Voting records are raising questions amid an investigation into the discovery of a woman's mummified body in the garage of a foreclosed metro bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... home.
The body found last Wednesday in Pontiac is that of Pia Farrenkopf -- according to her sister, Paula Logan. Authorities investigating the case haven't released her name, but they have said that the woman apparently died in 2008 at the age of 49.
According to a report in the Detroit Free Press, records show Farrenkopf as voting in the November 2010 gubernatorial election. Officials say, however, that it may represent an administrative error. Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard says the information must be checked out.
Farrenkopf's body was found March 5 in the back seat of her Jeep Liberty, parked in the attached garage of her home in the 1600 block of Savanna, near Walton Boulevard and Silver Lake Road in Pontiac. The discovery was made just after 5 p.m. by a contractor who was working at the home, which is going through foreclosure.
According to police, the electricity was still on in the house, but there was no heat. The home also has a large amount what appears to be black mold, police said, and is a HAZMAT situation.
The Oakland County Sheriff's Department is investigating the circumstances behind Farrenkopf's death. An autopsy didn't reveal any signs of trauma, police said, and a cause of death is pending. Investigators said the Jeep keys were in the ignition, which was in the off position -- likely ruling out the possibility of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Neighbors described Farrenkopf as a German immigrant who generally kept to herself and traveled frequently for work, often for weeks at a time, so no one thought anything of her absence. Some said it was probably six years since they last saw the woman, while others just assumed she had moved.
Police say Farrenkopf lived in the home by herself and had all of her bills -- including her mortgage and utilities -- automatically withdrawn from her checking account. Once her account was depleted and the mortgage payments stopped, the home went into foreclosure. Mail also never piled up at the house because Farrenkopf apparently picked it up at the post office.
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"others just assumed she had moved" I made a surprise visit to my high school class reunion 42 years after I moved out of town between 10th and 11th grades. One of my classmates told that at the time there was a rumor I had grown my hair long like the Beatles & had been expelled. That was more interesting than the truth.
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"said it was probably six years since they last saw the woman"
Yeah, that sort of follows, don't it? If, on the other hand, it was, say, three years, that needs to be looked in to.
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"it may represent an administrative error"
Snickering was heard in the background...
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What did she do for a living (no pun intended)? She clearly had some means to have back account big enough to pay the bills for 60 plus months. Who keeps that kind of money in their checking account? How about the PO box? Pre-paid also? What about 6 years of mail filling up the flipping box? At what point does the Mail Box Express guy say something ain't right here? Her sister never stops by to say hi or share some marzipan? Weird story.
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Apparently the women took regular trips, so she would by routine have her mail held enough that the breakdown sorters wouldn't find a hold unusual. After a hold period (usually 30 days) the Post Office simply returns undelivered mail to senders. Hand stamped, plop, and out of the facility. No questions asked because enough people pack up and leave without notifying the Post Office all the time. The most important mail would have been those bills, but they were all shifted to autopay, to include the mortgage which would cover the insurance and taxes on the property.
She probably had the standard overdraft protection that shifted draining from checking to savings to cover bills.
If she died in 2008, that meant she went before the big housing implosion. So when the funds ran out for any mortgage, her property would be tied up with all those consolidations and proceedings with hundreds of thousands, eating up more time for processing the delinquencies in payments.
The interesting question this raises is how many 'autopay' dead are out there among the Social Security/Pension crowd. Money flows out and never stops. We get the stories about family members not reporting deaths to keep the checks coming, but there is no accounting in the system to determine this. Just imagine when one retires and moves overseas to compound that dilemma of verification.
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It appears you can go at least 5 years without filing or paying taxes before someone comes a knocking.
No work, no income generation other than interest on a savings account which would probably be negative due to covering several checking withdraws for bills. Again, 2008-9, a lot of people lost jobs. Any interest at the fed/state/local level to track the number of non-filers when no W2 form report shows up from prior employment in that period?
The FDNY says there has been an explosion and partial collapse of a building in East Harlem.
It happened around 9 a.m. at a building on Park Avenue between 114th and 117th streets, the FDNY said.
Video from the scene shows heavy smoke rising from the area as firefighters battle the blaze.
A man who was on the 15th floor of a building on 125th Street said he saw dark smoke billowing down several blocks.
"The building shook and then we looked to see what was happening. We saw a whole lot of smoke. A lot of smoke came out," witness Samuel Paul told CBS 2. "There's a lot of dark smoke still coming out. A lot of fire engines I saw going to 125th Street."
"The smoke started to rise. It looked like something fell because it wasn't like a fire. It just looked like debris smoke, similar to 9/11," Paul added.
Metro-North said it happened in a building adjacent to the tracks. Service in and out of Grand Central Terminal is suspended until further notice.
The bomb squad is responding as a precaution. So far, there are reports of 11 minor injuries.
Many reported hearing a loud explosion and began posting pictures of the scene on Twitter. Wasn't certain where to put this.
Update at 12:40 pm ET:
2 Dead After Explosion, Fire Levels Buildings In East Harlem
At Least 18 Others Injured As Hundreds Of Firefighters Battle Blaze
Speaking from the scene, Mayor Bill de Blasio said the explosion appeared to be caused by a gas leak.
Let's leave it Non-WoT pending additional information.
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Dunno if related, but here in the PacNW there have been several recent explosions due to refinment of hash oil...
somehow you pull the thc from the marijuana and then distill it to obtain the oil for your vaporizer.........
[An Nahar] The trial opened Tuesday of four top South Sudanese leaders accused of treason for allegedly attempting to topple President Salva Kiir after fighting broke out in December.
The four are Pagan Amum, former secretary general of the ruling party, ex-national security minister Oyai Deng Ajak, former ambassador to the U.S. Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, and ex-deputy defense minister Majak D'Agoot.
The four, who spoke in the Juba court only to confirm their names but who have in the past denied all charges, were dressed in suits and appeared to be in good health.
The four were read 11 charges, including the main charge of treason, defense lawyer Ajo Noel said.
"It is too early for us to tell what the case will be," Noel told AFP.
"We want to go through all that the judges will say, and we will see what comes out of it."
The courtroom, which was crowded with spectators including foreign diplomats, was surrounded by armed security officers.
South Sudan's government has been at war with rebel groups since December 15, when a clash between troops loyal to Kiir and those loyal to sacked vice president Riek Machar snowballed into full-scale fighting across the world's newest nation.
Thousands of people have been killed in the conflict.
Eleven ex-officials were jugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! , while Machar -- who denied any coup plot -- fled.
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[An Nahar] A group of Tunisian hookers demanded Tuesday to be allowed back to work, 18 months after their brothel in the resort town of Sousse was attacked by hardline Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... and closed down.
A delegation handed deputy parliament speaker Meherzia Laabidi, a woman, a petition signed by 120 hookers calling for their brothel in the popular coastal resort to be allowed to reopen.
"We know the state cannot help us financially, because the current economic situation is so bad. That's why we're calling for the brothel to be reopened, so we don't have to ask for charity," one of them, calling herself Souhir, told Agence La Belle France Presse by phone.
Souhir said that, in 2012, radical Islamists had attacked the building where she used to, "looted everything they found there... and put us out of work."
There are numerous whorehouses in Tunisia, where prostitution is regulated by the state.
After the uprising in January 2011, Islamist protesters demanded their closure, even trying to set fire to buildings in the capital's red light district.
Laabidi, from the Islamist Ennahda party, confirmed to Mosaique FM that she had met the women and agreed to forward their request to the relevant government departments.
"I listened to their demand and I will... write a letter as an MP to the secretary of state for women and to the interior ministry, to see how we can preserve the dignity of these Tunisian citizens" she said.
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Tell me, what is this woman Souhir like? Oh, she's just like any other woman, only more so.
[An Nahar] President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... has seen his approval rating climb in Russia due to his strong stance on military intervention in Ukraine, several opinion polls show.
More than two out of three Russians (69 percent of those interviewed), say they back Putin's actions, a poll by the independent Levada agency found in late February after interviewing 1,603 people in 45 regions.
Putin's approval ratings were almost as high as after his inauguration in 2012, Levada said.
Just 30 percent of Russians say they disapprove of Putin's actions, down from 34 percent last year, the Levada centre found.
The VTsIOM state polling agency, seen as close to the Kremlin, put Putin's approval rating at 68 percent, with 53 percent of its respondents in early March saying the situation in Ukraine was the most important news event.
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[reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... Tribune] North Korea has developed sophisticated ways to circumvent United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... sanctions, including the suspected use of its embassies to facilitate an illegal trade in weapons, a United Nations report issued on Tuesday said.
It said North Korea was also making use of more complicated financial countermeasures and techniques "pioneered by drug-trafficking organizations" that made tracking the isolated state's purchase of prohibited goods more difficult.
The report, compiled by a panel of eight U.N. experts, is part of an annual accounting of North Korea's compliance with layers of U.N. sanctions imposed in response to Pyongyang's banned nuclear weapons and missile programs. The panel reports to the U.N. Security Council.
"From the incidents analyzed in the period under review, the panel has found that (North Korea) makes increasing use of multiple and tiered circumvention techniques," a summary of the 127-page report said.
China, North Korea's main trading partner and diplomatic ally, appeared to have complied with most of the panel's requests for information.
Some independent experts and Western countries question how far Beijing has gone in implementing sanctions, although the report did not specifically address that issue.
Beijing has said it wants sanctions enforced.
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Not a single vote has been cast against North Korean supreme leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... in his first election to the Supreme People's Assembly, the highest legislative body in the communist nation.
The ballot to approve the new set of deputies for the legislature was cast Sunday. The vote, which analysts say is more a political ritual than an election by Western standards, is generally held once every five years.
In the previous elections, 687 deputies were chosen.
Kim had contested in his district located on the symbolic Mount Paekdu.
Voters have no choice who to vote for as there is only one candidate's name on the ballot for each district.
However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... they have the choice of voting yes or no, and according to official accounts virtually all choose yes for Kim.
An Australian vet clinic says it recently saved the life of Charlie, a Maltese terrier, by getting the little white dog completely drunk.
The vet determined Charlie had ethylene glycol poisoning, meaning the dog may have licked some antifreeze or brake fluid. When ingested, it causes kidney failure, which can be fatal.
Staff at the Animal Accident and Emergency animal hospital in Melbourne said the only way to save Charlie's life was to get him hammered on vodka.
"Alcohol alters the chemical reaction and stops the kidney failure from occurring," the clinic wrote in a blog post. "The easiest form of alcohol is vodka. In fact, for the whole weekend, Charlie had a huge party with us in the pet ICU."
Charlie recovered and was no longer showed signs of kidney failure, however the dog was "still nursing a hangover" when it went home.
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Since according to Vicktor Belenko, the hydraulic fluid in the MiG 29 is essentially refined vodka (de-icing issues), pretty much the sky's the limit.
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Vodka has many uses, but most of those involve drinking and the occasional fire. We love the drinking use but did you know there are other house hold uses for vodka.
1. Odor Remover
Mythbusters showed how mixing vodka and water in a spray bottle can work great to get rid of odors in the house like smoke and sweat. There may be a scent of vodka in your house but we are cool with that.
2. Glass Cleaner
Taking that same vodka and water solution in a spray bottle can also be applied to clean glass for a streak free finish.
3. Homemade Extracts
You can use vodka to help make extracts of different flavors. Here is a guide to show you how to make vanilla extract.
4. Anti-Bacterial
Alcohol kills bacteria. So if you need to quickly sanitize your hands just douse them in some vodka. Dont touch your eyes afterwards though, ouch.
5. Natural Astringent
Clean up your complexion by dabbing a cotton ball in some vodka and using it to clean your face and tighten your pores.
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I recently heard a story of a recovering alcoholic who confessed to his old college roommate that he would fill up his cars windshield washer tank with vodka. He had a box of straws in the car and whenever he needed a drink, the check engine light "in his head" would come on and he would pull over for a little "roadside assistence".
Claims he made it through a number of traffic stops with law enforcement using this drunkards "one weird trick".
As I say, he's recovering now, and will be for the rest of his life...fessing up to his past deeds was part of his treatment.
Britain has just carried out one of the greatest victimless crimes in modern financial history. Just ignore the millions of victims, they don't count.
It is in effect wiping out public debt worth 20pc to 25pc of GDP -- on the sly -- without inflicting serious macroeconomic damage or frightening global bond markets. nothing else counts.
Governor Mark Carney more or less acknowledged this morning that the Bank of England will never reverse its £375bn of Gilts purchases. Quite right too.
Deputy Governor Charlie Bean yesterday that the Bank will "only contemplate selling back Gilts once the recovery is on a firm path." He admitted that some holdings may never be sold and is implying there will never be a recovery.
The Bank can sit on its Gilts forever. These can be switched in zero-coupon bonds in perpetuity. The certificates can be put in a drawer and left to rot. The debt is eliminated in all but name. A debt that is repudiated / cannot be repaid / is never repaid/ is also eliminated in all but name. The remaining issue is, who's left holding the bag? Remember the bagholders don't count.
QE has been a huge net transfer from savers to borrowers. This is unjust, but ultimately a better outcome for society than driving borrowers to the wall in a replay of the early 1930s (or as the eurozone has done over the last five years). Governments should act in the interests of creditors alone. Neither a borrower nor a lender be, but a creditor - that's something else entirely.
Can there really be such a thing as a free lunch in economics? We will never be able to prove it either way, but on balance it looks like the answer is yes. This seems to be the way the Federal Reserve is socializing the private losses of the financial industry which have been peaking over the last 7 or 8 years. Welcome to the recovery-less recovery.
Engaging in speculation (ie gambling). When the music stops and you're caught out of the seat, you get your managers working in the Fed and Treasury to inflate the overall economy (quantitative easing) to cover the losses on all the paper you are holding. As your losses float to zero, the public picks up the 'tax' in the increase of common goods (ie food, gas, etc). It's fun when you can use other people's money to gamble with - heads I win, tails I win.
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US should get together with all non European cheeze makers and come up with standard names. In a generation (outside of Europe) the European names would be mostly forgotten.
Vladimir Putin's recent intervention in Ukraine on the pretext of defending the ethnic Russian population has forced other former Soviet republics to look for ingenious ways to protect their own sovereignties from similar moves.
On Monday, the Parliament of Kazakhstan, with a 25% ethnic Russian population and a 4,660 mile-long border shared with Russia, voted to rename the country 'New Illinois,' hoping to attract more American support for their territorial integrity. Kazakhstan's President, Nursultan Nazarbayev, is expected to sign the emergency bill into law by Wednesday, setting in motion a complex process for the Central Asian nation of almost 18 million people.
A spokesman for the government in the capital city of Astana said that 'New Illinois' was chosen because US President Barack Obama was a state and then US Senator for the state of Illinois, and such a name change was more likely to get his attention and engender a strong enough reaction to the threat of foreign invasion
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Little Miss Brussels
Was flexing her muscles,
Enjoying her whine and cheese.
Along came a Yankee
Who tossed her a hanky
And laughed, "You forgot to say please!"
When they lose market to American, Australian et al wines and beers, it's time for the crony bureaucratic apparatchiks to protect the domestic stuff from competition. Hence these type of artificial protective trade barriers they come up with. We're the stupid ones who keep on being played in the trade game.
[An Nahar] Pro-Moscow politicians in Crimea voted for independence from Ukraine on Tuesday in a precursor to a referendum this weekend for the region to become part of Russia.
The local assembly approved a "declaration on the independence of the autonomous republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol" with 78 out of 81 politicians present voting in favor.
The move by the parliament, which has been declared illegal by the new government in Kiev, appeared to be aimed at creating a legal framework for joining Russia as a sovereign state.
The parliament's press service said in a statement that independence would come into force after the referendum if the result is in favor of Crimea becoming part of the Russian Federation.
The declaration referred to Kosovo's separation from Serbia, adding that "the unilateral declaration of independence of part of a state does not violate any international laws."
If the referendum is in favor of Russia, "the republic of Crimea as an independent and sovereign state will apply to the Russian Federation to join it".
Later on Tuesday, pro-Kremlin snuffies ordered a suspension of all flights in or out of Crimea's main airport in Simferopol except those connecting to Moscow, an AFP news hound on the scene said.
Militants have taken over air traffic control at the airport and a flight that took off from Kiev on Tuesday was forced to turn back to the capital after being refused permission to land.
A militia member, Ivan, who declined to give his surname, told AFP: "Air traffic control has been taken over, as well as the runway."
He said the move was aimed at preventing activists from Kiev from coming to Crimea.
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[NY Times] The airport in the regional capital of Simferopol was closed on Tuesday to all flights except those heading to and from Moscow, in the boldest display yet of Russia's tightening control over Crimea.
The announcement that air links had been severed between Crimea and the Ukrainian capital of Kiev raised the possibility that the peninsula might be closed off indefinitely from the rest of Ukraine, and it immediately prompted a sellout of tickets for connecting flights on Aeroflot, the Russian national carrier.
Even as Russia consolidated its grip on the embattled peninsula, diplomatic efforts between the Obama administration and the Kremlin appeared stalled, with the two sides continuing to engage in menacing military exercises and trade threats of economic retaliation.
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A serious blowback from the sizable non-Russian Ukrainian population in the Crimean Peninsula is expected and Putin is sealing off the peninsula to deal with it in a brutal way.
[An Nahar] The exiled Turkish holy man at the heart of a bitter feud with embattled Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi only they haven't dumped him yet... has called for a new constitution and accused the government of holding the country to ransom.
Fethullah Gulen said in a comment piece published in the Financial Times on Tuesday that a new democratic constitution, drafted by civilians, was needed to restore trust at home and abroad.
Erdogan has accused supporters of Gulen -- once a key ally of his ruling party -- in the judiciary and police of launching a corruption probe to undermine his government ahead of local polls on March 30.
The Islamic-leaning government has retaliated by launching a purge of the police and prosecutors and moving to tighten controls over the judiciary and the Internet.
"A small group within the government's executive branch is holding to ransom the entire country's progress. The support of a broad segment of the Turkish public is now being squandered, along with the opportunity to join the EU," Gulen wrote.
Erdogan, who has been in office since 2003, is accused by critics of becoming increasingly authoritarian.
Followers of the Islamic holy man's Hizmet movement are said to number in the millions, owning a variety of businesses, media outlets, cultural centers and a school network both in Turkey and abroad.
In the latest development in the feud, Turkey's parliament earlier this month passed a bill to close down thousands of private Gulenist schools.
Gulen, 73, has lived in the United States since 1999 to escape charges in Turkey of "anti-secular" activities.
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And the slow motion defenestration of Kemal Attaturk continues.
(I love the oxymoron of a slow defenestration. Makes me think of Yosemite Sam & Co. Das Fenster = German for window)
[ABC.NET.AU] Clashes have erupted in Turkey after the death of a 15-year-old boy who has become a symbol of the protests that gripped the country last year.
Berkin Elvan, then 14, was on his way to buy bread in Istanbul when he got caught up in street battles between police and protesters on June 16.
He was hit in the head by a tear gas canister fired by police.
He slipped into a coma and became a rallying point for government opponents, who held regular vigils at the hospital where he lay in intensive care.
He died early on Tuesday morning, sparking festivities at the hospital, which police dispersed with pepper spray.
The death has also ignited new demonstrations across Turkey, another pre-election headache for prime minister Tayyip Erdogan, already battling a graft scandal which has become one of the biggest challenges of his decade in power.
Overnight police fired water cannon and tear gas in Ankara's central Kizilay square to scatter several thousand protesters who chanted: "Government of Erdogan, government of corruption, resign resign".
The police pursued the protesters into side-streets, where small festivities continued.
There was similar police intervention against thousands of protesters in Istanbul's central Istiklal street.
In the southern city of Adana, protesters threw stones and aimed fireworks at police lines as water cannon vehicles advanced against them, spraying water.
Large numbers also protested in the western cities of Izmir and Eskisehir in the most extensive protests since last summer's unrest.
Residents in some Istanbul districts banged pots and pans with spoons from the windows of their apartment blocks, reviving a form of protest popular last year.
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[DAWN] Rahul Gandhi, the heir to the dynasty that leads India's ruling party, on Tuesday compared opposition leader Narendra Modi to Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... - his sharpest attack yet on a rival who is forecast to beat him in an upcoming general election.
Modi, the pro-business candidate for prime minister of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has topped several opinion polls as the most popular choice to head the next government.
He has electrified the campaign with promises of getting India out of its economic downturn and creating jobs for its burgeoning young population.
But Modi's rivals say the chief minister of the western state of Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... is an autocrat who failed to stop religious riots in his state in 2002, in which more than 1,000 people,mostly Mohammedans, were killed.
He has denied wrong doing and India's Supreme Court did not find enough evidence to prosecute him.
In a speech in Modi's home state, Gandhi criticised the Hindu nationalist's development record and contrasted him with the type of leader who had founded modern India.
"There is another type of leader," Gandhi said, after describing independence hero Mahatma Gandhi.
"The biggest example is Hitler. Hitler, who believed that there was no need to learn from the people and who thought whatever happened in Germany was done by Hitler and that the people had nothing to do with it."
India's ruling Congress party has lost popularity after a decade in power marred by corruption. In recent weeks a string of leaders have compared Modi's rise to the emergence of fascism ...a political system developed in Italy symbolized by the Roman fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about... in Europe.
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[DAWN] The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) concluded its 191th meeting, here Tuesday with the ruling that the laws related to minimum age of marriage were un-Islamic and that children of any age could get married if they attain puberty.
At the conclusion of two day meeting, Chairman CII Maulana Muhammad Khan Sheerani noted that the laws related to marriage too were unfair and there cannot be any age of marriage.
However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... he explained that there were two segments of marriage -- nikah and ruksati, while nikah could be performed at any age.
"Even the minors can have nikah but that has to be executed by the guardians," chairman CII said adding, "But ruksti could be executed only after attaining the age of puberty."
He said that the age of puberty varies from individuals to individuals and it was the responsibility of guardians to have ruksati soon the child attains the age of puberty.
"The laws limiting the age for both the segments of marriage are unIslamic and needed to be rectified," he added.
Officials told Dawn that the council members discussed various historic references related to marriage and concluded that each girl has different age of reaching puberty.
The officials were asked if the international conventions signed by Pakistain related to child marriage would be violated after this ruling by CII.
Responding to the query the official said that the international conventions cannot be in contradiction to the constitution of the country or Islam and if they were, those particular clauses would not apply on Pakistain.
The CII meeting also suggested to the government that 'nikah' registrars should have a certain level of qualification.
"Not everyone should be allowed to become a Nikah Registrar," Maulana Sheerani demanded the government, "While the fee for registration of Nikahnama should also be abolished."
The CII had on earlier day suggested the government to change Mohammedan marriage laws as it required Mohammedan male to seek permission from the previous wife or wives for another marriage.
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[Jihad Watch] This is a most positive development. Although Jews and Christians face the same fate under Islamic law subjugation as dhimmis and denial of basic rights the unhappy history of Christian anti-Semitism and the near-universal denial of the reality of the Islamic jihad, among innumerable other factors, have prevented the formation of any large-scale cooperative efforts. Freedom lovers may hope that this will be the beginning of much more toward that end. The 100 Arab Christians who signed up last year is at least a start.
[The Hill] U.S. intelligence did not fail ahead of Russia's Crimean invasion, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Monday.
"I have lived through some genuine intelligence failures in my career, and this was not a failure by any stretch," Clapper said in an interview with WTOP. Still living through one at NSA, and unfortunately receiving a senior grade paycheck.
Clapper was disputing contentions by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and others that the U.S. was taken by surprise when Russia invaded Ukraine to take control of Crimea.
The fact is, Mr. Secretary, it was not predicted by our intelligence. That is well known, which is another massive failure because of our total misreading of the intentions of Vladimir Putin, McCain said to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel at a hearing last week.
Clapper, however, told WTOP the intelligence community offered a warning ahead of time. Not "predicted" but a warning was issued "ahead of time"..... ? A curious train of logic, assessment, and dissemination.
We tracked [the situation in Ukraine] pretty carefully and portrayed what the possibilities were and certainly portrayed the difficulties we'd have, because of the movements of Russian troops and provided anticipatory warning of their incursion into Crimea," Clapper said.
"We were following closely the political and economic developments in Ukraine. We spoke to it in our statement for the record at the time and as the situation unfolded with the Russians, he added.
Russias intervention in Ukraine has been condemned by the United States and other European countries, but Russian President Vladimir Putin does not appear eager to back down in the Crimean Peninsula.
Clapper said that the situation was not a throwback to the Cold War, but it certainly reminds one of the vestiges of the Cold War.
The intelligence chief called Putin a product of the Cold War. Profound Jim, quite profound.
He's a former KGB officer, and I think he has a grand view of greater Russia, and he attaches great importance to the 'near abroad,' which is those countries that were a part of the Soviet Union, Clapper said. Information easily available at Wikipedia. How about providing some actionable intelligence, some indications and warnings [I&W] ?
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#3 Documenting all possible futures does not provide actionable intelligence. KBK
That is correct. From those "futures" [or scenarios] however, predictive analysis can be derived and an assessment can potentially be made which will lead to "actionable intelligence." It can be a complex process.
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Weather reporting indicates the Clackamus is well above flood stage. From the attached imagery, what other 'weighted' assumptions might we derive regarding local area travel ?
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DCI to Obama: The Russians are planning to annex Crimea.
Obama: What's the par on this one again?
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03/12/2014 10:52 Comments ||
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#8
Not "predicted" but a warning was issued "ahead of time"..... ?
Who knew Sarah Palin was a intel specialist?
The intelligence chief called Putin a product of the Cold War.
More like a product of a real world with 4000 years of real world history and several hundred years of Russian history. Not to be confused with urbanite academics who believe the world didn't exist before their tenure (see - Academic Creationism - and the "World is Anew" made in their own form).
#9
You must have missed the "End of History" memo, P2K. None of that stuff matters anymore. At least not for the right sort of people.
I interpret DNI Clapper's statement to mean some low-level analyst called this exactly, but he was ignored because the report didn't fit The Narrative. Besides, White House and State are busy with their own issues.
You don't have to be a rocket surgeon to expect the Russians will react to a disturbance on their border, especially if it involves strangling their access to the Med.
#10
I think the "failure" is they expected Putin to act like Russia did before and roll tanks in ah la Stalin style and like Putin did in Georgia. The PMC method didn't cross their minds and that is what caught them by surprise.
Masterful stroke by Putin, but no real surprise to those that have been watching him play rope-a-dope with our president and his lackey failures in the State Department.
#11
From the attached imagery, what other 'weighted' assumptions might we derive regarding local area travel ?
In that case, it's moot. As in horse-gone-close barn door.
"Weighted actionable intelligence" is along the lines of "here's the possible events ranged in likelihood of happening based on current intelligence, combined with history of the actors involved, environmental factors, etc."
Sort of the difference between being told that you could be in front of a bunch of senior NCOs who will likely be tired and cranky due to staying the night in a cheap motel and having to be at a briefing at 0500, possibly hung-over from a get-together the night before, and by reputation, full of themselves and their rank, and actually walking into a room of SNCOs who are cranky, hung-over, and full of themselves and their rank without, being having been told about it.
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