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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Man Eluding Parole Officer Survives 8th-Floor Jump, Police Say
[NYT] A man trying to evade a parole officer jumped from the eighth floor of a building in a Manhattan housing complex on Friday, sustaining only a broken ankle in the fall, the police said.

At around 3 p.m., the man, whose name was not immediately released, jumped from a window at the Lincoln Houses development on Park Avenue in Harlem, opposite the elevated Metro-North Railroad tracks. He fell onto a grassy patch set behind iron gates, and was handcuffed by police as he lay on the ground, according to witnesses who were at the complex on Friday.

Several people said they thought the man was new to the complex.

"I guess he thought he could fly," said a 60-year-old woman who provided only her given name, Dee. "He was on the ground and handcuffed, looking up."

The man was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem, where he was in stable condition, the police said.

Jumping out of tall buildings to evade the police has been tried before, including once in the same Harlem complex more than a decade ago. A 21-year-old man, Tyrell Harris, jumped out a 14th-story window at the Lincoln Houses in 2005 after a gun battle with the police. He survived the impact, but died at St. Luke’s Hospital.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/08/2017 11:36 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...RULE OF THUMB: Anything much past 25-30 feet is going to pretty much kill you.

Fortunately, the Perpetrator In Question here didn't know that. Ignorance is occasionally, indeed, bliss.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 07/08/2017 12:01 Comments || Top||

#2  When I was rock climbing, the first 30 so feet was the worst, as I figured I would just get really hurt if I fell.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/08/2017 12:48 Comments || Top||


3 acid attacks reported every week in London
Not WoT. Moved to P.3.
[RT] The report from the London based radio station comes after aspiring model and business student Resham Khan was attacked last month while sitting in her car with her cousin Jameel Muhktar.

The incident, which happened on the day Khan turned 21, saw the two attacked with sulphuric acid while stuck in traffic.

The Metropolitan Police is investigating the attack as a hate crime, and has just released new pictures of suspected attacker John Tomlin, 24.

Three days after the attack, Khan, who is set to receive £30,000 (US$38,500) in donations after a fundraising campaign was launched for her following the horrifying attack, said on Twitter: "I'm devastated. I keep wondering if my life will ever be the same."

Another acid attack victim is now calling for the law to treat acid attacks as it does knife attacks.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/08/2017 09:32 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


17 Intelligence agencies confirm Bobby Knight did not grope heinie at agency visits
[AyPee] WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI and the U.S. Army investigated complaints from four women that Hall of Fame basketball coach Bob Knight groped them or touched them inappropriately during a visit to a U.S. spy agency in 2015, an investigation that concluded a year later without charges, The Washington Post reported Friday.

One of the women, whose name The Post did not disclose, told the newspaper that Knight groped her on the buttocks shortly before he gave a speech to staffers at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency at its headquarters in Springfield, Virginia. The woman also filed a discrimination complaint against the NGA and the Defense Department in which she claimed she was pressured to drop the matter, The Post reported.

An attorney representing Knight, James Voyles, acknowledged to The Post that FBI agents interviewed Knight at his home in Montana last year and said the investigation was dropped shortly thereafter.

"There is absolutely no credible evidence to support this in our opinion, these allegations," Voyles said, adding that the FBI agents "reported to their superiors that there was no basis for any further action, period."

Knight, 76, did not comment to The Post, but his wife, Karen Knight, told the newspaper in a text message: "Bob did nothing wrong and there is NO evidence to prove that he did. Case closed."
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/08/2017 02:34 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Who are this man's accusers and why were they not disciplined ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/08/2017 2:46 Comments || Top||

#2  What is the punishment for 'thou shall not bear false witness'? You get more of what you tolerate.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/08/2017 7:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Bobby Knight might have thrown a chair at her , but I doubt he groped her.
Posted by: Lumpy Clerert9758 || 07/08/2017 9:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Couldn't prove he did it, couldn't prove he didn't, therefor no recommendation for action against either him or accusers (four accusers is suggestive of a problem, but don't recall a history of that kind of accusations against Knight.)
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/08/2017 9:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Bobby might have thrown a chair at or sworn at these women but he wouldn't grope them--He's got more class than that.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/08/2017 10:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Oops, Lumpy beat me to the remark.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/08/2017 10:19 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
The Pamplona Paradox
[WAPO] PAMPLONA, Spain -- Two Americans were gored and several other people were injured Saturday during the second running of the bulls at this year’s San Fermin festival in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona, officials said.

The regional government of Navarra said that a 22-year-old American man identified with the initials J.C. was in serious condition at a nearby hospital after being gored. Another 35-year-old American identified as B.H. was in stable condition after being gored.

Televised images showed a bull thrusting its horn into a man’s buttocks before flipping him into the street, while another man’s arm was impaled and he was dragged for several meters (yards) before the bull flung him off and stormed over him.

Three other Americans, two Frenchmen and three Spaniards -- all men -- needed treatment at the hospital for injures received during the frantic and crowded run of thrill-seekers.

On Friday, two Americans and a Spaniard were gored on the first running. All three were treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/08/2017 11:59 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As someone either chasing or running from bulls prrofessionally in my youth, the whole Pamplona thing is incomprehensible.
Posted by: whitecollar redneck || 07/08/2017 14:20 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Vending machine network hacked-biodata at risk
[Krebs on Security] Avanti Markets, a company whose self-service payment kiosks sit beside shelves of snacks and drinks in thousands of corporate breakrooms across America, has suffered of breach of its internal networks in which hackers were able to push malicious software out to those payment devices, the company has acknowledged. The breach may have jeopardized customer credit card accounts as well as biometric data, Avanti warned.

According to Tukwila, Wash.-based Avanti’s marketing literature, some 1.6 million customers use the company’s break room self-checkout devices — which allow customers to pay for drinks, snacks and other food items with a credit card, fingerprint scan or cash.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/08/2017 12:31 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why do something as uncool as carry around some change or a few $1 bills in your pocket for vending machines when you can go around with your pants down around your ankles?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/08/2017 14:42 Comments || Top||

#2  PrePaid Debit Cards... Limit the money at risk. If I was travelling more I would seriously considering getting one just for casual purchases.
Posted by: magpie || 07/08/2017 15:43 Comments || Top||

#3  PrePaid Debit Cards

I use them for fuel on the road, magpie, with a $60 pre-charge. Get several for long trips as each card does about two fill-ups in my vehicle.

Got 'skimmed' using one once. Figured the limit saved me hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars for the ~$30 loss.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/08/2017 15:53 Comments || Top||

#4  A sophisticated gateway hack.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/08/2017 19:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Via my cousin Bob - in the business: How to spot a skimmer? Not so easy
Posted by: Frank G || 07/08/2017 20:03 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Black Lives Matter leaders sued over Baton Rouge police shooting
[REUTERS] A police officer wounded in a shooting rampage in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, last year that left three officers dead sued Black Lives Matter movement leaders on Friday, accusing them of inciting violence that spurred the attack.

The lawsuit filed in a U.S. district court in Louisiana named DeRay McKesson and four other Black Lives Matter leaders as defendants and sought at least $75,000 in damages.

It came on the one-year anniversary of one of the deadliest days in modern U.S. history for law enforcement. On July 7, 2016, a black man angered by what he saw as deadly racial bias in U.S. policing launched a downtown Dallas sniper attack, killing five officers deployed at a protest decrying police shootings of black men.

McKesson was not immediately available for comment and Black Lives Matter leaders have denied accusations that their movement promotes violence against police.

About 10 days after the Dallas shooting, a decorated ex-U.S. Marine sergeant opened fire on police in Baton Rouge, killing three officers.

Baton Rouge had been hit by waves of protests after two police officers earlier that month killed a black man, Alton Sterling, under questionable circumstances. The incident was caught on video and sparked national debate.

The officer wounded in Baton Rouge, who was not named in the lawsuit, was shot by "a person violently protesting against police, and which violence was caused or contributed to by the leaders of and by 'BLACK LIVES MATTER'," the filing said.

Gavin Long, the black gunman who killed the Baton Rouge officers and was later shot dead, identified himself as a member of an African-American offshoot of the anti-government, mostly white Sovereign Citizen Movement, documents showed.

Last year, McKesson and two other activists sued the Baton Rouge police department and other officials over the arrests of nearly 200 demonstrators during mostly peaceful protests over police killings.
Posted by: Fred || 07/08/2017 01:47 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Discovery phase would be interesting.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/08/2017 9:37 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
'Neither of them wanted to stop': Trump and Putin enjoy successful 'first date'
[Guardian] It is a blossoming bromance. In what one US-based critic called a "first Tinder date", Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin talked for two and a quarter hours on Friday instead of their scheduled 30 minutes.

"I think there was just such a level of engagement and exchange, and neither one of them wanted to stop," US secretary of State Rex Tillerson said afterwards. "Several times I had to remind the president, and people were sticking their heads in the door. And they sent in the first lady at one point to see if she could get us out of there, and that didn’t work either."

There were sighs of relief in Washington that Trump, an erratic and volatile president with little foreign policy experience, had avoided a major gaffe. The news website Axios summed it up: "Trump survives the Putin meeting."

But diplomats and experts said this was hardly cause for celebration. Thomas Countryman, former US acting undersecretary for arms control and international security, commented: "It’s an indication of how rapidly our standards are falling when we’re reasonably pleased that President Trump has not made an obvious error."

Pre-meeting hype had focused on whether Trump would confront Putin over Russia’s interference in the US election. He delivered, according to Tillerson, pressing the issue repeatedly. But Putin denied it and Tillerson later admitted that the two leaders had focused on how to move on from here. There seemed little indication that Trump had held Putin’s feet to the fire.

Trump had accepted Putin’s assurances, Countryman said: "It certainly was the minimum that any US president should have done in this situation. I’m glad he brought it up. What we don’t know ‐ and may never know ‐ is what he replied when Vladimir Putin looked him in the eye and falsely said: ’It was not us.’" Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov claimed Trump had accepted Putin’s assurances, although the US disputed that.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/08/2017 02:05 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  and who is Thomas Countryman? The perfect Al-Grauniad interview on matters Trump:

In 2011, President of the United States Barack Obama nominated him to be Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation and, after senate confirmation, he was sworn in as Assistant Secretary on September 27, 2011.[2]
He is fluent in Serbo-Croatian, Arabic, Italian, Greek, and German.[2]
On January 27, 2017, while on his way to a conference on arms control, he was relieved of his duties by the President
Posted by: Frank G || 07/08/2017 8:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Leave Syria to Russia. That should keep them occupied for a while.
Posted by: European Conservative || 07/08/2017 18:22 Comments || Top||


Trump raises US election hacking in 1st meeting with Putin, who denies involvement
[IsraelTimes] Russian FM says president accepted counterpart’s assurances that there was no meddling; Tillerson claims Russians asked for proof of interference.
Aaaaaannnnd the ball is smashed in the faces of those back home making the accusation. Show your evidence, guys.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/08/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Of course Putin denied involvement, but he was lying; he always lies...
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/08/2017 9:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Putin "We're using paper ballots at home"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/08/2017 9:39 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Detail from North Korea's missile launch suggests MIRVs
And for sure whatever the Norks have, the Ayatollahs have, too. IF this is true, they probably co-developed this.
North Korea demonstrated its ability to reach the continental US with a nuclear-capable ballistic missile on July 4, but close analysis of launch footage may point to another dangerous technological development.

Unlike other North Korean missiles, the intercontinental-range Hwasong-14 missile uses a "shroud," or a hollow cover instead of a more solid nosecone, researchers have discovered.

ICBMs generally use shrouds if one is "planning on launching multiple reentry vehicles or added countermeasures," David Schmerler, a research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies told Business Insider.

Shrouds usually indicate that a missile has multiple, independent reentry vehicles for a payload, according to Schermler. A missile with multiple nuclear warheads can not only do more damage to its target, but also pose a greater challenge for missile defenses.

While Schmerler said there is "no indication" that North Korea has developed technology to miniaturize warheads such that it could fit multiple nukes in a single missile, it could have installed countermeasures in the shroud that would render US defenses all but useless.
So we've spent bazillions of dollars on something even the Norks can defeat. Nice.
A typical countermeasure, like a handful of mylar balloons that inflate with one of them surrounding the warhead, greatly limit missile defenses' ability to deter or defeat threats. When a missile interceptor heads towards the warhead, a crowd of balloons release, making it difficult for the interceptor to find the warhead.
I'm guessing this happens above the atmosphere where even the balloons are still ballistic?
No North Korea statements have announced work on countermeasures, according to Schmerler. But shrouded missiles can easily lend themselves to countermeasures.

"If you want to fit countermeasures, penetration aides, or chaff, you would need more space" in the tip of the warhead, said Schmerler.

In the clip below, watch for the shroud dropping off the missile after the first stage, and then the interstage of the missile drop off.
Posted by: gorb || 07/08/2017 02:27 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  ...For a lot of reasons, No.

*Decoys are very highly overrated.
*We shoot at the missile, not the warheads.
*It took decades to figure out MIRVs, and the testing to get it right is long, detailed, and slow. And, BTW, really really obvious.

In summary: No MIRVs, at least not yet.

Mike

Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 07/08/2017 6:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Good chance their missiles would have multiple re-entry vehicles after they get whacked by our countermeasures. Or even after they break up on their own.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/08/2017 9:12 Comments || Top||

#3  there is "no indication" that North Korea has developed technology to miniaturize warheads

Assumption of mini-nukes.
Bio-canisters are easier.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/08/2017 9:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Assumption of mini-nukes.
Bio-canisters are easier.
Posted by: Skidmark 2017-07-08 09:58


Very good point, sir. Back in the day, I knew a surprising number of analysts (in and out of uniform) who firmly believed that a good number of Soviet missiles had nerve gas or bio warheads.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 07/08/2017 12:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Today's Daily Mail:
Can North Korean missile carry SEVERAL nukes? Analysts spot ominous cone-like tip on new long-range missile that could avoid US interceptor and launch multiple warheads

"An expert on nuclear-tipped missiles told Business Insider that that the 'shroud' seen on the missile is usually indicative of 'multiple reentry vehicles or added countermeasures.'"

Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 07/08/2017 22:27 Comments || Top||


Economy
Sears to close 43 more stores to cut costs
[REUTERS] Sears Holdings Corp (SHLD.O) is closing eight of its namesake department stores and 35 Kmart locations to cut costs and square footage in an effort to return to profitability, Chief Executive Officer Eddie Lampert said on Friday.
Close stores = increased profits.
The store closings are in addition to 150 the company announced in January. Once the largest U.S. retailer, Sears has struggled with years of losses and declining sales as shoppers have shifted from the mall to the web. The company said in February it would cut costs this year by at least $1 billion.
Zero stores = infinite profits
Shares of Sears fell as much as 4.8 percent in afternoon trading.
Just ask Montgomery Ward.
"This is part of a strategy both to address losses from unprofitable stores and to reduce the square footage of other stores because many of them are simply too big for our current needs," Lampert wrote in a blog post. (bit.ly/2u03gDc)

A Sears spokesman declined to say how many jobs would be lost from these store closures. He said employees who are eligible would receive severance and be able to apply for open positions at area Sears or Kmart stores.

Lampert added that Sears expects to open more smaller-format stores while shrinking its large, less-competitive ones. He said Sears was on track to meet its cost-cutting targets.

Posted by: Fred || 07/08/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  60 years ago, I enjoyed going to the local Sears. It was a multi-floor that had everything except the car service in one building. It was fun to roam around.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 07/08/2017 10:37 Comments || Top||

#2  i remember paging through the Sears Wish Book looking at all the stuff we could never afford to get when I was a kid.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/08/2017 12:20 Comments || Top||

#3  ...And yet somehow, the KMart right around the corner from us has survived the axe once again. At the rate things are going, I expect one of these days they'll rebrand as Highlander Mart.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 07/08/2017 12:29 Comments || Top||

#4  I can remember the sporting goods section of a Montgomery Wards having a barrel with Mauser rifles sticking out of it for sale. Times, they have changed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/08/2017 12:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Zero stores = infinite profits

Not true. Zero stores = Zero profit.

However, Zero stores = infinite profit per store.

Zero stores = infinite profit per worker.

Just ask Enron.
Posted by: Frozen Al || 07/08/2017 13:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Sears was doomed when they stopped sending out the catalogues with the hole in the corner to hang it on a nail in the outhouse...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/08/2017 15:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Al, actually, while x/0 is infinity for x not = 0, 0/0 is indeterminate- in other words, an accountants dream - it can be anything you want it to be.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/08/2017 15:25 Comments || Top||

#8  ...I remember a briefing at one job where they outlined our goals for 'lean manufacturing' - a 10% reduction in costs and workforce every year for the next ten years, with a 10% yearly INCREASE in production. (That's exactly how they explained it, BTW)

I did the math, and pointed out that meant in 10 years we would be making 100% more product every year at no cost and with no one working there.

For some reason, I was no longer employed there not long thereafter.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 07/08/2017 15:31 Comments || Top||

#9  RiV you ever met a math-competent economist?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/08/2017 15:35 Comments || Top||

#10  Gee, just like Obamacare insurance exchanges. Wonder what's behind it all? /rhet question
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/08/2017 16:11 Comments || Top||

#11  I talked to an old friend lately about some problems he had with Sears. I basically eventually wound up at "If all you can get there is Chinese crap, why not go to Harbor Freight where it's at least priced more appropriately?"
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/08/2017 17:26 Comments || Top||

#12  I always thought their craftsman tools were pretty good.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/08/2017 22:26 Comments || Top||

#13  til they offshore'd them
Posted by: Frank G || 07/08/2017 23:23 Comments || Top||

#14  Sears no longer owns Craftsman. It's now 'controlled' by Stanley Black & Decker.

Craftsman Tools

Since Stanley Black & Decker now own 'control' Craftsman, Might as well buy tools etc from Harbor Freight as they apparently all come from the same places
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 07/08/2017 23:30 Comments || Top||


St. Louis minimum wage to drop from $10 to $7.70 an hour
[St. Louis Post Dispatch] ST. LOUIS • The minimum wage in St. Louis will revert to $7.70 an hour on Aug. 28, with Gov. Eric Greitens announcing on Friday that he will allow a bill blocking the city’s increase to become law without his signature.

When the Legislature sends the governor a bill, he has several options. He can sign it, veto it or take the middle course -- without action before a constitutional deadline, the bill automatically takes effect.

The bill in question bans local minimum wages, requiring all cities and municipalities in Missouri to stick to the statewide standard.

Minimum wage workers in St. Louis are making $10 an hour after winning a two-year legal fight against business groups who challenged a 2015 city ordinance authorizing an increase.

Under that city law, the wage was set to rise again in January to $11 an hour, then increase annually with inflation.

"It will kill jobs," Greitens said of the increase. "And despite what you hear from liberals, it will take money out of people’s pockets."

Both workers and businesses alike now face a jarring change ahead. It’s unclear whether many businesses as of Aug. 28 will seek to reduce pay to employees who have recently received increases.

It’s a situation the Missouri House had sought to avoid by fast-tracking its version of the bill to the Senate in March, in the hopes it could be signed into law before a court’s injunction on the increase was lifted in St. Louis. But the Senate didn’t take up the bill until the final hours of the 2017 legislative session.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/08/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Someone in Jefferson City understands economics? (which by the way, your capital name is 'triggering', ever think of changing it? - do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/08/2017 9:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Wow!
Who saw that coming?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/08/2017 10:03 Comments || Top||


Europe
European bailout fund approves big payment to Greece
[Ynet] Europe's bailout fund has approved the payment of 8.5 billion euros ($9.6 billion) in rescue loans to Greece, a long-delayed installment under the country's third international bailout.

Friday's approval by the European Stability Mechanism was the final formality before the funds can be released to the debt-laden country. The first disbursement of 7.7 billion euros is to be made Monday, with 6.9 billion earmarked for servicing debts and the remainder for clearing arrears, the fund said.

Greece reached a deal with international lenders last month on implementing more austerity measures, including tax hikes and pension cuts, in return for the installment.

The disbursement of the remainder will come after Sept. 1 if Greece "makes significant progress" in clearing arrears using its own resources as well as bailout funds.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/08/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Greece reached a deal with international lenders last month on implementing more austerity measures, including tax hikes and pension cuts, in return for the installment.

And as long as we're dreaming, I'd like a pony.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 07/08/2017 15:40 Comments || Top||


German socialists punch and kick American journalist, calling him "Nazi"



What's the difference between them and actual goose-stepping fascists? Nationalism, that's about it. The Left are Internationalists. What a difference two letters at the beginning of a word make.
A summary of the day's events at 1:00 a.m. EDT:
Police gain upper hand after Hamburg's day of G20 clashes

[Rooters] Police gained the upper hand in Hamburg early on Saturday morning after a day of running festivities with anti-capitalist protesters seeking to disrupt the city's G20 summit of global leaders.

Heavily armed police commandos moved in after activists had spent much of the day attempting to wrest control of the streets from more than 15,000 police, setting fires, looting and building barricades.

With meetings between leaders of the club of 20 largest global economies finished for the day, police stormed the last holdouts, who had gathered in the Schanzenviertel district, an area known for its left-wing activism and culture of squatting.

With two months to go before she seeks re-election, Chancellor Angela Merkel
...current chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom...
had hoped to cement Germany's growing global leadership role with a demonstration of its unwavering commitment to free speech, assembly and dissent by holding the summit in the center of a city with a proud radical tradition.

Protesters torched cars and lorries, smashed windows in banks, looted retail stores and hurled paving slabs and other objects before police managed to restore order. Some 197 officers were maimed after two days of festivities in the port city. Police made 19 arrests and detained dozens more.

Standing in a nearby falafel restaurant, Mohammad Halabi, 32, a Syrian who arrived in Germany as a refugee some 18 months before, surveyed the scene with disbelief.

"They are crazy. I can't believe my eyes," he said. "They have such a beautiful country and they're destroying it."

But G20 participants said they had never seen protesters closer to such a summit than in Hamburg and praised the work of police in keeping the event safe, suggesting Merkel's gamble had paid off.

Most of the 100,000 protesters were peaceful, hoisting signs saying the G20 leaders were not welcome, or engaging in mass bicycle processions through the city center wearing brightly coloured uniforms.

But in the night's most dramatic scenes, police pursued members of the radical Black Bloc movement, which wants to overthrow capitalism, across scaffolding as they sought refuge on rooftops. Below, burning barricades billowed thick smoke.

The summit is due to conclude on Saturday.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 || 07/08/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  The American is Luke Rudkowski. He does good work. He was on hand for the April 15 2nd Battle of Berkeley and he provided the best livestream by far. This isn't the 1st time he's been accosted by Antifa blackshirts
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/08/2017 8:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Nazi - I don't think you really understand what the word stands for, other than a hateful pejorative you toss off on your target.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/08/2017 9:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Most of the 100,000 protesters were peaceful...

Now where have I heard that one before?
Posted by: DepotGuy || 07/08/2017 9:55 Comments || Top||

#4  100,000 people don't attend and stand around without expectations.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/08/2017 10:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Most of the people in Chicago are peaceful. Doesn't tell you much.
Posted by: Thumper || 07/08/2017 10:10 Comments || Top||

#6  A Polish-American, being beaten up by Germans. While they call him a Nazi. Jeez, you can't make this stuff up.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 || 07/08/2017 10:46 Comments || Top||

#7  From Krakatoa, AoSHQ
If the fascist antifa and their liberal puppet masters manage to drum up the civil war they are agitating for, I guess at least I can look forward to setting my own hours.

Monday - Sharpen pointy sticks, weave grass nets.
Tuesday - Rest up, because, Tuesday.
Wednesday - hump day! Hobo/Hippy hunt!
Thursday - Use pointy sticks to prod captured hobos/hippies on Gilligan Island treadmill generator to power tv and vcr playing Gilligan's Island.
Friday - Release hobos and hippies in pot field with lots of rolling papers, and a single lighter.
Saturday - drink, eat, sleep.
Sunday - Rest, pray next week will be as good as last week.

Repeat.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/08/2017 11:34 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Anti-Trump protester gets jail for Inauguration Day riots
A Tampa man was sentenced to four months in jail Friday after participating in an inauguration day riot that injured six police officers and cost tens of thousands of dollars in damages in Washington D.C.

Dane Powell, 31, was captured on video carrying a black flag while throwing rocks and bricks at D.C. police officers and shattering store windows during the 30-minute riot that spanned 16 city blocks, prosecutors said. He was also dressed in black and had part of his face covered.
Ban the anonymity of a mask and these cowards won't riot
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Kerkhoff said Powell was spotted in Logan Circle the day before President Trump's inauguration with gas masks and carrying the same black flag seen in the video, the Tampa Bay Times reported.

"He initiated violence," Kerkhoff said. "He came to the District of Columbia to engage in violence by hiding his face, throwing rocks and running. He's a violent coward."
Yep. Now with a Felony record
Powell asked Judge Lynne Leibovitz for "leniency" and asked for "forgiveness for anyone who was scared, hurt or felt threatened," the Times reported.

Powell's attorney Ashley Jones told the court her client, who spent nine years in the Army, did not travel to D.C. to riot, but to protest peacefully. She also blamed police officers for inciting violence.

"Mr. Powell's motivation was to protest the inauguration," Jones said. "And during that protest he got carried away."

According to the Tampa Bay Times, Powell pleaded guilty in July to assault on a police officer and inciting a riot, which are considered felony charges.

Authorities said 234 people were arrested during the riots and of those, 198 cases are pending.
Good. Make examples of them
Posted by: Frank G || 07/08/2017 08:46 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In most states, a felony conviction forfeits the right to vote. There are exceptions like Minnesota which promotes felons to vote, but only if they vote (D).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/08/2017 9:16 Comments || Top||

#2  P2K,and in Virginia where our slimeball Democratic governor restored the voting rights of a bunch of felons. When the legislature took him to court and won, he simply pardoned them all.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/08/2017 15:23 Comments || Top||

#3  "while throwing rocks and bricks at D.C. police officers"

Just four months? Is this Germany or what?
Posted by: European Conservative || 07/08/2017 18:16 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Young mother dies in honor shooting
A mother of two children was killed in the Lelonai area of Shangla, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Friday afternoon, in what police suspect was an honour killing.

An official in the Alpuri Police Station, Arif Khan, told Dawn.com that a girl, identified as Zainab Bibi, was believed to have been shot dead by her brothers-in-law.

Khan said the police suspect that Zainab was killed on suspicion of having relations with a man named Mehmood, who had been killed in February this year by Umar Zada, Zainab's husband, and his brother.

Zainab had been married to Zada for about six years and the couple had two children together.

Khan said a police team had been dispatched to the scene of the crime, while the victim's body had been taken to District Headquarter Hospital Alpuri for a post-mortem examination.

Two accused had been nominated in the killing of the girl, namely Rehmat Khan and Sultan-e-Room. Police have lodged an FIR in the case and are hunting for the culprits.
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More than 120 countries adopt treaty banning nuclear weapons
[IsraelTimes] None of the nine countries known or believed to possess nuclear weapons – including Israel – support legally binding pact.

To loud applause and cheers, Elayne Whyte Gomez, president of the UN conference that has been negotiating the legally binding treaty, announced the results of the “historic” vote — 122 nations in favor, the Netherlands opposed, and Singapore abstaining.

It will be opened for signatures in September and come into force when 50 countries have ratified it, she said.

But all nuclear states and NATO members have boycotted the negotiations except for the Netherlands, which voted against it.
Whyte Gomez said 129 countries signed up to take part in drafting the treaty, which represents two-thirds of the 193 member states. But all nuclear states and NATO members have boycotted the negotiations except for the Netherlands, which has US nuclear weapons on its territory and was urged by its parliament to send a delegation to the negotiations.

None of the nine countries known or believed to possess nuclear weapons — the United States, Russia, Britain, China, France, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel — is supporting the treaty.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/08/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Problem solved! Well, our work here is done! The 20-course buffet awaits!"
Posted by: PBMcL || 07/08/2017 0:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Is Iran one of them?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/08/2017 9:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Same people who vote themselves other peoples money and resources.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/08/2017 9:40 Comments || Top||

#4  As equally pointless as the Land Mine Treaty.
Posted by: magpie || 07/08/2017 9:55 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Sheriff exposes liberal columnist's traffic stop tale for the lie that it is
He may have totally lied about the details, but it must be true somewhere else.
A sheriff in Missouri is firing back at a now-suspended newspaper columnist who claimed to experience what "minority motorists" must feel when getting pulled over by cops, saying he was lucky he didn’t "get shot" during a recent traffic stop.

Boone County Sheriff Dwayne Carey has refuted a June 30 opinion column by longtime Columbia Daily Tribune columnist Bill Clark, who was stopped 10 days earlier for failing to use his turn signal. Clark, an 84-year-old white man, suggested in the column that he might’ve been pulled over because of his "liberal bumper stickers," an obvious sign of an "aging hippie with a weed habit," he claimed.

"I’m lucky I didn’t get shot," Clark wrote. "Sirens wailed and when I stopped, two officers were out of the sheriff’s vehicle. When I reached over to turn off the radio and then take my wallet out of my pocket to produce the driver’s license and insurance card, I realized my hands were not at the top of my steering wheel. Danger lurked and official arrogance was to follow."

Clark, who claimed he received a "good dose of arrogance" during the stop, said he understands how someone could lose respect for cops after the stop, saying his life "seemed to be in danger" during the interaction with two deputies.

"When you are in the shoes of the minority, you learn a lot more about their journey," Clark wrote.

But a review of dashcam video told a different story, according to Carey, who contacted the newspaper’s managing editor, Charles Westmoreland, to disagree with Clark’s version of events. Carey also released the 11-minute video and penned an 1,800-word response to Clark’s column, blasting it as "sensationalism" and disputed the claims of "arrogance" on behalf of the deputies.

"In his column he indicates, ’I’m lucky I didn’t get shot,’" Carey wrote. "There is never a weapon drawn, the deputies don’t take a position of cover, there are no loud verbal commands, no panic or anything else for that matter by the deputies. Would you agree this is sensationalism at its best? I say yes!"
Posted by: gorb || 07/08/2017 02:19 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Shaun King Envy™?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/08/2017 8:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Sounds like the marijuana is still producing paranoia.

'Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
Step out of line
And the man will take you away'
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 07/08/2017 10:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Won't help - any proper liberal knows that "Deliverance" is a documentary.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/08/2017 13:56 Comments || Top||


BLM leaders sued over Baton Rouge police shooting
A police officer wounded in a shooting rampage in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, last year that left three officers dead sued Black Lives Matter movement leaders on Friday, accusing them of inciting violence that spurred the attack.

The lawsuit filed in a U.S. district court in Louisiana named DeRay McKesson and four other Black Lives Matter leaders as defendants and sought at least $75,000 in damages.

It came on the one-year anniversary of one of the deadliest days in modern U.S. history for law enforcement. On July 7, 2016, a black man angered by what he saw as deadly racial bias in U.S. policing launched a downtown Dallas sniper attack, killing five officers deployed at a protest decrying police shootings of black men.

McKesson was not immediately available for comment and Black Lives Matter leaders have denied accusations that their movement promotes violence against police.

About 10 days after the Dallas shooting, a decorated ex-U.S. Marine sergeant opened fire on police in Baton Rouge, killing three officers.

Baton Rouge had been hit by waves of protests after two police officers earlier that month killed a black man, Alton Sterling, under questionable circumstances. The incident was caught on video and sparked national debate.

The officer wounded in Baton Rouge, who was not named in the lawsuit, was shot by "a person violently protesting against police, and which violence was caused or contributed to by the leaders of and by 'BLACK LIVES MATTER'," the filing said.

Gavin Long, the black gunman who killed the Baton Rouge officers and was later shot dead, identified himself as a member of an African-American offshoot of the anti-government, mostly white Sovereign Citizen Movement, documents showed.

Last year, McKesson and two other activists sued the Baton Rouge police department and other officials over the arrests of nearly 200 demonstrators during mostly peaceful protests over police killings.
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Philadelphia Theater Group to Debut Abortion Comedy in August
[Philadelphia News and Opinion] Normally, when we get a press release from a local theater company about its latest work, the press release includes, you know, the name of the play. But Philly theater company Lightning Rod Special bucked that trend this week went they sent us a notice announcing its musical comedy about abortion, which debuts in August at the Painted Bride.

"We were going with ’Fetus Chorus,’" explains co-creator Alice Yorke, pictured below. "But there were a lot of mixed feelings about it. The best comment we got was, ’I understand you want to provoke your audience, but do you want to do that in the theater or before they even get there?’"

The abortion musical has its roots at the Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training, where Yorke and the co-creators studied. Yorke says it was there that she developed a character of an "irate gun-toting fetus running around and shouting about how it would kill anyone who tried to hurt it."

In those early days, there was also a Busby Berkeley-inspired song-and-dance kick-line of fetuses, though Yorke isn’t sure that it will be included in the final version.

Yorke, a 31-year-old South Philadelphia resident, tells Philly Mag that the company is currently debating other titles. Her favorite is "The A Word." Others in the mix: "Baby Girl," "Mine," "Monster," and "Wanted."

Now, if you’re thinking that this is just some pro-choice propaganda, Yorke downplays that idea.

"We’re definitely, as makers, on one side," Yorke admits. "But we’re trying to ride a funny line. This isn’t self-congratulatory. I want us to examine why we feel this way. I want people to reckon with themselves. This is a show about personhood, the right to bodily autonomy, and the violence of the partisan politics that surrounds this issue."
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/08/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  the violence of the partisan politics that surrounds this issue

Hope the building is not insured.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/08/2017 10:02 Comments || Top||

#2  A red-headed fetus. It giggled:
When stainless met stainless, it tickled.
It really was silly...
How funny for Philly
If Alice's feet had been pickled!
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 07/08/2017 20:27 Comments || Top||

#3  remember that Eric Rudolph-themed musical they had previously? Heroic
Posted by: Frank G || 07/08/2017 20:38 Comments || Top||

#4  I missed (or possibly repressed) that. I'll look it up.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 07/08/2017 23:56 Comments || Top||

#5  An edge, a vagina, a veggie
(whatever... the lines are so stretchy!),
And scanning (like tanning!)
For gender (just planning!)...
The image was smudgy (don't judge me!).
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 07/08/2017 23:58 Comments || Top||



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