R. Kelly left jail on Monday night and went straight to a McDonald’s ‐ where he was reportedly greeted by several fans, including women and children, who took selfies and blared his music.
Photos posted on Twitter by local reporters show the embattled R&B star ordering at the counter and scarfing down French fries while his supporters wait outside.
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The image of innocence, isn't he,
Regardless of age or ethnicity?
"When you finish your coffee
And fries, where to, guys?"
"Are you kidding? We're headed for Disney!"
[PULSE.NG] Some 6.8 million people, or more than 86 percent of voters, supported the changes in Sunday's referendum, while only 766,400, or nine percent, voted against.
A total of 7.8 million people took part in the vote, with just over four percent of ballots blank or invalid.
"The constitution has been ratified by the majority of citizens," electoral commission president Alina Balseiro told a news conference.
"Cubans have said #YesForCuba and #YesForTheRevolution," Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez tweeted.
"It's an overwhelming response to the unbelievers who from Washington talked about the end of #Socialism, with policies that failed for more than 60 years.
"#Cuba keeps going, always free, revolutionary and socialist."
US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... had said earlier this month that the leftist ideology is "dying."
But academic and former diplomat Carlos Alzugaray had told AFP that Trump's words would serve only to galvanize the "yes" vote as people "defend their independence against the US threat."
The constitutional reforms ratify socialism's "irrevocable" role as the national ideology and replaces the 1976 constitution, a move criticized by the Catholic and evangelical churches.
It also recognized the Communist Party as the "superior ruling political force in society and the State," and its position as the nation's only party.
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The USSR had a constitution as well, full of lofty words it was, they also had Lubyanka and the Gulags as well... Communism Socialism at it's finest.
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Some 6.8 million people, or more than 86 percent of voters, supported the changes in Sunday's referendum, while only 766,400, or nine percent, voted against.
They had a choice?
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Now. now. There's a place where AOC and the other commies can 'migrate' to if they love that way of government and social order.
PS Don't tell me to 'migrate' because there is no where else left for those of our proclivity (life, liberty and property the pursuit of happiness).
[ELUNIVERSAL] During a meeting of the Lima Group, the US vice president evaluated the situation in Venezuela after the entry of humanitarian aid was prevented
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[ELUNIVERSAL] Between Saturday and Sunday they arrived uniformed from the GNB, the Bolivarian National Police, and other components. Of the group, several were accompanied by their families for fear of reprisals
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newer info brings defections up to 320 (no senior officers, a few junior officers)
[ELUNIVERSAL] The South Korean Foreign Ministry asked the president of the National Assembly to hold "as soon as possible democratic, transparent and credible presidential elections" in Venezuela
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[WaPo] In interviews with The Washington Post, four defectors said they were compelled to leave the country after they were given orders to quash the protests, and one member of the special forces traveled from Caracas to escape during the demonstrations Saturday. They said they also opposed food supplies being rejected and burned while their families went hungry.
The defectors said that discontent in the ranks is high but that members of the armed forces are bound by fear.
"The order they gave us from high command is that, for whoever takes a step toward the bridge or who tries to leave post, they are authorized to shoot us," said Piñera Martinez, 32, a sergeant deployed in San Antonio.
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The International Court of Justice said the U.K. should hand back to Mauritius control of an Indian Ocean archipelago where a key U.S. naval base is located.
"The U.K.'s continued administration of the Chagos archipelago "is an unlawful act of a continuing character," court President Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf said in The Hague. "Accordingly the U.K. is under an obligation to bring an end to its administration of the Chagos archipelago as rapidly as possible," Yusuf said.
The United Nations in 2017 sought an advisory opinion from the ICJ, its principal judicial organ, on the legal status of the archipelago.
Chagos is part of the British Indian Ocean Territory, which has been administered by the U.K. since 1965, when it paid the then self-governing colony of Mauritius 3 million pounds ($3.9 million) for control of the islands. Between 1967 and 1973, hundreds of inhabitants were removed to make way for the Diego Garcia U.S. military base, which has been used to launch bomber jets for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth in August obtained the backing of the African Union and about 30 other countries in his bid to have control of the archipelago returned to Mauritius. The request to the ICJ excludes Diego Garcia, he said. So the question is: will giving back the other islands present a security threat to facilities on Diego Garcia?
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which has been administered by the U.K. since 1965, when it paid the then self-governing colony of Mauritius 3 million pounds ($3.9 million) for control of the islands
"Sod off, Swampy"
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Another bit of payback for BREXIT? These things had a habit of being ignored when the EU, and it's pet Lawfare units, had something that they wanted.
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The UK should tell the honorable World Court to have a Coke and a smile....
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If one goes along with the World Court, one implicitly recognizes it, then the next thing one will be told to leave Diego Garcia. Best to tell the World Court to pound sand, despite the issue.
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[PULSE.NG] Australian Cardinal George Pell, who helped elect popes and ran the Vatican's finances, has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two choirboys, a court said Tuesday, becoming the most senior Catholic cleric ever convicted of child sex crimes.
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One of the ones that put that malevolent socialist turtle Francis up on that fencepost Papal seat.
[DAWN] The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced the date the first astronaut from the Gulf Arab nation will go into space.
The UAE said on Monday it will send either Hazza al-Mansoori or Sultan al-Neyadi to the International Space Station on September 25 aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket.
Organisers had earlier said they would announce the astronaut who was going but instead gave just the launch date.
Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum had already announced the astronauts' names last September.
The UAE has a fledgling space program with big ambitions. It launched its first locally made satellite KhalifaSat from Japan in October. It wants to launch a probe to Mars in 2020.
The UAE also says it wants to colonise Mars by 2117, with a fully functioning city of 600,000.
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first thing they plan to do is build a mosque I'm sure
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Which way is Mecca? The earth keeps spinning and confusing my Mecca direction app.
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[Berkeleyside] UC Berkeley police have identified a man suspected of punching a right-wing activist on Sproul Plaza on Tuesday but he has not been arrested yet, nor have police released his name. No, of course not.
Videos of the incident went viral this week, after they were shared by conservative groups and figures calling the assault a leftist attack on students’ free speech. UC Berkeley has said, however, that neither the activist or the man suspected of punching him are students, and there is no indication the man is affiliated with any left-wing groups.
The most-viewed video begins in the middle of an altercation between two young men, one of whom was recruiting on Sproul Plaza for Turning Point USA, a national nonprofit that organizes right-wing college students.
In the video, the Turning Point recruiter is holding his phone out, appearing to film the other man. The man walks into the recruiter and swings his sweatshirt at him.
"Put your hands on me again, motherfucker," he says to the recruiter. "Racist little...bitch." He then punches the recruiter in the face and walks off, continuing to curse at him.
UCPD Sgt. Bryan Sato said Friday that the department received a report of battery around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, and is continuing to investigate the incident. UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof and UCPD sent a statement Friday afternoon announcing a suspect had been identified. His name was not released.
UCPD also sent out an alert Wednesday, saying two men had initially approached the Turning Point table, according to the report police received.
"A physical confrontation ensued when one of the two men slapped the phone out of the victim’s hand," the alert said. "The suspect then knocked over the table the victim was at and the two men struggled over the phone. During the incident, the suspect punched the victim several times causing injury to the victim’s eye and nose."
UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ sent a campus-wide statement Thursday about the incident.
"Let there be no mistake, we strongly condemn violence and harassment of any sort, for any reason," Christ said. "That sort of behavior is intolerable and has no place here. Our commitment to freedom of expression and belief is unwavering."
The videos have been shared by numerous right-wing accounts and groups, including the Berkeley College Republicans and Ben Shapiro, the conservative writer who spoke amid controversy and heavy security on campus last year. Turning Point’s video tweet has racked up a quarter of a million views, with the organization calling the footage evidence of "LEFTIST VIOLENCE ON CAMPUS!"
"A Leftist Thug Violently Assaulted A Conservative Student," Turning Point said in its tweet. "This Is How Violent & Intolerant The Left Has Become On Campus!" Numerous other conservative accounts promoted the same idea, resurfacing messages that were spread during frequent and often violent clashes between the far-right and far-left on campus and city streets in 2017 and 2018.
According to the libertarian publication Reason, the Turning Point recruiter is part of the Virginia-based Leadership Institute, a training program for conservative activists and students.
The recruiters had signs on Sproul Plaza that said, "Hate crime hoaxes hurt real victims" and "This is MAGA country," according to Reason.
Turning Point also provides training, funding and supplies to right-wing students on college campuses, claiming on its website to have a "a stronger, more organized presence than all of the left-wing campus groups combined." The organization maintains a "Professor Watchlist," targeting leftist faculty members. Four UC Berkeley professors are on the list.
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Dontcha just love how the videos are described as "right wing"?
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An unidentified Berkley Official close to the case stated, "Hey! It takes time to arrange a parade!"
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.
