[NYP] A Texas educator once lauded as her district’s "Teacher of the Year" allegedly performed oral sex on a student in a classroom, authorities said.
Randi Chaverria, a 36-year-old family and consumer science teacher at Round Rock High School, was arrested Tuesday after a student told police she had performed oral on him twice in October, according to an affidavit obtained by KVUE.
Text messages sent between the student and Chaverria ‐ who was named the Secondary Teacher of the Year by the school district in May ‐ appear to be consistent with the teen’s accusations, investigators said.
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I just couldn't get over my sexual angst over not being ravished by my attractive educators. A lot of unresolved lust. Probably why I married a teacher.
[New York Post] Four UPS employees were arrested in the bust of a "sophisticated" drug- and cash-smuggling scheme that saw traffickers using the delivery service to ship counterfeit vape pens and other illicit goods from Mexico into the US for more than a decade, according to new reports.
The accused ringleader was a 20-year veteran of the shipping service at the company’s Tucson distribution center, who authorities allege used his position to hide the origin and destination of each illicit package, the Washington Post reported.
A total of 11 people have been collared in the bust, which capped a two-year investigation into the shipment of large amounts of narcotics to destinations throughout the eastern United States and bulk cash sent back to the Tucson, Arizona, area. The case is being handled by the Arizona Attorney General’s office.
UPS employees ‐ both drivers and supervisors ‐ used "sophisticated methods and techniques" to avoid detection by company officials and law enforcement to "identify and intercept parcels containing contraband," ICE spokeswoman Yasmeen Pitts-O’Keefe told the Tucson Sentinel.
Dispatch supervisor Mario Barcelo, 49 ‐ the accused ringleader ‐ allegedly used his clout to ensure drug-packed boxes made their way onto certain trucks, and which slyly bypassed security measures in order to be delivered on time to the intended destination, according to the Washington Post.
The other UPS employees were identified as supervisor Gary Love, 40; and drivers Michael Castro, 34; and Thomas Mendoza, 47.
Release of video and 'Hate Crime' charges coming any minute now.
[Townhall] One actress has suffered a concussion, multiple cuts, and bruises, and might have to get multiple surgeries after a horrific attack outside of a New York City bar that may have racial elements. Jennifer Agostini and a friend were having a good time last weekend. But when they left around 3 A.M. on Sunday, a horde of 10-15 thugs brutally beat them. She took pictures of the aftermath and is just covered in blood. The assault was reportedly caused when one of their friends tried to re-enter the bar to get her credit card that was left behind (via NY Post):
[MAIL] A record-breaking veteran climber fell 600-feet to his death off a steep Mexico mountain after failing to tie a knot in his rappel rope. won't make that mistake again.
Brad Gobright, 31, had been rappelling down El Sendero Luminoso at El Potrero Chico on Wednesday with climbing partner Aiden Jacobson, 26.
Gobright and Jacobson met each other for the first time on the day of the climb. The night before, the veteran climber had posted to Instagram asking whether anyone wanted to join him. Jacobson, from Phoenix, answered the post, and the pair met up the next morning.
The pair used a 260ft rope to simul-rappel down the side of the mountain after they reached the peak, according to Outside. The climbing technique is where two climbers, using opposite ends of the same rope, descend down the side of a mountain. The rope is rigged to an anchor, and each climber acts as a counterweight to the other. If one stops weighting the rope, it could cause the other to fall.
In this case, Gobright and Jacobson did not tie potentially life-saving stopper knots in the ends of their ropes because it could cause the ropes to get stuck, according to Outside.
As the pair descended, they misjudged the length of rope they had on either side - with Gobright having less than he thought. And as they hadn't tied knots into the rope, when it reached its end it slipped out of his rappel device, causing him to fall 600-feet.
Jacobson fell at the same time, but his fall was broken by bush and he injured his ankle.
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A central piton is hammered deep into the rock crevices. This secures an anchor, a simple device which may have a pulley wheel or just a hook with rope going through it. Two can descend on either side now, sure that even if one guy slips, he'll just swing on the central point. The other guy will not feel more than a tug, and that too toward the piton itself.
You can't see it here but these guys are connected to a central pulley type anchor, so if one slips, the other only feels the tug upward. If both fools slip, they just swing from the thingy until they find their footing again.
ATLANTA - A Channel 2 consumer investigation exposes how an inexpensive part can lead to an extra-expensive repair. Consumer investigator Jim Strickland reveals why the drivers of some of Ford's most popular cars and trucks get hit with the bill.
You know the names well, like F-150, Explorer, Fusion and Taurus. They're all Fords, and the affected model years in this case share the same engines. When a $200 part goes bad, the news gets worse in a hurry.
Shona Manigault's car is a 2011 Ford Explorer. She was pulling out of a McDonald's when it started to sputter, stall and overheat. It turned out to be a fairly routine issue involving the water pump, an engine component that circulates coolant to keep your engine at an optimum temperature. But the price of the repair was anything but routine: more than $8,100.
"Are you angry?" Strickland asked Mrs. Manigault.
"Angry is putting it lightly. I am past the moon with rage with what has happened to me with this vehicle," Manigault said.
Ford introduced the Duratec engine in 2007. Its water pump is inside the engine itself. When it fails, instead of anti-freeze leaking on the ground, it leaks into the oil, turning it into something resembling a chocolate milkshake.
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I believe the correct term is 'programmed obsolescence.'
'Making room in the engine compartment for a water pump' comment in the video is absolute bullshi*.
Hiding the fuel pump in the gas tank has been going on for years. Both engineering marvels tend to put the 'shade tree' do-it-yourself guy at a distinct disadvantage. But that was the goal after all.
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They used to simply require 'special tools' to fix things - tools which were both expensive and not generally available to the public.
Then there is the old "Cut a trace, double cpu speed."
There was a rumor once that a certain computer manufacturer offered an "upgrade" that would double CPU speed. Of course they charged a good price for it. The 'upgrade' was to have a field service technician go out and simply cut a trace on the circuit board. Once cut the processor would run at full speed.
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Willys flat head four had pressed paper timing gears. They were bulletproof.
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They're propping up these dealer networks as a form of compensation for slashing prices on new cars. The dealers make all their $ on servicing those cars and their deliberately shitty quality & crap parts.
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Watched Ford vs Ferrari the other day. Refreshing in that you can't find a single token wakandan being mistreated for the audiences to sulk over, nor was there a lesbi4n couple making out for no reason. It seems we can only get our films from the past now. There was some good critique of Ford and systems oriented manufacturers.
BLUF:
[AP] While the cause of the blaze was still under investigation, Fire Chief John Fruetel told reporters Wednesday that investigators believe the fire was an accident but didn’t explain why. No further details on the fire were available Thursday morning and authorities had not released the name of the fifth victim.
STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) ‐ Mississippi flushed away a golden chance at the Golden Egg.
Luke Logan missed a 35-yard extra point after Ole Miss receiver Elijah Moore was penalized for celebrating a touchdown by crawling and pretending to urinate like a dog, and Mississippi State escaped with a 21-20 victory Thursday night in the 116th Egg Bowl.
"That’s not who we are. We’ve been a disciplined team all year, and so just disappointed that happened," Rebels coach Matt Luke said. "That’s not who he is. Elijah is a good kid, and he just got caught up in the moment." "That's not who any of us is. It was ....uh...someone else. Who you gonna believe? Me or your lying eyes....and tape?"
Ole Miss (4-8, 2-6 Southeastern Conference) pulled within a point with 4 seconds remaining on Matt Corral’s 2-yard pass to Moore, but Logan hooked the extra point after Moore cost the Rebels 15 yards. The extra yards also prevented Mississippi from going for a winning 2-point conversion.
The penalty was another in a long line of unsportsmanlike conduct fouls between these two teams in recent years, and oddly not even the first one featuring a player pretending to pee. Luke said he knew that as emotions flared in the annual rivalry game that showboating would need to be avoided.
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Discipline and maturity constitute rayciss white privilege advantages designed to keep the black man down...
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College football is an activity for a select few. Why are colleges promoting football? Most students cannot qualify to play the sport and the players that do make the team tend to have an attitude problem which does not reflect well on them.
Colleges are supposed to be in the education business, not the sport business.
Time to break the sport industries free from colleges/universities and let them make or break as a standalone business with no monies from colleges/universities.
[NYPost] A model who cosmetically enhanced her backside to 60-inches with illegal injections has been told by doctors she may have to have it amputated.
Courtney Barnes, also known as Miss Miami, says she is desperate to get her body back and went to see surgeons on E!’s reality show “Botched.”
But the 35-year-old, from Miami, Florida, was shocked when Dr. Terry Dubrow told her that in order to fix her botched backside, it might have to be amputated.
Stunned, she responds: “Amputate the whole booty? I’m not doing that. No, I’m not doing that. I’m not amputating butts.”
Looking at the photo at the link, I have to wonder what kind of a model she is. Not all that backside is injections.
As the immortal Spinal Tap warbled:
The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'
That's what I said
The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand
Or, so I've read.
My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo
I love to sink her with my pink torpedo.
Big bottom
Big bottom
Talk about bum cakes
My gal's got 'em.
Big bottom
Drive me out of my mind.
How can I leave this behind?
I saw her on Monday, twas my lucky bun day
You know what I mean.
I love her each weekday, each velvety cheek day
You know what I mean.
My love gun's loaded and she's in my sights
Big game's waiting there inside her tights.
Big bottom
Big bottom
Talk about mud flaps
My gal's got 'em.
Big bottom
Drive me out of my mind.
How can I leave this behind?
[DAILYCALLER] In a video posted on Facebook by Thomas Meadows, I gigantic buck walks up to a guy’s front porch and proceeds to drink a little Bud Light. You might think I’m kidding, but I can promise you that I’m not. The monster buck was casually sipping on a beer like he was just another dude at the bar. I’d bet my life that this deer was raised penned in.
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Amusing to watch. Is the overt mention of 4chan an effort to generate guilt by association?
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Guilt? What guilt? 4channers do this stuff all the time. You don't think it's all politics, right? Who told you that? Oh, the media? And you believe them? LOL.
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So Christians and stores can't have a parades because some rainbow folk who likely don't believe in Christ or in the commercial Santa might get hit with tomatoes ... Wow what self importance by some folks who will likely never have kids. Christmas parades are actually all about kids.
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You said it brother. The fat real estate marm mayor doesn't want any bad publicity.
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I suggest a booth with a graphic representation of rainbow activities for the tomato throwers to work out their free speech bent on. After all, if SCROTUS says burning the flag, nude dancing and panhandling are free speech, how can tomato throwing be wrong?
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Just incorporate it as part of the festival. An act of inclusiveness of our Hispanic fellow travelers.
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Actually, the Black Death has been located in Central Asia. The locals have long lived with it by incorporating behaviors to avoid it. Its when travelers and outsiders ignore the peril that it starts to 'move'. East-West trade (Silk Road) or conflict would transit the place, outsiders (like Europe) would get to experience it in full force. It's endemic now in New Mexico having migrated from the China-Mexico trade route of the old Spanish empire. Just follow certain warnings and you'll be safe. Fear however apparently does wonders in selling print and filling airtime.
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#1 is correct - plague is most often carried by the fleas from Ground Squirrels in the US Southwest
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...now if those ground squirrels just happen to 'migrate' to west coast high population areas with poor sanitation and piles of trash, it could be 'interesting'.
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now if those ground squirrels just happen to 'migrate' to west coast high population areas with poor sanitation and piles of trash, it could be 'interesting'.
Already happened, I understand. It only becomes interesting when it goes pneumonic, transferring via coughing versus the considerably less efficient fleas.
[Breitbart] The government of Mozambique launched a new conference and training session initiative in partnership with an albino rights NGO Wednesday urging citizens to cease killing, raping, and using the body parts of people with albinism in witchcraft ceremonies.
In many parts of southeastern Africa, "traditional herbalists" who practice witchcraft spread the belief that people with albinism possess magical powers. Albinism is a condition in which a person’s body does not produce pigmentation, often leaving them more sensitive to sun exposure and other risks. Many in the region hold the common belief that potions featuring the body parts of an albino person can bring good luck, help in business, win political elections, and cure diseases. Relatedly, some believe that sex with an albino woman can cure HIV/AIDS, resulting in frequent instances of rape of albino girls and women.
Witch doctor demands for albino body parts make harvesting them by killing or dismembering an albino person a lucrative business.
Deputy Minister of Gender, Child, and Social Action Lucas Mangrasse attended a conference on albinism Wednesday alongside the organization Amor a Vida (love of life), which advocates for albino rights, speaking on behalf of the executive government in condemning violent acts against albino people. The organization demanded "urgent measures" to punish attacks on albinos and prevent further violence, in the hope of achieving a 2020 with no attacks on albinos on record.
[NYP] British police on Thursday defended the decision to not fully investigate sex trafficking claims by Prince Andrew’s accuser ‐ something she has blasted as "corruption" in the highest levels of government.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre has long claimed that Jeffrey Epstein made her have sex with the royal three times, including in London in March 2001 when a now notorious photo was taken of them together.
Giuffre claimed on Twitter this week that London police told her they would "forensically examine" Ghislaine Maxwell’s house, where she claimed the sex happened soon after the photo was taken.
"Next thing I hear, just like the FBI, they were not allowed to pursue the investigation," she wrote Monday, calling it "corruption in the highelevels [sic] of gov."
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Muted condemnations of Prince Andrew's conduct are seeping out of Washington. His upcoming 'Dancing with the stars' contract could be in jeopardy. Stronger messages may follow.
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...Short of them finding incontrovertible photo/video evidence and/or a statement that says, "I did it and I'm proud of it, Love, Andy", he's going to walk - no member of the royal family is going to go down for something like this. On the other hand, his time as an active member of the family is done, full stop. A shame, really, Andrew acquitted himself well in the Falklands - may well have deserved a VC in decoying a missile away from a ship, and he had a genuinely solid military career.
That, however, was then. This is now.
Mike
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] British 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.... ’s Conservatives smashed the record for the amount of money raised in the first fortnight of an election campaign on Thursday, while the unions turned on the taps to keep the opposition Labour Party in touch.
Official spending data from the Electoral Commission showed that in the first two weeks of a campaign that will determine Britannia’s EU future, the Conservatives raised 8.6 million pounds compared with Labour’s 3.7 million pounds.
This is the second time this year Johnson has broken a record for political donations. Over the summer, he raised the most money by a British politician campaigning to lead their political party, underlining his popularity with donors.
Following the first week of the campaign when the Conservatives raised 26 times more in political donations than Labour, the main opposition party narrowed the funding gap by raising 3.5 million pounds, nearly all from unions.
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Thank you, President Trump.
Worst Hitler ever! Seems like a dozen or so countries have recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital or renewed diplo ties since Trump plunged the ME into chaos. /snark
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Oh, and a shout out to our frackers as well! You know those non-Ivy League troglodytes who have seem to achieve what all the Best and Brightest(tm) have failed to achieve for decades.
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Beware the Hwacha! With the Power of Juche™ this marvel of Korean military thought from the 1590's is ready for the 21st Century ... burying their foes under 100-200 rocket-assisted arrows!
[MAIL] China summoned U.S. Ambassador Terry Brandstad on Thursday to demand that the United States stop interfering with its internal affairs immediately.
China's Foreign Ministry said the U.S.'s involvement in the ongoing protests in Hong Kong are further damaging bilateral relations.
In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China has condemned a new bill signed by President Donald Trump supporting protesters.
'The US side has signed into law the so-called Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act. This is a severe interference in Hong Kong affairs, which are China's internal affairs,' the statement read. Take THAT, you cheesy commi bastids! Should 'commi bastids' be hyphenated ?
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Or they could give back to the earth by burying real deep. Renew those fossil fuels. Who knows ? Maybe thousands of years from now a chinaman shall nonchalantly fill up his Range Rover with twenty liters of a grad student in Diversity Studies, and twenty liters of a Sociology major.
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Maybe thousands of years from now a chinaman shall nonchalantly fill up his Range Rover with twenty liters of a grad student in Diversity Studies, and twenty liters of a Sociology major.
If they were a gasoline grade, which would they be - premium or regular?
h/t Instapunit
The Dean of Science at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia has been charged after she allegedly orchestrated a fake harassment campaign against herself, prompting a lengthy police investigation and the implementation of significant security measures.
Environmental chemist and toxicologist Professor Dianne Jolley faced a Sydney court on Wednesday over charges she allegedly sent threatening letters to herself between May and September.
She is the fifth dean in as many years to serve in the UTS science faculty. In June the department was rocked by a decision to stop offering its degree in traditional Chinese medicine after more than 25 years.
University sources have told The Sydney Morning Herald the charges against Jolley are believed to be linked to the course closure.
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#1 She had it scientifically figured out. I'm sure she still doesn't have any idea how she got caught.
Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-11-29 12:13
...Wish I could find a GIF for the wonderful Warner Brothers cartoon where the Coyote opens a door expecting to see Bugs Bunny but instead sees an oncoming train - and all he can do is gasp, "But HOW????" just before impact.
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Economists are boosting their fourth quarter growth forecasts after the trade deficit narrowed and business investment showed a surprise pickup in October.
The CNBC/Moody’s Analytic’s rapid update of economists forecasts showed a median increase of 0.1 percentage points to 1.8%. The government also reported a bigger-than-expected revision to growth in the nation’s third quarter gross domestic product to 2.1% from a first reading of 1.9%.
Economists are watching to see if October’s business investment rebound is signaling that the slowdown in spending and manufacturing could be coming to an end.
In her latest public statement, she says that the 'climate crisis is not just about the environment':
It is a crisis of human rights, of justice, and of political will. Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fueled it. We need to dismantle them all.
"After all, the climate crisis is not just about the environment. It is a crisis of human rights, of justice, and of political will. Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fueled it." https://t.co/mffeq9eAKP
- Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) November 29, 2019
To anyone familiar with the workings of the green movement, Greta's statement will come as no surprise whatsoever.
That's why I called my book on the subject Watermelons.
Environmentalists are often green on the outside, red on the inside. Their movement is essentially a global socialistic redistribution exercise hiding behind a mask of green righteousness.
Meanwhile, the consequences of little Greta's hissy fits are being felt across Europe and hitting ordinary people hard.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The US is to cut its contribution to NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... ’s operating budget, officials said Thursday, with Germany increasing payments as the alliance tries to appease President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... ahead of a summit next week.
Trump has repeatedly criticized Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an members for freeloading on the US, singling out Germany -- the continent’s economic powerhouse -- for lagging behind on an alliance commitment to spend at least two percent of GDP on defense.
While most of Trump’s anger has been focused on European national defense budgets, there has also been American grumbling about how much Washington contributes to NATO’s own running costs, and the 29-member alliance has now agreed to a change.
"All allies have agreed a new cost-sharing formula. Under the new formula, cost shares attributed to most European allies and Canada will go up, while the US share will come down," a NATO official said.
"This is an important demonstration of allies’ commitment to the alliance and to fairer burden-sharing."
The US currently pays 22.1 percent of the NATO budget -- which totaled $2.5 billion (2.37 billion euros) in 2019 -- and Germany 14.8 percent, under a formula based on each country’s gross national income.
Under the new agreement, the US will cut its contribution to 16.35 percent of the total, Germany’s will rise to the same level and other allies will pay more.
Though the sums involved are small in military terms -- the 29 alliance members spent a total of nearly a trillion dollars on defense in 2018 -- not all allies are happy with the move.
Diplomats say La Belle France has refused to go along with the new arrangement and will keep its contribution the same at 10.5 percent, arguing that the deal to change the figures was cooked up between Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... without properly consulting other allies.
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The ingratitude is simply unbelievable. They can't even pay their fair share. They get angry and tell us to stop bullying them.
This is why you don't foster a culture of dependency. It turns out like this every time.
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Diplomats say La Belle France has refused to go along with the new arrangement...
There was a long period where France wasn't even in NATO. They seem to be covered on all sides, so they can do what they want.
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If France won't honor the terms of the new agreement, kick them out. You can start slowly by cutting them from communications updates until their check arrives...if it doesn't appear quickly enough, adopt sterner measures until they're literally out of the alliance.
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NATO brings us nothing that we cannot get from our bilateral relationships w UK Poland Italy Romania Nederlands and Denmark. Shut it down. Redeploy.
[Dawn] Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates discussed a planned refinery in the western Indian state of Maharashtra that will cost at least $70 billion, a figure that exceeds the initial $44 billion estimate previously announced.
The new figure came from a read-out of a meeting in the UAE between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Wednesday evening.
The statement said the two sides discussed the initiative, first announced in 2018, to develop the refinery and petrochemicals complex, which would secure the supply of 600,000 barrels per day of Saudi and Emirati crude oil for India's market.
The project, which would be run by a consortium that includes Saudi Aramco and ADNOC, has yet to begin or secure land.
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I don't think it'll happen now. That state just went to the leftists, who'll just embarrass us all by opening their jaws wide and asking for bribes, driving them sheiks away. If it does begin, it'll end in a $ multibillion scandal.
It flipped overnight the state, due to the regional politics of some selfish dynastic bastards.
we discussed this issue yesterday
California plans on increasing business tax rates on legal marijuana in 2020, which will hurt struggling companies that have trouble growing profits in the state’s toxic regulatory environment.
Hefty marijuana taxes that can approach 50 percent in some communities have been blamed for pushing shoppers into California’s tax-free illegal market, which is thriving. Industry analysts estimate that $3 are spent in the illegal market for every $1 in the legal one.
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Tax the dopers. They are too baked to figure out they are being economically r4ped.
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Tax revenues are down so Newsom wants us to smoke more pot while he's raising taxes on it at the same time. The cartels might want to rethink their pivot to hard drugs as it would seem there is still a viable market for bootleg weed.
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Prohibition has made dope forever a grey market thing. Alcohol was at least totally legal before 1919, so there was a commercial mindset and infrastructure in place. Not so with weed.
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“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.”
And if you put socialists in charge of California, in one year people would turn back to the cartels.
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Newsom us as stupid as he is vain. This shithead could probably get billions in new revenues, and add thousands in savings each year to every CA household, if he and DOGR were to permit fracking in the Monterey Shale.
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This shithead could probably get billions in new revenues, and add thousands in savings each year to every CA household, if he and DOGR were to permit fracking in the Monterey Shale.
He might be able to lower taxes on marijuana and get the same result. The issue is that the current tax rates are such that illegal marijuana is now cheaper. The whole point of legalization was that legal would be cheaper, thereby driving traffickers out of business and eliminating the turf wars that result in shootings and killings. By keeping it more expensive than the illegal variant, the government is basically doing nothing to cut down on drug trafficking-related violence. It's just leeching onto legal drug sales for incremental tax revenues, which will go to zero as tax rates keep getting jacked up and users stop buying from legal outlets.
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.
[NYP] A Texas educator once lauded as her district’s "Teacher of the Year" allegedly performed oral sex on a student in a classroom, authorities said.
[New York Post] Four UPS employees were arrested in the bust of a "sophisticated" drug- and cash-smuggling scheme that saw traffickers using the delivery service to ship counterfeit vape pens and other illicit goods from Mexico into the US for more than a decade, according to new reports.
STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) ‐ Mississippi flushed away a golden chance at the Golden Egg.
[DAILYCALLER] In a video posted on Facebook by Thomas Meadows, I gigantic buck walks up to a guy’s front porch and proceeds to drink a little Bud Light. You might think I’m kidding, but I can promise you that I’m not. The monster buck was casually sipping on a beer like he was just another dude at the bar. I’d bet my life that this deer was raised penned in.
[Breitbart] The government of Mozambique launched a new conference and training session initiative in partnership with an albino rights NGO Wednesday urging citizens to cease killing, raping, and using the body parts of people with albinism in witchcraft ceremonies.
...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....
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
