[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Police in New York City are urgently searching for an arsonist after a man was brutally set on fire in Times Square early Sunday morning.
The victim, a 45-year-old man, was left with horrific burns all over his face and arms from the heinous attack.
The tallish African-American in dreadlocks or cornrows and khaki jeans walked without apparent pain to the ambulance.
The NYPD received a 911 call around 3.55am for a person set on fire at 41 Street and 7th Avenue.
Terrifying images and video showed the unnamed burn victim being taken into an ambulance with severe burns all over his body.
The shirtless man was wrapped in a blue blanket as dozens of first responders rushed to help him.
Police said they believe the man was set on fire, but the name of the perpetrator was not immediately released. It is unclear if it was a targeted or random attack.
The suspect is said to have a medium complexion and was last seen wearing blue clothing, according to authorities.
Sounds like another of New York City’s many mentally ill assailants.
The victim was transported to New York Presbyterian Cornell. He is in stable condition, police said.
Fast thinking first responders doused the victim with the fire extinguisher until the fire was out. Remnants of white foam were left on the pavement where the crime occurred.
Footage also showed police escorting a woman wearing a dress and heels, who is an apparent companion of the victim.
There is a slightly blurry photo of an expressionless lady at the link. She appears to be Asian, with waist-length dyed red hair, a short, black dress, and bare legs.
[France24] Nearly 42,000 Kuwaitis have been stripped of their nationality in just six months and in defiance of international law. Launched under the increasingly authoritarian rule of Kuwait's new monarch, Emir Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the policy claims to target foreigners who illegally obtained Kuwaiti citizenship – but naturalised citizens and political opponents are getting caught up in the campaign.
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[Reuters] Ecuadorean officials have told allies of U.S. President Donald Trump that they are interested in hosting a U.S. military base in the South American country, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter.
The officials also said they were interested in inking a free trade deal with the United States, which has eluded the Andean nation, even as neighboring Colombia and Peru have had bilateral accords with the U.S. for over a decade, said the sources, who requested anonymity to describe private conversations.
The expressions of interest were delivered in recent weeks to Republican lobbyists in Washington close to the Trump administration, the sources said. It is unclear if the administration is itself aware of or interested in the proposals, and the White House National Security Council did not respond to a request for comment.
The military base pitch is the latest unconventional plan advanced by the administration of Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa, who is trying to tamp down on crime and strengthen ties with Trump associates heading into a competitive April election.
On Wednesday, Noboa announced a "strategic alliance" with Erik Prince - a prominent Trump supporter and founder of controversial private military firm Blackwater - to take on crime and narcoterrorism in the country of 17 million.
Noboa, the 37-year-old heir to one of the country's biggest business fortunes, has publicly argued for bringing foreign military bases to Ecuador. The Ecuadorean legislature is in the early stages of a legislative process that could eliminate a constitutional ban on such facilities instituted in 2008 with the support of leftist former President Rafael Correa.
The U.S. government had a military base on the environmentally sensitive Galapagos Islands during World War II and a separate base used largely to combat narcotics trafficking on the mainland until 2009, at which point Correa forced Washington to abandon the outpost.
Several other small and medium-sized nations have been exploring unconventional ways of building ties with Washington, some of which appear designed to take advantage of Trump's transactional foreign policy impulses and willingness to entertain unconventional policy ideas.
Officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for instance, have traveled to Washington in recent weeks to pitch the Trump administration on a critical minerals deal between the two nations. Officials in El Salvador, governed by conservative President Nayib Bukele, a prominent Trump ally, have offered to host criminals deported from the U.S. in Salvadoran jails.
Ecuador's government recently selected Washington-based Mercury Public Affairs to represent its interests with the Trump administration, according to a Monday filing with a Justice Department division that oversees foreign lobbying efforts.
The filing outlining the lobbying contract does not include any reference to military bases. It does identify "migration, trade, and security issues, including anti-terrorism efforts" as potential areas of collaboration.
The Ecuadorean foreign ministry and Mercury Public Affairs did not respond to requests for comment.
TIGHT ELECTION
Ecuador is heading for a tight April 13 runoff election that will pit Noboa against leftist Luisa Gonzalez, a protege of Correa.
Noboa has campaigned on what he says has been a 15% cut in violent deaths last year, a reduction in prison violence and the capture of major gang leaders. He has vowed to keep deploying the military on the streets and in prisons to fight insecurity.
The Noboa administration is also seeking to develop strategies alongside the State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs to "fight narcoterrorism," according to the Monday filing with the Justice Department.
Gonzalez, 47, has expressed opposition to the presence of foreign troops in Ecuador while calling for more efforts to fight the drug trade-related crime that has rocked the country in recent years. She has pledged to pursue corrupt judges and prosecutors and roll out a social spending plan in the most violent areas.
One of the sources familiar with the Ecuadoreans' interactions with Republican lobbyists said they were likely asking for too many deliverables in too short a time. The State Department tends to limit bilateral engagement directly before elections so as not to appear to be supporting a particular party, the source noted.
Trump has pledged to fight narcotics trafficking in Latin America, and he has at times expressed an interest in expanding U.S. hard power. He has, for instance, threatened to invade Panama, floated acquiring Greenland and said the U.S. could effectively take over Gaza.
But his administration's engagement with Latin America has not always followed an obvious pattern.
He has repeatedly threatened to slap 25% across-the-board tariffs on Mexico - which partially took effect earlier in March - amid dissatisfaction with that country's attempts to combat fentanyl trafficking, while at the same time complimenting Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.
His administration has made a deportation deal with Venezuela, a regional foe, but also declined to renew Chevron's license to operate there, a move which has further isolated that nation economically.
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If they kill him, I hope his replacement can also be nicknamed for a condiment.
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Dijon
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"Padon mwa, cher, would you happen to have any Zatarain's?"
"But of course, mwan chef!" [sprints to fetch institutional bucket]
"Mersi buku, or whatever." [daintily dips machete]
[GEO.TV] Cuba remained largely without power on Saturday morning after the island's grid collapsed the night before, knocking out electricity for 10 million people and raising fresh questions about the viability of its antiquated generating system.
At sunrise, the island's grid operator UNE said it was generating only a trickle of electricity — around 225 MW, or less than 10% of total demand, enough to cover some vital services like hospitals, water supply and food production centres.
Officials said they had begun the process of firing up the country's decades-old generation plants, but gave no timeline for restoring service.
Cuba's grid failed Friday evening around 8:15pm (0015 GMT) after an aging component of a transmission line at a substation in Havana shorted, beginning a chain reaction that completely shut down power generation across the island, UNE officials said.
The grid collapse follows a string of nationwide blackouts late last year that plunged Cuba's frail power generating system into near-total disarray, stressed by fuel shortages, natural disaster and economic crisis.
Most Cubans outside the capital Havana have already been living for months with rolling blackouts that peaked at 20 hours a day in recent weeks.
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Marge, have one of the kids pedal the fridge bike before the beer gets warm.
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Maybe it is time for Cuba to go Green. If you pave the entire island with solar panels, Cubans would have all the power they need. At least during daylight hours. Who is up a Five Year Plan?
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Not only are their very aged and poorly maintained primary power generating facilities coal or oil fired, but their distribution infrastructure hasn't really been well maintained, updated or replaced in over fifty years.
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Panama's power grid collapsed last night. Exploding CCP transformers were a prime suspect.
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On that video I showed some on FB... If they watched it until the Japanese lady was done... they missed that both Nvidia and TSMC are run by an extended family from Jiu Jiang China. One that speaks Jiu Jiang hua not Mandarin or Taiwan hua within their family. Oh and the PRC never gets a chip shortage from those companies. So one needs to consider how likely China is to really attack Taiwan. Like what would it gain? I am betting that these barges are for Vietnam and the Philippines.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] While most Canadians recoil at the thought of becoming the US' 51st state, an increasingly vocal minority are convinced it is essential for the future of their country.
Secessionists in Alberta say they are sick of their oil-rich province subsidizing the rest of the nation.
A dissatisfaction with the status quo, along with avid support for Donald Trump, has led to around 10 percent of Canadians expressing separatist views, the Telegraph reports.
The idea of Canada joining the US was first floated by the president last year and was largely taken in jest at the time after he jokingly referred to former leader Justin Trudeau as the 'Governor' of Canada.
However he has since triggered a trade war by slapping tariffs on some goods coming across the northern border.
Amid the growing tariff war, the bubbling secession movement is gaining speed.
At a recent makeshift ceremony, Alberta local Dan Casselman swore an oath renouncing his allegiance to Canada in favor of the US, citing his fears his home nation is 'doomed'.
At the heart of many of so-called 51st Staters gripes is anger over the way they feel Alberta's oil industry has been both demonized and exploited by liberals.
The province provides 56 percent of all US oil imports and is the richest in Canada with a GDP per capita.
But measures brought in under former Primer Minister Justin Trudeau's father Pierre Trudeau mean that the $2 billion of profits are redistributed to French speaking Quebec and left-leaning Ontario.
The younger Trudeau also pursued green energy targets at the expense of the oil industry which many Albertans feel is a mistake.
'All we're doing is saying we want this, yeah, we accept President Trump's offer,' Alberta native Peter Downing told the Telegraph.
'We want lower taxes. And we want to never pay another dime to Ottawa through "equalization."'
Canadians tend to pay more than Americans in tax due to the country's extensive social services.
Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the Conservative Party which is currently tied with current prime minister Mark Carney's Liberal Party, estimates that Canada has lost out on $121 billion due to 15 oil and gas pipelines which were cancelled between 2015 and 2020.
Downing pointed out that by contrast, Trump's 'Drill Baby Drill' approach to oil would boost jobs in Canada.
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Prediction:
Joy (irony!) Reid will write a tell-all book about her oppressive years at whoever she worked for. She will receive a huge advance from a "book publisher" that sales will not come close to covering.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Two prestigious Ivy League institutions are among over 50 universities targeted by the US Department of Education for alleged discrimination against white students.
On Friday, the DoED announced the sprawling investigations, accusing reputable institutions like Cornell and Yale universities, of using 'racial preferences and stereotypes in education programs and activities.'
The federal department's Office of Civil Rights said that 45 schools, particularly with their graduate programs, acted in violation to the 1964 Civil Rights Act by partnering with The PhD Project.
The PhD Project is a nonprofit program which helps students from underrepresented groups earn doctoral degrees in business, with the goal of diversifying the industry.
The program focuses on supporting Black, Latino and Native American students.
The Education Department alleges that the project limits eligibility based on the race of participants, and therefore, universities involved with the organization are engaging in 'race-exclusionary practices.'
'Students must be assessed according to merit and accomplishment, not prejudged by the color of their skin. We will not yield on this commitment,' Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement.
In response to the allegations, The PhD Project told NPR: 'Our vision is to create a broader talent pipeline of current and future business leaders...' The organization added, 'This year, we have opened our membership application to anyone who shares that vision.'
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These airframes were built before the McDonald Douglas merger so they're likely extremely durable.
Note that almost everything built since the merger has been crap; draw your own conclusions.
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[NYPOST] SpaceX successfully launched Crew Dragon 10 to the International Space Station Friday night on a mission that will return NASA's two stranded astronauts back to Earth after nine long months in orbit.
The Crew-10 mission lifted off just after 7 p.m. in a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and is expected to arrive at the ISS late Saturday night to relieve astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who could splashdown in the Sunshine State as early as Wednesday.
The pair of star gazers have been stuck at the ISS since their Boeing Starliner capsule suffered several leaks and mechanical issues during their weeklong mission last June.
Williams and Wilmore will head back to Earth on one of the docketed SpaceX capsules with fellow American astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, who arrived in space in September.
The trip would end the nine-month-long saga the two astronauts have endured after their initially planned 10 days on the ISS was extended indefinitely due to the Boeing malfunction, which cratered the company's reputation last year.
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^ That has driven me crazy - watching her hair all over the place.
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Given how old the two of them are and how long they've been in micro-gravity, I suspect they'll have a long recuperation/rehabilitation period when they get back.
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.
[NYPOST] SpaceX successfully launched Crew Dragon 10 to the International Space Station Friday night on a mission that will return NASA's two stranded astronauts back to Earth after nine long months in orbit. 
