[An Nahar] An Indonesian man has admitted stealing human remains from graves to use in black-magic spells he believed would give him the power of flight and invisibility, police said Monday. Since the cops found him and he didn't fly away, I'm guessing it didn't work?
Police placed in durance vile Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! Resi Rokhis Suhana, 27, in the south of the main island of Java on Sunday, following reports that bones were stolen from graves, including those of twin babies. If the babies weren't invisible, and they couldn't fly, why would robbing their graves make the robber invisible and a flyer?
He was incarcerated Please don't kill me! in a banana plantation in Cilacap district in possession of bones, ripped white shrouds of the type used in Moslem burials, women's underwear and a sickle, police said. Ahah. He was a jihadist, then?
"In preliminary questioning, he admitted robbing the graves to perfect a magical power called 'Ultimate Magical Knight'," said local police chief Andry Triaspoetra. "That's right! I dunnit! And now you can't see me, can you? Ha-hah!"
"I still see you. Stick 'em up!"
Following his arrest, Suhana was admitted to hospital to evaluate his mental health. "See here? Look at the quality of this nice jacket! Here, try it on..."
"The arms look a little long."
Some still believe in black magic in Moslem-majority Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago of more than 17,000 islands inhabited by a kaleidoscope of different peoples. ... some of whom are invisible...
In 2003, a man was arrested for eating the flesh of a freshly buried old woman in what he believed was part of a ritual to make him invincible. It was easier to get to a dead old lady and eat part of her than it was to get to somebody who was invincible and eat part of him. Being a good Moslem he could only eat a woman after she was dead.
The justice ministry earlier this year proposed banning "black magic" that causes death or suffering, an offence which would carry a five-year prison sentence. Good idea.
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She's a Naval Academy grad, former F-18 Hornet fighter pilot, now Fox News correspondent. Watch her debut today for some awesome video of her landing on an aircraft carrier.
Also, video of "blowing an engine" in a night carrier landing.... Some comments about not "wanting to fowl the deck." The"under the radar" conversation is asking about her "call sign." Haven't seen it yet, but the guys are guessing....
During the 20th century, sea levels along the highly populated U.S. Mid-Atlantic coastline between New York and Virginia rose faster than in any other century during the past 4,300 years, according to a new study. And as those sea levels continue to increase as a result of global warming and local land elevation changes, the risks of coastal flooding will dramatically escalate. I wonder how we measured sea level 4,300 years ago? And who'd of thought that local land elevation changes could be caused by global warming? But I'm not surprised, really.
The study, by geoscientists at Rutgers and Tufts Universities and published in the new journal Earths Future, took a comprehensive look at the history of sea level in the Mid-Atlantic, combining sediment records of prehistoric sea level with modern data, which includes readings from tide gauges and satellite instruments. The result is one of the most in-depth examinations of past, present, and future sea level rise of any region in the U.S. An older (2005?)GPS satellite study showed ocean levels varied from expectations by 75-150 feet, (IIRC), because of local gravity fluctuations. Higher local gravity means lower sea levels. Lighter sediment, rock, and magma underlying the ocean means higher sea levels.
The study found that a 7.87-inch global sea level rise during the 20th century, which was largely driven by manmade global warming, caused Hurricane Sandy to flood an additional 27 square miles compared to what it would have if the storm had struck in 1880 when sea levels were lower. Using figures from Climate Centrals sea level rise database, the researchers found that sea level rise exposed an additional 83,000 people to coastal flooding, with about 45,000 in New York City and the rest in New Jersey. How many of those 83,000 people came after 1880? Maybe the problem is too many folks too close to the water's edge!
While the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projected that global mean sea level rise for 2081-2100 will likely be between 10-to-32 inches, those numbers mean little to local policymakers, who must make decisions based on local sea level rise rates that often differ from the global average. The IPCC, you'll recall, took "big reductions in Himalayan glaciers by 2350" (from a 1989 hydrology study, by the way), to "Himalayan glaciers disappearing by 2035".
Those differences are the result of several factors, including ocean currents that can cause faster or slower rates of sea level rise in some areas, groundwater depletion, which can result in sinking land, and gradual post-ice age adjustments of the land. Post-ice age adjustments would be up, as the ground rebounds after having a mile of ice removed. I think the author overlooks the rebound, below.
In the Mid-Atlantic region, it turns out, all three of these factors are conspiring to accelerate sea level rise. Every part of the region saw the level rise at a faster rate than the global trend, the study found. In fact, that rate since the early 1900s was nearly double the global average. So ground rising now causes sea levels to rise? Ask me if I am surprised!
Locations that sit atop a coastal plain, such as the Jersey Shore, are seeing the fastest rates of sea level rise compared to those Mid-Atlantic coastal locations that are built on top of bedrock, such as New York City, since the geology of the coastal plain features more settling of the land from groundwater depletion and long-term sediment compaction. Other studies have also identified the Mid-Atlantic as a so-called hot spot of sea level rise, but the new research provides more statistical proof that modern sea level rise in this region is outpacing even periods from several thousand years ago. We need more money to improve our infrastructure to protect us from MMGW. More boodle!
Even the Federal Emergency Management Agencys newest flood elevation data, released this year and used to help determine federal flood insurance requirements, failed to include sea level rise projections. Well! If FEMA is not worried, why should we get all hot-and-bothered?
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manmade Gloull Wormening? Jeebus - you two are late to this scam. Sooooo 2004
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[Al Ahram] Nine members of the Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... n national football team and the coach of the squad have disappeared in Kenya, bringing the number of those to abscond while playing in a regional tournament to 11, a senior soccer official said on Monday.
"The players and the coach have absconded after the team was knocked out of the regional tournaments which ended last weekend," Nicholas Musonye, CECAFA's secretary general, told Rooters by phone.
It is not the first time players from the national squad have defected abroad, seeking to escape one of the world's most repressive states that is ruled by a reclusive president.
Last December, 17 players and the team doctor claimed asylum in Uganda, 18 months after 13 players from an Eritrean club side sought refuge in Tanzania. In 2009, a dozen members of the national team disappeared in Kenya.
"We will discuss this issue of Eritrean players absconding in the next general assembly meeting to get solution on this matter," Musonye said.
"We don't want to have problems in future. This is becoming chronic to the association."
Last year, the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... chief Navi Pillay accused the Asmara government of meting out summary executions, torture and detaining thousands of political prisoners.
Thousands of Eritreans try to escape from the Red Sea state every year and many die making perilous sea-crossings in a desperate bid to reach Europe.
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[Egypt Independent] The South Sudanese president declared a curfew in the capital Juba on Monday after festivities overnight between rival factions of soldiers.
The fighting broke out following months of tension after President Salva Kiir sacked his deputy Riek Machar in July. Kiir blamed troops loyal to Machar for the violence.
Flanked by ministers and wearing combat fatigues rather than civilian clothes, Kiir declared an overnight curfew in Juba effective from Monday night. It would run each night from 6pm to 6am, he said.
An unidentified person had initially fired shots in the air near a conference being held by the ruling party, Kiir said.
"This was followed later by an attack at the SPLA headquarters near Juba University by a group of soldiers allied to the former vice-president Dr Riek Machar and his group. These attacks continued until this morning," he said.
"However, a woman is only as old as she admits... I would like to inform you, at the outset, that your government is in full control of the security situation in Juba."
Kiir and Machar are from rival ethnic groups which have clashed in the past. Witnesses said the sound of gunfire and artillery fire had subsided by late Monday morning.
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[Al Ahram] Egypt's outgoing constitution-amending committee has repeatedly stressed that it has drafted a national charter that represents all Egyptians. The huge banner reading "All Egyptians Constitution" hanging in the background during Sunday's international presser, however, barely reflected their assertion. Three out of the five people whose images were used on the banner appear to be foreigners.
The first figure from the far left is a photo of a man dressed as a doctor. Twitter users circulated the same exact photo of the man appearing in an advertisement for a website registered in Arizona, USA that sells treatments for stretch marks.
Next to the "doctor" appears a woman whose picture shows up on the homepage of the Irish website Network Ireland, which labels itself as "business networking for women across Ireland."
The photo of the second person from the right is currently used by AZ Business Magazine -- also registered in Arizona, USA -- in an article about down syndrome patients.
The photo of an Egyptian soldier on the far right of the banner was taken during the first 18 days of the 2011 uprising by Ahram Online news hound Rowan El-Shimi. It was used without her permission. The photo was posted on the writer's blog in February, 2011.
The picture in the middle of the banner of what seems to be an Egyptian farmer was taken by polish photographer Frantisek Staud.
Moreover, the word "Egyptians" in Arabic (Misreyeen) -- placed above the photos on the huge banner -- is misspelled. Instead, missing one letter, the banner uses the Arabic word for "determined" (Mosireen).
The presser was chaired by committee head Jerry Lewis doppelgänger Amr Moussa ... who was head of the Arab League for approximately two normal lifespans, accomplishing nothing that was obvious to the casual observer ... to answer questions pertaining to the national charter that will be put to a public referendum on 14 and 15 January.
Many social media users responded to the banner with sarcasm.
Egyptian journalist Mohammed Fathy, for instance, tweeted: "A constitution for all Irishmen."
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[Al Ahram] Police in Tanzania have enjugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! 38 women for carrying out illegal genital mutilation on a group of girls, a local mayor said Monday.
The women were arrested on Sunday as they performed a traditional dance around a house where police found 21 girls, aged from 3 to 15, who had recently undergone excision.
"As soon as I heard about it I sent the police round," Herman Kapufi, mayor of Same district in northern Tanzania, told national television.
Kapufi said some of the girls were still bleeding while others had wounds that were healing.
Female genital mutilation is still performed in some parts of Tanzania, despite having been outlawed officially in 1998.
Studies estimate that 15 percent of women and girls have undergone genital mutilation -- removal of the clitoris in the vast majority of cases.
The practice, generally carried out with a knife or a razor blade without anaesthesia and in non-sterile conditions, attracts a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.
In some communities in Tanzania, women who have not undergone excision are victims of social exclusion.
Observers also cite a widespread belief that a woman who has been "cut" is more faithful to her husband.
Given the conditions in which the excision is done, girls often die from their injuries or from resulting infections.
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[Pak Daily Times] At least 21 people, including women and a baby, were killed over the weekend in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... , the UN peacekeeping mission there said on Monday. Most of those killed appeared to have been hacked to death on Friday and Saturday in villages not far from Beni, in Congo's North Kivu province, according to a statement by Martin Kobler, head of the MONUSCO peacekeeping mission. It was not clear who was responsible for the killings, but they highlighted the challenge facing Congo's army and UN forces pacifying Congo's east despite the defeat of M23 rebels, the most serious uprising in years. "These atrocities will not go unpunished," Kobler said in a statement. Three girls appear to have been raped and then beheaded while one of the victims was just months old, the statement added.
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[An Nahar] A three-year-old Yemeni girl has been admitted to intensive care with severe bleeding after being raped by her father, the September.net news website reported Monday.
The little girl was unconscious when she arrived at Al-Thawra hospital in Sanaa, and suffered a vaginal rupture which caused the severe bleeding, the website linked to the defense ministry said.
It did not say when the assault happened.
The girl's uncle has demanded his brother be executed for the alleged crime, saying that the whole family "disowns" the man for the "unforgivable heinous crime," according to September.net.
The unnamed man warned that the family is ready to execute the father if authorities "do not act swiftly."
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the family is ready to execute the father if authorities "do not act swiftly."
At least sometimes I agree with Muslims - in fact I think the 'act swiftly' time frame has long passed.
(I wonder if close cousin breeding leads to such behavior?)
Executing the father would be _grossly_ unislamic. You sse, in Sharaish it is up to father to sue the perpetrator of a crime against his children. So this ialmic judge would have to relaase him that is the law.
And in case the child's remaing familiy would cut the throat of this animal the perpetrators would get into trouble.
Besides it is just a girl, so even if perpetrator would not be her father, sentence and blood mmoney would be halved. if a man is killed after murdering a woman, the perpetrator has to pay half the price of a man's life to the mudere's family.
NSA leaker Edward Snowden wrote in a lengthy open letter to the people of Brazil that hes been inspired by the global debate ignited by his release of thousands of National Security Agency documents, and that the NSAs culture of indiscriminate global espionage is collapsing. We should be so lucky.
He said hed be willing to help the South American nation investigate NSA spying on its soil, but could not fully participate in doing so without being granted political asylum, because the U.S. government will continue to interfere with my ability to speak. You're lucky they do not interfere with your ability to breathe! Yet.
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"Today, if you carry a cell phone in São Paulo, the NSA can track where you are, and does. [...] "When a person in Florianopolis visits a website, the NSA keeps a record of when it happened and what you did on that site. If a mother in Porto Alegre calls her son to wish him luck on an exam, the NSA can save the recording of the call for five years or longer," he said in the letter."
The Brazilian leader has also ordered her government to take several measures, including laying fiber optic lines directly to Europe and South American nations, to "divorce" Brazil from the U.S.-centric backbone of the Internet that experts say has facilitated NSA spying. This came after it was disclosed that the NSA was recording all of the President's phone calls as well as all communications of its major oil company.
"The NSA and other allied intelligence agencies tell us that, for the sake of our own 'safety' - in the name of Dilma's 'safety' in the name of Petrobras's 'safety' - they revoked our right to privacy and invaded our lives. And they did not ask permission of the people from any country, not even their own," he said in another passage of the letter.
The documents revealed that Brazil is the top NSA target in Latin America, in spying that has included the monitoring of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's cellphone and hacking into the internal network of state-run oil company Petrobras.
The revelations enraged Rousseff, who in October canceled an official visit to Washington that was to include a state dinner. She's also pushing the United Nations to give citizens more protections against spying. (Foha de S. Paulo Newspaper)
The Brazilian government accuses the US of committing crimes against the Brazilian people.
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Russia's warning that it may use Nukes in response to any Conventional forces attack is repor agz the US + its Global Strike program, + maybe the MacKenzie Brothers = Canadian threat to the idea of Russian-dominated/controlled Arctic, BUT IMO IS ACTUALLY MEANT AS A SUBTLE OR COVERT WARNING TO BAMMERIKA'S NEW BFF IN SYRIA, + FUTURE OWG "CO-SUPERPOWER" GLOBALIST RISING IRAN, + ULTIMATELY DITTO AGZ RISING CHINA.
As per MSM-Net Reports on China signing formal accords to provide Nuclear-capable military security vee UKRAINE + KAZAKHISTAN.
The OWG Globalist concept of a post-2015, "borderless" + "anti-sovereign" World = Global Federal Unions [Blocs of Nations] = RUSSIA IS PREPPING FOR THE DAY WHEN MASSIVE NUMBERS OF IRANIANS + CHINESE, ETAL. WILL FLOOD ITS BORDER + INTERNAL REGIONS.
Mama Russia is only too aware of ...
> Turkey's desire for "Turkic Union" = Neo-Ottomanism.
> Iran's desire for "Iranian/Persian Union" = Neo-Persianism [Zorasterianism?].
> China's claims on both Dynastic + Historic territorial claims, to include MONGOLIAN EMPIRE = YUAN DYNASTY, EASTERN EUROPE TO RUSSIAN FAR EAST + ASIA-PACIFIC.
Not that contemporary China will get it back - any, some or all - but better for Russia to be safe than sorry, ESPEC WID THE INCREASING RISK OF SINO-NIPPON WAR [ > = Jan 2014?] IN THE EAST CHINA SEA.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > PREPARE FOR WAR IN EAST CHINA SEA: MANOJ JOSHI - INDIA TODAY.
* BIGNEWSNETWORK, TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > [InfoWars] DEFENSE ANALYSTS:US SHOULD PLAN FOR WAR WID CHINA.
* SAME > [National Turk] CONFLICT WID CHINA: JAPAN ARMED FORCES [SDF] UPGRADED TO JAPANESE
IMPERIAL ARMY FOR POSSIBLE WAR.
* SAME > [OPED News] "THE PACIFIC OCEAN DOES NOT BELONG TO [just] JAPAN, IT BELONGS TO ALL OF US".
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > GROWING RISK OF RUSSO-CHINESE MILITARY CONFRONTATION AND WAR IN SOUTH CHINA SEA AS RUSSIA INCREASES ECONOMIC AND MILITARY AID TO ANTI-CHINA CLAIMANT VIETNAM.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US WARNS CHINA AGZ IMPOSING SOUTH CHINA SEA AIR ZONE.
* TOPIX > [People's Daily Online] CLASHES WID US CAN BE AVOIDED: FM [PRC FM Wang Yi].
True enuff - iff the US-Allies surrenders like France to China's "post-US", future World #1 Manifest Destiny, + anti-US OWG "Co-Superpower" Globalism; or else China gives up the same, or delays the same to Year 2080-2100 or beyond???
* SAME > CHINA AIR ZONE PUTS US IN A SERIOUS DIPLOMATIC [+ Military] BIND.
Yuuup, + NOT in a good = win-win-win, etc. way either.
Can "Sweet Caroline" Kennedy = NGO/New Girl Order save the day!
[Pak Daily Times] Azerbaijani troops killed an Armenian soldier in a fresh clash along the volatile border between the two bitter rivals, the Armenian government said on Monday.
Hrant Pokhosyan, 26, was killed on Saturday when his convoy came under attack at a northeastern sector of the border, Armenia's defence ministry said.
"Azerbaijan continues ceasefire violations... The actions of the Armenian Armed Forced will be preventive and stern," the ministry said in a statement.
Armenia and Azerbaijan are locked in a festering decades-long feud over the breakaway region of Nagorny Karabakh.
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[Pak Daily Times] Ukraine's ruling party on Monday demanded a sweeping cabinet reshuffle, as politicians seek to defuse the country's biggest political crisis in a decade.
President Viktor Yanukovych's decision to scrap key agreements with the EU last month and then use police force against protesters sparked the largest demonstrations in the ex-Soviet country since the 2004 pro-democracy Orange Revolution.
Yanukovych has offered a number of concessions, sacking bigwigs over police violence and announcing an amnesty for tossed in the slammer Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! protesters, in a bid to defuse the tension.
But the pro-EU opposition has dismissed these moves as half-measures. It is demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, and early presidential and parliamentary elections.
"We have put forward a demand before Azarov to reformat the government by 90 percent," Anna German, a politician with Yanukovych's Regions Party, told news hounds after talks with Azarov.
"Azarov said that he will today let the position of the faction be known to the president and conclusions will certainly be made," she told news hounds after the closed-door meeting attended by the entire cabinet.
German, a former Yanukovych aide, said the resignation of Azarov was not discussed. The president's parliamentary representative, Yuriy Miroshnychenko, told news hounds "decisive steps" were needed.
"An emotional conversation based on principals was held. We have to take the decisive steps necessary to solve the problems," he said. Azarov proposed creating a working group, but the details and timing of any reshuffle had yet to be hammered out, Miroshnychenko added.
The announcement comes after the first direct talks between Yanukovych and the opposition collapsed on Friday.
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[Pak Daily Times] Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has won three general elections, weathered summer riots, subdued a meddling army and changed Turkey like few leaders before him in a decade in power.
But a rift with an enigmatic U.S.-based Islamic preacher, whose quiet influence in the police, secret services and judiciary looms large over the Turkish state, threatens to shake his hold on power ahead of elections next year.
The powerful network of Fethullah Gulen, who leads a worldwide Islamic movement from a forested compound in the United States, had helped Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK Party win a growing share of the vote in three successive elections.
"This is a nasty and bloody divorce," wrote Kadri Gursel, a columnist critical of the government but who writes for the broadly pro-Erdogan Milliyet daily.
Summer protests and riots in central Istanbul underlined growing concern especially among secularists about Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian style of government.
Recent months have also brought into the open conflicts with Gulen's "Hizmet" (Service) movement. Chief focus in recent weeks has been a government plan to abolish private "prep" schools, many financed and run by Gulen, on the grounds they give unfair advantage to wealthy parents.
Gulen has set up schools across Africa, the Middle East, the United States and Asia. They are a key source of income but also a powerful instrument of influence, especially in Turkey, creating a network of elite contacts and personal loyalties.
The Hizmet movement is widely seen as having helped break the grip of the army, self-appointed guardians of secularism, over Turkish politics, arguably Erdogan's greatest achievement, through its influence in the judiciary, with hundreds of officers convicted on coup plot charges.
Erdogan has built his own body of wealthy loyalists since he came to power in 2002, largely from the same religiously-minded professional class that revere Gulen, but a rift between the two risks fracturing that support base as polls approach.
When Erdogan visited Washington this year he sent an ally to Pennsylvania to sound out the plans of Gulen, who left Turkey in 1999 after being charged with plotting to establish Islamic law.
This article starring:
Fethullah Gulen
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Gulen has set up schools across Africa, the Middle East, the United States and Asia. They are a key source of income but also a powerful instrument of influence, especially in Turkey, creating a network of elite contacts and personal loyalties.
It's not a far stretch to say that his influence, "network of elite contacts and personal loyalties," is probably also in D.C..
[Pak Daily Times] Legislators in the Upper House of Parliament on Monday passed a resolution demanding appropriate measures against increasing incidents of rape, particularly of minor girls in the country.
Pakistain People's Party (PPP) Senator Mian Raza Rabbani presented the resolution, which was passed unanimously.
He strongly condemned such heinous acts, particularly the recent rape of a minor girl in Lahore. In the resolution, he called upon civil society, intellectuals, holy mans and media to launch a social campaign against perpetrators of this crime and urged federal and provincial governments to amend the law to award stern punishment to those who are found guilty.
Leader of the House Raja Zafarul Haq termed cases of rape "shameful" for the country.
He added, "Rape of a minor is a psychological problem and it should be addressed." He urged all segments of society to play their role against this crime.
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[Pak Daily Times] India's top court on Monday ordered a judge release his 30-year-old daughter who was being placed in durance vile Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! because he disapproved of her marrying her boyfriend from a different caste.
The Supreme Court ordered Supriya Rathore be reunited with her boyfriend who was forced to take legal action to have her released from her father, a high court judge in the northwestern state of Rajasthan.
"She is a major and has the liberty to make her choice in marriage," judges H.L. Dattu and C. Nagappan told the couple, who were in the court in New Delhi for the ruling.
The boyfriend, Siddharath Mukherjee, had petitioned the court, saying the father, who belongs to the Hindu Rajput warrior caste, opposed his daughter marrying a man from the Bengali-speaking Brahmin caste.
Rathore herself had also emailed police and the courts during her month-long detention at the family home in Jaipur city, seeking their help to get her released and reunited.
Acting on the boyfriend's petition, the court ordered police on December 12 to transport Supriya to New Delhi for Monday's hearing.
"I have no complaints against anyone including my parents," Supriya told the court during the hearing. "I love them all but I want to go with Siddharath Mukherjee as I want to marry him," she said, as the court offered her protection if she felt threatened in any way.
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Along a certain District street
The snow was piled at least three feet.
A man and child with weary feet
Slogged through the drift, and were they beat!
Yes, friends, they were pretty glum,
But better times were soon to come,
For Fate -- who says she's deaf and dumb? --
Stuck in her thumb, pulled out a plum.
Now through the dusk came flashing stars
From cycle-cops and siren-bars,
A fleet of armored motorcars,
And our beloved Czar of Czars!
The limo passed, and slowed, and stopped.
It backed right up; a window dropped!
"You two look cold!" His smile was charming.
"I'm here to help." His mien, disarming.
"Uh, though this blizzard is alarming,
Let's not lose sight of global warming."
The man and child left standing there
Beside the silent thoroughfare,
Laughed loud and long: "Thanks for the lift."
"Wow, that was quite a Christmas gift!"
To the WaPo, she's an "immigrant", a disservice to all the legal immigrants.
Giancarla Rojas is not an American citizen, but she has an American dream. The Falls Church resident has worked doggedly to become the first in her family to attend a four-year college, since her parents brought her here illegally from Bolivia as a child. So it's not her fault she's illegal!
She won a reprieve to stay in this country under an Obama administration proclamation initiative, maintains a 3.8 GPA at a community college and has a résumé packed with volunteer work, but George Mason University is still out of reach. Are there any legal citizens who could use a subsidy to go to George Mason?
The 19-year-old cannot afford the $29,000 a year out-of-state tuition Virginia charges for enrollees with her immigration status, so she and six other students filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Arlington County Circuit Court arguing that they should pay the same lower rates as other long-time Virginia residents. I scanned the rest of the article; nowhere do I see the comparable in-state tuition.
Specifically, the suit seeks in-state tuition at public colleges for recipients of the Obama administrations Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which was created in the wake of the failure of the DREAM Act in Congress. Who needs Congress, when you can just dictate pronouncements?
The lawsuit marks the latest flashpoint in a heated national debate over whether to grant the benefit to children brought here illegally. Maryland became one of at least 17 states to do so last year. The issue is also the subject of litigation in Georgia and Arizona.
A legislative analyst did not predict the financial impact on schools, saying the number of undocumented students enrolled in Virginia colleges was unknown. However, the analyst said schools might offset any potential financial losses by enrolling more out-of-state students. Or simply charging more money (call it a "tax")to all the legal citizens!
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Que' surprise!
To wit,
* IIRC FREEREPUBLIC > [VPOTUS] JOE BIDEN: "ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS" ARE AMERICAN CITIZENS.
A such are duly entitled to any each + all the benefits prescribed therein.
Again, the DemoLeft may lose the Hispanic + other vote for 2014 or 2016 Elex unless the Bammer provides a quick path to citizenship for illegals.
OTOH THOSE POLS WHOM SUPPORT AMERICA = AMERIKA'S PERENNIALLY DEBT, DEFICT-BUSTING, SOON-TO-BE-OWG-GLOBAL WELFARE-NANNY STATE CAN'T HAVE SUCH IFF "ILLEGALS" BECOME "LEGAL", NOW CAN THEY???
Moreso come 2015 + "borderless", anti-sovereign Amerika, NOW WID RFID CHIPS + DOMESTIC DRONE STRIKES.
Which reminds me ...
* DRUDGEREPORT > [CNBC.com] FABER: FED WILL NEVER [e-v-a-r!] END QE.
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > THE IMF WANTS YOU TO PAY 71% INCOME TAX.
The World should - nay, they say, M-U-S-T - pay a World Tax = Global Tax for OWG-NWO ...
You know, Amerika + Amerikans.
Well there ya go - CLEAR + UNDENIABLE GLOBALIST "PARITY".
The good news is that its not Frenchie 75%, or the 100% rate they once considered recently.
D *** NG IT, I THOUGHT "FRENCH 75" WAS A FAMOUS WW1 ARTILLERY GUN???
Speaking of LA BELLE FRANCE ...
* FYI WORLD NEWS > [Daily Telegraph] FRANCE ON BRINK OF RECESSION [again] IN TWO-SPEED EUROZONE.
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The Defense Department and other organizations have said the radiation levels that troops were exposed to during Operation Tomodachi were safe, implying that any cancers or physical ailments since then are coincidental. Nearly half of all men and one-third of all women in the U.S. will develop cancer during their lifetimes, according to the American Cancer Society.
Any comment about the cancer incidents vs. age distribution being skewed to the left?
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was less than the radiation exposure received from about one month of exposureto natural background radiation from sources such as rocks, soil, and the sun
Were that even true, how quickly did 'the month' occur? The reported diversity of disease suggests an initiation trigger event for what might have been the naturally occurring progression of disease.
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.
During the 20th century, sea levels along the highly populated U.S. Mid-Atlantic coastline between New York and Virginia rose faster than in any other century during the past 4,300 years, according to a new study. And as those sea levels continue to increase as a result of global warming and local land elevation changes, the risks of coastal flooding will dramatically escalate.
The study found that a 7.87-inch global sea level rise during the 20th century, which was largely driven by manmade global warming, caused Hurricane Sandy to flood an additional 27 square miles compared to what it would have if the storm had struck in 1880 when sea levels were lower. Using figures from Climate Centrals sea level rise database, the researchers found that sea level rise exposed an additional 83,000 people to coastal flooding, with about 45,000 in New York City and the rest in New Jersey.
[Al Ahram] Egypt's outgoing constitution-amending committee has repeatedly stressed that it has drafted a national charter that represents all Egyptians. The huge banner reading "All Egyptians Constitution" hanging in the background during Sunday's international 
Jerry Lewis doppelgänger Amr Moussa
[Al Ahram] Police in Tanzania have 
[An Nahar] A three-year-old Yemeni girl has been admitted to intensive care with severe bleeding after being raped by her father, the September.net news website reported Monday.
He said hed be willing to help the South American nation investigate NSA spying on its soil, but could not fully participate in doing so without being granted political asylum, because the U.S. government will continue to interfere with my ability to speak.
A legislative analyst did not predict the financial impact on schools, saying the number of undocumented students enrolled in Virginia colleges was unknown. However, the analyst said schools might offset any potential financial losses by enrolling more out-of-state students.
