankG
I understand some of the feelings you and other people have about the EU.
But not all. Despite the bureaucracy it has made inter-European trading easier and it's a union of nations that neither the U.S. nor China can ignore.
I don't want 28 "sovereign" European nations in constant conflict with each other. The U.S. shouldn't want it either. The only winners would be Russia and China.
Post Brexit UK will find out soon what real power it has in this world.
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Cockney rhyming slang, perhaps?
No. Bob’s your uncle has everything to do about a guy named Bob, who was someone’s uncle. Do some research, it’s a funny story.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) recently conducted a joint land assault exercise featuring multiple military branches near the island of Taiwan, which military experts said on Sunday shows the Chinese military is ready to unleash its full potential against Taiwan secessionist forces and intends to send a stern warning to countries that intervene in China’s internal affairs.
The 74th Group Army of the PLA recently held a joint land assault exercise off the eastern coast of South China’s Guangdong Province, with the navy and air force joining the simulated attack, China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Thursday.
Led by the navy’s amphibious assault ships, with additional air support, a combined arms brigade of the army launched a joint assault on a coastal area.
Navy minesweepers and obstacle breaking boats first cleared a path through the sea, and amphibious assault vehicles of the army stormed to the coast from multiple directions.
As the army closed in on the coast, warplanes, artilleries and tanks launched simulated joint strikes from multiple points and successfully seized the position.
While the defending team attempted counterattacks, the army called in air strikes from a communications command platform, guiding fighter aircraft and long-range rockets that eliminated the defender’s threat.
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Sure. Like they marched up and down around HK. They're revealed for the bullies they are. It's just downhill for them now.
I'd worry about covert reprisals on the Trump family and presidency from them.
#5
China's weak link in invasion is their transport capability. They will need a D-Day size invasion for it to be successful and right now they don't have it.
#6
Also Trump has removed restriction on advanced arms sales to Taiwan. The are in the process of acquiring anti-shipping guided missiles. Also acquiring licenses to build nasty stuff. Taiwan may not love the Japanese but they need the sea lanes open also.
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Groth Hupans2047 - the native Taiwan Independence party actually does look toward Japan with friendship... It is one of their conflicts with the KMT based parties.
[MiamiHerald] Judge reinstates nationwide halt on Trump asylum policy plan
A U.S. judge in California on Monday reinstated a nationwide halt on the Trump administration's plan to prevent most migrants from seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border.
U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar ruled in Oakland that an injunction blocking the administration's policy from taking effect should apply nationwide.
Tigar blocked the policy in July after a lawsuit by groups that help asylum seekers. But the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals limited the impact of Tigar's injunction to states within the area overseen by the appeals court.
That meant the policy was blocked in the border states of California and Arizona but not in New Mexico or Texas.
In his ruling, Tigar stressed a "need to maintain uniform immigration policy" and found that nonprofit organizations such as Al Otro Lado don't know where asylum seekers who enter the U.S. will end up living and making their case to remain in the country.
Al Otro Lado, an 'NGO' that supports criminal trespassers illegal immigrants and people running from ICE by representing their interests 0 chiefly that of squatting by tying up the system in court.
"The court recognized there is grave danger facing asylum-seekers along the entire stretch of the southern border," Lee Gelernt, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement.
A message was left seeking comment with the Department of Justice.
The new rules by the Trump administration apply to migrants who pass through another country before reaching the U.S.
The policy targets tens of thousands of Central Americans who cross Mexico every month to try to enter the U.S. and also would affect asylum-seekers from Africa, Asia and South America who arrive regularly at the southern border. Carrying measles, aids, the bubonic fucking plague and what not.
[DAWN] A judicial magistrate on Saturday granted the police four-day physical remand of teacher and head of a private school arrested in a case of class-X student’s death by torture.
Gulshan-e-Ravi police produced Muhammad Kamran, the teacher, and Shahid Mahmood Chughtai, the branch head of American Lycetuff School, No! Really? The Lycee Tuff?
before the magistrate and sought their 14-day physical remand.
Next day, several charged class fellows of the victim set the school on fire.
The investigation officer stated that the offence under section 302 of PPC was heinous in nature and the suspects were nominated in the FIR. He said remand of the suspects was required to complete investigation.
The magistrate, Muhammad Ramzan, allowed four-day remand of the suspects and directed the police to produce them again on Sept 11.
The teacher allegedly subjected Hunain Bilal to brutal torture for not bringing a book to the class who went titzup. Next day, several charged class fellows of the victim set the school on fire. Police reached the spot and controlled the law and order situation while Rescue 1122 extinguished the fire. "Which spot?"
"THAT spot"
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Dron's friendly intracontinental culture Tip #04
'A 14 day Remand ' in the third world refers to a week or two of beatings. With occasional questions and once overs by a shady nurse from a nearby clinic. At the end of which the subject is ready to confess to plotting to kill the Pope just to be able to sit on his arse again.
#2
Good to know, Dron66046. There was a time when that was a known risk in the U.S. if one was the wrong sort of person — a good reason to never get caught misbehaving.
[DAWN] Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Raja Basharat says the government will not tolerate extrajudicial killings by police.
He was speaking to the media along with Muhammad Afzaal, the father of ATM thief Salahuddin Ayubi who was allegedly killed by police in jug.
Earlier on Saturday, Afzaal and members of his family met Chief Minister Usman Buzdar and expressed his satisfaction over the government’s action following the killing of his son. "OK, I'm satisfied. Now can you stop beating me?"
The chief minister condoled the death of Ayubi and promised the family that the government would leave no stone unturned to punish the perpetrators.
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In fact all local banks have been ordered to donate one day's ATM money to the family in support. The Lá Whore ATM Thieves Association offered to strike if they didn't. I mean... really strike.
[DAWN] City Mayor Wasim Akhtar demanded on Saturday that K-Electric officials responsible for the "mass murder" of victims of electrocution during the recent monsoon rains be tried in open court through public hearings.
Addressing a hurriedly-called presser, he appreciated the decision in Nepra inquiry into the incidence of electrocution in the city and said that the regulatory authority had held the power utility responsible for death of people.
He said that electrocution of people during rains was not the personal case of victims’ families, but it was the case of the entire city.
The mayor said that the city could be run only by correcting the system and those responsible for such negligence must be punished and the victims get the justice.
He said the city’s civic and municipal infrastructure had been devastated adding to the miseries of the people.
The mayor said that 40 people died due to electrocution in the city during monsoon rains.
"People would continue to die like this if the responsible officials are not brought to book", added.
He said that it was high time to launch a joint struggle to bring some relief to people of 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... . "There has been enough blame game", he added.
The mayor said that the city badly needed funds and resources for development of its infrastructure.
He appealed to the president, the prime minister and the chief justice of Pakistain to give attention to problems being faced by the city.
Responding to a question, he said that he was the deputy convener of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... and his party stood by him.
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[DAWN] A post-mortem report of Amir Masih ‐ a gardener who died after being illegally detained in an alleged police torture cell in Lahore ‐ showed that there were torture marks on various parts of his body, it emerged on Sunday. "They're birth marks. We made him sorry for being born"
Earlier six coppers, including a sub-inspector, were nominated in a criminal case for the alleged torture of Amir.
As per the post-mortem report, torture marks were visible on Amir's hands, feet, back and arms. His ribs were also broken.
According to a first information report (FIR) lodged on the complaint of the victim's brother, Amir ‐ who worked as a gardener in Lahore's P.F. Colony ‐ was summoned at North Cantt cop shoppe by Sub-Inspector Zeeshan on August 28. He was then taken to an unknown location, where he was subjected to torture.
According to the victim's brother, Amir had been called by Zeeshan in connivance with a civilian, Rana Mohammad Hanif, who has also been nominated in the FIR.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes... Amir's family approached the cop shoppe after they were told that Zeeshan had called the dear departed, but could not meet the sub-inspector. On September 2, Zeeshan and two unidentified officers handed over Amir, who was suffering from serious injuries, to his family. He was taken to the Services Hospital, where he passed away, the FIR stated.
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'Masih' is a christian surname often assumed by converts from islam. Christians in Pakistain are the poorest and voiceless minority, they are targeted daily by the sasquatch majority.
Christian girls are afraid of stepping out of their homes, the boys are bullied and killed over petty things, the men and women often implicated in blasphemy and put to death, if not publicly slain. Most of them cannot commute to school safely, let alone find employment later.
I imagine even the Angels in heaven shall exult for relief when they no longer have to fly over a populated Pakistain one day. It will be so much better off as a sea of glass.
In yet another incident of high-handedness by Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... police, a sub-inspector in Pakpattan was suspended after allegedly manhandling a devotee visiting the shrine of Baba Farid Ganj Shakar for urs celebrations.
The sub-inspector, Aijaz Kalia, was posted at the shrine to oversee the security of visitors.
A video of the incident went viral on social media on Saturday in which visitors to the shrine can be seen standing in a queue just before the stairs leading inside.
In the video, a man in the queue can be seen raising his voice in protest in the presence of the police officer. It is not clear what the reason behind the man's protest was, but another man can heard saying: "Is there even a reason for closing it?"
The sub-inspector lost his composure and yelled at the protesting man, telling him to "Shut up" ["chup kar"] to which the man responded by saying, "Why should I keep quiet?"
As things got heated, the officer goaded the man to go ahead and speak up if he is so inclined, moving to cross a rope barrier between him and the queue of people, but then holding back.
All the while, people kept urging the officer as well as the man to refrain from letting things escalate.
A moment later, the man said, "You have wronged us". This set the officer off who reached over to grab the man from the collar, dragged him over and shook him violently before shoving him aside.
Pakpattan District Police Officer (DPO) Ibadat Nisar released a video statement on the matter on Sunday.
"Yesterday some footage went viral on social media in which a sub-inspector used harsh language while speaking to a visitor and his behaviour was inappropriate," he said as he began his statement.
"I wish to [clarify] that Punjab police and Pakpattan police consider themselves to be in service of the people. We consider all the visitors who come here to be our guests. It is our effort to facilitate their safety and security, their travel and time here," said the DPO.
"We have taken serious action against the unfortunate incident which took place yesterday. The sub-inspector involved has been suspended immediately and a departmental investigation into the incident has been launched," said Nisar.
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[DAWN] The lander module from India's moon mission was located on the lunar surface on Sunday, one day after it lost contact with the space station, and efforts are underway to try to establish contact with it, the head of the nation's space agency said.
The Press Trust of India news agency cited Indian Space and Research Organisation chairman K. Sivan as saying cameras from the moon mission's orbiter had located the lander. "It must have been a hard landing," PTI quoted Sivan as saying.
ISRO officials could not be reached for comment.
According to Times of India, the lander was designed to function for one lunar day, equivalent to 14 Earth days, and with the "right orientation" it can still generate power and recharge batteries with solar panels.
"But it looks less and less probable, progressively," said one official associated with the mission who wished to remain anonymous.
Another top official explained that since it may not have landed on its four legs, the lander may not have the "right orientation" to recharge batteries and may not be able to reestablish a link.
The space agency said it lost touch with the Vikram lunar lander on Saturday as it made its final approach to the moon's south pole to deploy a rover to search for signs of water.
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You can teach them to wear pants,
but you can't teach them to lune a lander.
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Even after the hard landing, the thing appears to be intact. Just the comms not working. I really hope we didn't use Huawei comms chips ! Ohh noze ...!
Yoohoo ! Anyone going to the moon shortly ? Please fix our hundred million $ toy ! 😰
Maybe we could fit an illegal alien in the next one. Promise citizenship if he fixes that antenna.
h/t Instapundit
Ja Du is part of a small but growing number of people who call themselves transracial. The term once referred only to someone (or a couple) of a one race adopting a child of another, but now it’s becoming associated with someone born of one race who identifies with another.
Ja Du says he grew up enjoying Filipino food, events and the overall culture.
"Whenever I’m around the music, around the food, I feel like I’m in my own skin," he said.
"I’d watch the History Channel, sometimes for hours ... nothing else intrigued me more but things about Filipino culture." I sometimes feel Cimmerian (Conan not Kimmérioi)
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.
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[DAWN] The lander module from India's moon mission was located on the lunar surface on Sunday, one day after it lost contact with the space station, and efforts are underway to try to establish contact with it, the head of the nation's space agency said.
